Issei
I don't feel right. Something is wrong about me. Yes I am a self admitted pervert and the third member of the perverted trio but something feels….off. I can't explain it. I honestly can't. I go to Kuoh Academy in Kuoh city with Matsuda and Motohama, both keep trying to peep on the Kendo Club all the time and are the ones that complain that they don't have girlfriends despite the fact that they being perverts is the elephant in the living room. I agreed. At first.
But when this cute girl named Yuma Amano asked me out on a date out of nowhere I'm starting to feel iffy. This unshakeable feeling is driving me nuts. I don't feel motivated by lecherous thoughts anymore and I've been distancing myself from Matsuda, Motohama, and the fujoshi girl Kiryuu more than I thought I would.
Even as I think I sit at my desk just staring into my bento meal. I've been eating it slowly and its gotten cold already but I still eat it. Its a new recipe but the taste is so...familiar. Shaking my head I placed my chopsticks down and lean back on my chair.
I'm going nuts. It has to be.
Before all this my parents had insisted I go to a shrink because of my 'tastes' and right now I'm starting to think they were right.
Suddenly I hear a commotion. A few 'Kyaahs' and some 'iyaahs' based on a ratio of a kyaah-iyaah ration of 1.5:1 I can safely bet that it's yet another Bishie walking around charming girls just by being there.
Sigmar how I hate them.
...Sigmar? Shouldn't I have said God how I hate them?
Never mind.
From the corner of my eye I see said Bishounen is in fact the new student Tsugumi Seishirou. Short dark blue hair, red eyes. Of all the teens I know, only he seems to wear the cheap school uniform like its an actual dignified suit.
Yet for some reason he is now walking through the crowd of girls with hearts in their eyes. Tsugumi is actually scanning the room before focusing in my direction.
Wait.
Is he looking for me? Why does he have a yellow ribbon in his hair? Why is he frowning?
"Issei?" he says, walking up to me.
"Yes?" I respond.
"You need to come with me"
"why?"
"There's no time to explain."
Now I see something is wrong with this guy also. As if he's the cause of this!
"You better explain." I insist, "I know that there is something with you and I am not going anywhere till you tell me! right here! right now!"
Everyone is looking at the scene we two are causing but I don't care. I think I'm making headway and I am not going to give up. To hell with this charade! I'm a Myrmidon and I'm-
What!? What the hell am I saying!? The fuck is a Myrmidon!?
"Issei." glared Tsugumi, "I can tell you right now and you might not like what will happen or we can take the easy way out by you coming with me without the consequences."
My resolve is clear. With a hardened look I look at him with an unflinching gaze.
"now."
"eh!?"
eh?
All of a sudden he's turning red. The hell? She-I mean He was all serious a moment ago and I got some shy pre-pubescent girl blushing in front of me!
"f-fine!"
And Pretty Boy is stuttering! Wait. Why is he-
Why is he holding me up by the color.
"JUST SO YOU KNOW I-I'M NOT IN A RELATIONSHIP RIGHT NOW!"
That doesn't even make any-Tsugumi is kissing me.
…
OH MY GOD TSUGUMI IS KISSING ME!? WHY IN SIGMAR'S NAME IS THIS-
…
Damn. How long was I out?
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Chapter 7
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Of all the ways to be woken up it had to be a kiss on the lip. Great. My stupid fake-self just had to make a scene. Now the entire class hence the entire school shall hear the news that I have a preference for men despite the fact that Tsugumi is indeed a women.
Its too late to really explain this.
With the Perverted Duo slack jawed as much as the rest I can only shrug.
"Was it necessary?" I whisper to her, her face still very close to me.
"This is why I hate magic," she whispered back in distaste, "always with the conditions."
We separate, more like pushing away from each other and it seems as though we're going to have to improvise.
"h-hey Issei," sputtered Matsuda, "are you two really?"
I sigh, "Tsugumi is someone I know….and I…"
No way out of this one.
Speechless as it was we leave. Rumors and lies are fine. I'm more concerned with what the hell happened.
After Akeno told me about her past all of a sudden I wake up as one of the most stereotypical heterosexual males in existence.
Going down the hallway we finally end up in a blind spot that I remember that she had found in the last...thing.
"What happened?" I ask.
"Someone screwed with time and space. Myrmidia doesn't exist or shouldn't have existed a year ago. Only the Elders and the High Rank Elite could catch on and they've been reactivating any Myrmidon they could get. You and me included."
"Any Idea who?"
"We don't have much to go on. I managed to get Dahl, Victor already remembered and got his wife and Steve back into the fold. The Intelligence division is a skeleton and that skeleton is putting all its effort in locating others."
"then count me in."
"We can't"
"what? why?"
"Asia."
The nun. My sister. My eyes narrow, "How is she?"
