So, you make you character goes all the way after the character development, then you can pretty much write everything that goes into your head thinking that he's done crying and felling miserable and start kicking ass! That'as the reason I love Issei so much: 'Trauma? Over it, now I have a girlfriend, an awesome power and the existence of two powerful beings inside of me! yeah~!'. Also, Ichijou character development is (partially)done now. Now, time to think other characters to explore and develop. That's while my fic looks so... Flat, because I'mm introducing the protagonist first. Might not be the best of ideas, but now that I've stabilesh him already, let's do the same with the others. It's gonna be a fun ride~.
Okay, enough rant, let's begin the chapter. As always, Highschool DxD does not belongs to me.
"So, yeah. According to Beelzebub-sensei, she's trying Selective breeding. My suppose fiancé is the fruit of two Satans, and according to her, despite the fact that I was completely annihilated by Nemesis-san, my demonic potential plus the power of the dragon within me made the perfect match for miss Irene. And this she wants us to marry and make strong children for the next generation and for the sake of the Purson, Dantalion and Gremory clan."
"I-I see, Ichijou. But can you explain why is she clinging on you like a sloth?"
And I sighed. Now, the four of us from Berolina Grenory's peerage were gathered together in my hospital room. And above all else, we also had a new special guest with us: the only daughter of both Belphegor and Beelzebub Satans, Irene Dantalion, who was sitting next to me on my bed, her arms reaching for my head. This is really uncomfortable...
"I also have no idea why. Ai-chan, why are you doing this?" I said, sighing and turning my head to face her, her pretty eyes making me blush a little. Yeah, I got to be intimate, because she's my claimed fiancé. She giggled.
「Well, since I'm your future wife, better get used to be around you, Tsukino Ichijou.」she said. Huh, well, not even two months ago I hated women and wanted to stay far away from them. Now, I'm engaged until I finish college. Isn't that wonderful? And she speaks in brackets too, so she's totally reliable. By the way, all of this is sarcasm!「Besides, it would be rude from my part to not let you be with your own peerage.」
"So, Gremory's in a coma, right?" I said, the three others of my peerage looking back at me and then downing their heads in thought, since it was from me their heard that shocking news. Our Gremory is now depressed, and because of her lost, she's now in a coma. I sighed. Damn it, I really am worried about her. I turned my gaze around, and Ryuubi was moving her legs back and forth on her chair, trembling a little, Tasha was reading a dirty magazine and Annie was having a staring contest with the ceiling. So much for a bunch of misfits. Just like me.
... Wait, did I say our Gremory?
"Absolutely. Definitely. Affirmative. Tsukino-chin." Without looking away from her own naughty book, Tasha responded to me. "Gremory-chin fell into a stress coma, and so, she might take a while to recover from that."
"Is... That so?" I said, covering my eyes with the palm of my head. Geez, now I feel like a jerk. I should've never have given up the Balance Breaker power. At least not right at the end of the match. Wait, no, I'm regretting decisions, and like Yagura said, that's not very manly. Shit...
"Waaah~! Gremory-dono! I'm so sorry for you~! It was my fault! Waaaah~!" And I turned to a side, seeing Ryuubi-chan comically crying her heart out, a true river of tears falling down her eyes. I wonder what will happen if she encounters lady Gremory again. They say she have a present for me.
"It's alright, Ryuubi-chan. We just have to... Get stronger and win next time, right?" I said in a kinda motivational way. In return, the girls gave a funny look, and then puffed a steam of smoke out of their mouth. Yeah, everybody is exhausted, not even a cliche motivational line like that will help us now. The only difference between us and Gremory is that she can't feel a thing.
Well, at least everyone is okay. Gremory might be where she is, but at least she doesn't have any injures. Ryuubi and Anna don't either, and Tasha... Well, she's Tasha, she's a magician. And I just met the dragon inside my Boosted Gear. Ddraig... I wonder what he thinks of me? The door to the room suddenly opened, and from there, Beelzebub-sensei and Auntie Gremory entered the room.
"How's it going, Peerage of Berolina Gremory? I hope everything is going well. Reminding you that because of my little idiot over here..." And the doctor whacked the elder Gremory from the back of her head. "I moved every single one of you girls to Ichijou Tsukino's room. Pardon me, but a huge pain in my ass!"
