Chapter 12 : Issei Hyoudou (1)

Kuou Academy.

This is the school where Issei Hyoudou goes every morning, except for certain special days.

It's currently a co-ed school, but since it was an all-girls school until a few years ago, there are more girls than boys.

As the grade level drops, the number of boys increases, but there are still more girls than boys overall.

Issei is a second-year high school student and the girl-to-boy ratio in the classes is unbalanced.

To be precise with the numbers, it would be 7 to 3 in the second-year class. For third-year students, it's 8 to 2.

Even now, girls have much stronger authority than boys, and the majority of Student Council members are girls, and the student president is also a girl.

A sexist situation, which Issei attributes to the school's origins when the truth is darker.

So, it's a place where boys can't stand tall, but Issei Hyoudou still joined this school.

It's a simple story.

There are more girls here.

That's already amazing! Isn't it?

Yet, it's not an easy institution to get into, as the entrance exam is notorious for its difficulty.

However, Issei was able to pass it thanks to his perverted instinct and determination to study surrounded by pretty girls.

It's for these reasons that he currently attends this prestigious private school, despite its blatant sexism and his perversion.

In his head, he had self-justified with two simple sentences.

'What's wrong with that!'

'What's wrong with being a pervert!?'

These phrases drove him to desire building a harem in this educational establishment, yet things are going badly in this project.

Since classes started, he hasn't even been able to get a real girlfriend.

The return to reality was brutal and Issei ended up recognizing one of his many... very many problems.

He was naive.

At the time, he didn't know about female hypergamy.

Women are very selective and they all tend to cluster toward a single group of men (elite), to finally neglect the rest (common).

Issei was worse than a common young man... He's a pervert.

This led to the situation at Kuou school.

Only one group of handsome boys is popular, and girls barely look at the others.

So Issei?

He was simply ignored in the best case, sometimes despised.

After realizing his pitiful situation at the time, Issei mentally screamed with rage "This wasn't in my plan!"

Despite this, he didn't try to adapt to this new sexist and hypergamous playing field.

He remained a pervert and hoped things would change.

Logically, this approach should have failed.

Unfortunately for his universe and logic, Issei Hyoudou was the protagonist.

He ended up meeting the beautiful Yuuma Amano, who confessed her feelings to him.

Issei was extremely happy and lived the best days of his life until... his death.

Yes, he discovered from his father that Yuuma Amano killed him and didn't simply disappear.

This revelation affected him enormously and he had trouble sleeping that night.

The worst part is the second bad news... he became a slave to an unknown devil.

'In all this misfortune, I at least got powers hehe'

Walking in the school hallway, Issei couldn't help but glance toward the breasts of the women around him.

Unlike usual, this isn't just a purely perverted action.

He's using the magic suggested by his father, aka Pailingual, which was extremely easy for him to learn and grasp.

'pervert, why are you looking this way'

'Sometimes, I wish he'd have an accident... wait a minute! I can cause it, can't I?'

'How did such a pervert get here'

The magic named Pailingual should normally allow him to listen to breasts or their thoughts, as they reveal enormous amounts of information about the woman's intentions.

Unfortunately, the women around him have no good intentions toward him.

Except maybe one.

'When will there be a sexy teacher who can take me even against my protests!!!'

Issei almost screamed at the perversion of the girl named Aika Kiryuu.

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Despite this, she's the only one around him among the women to have no hostility toward him.

'And I'm the pervert!!'

Unfortunately, he has no real proof against Aika and he can't talk about this magic to someone.

His father strongly advised against it.

Finally, he arrived in his classroom with a big sigh, before sitting on a chair next to the window.

"Hey buddy. Did you find the DVD I lent you? It was good work, wasn't it?"

The bald guy who spoke to Issei is his number 1 friend, aka Matsuda.

He might look like an athlete, but he's just a pervert who makes sexually charged remarks every day.

He was an athlete in middle school, where he broke many records, but he's now part of the photography club.

Unfortunately for the girls at Kuou school, it's not for a noble or pure passion.

Matsuda is very open about his ambition to photograph every part of girls' bodies through the lens.

His nickname is the "Perverted Baldy" and the "Sexual Harassment Paparazzi."

"... there was really strong wind this morning. Thanks to that, I could see the girls' panties well."

The young man with glasses who tries to look cool is Issei's second best friend, aka Motohama.

He possesses a special ability called "Scouter" that allows him to read girls' measurements through his glasses.

He also has a special body that makes his power drop when he removes his glasses, which is absurd... but it's a universe where a man becomes strong thanks to breasts, so...

He's also known as "Perverted Glasses" and "Three-sizes Scouter."

Thus, these two are Issei Hyoudou's perverted friends.

'Seriously, seeing these two faces in the morning really depresses me. I feel sick.'

"I got some good stuff."

Matsuda opens his bag and empties the objects it contains without any hesitation.

The books and DVDs piling up on my desk have suggestive titles.

"Hey!"

Small cries come from a group of girls not far from Issei and his friends' location, but they didn't panic or show embarrassment about their shameful or morally questionable act.

