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After leaving the place where Issei was attacked, Rias Gremory's peerage gathered in the Kuoh Academy, more specifically in Occult Club's room.

"So what do we know about sensei?" Rias asked.

"She saved Issei-kun." Akeno said while pouring tea.

"She was present at the place where a fallen angel was probably defeated." Kiba said.

"This already proves that she is involved in the supernatural world." Rias speaks seriously.

"Koneko, you mentioned that you were invited to her house, what did you discover there?" Kiba asked the young girl who was focused on the sweets she had received.

"She has two adopted children, and a student she taught before coming here. But there's something important you need to know buchou."

"And what would it be, Koneko?" Rias asks with focus.

"She has a picture with a one-eyed old man named Odin." Koneko commented.

"Did you ask about the man?" Akeno smiled at her friend.

"No. Buchou said not to attract attention." Koneko took a candy from her pocket.

"If she really is a mage..." Kiba begins.

"She probably has connections to the chief god of the norse pantheon." Rias speaks seriously, realizing the problem of messing with this teacher.

"Rias, I don't think it's a good idea to try to invite someone involved with a god into your peerage." Akeno tries to remind her best friend.

"I know Akeno, but I need all the help I can get. I'm not in a position to deny anything, if I can convince her to join me my chances of beating HIM will be better." Rias sigh. "And how is Issei?"

"He arrived at home safely." Kiba said. "I took the opportunity to look around his house, and I found no signs of the presence of fallen angels there."

"Great, at least one less problem. Let's call Issei and Anastasia-sensei during class on Monday. We have to try to get more information about her." Rias speaks.

"What should we do buchou?" Kiba asked his king.

"Akeno and I will talk to Sona to try to acquire more information about our teacher. Kiba, you will watch over Issei this weekend to ensure his safety. Koneko, you will continue watching our teacher's house." Rias gives her orders.

"Rias, I think we should talk to your brother." Akeno looked worriedly at her friend knowing that she wants to prove herself capable of dealing with her own problems without Sirzechs' help.

"NO. I can handle it, if we need help we'll talk to Sona." Rias gets excited, but soon realizes what she's done. "I'm sorry Akeno, but I need to deal with this without my brother's help."

"I understand buchou." Akeno hesitantly nodded.

———

The days pass naturally until it is a weekday again. Koneko's investigation is fruitless because Anastasia is preparing her house for the arrival of a guest.

The next morning at Anastasia's house a beautiful woman was sleeping in her bed.

Anastasia began to wake up and felt the presence of another person in her bed. And without looking to the side she just kick the person out of the bed.

"Ouch, I didn't remember that you were so violent on bed." A husky and seductive male voice said.

"Did you miss my Fists of Love so much?" Ana sat on the bed looking at the man who has long white hair.

"Oh mommy don't hit me." The man says without any shame as he cowers and tries to act adorable.

"Merlin, do you really think that would work?"

"It worked on the priestess of Amaterasu, on Vivian, on the goddess Aphrodite, on that student of yours named Morgana Le Fay, and on most of the women I've known. Whether they are single or married." Merlin says with a smile as he gets up from the ground.

"So that's how you ended up being punished. Did you really need to mess with a Miko of the Shinto gods?" Ana just shakes her head thinking about how even one of her students fell for this womanizer.

"We don't need to talk about unimportant things during our reunion. Did you miss me, mom?" Merlin says as he summons a bouquet of flowers to give to her.

Anastasia accepts the flowers and places them on the bed, turning her attention back to the man.

"Couldn't you appear like a normal person? Like ringing the doorbell or teleporting to the guest room."

"First of all, normal people don't teleport into other people's houses. Secondly, you've slept on the same bed as me since I was a child, what's the difference for now? I see no reason why I should use the guest room." Merlin says without any shame.

"What do you plan to do in Kuoh?" Ignoring the boy's lack of common sense, she continues the dialogue.

"Since you're a teacher at the school, I'll be your student." Merlin opens his arms, making a rainbow that follows his arm's movement, and there are flowers falling around him.

"You're going to clean all these petals." Anastasia says looking at the floor.

"No problem." Merlin raises his hand, but is stopped by his mother's next words.

"You will clean the room without using any type of magic." Ana smirks observing the sad look on the face of the legendary wizard who would have to sweep up flowers manually.

