Volume 1, Life 3
Issei let out a heavy sigh as he sat in a random chair in the school gymnasium. That morning, he and his friends had to run with the best of their ability to school in order to not be late. At the same time, they couldn't run too fast, lest they give away their abilities as devils. It was annoying to say the least. If that wasn't bad enough though, he couldn't help but have a feeling deep in the pit of his stomach that something worst was going to happen within the next few moments.
As today was the first day of the new school year, all students, both new and old, were forced to first attend a school gathering. Asia, Ravel, Koneko, Irina, and Le Fay manage to sit in the seats around him, gaining the ire of any nearby male students who happened to see Issei surrounded by such beauties. The surrounding female students would have a similar reaction, or at least the ones who had attended the school before and knew of Issei's history, resulting in them wanting to see the lewd beast burn for his crimes of sitting so close to some of the school idols.
While Issei continued to sigh though, he failed to notice that Xenovia, along with Rias' rook, Rossweisse, and his mentor, Azazel, take to the stage in front of him in the massive gymnasium. The latter two were of course teachers at the school, and therefore, had to be up in front of the school attendees for the opening ceremony. Xenovia, on the other hand, had won the general election for school president the past school year, and now was forced to give a speech for the ceremony.
"Are you okay, Ise?" Asia asked with concern. She had been sitting to his right, and knew that despite not really knowing what happened other than Issei apparently asking Kuroka to be his Queen, something she found surprising to say the least. The blood he had lost from the attacks wouldn't replenish for quite a while, as it was simply the downfall of her Sacred Gear, Twilight Healing. It could heal any and all physical wounds that someone would receive, but it was unable to replenish the stamina or blood lost from said wounds.
"What happened to you?" Ravel asked, having not gotten the chance to ask before getting to the gymnasium. Sitting to his left, she felt it was her responsibility as both his manager and his Bishop to be next to him in case of a potential attack. At least, that was the lie she told herself to justify taking the chair next to his.
Trying to avoid the question, Issei waved his hand, signaling that he was alright. "It's nothing, I promise." He said with a chuckle.
"But you have blood on your shirt." Irina, sitting in the chair in front of Issei, pointed out as she turned around to look at him better.
Koneko, sitting behind the boy, didn't buy into his lies. She leaned forward to get a sniff of anything out of the ordinary, which she did. "I smell onee-sama on you." She said with annoyance, brows furrowed.
"Y-You're imaging things." He answered with another chuckle. Though he felt a bit bad about it, he wanted to wait on telling Koneko about his choice for his Queen. The two sisters, while he was sure loved each other very much, still had a bit of a falling out. He wanted to avoid adding fuel to the fire by telling the girl he promised to marry that he would be making her older sister his underling. "I simply tripped on the stairs when we began to go to school, and broke my nose. Asia healed it, and blood that had run from my nose landed on my shirt."
"… Liar."
Before he could defend himself or the situation could escalate any further, the voices of fellow comrades and friends could be heard from a few meters away.
"Issei!"
"Issei-senpai!"
"Hey, Issei!"
'Oh thank the Devil Kings.' Issei thought to himself as he turned to see Kiba, Gasper, and Saji walking towards them down the aisle, taking seats nearby their own, next to Koneko. It was probably the only time in his existence that Issei enjoyed the fact that his dragon abilities seemed to attract both males and females. "Hey guys!" He waved back at them. "Ready for a new school year?"
Saji paused for a bit, surprised at Issei's enthusiasm, as was Kiba. "You're a bit happy, aren't you? What brought this on?" Saji questioned.
"W-What? Can't I be excited for a new year of school?"
"Not when you've hated school for as long as you have. And what happened to your shirt?" Kiba pointed out.
"O-Oh, you know, I tripped on the way to school and fell on my face. Ahahaha~"
"I thought you said you fell down the stairs?" Irina asked, unknowingly putting Issei deeper in the hole he was trying to climb out of.
Ignoring Irina, Issei tried switching the conversation. "So Saji, I heard you got a promotion to mid-level from this past winter. Congrats, man!"
"Oh, uh, thanks…? I thought you already knew that though. In fact, I'm positive you knew, as we talked about it back when I passed the exam. We celebrated because I meant I could help out Sona next year when the school gets done rebuilding." He stated. His master, Sona Sitri had wanted to build a school for low and mid-level class devil children in the Underworld in an attempt to get them the education and power they needed to be functioning members of the Underworld. For a time, they had managed to finalize the building and almost began the first school year, but due to a terrorist attack in attempting to kidnap various mages who had been there during an open house event, part of the building had been destroyed.
"Is that right? I guess I have a bad memory then when it comes to that type of stuff." Issei said as he continued his charade.
"You mean just like how you have a bad memory at how you got that blood stain on your shirt?" Kiba prodded, knowing his friend and what he was trying to do. With a coy smile, he looked at Issei as the boy looked back at him with hate in his eyes for bringing the blood subject back up. Much like the girls who surrounded Issei, he too loved to tease the boy at times.
"I'm going to take a stab in the dark here, but would this happen to have anything to do with what we ended up discussing about last night?"
"What made you ever think that, Ravel?" Issei asked back with unease.
Ravel simply shrugged her shoulders. "Devilish intuition. Now, does it?"
"Look, I don't think that I-" Before Issei could speak any more on the subject matter though, the principal of the school, a woman whom seemed to be very familiar, walked up on stage before the microphone that was set up to speak to all the students in the gymnasium. The woman in question looked to be in her early or perhaps even mid-twenties, with deep brown hair that went to shoulder's length. The part that really stood out though was the fact that she looked exactly like Rias. "M-Mrs. Gremory?!" Issei squeaked out, not trying to be too loud and gain unnecessary attention, slumping down in his seat a bit in disarray. Still, it was a bit of a shock to the boy to learn that his soon to be mother-in-law was the school principal, having not really paid attention to who the principal was the past two years.
Not forgetting what they were talking about, but wanting to answer the boy's shocked statement, Ravel leaned over to him to whisper the answers he sought after. "Because the land this town is on is controlled by the Gremory Faction, the head in the board of directors at this academy is Lord Gremory. Mrs. Gremory takes on the role as Principal for events like these, but leaves the more basic stuff to her underlings when she's out taking care of Lord Gremory's harem. Does that make sense?" Issei nodded to her question. "Good, because I still want to know where that blood came from later on." She said with a smirk, sitting back up in her chair in a more proper way as she paid attention to the speaker in front of her.
Lady Gremory waited for a few minutes on stage for the gymnasium to settle down. When it became evident that students continued to talk amongst each other, not giving her a chance to welcome them all, she tapped the microphone in front of her and coughed into it to get the attention of all the boys and girls, human and non that hid amongst the mortals. "Good morning, young students. I'd like to welcome everyone to a new school year here at Kuoh Academy. As many of you might have already known, I am Mrs. Velenana Gremory, your principal at this school." The woman stated, putting a hand up to her chest as she mentioned herself, before moving that same hand towards to the faculty and President of the Student Council to her left. "Before we open up with a speech from our new Student Council President, Ms. Xenovia, I'd like to remind everyone to make the school a safe and friendly environment." She said with a smile, before scanning out at the crowd in front of her for any potential troublemakers. "I would like to believe it'd be for the best of us if none of you get sent to my office for anything else than some type of award."
