Shin groaned as he finished the last bits of his third meal of the day, having struggled to eat the last few bites of the meal.
"I can't wait till it's time to start cutting. I won't have to eat as much as I do now." Shin said as he put his Tupperware container to the side.
"Tsubaki, would you please send this to Sirzechs Lucifer?" Sona's voice reached his ears, surprising him that she would talk about the supernatural right in front of him.
"Sirzechs Lucifer?" Shin asked, pretending to be confused. "Why does that name sound familiar?" Shin asked, causing the occupant's eyes to snap over to him. 'Oh, so that's their game. They think I know about the supernatural. Well, two can play at that game.'
"Oh, I remember now," Shin said as he walked over to Sona's bookshelf, looking for a specific book. Trailing his fingers across the backs of the books, his fingers landed on one in particular.
"Yes, Sirzechs Lucifer. I read about him and a woman named Grayfia Lucifuge in one of your books. It was a love story somewhat similar to Romeo and Juliet. Well, without the bad ending at least." Shin said as he pulled out the books and flipped to a page that had a picture of Sirzechs and Grayfia.
"It was a good read. By the way, the heroine, Grayfia. Even if it was just a portrait of some fictional character, she's still the hottest person I've ever seen in my life." Shin said as Reya choked on the water she was drinking.
"Not to mention, her cold attitude and great strength. She has all the attributes to be the perfect Queen. Don't you think Sona?" Shin said, smirking with his back turned to Sona. If she wanted to play games, he would too.
"Although, Sirzechs childhood friend in the book, Serafall Leviathan, she was really hot as well. Not to mention her obsession with her little sister. Just imagine the threesomes." Shin said as he heard Sona quite literally choke on air. "Too bad it's all fiction though. How cool would it be to live in a world like that?" Shin said disappointedly as he put the book back into place.
Turning around and seeing Sona's blushing face, he tilted his head in confusion. "Are you alright Sona? Your face is a little red." Shin asked, internally smirking.
"Y-Yea. I'm fine." Sona said, trying to regain her composure. This just made her even more suspicious of Shin.
Shin, seeing all the paperwork from this morning was done, figured the DNS had been fixed and approached Sona's desk. "Seeing as how we didn't get to play chess this morning, want to play now?" Shin asked, noticing the folded-up chessboard on her desk.
It wasn't the board they usually used, but it was still a chessboard. "Yes, I would like that," Sona said as she unfolded the chessboard, the pieces coming out of the space left between the board when it was folded up.
"What's with the red and white chess pieces? What's wrong with the traditional black and white?" Shin asked, but he knew that the red pieces were her evil pieces.
"Decided to change things up a bit. These red pieces were a gift given to me a while ago by my parents. They're called Evil Pieces." Sona said, gauging Shin's reaction.
Shin laughed in amusement at the name of her 'chess pieces'. "Evil Pieces? What makes these chess pieces evil?" Shin asked, laughing mockingly.
Sona frowned, disappointed by his answer. It seemed Shin didn't know what Evil Pieces were, meaning he likely didn't know what the supernatural was. "Who knows. Your guess is as good as mine."
Shin, picked up the red king piece and inspected it, noting how it felt weird in his hand, most likely due to the fact that it was directly linked to Sona. "The name Evil Pieces though. Sound like something a devil would use if they played chess. No?" Shin said, causing Sona to eye him.
"Yea, it does sound that way," Sona said, a certain kind of edginess in her voice.
"Alright, I'll use the Evil Pieces. As a goddess, you shouldn't let these Evil Pieces taint your hands." Shin said as he picked all of Sona's Evil Pieces, noting how each one felt extremely weird. 'Is this what demonic magic feels like? It's the first time I've ever actually been able to feel it.' Shin thought, having an ulterior motive to using the Evil Pieces.
'If I use Sona's Evil Pieces, I'll constantly be in contact with demonic energy, which if I haven't awakened my sacred gear as of yet, this definitely should.' Shin thought to himself as he set all the Evil Pieces down onto his side of the board.
"White moves first," Shin said smiling, showing off his pearly whites as Sona made her first move, signaling the start of their game.
(Scene Break)
In the end, Sona had beaten him once again, but he didn't care as he was the real winner of the whole situation. Midway through he felt something inside of him resonate with Sona's Evil Pieces, making something inside him change.
When it happened, Sona and everyone else stared at him, shocked. He took that as his sacred gear finally being awakened, but as of yet, when he tried to call it out, nothing happened. No gauntlet appearing on either hand, no spear materializing from thin air, no rings appearing on his hand.
