Chapter 24: Issei

-Kuoh-

(2 years later, Canon timeline)

It was black…

A stark contrast of color to the person's hair color and the black miasma that poured from his being.

That was what he thought while looking at his hand covered in blood.

Black — A pair of midnight black eyes, darker than the night sky, sucking in every color in its surroundings.

Yes, that person, whose malevolent and oppressive aura that desires to swallow his very being, was different from the bright crimson color that was coating his hands and clothes. 

"Hey there Issei, got yourself in a bit of trouble haven't ya?"

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-Kuoh Academy-

"Haaa, I want to squeeze some boobs."

Hyoudou Issei — that was his name. His parents and friends at school called him "Ise".

A second-year high school student who was currently experiencing the time of his youth. Playing around with friends, discovering more about our mutual interests, and even playing some games together at each other's houses.

There was a time when a student who he'd never met before said, "Isn't that Ise?" So he didn't know just how much his name was known to others. Out of everyone in this school, Hyoudou Issei could easily be placed in the top 10 most recognisable names in Kuoh Academy, something of which he was kinda proud.

Perhaps he was unexpectedly popular, you say? Was he the dashing prince whose every action steals the heart of innocent maidens? The genius student that only appears once every 100 years?

No, that wasn't the case. On the contrary, he was quite infamous for being lecherous and he even got accused of peeping inside the Girls Kendo Club's changing room. 

Which wasn't true…

He swore! He just happened to be at the right place at the right time!

"I agree with Issei!" Shouted Matsuda with a fist pump in the air. 

One of the members of the perverted trio, Matsuda was a bald monk-looking teenager with dark eyes and a sporty build fit for running. He was surprised to learn about the fact that he used to be part of the track team but soon left due to unknown reasons. 

"Stop it, you're making me feel empty." Another person answered by his side. Motohama, another teenager like him, with brown hair and glasses, looked to be the most intellectual member of the group, his expertise lied in the field of photography. It was from visiting his house that he found out that this person was a major lolicon, with fetishes that crept even someone like him and that was saying something.

They relaxed beneath a large tree on a hill, giving them a full view of the school grounds. He couldn't help but wonder, "Matsuda, Motohama, do you guys remember why we enrolled in this school?" Issei said as his attention was caught on a group of PE uniforms-wearing girls doing their daily runs.

"This private school, Kuoh Academy, just turned coed two years ago after being an all-girls school. Due to its sudden development, only certain qualified boys were allowed in past years but now anyone with a high enough score could enter." Motohama, always having his back, replied. A sly grin formed on his face, "Even with this new regulation, the school has an overwhelming girl-to-boy ratio, and many foreign girls are attending as well."

Matsuda excitedly chimed in as well, "Which makes us boys a valuable commodity. This means we'll be popular without having to lift a finger! You basically can't mess up!"

"Which means we can achieve our dreams of having a harem!" The brown haired bow cried out loudly, disturbing some of the girls nearby. 

That was right, for his whole life, Issei has been nothing but a virgin loner, never having gotten a girlfriend or female friends for that matter. Seeing those lucky bastards who wrapped their arms around the waist of their sexy girlfriends always brought him to tears! Oh the envy was strong in such cases.

Those damn bishounen ikemen! Showing off their girl to the world so openly like that without considering the feelings of his fellow men!

Ahhh he wanted a girlfriend too! Issei dreamed of going on dates, having each other's phone numbers, sharing a k-kiss, and most importantly… touching their boobs! 

Yes, that was his dream and he will go through anything to achieve it while here at Kuoh Academy! 

He thought it would be an easy process since he was basically screaming to every one of his presence as a boy in the school. Yet all he received was scorn and disgust from the local female population. A complete shock that threw his expectations immediately out of the window.

Why!? He was the perfect man! He wouldn't do such a shameless thing as peeping into the girls' changing room. He was at the scene, near the storage room wall next to the Kendo Club — trying to peep from the hole in the wall in the Kendo Club's storage room.

Unfortunately, he couldn't have a look. That's because Matsuda and Motohama wouldn't get away from the hole. 'Seriously, those guys…'

Issei couldn't calm himself down when those two idiots said things like "Ohhh! Murayama seriously has big tits!" and "Ahhh, Katase sure has nice legs."

Damn them! He wanted to see the sight of heaven beyond these walls as well! 

