Chapter 2

Thursday, September 2, 2022

Six in the morning, my internal clock wakes me up. Strangely, I feel that my futon is warmer than usual. I turn my head, and encounter something soft and fluffy, pleasant to the touch. I open my eyes slowly and...

"Hn-mm hmm?"

what I just touched is none other than Haruko's chest. I realize it now, but her arms are around my head, using me as a cushion and my right arm is between her legs.

I turn around slowly and see Inaho sleeping peacefully, using my left arm as a pillow.

(What is this? Why are they here? Calm down, there's no reason to stress)

I sit up and stretch to wake up fully, which wakes up the two intruders and look at me with wide eyes.

"Hello you two, say, can you please come out, I'd like to get ready." I ask them with a threatening smile.

The cheeks completely red, they leave in a hurry taking the time to slide correctly the sliding door and close it.

With a sigh, I get up, put away my futon and put on my workout clothes. I go out and head to the dojo, which is at the back of the garden. As I live in a traditional Japanese house, all the windows are openable, I just have to get out of my room, slide one of the windows, and go out. This is the cycle of my days, I get up, warm up in the dojo and at night before going to bed, I continuously train my magic circuits.

We are at the beginning of Autumn, and it is already cold, but nothing to worry about.

After I finish workout for about 30 minutes, I go back to my room and get dressed in my school clothes. I hear the doorbell, as always, Sakura arrives right on time, although she will be surprised to see my... new roommates.

I slowly move towards the living room, gently slide the sliding door...

As I enter, I see Sakura sitting on a cushion at the table, not very comfortable with the situation. She notices me immediately and wants to say something but Haruko is the first to speak to me.

"Hello Senji, sorry about this morning..."

"Hnn-mm, by the way what were you two doing on my futon?"

Sakura's jaw drops when she hears my words.

"Ah... I'm really sorry about that... I just couldn't wrap my head around the idea of you sleeping alone on the other side of the house. Because of that, I couldn't sleep a wink all night..."

"But Haruko-senpai, Senji has always slept there..." Sakura tries to help me, to no avail.

"But I was worried! I think I was so tired when I came to see you, that I fell asleep on your futon..."

"And I was worried about you Takeru-sama, because you must have been lonely!" Inaho approaches me, tears filling her cheeks.

( How innocent...) "Like Sakura said, I've been sleeping there and alone in that house for a long time now, it's going to be okay, right?" I explain to them, wiping her tears with a handkerchief that Sakura gave me.

Haruko looks at me as if embarrassed by something.

'As for the feeling of insecurity I had towards Senji-chan, it was only one of the reasons that kept me from sleeping...' she thought, turning her head towards Inaho, still crying.

Just as the girls seem to be calming down, I hear the front door open violently, and someone running in our direction.

"Ohhh, my Senji! so it's true that Minori stuck you with roommates! Plus all girls! oh no!" Fuji-nee comes in bawling, taking me in her arms.

"Ah... yes, hello Fuji-nee, I guess she told you about it."

"I did everything I could to get her to cancel the whole operation, but it was too late, believe me!" she says, a little too dramatically.

"It's okay, I'll survive it..."

"Yes but not me, knowing you with young women in the prime of life, in the middle of puberty, I would rather not know..."

"Ok that's enough you go too far." I stop her from talking more.

"Um... Hello Fujimura-sensei..." Haruko bends down respectfully, embarrassed by what Fuji-nee just said.

"Oh so you are the owner of the place! Hello Fujimura-sensei, and thank you for letting us live here!" Inaho follows Haruko's lead still crying.

"Ahhh, yes hello girls and welcome, but I prefer to be direct with you, please be careful, this house is extremely important to both of us." explains Fuji-nee, putting her hand on my shoulder.

Inaho and Haruko look at each other, and lean in a second time.

"Of course, you can count on us!" Haruko replies.

Fuji-nee breathes a sigh of relief, but is still not comfortable leaving me alone with them.

"Um, Fujimura-sensei, are you sure there's nothing you can do?" asked Sakura, still in shock at the news.

