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"This doesn't make any sense…" The student council president said, once more returning to the first page of the report that she received from her queen.
"I concur. The leap in grades is just too big. Either Midoriya-san was holding himself back significantly…" Tsubaki started.
"Or his grades were tampered with…" Sona finished her friend's thought. "I believe that his status as quirkless could be a factor here. Sadly there is a lot of prejudice against quirkless people in Japan, especially in the city Midoriya-kun grew up in."
"That's so infuriating… and look here. Seventy three records of him misbehaving, from starting fights to vandalism and destruction of property… I may be a bit too blunt but did you see how skinny and small he was? It's clear that he couldn't even achieve half of those things." The taller girl huffed, clearly angry at the apparent mistreatment.
Sona didn't voice it, but she agreed with that assessment. He displayed a lot of signs that he wasn't comfortable in crowds, even to the point of nearly having a panic attack when the surrounding people started to gossip about him. It was as if he was conditioned to not trust anyone…
"Let's invite him for a tea at the lunch break. Can I trouble you with that, Tsubaki?" The short haired girl asked, getting a resolute nod back.
"Of course, I'll do that personally. Leviathan knows how he would react if we called him over the loudspeakers." The vice president agreed, focusing on the paperwork she needed to process before the school started.
Feeling a small magical reaction from her desk, Sona opened one of the drawers. In the middle of it was a letter, sealed with the Sitri family crest. She quickly opened it, reading through in seconds.
Tsubaki paused in her work, observing how her king was losing color in her face. "Something happened?" She asked with worry when her friend's face started to be more white than the letter she was holding.
"We… we might have to postpone that tea invitation for now…" The student council president replied with a shaky voice.
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'Well… this could be worse…' Izuku thought to himself, seeing how reluctant his classmates were to speak to him. He knew that it was his fault, especially after he got so worked up after meeting Akeno yesterday. His bombastic new friend greeted him normally in the morning, but there still was a bit of tension in the air.
Taking a look at the mentioned blonde, he once more confirmed that she was a reincarnated devil. At least that's the conclusion after his long talk with Rosseweise about the subject.
To have the ability to revive someone just like that, bring back the dead, it was mind boggling. It shed a lot of light on his old friend's situation though.
And that was a whole other can of worms.
He felt so much anger and resentment after their meeting in the Occult Research club, but it wasn't directed at anyone in particular. Okay… maybe he was still upset… or angry… with her. But at the same time he felt happiness at seeing her safe, or at least relatively safe. The fact that she was now a contracted slave to the red headed president of the club was still disturbing, even if she didn't seem to be in any distress.
Idly spinning his pen over the notebook, Izuku looked to his other hand. With a smile, he remembered what happened the previous evening.
After the long winded explanation of the current political state of the 'underworld', as Rosseweise called it, the greenette started to ask questions in such an amount that the young Valkyrie was starting to feel dizzy.
Inevitably, the conversation turned to the thing she did at the table when he confronted her about being an Asgardian. Even after learning about the existence of Gods and their whole pantheons the existence of magic was still hard to believe in.
"So you don't have a problem with the mythological figures being real, but you draw the line at sorcery?" The young woman asked with a giggle after seeing his expression.
"Can you blame me? When you think about Gods or Yokai it's normal for them to have some abilities, like quirks or something like that, not straight up magic… How does it even work?" He asked, taking a sip from his third tea this evening.
"Well… the concept isn't that complicated. Using your knowledge you are influencing the world around you by calculating the desired outcome using a magical formula." She explained, once more demonstrating the same small magic circle to him.
"You use… math?" He couldn't help but be sceptical about that. Wouldn't it mean that mathematicians and physicists should all be able to cast spells too?
"More or less. There are also a few more details to take into account." She started, trying to think about an example. "Every living being has the capacity to influence the world around them. The deciding factor in all of this is the amount of magical power one can muster and command. This can be offset somewhat by modifying the magical equation you use, making it more efficient by personalizing it to your own mana frequency." Continuing her explanation she allowed him to take a closer look at her spell, blushing slightly when he took her hand into his own and leaned closer.
"This is fascinating… Can I learn how to use it too?" He asked, trying to trace the glowing circle with a finger.
"Well… everyone can but the outcome can be different from person to person…" She answered, looking to the side after once more feeling how small his magical capacity was.
The ringing of a bell signifying the start of the lunch break brought him out of his memories, making him aware that he wasn't making any notes of what was said in the class for a long time. Hazarding a quick look at the blackboard he saw that it was fully covered in mathematical equations, thankfully he was already well versed in algebra.
