Hello there reader! So before I say anything else I'd like to say that I am still writing and all of that other jazz.
So then where's The Kyuubi Hakuryuukou? Why are you starting up another fanfic?
Well... I want to say that The Kyuubi Hakuryuuko will be put on hold for the time being and I'm sure this will upset a number of people considering almost forty people followed it. It might even get a rewrite and I do know that it is a bit early to be considering a rewrite for it since there's only about twenty thousand words in it but I feel like it kind of needs it.
I know that I could be upsetting a bunch of people with putting that story on hold but I only want to give you guys the best of my abilities so I will take as much time needed to do so.
I'm not saying that I shot myself in the foot for the way I wrote that story but... I kind of shot myself in the foot for the way I wrote it. I made a foolish mistake in the way that I wrote a first person work of literature and that's by having the main character basically feed everything to the reader. (Or at least that's how I see it)
There should be some mystery! Something that not even my character knows about going on around him! Not to mention the fact that I want to utilize DxD's massive universe better than I have been since I haven't utilized it at all. Also, I need to work on an outline for how my stories will go or else I lose focus easily. I have the attention span of a squirrel and I need guidance when it comes to writing.
That's essentially what I've done for this story. I wrote up an outline so that even if i start to get sidetracked, I can always go back to the outline and see what it is I'm supposed to be doing instead of having my character just mess around. There will be messing around but only for a short time hopefully as it helps with pacing.
With all of that being said the possibilities for The Kyuubi Hakuryuukou are: I write up an outline and continue it from where it is, I write up an outline from scratch and start it over again, or pie. I'll never give up on a story unless I die and my body is still kicking.
Now time to talk about my free time. I have VERY little free time with college having start up at the beginning of this month. I'm taking four classes and Precalc is one of them so my free time got socked in the gut and kicked to the curb. The only reason why I had enough time to do this chapter was because I was given a four day weekend. Apparently Valentines day gets you out of college but i digress. Essentially, my free time is only on the weekends so the amount of work I get done for this site will be LOW.
Now that's not saying that I won't be doing anything at all. I enjoy writing and the fact that there is people out there that like to read what I write is just a plus. I'm simply forewarning everyone that updates will be slow. The updates will be slow but I will try and keep the chapters long. (This one came out to about 9,500 words before this author's note I believe.)
Umm... So I don't know what else I should warn you all about. Being awake in the morning sucks. If anybody actually read that author's note you have my respect.
But before we go any farther... Who's in the harem?
You'll just have to read to find out, won't you?
On with the show!
Name: Jun Paimon
Age: 16
Height: 5' 8"
Appearance: Messy black hair that falls into his blue eyes. He wears most of the Kuoh Academy male uniform with a silver chain necklace that has a red stone hanging from it. The only difference in his uniform is that instead of a black blazer he wears a white hoodie. During the day he keeps the hood up.
Luck? What Luck?
"96… 97… 98… 99… *Sigh*… 100…"
I, Paimon Jun, am currently walking along a sidewalk in a quiet neighborhood on the way to a friend's house. During my walk I was flipping a coin over and over again and getting the same exact results every time.
Heads…
Some may call this some extreme amount of good luck. Statistically speaking, the chances of a coin landing on heads a hundred times in a row is so astronomically low that I don't even want to think about it. So I'm a luck guy, eh? Wrong. Maybe I would be lucky if I was guessing heads, but I've been calling tails each and every single time. Not once has it landed on tails. I'd even consider that this coin could be rigged in some sort of way, but I've tried ten other coins at this point and it's all the same.
This just goes to show how horribly unlucky I am. My days are filled with terrible luck. I've had so many horrible things happen to me that I've lost count. Just the other day I drank some expired milk. Alright, alright. That's pretty low on the scale but we're going with it for now. I'd let this expired milk pass if it were something reasonable like the milk was close to its expiration date, or maybe the fridge turned off in the middle of the night. Instead I'm given milk that I bought the day before that just sporadically went bad in a day. Nothing else in the fridge went bad, just the milk. I've never felt more sorry for my stomach ever before. The pain it went through that day was terrible and I wish to never experience it again.
Either way, I should get back to the topic at hand. My luck is something like a terrible curse. If it's something I'd like to happen, then the complete opposite will happen instead.
As I continued walking through the quiet neighborhood, I stopped briefly and looked up into the sky. I looked directly at the blazing hot sun and tried to shade my face with my hand as I stared up.
"So hot…"
I feel like I'm going to burn up under the sun's intense rays. It's a good thing I brought my hoodie or I really might have.
Damn weather man said that today was supposed to be a completely cloudy day. "Tomorrow will be a completely cloudy day with a high chance of rain all across our local area." What a load of crap.
I was looking forward to it all day yesterday too. A cloudy day would have been a nice change from the always sunny month we were having last month. For a half vampire like me, a cloudy day would have been like heaven on Earth.
"What are you looking at Jun-nyan?"
A voice breaks me out of my thought. Immediately, I scanned the surrounding area for the source of the voice. It didn't take long for me to notice that a person was sitting on top of the fence next to me.
It was a voluptuous young woman with long black hair and hazel eyes with cat-like pupils wearing the standard Kuoh Academy uniform for girls. She's also wearing an ornately detailed headband by the looks of it. She's sitting on top of a fence that is separating the sidewalk from the front yard of a house. She's sitting down on the top of the fence with her body facing towards the front of the house while she has her head twisted around to look back at me.
The girl's name escapes me at the moment. It escapes me for a good enough reason but I do at least remember who this girl is. Honestly, I'm a little shocked by the fact that she called out to me and even more shocked by the fact that I didn't notice her being a mere five feet away from me.
