A/N: First story. Don't know what to say though.

Please read and review~

I don't own High School DxD in any way, shape and form.

Credits to the incredible story: 'Unlucky Star' by Fukou Da for the panties conversation.

Chapter 1

Hyoudou Issei glared at anyone who looked at him with some sort of pity in their eyes. Just this morning, he accidentally dived in head first into trash cans for the 5th time today. Today, just like the past days of his life, wasn't his day.

Just last night, after a tiring school day, he decided to treat himself a good meal. Normally, it wouldn't be a problem for anyone, but since the involved is named Hyoudou Issei, things weren't going exactly as planned.

It was on that restaurant that he saw Toujou Koneko, a first year student from his school, who was being surrounded by clearly drunk delinquents. Noticing the event, he thought that if he somehow rescued the girl, he would definitely trigger her flag. After all, his lifelong is to become the Harem King! And by rescuing Koneko-san, she would most likely fall in love with him! That's what manga, anime and novels always do! So he decided that some rescuing is in order.

However, he didn't anticipate that more of their comrades to come swarming out of the bathroom.

He always thought that going to the bathroom in groups was something only girls would do.

So, he had to run out on the hamburger and fries he ordered before it arrived, he didn't even get to eat anything, he was being treated like a dine-and-dasher, and earned a night-long chase between him and a gang of delinquents all night long.

But his misfortune didn't end there.

He managed to escape them, but when he arrived at his home, he found out that he had forgotten his keys in his room so he was locked out of his own house. He tried to sneak into the window, but he didn't expect his parents to still be awake, and they demanded a full explanation on why he only arrived now.

He tried to tell them what happened, but his parents didn't believe him, and he was forced to go without dinner that night and was punished by cleaning the entire house.

By the time he finished, he fell into his bed, exhausted when his alarm clock rang.

He considered skipping school, but his mother came in, tearing him off his sheets, and then dumped him into the showers. By the time he was finished, his clock showed him that he was almost late, dressed up in record time, didn't eat any breakfast, and ran out as fast as he can.

By the time he had arrived in school, he smelled like a sack of rotten potatoes, all thanks to his accidentally stumbling into trash cans. He sighed at his usual stroke of misfortune, but then, at least it wasn't worse.

The private school Kuoh Academy.

Formerly an all-girls school, a decision was made by its board of directors had changed it into a Co-Ed school. However, there are still more girls than boys, and girls held more power than boys.

But still, Hyoudou Issei had enrolled here, despite the fact that Kuoh was basically a monster school with high standards in education which it would be impossible for someone like him, who was labeled a slacker, to enter.

But he persevered. He studied hard, put more effort in school and gradually, able to pass the academy's entrance exam… all for the sake of one goal.

To be surrounded by beauties!

For that reason alone, he achieved what most of his peers could not, and was deemed to be the greatest achievement of his life.

But he had naïve thinking. He thought that if he entered Kuoh, he could instantly bag 3 or 4 girlfriends at once. Once he broke up with them, he would date another girl and repeat the process, until his graduation where all girls would fight for him in a battle royale.

It was all part of Issei's Grand Kuoh Harem Plan.

But when he actually entered, reality slapped him in the face. Only a group of handsome guys were popular and girls didn't even look at him. To be precise, he was looked like trash on the floor. All because of those handsome guys. Curse you damn handsome! Issei seethed as he spotted one of those handsome guys, the so-called prince of Kuoh: a fellow 2nd year named Kiba Yuuto, passed by. And of course, he was accompanied by a large portion of the female population of the school.

He shook his head as he sighed, and sat down on his desk.

"Yo, Ise. You looked like shit." A bald guy who looked like a sportsman talked to him. It was Matsuda, undoubtedly the school's number one sexual harasser, and the sexual paparazzi.

"Fufufufu… The wind sure is strong today. It was thanks to that, I was able to get a good view of the girls' panties." A skinny guy said as his glasses gleamed in the affirmation of his words. This guy is Motohama, the school's self-proclaimed number one lolicon and the "Three-Sizes Scouter" which was named after his ability to see the numerical values of the girls' measurement in his glasses.

