The Lone Vigilante Issei – High School DxD

Hey everyone, it's me Hide Shinyama.

I'm sorry for taking five weeks but if you have read my profile, you would have known that 1) I was in Scotland for a few days with my family and 2) I was sick for some time.

A third reason for the delay was that I had a lot more to add into this chapter than I thought.

But without further ado, let us dive right into the filler chapter.

What are boys going to go through in this chapter.

Find out in…

Chapter 29 – Daily Life at Furinkan

17th September, Tuesday, 5:00 am – trio's apartment, Nerima

It was very early. The sun had not even come out yet and Issei, Matsuda and Motohama were still sleeping. And they would have remained that way, had it not been for…

[Everybody, wake up!]

…the loud voice of Ddraig, who had manifested himself in the form of the Boosted Gear and made the boys wake up startled.

"What the...?" "What's going on?" "Haa…?" The three boys groaned, as they opened their eyelids.

[It's time to train!] Ddraig announced with authority. But the boys quickly lay down and tried to get some sleep.

[I did not say you could go to sleep!] Ddraig called out annoyed.

Annoyed, Issei spoke up. "Look, Ddraig… I know training is important and all… But we're still recovering from our injuries from our last fight."

"Yeah… Wait until we've healed…" Matsuda responded groggily.

[First, we don't know when the enemy will strike next. It could be today, tomorrow or next week. In either case, the sooner you three start training, the better prepared you will be when the time comes. Secondly, what are you talking about injuries? Your injuries have completely healed overnight] Ddraig pointed out.

Issei looked at his own body and touched himself all over. To his surprise, Ddraig was right. His wounds and his coughing were gone. Even the bandages were gone as well. It was as if he was never wounded at all.

Matsuda and Motohama did the same and found that they, too, were free from injuries.

"What? But how…?" Issei said amazed. He could not comprehend his quick recovery. He looked to the Boosted Gear.

"Our injuries! They're gone!" Matsuda said with amazement, as he probed his body. No pain anywhere. It was like they were magically healed.

[See? Now, you have no excuse. Get dressed, and start running! Don't forget your things either] Ddraig said to them.

The boys' delight deflated. Oh, dang it… They were so caught up in their joy that they forgot about Ddraig's instructions.

"Ok… but after we get dressed, can we have breakfast?" Issei wanted to know.

[No] Ddraig simply replied.

"What!?" Motohama yelped in surprise .

"Why not?" Matsuda followed.

[Because you can eat at school or eat on the way] Ddraig simply replied.

"But Ddraig, that costs money!" Issei protested.

[I don't care. We go as soon as possible. If you had wanted to eat breakfast, you should have gotten up at four] Ddraig told them.

The boys looked at the Boosted Gear shocked. Getting up at four in the morning? That's crazy…

"D-Ddraig… Why are you doing this…?" Issei whispered.

[Because you three need it. We start jogging around the area, scout out good places to run. Then, we will do some exercises, such as push-ups and jumping jacks. After that, you will brush up your hand-to-hand fighting skills and then your weapons skills. You, Issei, will be given a special training regiment given the Boosted Gear's potential. Get your gym clothes on, but take your school uniforms and bags with you. We need every minute that we can get and we can't waste it by returning here, getting dressed for school and then going from here] Ddraig outlined the agenda.

By now despair was clouding the boys' faces. For Issei, it was especially bad, since he would be pushed harder than Matsuda and Motohama. It was then that Motohama had a question.

"Wait a minute. Wouldn't that mean we would have to get dressed outdoors?" Motohama asked in surprise.

[Yes. And you ought to make sure that you hide in some bushes or something when you change into your school uniforms] Ddraig joked without missing a beat.

Issei, Matsuda and Motohama were gulping. They were picturing themselves, getting dressed in the bushes only for some passerby to… get the wrong idea about what they were doing… Did they really have to do it?"

[Now, if that would be all] Ddraig spoke. [Get a move on.]

Ddraig's tone made it clear that that was it. There was no room for objections.

The boys sighed and went to get their school uniforms and gym clothes.

This was not how they expected the day to start…

After they had left the apartment, I, Hide, smiled. For my deus ex machina healing magic from last night had worked (note: Don't expect me to do it every time they are injured. They have to learn to get through the challenges themselves.)


17th September, Tuesday, 5:56 am – Hikarigaoka Park, Nerima

The trio's training session went exactly as Ddraig had instructed and man! That was tiresome!

All that running here and there, within Nerima and outside of it, made them more than exhausted. Then again, it felt less like jogging and more like scouting with the occasional sprint. Ddraig had wanted the boys to know their home territory in and out, hence all the scouting.

Eventually, they had reached Hikarigaoka Park, which they had visited just yesterday in order to (unsuccessfully) find the Stray Devils. It was there that they did the bulk of their activities. It went from stretching to push-ups to jumping jacks to close quarter combat training.

Admittedly, it was all rudimentary and far from ideal – especially the close quarter combat. The reason for that was because it involved a lot of rough, but playful wrestling between the boys – not the sort of training that could improve your skills. But Ddraig had told them, he would expand and improve their morning exercises in the future.

Issei, Matsuda and Motohama had to groan. They really had to do go through all of that every day? And do it on a "more improved" basis? They feared the worst…

Nevertheless, at the very least the last part for today was not as agonizing as the rest. And that was weapons training. That was when Ddraig told them that they should use their time and their imagination to improve on their special gifts, which they had received from Monika and the others.

Matsuda and Motohama wasted no time doing so.

Matsuda was practicing his piloting skills with Phoebe with his controller and shooting targets, such as pebbles. Now granted, he had originally wanted to grow the Chopping Board Type 2 to full size and fly in it, but Ddraig had told him that he risked alerting bystanders. Which is why Matsuda had to settle for remote controlled flight. Matsuda still had some difficulty with remote controlled flight, but Matsuda was positive that he could deal with this.

Motohama was busy with his glue grenade skills, such as practicing his glue cube forming ability and his throwing skills. Motohama made it his goal to improve his combat ability with his gift. Sure, he did well against the Stray Devils, but he could have done better. Also, he remembered how Monika telling him how to form gas with the help of intensive heat or something like that. Sadly, she never elaborated more than that, but Motohama was not giving up this easily. No. He was going to figure out how to do it. Motohama also worked on using his seax properly. It was a gift he had received as well. Using it to his advantage was common sense.

Issei, on other hand, was sweating intensely and every muscle in his body was under a lot of pressure, all while making sure not to collapse. The reason for that was because he was using the Boosted Gear to increase his physical and magical power and make him stronger. Ddraig had instructed Issei to increase the Boosted Gear once and then hold it for five minutes. Then Issei would double his power and hold out for another five minutes and so on. Right now, Issei had boosted three times and had almost passed the five-minute mark.

"Hrrrgh… Hah…" Issei grunted and groaned in agony.

[You can do it, Partner. Just a little bit] Ddraig encouraged his host.

Issei strained and did his best to endure the next five seconds…

Five… four… three… two… one…

[Boost!] Issei doubled his power again.

[You did it, Partner! You managed to boost four times and hold out for fifteen minutes in total!] Ddraig applauded. [Now for the next five minutes…]

But Issei barely lasted five seconds, before he collapsed on his knees and dispelled the burden of the Boosted Gear.

[Reset!] It sounded, while Issei fell with his face to the ground. He panted heavily for he was very exhausted, and his muscles felt like they were on fire.

[Four boosts. Not bad. But you have to get better than that. By the end of the week I expect you to do six boosts for five minutes each] Ddraig told Issei.

"Six…?" Issei gave out tired and filled with dread.

He could be lucky, if he managed to reach to five. Ddraig was not going easy on him. Then again, if all his predecessors went through the same training he did, they must have been really strong.

[You may take a break for two minutes, Partner. After that we will be working on your Boosted Gear skills. We will start with Dragon Shots, then we go with ice magic and finally we will work on your dragon senses] Ddraig said to Issei.

Issei nodded. Oh, good… at least these won't be as painful to go through as his Boosted Gear training…


17th September, Tuesday, 6:34 am – Hikarigaoka Park, Nerima

"Man… I can't… hah… hah…" Issei was panting heavily once again.

The reason? The exercise was tougher than he had imagined. Sure, they weren't as painful as the endurance exercise with the Boosted Gear, but they were taxing in their own way.

Dragon Shot required a lot of repetitive boosting and shooting, which after a while can become tiring. Add aiming and destroying your target to the list and it becomes even more exhausting. In this case, Issei had to shoot targets placed on trees (thanks to Matsuda and Phoebe). Adjusting the Dragon Shot to the size of the rocks and you had the Dragon Shot exercise.

The Ice Magic exercise was less exhausting. This one involved freezing a patch of grass and making the radius as wide as possible – and fast as well. It was kind of fun, but after a while Issei, had to rest for a bit, since it also required boosting from his Sacred Gear and thus also his strength.

The last exercise involved his dragon senses of hearing, smelling and seeing. Ddraig told Issei to sense for animals in the park, using his senses. In other words, Issei was trained to hunt, which was normal for dragons. This was by far the easiest exercise. However, it involved a lot of concentration on Issei's part, which wore him out.

Hence, he was lying pooped out on the grass just trying to catch his breath.

"Hey, Issei," Motohama said as he approached him.

Issei looked up to see his friend with his seax in his hand and a toothy grin on his face, as if making fun of him. In response, Issei simply let his head fall down to the grass, as if to ignore him.

"Did Ddraig put you through the grinder or what?" Motohama chuckled.

Issei did not answer. It was only after ten seconds of silence that he said: "Isn't it obvious?"