"Heheh~, you're such a party pooper, Mary. That's why I didn't invited you to my marriage, nor I would to the birth of my dear daughters if you wasn't the doctor!" And the taller redhead pinched the doctors cheek until it turned red. She let it go when Sensei lifted a syringe filled with something purple right next to her eye. Auntie Gremory turned to us and smiled, walking towards us. "Good afternoon again! So, Ichijou, how's your first Rating Game?"
"..." I bit my tongue until it literally bleed. Well, I have a broken arm, bruises all over my body, my peerage is a mess and my king is now in a coma, so I'm absolutely fine and healthy! Thanks for asking! Before I could say anything, however, Ryuubi tossed herself to the floor and began screaming.
"I'm so sorry, Gremory-dono! I've tainted the name of your family and the reputation of your daughter by losing in such disgraceful way! I was fine with my defeat by Nero-dono, but seeing the ultimate outcome of this match made me realize I'm unworthy of life!" Well, isn't that a little overboard. I mean, we did made a number on Nemesis-san's peerage, so I don't think we need-... What the hell?! Is that a knife on Ryuubi-chan's hand?! "For this defeat, I shall Give my life in order to restore my honor!"
"What the hell are you doing, and where did you find that knife?!" I asked her, as everybody seemed bored by this event. And when I thought thinks couldn't get any weirder, she pointed the edge of her knife to her stomach and lifted it at high speed. Holy shit, she's gonna really do it!
"I'm so sorry, Gremory-dono! FORGIVE ME!"
"DONT DO IT, RYUUBI-CHAN!"
*SHING!*
*CUT!*
*PENG!*
*ZIUUM~!*
"..."
"..."
"By the heavens themselves. My ability of 'skin hard as steel' has yet again prevented me from ending my own life." And everything went so fast! The moment the pinkerette lifted her knife and cut part of her gown I though she was a goner, but her skin was hard enough to break the blade and bounce it away to the window! "Just like last time. I'm such a failure!"
"SO STOP TRYING TO KILL YOURSELF! YOU GOT EVERYONE HERE WORRIED ABOUT YOU!"
"Not really. Already saw. Not surprised." Tasha lifted her hand.
"Ditto." Annabelle did the same.
"AT LEAST WARN ME ABOUT THAT SHIT!"
"Aaah~! What the hell, you two, stop being noisy! This is a hospital, and you are really making me angry!" And before I knew it, Beelzebub-sensei tossed a syringe right into my arm, and soon enough, my body faulted a little, and I fell into the bed again. Before she could the same with Ryuubi-chan, the pinkerette closed her mouth with her hands. "Great! I hope we're all in an agreement here! Geez... Your kin and servants have no manners, Alice..."
"What can I say? Gremories are tricky bastards."
"Reserve an entire room for your daughter and her knight to have a Healing session alone. The things I do for you..." I blushed hearing that, while Tasha snorted a little and covered her bleeding nose. Healing... Session... Alone. Geez, what the hell~. I wonder what actual sex helps during those healing magics.
"Hey, since there's too much noise in here, can I put this gal here? She's being a nuisance in my workplace..." And we all turned to the door, and there was another man there: an extremely tall, handsome man with tanned skin, long, dirty and messy purple hair wrapped in a pathetic tail, a goatee with a ribbon in it and equally violet eyes covered in shadows with a serious stare. I mean, wow, he looks like a panda with those bags. In his arms, he was carrying a messy and crying Rei-chan. Oh, so there's where she was. The girls keep saying about a Phenex coming along with Lady Gremory, but to think it was her. The taller man then wilded his eyes looking at us. "Oh, aren't you...?"
"Yes, dear. They're the current Sekiryuutei and Berolina Gremory's peerage." Beelzebub-sensei finished for him. I gulped. Wait, 'dear'? Don't tell me...
「Good afternoon, dear father. This is the Sekiryuutei mother was talking about earlier.」the girl hugging my head said, smiling at the purplehead in front of us. So he's the pseudo-Satan sensei talked about earlier! Holy shit!
"Oh, the Sekiryuutei, and his peerage. I saw little miss Gremory earlier, so I can say that I've seen you all by now." He sighed; passing the crying Phenex girl to Lady Gremory and walking towards us. Oh, shit, he's probably gonna ask about the marriage! Worse, he'll brainwash us all to think everything has been planned since the beginning! He stopped in a place he could face us all, took a deep breath, and threw daggers at us with his eyes, a shadow ominously casted upon his shiny violet eyes, like a predator in the dark. "So, mr. Sekiryuutei, miss Campbell from the Campbell family, Miss Sayuri from Hanzo village and Miss Liu Bei, apprentice of the monkey King Sun Wukong. I have something to ask for you four."
