For as long as he lived, there was one thing that he had always seen people do. You could say it was human nature, I guess. That being when the average person saw some huge bodybuilder walking down the street, they always say, "Just imagine how much they have to work out to look like that."
What would Shin say to those people? Well, to sum it up, he would say their ignorant. The truth is, you don't even really need to work out every day to look like a bodybuilder. Ask any bodybuilder out there in the world, they will always tell you the same thing.
Lifting weights is easy, and over time, you start to find exercises you really enjoy, giving you the motivation to work out. The hardest part of gaining muscle is eating. For the first month of his new 6000 calorie diet, he had done relatively fine with his diet, sticking to it without any problems.
However, the longer he was on it, going on four months now, the harder and harder it became to keep that same motivation. For anybody who has tried to bulk, they could surely sympathize with how hard it is to eat when you're not hungry. To force-feed yourself, knowing that without it, you would not reach the goals you wanted.
Shin couldn't help but think to himself, could this be considered an eating disorder? Usually, an eating disorder has negative effects on your body, like anorexia. Although it wasn't as bad as most eating disorders, he was sure his blood pressure would disagree.
However, the upside is that he was making good progress so far. Just the other day, he had deadlifted 130kg, which was no easy feat being at 68kg. Although, it admittedly wasn't as much as he was capable of lifting in his previous life.
Unfortunately, he was quite sure he did not have the Boosted Gear. When he made the goal of getting up to 90kg, he accounted for the possibility of him having the Boosted Gear, allowing him to essentially juice himself up on mega-steroids without negatively affecting his body.
However, he was thus far able to put on 10kg of lean body mass, which was an impressive feat, far better than anything he had ever achieved before. The most he had ever put on before during a cycle was 13kg over the course of a full year.
He had suspicions that the reason for this was genetics. As he had stated before, his genetics were much better than his previous life, and that fact just kept appearing again and again.
Tapping the button on his alarm clock just as it started ringing, he sat and swung his feet over his bed, landing on the coal hardwood floors. Walking into the bathroom, he emptied himself of his bodily fluids and did something that has become a habit to him, and that was weighing himself as soon as he woke up.
Getting on his scale, his eyes widened when he read the readings. Not believing the readings, he double-checked to see if he was holding something or if anything was sitting on the scale that would tamper with the readings. Seeing none, however, he stepped off the scale and reweighed himself. The scale shooting out the same numbers.
"That doesn't make any sense. How did I gain 2.2kg in a single night? That's months' worth of progress in a single night!" Shin said, surprised. "Well, I guess I am still going through puberty, so there is always the chance I got a sudden inrush of hormones," Shin mumbled trying to make sense of the situation.
After going through his usual routine of breakfast, meal prep, and his run, he was now approaching the student council office, ready to eat meal two. Currently, there were very few people roaming the halls of Kuoh Academy due to it still being over half an hour before school starts.
As he entered the student council room he was greeted to the site of Sona and Tsubaki, the president and vice president of the student council respectively, working on several stacks of papers.
"What's with all the papers? That's even more than normal." Shin asked, drawing Sona's attention, showing the bags under her eyes, suggesting she had been at this for a while.
"The Kuoh Academy DNS crashed, so everything that is usually handled electronically by programs, we now have to do by hand until the DNS is fixed," Sona said.
"That sucks, but why can't you just switch to a different DNS? It's not that hard, and there are several thousand you could choose from." Shin offered a solution.
"We wish it was that simple, but all of the programs run off of that DNS. If we changed the DNS, we would have to get someone to go into the code of every single one of those programs and change the DNS. That would take even longer than to fix the DNS we currently use. Thankfully, it should be fixed by noon." Sona said.
Shin nodded, looking around the room, looking for someone in particular. In the corner of the student council room was one silver-haired beauty, laying face-down into her desk. "So, it seems snow-white is asleep then. Well, we all know what the only way to wake her up would be then." Shin said as he approached the silver-haired beauty.
"Don't bother, Hyoudou. Momo's just pretending to be asleep." One blue-haired girl, by the name of Tsubasa Yura, said.
"Mou! Why would you do that Yura!" Momo said as she lifted her head and pouted.
Shin chuckled as he arrived in front of Momo. This was an often occurrence for them. They weren't dating, but they did act very flirtatious with one another all the time.
"I think she's just jealous you don't give her as much attention as you do Momo." Another girl, Reya Kusaka said.
"Well, that's only natural. Flirting with one person you find attractive is one thing, but if I went around flirting with every person I found attractive, I would just be a womanizer." Shin said, causing Momo's face to go atomic red.
"Don't worry Shin, I wouldn't mind sharing you with Momo," Reya said as she came up behind him and jumped on his back, wrapping her hands around his neck and hanging off of him.
