Kuoh Academy. A school that was once all-female before it changed a year prior to today. Around the main building showed numerous students chatting among one another casually talking about life either related to school or everyday life, giving off a warm atmosphere.

At the front entrance, stood a young man with dark skin and short black hair with heterochromia. His left eye sky blue and his right was silver. He was wearing the traditional uniform but without the blazer leaving his arms a little exposed. He was feeling very nervous, why, you may ask, well who else wouldn't be nervous to a new school and had to interact with new people?

"This, is gonna be tough." He told himself as he stared at the main building in front of him. Taking a deep breath, he started walking towards the building and had a map in his hand aiming for his destination. "Ok, so… how do I get to the principal's office?"

After searching through the map and finding himself lost for five minutes, the boy finally found the principal's office as he was now standing in front of the door. Raising his hand, he knocked twice on the door.

"Excuse me, hello?"

"Come right in." the voice muffled from behind the door. Opening the doo,r the boy found himself face to face with a male that he could guess was in their mid-30s with long red hair and light blue eyes. "Good morning you must be a new face around campus. I am the administrator of Kuoh Academy, Zeoticus Gremory." He introduced himself as he gave him a bow.

The boy tilted his head as he inspected the administrator's hair.

'Dang, this guy got bright crimson hair. For some reason it reminds me of lava and a certain someone else.' He thought to himself as Zeoticus stared at him.

"How can I can help you?"

Hearing the older male speak brought the boy out of his thoughts as he spoke.

"Right, sorry sir. My name is Eco, Eco Itsuki. I'm uh…here to pick up my schedule and find out where to go." The young man now named Eco informed.

"Oh, what a peculiar name you got there, young man." Zeoticus chuckled as he walked over to a set of drawers and pulled one out showing off numerous folders going in alphabetical order. "Now let's see… here we are." Zeoticus pulled out the folder and went onto the computer. As he was doing this Eco looked around the room as he was waiting for his schedule, after a few more seconds he heard a printer go off and looked over to the desk.

"Here you go young man," Zeoticus handed him two pieces of paper. "These are the papers you need for your class."

"Okay, homeroom teacher Glynda Goodwitch." Eco said aloud as he read the paper. "And these are the rest of my classes, okay wait what about this one?" he asked as he held out the second paper.

"Oh, that's for us actually. Just to let your homeroom teacher, the nurse and other staff know if you have any allergies, medical conditions, anything that may affect your health." Zeoticus explained.

"Oh, okay. Thank you for your help, Gremory-san." Eco thanked as he gave the teacher a bow earning a chuckle from the latter.

"It was my pleasure, now run along, you don't want to be late to your first class now do you?" He joked as Eco looked up and noticed that he had five minutes to get to his class.

"Oh snap! You're right! Gotta go, thank you once again!" Eco shouted as he suddenly vanished from the office, running to his first class.

Zeoticus chuckled once again, "What an interesting kid."

Eco was panting as he stood at the door to his classroom 2-B. He would be more nervous about it if he wasn't out of breath, not to mention saying excusing himself and apologizing repeatedly as he passed through the other students.

"I made it *pant* just *pant* in time." Eco was looking up at the door and was about to grab the handle before a voice called out to him.

"Are you alright young man?" Turning his head, he saw a woman enter his view. He came face to face with a middle-aged blonde woman with a voluptuous figure as she was wearing a white long-sleeved blouse with a black high-waisted pencil skirt with black-brown stockings and black boots with heels. She was also wearing glasses showing her bright green eyes and had her hair styled in a bun.

"Um… yes ma'am." Eco started as he fixed his posture. "I was um… trying to find my class because I only had five minutes left to make it from the administration to here." he explained as he brought out his paper. "This is my homeroom 2-A, I'm a new student here."

"Ah, I see. So, you are the new student that I was inform of." She spoke in a firm tone as she inspected the paper. "Wait right here, and I'll call you in." she ordered as he nodded his head. She opened the door heading inside and close the door behind her leaving Eco out by himself. He waited for a few minutes before hearing a shout come from inside.

"You can come in now!" Hearing Glynda's voice he walked into the room and he came face to face with so many students. He froze as he saw so many girls in the room and then realized he was the boy in the room and immediately flustered.

'So many girls!' he panicked internally as he tried to not stutter before Glynda brought him to reality calling his name.

"Right sorry. I am Eco Itsuki, nice to meet you all." He said the best he could as his face was still red with his head down, he could hear a few girls giggling at him.