Motohama chuckled again. That was when Matsuda joined them with the Chopping Board Type 2 and his controller in his hands.

"What's up? You guys make any progress?" Matsuda asked them, as he grinned happily.

Motohama shrugged. "What can I say? I am trying to get a better grip on the sword and improve my glue cube throwing skills in general. I can't say that I have gotten far, but it's still the first day. What about you, Matsuda?"

"I am training my piloting skills with Phoebe. We'll be trying all kinds of things and so far so good," Matsuda answered.

"Good to hear. But did any of you guys sweat and strain yourselves?" Issei said, as he propped himself up.

Matsuda and Motohama looked at Issei confused.

"What do you mean?" Matsuda replied with a look that wondered whether his friend was mental. "Of course, we did. Or weren't you paying attention during our warm-up exercises?"

"No, you dolts," Issei retorted with a frown. "I am talking about your exercises with your weapons."

""Ohhh…"" Motohama and Matsuda realized and shook their heads, as if to say no.

"Well, I did. Using the Boosted Gear to the max is torture. I had to…" Issei explained all the things he had to do, which left his friends dumbfounded.

Matsuda and Motohama could not believe it. It truly was torture what Issei had to go through – especially the first exercise. If they had to do everything Issei did, they would die from exhaustion. The two sighed relieved inwardly at that knowledge.

However, Matsuda had a question.

"Say, Ddraig? How much stronger can Issei even become?" he asked Ddraig.

Issei looked down at his arm and the Boosted Gear manifested itself.

[A lot stronger. Think about how strong I was in my prime] Ddraig answered proudly.

Matsuda and Motohama did not say a word. Inwardly, they could only fathom (or not) just how powerful Ddraig was. However, that also meant…

[Alright, enough break time. It's time for teamwork exercises] Ddraig announced out of the blue.

All three boys looked at the Boosted Gear in shock.

"Teamwork exercises!? You never said anything about…" Issei protested, but Ddraig cut him off.

[I came up with it a few minutes ago] Ddraig said quickly. [And you still have at least an hour until school begins. Now, get to it.]

Issei, Matsuda and Motohama groaned and stood up. They were still kind of tired from their exercises – especially Issei. But seeing that they had plenty of time to spare and Ddraig would not take no for an answer, they got ready for the final stretch of their morning exercises.


17th September, Tuesday, 7:50 am – Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

In what felt like a friggin' eternity, Issei, Matsuda and Motohama had finally stumbled into the school grounds.

Why? Because of Ddraig's exercises from hell (or the Dragon's Den, as Ddraig had told them to put it. Hell was the abode of the Devils and thus did not like the comparison). It mostly involved combat training, in which Ddraig taught them how to work together in a fight. It made sense and ended up kind of fun, yet still exhausting. It was through these exercises that Issei, Matsuda and Motohama had learned to coordinate and time their attacks and maneuvers in order to come better prepared to a tag team fight. Before they ended the exercises, everyone came to the agreement that they would definitely work on their team combos.

The first thing they did after their exercises was getting into their school uniforms. The three of them made sure to do it in the bushes, so nobody could spot them while doing so. Thankfully, nobody spotted them, though the boys could have sworn they heard something.

The first one to approach the tired three boys that day was Ryuga.

"What's the matter with you? You look like you've been running a marathon?" Ryuga joked.

"Sadly, it wasn't just that…" Issei sighed.

That was when Ryuga dropped his jovial expression and turned shocked and serious.

"Don't tell me… that you encountered more of these damn beasts from yesterday!" Ryuga growled indignantly at the thought of Stray Devils causing death and mayhem in his town.

To Ryuga's surprise, they shook their heads with Motohama speaking up. "No, nothing like that. We just had an intense morning workout this morning. You know, just so we are prepared for the next fight and… boy was that exhausting…"

"Oh…" Ryuga said, now calm once more.

Nothing more was said for a while, as the four boys made their way to class.

On the way, Issei asked Ryuga something.

"Hey, Ryuga? How early in the morning do you get up?" Issei wanted to know.

Ryuga looked back at Issei with a frown. "Why do you want to know?"

"Well, you see… I was wondering if you could help us train in martial arts when we do our morning exercises …" Issei said.

"ARE YOU CRAZY!?" Matsuda and Motohama suddenly yelled at the top of their lungs, causing everybody to freeze and look at them in surprise.

Issei and Ryuga could not help but feel embarrassed for being in the middle of a scene and tried to get everybody to leave.

"What are you people staring at? Get lost!" Ryuga told the onlookers rudely, which caused them to frown and mumble, yet leave, nonetheless.

But Matsuda and Motohama weren't even bothered by the attention and followed up with their next questions.

"Do you have any idea… How HARD it is just to go through Ddraig's regimen?" Matsuda asked incredulously at the thought that Issei wanted more of that torture.

"Yeah, especially for you! Do you want to die?" Motohama asked in utter incomprehension.

Issei lifted his hands to placate them. "Guys hear me out. OK?" he asked of them.

Matsuda and Motohama were still livid, but they decided to say nothing and hear Issei out.

"Look… In the future we're going to fight stronger enemies. We all know that. We have to come prepared. So, what better way than to learn martial arts? Ryuga here is a martial artist. You all saw what he could do. If we learn some pointers from him, we could use some real fighting skills and not our improvised CQC," Issei made his case to them.

Matsuda and Motohama looked at each other uncertain and then back at Issei.

"I guess it makes sense…" Motohama said with reluctance.

"…but what if we're too pooped from Ddraig's exercises?" Motohama asked.

"Didn't we do the exercises right after our warm-up routine? Besides, we can modify our training with Ddraig in the future, right?" Issei reasoned.

Matsuda and Motohama gave it some thought and slowly nodded to the idea.

"What do you think, Ryuga?" Issei turned to Ryuga. "Can you help us?"

Ryuga crossed his arms in front of his chest. "Why? What's in it for me?" Ryuga asked with a challenging look.

Issei was caught by surprise. He was not expecting this reaction from the bandana boy.

"What do you mean by that?" Issei asked Ryuga unsure.

"I'm saying: That I've got nothing to gain from you by doing this. So, why should I help you?" Ryuga answered.

Issei tried to come up with an answer and came up with this. "We helped you with the incident with the Stray Devils, didn't we?"

Ryuga shrugged. "True. But then I saved you three when you got your butts handed to you, so we're even on that point."

Issei frowned upon hearing this response. That certainly was true… without him, they would not even be here to begin with. They had to offer something else him. But what…?

"Issei?" Motohama approached him upon seeing his friend frozen in thought.

Matsuda simply stared at Issei, wondering what he was thinking about. Ryuga just wanted to go his way and turned heel.

"If you don't have anything else to say, I'll be off. See you," he said and was about to walk away until…

"Martial artists…" Issei began speaking, getting Matsuda, Motohama and Ryuga to stop what they were doing.

"Hm?" Ryuga turned to face Issei.

"…they like to become stronger, right? Fighting stronger and stronger opponents… am I right?" Issei asked Ryuga.

Ryuga turned around completely. "Yeah? What of it?" he asked.

"You remember what I told about the Boosted Gear, right? How I can become as strong as the gods? If you help me become stronger, I'll be the ideal sparring partner for you," Issei told him.

Matsuda and Motohama were surprised at Issei's offer. Becoming Ryuga's sparring partner? Was Ryuga really interested in having a mere sparring partner?

Ryuga chuckled mockingly upon hearing Issei's offer. "A sparring partner? You? Come on… Do you really think I don't have anybody to spar with? I've got plenty. Each one of them better than the three of you combined – especially Sanma Raotome. He is my rival, not you," he jabbed a finger at Issei, who glared back irritated at Ryuga's attitude. "Besides, if your Gear can get you god-like strength, why not go try it out by trial and error? What do you even need me for?"

Issei said nothing for a few seconds. But then came the answer from his lips.

"Technique…" Issei simply replied.

Ryuga frowned in confusion. "Technique…?"

"You said that I could achieve god-like strength by trial and error. You're right. I could do that, and it might even work. But why do all that when I can avoid all the errors and learn from an expert? And if I can learn martial arts and techniques, then that's even better. Isn't it?" Issei asked rhetorically.

Ryuga snorted. "Yeah, but… so what? You still haven't given me a reason to train you. And being a mere sparring partner won't cut it. So…" Ryuga was about to finish the conversation right here and there, but then Issei said something that stopped Ryuga in his tracks.

"I can help you overcome your fear of the supernatural…" Issei said.

"What…?" Ryuga widened his eyes in surprise.

"You heard me," Issei said seriously. "If you help me learn martial arts, I can help you overcome your fears or help you deal with them better."

Everybody looked at Issei in utter surprise. What on earth was he saying?

Ryuga could not help but twitch his left eye and try to laugh it off.

"Ha! What are you talking about? Overcome my fears? Are you even listening to yourself right now? You're honestly saying that I am…" Ryuga mocked Issei, but the latter cut him off.

"Remember how frightened you were yesterday?" Issei reminded him.

Ryuga froze. Matsuda and Motohama knew why he did. Ryuga just remembered how frightened and traumatized he was yesterday after seeing the Stray Devils the day before. Being reminded of that humiliation made Ryuga seethe with anger within. It was only by a miracle that he did not clobber Issei here and now.

Seeing Ryuga tremble in anger, Matsuda and Motohama gulped nervously and were ready to step in and defuse the situation. However, they didn't pull through on that for Issei had more to say.

"You were frightened because of how unnatural and frightening the Stray Devils were. Up until that point, you had never seen anything supernatural in your life, have you? You did not know how to deal with them, so you ran, right? I know what I said may have hit a sore spot but hear me out. OK?" Issei tried to speak diplomatically to the hot-headed teen.