Murayama and Katase were third-year girls, who were among the top 10 most beautiful girls in the school. Apparently, they skipped a grade before coming to Kuoh Academy, so that was why they are the same age as them. They were smart, and sexy, and were the kendo club's captain and vice. Like, what could a man ask for more?

Nearly all of the male population of the school and some of the neighboring schoolboys as well have at one point or another confessed their undying love to at least one of the top 10 girls. Whether it be through speech or a love letter none were even close. Some rumors suggested that they all had someone in their heart, but it went further beyond by saying it was all the same guy.

He refused to believe such a claim! His heart would not be able to bear the possibility of there being an unknown guy already successful in his endeavor at gathering his own harem. 

Wrrrr!

A sudden chill ran up his spine, like a slight sensation of danger, something inside me felt threatened. He looked around and saw nothing to bring up such a weird reaction. "Oooh, he didn't know Murayama wore such risque undergarments!" Motohama's voice broke him out of his thoughts. 

'Probably nothing.'

He couldn't stay here for long, the boys wouldn't let him have a turn and Issei was pretty sure he heard the front doors of the club open, meaning someone was coming.

It wasn't until he was a distance away did he hear the painful screams of his friends, "Ahhhh! Issei, help!" Their cries were soon drowned by the sound of impacting shinais.

"So that pervert was here as well!?" Some of the girls' angered voices reached him, he sprinted as fast as he could, trying to escape the kendo girls who would beat me half to death if they caught his sorry ass.

He soon hid in the forest section of the school where the old abandoned school building was located. "Ha, ha, ha there was no way they could find me now." The boy didn't want to admit that he was out-of-shape, but the run definitely took a lot out of him.

WWRRRRRR!

"Oh shit, what the heck!?" This time the shiver became so strong that he felt like he was struck by lightning while standing under twice the gravity of earth. his face began sweating a lot and his hands couldn't stop shaking. 

He scowled and looked around.

"—?"

At the corner of his eye, near the window of the abandoned building, someone was looking at me. From the dark shade and low light, he could not decipher this person's features but from the uniform, it was a boy.

'Isn't that the Occult Research Club?' Upon this discovery, he realized that whoever this boy was — had the privilege to visit the same club as the two great onee-sans! How envious!

He threw a glare at this person showing off by flaring nose to challenge him in some sort of way...before he hightailed and left the area because that feeling that stare gave was too creepy.

{Break}

After school hours, he walked back to his house alone, thinking about who that person might have been. However, something really blissful happened to a guy like him, who would be doing all sorts of perverted stuff every day.

"Please go out with me."

A confession from a girl!

He felt what it was like to be a youth.

For a guy like him who didn't have a girlfriend, it was like a dream come true.

The name of his soon-to-be girlfriend was Amano Yuuma-chan. She was a girl with silky black hair and a slender body. Her innocent angelic face made his heart do somersaults in his chest. Her gentle nature just added more to her beauty, not to mention her huge oppais.

She was so cute that he fell in love with her at first sight.

Wouldn't anyone say "OK" right away if a beauty like her came up to you and said, "Hyoudou-kun! I-I love you! Please go out with me!" 

Well, he certainly did, fuck the consequences of not knowing her, he now have all the time in the world as her boyfriend to do so.

That would be like something out of a dream for a guy like him whose age equaled the number of years he didn't have a girlfriend.

It wouldn't be weird if someone said, "What bishoujo game did you get that from?", but it seriously happened! He pinched himself a couple of times to make sure that he was awake.

A miracle certainly did occur! Issei got a confession from a girl. From a real and beautiful girl no less!

The brown haired boy actually thought it was a prank. He even thought several times that it was the result of a penalty game and that her friends were looking at us from elsewhere. 

That couldn't be helped. Until now, he believed that he was a guy born to be unpopular with girls. To always be rejected by the opposite gender until he found that one special one or a few more.

But ever since that day, he became a guy with a girlfriend. The world around him changed, it became pink and so full of life. He didn't know how to explain it but his heart was at peace. He wanted to say "It's my win!" to every guy he walked past. 

Issei started to feel sorry for his two buddies, Matsuda and Motohama, who didn't have any girlfriends. Their cries of betrayal and jealousy did not affect him negatively the least bit — quite the opposite in fact. That was how confident he became.