"Alright, class please make him feel welcome here. Eco please sit right next to Aika Kiryuu. Aika please raise your hand." Glynda announced as Eco aimed his gaze over to the back where he saw a hand waving in the air. Making his way over there, and arriving at his desk he came face to face with his classmate. Aika had lightly messy brown hair tied into loose braids on both sides of her face with gold colored eyes behind a pair of spectacles. Eco didn't know why but he felt a weird vibe coming off of Aika.

"Nice to meet you, Aika-san." He greeted himself as he held his hand out to her.

"Pleasure to meet you, Eco." She greeted back as she took his hand and shook it. Eco could hear some mumbling as he looked up and saw the three boys whispering to each other.

"Oh man, he got paired up with Aika."

"Yeah, while I dislike the fact that he is a new student and not a pretty girl, I feel pity for him sitting near her."

"Look on the bright side, at least we won't be her personal targets now."

Eco was confused as he tilted his head in a confused manner.

'Targets?'

He looked back at Aika and saw the same smile she greeted him with, he decided not to dwell on it as he just shook his head and sat down before focusing on class. Glynda then announced everyone to take out their history books and turn to a chapter as they started their lesson.

After an hour of their class, the bell rung and the period ended as all students headed to their next class. Eco was about to leave until someone called him.

"Mr. Itsuki, would you please stay after for one minute?" Glynda called out as the young man nodded his head as he gathered his belongings. After everyone left the room, he walked up to his teacher and stood in front of her desk, he also noticed that Aika Kiryuu was right next to her.

"Yes, Miss Goodwitch?"

"Aika, here will be accompanying you to your next class as you both have the same teachers and same schedule. She will also be your tour guide around the school." The blonde teacher explained before turning her head to the younger female. "Please show Eco around the school miss Kiryuu."

The brunette simply nodded her head. "Of course, teach. I'll make sure he knows his way around the place."

"And please do not cause him any trouble like you do with the other three." Glynda ordered in a firm tone, earning a giggle from Aika and a confused look from Eco.

"Don't worry sensei," Aika started as she gave her teacher a smirk. "I make sure Eco he has a good~ time with me." She said as she put her hands on his shoulders and started leading him out. "Alright, tree boy let's get moving."

"Tree boy?" Eco repeated at the nickname as him and Aika left the classroom, leaving an annoyed teacher as she sighed at the latter already knowing what she was planning to do with the new student.

Aika was showing Eco around the school as it was now lunchtime. The two were now in the middle of a bridge that was showing off the field of the school.

"And this here is the field of Kuoh. It's where we do our physical activities and classes." Aika introduced as Eco gazed at the field.

"That's a big field." Eco said as he gazed at the field. "Thank you for taking the time to show me around Kuoh Aika." He thanked as he rubbed the back of his head and chuckled. "I'm sorry you had to go out of your way to do that."

"Oh no, the pleasure is all mine." Aika reassured him. "It's been awhile since I've hung out with another boy, even if it was just a small tour." She confessed.

"Still, I thank you for helping me out. I think I can manage my way through school for the rest of the day." Eco said as Aika nodded her head.

"Well then I will be on my way." Aika announced as she walked up to him, holding a hand out ot him. He grabbed it and was about to shake until she pulled him forward and whispered into his ear. "I'll see you around Eco-san~" she said as she blew soft air into his air, causing the latter to freeze up and his face became red at the action.

Aika giggled as she patted his shoulder and walked past him, going off to her own destination.

"….W-What was that?" Eco asked himself as he walked in the opposite direction. He didn't know if Aika was teasing him for laughs or for something else, either way he would have to keep an eye on her whenever she was near.

Eco then found a solo tree that he sat under as he went ahead and took out his book to go over his class notes. He was about to get started when he heard a scream rang through the air. Looking up from his notes he saw a trio of boys running with a mob of girls wearing kendo uniforms chasing them with shinai.

He recognized the trio of boys as the same ones form his homeroom earlier, he remembered their names as they did talk to each other right before they left. The bald one was named Matsuda, the one with glasses Motohoma and the brown-haired kid was Issei.

He didn't know why but he wondered if they had done something to earn a bunch of girls chasing after them. Normally, someone who did or didn't know what the problem was with the trio would let it go and not deal with the matter at hand. Well Eco was not that person as he did not know who they were nor did he care at the time, the only thing he cared about at the moment was disrupting the commotion.

