Disclaimer – Do not own of the works of Ichiei Ishibumi or Miyama-Zero or anything of Highschool DxD and the characters therein that allows any form of monetary profit to be made. I do this solely on my own dime and time.

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Author's Note: Did some research on Sona's peerage and felt that though they as a group get some main screen time in the manga and novel series, they were barely touched upon in the anime seasons that were released which led first impressions of them to be rather vague at best to anyone not familiar with the manga and light novels. Overall since I've changed how things start out with Issei's first year on many levels at the academy, such changes easily ripple out and influence other areas that are totally unexpected.

Well, at least for Issei.

Also, I decided to change the title of chapter since it didn't feel right for the flow of said chapter.

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Chapter 8: Instinct

Like most beings in the world, there comes a time when they know they are experiencing a restful sleep that is so peaceful that waking up from it feels like you're committing a crime against yourself. Even worse when you honestly cannot remember the last time you experienced such a kind of sleep.

For Tomoe, it was a little bit of both at this moment. She honestly couldn't remember a night where she had a night's sleep where she felt no a hint of stress in her body. That includes both her time as a human and then as a reincarnated Devil. Or maybe there some nights where she went to bed and felt all the stress of life leave her momentarily but none of those rests seem to even remotely compare to what she was feeling now.

There was a part of her mind that entertain a specific possibility once she became aware enough of her surroundings. The possibility was maybe because she was no longer a virgin and what she experienced was probably the greatest feeling ever in her life. On a weird extension of said possibility was also maybe she had basically let go of her own inhibitions inadvertently revealed a part of herself that she hadn't known or kept under strict control.

Tomoe switched her line of thought to another possibility. This was the first time that she could remember where she slept in the nude. Her bedtime routine always revolved around putting on a simply t-shirt and panties or shorts depending on the season of the year. She had heard stories from other girls at Kuoh Academy about how sleeping in the nude was actually better in terms of getting a restful sleep. Of course Tomoe never put much stock into such things nor did she ever really see a reason to try them out.

Probably because of her duties to her leader Sona and her fellow peerage members, such things seemed trivial enough to where she didn't give them much of a second thought if any.

Tomoe was more than content to remain where she was which her senses told her was on top of an equally naked Issei Hyoudou. Her head was resting on his chest which made it all the more easy for her to listen to his heartbeat. Even though she was a reincarnated Devil and all of her senses were enhanced, there was something different in listening to Issei's heart in this particular fashion.

Eventually her senses told her the rest of her situation. Tomoe could feel that Issei had one of his arms around her body is a firm embrace. She could feel that her legs were somewhat wrapped around Issei's waist but what really got her attention is what she felt pressing against her somewhat sore area between her legs. Tomoe knew that Issei is still sound asleep so the only thing that could explain what she was feeling was the much talked about 'morning wood' situation that only male half of the human race experienced.

Tomoe had several thoughts about that in relation to her situation. She first thought the only way the girls that talked about it as if they knew it completely was because they experienced it firsthand. Tomoe did consider that maybe some had gotten such information from the internet but that felt like an 'after the fact' kind of deal. Her second thought was a little personal because if Issei was having some 'morning wood' than it wasn't because she had a naked girl laying on top of him.

Then again maybe it was because she was naked and laying on top of him because it felt as though 'not-so-little Issei' was pressing against her like it wanted to be inside of her again. That thought made Tomoe realize that she wouldn't mind one bit if that was the case.

Strangely enough, that was when her thoughts connected to something else that she honestly never bothered to think about until now. Her existence now was one of a clandestine nature where on the surface she was a typical teenager attending school while underneath the surface she was something that probably half the world didn't even believe existed. Of course as you grow older and gain experience, one's view of the world changes in accordance. But Tomoe remembered hearing, directly and indirectly, conversations from some of the more promiscuous girls that attended the same school as her. How they didn't fully believe in things as spirits or things even remotely related to the supernatural.

But there was one conversation that she overheard in its entirety that held a lot of truths that she never really looked at herself. Among the various clubs that were part of Kuoh Academy, there was one that was actually a manga club that had some rather avid members to it. One time around lunch, Tomoe had decided to have her meal outside since the weather was exceptionally nice and she felt like it would be a waste not to enjoy it. Nearby she heard a conversation between several girls that she knew was in the manga club and they were discussing a story about how main character who leads a double life of being a vigilante and a college student. Tomoe was half-paying attention to what was being said but she did hear one of the girls ask a question outloud.

"If a hero is that young, how can he or she enjoy life knowing theirs could end far more easily and sooner than a typical person who is merely walking down the street because they choose to live a life that is far more dangerous?"

It was only now did Tomoe really seem to understand that question. She had family and friends that knew the truth about her life so no real secret was unknown to them. But now she had added someone to her life that still had no idea what she did other than both of them going to the same school. Tomoe had told Issei much of her past but not all of it. Not the parts where she had to deal with threats that could easily kill beings like herself if she hadn't the means to defend herself. She wasn't part of the Kendo Club but she was a skilled user of the katana so she was more than capable of putting up a fight if and when the situation called for it. But there were stray Devils that could easily kill her if given the chance which easily meant they could kill a human without even blinking.

All those thoughts led to a conclusion that Tomoe didn't really want to think about but couldn't ignore it. Issei was now a part of her life and it didn't matter how much he was a part of Tomoe's life at this point. Both good and bad points to be sure but Tomoe found her attention focusing on a completely different point altogether.

Being this her first time in a situation where she was naked on top of an equally naked male and only going by word of mouth from those that claim previous experiences, Tomoe had nothing to prepare her for the fact of the sensation her lower half was experiencing. She had just shifted her body in order to maintain a comfortable position on top of Issei and didn't realize her action caused the part of Issei that was pressing against her to do more than knock on her 'door'.

Tomoe didn't mean for a moan to escape her lips but she couldn't help but enjoy the feeling and the memories it stirred within her about just last night. There was a part of her telling, or rather yelling, at her not to let it go any further. However, Tomoe noticed that the rest of her somehow moving of it's own accord. As such when Tomoe repositioned herself again she became impaled on Issei's sword again.

The teenager took several enjoyable moments to let her body adjust to Issei's cock inside of her. Tomoe wasn't sure if it was the fact she was no longer a virgin but she almost immediately noticed that what she felt now was completely different than before. The major factor was that she found it far more pleasurable. She even could even feel the subtly of Issei's cock along with the intense heat that seemed to be coming from it.

