A/N: Welcome! This is the redo of The Twin Dragons and as I explained, I am restarting from square one. In a manner similar to The Magic Knight, it will be different in various aspects, but it will still have several aspects like the original. Though enough talk, let's get this started.
Prologue
He found himself reliving a distant memory from his childhood. He recalled that it was during a period where he and his older brother were in at least in grade school, he was sitting at a wooden park bench hugging his legs in an almost defensive manner. He wore a saddened look on his face with a bruise looking to have been caused by a kind of impact. It has been caused by a bunch of bullies that he had been running into from time to time during and after school. And after all those events, he could come here to calm down.
"What happened to your face?"
The voice of a female made it to his ears, it was one that he hadn't recognized before, but he still turned his head in her direction and he was correct. He couldn't recall the woman. She looked a lot younger than his mother with a graceful face and odd colored hair that he wouldn't expect to see from a woman her age.
"Nothing happened. I just fell."
Not wanting to talk about it, he remained silent and continued to look down.
"Well, if that is your answer," the woman replied as she pulled out a cloth that seemed to have been drenched in water. "You wouldn't mind me cleaning up your face."
Without saying a word, he just allowed that mysterious woman to place the damped cloth up to his face and was able to clean up a lot of the bruises and dirt including some blood.
"Annnnd you're all cleaned up."
The woman said in a cheerful tone that caused him to feel somewhat better compared to before, but she could still tell that there was some hint of sadness that remained. Taking note of that, the woman smiled and held out the dirtied cloth.
"You want to see a little magic trick?"
"…a magic trick?"
Being a little bit uncertain about that question, but he stopped as the woman held the cloth in the middle of her index and middle finger. Then in a single swift movement she snapped the cloth and opened it up showing it to him and revealed that it didn't have a single stain on it, as a matter of fact, it was complete white almost as if it had been bleached. This time instead of a saddened look, it turned into one filled with wonder as his eyes began sparkling like the stars in the sky.
"How did you do that?"
"Don't too surprised. It was actually a basic trick," the mysterious woman stated with a wink before staring at him with a more concerned look. "I think that you shouldn't be afraid to tell people about your problems, especially if it is another group of kids being bullies."
Hearing that from her caused him to glance down again with a nervous look on his face, but he later felt her hand being placed on his forehead.
"You shouldn't be afraid of people who feel like they can pick on others who are smaller than themselves just to make themselves feel better. Especially, someone like you."
"Someone like me?"
Once she heard that question form him, the mysterious woman also heard an older woman and another younger male child calling out the name of a small child and she believed that it was him. She smiled and stood up from her seat and removed her hand from the top of his head.
"You haven't realized it yet, but have something inside of you that will make you powerful. And I guarantee that if you tried, you'll be stronger than anyone."
He couldn't at all figure out the true meaning of the woman's words as she stood up from her seat and started to walk away. At the same time, an older woman with long brown hair and dressed in a long dress that seemed to be something worn by a housewife. Standing next to her was a small child with short brown spiky hair and light brown colored eyes, the two looked exactly like him aside from their different facial expressions and the slightest hint of perversion behind his eyes.
He could tell that both of them looked worried for him and it made him feel somewhat better, but he glanced back staring in the direction where that mysterious woman had left. Yet not knowing that her existence would cause a certain change in his life.
"Huh? That dream again, huh."
Awakening from their sleep was a young man around the age of seventeen-years-old with brown unkempt hair and light brown eyes. His name―Kazuki Hyoudou. Like always, he woke up inside of his bedroom that held in it a small number of posters from different anime genres, a desk that had some books lying on top of it with a small number of them that has bookmarks in them showing where he left off at.
Knock Knock Knock
He heard three different knocks coming from his bedroom door causing him to glance towards that door.
[Kazuki are you up yet?]
It was the voice of his mother and aside from displaying a stern tone, it displayed a caring and motherly one.
"Yes, I'm awake…Kaa-chan."
Kazuki replied causing his mother to give her own reply.
[Okay, then get dressed. I'm almost finished preparing breakfast and wake up your brother.]
"Okay, Kaa-chan."
Giving his second reply, Kazuki sat up from his bed revealing uncovered chest displaying a more lean physique that didn't have much muscle though it didn't mean that his body wasn't more developed none the less. And the silver cross that was wrapped around his neck. Soon he jumped out from his bed revealing his average height of 5ft 7in and begun stretching his arms and legs relieving the stress that remained having just woken up.
As soon as Kazuki stretched his left arm, he couldn't help staring at the item wrapped around his left wrist. It was a silver bracelet that contained a smell purple gem embedded in it. This caused him to recall the individual who had given it to him.
"…Strongest than anyone, huh," Kazuki questioned himself as he stared at the bracelet for a short period of time as if waiting to decide something. "No, it isn't time yet."
Once those words left his mouth, Kazuki directed his attention to the school uniform that he had already had laid out on his desk chair.
It didn't take him long to finish getting dressed in his school uniform without a single thing that was out of place, then he stepped outside carrying a backpack with him. Instead of heading downstairs, Kazuki went to the room that was next to his own bedroom. It belonged to his older brother―well his twin brother. As soon as he made it his bedroom door, Kazuki knocked on the door a couple of times.
"Are you up, Nii-san?"
Kazuki questioned as he continued to knock on the door but didn't get a single response from him.
Realizing that his brother hadn't woken up yet, he opened the door and slowly kept into the room not wanting to see anything 'incident' that his brother might be doing alone. Kazuki was lucky as he hadn't seen anything that was obscene, which was a constant with his older brother. Though inside of his brother's room was a number of different posters that displayed the pictures of several women, some half-naked or scantily clothing from more ero anime including of other memorabilia that came from that genre.
"I'm used to this by now."
Kazuki sighed to himself, he then stared at the bed which had his brother lying on the covers with some of it that didn't have parts of his body revealed. His older twin brother―Issei Hyoudou. Issei was the same age as himself, of course, their facial features were similar except for the perverse look, though Issei had short spiky hair with two short locks behind his hair.
He thanked himself that his brother at least had on his boxers and he wasn't at all naked. Approaching the bed where his brother lied, Kazuki leaned forward and started shaking him.
"Nii-san, come on. It's time to wake up."
