Chapter 20: The curse of getting closer

Riser POV

Fuck it, I don't care. Approaching the big lug disguising as a teacher I was held back by not only Rias but the Protagonist and the blonde. My mind was whirling with murderous thoughts of just not caring about the consequences and just beating up the asshole. But my mind reeled from the firm hands holding me back.

I knew that they must have more reasons for punching him but they were mature enough to not act on their impulses. Fuck, these kids are more tolerant than me. What is wrong with me letting all the power that I got get to my head.

I know that Rias must want to just get away from those disgusting eyes licking her all over and I know Ryuji would want nothing more than to get revenge for all the suffering that this bastard did to him. Not just his suffering but the suffering that it brought to his mom.

And here I am trying to damn all the consequences and punch him in the face.

My head instantly cooled but the burning anger in my heart just became colder. Not a burning childish rage that just lashes out but a cold anger directed at someone.

Seeing me get held back by the others the smirk on the pretend king's face became wider and now resembles the one in his palace. Which just makes my anger burn even more.

"I'm fine with my friends, thank you very much." Rias finally deigned to reply to the looming gym teacher after feeling me not fight against their hold anymore.

"Well you all shouldn't be loitering around here, unless you all want to get expelled?" The other faculty member spoke after a long time of silence.

"Yes and I apologize for holding all you up here then go to your classes transfer students, but stay here Sakamoto maybe some punishment will finally curb your delinquency." The monster ordered us to our class room.

"Wha- That's not fair we were-" Rias was interrupted by Ryuji shaking his head and holding back Rias now instead of me.

"It's fine I'm used to it, you guys just go." I couldn't believe it but thinking about it deeper I understood his thinking.

Ryuji, one of the most hotheaded of the Phantom Thieves would normally rebel and shout against this kind of unfairness, hell he did it in canon. But the big difference here was our presence, or I should say Rias' presence.

Ryuji has seen the kind of circumstances that a girl this beautiful will fall into if left alone with Kamoshida. Ryuji always tries to at least direct all the anger of Kamoshida to him. That's why the first time we met him in the game he was trying to catch up to the car of Kamoshida with Ann in it.

He was trying to prevent her from going into his car, because I think we all knew where that was going to go.

So seeing Rias about to fall into a trap because of Kamoshida, he demurely agreed to be punished.

But what happened next made me admire the frizzy haired teen even more and left me even more confused.

Joker stepped in front of Ryuji and just stared into Kamoshida. For a brief moment, I would have almost just said that I imagined it but there was a flicker there that I don't know if it was only me that was seeing it but…

Ren changed into his Persona outfit with him raising his right hand and pointing a gun directly at Kamoshida. And I really would have thought it was my imagination. If not for the slight fear I could see in Kamoshida's eyes.

Instinctively, he knew he was being threatened with his life if he didn't let Ryuuji go and Amamiya was the wall that protected his friends. He gulped slightly and deigned to let Ryuuji go because of self preservation.

"Actually you know what, nevermind go to your classes all of you!!" Kamoshida hid his fear with anger and shouted at all of us.

What the hell was that, is this really Joker? Or is this a self insert like me, what is happening here?

As we entered the school we all looked at each other though the two looked at Joker with a little intrigue and confusion, either they were wary of what just happened or they actually saw what I saw too.

We all decided to meet up with each other after school on the rooftop.

And as we walked towards our separate way I could see all the other students look at their window and see Ren.

And rumors then started all over again. And with my enhanced senses I could hear what they were talking about.

"I heard he murdered someone…"

"I heard he was sent to prison and he got tattoos from them…"

"I heard he was part of the Yakuza…"

"I heard he was a furry…"

Okay I could understand the other ones but what the hell was that other one with Ren being a furry. What does that even have to do with what he did?

Maybe he or was it a she, was just projecting her fantasies in reality and she just found a suitable target for it? I mean I wouldn't put it past this school. This school may have an abusive teacher that everyone doesn't talk about but if I remember right there is an actual yandere in this school.

Then there is the maid teacher, the artist teacher who uses too much make up then there is the corrupt principal… Wait, is this Persona 5 Royal? If it is then… Oh god, ow. What if Maruki was here? I never finished Persona 5 Royal but I heard about horrifying things about him… wait let me see him in the catalog, fishing out my catalog phone I searched the companions for Persona 5 and…

What the fuck?

No, no I must have seen it wrong…

Looking up and closing my eyes, which were really tired, if what I saw was real. I took a deep breath and looked down at my phone again.

I could see Rias looking at me with worry, because my face was white and dread was painted in it. Like Madarame laughed as he painted on my face because looking down I saw the tier of Maruki in my phone.

What the fuck is this, no seriously, What in the actual fuck is this!!!??

Maruki is an ordinary human right? He was just a counselor or something right? So why the hell is he a Tier X being!!??

Yaldabaoth, the final boss of Persona 5 vanilla is a tier 9, hell Joker as a whole is only a tier 7 and he beat a tier 9 being because of all the hope the people gave him.

Hell the strongest being in our world, Highschool DxD, are tier 10s. The Dragon of dragons, the dragon of dreams, someone who can dream up victory against any being is a tier 10. The Dragon of Infinity, the loli that is the head of a terrorist organization is a tier 10.