Ultimately it was a feeling she believed she was going to become addicted to and wouldn't mind in the least. Her last coherent thought was something she heard from her leader's friend. About the concept of how 'Devils have desires, grant desires, give desires and hope for desires without obligations.'

Tomoe figured that there was a part of her that hoped one day someone would see her as her and not just be from her family and friends. Her one desire that she never truly voiced and she found it in the form of Issei Hyoudou.

While Tomoe slowly gave into her growing desires by moving her body in a rhythmic motion, she was completely unaware that Issei had been stirred awake. Issei had been having a rather wonderful dream in where he was reliving his first time with Areille and then with Tomoe and then finally with both of them together. He even remembered asking himself a question in his dream on how to keep things from getting far too noisy when, not if, that happens.

Issei was more than content to sleep and let the dream play out for forever but he felt his body starting to subtly move. One of Areille's training lesson was to stay somewhat awake while getting a full night's sleep. It wasn't something he managed to master quickly enough but he had a handle on more than just the basics of it. Keeping his eyes closed just enough while still being able to see, Issei noticed that Tomoe was still on top of him and that his own arms had wrapped around her.

It wasn't until he noticed that the small movements Tomoe was making while on top of him did Issei realize what she was doing. Of course Issei realized that he didn't need his eyes to tell him what Tomoe was doing. A kind of smile appeared on his face which Tomoe didn't notice for obvious reasons. She did take notice of Issei being awake when she felt both of his hands on her butt and giving each cheek a firm squeeze.

Tomoe didn't act in a startled fashion when she felt Issei grab her butt. She only looked at his face and saw the smile he had. It was then she decided to have a little fun with the situation.

"Oh, is he really asleep and his body is acting of it's own accord? Maybe I can wake both of them up." Tomoe said in a soft tone of voice that also carried a hint of mischievousness.

Tomoe's motion before was steady but after she spoke, she made her motions a little more deliberate. She wanted to do a kind of slow build-up in order to draw out both her pleasure and a little torment action against Issei. But all to quick did Tomoe find herself wanting more and started to ride Issei more than before.

Issei did catch on to the kind of game Tomoe wanted to play but found he couldn't stay in character when Tomoe sat up and moved her hips in such fervor motions. His eyes were open to the sight of a naked girl covered in morning sunlight working up a sheen of sweat from her actions that was creating increasing pleasurable sensations between the two of them. Because she was moving so much, Issei felt like he had to support her by holding onto her hips.

Tomoe felt herself fall into her desires as well as the growing orgasm from within at the same time. She also felt her body starting to lose what strength she had managed to recover and so had to use her hands and arms to keep herself from falling forward completely. This made it so that Issei had the perfect vantage to take hold of one of Tomoe's breasts with his mouth.

The reincarnated teenage Devil girl let out gasps of audible pleasure at Issei's actions. Especially when he took hold of her nipple with his teeth and pulled on it. It wasn't too hard to hurt her but more than enough to send bolts of pleasures throughout her chest as he did the same actions to her other breast.

When Tomoe felt her body reach it's limit, it was on the strongest of impulse that she made it so her body was fully impaled on Issei's rod. So much so that Tomoe felt the tip easily push into her womb just before her senses were overloaded by the shared orgasm of her and Issei. Even Issei grunted a bit because of Tomoe's action more than when he felt himself release his semen into her.

As Tomoe came down from cloud nine, her entire body steadily fell right back onto Issei where the two of them were collectively catching their respective breath. Tomoe's face was buried on the side of Issei's head so neither could see the pleased expression on their face once their breathing came under control.

Even though it took a couple of minutes, Issei was the first to speak. "Gotta say, I've heard of wake up calls but never thought there was one like this."

Tomoe couldn't help but laugh at the remark. It was kind of corny given the situation yet it was done with enough light humor in Issei's voice that she would allow it. Plus how Issei was slowly stroking her back along her spine was definitely an outside positive factor that also worked in his favor.

"Something was already wide awake. I just decided to help wake up the rest of you." Tomoe replied before taking up a sitting position on top of Issei's stomach area. She did feel herself 'disconnect' from Issei but she was more than content from the lingering feeling of pleasure that she didn't mind it too much. "Now that you're completely awake, I guess we have to….discuss some things."

Issei could tell just by the look from Tomoe's eyes that she wasn't entirely thrilled with what she was going to say next. All the information that Tomoe told Issei did come back to him. He had already knew some of the information that Tomoe told him from Areille but the other details she had told him were new to him. Being mostly personal information about Tomoe herself did give Issei something of a better idea about reincarnated Devils.

After Issei adjusted his position to where he propped himself by his elbows, he did ask a question that strangely enter into his mind first among all other possible questions.

"Is the fact that we didn't use protection of any kind mean one of the things we are going to talk about is the possible Devil spawn between the two of us?" Issei did try to add some humor to his voice but even he had to admit the real possibility of such a thing.

Tomoe reacted a little different after being asked that. Issei watched as a look of someone being stunned by words flashed across Tomoe's face before shifting over to deep contemplation. She was rather quiet for several moments, which made Issei a little more nervous with each passing moment before she answered Issei's question.

"I don't think I am pregnant. From what I was told, reincarnated Devils can have children but the odds of conception are significantly increased due to long life expectancy." Tomoe placed a hand on her stomach and looked down for a moment before she continued. "Would that be so bad if it did happen?"

Issei did honestly think about it, the idea of him now being a father while still being a teenager. "If it happens then I'll accept the responsibilities that comes with it. I think my parents would be happy with the fact they would be grandparents. I've actually overheard the two of them talking in wondering whether or not I'll find someone when they learned I got accepted into Kuoh Academy."

Issei was glad to see a smile grace Tomoe's lips after hearing that. No doubt that she was somewhat worried about the prospect of being pregnant like he was but his words were honest about him stepping up to being a father should it happen. After all the times he spent with Areille, there wasn't a day or two where he didn't think about it since they never used protection either.

The relief Tomoe felt from Issei's words surprised her in how strong it was. Before she heard what Issei said he would do, the shadow feeling of pleasure was still present in her body. Now it replaced by the strong sense of relief that she only felt less than a handful of time before in her life.