These two, along with our hero Issei, made up the infamous "Pervert Trio" of Kuoh Academy.

"Seriously, seeing your faces in the morning makes me a whole lot sicker than usual."

"Don't say that dude. Wait until you see the stuff I got inside."

Matsuda reached out for his bag, opened it, and spilled the contents in Issei's table.

"Hee!" A small scream came from a girl away from them. Perfectly understandable in Issei's mind. What girl wouldn't scream when one suddenly saw a pile of books and DVD with suggestive titles?

"You filthy beasts! Bringing it out first thing in the morning!"

"Die, you perverts!"

"You guys are the worst~"

"Shut up!" Matsuda bellowed with all his might. "This is for our entertainment! Girls and kids should go away, or else I'll rape all of you in my imagination!"

Issei could only face-palm at Matsuda's wording. He doubted that this guy would get arrested sooner or later. And with the previous event, his doubts would go with the former.

Still feeling tired, he absent-mindedly scrolled down on the things Matsuda brought. He looked and looked, hoping for something on that pile that could lift his spirits up, and was feeling more disappointed than before when nothing came up.

"Hey…" Motohama said, noticing Issei's lifeless notion as he finished scanning the titles. "Are you ok…? You aren't sick are you?" He then shook his head. "There's no way for you, the manifestation of all sexual desires in the world, could be sick."

Issei wanted to punch Motohama for his rude remark, but he's still feeling tired, so he didn't argue.

"By the way," Matsuda interrupts. "What kind of panties do you guys prefer?"

Issei looked at Matsuda like he was some sort of a crazy lunatic.

"Well… a true man likes all colors… but I have to go with stripes."

Matsuda glared at Motohama.

"Stripes isn't a color, Motohama."

"…Fine. Blue and white stripes."

"Should've known you would pick something so boring."

"Shut up! What's yours then?! Granny panties?!"

"Mine is lacy black." Matsuda announced proudly.

"Hah! You've really got poor taste."

"Hmph! At least, they're a lot better than your generic stripes! You just can't comprehend its classical appeal!"

"It's you who can't comprehend! They aren't generic, they're iconic! But it's not like you could ever understand, striped panties are only loved by mature people with refined tastes!"

"Iconic? Refined? Are you joking?! Stripes are for man-children! Black is clearly the way to go!"

"You better take it back, you son of a bitch!"

The two then began to roll up their sleeves in preparation for an all-out brawl when they saw Issei going into a nap. Furious, they stomped on the chair he was sitting on. Feeling the backlash, Issei shook his head as he glared on the two of them. How dare they interrupt his sleep?!

"What about you, Ise?!" Matsuda asked rather violently. "What kind of panties do you prefer? Stripes or lacy black?!"

Issei, still feeling groggy, looked at them with disbelief in his eyes. They haven't finished discussing the damn thing?! He was trying to get some sleep!

"Tch. Neither of them…" He answered abruptly as he positioned himself once more to get some Z's, however Motohama interrupted him.

"Neither?! So you're into Commando?! As expected from the high-level Ise."

Issei's senses suddenly went into overdrive.

"What?! No, I didn't say that?!"

"Now that's thinking outside the box! That's a pretty good answer." Matsuda commented, clearly impressed.

"Yeah, I've got to admit, going bare back can be pretty sexy." Motohama added as he nodded in approval.

Normally, Issei would be smug and gloat in front of the two of them about their shitty tastes, but today is not a normal day for Issei, thus his face took on a twist full of horror, especially when almost all the girls in class have heard them.

"What kind of discussion is that?! Just fucking die already!"

"You guys are the worst!"

"We should beat them up! We really should!"

Issei could only lament about how his short sleeping time was even interrupted.

After School.