Ryuga was still angry, yet still didn't say or do anything.

"Well, I understand how you felt," Issei told Ryuga. "In fact, we Matsuda, Motohama and I had to deal with supernatural beings like them before and it was frightening. But you know what? We overcame our fears and defeated them. We grew stronger and yet even then, we have yet to become truly strong. Yes, we have the tools at hand to become stronger and as you noted earlier, we could become stronger without you. But all that we are missing right now – the one huge hole in our skills gap – are martial art skills. Without physical fighting skills, it will only be a matter of time until we get killed by some other supernatural being. You, on the other hand, have the skills to fight off any foe, but have no experience in dealing with supernatural foes. Let me… no, let us help you," Issei pleaded with Ryuga.

Matsuda and Motohama could not help but be impressed and a bit moved by Issei's impromptu speech. Not only was he right, but he was also a good persuader, too. Who knew that he had it in him?

"Matsuda, Motohama, Ddraig and I… we are willing to help you in that department. Only, please… help us in return," Issei ended his plea to Ryuga, whose eyes were covered by bangs.

Issei, Matsuda and Motohama were nervously awaiting Ryuga to react, whether it be a yes or no. They did not like the awkward silence.

After a few seconds, Ryuga let out a deep breath and spoke with a frown, having clearly calmed down.

"You know, I should have flattened you for that one statement just now," Ryuga said to Issei. "But after hearing your… interesting speech… I'll take up on your offer and help train you."

Issei, Matsuda and Motohama breathed out a sigh of relief and elation. They were tense this entire time. But with Ryuga accepting Issei's request to train them, they could breathe easily.

"So, at what time do you guys start?" Ryuga asked them.

"Say what?" Matsuda asked back confused.

"Your training? When do you get up to start your training?" Ryuga wanted to know.

"Oh! We get up at five am and train till about 7 am," Matsuda answered.

"Really…? That early…?" Ryuga said with a nervous sweatshop rolling down his head.

"Unfortunately…" Motohama sighed. "We'll be doing this every day from today onwards at Hikarigaoka Park…"

"I see… But fine… I'll be there to train you guys... But you better make it worthwhile!" Ryuga added quickly.

Issei saluted playfully. "You got it, sensei!"

Suddenly, the bell rang, indicating that it was time to get to their classes.

"Guys? Any idea where to go?" Issei wanted to know, since he didn't know their timetable that well yet.

"Wait a sec…" Matsuda put down his bag and was about to take out the timetable sheet in his bag.

However, Ryuga rolled his eyes for a bit and gestured the trio to follow him.

"This way. We've got Agricultural classes first thing in the morning," Ryuga told them and went on ahead.

The trio looked at each other confused, but followed him, nonetheless.

"Wait, you are in Asumi-sensei's class?" Motohama asked Ryuga.

Ryuga looked at them weirdly. "What? You mean you didn't notice me?"

All three of them shook their heads. Truth be told, they were too busy thinking about the Stray Devils at that time, trying to focus on classes or staring at their wonderful teacher to have noticed anything else.

Ryuga just shook his head and let the matter end altogether.

On the way, Matsuda realized that something did not make sense.

'Agricultural classes…?' Matsuda wondered.


17th September, Tuesday, 8:05 am – on the campus grounds of Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"Alright, ya boys! Ya probably be wondering what Agricultural classes are all about," said the jolly bearded teacher in the overalls to our heroes in his country accent.

His name was Mr. Tadao Tatsuki and he was their teacher for the Agricultural lessons, along with Home Economics and Bio-Chemistry, both of which would take place later today.

Currently, the entire class was in the garden area of the school, wearing green aprons and were examining and picking weeds, flowers and grasses. Why? Because today's lessons involved studying plants. More specifically, it involved studying weeds and their proprieties.

While, everyone was doing this, Issei, Matsuda and Motohama were being brought up to speed by Tatsuki-sensei about what the classes were about.

"Yeah, um…" Issei started awkwardly. "It's… a pretty unusual class subject."

"Yeah, I can't think of any other school that has something like this," Motohama remarked.

Tatsuki-sensei smiled proudly. "That's because we're a vocational school and not ya average high school. Now, as I was sayin', here in Agricultural classes we learn about plants, the soil and nature in action. It's mighty important if ya wanna go into the field of agriculture later in life. Today's topic is: weeds. I want ya three ta bring me the plants that ya think are weeds and we'll talk about 'em in ten minutes."

The boys looked around them and saw the students plucking all kinds of plants. Seemed simple enough…


About ten minutes later…

"All right. Show me what ya have…" Tatsuki-sensei said to the students that had gathered in a semi-circle around him.

"Sensei, is this a weed?" asked a girl with long light-brown hair, as she showed a purple flower.

"Indeed, it is," Tatsuki-sensei nodded. "This weed is an Azami and it's quite common here in Japan. It is also edible, too. Thank ya, Yuka."

After Yuka, came a girl with dark brown hair in a ponytail, who showed everyone her plant, which is a short-lived plant.

"This is a weed, too, right?" the girl asked.

"Yup," Tatsuki-sensei affirmed. "This is the Japanese Knotweed. Also, very common. And it's edible, too. Thanks, Sayuri."

After Sayuri came two boys with light-brown hair and dark-brown hair, who were sniggering for some reason.

Tatsuki-sensei raised his eyebrows at their behavior. "Daisuke, Hiroshi, what is it the two of you find so funny?"

"We… hihihi… also managed to find a weed… hihihi… that's edible…" said the Daisuke.

His companion Hiroshi showed everyone an unused cigarette for some reason.

Tatsuki-sensei had to frown this time. "Boys, it's against the rules to bring cigarettes here," he said sternly.

"But it's not a cigarette. It's a weed… hihihi…" Daisuke could barely hold in his laughter.

This confused Tatsuki-sensei. "A weed. I don't see how…"

""It's… Marijuana! WAHAHAHAHAHA…"" the two boys burst out in uncontrolled laughter.


17th September, Tuesday, 9:34 am – cafeteria, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"I can't believe those two got detention for the next week for that," Issei remarked, as he and his buddies were waiting to get their breakfast.

"Me neither…" Motohama added.

"Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't go to jail for that. I mean how come we did?" Matsuda reasoned.

"Shh… Not so loud…" Issei hushed him.

"Sorry…" Matsuda said quietly.

It was then that Ryuga came up to them.

"Guys, I think it's best not to get anything to eat for now," Ryuga told the boys.

This confuse the trio. "Why? Is the food bad?" Motohama asked.

Ryuga quickly shook his head. "No, nothing like that. In fact, it's good. But the reason for that is…"


17th September, Tuesday, 9:58 am – Home Economics room, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"…Home Economics?" Issei asked surprised. Before he had known it, he, Matsuda, Motohama and Ryuga were wearing white aprons and were at one of the many stoves, getting ready to make something nice to eat… or at least according to Tatsuki-sensei's instructions.

"Plus vite! Plus vite! In kitchens, you don't have time to laze around, Messieurs, Madames… now hurry…" Tatsuki-sensei said in a French accent.

This did not go unnoticed by the trio. "Didn't he have a stereotypical country accent in the last lesson?" Issei asked Ryuga.

Ryuga glanced at the teacher with a deadpan expression. "He does. But he likes to change his accent on a dime, depending on what classes he teaches…"

"Aha…" Issei simply replied and went to work with his group, which consisted of him, Matsuda, Motohama and Ryuga.

Issei's group was tasked to do spaghetti carbonara and the other groups had to make other things, like salad or pudding. The main purpose of Home Economics was obviously to learn how to cook professionally, so that did not need much explanation from Tatsuki-sensei.

Currently, the three boys were doing their best to make the spaghetti carbonara and were doing rather well. They had to be prodded here and there to work faster and make sure their workplace was clean, but overall, they did well (probably because they had to cook at home together). Ryuga had to admit that he wasn't the best in cooking, but with these three, he could not fail.

That could not be said about some of the other groups though…

"What're ya doing?" said a familiar voice.

The four boys turned to look and saw Sanma and a girl with short black hair making their dish, cabbage soup. And for whatever reason, it didn't smell good.

"I'm putting in salt. Why?" the girl asked, as she poured in the salt into a pot.

"Don't ya think you're putting in way too much salt? I bet even the Salt Sea would taste sweet by comparison," Sanma remarked offhandedly.

The girl did not take this comment lightly. "Are you telling me I cannot cook?" she asked dangerously.

The oblivious pig-tailed boy failed to take hint and rambled on. "Of course. Don't ya ever taste yer own food? Of course, it is…"

"BAKA!" Sanma was cut off by the angry girl's shout and…

[WHAM!]

…was punched across the Home Economics room.

Everybody flinched for a moment and stared at the girl and then at Sanma, before whispering.

"They're at it again," said one boy.

"Does he always have to insult her like that?" said another boy.

"Poor Nakane. She can never take a break," said another girl.

Issei picked up that last remark and turned to Ryuga. "Wait. She is Sanma's fiancée?"

"Yeah. Unfortunately…" Ryuga sighed, while glaring at Sanma, who was still lying sprawled on the ground.

"Why you hit Airen, Kitchen Destroyer?" a girl with long blue hair and a heavy Chinese accent scolded Nakane.

"None of your business, Amazon," Nakane replied rudely.

"What you say?" the Chinese girl got into Nakane's face, neither one of them backing down.

This could have escalated into another fight, but Tatsuki-sensei intervened.

"Mesdames, there will be no violence in the kitchen. So, go out for about ten minutes and cool yourselves off, s'il vous plait," Tatsuki-sensei ordered them.

