User blog comment:B214/High School DxD Hero Discussion/@comment-45.126.99.243-20180514064336/@comment-73.57.25.92-20180514205345

no, according to the light novels, the appearance of the blade blacksmith for kiba appears during kiba's first fight in the rating game against sairaorg bael, which is in vol 10, and we're still in vol 9. However i will say that his blade blacksmith ability did make a small cameo during vol 9 and in episode 3 of the dxd hero, when kiba gave xenovia a concealable holy sword to fight with should they run into trouble during the trip.