Shivers went down the spines of all the students as her demonic aura seemed to envelop her. For the people who couldn't see it, all they could feel was a small chill flowing through the wind that just happened to go by when the principal said those ominous words. For those who could see it though, knew that the threat wasn't empty at all.
As the students settled back down, Mrs. Gremory announced for Xenovia to take central stage. With a small but respectful bow, Xenovia took the microphone and tapped it once to get the attention of the gymnasium, just like the principal. "Thank you, Principal Gremory." She said as she turned her focus from principal to students. "And welcome, students of Kuoh Academy. I speak to you, here and now, not as the Student Council President, but as an equal."
'Odd way to start out a speech…' Issei thought to himself. Thinking little of it though, he ignored it and continued listening.
"I wish to start by saying that ever since I can remember, I had grown up in a region named Lazio, in a city named Anzio, a few hours away from the capital of Italy, Rome. There, I had lived and was raised in a cathedral as part of the Catholic church, where I took on the surname of the woman I followed and served under. For most of my life, I would grow up believing that what I was doing, what I was being raised to become, was righteous… Last year, I came to this country, this town on a mission from my church." She said solemnly, perhaps reliving what she thought was going to be the end of her life."This mission… while I cannot go into specifics about this mission, I ended up learning something on it that would forever change my life. For a while, I had thought that everything I ever believed in, everything I thought was true, had been a sham. In the end, I had turned to someone whom I had once thought to be an enemy, making a rash decision that would forever affect the life I lived… I-"
"Did you have sex!?"
Out of nowhere, the speech that Xenovia had been giving was interrupted by what Issei had initially thought to be some of the buddies he had grown up with, Matsuda and Motohama. Turned out though, that it had been one of the new First Years of the school, as the students around the interrupting boy shut him up out of sheer embarrassment, whilst the only one laughing at the question was Azazel.
"Did I…? No, I'm still quite a virgin." She admitted without shame. The cheeks of some of the girls in the audience reddened, while the boys seemed to take the news with glee, suddenly thinking they had a chance with the beautiful President. Unfortunately, that happiness would come crumbling down as she continued her answer. "Though I am in the process of trying to get in bed and have a baby with Hyoudou Issei."
Suddenly the gymnasium was full of outrage as both girls and boys weren't able to comprehend what they had just heard from one of the new school idols. The faculty on the other hand, couldn't help but facepalm or groan at how the direction of the new school year had ended up, with Azazel making things worse by laughing even harder than before.
"What?!"
"There's no way! That's impossible!"
"Lies! All lies!"
"You bastard Hyoudou!"
"Is one girl not enough, you asshole?!"
"I thought he was gay for Kiba Yuuto?!"
All the outrage seemed to turn towards Issei as the student body began to surround the boy, more ire and hatred stemming up from the fact that girls around him had surrounded him to protect him from the unruly mob. Issei quickly apologized to the people who were protecting him as he quickly dashed underneath one of the girls, running as fast as he could to get out of harm's way. Running out of the front entrance of the gymnasium, Issei began running to the old school building where the Occult Research Club was located, hoping to lose the angry mob chasing after him. Apparently that gut feeling of something bad happening had been right after all.
~~*Oppai-Dragon*~~
After running for more than fifteen minutes, Issei believed he had finally managed to lose the large mob that had following him through the woods surrounding the school, as he heard the echoing groans of students eventually die down as they went back to the gymnasium for the rest of the opening ceremony lest they be disciplined. 'Probably know I have to go to class at some point.' He thought to himself as he regulated his breathing, making his way towards to the other end of the school grounds where the old school building was.
"Honestly, the hell went up their asses?" He wondered to himself as he opened the door to the building, scratching his head in frustration. "Seriously, stupid Motohama and Matsuda. Who the hell thinks that I'm attracted to Kiba?!"
[That's the only thing you're worried about?]
Issei paused as the new voiced greeted him from his left arm, his partner having obviously woken up just recently, indicated by the big yawn coming from the same arm. Leaning up against the wall on the first floor, Issei began talking to his partner and friend. "Good morning to you too." He said in his best manner, still ticked about what just happened back in the gymnasium.
[Something troubling you?]
Without saying anything, Issei more or less screamed in frustration as he used both hands to rustle up his hair, easily messing it up. "Just the school, and the usual antics." He answered eventually, unenthusiastically. Once it had been found out that he had been dating Rias, it seemed that all hell broke loose at his school as various students seemed to have bullied him for going out with the number one idol. Tacks in school shoes, writing on his desk, pushing and tripping him in the hallway. It was all typical bully behavior.
The most irritating part of it all though was probably the fact that he could easily flex his own muscles in a way to get the students off his back, but doing so would more than likely reveal his identity as both a devil, and probably as the Oppai Dragon as well. As such, he was forced to leave it up to the girls to break up the problems he had been having. It was a bit insulting to his masculinity to say the least, but he also saw the reasoning behind it, so all he could do was to let them do their thing. However, it didn't mean it didn't upset him beyond reason.
[Honestly, I don't see why you're so upset about these simpletons pulling childish pranks on you.]
"But it's not the pranks, it's the-"
[The fact that you can't do anything about it?] The dragon asked, and when he got no answer from the boy, he couldn't help but let out a groan of frustration. Sometimes, it was both absurd and annoying to help a growing man with the simplest of problems. [Yes, well, perhaps you should learn that it's just the way some things are.]
Issei furrowed his brow, obviously not appreciating that answer. "What's that supposed to mean?" He asked.
[… Issei, do you still wish to have your very own harem one day?]
"Of course!" Issei screamed. If Ddraig had any ears, they would probably be ringing from the volume and enthusiasm Issei had just given. "It's been my dream ever since I was young!"
[Of course it has…] Ddraig moaned, obviously not at all thrilled at the magnitude the answer came in. [Then, and I can't believe I'm even saying this, but, perhaps you should begin learning the perks of having such a thing.] The dragon said, shuddering after giving the advice. Oh how low the once proud and mighty had fallen.
Issei raised a brow, intrigued by what the dragon meant. "Perks? What, you mean nightly visits?" He asked, a grin beginning to grow on his face as he began imagining all the girls around him sleeping in the same bed as he, never going to sleep.
Another sigh. [No… Take your Bishop, Ravel for second. At this very moment, she is your manager, correct? She creates schedules for you, makes appointments for you, makes sure you have free time and rest when you need it. Do you really think you could live a life with your stature without someone as talented as her?]
"Y-Yeah, I guess. What are you getting at, Ddraig?"