What is her name again? She's related to Koneko who is a member of Rias Gremroy's peerage. She's a nekoshou that is also a devil servant for Rias. If I'm remembering correctly she enjoys being a carefree individual that has very little worries in the world. That much I do know.
Her name is on the tip of my tongue right now but I can't seem to fully grasp it. It's been a month now and I'm certain that she yelled at me for not calling her by her first name before. It was something like "It's _, not Toujo-san! Can't you get that right?!" Just from that alone I can tell that if I call her by her last name she quite possibly will never talk to me again. The only question is, what the hell is her first name!?
Maybe I can just play it off by not saying her first name. I'll mask my lack of knowledge.
"Good morning to you too *cough* *cough*. Just admiring this wonderful weather we're still having."
I cough in place of her name while mumbling nonsense during the cough to make it sound like I might have said her name. Also, I answer her question she asked me with a sarcastic tone as I slightly pull my hood further over my face to protect myself from being burnt to ashes.
It looks like that memory crash course for me was a little less than stellar if I can't remember this girl's name. Then again, I was only supplied with pictures and what my aunt knew about me. My aunt was pretty bad at names seemingly considering she paused on some pictures for a good ten minutes trying to think of a name. It just so happened that the picture of this girl was the only one that she decided to skip over because she was getting really mad about not being able to remember her name.
I'm not sure why but I don't have memories of my life past the beginning of last month. It was only thanks to a woman, that I apparently liked to call my aunt, that I was able to get any of my supposed memories back. Supposedly, my aunt was prepared for this to happen and had been stockpiling pictures of people I knew to help out with explaining my life.
I think that I might have some kind of early form of Alzheimer's disease because I know that she told me her first name sometime last week but I've completely forgotten it already.
The girl tilts her head slightly and flips her body around so that her legs are hanging off the side facing the sidewalk.
"What did you say nya?"
Please don't tell me she noticed. I tried really hard to make those coughs sound completely natural.
Did I really have to stop and respond to her question? I could've just kept on walking and pretended like I didn't hear her. Actually, that would've been impossible since I looked right at her. Curse my natural instincts telling me to look around. Curse them all to hell!
"What are you talking about? I said that I was "admiring" this "wonderful" weather we're still having."
I used air quotes to try and show that I was obviously being sarcastic about the weather in hopes that she was only confused by that and nothing else.
"No, no. I mean before that. It sounded like you called me something other than Toujo-san."
She waved her hand dismissingly before she smiled slightly at the end.
Does it really have to be this big of a deal? It's just a last name. She might have some sort of pet peeve about it.
I just have to keep up the façade that I know her name without actually saying it.
"Of course I did. I called you by your first name. That's what you wanted right?"
"Hmmm… Could you say it again? I couldn't quite hear you say it."
The girl crossed her legs and placed her hands in her lap as she awaited my response.
Can't there be something that would interrupt this whole conversation?
"Onee-sama!"
Out of the blue a white haired girl walked in front of me and looked up to her older sister sitting on top of the fence. She looked at her sister with a wide smile which was something completely out of the ordinary for her.
The white hair girl was the girl's sister Koneko. She's usually is a serious no nonsense girl around others that has now become the school's mascot apparently. Except, the only thing is that she is apparently almost an entirely different person around her sister. She can really open up with her and doesn't have any problem doing it. Apparently, even when they were both little they were practically inseparable and played games with each other all of the time.
Now noticing her sister in front of her the girl on the fence grinned and jumped down to greet her little sister. I may not know her name but I do know a damn good amount of her life. Like the fact that the older sister is a third year at our school and Koneko is a first year. The older sister also happens to be the third most popular girl at our school beating out one of the pure blooded devils. The three most popular girls at our school all happen to have extremely large busts. It just goes to show you, breasts really do control the world.
Conspiracy theories aside, I can't understand why only her name escapes me and I'm starting to really wish that Koneko would've actually said her name for me. Now that I'm thinking about it, however, they're both caught up in their own little conversation. It's like they've forgotten that there is a third person here. Maybe I can just slip out of here unnoticed and get back to walking like I should be in the first place.
As I attempted to shuffle my way far enough away from the two girls Koneko noticed me trying to get away and pointed me out to her sister.
"Where are you going Jun-san? I haven't heard you say my name yet nya!"
She of course had to grab my hand to stop me from shuffling any further as it became almost mechanical and I couldn't stop. Even as she was pulling me back I continued to shuffle.
After finally shutting down my legs, I scratched the back of my head in an awkward manner while I tried my hardest to force a smile.
On the outside I look like a normal teenager that seems to be having girl trouble because of this hand grab, but on the inside I'm crying my heart out as I don't know what this girl's name is. Not to mention my only escape plan was just stomped into the ground.
I don't know your name would be a simple thing to say at this point, but I already dug a hole and uttering those words or none at all would get me pushed into said hole. This said hole has been dug straight to the core of the earth and the fall alone would be enough to kill me. I'm not sure if she would really overreact that much and attack me for my lies and lack of ability to remember her name, but it would be better to not let that even have a slight chance of happening.
At this point I wish that I had never stopped to complain about the weather. Why couldn't I be a daywalker and be able to walk safely through the sun safely? Hell, at this point I wouldn't mind being completely human just so that I wouldn't have given two shits about the sun.
Do I even want to remember this girl's name anymore? What if it's something so long and elaborate that it's simply too hard to pronounce? At this point I don't even care about not knowing her name. It's obvious that I'm completely fucked and will be more than likely castrated.
"Look Kuroka-san, I don't remember your name so… sorry."
That sounded a lot better in my head. Outside of my head it sounds completely retarded because of how simple I put it.
Honestly, I'm surprised that I can even remember to tie my own damn shoes in the morning considering I can't remember one person's name and after an entire month too.
