Valeria and I stared at each other, even when she started walking towards me. Not once did we lose eye contact. The staring contest was intense. I can feel her analysing me. She is looking for something.
"Hyoudou Issei, tell me, how do you think you rank among the strong in this world?" Valeria asked.
"Hmm…Who knows? But I know I'm stronger than you," I said. This pissed her off. I don't know if this is real. I don't know how strong she is, but I will enjoy pissing her off for calling me a stalker.
"Just because you were able to defeat Kokabiel doesn't mean you're that strong," Valeria said. She was laughing, but I could tell that she is angry because of what I said.
"You're correct. Just because I was able to defeat Kokabiel doesn't mean I'm strong. But there is one thing you don't know. I didn't fight with all I had. I barely used my power to defeat Kokabiel, and that's without even using my Sacred Gear," I said.
"Ha-ha-ha! Spoken like a true dragon! With arrogance! But if I was to rank you on the amount of energy I can feel from you, you won't even be in the three-digit range," Valeria said.
"Arrogance? No, confidence. I am confident in my abilities and knowledge. And what I can do with both. You may think it's arrogance, but that's only because you haven't seen what I'm truly capable of," I said. I then lowered the suppression on my power. Valeria's eyes widened. The amount of power I was releasing was immense. But that's not even everything I'm capable of. One thing Valeria didn't realise was that we were in the Mirror Dimension. That's why I didn't have any problem releasing my power.
"S-Strong! You're strong. Ha-ha-ha! I didn't think someone as powerful as you would be in a town like Kuoh, no matter, I'll be looking forward to the day we fight," Valeria said. She then left to wherever she wanted. I stealthily took her out of the Mirror Dimension. Some people got scared when she suddenly appeared out of nowhere. This confused her because she hadn't done anything, but people screamed at her presence.
When I left the Mirror Dimension, no one knew what Valeria and I talked about. All those that knew about the Mirror Dimension knows that's where Valeria and I went.
Later in the afternoon, the open house starts. My parents arrived with Grayfia, and they asked her to film everything about me, Asia and Raynare. The moment they arrived, a lot of students, both male and female are checking Grayfia out. I then made eye contact with Grayfia, and she smiled. This made people go crazy. But when I made eye contact with my parents, they still wouldn't look me in the eye.
"Hyoudou Issei. Since when did your family get a maid?" Aika asked.
"Grayfia has been with us for a while now. Why do you ask?" I replied.
"I was just curious since she looks like a person that came out of one of your porno mags," Kiryuu said.
"No way! She's so much better than them! I mean, have you seen her. Look at her. Look!" I said. No way is there any comparison between Grayfia and the models for porno mags. There is no comparing them.
"Okay. You don't have to be so intense about it. Not like you're dating her anyway," Aika said. Not dating her? Sure. I rolled my eyes at her words.
When our English teacher arrived, he asked the parents to come in and stand in the back of the class to observe their children.
"For today's English class, use the clay that will be passed out to make whatever you want. You can make an animal, a person, a house, anything is fine. Express what you visualise in your head just the way it is. Give it shape. Expressing yourself in that way works in English conversation as well," The English teacher said. I can hear my parents cheering for Raynare and Asia in the back, but not for me. That's a bit rude. Aren't they, my parents? But I let it be since Asia needs more attention since she's never had a family before. I smiled at their antics.
'Hmm…Hey, Ddraig. What do you think I should make?' I asked.
'I don't know. I've never had to deal with something like this before. Hmm…How about the battle between Albion and I?" Ddraig said.
'But I don't know what it was like,' I said.
'Leave that to me. I can send you an image in your mind, from there use it as a reference,' Ddraig said. I received a mental image from Ddraig. Oh, men, is it a bloody battle. Each fire breathe Ddraig, or Albion makes decimates everything around them.
'I can work with this,' I said.
I started memorising the image. I visualised it, and my hands would move according to the image in my head. Every detail of the fight I would mould into the clay. I was in a trance. It lasted for twelve minutes, only because I was done. It could have been longer. I looked down on the clay, and it was scary. The feeling I got when Ddraig showed me the image of the fight, I can feel it when I look at the clay.
"This turned out great!" I shouted. I was proud of my creation. I looked around the class since it was very quiet. I saw people looking at the mould that I created, and they didn't like it. They feared it.
"What's wrong with you guys?" I asked.
"W-What is that thing? I-It's scary," Katase said.
"I shaped the clay. What else would it be?" I said.
"Hyoudou-san. Could you please put that thing away?" The English teacher said.
"Sure…" I put away the clay model. I even covered it up. My mom then came close to me as she whispered in my ears.
"Ise…you didn't use magic on that model, did you?" Mom whispered.
"What? No, I didn't," I whispered back.
"If that's that case, then why does it have this feeling of power and destruction?" Mom whispered.
"That's because that's what I visualised. The model was made by the visualisation of a battle long ago," I whispered.
"Okay," Mom whispered. She then went back to where she was standing before.
During the open house, none of the lessons was normal, not even Maths. They made us do different things. Thankfully, that's all coming to an end as it was already the last lesson for the day.