"Before I came here I did the Oath ritual. The thing" she blushed, "we could've done instead of us swapping spit back there. Your parents are in the know and have got her in your house."
I nod, "I'll get back to class oh and Tsugumi."
"Yes?"
"sorry. I know how a first kiss is always special."
She shrugged, "its fine. I guess…"
Damn; I feel like crap now.
"Well to make it up to you how about we go eat someplace?" I offer.
"w-w-wah?!" she turns red again, "You're asking me out on a date!? what about-"
"What about who?" I say.
"What about…." she blinked, "I thought you were already dating someone, not the raven head."
We were interrupted by Kyahs. Lots of them. I knew the perverted moron before me was marked for death by Raynare but I doubt that she meant that. Was I ever in a relationship with anyone beyond Kalarmine? I look at her and no that she is not lying. I was about lift a finger but it seems as though the fujoshi and yaoi fangirls have caught up to us.
Someone really did press the reset button and its effects are still there. Shrugging I look at her and she glances back and sighs before nodding.
"Issei x Tsugumi?!"
"But he's a pervert!"
"Why is the second prince with him!?
"It can't be!"
"No! Tsugumi x Issei!"
"I am yelling!"
Hey there's that guy again.
"People!" I yell out, "People!"
They calm down...somehow.
"Let me just set the record straight."
I glance at Tsugumi, "I am now dating Tsugumi."
I take out the dirty magazine stuffed in my pocket, "This is isn't the real me."
For emphasis I toss it into nearby recycling bin, with my free hand I grab her hand and hold it out, "this is."
The best lies are half-truths. No one is going to be suspicious if we're together, be it nosy gossipers or informants under a devil's payroll.
"Issei x Tsugumi?!"
Tsugumi x Issei!"
Yes. The best lies are half-truths.
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Rias
Well...that was...interesting. Of all the people I expected, it turns out Issei is gay. Thats a problem. Just from looking at him I find him interesting somehow. Maybe its that strange power I sense from him. He's human but...well...different.
"Koneko did you find anything useful?" I asked to my little cat rook.
She shook her head, "I thought he was a pervert."
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Issei
The thing about smelting aura and Myrmidon self-development is that its a catch-22. Creating and enhancing a smelting aura requires intense training which requires an enhanced body; which needs a smelting aura to exist.
As I wait to meet Raynare on a road bridge adjacent to Kuoh Academy I struggle with my own aura. The control is there but the form and power isn't. My right hand shakes and my left struggles to stamp it down. From what Tsugumi told me, its a becoming a problem. Our powers are atrophied and it'll take time for Myrmidons to recover.
Both me and my girlfriend are wearing Smelting Aura rings to maintain our growth but I doubt I can even call out anything beyond a sword and gauntlet vambrace. At least if the Fallen Angel does anything I can use the M9 Handgun Tsugumi lended me stuffed in my waist belt.
"Issei-kun!"
Running at me, hand waving is the 'cute' form of Raynere. The smile seems pure and innocent but I can still feel a bit of leaking Killer Intent.
"Issei-kun!"
No. not Killer Intent….suspicion.
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Victor
Magic is a fucking bitch. Thats why I like to stuck with Smelting Aura. After paying fifty of MY men to walk into a warehouse spraypainted with sigils and giving them Aura 'jewelry' did I have to cite some nonsensical chant for three minutes while they stared at me like a crazy man.
Sigh.
At least with Ryuki it was...fun.
Since we are pretty much outsiders I've been told by the Elders to keep it that way. For now we are just Hunters. Mere hunters that happen to know 'magic'.
With the warehouse now empty I just stand here holding the bokken I like to use for training. Time to time I pracice alone and despite the whole cosmic reset, the old habit carried on. Mifune is speaking with the Primordials about this while the once imminent civil seems to have been postponed for the time being.
As much as I try, many are...determined. Some want to war with the supernatural again, others seeming to like the idea of world domination. The latter is...viable.
I know for sure that Asia is going to stick out like a sore thumb even more than usual. Our new Goddess to be could be the answer to everything just like how Sigmar had forced the supernaturals into the shadows and brought civilization to man.
With YHWH of this existence less a person and more of a concept many of our former judeo-christian members think that she could take over the title and make a better God than the enemy leader during the Sodom-Gomorrah Campaign. Nezarene having yet to return more and more have started joining my group.
One day maybe will Asia ascend to higher plane of existence but for now as Myrmidons we'll protect mankind.
"Victor. We need to talk."
Even against our own. Even with a wooden sword.
"Elder Ryu" I answer, "I'd prefer right here. right now."
Even against men like Ryu.
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A/N:
I already planned to throw this in for quite some time. As for OCs I'm planning to add more.
P.S. Long time coming. Had to deal with the mess known as the new school year in college. :(
I'll still be updating but you know how it is. I'll make sure to try to get a good chapter or story in when I can.