"Hehehehe~ Oppai~ Such wonderful~ Oppai~"
Kazuki heard his brother moaning those words with a perverse look on his face even when sleeping. Of course, it wouldn't at all be an understatement to say that his brother was indeed a pervert. As a matter of fact, Issei was apart of the Perverted Trio, a group of the most perverted male students among Kuoh Academy. Three students who couldn't get the attention of the female students and be often beaten due to them peeping on the girls who were undressing in the locker rooms.
"I don't have time to waste waking him up. I need to head off to school in a hurry."
Based off experience alone, Kazuki knew that it would be difficult to wake his brother when he got like this and he decided to use a surefire method.
"Ahem," Kazuki cleared his throat. "Onii-san there are a group of girls running outside without wearing bras and their breasts are bouncing with every step that they take."
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"WHAT?!"
In an almost unbelievable feat, Issei had jumped out from his bed in seconds with blood dripping from his noses and his eyes scanning the area with the eyes of a predator on the hunt. Though Kazuki was used to this by now, what his older brother had done shocked and scared him a little.
"Kazuki where are the oppai?!"
"I-I'm sorry, but I lied to wake you up."
In that single moment, Issei had glared at him with a look of disbelief and lost the hope that had resided in both of his eyes beforehand.
"Ah, why would you do that to me?!"
"You wouldn't wake up! And I needed to head out to school."
"Why would you get my hopes up like that?! Not all of us have girls surrounding us every single day!"
Issei screamed at him as he scratched his head in frustration using both his hands.
"Well, if you and your friends didn't spy on them all the time, then maybe every girl in school wouldn't run away every signal time they saw you."
"What was that?!"
Hearing that response from Kazuki, Issei immediately got in front of him with an annoyed glare.
"You heard me. Unless there's another thing in your head that's not connected."
"Is that how you talk to your older brother?!"
"You're older by a couple of minutes! And even then you act like the younger brother!"
Both Issei and Kazuki started to butting heads with one another with their separate glared locked on one another, this continued on until they heard the door open.
"Issei, I see that you're finally up," their mother said as she walked inside of the room carrying a basket, but she stopped after seeing the two of them arguing. "Huh?! Issei! Kazuki! Stop this right now!"
""He started it!""
Both of them shouted at the same time as they pointed at one another, though their mother just stared at both of them with the same expression on her face. It the same kind dominating look that caused the angered looks that they had before to fade into a look of almost fear.
"At attention."
That look and command alone had caused the two of them to stand in attention further away from one another in a manner similar to individuals from the army.
"Issei get dressed. Kazuki go downstairs and eat."
""Yes ma'am!""
Speaking that last command, Kazuki started to head passed her and started to walk downstairs, while Issei had started getting dressed. Seeing that her children were beginning to do what they were supposed to be doing, she nodded her head and continued finishing her housework.
Once Kazuki made it downstairs, he found his father, a middle-aged spectacled brown-haired man whose hair looked similar to his oldest son. While their mother was a full-time housewife, their father worked as an office worker.
"Good morning, Tou-san."
He greeted his father as he sat at the table causing him to glance away for a second and smiled.
"Good morning, Kazuki. Is Ise awake?"
"Yes, I just woke him up a while ago."
"I heard. So, did you two get into another argument?"
"…it wasn't that serious," Kazuki replied as he took a seat at the table and began to eat the breakfast that their mother had prepared. "I'm sorry, but I can't talk for that long since I have to get to school in a bit of a hurry."
Kazuki said as he started to eat his breakfast at a bit of a faster pace, but it wasn't too fast that it could cause him any issues.
"Why's that?"
"…I have to return a couple of books that I borrowed to Souna-senpai."
"Oh, your girlfriend?"
Hearing his father say that in an almost teasing tone caused Kazuki to blush a light shade of red and to almost choking before drinking a glass of juice placed near his plate.
"…w-we aren't dating," he replied after recovering from almost choking. "I mean, sure I respect her since she is the smartest girl in school and she is doing her best to make school-life better for the students. …and I admit that Souna-senpai does have her moments where she is nice and there is no doubt that she is beautiful, but…"
Kazuki stopped after realizing what he was saying, then started to shake his head in frustration after seeing his father staring at him with a smirk on his face.
"Argh, why do you and Kaa-chan always make me say things like that?!"
"Hahaha, well that is apart of the job of being parents."
His father replied in a joking manner though it caused Kazuki to continue eating his food in silence.
Once Kazuki finished eating breakfast, he headed out from home and placed the bento that his mother made in his backpack. He continued to head in the direction of school passing by a familiar park causing his thoughts to be drawn towards that dream of him meeting that mysterious woman, but for the life of him, Kazuki couldn't at all recall what her name was.
"Why can't I remember her name," Kazuki questioned himself as he continued walking forward. "Did she even tell me what her name was?"
Due to his attention being too focused on recalling that mysterious woman that he met, Kazuki didn't notice that a black-haired young woman wasn't paying attention to where she was going. Both of them glanced upwards and their eyes widened noticing at the last moment that they were close to running into one another.
""Ahhh!""
Both Kazuki and the black-haired girl yelled as they crashed into one another not only their belongings to scatter on the ground, but they also fell on the ground. Kazuki himself fell on the ground due to the suddenness of that impact causing to stare into the skies and groaned from pain. He was the first to recover from the impact and he glanced forward towards the young woman who he ran into.
"Ah, I'm sorry about that. Are you…alright?"
Once Kazuki asked that he started to blush a deep shade of red, as he stared at the young woman that he had run into. She looked to be the same age as himself with black hair that looked almost like silk reaching to at least her waist with a could strands that has parts of her forehead covered, violet colored eyes, beautiful face that can make any guy fall in love at first sight, a slender figure, and a large bust that would cause the attention of his twin brother. Kazuki also noticed that she was dressed in the female school uniform of Kuoh Academy.
"Does she attend Kuoh Academy? I haven't seen her around the school."
"Ow," she moaned in pain. "Yea, I'm fine. That was my fault, I wasn't paying attention to where I was….what?"
The black-haired girl questioned as she noticed that Kazuki was glancing away with an embarrassed look on his face, then without turning to face her, he directed his finger downwards. Following the direction of his finger, she glanced down noticing that both her legs were parted with her skirt askew granting a full view of her black lace panties that displayed her bold nature.
"Ah, I'm sorry."