"Oh Sakura, I know how you feel, but no, the principal is way too strong..."

(It's getting way too dramatic again...)

"By the way, what are you cooking ?" I approach the kitchen, but Haruko stops me from passing.

"You can go sit down Senji, we'll take care of everything, after all, you're welcoming us nicely, so we want to help!"

Beside her, Inaho, nods briskly.

I can only accept and sit in my seat.

"Then I want to, but not all the time" pouts Fuji-nee.

The two girls in the kitchen turn around, surprised.

"That's very nice of you, but Sakura's and especially Senji's cooking is excellent, it's my little privilege so you won't take it away !"

(She can really be a child when she puts her mind to it...)

"I agree with Fujimura-sensei, It was Senpai who taught me to cook and I still have a lot to learn, so we will continue to cook, right Senpai!?"

Fuji-nee and Sakura are staring at me.

"Indeed, I don't mind letting you use the kitchen from time to time, but I really like to cook so I hope you will share..."

Seeing my distress, Haruko and Inaho accept, with I imagine, a certain curiosity.

While breakfast is being prepared calmly, Haruko seems to concentrate on something else.

'Here, by the way... we were so busy I forgot to tell her about it...' Haruko looks at Inaho, who is cutting onions, crying her eyes out. 'Regarding her magic item... and her commitment to Senji-chan...'

"This... um... Inaho-chan can you give me a hand?"

Inaho turns her head towards Haruko, then realizes something.

"Ah, where is kodama-senpai? Is she still sleeping?"

"I think... would you like to go wake her up?"

"Let me do it... Waking people up is my specialty!" declares Inaho with conviction.

'Didn't she hear me when I called her or what?' wonders Haruko.

Inaho goes towards the sliding door, which opens of itself, letting see Kodama... in transparent lingerie, letting see her underwear.

"Tchhhh... What's all the fuss!? I really can't stand the noise this early in the morning!" she said with a yawn.

Everyone looks at her, embarrassed by Kodama's outfit, Sakura puts her hands before my eyes. Everybody except Inaho who welcomes her.

"Ah Good morning Kodama-senpai!"

"Himegami-san look at you! look at you!" haruko calls to Kodama, who is rather slow to respond.

"Hmm ?"

She looks at herself, not understanding the problem. Then turns her head towards us, specifically towards me, who still has hands in front of my eyes, but I guess my presence is enough of a problem.

"Hmnn..."

(Damn she's really slow on the uptake...)

"Hmmmm ! !?"

(Oh, that's it.. I'm going to get hit hard...)

"Ah I see... once is not enough for you, you want more!"

"Eh ?"

"How would you like a little purification session?"

Fortunately for me, this moment does not arrive, because Fuji-nee interferes of a blow.

"What do you think you're doing dressed like that young lady! Go change immediately!" She orders, pushing Kodama out of the living room.

A few minutes later, Kodama returned, dressed more appropriately.

"My sexy side has lost its splendor since you checked me out!"

Preferring not to say anything, I focus my eyes on the breakfast. Typically Japanese. rice, grilled fish, natto and miso soup, accompanied by green tea.

"Come on everyone, hurry up and eat or it will get cold!" said Haruko, ready to start.

"Yes go ahead!" adds Inaho, with a bowl of rice twice the size of ours "In any case it is delicious... Haruko-senpai is a true cordon bleu!"

"That's because you helped me Inaho-chan!"

"Okay... I'll go for it then..." I take my chopsticks and start with the grilled fish. "Mmm!"

"So? It's better than before, don't you think?" asks Haruko.

"Ah...yeah."

(Plus... it brings back... good memories.)

"It's good for you that...huh! To be complimented by your darling Senji-chan! It's really delicious!" Teases Kodama.

"Himegami-san! Stop it with that will you!?" asked Haruko, her face reddened.

"By the way this clock... Isn't it three quarters of an hour late?"

Kodama points to the clock above the TV. I look at it worriedly, knowing very well that it is on time. It says 7:28 a.m.

