Chapter 6 : Unexpected Encounter

passed by. While they were clearly intimidated, some had shameless lustful looks. Girls were always attracted to bad boys, and according to everyone around school, he was the baddest.

"Issei-kun came to class today?!" One girl gawked loudly before blushing in embarrassment as Issei glanced at her.

"Hyoudou-san is actually at school today...just in time for the new school year too," he heard one of the girls say to the student council president.

The dark-haired student council president adjusted her glasses as she locked eye contact for a brief moment with the passing Issei.

He immediately stopped walking as he turned to face her, "What are you looking at Buchou?"

"Nice of you to come to school…I see your health is well. It must be considering you drove into the front gate pulling a wheelie," Sona said passively. Her tone clearly indicated that she was well aware of the fact that he wasn't actually sick during his time off.

"Yeah…all healed up now," Issei replied carelessly.

"I hear a lot of rumors that you're a troublemaker. Make sure you keep your nose clean or I'll get you expelled. Understood Hyoudou-san?" Sona said fearlessly.

Issei looked down at her incredulously, "Is that supposed to be a threat?!"

The onlookers all turned to watch as Issei took a step towards her with imposing eyes. She remained calm and looked up at him blankly, "It was…I suggest you get to class. You don't want to make an enemy out of me. Keep your delinquent behavior reserved to off-campus if you would, please."

"Or what?" he replied.

Sona gave him a death glare, but it did little to phase Issei as he turned his back on her, "Aye aye buchou. You stay out of my way and I'll stay out of yours."

As Issei continued walking a blonde boy, Saji, called out to him angrily, "Hey asshole! You can't talk to the President like that! Why don't you get your ass back here and apologize to her!"

Saji tried to stop Issei as he placed a hand on the back of his shoulder. This proved to be a huge mistake as Issei immediately grabbed the guy's wrist and turned around.

Saji slumped over in agony and began to cry out in pain as Issei squeezed his wrist tightly forcing him to his knees.

"Don't ever touch me again, dude, or you're losing this hand…" Issei said with a passive low tone as he released his grip on Saji causing him to fall over and grab his wrist.

"Should we do something about that...about him?" Tsubaki said to Sona somewhat concerned as everyone watched Issei walk away.

Sona looked concerned and whispered to Tsubaki, "Saji might not be very powerful as a devil, but a normal human shouldn't be able to do that to him. I had my suspicions there was something off about Hyoudou, but that was surprising. We should talk to Rias' peerage and see if they can find anything out about him. I doubt he would let anyone from the student council get near him without acting up."

As he walked away, Issei felt the eyes of everyone on him. His easy manhandling of Saji proved his reputation was accurate and it had everyone gossiping and staring like mad.

'Now I know how Red feels…these cowards seriously need to stop looking at me. I knew it was gonna blow coming back here this year, but this is just insufferable,' Issei thought annoyed.

After continuing for a while, he finally walked into his new second year classroom, and was met with his sensei and class.

It looked like she had already started class and he was late. She turned to face him with a stern face, "Hyoudou-san?"

"Yeah…" he said carelessly.

"You're late…but seeing as how it's the first day, I will let that slide. Go ahead and take your seat," she said before turning towards the class.

Right as he sat down in a corner seat by the window, Issei saw a pair of girls walk into the room. They were both incredibly beautiful, but something about them caused him to immediately tense up as if they were a threat.

They spoke quietly to the teacher before she turned to the class again, "Well…it seems we have two new transfer students this year. Go ahead and introduce yourselves ladies."

"Two in one day? That's nuts," one of the male students said disbelievingly, "but at least these two are a couple of hotties and not some pretty boy asshole."

The male student had a shaved head and seemed to be having a conversation with his glasses-wearing friend next to him about the sizes of the new girls. On some level Issei could appreciate their conversation, but he was so far removed from them that he never bothered to talk to the two class perverts.

The transfer student with pale blue hair walked up first, "My name is Tiamat Draconis. I'm from Eastern Europe."

She seemed to be just as annoyed and callous towards the class as Issei which struck him as interesting. This girl clearly had no interest in coming off as friendly or approachable.

The silver haired girl walked up next, "I'm Valeria Drage. I'm from northern Europe. Most people just call me Vali. I would prefer it if you addressed me as such."

"Wow their Japanese is perfect," one of the girls in the class remarked with awe as she gazed admirably at the two gorgeous transfer students.

"Go ahead and sit over there you two," the teacher pointed to the two empty desks to Issei's right.

As the two girls made their way to their seats, both immediately looked at Issei as they sat down. He normally would have been bothered by this, but something about these girls was interesting to him. They both seemed atypical for high school girls…and not just because they were foreign.

Despite his curiosity, Issei decided not to look at them after a moment. Whatever they were it clearly wasn't human, but that mattered little to him as he had grown used to detecting devils in this school. So long as he kept a low profile, they would never be able to tell that he was a dragon.

After class, he made his way to lunch, but was alarmed when a smell filled his nostrils, 'More Devils? this school reeks of them. I wonder if those transfer students were devils too?'

As he bought some lunch, Issei looked for an isolated place on the rooftop to eat by himself. He passively ate his food as he thought about his next trip to see Red. His inner thoughts were short-lived however when the pale blue-haired girl from class walked up to him.

She was by herself much to his curiosity. Issei looked at her confused as she stood there and sniffed the air, "You're not human…you're not a devil…you're not an angel…you don't smell like anything. What are you?"

He immediately stood up and looked at the girl carelessly, "I'm nothing that concerns you."

"Is that right? Do you even know what I am?" she asked seriously.

"A beautiful girl asking me for a date?" he said with a laugh.

Tiamat couldn't help but smile at his statement, "You're lucky I found that funny or you would have died for saying that."

'Issei…she's a dragon. I know her…Tiamat is one of the Five Dragon Kings! Please don't let her find out…' Ddraig said telepathically.