She responded as she fixed her legs covering her skirt and glanced away from Kazuki who begun standing up off of the ground brushing the dust from his pants. Once he finished, Kazuki reached his hand out in an attempt at helping the black-haired girl up from the ground. Smiling a bit, the girl took his hand causing Kazuki to lift her up from off the ground.
"Thanks for that."
"You don't need to thank me, I was partly to blame for not paying attention."
"Hahaha," the black haired girl laughed in a manner that Kazuki found cute. "I guess that we both got sidetracked a little bit."
"So, are you a student at Kuoh Academy…or…."
"Ah! I'm sorry, but I have to run back home and get something."
After recalling that fact, there was something that she forgot back home and continued to head in the direction of her home at a fast pace. It was fast enough for Kazuki to almost lose track of her in a couple of seconds. Seeing that she was far gone, he continued on to school though without noticing that there was someone else who was watching him.
It didn't take long for Kazuki to arrive at the front gates of Kuoh Academy and as soon as he made it past the front gates, he was bombarded by the glances of several women. All of them looked almost starstruck and since he already knew what was about to happen, he sighed.
"Here we go again."
[Kyaaaah! It's our White Knight!]
This would happen almost every single day as soon as he walked passed the gate, Kazuki was actually popular around school due to the times that he stopped his brother and friends from spying on girls. It also has something to do with him being a top member among the Kendo Club, which at first since Kuoh Academy was at first an all-girls school before being co-ed and started to allow male students to join the club. The school even had a second locker room and shower built for the male members.
While there were other female students who were staring at Kazuki in a love-struck manner, there were some male students who stared at him with a look of jealousy.
"Ah, would you just look at him~"
"At times, you forget that he is the twin brother of that Pervert Issei."
"I wonder if he is dating anyone in secret."
"I mean, he does meet a lot with the Student Council President."
"Ah, you don't think that there…."
Kazuki started to walk through the crowd of girls laughing in a somewhat nervous manner at the conversation a lot of them were having with one another. He couldn't say that the attention was alright, but in situations like this, it could become a somewhat embarrassing. As Kazuki continued to walk forward, he noticed there was a person waiting for him in front of the entrance leading into Kuoh Academy. It was a spectacled young woman with looked at least a year older than him with short black hair in a bob cut, violet-colored eyes with a slim figure, and wearing the official female school uniform.
Though her presence accompanied by the glare on her glasses had caused the crowd to start to clear away and quiet, however, it was different for Kazuki who smiled. In return, the young woman smiled back and it seemed to be a rare moment that person would ever smile.
"Hello, Souna-senpai."
"Hello, Kazuki-kun."
Both of them greeted one another, the person in front of Kazuki was―Souna Shitori, the current president of the Student and a third-year student. Seeing them together caused the crowd of female students to lean forward almost as if attempting to listen in on their conversation. Due to the amount of time that both Kazuki and Souna spent with one another, there were a lot of rumors that went around school that both of them were in a secret relationship. A lot of the students also stated that the two were doing explicit things inside of the Student Council Room.
"Kazuki-kun would you like to finish things inside of the student council room?"
Souna questioned as she let out a slight sigh noticing the stares that the two were getting.
"Yea, cause even for a Kuoh, this is getting a little uncomfortable."
Kazuki answered as he scratched his head from nervousness.
After agreeing with one another about that, both Kazuki and Souna started to head inside of the building ignoring the crowd of students who were staring at them with keen eyes.
Even walking through the halls leading to the student council room, there were students staring at them with due to all the rumors about them. Sona ignored all the stared aimed at them walking with the kind of dignity that one would expect to see from an heiress, while Kazuki followed her with eyes that contained admiration. In all his times as a student, he had never met anyone who held that kind of unique beauty or grace.
Before the two of them noticed, they had reached and entered the student council room with Souna closing the door behind her along with doing something else. The room belonging to the student council was larger than a lot of the other classrooms in Kuoh Academy with it being at least twice as big as one with several bookcases that of course held various books, there were also a number of desks that various files stacked on top of them, a total of three large couches big enough to fit a couple of people with a coffee table in the middle that has a familiar object sitting on top of it, and a large extravagant wooden desk where the student council president would sit.
"I'm sorry about all that Kazuki-kun."
Souna apologized causing Kazuki to become a little bit confused.
"What're you talking about?"
"All of these rumors started due to me asking you to come to the student council room and agreeing to my selfish requests all the time," Sona answered as she bowed her head. "So, I'm apologizing."
"N-No, you don't need to apologize for anything. I like answering your requests."
Kazuki replied in a nervous manner causing Sona to smile a bit due to his answer, though Kazuki stopped after he realized something. He opened his backpack and pulled out the books that he borrowed from Souna and had directed them towards her.
"By the way, thanks for letting me borrow these books."
"It's no issue at all, I'm glad that you liked them. They were among my favorites."
Souna took the books off Kazuki's hands, then walked over placing them on top of her desk before taking a seat on the couch adjacent from the one on the left. Kazuki had smiled after noticing that the object in front of her was a chessboard with her side being black pieces, while the other side was white pieces.
"Then shall we begin?"
"Sure thing."
Kazuki replied as he took a seat on the other side of Souna, where the white pieces were.
This is the "explicit" things that Kazuki and Souna were doing inside of the student council room, which a small number of people knew about. It started off with Souna asking Kazuki to compete with her in chess since both of them held the highest ranked grades among Kuoh Academy, but there hadn't been a time where Kazuki had won against Sona. This "relationship" developed to where both exchanged numbers with one another.
"I thought that you sounded excited over the phone."
"You make it sound like I'm obsessed."
"You kind of are."
"I-It's not that," Sona blushed which was a rare moment for her. "I just like challenging you, I find all the strategies that you come up with interesting."
"Though, it'll have to be a quick one. I think that the bell for classes will start in just a couple of minutes."
Both came to an agreement and started their match with Kazuki going first due to his pieces being white, as their match continued both continued to make calculating moves that countered the move that the other made. A lot of the moves that they made were skilled faints. However, in the end―
"Dang, I lost again."
Kazuki said in a defeated tone as he scratched his head.
"It was a close match this time, you shouldn't sound defeated. You've really adapted your strategies compared to our last match."
Once Sona glanced in the direction of the clock posted on top of the wall, then turned to face Kazuki who started to stretch his arms, while groaning.