"..." I gasped, as everyone else in my peerage. Oh crap? What is he gonna ask? By the way, who's that Sayuri? I gave a glance at Annie, but turned back to the satan when he grunted at us. I gulped once more, and said in a meek voice. "O-Of course... Lord demon lord, milord..."
"Very well, my sole request for you four, later informing you king to do the same, is... Please, do not challenge another mock-Rating Game~." And his powerful voice suddenly became whiny and weak, as he puffed a smoke of exhaustion out of his mouth and his eyes narrowed in a way that he looked more miserable than before. Wait, what? "I mean, I already have to deal with the Phenex brothers and that magician challenging me for one day and night, plus that brat from the Bael clan wanting to fight all the time and the other countless Rating Games I have to organize, and then Cohen goes to my office and says 'Dude, I want you to make a Mock Rating Game for my daughters' out of the fucking nothing, making the rearrange my whole schedule and even delay my Rating Game with Ruval-San and Gylgas-san. Irene's birthday is also around the corner, and I have to arrange that, plus her marriage with the Sekiryuutei, my visits to the dentist, buy some more gallons of coffee, and so on and on and on and on..."
"Calico, you know that you can lend some of your work to our servants." Sensei said to her husband, as he continued to mumble under his breath and looking miserable, drawing some stuff with his long nails on the silver plate next to him.
"Well, you see Mary, they can't handle the burden. Two already died doing what I would do in a second, and the ones in a coma are far worse. Sometimes, I wish Roygun-Dono hadn't retire or Diehauser-dono hadn't defect us. Now I can't even blink an eye with so much work." He dismissed his commentary with an awkward handwave. "Not that I don't like being a satan or anything, but doing all this work is tiring, and unlike the main Satans, I can't simply just shrug that off and put those for later. Rating Games are important, but at least I wanted the Phenex brothers and Mudrock-kun to stop fighting all the time~!"
「You worry too much, father of mine. You earned the title, so those petty little problems you face in your job as a satan are nothing compared to your efforts to reach your current status」Ai-chan said, as she blew a kiss to her dear father. The gloomy face of the purpleheaded satan shined for a few seconds, and then went back to his depressed self.
"Thanks Irene, but not even your words will make my paperwork disappear."
"Cohen can always stop by and help you, Calico. He just needs the proper motivation!" Auntie Gremory said. Lord Calico looked at her with an incredulous gaze for a few seconds, and facepalmed.
"Hahah! No, thank you, that guy already helped me by messing with my schedules with that stupid Rating Game." Lord Calico opened a sarcastic grin, and grunted again. That one kinda made me feel bad, since he apparently doesn't sleep that much. And now the Rating Game screwed with his plans. In the end, he turned to us, and sighed. "However, congratulations for your first Rating Game, servants of Gremory. I'm impressed."
"Huh~..." I murmured under my breath. I think I'm blushing. Geez, but it feels so good to be complimented. I'm happy with this! "Thank you... Very much."
"Don't flatter yourselves. He says that to everyone." And our five minutes of glory lasted just ten seconds. Figures. Everybody on the room just headbutted the floor, as I just sighed and hit my head on he pillow for being so stupid for believing that. The author of such heartbreaking moment, the satan Beelzebub, pushed her husband away from the room and took her way outside as well. "Now go away, those kids had a harsh match and your own problems gonna infect them. Go report to Cohen their Rating Game or something..."
"Right. Cannot lose a second with that idiot..." And of they went. Huh. Now it's just me, my peerage, Ai-chan, Rei-chan and lady Gremory. The last of them picked a little pink box out of her back and placed next to the crying Phenex on the table, right next to her head.
"Hey~, Raven. Remember that you made a cake for Ichijou? This is the perfect opportunity for you to give it to him~." She song-singed. Ai-chan then snickered, just like the rest of them. Rei-chan wilded her eyes in a flash.
"Gah!" And fast as lightning, she picked the cake and rolled on the floor like a boss. Then like a Smeagol out of hell, she clinched to the cake like she would her own life. We all gave her a funny look, so she snapped out of it. "Oh, yeah. The cake. My mistake."
"Uh~... Rei-ch-...?" And before I could say anything else. She stood up, slid her way(really, she even left a wheel mark on it.) all the way to me, and shoved that piece of pink cardboard in my stomach. "What...?"