Oh well, he was sure that with his sacred gear being awakened now, it would show up eventually. For now, however, he was on his way home from his night run, nothing too eventful happening to him after lunch.
Of course, all the student council members kept hinting at supernatural things the whole time he was there, but after an hour of dismissing them, he put on some headphones and listen to some music so he didn't have to deal with it any longer.
(Scene Break)
The next day when he woke up, he followed the same routine as yesterday, getting up and going to the bathroom to empty his fluids, then weighed himself.
"What the fuck?!" Shin said, shocked as he noticed he had another unexplained gain in weight. "Okay, something is going on. I need to make an appointment asap." Shin said as he went back to his room and made a doctor's appointment as soon as he could, which would be 9:00 A.M. this morning.
Afterword, he made a call to Sona, informing her that he would be late to school because of a doctor's appointment. Suffice to say, she wasn't happy that he was going to miss half the school day because of an abrupt doctor's appointment.
After going through his normal morning routine, he went to the doctors in which he explained the situation, in which he was going through several inrushes of hormones, and while he was there, they measured his height, in which he grew another five centimeters overnight.
After going through several scans, blood work, and urine tests, the doctor came back with all the information an hour later, the clock on the wall reading 10:30 A.M.
"We got all your results back Mr. Hyoudou, and for the most part, you are a very healthy person. Your heart, liver, and kidney function are well above the healthy standard. Your blood pressure isn't amazing, but it's still in the healthy range. White blood cell counts good, glucose levels fine, but then there's this." The doctor said as he handed Shin a clipboard and pointed to a certain portion of the paper.
"This right here is your testosterone and estrogen. It's off the charts, the likes of which we only see in someone who has been taking several hundred mg of steroids daily. Yet on the tox screen, it confirmed you have not been taking any. To be completely honest, we've never seen anything like it. Your body, for some reason we can't explain, is producing way more testosterone and estrogen than needed." The doctor said, shocking Shin.
'What? That doesn't make any sense. Unless…' His eyes widened; he came to a conclusion. 'It's my sacred gear. Sacred gears respond to its users' desires, and my desire currently is to go through a bulking phase and get stronger. My sacred gear is forcing my body to do all this.' Shin thought.
"Is it dangerous? Is this going to affect me at all?" Shin asked, needing to know if these levels of testosterone and estrogen would have any effect on him.
"Yes, it is definitely dangerous. You may be healthy right now, but if your testosterone and estrogen levels don't go down, you could be looking at damage to your heart, sudden rage episodes, or even strokes." The doctor told Shin.
'Well shit. But, if I think about it, it makes sense. Assuming this is my sacred gear reacting to my desires, then my desire was to get to 90kg as quickly as possible. My sacred gear responded by doing the things necessary to do as such, resulting in these levels of testosterone and estrogen. So if I wanted to lower my levels, all I should need to do is change my desire to getting to 90kg as quick as possible without causing any damage to my body.' Shin thought.
"For now, I'm going to prescribe you these medications." The doctor said as he handed Shin several pill bottles. "Take one of each of these pills every single morning. We will call you back in a week to see if it helps at all." The doctor said.
"Alright, thanks doc," Shin said as he stood up and left the doctor's office, throwing all the pill bottles in the trash outside the hospital on his way out.
Currently, because of his sacred gear, he now weighed 74kg, which meant he had gained almost 20kg over the course of four months. This kind of weight gain was just insane. At the rate he was gaining weight the past two days, if he kept at it like this, he would reach 90kg in around eight days.
The question was, did he want to risk it and just let his sacred gear continue to go the way it was for eight days and potentially cause damage to his body, or slow down so he reached 90kg within the next two months.
The more he thought about it, it didn't really matter either way. Once he did reach 90kg, he would just cut anyways, which means his sacred gear would change his levels once again, and his sacred gear would give him the effects similar to anabolic steroids, which means he would cut at an extremely fast pace. It would only take three months at most to cut down.
So, decided to play it the safest way possible, he decided he would extend his six-month bulk to a nine-month bulk. Then he would cut for three months. This safest and healthiest option possible with the time he had. He just hoped he didn't grow any taller. He was already 6'3 in American terms. He didn't need to be any taller than that.
(Time Skip: 8 Months)
"Ummm, your Shin Hyoudou right?" Shin looked to the right to see a girl standing a few meters away from him. "W-Would you please be my boyfriend." The girl stated, looking at the ground with a huge blush on her face.