"Well, made some time in the future, we should work together in making our parents thrilled at the thought of becoming grandparents." Tomoe said with a light tone of humor but something else managed to sneak into her voice that Issei caught.

Regardless of what else was in Tomoe's voice, Issei decided to get the conversation onto the topic that Tomoe had originally planned.

"Well, now that you know more than most people do about...lets call it the world within the world for now, what will be the first thing you'll do? Will you tell anyone?"

"Even if I did, who would believe me?" Issei felt like he had answered too quickly but his answer was still honest.

"What makes you so certain no one would believe you?" Tomoe watched Issei carefully so as to gauge his responses. There were options to keep the information that Issei recently came into a secret but Tomoe wasn't about to explore said options just yet.

Sleeping with Issei was definitely something she hadn't planned on from minute one but she was in a position where either she kept it a secret from her 'King' and her fellow peerage members or told them so as to rectify the situation to create favorable outcomes.

"Hmm, well for starters, I doubt you'll show off your wings just because I asked so that means I have no definite proof to back up my words. Add on top of that if I did yell out things like that, I might attract the wrong kind of attention."

Tomoe tilted her head to the side in confusion when Issei said that last part. He decided to clarify but also had to watch his words so he didn't even hint that he knew more than what Tomoe had told him.

"If Devils are real than it would stand to reason that Angels are real. It would also stand to reason that it might mean all the old legends in religion are true or just the basic premise of them. I know this is real life but I've seen enough shows growing up where supernatural beings that walk among mortals and do so while hiding in plain sight wouldn't do that unless there was some kind of a threat or enemy they want to avoid finding them. In a weird way, that's what I feel like I find myself in today when yesterday I was just a simple male teenager with erotic dreams of the opposite sex."

Tomoe, still with a look of confusion on her face, asked the question that was on her mind. "You feel as though you're in one of those animes where a normal teenager is now in world where the supernatural exists?"

"That's the best way I can describe it. I'm pretty sure this doesn't happen on a regular basis. Even if it did, I'm also pretty sure steps are taken to keep things like this under wraps."

Tomoe didn't want to say that Issei was correct in his points. She was also a bit surprised at how much insight he showed given his situation. On the outside he was a rather unrepentant pervert but it was clear that on the inside he was much more than that. Tomoe started to feel as though if any of the girls at the academy saw his inner self more than she would have some serious competition to deal with.

Issei decided to follow up by giving Tomoe a promise. He felt that was what she probably wanted from him at the moment.

"Tomoe, I promise I won't tell anyone your secret. It didn't matter to me before you told me you are a Devil and it doesn't matter to me after the fact, being a reincarnated one or not." Issei gave Tomoe an honest smile before changing it subtlety to a mischievous one. "Unless of course you've been weaving a spell on me this entire time and now I'm some kind of life long love slave to you."

Tomoe first felt a sense of relief again when Issei made that promise to her. But then she felt a little embarrassment when Issei made the love slave remark and felt her face flush a bit because of it. Her reaction was rather logical from a certain view point. Using her supernatural strength, Tomoe used both hands and smacked Issei on his chest which made him fall backwards onto the bed rather hard. He also had some of the wind knocked out of him as well.

"Mention being my love slave again and I'll find a spell that'll turn you into a dog." Tomoe tried her best to make her voice sound rather menacing but it definitely didn't phase Issei one bit.

"Might be interesting. That might mean I can get away humping all the girls legs I could ever want and they would think its cute." Issei's mischievous smile never once leaving his face.

Tomoe did a rather comically puffing of her face to show how much more annoyed Issei made her. "I take that back. You would probably enjoy it too much if I turned you into a dog. Maybe a fish would be better. I could keep a watch on you from a fish tank."

"Ah, so the rumors are true that the girlfriend always fantasies of turning their boyfriend into something else." Issei realized he had said the girlfriend/boyfriend words a little too late so he tried to at least get Tomoe to speak her view about it. "Then again, what does one call a relationship like ours with a mere mortal and a Devil?"

Tomoe was momentarily stun when Issei said that but did get a splash of cold water when he added in part about him being mortal and her being a Devil. She honestly didn't really think that much about it before now. It did sadden her a bit when the only idea that came to her mind at this moment was something she actually didn't want to do with Issei. Tomoe couldn't ignore the fact and she knew that the moment she told Sona about Issei, she would either wipe his memory or 'ask' him to join her peerage.

For some reason that she couldn't find the words to, having Issei reincarnated into a Devil seemed like the last thing she would ever want. It was like Tomoe got the feeling he would lose something of himself even though Sona had said on numerous occasions that nothing is really lost when reincarnated. Just less inhibitions when it came to the choices they made.

"For now….we keep it a secret." Tomoe said with some reluctance. She stopped Issei from replying right away since she already had an idea as to what he was going to say. "I think its safe to say that most of the student body didn't see us a possible couple. We did kind of skip past a lot of time being just friends and I think you'll agree that we can't really tell everyone we're friends with benefits just yet."

"Well, you're right on that. If I even hinted at something like that with my friends Matsuda and Motohama, there's no doubt in my mind they would hit me up for every detail they could about what its like being intimate with a beauty like yourself." Issei looked down on Tomoe's body and then back up to her eyes before continuing. "I know either one of them would ask if you keep it trimmed or shaved."

"And you're not going to tell them, understood?" Tomoe had her right index finger pointed against Issei's forehead when she said that. He got the implications behind the subtle threat since Tomoe's eyes had a gleam in it that easily implied a sense of danger only a fool would ignore.

After Issei shook his head in the affirmative, the look of danger left Tomoe's eyes and a smile graced her face instead. "Good. Now that that's settled…."

Tomoe felt herself actually more reluctant than she expected to be as she removed herself from top of Issei and off of the bed. She walked over to her discarded clothes on the floor and began redressing herself. "For now will have to keep everything that happened here a secret until we have an idea about the impact of our choices."

Tomoe looked back at Issei when she said her next words to show how serious she was at this moment. "There are….factions in the world that are at war with Devils. I don't know who all of them are and normally they only go after Devils or other supernatural beings. The chance of them attacking an innocent bystander, whether they know other supernatural beings or not, isn't as remote as I wish it was….."