Kuroka released her grip from me and placed her hands on her hips.
"Ha. Ha. Ha. Was that supposed to be a joke Jun-san? Kind of lame if you ask me."
"Yeah, yeah. Tie me up by my hands and hang me over a tub of battery ac… Wait… You aren't mad?"
T-That's a shocker. From my memory of when I called her by her last name she seemed kind of ticked by it. I assumed that if I told her that I didn't remember her name she would be extremely pissed. Instead, she seems unfazed.
"Har. Har. Har. You're killing me with your amazing jokes Jun-san."
H-Hey! I'm the one with the sarcasm alright!?
"I'm not joking?"
Or at least I think that I'm not joking.
"I honestly forgot your name Kuroka-san!"
This is a form of torture isn't it? Throw the fool into a spiral of confusion before you snap him in half and drain his blood out so that you can feed it to your little worker elves that will develop a thirst for more blood. Before you know it, an army of bloodthirsty worker elves led by a crazed nekoshou will take over the world!
As I panicked over the thought of a world controlled by elves, Kuroka walked forward slightly and lifted her face closer to mine by propping herself up slightly on the tips of her toes.
"Ku ro ka. You said it yourself you baka."
She sounded out her name as slow as possible and proceeded to call me an idiot straight to my face before backing off.
Kuroka!? What the hell have I been thinking?! I've been saying her name almost the whole damn time! How closed minded am I!?
At least that makes me feel relieved now. That's an entire load off my shoulders.
Finally, I can have a normal conversation now without worrying about not saying her name.
"Good morning Koneko-san."
After the whole name dilemma was finished, I finally greet Koneko like a normal polite person should do. It's bad that the amount of politeness in my body is abysmal so I should try to correct that.
"… Good morning… Jun-senpai."
Koneko gives me an emotionless response that I should've seen coming from her. Getting a conversation going with her will be more than impossible so it's probably better to talk to her sister Kuroka instead.
"By the way Kuroka-san, why were you waiting out here? I can assume it was for Koneko-san but don't you two live together?"
This was bugging me ever since I noticed that she was waiting for Koneko. I mean, they are sisters after all. People would assume that because of them being sisters that would mean that they would be living together. It just looked like Kuroka was waiting out here because she was waiting for Koneko to get ready and come out. This wouldn't be something that you would do outside of your own house. Rather, you would wait inside so that you would know if your roommate was doing what they should be doing.
"Oh, we live together. It's just that on weekends I like to go out and roam like the neko I am. Today's Monday so I got ready on my own time and waited outside for my little Shirone nya!"
Kuroka hugs her sister out of joy to which Koneko expresses slight embarrassment from being grabbed in such a way by her older sister. I'm sure it's not in the slightest that she doesn't enjoy being treated this way by her sister. It's just that as with all siblings it's always embarrassing when the older one openly expresses their affection for their younger sibling in front of other people.
After finally being released from her sister's grasp Koneko was forced to straighten out her uniform. I'm certain that Kuroka hugged her just to embarrass her because she's quietly giggling.
"So you leave on weekends and come back for the weekdays?"
"It's almost like you figured that out all by yourself nya!"
Rude as always but I digress.
Kuroka started walking around me as if she was told to give me an inspection. After making several rounds around me she stopped herself and went back to stand next to Koneko.
"Kaichou's still letting you wear that instead of the blazer?"
"I'd sure hope so. Without it I'd end up like a dry tomato on the side of the road."
My body slightly shudders at the mere thought of being caught in direct sunlight. It's a terrible fear that I have to cope with. The sun isn't going to cause me to spontaneously combust or anything close to that, but give me a bit over a couple of hours or maybe even less than an hour in this current weather and I'll be burning like there's no tomorrow.
Daywalkers, humans, devils, everything that isn't the regular kind of vampire… I envy you all.
Kuroka looked a bit sad by my response as she tugged at the bottom of her uniform's skirt.
"That woman refuses to let me go to school in my kimono. This uniform is chafing my body."
"She probably won't let you change your uniform because your body doesn't depend on it like mine."
That is the only reason why Kaichou allows me to wear a hoodie instead of a blazer. I would've went with a black one to at least somewhat not stick out, but with this kind of weather I have no other choice but to go with white so that I don't die from a heat stroke.
"Yeah well, if it weren't for the fact that Shirone started going to that school I would've probably dropped out because of it."
"Hahaha. That and because you're a servant for Rias right?"
It's pretty common knowledge that Rias makes her peerage go to school. She's pretty obsessed with the human world, Japan in specific. She thinks that her entire peerage needs to learn about the human world so going to high school would be first on the to-do list.
"Ugh. I don't hate the girl but she gives way too much work nya! How can she expect a girl like me to be able to handle so much hard work?"
I've never heard of Rias Gremory being one to give out a lot of work. Actually, I hear that about Kaichou otherwise known as Sona Sitri. Being Kaichou is pretty hard work, and considering her peerage is the other members of the student Council I would imagine that they have a lot of work too. In fact, I commonly hang out with a person from Sona's peerage. Her house was the one that I was on my way to before I made this little pit stop.
As if suddenly getting an idea, Kuroka's eyes gleamed and she slowly approached me.
"You have Evil Pieces too right? Would you consider saving this poor Onee-chan from her master?"
Kuroka placed her ample chest against mine and looked up to me with the best innocent face she could pull off.
I understand that she might actually be troubled by her work, but she's being overdramatic about this whole saving thing. The Gremory household is known for their kindness towards their servants. The fact of the matter is that she doesn't like to do work and since I don't have any peerage members of my own, nor do I go out looking for any, she probably figures that she'll get less work in my peerage.