"You should get to class. Even if it is you, I won't forgive lateness."
"Got it," he had replied laughing in a light manner as he stood up and picked up his backpack. "I'll see you later…Sona-senpai."
Kazuki said her real name―Sona Sitri, the next heiress to the Sitri Clan, among the remaining 72 Pillars. There was a small number of people in school who knew her real name and that were the devils attending their school and Kazuki found out about that during his first-year.
"I can wait until then."
Sona said with a smile as Kazuki headed for the door.
Though as soon as he opened the door, Kazuki found himself meeting Kuoh Academies' Two Great Ladies in the form of Rias Gremory, the school's number one beauty and Akeno Himejima. After seeing him leaving the room, Rias smiled in a bit of a sly manner and noticing that look caused Kazuki to quicken his pace.
"Well, sorry I can't talk," Kazuki said in a rushed tone that displayed his nervousness. "I gotta get to class. Later, Rias-senpai and Akeno-senpai."
After saying that, Kazuki started to head towards classes with both Rias and Akeno heading inside of the student council room laughing a bit.
"He didn't even give me the chance to tease him."
Rias said after laughing a bit, with Akeno joining her in that.
Seeing that he left, both Rias and Akeno headed inside of the student council room noticing that Sona was sitting on the couch starting to put away the chessboard.
"I see that you and Kazuki-kun finished your "explicit" deeds."
Hearing that tone from Rias caused Sona to let out a slight sigh.
"I don't know who started that rumor, but it is making things a lot more complicated than they should be."
"Well, that is what happens when our kouhai are so energetic."
Akeno replied to Sona's question once she finished packing up the chessboard.
"So, Sona are you planning on having Kazuki-kun joining your peerage?"
"No, but to tell you the truth, I was planning on it during the beginning of his first-year student," Sona replied as she stood up from the couch and placed it in a drawer in her desk and took a seat. "Aside from Kazuki-kun being in possession of "that" and his rare potential, he is as intelligent as me along with his capability to adapt in many situations. So having him joining my peerage would be an incredible assist. However―"
"Kazuki-kun is an avid believer of God. Is that correct?"
Rias finished Sona's statement.
"Which is why I don't want to force or convince making him give up on that belief. Not that he's the kind of person who would fall for any kind of temptation. And Kazuki-kun knows that if he joined our side that would put his family in danger considering the kind of power that he possesses," Sona said. "If it wasn't for that bracelet that he received from the other side, then everyone else would be after him as well, but I don't think that you and Akeno came here to just talk about my relationship with Kazuki-kun."
"You're correct, though both twins are special in their own way and I was planning on having his brother joining my peerage. That wasn't the reason that I arrived here."
"Does it have something to do with that new transfer student?"
"You're as perceptive as ever."
Rias answered with serious eyes as she and Akeno took a seat on the couch next to one another, then started to talk with one another about this "transfer student".
Meanwhile, inside of the homeroom of Issei and Kazuki, the latter entered the room before the bell sounded. He glanced around the room and found his older brother talking with both his friends; Matsuda a young man who's the same age as them with a shaved head known as the "Perverted Baldy" and "Sexual Harassment Paparazzi", a member of the Photo Club including being a self-proclaimed Lolicon; and Motohama known as the "Perverted Glasses" due to his "ability" to scout the measurements of any woman that he looks at.
With his brother who has an unhealthy obsession with breasts, they make up the Perverted Trio. And based on the look on both Matsuda's and Motohama's face, the two of them looked to be arguing, while Issei looked a little smug about something. Despite being close to the start of class, Kazuki didn't see their teacher inside of the classroom. Though thinking that it wasn't anything important, he walked over taking a seat in front of his brother.
"So, what were you guys arguing about?"
Kazuki questioned as he turned towards Issei by turning himself in his direction.
"Kazuki you won't believe what happened to me?"
"You got a girlfriend?"
"I got a…huh? How did you know that?"
"Well, you say it wasn't something that I wouldn't believe…wait, you were serious?"
Kazuki was legit surprised about the fact that his perverted brother got a "girlfriend" or so he says, but Kazuki just had to make sure.
"Are you lying?"
"No."
"Did you pay her?"
"No."
"Did you blackmail her?"
"No!"
"…is it your…."
"…if you say my hand, I'll punch you."
After saying that both Issei and Kazuki started to glare at one another causing a sudden intense feeling to cover both of them. Sensing this caused the students inside of the classroom to move further away from them with a somewhat frightened look on their faces. Everyone knew that it was a daily occurrence with the two of them and it at times grew to the point where even Kazuki's fangirls wouldn't even interrupt them.
"Alright class, I have a surprise," their teacher said as they walked in before seeing both Issei and Kazuki glaring at one another. "This again, alright you two…." As if not knowing the person who was talking with them, both the twins had turned slowly towards their teacher causing him to shutter a bit. "Err, anyway, we have a new transfer student whose being brought in by Aika Kiryuu."
""Ugh.""
Both Issei and Kazuki went back to their desks after hearing "that" name for different reasons. For Issei was due to her teasing himself and his friends every single time about various things, but Kazuki always thought that it is due to them being too similar to one another. And for Kazuki due to also due to her being the same as his brother but leaned more towards her perverse remark towards him including her "ability" to measure a man's "manhood", which she made a point of mentioning a lot around him.
"Oh, here she is."
"Come on, it is in here."
Entering the classroom was a brown-haired girl whose long hair had some braids in them with almost dark yellow eyes, a pair of glasses with red frames, a noticeable bust that could be seen, and dressed in the female uniform, but without their black shoulder cape. It was of course―Aika Kiryuu.
"Thank you for leading me here, Kiryuu-san."
As soon as that new voice made it into the class, the male students started to direct their attention towards the door leading into the classroom. Though as soon as that voice reached Kazuki's ears, he recognized it. Walking into the room was the same black-haired girl that Kazuki ran into on his face to school. Once she noticed him in the classroom, she sent him a discrete wink.
[Ohhhhh!]
A number of males in the classroom started to make noise at the sight of the mysterious black-haired girl as said girl stood in front of the class as Aika walked over to her seat.
"Well, this is our new transfer student."
"Hello, everyone. My name is Yuuma Amano. I hope to get along with all of you."
Hearing Yuuma say that in a cute tone and bowing her head caused the male student to feel as if all of them had just fallen in love.
