Hello readers, this is Dragonfan6 back with another chapter of the new story, Unyielding Dragon Emperor! I want to thank those who followed and favorited my story and hope you like this next part. And now a special shout out to those who commented (thought I would try something new and post answers to your comments at the start of the chapters. If you guys don't like that let me know and I'll stop).
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Chapter 2: The Deals we Make, Part 1
Kuoh Academy, a pristine, formally all female, private school named after the town it was built upon.
The school itself was as spectacular as you would expect of a private school; large white buildings, high quality education, etc.
The boys wore uniforms consisting of black slacks and jacket, a white button-down shirt with vertical lines, a black ribbon around the neck, and brown dress shoes.
While the girls were decked out in the same style shirt ribbon as the boys, they also wore a black button-down corset, magenta skirt with white accents, socks of various lengths and colors, dress shoes, and the option of a black shoulder cape or sleeveless vest as an accessory.
One such student was none other than a now eighteen-year-old Issei, who could be seen napping under a tree as part of a break.
The last six years had had their effect on the young man who now sported a taller height above the average of most Japanese men his age, with much spikier looking hair (think Ragna Bloodedge from, Blazblue, but brown instead of white).
In terms of clothing, it was the boy's uniform of the school, but with a few modifications consisting of a red hoodie under the blazer instead of the traditional white button-down, and a pair of black boots.
Upon hearing loud noises coming his way, the young man opened his golden-brown eyes (which now had a sharper shape to them than when he was a child) and slowly raised his head up to the source of what sounded like someone calling his name.
What he saw caused a sweet drop to form on the side of his now deadpanned face as he saw two boys, followed by a large group of girls, running towards him.
The first boy was named Matsuda, the taller of the two who keeps his head shaved and was the one most ahead of the group of girls.
Benefit of being a former junior high school jock perhaps?
The other was Motohama, a shorter and lanker teen with dark mop-like hair and large rectangular glasses that obscured his eyes.
And unlike his taller companion, his skills revolve around academics, thus making him an intelligent individual.
Though not smart enough to avoid getting in trouble with the group now chasing him and his friend it would seem.
The reason they were being chased?
Well…
"Stop running and face your judgment, you perverts!" shouted one of the girls before another followed up with, "You peeped into our locker room for the last time!"
It's because Matsuda and Motohama, are the biggest pervs in Kuoh Academy, dubbed, "The Perverted Duo."
Named appropriately for their obsession with talking about breast and other desirable features of the female anatomy in the dirtiest ways they can muster as though they were preaching about the second coming of Jesus Christ.
This fixation is so strongly rooted in their character that they openly parade their porn collections at school and try to come up with all kinds of ways to harass the girls of the school.
Their most recent endeavor it seemed was an attempt to spy on some girls who were in the middle of changing in the locker room.
Not just any girls though, girls who happen to be members of the kendo club if the uniforms, and kendo sticks, were anything to go by.
All of whom were now approaching Issei, who after letting out a tired sigh, stood up, placed his hand in the pockets of his hoodie, and waited for the large group to reach him.
Something that happened quickly thanks to the Perverted Duo diving forward towards the feet of the older teen before beginning to grovel.
Something the girls quickly realized when they saw where the two were heading and made an effort to slow down and stop about eight or so feet away from the young man who looked from the beggars to them.
With another annoyed sigh he started rubbing his temples and then replied to the club members with, "They were spying on you again weren't they?"
Everyone was silent until one of the girls, a short girl with red eyes, short pink hair held back by a white hair band, and a slender, with signs of a still developing, build stepped forward to speak.
She was Katase, one of the two captains of the club.
"Y-Yes Hyoudou-Sempai," she nervously answered while avoiding eye contact and trying to be as formal as possible to the upperclassmen.
All while hoping the red on her face was not noticeable.
She was then flanked by her co-captain, Murayama.
A bit taller than her companion with long brown hair she kept in twin pigtails held by red ribbons, light brown eyes, and a small bit more development in the chest region than the pink haired captain.
Though the one physical trait she shared with Katase was the small bit of red across her face.
"We were in the middle of getting changed out of our club gear when we heard arguing coming from a small crack in the wall. We then carefully made our way outside to see it was these two arguing for, and I quote, 'A turn at the skin show,' or something along those lines," she explained without stuttering.
