During lunch break, Eve received a phone call from Sven, who is calling from a café. "Hey Eve, I am sure you know who this is. Anyway, I am calling to see how everything is going in your life. Did you find someone who might be potential criminals?"
"I felt a lot of uneasy presence in the school, but there is no one to count on as a suspect as of yet."
"This could mean that the suspect might be in the school, but I won't jump into conclusions yet. You might still feel a nit uncomfortable living there since you just moved."
"That is what I told Yuuki Rito, the boy I am protecting right now."
"By the way, do you happen to like your new life? Has anything special happen to you?" Sven asked.
"Nothing much. I am living in his house for the time being when I heard that he is sometimes attacked in his own home by his friends."
Sven becomes concerned. "You are living with him? Didn't I teach you about what happens when a boy and girl live together in the same house?"
"Sven, I already know what happens since I read a lot of romantic comics and books. Besides, his fiancé and his sister are living with him as well as his fiancé's sisters watching over him so we are not alone."
"As long as you know. I am counting on you for this mission Eve. Once I am done with my job here, Train and I will come and visit to see how you are doing before heading out again. See you then."
"Goodbye Sven." Eve hangs up her phone as she waits for time to pass before her next class.
After Sven hangs up his phone, Train approaches him. "Is there something new going on with Little Princess?"
"I am concerned with Eve living in the house of someone who she barely knows, but she is intelligent enough to be on her own so I am going to let her do what is needed."
"If this boy is already a fiancé of someone, who also happens to be living in his house, I am sure that it will be okay since he is being watched. You need to stop worrying about the Little Princess, because it won't be long before she is not so little anymore."
"Sometimes you are just way too carefree Train. It's hard to tell whether you are being serious or not most of the time." Sven takes another sip of his coffee while ignoring Train, much to his annoyance.
"You know I am right Sven. You can't just ignore the fact that she is growing up."
"I know." Sven grabs a newspaper and opens it big enough to block him from seeing Train's carefree face.
"Why so serious?" Train asked.
After Eve finishes her lunch, she walks into the hallway when she heard a woman's scream and a loud thud coming after. When Eve locates where it was coming from, she saw non-other than Tearju Lunatique on top of Rito, who's face is as red as a tomato due to the situation.
"What are you doing Yuuki Rito?"
"I was talking about sensei's relationship with Yami and suddenly she trips and lands on top of me."
"I am sorry Yuuki-kun. I didn't know how tough teachers have it doing their jobs." Tearju is still flustered with the incident.
"If Yami and sensei have some sort of relationship, I suggest you get off of her before Yami finds you." Rito and Tearju obey Eve's suggestion and got off of each other.
"Yami-chan?" Tearju is appalled upon sight of Eve.
"I am not Yami in case you didn't hear me earlier. The one you are looking for is probably in the library or eating taiyaki outside. My name is Eve."
Tearju becomes confused at the outcome. "Eve? That was Yami-chan's original name before she and I separated. What is going on here?"
"I don't know myself, but what I can say is that I am not the one you know. First thing I saw when I woke up was on Earth where I was raised both good and badly. I don't know any other world beyond Earth or if I am actually an alien or not. That proves that I am not Yami in case you know her."
"She was my family when I was raising her. I cloned her from my own DNA and brought her to this universe when I was working for an intergalactic organization. They wanted to raise her as a weapon, but I wanted her to live peacefully so I raised her instead. When the organization found out about it, they tried to had me eliminated and forced Yami-chan into living her life as a weapon. The organization was later destroyed, but I couldn't find her until I came to Earth. She looks almost exactly like you so I was surprised when I saw you. I wonder if I could have created you without knowing."
"Hearing your story makes me wonder as well, but my only lead to the past has been destroyed along with the mansion. I am not really concerned about it at the moment since I am more focused on the future. What is done is done and thee is nothing that anybody can do about it. I am just happy to be living a good life."
Eve begins smiling after telling her story, further surprising Tearju as a result. "Eve, to see you smile like that makes me wish that Yami-chan would do the same. Maybe she could learn something from you."
"I saw Yami's face. I was like that when I was rescued from my abusive masters, but gradually grow human emotions since. I am sure the same result will happen to Yami after she spends a little more time here."
"I think so too. My name is Tearju Lunatique by the way. It is nice to meet you Eve." Tearju raises her hand towards Eve.
"Nice to meet you as well." Eve then gives Tearju a handshake.
Just as they are done introducing themselves, they see Yami walking by with a book in her hands.
"Yuuki Rito, Tear, Eve. I didn't expect to see you all together here."
"I didn't expect us to meet again so soon Yami. Why are you in this school when it looks like you are not even a student here?" Eve asked.
"I am a student here, but I stopped attending class, because I don't feel comfortable at the moment. With what might be coming, I feel that nobody is safe around me."