Issei, with his non-existent luck, didn't manage to get to sleep at all. He planned to sleep through his classes but his teachers have decided to pick on him today, of all days. And it doesn't end there. He also found out that he was on duty for today, meaning he would have to stay at school to clean up the classroom.

He sighed. His favorite food, which happened to be on his lunch box today couldn't even cheer him up.

"Yo, Ise." Matsuda said as he and Motohama approached him. He shot his two evil buddies an evil glare, but eventually gave up as he let them sit near him.

"Are you still pissed from this morning?"

"Yeah… something like that."

"Heh, don't worry Ise-kun, I just got what you need." Matsuda confidently said as he made a circle with his thumb and index finger and looked through it.

Issei suddenly felt his plummeting energy levels shoot sky high as he realized what was Matsuda insinuating.

"Oh yeah! Peeking!" He said, full of energy, unlike earlier this morning.

"Ohohohoho, I knew this would cheer you up."

"We recently found out about a hole behind the Kendo Club hall."

"You know what they say about Kendo girls."

"Soft yet firm! A great combination!"

"Yes! Yes! Oh Yes!" Issei couldn't help but feel excited. What healthy male wouldn't?! All of the members of the girl division of the Kendo Club were all babes!

"Let's go!"

"To our paradise!"

"To the land of our dreams!"

The three of them ran, exiting their room with excitement clearly etched on their faces.

Pink, Black, Blue, Red and other varying colors filled Issei's eyes as he burned what he was seeing in his brain. Truly, this was paradise. Issei could feel like crying now as his eye roamed all over the sweaty, drenched yet alluring bodies of the members of the Kendo Club. He solemnly swear that he would take this memory with him until his dying breath.

The only problem now is -.

"Ise. Get your face out of the shitty hole. I want to see too!"

"You offered this hole to me, so I'm going to savor it!"

"Screw you Ise! Get out and let me see!"

Matsuda and Motohama were forcing their way to get him out of the glorious peeking spot as they file their complaints to him. But he would not be moved, he would definitely conquer the bodies of the women that lay on the other side with his eyes!

This is Oppai Heaven!

Behind the still peeping Hyoudou Issei, his two evil buddies had figured out something that would definitely take him out. They nodded to each other as they began to execute the plan. Both of them had plans to take out each other but they agreed that they would first take down the bigger threat.

"Ise! It's Rias Gremory!"

"She's showing her boobs! Look!"

Issei, eager for more oppai, especially exotic oppai, looked around to see Rias Gremory-

"Where?!"

-but it turned out to be a big mistake as his eyes met the index fingers of Matsuda and Motohama, poking them in his eyes. And then he howled in pain as the two of his evil buddies smirked at their victory.

"Agh! Shit! Damn you Matsuda! Motohama!"

However, their victory was short lived as the girls who they were peeking on heard the unmistakable howl that came from Hyoudou's voice.

"Who's there?!"

"I know that voice! It's from the 'Wild Beast' Hyoudou!"

"Kyaaahhhh! Perverts!"

Matsuda and Motohama paled when the girls of the Kendo Club immediately went out of their changing room and heard the clattering of their shinai headed towards them.

"Fuck you Ise! You really have to shout, don't you?!"

"You poked my eyes! It really hurts, you know?! I still can't see a thing!" Issei wailed as he squirmed on the ground, still rubbing his eyes.

"Well then, goodbye Ise!" Matsuda bellowed as he sprinted to a distance.

"We won't ever forget you and your manliness!" Motohama declared as he ran into the direction where Matsuda headed.

"Hey wait! What's happening?!" Issei said as he managed to regain his eyesight. He then looked around and saw most of the Kendo Club, still clad in towels and their lingerie, but they also wielded their shinai that promises a brutal beatdown. The faces the girls wore weren't exactly happy either.

"You've got a lot of nerve doing this, Hyoudou."

"You've got guts to peek on us, pervert."

"You'll regret peeking on us."

"Ummm…" Issei looked around, hoping that somehow a miracle would save him.

"I'll stick this shinai up on your ass."

He then turned as pale as a ghost.

