Overthinking

"Ddraig woke up?" Gold asked while munching on some fries. He had figured out that there was a fast food place near his home, so he's been enjoying his unhealthy lifestyle.

"Yeah, he says he wants to talk to you." Akemi nodded as her left arm transformed into the boosted gear.

"Alright, I guess I don't have much else to do right now." he replied as he really didn't have much to do at the moment. It's not like he has a job considering he's retired.

"You have my thanks for aiding my current host, little whelp." A voice reverberated from the green jewel on her arm. Gold was actually inwardly relieved that it was a male voice, which meant that the dragon wasn't genderbent.

"Whelp?" Gold questioned at the odd way he was referred as.

"You are a young dragon, are you not?" Ddraig's voice echoed again.

"Well... only in soul." Gold thought about it, and it was probably since he still counted as Dragonborn. A human with the soul of a dragon.

"Wait, you're a dragon!? I thought you were human!" Akemi was surprised because Gold always regarded himself as human.

"Human in body, dragon in soul." After being sent to Skyrim, his soul was tweaked by the world laws to fit with being the main character of that world.

"Then you are indeed a dragon. But I wish to ask, why you are helping my host?" Ddraig wanted to know what he wanted to gain from helping Akemi.

Akemi seemed to be interested as well, since Gold never told her why he chose to help her out randomly. Granted, at first he threatened to crash his truck into her house, he was still helping her in the end.

Gold was silent for a moment with a thoughtful expression. It twisted into a slight frown that lacked assurance. "Well... at first it was just to give me peace of mind regarding future problems." He could have just left the girl alone after awakening her boosted gear. A human alone with a Longinus level sacred gear, she would have been forced to choose one of the three factions even if she wanted to stay neutral.

"But I guess I kept helping her because I liked the cute face she would make whenever I messed with her." he concluded with a nod. He was doing it for amusement, at least that's what he believed.

"W-what!?" The future Harem Queen turned red in embarrassment.

"Hahahahahaha! I suppose that's a good enough reason." Ddraig's laughter echoed through the room over Akemi's stuttering.

For some reason, Gold felt the room turn colder.

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Sitting back on my bed during chill time. The sound of pages flipping occasionally was all that was heard throughout my man-cave. I've been slowly preparing for when Riser is supposed to show up for the whole engagement thing.

I have to say, Sona does some efficient work. It only took a day, but she already gathered up literal packets worth of information regarding Riser and his family ranging from his recent rating games to his parent's contact information.

Now I could totally just take the path of kicking his ass straight up, or even convincing them to allow Akemi to join Rias's team in the rating game. Now that I think about it, that would be pretty good training for the girl. She's definitely strong enough to fight Riser one on one without holy water at the moment.

But that would be boring, plus I feel like messing with the flaming chicken man. Casually flipping through the packet of information, I stopped as I noticed a red summoning circle appear in my room. It's the circle for Gremory, but Koneko is upstairs right now. So who is trying to transfer themselves here?

Rising up from the circle, I recognized the familiar long hair of crimson. I'm not really ticked off at the abrupt entrance since I could have set the bounded field to stop these kinds of magical entrances, but I let it be since I don't mind the intrusion most of the time. I'm more confused at the fact that she's here since she shouldn't have a reason to come to me.

"Gold, I want you to take my first- wow you got undressed fast." She blinked at how fast I was out of my clothes.

"I don't like wasting time. Let's start before we get interrupted!" I hastily said taking a step forward.

"WUT!?" I glanced down at my body in horror, it was encapsulated in ice up to my neck. Impossible! I don't feel anyone else here besides the two of us! I didn't even feel the buildup of any magical energy!

"Gold! Are you alright!? What happened!?" Rias asked frantically, reacting to the fact that my body was completely covered in ice.

"I ain't letting no damn ice cock-block me!" I grunted as magical energy filled my body, reinforcing it to the limit.

*CRACK* I immediately shattered the ice, breaking free from my prison.

"Haha! Nothing will stop me from getting laid with a beautiful red-head!" I declared loudly to whoever was screwing with me while Rias seemed to blush at the declaration. I raised me leg again to continue forward, until the sound of shrieking vapor filled the room.

"IT CAN'T BE!" My body was once again encased in ice, except this time it was multiple layers. This time, my head and the entire room was also covered in a layer. HOW!? WHO IS DOING THIS!?

My eyes shifted to the appearance of another magical circle that appeared on the ground. Rising up, a silver haired maid seemed to take a cursory glance at my frozen form with a raised brow before turning to Rias.

I couldn't hear what she said to Rias due to being completely covered in ice, but after what looked to be resentment and unwillingness. Rias reluctantly left with the maid who I'm pretty sure was Grayfia.

Allowing a pyromancy flame to engulf my form, I once again broke free from my restraints. "WHO HAS THE BALLS TO COCK-BLOCK ME!?" I roared out with golden rays flaring out from my eyes.

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Slowly walking down the street towards Kuoh, Gold was still lost in thought about the night before. It's one thing for someone to be capable of spying on him, it's another thing for someone to be able to freeze him in his own home without him detecting where the spell originated from.

He had spent the rest of the night checking his bounded field after Rias left. He personally inspected every nook and cranny of his house for any indication of foreign tampering. In the end, he could only find a few more spying spells but no signs of the intruder.

He considered the possibility of the intruder casting from another dimension, but he quickly dismissed that possibility. The intruder would have to be unfathomably more powerful than him, to be able to cast an offensive spell from another dimension, straight into his bounded field without detection.

Gold currently had visible bags under his eyes from loss of sleep. He couldn't understand, if someone was so much more powerful than him. Then why were they only spying on him? What did they want from him? He came up with many conjectures from these questions that plagued him. There were too many possibilities and variables.

He also considered the yandere curse, but the chances of that were small. He didn't believe he was so unlucky to be exposed to the one person in the world who was affected by his curse. He barely left his house after all. He shuddered when he considered the plausibility of it actually being the case.

He shook his head, he needed to stop overthinking it. Stopping at a familiar club room door, he let out a deep breath. The thoughts that plagued him began to disperse as golden rays flickered from his eyes. He felt much more focused now. Raising his leg, he delivered a powerful kick to the double doors, sending them flying open.

"Riser Phenex!" His abrupt entrance caused everyone in the room to turn to his direction. "I'm here to wreck your shit!" he declared while pointing at the confused blonde chicken.