[ retry ] ∞ x human. That dragoness who could not accept the pain.
GooseWhiskey101: I mean, it is. I intend to start from the middle of the first year in Iseei's high school and develop everything from there to unify it with the events of the canon. I hope this answer satisfy you
Arktempest: I'm sorry it's not an update as such, but I hope it makes up for a little more than the previous introduction. Thanks for reading.
Chaos is unleashed in the area. This is nothing new when talking about the Dimensional Rift, an unstable space full of possibilities, but whose very existence causes disasters to anyone or anythings that dares to approach in it's resounding silence of space. On its own, it's a place no one could ever be prepared to explore.
But as true as that is, there are also creatures capable of wandering in this chaotic silence... Once there was one that roamed free, and now there is another that wanders with sadness and pain in its being...
The chaos is explosive. Shaking in the atmosphere, gravity and the subject who lets itself be, being shaken by such a disaster, only lets show how much it suffers by the tears in its eyes.
"Let me see him again, please..." Begs the entity in the form of a woman. Her gaze lost as she cries, clinging to herself as the place tries to hurt her and fade her away. An act she believes merciful for her current situation. "I beg you, finish me, let me see Hyodo Issei again!" she pleaded to the silence as she sobbed and all the chaos around her gave hints of, even perhaps, finally killing her as she so desired.
However, in order to understand this call to despair we must focus on the past; infimum beginning of everything that is but how much from thousands and thousands of years ago...
And it all begins with him. Hyodo Issei.
There was something magical about him; whether in the miraculousness of his birth, his terrifying luck, absolute empathy, loving sympathy and absurd charisma... Oh, and his extreme perversion, of course...
Ophis remembers perfectly when the whole army of supernatural entities was behind him to face the present threat. She, standing behind him but by his side, watching in profile with longing as he was ready to fight to the death for his home, looking as heroic as no one could ever see him. Remnant of a war that almost cost everything... Then the leap of time in the same pose. Now there is no army and it is just her with him, noticed in his long beard and hair waving in the wind as he gazes into the distance with seriousness and tranquility; her in an old woman's age that accompanied Kunou to her death and with a look full of the lifeless pride she had when she saw how much her first friend in the world changed as he rightfully took Great Red's place when everything ended to keep the balance of the dimensional rift after the great dragon's death.
The future sweeps them away but time never catches up with them, showing that Hyodo was no longer the young man who had to become a hero because of circumstances, but now one out of pure desire to help and protect. A sigh furrows his wrinkled old man, whether from age or from life itself that has dragged his existence down to a thousandth of the years he already had on his back.
But just as she saw him so focused on his mission to preserve peace no matter what, she also saw the sadness he carried as he slowly realized that he was alone in the world. First it was his parents after prolonging their lives a little longer than necessary for them to enjoy their grandchildren, then the more mature wives, who had many years behind them and were leaving behind a boy who was filled with uncertainty by the facts of life and death... Then it was the younger ones, who noticed how he began to "age" to accompany them, they noticed his desperation for not wanting to be alone... So many children, grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren passing their lives after, being already the resignation of knowing that maybe and only maybe he will be the last of the family to leave...
Ophis was always there when he made the decision to walk away from the most recent legacy of his blood, a legacy that had expanded immensely throughout the supernatural world. She saw it all, accompanied him through it all. But, in the end, even when she understood things much better, she never took the time to explore herself, to evaluate herself, to know herself...
And when she did, she learned to open her heart; she had one at the end, what a surprise. She fell in love with the man behind that sad old expression so long that she never knew how to appreciate him. She appreciated his friendship so much that she saw it with new eyes too late...
So too, Hyodo left his heart behind. He refused to love again, his perversion was gone, just as his mentality abruptly and slowly degraded.
Issei had given up on life, and because of that he began to die when his power did the rest...
Ddraig let him do it out of respect for his friend, and she, enraged, couldn't accept it... But no matter what she did or said, he would not change his stance and her situation worsened.
By the time she understood the anguish of losing Issei from her life ( that she had fallen in love with him), he had finally left this world...
...
And so as it was said before, it starts again with him.
Hyodo Issei will have been a great man, with great trajectory in time, and blah, blah, blah... But he wasn't always like that. Oh, no. Now we step firmly on his 16 years, years where his puberty, and consequently hormones, turn him into someone totally popular.
No, not in a good way. He is famous for peeping into the Kendo club locker room; funny, since he was actually there to do it, but couldn't due to his friends, Matsuda and Motohama, hogging the only viewing hole.
And... There they saw them.
"Shit, it's Katase!" Exclaimed the future hero and current protagonist, taking advantage of the fact that he had seen earlier a girl leaving the place, sneaking towards them, to run away while his friends reacted late and, consequently, were beaten as they ran away from her.