The two girls were still glaring at each other but nodded in compliance, backed off and walked out the door to the hallway.

After they were gone, Tatsuki-sensei turned his attention to Sanma.

"Pick up the garçon and wake him up. The soup cannot be neglected," Tatsuki-sensei told the class, before heading to his counter to work on the crème brûlée.

After everyone turned back to their own matters and Sanma was taken care off, Issei could not help but ask. "Who is the blue-haired girl?"

"That's Cat Fu. Another one of Sanma's finances," Ryuga said with gritted teeth.

"He has two!?" Matsuda said disbelievingly.

"You don't even know half the story," Ryuga said grimly and focused on his work.

It was clear that with Ryuga's tone of voice that he was not in a mood to speak more about the matter and so the boys continued their work.

Though inwardly…


17th September, Tuesday, 11:23 am – cafeteria, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"I can't believe that Sanma has two financées," Issei complained.

"Yeah! Now I hate him even more," Matsuda said, as he ate some of the leftovers from Home Economics.

The food tasted good. It was interesting to learn how to make all those dishes. The way Tatsuki-sensei described it, it sounded rather easy. The spaghetti they made was good. The salad was nice. The crème-brûlée was excellent – as expected from their teacher.

The soup on the other hand… was so-so… According to Sanma, he said he made the best out of what could have been a death pot. And if that was an improvement of the death pot…

The boys didn't even want to think further about what that entailed.

Instead, they talked about Sanma and his finances- and how Cat Fu was a busty bombshell.

"I can't believe that he gets such a babe! The tomboy is… well… not too bad… but too much on the violent side… but Cat Fu? Mhhhmmm… she has the purrrrfect body…" Motohama said.

Matsuda and Issei agreed eagerly.

"Yeah, and her boobs! Did you see them?" Issei asked Matsuda with saliva filling his mouth.

"Yup. And her butt and her legs. She's just too sexy…" Matsuda started to drool.

Suddenly Issei felt killing intent from behind and…

[Thok!] "Wah!"

…managed to evade some throwing knives coming from behind by ducking.

Issei and his buddies looked to the source of the throwing knives and saw that the knives were thrown by an angry male student with coke glasses and long black hair.

"Nobody… nobody ogles at my Cat Fu…" he breathed out angrily.

"ARE YOU CRAZY!?" Matsuda shouted at the coke-glasses boy.

"YOU ALMOST KILLED ME!" Issei shouted indignantly.

"And I'll actually do so if you... Ugh!" the boy was knocked out from behind by someone and fell unconscious to the ground.

"Ryuga!" Motohama called out delighted at their savior for, indeed, it was Ryuga.

"Yeah, it's me…" Ryuga said nonchalantly. He went to them and sat next to them, as if nothing had happened.

The trio, on the other hand, were still stunned and in shock.

Ryuga noticed this and asked them.

"What?" he simply asked.

It was then that the trio finally found their voice.

"Dude! Why are you so calm about this? Someone tried to murder us?" Matsuda demanded.

"Yeah, Sanma and his fiancée are one thing, but this is quite another!" Issei pointed out.

"Oh… sorry…" Ryuga apologized.

Awkward silence reigned in the atmosphere, as the coke-glasses boy was taken away to the infirmary.

"Who was that anyway? And what's his connection to Cat Fu?" Motohama asked.

Ryuga shrugged. "Eh, just Cat Fu's self-proclaimed fiancée, Mouse. He gets very possessive of her and even tries to kill those who make a move on Cat Fu."

"She has another fiancé!?" Issei voiced incredulously. "Just how big is this… love web…?"

"Dunno…" Ryuga shrugged again. "…all I know is that I don't care, as long as I can win Naka- Wait a minute! Never mind!" Ryuga quickly said flustered.

The boys looked at each other and shook their heads. They already knew he was in love with the tomboy and this his attempts to hide his affections were useless.

But what the boys were more concerned were just how crazy some of their classmates were. They just hoped that weren't any more psychopaths like him.


17th September, Tuesday, 11:45 am – Science classroom, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"Now, let us continue with where we left off in our last session: Plant Metabolism…" Tatsuki-sensei said in a standard Japanese accent.

'He's speaking normally. We're on an alright start…' Issei thought in relief upon Tatsuki-sensei speaking and looking like a normal teacher. Honestly, they had enough of the craziness of today and just hoped none of the other students would do something stupid.

Their current class was Bio-Chemistry. It was supposed to cover the theoretical aspects of both their Agricultural and Home Economics classes. An interesting teaching concept, they had to admit.

Just when they were getting immersed into their lesson, Issei, Matsuda and Motohama suddenly felt a glare coming from behind them. They turned around slowly…

"I'll kill you three for humiliating me earlier… and then I'll kill Sanma… and then I can have Cat Fu all for myself… Ehehehe…" Mouse whispered menacingly.

'Oh dear…' Motohama dropped a nervous sweat.

'Can this guy give it a rest already?' Matsuda thought in worry, hoping for the worst not to come true.

'Forget fighting supernatural beings. Who needs them when you've psychopaths like them?' Issei reasoned nervously.

Thankfully, Mouse never attacked them for the duration of the lesson. However, just the mere fact that he was playing around with his knives in class was nerve-racking enough.

Seriously, how come nobody has called the cops on him? Why isn't at the very least sitting in detention. If the two boys from earlier got detention for bringing Marijuana to school, why not Mouse?

Either way, the three boys were glad to go home and do so as quickly as possible after the lesson had finished.


18th September, Wednesday, 5:30 am – Hikarigaoka Park, Nerima

The next day, Issei, Matsuda and Motohama were in the park after their morning run and were about to do some jumping jacks. Once again, it wasn't easy to get up at five am, though this time they saw it coming and prepared themselves better for it. They even made bentos before going to sleep. After arriving at the park, Ryuga showed up a minute after the trio did.

"So, this is where you hang out," Ryuga said, wearing his school uniform, while the trio wore their gym clothes.

"Yeah. And we can train undisturbed," Matsuda stated. "And we do have a good workout, except for martial arts."

"Aha…" Ryuga nodded. So far, he had to admire their enthusiasm, but that wouldn't be enough if they weren't training properly…

[And I am their coach] Ddraig said as the Boosted Gear manifested on Issei's arm.

"What the… Who said that?" Ryuga asked in bewilderment and looked around for the source of the dragon-sounding voice. "Show yourself!"

[Be at ease. I am right here in the Boosted Gear] Ddraig said, getting Ryuga to finally see where his voice was coming from. [I am Ddraig y Goch, one of the two Heavenly Dragon Emperors, namely the red one. I have lived for thousands of years and have the power to frighten even the gods themselves. I have been incarnated into the hosts of ma-]

"A Sacred Gear can talk? That's pretty cool. How can I get one of those?" Ryuga asked Issei with interest.

This irked Ddraig, who didn't like to be interrupted during his grand introduction.

[You dare interrupt me? How dare you? How dare you treat me like some kind of toy?] Ddraig told Ryuga angrily.

Ryuga flinched back in shock at Ddraig's anger, leading Issei to calm him down.

"Ddraig calm down, man…" Issei said to Ddraig.

Ddraig was still fuming, but still backed down.

"And as for your question, Ryuga. Unless you've got a Sacred Gear in you, you can't get one," Issei answered.

Ryuga's curiosity only peaked further. "OK. Do I have one?"

"I don't know…" Issei answered truthfully and looked to Ddraig for help.

[No!] Ddraig answered rudely. This caused Ryuga to get angry and things would have gotten worse, hadn't Matsuda and Motohama not stepped in.

"Guys, I think we've got more important things to do. You know like training…?" Matsuda pointed out.

"…especially martial arts…" Motohama added, hoping that would defuse the situation.

And it did. Ddraig and Ryuga stood down and got everyone to do their exercises together.

Ryuga helped contribute a lot in their martial arts exercises, like improving on the most basic of moves, like punches and kicks.

Issei, Matsuda and Motohama could feel it. They were making progress – on all levels. It was going to be a long process, yet one worth going through.

In compensation for being taught by Ryuga, the boys would show the functions and abilities of their gifts and the Boosted Gear. Issei showed how his Boosted Gear worked and so far, Ryuga was impressed. Ddraig, on the other hand, was still rather angry at Ryuga for his behavior earlier. But so long as his host could become stronger, Ddraig was willing to bear with him.


18th September, Wednesday, 7:55 am – Computer Room, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"Alright class. Today we are going to continue with Html language. You all know the groups you are in. Miss Kuongi? Could you please fill our three transfer students in on what we learned the last time?" said the IT teacher, Kenichi Hoda, who was a thin tall man with a moustache.

Right now, everyone had taken their place in their respective groups that occupied one PC each.

Strangely enough, Ryuga was not in their group. He was in a different group together with those two boys who got into detention because of a joint. Instead they had this girl called Kuongi assigned to them. She was a girl with long brown hair and a white hair tie and looked pretty cute to be honest…

"You're the Hide brothers, aren't you?" she asked in a neutral voice.

"Uh… yeah. We are…" Issei started off nervously and introduced himself. "I'm Issei, this is Matsuda, and this is Motohama."

"Hiya." "Hey, there." Matsuda and Motohama greeted with their best smiles.

Kuongi just ignored their attempts and introduced herself. "My name is Ukyo Kuongi. Pleased to meet you," she simply said.

The boys nodded and were waiting for Ukyu to get them up to speed.

However, instead of doing that, she frowned at Issei because he was giving her an inquisitive look, as if he was inspecting her. Matsuda and Motohama could not help but wonder why Issei was behaving this way until he spoke.

