The Truth

"K-Kento…"

The bullies walked back, seeing the furiouce of Kento.

Kento immediately strode towards Aika who hid her tear stained face. 

"N-No." She said as he tried to help her. "Don't look…"

She was heartbroken to have been forced to show such a sight to Kento.

"We were just–"

Kento barely moved his eyes toward the bully.

"Shut. It."

The girl gulped thickly at feeling his anger.

Kento carefully placed a hand over Aika's shoulder. "It's alright. I am here."

He tried to comfort her, but the girl was too embarrassed and heartbroken to show him her face.

"No…" She cried. "I am ugly."

With each word she spoke, his anger increased towards the bullies. If he could, he would have used his skills right there to teach them a lesson –a painful one.

But he couldn't.

He couldn't physically hurt a normal human using his powers.

Yet he was not going to let the incident slide.

"K-Kento we–"

"Hush!" Kento roared. "Get out of my sight before I throw you out myself!"

He couldn't hold his anger upon seeing them trying to come up with excuses. 

The girls shuddered as they looked at him. His eyes spoke more than his mouth –seeing this, the girls decided it was best for them to get away from him.

"Aika." He said, every so softly. "Please look at me."

The girl didn't say anything and kept her head low, not allowing anyone to look at her face.

"It is alright." He said. "They are gone now. So, please… Look at me."

"Y-You will stop being my friend…" She said, confusing him greatly.

"Why would I?"

She shook her head, still covered by her fingers. "No, if you knew the truth… You will stop being my friend."

Kento took a deep breath. "Unless you hurt the people that I care about, I don't think I will." He smiled. "And the last I remembered, you are one of the people I care about."

And it wasn't a lie. 

Over the past few days, he had come to really like her company. She was a rather fun girl, a bit awkward, but still fun.

Opening his blazer, he placed it over her.

"It is okay, Aika." He said. "I am here now. You are safe, no one will hurt you. Please raise your head."

Aika was afraid, but she knew that he was not going to leave until she was okay.

So, she slowly raised her head –allowing him to look at her tear drenched face. Her mascara and lipstick all smeared by the water.

He smiled. "You look just fine to me." 

"D-Don't lie." She said. "I am ugly."

"You are not." He replied immediately. "You are far prettier than any of the girls around you."

"No…"

Kento took a deep breath. "You are drenched. You need a change of clothes. The student council president should have spares." He said. "Let's go to her?"

Aika did not want to go out looking like that, but she knew she could not stay in wet clothes for long.

She was already shuddering.

So, she slowly raised her head and nodded.

<<Quest Completed!>>

<<Rewards Obtained: Points ×100, {Horo-Kanu (A+)}>> 

…

…

"Who are they?" Sona asked, a massive frown on her forehead.

"A bunch of girls." Kento said, as Aika was changing clothes in the student council dressing room. "The one that had a scissor on her hand was a girl with green highlights. I think her name was Saiko."

Sona nodded. "I will look into this immediately and I promise that everyone involved will be punished accordingly."

"They better be." He said. "I trust your abilities, president. At least, more than the other heiress."

Sona sighed. "Rias just has a lot going on with her life. You might come to know about it soon."

Kento took a deep breath. "About joining the council and going through the rules… Can I do it tomorrow?"

Sona wanted to ask him why, but as he looked towards the dressing room, she immediately understood the reason.

"You want to take her home?" She asked.

"She had suffered a lot today. And I don't think staying at school will help her much –instead it might make it worse."

Sona nodded at his reply. "That is true."

"So, can I get a leave for today? I will be taking her home." He asked.

Sona nodded. "That's probably for the best. I will inform the homeroom teacher about the situation."

"I owe you for this."

Sona shook her head. "Just doing my job."

…

…

Aika was still traumatized from the incident, not talking much as they walked. 

"You live quite close to my place, don't you?" Kento asked, making Aika nod.

She had removed all the makeup she was wearing and given her condition, she couldn't braid her hair either.

Kento rather liked her open hair, but she did not say anything regarding appearances in the fear of making her tear up.

After walking for a few minutes, they reached Aika's place. 

It was a rather nice looking place, not the biggest but still much bigger than Kento's place. 

Seeing Aika taking out her keys to open the door, Kento asked. 

"Your parents aren't home?" 

She shook her head. "They are overseas for an office trip. They won't be back until next Wednesday."

Kento nodded, aware that he was walking inside a girl's place while her parents were out.

He wondered how long it had been since he last did something like this.

'Oh, I remember…' He shuddered remembering a past memory. 'Her father barged in with a pump action shotgun because a cheeky neighbor called him.'

"Your neighbors were not outside, were they?"

Aika was confused by his question, but still shook her head. "I don't think so…"

Taking a sigh of relief, he helped her to carry her bag inside.

"You don't have to." She said.

"I want to." He smiled.

Taking both their bags inside, he commented. "Your house is quite pretty."

This made the girl smile a little. "My mom had experience in interior designing. So, she was the one that designed it."