Issei's response was a sharp intake of air through his nose, followed by a long exhale.
After messaging the area between his eyes, he spoke up again.
"I see. Look I know I ask this of you girls a lot, but could you find it within your heart's to spare these two morons. I promise to keep a better eye on them this time. Heck, I'll even let you do whatever you want with them if this incident repeats itself.
The two captains looked at one another, the pervs, their club members, and finally back to Issei.
And although it was full of hesitation, they nodded before telling their dissatisfied clubmates they were leaving.
Once they were far enough away, Matsuda and Motohama let go of the breath they were holding onto before looking to their savior.
"Thanks Is. You really came through for us," expressed Motohama as he got up, readjusted his glasses as he did so.
"Hell yeah, our dawg Issei comin in with the clutch like always!" Matsuda added while also getting up and pumping his fist into the air.
Only for them to look to their slightly taller friend whose eyes were obscured in darkness.
"How many times now?" the teen asked in a monotone voice that made the other two look on in confusion.
"How many times…do I have to keep pulling your asses out of the fire!" he shouted in aggravation before slamming his fist into the tops of the two goons' heads.
Resulting in the Perverted Duo slamming into the ground, with massive red lumps growing on their heads.
Once Issei put his hands back in his pockets, they managed to lift themselves back to their feet, with anime style tears flowing from their eyes.
"Hey yo, that was cold Is!" Matsuda stated while trying to nurse his bruised head.
"Yeah, you trying to give us concussions?" Motohama added while readjust his glasses angrily.
"You would've probably gotten worse had I left you to the mercy of the Kendo Club," the taller teen answered with a shrug.
To which the two other boys let their heads fall in defeat knowing they couldn't argue with their upperclassman's point.
"We wouldn't have had to worry about the club had someone just done what we agreed upon and moved over for my turn," grumbled the nerdy teen as he looked over to the former jock.
"Man, I had two minutes left on my turn and you know it!" argued the bawled one.
Before the pervs could continue though, they felt the murderous aura of Issei and turned to look into his cold eyes.
Both swearing they saw the shadow of a dragon behind him as he looked at them.
They quickly ended their conversation with apologies before the older teen calmed down and proceeded to return to laying on the grass under the tree, with the other two joining him.
"Sometimes I wonder why I put up with you two," muttered Issei out loud.
"Hey, we ain't that bad dawg," answered Matsuda with a small bit of hurt in his voice.
"Afterall, we're basically the only guys at school who don't try avoiding eye contact or run from you on sight Mr., 'Wild Knight of Kuoh'," Motohama answered with a smug smirk.
To which Issei just gave him a dirty side eye while grumbling, "Thought I told you not to call me that."
This led Matsuda to jump in again with, "Why you hatin on the name still. It's badass dude."
The older teen let out an annoyed snort before answering with, "Maybe cuz it's used to describe me as some delinquent that the guys look at as a thug, and the girl look at as an animal."
"Hey, don't blame us, we didn't pick it for you. Hell, we weren't even in high school yet when you earned it during your first year here," remarked the nerd of the trio.
"Yeah, you did that to yourself my man," the bald one agreed.
"You do one thing," muttered Issei as he thought back to how he got the nickname during his first year.
Mini Flashback
Issei was walking through the grounds of his new school in the afternoon, trying to get a feel of land, when he heard voices coming from a nearby shed.
As he got closer, the voices became clearer to the point he could make out the conversation.
"Thought we had an understanding nerd," said one thuggish voice before the sound of someone being hit was heard and then followed up with, "You do our homework, and we don't use you for boxing practice."
This was followed by another sound of someone getting punched and yelling out in pain, while a female voice made itself known by shouting for the first voice to stop.
"Got to say man, I'm hurt that you chose to break our deal. And for what, some chick who decided spending more time with her was worth more than helping us out? Now if you ask me, that just makes you a terrible friend."
"No one would ever consider a guy like you a friend asshole!" shouted the girl.
"Dang boss Little Girly got a mouth on her,'' another male voice said with a chuckle to his tone.