With the trio, they suddenly found themselves surrounded by the Kendo Club as girls were glaring at the them with anger in their eyes.

"You pervs have really done it this time!" A girl with pink hair shouted as she tapped the shinai against her hand as if she was tapping a ruler.

"Can we talk about this in a civil manner?" Motohama suggested before a shinai slam down to the ground near him, startling the three.

"There is nothing to talk about, now prepare for your punishment you perverts!" she shouted as she raised her shinai, scaring the trio of boys as they waited for their fate. She was about to strike them down until a hand suddenly caught the shinai stopping her. The Kendo club and the trio of boys gasped at the action before the latter gazed up at their savior.

They saw Eco holding the shinai with one hand.

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!" He started. "Let's calm down, and take a breather for a quick second, okay?" He interrupted as he stepped in front of her. "Look I don't know what's going on but there is no need for violence… unless it's absolutely necessary."

The pink haired girl stared at him for a second before realizing what was going on and pulled her shinai away from him. "Who are you!?"

"Just a new student wondering the schoolgrounds. I come in peace." Eco put his hands up in a surrender gesture.

"As if!" She scoffed. "If anything, you could be an accomplice for these sinners, that makes you just as guilty as them."

"…What!?" He shouted in alarm at the accusation.

"Katase wait." Another voice called out. Eco turned his head and saw a girl with amber eyes and brunette hair tied into pigtails held by red ribbons. "Pardon me, but would please kindly move aside from them?" she asked in a calm manner.

Eco could see that this girl was acting rational for the moment.

"Wait, why?" Eco asked. "At least tell me what they did wrong." He pointed a finger towards the trio right behind him. "Maybe we could discuss this in a civil manner."

"Civil went out the window, the moment they decided to peep on us." She countered, pointing a finger at the trio.

"Wait… peep?" Eco gave her a look of confusion. "As in, peeping Tom, stalking Sam, creepy Cam?" he guessed, earning a nod from the group of girls.

"You guys were peeping on them!?" Eco asked in anger, earning nods from all three of them. His facial expression morphed from shock to anger. "Do you know how bad that is!? They are so many violations on what that can do to you!" he suddenly shouted earning confused looks from everyone.

"Violations?" Matsuda questioned.

"Yes! As in detention, or suspension, or worse expulsion!" Eco shouted at them.

"How is that bad!?, we do it to them every day." Matsuda answered earning a perplexed look from Eco.

'These guys peep on them, everyday!? Are you serious!?' He thought to himself, wondering how the heck these guys weren't in trouble yet. "…What?" Eco said with a blank face, after a few seconds of silence.

"That's right." The pink haired girl confirmed as she pointed her shinai at the three. "These three are known as the Perverted Trio, they commit lewd acts around the school peeping on girls all over whenever they get the chance."

"Katase, lower your voice, we don't need the whole school hearing us." The brunette chided.

"S-Sorry, Murayama." Katase apologized before turning her gaze back to Eco. "But it's the truth, they are always doing these acts they never stop which is why we are beating them with our shinai."

"So, let me get this straight," Eco paused as he came up with an explanation. "you three peeped on the girls of Kuoh ever since you got in, earning a beatdown in retaliation," he then turned to the kendo club. "Then you girls beat them in retaliation for their acts of peeping, right?" The girls nodded their heads as well. "So, you didn't think of reporting this to the higher-ups or I don't know sealing up the spots of wherever they were hiding at?"

Eco just asked and answered the simplest question as all the girls realized what he was saying before most of them blushed.

"Well, when you put it like that?" Murayama blushed as she scratched her cheek in embarrassment.

"Hey man, whose side are you on?" Issei yelled in shock as Eco turned to him.

"It's not about whose side I'm on, I'm just pointing the obvious here. The girls easily could've reported you three as soon as you guys started peeping but they didn't which makes me wonder how in the world they have not done that yet?" Eco asked in bewilderment.

"W-well it's not like we don't want to report them to the student council or anything." Katase stuttered before turning her head away. "We just feel that sometimes beating some sense into these perverts will force them to learn their lesson."

Eco stared at her with a blank face before letting out a small sigh.

"Okay then, here's what we will do. I am going to report you guys to the Student Council and then ask them about their sanity, because I'm starting to wonder if you guys just enjoy this type of thing and it's a weird initiation or something." He summarized as he shrugged his shoulders.