"She's a total hottie."
"Such a perfect combination," Motohama said as he fixed his glasses on Yuuma, the latter felt a cold sensation on her skin. "Breast. Waist. Height. It's almost as if she were sculpted."
"Alright, everyone settle down. Yuuma-san, you can find a seat anywhere."
"Okay."
Yuuma agreed with the teacher as she headed towards the first opened seat that she saw, which was right next to Kazuki who stared at her as she walked over towards him.
"Well, this is a surprise. I didn't think that we would be in the same class."
Yuuma stated in a tone that displayed her surprise causing Kazuki to let out a slight smile in response to her own statement.
"I didn't expect that either."
"By the way, I didn't catch your name."
"My names Kazuki Hyoudou. You can just call me Kazuki. Or just Kazu."
"Hmm, I think that I'll go with Kazuki-kun."
Yuuma replied in a cheerful tone causing him to be surprised by her sudden sense of familiarity.
The two of them started to get along well based on their conversation, though he could feel the intense glares of the other male student who were "taken" by Yuuma. However, all of the conversion was stopped by their teacher who started the lesson. During the lesson, the teacher asked a lot of the student to answer some of the questions that he had written on the board, but before Kazuki could answer a lot of them, Yuuma answered them before him resulting in everyone including Kazuki to realize that she was more than just a pretty face.
Their classes continued on until reaching their lunch period with a lot of the student remaining inside of the room carrying their own packed lunches, while others went into the cafeteria to pick their lunches. Among the students, Issei and his friends decided to eat at their usual spot for lunch, with the older brother staring at the younger one.
"Yo, Kazuki is joining us for lunch?"
"Huh?!"
"We don't want that popular bastard joining us for lunch!"
Both Matsuda and Motohama spoke out their complaints, while Issei smacked both of them on their heads in a quick manner.
"Uh, I…."
"Actually, there was something that I wanted to ask you Kazuki-kun. So, would you actually mind meeting me on top of the roof?"
Yuuma questioned as she held a bento box packed in a violet colored cloth with a generous smile while causing all the male students in the class to cause an uproar.
"Huh?! Meeting on the roof!"
"It was their first meeting and they're meeting on the roof!"
"I wish Yuuma-chan would have asked me!"
"I thought that Kazuki was in a relationship with Sona-Kaichou!"
There were a lot of complaints from the male students about him "meeting" Yuuma on the school roof alone and it caused a lot of situations to run through their minds.
"Let's just get out of here before they decide to start any more rumors about me."
"Okay~ Lead the way~"
Yuuma replied in a cheerful tone as she started to follow after Kazuki skipping in a manner matching her tone.
"Tch, first you and now your brother have girlfriends!"
"I didn't think that Issei would end up with a girlfriend before either of us."
"Would both of you shut it?!"
Issei roared as he smacked both his friends on their heads again causing them to wince in pain.
Meanwhile, on top of the school roof, both Kazuki and Yuuma had just met as planned sitting next to one another with their bento boxes opened. The two of them were lucky to find out that there was no one else sitting on top of the roof, which caused Kazuki to let out a relieved sigh.
"Ah~ Though, I would like to associate with the oother students, but I do enjoy the silence."
"Yea, this is among the places in the school that it the quietest…at least most of the time. I'm not the only person who thinks that. So there are a lot of people who come here."
"Then why were there so many people surprised about us heading to the roof?"
"There is a reputation on this roof with male and female students come here to make-out."
"And they thought that I, a new student would end up kissing someone that I just met?"
Yuuma tilted her head a bit due to how ludicrous that it sounded for her to kiss someone that she just met.
"A lot of the students here have an overactive imagination."
Kazuki replied laughing in a somewhat nervous tone.
"It sounds as if my time here will be an interesting tone," Yuuma said while laughing out loud. "I didn't think that I would be laughing this much on my first day of school."
Kazuki listened as Yuuma continued to laugh causing to be reminded him of someone else and without knowing he reached towards his chest touching the silver cross that he had wrapped around his neck.
"Is there something wrong?"
"No, nothing at all. I was just reminded of someone who I used to know."
Kazuki replied with a slight saddened smile on his face, but it caused Yuuma to feel a bit confused.
"So, there was a reason why I asked you here alone."
"Really, what did you need?"
After hearing that question, Yuuma placed her bento box and coughed into her hand clearing her throat.
"Well, considering the reaction that the class had after I asked you to come with me on the roof. And since I am new to Kuoh Town," Yuuma replied while running her slender fingers through her black hair. "I was wondering if you could show me around town on Sunday."
"Huh? Uh, sure I don't mind, but why me?"
"Well, you were the first person that I met. And I feel that I asked anyone else in the class, they would be focused on what I could do to them. Especially, since I felt someone's eyes on me almost as if they were undressing me."
Yuuma replied shuttering a bit after reliving that "mysterious" feeling on her skin with Kazuki thinking of a certain spectacled pervert causing his eyes to turn almost blank.
"Well, I don't mind showing you around Kuoh."
He agreed with a generous smile on his face and his answer caused Yuuma to jump up from her feet despite her sitting down. There was a sudden gust of wind that caused her skirt to float up causing Kazuki to get another glance at her panties causing his face to redden from that again.
"I can't tell if she's doing this on purpose or not," Kazuki said as he covered his face using his hands. "Is dealing with this an ordeal sent by God?"
Though as Kazuki remained there covering his face, unbeknownst to him, there was a young girl with hazel eyes peeking in on the two of them without their presence being known. She stared at both of them, however, her eyes were most narrowed towards Yuuma who must have noticed her presence as she turned her head. As both their eyes locked on one another, the hazel-eyed girl closed the door without making a single sound.
"…Buchou," the hazel-eyed girl summoned a magic circle next to her ear causing a familiar person's voice to be heard into her ear. "The transfer student made contact with Kazuki-senpai."
[….]
"…should I intervene?"
[….]
"…But, what if…."
[….]
"…I understand."
Whatever this "Buchou" said caused the hazel-eyed girl to clench her fist not from anger towards that person, but towards the current situation that caused her from intervening. Then she headed away from the entrance leading into the roof.
Once school ended and after Kazuki finished his club activities at the Kendo Club, he found himself coming back home after taking a shower at a much later time compared to his brother how didn't join a club. Once Kazuki had walked through the front door, he found his mother waiting for him as if she knew the exact moment that he going to arrive with shocked eyes.
