Author's Note: There is a new chapter 02 called chapter 002

This hobby that Asia was speaking of happened to be photography. As Ranko picked up the craft as one of her hobbies back when Issei, Irina, and her were kids a decade ago.

Though why would Ranko take an interest in photography at all. It all had to do with her and Issei's shared interest in breasts. That caused her to start taking photos of herself and Irina.

Issei's dad got in trouble when she found all his magazines and thus Ranko came up with the idea of just replicating them with just herself and Irina.

It was mostly through Ranko's influence that Issei did not become as perverted as he could have ended up. Thus never really ended up befriending Matsuda and Motohama as he grew up. That he was training far more with his goal not only to become a Harem King but save Ranko one day when she needed it.

"It's a shame I could not get you the last set I did before I went off to find my master though," Ranko said dejected

"What are you talking about the last one I got shortly before you said you were halfway to Europe," Issei asked.

Ranko then shook her head.

"The last one was one I managed to get done with Irina while visiting her for the first time in England. The group she was a part of got really mad about her posing with me. Seriously it's not like I was making her do it. I even went through the trouble of explaining why I did and how Irina helped me all the time before she moved" she said

"That sword you have been using as a bracelet most of this time when exactly did you get it," Asia asked

"The people that Irina was training with got really mad with her going along with helping me like the old time. Would have been nice if her other friend joined us, can not recall her name at the moment though. However, Mimic here just seem to call out to me, and after I picked it up...I was the only one that could use it. So the deal was I let them hold on to it for me if they let Irina stay and watch it for me" Ranko told

"Could not no one but you use it at that point though" Issei said wondering?

"Apparently Irina was allowed to because I allowed it somehow. Not really sure how only a few people besides me can use this now" Ranko said.

What shocked even Issei was that the area she was going to take photos in was more like a mini studio than just a room to merely take some pictures in.

"I really step up my game up back then as I was sure that was my most well done and the formal piece I put together back then. I was really pleased with my work as you surely would have loved it if they did not take it from me" Ranko said as her eyes started to burn with passion.

Of course, this was when Issei got caught in her pace and the two then started talking all about the wonders of breasts like they did in the old days.

"I heard stories from Ranko back when we first met but to think it would be at this level though," Asia said "What do you think Raynare...Raynare"

Asia looked over to where their fallen angel friend was standing. Though she was looking at Issei mostly as he animately taking with his second childhood best friend. There was a glazed look in her eyes as she had drifted off into her own world again. A world that she thought was consumed by Issei

So lost in her own thoughts and world, Raynare did not even realize that she had started posing on her own. Her thought drifted so far and depth that she was not even aware of this.

Asia was going to snap her out of this state as it's something she would enter when she became too overrun with her thoughts of Issei after all. How Raynare feels for him this bad that would be something she really had to find out one day. It must have been something beyond drastic to leave her in this state at times.

Though a smirk appeared on both Ranko's and Issei's faces as they placed her in front of the camera that Ranko set up in an instance. She was able to apply her ability to punch hundreds of times a second to do a variety of other things like this.

As Ranko took the pictures. It turned out to be Issei's job to direct her on what poses to take and how to do each one of them. With her mind too deep into the clouds, Raynare did everything she was told to as she was that much in a daze after all.

Of course, after she snapped out of it and realized what she was doing. Her entire body turned red and collapsed to the floor like a puppet with its strings cut. Crumping on the ground passed out from the emotional overload that her mind suffered. Thus it just shut down to reboot itself after it cooled down from what just happened after all.

Meanwhile elsewhere...

Irina was busy blowing her nose

"Are you okay as you started sneezing up a storm for a while there?" Xenovia asked her

"I also got the chills for a second too. The kind I only got back when I was still a kid hanging out with Issei and Ranko" she said.

"Maybe someone was talking about you" Xenovia joked

To which Irina shivered for a second.

"It was nothing just recall how Ranko and Issei can get when they both get too absorbed into something," she said.

"Anyway, we really should not waste that much more time as your friend could be in real trouble. Even more, if they can successfully steal Mimic from her and can use it as freely as she can" Xenovia told her