"Okay then how about this, why don't I just report you guys to the student council and they can deal with you, or you can let the girls beat the crab out of you, report you to the Student Council and let them deal with you?"

"What the hell!?" Issei shouted. "Where's the third option?"

"Yeah, isn't there one that involves us settling this peacefully?" Motohama asked.

"There is, I just gave you them, so which will one will it be?" He asked again only to be interrupted when a new voice entered the fray.

"I think we can decide it from here." Everybody turned their heads and saw two figures enter the area. Eco could see that both were wearing glasses and for some reason thought that they were sisters but they probably weren't.

"Members of the student council, Souna Shitori and Tsubaki Shinra." The trio of boys called out.

'Student Council huh?' Eco thought before speaking. "Forgive me for being rude, I did not know you were here."

"You're the new student, Eco Itsuki correct?" Sona asked as he nodded his head.

"Yes, I am. So how much did you hear?" He asked referring to the conversation.

"Only the punishment part about whether you or one of girls would report the trio to us. I assume this is about them peeping?" Sona asked.

"Yes. I know it's not my place to say but shouldn't you be doing something about this type of thing?"

"Yes, we should but unless the victims of the act have reported the accusers of the crime, then we have no reason to penalize them." Tsubaki voiced.

"Well that sucks,"

"But… since we are here now, does anyone have anything they would like to say?" Sona asked as she gazed over at the kendo club. Murayama came up and spoke.

"I do, senpai." She started as Sona nodded her head, motioning her to continue. "The girls were in the middle of changing for Kendo when we heard sounds coming from inside the lockers. Opening it, we caught these three boys peeping on us once again." She pointed her shinai at the trio. "As usual we were about to deal with them, when this boy suddenly came in and stopped us." She pointed to Eco earning all eyes as he nodded his head, feeling a little nervous. "At first we thought he was with them, but he was actually pointing out some obvious suggestions that we should have done when they boys first started peeping."

"I see." Sona then turned to Eco. "And you did this because?"

"I didn't know what was going on and this is my first day around here, so I thought something bad was happening and I thought we could solve this without violence. Before all this, I just wanted to finish my homework from history so I didn't have to worry about it later on." Eco whined comically earning confused looks from others but Sona and Tsubaki remained neutral.

"Very well then, Tsubaki please take these three boys to the office and we'll figure out how to deal with their punishments." Sona instructed as the older female nodded her head and grabbed the trio by their collars and dragged them away even though they tried to escape.

"I would also need at least one of the girls as well." Sona added.

"I'll go." Katase volunteered.

"Very well. Everyone please return to your activities, this matter shall be dealt with immediately." Sona announced as the kendo club nodded their heads and went back to their training leaving Murayama, Katase, and Eco. "I shall leave as well as I must attend to make sure these boys are dealt with." Sona said as she left and followed Tsubaki.

"Well, I guess that's been taken care of so…" Eco trailed off as he was about to leave.

"Wait!" He turned around and gaze at Katase and Murayama.

"We um…" Katase started as she turned her head away from him.

"We just wanted to say thank you for defending us. No boy has actually tried to those three from peeping, they either stay away or start rumors and cause a riot." Murayama thanked as Eco just waved his hand dismissively.

"It was nothing, I just find it wrong for someone to do that. I've been taught that you should treat women with respect and fairly not see them as an object for lust or possession." He said as Katase gave him a smirk.

"Well, you've been taught well. IT's nice to know that here's at least one boy that isn't a pervert." She said as she lightly punched his shoulder. "I also got to say, I didn't someone like you to stop my shinai."

"Again, that was before I found out about this. And I'm sorry if I did."

"No worries, if anything it's pretty interesting." Katase complimented until she noticed that Sona was waiting for her. "I guess I should get going, don't want to keep Sona-senpai waiting for me. What was your name again?"

"Eco. Eco Itsuki." He introduced to pink-haired girl as she gave him a smile.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Katase, Katase Misaki. I hope I get to see you around more often." She said as she walked pass them and went after Sona.

"I guess I should be going too, I'm Murayama Suzume by the way, once again thank you for your help." She bowed to him before giving him a small wink. "I do hope we get to see each other around more often Eco." Murayama finished earning a blush from the boy as she giggled at his reaction before walking away leaving a stunned boy.

Eco just stared at where she was going blinking at her before going back to his original train of thought.

"Now how I thought my day would end but, that was actually pretty cool." Eco said to himself as he went to where his bag was and resumed to doing his homework. The whole time though, he was unaware of the fact that he was being watched by someone from afar.