"As much as having a peerage member like you would be great, I really don't think Rias would ever part with her strongest member. Besides, I'm the head of an entire household. Don't you think that I have a whole lot more work?"
Kuroka is in fact Rias' strongest peerage member. She's Rias' second Bishop and has a strength that is easily higher than Rias' Queen's.
I don't go out looking for peerage members because there is really no point for me to do so. What am I going to have them do? Go out and make contacts with humans? That's about all I can think of. Other than that it would only be to help show my strength as the head of a household. That's something I don't need to do since there isn't anybody competing for the spot. There's also Rating Games but I don't compete in those even though as the head of an entire household I'm allowed to compete in the official ones.
After hearing my response Kuroka backed off of me with a slight pout on her face.
"Some knight in shining armor you are."
I don't think a vampire, or even a devil for that matter, would be that much of a knight. Although we do in fact have Knight Pieces so maybe we could pull it off.
Again, I wouldn't mind having Kuroka in my peerage but there's really no chance Rias would trade her unless I had someone of even greater value to replace her. Also, my peerage to me is just that, a peerage that means your apart of my group. If Kuroka were to join my peerage, that's all that would happen. She would gain the ability to be able to say "I'm a part of the Paimon household nya!" Or something similar to that. I would probably have her go out and do contracts but that would only be so that she can make some money for herself. This is probably somehow known to Kuroka so that would be the biggest reason for why she wants to join my peerage so badly.
"How goes being the head of a family anyways?"
Kuroka breaks me out of my thoughts with a question.
"It is fine I suppose. Although, I do have a whole bunch of paper… work….to… do."
Crap! I knew there was something that I was forgetting to do!
As the head of a household I'm given a stack of paperwork nearly every month. It's a whole bunch of rubbish that only needs my signature but there's the occasional one that I have to read extremely careful. The papers range from random holidays and events my territory wants to have all the way to the tax rate for the villagers in my territory. Every household has a treasury and I was given control over my household's. It's important that I keep in mind how much I'm able to spend without putting our profits into the negative. I could accidentally sign off on a holiday that requires a massive amount of funding and then bam! Our treasury takes a hit and we're left with less money than we had before. It's vital that a household keeps a large amount of money stored away in their treasury just in case of any kind of dire emergency that might arise. That makes it important to try your hardest to make a profit off of the taxes from the villagers. This means that there is the occasional moment that I have to say no to events they might wish to hold, or maybe I even have to increase the taxes but this should only be considered in an emergency because nobody likes to be taxed more. There are of course repercussions for not signing off on certain things though. If I don't allow a certain thing for too long the villagers will obviously get upset and voice their opinion on the matter.
People never truly understand how difficult it is to run a civilization. You can't always be the good guy that gives the people whatever they want whenever they want. Sometimes you have to say no and be the jerk that ruined the giant talking trees parade. It's mostly a win and lose situation most of the time. You just have to try to win more than you lose.
There's only one way you can lose completely and that's by not signing a single one of the proposals! This day just keeps kicking me in the side. I've already fallen to the ground and pleaded for forgiveness but the kicks keep coming.
Not only have I fallen to my knees mentally but physically as well. An angry mob of villagers is not something you would like to experience. Yes, my villagers get upset if they don't get to do at least ONE thing propose to me. They look forward to these annual events and get filled with anticipation and excitement as the designated day draws closer and closer. Considering there won't be a single one this month, visiting the Underworld will be a hassle. I only have memories of about a month of my life but when I was first being told about whom I was and what I had to do I had about a day to figure all of this out. This resulted in quite the amount of mess ups as I basically signed off on the smaller event that nobody, except for an old couple, cared about rather than the one that more people cared about. Immediately, I was advised that I should apologize for this and that didn't go over that well. About half of them were happy that I expressed my apologies to them but the other half was upset that they would have to wait for their big event.
Also, this is apparently a common occurrence for me. Supposedly I've forgotten about this paperwork on more than a couple of occasions. Why these villagers haven't plotted a revolt against me yet, I'll never know.
Kuroka crouched down to try and look at me as I was on my hands and knees. She had a smile on while she tried to keep herself from laughing at my despair.
"It seems like someone forgot about their job nya."
Yes, I'm a forgetful idiot. Well, no sense in wallowing in despair over something that I can't correct. My aunt or my servant more than likely sent the papers out already anyways. If I was given any paperwork at the start of the month, it would have to all be completed by the first Monday of the next month do that it can be sent off. Sometimes there will be times where I get stacks of paperwork one month after another similar to what happened for the past two months now.
To clarify, I say servant but she isn't a member of my peerage. Again, I don't have a single member and I still have all fifteen of my pieces. She's a pureblood vampire that's a part of a family that's been serving my mother's side of the family now for generations. Each generation that is born must serve my family's current generation. Her mother served my mother, her grandfather served my mother's grandmother, and so on. Now she is serving me because she was born at practically the same time as I was. Should I say serving? I don't know who serves who more now that I think about it. I do know that she can be terrifying at times. Did I mention that she's also a daywalker? Yeah, she's way luckier than me.
After regaining my composure, I ask Kuroka a final question.
"So what are you two doing just standing here still? Shouldn't you two be heading to school right now?"
Well… final two questions.
I point to the two sisters obviously referring to them. The pointing wasn't necessary in the slightest considering it's only the three of us here but I did it anyways.
"I could ask you the same question. Last time I checked, school is in the opposite direction of where you're walking nya."
She gives me a sly grin as if she's caught me like a mouse. What kind of horrible secret does she think I have?
"I wonder where you could be going. What could the mysterious vampire be hiding from the beautiful neko."