"Kazuki, is it true? About Issei."
"I'm going to need to know what you're referring to."
"About him having a girlfriend."
Looking past his mother, he saw his father sitting on the couch listening to them with a serious expression on his face with Issei sitting next to him with a little impatient expression on his face.
"Well, I didn't see her at school. So, I think that she does to another school. Nor did I see a photo."
After hearing that from him, his mother sighed and started her questions.
"Is he lying?"
"No, I'd be able to tell if he were lying."
"Do you think that Ise paid her?"
"No."
"…is it his left hand?"
"Actually, I was thinking right hand."
"Oh, come on!"
Issei shouted from next to their father causing him to stand up in protest about the questions being asked by their mother and the answer given to her by his brother.
"Kazuki definitely takes after his mother."
Their father said as he laughed little thinking about the similarities that Kazuki had with his mother causing her to wrap her arms around Kazuki in a loving manner.
"Of course, Kazuki did spend more time around me."
That response caused Kazuki to become embarrassed due to the suddenness of that contact along with his mother reminding him of how much he used to cling to her as a child.
"One more question."
"I swear if mum asks of I blackmailed Mi-chan, I'll die inside."
Issei said as he lowered his head even mentioning this "Mi-chan", but the next question that their mother had did not having anything to do with him.
"Did you overwork yourself during the Kendo Club?"
She questioned with a worried tone causing their father to stare at her with a concerned and understanding look.
"…no, I didn't. You don't have to worry."
Kazuki replied with a reassuring smile on his face giving his mother some sense of relief.
"Alright," she nodded with a slight smile. "Both of you get changed, dinner will be prepared in a moment."
Following the advice from their mother, both Issei and Kazuki went into their rooms to get dressed from out their school uniforms and to great prepared for dinner.
After getting dressed in normal clothes, he went over to his bed and laid down with his attention being drawn towards a photograph on his nightstand. In the photo,8 it showed him as a younger child with a much frailer physique joined by a tomboyish looking girl with chestnut colored hair and violet eyes, both of them had a silver cross that looked like one another.
"Am I ever going to see you again, Iri-chan?"
Kazuki questioned as he closed his eyes and started to drift in and out of unconsciousness before finally drifting asleep with the bracelet on his wrist starting to give off a mysterious glow .
White―Kazuki found himself inside of a white void that seemed to shimmer with a white brilliance and its length looked almost boundless, he glanced around sitting in this void. He realized what was going on so he didn't show any kind of reaction such as shock or fear.
[Sulking, I see. If you continue doing this, then you'll never get stronger.]
"I wasn't sulking. Besides, I didn't take you for the type to be interested in my personal life."
Kazuki talked to the being who seemed to close to him yet being behind around the area at all, but against he didn't look to be surprised or frightened.
[It does concern me since you and I will be locked into combat against the individuals who would be out for your life someday. Aside from your incredible potential for a human despite your one fatal weakness that will limit your growth, you are also an abnormal behind who possess a being such as myself inside of you from birth.]
"Well, not that I can do anything about it aside from training more. Aside from that, I can hope that you will lend me your power when the times comes."
Hearing Kazuki's response caused the voice to begin laughing in an amused tone.
[Hahaha, that is what I'd expect from my partner. Don't forget, my power will always be at your disposal as long as you desire it. And be aware, that power of yours is growing stronger and stronger, so that little "seal" won't be able to contain it anymore. There are already people starting to approach you.]
As soon as that short conversation ended, Kazuki woke up at the same time that he heard his brother knocking on his door calling for him. Kazuki scratched his head before noticing that there were white sparks coming from the silver bracelet wrapped around his wrist with the purple jewel that it had been slightly cracked. After noticing it, he sighed.
"I guess that this peace that I've been enjoying won't be able to last much longer."
Kazuki stated as he stood up from his bed stretching his arms going toward the door and heading downstairs to eat dinner with his family.
On Sunday morning, after getting dressed for hanging out with Yuuma and showing her around town. Kazuki was dressed in a black jacket with blue outlines, a white undershirt, a pair of black jeans and sneakers. He left home after convincing his mother and father that it wasn't a date along with his brother who left in the other direction in order to meet up with his date. Before leaving Issei said with a wide smirk on his face, "Good luck on your date" before running off to meet up with this "Mi-chan" that he just showed Kazuki on Friday while at school.
Despite people seeing them as just two brothers who fought all the time, both Issei and Kazuki did get along just as twin siblings would. Kazuki waited at a corner in Kuoh Town where he promised to meet Yuuma since it was one location that she passed by the most on her way to school.
He made sure that he had everything that he needed to show her around town including his wallet just in case he needed to buy something. Later on, Kazuki someone heading in his direction in almost a hurry resulting in him facing the same direction.
"I'm sorry, did I make you wait?"
It was revealed to be Yuuma dressed in a pink colored blouse that showed the top portion of her breasts, a long black skirt, and black strapped sandals with small heels. Seeing her dressed in that caused Kazuki to blush a bit finding it to further emphasizes her natural beautiful appearance.
"N-No, you didn't. So, where did you want to go first?"
"Hmm, well I guess it would be more appropriate to let you decide that."
Yuuma replied in an ecstatic look displaying her excitement about being showed around town.
"Then I guess that the first place would be―"
Once she decided to leave the choices to Kazuki, he decided to first show her around the locations around town where she could purchase anything that she would need. First, he showed her around the convenience store that a lot of students from Kuoh Academy goes to a lot where there was a lot of clothing stores inside for woman. As soon as they entered that place, Yuuma tried on a number of clothes even asking his opinion of them before she decided to purchase them. Soon enough, he showed her around the entire store to things that she would need in her home if she didn't already have them such as a bed and other essential items.
Second, he showed her around just a couple of places where students would hang out with their friends while not in school or on days off. Both of them later went off and took a break inside of a family restaurant where both ate and talked about whatever came to mind while laughing due to what the other said.
B efore either of them noticed, they spent almost the entire day together just walking around Kuoh Town, which is displayed as the sun started to set. Both of them later found themselves walking in the direction of a fountain with a smiling Yuuma walking forward with a cheerful look on her face.
"I had an amazing time, Kazuki-kun. I didn't think that there would be so many fun places around this town."