"Yeah, must be a good one if it can make our little geek here turn on us. Maybe she can show us as an apology for making this kid think he can get out of line," suggested the first voice.
Resulting in the boy being assaulted to struggle more, and get a laugh out of them in return.
At which point Issei finally made himself known by kicking the door of the shed open to reveal the inhabitants inside.
As he thought, it was two delinquent looking teens probably going through their last year of high school, and two other students consisting of a bloody and bruised young man being held to the ground by one thug while the young girl was being restrained by the other.
"Huh, and here I thought my first day of school was going to be the most uneventful one."
"Hey pal, this is a private party. So why don't you be smart and piss off," ordered the leader.
To which Issei just scuffed and shook his head.
Then at the blink of an eye, Issei was on the lead thug, kneeing him hard enough to send him into the nearest wall, face first.
Causing the second one to loosen his grip on the girl so she could grab her boyfriend and make their way out the shed.
When the leader got up, he grabbed at his throbbing nose before pulling it away when he felt pain from the contact, and saw blood dripping onto the floor.
The head thug looked towards the one responsible for the offense with venom in his eyes as Issei simply looked on with a cold look of his own.
It was then that the other bully tried to charge at the brunette from the side, only for said teen to step back, grab the hand of the lacky by the fingers, and then proceed to bend them in the wrong direction.
Resulting in a loud snapping sound, and the second thug to fall on his knees while crying out in agony.
Fortunately, Issei was generous enough to put the guy out of his misery by kicking him in the face hard enough to send him flying into a pile of equipment, knocking him out in the process.
He then turned his focus back to the leader who was now completely shaking at this point, no longer worried about the possibly broken nose.
The second the guy blinked, the brown-haired teen leaped towards the guy and delivered a powerful gut punch that knocked the wind out of his target and followed up by grabbing him by his hair before throwing him close to the pile currently housing his lackey.
"You bully types really like to act like you're hot shit for beating down on others, don't you?'' asked Issei rhetorically as he finally closed and locked the shed door.
Walking over to the thug who was now staring at him in fear while trying to crabwalk backwards.
"Well, let's test how well that view stands when having to deal with someone who knows how to fight back," he adds while cracking his knuckles.
The thug loses all strength in his limbs and falls on his butt while trying to explain himself.
"We-we were just playing around man. Didn't mean anything by what we were saying."
"What about that thing you said about making the girl pay with her mouth?"
"That was total bullshit man! We would never do something as nasty as that I swear!"
This made Issei stop for a second and close his eyes andshrug as he said, "Guess I can believe you when you say that."
Resulting in a smile on the bully's face for a second before the other teen picked back up.
"However, that doesn't change the fact you hurt some kid just cuz he didn't do everything you said."
The look of fear returned to the downed boy as Issei opened his now slightly slitted eyes, obscured by the poor lighting of the shed and continued his dialect.
It was fortunate enough that no one was close enough to the shed at this point, lest they hear the glass shaking screams that came next.
Flashback Ends
"One time, one time that happened and they make a big deal of it," an exasperated Issei says to his friends while rubbing the back of his neck.
"Brah, you put those mofos in the hospital. Ain't no way it ain't gonna be a big deal," Matsuda jokingly remarked.
"You're lucky you somehow only got off with a warning from the school due to the testimony from the students you helped," added Motohama while readjusting his glasses.
Though even with Issei being spared serious reprimanding, this didn't prevent the rest of the campus from developing a sort of mutual fear and respect for him, even when showing a willingness to help from time to time around the campus.
Such as when he helped the Kendo Club with their cleanup duties, and occasionally gave unarmed combat lessons.
Something that helped influence the girl's willingness to forgive his pervy friends and let him deal with them.
Eventually the older teen simply chose to end the conversation by retaking his spot under the tree, where the Perverted Duo joined him while trying to look upwards towards the sky.
The three were able to enjoy a few minutes of comfortable silence until the jock of the group ruined it.
"A lot of them did have some ballin jugs tho didn't they Motohama?"
To which the brunette of the three opened his eyes with a deadpan look in them as he stood up into a sitting position to speak in a dry tone.
"And you ruined it."
"What I do?" questioned Matsuda who also stood while shrugging.