Kuroka brings herself closer and closer to me with each step. Slowly but surely she is invading my personal space without a care in the world for doing so. Within moments Kuroka was standing inches away from me and had started to smell me. She smelled my clothes from top to bottom before finally backing off.
"Hmm… A girl perhaps? What girl could possibly gain your attention better than me nyan? Is my body not good enough for you?"
Kuroka gropes her own breasts at the end of her sentence with a sad face.
If I were to get a nosebleed right now, it would be the worst thing to happen with Koneko around. Not only that but the fact that I'm half vampire means the mere smell of blood can make me give into my vampire instincts. I'm not saying that I'll go and bite Kuroka or Koneko if I smell a lot of blood but… I might bite Kuroka or Koneko if I smell a lot of blood.
It'll be alright though. I've had way more erotic things happen in front of…
Without even realizing it my nose starts dripping blood. Almost immediately after it starts, I try to pinch my nose shut to stop it.
W-What kind of crap is this?! I didn't want to get a nosebleed! This isn't even the most ero thing I've experienced before! In fact, this is pretty low on the scale! I wasn't even thinking about her breasts that much either! Stupid hot weather! You've screwed me in more ways than one!
"… Pervert…"
Koneko says it coldly and closes her eyes in disgust after watching me get a nosebleed from her sister.
"I-I'm not a pervert! It's just a really dry day! T-That's all."
Koneko sighed in annoyance.
"… Jun-senpai is a pervert like the pawn."
She's talking about the new pawn that Rias got right? Sona was talking about Rias getting a pawn that took eight pieces the other day. So he's a pervert, eh? Poor guy is going to have a tough time with the guy to girl ratio in Rias' peerage. Also, Koneko is a part of Rias' peerage so any perverted advances he might try will be swiftly punished by her.
Contrary to her sister, Kuroka is having a field day right now.
"Nyan~! So Jun-san likes breasts, huh?"
Kuroka continues to grope herself with a mischievous look on her face as she does it. This girl doesn't care what she does in front of people, does she?
I'd better get out of here before my reputation turns into a super pervert somehow!
"Uhh… I'm going to get going now… Been nice talking to you!"
I flipped my body around and went to start running in the opposite direction when-
Bump!
Out of nowhere, Kuroka got in my running path and I bumped into her causing us to both fall to the ground with me on top of Kuroka. Kuroka was lying with her back to the pavement and my body on top of her. One way or the other, my hand managed to fall onto her left breast.
"Unn~! Jun-san really does like breasts nya."
Kuroka lets out a moan of pleasure and spoke with a sly grin on her face.
How did this happen?! One second she was standing next to Koneko, and then the next she was behind me somehow! My brain can't even fathom how this happened.
This isn't helping Koneko's opinion of me at all I'm sure. It's also not helping that I haven't moved my hand or even my body for that matter.
"S-Sor-"
I was going to apologize to Kuroka for what was happening but I felt myself being lifted off of her. It was almost as if I had become weightless at that very moment. When I twisted my head to my left, I saw a very upset Koneko.
"Koneko-san! It was an accident!"
"… Go…"
As I tried to explain to Koneko how I didn't mean to grope her sister, I was thrown with great strength far away. If I ever had dreamed that I would be able to fly without the need of turning into a bat or using my devil wings, this would easily appease that dream. My body soared through the sky at breathtaking speed. Luckily for me, I was thrown in the direction that I was intending to go. Unluckily for me, I was sent flying into a local establishment's hot springs. It got even worse when it turned out that I crashed into the women's side of the hot springs. All of the women in the hot springs immediately jumped to attention and attacked me while I was already down. Each one of them must've kicked and stomped on me at least five times each.
*Sniff* *Sob*
After they got their fill of beating me up, the women exited the hot springs leaving me to cry alone. I wasn't crying from pain or anything like that. No, those kicks hurt but they didn't do that much damage. The most I got out of that was an even worse nosebleed from how many times they each kicked me in the face. I was crying from the fact that I was definitely going to be known as a pervert now.
The rest of my walk to my friend's house was filled with me mumbling to myself. I was mumbling to myself how stupid my luck is. When all of the girls exited that hot spring, they voiced a lot of complaints to the owner. The owner in turn went out to the women's hot springs and found me sniveling like an idiot on the ground. He made me have to take up a little side job for him that involves me working at his hot springs. I wonder who the genius was that gave him that idea. "Let's hire the guy that our customers think is a pervert! Nothing could go wrong!" Yeah, we'll see how long it takes before I get assaulted for working over there. Also, this just adds to my already large amount of work. There's a good chance that I'll probably get a stack of paperwork to sign being that I'm the head of a household, the usual work that I have to do as a devil like forming contracts with humans, and then there's school. If I don't blow my brains out by the end of the week, I'll be surprised.
Although it was an adventure and a half to get here, I finally arrived at my friend's humble abode. When I reached the house, I entered in through the front door unannounced. That whole thing about vampires not being able to enter a house without permission isn't true in the slightest. That and the whole vampires can't cross running water. Who thought that a house or a river could stop a vampire? Oh, but that whole garlic thing is extremely true. It makes us painfully nauseous. Garlic is taboo inside my house.
The inside of the house was as silent as it always was in the morning. A pencil being dropped could be heard.
I went up the stairs and took the first door on the right into my friend's room, and of course she's still sleeping. I thought that she would be able to at least wake herself up but that's seemingly impossible.
"Momo-chan, wake up."
I poked the side of her sleeping face and she slightly flinched from it before her eyes slowly opened up. Momo was a girl with long black hair and blue-green eyes. She also happened to be one of the Bishops in Sona's peerage.
"Nghh… What time is it?"
Momo sat up in her bed and stretched her arms out. She then retracted her arms back and started to rub her eyes with one of her hands.