Hell, the final boss of our world, the being that caused the death of the Abrahamic God, Trihexa is a tier 10.

And you are telling me Maruki, an ordinary human counselor, has enough power to beat those beings? What the fuck happened in this world? What is Royal man, shit I should have finished Royal when I had the time and now I don't even know how he gained power that is stronger than beings who could kill me with a thought.

Oh, my vision is darkening. This is a tier 4 world, with a tier X being. The scale is too much. What happened in the later games man.

I didn't realize it but I was actually hyperventilating, my vision was becoming darker and darker. And then it turned to crimson red and I could feel a softness around my body.

I could hear a heartbeat calming me down. My racing heartbeat began to slow down and match the one resonating in my body.

Calming down, I hugged the body that was keeping me calm.

"Are you okay now?" I could feel a hand stroking my hair and noticed my head was buried in the softness of Rias' tits. The red I was seeing was her hair…

"Yeah, thanks Rias." I replied with a soft smile.

"So what was that? You just suddenly stopped in the middle of the hallway and started panicking, something I should know? Actually just tell me, I'm your friend and comrade, I can be your confidant too. Not to mention my fiance." She may have whispered the last part but I still heard it anyway.

"I just found out that this world is more dangerous than I thought, like someone in this world could trash out Great Red and Ophis." I just told her straight.

"Oh…" She was silent for a moment. Then continued.

"Are we going to encounter them soon?"

"I don't really know yet, I don't even know if they exist in this version of this reality."

"Then I don't think we should worry about that for now. If we don't really encounter them then that would be good, if there is something that could threaten us then we'll deal with that together. Or maybe you are just concerned about me?" She ended with a teasing tone.

"Maybe~~" This girl is the girl that just keeps on giving, maybe I actually am falling for her. And she became more mature than before too. At least I think so.

After going to class which was an exhausting affair in itself because, while Ren had a whole he was a furry thing. We had a whole shipping and praises, we were buried under the admiring faces of women and men alike. Already there were rumors that we decided to ditch our first day of school to fool around in a love hotel.

But because of our beautiful and handsome supernatural appearance we were still pretty popular.

Going to the rooftop we were the first to actually go there. And we just continued to flirt there. It was weird to just be so relaxed with each other after the day that we had.

Actually I was lying a little bit when I said we were the first here. There was someone else here. The girl who had almost no screen time. The daughter of the Big Bang Burger. But someone soft hearted that she just wanted to grow vegetables and just have a normal fulfilling life.

The one can land an airplane on her forehead and play tic tac toe on it like Ina'nis from Hololive. Haru Okumura was here and we talked a little bit. Surprisingly we were in Makoto and Haru's class. Though they weren't one of the ones who tried to get close to us.

Makoto had her head buried in books and Haru just went straight to the rooftop and took care of her plants.

Because she was in here we couldn't talk about anything sensitive like the supernatural and anything. Eventually though Ryuji came up to the rooftop and Ren also came moments later.

And seeing the crowd that was assembling on the rooftop, Haru finally excused herself after taking care of her plants.

"So what should we do about that castle we were just in, I think we should investigate and if we can and maybe we can find out about something about Kamoshida, maybe something to make him leave the school or something…" Ryuji started.

And after some time talking about it with everyone we all decided to go back to the palace the next day.

And Rias and I went home to our apartment. The only thing different this time though was us sleeping in the same bed.

I don't really know if it was because of the vulnerability I showed or maybe she was feeling overwhelmed too. We went from seeing the fantasy that we wanted to see, from me seeing a persona in real life and Rias seeing a stand like being for the first time to finding out that this reality we thought was safe from us was inhabited by someone who was more powerful than the strongest in our world.

We didn't really do anything scandalous or naughty but we just cuddled and felt the warmth of each other's body. We didn't even talk about anything. I just hugged her from behind, being the big spoon to her little spoon while she gave her entirety to me.

We both felt safe for a moment in each other's arms. There is now no doubt that we were getting closer to each other. These past few weeks of just bonding were taking a toll of a good kind for both of us and now that everyday life of just relaxing, watching anime, reading manga is over as both of us knew the adventure in this world is now starting.

But before we actually started, we enjoyed the relaxing moment between us…

Waking up with my rock hard boner wedge between Rias' ass was an awkward moment for her but a rewarding moment for me.

We woke up and ate breakfast and with a feeling of refreshment in my body I got ready for the day we were going to have in the palace.

However my mood took a dive as I saw a dark red hair in a ponytail also heading for the school. At that instance I understood that I would have to prepare for a battle against a tier X being because I just saw Kasumi Hoshizawa going to Shujin Academy, meaning this was the Royal version of reality. What is going on in this world, Joker somehow could manipulate the metaverse so easily that he can threaten and somewhat communicate with a palace ruler in reality.

This is a somewhat AU of my favorite game that I wasn't able to finish and what is the company doing to make this into a tier 4 world…

A/N:

So the other story got reviewed by patreon because I did something that doesn't align with the guidelines and I admit that was my bad, it is currently in review so hopefully it will be up in the next few days.

So this world we landed in had some weird stuff going on huh, I still can't believe Maruki is a tier X in the catalog damn

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