Yuuma declared as she moved around with her arms held out almost as if she were dancing around heading in the direction of the fountain, while Kazuki was smiled feeling graceful that Yuuma enjoyed today. Though all that ended after Yuuma formed an ominous look on her face and stopped in front of the fountain. Noticing her change in tone caused him to become confused along with her hair obscuring her face.
"Kazuki-kun, I had a lot of fun today, but there is one more thing that I won't ask you to do for me."
"Huh? Really, well I don't mind."
"Then, will you please…."
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"…get out of the way!"
Hearing sudden demand caused him to become more alert, as there was a male-shaped figure behind him with a bright light radiating from his hand. At the same time, Kazuki felt the atmosphere around him starting to shift. And in response to that, Kazuki's mind started working in a single moment and so he kicked off the ground using the strength in his legs and pushed his body out of the way.
Seeing him changing his direction, the man redirected his aim and formed a light spear in his hand preparing to aim it at Kazuki. Or at least he would have if Yuuma hadn't formed her own light spear of her own and threw it at the male's hand before he could throw it at Kazuki in time. Kazuki landed on the ground regaining his barrings as he focused on the situation in order to find out what was going on.
He glanced forward and noticed that it was a young man who looked a lot older than himself or at least about one year older than him with black hair and blue eyes along with being clothed in a casual suit.
"Tch, rotten bitch."
He clicked his tone as two sets of black wings sprouted from his back and used them to move out of the way dodging the light spear.
"Black wings? …a fallen angel."
Kazuki spoke in a tone that displayed shock about the situation, but he continued to focus in case he needed to move once again to avoid his next attack.
"Gadreel, Lord Azazel thought that it would be you sent to attack Kazuki."
It didn't take Kazuki long to realize the change in her tone and language since she wasn't speaking Japanese at all, but instead English. Though he could understand both due to some classes that he took in school.
"Raynare, you stupid bitch," the now named Gadreel said in a disgusted tone. "I thought that someone capable would have been sent to protect this bastard, but Azazel sent his Errand Girl. I thought he had an interest in him."
"It's Lord Azazel."
"Whatever."
"Azazel? Raynare?"
Basing what he heard from this "Gadreel", the person that he knew as "Yuuma Amano" and transferred to Kuoh Academy didn't exist and that her real name was what he had just heard.
"I don't know what kind of Sacred Gear, he has but it doesn't matter someone who hadn't yet activated it doesn't stand a chance at hell at beating me. And besides, it won't take me that long to deal with you."
Gadreel flew towards Raynare with his four fallen angels, the latter brought out her pair of wings and flew at him summoning two light spears in her hands. Both of them started to clash against one another as Raynare started to attack him using both her light spears, while Gadreel countered each of her attacks using just one light spear. It didn't take long for Kazuki to realize the difference in skill between the two of them.
"Lord Azazel doesn't want the sacred gear users like Kazuki to be killed and instead wants study and understand them. Why can't people like you see that he doesn't want any more bloodshed in pointless battles."
"Pointless Battles? You see there is a point in battles and that is deciding the winners," Gadreel replied in a tone displaying his cockiness. "And those winners will be us."
"Then, if you're confident that you could win. Why did you put in the effort in sneaking up on Kazuki? If you truly believe that you could win, then why sneak up on a human who hasn't activated their sacred gear."
Hearing that snide comment from Raynare caused Gadreel to narrow his eyes. Then in an act of aggression, he kicked her in the stomach causing her to almost cough up the air in her lungs and sent her crashing into the ground.
"Gah."
Raynare coughed as she landed on the ground holding onto her stomach in pain.
"I'm not afraid of a human whose weaker than the bitch, I'm about to kill."
Gadreel spat out in annoyance as he summoned a light spear that was larger than the last one that he made in his hand beforehand.
"Don't move another step toward her."
Kazuki spoke up causing Gadreel to stop in his tracks, but with the light spear still in his hands and he scoffed at his attempt of being brave.
"You can't just stand there like a good mamma's boy while I end this bitch. I went through a lot of trouble to follow you dumb asses around town on this little date. You'll regret not doing the deed with this bitch, especially with all the time that she spends bending over for Azazel."
Hearing that from him caused Kazuki to narrow his eyes towards Gadreel in a threatening manner.
"I don't care if she lied to me about who she was, but I can't deny that she just saved me," Kazuki said as he held his right hand out reaching for the bracelet that rested on his left wrist. "I'll do whatever I have to stop you. So, I'm not going to repeat myself a second time. Don't move another step towards her."
"Tch, I don't think you understand. You don't have the power to stop me, so what makes you think that you have the power to save her?"
"Kazuki-kun don't worry about me! Just get out of here!"
Raynare returning to her "Yuuma" persona called out not wanting him to get injured in dealing with Gadreel.
Gadreel held up his light spear and aimed it Raynare. It was almost as if time slowed as Gadreel started to throw his light spear at her chest, as Kazuki reached the bracelet and started to take it off of his wrist as the words of an older man echoed into his head.
[I made this bracelet to suppress the abilities of normal class sacred gears, so I don't know how long it will be able to suppress yours which is classed as being among the strongest class. So, take my advice and prepare for the time when you will have to remove it. Because you won't be able to put this bracelet back on.]
Once Kazuki removed the bracelet, there was a flash of bright white light caused Gadreel to pause for a second and caused Raynare to cover her eyes due to the brightness. Though in that single instant, Raynare felt herself being lifted into the air and Gadreel felt a sharp kick from at the back of his neck causing him to be sent flying in the fountain causing the water to splash on the ground.
"Son of a bitch!"
Once the light faded away, Gadreel came from under the water with his suit drenched in water and his head in a state of confusion due to being kicked at the back of the head. He looked around for Kazuki and Raynare, but he couldn't see them anywhere on the ground.
"I warned you."
Kazuki could be heard in the skies above him causing Gadreel to stare up into the sky with a shocked look on his face. He was flying in the air holding Raynare in his arms in a princess manner, but it wasn't seeing him flying in the air that caused him to be shocked. It was what Kazuki was using as a means of flying. Sprouting out from his back was a pair of white dragon wings with eight energy feathers that were giving off a sparkling light from them, the eight feathers were split among both wings.
"Y-You've got to be kidding me. Divine Dividing?!"
"Kazuki-kun, you're…."