It has been eight months since his doctor's appointment, and he had changed a lot in that time. He had successfully bulked up to 90kg, and then cut down to 80kg, currently sitting at eleven percent body fat. Suffice to say, with his height of 190cm or 6'3, and his current weight, he looked very similar to a calisthenics bodybuilder. Or, if it was easier to imagine, a professional football player.
'Finally, it's about time cannon came. Although I wish I was more prepared for it. Currently, I'm just a strong human, but I might as well be a fly to supernatural beings. It definitely would have helped if I had learned more about my sacred gear.' Shin thought as he tuned out the girl talking next to him, he already knew what she was going to say, as this was Yuuma Amano or the fallen angel Raynare.
"Yea, sure," Shin said as he heard Yuuma ask him out on a date.
"That's great!" Yuuma said with a large smile plastered on her face. If it wasn't for the fact that Shin already knew who she really was, he would be completely fooled by her. She was definitely an Oscar-worthy actor.
"Let's go on a date this Saturday!" Yuuma said as she walked away. "I really am happy you're my boyfriend!" Yuuma shouted to him as she left the walkway.
Shin's hair blew in the wind as he looked over the bridge and at the sunset. He had made a habit of stopping here every day to watch as the sunset, it was always a nice sight to see the sky turn orange and reflect off the roofs of every car down below.
'Well, it looks like I'm going to die on Saturday.' Shin thought morbidly. Although, there was something that confused him greatly. He knew for a fact by now that he did not have the Boosted Gear, which meant Issei had it.
So, why is Raynare targeting him instead of Issei? Obviously, a dragon gear would be more of a threat than whatever Shin had. Maybe it's because Shin already awakened his, so it was much easier to sense than Issei's.
Oh well. He didn't want to dwell on it too much. Everything was going according to plan so far. Raynare asked him out on a date. Saturday was two days away, so it seemed his life as a human was coming to an end soon. Looking to the side discreetly, he saw Koneko watching him from behind a bush, licking a popsicle. Everything was going according to plan.
(Scene Break)
This had to be one of the most boring things he had ever done. Walking around a shopping complex, buying various clothes and accessories and eating crepes. Honestly, who enjoys this kind of stuff? Was it a bad thing that he was looking forward to the end of the date, the part where he dies?
Regardless, things were still going to plan. Rias' familiar has given him a summoning circle, he went on a boring-ass date with Yuuma, and now they were approaching a fountain in the middle of a park that he recognized greatly as the place he is to be killed.
Just like in the anime, Yumma skipped in front of him and stood a few feet away from him, her arms behind her back and leaning forward. He definitely understood how Issei thought Yuuma wanted to kiss him with the way she was acting. Keyword, acting.
"Shin, can you do me a favor? To commemorate our first date." Yuuma said as she slowly took steps forward, her generous bust bouncing with every step. Shin contemplated throwing the plan out the window and having sex with Yuuma right here and now but decided against it.
"Yea, sure," Shin said with a charming smile.
Standing right in front of Shin, Yuuma leaned forward, her mouth pressing up against Shin's ear. "Will you die for me?" Yuuma asked as she skipped back a few steps, a charming smile plastered on her face.
"Well, I'd prefer not to honestly. But hey, if you're into necrophilia I have a buddy in the morgue who might be able to set you up. Although I should warn you, they're usually either mutilated or very old." Shin said an all too serious look on his face.
Yuuma's face turned green with disgust as Shin said that. "What the fuck?" Yuuma couldn't help but say out loud.
"Hey, it's alright. I won't judge you for any of your kinks. As long as you don't judge me for mine." Shin said, internally laughing his ass off. This had to be one of the funniest things he had done since being reincarnated.
"Ok, that's it," Yuuma said as her clothes suddenly exploded, being replaced by the same BDSM outfit she wore in the anime and her fallen angel wings came out from her back. Forming a spear, she threw it at Shin with full speed, impaling him in the stomach.
'Holy shit this hurts. I mean, watching someone get hit by one of these is one thing, but holy fuck does this hurt.' Shin thought as he fell down to his knees.
"You don't know how badly I've wanted to do that," Raynare said as she sat down against the fountain. "And honestly, what in the hell is wrong with you? Necrophilia? Really?" Raynare said as she let out a few laughs.
Shin smirked at Raynare. "I know this whole situation is bad with there being a giant hole in my stomach and all. But is it wrong that I am very turned on right now?" Shin said, causing Raynare to choke on air.