"Uhhhh… sorry?"

His screams of pain was heard all over the school.

"I swear, I'm going to have my revenge on those two someday!" Issei swore as he sat down in a bench in the park, clutching his left arm covered in bruises. His face was swollen to the point where most people wouldn't even recognize him. The Kendo girls were pretty thorough.

It was then that Issei concluded that today was worse than usual.

He then looked at the park. There were no people in the park, which was unusual since people come to flock here often, except for a cute girl with long, silky brown hair and a slender body that is accentuated by her uniform who was staring and blushing at him.

Huh? It was all Issei could think off the moment.

He was at a loss of words when the cutie actually walked towards him, albeit shyly, but Issei had found it cute and moe.

He could only hope, but somehow the scene around them looked like something out of a romantic comedy manga where the girl would confess to a boy. His heart pumped with excitement but his mind told him to stop and don't expect anything. He had been confessed too many times before, but mostly out of dares and anything similar. After probably the 10th confession, he just got fed up with it, and has been left alone since then.

"U-um…" The girl started fidgeting as if she was trying to muster up her courage. "A-Are you by chance, Hyoudou Issei-kun?"

"That's me."

"E-Erm… I-I've been w-watching you from afar… f-for a long t-time." She stuttered

"And?" Issei supplied, hoping it wasn't a confession out of a dare.

"A-And… I d-didn't know how b-but I just fell in love with you!" She cried with a tint of red in her cheeks. "Will you please go out with me?!" She held her hands as if in prayer as she waited for Issei's reply.

Issei's mind went blank for a second. The oppai of this mysterious confessee was being compressed by those arms and to think that they were this huge… No! Issei berated himself.

"U-Um… I hate to ask but…" Issei said as he scratched his cheeks. After that heartfelt confession, at least according to him, he had to confirm whether this was just a prank. If it is, it was probably the most heartfelt confession he had received. "Is it just a prank?"

"W-What do you mean?" She tilted her head in a cute manner. Issei could practically feel his blood rising.

"Well, if it was just a dare or something…"

"N-No…" The girl gritted her teeth for some reason, probably because she was offended. "I really like you, with all of my heart."

This answer from the girl melted Issei's heart. He could actually feel crying now. At last, for the longest time he had been waiting, appeared a girl who seemed to be genuinely want to be with him for who he is… It was like a dream come true!

"W-What is your answer?" She looked hopeful as she gazed into his eyes. They were a strong color of purple, Issei mused as he looked at the girl, whose name he didn't know yet, they're so full of life…

"I-If I may ask…" Issei berated himself, now he's a nervous wreck this time! "W-What is your name?"

"Amano Yuuma."

"U-Um… Is it okay is I call you Yuuma-chan?" She nodded with a blush. "Erm…" How should he put this? "I-I may be inexperienced with all of this… but please take care of me!" he said, practically shouting the last few words.

"Does this mean, you say yes?!" She asked looking at him hopefully. He noticed her sudden closeness, and looked at her facial features. She looked really beautiful, and he was hypnotized by those tantalizing lips of hers. He was being fascinated by this girl, who he had just met, and confessed her supposed love to him.

"E-Er, yes. Yes I am."

"I'm so happy!" She jumped for joy as she grabbed his left arm and held it tightly against her chest. Issei was very happy that his arm had practically touched an oppai, but he was happier about the fact that this girl beside him was now his girlfriend. He couldn't believe it. Does all the bad luck he was experiencing since the day he was born had finally paid off?

Only time would tell.

They exchanged their numbers after a while and Yuuma waved goodbye.

When Yuuma was out of earshot, Issei practically shouted in joy.

"ALRIGHT! I GOT A GIRLFRIEND! TODAY WAS THE BEST DAY EVERRRRR!"

"What is this? What the hell is this?!"

"Tell me it's a lie!"

Matsuda and Motohama were shaking at the sheer absurdity that was presented in front of them. It was their buddy, Hyoudou Issei, who walked hand in hand with a beautiful girl with big breasts and claimed to be his girlfriend.