"You're that fry cook from Monday, aren't you?" Issei asked her.

Ukyu, Matsuda and Motohama widened their eyes, the latter two staring at Ukyu.

"Oh! Were you a costumer at my Okonomiyaki stand?" Ukyu replied surprised.

Issei smiled. "You bet we were. Thanks again. The okonomiyaki was great," Issei complimented her.

Matsuda and Motohama stared at her even more intensely, before it finally clicked.

"Yeah, it is her…" Motohama said astounded.

"Yeah. Almost didn't recognize her…" Matsuda added.

Ukyu just laughed nervously. "Ahaha… Thanks… I appreciate your praise…"

"Do you work part-time?" Issei asked curiously.

"Why do you work as a fry cook?" Matsuda asked next.

"How long have you been doing this?" Motohama wanted to know.

Ukyu held up her hands defensively. "Whoa! Guys! Save the questions for later. I need to bring you up to speed for IT classes otherwise you will never catch up!"

The boys calmed down upon hearing that and blushed

"""Sorry…""" the three of them apologized.

Ukyu smiled in response. "It's no problem. Now, here's what you need to know. First…"


18th September, Wednesday, 9:32 am – cafeteria, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"One thing's for sure, I am not going to learn IT," Matsuda said, as he leaned back on his seat.

"Me neither," Issei said as he ate his bread.

"Totally…" Motohama added.

IT classes were interesting – so long as you could understand what the subject matter was all about.

Ukyu had explained what they were learning and although it was still considered elementary, they still could not wrap their heads around it.

But hey! At least, Ukyu was quite the looker!

Oh well… hopefully it would get easier…

"Wait! Don't do this! AH!" a voice screamed while being accompanied by the sound of splashing water.

The boys quickly turned around to see an angry Nakane and what sounded like Sanma with a bucket of water dumped on his head.

"Stupid tomboy!" Sanma angrily said to her before running of while covering his face. The strange thing was that his voice sounded differently…

They simply shook their heads. Must be a routine thing for them… though it was still kind of crazy…

They just hoped they didn't come across something crazier…


18th September, Wednesday, 9:54 am – in the classroom of Class 1-3, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"And now we continue our lesson from last time in Business Economics," said Tatsuki-sensei, who was wearing a bizarre violet business suit, a tie and a Rolex watch that screamed bling-bling.

Issei, Matsuda and Motohama were sitting there with their mouths agape.

They could not believe what they were seeing. Why was Tatsuki-sensei here? And what was with the outfit? And why was he sounding like a stereotypical American fresh out of an anime!?

They got awoken out of their shock by the sound of the Ryuga snapping his fingers.

"Guys! What are you doing?" Ryuga asked them in a whisper.

"Sorry…" Motohama apologized quietly and rubbed the back his head. "We just… just couldn't believe that Tatsuki-sensei would be our teacher here…"

"…and that he would act all… you know…" Issei gestured stealthily to Tatsuki-sensei.

"Yeah, he does that a lot," Ryuga told them. "He also taught PE last year and when he did, he pretended to be a German…"

"A German? Really?" Matsuda dropped a sweat, before chuckling. "What? Did he dress up as a Nazi?" he asked sarcastically.

"That's exactly why he's no longer teaching PE…" Ryuga answered with a sigh.

"""YOU'VE GOT TO BE F****** KIDDING ME!""" the trio screamed in shock and to everyone else's surprise.

"BOYS! Keep quiet or I'll feed you to the sharks!" Tatsuki-sensei threatened them for their misbehavior.

"Sorry, sensei…" Issei apologized for them all with Matsuda and Motohama nodding in agreement.

After that the lesson continued with no issues and was even interesting (today's topic involved business structures). There were some whispers here and there about the trio, but nothing else.

However, now, Issei, Matsuda and Motohama could no longer think of Tatsuki-sensei without thinking about him wearing an SS-uniform.


18th September, Wednesday, 11:31 am – on the campus grounds, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

The trio was walking with Ryuga to hang out outside. It was a bit chilly, but it wasn't unbearably cold.

While they were looking for a place to hang out, suddenly…

"EVERYONE DUCK!" Matsuda called out, leaving the other three to instinctively follow suit.

[Whoosh!] Three throwing knives flew over their heads and landed harmlessly on the grass a good distance away.

The four boys looked at where the knives came from and saw…

"Mouse…" Ryuga growled.

Indeed. The coke-glasses wearing long-haired boy was once again harassing them with knives.

"I told you that I would kill you for ogling my Cat Fu…" Mouse growled.

Issei was getting pissed. He wanted to tell him off, but Ryuga stepped forward.

"Leave them alone, duck boy," Ryuga insulted Mouse.

"Stay out of this, pig boy," Mouse retorted. "Nobody gets away with ogling my Cat Fu."

"Why don't you win her over instead of trying to kill off the competition?" Ryuga snarked back at him.

"Easy for you to say. What about Nakane? Shouldn't you be doing that, instead of turning into her pet pig and groping her?" Mouse sneered at him.

Ryuga growled at that and threw a blow, which Mouse avoided. Mouse pulled out a knife and started slashing, which Ryuga avoided as well. From there on out, it turned into a martial arts spar, which drew onlookers who cheered for one fighter or the other.

The perverted trio was impressed. So, this was how martial artists fought… They were good… very good… they could only wonder if they could ever reach their level…

Though some question did swirl in Issei's mind…

Duck boy? Pig boy? What's with those nicknames? And what did Mouse mean by turning into a pig and groping Nakane?

Before Issei could contemplate this any further, a bonbori came flying out of nowhere and hit Mouse's head from behind, knocking him out.

The culprit was Cat Fu, who looked displeased at Mouse.

"Stupid duck boy! You leave Cat Fu out of your fight! I am not yours!" she scolded him, even though he was unconscious, and went her way.

Ryuga glared at her from behind for interrupting her match and went back to the dumbfounded trio.

"Does this always happen?" Matsuda asked Ryuga, the crowd dispersing in disappointment of the anti-climactic ending of the match.

"Occasionally," Ryuga shrugged as though it wasn't such a big deal.

"Where did she get that thing from?" Issei asked, as he picked up Cat Fu's bonbori and inspected it.

"Beats me. I don't know how Amazons hide their stuff," Ryuga answered. "And that goes for both the duck boy here and Cat Fu."

"Amazons?" Motohama asked this time.

"Yeah. Chinese Amazons. They are warriors from a warrior village," Ryuga answered, as he stretched his arms and let out a yawn. "Don't worry. You'll get used to them."

Issei wanted to ask Ryuga about what Mouse had meant when he said that Ryuga could turn into a pig. But before he could, Issei felt someone yank the bonbori from his hand.

Issei whirled around and saw Cat Fu to his surprise, who put it away.

"Bonbori is mine. You not allowed to keep it," she told Issei sternly and with a glare in her eyes, only to then turn around and go her way once more.

Issei couldn't help but be shocked. Though he also glared at her from behind. She may be cute and have good curves and all, but something about her attitude rubbed him the wrong way.

"Oh, yeah. Issei?" Ryuga addressed him.

"Yeah?" Issei answered.

"If you ever get into a fight with her. Don't take her lightly. In fact, the way you guys are now, I suggest not to provoke her or make her angry," Ryuga advised him.

Issei nodded. As much as he hated to admit it, Ryuga was right. He could tell just by the vibes emanating from her that she was strong. Issei clenched his fists. One day, he would overtake her in strength and ability and then it would be her looking at him in fear.

"Issei? Are you OK, bro?" Motohama asked worried.

Issei looked at him confused at first, only to then laugh it off.

"Yeah. No problem…" Issei answered with his hand rubbing the back of his head.

That was when the bell rang, and they all headed inside.

Issei couldn't help but be surprised at his negative attitude and wonder… Being a pervert was one thing, but… was he jealous over girls being better than him?


18th September, Wednesday, 11:45 am – in the classroom of Class 1-3, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

Now, Issei had to admit that this class was rather weird. Applied Mathematics. Just what kind of name was that? Now, he understood that it was Mathematics combined with Economics or Science or IT, which wasn't such a bad concept. But it was still a weird name.

"GET BACK HERE, THIEF!"

"YEAH, NOBODY STEALS UNDERWEAR ON OUR WATCH!"

"YOU'LL PAY YOU LETCH!"

Everybody's attention turned to the voices outside. They went to the door and looked out and saw…

"WHOOOOOHOOO! WHAAAT AAAA HAAAUUULL!"

…a lovely small bald old man with what seemed to be a huge knapsack hopped through the hallway with an angry group of girls in tow.

"Not again…" Sanma face palmed as he ran after the old man.

The trio looked at Ryuga for explanation.

"That old man was Sanma's grandmaster, Hentai, and he really likes to steal underwear. It's kind of like a hobby for him – that old fletcher," Ryuga spat out in disgust at the old man's antiques.

"OK…" Issei nodded.

He presumed that this was also part of the school's weird antiques and decided to dismiss it. Until something clicked. He had a question. How did that old man steal all that underwear from the girls anyway and come out one step ahead of them?

Though Issei did his best to focus on the lesson, he could not help but ponder about it.

Then again, the day had been hectic and full of events. Not even the English lesson with Asumi-sensei after that could distract him from thinking about it all.


19th September, Thursday, 6:45 am – Hikarigaoka Park, Nerima

[Boost!]

[You're past the five Boost mark! Great job! Now continue to six] Ddraig said delighted.

He finally made it beyond five boosts. Issei had to admit that he never believed that he could get this far. But as the saying goes: No pain, no gain.