Issei was already aware of the concept of Stray Devils attacking innocent humans. A part of him hated the fact that he never actively sought out to stop them whenever a Stray Devil began causing problems but he couldn't ignore the fact that Areille had stated. If a Stray Devil was taken out by a power that wasn't Devil, Angel or Fallen Angel, than that would get those factions' attentions since there were some Stray Devils that were rather powerful and required much to take them down. To that Tomoe could easily attest to on many occasions.

"So if it was made rather public that the two of us are a couple, the odds of someone who wants you or your kind dead wouldn't blink twice at using me for either bait or some kind of consolation prize. Is that what you're worried about?"

Tomoe nodded her head solemnly at Issei's words and turned her face away because of how so suddenly worried she felt at the moment. She didn't registered the fact that Issei had gotten up from his bed and walked over to her so he could give her a reassuring hug from behind. The sudden feeling of warmth from Issei's body erased all her worries and doubts in a heart beat.

"Don't worry so much about the 'what ifs' right now. Its a new day so how about we take it one step at a time?" Issei whispered into Tomoe's ear.

Tomoe was starting to wonder if Issei was some sort of supernatural being himself. Being reassured was one thing but it seemed too true to be a natural thing with him just because he was merely hugging her. Granted he was still nude and she barely had her panties and bra on so the bare skin contact was definitely a factor but Tomoe could tell it wasn't just the only factor.

The teenager Devil girl turned herself around so as to both return the hug and to look into Issei's eyes.

"You know, you are making it very hard for me not to tell the others that you're my significant other and calling you my boyfriend I will reserve for the time I can do so in public."

Issei smiled before making a remark that Tomoe couldn't help but smile at. "And you're making something hard for me. Keep in mind you get the full package even if I can't call you my girlfriend just yet." The added wink in his eyes gave Tomoe both the implication and innuendo of his words clearly.

Tomoe rather playfully hit Issei on the chest after he spoke which made his laugh show how amused he was with Tomoe's response. It pretty much proved to the girl that there are ups and downs with relationships and the first one she found in regards to Issei would be his open pervertedness.

After she put back on her clothes and Issei had begun to do the same, Tomoe asked Issei again to keep what they had a secret until she time they both could get an idea what kind of response they would get from their friends. Issei told Tomoe that his two male friends would congratulate him almost immediately and his parents would somehow begin planning their wedding about an hour after being told. He made it clear to Tomoe that his parents may seem against the idea of their son dating so early in high school years but he knew they secretly wanted to have a grandchild probably within the next ten years.

Tomoe gave Issei a wink and said that ask her again if they wanted children in ten years. Before Issei could reply, Tomoe was already out the door and was quickly and happily making her way back to her own home.

Tomoe hadn't felt this light on her feet for a long time. Even when she learned she had wings and could fly, this feeling was something she felt so long ago that she just now realized she almost forgot it entirely. It was during her days as a child before she was cursed. All that time in those days she realized were as carefree as they could be.

There were probably multiple other reasons for why she felt this way but she honestly didn't care what those reasons were at the moment. She wanted to hold onto this feeling for as long as possible because she knew once she made it back home, there was going to be a discussion with her parent that she wasn't looking forward to. Tomoe had told them that she would be over at one of her friends' home.

And since she didn't mention anything about how long she would be staying, Tomoe knew her parents would more than likely call to check up on her which in turn would reveal her lie and lead to her subsequent scolding. Of course all of last night's events were completely unplanned outside of simply telling Issei the truth about what she actually was.

Tomoe would tell them the truth but only IF they asked if anything had happen between her and Issei. She had heard more than enough stories around school of girls who had to tell their parents that they became sexually active. Some stories could be considered positive while others were as complete opposites as possible. Tomoe even heard one story where a girl's mother actually took her to a doctor in order to see if she was still a virgin. She doubt it would reach that kind of nonsense with her parents but Tomoe knew she had to at least establish right away that nothing negative happened while she spent a night in a boy's room.

Maybe after she found out where they stood on having grandchildren in the near future would she tell them everything.

Issei for his part was wondering about his own situation after Tomoe left his sight. He remembered before his first day at Kuoh Academy that he made a comment about him having a harem since he was attending a school where the girl students easily outnumbered the boy students. When he said that to Areille, he remembered her laughing it off in the end but now things were different.

Granted it was virtually every guys' dream to have more than one lover but even Issei knew that for it to work required deception on the guy's part which in turn meant said situation would eventually explode in one's face. Issei did take into account that both girls weren't technically human which meant a possibility that they could be a bit more loose in some areas of morality.

Unfortunately the one fact that killed any argument he thought about him having a possible supernatural harem was Areille's status. She didn't tell much about her past but Issei was able to gleam enough that told him if there was one target that the Angels, Fallen Angels and Devils would likely unite against it would be the four Forgotten Angels.

Issei couldn't help but laugh at his predicament. He knew if he told Areille, her reaction might be one of advising strong caution if not down right end any and all contact with Tomoe. That would easily include the notion of leaving Kuoh Academy. It would be strange that one of the few male students accepted to such a place suddenly asked for a transfer. Such an act might raise one or two flags in certain people's view and only if they were looking.

At this point in time, Issei knew he had attracted much attention from just the Devil girls that were in the same classroom as himself. How far such attention went around the school was definitely a question mark and whether any of them had mentioned him to whoever it is they report to was probably something of a certainty now. Areille had told Issei what she knew about Devil's connection in both master and servant and she said it was possible that if something significant happened to either one, the other would possibly sense it.

That actually made Issei laugh again when that thought passed through his mind. He had heard from his friends about giving a girl a mind-blowing orgasm once they began hooking up with the girls at Kuoh Academy. Basically ruin them for other guys so the girls wouldn't look anywhere else as it were.

He was sure that he had least satisfied Tomoe in their intimate moments but Issei doubt that a Devil losing her virginity would send a kind of warning alarm to her master. However, the part he did find amusing was his musing telling him on what if he had given Tomoe such a strong experience on cloud nine that her master felt it too somehow because of their connection.

After letting that bit of humor pass by, Issei began getting ready for the plans he made for the weekend. Specifically his weekly challenge with Seekvaria at Teuchi's hobby store. As strange as it might sound, Issei found his time he spent with the fellow hardcore mecha fan to be more enjoyable than he expected them to be and that actually confused Issei at times.