Eco yawned as he made his way to his home, stretching his arms out as he did.

"Well, that was a pretty cool first day." He commented as he put his hand on his headphones, his other hand holding his bag. "I was almost late, met three girls, met three boys who peep on girls, and met two members of the Student Council."

"Wonder what else is in store for me?"

His train of thought was interrupted when heard a small sound from an alleyway.

"Hm?" Walking over to the alley, he saw a dumpster, windows, nothing of the sort that would make that sound… or so he thought. As his eyes gazed over to the ground, and his pupils widened in shock. On the ground he saw a young girl with blonde hair, laid down on her back and she was wearing some sort of dress that was stained with blood.

"Hey!" He shouted dropping his bag to the ground and rushing over to her, sliding down he gently wrap an arm under her back and her head as he examined her state. His eyes widened in alarm as he saw blood staining around her midsection on her dress. "Oh no." he looked up and saw a trail up to the other side of the alleyway telling him that she's been bleeding out for awhile.

'Is there at least a heartbeat,' he thought as he laid his ear near her chest, panicking when he heard nothing come from her. He was about to shout when he heard a small beat in reach his ear.

He sighed in relief. "Okay, she's still breathing." He thought calmly but mentally he was being frantic. "But she's fighting for her life right now, the nearest hospital is not for another 10 miles from here and I doubt the ambulance will even get here in time."

"You know what, screw it." He was not going to risk her life on the gamble, not when he could do something about it. He gently lifted the blonde girl into his arms and quickly ran out of the alley and down the street to his house, his bag abandoned. To focus on the girl, Eco wasn't aware of someone watching him through the alley, or that they gently took his bag and disappeared into the shadows.

Kicking the door into his apartment, Eco walked inside and use his foot to the kick the door close as he was focused on the girl in his arms, hearing breathing getting slower every minute. He turned and went over to his bed and set her down gently.

He was about to grab the front of her dress but paused when he realized that he was about to touch a girl's chest and became flustered for a second before realizing what he was doing and snapped himself out of it.

'Now is not the time to be thinking like that, a girl's life is at stake and you need to keep it together.' He told himself as he took a deep breath, his expression became serious. Reaching to her chest, Eco undid the buttons down to her waist, opening it fully. He came face to face with the girl's smooth stomach and a white bra and panties, she was a bit bigger than Murayama.

"Eco then slowly opened move the right side of her dress and saw a wound on her stomach, blood still flowing from it. He clicked his teeth as he quickly ripped apart of her dress, formed it into a cloth and pressed it onto her wound to stop the bleeding. He thought about healing her through normal means but something told him that it wouldn't work and that she wouldn't make it in time. He then had one other suggestion but he wasn't sure if it was a good idea, but at the same time he would rather save this girl's life then leave her to die.

Moving a hand over to her wound, a silver rune hover below his hand before a clock-like rune appeared below the silver one and the hands were placed on the 12. Suddenly the magic activated as the minute hand and second hand started rotating counter-clockwise, going backwards. At the same time, the wound on the blonde's body started healing as the insides of her organs started healing and the skin started to reappear closing the wound immediately.

Eco held the rune over his hand for a few more seconds before canceling the magic. He took a deep breath as he took the girl's dress entirely and decided to cover her up as he lifted the covers over her and gently laid her head against the pillow. After discarding her dress, he decided to place it in the basket where he could deal with it later.

Heading into the bathroom, he went to wash his hands cleaning off the blood from his skin.

PULSE!

"AAH!" He suddenly yelped in pain as he clutched his right eye with his hand. Holding onto it for a moment, waiting for the pain to disappear. He slowly panted as he turned his head back up into the mirror, slowly removing his hand from his right eye was something else.

His right eye was replaced with a silver inorganic clock face showing off roman numerals and both hands. His eye was also bleeding as blood slowly ran down the right side of his eye, picking up a towel he slowly wipe the blood off his face around his eye before discarding it. Looking back into the mirror he saw that his eye returned to normal and sighed.

"Haven't use that in a while." He said as he exited the bathroom and went back to the bed. He didn't know when the girl would wake up so he decided to stay by the bedside and lean his head against the mattress before slowly succumbing to sleep.

Eco Itsuki wasn't just the new kid at Kuoh Academy, nor wasn't he just the boy that got nervous around pretty girls.

He was someone else, he was something else.

He is one of the two that could control time.