The "perverted trio" had been their symbolic nickname. The "perverted beast" was Issei's nickname to differentiate him from the group, since he was the one who was always caught looking at and even giving lewd opinions about women's breasts. Sheltered from him and his friends was the opinion of a harem, which made it all the more ridiculous.
Halfway through the first school year, these three had already established a controversial reputation, coupled with the terrible expectations of such an absurd future. And to add more salt to the wound, the existence of the most envied man looms before them as they run for their lives: Kiba Yuto, a blond gentleman of the same age as them, only gnawed at them with anger at how attractive he was with women.
Finally, Issei stumbled in his distraction and it was the end of him as his friends kept running without him...
...
Dusk calls for homecoming. The finished school day only makes the boy sigh with resignation; his future with women was complicated.
As he moves on, he rethinks the big picture: He has no girlfriend, he's a pervert and, so far, he has no chance of that changing. He honestly feels he's hitting rock bottom on this one.
That's when his sidelong glance goes to the bridge he usually walks across and his expression unhinges.
...
Ophis blinks. Her gaze goes to the sunset. Her appearance, that of an old woman in gothic attire, is abruptly changed to that of a little woman in the same attire but more in keeping with the place. She then takes a breath and smiles, incredulous.
"How..." She mutters in utter surprise at the sight of humans wandering around, going about their own lives. She looked down at her hands, noticing her surroundings. A park; she was sitting on a bench there. "Issei..."
The only word that mattered to her: "Issei." Ophis abruptly vanished and began to fly at high speed through the dimensional rift, the same one through which she accidentally managed to produce the phenomenon that granted her the trip that brought her to this special place.
When she emerged, she was outside the city. Kuoh. She knew this place like the back of her hand in all her times as she wandered with Issei through this one in all the future eras that ravaged the earth.
Her gaze sharpens. She searches for who she wants among all the crowded and moving phenomenon of the vast city, smiling excitedly as her gaze focuses to one place in particular.
"I found you." She stifles the impending sob that wants to embrace her. Her tears are quickly wiped away as, using her powers, she disappears back to her target.
...
Returning to Iseei's reaction, then yes it is understandable that his reaction is due to what was happening there.
A hole appears next to him as if it were a kind of portal. He recoils in surprise, just as he sees something come out of there and his expression becomes even more unhinged.
"A-A girl..." He is surprised when he sees a woman his age (presumably) appear beside him from the hole. "Waaa! What a tits!"
And it was justified. For some reason , her outfit featured a certainly revealing cleavage, which is why he couldn't help but notice this one since he noticed her nearby.
That's when he fixed his gaze on her face and everything changed. The two of them exchanged glances, and Issei knew that she was familiar to him for some reason.
"Ophis..." He murmurs, almost mesmerized, until he reacts and doesn't know where that came from. It was like those times where he felt strange dreams... It was going back to those childhood memories...
She reacted to the call, her eyes opened and her gaze fixed on him. On the love of her life. Ophis shows an expression of pure happiness that she doesn't waste as she throws herself on the boy and hugs him, to his surprise.
"Huh? Are-Are you okay?"
The girl rubs her face through Iseei's shirt as she hugs him tightly and sobs. The nostalgia, the joy, the emotion, the passion... Her love, welling up from the deepest part of her heart, ready to explode towards him at any moment she wants.
"Emm..." Attempts to ask this one without understanding anything, embarrassed when he feels the breasts on his body. "Is something wrong, can I help you, maybe we know each other from somewhere? P-Please don't cry."
She can't help it. She loves him, so much that it hurts. But it's time, no more repression. She no longer needs to hide, for she knows her heart and she is going to follow it to the infinity that represents her. Her gaze rises, smiling with total happiness and affection while her chin is lying on the boy's chest; she breathes out and breathes in, also taking advantage of the fact that her nose is close to his body to inhale the boy's whole being. Now it was time to impregnate him with hers at all times...
He blushes at such a reaction, recognizing that the girl in front of him was very beautiful and that her gaze so full of affection made him understand, to his internal fight to deny it, that she was attracted to him.
"Issei..." She rambles as she looks at him with total happiness, to then break away and start jumping with excitement and amusement, to the surprise of the boy who takes the luxury of assessing the black and purple outfit she was wearing, as well as the mask on her eyes and her black lips. She looked like a real doll and he couldn't help but feel nervous when she started touching him so intimately, embarrassing him even more. "You got excited! Your heart is beating like crazy! You're totally red!"
"W-Wait! What was that all about?! Who are you?!"
She then comes to her senses and backs away. Suddenly, Issei feels the atmosphere change unnaturally and notices that they are suddenly both alone in the city. In response, he looks at her and she calmly steps back a little while looking at the boy with pure love.
"My name is Ophis of Hyodo. Formerly known as Ouroboros, the dragon of infinity. I have wandered into the Dimensional Rift to die many centuries ago in the future, but, somehow, I have managed to find you again... I love you, Issei, I finally told you!"
And he just looked at her without understanding a damn what was going on.
"Huh...?"