They decided to have their first date on the weekend, he sent her a schedule by message, 'I texted a girl!'

Issei was ready to use the plan that he had made a while back. Ever since middle school, he compiled a guidebook filled with every possible move, quotes, and location he could use for his date. "Eroge games don't fail me now!"

"Fufufu, I've brushed his teeth dozens of times since yesterday night." There was not a single place he missed. He ate an entire pack of mint gums and two bottles of Listerine, his mouth stung as all hell but he was too happy to care.

He even bought new pants, which his mom helped me to pick. She cried out of joy when he told her he had a date, stating that she always thought he would be nothing but a lone virgin loser… that hurt. But he still survived the hours of clothes shopping, you couldn't predict what would happen after all.

He arrived at the date spot with the attitude of a super virgin guy. With clothes that were drenched in deodorant, slight makeup on his face, courtesy of his mom, again. And his constant glance at the watch that belonged to his father.

Issei was a jittering mess.

He arrived at the meeting spot three hours before Yuuma-chan did. He counted up to a hundred girls who wore glasses walking past in front of him! Every one of them had some similar features to her, black hair and big boobs.

As he waited he accidentally bumped into someone. "Oh hey sorry about that!" Without even seeing who it was, he immediately apologized. But to his surprise he found that person being none other than that damn ikemen, Kiba Yuuto!

"Kiba!?" His senses were immediately on high alert, here he was on his date with a beautiful girl and then outta nowhere, the prince of Kuoh showed up. He couldn't allow him to stay here any longer or else...Yuuma-chan might…

"Oi, what are you doing here you damn prince!?" The boy put on his best threatening face to scare The Prince away, but it had little to no effect as his face continued smiling. Kiba reached for his pocket and gave me something.

"I heard you got a girlfriend? Congratulations. Take this as a token of good luck for your date." The blonde handed him a leaflet before leaving without giving him the chance to talk.

It was an advertisement of sorts with a weird black magic circle and a sentence – "Helping you to help yourself; Service Club." – was written on it.

Somehow he could feel the pretentiousness from the person who wrote this.

Wasn't that the popular club of which Aika was a member? Why would Kiba give it to him?… He wanted to throw it away, but he decided to put it in his pocket since he couldn't throw it away now. That would be littering.

After a bit more waiting Yuuma-chan finally arrived, he said this to her at first.

"Don't worry, he also just got here." Quote, #420 of his guidebook.

Bullseye! He was able to say it. Issei always wanted to say that! 

Then we walked while holding hands 'Waaaaaa!', he was really touched. To have a date while holding hands with his beautiful girlfriend!

He was so moved that he was about to burst into tears.

Better not to rush things, it was not the time to panic yet.

After that, they enjoyed the date by going to a clothing store and having a look at decorations for our rooms.

For lunch, both ate at a family restaurant just like how a normal high school student would, and Yuuma-chan was eating her chocolate parfait deliciously. His stomach was full just by looking at her… but he was still kinda hungry for skipping breakfast so he ate a lot as well.

Yeah, Issei felt as if he understood how other teenagers felt when they went on a date. He felt as if he was alive for the first time. Like invisible wings on his back, floating in complete happiness.

'Mum, thanks for giving birth to me. Dad, he was worried that I wouldn't be able to continue our family line, but it looks like you don't have to worry about that anymore. Issei junior will soon fulfill his role.'

As he was thinking about all those sorts of things, it was already late afternoon. The sun was going down, leaving behind an orange-colored sky.

It was reaching the climax!

Kiss!? A kiss before going home!? His head got hyped just by thinking about that!

Oh, maybe they would go even further! Like being invited to the holy sanctuary of all girls; the bedroom!

That was what a horny male high school student like him constantly dreamt about for years.

They walked to the park that was away from the town. With no sign of people, and no one was here besides us. Thanks to that, his erotic imaginations built up. He should have read a book that taught you to do even more naughty stuff!

Yuuma-chan already let go of his hand and was standing before the fountain.

"It sure was fun today."

She smiled while having the fountain behind her.

'Kuu! Damn, she's cute.' The sunset behind her gave a good atmosphere. Almost like a holy halo which further enhanced her angelic nature.

"Hey, Ise-kun" She called out his name.

"What was it, Yuuma-chan?"