"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Raynare yelled.
"I'm a guy staring at a hot, basically naked girl with big tits. Naturally, I'd be very turned on by that." Shin said as he coughed up some blood.
"I'm done with this shit," Raynare said as she just flew away and into a wormhole just as Rias' teleportation paper started to activate, a red glow starting to appear at the side of Shin.
As he saw Rias appear, he just had to get the last word. "Hey, Rias, how are you doing today? Mind helping me out, I landed on a rock and it's digging into my shoulder blade. It's very uncomfortable. I guess you could say I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place heh heh." Shin said before coughing up more blood, then promptly fainting due to blood loss.
Rias just stared at Shin's unconscious body. "You're an idiot," Rias said, despite knowing he couldn't hear her. "You have a giant hole in your stomach, and you're worried about landing on a rock?" Rias asked nobody in particular.
Walking forward, Rias summoned her Evil Pieces. "Don't worry, you won't die today." Rias said as she pulled out her pawn pieces.
(Scene Break)
For the first time in almost a year, Shin was awoken by the sound of his alarm clock, usually being awake moment before it went off. Reaching over, he tapped the off button and rubbed his eyes, still feeling very tired.
"Not to self, getting stabbed in the stomach by giant light spears hurt." Shin said, surprised when he heard someone chuckle beside him.
"Well, isn't that an understatement." Rias said, laying next to him completely naked, not that Shin could see that due to her being covered by a blanket.
"Oh shit," Shin said, looking at Rias, but then realized this was the perfect time to finally make a joke he had been waiting to make for an entire year. "Look, Rias, I am obligated by law to tell you, that if we had sex last night, you may want to get tested for Ligma," Shin said, his face completely serious.
Rias, despite knowing they didn't have sex, found herself confused. "Ligma?" Rias asked slowly, never hearing of that STD.
Smirking, Shin cackled madly on the inside. "Ligma my balls. HA! You have no idea how long I've been waiting to use that!" Shin said as he started laughing madly.
Rias' face went devoid of any emotion. "Really?" Rias said, not being able to believe the current situation.
"What?" Shin asked, getting over his laughing fit. "Did I do something wrong?" Shin asked.
"No, nothing," Rias said, although a smile did come to her face eventually.
"Oh yea, Rias?" Shin said, suddenly flipping over so he was laying over top of Rias, looking straight into her eyes. "Why is it you're in my bed again?" Shin said as his face dipped down into her neck, placing small kisses against it.
Rias blushed as a small moan came from her mouth. "Last night, you called out to me while you were dying. So, I came and saved you." Rias said, allowing her hands to wrap around Shin's back and trail the muscles on his back.
"Is that so?" Shin asked rhetorically. "I should give you a reward for that. Shouldn't I?" Shin asked rhetorically again, bringing his face up to her ear and nibbling on her ear lobe.
"You aren't freaking out?" Rias asked, surprised by the current situation.
"No, although I am curious, I am not freaking out. It would be rude of me to pay attention to something else when you are laying in my bed. Naked." Shin said against Rias' ear, causing shivers to run down her spine.
With Shin being as attractive as he was, not to mention how attractive his body was, it was very tempting to just give in right there and let Shin have his way with her. But she needed to explain what happened last night to him.
"As much as I want to do this, we can't right now. We need to talk first." Rias said, moaning as Shin started suckling on her neck.
Letting go of her neck, Shin brought his face up to look at Rias. "I disagree," Shin said as he decided to throw caution to the wind and smash his lips against hers. At first, he felt Rias go stiff once he initiates the kiss, but mere seconds later she returned it with just as much passion.
Moaning into the kiss, Rias gasped when she felt Shin's had light trail down her side, sending shiver all throughout her body.
Taking advantage of this, Shin took this opportunity to push his tongue into Rias' mouth, seeking out Rias' own tongue to initiate a fight for dominance. Rias responded in kind, using her tongues to fight back against Shin's.
After a full minute of fighting for dominance however, they had to separate in order to get a breath of air. "Sorry Shin, but that's all the further we can go at the moment," Rias said as she slid out from underneath him and sat up, the blanket falling off her body and showing her naked breast.
Instantly, blood rushed down to Shin's lower bits when his eyes locked onto Rias' breast. After a lingering gaze, he forced his eyes to look up and into her own. "Alright, if you say so," Shin said, getting up and out of bed, not bothered in the slightest that he was naked in front of Rias.