"Well… We're actually going to be very late if you don't get dressed right now."
This news was a shocker to Momo. Her sleepy body was shocked full of energy at the word late.
"L-Late?! Kaichou will punish me if I'm late to school!"
She started to panic but that panicking was soon turned into something darker.
"If we're late it's your fault."
"My fault?! I woke you up! If it ends up being someone's fault it'll be yours for sleeping in!"
"No! You should've been here earlier to wake me up!"
"You should be grateful. I'm only doing this because I felt bad about watching you get to school seconds before the late bell rang."
I crossed my arms and turned my head away from Momo.
How could it be my fault that she needs someone to wake her up to go to school? I'll admit that I was pretty late because of the amount of times I got side tracked, but she should be able to wake herself up like a normal person.
Within seconds of finishing my statement I could feel a good amount of killing intent enter the room. When I looked to the source I could see Momo emitting killer intent straight for me.
"Jun-chan…"
Yikes. Momo's a pretty caring and nice individual usually. It's one thing when you piss a normal person off but it's a completely other thing when you piss a nice person off. The nice ones are ten times scarier in every possible way.
"I was joking Momo-chan! Hahaha… Can't you take a joke?"
In a desperate attempt to save myself from her wrath I attempt to alleviate her anger by telling her it was all just one big joke. This doesn't seem to deter her in the slightest as she grabs everything that was next to her and started to hurl it straight for me. I tried my best to dodge the onslaught of random items she was throwing at me, but I was nailed in the face with an alarm clock and sent to the ground. Why the hell does she have an alarm clock if she doesn't use it?
As I laid helpless on the ground, Momo continued to throw more random objects at me causing me to be buried in a mess of objects. The amount of Jun abuse today is far higher than I would like. Also, the lack of air under this stuff is starting to trouble me.
After lying under the pile of objects for about a minute, I broke my head free of them gasping for air. At the same time that I poked my head out, Momo had already gotten dressed into her uniform and had her arms crossed while she looked down at me.
"Are you just going to lie there or are we going to get going?"
Her voice sounded like she was having no more of my nonsense and wanted to get going this very second. Note to self, avoid getting Momo mad.
We exited the house together and started on our walk to the school. I had left extremely early to get to her house in time without any worries but my pit stops got rid of all of that extra time. Now we'll be lucky if we get to school even a half a minute early.
The walk was silent as Momo was seemingly still mad at me. She walked with her head facing straight forward and her bag being held in both of her hands in front of her. I don't think she's looked in my direction once this entire time.
"Momo-chan?"
I say her name to get her to at least look at me.
It was a few seconds later but she did at least glance over to me.
"What?"
"Did you do your homework for math?"
Immediately, she scoffs and picks up her pace as she speed walks ahead of me.
"Wait! I'm joking! Momo-chan! Come on!"
I quickly pick up my own pace and caught up to her. Neither one of us wanted to run so we're left with this speed walking competition. Eventually, Momo realizes that she wasn't going to out walk me and gave up by slowing her speed back down to normal.
"You still mad at me?"
Momo sighed quietly before she finally loosened up.
"No, or at least not that much. I-I'm happy that you would come to my house just to wake me up."
Momo's face slightly flushed red and she kept her eyes glued to the ground as she spoke.
"Phew. That's a relief. Today's been bad enough as it is."
"How so?"
"Let's just say that I probably have a new reputation that I'm going to hate for the rest of my life."
"I'm so sorry."
"Not your fault. If it's anyone's fault it is Lady Luck's for taking away my luck."
"I see… Hey! How is that spell working out for you?"
Momo turned her head and was wearing a large smile on her face. If there's one thing that's definite about Momo, it's that she loves spells. Not the usual demonic power ones either. She's more of a fan of the actual magic that magicians use. Magic involves equations unlike demonic energy that requires imagination. To use a spell a person simply needs to know what causes what in their equations and formulate it all into the spell.
Just last week, Momo taught me a spell that I asked her to teach me.
"Does this answer your question?"
I reached my right hand over to the left side of my body and gripped onto something that had been hanging on my side. Unbeknownst to someone that couldn't feel holy energy there would be nothing there, but in reality there was actually a sword that had been made invisible. The moment that I gripped the sword's grip and pulled it out of its sheath it became completely visible. It was a katana that had a very slight curve to it and was approximately twenty-eight inches in length.
After pulling it out of its sheath briefly, I let it slide completely back in and it disappeared again.
"I'm not too fond of carrying this thing around, but how else am I going to use it in an emergency when I can't even properly make one of those wallet dimension things?"
"Pocket dimensions."
"Yeah, pants dimension."
"*Sigh* Yeah… pants dimension."
I couldn't help but start to laugh at seeing Momo losing hope in me. My constant feigns of stupidity are far too much for her.
My laughter was enough to influence Momo into smiling a little.
"Thanks Momo-chan. I wouldn't be able to hide Kusanagi if it weren't for your spell."
"The fact that a devil can wield Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi still baffles me. You have to have a massive amount of light energy inside of you and the sword has to choose you in order for you to use a true holy sword."
I'm not too sure on how that worked out either. I'm not like an angel, or even a fallen angel for that matter, that can use light as a form of attack. No light spears coming from me. I'm not even close to being related to one of them. Also, this thing apparently chose me to use it. It's not like I'm the only one that can use it but the sword won't let you use it unless it allows you to.
With all of that in mind, I don't have the slightest idea on how I'm able to wield this thing. I don't even think that my past last month self knew how I was able to wield this thing considering Momo has supposedly known me for my entire high school life and she doesn't even know. I don't even have an idea on how I got this thing. Maybe I went on an adventure and killed a cursed knight in a duel for it.