"Hmm, threesomes?" Shin said aloud as if contemplating it. "It'd definitely be good cardio," Shin said, causing everyone's face to fault.
"Only you would view sex as cardio," Tsubasa said blandly.
"Hey, what can I say? Fastly beating heart, sweat flying everywhere, heavy breathing. It definitely sounds like cardio to me." Shin said, being the comedic person he is. "I say let's go for it! To the janitor's closet!" Shin said, pumping his fist up in the air.
"Shin." A voice called, instantly killing his excitement. "I've told you many times before, and I'll tell you again. What you and the others do in your free time is not my business, but there will be no sex happening on school grounds." Sona said.
"Alright," Shin said disappointedly as Reya dropped down from his back. Almost instantly however it returned, punching his fist into his hand. "I'm sure I can replace my night run with a threesome. What do you say Momo? Reya?" Shin said.
"Sure!"
"No!"
Was Reya and Momo's response respectively. Reya looked excited at the aspect, even though Shin knew she wasn't being serious. Momo, however, was so red it put even Rias' hair to shame.
"Idiot!" Momo said as she threw a binder at him, hitting him in the face, but he didn't react at all.
"Classic tsundere reaction!" Shin said giving Momo a thumbs up. "Don't worry, I'll break through that wall eventually and make you scream my name in pleasure," Shin said, steam now coming out of Momo's ears.
"Pervert!" Momo said as she turned away from him and started furiously working on her student council duties, which at the moment was helping Sona sign papers.
Grabbing the binder off of the floor, Shin set it back on her desk. "Only for you, snow-white," Shin said as Momo started to do paperwork even faster while Shin ignored the pouting Tsubasa and Reya.
Don't mistake his actions, he fully planned on making every person in this room submit to him and become apart of his harem. At the moment, however, he simply didn't have the time to concern himself with such matters. He'd leave that until he had some more free time once canon rolled around.
Turning around, he walked over to the microwave and started heating up his second meal of the day.
"By the way Shin, did you go through a growth spurt? You look taller than you did yesterday." Reya asked as she stood beside him, legs crossed and bent over, trying to get him to show her some of the same attention he showed Momo.
"Maybe. I noticed this morning I had put on 2.2kg, which usually takes months to put on. A sudden growth spurt could definitely attribute to that." Shin said as Reya went to her cubical and looked around her desk before pulling out a tape measurer that you would usually see a tailor use.
"Stand against the wall, I'll check for you," Reya said, her energetic bubbliness showing.
Standing up against the wall like she said, he allowed Reya to measure his height, admiring how cute she looked when she smiled. "185 and a quarter centimeters. So, in American terms, 6 foot one inch." Reya said.
"It would appear then that I did experience a growth spurt, that's 5 centimeters taller than I was yesterday," Shin said, but he had a feeling that he couldn't shake telling him it wasn't as simple as that. "By the way, why do you have a tape measure at the ready? That's something I'd expect from a guy, not a girl." Shin said.
"Why? Are girls not suited to measuring things." Reya said dangerously, taking his statement as being sexist.
"No, you just know boys and how much they love to measure certain things," Shin said, taking his meal out of the microwave while all the girls looked at him in confusion. Seeing their looks, he decided to elaborate. "Seriously? Just think about it, what thing, in particular, would boys love to measure." Shin said, suddenly causing all the girls in the room to blush in embarrassment.
"Pervert!" Momo yelled.
"You can call me that all you want, but it's a fact," Shin said as he sat down and started eating his meal.
"So, then you're saying you've done that," Reya said, wiggling her eyebrows as her face got closer to his.
Looking up at her, he stated blatantly, "Of course, I am a guy after all. It's only natural to be curious." 'In fact, it was one of the first things I did when I was reincarnated.' Shin thought to himself.
"Don't just openly state things like that!" Momo yelled from across the room, her face just as red as before.
"Hey, it's not like we boys are the only ones that do it. You girls are constantly getting your sizes measured." Shin said.
"That's different! It's for clothes!" Momo yelled.
"Ah yes, of course. Well, then I too measured my penis, just so I knew what size underwear and pants to get. Not at all because I was curious." Shin said, eating his meal and causing Momo to steam from her ears again.
"In fact, with my sudden growth spirt, it wouldn't be a bad idea to remeasure. You know, for new underwear and pants." Shin said smirking, knowing it would tip Momo over the edge as she burst into flames and promptly fainted.
"Did you really have to go so far as to make her faint Hyoudou," Sona said in clear annoyance.
"Yes." Was Shin's simple answer.
Sona released a frustrated sigh and massaged her temples. Ever since a couple of months ago Shin would constantly flirt with Momo and make her do things like this.