Kento found it impressive as interior designing was not an easy task. He remembered trying it out and failing horribly. 

He had to pay twice as much to fix the mess he created.

As they walked in, he paused abruptly. "Is it okay for me to enter?"

The door that Aika opened was to her room. 

"I can wait in the drawing room, if you want?"

Aika blushed a little before shaking her head.

"It's alright. You can come inside." She said. "It might be a little messy though."

Kento smiled before following behind her. And to his surprise, he was shocked at how pretty and well organized the room was.

The walls were painted in a shade of light french gray with a lot of bookshelves that were filled to the brim. 

"You like to read?" He asked. "I did not know that."

Aika gave him a soft smile. "The glasses are not just for show, you know?"

This made him chuckle. He was relieved to know that she had calmed down.

But he still wanted to ask.

"How are you feeling?"

This time…

She did not lie.

"Horrible." She answered honestly, taking a seat on her bed. "Totally horrible."

"Wanna talk about it?" He asked, almost certain that she would say no.

But to his surprise, she answered.

"I think so."

This made him relieved. Seeing her open up to him was quite a nice feeling.

"Do you know why people avoid me?" She asked.

Kento had always wondered the same, but never did he ask her or anyone else because he knew it was a sensitive topic.

And after today's incident, he knew that he should have asked.

"No." 

She showed him a sad smile at his answer. 

"When I first transferred to Kuoh, I learnt that I had a specific ability." Aika said. "But that ability only manifested after the school turned co-ed. Before that, I did not know that I had such an ability."

He remembered seeing two skills in her status window.

'It cannot be the magic one because it was sealed. So, it is {Size Scouting}?'

"My ability…" She looked down, embarrassed at having to talk about her ability. "Allows me to tell the size of a man's penis even when one is wearing pants."

Kento was taken aback by the reveal.

Never in his wildest dreams did he expect {Size Scouting} to be a sexual skill.

'And all this time I was thinking it was a geometrical skill…'

He cursed at himself for not considering the possibility of a girl having a sexual skill –especially when one of the perverted trio had a similar skill, but for women.

'At least I should have never forgotten about this possibility.'

"But it was not a skill that I asked for." She said. "It just… Manifested."

Some of the skills that people in this world had were indeed quite random, so he could understand her.

"One day, I revealed it to a girl who was my friend… At least, back then." She chuckled. "She said that it was an interesting skill. But what I did not know was that she would talk about it with the other girls in the academy."

Kento sighed. 'You can never be sure who will keep your secrets and who won't.'

"After that moment, my life had been hell." She explained. "They started calling me names, gave me the nickname of Pervy Glasses and made fun of me."

Kento took a deep breath. When it was about the Perverted Trio, he could understand. They openly harassed women.

But he couldn't see Aika doing that. And her next sentence proved his words.

"Unlike the Perverted Trio, I did not actively use my ability. It was automatic… If I looked down a man's pants… I can easily calculate their size." She sighed. "But I decided to accept the name that the girls gave me, and this allowed them to not care about me much. Since, I did not actively use my ability."

She bit her lips. "But everything changed when you came."

Looking at Kento's face, she chuckled. "Not in a bad way… But in a good way."

"Pardon?"

"When you first introduced yourself, I thought you would stop talking to me after some time and hang out with the other pretty girls." She said. "But you did not, and kept talking to me. And when you asked me to be your friend… That was one of the biggest turnarounds for me."

Kento did not expect his small action of asking her to be his friend would be such a big deal.

"But as you continued hanging out with me, I knew I did not have to keep acting like a pervert…." She took a deep breath. "I could act like the normal girl I was."

"I see." Kento smiled. 

"But when they saw you hanging out with me, instead of them… They got jealous and angry." She said. "And that is why… today's incident happened."

"That–"

"I am not finished." She looked. "But I don't mind it. If it means I can keep hanging out with you."

Kento smiled. "You can."

She took a deep breath. "You truly are different from everyone else, Kento. Even after hearing all this, you don't seem to react much."

He shook his head. "It is normal to feel what you felt. But having to go through all that pain, I can only imagine how hard it must've been."

"No." She said, getting off the bed. "I like hanging out with you. I like spending time with you."

She said, walking closer to him.

"I like whatever you talk about, I like whatever weird things you do."

She stood right in front of him, barely keeping their faces apart.

"This is dangerous." Kento said.

"It is." Aika breathed out. "But it has been dangerous from the moment I fell for you."

Kento's eyes went wide.

"I like you, Kento Yamazaki." 

Saying this, Aika pushed her lips to his, making Kento unsure of what to do for a moment. 

Before calming down and holding her by her hips, he kissed her back –not wanting to push her away.

But as their kiss deepend.

He heard a voice. 

<<Plunder Quest Activated!>> 

<<Defeat your opponent!

Aika Kiryuu 0/1>> 

<<Rewards: Points ×100, [Cloak of Invisibility (A+)], {Teleport (D)}>> 

<<Host has a 50% chance of plundering one or more of opponent's skill upon victory.>> 

'Fuck you system.'

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