"Well, I'm going to go make breakfast, you can tell me what you wanted to while I'm making it," Shin said, noticing the way Rias' eyes trailed over his body constantly as he slipped on a pair of boxers, Rias getting out of bed to put on her underwear that was currently laying on Shin's floor.
"My clothes got covered in your blood yesterday, would you be so kind as to lend me one of your shirts?" Rias asked, picking up her bloodied school uniform.
"Yea, that's fine," Shin said as he went to his closet and picked out one of his bigger shirts. Due to how tall he was, the shirt went all the way down to cover Rias' panties. Meanwhile, Shin got dressed in a simple white t-shirt and loose grey shorts.
"Come, I'll make you breakfast," Shin said as he walked out of his room and went to the kitchen to make breakfast as well as prep his meals. He could already tell, today was going to be a long day. But he also knew, the fun was about to begin.
(Scene Break)
"So, let me make sure I have all this correct. Yuuma was actually one of these fallen angel people and killed me because I have a sacred gear. Luckily for me, I called out to you through a summoning paper you had given me, and you came in time to save my life." Shin asked, even if he knew it to be a fact, and knew much more than that.
"Yes, in a nutshell," Rias said as she sipped on the cup of orange juice Shin gave her.
"Ok, and you saved me by using one of those Evil Pieces things, which turned me into a devil just like you?" Shin asked, receiving a nod from Rias. "I see. So, then tell me…" Suddenly, Shin crossed the room in the blink of an eye and had Rias pinned against the wall with his forearm against her neck.
"Why should I serve someone that just let me die?" Shin asked with a dangerous tone to his voice. "The only way you would have given me that summoning contract is if you knew what Yuuma was going to do. I may be an idiot sometimes, but I am no fool." Shin said, the anger in his voice clearly present.
"I understand your anger. But-"Shin push up against her neck harder.
"I don't want to hear bullshit or excuses. Tell me why. Why did you let me die?" Shin asked, his eyes overshadowed.
"Because I was desperate," Rias replied, her face full of guilt. Letting go of her, Shin allowed her to drop to the floor, silently glad she didn't decide to just user her Power of Destruction to kill him.
"And please, do tell, what made you so desperate that you allowed for me to die, just to guarantee I would become a part of your peerage, instead of just asking me," Shin said, glaring down at Rias.
"Does it really matter?" Rias asked, looking at the floor in remorse.
"Yes." Shin spat out with heavy amounts venom. Of course, he already knew the answer, and he couldn't actually be mad at her considering he allowed it to happen, as well as it being what he wanted to happen.
"I told you before that devils came up with the Evil Pieces to replenish our numbers after the war," Rias said, receiving a nod. "Well, ever since then, pure-blood females have been getting married off to pure-blood males for the survival of the devil race," Rias said.
"And let me guess, this applies even to you, an heir to an entire clan," Shin asked, his voice losing some of the venom from before.
"Yes. I am to marry a man named Riser Phenix. He's a repulsive man that I'd rather die before marrying him and becoming his slave." Rias said hatefully.
"See, now was that so hard?" Shin said mockingly but had lost all venom in his voice. "Now that that's settled, we can discuss other matters," Shin said, causing Rias to stand up and look at him, massaging her neck slightly.
"And what would that be?" Rias asked.
"My conditions on becoming a part of your peerage of course," Shin said, causing Rias to gain an undignified look.
"Surely you don't expect me to serve you against my will. Especially when you allowed me to die, just to revive me as your slave. Tell me, how would that be any different from the situation you're trying to avoid currently with Riser?" Shin asked.
Rias looked down to the floor in shame once again. "Alright, what are your conditions," Rias asked.
"Simple really. I am not a slave, nor will I ever be. Don't expect me to follow your orders. If anything, all you can do is suggest to me to do something. In the end, the choice of whether I listen or not is up to me. So essentially, I want free will." Shin said.
"Is that all?" Rias asked, refusing to look up from the floor.
"Yes. That's all." Shin said, knowing he could get more if he wanted, but didn't. There wasn't a point really. "If you don't want to agree to those terms, then you might as well kill me because I'm telling you, whether you accept them or not, I will not take orders from anybody," Shin said.
"Very well, if that's what you want then so be it," Rias said, looking up and smiling at him. "I'm glad to have you as a part of my peerage," Rias said.
"Well, I can't say I am happy as well considering I've been in it for a matter of a few hours, but so far it isn't bad," Shin said as he turned back to cooking his eggs that were now burnt on the bottom. Now that he was a devil however, the fun was going to begin.
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