Now on to the next five minutes…

"GET LOST!" "Whoa!"

Issei's concentration was broken by the sound of Ryuga shouting. Issei fell down like a clumsy ox to the ground.

[Reset!]

Issei glared at Ryuga after his strength went back to zero.

"Hey! What's the big deal!" Issei reprimanded Ryuga.

"Sorry. I thought I saw someone watching us from the trees…" Ryuga said, as he remained vigilant and wandered his gaze from one tree to the next.

"Well, could you at the very least not shout? I was about to improve my record until you disturbed me!" Issei said grumpily.

"Well… Sooorrrry!" Ryuga answered annoyed and continued his own training, which involved him lifting some heavy rocks.

Issei looked at him in envy. 'Someday… I'll overtake you… I swear I will…'


19th September, Thursday, 10:12 am – Textile room, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"Now, get into your groups and work on your assignments," said Hayashibara-sensei, a red-haired woman with a pig tail. She was a pretty attractive teacher. Not as sexy as Asumi-sensei, but she still was a hot one.

The class had divided themselves into groups and sat at their respective tables in order to do…

"…sewing? Really?" Matsuda dropped a sweat, as he looked upon the fabric in his hands.

"What kind of purpose is there in learning all this?" Issei asked Ryuga, as he too inspected the fabric along with the sewing machine.

"I think it had to do with fashion designing…" Ryuga answered.

"Really?" Motohama dropped a sweat.

"Uhuh…" Ryuga affirmed.

After a moment of awkward silence, the boys went to work. It was decided that Ryuga would lead the boys in giving them directions on what to do, since he was the most experienced in this. Matsuda would do the measuring, Motohama would do the cutting and Issei would get the material needed for the assignment.

After a few minutes, they made progress and made…

"What's that supposed to be?" said Sanma with a mischievous grin.

"It's supposed to be a glove, Raotome. Can't you tell?" Ryuga replied annoyed, as he showed

"Haha! It looks tiny to me. Ya making it for a baby?" Sanma said mockingly.

Ryuga fumed at this. He wanted to clobber him but decided on turning his attention to Sanma's work. He could see Cat Fu, Ukyu and Nakane working their best on making a shirt. Sanma noticed Ryuga's gaze and smirked.

"Ya see that? This is how ya do it!" Sanma pointed a thumb at the girls.

"Pff… Yeah, let the girls do the dirty work… I bet if you were the one doing the job, you wouldn't be laughing…" Ryuga sneered.

"Hey! They insisted on doing this…" Sanma said nonchalantly while shrugging his shoulders.

Meanwhile, the three girls were glaring and even arguing with each other, while working.

"He is my fiancé and that's that," Nakane told Ukyu and Cat Fu.

"No, Sanma my fiance. He defeat me and so is Airen," Cat Fu argued back in heavily accented Japanese.

"No way! You two couldn't hold a candle to me! I am San-chan's fiancee! I've known him before any of you did!" Ukyu said out loud angrily.

Suddenly, the sound of crashing was heard. The girls and everybody in class turned and saw Issei, Matsuda and Motohama crash to the ground. And then they heard them wail.

"WAAAHHHH! This isn't fair!" Motohama cried out.

"FIRST, THE TOMBOY! THEN THE CHINESE CHICK! AND NOW UKYU! WAAAHHH!" Matsuda wailed.

"YOU ARE A PRICK! YOU KNOW THAT, RAOTOME!?" Issei shouted.

"QUIET DOWN! You boys will behave! Or you will head to detention!" Hayashibara-sensei told the trio with authority.

"""Sorry, ma'am…""" the boys said in unison as they got up and took their seats. They resumed their work quietly.

Sanma simply gave them a look of annoyance, before turning his face to Ryuga one more time.

"Ya new friends sure are weird, ain't they?" Sanma remarked before going back to his table.

Ryuga simply sighed. "Yeah… I know…"


19th September, Thursday, 11:50 am – Computer room, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

After the break had ended, they found themselves in the computer room once more. Why? Because of…

"…Media Design classes? Now that sounds… pretty cool…" Issei nodded and seemed legitimately interested.

What's more, the topic is creating logos for advertisements – quite an interesting topic.

Their teacher was once again Hayashibara-sensei, who had a watchful eye on any disturbances that might occur.

Anyway, designing things on the computer was rather fun for Issei, Matsuda and Motohama. They could easily consider this the best class they had so far. It would have been the perfect double period ever, had it not been for Sanma and his lovers wrangling over him.

"You not good enough to be partner. I better!" Cat Fu said to Nakane.

"What does someone from an isolated village like you know about computers? I am the one who is best suited for Sanma," Nakane argued.

"Please! We all know, you have poor grades in Media Designing. Obviously, I should be Sanma's partner," Ukyu pointed out.

"In your dreams!" Nakane shot back angrily.

"In all your dreams! Airen belongs to me!" Cat Fu insisted.

Sanma said nothing, instead trying his best to stay out of the fight and hope the three of them calm down.

The trio could not help but feel jealous once again.

"Why does he always get all the girls?" Issei mumbled.

"Totally! What's so special about him?" Matsuda added.

"You know, I ask myself that every day and I still don't know why," Ryuga said while glaring at Sanma.

Just then, the class was interrupted by the sound of loud laughter coming from outside.

"OHOHOHOHOHO!"

That was when a black-haired girl with a ponytail and a... green leotard… came landing on the windowsill.

"Ko-Komachi!" Sanma called out startled.

"OHOHO! I have come to see you, Darling. OHOHOHO!" the girl named Komachi said with an abnormal laughter.

The whole class fixed their attention on the girl class had mainly three reactions. Some were just staring blankly. Others were looking at her with lust. And others were glaring at her angrily, like Ukyu, Nakane and Cat Fu.

"You get away from him, you lunatic!" Nakane shouted at Komachi.

"Airen have me! Has no need of you!" Cat Fu shouted as well.

"Yeah, so get lost!" Ukyu told her angrily.

Komachi glared at the three girls with annoyance. "Oh, how very unlucky of me to see you three here… Oh well, I shall take my leave… I hope to see you again, dearest Sanma! OHOHOHO!" Komachi leapt off the windowsill and used her… gymnastics ribbon… to swing from one place to the other.

While the class stared at Komachi swinging away, the perverted trio were in the fourth category. Depression.

"Not another one…" Issei moaned.

"Just how lucky is this guy?" Motohama wailed.

"A gymnast… he has a gymnast as a girlfriend… I wish I had her…" Matsuda sobbed comically.

Ryuga was in category five. Not focused on Komachi, but more worried at the trio's sanity.

"Are you guys all right?" Ryuga dropped a sweat.

The perverted trio would remain depressed for the rest of the day, even though Asumi-sensei was teaching History in their class. Even that could not cheer them up.


20th September, Friday, 7:31 am – Hikarigaoka Park, Nerima

Thankfully, time heals all wounds and the boys were back to their usual routine of training. By now, Issei was already learning some sparring with Ryuga. Thanks to the Boosted Gear, he was able to last as well as he did. Matsuda and Motohama not so much… but they were still learning…

Then again, Issei wondered whether they could ever catch up with him in physical strength. Having a Sacred Gear with the power to kill gods did give Issei massive advantages – in many ways someone without one could only dream of achieving…

But no time to worry about that. He needed to get ready for school. Ryuga had already gone ahead. He said he had things to do there and…

[Whoosh!]

Suddenly, Issei felt wind pass by him, like somebody was rushing past him. And for some reason, he felt like something was missing inside his pants…

"AAAAAGH!" a shout came from a distance. Issei ignored the weird feeling he had and rushed straight to the source.

The one shouting was a flustered Motohama, who was clutching his crotch area for some reason.

"Dude! What's wrong?" Issei asked concerned.

"I don't know! One moment I was training and the next moment, my underwear was gone!" Motohama said.

That was when Issei widened his eyes and put his hand under his pants… Oh no!

"Mine is gone, too!" Issei cried out in embarrassment.

"AGH! NOOO!" they heard Motohama screaming, too.

Issei and Matsuda ran to Motohama and saw that he also had his underwear stolen from him.

"Was your underwear stolen from you as well?" Matsuda asked the blushing Motohama.

"As well? Don't tell me…" Motohama began.

"Unfortunately…" Issei answered with a blush.

[And that is why dragons don't have underwear… hihihi…] Ddraig joked and laughed from the Boosted Gear.

"SHUT THE FRIGG UP, LIZARD!" Issei yelled at Ddraig.

Matsuda and Motohama glared at the Boosted Gear but said nothing to him and turned back to the conversation at hand.

"What are we going to do?" asked Motohama.

"We could go look for our underwear…" Issei suggested.

But Matsuda shook his head. "No time! We've got to get to school!"

"Yeah, but…" Issei wanted to argue at how uncomfortable that made him, but Matsuda cut him off.

"It's too late to do anything about it. Besides, we're wearing pants, so it's not like someone is going to peek at us from below or anything," Matsuda reasoned.

Issei and Motohama were still skeptical but felt like they had no other choice. They took their bags and hurried to school – at least as well as they could without underwear in their pants.


20th September, Friday, 8:05 am – manufacturing room, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

The trio arrived in class acting as normally as they could. But walking around with every step felt weird for them. They may have been perverts, but they were not exhibitionists! At least they were sitting down now, so at least things would not get out of hand.

Anyway, they had other things to focus their minds on, such as Craftsmanship classes with Yamagishi-sensei. Now, Yamagishi-sensei was a small thin man with signs of baldness. He was not only their Craftsmanship teacher but also their teacher in Practiced Physics, which they would have after PE lessons.