[I'm saying that perhaps you shouldn't feel so down about the girls helping you. You can't always be the one to go in and solve the problem and become a hero. For example, I remember one fellow I had as a partner, a long time ago. He had his very own harem too, twenty wives in all.]
"T-Twenty?!" Issei exclaimed, shocked and jealous of his senpai.
[Yes, but that's not the important part. The important part is that he allowed them to help him in ways he couldn't help with. He was a terrible cook, so one of them cooked the meals for their little party. He couldn't make armor or weapons to fight with, so another who knew how to use it used a forge to create the basic necessities of battle because he hadn't been able to use me at all. One was a nurse, a tailor, a farmer. They all took their roles to help the one they had chosen to fall in love with, and in return, he helped them all with the best he could.]
"So… So what you're saying is… to let the other girls help me?"
[I am.]
Issei looked up to the ceiling above him, imagining the possibility of the girls doing such things. "Having the girls help me, huh…?"
At that moment, he began imagining them in seductive outfits fit for different professions. Asia in a sexy nurse outfit for healing holding an oversized needle; Rias in a naked apron for cooking as she made his favorite meals; Ravel in a skin tight business suit with glasses to fit as she scolded him for breaking the schedule; Akeno in a shrine priestess outfit for any exorcism he needed help with, or to help with sucking any excess energy should he need to go back to those days. Blood began to run to both his heads, the same crimson liquid began to run down his noise as he continued to imagine each girl in a different outfit. Ddraig couldn't help but let out, once more, a massive sigh. [There's no hope for this young one…]
~~*Oppai-Dragon*~~
After the dragon was able to break the boy out of his erotic dream by reminding him that he was at school, the boy noticed that he still had some time to blow off before he had to go back to the new homeroom he would be a part of for the rest of the school year. He decided the next best thing to do was to go to clubroom he knew all too well and hang out there for a little bit until the bell rang, signaling him to go to the next class. As he climbed the stairs to the second floor of the building and began going to the room though, he had forgotten some vital information that would bite him in the ass very soon.
Casually opening the door and expecting to see nobody inside, he took in a breath of fresh air, believing this was his sanctum at the moment. Unfortunately, the boy had his eyes closed as he wanted to take in the mental image of the room with the air he inhaled, so he wasn't able to see what was in front of him. Sensing the faint scent of perfume, something he presumed to be something Rias left behind, he opened his eyes to see he was not alone.
Sitting on the couch in front of him were two girls who looked to be around the age of late primary school or early middle school, both black-haired and wearing the exact same loli gothic clothes as the other, each with their own expressionless face. The only subtle difference you could tell between the two were the shades of color in their eyes.
That wasn't the main concern for Issei though, as right in front of him, was a woman, about five years older than he. Grasping her panties in both her hands as it laid around her waist, covering her most precious spot, as her pale white skin shined in the spring sun. Her nightgown on the floor, it was obvious that she had been in the midst of changing, her sand-colored blonde hair covering the once void ruby-colored gems that were her eyes as she looked up to see who the new visitor to her domain was.
Issei's eyes widened once his brain recognized that he was not alone. With nothing but silence for the past few seconds since he had opened the door as well, Issei couldn't help but try to break the ice of walking in on a female dhampir in the midst of changing clothes. "V-Valerie…"
"… Oppai Dragon…" She answered back in a calm manner.
""Issei."" The twins on the couch managed to say at the same time, in the same expressionless tone they always used, as if they were speaking in stereo. Unfortunately, without trying to be rude, Issei completely ignored the twins as he was too focused on the woman in front of him, still half-naked.
Silence overtook the room once again. The woman never got upset, nor angry at the boy for walking in on her changing. Instead, she continued to stare at him, as if she expected him to attempt something. The twins, at that moment, continued to switch between the dragon and the dhampir, seeming to be uninterested in the showdown. One went back to sipping the tea she had in her hands, as the other eventually went back to reading the manga she had been enjoying when she looked up to see the new visitor.
"I'm sorry!"
Issei quickly rushed out of the room and slammed the door behind him, nearly ripping it off the hinges behind him in sheer embarrassment.
Since retrieving and sealing the third Holy Grail that had been originally a part of Valerie and helping her break out of her coma, the woman had been staying at the Occult Research Club room until more suitable accommodations could be made, as her mind slowly stabilized itself from having once been forced to use the Sacred Gear within her. Since the place had an adjacent bathroom, kitchen, and bedroom, Issei could only assume that it had originally been Rias' room she had been using before moving in with him the year before. In a way, he still felt bad for his kouhai, Gasper, as the original plan was to let Valerie stay with him as they both grew up together. Eventually it had to be shot down as, despite his somewhat feminine nature, Gasper was still a boy, and some of the adults were afraid of him doing something he may have regretted doing later on.
The two girls on the couch though were known as Ophis and Lilith. They had once been the same being, the Ouroboros, until the girl originally known as just Ophis was betrayed by her own faction, and her powers were sucked away using the Curse of Samael. As a result, the being known as Lilith was born using the powers stolen from Ophis, and the two, having been a part of opposite factions, were forced to face each other in the Dimensional Gap in the final battle between DxD and Rizevim Lucifer. When Rizevim fell though, Lilith lost her reason to continue fighting, and because the more sophisticated powers were unable to comprehend how to combine Ophis and Lilith together again, it was finally decided that they were to be separate entities, as they both very much enjoyed being around the Crimson Emperor Dragon, Issei.
Still, as Issei tried his best to calm himself down, he couldn't help but continue blushing as the image of the dhampir continue to run through his mind. He had to hold a hand up to his nose just to catch all the blood that had begun falling out, becoming light-headed the more it came out. Could one blame him though? For someone like Valerie, who held the beauty of both human and vampire-
'No!' He thought to himself as he shook his head, trying to rid himself of such thoughts. 'I promised myself I wouldn't do anything, and I'm keeping that promise!'
Issei managed to miss the chuckling that had come from his arm as he turned back towards the door, ready to knock it as he raised his bloodied hand to the wood. With a few taps, he reached out to the people inside, albeit still a bit nervous from his encounter seconds ago. "V-Valerie? It's Issei. I want, I want to apologize for what just happened. I, um, forgot that you were living here, and I just needed to-" But he wasn't able to fully explain himself, as the girl inside invited him.
"I just got finished putting on my clothes, Issei. You may enter now."
That was all he needed to hear. With want sounded like her not being angry at his sudden intrusion, Issei mentally chanted to himself to avoid bringing the subject of what just happened. 'Think of Rias, think of Akeno, think of Kuroka… Think of Rias, think of Akeno, think of Kuroka…' With the creak of the door opening up to reveal the scenery inside, he could see that the dhampir had gone into the other room to presumably put away her night gown, while the twins continued to sit on the couch, doing their own thing.