Here was a girl that had the looks that easily would get anything she wanted just by coyly asking those of the opposite sex and yet her passion was probably one thing of a top ten list you would never expect for a girl like that to have. Issei hoped that maybe they would become good friends. Not that he had anything against Matsuda and Motohama but making new friends with different and similar interests was always a good thing in Issei's view.

Besides, Issei felt that his honor as a hardcore mecha fan was on the line since the last two times he went against her in the challenge to prove who was more into all things Gundam. Issei felt that if he were to lose a third time in a row than he would have to turn in his Gundam Fan Card to Seekvaria. Next to his Man Card, that was one of the extremely few things Issei would never let go without a fight.

Unfortunately, the defeat Issei suffered that Saturday lingered with him all to way back to the following Monday at school. Teuchi proved that he could find the kind of questions that would truly test someone's knowledge and Seekvaria proved her own knowledge was basically without peer. Issei realized in retrospect that he shouldn't have agreed to the kind of stakes that Seekvaria set down before the start of the challenge.

For the last several weeks, it was always set that the winner would get their choice of a treat and the loser would have to pay for it entirely. Either Seekvaria picked up on Issei's drive to win or she was getting a little cocky because of her last two victories that she said this time around the winner gets to decide what prize they wanted.

Granted that Issei's mind came up with multiple scenarios that Seekvaria had a starring role in which were generally NSFW and it was possible that such scenarios might've had a factor in his decision in following through with such stakes.

That and quite possibly the shirt she wore that day gave Issei more than a subtle hint that Seekvaria wasn't wearing a bra underneath it.

Now during a break between lessons at school, one male teenager by the name of Issei Hyoudou had his head laying flat on top of his desk with clear signs of depression radiating off of him in small waves. To say that it was hard to ignore by those that knew Issei even by some small extent was an understatement.

"You know, I never thought I would see a guy who so openly admits to his passion for the female form be so depressed while surrounded by various primes examples of said passion." Momo said while trying to hold back a smile at the sight before her.

"Me too." Reya replied while giving the face-down Issei several pokes to the head just to see if the person was either asleep or dead. "Is it the sign of the End Time or did this person finally find someone more cute than the four of us who are currently standing around him?"

"Doubtful. There's been plenty of times he's got to see us in our gym outfits and swimsuits so he would have to go rather far to find more beautiful sights." Momo said while giving Issei a more curious and contemplative look.

"Maybe its something a little different." Tsubara said while rethinking her own thoughts on the matter. "Maybe a favorite spot to spy on us just got fixed or the Student Council found something about him that he didn't want them to know about. Probably something that has to do with the Kendo Club and he was caught peeping on them with his friends again."

Though his head was completely down, Issei was listening to the entire conversation that was happening around him. "I take it that if there's anything wrong about me, your first thoughts will go towards pervert side of the tracks, right?"

"How can they not considering that you've done enough….things….that support your claim about being an open pervert and I can't think of a way where it could be done in a good way." Tomoe said while standing behind Issei.

Issei managed to angle his eyesight to see that Tomoe was acting like her usual self. A part of him wanted to make a comment on how some of the 'things' he has done were experienced firsthand by Tomoe herself. He kept that part of himself in check since he wanted honor her wishes about keeping their new relationship a secret for the time being.

Until such a time happened, Issei would have to play along with Tomoe. "There is such a good side to being a pervert. The trick is to know how to healthy express it without suppressing it to the point it explodes."

Momo leaned forward and spoke softly to Issei but just loud enough for the other girls to hear as well. "So then have you lost your ability to 'express it' and that is what's having you so depressed you're wearing a sign that says 'Shoot Me Now'?"

That actually made Issei turn his head to face Momo but not fast enough to speak before Momo added one more sentence. "Girls also 'express it' but we make sure no one really knows about it."

Issei caught the innuendo behind Momo's words and practically shot up on his chair around the same time Tomoe moved forward and cover Momo's mouth with her hands.

"Don't say stuff like that with him in earshot! We don't know what he does when he's out of school and the last thing we need is for him to get certain ideas about us!"

Issei looked at Tomoe when she said that and saw something flash over her eyes. A hint of jealousy maybe coming from Tomoe. Issei wasn't exactly sure what Tomoe could be jealous about. Maybe because in figure comparison that Momo had a more developed one than Tomoe. Guess that meant that Issei would have to reassure her that while Momo was hot, Tomoe was hot in her own right.

Of course, that would have to be during their alone time since Tomoe somewhat slapped Issei upside the head after getting Momo to apologize. "That was to make sure any ideas you might've gotten are erased from that perverted mind of yours."

"What makes you think I haven't already gotten such idea long before now?" Issei replied, rubbing the back of his head since Tomoe did put some effort into her hit. He also gave her a sly smile to help emphasize his point while not-so-subtly undressing her with his eyes.

Issei kept his voice silent since he was surprised that Tomoe actually showed an expression of embarrassment at his actions. True he had seen what she looked like underneath her clothing so maybe she was reacting to a different message that might make the others think something else that she didn't want them to think at the moment.

Before Tomoe could deliver a harder slap against Issei's head, Momo spoke up in time to spare Issei the concussion Momo was postive Tomoe would cause with her open palm slap.

"Speaking of new things, I heard we've gotten a transfer student starting today in our class. Any truth to that?"

While Momo, Reya, Tomoe and Tsubara were part of the same peerage, they weren't really in the know of the Academy's 'official' functions. That mostly meant that if someone who had no obvious connections to any realms o the supernatural, they wouldn't know unless told otherwise or investigated into the matter themselves.

Tomoe shot Issei a look that the others found a bit cute after seeing Issei's reaction before answering Momo's question. "Yeah. Kind of strange since its been several months into the school year but from what Student Council President Sona said, the school board felt this student wouldn't be hard pressed in keeping up with the curriculum because her marks are rather high even when taking into account the difference between the two country's schooling."

"Any word on where she's transferring from?" Tsubara asked. Like the others, Tsubara knew that their leader Sona would have told them more about the student if it was worth mentioning even if said individual had no connections to the major factions of the world. Since Sona didn't, it was more than likely that the transferring student was easily unremarkable in most points.

"Only that she's from Greece. Other than that, you'll have to ask her when she gets here." Tomoe shrugged her shoulders to show the limit of the information in her possession at the moment.

"Shouldn't be too strange having someone from that part of the world here. I mean, aren't there already other students here that are from foreign countries attending? I heard someone named, uh….Gremory I think, she's from some European country isn't she?"