"You literally just escaped from getting your butts handed to you for perving, and now you're back to it. You know there's more to life than just big tits right?" Issei asked while turning to face his friends.
"Blasphemy!" Shouted out the glasses wearing teen as he shot up to point accusingly at the unofficial leader of the three.
"Yeah, what he said! Titties are what give men the drive to get through the day no matter how shitty it can be!" The bald one added.
"They come in all shapes and forms. From small and cute, to large and savory!"
"They can be soft enough to use as a pillow, or firm enough to use as stress balls yo!"
"But most importantly-"
"But most importantly-"
"They can be used to make a woman scream your praises to the heavens above!"
With that, the duo finished their rant with a fist bump, leaving a disturbed Issei to look at them.
"Are-are you two too stupid hear yourselves half the time you talk? Or are you just purposely trying to make yourselves sound like idiots preaching about boobs?"
"Bitch we might just be both!" declared Motohama with a gleam in his glasses, and a shit eating grin on his face while Matsuda nodded vigorously in agreement.
Issei was about to get up and smack the two into next week when he suddenly tensed up and looked towards another direction.
The structure he looked at was one of the older retired buildings of the school that not many students went to anymore.
Except for one group that is.
The Occult Research Club; a small collective of some of the most popular students of the academy.
Though in this instance, only one of its members was seen by the young man who was able to look up to one of the upper windows.
There he saw a teenage girl looking down at the brunette with a cold calculating gaze.
A look that fit well with the color of her eyes.
Issei would be lying if he said he did not think of her as beautiful; blue-green eyes that looked like they were gazing into his very soul; skin as white as snow with not a blemish in sight; and most striking of all, long red hair with a somewhat wild look to it.
All of this, plus the standard shirt, cape, and ribbon to cover her upper body from what the young man could see from the window.
This stunning image still did nothing to stop him from gaining an uneasy feeling from her presence.
Thus, he returned her stare with a curious, but defensive look of his own.
This seemed to be enough to deter the redhead who she turned away from the window, and vanished from his sight.
The brunette found himself a few moments of silence until his two sidekicks spoke up.
"Damn what a fine honey am I right?" Matsuda questioned, drawing the older teen's attention back to the duo.
Motohama readjusted his glasses and continued the conversation with a knowing smirk.
"Rias Gremory; Age 18, a third year like Issei here; president of the Occult Research Club; hails from Europe; and renowned as one of the Great Beauties of Kuoh Academy.
"Hm," was the only response he got from Issei as he kept looking at the window.
"That's cool and all Moto but what about the real info?" the bald one asked.
The smirk turned into a perverted grin as the spectacled one spoke again.
"36, 23, and 36 for the bust, waist, and hips respectively."
"Yeah! There's the, 'Three Sizes Scouter,' I know and love!" Matsuda shouted while trying to give his friend a high five.
Only for the two of them to find themselves being dragged away by their collars as Issei told them they needed to get back to their classes in a hollow tone.
Though he did take one more look back at the building before moving on.
Meanwhile
Back inside the old structure we find the now named Rias Gremory sitting on an expensive looking couch, with a table in front of her.
A chessboard was on top with the traditional black and white pieces.
Though four of the pieces, a queen, knight, rook, and bishop, were bathed in a glowing red color.
"That was the boy just now right?" the redhead asked the only other inhabitant of the room.
Said person was another young woman around Rias' age wearing the same exact uniform, with the exception of black knee-high socks as opposed to her white thigh-highs.
In addition, this girl was also slightly taller and bustier than the red haired girl with violet eyes in place of blue-green, and long black hair that would touch the ground were it not for the fact she keeps it in a high ponytail via and orange ribbon; minus two strands that stuck out on the top of her head in a sloped back form.
"Which boy?" she asked back in a confused manner.
"The one with the brown spiky hair who seemed to be the leader of the three," the redhead answered back while keeping her eyes on the board.
To which the ravenette looked upwards in thought as she began recollecting any info she may have.
"Oh right, I believe his name was Issei Hyoudou. A third year like us if I'm remembering right. Why, what makes you ask about him?"
"Oh no reason, I just wanted to make sure that was him is all," Rias said back as she finally reached over towards the board to move a white pawn piece while calling out, "checkmate."