"So, with all the paperwork you have to do, is it safe for me to assume we won't be playing chess this morning? I was hoping to beat you again. What is our record now? 78 to 12 in your favor?" Shin said, enjoying the flustered look that came over Sona's face when he mentioned their record.
Of course, this always happened, and Shin, of course, knew the reason why. Although Sona hasn't mentioned it to him, it was Sitri tradition that she would marry whoever beat her in a game of chess, and he had beaten her twelve times.
This fact caused her to get flustered every time he mentioned it. Because of that, Shin made sure to mention it as much as possible.
"Y-yes, it would be safe to assume as much," Sona said with a blush on her cheeks, causing the occupants of the room to chuckle, meanwhile Shin pretended to be oblivious to such things.
"Okay, I guess I could use a break from getting my ass kicked for today," Shin said as he pulled out a very hefty book, one that gathered all their attention.
"That's a big book you got there Shin," Tsubasa said as she eyed it before her eyes widened seeing the cover.
On the cover, it showed a depiction of a war. The cover seemed to have three realms, the realm at the top containing golden clouds and people with white wings. In the middle was a battleground, people with black feathery wings fighting the people with white wings. And at the bottom, was what she could only describe as a fiery wasteland, people with black bat-like wings fighting the ones with black feathery wings.
"That's an understatement. This thing is huge." Shin said, opening up the book and flipping to a string that was attached to the book and used as a bookmark.
"What's it about," Tsubasa asked nervously, being the only person to have seen the cover.
"It's about the supernatural, the Christianity religion. Although, this book depicts things that I haven't quite seen or heard of before. I'm not sure whether the person who wrote this was trying to write fiction, or if he was just crazy." Shin said as he is flipping the page, an eye-catching picture drawing her attention.
The picture was of a man, but his face was just a blinding white light. He was wearing white and gold robes, something you would expect from a noble, and had twelve golden-white wings coming from his back.
"But it is interesting. This book depicts a war, one they call the Three-Way War between Angels, Fallen Angels, and Devils." And just like that, there was complete and utter silence in the room. Every person in the room staring at Shin in shock.
"Although, if you ask me, the people in this book are dumbasses. They fight because they are supposedly natural enemies, fighting a large-scale war with no real goal. I could understand if they were animals, acting solely on instinct, but they have intelligence. It seems to me to be just the biggest dick measuring contest I've ever seen. Especially the two dragons' part." Shin said.
"W-what dragons?" Sona stuttered, obviously nervous about something.
"It's these two dragons in the book, Ddraig and Albion. Just like the Angels, Fallen Angels, and Devils, they are evidently natural enemies. They're dubbed the two heavenly dragons and have unfathomable strength. Evidently the three races got in the middle of their fight and had to form together to defeat the two dragons, sealing them in these things called sacred gears, artifacts given to humans to give them a chance in this supernatural world." Shin said as he flipped backward a few pages, showing two giant dragons fighting, one red and the other white. All around them were the three races, working together to defeat the dragons.
Oh, how much Shin loved the shocked and panicked looks on their faces at the moment. This had to be one of his favorite things to do, to talk about or hint at supernatural things to fuck with everyone.
"Where did you get something as ludicrous as that?" Sona said, trying to play it off. Shin's response was to smirk.
"About that, I actually sort of stole it from your bookcase," Shin said as he pointed to the bookcase in the corner of the room. "As well as this," Shin said as he pulled another book out, this one has the words Sitri Clan labeled on the front.
"This one is about the before mentioned devils, the Sitri clan of the 72 pillars to be exact. Did you know Sona, that if you were from the Sitri clan, you would be betrothed to me?" Shin said as he looked at her, relishing in the panicked expression on her face.
"I-Is that so…" Sona said distantly.
"Yea, evidently it's a long-time practice amongst the Sitri that whenever a female Sitri is beaten in a game of chess by a male, the two are to become betrothed. As I have beaten you twelve times, we would be engaged. Luckily for you, however, you're not a Sitri." Shin said with a smile as the whole room was dead silent.
"Y-Yea, R-Right." Sona stuttered, her face completely red. Luckily for her, the starting bell chose this exact time to ring, signaling everyone to get to the first class of the day.
"Well, looks like it's time for class. I'll see you all for lunch." Issei said as he put the two books back into his bag and walking out, smirking from ear to ear once his back was turned to all the student council members in amusement.
As the door shut behind him, everyone looked at Sona. "I swear, sometimes, it feels like he knows about the supernatural," Sona said as she rubbed her temples, feeling relieved that she knew for a fact he was clueless.
"I know what you mean. Just the other day, in a conversation we had about what superpowers would be cool to have, he said it'd be awesome to have a mirror that could reflect any attacks back at the person who sent it." Tsubaki said, remembering back to how flustered she got when Shin indirectly called her powers awesome.