Issei did catch the hidden message shot amongst the group of girls around him. He was more than aware of where exactly the person from the Gremory Clan hailed from but he couldn't let the others know what he really knew just yet.

"You'll have to ask her where she's from but yeah, she's definitely not from Japan." Reya replied before the classroom teacher entered the room and told all students to take their seats at their desks.

Once all the students were settled, Kyoko Hayashi spoke out to her students. "Alright class, I know this might come as a surprise but we're getting a new student transferring to our class today. Now it goes without saying but I want you to be courteous to her. Especially you Issei."

Issei acted like the teacher had unfairly accused him of some misdeed while the rest of the class collectively joined in a round of laughter directed at him.

"Oh, Hayashi-sensei, how can you single me out for such a comment? I have been nothing but a perfect gentleman when I am in class." Issei tried to, as the terminology went, ham up his performance as much as he could.

Kyoko narrowed her eyes through her glasses before replying. "Lets just say that out of all my students here in this room at this very moment, you're the only one that I have cause to think twice about. Or have you forgotten the time you claim you were late for class as to why a certain spectacle happened?"

The classroom was again filled with laughter as everyone remembered the event that Kyoko spoke about and it only happened three weeks ago.

In truth Issei was indeed running late for class and had been running in an all out sprint in order to get to class on time. He had been doing some morning training and lost track of time which could happen to anyone in the world. But the end result of Issei running as fast as he could had Issei bursting into the classroom with only the body of Kyoko Hayashi to stop him in his tracks. They both ended up on the ground in a rather tangled mess of limbs but somehow Issei's left hand managed to make up inside of Kyoko's blouse and underneath her bra as well.

Issei couldn't help but feel both amazed and worried about the turn of events. Amazed that he felt the natural firmness of a mature woman's breast with bare skin contact and worried that it happened in front of an audience. Because his hand was underneath some clothing, Issei couldn't quickly extract himself from the situation and the displaced bra somehow managed to tangle his hand enough to keep it rather locked in place. Also his efforts in removing his hand also caused said hand to flex more than once which in turn made the teacher react in certain ways.

By the time Issei managed to free himself, he could see the embarrassment in the teacher's face was easily mixed with a kind of rage he had only seen from a few other individuals. He did his best to apologize for the most unbelievable and unintentional accident but Issei knew he was basically a dead man. Even Ddraig made a comment after the teacher slapped Issei hard enough to send him actually flying backwards while calling him a pervert that the dragon had never seen a mortal who was trying to keep themselves from drawing too much attention to oneself get into situations where it would be impossible for said events not to spread around the school like wildfire.

Such an event did work in Issei's favor in the long run but even he knew if things like that continued to happen then it would be only a matter of time before someone figured him out.

Back to the present, Issei again said that what happened was the biggest fluke of an accident and it wasn't planned no matter how many of the girls in the classroom believed it to be. This only got a somewhat disbelieving sigh from the teacher before she called for the new student to enter the classroom.

The moment the student walked in, the common reaction from the students was one of gasps of surprise. Even Issei was surprised and he knew that said a lot considering he knew a dragon, an angel and a devil at the moment.

Wearing a standard Kuoh Academy uniform for the female students was a probably the tallest blonde girl Issei had seen to date. The teacher was probably just shy of being 6 feet tall while the new student had at least one or two inches over on her. And that wasn't the only thing this individual had that was over on the teacher. Between Kyoko Hayashi and Tsubaki Shinra, Issei would've been hard pressed to say who had the better bust before now. This girl's cup size was definitely significant to the point that it seemed her upper half of her uniform was just barely holding together.

The other features of this girl that Issei took note of were definitely rare to see in all of Japan. Even among those that visited from other foreign countries. Her long sandy blonde hair which was tied into a ponytail easily reached the middle of her back but something told Issei that if wasn't tied down then her hair probably reached even farther down. He could also tell while she wrote on the chalkboard her name that this girl was easily the athletic type. From just the sight of how toned her legs were and from what Issei could see how her arm moved while writing was more fluid than one might expect from to be more than just an above average physical student.

But the most striking thing about her that Issei couldn't deny was when she turned around and faced the entire classroom. Her eyes were of a color that there was no mistaking to be natural which seemed improbable. But this tall teenager had amber color eyes which made her somehow even more exotic looking.

"Hello. My name is Maxima Minerva. It is a pleasure to meet all of you." the girl said before bowing respectfully to her new classmates.

It was obvious from her appearance alone that this rather tall teenager wasn't from anywhere near Japan but how she just spoke would make any natural born citizen swear that her speech was as natural as it could be. Of course what she had just said could easily have been practiced to such points of eloquence. She couldn't be an exchange student unless she was able to speak the nation's primary spoken language.

Issei watched as how this new student moved when she did her bow. He noticed just like Ddraig did who was also 'watching' that she easily supported herself while bending at the waist instead of shifting her weight as most would do to keep themselves from possibly falling forward because of bowing so low and level.

'This one definitely has incredible physical prowess. I don't sense her as a Devil, Angel or Fallen Angel but I don't sense her completely as a human either.' Ddraig said to Issei.

'Agreed. She easily someone completely new.' Issei replied while keeping his eyes focused on the new student.

A fact that did not go unnoticed by a certain girl that was watching Issei's reaction to the new student's entrance.

While everyone was viewing the student before them, all the students and the teacher didn't notice how the transfer student was actually sensing out each individual before her.

From the moment she walked on the very grounds of the school, Maxima was using her Amazon training and skills to gauge her surroundings. It wasn't hard to do, to see and hear all while making it seem you're not paying that much attention except to what is in front of you. She was aware that there were exceptional beings on the school grounds even though the Greek Goddess Athena had already informed her of such detail long beforehand.

Even now in this very classroom that she was assigned to be in, Maxima could sense there were exceptional beings in front of her. The moment she raised her head after standing up from her bow, Maxima quickly noticed that of the beings she knew were far more than human, there was one whose eyes she locked with proved to be even more exceptional than any of the others.

Issei felt something the moment his eyes locked with the new student's and it was something he hadn't really felt before. The best way he could describe the sensation he got from looking into this person's eyes, this Maxima, was as if he was staring down predator that was searching for a specific prey and now just found it.

Had Maxima heard such a thought from Issei, she would have agreed to it almost immediately.