"Hahahaha! Hello my frie~nds~. Let me introduce you to Amano Yuuma-chan. My girlfriend, kanojo, mein freundin, mi novia!" Issei smiled smugly as he put his left arm around Yuuma's waist. The girl blushed even harder, making Matsuda and Motohama gnash their teeth in anger.

"No… I won't believe this!"

"This is just a dream, isn't it?!"

They were openly crying now. Issei felt a smug sensation at seeing his evil buddies seethe in jealousy. Ahh, revenge is re~al sweet!

"Ha! Better believe it! You should also get girlfriends as well! Let's go Yuuma-chan! I'll treat you into any place you want!" Issei said in a sickeningly sweet voice that seemed to infuriate his two buddies even more.

"Hai!" Yuuma said, grabbing Issei's left hand.

"I'll be getting my revenge Issei!"

"We'll return this humiliation ten times over!"

"Ha! That'll be the day!"

Today was Sunday, and the day of his first date! It was two days ago when Yuuma-chan asked him out on a date. Being single for 17 years, Hyoudou Issei knew nothing about dates and how to treat a girl right. However, he had received an advice from his friend on the internet with the handle name AZL12 on how to behave on dates. The man in question is very knowledgeable from dates to leading them into bed to the point that the members of the group they belonged to practically worshipped him.

So he wore a black jacket with hood over his white t-shirt, with brown cargo pants and a pair of rubber shoes. He surely brushed all the corners of his teeth 3 times, last night. He even brought a perfume so that he could look and be presentable to Yuuma-chan. He even went to their meeting place an hour early! That's how excited he is! He couldn't wait to show off some the tips AZL12-sensei had taught him. He will sweep Yuuma-chan off her feet!

While waiting for the aforementioned Yuuma-chan, he strolled some shops in the area. He scouted some off the potential stores were they would enjoy. It was then that he met a pretty lady with big breasts who wore a maid costume as she distributed advertisement flyers.

"We could grant you your wish!" She said as she tried to give him a flyer. Curious about it, he picked it up with his right, and to his shock and horror, a sound of breaking glass filled the air as the advertisement flyer suddenly crumbled into dust.

Utterly confused, he picked another with his left and looked at it closely. He saw an occult-looking magic circle and a sentence – "Your wish will be granted!" – was written on it. AZL12-sensei insisted that he took one of this… wish granters. For good luck charm. He then hid it in his pocket.

"Issei-kun!"

He heard his girlfriend (he still couldn't believe it) call his name. He turned around and he saw a beautiful girl who wore a cute outfit: A small, light purple jacket over a black dress. Men around her had their heads turned around as she came, and glared daggers at Issei to have bagged such a beautiful woman. He suddenly felt sheepish all of a sudden.

"Did you wait long?"

"N-No, I just got here." He replied, feeling nervous all of a sudden. It couldn't be helped, he thought, it's my first freaking date!

"Shall we start?"

"Un!"

Too cute! Issei felt mesmerized. He just hope AZL12-sensei's date advices would work here! He don't want to be embarrassed in front of his girlfriend!

Their date began.

They window-shopped on some clothing stores they passed by and looked for some decorations for their rooms. They played games on the arcade, ate at a family restaurant and watched a movie together. He asserted himself on their dates as AZL12-sensei had advised, and he made sure that his girlfriend is comfortable all the time. He even bought her a new bracelet to complement her looks.

Still, it was just a simple date; but Issei have never felt happier throughout his life. It was a bliss, and he would treasure it inside his heart.

Time had passed and before he knew it was already near dusk.

They were walking towards the park, the place where Yuuma-chan had confessed her love for him. For him, it was the perfect place to end the date. He had hoped that somehow, the place would trigger something in them that will lead on to something more?! He let out a slightly perverted giggle as he imagined what would happen after this.