"Hey, umm… Midoriya-kun. Would you like to join us for lunch?" Surprisingly one of his classmates that he remembered from yesterday asked him in a somewhat shy manner. She had chocolate brown, shoulder length hair styled in pigtails with long front bangs. Her honey colored eyes were very nice to look at, but for some reason she was looking more and more nervous the longer he looked at her. She didn't seem to have any visible mutations from a quirk, maybe the ever so slightly strange structure of her face or her arm muscles were an indication of one if he had to make a guess.
Wait… he should probably stop staring and reply… that was probably it.
"M-Murayama-san, right? Sorry, I was just thinking about something." He tried to reply, causing the girl in front of him to let out a sigh of relief. Looking at Kiba-san, the blonde girl smiled back at him as if encouraging the greenette to take the offer. "If I'm not a bother, I would be happy to eat with you and your friends." He continued with a smile, starting to feel nervous too. How did all of those extroverted people do this so casually?
"Oh! That's great! Do you need to buy your lunch? All of us bring our own food from home, so we usually just eat in the classroom." She stated joyfully, gesturing to a few girls that were already moving their desks to form a bigger table.
Reaching into his bag, he took out a neatly wrapped bento that was made by his friend and placed it on his desk. "I have mine right here as well." He smiled gently at his classmate's antics.
"Great! Ladies, room for one more!" She called her friends, consisting of three more girls. He knew all of their names, mostly just because of the morning attendance check.
Taking his cane he started to hobble after his classmate that started leading him to the small gathering. It was a bit irritating that his injury garnered so much attention, but at least it wasn't anything malicious like in Aldera.
Before he arrived, one of the girls that was much larger than the rest effortlessly picked up another empty desk with one hand and set it with the rest. It would be scary, if not for the fact that she looked like the gentlest girl in existence. Her long blonde hair flowed to her hips, parted by a large red horn in the middle of her forehead. She had to be a foreigner, with the tanned light brown skin that was a dead giveaway. Only by the sheer force of will Izuku managed to not look down from her rose colored eyes, which would be oh so easy with the dramatic height difference.
'T-those are so much bigger than my head! EACH!' He barely kept his cool, shifting his gaze to the other two.
The second girl had pink-blonde hair, kept up with a white headband that caused the girl to expose her forehead. The girl's amber eyes were rather welcoming, at least they looked like that to the greenette that nervously arrived at the offered place and sat down after thanking the giantess, earning himself a smile so warm that he couldn't even convey it.
"Hello, Midoriya-kun! I'm Tionishia Tio. It's so nice to meet you at last!" The giant girl started, clapping her hands in a cute gesture.
"I'm Katase Yui, the vice-president of the kendo club." The blonde continued, nodding to him Ina greeting.
"And I'm Kiryu Aika! Are you single?" The last girl at the table asked, correcting her glasses that somewhat obscured her golden-yellow eyes with a glint.
"Umm… Y-yes?" Izuku asked, unsure of the reason for asking such a equation.
"Aika! Don't even think about starting anything! I'm sorry Midoriya-kun, she's a bit much sometimes but she's a good person." Murayama scolded the bespectacled girl who started to giggle ominously.
"What, he's a fine catch. He may be a bit scrawny but he's certainly not on the smaller size!" The brown haired girl replied, licking her lips in a rather inappropriate way and only further confusing Izuku. He indeed was the shortest of all of them at the table, and nearly half a head shorter than the other two guys in the class. He did however blush at the compliment, even if it was said only as a joke.
"Ai-chan, it's rude to use your quirk on someone without asking them first. All the boys are scared of you because of it." The large horned girl reprimanded her friend with a small frown and an enormous blush, that somewhat only made her even cuter.
It did nothing to stop the embers of anger that started in the greenette however, his eyes snapping to Kiryu who visibly flinched. The rest of the girls at the table immediately felt the mood shifting, nervously glancing at Izuku who was staring a hole into their friend.
"Uh… sorry about that. It's hard to control when it activates…" She apologized, looking aside.
"...I'm sorry as well… I had a rather bad experience with people using quirks on me in the past." The greenette replied in kind, lowering his gaze to the packed meal that was in front of him.
"It's okay, you don't need to worry! If anyone will try to give you any trouble I'll talk with them!" The giantess promised, smiling radiantly like a miniature sun.
"Thank you, Tionishia-san." Izuku smiled slightly back, unwrapping his food.
"Call me Tio, please. All my friends do." She laughed, hoisting a giant bento box onto the table that creaked ominously under the weight.