Plopping onto the couch opposite of the twins, Issei let out a tired sigh, something he shouldn't have to do so early in the day. Raising his arm to cover his eyes from the light in the room, he noticed the blood that had been covering his hand, as some of it was still wet from minutes ago. 'I should get that washed up… Eh, fuck it.' He thought as he covered his eyes with the same arm. 'Just let me rest for a few minutes, then I'll go back to class and clean this up…'
"Issei." One of the twins addressed him.
Though he didn't move his arm to look at her, Issei still responded. "Hmm?"
"Did, someone attack you?"
Finally Issei moved his arm to look at the girl across from him, staring back into the grey eyes that bore into him. He couldn't lie that sometimes the twins freaked him out sometimes, always having the same expressionless faces on. He almost felt like they were going to play a scene out of an old movie from the west and ask to go play with them forever and ever whilst wearing blue dresses. "No, Ophis, no one attacked me." He said with the best smile he could come up with, although it was technically a lie.
He knew the girl cared deeply about him, being her first friend in a very long time, if ever, and would destroy any who attempted to hurt him. "Then what happened?" She asked, tilting her head as if it were to show she was more interested in the answer he would give.
He refused to answer, but asked her a question in return. "Nothing really happened… What's been happening with you, though? Ever since you and Lilith began to stay here with Valerie in order to protect her, I haven't seen you much around the mansion at all."
Taking another sip from her tea, Ophis played along. "It's, been quiet. The child talks to herself less each day. The remedy, it seems to work."
"I see, that is good…" 'Must be talking about Valerie. I'll be sure to tell Gasper the good news the next time I see him then.' "… Ophis." He called out, taking his arm off his head as he rolled it forward to look at the girl across from him.
"Yes, Issei?"
"Do you think…" 'That this peace will last…?' "… No, never mind. I'm going to go wash this blood up." He added at the end as he got up off the couch, deciding to finally wash off the blood he had accumulated on his shirt, arm, and hand.
Not knowing what he was about to say, the immortal dragon named Ophis couldn't help but let it drop, going back to sipping her tea.
~~*Oppai-Dragon*~~
Walking towards the bathroom and having not seen Valerie for the past few minutes, he made sure to knock on the bathroom door to avoid any more embarrassing moments. Not hearing any replies coming from inside, he could only assume that the room was clear. He became relieved to see that he was right as he opened the door.
Turning the bathroom sink on, he let the water run a bit as he waited for it to get warm. Issei couldn't help but grimace a bit as he looked at the streaks of blood on his face in the mirror. Other than his nose, the entire front of his shirt was drenched in crimson. How he even managed to stand on his feet at that moment was a bit of a miracle in it itself. It also didn't help that the top of his shirt was ripped a bit, exposing the fleshy skin beneath. 'Odd, no one seemed to point that out…'
Taking both his school uniform and the undershirt that went with it off, Issei couldn't help but marvel at his own torso. He wasn't marveling it in a good light though. He noticed that atop the muscles he had accumulated through his year of training since he had become a devil, numerous scars plagued his body. It was funny really. Despite having received this new body from both Ophis and Great Red after succumbing to the Curse of Samael, it seemed the scars of the past would never fade, not even with a new body.
Reminiscing about the past, Issei put one hand to his stomach, where a massive scar from one of the Excalibur shards struck it when he had fought against Irina for the first time.
[You're too young to be thinking you've gained years of experience.]
"You don't think I have, Ddraig?" Issei snorted, taking his friend's comment as a joke. "I've fought against devils, angels, fallen angels, vampires, dragons, gods… Truly, what is there left for me?"
[Sleeping with your women?]
Issei rolled his eyes at that. "You make it sound like that's all I care about."
[And you don't…? I remember a time, Hyoudou Issei. I remember a time when you're life goal seemed to be nothing but to sleep with a woman. Now, you have a number to pick from, and yet you refuse to go forward with any of them. That Valkyrie-]
"That's because I have a promise to keep with Rias!" Issei yelled, clearly feeling uncomfortable with this conversation. He continued to watch the water in the sink fill up with hot water as Ddraig spoke on.
[And that would have kept you from doing it with someone else in the past?]
The boy narrowed his eyes. "What are you getting at, Ddraig?"
[… I'm saying you've matured, boy. No longer do you seem to be fueled by your lust, well, not entirely anyways. Just a year ago, I bet you would have broken your promise with little miss red head had one of the other girls offered to spend a night with you. The fact that you even acknowledge the girl's feelings, all of their feelings, and you do your best to make them happy prove my point. You've matured this past year Issei, and you should be happy about it.]
"You're only happy because it might mean you won't be called the 'Oppai Dragon' anymore." Issei responded with a grin. When Ddraig let out a sigh and started to mumble underneath his breath, Issei began to pat his arm and rub it up and down, laughing as he did. "I'm sorry, Ddraig, perhaps I shouldn't tease you like that."
Accepting the boy's apology, the dragon spoke again. [I'm serious about what I said. You have matured Issei, and maturing is only the first step in becoming a proper king and having your own harem.]
Issei smiled, taking a washcloth from a nearby rack and dousing it in the warm water as he began wiping up the dried blood from his face. "Thanks Ddraig, I'll remember that."
~~*Oppai-Dragon*~~
Throwing his bloodied shirts into the trashcan, the boy remembered having extra shirts for all the club members in a special drawer in the main room. Ignoring the quizzical looks the twins were giving him, he noticed that Valerie had gone back to the main clubroom as well, wearing a simply black dress that fit her figure, and sipping on her own cup of tea. Looking up and seeing him enter the room, the young woman couldn't help but smile and offer him a cup as well.
"I apologize, I really shouldn't." Issei responded, taking the clothes from the drawer and putting the right set on. The last thing he wanted to do was accidentally put Rias' or Akeno's old clothes on. "I really should be getting back to class."
Valerie pouted her lips a bit, upset that her friend would be leaving so soon. "But you only just got here. Surely you can stay for one cup, can't you?"
He waved apologetically, clearly trying to leave. "I'm afraid I really can't do that, Valerie. It'll be bad for me to miss my homeroom on the very first day of school. I'll be coming back with the rest of the club this afternoon though, so you can brew up some of that special tea then, right?" He asked, trying to get her spirits up once again.
With a defeated sigh, the dhampir couldn't help but let him go. "Very well then… You will come back though, right? It's been awfully boring around here with only the dragons to keep me company." She complained, holding a hand out to insinuate what she meant, as the dragons across from her gave no response to her grievance.
"Yes, I promise. I'll even bring Gasper to come play with you." He added. He knew the boy could never say no to the person who was basically his childhood friend, a mother-figure, and quite possibly a love interest. At least, that's what Issei hoped for. It was bad enough he felt that Kiba was getting a bit too close for him, he didn't want Gasper to be another suspect of 'more-than-friendly' feelings towards him as well.
With the mention of Gasper, the dhampir couldn't help but put on a bright smile, as it meant her favorite little playmate and toy would be coming to visit her once again. "Very well, I suppose I should let you go then."