He then noticed that the park, just like last time he visited, was devoid of people. The trees in the park had completely blocked the sun's setting rays, making the place seemed more dark than usual. They went up to the fountain and Yuuma-chan had faced him.

Is this going to be it?! He thought with slight anticipation. I hope my breath still smells okay.

"It was really fun today."

She smiled as she twirled before the fountain.

"Hey, Issei-kun."

"Y-Yes?"

"There is something I wanted to do to celebrate our first date." She then puts her face closer to him than he would've liked. "Can you grant my wish?" She added, making a puppy dog face while at it, to make sure that the cuteness factor she had will be maxed to a full effect. She couldn't afford to delay her orders anymore…

She took a deep breath, and then suddenly lost her voice when she tried to speak. How did it come to this? She knew that it was ordered from the top to observe the boy, but she didn't detect a slight change in the boy's power or aura. He's just… normal. Too normal than she would've liked. She reported her findings and then, a message came saying that they should kill the boy. For what? Amano Yuuma, also known as the fallen angel Raynare, couldn't afford to disobey the top brass of the Grigori, but to now kill the boy she had played with, the boy she let danced in her palm, the boy with an assuring smile, the boy that she grew fond of for the last 3 days…

She shook her head, as she mentally prepared herself. Orders were orders, and she had to kill her emotions in order to obey them, like she had a long time ago…

She took a deep breath once more, as she steeled her heart to kill the boy in front of her.

"Will you die for me?"

Issei didn't heard her right for the first time. It was just a joke, right?

Unfortunately for him, the girl in front of him had just sprouted black wings from her back.

A sweat suddenly drops from Issei as he watched his girlfriend grew black wings and levitate in front of him. Her beautiful form was just above him as she flapped her wings while the sun goes down. It was like a scene from a fantasy movie.

"It was fun." She says without emotion, as she looked at him with her eyes, void of any emotion.

"But orders are orders… Hyoudou Issei, your existence ends here!" She says as she made a light spear using her powers and threw it at him.

Issei stood frozen as the light spear Yuuma-chan threw came nearer and nearer to him. He still couldn't believe that Yuuma-chan was an angel, and that she was ordered to kill him. It was all a joke right? He could hear himself laugh over this possibility, and that he didn't want to believe what was happening right in front of him. As the spear of light were mere 12 feet away from him, he held out his right hand…

CRASH!

An explosion of dust quickly surrounded the park. Raynare looked down and saw a dust cloud forming on the spot where Hyoudou Issei used to be. She used a lot of power in that light spear, enough to enough to level down an entire district of a city, but concentrated enough to not destroy its surroundings. It was a mistake, she thought, but at least he didn't die writhing in pain, cursing her and God that gave him a Sacred Gear.

Imagine her surprise when a sound of broken glass was heard in the park and a gust of wind dispersed the dust cloud revealing a certain someone she wouldn't want to see, sprawled on the floor, paralyzed…

"Cough, Cough!"

…and apparently still alive, completely uninjured, and with his right hand stretched out.

Raynare couldn't believe what was happening in front of her. The boy she took care of for the last three days was still standing when she threw in about 1/16 of her power by mistake. She then steeled herself once more as she prepared a light spear, much weaker and lighter this time, and aimed for his stomach.

"HaaaaH!" She shouted as she threw the light spear. The light travelled at a much faster rate than the first one, and she looked at Issei-kun, to see what happened that enabled him to survive.

She raised her eyebrow when he raised his right hand and it was grown to full-blown surprise when he caught it in his right hand before landing on his stomach. A sound of broken glass once again filled the air and to her surprise, her light spear vanished without a trace.

"Just wha-" She never managed to continue that sentence as Issei suddenly sprinted to her and grabbed her hand. Normally, she would've seen him coming. Fallen Angels are superior to humans, after all. But Issei's sudden reveal of his powers had distracted her long enough to actually surprise her.