"You and I are alike Yami and I am still attending class with no problems. That is no excuse for you not to."
"Maybe in your point of view, but there are those targeting me instead of you. There is something that keeps us from being the same, something that you won't understand."
"It's my job to stop criminals. That is the reason why I am here. Whoever is targeting you is also who I plan to stop."
"Once you get to know them, you will realize that it will not be easy to stop them. I also intend to find out more about who you are Eve so you should also prepare yourself." Yami gives off a glare to Rito then back to Eve before walking back.
"Quite unbelievable that you would protect this ecchi person. You can't always live your life protected Yuuki Rito." Yami said as she disappears.
Tearju puts her head down and sighs. "She didn't even say one word to me."
"Try to give her a little more time. At least we know she still cares about you." Rito comforts Tearju after she falls into a depression.
"I hate to admitted, but Yami is right. I almost forgot that you told me how you often had to rely on your friends to protect you. You should at least become a little stronger to defend yourself."
"Eve, you have no idea how much I wanted to become stronger, but that won't help me deal with strong threats from across the entire galaxy."
"It is still better than nothing if you are able to fight low class criminals. This weekend I will teach you the basics of defending yourself so that you won't end up a useless person."
"You didn't have to go that far." Rito sighed knowing that this is true.
"It's either that or would you prefer to end up in the same situation as with Tearju-sensei earlier?"
Tearju and Rito look at each other one more time and both of their faces turned read after remembering the accident.
"Then I will be under your care until I can defend myself." Rito said anxiously.
The next morning, Rito is fast asleep in his bed as Eve tries to shake him awake, but it only relaxes him even further.
"Wake up Yuuki Rito. We are going to start training after breakfast so don't sleep in." Eve continues to shake Rito awake.
"Give me ten more minutes." Rito turns away from Eve and continues to sleep.
Eve puts her hand on her head and sighs. "Looks like I have no choice."
Eve closes the door and opens her mouth as if she is going to say something. "Momo, please go ahead and sleep with Yuuki Rito in his bed."
As soon as Rito heard that, he quickly opens his eyes and jumps to the other side of his bed.
"I thought I told you to keep Momo away from me!" Rito yelled.
Eve snickered at Rito's reaction. "Good, you are awake. Change, come down, eat your breakfast, and then we train."
"Was I tricked?" Rito said in his thoughts still looking dismayed.
After Rito reaches the breakfast table, he sees an exhausted Momo laying her head on the table.
"Did something happen to Momo?"
"Momo tried to get to your room, but I stopped her, telling her that you need a good night's sleep for tomorrow's training. She said she had no intention of disturbing you and tried to do that again, but I stopped her." Eve explained.
"I see. What are we going to do first?"
"After breakfast, we are going to work on your stamina training so you would last longer in combat training and real fights."
"What am I expected to do?" Rito begins to get worried on what her training will do to his body.
"The basics first such as running., push ups, sit ups, and even pull ups. After we work on your stamina, you will finally be able to learn basic martial arts. We will even continue after school when you are not busy helping your father."
This doesn't make Rito feel any better knowing how hard he is going to be pushed in his training.
After breakfast, Rito changed into his tracksuit and begins running around the neighborhood with Eve doing the same.
"You are not doing bad in your first training session."
"I used to be part of a soccer team back in middle school and was quite good at it. I had to quit when my dad's work got even more busy and I didn't want Mikan to be left alone in the house, but I still like playing nonetheless whenever I am with my male friends."
"That would explain how you are able to keep up. It looks like your stamina training might end a bit earlier than I thought."
Yui happens to be passing by the neighborhood when she saw Rito and Eve training together, much to her surprise.
"Yuuki-kun? Eve-chan? What are you two doing together?"
"Kotegawa! Let's just say that part of it is that Eve is helping me get rid of the clumsy side of me by doing this."
"After Yuuki Rito is done with his training, you will probably no longer consider him shameless. Anyway, we better continue if we want to have lunch. See you later." Eve left with Rito following after telling her to wait up.
"This is the first time I see Yuuki-kun this determined. It must have been since Eve-chan came since I was told that Eve-chan moved to his house. That is still shameless." Yui thought to herself.
After reaching the intended restaurant, Rito lays his head down due to exhaustion as Eve orders food.
"I feel like I was going to die after 30 minutes." Rito whispered.
"Your body will gradually get used to it as you continue. For the first time you ran today, you did well being able to continue without slowing down for half an hour."
"This is probably because I was often chased by Yami whenever I accidentally fall into her."
"It's just like she said, you have too many accidents. This is one reason why we are doing this. You already know the other reasons."
"Yeah, to stop becoming too dependent of my friends and learn how to protect myself. To know the things that my friends are willing to do for me is my main motivation. How long do you think it will take to complete my training?"