Issei bid farewell to all three beings inside the clubroom, racing to outside so that he wouldn't miss his first day of school.
~~*Oppai-Dragon*~~
Even at full sprint, it had taken the boy longer than he initially expected to reach the classroom he had been assigned to. Running down the hallway of the third floor of his school, he slowed down as he came face to face to the door that he would enter again and again for the next year. Not really thinking it had any kind of special meaning behind it as he was out of breath having ran the entire way, he opened the door with a loud bang, hoping he hadn't been late for the roll call. "S… Sor… Sorry for being…"
Ironic. Issei thought he had been in shape considering what his life had become over the past year and the things he had done. Yet now, he was so out of breath from running a little more than a kilometer that he wasn't even able to apologize for his tardiness, his hands on his knees as he continued to try to catch the air he so desperately wanted. The blow to his ego should anyone ever mention it to the people he loved would be tremendous at most.
"Homeroom has already started, Mr. Hyoudou. I'd appreciate it if you would kindly take your seat now."
Issei's eyes widened as he looked up from the floor he had been starting at for the past few seconds to see the silver-haired beauty that was his homeroom teacher. Thinking she had been the Civic Teacher for the Second Years, Issei could only mutter under breath a single word as he saw his fellow peerage comrade and harem member standing behind the teacher's desk. "Rose…?"
Clearly not taking acceptance to being called her nickname at school when she was to be respected as a teacher, or at least that was what Issei had assumed, Rossweisse seemed to glare daggers at the boy as she pointed to the only available desk in the entire classroom. "Sit, now."
"Y-Yes'm!" He answered as he quickly straightened himself out and went to the desk she had been pointing at.
In the very first row and in the middle aisle, the boy made a quick glance at the people who would be his neighbors until the next time seats were rearranged. He was a bit saddened at the fact that sitting in the front row meant the unlikeliness of being able to get away with sleeping in class. Taking his seat and ignoring the snickers coming from the other classmates, Issei looked up at the chalkboard in front of him as the Valkyrie waited for the classroom to settle down. If there was anything at all that could be said to be good about this entire event, it would probably have to be the fact that Irina, Asia, and Xenovia were the people sitting around him.
The class finally settling down, Rossweisse took in a deep breath as she finally managed to begin her battle plan of the new school year as she told all the students to stand. "Good morning students, my name is Rossweisse Rådgriddotter, but you may all call me Rossweisse-sensei." She said with a smile. Typically it was unheard of to call someone in Japan by their first name right off the bat, but in the woman's defense, she didn't exactly want to be continually called her mother's daughter in her native tongue. "Please take good care of me." She added in the end, giving a small bow with it.
The students sat back in down in their seats after giving their own bow to show respect for their teacher, as the Valkyrie teacher went on with the plan she had written up for the class. One by one, Rossweisse began to call out the names of the students as she took the attendance, getting into the groove of her new position.
As the first few students were being called out, Asia, who was sitting behind Issei, leaned forward to whisper to the boy in front of her, asking if he had been alright from the morning assembly. "Don't worry, Asia, I managed to get to the clubroom just fine. I ended up changing shirts and began running back here as quick as possible. What happened at the assembly afterwards?"
This time, it had been Irina who leaned over and began whispering to the boy. "It almost turned into a riot because of what Xenovia said. The principal had to intervene and tell everyone to sit down again before threatening everyone with detention for the entire year."
Suddenly remembering the reason why he had been forced out of the assembly in the first place, Issei leaned over to Xenovia, an annoyed look on his face. "Speaking of which, why the hell did you have to go and say that?!"
"Say what?" Xenovia replied, not playing the whispering game. "I have no idea what you're talking about."
"You know exactly what! Why did you have to go and tell everyone about us?!"
"Yeah, Xenovia. I thought the Student Council President was supposed to enforce rules stating no sexual relationships? What's up with that?" Irina intervened.
Xenovia shrugged. "What two people do in the privacy of their homes is none of my business. So long as they're not hurting themselves or anyone else and their grades don't get affected, I don't care what the students do in their private lives."
"What?! I thought you Catholics were all about getting into people's lives?!"
Offended by the proclamation, Xenovia glared at her best friend a bit, clearly not amused. "A common misconception about the church, Irina. Besides, people can change over time."
"Yeah, but what about-" But Issei was cut off short, as two pieces of chalk came flying through the air, hitting himself and Irina right on their foreheads. A red mark appeared on both of their heads as they tried to soothe the pain away with their hands.
"Ms. Shidou, Mr. Hyoudou, I'd appreciate it if you didn't talk while I was taking roll call." Rossweisse interrupted with a strict tone in her voice. With one hand on her hip, she pointed her other hand out towards the doorway, showing them where to go. "Out into the hallway, now."
Irina, whilst annoyed that it was only her and Issei that got in trouble, did as she was told. Issei on the other hand, ignored the snickers of the classroom once again as he tried to reason with the enraged teacher. "B-But! Xenovia was also-"
"Now, Mr. Hyoudou!"
Seeing that there was no way he was going to win the battle, Issei could only afford to follow Irina outside to the hallway, where they were forced to stand just outside for the rest of the class time. With roll call being called out once again, Issei sighed, listening in to the class with the door wide open. "Stupid Xenovia…" He muttered under his breath.
While he continued grumbling about how the new school year started for him, he couldn't help but notice that the girl next to him seemed to be laughing to herself, as if this was all some sort huge joke. Curiosity finally getting the best of him, he couldn't help but ask.
"What's got you in such a good mood?"
Ceasing her laughter for a second, Irina smiled as she 'answered' the boy's question. "Hmm…? Oh, it's nothing." She said, going back to laughing to herself.
Annoyed that he wasn't allowed to know what she was laughing about, he couldn't help but ask again. "No, seriously, what's so funny, Irina?"
Finally giving in to the boy's curiosity, the girl answered him. "Well… Do you remember back when we were kids, Issei? We'd always end up causing some sort of trouble or mischief, especially at school?"
Issei shrugged. "Yeah, I guess so… What does that have to do with you laughing though?"
"Well, it reminds me of the days when we used to be little, of when we went to school together. We used to get in so much trouble back then, the teacher would always send us out into the hallway, only for everything to become worse as we goofed around out there as well."
Remembering the days of old, Issei couldn't help but smile as well as the memories came flooding back to him. Before he could say anything more though, with mathematical precision and strength, Rossweisse had managed to bounce a piece of chalk off the doorframe from inside the classroom, and nail Issei right in the back of the head as he continued to stand outside in the hallway. "No talking out there!" The Valkyrie yelled from inside the classroom. Some of the students could no longer hold back their snickering and burst into full-blown laughter.
'God damnit…!' Issei thought to himself as he rubbed the back of his head. "We weren't talking!" He yelled back, feeling a little bit rebellious for the piece of chalk that was thrown at his head.
"An hour detention after school!"