After she had made her name known to the class, the teacher directed Maxima to an empty seat the was behind Issei to his right side. Though their eyes weren't completely locked on the other, Maxima and Issei essentially watched each other as Maxima walked towards her own desk..

Strangely enough, when she got to being parallel with Issei's desk, Maxima stopped in her tracks and spoke to him in a language he didn't really recognize at first. Issei noticed that the other students in the classroom heard what Maxima said and were just as confused as he was by her words. It was a moment later that Maxima spoke again but this time in the same manner as when she introduced herself.

"I said my eyes are up here." Maxima said without turning her gaze to meet Issei's gaze even though his gaze was directed elsewhere on Maxima's form just moments before.

A couple of moments passed when the rest of the class realized the transfer student's earlier words. That was when Issei realized he was the now the center of focus of virtually the entire classroom. From the looks he got from those whose his relationship was more than just a fellow classmate made Issei worry a bit.

From Momo and Reya was a glint of mischievousness that worried Issei rather greatly. Probably because he was more than certain they were the gossip connection of this particular classroom and that meant the rest of the school would learn this little tidbit of information at least by lunch time if not by the end of the day.

Tsubara seemed to have a curious look that Issei couldn't fully identify at the moment.

It was the look from Tomoe that Issei knew meant that the most kind of trouble would come from. It was clear that she was trying to keep, (maybe her jealousy?), a rather strong negative emotion in check by hiding it under a subtle calm expression on her face. The flash of what looked like fire in her eyes was unmistakable and that sent a shiver of fear down Issei's spine.

The looks from the other female students were a mix of seeing him as a pervert or annoyance or even both. Not unexpected considering the fact that the foreign exchange student easily had a figure that Issei knew would attract the attention of both sexes. Wasn't his fault that she got his attention but even Issei knew any attempt to say otherwise would fall on deaf ears like they always do in these situations.

'Well, as the old saying goes. Damn if you do and damn if you don't. So damnit, I'm doing it.' Issei thought to himself.

"My apologies. First time I've seen someone from another country that has such a grasp on our nation's language." Issei said with the hopes of diffusing the situation somewhat.

"And again, my eyes are still up here." Maxima replied with a tone that easily told all who heard it that she was bored significantly at the moment. And said words also made a certain gaze he felt coming from a certain girl in the classroom intensify.

If it were possible, Issei felt that a side of his head would start smoking right now from the heat of said gaze.

"Well….can I be faulted here?" Issei knew he was digging himself a deeper hole no matter what he did so again, damn if you do and damn if you don't. "Compared to the other students in this class, you are easily the tallest one I've ever met. No doubt a lot of the girls here are going to ask you what your secret is for….uh, well, your exceptional development."

Issei knew it wasn't the best line he had ever come up with but the only thing that he could think of that might save him from the upcoming wrath of the girls would require him finding a sword and falling upon in front of the entire class. Ddraig caught wind of that thought but in the dragon's opinion, such an act would probably only placate half of the girls in the classroom if only for a moment.

For her part, Maxima only gave a subtle nod before she walked over to her desk and took her seat. On the surface the exchange between herself and Issei seemed nothing more than one girl telling one boy that she was not just eye candy. But there was a hidden action that Maxima had set to achieve as soon as she could.

As the result of her Amazon training and her own unique abilities, Maxima caught the scent what she knew to be a person of exceptional interest. She had already caught his scent earlier on when she first entered the school grounds so it was a nice turns of events that she was in the same class as one of her prime targets.

Athena had told Maxima that both the Heavenly Emperor Dragons were in the same country but there was no definite information on which dragon was currently attending Kuoh Academy. There were other missing pieces of information however, but at the very least she found one of the dragons and now knew what his scent was without any doubts. Maxima was already making plans on what her actions would be after school and they all centered on the person that was in front of her.

Issei might've noticed that someone behind him had their gaze locked onto him if not for a more intense gaze was focused on him that made him more nervous with each passing minute. Coupled with the fact that what was coming up next would create perfect opportunities for individuals to unleash their growing wrath against him made Issei wonder if he would live past this day or end up in coma when all was said and done.

That sense of growing dread didn't leave Issei one minute when the school bell rang and it was time for his entire class to head over to area where all athleticism in the high school was held. All the other times before Issei had a sense of hope because of the chance in seeing girls in their gym uniforms and what kind of undergarments they wore should their shirts fly up just enough.

Now, changing into his own gym uniform, it felt like to Issei he was preparing himself for a battle in a coliseum where which he knew he wouldn't win much less live through his first match.

In the girls' locker room, a different kind of feeling was felt by the girls inside as they changed out of their school clothes and into their own gym uniforms. A feeling of inadequacy upon seeing the unclothed form of one Maxima Minvera.

The first thing that all the girls noticed when Maxima began to change was something a lot of them suspected being confirmed. The girls figured it was something of a culture preference but it was still a bit unnerving for them to see that Maxima wasn't wearing a bra when she removed her upper clothing. It easily reinforced the idea that she had what most girls would practically kill for and that was a rather large bust. The ones whose chest were noticeably smaller felt the sting of inadequacy first and then those who felt their cup size was acceptable before now felt the sting as well.

Even Momo and Reya were impressed by Maxima's figure now that they had a chance to see what was underneath. Tomoe felt more annoyed at Maxima because of how she seemed to get Issei's attention so easily while Tsubara felt a hit of depression that her own figure at reached it's final development. Tsubara never put much stock in having a noticeably size bust but she couldn't help compare herself to Maxima who didn't seem to mind the fact she had a body men would drool over and girls would hate her for having.

In fact Tsubara didn't feel this kind of inadequacy even when she saw her fellow peerage member Tsubaki Shinra when she changed into her gym outfit and was clad only in her undergarments. It was like someone had just entered the pack and established themselves as the leader without so much as a single finger raised in opposition.

"Um...Maxima…?" Momo said as she walked up to the girl who stopped after putting on her gym shorts but still left her chest exposed. "You said you were from Greece, right?"

"Yes." Maxima replied with a nod.

"Pardon my ignorance on your culture but do teenage girls not wear bras in your country?"

Maxima was about to reply that Amazons never wear bras for clothing. Of course there were those that wear breastplates but that was meant for battles and training.

But she stopped herself when she realized that such a response would blow her cover as a foreign exchange student. Maxima thought quickly of a response she figured they would accept at least for now.