"Now, Hide-san, Hide-san and Hide-san," Yamagishi-sensei addressed the perverted trio. "You three will work with Raotome-san here and continue on his project."

The trio was shocked and so was Sanma. Sanma raised his hand.

"Sensei! Why can't ya let me do my project by myself? I can do fine on my own," Sanma spoke.

"Because, Raotome-san, this is a group effort of four. You should be working together with others and learn how to get along with them, something I know you have been lacking in my lessons," Yamagishi-sensei pointed out.

"Yeah. But can't ya at least let me work together with…" Sanma glanced over to Nakane, Ukyu and Cat Fu. But Yamagishi-sensei was having none of it.

"No, they already are a group together with Nabiki-san, so it is out of the question," Yamagishi-sensei pointed out.

Ryuga was smirking at Sanma who was glaring back at him. Cat Fu, Nakane and Ukyu just sighed much to Ryuga's dismay. And Issei, Matsuda and Motohama were glaring at Ryuga as well.

'Traitor…' Issei thought.

'How dare that guy abandon us for some cute girls?' Matsuda grumbled inwardly.

'As though this day did not start bad enough!' Motohama thought annoyed, still worried about his missing undergarment.

"Oh! And seeing that you are almost done with your own project, Raotome-san," Yamagishi-sensei quickly added. "I recommend that you quickly finish yours and start a new one with the Hide brothers. And as for the rest of the class, you have until next week to finish yours before we move on."

Sanma groaned. "Why me…?"

"Because you are so good at it. Now get moving," the Craftsmanship teacher said, ending the conversation here and there.

And thus, the perverted trio had to work together with Sanma on their new project. But first they had to wait until he was finished with his first project, which was…

"…a miniature train set!?" Matsuda voiced in surprise.

Indeed. It was a train with three wagons, made of wood and connected to suspenders. One wagon was about 30 cm long, 7,5 cm wide and 15 cm tall from the wheels to the roof. And all of it looked well-crafted…

"You guys don't do anything. I just wanna do the final touches," Sanma told the boys neutrally and got to work on the wheels, which… could roll?

Holy crap! Just how good was Sanma in this!?

Within a few minutes of observing, Sanma was done and presented his work to the teacher.

"Good job, once more. Now, you can work with the Hide brothers on a new project," Yamagishi-sensei instructed Sanma.

"Do I really have to…?" Sanma groaned to which the short teacher nodded.

Sanma went back to the trio and sat down at his seat.

"All right. How good are ya three in workin' with wood?" Sanma asked tired, making it clear he did not enjoy being in their company.

The trio felt the same way but felt the need to swallow whatever dislike they had about the pig-tailed boy and cooperate.

"Not much." "Me neither." "Can't say that I ever have."

Sanma sighed. Amateurs.

"All right. Here's the deal. We'll make a small project simple enough for ya three to do. My proposal is that each of ya make a small shelf for themselves. It's simple and should not take long…" Sanma instructed the three of them.

Issei, Matsuda and Motohama nodded along. They've never done something like this before, so they decided that listening to Sanma was the best choice. Besides, how hard could making a shelf possibly be?


20th September, Friday, 8:45 am – manufacturing room, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

It turned out that it was more difficult than they imagined.

"Don't put strength into yer sawing! All ya gonna do is break the wood crudely. Saw it gentler."

"Use sandpaper to round off the edges. Don't tire on it."

"Make sure ya blow off the sawdust. And make sure the positions of the nails are correct."

It turned out that not only were doing things wrong but Sanma was constantly looking over their shoulder and telling them what to do. That… was so… irritating! Every few minutes, he had something to complain about! It was just a simple shelf (or three). Why was making one such a big deal? Why on earth did they have to be grouped together with him?

To be fair there were rules about craftsmanship that Issei, Matsuda and Motohama did not know about, such as the ones Sanma hammered into them. But it was still annoying!

And if that was not enough, they had to do most of the work while standing. And with their underwear gone… The trio was crying internally.

'Why always us…?' Matsuda wailed with his face barely keeping his emotions in check from bawling like a baby.

'I hate this!' Motohama screamed internally in frustration, equally trying as hard as he could from bawling as well.

'First, our underwear is gone. Next, we end up working under Sanma like slaves, while Ryuga is hanging out with the ladies…' Issei ranted in his mind.

[Your next words are going to be: Could this day possibly get any worse?] Ddraig suddenly spoke in Issei's mind.

"Could this day possibly get any wor-?" Issei accidentally said out loud, making him startled upon realizing of what he just said.

[You said the forbidden words!] Ddraig laughed.

What happened next startled everyone in class.

[BAM!]

"DAMN YOU, DDRAIG!" Issei shouted out loud, while slamming a fist against a cupboard in frustration of being trolled.

This led to the unfortunate consequence of fate proving itself to Issei once again. For Issei hit the cupboard so hard that it fell on… Cat Fu! Ukyu, Ryuga and Nakane managed to dodge in time. But Cat Fu was facing away from the cupboard and thus was like a deer caught in the headlights.

[BOOM!] "AIYA!"

Cat Fu could only cry out as the cupboard impacted on her.

Then there was silence in the class. Everyone turned to stare at Issei, who looked scared and nervous at the blunder he had caused. He wanted to defend himself until…

[BOOOOOM!] An even louder boom broke the cupboard into many pieces, as Cat Fu rose to her feet angrily.

"YOU!" Cat Fu pointed at Issei. "YOU DO THIS! YOU HUMILIATE CAT FU! I'LL KILL YOU!"

"Oh, dear grandpa, who is in Heaven…" Issei swore, as he turned his eyes to heaven for a short prayer.


20th September, Friday, 8:50 am – in the hallways of Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"GET BACK HERE!"

"YAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

A wild goose chase was happening in the school hallway and right now, Issei was the goose and Cat Fu was the… giant cat (I had to make something up!).

Issei looked behind him and could see that Cat Fu was out for his blood. She even had…

…*gasp*!

"CAT FU CUT YOU INTO PIECES!" she screamed with a Chinese sword in her hand.

"HELP! SHE IS TRYING TO KILL ME!" Issei screamed, as he ran upstairs.

However, Cat Fu was in hot pursuit and was getting closer.

Issei was getting panicky. If she got to him, he was dead! Issei had to think of something! Something to get him away from this mess! Only, what could…?

[BAM!] "OUCH!" "YOW!"

Suddenly, Issei bumped into someone while rounding at a corner. As he opened his eyes, Issei saw a noteworthy sight.

"Eh?"

Issei saw on the floor what seemed to be lots of boys' underwear on a pile on top of a piece of cloth. And among them was his own! But how did it get here?

That was when his eyes wandered to the figure of a small old man trying to get his bearings.

"OW! You know, boy, that hurt!" the old man groaned. "You should watch where you're going!"

But Issei paid his words no heed. Instead, he thought back at when he and his buddies lost their underwear this morning… and then at how he saw an old man run away with this knapsack and an angry horde of girls in tow… and what Ryuga had told him about that old man and his love for stealing underwear…

It clicked.

That little troll wasn't stealing girls' underwear. He was stealing boys' underwear! The whole reason for this mess…

And Issei reacted.

"YOU PIECE OF S***! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Issei shouted and lunged at him.

But the old man reacted fast. Within a blink of an eye, he disappeared, leaving the pile of underwear behind, and swooped past him and to who knows where.

"Ugh!" Issei grunted, as he fell with a thud unto the floor for some reason.

That was when Cat Fu caught up, ready to kill Issei.

"YOU! I KI-! YAGH!" Cat Fu froze in her tracks with widened eyes and gaping mouth.

Issei wondered why she froze until he realized…

His pants was down to his ankles! And seeing that he had no underwear on…

Issei blushed and quickly covered his crotch but the damage had already been done.

The shock was too much for Cat Fu and she fell down unconscious.

"Oh, great! There goes my school life!" Issei cursed, as he scrambled to get his underwear and put it on before someone else saw him.


20th September, Friday, 9:36 am – on campus grounds, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

It was not a pleasant experience.

The vice-principal, Yusa Misai, demanded to know from him, Yamagishi-sensei and the now awake Cat Fu what had happened. Cat Fu angrily told the principal about how Issei pushed down a cupboard on her and how Issei then proceeded to flash her with his manhood in the hallway.

Yamagishi-sensei confirmed only the first past of her account.

Issei vigorously defended himself, saying that all this was an accident and related to everything he saw, including the panty thief and how he didn't have any underwear on him all day because of him.

Issei now regretted that last statement, seeing that it led to gawks and stares.

In the end, Issei was told to sit in detention until next Friday. Cat Fu was punished as well for bringing and using a sword in school. She, too, was sent to detention until next Friday.

Before the vice-principal dismissed them, she told them both to improve their behavior or else they would face suspension.

Issei left her office and headed back to class, only to find out that it had already ended. He met up with Matsuda, Motohama and Ryuga and enjoying lunch with them. They were currently seated on some benches and had almost fallen over from laughter at what Issei told them.

"WAHAHAHAHAHAAA!" Matsuda, Motohama and Ryuga were keeling over and laughing themselves to death.

"Oh, come on! That wasn't funny!" Issei yelled at them angrily with a blushing face.

"WAHAHAHA… SO-SO-RRY! WAHAHAHAHA! IT'S JUST… TOO FUNNY! WAHAHAHAHA!" Ryuga howled in laughter.

"TOTALLY! AHAHAHAHA!" Matsuda laughed in agreement.

Issei gritted his teeth irritated. But it was then that he realized something.

He smirked. And pulled out something from his pants pockets.

Matsuda, Motohama and Ryuga stopped laughing.