"I made this cake for you. Feel honored for it!" And she opened for me and passed me a fork, as the cute strawberry cake revealed itself in front of everybody. With the exception of Lady Gremory, everyone gasped. "Now eat it with your heart's content. If you don't... I'll be mad."
"Okay~..." I said, my voice slugging the way out of my mouth, as I picked the fork and tried to carve a piece out of that pretty cute cake. However, when I was reaching for it, a sting of pain hit it, and I dropped the silverware."Shit..."
「It looks like some of your injures have not fully healed yet. Don't worry, Tsukino Ichijou, I'll assist you in this」And Ai-chan picked the fallen silverware and forked a piece of cake off, now moving it to my mouth. Holy molly! Is this the legendary Lover-Feeding?! Yes, it is! This is real! This is happening.「Now, open your mouth and say 'aaah~'.」
"Gah...!"
"Oh, the legendary Lovers-Feeding! Way to go, Hong Long!" Ryuubi-chan said, smiling and giving me the thumb up. Oh, so she's also into this. Annie was giving me the dirty look, and Lady Gremory and Tasha were quiet, but their bleeding nose and stare were giving me the wrong vibe. However, the worst of them was Rei-chan herself, as she was giving me the cold shoulder.
"Err~... You wanna bite, Rei-chan?"
"Humph...!" And it was her sole response, as she crossed her arms, puffed and turned to another direction. Oh, now a tsundere. Hey, Lady Gremory, I smell your plan in here. "Miss Irene, don't you have... Other Places and assignments to attend instead of being here?"
「I certainly do. Instead, I rather stay here with my fiancée. Bonding with him should be enough for us to become close.」And now the demon heiress patted my head and put the fork in my mouth. Wow... This cake sure is delicious.
"Huh! To think the Sekiryuutei would be engaged to the princess of the Dantalion and Purson. I must say, good for you two. I mean, the Sekiryuutei and the little prodigy, what a match." And Rei-chan continued with her little monologue, even with her face turning purple as my fiancé's hair. She's jealous. Holy shit, this is rubbing on me as well...
「Jealous? You, that is.」
"As if!"
"You." And suddenly Tasha slid her way to beside the Phenex Heiress, touching her shoulder in a casual manner. She turned for the witch and gave her a stern look, only to be shattered by her next sentence. "It's okay. Mistress."
*BUM!*
"WHAT THE HELL...!" Rei-chan's face exploded in embarrassment, as her hair was caught on fire again and her face looked like it could explode any second now. "Measure thy words, commoner! Like I would be a mistress! I mean, anything like a slave!"
That's official, she likes me. Sorta, I dunno...
"You. Mistress. So don't worry." And Tasha continued, as Lady Gremory's nose simply gushed with blood, Ryuubi-chan's face went all sparkle and Annie smirked. Oh, brother. "You. Me. Dantalion. Dragon. Foursom-...!"
"If you finish that sentence, I'll be really mad!" And the Phenex girl pouted again, as then Lady Gremory picked out of nowhere a old-looking jar, walking to next to us. The smile on her face said it all: was something really nasty.
"Hey, girls, looks like Ichijou-kun still needs some healing~" she said, as Raven sudden paled, and Ryuubi let a loud 'ooh~', approaching the older redhead.
"Holy moly! Is that the Legendary Succubus's Ring, one of the most powerful healing ointments there is?! I'm surprised that you have something like that in your possession, Lady Gremory!" The pink-haired girl said in awe, as she opened the jar and let a stinky smell out. She put a finger on it and saw the honey-like ointment on it. She looked so elated."Oh~, it's so sticky and smelly. Gross~!"
"Now, now, who's gonna volunteer to treat our Ichijou with this little pretty thingy? It can be more than one~!" Her cheerful tone was giving me too much bad vibes, as Ryuubi-chan and Tasha tried to lift their hands, but Annie stopped them in time and pointed to a specific direction of the room. And the temperature here rose in a second. Oh~, shit... I remember a certain someone who has a bad story with this medicine. I turned around and, yes, Rei-chan was vividly on fire!
"You... Malicious... Perverted... DEVIL LADY!" And then, in a turn of events, Raven extended her hand in front of her and blasted a fireball at Lady Gremory! And by a nail she dodged that one!
"Waaah~! Raven, I'm not the one you should be targeting! You're the tsundere! Aim for Ichijou! AIM FOR ICHIJOU!" The redhead mistress said as she dodged in a funny dance the barrage of flames against her. Me? For me, she can burn all the way she want...