The black haired girl bent over to look on while giving off a sad noise as she lost the game.
"I'm afraid your trap was very easy to see through," the red haired teen said with a confident smirk on her face as she got up and started undressing.
"Sorry, I did try my best to make it harder on you."
"Thanks. I look forward to the next game."
With the conversation over, the redhead had finished stripping out all her clothes, and proceeded into another room revealed to be a bathroom, before going into the shower.
With the hot water pouring down her body, Rias found herself looking upwards, deep in thought.
Elsewhere
Sometime later Issei can be seen walking across a bridge with the sun slowly setting in the background.
That is until he noticed something in the way of his usual path back home.
Or rather, someone.
A girl around his age, maybe a year younger, with black hair down to her butt, wide violet eyes that screamed innocents, a light skin complexion, and a figure that was both thin while curvy in the right places.
All of this complete with what Issei assumed was a school uniform consisting of a red blazer over a white dress shirt, green skirt, and typical black dress shoes with white socks.
She seemed to have noticed the brunette around the same time he saw her as she seemed to quickly turn from her position of looking over the bridge in order to face him properly; albeit while avoiding eye contact a few times while fidgeting.
"Uh-Um pardon me if I'm getting in your way but you are Issei Hyoudou right?" the dark haired teen asked.
"Who's asking," questioned the young man with one raised eyebrow,
As if realizing she made a mistake, the girl straightened up while developing a bit of red on her face as she stuttered out the next few words in her sentence.
"R-r-r-right! I'm so sorry, I forgot to introduce m-m-myself to you! My name is Yuuma Amano!"
Issei nodded before continuing the conversation by asking what she needed from him.
"Um, well you see-I've heard about you from some friends of mine that go to your school about how cool you are, a-and I've seen you walk by a few times on my way home-" she tried to explain until going quiet at the end while looking down.
This caused the brunette to become more confused until the black haired girl continued what she wanted to say.
"AndIwashopingyou'dgooutwithmeatsomepointthisweeksowecangettoknoweachotherbetter!" she shouted out in rapid succession.
"Uhhh," the brunette responded with a partly opened mouth in confusion.
In response the girl quickly clamped her hands over her mouth in embarrassment and turned away mumbling something to herself.
At least Issei was nice enough to let her calm down and hopefully clarify what she was trying to express.
To which the girl finally straightened up, took a deep breath, and then turned to face the young man again with a bit more confidence in her poster.
Blush across her face aside.
"I'm sorry about that, I'm just very nervous, I've never done this before," she confessed and then took another breath before continuing on with, "Like I said. I heard about you from some friends of mine that go to your school. They said how you were kind of scary, but also kind of cool and nice. Then one day we happened to see you walking past this bridgeI. Eventually, I guess I just got tired of only knowing you by stories and passing glances. So I've worked up the courage to try and ask you out. Though it looks like I might've messed that up with my outburst huh? I must look like a total idiot or psycho?"
She finished while looking away in shame.
The brown haired teen stared at the ravenette for about a minute, until the corner of his lips actually curved up ever so slightly into a small smile.
"What did you have in mind?" he asked kindly.
This caused the girl to snap her head in his direction with a bright smile on her face.
"You mean…?"
"I'll admit I wouldn't normally do something like go out with someone I've never met. But I understand it must've taken a lot of guts for you to do this. And I can't help but respect that kind of courage. So yeah I'll take you up on your offer."
"O-okay! Then how about we meet on Sunday! At the plaza! Say, noon?"
"Sounds good to me. Why don't you lend me your phone for a sec so I can give you my number in case we need to talk about any details before the date?"
Yuuma gave a quick nod before moving in close to give her phone to her would-be date, who gave it back a few moments later with a friendly smirk.
"Well I have to get home now. Goodnight," she says with a slight bow.
To which the brunette returns in kind before she turns away to walk home.
Only to stop after taking a few steps to turn back around and say, "I'm really happy I was able to finally talk to you Issei!" and then begin her treat home with a bit more pep in her step.
Once she was out of sight, the male teen's smirk dropped into a blank expression before making his way past the bridge.
Scene Change-Hyoudou Residence
"I'm home!" Issei declared as he closed the front door behind himself and made his way into his house.