"Not to mention you're weird story about how you got the thing. Found it in your room? How strange is that?"
Momo continues to talk and what she says baffles me.
I found this thing in my room!? I know that I did not say that in this past month so the original me must have said that. I only knew about this sword thanks to my aunt explaining to me what it was and that it was mine.
"Y-Yeah… How strange?"
I scratched the back of my head in the most awkward of manners and carried on with our walk. Momo gave me a suspicious glare but quickly stopped it and continued to walk with me.
Soon enough we arrive at school and we said our goodbyes as we head off to our classes. The day passes by with nothing eventful happening during class or school for that matter. Usually after school I have three options of what to do. Option one, I go straight home and do generally whatever I want to do. Option two, I head to the student council room and hang out with Momo as she tries desperately to finish her work. Finally option three, I head to the ORC and hang out with them which is usually the most lax option of the three.
Not sure on which to do today. If I head home, I run the chance of being given a speech about responsibilities by my aunt. If I go to the ORC, then I run the chance of bumping into Koneko who is probably still upset about this morning. Then there's the student council room which seems pretty risk free at the moment…
Option two it is!
I went through the school and eventually found my way into the student council room. It's quite the spacious room and it has other rooms connecting to it. The main room is the first one you enter into which is actually what Sona uses as her office.
You have one large desk close to the opposite wall of the front door that serves as Sona's desk. Then you have two large sofas that are facing each other in the middle of the room with a coffee table in between them. There are also a couple of doors leading into hallways. When you enter the room there's one door on the left and another one on the right. Both of them lead into hallways that each contain a few different rooms connecting to them. Each room is a different member's office for them to carry out their student council work in.
I entered into the room expecting to only see Sona and maybe her Queen Tsubaki but instead I was greeted with her entire peerage.
There were seven girls in the room including Momo. Sona was a girl with short black hair styled in a short bob cut, violet eyes, and she is wearing a pair of red glasses.
There's Tsubaki that is Sona's Queen. She has knee-length black hair with split bangs, heterochromic eyes, and she is wearing glasses like Sona except her's are blue, semi-rimmed glasses with square lenses. She's usually a carbon cut copy of Sona in most cases, personality wise that is. I say that she's a copy of Sona because she is just about as serious as Sona.
There's also Reya that is Sona's other Bishop. She is a slim girl with long brown hair that ends in two short braids, matching eyes, and she is also wearing a blue headband. I don't really know that much about her other than the fact that she is a Bishop like Momo.
There's another girl named Tsubasa and she is Sona's only Rook. She is a tall girl with blue, shoulder-length hair and matching eyes. She looks like a tomboy, and even to me she has a bishounen face. The girl likes to fight a whole lot and I can see why she was given a Rook piece.
We also have Meguri in the room and she is Sona's only Knight. She is a girl with shoulder-length, reddish-brown hair and brown eyes. She's a bit of a hyperactive squirrel that's pretty difficult to calm down at times but Sona seems to do it with ease.
Then there's Ruroko that is Sona's only Pawn that took up one piece. She is a short, petite girl with brown hair in twin ponytails and green eyes. Like Reya I don't know that much about Ruroko. This could be because of the fact that we never socialize, but still I can't get a grip on her personality even when I see her interacting with others. I can only tell that she cares a lot about her friends and that's about it.
Finally, we have Momo bringing us up to a total of seven girls and one guy with me being that guy.
Sona was seated behind her desk and she couldn't have looked more serious. The girl almost always has a serious air surrounding her but even a child could tell that she doesn't want any kind of tom foolery right now.
The other girls in the room were seated on the sofas in the room with three of them being on each.
They all looked pretty serious at the moment and looked like they were getting ready for something.
I wanted to announce myself even though I know that they all saw me enter, but I was cut off by Sona.
"May I help you Jun-san?"
"Well, I was just coming over here to see what was going on but it would appear that you guys are in defcon four at the moment so I can leave."
I backed up and grabbed the door handle and started to close it slowly hoping that I wouldn't close it too loud and interrupt whatever kind of concentration they were in.
"Wait."
Sona called out to me stopping me from exiting the room. I entered back into the room again wondering why I'm being pulled back in.
"Is there a problem?"
"There is indeed. You haven't submitted to me any paperwork on your astronomy club in the past couple of weeks."
E-Eh!? That's what she had me come back in for?!
"You said that I didn't have to do any paperwork because nobody else has joined my club!"
"I did say that but that only works for new clubs. Your club has existed for over a year now and therefore, even though you are still its only member, I require you to submit the proper paperwork that all clubs need to fill out."
Why did I even start up an astronomy club? My only idea is that I wanted an excuse to be able to roam around at night. Except, my club sucks ass! Nobody shows the slightest bit of interest in joining my club. Apparently, I've been its only member for a year now. That screams pathetic to me.
"Is that why you guys are concentrating so hard? My lack of paperwork?"
I asked in a deadpan kind of way. My voice was devoid of emotion. If that's the reason why they're being so serious I'll flip out.
"No, but I saw the opportunity to confront you about this issue so I grabbed it. You may leave now but don't forget that club paperwork."
Typical Sona. She's all work and no play. She saw the chance to ask me a question she had to ask and she took it. Now that she's gotten what she wanted to say out of the way, she has no need for me to stick around. It might have been a better idea to go to the ORC.
"If I may Kaichou?"
Before I could make my second attempt to exit through the door, Momo spoke up. She stood herself up from the sofa she was sitting on and waited for Sona's answer.
"Go ahead."
"I think it would be highly beneficial if we allow Jun-chan to come with us."
Come with? Where are they going?
Sona pondered over this suggestion for a while before finally speaking again.
"Jun-san, would you mind heading out on a rescue mission with me and my peerage?"