"Eh?!" exclaimed Fuji-nee, Sakura, Haruko and myself.


Preparing in haste, we run at high speed through the narrow streets of Fuyuki.

"Hnn Why am I late too?" complains Kodama.

"Maybe because we are in the same house!" Inaho seems to be having a lot of fun with the situation.

"hah hah lateness is not accepted !" Haruko, at the head of the course, is well and truly stressed.

"I can't believe that Fuji-nee made us late, and on top of that she allows herself to leave on a scooter..." I mumble, annoyed.

"You can't *huff* blame Fujimura-sensei, Senpai, *huff* she cares about you." Sakura, on the other hand, is out of breath.

"Hey you ! Already in the rush from the new semester. Are you trying to stir up the flame of anger in your beloved Minori-chan's heart or what?"

"Principal?"

The principal stands in front of the gate pointing at us with a closed fan.

"Okay, Senji and three girls are safe!"

"Ah... Sakura-chan is..." Inaho looks back seeing Sakura left in the back.

"Ah, but what is she doing!?" Haruko turns around in response.

I see Sakura breathless, near the entrance, I decide to put my bag and run to help her.

"It seems like there's nothing we can do about it. But the rules are the rules," Minori announced.

Kodama, slowly, raises two fingers, to command one of the spirits to move towards Sakura.

"Using a shikigami can cause an explosion you know!?" the spirit complains. "Hmmph !"

With a simple movement, the spirit lifts Sakura into the air, and throws her towards the gate.

"heh?" general surprise.

"What!?" exclaimed Sakura, Haruko and Inaho.

By pure instinct, I run and catch Sakura before she falls on the ground.

"Himegami-san !?" Haruko turns to Kodama, then moves towards us, worried. "Senji-chan, Sakura-chan, are you okay?!"

"Cool, she made it..." said Kodama with a straight face

"Ah... sort of..." Sakura, still in shock, clings to my clothes, still in my arms. "What was that just now?"

"These are the powers of himegami-san... invisibility." Haruko explains. "As the name implies, she has the power to use an invisible force capable of moving objects as she wishes."

(Invisibility? but yet... wait, am I the only one who can see her spirits ?)

"To put it simply, you can call it telekinesis."

"Tch... You're taking the words out of my mouth..."

I help Sakura to her feet, then I look at Kodama, who stares at me with predatory eyes.

(those eyes... they have the same expression as last time.)

"Haruko-san!"

An unknown voice is heard. I turn to the voice to see an average height teenage girl with orange-blonde hair that braided into a ring that hangs from the back of her head that has a bun where the braid meets her head with bangs hanging over the left side of her head, dark pink eyes and red rimmed glasses.

"You're the vice president of student council...being borderline late is not a good example to set for freshmen. You need to know that! More importantly, today we have a check-up to go through... You were the one who told me you wanted to lead the boys..."

"Ahaha, my deepest apologies..."

"Haru-nee, who is that?" I ask quietly.

"One of the student council chairs."

(One?) As I think to myself, I see that the president is looking at me with a look of disgust. (What did I do?)

Without waiting, she grabs Haruko by the collar and leaves.

"Anyway, hurry up and come !"

"Well, have a great day everyone!" Haruko waves at us.

"Sakura-sama, Senji-sama, are you sure you didn't break anything?" asked Inaho worried.

"Yes everything is fine thanks to Senpai."

"I'll be fine thanks."

"phew!"

"If you're not looking for a fight, then go back to your room ! Don't try to test my patience!" the principal orders.

"Ah yes !" we say in unison.


After separating from Sakura and Kodama, Inaho and I run down the hallways to find our class. 1-B.

"hah-hah... There it is!"

I open the door, "Ah, we're sorry for the delay !"

the teacher turns to us and claps her hands.

"Oh but what do I see? So that means everyone is now present!"

She is very beautiful, she has long, wavy red hair, which reaches her waist and with a blue headbandand and beautiful honey-colored eyes. She wears a white sweater.

"Well, take a seat!"

Looking for an empty desk, I hear whispers about me.

"This guy..."