Anastasia goes to the kitchen to prepare something for both of them to eat while Merlin was busy sweeping up the petals with a broom and a dustpan.

[Who would have thought that the great Merlin Ambrosius would one day be seen sweeping his adoptive mother's house.] Apollyon speaks loudly allowing other people to hear him.

"Hey Apollyon, now I have to call her mommy and sensei, the fetishes are just piling up." Merlin speak.

"Can't you go a day without saying something that doesn't have a sexual connotation?" Ana looks impressed by the boy.

[I see no reason to blame him. He only became a pervert because of you.]

"I have never done..." Ana started to defend herself, but was interrupted.

[You taught him how to seduce.]

"Don't forget that it was seducing both women and men." Merlin says with a mischievous smile.

[Do you remember that girl you were interested some centuries after being dumped... what was her name?]

"Jasmine. A nice girl, and the first time I've suffered a NTR." Merlin says letting fake anime tears fall.

[Oh yeah, you were having trouble and she came to 'help' you. In the end she took the girl to bed and made her become homosexual at the time of the Inquisition.]

"Hey, it wasn't like that..." Ana tried to retort.

"Yes, it was, at least it was the first time I had sex as a woman." Merlin says using magic on his own body and becoming a female version of himself.

[Did you prefer more as a woman or as a man? If I remember correctly, the goddess Hera and the god Odin already came into conflict over this debate.]

"Yes, the prophet called Tiresias was punished by her when he said that women feel more pleasure in sexual acts." Anastasia reminds her companion.

"He wasn't quite wrong, it's quite pleasurable." Says Merlin.

[At least something good came out of that experience.]

"It's a shame she was still obsessed with my mother the whole time. " The mage sighs.

[Ah, don't bother with it. You don't even know how many hearts this evil woman has already broken.]

"I'd love to know that information, my dear favorite sword." Merlin says.

[Hmm... you clearly prefer that alchemy freak you created and called Excalibur.] Apollyon responds in a resentful tone while appearing on the table in the room.

"Apollyon, I didn't order you to take physical form." Ana comments.

[You're not my boss, Tinker Bell.]

"In fact, I am." The woman responded, but decided to ignore it before being irritated for the rest of the day.

[Oh, speechless. See, I'm the boss of this relationship. The legendary and majestic, the great Black Dragon Apollyon.] The magic sword says proudly and feels Merlin approaching him. [What do you want dick wizard?]

"Don't be so cold Apollyon-chan. You're my favorite sword, you forgot the times we fooled the church by pretending to be Arthur and Excalibur." Merlin in his feminine version caressed the sword.

[Hmmm...]

"Can you tell me more about the previous topic?"

[This fairy was famous in our world for stealing the hearts of women and men, regardless of their races, both figuratively and literally. Because you think she was considered one of the strongest beings in our world and my rival.]

"We weren't rivals." Ana interjected.

[Silence woman. Our match was legendary.]

"But you lost without making me use my strongest weapons, and you were still sealed." Ana continued touching the wound.

[It does not matter.]

"Mom, don't bully our talking sword." Merlin speaks in a sweet tone.

[That's it... Hey, I'm a majestic dragon...]

"That is sealed..." Ana begins.

"On a sword." Merlin finishes.

"Merlin, have you already enrolled in Kuoh Academy?" Anastasia asked.

"Yes mom. I signed up as your son for your third year class." Merlin replies.

"Great, now go eat the pancakes and become a man again. If you appear in female form after enrolling as my son it will look strange."

"Wow, you're so out of date. Never heard of femboy or crossdressing?" The female Merlin says while twirling around making her skirt lift up.

[Yeah, I agree with whatever he just said.]

"Apollyon, do you even know what is the meaning of these terms?" Ana asked.

[I do not know. You are the free person, I am a sword remember? If you don't know how the fuck am I supposed to know?]

"You have a point." Merlin says.

[Of course I have.] Apollyon answer.

"Sword shut up. Magician man up." Ana speaks in an imperative tone. "Merlin get ready, we're going to Kuoh Academy in twenty-seven minutes."

"Okay mommy sensei."

At the appointed time, they both got into the car and headed towards the school.

"Hey, why there is a kitten spying on you?" Merlin asks.

"Ignore her for now. She's a first-year student, you'll see her meet her when we arrive."

"No problem."