Maybe because of Issei and his friends' indifference to their presence, the women started insulting them with words like:

"You're the worst"

"Die, dirty brats"

"Perverts"

"Silence! This is our entertainment! Girls and children should look away and stay away! Otherwise, I'll rape you all in my head!"

Matsuda's vulgar and explicit words had a very effective effect.

The girls rushed to get away from the group, but none found their behavior abnormal.

The trio is already too used to this extremely... degenerate life.

"Heh heh heh. Why are you making such a face when there are so many treasures in front of you?" Matsuda sighs looking at my dull face.

'Despite my new powers, my life hasn't really changed, contrary to dad's words.'

Issei was able to easily review thanks to breast archive magic and could better know women's thoughts with Pailingual magic.

All this explains Issei's depressed expression.

'Yet, I'm sure I would have sworn and quickly asked where he found all this treasure on my desk.'

"You haven't been in the mood lately. Weird. It's really weird. You're not the same as before."

Motohama also says this while tapping his glasses as if he found the current Issei... boring.

"I really felt like saying: 'Wow! Where did you find that? Are you trying to turn me into a monkey?!' But I lack energy today," he says honestly.

His father and mother didn't come back home with him after their visit to the warehouse.

It's already been 12 hours.

Issei is a little worried.

"Do you have a disease? No, that's impossible. It's impossible for you, the manifestation of all sexual desires, to get sick."

Motohama makes a crude comment about Issei, but he doesn't get angry.

He's already aware of his chosen one's unique personality.

"He's really a rude guy."

Then Matsuda makes a hand gesture as if realizing something.

"Oh, is that it? Is it the side effect of that hallucination about your imaginary girlfriend? Yuuma, right?"

"... You really don't remember Yuuma?"

They both look at Issei with sympathetic eyes at his question.

'Dad is right, they've all been brainwashed.'

Unlike the original Issei, this one feels some uneasiness toward supernatural creatures.

There's excitement about obtaining supernatural abilities, but the danger of the paranormal world worries him a bit.

The sight of his friends whose brains have been messed with doesn't help.

"Like we said, we really don't know her. You should really see a doctor. Right, Motohama?"

"Yeah, I'll repeat it once more, but we haven't been introduced to a girl called Yuuma Amano."

Issei didn't insist unlike the other times, when he believed it was a joke from his friends.

'I thought at first they were just making fun of me, but fortunately I now know the truth!'

After the discussion with his father, Issei felt less crazy or disturbed by Yuuma's disappearance from his entourage's memory.

"Well, we're in full youth, so weird stuff like that can happen to us. Well, then, come to my place after school. We'll watch my secret collection together."

"That's an excellent idea. Matsuda, you should absolutely invite Ise too."

"Of course I'm going to invite him, Motohama. We're high school students driven by our sexual desires. If we didn't do anything perverted, it would be disrespectful to our parents and ancestors who gave birth to us."

Both smile lecherously.

Perverts.

No matter how or from what angle you look at them, they're just perverts.

"And unfortunately, I'm part of it..."

Despite this sudden depressing thought, Issei decided to join them.

"Alright! Today, we don't hold back! We're gonna drink sodas and chips while watching porn DVDs!" he says in an energetic tone.

'I don't feel like thinking tonight.'

"Oh! Yeah, that's it! That's really the Ise we know!"

"That's the spirit. We must enjoy our youth even more."

Matsuda and Motohama are all excited and motivated by their program.

"I'll settle the incident concerning Yuuma sooner or later... after all. I'm supposed to be a dragon and a devil."

After planning their afternoon with friends, Issei saw it.

There was a crimson color that caught his attention.

He glimpsed from the school courtyard from the classroom window.

His eyes were riveted on this girl whose beauty is supernatural, which surpasses that of a normal human.

Her slender silhouette is clearly not Japanese and Issei has already heard rumors that she's originally from Northern Europe.

She would attend this Japanese high school because of her father's work.

Issei is convinced that anyone will be easily conquered by her after witnessing her abnormally beautiful appearance.

Rias Gremory.

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Before he realized it, everyone, including him, is looking at her as if hypnotized.

This includes boys and girls, including the two best friends, Matsuda and Motohama.

This event has become an unofficial ceremony, which happens every morning.

Everyone looks at her when she passes.

Some stop walking.

Others fall silent.

Everyone turns to look at her.

Issei was also fascinated by her beauty and noble atmosphere.

Yet, there had been a change in his vision of this woman.

"She's really beautiful. But she's too beautiful."

Issei starts to be a little afraid of her beauty and unconsciously, he fears her from the depths of his heart.

He doesn't know why this phenomenon appeared in him.

But he knows when it started.

"I've been feeling like this since Yuuma disappeared."

Unconsciously, he started connecting the dots between Rias, Yuuma and his current state.

Issei felt there was an element linking all this, but he has trouble remembering it.

Unfortunately, his train of thought was stopped by a fleeting gesture from Rias.

The light blue eyes of the red-haired woman stared at him.

Fortunately for his heart, this act was short-lived.

Yet, it was enough to make him forget his important thoughts.