Said house wasn't anything spectacular in terms of design, but it was a nice enough one to live in if you asked the brunette.
"Welcome home sweety!" came the voice of Issei's mom Miki as she stepped out from the kitchen to greet her child with a loving smile formed on the now slightly wrinkled corners of her mouth.
"You're just in time for dinner. Why don't you go ahead and put your stuff away, wash your hands, then we can eat?" She suggested while removing her apron.
"Better hurry up son! Your old man's starving in here!" Shouted the voice of Issei's dad Gorou from inside the dining room.
To which both mother and son responded with smiles/smirks, and a shake of their heads as the teen went to do as his mom suggested.
For the next thirty minutes or so the family of three sat around enjoying a simple meal while the father explained some stories of his day at work.
"And-and then Kenzo dropped the coffee all over his lap. I've never seen a man run so fast for the break room just to get an ice pack!" Mr. Hyoudou said while trying to keep his laughter to a minimum.
"Well I hope he'll be okay at least," commented Mrs. Hyoudou while trying to hide a smile with the back of her hand.
They then turned to their youngest member who had been simply eating and listening throughout the dinner.
"Well son? Anything new with you today?"
"Not really," answered Issei nonchalantly, "Just classes, notes, stopping Matsuda and Motohama from getting their skulls smashed in-
"Again with those two?" the older male asked in an annoyed voice.
"Sweety, I know they're your friends, and they can be nice boys. But I worry their perverted antics will eventually get out of hand, and drag you with them," added the Mrs. while pinching the bridge of her nose.
To this Issei just shrugged before continuing.
"I then did some more school work, then made my way home where I then…"
"Then what son?" Gorou asked while he and his wife noticed he went quiet.
"I…ran into a girl today on the bridge. She asked me out, and I may or may not have said…yes."
The room went quiet enough to hear a pin drop from upstairs at that moment as the parents stared at their son in shock.
Taking this as a sign to start talking Issei spoke back up with, "Okay I know that sounds kind of bad but I promise I didn't just except the date without hearing her ou-
"Our Issei has a date!" cut in both parents in excitement as they jumped out of their seats.
To which the youngest of the three looked on in shock over this development.
"Uh what?"
"Sorry sweety, we're just so happy to finally hear you finally open up and pursue relationships outside your two friends!" Mrs. Hyoudou explained with anime tears streaming down her face.
"With you going through most of your high school life single, we were starting to wonder if you were even interested in the idea of dating or just incapable of being interested in others in an intimatel way," added the father with his own tears.
"Dear that's just rude to say," argued Miki in a lecturing manner.
"Oh hun you know I was joking!…mostly," defended Gorou while rubbing the back of his head.
"Anyway son, why don't you tell us more about the lucky lady. Or is it a boy?" added the father while his wife looked on in curiosity.
"Well her name is Yuma, she goes to another school, and we agreed to meet up on Sunday.
"Well…that's great, honey! Maybe you can have her join us for dinner that night?"
In response, Issei gave an intelligible, "Uh."
"That might be a little early don't you think dear?" defended the older man with a sweatdrop going down the side of his face.
Miki responded by covering her mouth with one hand before apologizing.
With a simple acknowledgement of forgiveness the teen took up his glass of water to drink.
"Now that being said, I think we need to have a talk about the possibility of you getting lucky on your date," added the father.
Resulting in the teen doing a spit take before responding in embarrassment.
"Okay how about no to that Dad!"
"Agreed dear that's way too soon to be talking about 'that'!" added the Mrs.
"I'm just saying, kids these days have been known to get around."
"Our Issei isn't like that!"
"Maybe not but we can't exactly say the same for the girl can we?"
"Well…"
Eventually Issei stood up to catch the adult's attention.
"You know, I think I might have some homework I still need to work on. I'm going to go ahead and clean my plate and head up to my room."
He then proceeded to do as he said and then head upstairs.
"Our Issei, finally going on a date. Can you believe it honey?" the father asked with growing excitement.
"I know I'm so happy I think I'm actually shaking!" Agreed the mother while looking at her actual shaking hands.
"I always told you he'd be okay if we just gave him some space."
"Excuse me?"