"There is something I want to do to celebrate our first date. Can you listen to his wish?"

Oh yeah. It was here! The moment he's been waiting for his whole life!

This was it! This must be it!

The smell of his breath! Checked! his mental preparedness! Hmm! his heart was beating so fast~!

"W-What is the w-wish you want?"

Aaaaagh. The tone of his voice was deep and he kept stuttering! She would find out that he was thinking of something idiotic! He made the dumbest mistake after coming this far…

But Yuuma-chan just smiled at me. Bless her innocent self, she didn't know what a degenerate like himself was thinking.

She then said it to him clearly.

"Will you die for me?"

"...?"

…Eh? What was that?

"…Eh? That is…huh, sorry, can you repeat that again? I think there's something wrong with his ears."

He must have heard it wrong.

That was what he thought. That must be it. So he asked her again.

But…

"Will you die for me?"

She clearly said it to me again. While laughing.

Her words didn't make any sense. The moment he was about to say "That's so funny, Yuuma-chan" with a smile…

FLAP

Black wings appear from her back.

She then started to flap her wings. The black feathers float in the air and then drop down to his feet.

What was that?

Eh? Certainly, Yuuma-chan was cute like an angel, but…

Angel? No, there was no way that could be true.

Was it some kind of acting?

His beautiful girlfriend was flapping her wings while the sun set behind her. It looks like a scene from a fantasy story or a movie.

But there was no way he could believe something like this.

Her cute-looking eyes changed into cold, narrow, scary eyes.

"It was fun. During the short time I spent with you. It was like playing house with a little child. It's not every day that I get to relax as such."

Yuuma-chan's voice sounded very cold. Her tone was like an adult's, far deeper and mature sounding. Her mouth formed a cold smile.

BUZZ

A sound much heavier than the noise that a game console makes vibrates in the air.

It was making a lot of buzzing noise and it appeared in her hands.

A red spear… one that looked like it was made of crimson light.

"—!"

The moment he felt a burning feeling in his pocket, the spear which was in Yuuma-chan's hand came high in the air ready to attack him.

In his panic, Issei tripped and fell to the ground. Footsteps closed in on me while he tried scurrying away.

Her voice reached his ears. 

"Sorry. You are a threat to us, so we decided to get rid of you early. If you want to hold a grudge, then hate the God who put the Sacred Gear inside you."

Sacred, what…?

He couldn't even ask her a question while in a state of panic.

Were you serious…? Was he going to die at this age?

He hadn't even lived half of his life yet!

How could he laugh if he died because of getting stabbed by his girlfriend at this weird park!

Oh yeah, he wondered what was going to happen at school tomorrow?

Would Matsuda and Motohama be shocked? Would they cry for him? No way, not them…

Mum, Dad… he hadn't done anything to please them yet as their child…

Rather… it was not going to be funny if they found those porno magazines he was secretly hiding after his death… now that they would be surprised about them, to begin with.

He wasn't exactly hiding his true nature from the world after all.

Why the heck was he thinking of only these kinds of things with death so close by?

"Goodbye, Ise." She used Yuuma's voice before attacking. He closed his eyes not wanting to witness his own murder. 

Psshht!

"Aaargh!" A painful scream sounded out in the park, but to his surprise, it wasn't his.

"What?" As he opened his eyes, he came to witness a horrifying sight of Yuuma's hands and knees pierced by many tentacles looking whips with spearheads. Her blood drenched his face and hands, covering them in a crimson color, while He tried to make sense of reality.

A dark purple magical circle formed beside me, where a young-looking boy came out with a slouched back with his hands in his pockets, his appearance obscured in shadows.

"Wh-who, argh… ar-are you!?" Yuuma spoke with a strained voice struggling with her wounds. She couldn't even move with her limbs literally being pieced to the ground. "Don't you know wh-who you are dealing wi-!?"

She stopped as her gaze turned from angry to recognition and then to fear.

No answer came from that person, he just ignored her, who was trembling in her restraints, far from the cocky woman from before, and looked at me.

"Hey there Issei, got yourself in a bit of trouble haven't ya?"

He knew him, a third-year senpai — The black prince of Kuoh.

Hikigaya Hachiman.

If he was going to die, why was the last thing he got to see was this dead fish-eye handsome senpai? Why not a beautiful woman with huge oppais? 

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