Because my parents had notified the school beforehand about enrolling Kiana into the school so the class had already prepared another seat for her. There was still a lot of space in class so preparing another seat wouldn't be a problem.
"Hi guys. My name is Kiana Kaslana. Nice to meet you all.", the white haired girl introduced herself with the brightest smile possible.
It was still early in the morning and the teacher hadn't arrived yet. But the class had been full of students already. Many boys and girls were a bit in awe at her beauty and I was no exception.
I hadn't meet her sister Bianka yet but I was quite curious how would she and Rita really look like not through some 2D arts but in flesh and blood? Mei and Kiana were such breath-taking beauties already so I believed they were also extremely beautiful too.
Damm, props for Mihoyo character designers, they nailed it perfectly.
When I gazed to Mei, I could see the dark purple haired girl was very drawn into her as she was opening her eyes wide and staring intently to the new transfer student.
Kiana also noticed Mei's gaze and she gave her a cheerful smile.
Yes yes, love at first sight please. It would be very strange and abnormal if it didn't happen. The whole world was depended on the love of you two.
Not gonna lie, Kiana's smile was so damm bright and shining. It made me want to protect that smile so much. I believed I got a gist why Mei and anyone knew Tuna loved her and adored her so much. I guessed I would be no exception soon.
I meaned...that smile, that damm smile.
And then...my teacher.
Same face but not the same expression and the same personality. Or she used to be like that at a very long time ago but the cruelty of her fate had changed her. I believed she had been alone for a very long time until Elysia kept her company. She had no family, just a lonely apocalypse deity.
Although I died early, but I was loved by my family very much. My father was a bit strict but both he and I knew that he was always trying his best to me. About my mother...let's just say my sister and I were fed with their lovey dovey antics every fucking days in my whole life. When I and my sister complaied about it, they just shrugged and told us they had been separated for a long time to be reunited again.
And somehow those antics in my family turned worse for me. At one time after I was going home then walking toward my room, I witnessed something would scar my whole existence.
Yeah, nothing much. Just some use of cuffs, blindfold and leathers then about more than 9 months later, my niece was born.
Obviously they thought I wouldn't go home from medical treatment that day and they decided do some fucking in my own room for some...extra stimulations. It's actually hard to take and comprehend my homie was cuffing, blindfolding and ball-gagging my sister in my own bedroom on my own bed. At least they were amiable enough to clean up their messes in my room but I still decided sleeping in another room that night considering they had the whole day having fun with each other before I came home in late afternoon.
If he wasn't my best friend for a long time, I would beat the shit out of him for having seggs in my room. I had no problem for him being with my sister because I knew he was the best candidate I could ask for as my sister's husband and brother-in-law. But really? Having seggs with my sister on my own bedroom, even had some...extra bondage plays to boost while I was having medical treatment?
Well, enough of past weeping, the thing was Kiana had came to her seat.
Although she had greeted the class with the brightest smile, many students still looked at her warily.
"Hey Mei, why do people look at her like she is some kind of serial criminal?", I whispered to my seatmate next to me.
Mei turned her head to me then she looked at Kiana.
"I heard from my friends that she is a deliquent beating up people for fun.", Mei answered.
Kiana beating up people? That's true but definitely not for fun. I didn't have any detailed information about Kiana before she enrolled to this school so I had no way to confirm her deliquent status.
I continued to observe Kiana and I saw she let out a sigh then lied on the table in boredom.
Then, she took out a keychain in her bag and played with it. Her face was lighten up a bit as she observed the keychain in her hand.
Wait...why was that keychain so familiar?
That keychain shouldn't be existed because the character was printed on that acrylic keychain shouldn't be existed in any form of entertainment in this world. The character was printed on the keychain was the flesh and blood, and she was sitting in the class playing with it.
How could Kiana have the type of keychain had the drooling chibi version of herself printed on it?
...
The school had lessons in only a hour, just for some introduction and information. This day was the day for the clubs recruiting new members.