"O-okay maybe it was you who said to give him time. Regardless, It's nice to see him opening up and doing more things teens his age should be doing. I mean sure he does good with maintaining his grades. But between his minimal socialization with his pervy friends, school work, and exercise routine, Issei has been a bit unsociable."
"Now love remember what the therapist told us-"
"I know, I know. It's just after six years I was starting to get worried that just, 'being patient,' as they suggested, was never going to be enough."
With a sigh the man's wife added, "I know. Believe me I know how you feel hun."
"Don't get me wrong, I'm proud about how hard he works in school, and I did start resting easier after agreeing to let him take those self defense classes when he was younger. I just wish our son could feel that it's okay for him to be able to feel happy."
"I understand what you mean my love, I worry for him too. To be honest, I sometimes fear I'll wake up one day and find he's gone again, or he'll finally remember whatever he went through during those 5 years of absence and snap."
The man gave an understanding nod before reassuring his wife with, "Well, here's to hoping this is a good sign of things to come for our boy's future," before the couple hugged.
What neither knew was that the topic of their conversation had heard every word they said to each other before finally closing the door to his room, and gave off a sad sigh as he let his head rest on the door frame with his eyes closed.
"I'm sorry," Issei whispered to himself.
"Rough day sweetness?" asked an alluring female voice, which caused the teen's eyes to instantly snap open as he calmly turned to face his guest.
Said individual was indeed a woman; an extremely beautiful one at that.
She possessed the appearance of a woman in her early twenties with long navy blue hair reaching past her butt, with some locks framing her face while obscuring her right eye; said eyes hiding behind sunglasses; a tall, fair skinned body possessing a lean build with wide hips and large breast; an outfit consisting of maroon colored trench coat like top left open at the chest and matching mini skirt; black heeled shoes on her feet and black gloves that folded around the wrist; and finally, a golden necklace as her single visible piece of jewelry.
Upon seeing the visitor, Issei allowed himself to relax ever so slightly while still being on guard as he chose to speak up.
"What are you doing here Kalawarna?"
To which the now named Kalawarna laughed before answering with, "Now Is sweety how many times have I told you to call me Kal for short?"
Only for the young man to look at her with now slit pupil bearing eyes.
This only caused the still smirking woman to let out a fake sigh as she said, "I'm here to do what I always do when coming to visit you."
She then removes her shade's to show off her one visible brown narrow eye as she finishes with, "Honoring our deal."
Okay and that's a wrap for this chapter! I know I've been MIA for awhile, and this is probably not one of my most entertaining chapters. All I can say is I'm sorry. I've had a lot going on since graduating from college last year that has left me too drained to write, or plaguing me with writer's block. I hope I can do better for the next chapter before maybe working on some other projects I've been thinking of. Anyway I hope you all are doing well, and please remember to like, follow, comment, and vote for who else you want to see end up in Issei's harem.
Now for the harem list!
The cannon harem members from the original story
Raynare
Fem Gasper
Ophis
and one or two others I plan to leave as a surprise.
Fem Kiba=1 yes/0 no
Grayfia=1 yes/0 no
Venelana=1 yes/0 no
Girls I'm thinking about adding:
Kalawarner (actually have an interesting ideal for her and Issei's relationship and will also alter her background a bit if you all are cool with her being in it)
Mittelt (mostly cuz I figure it would make sense to throw her in with Ray and Kala, but I guess I can be persuaded to change my mind if given a good reason by you guys)
Tsubaki Shinra (assuming Kiba doesn't end up gender switched)
OC daughter of Grayfia and Sirzechs to fill her role if not enough votes for G to be a yes (the two of them have been around long enough for it to be possible for them to have more than one kid together I think)
New recommendations:
Sonia and her peerage (including a female Saiji)
Though admittedly I'm not too sold on this idea (Tsubasa being an exception if I'm remembering right and she is a canon member of the harem). But it was a request from one of the reviewers so If I get any more votes for yes before introducing the Student Council then I might go for it.
Elmenhilde Karnstein, Valerie and Camilla Tepes have also gained a vote (might need a link to an image for last one voted for sense I can't remember how she looks or her personality).
That's it for now. Again I'm sorry for the long wait but hope you like it. Keep being awesome everyone!