She sighs with resignation at that answer, quickly understanding why she couldn't feel his essence, except for that of his soul (after all, that one she's known since Great Red created his new body for him). She reached a stage in time where Issei did not know the supernatural world yet and, consequently, had not awakened Ddraig.
And yet, her respect and pride only grew for noticing that he in such a short time had managed to progress so much with his powers and abilities...
Well, it was time to change things.
"Okay, this is going to be a long story." She assures him. "Can we go to your place to talk more calmly? Unless you want to keep looking at me, which I love. But we can do that there too."
The suggestion quickly captures his attention as he averts his gaze from her amused smile. He's embarrassed, since he realizes he had his eyes glued to her and her outfit at all times (especially her breasts).
"O-Okay. Sorry... W-We should talk to my parents about your presence before and..." He started mumbling with concern, different from her who smiled excitedly.
"Oh, don't worry about it. Leave it to me. I'll make them very happy, trust me."
And maybe that's why he was worried not knowing what she was planning to do.
...
Walking through the city streets never felt stranger to him. The stares of many people on both of them, especially since the girl in the gothic suit was hugging his left arm as they slowly made their way towards the chestnut's house.
"Emm... Ophis, isn't it? D-don't you mind walking around like that?" he queries embarrassed by the stares of many adult women watching the couple in a nostalgic way.
She denies, rubbing her face in his arm after that. Noticing the stares, she smiles even wider.
"Geez... Is the city that boring for everyone to be staring at us?" she complains noticing that it makes the boy very uncomfortable much to her disgrace.
"M-Maybe it's because you're so pretty." He mutters nervously. Noticing that she tilted her head towards him, he looks at her, embarrassing himself even more with her delusional look and her happiness.
"Thanks for the compliment. You look handsome to me too, Issei... And a lot more people will see you like that when I start training you."
Oblivious to the situation, Issei reacts to those words.
"Huh? Train me? What do you mean?"
"Hmm? Train your body to get used to your powers, so also for you to assimilate Ddraig so that when you lose your body, you can use your full potential..."
"Huh?" he repeated again, this time totally lost from the chatter. She tilted her eyes accordingly.
"Issei, do you believe in supernatural things?"
"I would have told you no if it was that you hadn't appeared in a portal in front of me..."
"Very good point, indeed."
"So... Are you a dragon? Like the ones in the legends? You said something about that before." He queries with honest doubt, trying to understand everything.
"Yes, and no... Now that I realize it, my infinite power has started to reset due to my other half not existing..." She muttered, remembering that Lilith had decided to wander the earth since Vali passed away due to his age back then... They never saw each other again due to her apparently starting to look for a reason in her life to move on...
"Ophis?" He queries doubtfully at the sudden regret in her.
After the bout of nostalgia, she reacted. "I'm sorry, I was remembering... Returning to your doubt, well yes. I am the dragon referring to the Greek origin of the cycle of life; the serpent that bites its own tail... However, my existence has no qualms in this world. I have not created any significant change, nor have I affected the centuries with my existence alone, so despite being very strong, I am only a free entity."
"Wow..." He murmurs in some surprise, realizing more than anything that beside him, being a head shorter in stature than him, stood a mighty dragon hugging his arm. "You said you came from the future, didn't you? That means we know each other then."
"Yes!" She gets excited as she smiles happily, hugging his arm more tightly. "We were friends for many centuries! You helped me and provided a home!"
"I see." He acknowledges with surprise, only to understand something else in context. "Wait, does that mean I lived for many years, is that possible?"
"By being a dragon, yes."
"Ah, I understand..."
Silence. They both kept moving forward as the silence embraced them.
"You didn't understand shit, did you?"
"I didn't understand shit... B-But I'm trying!"
She laughs as she shakes her head. Yes, that's what he was like before all that was to come. It was the right thing to see it coming... But that was also how it was the right thing to prepare to change him.
...
Getting home wasn't inconvenient, knowing he has to explain God knows how to his mother about his partner is.
"Ophis, do you have family or something?" he queries in an attempt to put together an alibi.
"Issei is my family. You mean everything to me." She states calmly and confidently, which quickly embarrasses him.
"Okaychangeofplans!" He expresses in a rushed manner as he blushed and made up on his own, much to the dragoness' happiness for such reactions in him.
However, that caught the attention of his mother, who opened the door and found Issei with his companion.
"Issei..." She murmurs, fixing her gaze solely and exclusively on him. "I was getting worried because you weren't coming back, we were going to look for you!" She exclaimed as she hugged him with relief, then finally noticing Ophis smiling happily at the loving gesture from mother to son. "Issei? Who's your friend?"
"Ophis, Mom." She greets, taking the woman by surprise by the way she called her so intimately. "I'm Issei's girlfriend and future wife."
To Issei at this pace all that was left was to resign himself when he noticed his mother frozen.
[ I would be very grateful if you could tell me which beginning you like the most. ]