And naturally Mei was the president of Kendo club so she would be quite busy in this day. While I was listening to music in the free time, I felt someone was shaking me from the side.
"Yes...Mei.", I replied to the dark purple haired girl who was just shaking me and tugged out my earphones.
"Senpai...I am curious. Do you have any intentions to apply to any clubs?", the heiress of ME Corp asked me in a soft tone.
Applying to clubs, huh?
When I was in high school, I used to be in football club. I intended to do the same in this life. After all, football is rooted deep in my soul.
"Maybe I will apply to football club. I love football you know.", I replied to the purple haired girl with a small smile.
"Is that so...?", Mei muttered and looked down a bit gloomy from my answer.
But then she took a deep breath and looked at me again.
"Senpai...do you have any prior knowledge or experiences in Kendo?", the purple haired girl asked me a new question.
Knowledge in Kendo? I only had knowledge how not to be killed brutally by an extremely strict, sadistic and brutal teacher who was also an apocalypse deity.
"Yes, I used to train for a time. But I haven't trained anything in at least 1 year straight so I am not sure I can even remember anything in Kendo. You know the reason.", I answered as I was scratching my head.
Maybe I should try Kendo too. Having Mei in the same club sounded nice.
"Oh I understand. You were in coma for a long time.", Mei said in pity, "But it can be arranged."
Arranged? What was arranged?
"The recruitment will start at 9 a.m so please come to Kendo training room in the next 15 minutes, I can help you train if you are interested in joining my club.", Mei invited me with a small smile.
At time now it was just only 8 a.m.
Not gonna lie, that was a very good deal. Some alone time with Mei was always nice.
"Kazu-senpai, Mei-senpai...what are you two going to do at 9 a.m?", a familiar voice called out from behind us.
Both Mei and I were widen our eyes in surprise. When I turned my head back, I saw a certain Tuna was looking at us confusingly.
Mei didn't know how to explain.
"She said she had a Kendo recruitment at that time.", I answered immediately.
"So Mei-senpai is in Kendo club huh? Can I join?", the airhead girl beamed at us.
I silently glanced around and I realized literally the whole class was watching our conversation.
Oh come on.
Then one guy at the corner of the room was looking at me with some killing intent. If I remembered correctly, he was one of the guys ambushed me that night.
Mei seemed also noticed the eyes from her class as she was also silently glancing around. Kiana was even more confused at our antics and the atmosphere of the class.
"Senpai, why you two are suddenly silent?", Kiana questioned us innocently.
You had made things worse, Kiana.
Mei slowly turned her gaze back to Kiana and she was unable to answer.
Well, there was nothing could be done with it. I shouldn't let Mei be the eye of attention any longer.
I was the type of person didn't give a fuck how people thinking about me or caring about my social standing. I just needed having good relationships with the important ones.
After all, most of this school would be annihilated in the next 6 months to give birth Herrscher of Thunder.
"Hey you...", I called out to that boy who was focusing on me, "Are you hating me or something? I notice you have been staring at me like you want to kill me for like...20 minutes."
That boy widen his eyes in shock and stuttered something as the whole class was dead silent at my question. But then he recomposed himself and answered calmly.
"The whole class is watching you so it's normal for me to observe you.", he replied.
You are well-prepared, I give you that.
"Is that so? Sorry for my bold assumption.", I smiled apologetically.
Then I turned my attention to the class.
"But it's extremely impolite and rude for anyone eavedrops our conversation. I believe conversations are something shouldn't be observed without consent or it would become privacy violation, isn't it?", I finished with a smile.
No one in the class dared to retort my speech. There would be two outcomes. I had turned into someone should be respected, or turned into a clown.
The latter is usually the higher odd. But there was no point to fix it as it had already done. At least people would be more attentive when trying to intrude my business.
I noticed some people had already perked their ears when Mei invited me to her club. No doubt in no time the news the Queen of Senba invited a boy privately for training would break out.
"Mei, you said you would help me familiarize with Kendo, right? Where is the Kendo club room by the way?", I asked Mei as I slowly averted my gaze to the door.