"Yeah, he's the one who came to school with a lot of chicks yesterday!"

"Come on come on, calm down everyone!~~" interrupts the teacher. "Let me introduce myself ~~ My name is Amado Tomika and I will be your homeroom teacher for the time being. I teach literature and history~~ nice to meet you all!~~ Ah~~ As for your PE teacher... She will be assisting me as an assistant principal for this class. This is... !"

The door opens violently revealing : "Guys ! Cheers for me ! For the principal of Kuoh High School, Rokujo Minori is making her entrance !"

"Ah well, maybe it's a little fast, but today there will be..."

"She completely ignored my staging !"

"A physical examination in the infirmary~~ and of course both girls and boys are asked to follow their senpai or sensei so that the inspection goes smoothly."

(a medical visit so early...)

"Well~~ We'll let Ms. Rokujo bring the girls first~~"

"Okay well all the girls gather in the hallway!"

The girls go out one by one and Inaho before going out makes me big sign of the arm.

I'll go first Senji-sama!"

I wave my hand at her and nod.

(I have a bad feeling when the guys look at me...)

(But a physical examination eh... that makes me think that Ddraig is still asleep, will have to wake him up if he doesn't want to be detected by anything...)

"Sensei !"

The guy next to me surprises me, calling the teacher suddenly. He has short black hair, split on both sides, and gray eyes.

"Yes? What's the problem~~?"

"My stomach... I don't feel well... I have heartburn!"

(Wait, is he serious?)

"Oh, but that's terrible! Since we don't have much time, hurry up!"

With a broad smile, he leaves the room like a thief.

(Is he really going to look at the girls?)

"um Senji Emiya?" The teacher calls me.

"Yes ?"

"Can you go watch him please, I have a bad feeling..."

"Yeah, sure."

(Either the teacher is really worried, or she's thinking the same thing I am...)

Following this strange... character, the young man leaves the building, and goes around it until he arrives at a big tree. He climbs it, and places himself on a branch big enough to support him. and he gets as close as possible to one of the windows, with a perverted smile.

I get closer and arrive at the foot of the tree, he notices me.

"..." An awkward silence ensues as we stare at each other, he notices my bored face but doesn't care and returns his eyes to the window.

"You... What are you doing here?" he asks me.

"I'll turn the question back to you!"

"This big tree intrigued me so I climbed it to see the view!"

"But yes, take me for a fool."

"Besides, that hole between the window and the curtain intrigues me just as much!"

"What? Wait are you really going to do this?"

Forgetting me completely, his eyes widen and his cheeks redden, his face completely absorbed by what he sees.

(Damn it, this is the infirmary.)

"Oh-oh! Who-whoaa ! Awesome ! How can I describe this feeling !? Heaven... on earth ! Eh ? what's that ?"

Sighing in annoyance, I prepare to go after him when I hear a familiar voice.

"How about... I take you to see the real heaven ?"

On a higher branch, leaning against the trunk, arms crossed, Kodama looks at the vicious man with a contemptuous look.

"Senji..."

"Ah..." (how long has she been here?)

"It wouldn't be... Himegami-senpai?" asks the vicious one.

"What are you doing here? Don't tell me you're planning to join him?" she asks me, her eyes closed.

"Huwahh if you look closer, she's really super cute!"

(We can hear you dumbass)

"Hey, do you guys know each other?" he asks me, gullible, turning his back on Kodama.

"Ah... Quickly."

"I guess if you're down there, you've just arrived, so I'm not going to hold it against you. On the other hand, you..." she turns her head towards the peeper with her eyes of predator. "You jerk! Second rate peeping !"

"Hahahaha, speaking of that... Why is Himegami-senpai here?" the voyeur asks, still gullible.

"I'm here to inflict divine punishment on the girls' enemies, yep."

To these words, she jumps of her branch, right on the guy, falls directly the foot on his face, forcing him to drop of his branch and to crash on the ground, always with the foot of Kodama on the face.

"Huwahh!?"

"Hmph, if you're really a man, stop hiding to peep! If you really like a girl, take your courage in both hands and go to her face with pride, that's how!"