With the declaration of being given detention for simply yelling back, Issei finally shut quiet, whilst Irina joined in the laughter from the classroom. 'She must be pissed off about that!' He thought to himself, thinking of the only logical thing that would have made the Norse woman so mad at him.
~~*Oppai-Dragon*~~
A few hours had passed, and lunch time had finally arrived, something that Issei was more than looking forward to. Atop the rooftop he sat, away from the glares of his classmates as the emotion of envy ran through the school like a plague. It seemed though, that even going to a place where no one else would look for him, he could still not escape the dirty look of one particular classmate.
"How is it that we're both dragons, and yet the only one of us surrounded by ladies is you?!"
His fellow friend and Sacred Gear user of a legendary dragon, Saji Genshirou, pointed a finger accusingly at Issei. Despite there being two other guys with them, Issei had been the only one surrounded by the girls of the group. Asia and Ravel to his sides as they sat next to him as his Bishops, Xenovia and Irina sitting next to Asia as all three played card games as they ate lunch, and Koneko sitting on Issei's lap, feeding him his lunch. It was indeed an envious sight to behold.
"You could have something like this as well if you ended up paying enough attention to your surroundings." Xenovia said casually, flipping a card that laid on the ground to show the other two players. "Blackjack."
"What the heck is that supposed to mean?!"
"You need not drown in sorrow, Saji. Follow the path of Christ, and I'm sure you'll be rewarded for your good deeds one day." Irina said cheerfully, thinking it would help the discouraged boy.
Saji, being a devil, honestly didn't know how to answer that other than to give the girl a gloomy expression. Obviously, Irina was going to be of no help in the section of life known as love, especially when she couldn't be true to herself all the time without the chance of falling. Meanwhile, having heard the cries of anguish and envy from his buddy a million times already, Issei had eventually learned to tune out the complaints of his jealous friend.
"Senpai-"
Koneko held up a bit of chicken in front of Issei's face between a pair of chopsticks, who happily ate it without hesitation. Using the same pair of chopsticks, Koneko then picked up her own piece of chicken and ate it, savoring the taste of her senpai in her mouth. Technically, the meal had been made by their master and was only meant for Issei, but the boy made no complaints of sharing his food with a cute girl who sat on his lap like the cat she was.
For once, Ravel was ignoring the cat who had taken her precious seat to open a letter she had received that morning from a secret admirer. She had been given it by one of the many girls in her classroom, who refused to give out the name of the individual who was asking for her time. By that fact alone, she narrowed the person down to someone who was either incredibly shy, or just incompetent in thinking that not giving out your name was supposed to be something 'mysterious'. Either way, she briefly read the letter, finding it to be the stereotypical love letter that you would find in any school life manga or anime, asking for her to meet up with the person behind the school building after class. Not even willing to give the person a reply, she used her powers of the Phoenix to burn all existence of the letter away. After all, she already had a man she loved, and needed no one else.
"Was that so wise?"
"Hmm?" Ravel looked up from the meal she had gone back to eating, when she was the question by Kiba, who was sitting just a few feet away from her. "What do you mean?"
"Well, obviously someone went through the trouble of writing that letter for you. Would it have hurt to at least see who it was?"
Ravel snorted, finding the advice given by her senpai to be comical to say the least. "Someone who decides to write a letter to get my attention instead of coming to see me personally isn't worth my time. Besides, I'm Lord Issei's Bishop and manager, I have no time for someone else."
Kiba chuckled at the girl's answer. Despite being someone's 'Bishop' wasn't really an answer, he understood the implication of what she meant. "Still," he continued the conversation. "Receiving a letter on the very first day of school; that has to be some sort of new record, right?"
"If it means anything, it means it's going to be a very annoying year." Ravel commented, eating the cut tomato in her lunch as she dreaded the onslaught of letters that were going to come her way. It had been bad the previous year, with a little over six hundred letters all being thrown into her shoebox and into her desk. It had gotten so bad at the end of the year, that she had to ask both Rossweisse and Le Fay if there was a way to connect a portal to her desk and shoebox that would send all letters into the vacuum of space, or better yet, into an incinerator. Apparently this was one of the downfalls of being one of the new idols of the school. 'The Pompous Princess' she had been named at one point, for the cold attitude towards those she didn't like and the princess-like air that surrounded her no matter where she went.
The conversation was interrupted though as Koneko, who was still sitting on Issei's lap, said something aloud that got the attention of all the people around her.
"… I feel something hard poking me." She said as she shifted uncomfortably.
Immediately, everyone looked at Issei, thinking he had awakened his natural instincts of a young and horny teenage boy. Jealous, and not wanting him to violate the cute girl, Asia pinched Issei's cheek, hard. "Owowowowowow, A-Asia! It's not me!"
"Honestly, Issei, can't you go on for a single day without doing something perverted?" Ravel scolded, who began to pinch Issei's other cheek.
"It's not me!" Issei cried out, pleading for his innocence.
The attention was quickly switched from Issei to the door leading to the roof though as the door in question burst open. Two boys in school uniforms, with one girl right behind them, came running towards the group on the roof at full speed, obviously upset at something. As this was happening, everyone seemed to miss the culprit that had been poking Koneko. A piece of chicken that had fallen from Issei's mouth to the ground, which she quickly devoured.
The two boys in question were the newly-nicknamed 'Perverted Duo', as it seemed that Issei had gone and matured to the point where he was no longer doing perverted things in school like peeping into the girls locker room or looking at pervy magazines in class, but at the same time, still hated enough by the female populace to not get close to him. Matsuda and Motohama on the other hand were still Class-A perverts when it came down to it.
""ISSEI!"" They both yelled out as they came running towards the group, ready to pound the Crimson Dragon simply out of jealousy, had they not tripped over their own feet and ended up falling flat on their faces right in front of the beings of another realm. The girl who had been following the two perverted boys, was a close friend of Asia's, and also someone who could be considered the female version of the Perverted Duo, Aika Kiriyuu.
"It's not fair!" Matsuda yelled out as he looked up from the ground, tears streaming down from his face and blood running from his nose.
"How could you do this to us, your brothers-in-arms?!" Motohama added as he too looked up from the asphalt, glasses now cracked.
"The heck are you two idiots talking about?" Issei asked the two boys as he looked down as his friends, feeling pity for them, before remembering that he too had been like that once before. That thought quickly went away though as he thanked Koneko for giving him some rice.
"I think they're jealous of the little group you have around you." Kiriyuu answered as she crept around Xenovia and Irina to get behind Asia, who were all too focused in their card game to notice the extra girl. Squatting behind the former nun, she quickly put her hands on the nun's breasts, massaging them as she playfully teased her friend. "Aaasssiiaaa~. My my, you seem to have gotten bigger over the break."
Asia yelped in fright as her friend suddenly grabbed her in a sensitive place, as she let go of the cards she had been holding and accidentally showed Irina and Xenovia her winning hand. As Asia pleaded for her friend to stop teasing her, Issei could feel himself getting aroused by the sight. His concentration on what was happening with Asia was broken when the Perverted Duo continued to complain to him.