Mei seemed to understand my intention as she hurriedly grabbed her bag and stood up.
"This way...you can come with me.", the Queen of Senba replied then went to the door of our classroom.
I also brought my bag and followed her. But before that...
"Kiana, do u want to come with us? She said to me she had no problems help you familiarize with school.", I asked the Tuna who was still very confused at the surrounding.
Kiana jerked up her eyes as if she had just woken up. She repeatedly nodded her head and grabbed her bag to catch up with us.
With that, all three of us exited the classroom.
...
"That is intense as fuck.", I muttered tiredly as I was walking through the corridors with two beauties by my side.
"Language.", Mei scolded me and hit the back of my head by her hand.
Ok, this was unnecessary. Everyone was cursing at some points in life and needed cursing, especially against someone spamming Putang ina bobo during my ranked match.
"Kazu-senpai, why don't you tell me you are friend with Mei-senpai?", Kiana questioned me with her puffing cheeks.
Not gonna lie, that was cute as heck. I wanted to pinch those cheeks so badly.
"Wait, why Kiana is close enough to call you by name?", Mei asked me suspiciously.
Uh oh...should I tell her Kiana was living with me at time now?
"Well duh, I am living with him now.", the white haired Tuna replied innocently.
I didn't know why but I felt the temperature in the corridor had dropped significantly.
"Is that so...?", Mei muttered as she lowered her head.
"She is the daughter of my parents' friends. Her mother had passed away and her father basically left her alone so she had nowhere to stay. My parents take her in.", I replied with a sigh.
Hearing my explanation, Mei blinked for a few times and looked at Kiana in pity.
"Kiana, I...", Mei stuttered.
"Don't be sad about it. I am used to it. I believe the old man has valid reasons.", Kiana just shrugged and waved her hand, "Why don't you show me your Kendo techniques? I am very curious to know more about Japanese swordmanship, Mei-senpai.", Kiana beamed with her trademark smile.
Mei's heart just had skipped a beat when seeing that bright smile from Kiana.
"Yeah...now we have come to Kendo dojo.", Mei said then aimed at a door. She took out a card and swiped it on the electronic lock.
After a while, the rolling door opened and revealed a big dojo behind it.
"We have about...15 minutes before Kendo club members come here. Kazuto, do you remember the basic rules and scoring of Kendo?", Mei walked inside the dojo then went to the changing room to grab some bokkens with shinais and wore herself a set of hakama and kendogi.
"I still remember the basic. I have finished the first degree already.", I answered. This was something I should thank the old Kazuto. If I wasn't finished in the training the 1st degree, I wouldn't allow to do sparring training
"Umm...can you explain to me the basic?", Kiana raised her hand and asked the question.
"There are 4 scroring targets on the body and you can only score if you strike your opponent by the top third of the shinai. Also there are some rules you must follow before the fight.", Mei patiently explained to Kiana and presented the shinai had 3 parts divided at its blade.
"Isn't it a bit overcomplicated?", Kiana commented in surprise.
"Deal with it.", I replied to the Tuna.
"Normally we have some warm ups and preparations but the time is very tight now so...", Mei said hesitatly.
"Mei...how about we have a little sparing right now?", I proposed to the dark haired girl as I was swinging the shinai in my hand.
Mei seemed hesitant at my request.
"But you just have recovered from coma not too long ago, are you sure?", Mei asked me hesitantly.
"Time is running, Mei. I want to test myself against the captain of Kendo club herself. To see how much I remember.", I said with a smile.
After a moment, the heiress dropped a sigh.
"Ok, go grab yourself a set of uniform. The uniform is inside the changing room. Tell me if you need my help to wear it." , Mei said and pointed to a small room inside the dojo. I listened to her offer then went to it.
After a while, I came out with my kendo uniform on. Kiana was sitting on the chair watching us and Mei was waiting for me at the ring.
"Are you ready?", Mei asked me and prepared the stance with the shinai on her hand.