Taking a quick glance around the seated girls, he didn't spot the slightest sign of surprise which meant that it was a rather normal occurrence. Focusing back on his food, he opened the box and started to eat with his chopsticks after a short prayer.
"I still think that all you eat goes into your breasts, Tio-chan." Kiryu commented absentmindedly, slowly eating her own food.
Nearly choking, Izuku managed to not blush by some miracle. He decided that it would be best to act as if nothing happened.
"Moooouuuu… It's just because of my quirk! I can't help it that they grew so big!" The horned blonde replied with a pout, somehow managing to look dignified while eating an amount of food that would be big enough for a group of grown men.
'Ignore it… Don't look… just eat your food…' The green haired teen repeated to himself, focusing even harder on the food. His quirk started to analyze the grains of rice in the box one after another, providing him the barest of distractions.
"Midoriya-kun." Murayama started, getting his attention. "Can you tell us something about yourself?" She asked, trying to start a conversation with a friendly smile.
"Well… I grew up in Musutafu." He replied, but the girls clearly waited for something more. "There's nothing else really… I hardly left the city before moving here after my accident. " He sheepishly continued, rather uncomfortable under their gazes.
"Objection! How did you know Himejima-senpai then?!" Kiryu asked while pointing her chopsticks at the greenette, a mischievous glint in her eyes.
"A-Akeno? You could say we are childhood friends, I guess. She lived with her family in a Shinto shrine not so far from my house but… had to move away. It was quite a shock when I met her yesterday." He replied between the bites of his food, somewhat getting lost in the heavenly taste. He needed to thank Rossweisse for it in some way, maybe go out into town again. She seemed to like it.
"Aww maaan… and here I hoped for some juicy gossip…" The bespectacled girl grumbled, not even acknowledging the pointed look she received from Murayama.
"Uh… sorry?" The greenette sweat dropped a bit from the girl's overly dramatic actions.
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"Do we really need to stay in this dump? Why can't we just rent a few rooms in a hotel or something?" A young looking blonde girl asked with barely restrained disgust.
"It's the only place that we can safely use. This is devil territory, they wouldn't be too friendly to a group of fallen showing uninvited." Raynare replied, no less disgusted by the dilapidated church they would have to live in for God knows how long.
"Oi. Can't we just drop that kid and be done with it? He's already looking half dead in this photo." A woman with long blue hair grumbled, waving the page with the picture attached.
"Our orders were to monitor him and attempt recruitment if there are any signs of him possessing a sacred gear. Now stop bitching and help me with this. Where the hell is Dohnaseek?" The raven haired woman replied, starting to unpack their supplies.
"Don't know, don't care. Probably hunting some devils or fucking in one of the whorehouses, I would guess one of those two." The blonde girl replied, nonchalantly checking her nails.
"For fucks sake! What part of not getting any attention from the devils you fucktards don't understand?!" Raynare exploded with anger, kicking one of the slightly rotted Pew's that exploded into splinters from the attack.
"I'm not cleaning that." The blue haired bombshell said flatly while using magic to carry the supplies to the backroom.
"Mittelt! Go and find that fedora wearing jackass! Drag him here and help Kalawarna with setting up this base." The ravenette grumbled, taking out a smartphone and starting to tap on it in irritation.
"Ugh… and what are you going to do, our oh so great leader?" The blonde girl grumbled back, standing up and dusting off her black dress.
"I'm going to locate our target and do a bit of reconnaissance." Finding what she was looking for, the black haired fallen angel started to cast a spell while looking at the picture on the screen. In a flash of violet light her clothes changed into a dark high school uniform belonging to one of the local schools. Alongside the clothes her own body morphed into a smaller one, changing her appearance into that of a teenage girl.
"I hate stealth missions…" Kalawarna grumbled, disappearing into the corridor that led to the rest of the building.
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"How do I look?" Rias nervously asked, looking into a small mirror and trying to pat down a lock of hair that stubbornly was standing upright on her head.
"For the ninth time, you look good. Did you finish your paperwork already?" Akeno asked back, slightly amused.
"I'll do that later. Where are they? They should already be here by now." The red headed girl started to mutter impatiently, still fighting with her hair.
Hearing a quick knock at the doors, she threw her mirror into one of the drawers of her desk and sat straight with a smile as if nothing happened.
"Please come in!" She called happily, causing the two present members of her peerage to sigh.
"Rias! We have a problem!" Instead of the green haired teen that she was waiting for, it was the student council president that barged into the room, clearly in a hurry.
"Ah… Sona! What brings you here?