"I am only guessing, because I don't know how much your body could take, but I would estimate about one month or two before you are completely done. Don't worry, you will get rid of the clumsy part of you a lot sooner than that."
"I just hope that I can still live a part of my daily life if I have to train for that long." Rito sighed again.
After running back to the house, Rito was forced to do push-ups to the point where his arms collapsed due to exhaustion, which he manages to gain back by the time dinner is ready. As night hits, Rito finds his body aching in pain.
"My whole body is aching. As long as this continues, I won't be able to last before I reach my goal." Rito said to himself as he slowly lies down on his bed.
Eve then shows up in his room. "Your body maybe aching at this moment, but that is only because you are not used to it yet. As long as we continue like this, your body will eventually feel no pain as it gets more used to the training. This was only the first day Yuuki Rito. Continue training your body a bit more and you will be able to do more without any trouble."
"Are we going to do the same thing tomorrow?"
"Other than the push-ups, we are going to run the same distance tomorrow and switch your push-ups to sit ups. Doing different things will allow your body to get used to training faster."
"I just hope that the pain will go away soon as I continue."
"It will. Just promise me that you won't give up."
"I won't. Where are we going to run tomorrow?"
"The park will be a good place to continue since I see a lot of joggers there. Hopefully we won't have delays like today when we talked to Kotegawa."
"It can't be helped if we bumped into another one of my friends. I am going to sleep. Good night." Rito puts himself under the blanket and falls asleep immediately.
Eve turns off the light before reaching her futon. "Good night."
The next morning, Eve had to wake up Rito again before heading downstairs and used the same trick she did to wake him yesterday despite knowing that it won't always work.
When Rito heads downstairs, he saw that Momo is more energetic than she was yesterday.
"Momo stayed in her own room this time so she got a full night's sleep." Eve said.
Rito noticed something. "You used to call Nana and Momo princess, but it seems like you don't do that anymore other than with Lala."
"I was told to call them that since I am now a part of the family. The Princess herself is an exception since she is your fiancé."
"It's okay. You can call me Lala if you like Eve-chan."
"Maybe later. Rito and I are going to train in the park this time."
"This is the first time I have seen Rito doing something productive in a while." Mikan commented much to Rito's dismay.
Momo then approaches Rito. "I actually felt lonely sleeping in my bed all alone. Mind if I sleep with you tonight?"
"Don't you dare sleep with that beast!" Nana glares angrily at Momo and Rito.
"I won't let her anyway. For Yuuki Rito's body to be healthy enough for training, I want him to get as much sleep as possible every night. I won't let anyone disturb him." Eve warned.
"You are no fun Eve-san." Momo pouts at Eve.
"However, if Rito oversleeps, I will let Momo wake Yuuki Rito in her own way. It is the most effective method right now anyway." Hearing that causes Rito to feel dismayed, much to the delight of Momo and anger of Nana.
As Eve and Rito begin to jog in the park, Mea and Nemesis are secretly watching them from a distance. Eve felt their presence, but could only remain cautious, as she cannot see them.
"You are definitely right about Eve having a very similar appearance to Golden Darkness, but she is very different in terms of personality. This makes her even more useless than the way Golden Darkness is now."
"She has the same powers as Yami-oneechan. Even if we are not recruiting her, doesn't it make her an obstacle instead?"
"You are right, but it seems that her occupation is to protect Yuuki Rito rather than dealing with Golden Darkness. Even if she is the target we want her to kill to bring back her former self, it will be trouble if she fights someone who might be just as powerful as her. We will leave them alone for the time being until we can find out more. Why don't you try making friends with her so we can find out more about where she came from?"
"Are you sure it is okay to do this Master? She is a lot sharper than she looks when I saw her."
"Not if trust is build. I don't intend to dispose of her so it's okay for you to be friends with her for real. The only thing I want at this moment is to know more about her."
"I wonder if I can." Mea continues to watch Eve with suspicion.
Yami also continues to watch over Eve, but showing more curiosity rather than suspicion.
"Making Yuuki Rito exercise was quite unexpected. I wonder what Eve is trying to do with him." Yami spoke to herself.
After a two-week time skip, Rito finds himself able to do the exercises for long periods of time without suffering from fatigue. Much to the shock of Momo, Mikan, and even Nana, Rito is able to get rid of a part of his clumsy personality that causes him to trip, although he still faces trouble when girls fall on him or when someone else got him involved in an accident.
Once the weekend hits, Eve just finished washing the dishes and sees Rito doing push ups after watering his plants. Seeing Rito's determination, Eve approaches him.
"Yuuki Rito, you are ready."
Rito is definitely one of the weakest harem leads I ever saw so I decided to change him up a little. Don't worry, his personality will remain somewhat similar, just a little more confident. I also think that this is the weakest chapter I wrote and this might work against me, but I am sure that some are tired of seeing Rito so weak compared to other characters. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and more will come soon after.