"You demon of lust! Burn together with your horniness!"
"Ayayayay...!"
"AGAIN WITH THE SCREAMING?! THAT'S IT, ALICE! SHOCK TERAPY FOR YOU THAT IS!"
"Hiiii~...!"
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~~x~~
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Home... Sweet home. After an entire prolonged holiday running away from dragons, fighting blondies, struggling with my inner self bullshit, fighting forked-cats and holy knights and demonic possessions, I can finally go home and return to my semi-normal life...
However...
"Oh-Hoh, so that's Ichijou's house. Smaller and bigger than I was expecting."
"Probably sound-proof. Big enough. Porn stash?"
"A humble house for a humble beginning. As the red Dragon, there will be a time when you'll face great wealth and fame, and live in a castle brighter than the jade palace itself!"
"Why the hell you three followed me all the way to my house?!" I said, turning around and facing the three gals standing in front of my house with me.
"There's an university next to my condo. It'll be smelling like teen spirit for a while because of the golden Week." Annie lifted her hand and said that.
"Campbell mansion. Too far away. Too weak to go. Stay here for the night." It was Tasha's turn, also lifting her hand to deliver that one.
"A storm is coming this way. Master Son Wukong forbade to return to the Jade Palace for a while until I can use the monkey staff to go back safely." She said apologetically, clapping her hands together and smiling shyly. I sighed. Actually, I stop caring about girls around me the second Tasha followed me home to use the magic circle, but again, if my mother and sisters are already home, goodbye despair. Well, since Gremory was taken back to the Gremory household, they won't mind the new girl as a substitute?
Wow, Tsukino Ichijou, what an asshole-ish thing to think! I guess it's because I didn't find a single nice person in the underworld... Maybe Ai-chan, but because she's my fiancé... Wait, Am I really considering marrying her? Gaaah~, what the hell...
"Okay, but let me take a peek inside first. If my sisters are around, we're history. My mother should will ask things, but at least she's gonna protect us." I said with a thumb up. They nodded, and I picked my keys in my pocket to put it on the keyhole and open the door. And finally home. The was only a pair of sandals on the entrance floor, so... Maybe mum is around! I removed my shoes, and the others did the same. It felt so good to step on the cold wooden floor. Simple things like that can make such difference!
"Smell. Good." In the midway of the corridor, the purple-haired witch said sniffing the air around her. Huh, taking a quick sniff myself, I noticed the spicy scent of Mapo tofu! Oh, man! mum is indeed back!
Leaving the girls by themselves, I dashed to the kitchen, feeling that delicious scent of home food! Oh, man! Almost and entire weekend without this love! This care! Only pain and indifference! Finally! I can simply push those negative feelings away and talk and be happy with my moth-...!
"Welcome back, Ichijou!" But instead of the tall, brunette mother of mine, the one standing in front of the oven preparing the tofu dish was the nine-tailed fox spirit Akabane Yoko, using my blue apron. Suddenly, my happy face faulted a little, and things came back to the usual gloomy tone. Sigh, of course...
"Oh, it's just you." I said in a deadpan tone. Instead of a simple snarky remark or a foxy grin like she would usually do, she gasped under her breath, and made a sad expression. First the hug before the match, and now this. She's being a bit odd, lately. "It looks like mum and those hags are still away. Good, I won't need to explain the extra girls here."
"..."
"By the way, sorry about this: they'll be more girls today. So, uh, could you make more? If you need it, I can help." I asked her, as she took a deep breath, and turned a trembling smiling face to me.
"No, no. It's fine. I can... I can handle it. Don't worry." She said in a reassuring way. However, she looked down and gasped in surprise, only now noticing the magical cast around my left arm. Akabane let go of all of her kitchen utensils to reach her hands to it. "Oh, no. Ichijou, what happened?"
"Ah, yeah. Nemesis-san's assault kinda blew me...literally. Don't worry, though. Beelzebub-sensei said it'll heal really fast." I said nonchalantly, swinging my left arm fourth and back to show her there was nothing to worry about. She frowned. What now?
"What do you mean 'don't worry'?! I was seriously worried about you! I could feel the auras around Nemesis-san's peerage! They're not ordinary Devils! How can you even say that?!" She shouted at me, surprisingly enough. Now I have to deal with another mood-swinger. This is getting annoying. She shifted back to the sad face from before, and looked at me with watery eyes. "Ichijou... Can I ask you something?"
"Sure. Shot it."
"What... What am I to you?" She asked.