"She's exactly right, Issei!" Matsuda proclaimed, getting up from the ground and brushing off any dust from his uniform before pointing his finger at what he considered to be his new arch-rival. "The past two years, we promised each other we'd all get harems, together! But no longer! We'll show you!"
"We know your secret. We know how these girls are attracted to you! After all this time, it makes so much sense!"
Issei, including other members of the Occult Research Club, seemed to focus on the two boys now as the dragon himself took in a deep breathe, scared that he may have accidentally leaked their secret of being devils out without meaning to. "I-Is that right…" Issei answered nervously. "And what proof do you exactly have?"
As Matsuda and Motohama dug into their uniforms, Kiba slowly began to get up, ready to knock the two out and take them to Azazel should it be true that they had proof of the supernatural, while Xenovia was doing the same. Pleading that it hadn't been a picture or something along those lines, Issei's prayers had been answered as it wasn't a photo that the two perverts pulled out, but rather, pieces of paper. "The Occult Research Club!"
Kiba and Xenovia, both just about to stand up completely, ended up falling back onto their butts as all the members of the club were flabbergasted at the answer to say the least. Not really knowing what to say, Matsuda and Motohama went on to explain their detective reasoning. "Ever since you joined the club last year, we've noticed subtle changes around you, Hyoudou Issei!" Motohama accused.
"When you joined, nothing happened at first, and you had still been one of us! But first came the sexiest girls in the school, Rias and Akeno, and then Asia here, and then Xenovia, and Irina, and-"
"We get it, you idiots think he got the attention of us by joining the club." Ravel cut them off, getting annoyed by the new nuisances that had interrupted her nice lunch time. "You're wrong by the way. Now go away, you're making me sick to my stomach." She said as she waved them off.
"Aha! That's what you'd like us to do, isn't it Ms. Pompous Princess?!"
"Yes, it is. And where the heck did you get that nickname from?!"
"Well too bad, because we're here on official business!" Matsuda claimed as he waved the paper that had been in hand the entire time. "This, right here, is an official club sign-up! And would you like to guess what club me and Motohama have signed up to this year?!"
Issei, who had wanted to facepalm from their stupidity, could feel a bad omen coming on. "You didn't…"
"We did!" Motohama answered as he pulled a new pair of glasses out of nowhere, fitting them on as he threw the old broken ones away.
The two perverts weren't the only ones who had pulled out a club form though, as Kiriyuu had also pulled out a form, showing it to the Church Trio after settling down and stopped harassing Asia. "If the bumbling fools are going to join, I thought I'd do so as well to protect Asia here." She said with a grin, scooching up next to the nun. Issei would have made an off-handed comment about how Asia was going to be in more danger with Kiriyuu around more now, but he, along with all the other members, were stunned by the stupidity of the Perverted Duo.
Whilst everyone was being silent, Gasper, the only one who hadn't talked this entire time and had hid behind Issei the moment the Perverted Duo and Kiriyuu had come up to the roof, pointed something out very vital to the Duo's plan. "U-Umm…"
Picking up that Gasper wanted to say something, Issei turned his head to the best of his ability to look at the Dhampir behind him. "Gasper?" He asked, trying to help his friend with overcoming his fear of strangers. He had been doing so well too, recently, though a part of Issei could understand why Gasper would be so afraid of the two idiots in front of him.
"S-Since Asia-senpai is president of the club now, um… S-She'll have to approve your forms!"
Both Matsuda and Motohama, the two perverts who had felt so triumphant moments ago, both felt like they had been punched in the gut as they had forgotten the most important point of joining a club. Unlike the other schools in the country, in order to join a club at Kuoh, your form had to be approved by the President of the said club. This rule had been put in place by the administrators not out of fear for any perverted reasons like the one the Duo were doing, but rather, it was a failsafe for devils joining clubs, as it would make it easier for regulating non-devils joining clubs dominated by the supernatural.
For the pervert Motohama though, defeat was not an option. Not feeling gloom over not joining immediately, he quickly got in front of Asia and got on his knees as he bowed in front of her. "Please let us into the club!" He yelled as Matsuda quickly followed suit.
"No." Issei quickly replied, not even giving Asia time to think. There was no way he was going to let them near the girls!
""Please let us into the club!""
"No!"
""Please let us into the club!""
"What part of 'No!' don't you guys understand?!"
"Why not give them a trial?"
"Don't give them ideas!" Issei pointed towards Saji, who was wearing a smirk at the suggestion he gave. It was the least he could do to Issei for being more popular than him.
"We can always make them do some sort of impossible task and fail them later." Irina suggested, not wanting to seclude people from the club simply because they were human.
"Do that!" Matsuda said as felt tears forming in his eyes to thank Irina. "We promise, we'll do whatever you tell us to do! Want all our porn? Done! Want our eroges? Done! Want-"
"A picture of a ghost."
Everyone turned to look at Asia who had made the last comment. Apparently, she was proud of herself for having come up with a suggestion she thought was clever. After all, how easy could it be for the Perverted Duo to capture a picture of a ghost? It was a win-win for everyone.
"Asia…"
"Get us a picture of a ghost, and I'll approve your forms. After all, we are the Occult Research Club, and researching the Occult is our thing."
~~*Oppai-Dragon*~~
And that left Issei with his current predicament. It was after lunch now and close to the end of school, and after finally agreeing to let the Perverted Duo and Kiriyuu try out for the club, Issei had begun to become afraid that the two idiots may very well succeed in finding a ghost, though he tried his best not to damn Asia for giving them the idea in the first place. She did it because she wanted everyone to be happy, and had no ill intentions behind it at all, this much he knew. It didn't exactly help that ghosts did exist though, and that a few of them even roamed the halls of the school. Some of them were even friendly enough and often helped students without them realizing it.
Though, as much as he wanted to focus on Matsuda and Motohama joining the club, he knew he couldn't. School was almost out, which meant he was going to have to stay for an extra hour after class for detention, and worst of all, he wasn't going to be able to see Rias immediately afterwards like he had promised her that morning. That, and the fact that he had felt bad since lunch when he had forgotten to tell Gasper about the update on Valerie.
With the final bell ringing, the class stood up and was dismissed, with some people being left behind to clean the classroom. Issei, on the other hand, stayed in his seat, waiting for Rossweisse to come back to the classroom to dish out the punishment that she had given him. He could feel a pat on his back as he turned to see Kiba ensuring him that he'd pass on the news to their master about his absence. Issei smiled and thanked him, apologizing for he had managed to get himself into on the very first day back at school.
Ten minutes ticked by as the final classmate managed to clean the remaining part of the room and left for the day, leaving Issei to his lonesome self. Deciding that he was supposed to be in detention, that perhaps he should take this time to actually do something for a change and begin studying, pulling his math notes out of his bag and putting them in front of him. Of course, even the best of plans tend to go haywire once in a while, as he totally forgot that he had done nothing but doodled during the second period class, leaving the notes to the girls who could help him study later on. In fact, that was all his notes were.