"Uh... no I think you're mistaken Ojou-sama!" The little spirit appears, baffled by the situation.

"Yes... I'm sorry miss..." replies the guy, still on the ground.

Then Kodama looks at me and nods, asking me to bring it back, I accept and take him back.

"But that's pretty amazing of you."

"Hmm?"

"It's enough for you to be a little pissed off for everything to be over and there you are keeping your cool! keep it up..."

"... I can't feel it..."

The spirit tilts its head, not understanding.

"When I met this guy yesterday, I could feel the stirring in my chest and the excitement in my blood. But since this morning, all those feelings have been... That aura that he emanated... There's no doubt about it... Why this?"


In the infirmary, all the guys are in shorts, shirtless, and we pass all sorts of tests, height, weight etc... I can feel the weight of the looks on me, a lot of jealousy and some amazement. Let's say that I take care of my body, that I am more muscular than the others. But mostly I feel the look of a certain guy, measuring his height.

'What's wrong with this guy?' thinks the voyeur.

But at the moment, I'm facing another problem... The nurse is a beautiful and curvaceous, fair-skinned young woman with very large breasts. She has waist-length blue hair and light brown eyes. She wear a very revealing clothes : a long white lab coat which she keeps open, underneath she wears a low-cut pink top showing much of her large cleavage, a short dark red colored skirt, and white heels.

"Good, the next student steps forward and places his or her hand in that hole!"

" Y...yes."

"Hohoho, Well young man, you have a very good body, Do you work out a lot?"

"Um, yeah every day for years now..."

(It's hard to stay focused, my eyes go down to her chest, I'm sorry!)

"That's very good! Um though..."

Without warning, she touches my body with her thin fingers, when I look in turn, she touches the places where we can see burn marks, dark brown, caused by...

"These are not natural burn marks, young man, what are..."

"It's nothing, really, I've always had them."

(Obviously it's not true, but I don't want to explain myself...)

"Since you obviously don't want to talk about it, I won't push it. and also..."

(Boy, I hope it's over soon... I'm still a young man in puberty... have some pity, the view is...)

"I wonder what you've been watching since earlier?" she asks me, playing innocent.

Startled, I regain contact with her eyes.

"Ah... um sorry... By the way, what is this thing for?"

"Excuse accepted~~, Hoho that thing there huh?"

This "thing", is a metal box with a hole in the middle, allowing to enter a hand. And above the hole, a face... rather a slot looking like a jaw and two small holes serving as eyes.

"We use it to assess a person's compatibility with the maken... So we can provide the appropriate immitations for each user based on their ability. We call this thing a "maken detector"."

Finishing her explanation, she tells me to put my hand inside. I do so, hoping that the presence of my two guests will not cause any problem.

"Um, I was wondering, won't our other capabilities distort or corrupt the information given by the box?"

"Well, unless you already have a maken or a really powerful power, normally not... Hmmm, it's weird how long it takes..."

"IDENTIFICATION ERROR! NO MAKEN POSSIBLE FOR THIS PERSON! NOTHING FOUND! DAMN IT !"

What serves as the box's mouth shakes, surprising everyone in the room.

"What is this? Since the school was founded I've never seen this!" But it is the nurse who seems the most shocked...

(Ddraig...)

"*yawn* oops."


Hello! bonjour! Thank you for reading this chapter 2 ! I hope you liked it, I really wanted to give a "slice of life" side to the story, to let time for the characters to introduce themselves and especially to see in what kind of environment they will evolve. And more importantly, I absolutely wanted to show that our characters are indeed teenagers, with teenage problems, (puberty, you even know.). Obviously, it's slightly overrated, but I really wanted to make a point of it, because we're going to see them grow up and get tougher, at least I hope. Otherwise I decided to post the continuation every Monday, that allows me to leave me the time to write well and propose something clean, at least I try. Well, that leaves me so much time, I've already written chapter 3 and chapter 4 is already in progress. That's all I have to say, see you next week and thanks again for reading my fan-fic!