The city of Kuoh was bright from the street lights and moonlight shining down. The once bustling town was now quiet for the night as only a few straggling cars and pedestrians were finishing their activities.
Issei slowly walked along the pavement next to a row of shops. His goal here was to find the apartment he'd rented out to go to school at the recently turned Co-ed Kuoh Academy since it was the easiest to access and he wanted to finish his education and live a normal life.
The road wasn't busy nor were the streets, it was eerily quiet for a usually busy town, even at this hour.
Issei turned a corner and stepped into an alleyway which was a shortcut to where he needed to go... well he hoped it was anyway. After coming out of the alley he made a right turn and strolled down a long, narrow street with fewer lights than before... No, the lights were there, they were all off though which was quite strange at the late hour.
Issei shrugged it off as he wasn't interested in anything as trivial as a few lost lights and he continued to the end of the road where there were two possible directions to take. He took out the map in his back pocket and studied it for a minute before tapping right on the fork and putting it away.
He was about to take the right path when he heard the sound of metal being dented and a female grunt of pain in the distance coming from the left fork. Issei stopped himself naturally moving towards the sound and told himself that he wanted a normal life, whatever was down that way would make a normal life impossible, he could feel it.
Then a loud crack was heard and the female voice from before cried out in pain much louder. Issei couldn't ignore this, no matter what, even if he was about to throw away his ticket to a normal life, he wouldn't become like them he wouldn't ignore the suffering of others, he would not let another die when he could prevent it.
Issei took off towards the sounds as fast as he could, sprinting through alley after alley, street after street, over hedges under bridges until he found the source.
It wasn't a pretty scene, there was a hideous monster with the upper body of a woman but the legs of a spider. She was easily 3 times his size and clearly had the power to pack that size up. Issei looked to the left and saw the source of the cries he'd heard. Lying against the wall of a warehouse was a girl who looked younger than Issei but he could tell it was the fact she was shorter that gave that illusion, in fact while a good foot shorter than him, she would probably be only a year younger.
The girl had snow white hair that went down to her shoulders freely and wore the uniform of Kuoh Academy which proved Issei's theory of her being his kohai by one year. She was a lot shorter that an average girl of her age, if he had to guess Issei would assume she was around 4"11 or 5 foot tall. She was clutching her left arm which was coated in her blood leading Issei to assume it was broken and badly damaged.
Issei could tell this girl was a devil due to powers he wished he didn't have, even with her accelerated healing, that arm was going to take a few hours to properly reset and while that monster was bearing down on her, time was the thing she didn't have... so he'd make some.
Issei jumped forwards a threw 4 throwing knives at the monster's head to distract it, then he pulled back his fist and charged it up with his powerful magic before delivering a devastating uppercut to the monster's jaw sending it flying into the empty street. Issei quickly knelt down and gave the girl some of his magic to heal faster before jumping into the street after the monster which was just beginning to rise.
"Grrr, pathetic human, out of my way before I crush you" growled the monster as it lunged forward to swipe Issei with it's sharp claws.
Issei dodged back to avoid the strike then jumped up and forward flipped over the monster's head before coating his hand in the same magic as before and slammed a fist into the monster's back.
Issei expected the monster to fly forwards, but it stood exactly where it was, completely unaffected by the magic that had floored it just moments ago. Issei stood there confused before being swiped by a claw from the back causing him to be flung forward onto the pavement in front of the monster.
"Ha ha ha" the monster gargled creepily "I forgot to mention that once an attack is used on me once, I become immune to it entirely, hence why I was able to beat your strong little friend back there".
Backed into a corner with no other options since his magic was his main form of attack and ever since that day his partner hadn't spoken a word, Issei sighed as he realised he'd have to use the power within he so desperately wanted gone. He closed his eyes and meditated thinking only about this power, forgetting all his surroundings...
The monster saw Issei closing his eyes and standing still and laughed.
"Given up already, fine then, I guess i'll end you earlier than I planned" stated the monster and it rushed forward and swung it's razor sharp claws down across Issei's chest.
Just as this attack connected, the girl from earlier arrived on the scene fully healed from Issei's magic only to see him cleaved down the middle by the monster's claws and blood spurting out of the open wound.
The girl gasped and closed her eyes in sadness at the sight of her savior being struck down by the monster she had failed to defeat. Moments later however, she felt a rush of wind stronger than what should have been for that night. She opened her eyes and saw Issei was still standing with his wounds already healed and bathed in a golden light.
Issei's eyes shot open and as he drew a sword from a scabbard that appeared on his belt the area exploded gold in colour. The sword was white with gold highlights and was a single handed broadsword. Issei advanced upon the monster which tried to flee but was caught by Issei midair flying using his angel wings. Issei threw the monster into the air and sliced it clean in half like a fruit.
The monster fell to the earth in half and disintegrated before Issei had reached the ground. Once he'd reached the ground, Issei retracted his wings and sheathed the sword in it's scabbard which promptly disappeared from his belt.
Issei looked over to the girl he'd saved and saw her expression of loathing. He realised that he'd just shown a devil who had no idea about the current status of the three factions the fact that he had angel wings, the sign of a devil's greatest enemy... what a dumb move.