"That's an, oddly specific answer," Sona said, now starting to think it was entirely a possibility he knew about the supernatural. This hadn't been the only time that Shin would have hinted at it either, only to do something that would dismiss their thoughts.
"Then why don't we do a test?" Momo said from her corner of the room. "You know, like subtly hint at supernatural things and see if he has any reaction to them," Momo suggested.
"That's a good idea. We'll do that during lunch then." Sona said.
"Morning, Rias," Shin said as he sat down in his seat. Over the last four months, he had developed a semi-close friendship with Rias.
"Morning, Shin. How are you doing today?" Rias asked, flashing her smile. Rias was one of the only people besides Momo that he would often flirt with, but in the case of Rias, it was more of a silent game between the two of them to get the other to blush.
"It is good so far. Made Momo pass out again." Shin said as he sat down in his seat and sat his school bag by his side.
"Really? What did you do this time?" Rias asked, curious about what he did to make Momo pass out, which was a relatively common occurrence, but always happened in a different way.
"I started talking about my penis," Shin said, just as the class took that exact moment to become silent, causing everyone to look at him. Rias smirked and covered her mouth in order to try and hide her chuckling.
"Really? You all had to choose that exact moment to be silent? For fucks sakes." Shin said as he shook his head.
"Ara, ara, this seems to be an interesting conversation." Someone said as they sat on Shin's desk, causing Shin to look to the side and see one Akeno Himejima.
"Well yea, of course. Naturally, a conversation about my penis would be interesting to any girl." Shin said sagely as he rubbed his chin, his eyes closed and his head nodding.
"You're an idiot. You know that, right?" Rias said from his side as the whole class deadpanned at him.
"Speaking about penis', has anybody seen Bofa today? He was supposed to be here." Shin said, internally smirking and cackling madly.
"Bofa? Who's that?" Rias asked curiously but regretted it the instant she saw the grin on Shin's face. Meanwhile, Shin was laughing like a madman on the inside at finally getting the chance to use some memes from his previous life.
"Who else? Bofa deez nuts! HA!" Shin said as he laughed madly, meanwhile, everyone else in the room just looked at him like an idiot. "Oh, come on, that was funny!" Shin said as he started to sulk.
"I was wrong, you're not an idiot. You're a complete moron." Rias said, Shin seemingly being physically attacked bye her words as he grabbed his heart in pain.
"You are all uncultured," Shin said as his face fell and smacked his desk in depression. Despite all this, everyone started to laugh. Although the joke he made could definitely be considered offensive, they all knew that's just how Shin was, and he didn't mean anything by it.
"So now you all laugh," Shin said as he only went deeper into depression. After a little bit, everyone went back to what they were doing while waiting for class to start and Shin was knocked out of his depression as he felt a pair of squishy things land on his head.
"No need to be so depressed, Shin. If you wanted, there is always, certain, ways we could cure that depression." Akeno's voice tickled his ear.
In an instant, his depression gone, he sat up and punched his fist into his hand. "To the janitor's closet!" Shin said excitedly, causing Akeno to giggle.
"Shin." Rias' voice called out, a dangerous edge to the voice.
Turning around, Shin looked at Rias, before suddenly coming to an epiphany. "Oh, how rude of me," Shin said as he suddenly had an arm hanging around Akeno's shoulder. "Rias, would you like to have a threesome in the janitor's closet with Akeno and me?" Shin said, causing Rias' face to go red.
"Ara, ara. It sounds like a good idea to me. What do you say Rias?" Akeno said as she leaned into Shin and relished in Rias' blushing face. Akeno was the third, and final, person that he often flirted with, as she too was in on the silent game Rias and him were having to see who could get the other to blush. Thus far, Shin hadn't lost once.
Figuring this might be her opportunity to finally get him to blush, she decided to play along. Standing up and pushing her breasts into Shin's arm. "I wouldn't be opposed to the idea," Rias said against Shin's ear, causing him to shiver a bit, but didn't blush.
"Alright! Got the condoms in my back pocket, time to cross off one of the most important milestones in any man's life!" Shin said as he started walking off with them, everyone's eyes following them. By now, it was more of a game of chicken than anything else.
Just as they reached the door however, their teacher chose this exact moment to make his appearance. "And where do you three think you're going?" The teacher said with a dangerous tone, thinking they were about to skip class.
"We are about to go have a threesome in the janitor's closet," Shin said bluntly, causing Rias and Akeno to blush while the teacher's face faulted.
"You can't be serious." The teacher said, giving him an 'are you stupid' look.
"My erection disagrees." Shin once again stated bluntly, causing Akeno and Rias' blush to deepen.
"Just go to your seats." The teacher said as he groaned and the bell signaling the start of the class rung.
"Damn, so close," Shin said disappointed as he walked back to his seat, sulking the whole way.
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