"I suppose not, but what are we rescuing?"
"I take it you know of a boy named Genshirou Saji in your class? He's a second year like you."
Saji… I think I remember the guy. He has blonde hair and doesn't wear the school's black blazer I believe. From what I've seen of him in class, he seems a bit cocky but only a bit.
"I know of the guy. Is he in trouble?"
"The boy holds a dragon type sacred gear inside him and I had my familiar follow him to keep watch on him. He's currently heading towards a nest of stray devils that have managed to remain under the radar because of their strength. They're not all that strong and not that many humans have been killed by them yet, but in a group they are devastatingly strong and can pose a large problem to a small group. Taking into account Momo-chan's advice, the more in our group the better."
A nest of stray devils? That's an extremely rare occurrence. Stray devils aren't completely insane individuals. They do know that they have a goal and that's to gain more power. When stray devils can figure out that they have the common goal they sometimes form a group together to help their chances of survival.
"So you and your peerage are heading into a skirmish with stray devils to save this kid?"
"That we are."
I can only assume that Sona is doing this to get him into her peerage. The fact that there's going to be stray devil killing as well is just a coincidence. I'm only thinking this way because she had her familiar follow Saji to watch him because he had a sacred gear. It's true that if his sacred gear awakens while he is a human there is a slight chance that he could go insane with power and go on a rampage. The chances of this happening, however, are slim. There's also the fact that Rias and her peerage are actually in charge of taking care of stray devils because our local area is actually inside of their territory. The fact that she isn't going to Rias for help tells me that she doesn't want her to get any ideas of taking him first. I'm only being asked for help because I've expressed my disinterest in peerages quite openly and that makes me less of a risk than Rias.
"How many stray devils are we talking here?"
"According to what my familiar managed to gather, the ratio of them to us is a bit higher than 2:1."
That means there's somewhere around twenty stray devils at least. That's a big number and with only eight of us performing this mission that only makes things worse. There is the fact, however, that this is a group of weak stray devils. Theoretically, if a high class devil were to go up against this group one at a time they wouldn't break a sweat. It's the group part that is the problem. It won't be as simple as divvying up one person against two of them. They'll swarm us or maybe even attempt to separate a couple of us from the rest of the group. Their entire battle strategies revolve around using their numbers against us.
My thoughts on this matter are that I should go with them. Considering how Sona's peerage is structured she doesn't have enough front line fighters for this type of thing. There's her Queen, her Pawn, her Knight and her Rook. With only four people able to keep the twenty or so strays occupied their will more than likely be a few that manages to slip past and attack the ones in the back. Considering I'm only one person, I won't be that much of a boost in help but it's a boost nonetheless.
Sona looks dead set with doing this with or without my help as well and she definitely won't accept help from Rias for this. In the end, it would be for the best if I join them in their mission.
"Alright, I'll help you out Kaichou."
"Great then-"
"On one condition!"
Quickly, I cut Sona off. She was just about to sit up from her chair when I did it too so she sat back downto wait for my condition.
"You give me more time on this whole club paperwork stuff."
I clapped my hands together in front of my face and pulled off the best smile I could possibly make.
I'm willing to do anything if it means I have fewer papers to worry about for a while.
Sona sighed in slight annoyance from the fact that I was trying to push aside something that was school related. School in general is a big deal to Sona and she practically loves this school.
"You have until the end of this month. Now are you coming?"
End of the month is fine by me. It beats out having to do it this week. My week is already jammed packed as it is and now I'm going into a skirmish with Sona's peerage. The amount of work I have to do is going to cause my tired body to keel over. This Saji fellow better appreciate the work I'm putting in to save him!
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Who is Jun's aunt? Who is his vampire servant? Will they defeat the nest of stray devils?
Find out next time in: Saving People is My New Profession.
Not much in terms of action happened in this first chapter but the next chapter will be filled with it.
Now because I'm a bit of a psychic I can tell what some people might ask so I'll get through that here hopefully.
Where's the backstory for your OC? I gave minimal detail on him because you can find out about him as the story goes along. Things about him will be brought up and he may or may not take the time to elaborate on it. The only info I really wanted to give was his appearance just so that i don't have to have my character talk about how he looks. It always sounds strange to me when I read a first person work of literature and the main character is talking about his wavy brown hair or something like that.
Is his servant Valerie Tepes? His vampire servant is not Valerie Tepes although I do have plans for her. The servant is actually a character from another anime and she wasn't even a vampire in that anime nor was she a servant. She just had red eyes and screamed vampire to me. Guess who it is and I might flip shit.
Is he going to hangout with So and So's peerage only? He will be associating himself with both Rias' and Sona's peerage in a kind of altering back and forth way.
Why are you just making things happen without having a reason for them? Nothing I do in this will be without reason! You just won't know about some things for a while because it would spoil things. Kuroka not being a stray has a reason. Him having Kusanagi has a reason. His memories being wiped at the start of the last month has a reason. Guess any of these and I might consider you to be hacking into my files on my computer. Honestly, if there is anything you should be able to guess it's the reason for why I picked Paimon as his last name. Let that sink into you for a moment and take a guess.
Why doesn't he tell others he lost his memory? You can't just go around and say "Hey, I lost my memory." this puts you into prime market for being manipulated. They are people that you don't know if you should trust or not, and you shouldn't just go up to someone and tell them all about yourself in the first place.
Why does Kuroka only have one Bishop piece? You said everything would have a reason. Well... S-Shut up! This is the one thing I've made alterations to just so that she could be taken into Rias' peerage without having to kill off little Gasper.
When is this taking place? It's taking place around when Issei meets Asia for the first time.
I feel like I just wrote an entire story with the amount of author's note I've typed. Whatever.
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