"What are you talking about? You're the fox spirit that freeloads in my house and want me just to have an spiritual snack once in a while and Cubs." I said in a deadpan tone. She let the spatula slip out of her hand and suddenly, everything went quiet. What the hell is wrong is wrong with... Everything?!
"Yes, you're right. I mean, I did say that to you when we first met, right?" She said without taking her eyes out of the oven and the food she was preparing. "But... I care about you, you know."
"Yeah, but if you're lucky, then the next Sekiryuutei will be a Japanese boy as well." I finished, sighing. "I'll be takin my leave. If you need anything, just call for me. I'll help anytime."
And her response was silence. Geez, what the hell is wrong with her? Maybe she has been drinking too much heavenly sake. Kitsunes like those. Anyway, I showed the rooms for the girls, and after a quick explanation of the things in the house, I took my way to my room, opened it and tossed myself on the bed.
"Aw~, to think I'd miss my dirty sheets..." I said, burying my face on the pillow and letting a deep moan of relief escape my mouth. Finally home. No more Rating Games, no more Gremories in the way, no more worries for now... Yet, this bitter taste of defeat doesn't leave my mouth...
Thinking about it now, Nemesis-san's peerage is really strong. And Yagura had to use [LEVEL ZERO] to at least have a chance against the King. Wait! If she used [LZ] on Aria-San, akio-san and Nadja-san and then used my own body to reach balance Breaker, this means I can reach Balance Breaker by abusing [LZ] as well! Wait, no, Yagura has an absurd level of power for living inside the Boosted Gear, And I'm still green. Sigh, this means I have to probably flat at least a hundred girls to reach that quota... Which makes me think about another great issue about it...
Not all my adversaries will be big-breasted girls... Nor will have pride of their rack.
"Not all girls are cursed with oppai, as well some of them just don't want them... I must think of another technique to cover that potential threat!" I said, standing up from my bed and clenching my right arm and pointing it to the skies. I must brainstorm this! "Yes! This is my new objective! I shall search and develop a new technique to completely destroy the spirit of my flat-chested enemies, either male or female, incapacitating them to fight back! A technique so powerful and shameful, even [DRESS BREAKER] and [LEVEL ZERO] will pale in comparison!"
[PALE IN COMPARISON?! WAAAAAAAH~ HAHAH...! NOT AGAAAAAAAAIN...!]
[OH, GROW UP, YOU GIANT GECKO!]
"Eh...?" I summoned my Boosted Gear since I think I heard a wail in it, but in the end, nothing. Am I hearing things again. "Huh... Must be my imagination."
*KNOCK-KNOCK!*
"Done. Playing with yourself? Dinner. Ready." Came the voice of Tasha by the other side of the door. Of course it was her, who else would make such a stupid dirty remark. I said I was just finishing things, and soon left my room to the kitchen, to eat Mapo Tofu and salad with the girls. However, according to Annie, Yoko went to bed earlier, since she wasn't feeling so good. I must thank her for the food later, though...
But, for some reason, it was salty... Really salty.
Everybody knows and loves this formula: Boy likes girl, girl pretends to like boy to avoid/gain something, girl starts developing feelings for boy, boy is told/discovers/is told by the girl, he ends up upset, girl tries to explain/gain him back, ?, profit! I particulally love this formula, and being a sadistic person, I love when things goes to worse. Now, what would happen if things goes reverse? Boy knows girl is only interest in him for something, she develop feelings for him, boy still thinks girl is only interested in something? Yeah, that's one of the reason why I have my doubts about Issei X Rias too.
You see, I have my doubts about Rias' feelings for Issei in the beginning. He's the good-natured if not perverted kouhai, who has a secret gear? Now, she saved him, but from that point, when did she developed her feelings for him? During his match with raiser? She asked him if she wants her verginity too, in a way I think she was negotiating/bribbing him with her V-card. Xenovia is another problem. How balanced is her "selective breeding"/love for him? Does issei angst about his struggles for being the sekiryuutei, for people only knowing him(initially) because of that arm? Those are concepts not very well explored canon-wise, and I'll be discussing those topics in this fanfic as it goes on. How balance "selective breeding"/love can work? Character development can really make things better? Is having grownup-children leading hell just because of their power-level a good idea? How much a person can take being seeing not as an individual, but a "thing/legacy" from the past?
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Naw... I'll go with the road and continue to make crazy stuff to happen. and ... That's it. for now~. Stay golden, y'all.