"I got a message from my sister that we are going to have a visitor from heaven, didn't your brother contact you about it?" Rising a brow, Sona observed her friend that clearly looked surprised.
Opening yet another drawer in her large desk, the red headed girl found an envelope with her family crest sealing it shut.
"Oh… I had to miss it when it came." Laughing awkwardly, Rias opened her letter and started reading through it under her friend's scrutinizing gaze.
"That's rather unprecedented. What is their agenda this time?" Akeno asked, already brewing some tea for the guests.
"Officially, they are trying to find someone. Gabriel-sama herself wants to take part in that." The bespectacled girl replied, taking a seat on one of the coaches as it looked that Rias's brother sent her quite a lengthy letter.
"And we are supposed to just hand that person over to them? Yumi-chan won't like that one bit…" Akeno sighed, serving the prepared tea to her master's close friend.
"You found a fiancee?! Sona, why didn't you tell me?! Who's the lucky guy?!" Rias suddenly exclaimed after reading through the letter, standing up so abruptly that her chair smacked into the windowsill behind her.
"Ah… t-there are more important things right now." The student council president tried to deflect the topic but her redhead friend was already marching up to her.
"They didn't pressure you, did they?" Rias asked with worry, not wanting her friend to go through what she was going right now.
"No. The condition I set for my partner was fulfilled by someone, that's all. I assure you that there is no problem on that front, so let's return to the issue at hand." Sona tried once again to steer the conversation back on track but a small blush managed to sneak onto her cheeks.
"Was it that new pawn of yours? I didn't take him for a good strategist." Not giving up the red haired girl still pushed for answers, moving her eyebrows suggestively at her friend.
Sighing, the student council president massaged the bridge of her nose. "I just asked a new acquaintance if he would like to play chess with me on a whim. He won in a few minutes, totally crushing any of my attempts at retaliation. To be honest, he did say that playing against him wouldn't be 'fun'. I misunderstood that in the worst possible way it seems." Deciding that satiating her friend's curiosity would be the fastest course of action to return to the previous topic, Sona explained with a small smile.
"And we're here! Good afternoon Buchou!" With the subtlety of a flasbang going off, a blonde girl barged into the room while dragging a raged Izuku behind. He was clearly struggling for breath, leaning on his right leg and the wooden cane.
"Yumi! What are you doing! Izuku-kun, are you alright?!" Akeno reacted first, quickly moving to support the greenette who further leaned into the door frame.
"I-I'm fine…" He managed to reply between breaths.
Helping him to the couch, Akeno sent a small glare to the sheepish blonde who quickly apologized. "Sorry, Izuku-kun! Are you hurt? Do you need me to carry you to the nurse's office?"
"No, I'm f-fine. Don't worry." He replied while thanking his childhood friend for the help. "Oh, good afternoon Shitori-san, Shinra-san. I didn't expect to run into you here." Spotting the two girls from the student council he greeted them, getting a nod from the president and a small smile from the vice president.
"Good afternoon, Midoriya-kun. Are you maybe planning to join this club?" Asking this question, Sona could see with the corner of her eye as Rias smiled brilliantly at the proposition.
"No." His quick reply caused the redhead to slump a bit, even the single stubborn strand of hair that was until now proudly standing straight tilted down.
"I had a little… disagreement… with Gremory-san yesterday. I admit that I might have overreacted a bit, but that doesn't mean that what she did, or tried to do, was appropriate." He explained, causing the student council president to glance back at her redhead friend who seemed to receive damage from every word.
"I'm sorryyyyy! I didn't mean to do thaaat!" Rias immediately apologized, looking as if she was on the verge of tears.
"... Hime told me as much yesterday. I'm willing to overlook what happened, and even the fact that you manipulated my mother. But I'm not tolerant of people that do such things, especially to people that are close to me." The greenette continued with a stern voice that surprised Sona, his demeanor completely different from the shy and timid boy that took shelter in the student council office.
"Rias, what did you do?" The student council president decided to ask, sending an inquisitive look at her friend.
"I panicked and used my 'quirk' to calm Izuku-kun yesterday, it didn't go that great…" The red head replied, sitting on the same couch that the green haired teen sat on.
"Is that so… Please be more careful in the future." Reading between the lines, Sona sipped her tea while observing their interaction.
"You still like mint tea right, Izukun~?" Akeno asked with a playful tone of voice, causing her club president to grit her teeth.
"Yes. Thank you, Hime." And to Sona's further surprise the two of them sounded as if they had a rather close relationship. Looking at her queen, the Sitri heiress could clearly see that she was equally puzzled.