"Yuuma-chan, just what is going on? What is that spear of light? And how come it dispersed when I touched it with my right hand? I was so full of questions right now that I can't sleep if some of them weren't answered!" He tried to ask her a lot of questions but Raynare also had a lot of them in her mind. Just what is Hyoudou Issei's power? How come an order was placed to kill him immediately? What is the higher-ups of Grigori thinking? She had to get some answers out of this somehow.

"Um… Yuuma-chan?" Issei called out to her, unsure on how to proceed with all of that happened between them. Raynare stiffened up, wondering what she would do…

After a few moments of silence, Raynare turned towards to Issei, and bowed before him. "I'm sorry for all of what happened between us." She started to speak and from Issei's reaction he seemed a little surprised. "My organization assigned me to observe you as ordered. They seemed to detect something akin to a Sacred Gear in you, but wasn't sure what kind it is." She paused for a second to let that information sink in. "In order to have a constant surveillance, somebody from us would have to be close to you, and from the data my… comrade… gathered, you seem to have a preference for my body type, so I was chosen to be your girlfriend to gather your data and monitor the changes." When she said that, something similar to being hurt was seen on Issei's face for a minute.

"Haaah… For a mission, huh?" He smiled sadly as he rubbed the back of his head. "I guess it would be something similar to that. I mean…" he cleared his throat. "In the back of my mind, I knew it was kind of impossible for a girl as cute as you to fall for someone like me out of the blue." He laughed bitterly.

Raynare smiled unknowingly as Issei-kun blurted out his true feelings. So he knew from the start? She looked at him, viewing him in a new light. I knew that plan was kind of obvious. She reminded herself to kick Mitelt's ass later for suggesting that kind of plan. She would've planned a different kind of approach if it weren't for her stupid… comrades going on with Mitelt's idea.

"Look. I knew I used you to further our goals and I'm sorry about it…" Raynare said as she tried to hide her embarrassment. "But I don't actually dislike it, us hanging out that is." She noticed Issei-kun gaping like an idiot and that made her all the more embarrassed. "D-Don't get the wrong idea, okay?! I just like to hang out with you!"

"Okay."

"Look, I won't get angry even if you decline… Wait what?!" Raynare couldn't quite her surprise at Issei's answer. She would've expected him to decline and get angry at her or maybe even not having to do anything with her… but this?!

"I deceived you! I tried to kill you!" She cried as she let her frustrations out on Issei. "I toyed with your feelings! Why wouldn't you hate me?! That's the way it should be!"

"Yes, you did all of that." Issei countered her argument. "But you said you're sorry right?! I knew it was hard to admit that you are wrong and it was pretty damn brave of you to do that. And from the tone of your voice, I could kinda tell that you don't want to kill me. So what's the problem in that?"

Raynare was slack-jawed at the boy's reasoning. "…what an idiot…" She whispered as she felt that a weight was lifted from her shoulders. She doesn't particularly dislike this feeling though.

Issei thought that he was seeing different shades of red in Yuuma-chan's face. Was she feeling embarrassed? Or just sick? He went to Yuuma-chan and placed his hand on her forehead. Yuuma-chan went through another different shade of red as she slapped Issei's hand away from her forehead.

"Gah! What are you doing?!" She cried as she pulled herself away from him.

"Huh?!" Issei looked confused all of a sudden. "I was just checking if you were sick Yuuma-chan, your face is really red. I thought you might have a fever or something."

"Stupid! Don't do that!" She said as she composed herself. "And call me Raynare, it was kind of annoying to call me by that fake name."

"Ray…nare?"

"Yes, do that from now on, okay?"

"Alright, Raynare-chan." Raynare felt something in her chest in the way Issei-kun spoke her real name, but she quickly dismissed the notion.

"You still have my number, right?"

"Yeah."

"Let's meet up again in three days, I'll tell you what I could find regarding that Sacred Gear of yours…"

Issei looked confused again. "Sacred Gear?"

Raynare just sighed. "I'll tell you in three days. By the way…" She spun around cutely as she looked at Issei in the eye. "…I expect you to treat that as a second date, okay?"

Issei couldn't help but smile at that.