"Yeah.", I nodded.
We slowly circled around at each other, waited for the opponent making a mistake.
Her footwork and distance was very impressive, it took me a hard time to find the gap and weakness in her stance to exploit.
As expected from Raiden Mei. But it was just hard, it wasn't impossible.
That's because I understood how impossible felt like. A single mistake equal to a lethal and painful strike in my training. The consequences usually turned out catastrophic for me, most commonly was being stabbed to death or being dismembered brutally.
Raiden Mei at time now was nowhere near as precise and lethal in combat as God Kiana.
As I spot a small gap, I hurriedly closed the distance and dealt a strike at the left side of her waist. Mei realized her hole in defense as she hurriedly moved her shinai to parry my attack.
But my true aim was her wrist, I struck a powerful hit at the position on her arm near her wrist instead and it caught her off guard.
Damm, this shinai was so damm light even for the pitiful state of my body at time now. People really trained with this?
"So...Kazu-senpai scores, right? I saw him strikes Mei-senpai's wrist.", Kiana asked us uncertainty.
"Yeah, he scores.", Mei replied.
"Wow, Kazu-senpai is better than I expect.", Kiama said with an awe.
This was a bit anti-climatic to me. I hoped Mei accepted my proposal.
"Mei...how about we spar in kenjutsu's law? No scoring point beside the traditional way, a lethal attack.", I proposed.
"Really? Are you sure?", I could hear her smirk under that mask.
I believed she was very confident in the change of law I just had proposed.
"Yes, I am sure.", I replied back.
Both of us bowed at each other again and prepared the stance. This time we used the bokkens instead and the only rule was lethal strikes or forced the opponent to surrender.
Like my old training.
And I went first. I moved my body forward and dealt a strike aimed at her neck.
Mei parried my attack and moved her bokken downward to deal a slash across my chest. But I intercepted it with the blade of my bokken as I had prepared for it beforehand.
Mei was good, very good. But the thing was she fought someone had literally trained through hell.
God Kiana would descend and smack me good if I lost in combat against anyone other than her in Honkai multiverse.
Mei seemed surprised at my interception as she still kept her bokken still and didn't move.
Taking the chance, I closed the distance and tried to grab her wrist was holding the bokken intended to disarm her. Mei soon realized the situation she was in as she withdrew her bokken then struck a counterattack but it had a create a big gap in her defense.
I parried her attack with the great force and knocked her bokken back. It had created a huge opening and I couldn't waste it. Taking the opportunity, I dealt a slash at the heiress and she cannot defend.
My blade stopped right at her neck. I could see behind the mask that her eyes were widen in shock.
Mei stood still then nodded slowly as she accepted her defeat.
I withdrew my bokken then we took out our protective helmets. I never had a spar with anyone after I was reincarnated. Mei might not be as lethal and precise as my teacher but she was extremely good for someone just trained regularly. I could only become this good after went through a hell training after all.
"Good game.", I commented.
"Yeah, it was.", Mei nodded in response. She still seemed very surprise that she was defeated completely like that.
"Who is he? Did he just defeat Raiden-sama?", a male voice said out loud in surprise.
Both I and Mei turned our head to the source of the voice and saw a boy who was in the kendo uniform was gauging at us.
Another girl beside him in the uniform also looked at us in surprise.
"I heard he is the returnee from Honkai radiation. To think he can completely defeat Raiden-sama like that...", the girl commented in awe.
"It seems Kendo club members have come.", Mei said to me.
"Yeah...I think so.", I muttered.
"So, do you want to participate in this club?", Mei resumed her proposal.
I still wanted to play football.
Participating in Kendo club with a beautiful club president named Raiden Mei, or... having fun with football?
This was a very very tough choice.
I love football, but to think let a chance be with Mei in the same club slip...
"Mei, can I choose later?", I said as I scratched my head.
I could choose after trying out the football. I hadn't experienced the football club yet.