Letting out a groan of frustration and hitting his forehead on the desk, Issei grumbled as he realized just how pathetic he was when it came to schoolwork.
"You let yourself down easily, don't you?"
Issei looked up from his notebook to see the teacher and friend he had been waiting for standing in the doorway. He wished he could've said that she was in a better mood from that morning, but he knew all too well from the way she stood in the doorway, to the way she had one hand on her hip while holding her work supplies in her other arm, even down to the way she wore her glasses, she was anything but happy to be there.
"Do you always treat people that way?" Issei teased, trying to get the teacher to lighten up as he rested his chin on his desk, watching the woman go to the desk in front of him. Despite not giving him a direct answer to his teasing question though, the way the woman had slammed her books down onto to the desk told him that she was in no mood to play around. Immediately opening up the first book in front of her, she took a pencil she had been carrying around in her bag and began scribbling down what the boy had thought were notes. If he managed to look more closely though, he would have seen that it had been a crude picture that had been drawn that morning. A picture of him, and with negative words such as "Idiot", and "Moron" written around it.
With minutes slowly going by, Issei could feel his sanity slowly slipping as he nothing to do. He stared into space as he tapped the end of his pencil on the desk, a hand on his chin as he wondered what everyone else was up to at that very moment. Soon afterwards, he began to hum the theme to "Oppai Dragon", much to the dismay of the dragon in his arm and to the teacher across from him.
After singing the same tune for the seventh time in a row, Rossweisse's patience finally managed to reach its peak. With her pencil snapping in two in her hand, she used her other hand to take the glasses she wore for style and placed them on the desk as she took in a deep breath. Exhaling, she looked up from the desk towards to the boy across from her. "Issei…"
No good, as the boy continued to hum.
"Issei."
"Hmm?" He finally managed to stop the humming to pay attention to the Valkyrie.
"Will you please stop that humming?"
[Yes! Please! For all that is holy, stop!]
Issei raised a brow at his partner. "I thought you got used to the theme?"
[Once or twice? Yes. Seven times?! No, I did not get stuck in a bloody gauntlet to suffer such torture!] His partner answered him as the boy could begin to hear sniffing coming from his arm shortly afterwards.
"Issei!"
Both the boy and the dragon shut their mouths as Rossweisse was finally forced to raise her voice. Upon seeing that she got their attention, she coughed once, putting the glasses back on. "Your humming is distracting, so please, cease doing it."
"And here I thought I would be able to have a little fun after class today…" The boy muttered under his breath, trying to make light of the situation that he was in. Of course, not everything that came out of the boy's mouth could be perceived as funny.
Rossweisse, having caught what the boy said, picked out a new pencil before placing both hands under her chin, resting on them as she glared at him. "Detention is not meant to be fun. I'm sure you've gotten homework today despite it being the first day, and I'm sure the girls would appreciate it with not having to teach you again." She commented, thinking that perhaps she could finally convince the boy to do his own school work now rather than waiting to do it later when the others would be there to help him out as she went back to her own. When she looked up at him a few minutes later though, she could see that he hadn't even touched his bag, nor any of his notes, and instead was sitting at his desk, twiddling his thumbs. She sighed, not wanting to get her hopes up on him actually having done his work. "You forgot to take notes today, didn't you…?"
[No, he didn't. He made doodles instead.]
"Oi! Traitor!"
Rossweisse groaned, cursing her life.
"Um, listen Rose, can we please do this later? I kind of have to go and-"
"Sit, Issei."
Issei, who had been rising out his seat to leave, hoping it was going to work, immediately sat back down. Rossweisse, on the other hand, had been the one to leave her seat as she walked around the desk and leaned against it in front of Issei. The two stared at each other, neither saying a word, as both wondered what the other one was thinking.
"Issei."
"Y-Yes?"
Rossweisse crossed her arms. "What do you want to do with your life, Issei?"
"… What?"
"What do you want to do with your life? You never seem to take your homework seriously, even when we help you out. In fact, the only time you ever did take studying seriously is when we did… that…"
The Valkyrie's entire face began to become red as memories of the break between the boy's second and third year of high school played her mind. While the boy was very much a virgin in terms of actual intercourse, that didn't mean that they hadn't experimented with each other before. She felt that she had been the farthest away from the person she had fallen for, and since he always did mediocre for his grades, what better way to motivate him than the show him the ways of pleasuring a woman as a reward? She may have never been in a relationship before, but that didn't mean she hadn't dabbled before in the self-indulging ways back in her homeland, back before she had become a devil, very much like the boy who had done the same.
"Is that why you've been so upset today?"
"H-Huh?" Rossweisse snapped out of her minor daze as the boy asked her about the way she acted the entire day. "I-I have no clue what you mean." She answered as she averted her eyes from the boy. It seemed that the shoe was on the other foot now, as Issei began pressuring her into telling the truth about her feelings.
"If you're upset because we've stopped the study sessions, then I'm sorry Rose. Rias wanted me to stop doing things that would get me excited, and well… I appreciate what you did, but it doesn't mean I don't care about studying anymore. I just think that until, well, that happens, we should continue not having the sessions, lest Rias finds out."
Rossweisse tightened her grip on her arms, as the name of her master continued to pop up. 'Rias this, Rias that… I have feelings too, I have needs too! I need...'
Thankful for the fact that Rias had brought her into this world and the things she had done for her and the things was going to do, the Valkyrie still couldn't lie to her own feelings. She did what she felt was the best thing to do, and march across the gap that separated her and Issei, holding both his cheeks in her hands. With a swift motion, she had become the second person that day to kiss the boy, as she made sure her tongue intertwined with his. The job of being a highschool teacher when she wanted to teach magic, the role of being too far away from Issei, it had started to become too much for her, and she wanted help to release that stress that instant.
When she broke free, she said a few simple words that she hoped that would excite the boy.
"We're continuing our study session. Now."
~~*Oppai-Dragon*~~
Hey guys, I apologize for this rushed ending (you can definitely tell in my writing style how much I truly care about finishing the chapter with how much effort I put into the finishing stretch… then again, not really good to do it at 4 in the morning either).
Will this series have sex? Yes. Will this series have actual lemon series? No. Two reasons for this.
One) I imagine that by the amount of time this series takes place, the characters will have gone somewhat far with their relationship, seeing how far the characters themselves have gone in the actual novel.
Two) For the lemon scenes though, I'll be honest, not exactly the best at that stuff. I'll hint here and there about things that have happened, but as far as the actual showing of it, I'd like to imagine if I was writing the actual story, in that the editors would be telling me not to go too far otherwise I'd want to boost the rating up (though it's already at 'M' because it gives me the most flexibility).
So yeah, don't expect lemons, just expect sex… if that means anything to you…