"What are those?" Ryuga asked, while wiping a tear from his eye after calming down.

"What these? Those are the underwear of the not-underwear-wearing Matsuda and Motohama here," Issei answered with a smug look on his face.

Ryuga looked at them both in shock. As for Matsuda and Motohama, they blushed furiously and then shouted at Issei in anger.

"YOU SON OF A…" "HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT!?"

"What comes around, comes around," Issei simply replied.

After that Matsuda and Motohama went to the bathroom to put their underwear on.

Issei, now alone with Ryuga, simply asked him. "So… What did I miss in class?"


20th September, Friday, 10:03 am – in the gym, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"Get moving, boys!" Shu-sensei, a bulky bald man with a moustache and sun glasses, yelled, getting the boys to run.

It was PE class and the boys were running laps around the hallway.

The perverted trio had to sigh. If only, they had known…

…then they could have watched the girls undress… but all that drama about losing their underwear and then retrieving it made them forget all about it. Pretty ironic, come to think of it…

Even stranger was the fact that when it came to dealing with that old leather from earlier, it turned out that the girls were the ones chasing him, even though it was the boys' underwear. Why? Probably because the boys were lazy or even inattentive.

But worrying about it did nothing, so they set their minds back on gym class…

Fortunately, for Issei, Matsuda and Motohama, they had been quite fit – and some of the fastest in class. Their morning runs truly paid off.

Unfortunately, though…

"I'M FASTER THAN YOU, PORK BOY!"

"NO WAY! I AM!"

…sigh… Sanma and Ryuga were the fastest. None of them could figure out who was faster, so they figured they were equally fast. But those two just couldn't leave it at running…

"HA!" "ATAH!"

…they had to punch and kick at each other, too! They watched them dodge and block and counter each other's attacks… Did they really have to show off?

"WATAH!" "OUCH!"

Did they really have to punch Matsuda in the face, too?

Matsuda somehow found himself between them and smashed in the face by both Ryuga and Sanma, leading him to collapse and tumble before lying still.

""MATSUDA!"" Issei and Motohama cried out.

The whole class stopped running and gathered around Matsuda. They made sure that the unconscious and bleeding Matsuda was carried to the nurse's office. And as for who was at fault…

"YOU TWO! CAN'T YOU TWO EVER STOP YOUR FIGHTING!?" Shu-sensei shouted at Sanma and Ryuga.

"But it ain't my fault, sensei! Ryuga was the one!" Issei blamed the bandana boy.

"No way! Sanma's the one!" Ryuga pointed at Issei.

"YOU ARE BOTH AT FAULT! YOU TWO STARTED THIS FIGHT AND NOW YOU WILL SIT ON THE BENCH UNTIL I COME BACK!" Shu-sensei shouted before leaving the gym.

Issei could not help but worry and wonder.

Worry because Matsuda was out like a light. Wonder because of Shu-sensei had in store for them.


20th September, Friday, 1:43 pm – in the school infirmary, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"Ugh…" Matsuda awoke with a groan.

The first thing he saw was the white ceiling and when he propped himself up, he could see Motohama sitting on a chair. Upon seeing him awaken, Motohama could not help but be relieved.

"Thank goodness, dude! You're awake!" Motohama said in relief.

"Wha…? Where…?" Matsuda mumbled.

"You're in the nurse's office. You were brought here after Ryuga and Sanma knocked you out. You were lucky! The way you got hit looked quite painful. You were even bleeding! Thank God, that's been taken care of," Motohama answered Matsuda in detail.

Matsuda felt himself and winced in pain. He had bandages on his head where they had injured him. He bet he looked like a mummy.

"How long have I been out?" Matsuda wanted to know.

Motohama looked at the clock hanging in the room before turning back to Motohama.

"About four and a half hours," Motohama answered.

"I see… and where's Issei?" Matsuda asked next.

"In detention – along with that Cat Fu chick and Sanma and Ryuga. Sanma and Ryuga were also sent to detention for what they did to you today," Motohama replied.

"Oh…" Matsuda voiced in surprise. He remembered the fact that Issei still had to serve out his punishment for dropping that cupboard on Cat Fu.

But to think that Ryuga and Sanma would be in detention, too – along with Cat Fu? That really was peculiar.

Speaking of Cat Fu, Matsuda hoped Issei would not get torn into shreds there because of her.

"And to think all of that would happen in one day…" Matsuda said to himself out loud.

"Huh?" Motohama voiced confused.

"No, no… I wasn't talking to you. I was… just thinking to myself about just how much chaos could happen in one day," Matsuda reminisced.

Motohama recovered from his shock and leaned on his arm propped on a nearby table and nodded.

"I agree. Back when we were at Kuoh Academy, the only chaos we ever had to deal with was peeping and being beaten up by the Kendo Club. Now, we get into fights, chaos, trouble, embarrassing or comical situations – without the peeping. It really sucks!" Motohama complained.

"Yeah, I agree but… is the current situation really that bad? I mean, yeah. There was all that stuff but there also were a lot of interesting and funny situations, too – especially the people here. Where else can you find people like Ryuga or guys like… um… the ones with the Marijuana…" Matsuda tried to remember their names.

"You mean Daisuke and Hiroshi?" Motohama asked.

"Yeah, them! My point is, I really like this place, don't you?" Matsuda asked Motohama.

Motohama had to think for a bit. After a few moments, he answered.

"Yeah, I guess I do, too," Motohama answered.

After that they ran out of things to say.

"Oh, I forgot!" Motohama suddenly remembered and brought out his school file. "Our last lesson for today was Practiced Physics. Here are the papers for it and this is our homework."

Matsuda sighed in fatigue. "Really? Homework? And what's Practiced Physics anyway?"

"Something about Physics is used in our Craftsmanship and PE lessons and how we are supposed to apply it if we were to go into those fields in the future," Motohama answered.

"Ugh… I… just give me a break! I've got had enough Practiced Physics for one day. I just go punched by overwhelming physical forces from both sides just today!" Matsuda half complained and half joked, leading Motohama to laugh out loud.


20th September, Friday, 1:56 pm – in the detention room, Furinkan Vocational School, Nerima

"YOU WERE THE ONE WHO THREW THE FIRST BLOW!"

"YEAH, BUT YOU WERE THE ONE WHO TRIED TO DO IT FIRST! I WAS JUST DEDENDING MYSELF!"

"I win again!"

"Dang it!"

"Airen! I love you! I have you all by myself!"

Issei groaned at his detention mates.

Sanma and Ryuga were arguing once again about who was to blame for their mess.

Hiroshi and Daisuke were playing poker and Hiroshi was winning constantly for some reason.

Cat Fu was glomping Sanma and declaring her love to him, even when the latter was ignoring her.

Issei tried his best to wait until the end of detention by sleeping but the noise made that difficult…

[And you are back in jail]

…and Ddraig did not make this any easier.

'Shut up! This is your fault! If you weren't trying to channel Joseph Joestar's trolling, I wouldn't be here!' Issei angrily replied mentally.

[But you have to admit it was a good one] Ddraig said mischievously.

'Not when it gets me into trouble like now!' Issei argued back.

Issei ended the conversation right there and tried to take a nap. But he couldn't because of the noise.

"Somebody knock me out!" Issei demanded to no one in particular.

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?" Ryuga yelled at Sanma.

"PERVERTED PIG! CAUSE YA LIKE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT TO SLEEP ON NAKANE'S LAP WITHOUT HER KNOWING!" Sanma shouted back.

"SANMA, PREPARE TO DIE!" Ryuga suddenly raised his table and threw it at Sanma, only for him to dodge and hit…

"OUCH!"

…Issei instead, who fell into a painful but much desired sleep.

'Finally…' was Issei's last thought before losing consciousness.


And that was the filler chapter of The Lone Vigilante Issei.

Now, originally I had planned to have the boys merely go through the daily school lessons, so as to give us an idea on what their classes were and who their teachers were. The parts involving their new training routine was something I added in later.

The part where Issei convinces Ryuga to train them was also something I inadvertently added in. Its drama felt kind of out of place in a chapter that is supposed to be comedic but I guess what's done is what's done.

For those who know Ranma ½ will definitely have enjoyed seeing their lookalikes. If you had wanted to see more, you would have to wait, since this chapter went way beyond what I had planned.

Also, it took me significant effort to figure out just what these characters were going to be like and what they were going to do. After all, while they were supposed to be similar to their original characters, they are still different characters in general – especially the grandmaster, who is into male underwear instead of female ones.

The character designs for the teachers were completely original and so were their quirks, except Hayashibara-sensei (look up the name and who the person with this name voiced).

I hope I didn't disappoint you with the long wait. I really hope I work on the next chapter fast enough to get it out and if not, my profile will give more details.

What did you think about this chapter?

Please read and review. I would like to hear from you.

Before I end this chapter, let me throw in this one scene before I leave.


20th September, Friday, 5:35 pm – in the hallway, Kuoh Academy, Kuoh

It was late and everybody was going home. That included the Kendo Club.

Murayama and Katase had just finished dressing up and were on their way home.

While on their way through the hallway, Murayama stepped on a newspaper.

Both girls frowned. Could this school ever be kept clean? There was enough dirt on campus, did they have to litter the hallway? Add Aika Kiryu's weird campus antiques to the mix and you had nuisances in abundance.

Katase picked it up and threw it in the nearest bin and walked home with Murayama.

Had they taken they taken the time to read the newspaper, they would have discovered the headline "Mysteriously Large Feathers found in Tokyo - Uber-giant vultures living in Tokyo?"


I hope to see you next time.

Until then.

Hide Shinyama