He half expected the girl to charge at him and attack but wasn't surprised when she gave a final growl and fled the scene, probably to report to her master that an angel was in the territory of a devil.
"So much for a damn peaceful life, tomorrow at school is gonna be eventful" he mumbled aloud as he pulled out his map again and resumed the journey to his apartment.
Issei found the place after a few minutes of searching and used the key he was given to enter. The place was small but it'd do for a while, the living room had a couple of sofas and a TV, the kitchen had all the necessary items to cook and there was a small toilet next to the one bedroom that housed a simple double bed.
It was quite late and Issei didn't feel very hungry so he opted to sleep and get a full nights rest considering he'd most likely have to deal with a devil and her peerage tomorrow. He only hoped he could resolve the inevitable tension, he never asked to be an angel, it wasn't his choice. Shortly after these thought he finally fell asleep, just missing the Jack of Hearts symbol on the back of his hand light up.
Issei awoke to his alarm at 7:30am the next morning, he'd set it because he had wanted to get to school early and smooth over the situation with the devils, but now with a clear head and fresh thoughts, he realised that it probably would be best to just go about the day as normal and let them approach him as to not make them feel threatened.
He got up, showered, tried to comb his shaggy black hair that reached just above the top of his shoulders, but ended up giving in like he always did since his hair never obeyed a comb.
Then he dressed in his modified version of the uniform of the academy which usually consisted of a white button up shirt, black trousers, brown dress shoes and a black blazer.
His version of the uniform was a red undershirt with the white button up shirt over the top undone as was the black blazer, the trousers were the same but he wore black and white sneakers instead of dress shoes. He knew he'd get called for this but considering the job he had to do today, he though he at least deserved to be comfy while walking around the campus.
Next he went downstairs and made himself some toast for breakfast and packed a lunch he'd made previously into his bag along with his notebook and pens. After finishing his toast, he looked at his phone and saw it was 8:15am, his classes started at 8:30am so he left quickly as to make the 15 minute commute to school on time.
Issei walked a a brisk pace and ended up entering the campus 5 minutes early at 8:25am. He decided to just head to where his first class was to make sure he wouldn't be late, he was a transfer student after all, he didn't want to make a bad first impression.
Throughout his journey around the school to find his classroom he heard multiple girls mumbling about how hot he was and boys mumbling that they already had enough competition with 'that damned prince'. If he had to guess, he assumed that this prince the guys and girls are talking about would be a devil since humans are usually drawn to them because of the scent they release to make them look pleasing. That and he doubted one human guy would be this popular, then again stranger things have happened... like a former angel saving a devil.
Eventually Issei found his classroom and was told by the teacher to wait outside when he knocked. Issei stood just outside the door and leaned on the wall while other students went by whispering to their friends. Just before he was called inside, Issei saw a beautiful girl with rose red hair that fell to her waist and a rack that any guy would love and any girl would hate.
The girl looked over at Issei for a few seconds before looking away again. At this point, the teacher of his class had called Issei to come inside which he did so. Issei stood in front of the large blackboard at the front of the class facing the 20 or so students in his class.
"Hey everyone, my name is Issei Hyoudou, I hope we can all get along" Issei said cheerfully while smiling.
"Alright class, do you have any questions for Issei?" asked the teacher.
Two boys stood up.
"Yo Issei, my name's Matsuda and I wanted to know if you wanna join us and make the... *pauses to get into a pose with the other boy called Motohama* PERVERTED TRIO." yelled Matsuda.
"MATSUDA, THAT IS ENTIRELY INAPPROPRIATE GO AND SEE THE STUDENT COUNCIL IMMEDIATELY, AND YOU MOTOHAMA." the teacher yelled out.
"Aw crap" both the boys sighed as they left the room.
"Sorry about that Issei, lets get you sat down and we can start, how about you sit next to Kiba?" said the teacher as he pointed over to a blonde boy with handsome features who smiled and waved.
'well it wasn't that hard to find this prince' thought Issei as he mentally sweatdropped before walking over and taking the seat next to Kiba at the back of the room by the window.
"Hey there, my name is Kiba as you know is there anything you want to know?" asked Kiba.
"Do you know a short girl with white hair that goes to this school, year younger than me and you?" asked Issei.
"Yes I do, her name is Koneko she's a first year while we're second year." replied Kiba.
"Could you ask her to meet me, I wanted to explain something she may have misunderstood" asked Issei.
"Uhh... sure, i'm not sure if she'll listen but I can try." answered Kiba.
"Thanks dude, I wanted to correct things now to try and avoid a headache later." said Issei.
"You mean the headache that involves the devils of this area finding out you're an angel?" whispered Kiba with a hint of contempt.
Issei looked at Kiba shocked for a minute but then realised that he must know Koneko and she must have told him about last night which means the news is spreading faster than he thought which means...
Yup, this kind of headache.
Yo guys, it's ya boi BK here back to deliver round 2 of the story.
The start of this chapter takes place an unknown amount of time after the first ended and what happened during that gap will remain a secret for now. All i'm saying is Ddraig won't talk to Issei because of something that happened but that may change soon :)
Hope ya'll enjoyed this chapter, I hope to get another out in the next few days but until then,
BK out :)