After serving tea to everyone, Akeno took one cup for herself and nonchalantly squeezed herself in between Izuku and Rias.
"Akenooooooo… can't you see that this place is taken?" The red headed king tried to protest.
"Ufufu! Why, Rias-chan! I'm sure that Izukun doesn't mind." Smiling at her friend, Akeno moved a bit closer to the greenette who subtly scooted away to make more room.
Focusing on his drink, Izuku tried to not think about what his childhood friend was doing. He really tried…
'Why the hell are all of them so attractive and well endowed?!' Keeping a calm face on the outside he couldn't help but ask that question to himself. The fact that only the white haired girl that sat opposite him was smaller than him (even if only slightly) didn't help, especially as she was trying to drill a hole through his head with her gaze.
"Well then… seeing that you already had plans we'll leave for now. Let's discuss that problem later today, Rias." Sona broke the short silence, getting up from her place.
"Midoriya-kun, I'm still hoping for a rematch." She continued with a small smile, causing her red haired friend to gawk at her as if she grew a second head.
"Oh… Ummm… I don't mind in particular but…" Stumbling over his words, Izuku tried to find a way to decline politely.
"Don't worry. Contrary to your words I still had fun. I enjoy a challenge from time to time." Taking his indecisiveness as worry she tried to reassure him with a smile.
"Well… if you insist…" After a few more seconds passed he agreed.
"Splendid. The student council room is always open to you, please visit us soon." With those words Sona started to move to the doors.
"So-taaaaan!" Out of nowhere, a young woman dressed in a magical girl costume barged into the room and scooped the bewildered student council president into her arms.
"Onee-sama?! What are you doing here?!" Sona asked in a slight panic, looking back at the green haired teen.
"I heard that some ugly bastard tried to steal you from me so I dropped everything and came here as fast as I could!" The magical girl exclaimed with comically large tears.
"Onee-sama! Stop this at once! There are other people here!" She said in a serious voice, struggling to get out of the bear hug her sister trapped her in.
"Whyyyyy?! You told me that you will marry Onee-chan when you grow up! You can't leave me!" Ignoring her struggling sister, the magical girl still bawled her eyes out.
"Serafall-sama… we have a Guest here." Trying to get the older girl's attention, Tsubaki gestured to the greenette who surprisingly wasn't too perturbed by the scene. Now that she thought about it, he rarely seemed to even look directly at someone.
Pausing for a moment, the scantily clad magical girl switched her attention to the green mop of hair that belonged to Izuku and started to stare at it intensely. Then, dropping her sister back to the ground she took out a manilla folder with a photo on the front from under her short skirt and started to look back and forth between the greenette and the picture.
"It's you!!!" She shouted after a short pause, pointing what looked like a cosplayer's magical wand at him.
"Wait! Sister, don't do anything reckless!" Dropping any formalities, Sona tried to reach her sister but she blurred out of her spot and appeared just in front of Izuku who jumped in his place.
"You won't steal So-tan from me!" The magical girl exclaimed, once more pointing her wand that started to be covered by a thin film of ice at the bewildered greenette.
"W-what?" Unable to follow the strange woman, he couldn't help but push himself deeper into the couch to get even the slightest bit away.
"Onee-sama! That's enough! I'll never forgive you if you do something to Midoriya-san!" Sona shouted at her sister, making her freeze in place.
"B-b-but… !" With a heavy stutter, the magical girl looked as if she would burst into tears at the sole thought of her sister hating her.
"No buts! Apologize immediately!" With a red face, the student council president ordered.
"I'm sowwwyyy!" The scolded woman cried, once more tackling her sister and starting to rub her tear stained face into Sona's own. "I'm sowwwyyy So-taaaaan. I don't waaant him to take youuuuu!"
"Not to me! Apologize to Midoriya-san!"
The rest of the people in the clubroom only watched as the two sisters started to bicker, the younger one trying to peel off the older while the older was hugging her with all her might and crying about sister stealing bastards and so on.
Letting out a sigh of relief, Izuku couldn't help but feel as if he just avoided a premature meeting with his maker. Grabbing his trusty cane into his hand he traced the handle for a bit of comfort.
He really would prefer to go back home right now.
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Author's Note: Hello! I got a complaint about the fact that I genderbend characters, because there already are a lot of women in DxD and so on. So… I took it personally. This story officially becomes waifu central! Not that every single one of them will go for Izuku, don't get me wrong.
I know that the story itself is rather wobbly at the moment, but I'm like 11% sure it'll get better!
Have a nice day!