"I guess time for my normal life is done. My name is Kazuki Hyoudou," Kazuki called out as he stared down at Gadreel. "The Hakuryuukou, the Vanishing Dragon."
Hearing that from him caused Gadreel to smirk with a confident look returning from his state of shock.
"Don't think for a second that this changes anything. I still won't lose to someone who doesn't even know how to use that thing. And instead of taking that blonde bitch's sacred gear, I can just take yours."
Neither of them could hear that last part, but it stopped as a voice could be heard through the wings as revealed by the light features shining with every word.
[Don't be foolish. He hasn't just "awakened" Divine Dividing, though he could already hear my voice, he already awakened Divine Dividing almost over a year before you fallen angels arrived.]
"I was told about the main power of Divine Dividing by Albion a long time ago. And I believe that it was…."
[Divide!]
"…halving my opponent's power every ten seconds after coming into physical contact with them."
Gadreel felt half of his power starting to be drained from himself causing him to grip his teeth out of annoyance, then he charged at Kazuki after spreading his fallen angel wings.
"You bastard!"
Using his light wings, Kazuki moved out away just before Gadreel could make contact with him, then in an act of desperation, he continued aiming his light spear at Kazuki. Then after another ten seconds passed.
[Divide!]
"Ugh!"
Again Gadreel had his power halved and that power was transferred to Kazuki, then the power that Kazuki was unable to handle was released through his wings.
"I heard that exists another Longinus like Divine Dividing named Boosted Gear that can double the power of its user every ten seconds until the user reaches their limit and resets. Though, I believe that my Divine Dividing is a lot more balanced since all the excess power is released through the light feathers letting me remain at top strength."
"I know that! I don't need you to explain it to me!"
[Divide!]
Due to Kazuki's explanation, another ten seconds passed, causing more of Gadreel's power to be divided and it also caused his light spear to be weaker than before.
"Kazuki-kun realized that Gadreel is too confident to not doubt himself in winning despite all the odds against him and used that against him. He deliberately explained the abilities of Divine Dividing knowing that it would stir him up and lose track of the ten seconds."
Raynare thought as she marveled at the strategy that he came up with to knock Gadreel off his game. And all the results were showing as not only was his power being divided, but Kazuki's strategy caused him to become tired mentally as well and damaged his pride as well. Gadreel may have been cocky, but he wasn't an idiot to think he could win without his original strength.
"Tch, don't think that you've won. This fight isn't over yet!"
Gadreel called out as he flew away with the sensation that Kazuki felt beforehand vanishing away almost as if it hadn't existed at all. Seeing that he left the area, Kazuki landed on the ground placing Raynare on the ground in a gentle manner. Before Raynare could thank him for saving, several drops of sweat started to drip from off of his forehead and he started to breathe in an excessive manner.
"K-Kazuki-kun are you alright?"
"Y-Yea, I'm sorry, but that it the first time that I pushed myself that much without pacing myself. I was a lot frailer as a kid compared to Nii-san"
Kazuki admitted as he started to regain his proper breath.
[That's why I told you to train so that you could fight in an effective manner and remember to pace yourself during a fight.]
"Albion, you're my partner. …not my mother."
Hearing him mention "older brother" beforehand caused Raynare to make a shocked look on his face.
"Kazuki-kun! I think that your brother is being attacked!"
"What? But, he is supposed to be on a date…with that girl! Did Azazel send someone else?!"
"N-No, he just sent me since the effects of that bracelet started to wear off. And he wanted me to make sure that Issei-kun's sacred gear didn't go berserk when it activated, then informed me to ask you to use Divine Dividing to put it under control. I didn't think that they would attack him since more and more people started to focus more on you instead of your brother."
Hearing that from Raynare caused Kazuki to pull out his phone in an attempt at calling Issei.
"I didn't think that Nii-san had a sacred gear too."
After doing so, Kazuki waited for him to pick up, but instead of it being Issei, it was someone who he was familiar with and knew that person was a threat to either of them.
"I see, so since you're picking up. Then it means that Nii-san had…," Kazuki said in a low tone and clenched his freehand in anger and bit his lower lip. "Yea, I'm alright. …yes, I will meet up with you guys at the club room."
Kazuki hung up the phone placing it back into his pocket and facing away from Raynare clenching his teeth with an angered look on his face.
"I thought that I was doing the right thing sealing off my Divine Dividing to protect my family from behind hurt by those who would want it or challenge me. But, if I had taken up Azazel's offer, then Nii-san wouldn't have…."
"Kazuki-kun."
"First, I lost someone I cared about after she moved away without me being able to say goodbye," Kazuki said as some stray tears started to form at the corners of his eyes. "Not again, I'm not losing anyone else due me not being fast enough or strong enough to protect them. I don't care what I have to do to become stronger, but right here right now I'm making a vow as the Hakuryuukou. I won't stop becoming stronger and master Divine Dividing to protect the people that I care about even if I end up destroying myself in the process!"
Hearing Kazuki's declaration not a human, but as the possessor of Divine Dividing, a sacred gear that carries the power to bring down even gods is mastered.
A/N: And there goes chapter one of the rebooted Twin Dragons, again I apologize to those who are mad that I decided to restart it after getting this far. However, there was a lot of things that I felt that I messed up along the way of writing The Twin Dragons that I wanted to correct. Just because that I rebooted it, it doesn't mean that everything is going to be changed, it will be just a couple of details that will be corrected.
The harems down bellow won't be as long as before and will be maintained in this manner so that it will be a lot easier to write their interactions.
I added Asia to Kazuki since I feel that they would have a lot in common to one another considering their beliefs. The thing is that I can't decide on who to add Akeno and Ravel to since both could fit well with him. I decided on Ravel for Kazuki since both of them are able to come up with strategies.
And Akeno can work for either Issei or Kazuki since both of them supported her in different ways. Also for those wondering who's "Mariah" that is "Yumi", Kiba's OC twin sister in The Twin Dragons.
I hope that you liked the chapter, until next time.
Issei's Harem: Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Lucia, Xenovia, Kiyome, Aika, Tsubasa, Eleminhilde.
Kazuki's Harem: Sona, Raynare, Asia, Irina, Lucina, Mariah, Kuroka, Le Fay, Gabriel, Ophis, Tiamat, Rossweisse, Kunou, Bennia.