"You still want to play football, right?", Mei sighed, "I can understand if you don't participate in Kendo club but you can come here at any time. Some of the members who witnessed our spar have already respected you after all.", Mei gave a small smile to me.
"Yeah, that's good to hear.", I chuckled.
"Kazu-senpai, do you participate in Mei-senpai's club?", a certain Tuna went to us and asked.
"I am thinking about it. Wait for me.", I shrugged and walked toward the changing room.
Oh, I almost forgot. I needed to ask her about the keychain.
After took out the kendo uniform, I returned to the dojo and I saw Mei was supervising the recruitment process of the club.
Kiana was watching but her eyes were solely focused on Mei. I could understand why she was like that. Mei was so badass when commanding and ordering everything out.
I slowly sat next to the white haired girl and patted her shoulder lightly.
"Hey Kiana, can I ask you something?", I began my question.
The Tuna turned her head in puzzle and then she slowly nodded.
"I see you have a keychain. Can I see it for a second? I have searched for that type of keychain for a long time.", I requested.
"Oh, you mean this?", Kiana shrugged and took out a key chain from her bag then gave it to me.
No doubt about it. This keychain literally printed the fanart of chibi Kiana was drooling with her shining eyes.
"Where do you get this?", I questioned in awe. How could Kiana have this? This fanart could only be existed in my old world.
"That's a farewell gift from a friend of mine in Philippines. I used to be there before coming to Japan.", the white haired answered, "His name is Tianwu Chen or Tianwu Zhang I think. I am always confused with his last name. But I always remember his nickname as Owl because his eyes are always droopy and sleepy like an owl.", Kiana continued while massaging her chin.
Ok, what the hell is this?
Filipino, Owl, Tianwu. No doubt about it.
How the hell did the future Herrscher of Star have this keychain and even knew to gift her with it?
Damm, I would need Rin for some investigations.
But first I needed to go to football field. Damm it, my legs were so damm itchy.
Who knows? I might be one day saying 'muchas gracias afición esto es para vosotros, SIUU' at the stadium before cameras and thousands of audiences after all.
Chen Tianwu at time now had a beautiful sister and a pair of loving parents.
But he used to have dream life for any men in his previous life. He had a loving wife, a very close brother-in-law and a cute daughter.
But all of them had been gone and he couldn't do anything about it.
He thought losing his wife was the worst thing ever after losing his best friend he had knew since childhood a.k.a his brother-in-law, but somehow it turned out worse. His daughter was diagonised with a rare kind of congenital disease and her countdown was only in months. Time for his daughter was some kind of luxury he could not afford.
Seeing her being in pain day by day broke his heart. He couldn't stand it. It's literally the whole world was against him.
To saved her, he gladly surrendered his soul. He had nothing left beside her after all.
Luckily fate hadn't abandoned him completely yet. A mystetious white haired man came and offered him a salvation.
"I was also used to be a man to be bound by fate like you. Tell me, do you want to meet your wife again and have your daughter healthy again?", that mysterious man asked him.
At that moment, the man would be Tianwu Chen later on didn't hesitate one bit.
He accepted the deal.
He would acquire the forbidden knowledge he needed with the task of a soul's salvation.
...
"Thank you for granting him a chance, Kaworu-kun.", a black-haired man stood beside Kaworu and turned his gaze to the spectacular scenery of the sea before him.
The white haired man named Kaworu just relaxed on the beach with his best friend and move his gaze upward the sky.
"That's just a small motivation for her to complete the task for us. We both want your daughter to be free from her fate, Shinji. I just do what I think is best to accelerate the process.", the white-haired man shrugged and sipped the coconut juice.
Author's here:
Damm it, I want a love story like my real life sister and brother-in-law so damm much. Their child is so fucking cute. My niece might be a little demon sometimes but she is still cute af. They are my inspiration for this fic.
Welp, the chapter has been done. This time I focus more in the MC, I hope u guys enjoy it.
I am not Filipino btw but I have met a lot of them during my Dota 2 ranked matches
Next chapter will be football time, SIUU.