"Well, Greece is home to multiple cultures but basically most girls when they reach the age of development they still do not wear bras. I guess its the result of that part of the world being the birthplace of the idea of nude beaches and such." Maxima acted so nonchalant in front of Momo when she turned to face her that Maxima wondered why Momo was having trouble keeping her eyes from wandering to Maxima's chest and back to her eyes. "By the way, is it alright that I ask you a question?"

Momo snapped her attention back to Maxima's eyes when she heard that and nodded in reply. "Why are some of the girls including yourself interested in my chest area? What I have isn't any different that what you have."

The second the other girls heard Maxima say that, there was a sudden cloud of dread that hung over many of the girl's heads. Maxima did indeed notice it but failed to understand why it happened after what she had said. Momo was a bit taken off guard by the comment but not as much as those whose 'assets' were of a lower quality.

"I think its probably because we're not used to seeing someone who is open about being naked or half-naked as you are." Momo knew there were some that were open-minded about showing off the proverbial goods such as Aika Kiryuu. Momo herself wasn't above showing off her own proverbial goods but she couldn't shake the feeling that this moment in time wasn't the time to do so.

Maxima remembered when Athena told her that despite being raised in an Amazonian culture, there were many aspects that could be applied to the various modern culture. But there were just as many that would never be accepted and it seemed Maxima just ran into one of them.

However, before she could speak her mind about it, Momo spoke up first. "Does that mean….that you don't have any bras in clothing selection?"

After Maxima shook her head in the negative, she was a bit confused when it seemed a kind of sparkle shined in Momo's eyes.

"Tell you what, since the weekend is coming up and you're just settling in, how about we take you clothes shopping?"

Hearing that made Maxima raise an eyebrow in confusion. Momo easily picked up on this and clarified what she meant. As a sign of open friendship, Momo offered to take Maxima to some clothing stores and help her choose some choice wardrobe items. What she didn't say was that this was the perfect opportunity for her to get to know more about Maxima. Momo was sure that Reya, Tsubara and Tomoe were more than aware like herself that there was something more than just what they saw openly of the foreign exchange student's overall physique.

And if possible, see if their peerage leader would be willing to add her among their ranks. Like the rest of her peerage, Momo heard rumors that Riser Phenex had an Amazon in his own peerage and said rumors also said that she was formidable warrior despite her rank among his peerage. At this moment, Momo was certain that Maxima was indeed an Amazon.

However, like her King Sona, Momo wanted to gather as much information as she could about this rather unique individual. Maxima accepting the offer of going clothes shopping with her and a few of Momo's friends was a solid good first step.

When the entire gym class finishing changing into their respective gym uniforms assembled in one of the school's gymnasiums, the teacher was made aware of how he now had a foreign exchange student among the group. Like the other's, he was surprised by the girl's form. Especially her height since he made the assumption that for her to be that tall she had to be in her early 20's,

The gym coach found this be a rather interesting turn of events for what he had planned on for today's game. As part of a routine, the gym coach had his class play one sporting event ensured all students participation. There were some sports where about half the class would participate actively while the others would only observe until they were made to participate.

He felt that this time around would be different especially with the new student.

As the students were divided into several teams, all of them took their positions on opposite sides of the volleyball nets that they helped set up. Issei felt some relief that he was on the same side as Tomoe and Tsubara but he knew it was short lived considering that he could still feel Tomoe's gaze on him. He knew he would get an earful from Tomoe soon from whatever sleight he made against her so this was probably the one chance he could cool her down some.

And if he failed, well at least Issei would learn the dangers of making a Devil jealous as it seemed he somehow managed to do inadvertently.

Taking up his position on his side of the court, Issei did a couple of arm stretched to make sure he was limber for the game. His teammates did the same as well as the opposing team. That was when Issei caught sight of something that he suspected when he first laid eyes on Maxima close up. The gym shirt she was wearing was big enough for her size but it seemed to be more loose than compared to the other girls. So loose in fact that when she did some stretches and had her back towards him that Issei managed to catch a glimpse of what was underneath her shirt.

But it was so quick that Issei doubted what he had seen or didn't see. It was something of a dream in Issei's view for a girl of Maxima's figure to not wear a bra but even he knew the odds of it being a reality at this point in time were rather too ridiculous to be true.

Oh well, one can hope anyways.

Before the games began, the gym coach decided to ensure all of the students to participate by stating the winning team would get to decide an event for the upcoming school festival. He clarified by saying that any kind of event or collaboration would be open and gave several examples. Issei watched as he saw all students share similar reactions to the prize before them.

Surprise, worry, excitement and about everything in-between the three. That of course reminded him of what Seekvaria had said to him when she won their last trivia contest. What she wanted as for a prize made him worry about all the aspects that could come from it.

It was because of those thoughts that Issei's mind wasn't in the game when it started. Tomoe actually walked up to Issei and smacked him upside his head to get his attention in on the here and now.

"C'mon Issei! With what's on the line, this team isn't going to lose the first match out."

Issei rubbed the back of his head where Tomoe hit him. He wasn't sure if she intended to hit him that hard or it was a hint of her jealousy that sneaked into her strike. "Sorry. Just had a thought that I couldn't get rid of."

Tomoe narrowed her eyes at Issei upon hearing that. If he had given the wrong kind of message to Tomoe, Issei knew he couldn't say anything that might correct that error at the moment. All he could do was get his mind on winning the game. Especially since his current opponent's team consisted of Maxima who quickly demonstrated that if given half chance she had consider athletic prowess.

Issei watched as every time Maxima was given a shot at either attack or defending with the volleyball, her movements seemed to be without wasted motion. Even Ddraig noticed this through Issei's eyes.

'Damn. Either she is secretly training to be an Olympic-level athlete or she is something else entirely.' Issei thought when he watched Maxima easily defend a shot that would have scored a point against her team.

Issei watched closely as this went on for several minutes. When the volleyball was in Maxima's general area, she easily managed to take a position to either block, counter, attack or easily set up a shot for someone else to take without compromising her balance or making awkward movements.

'The way she moves almost seems natural to her.' Ddraig said as the dragon continue to observe. 'Most beings who move in a competition do so in a reactive manner most of the time. Unless, like you said, this one is training to be a master volleyball player, she has a keen eye and can sense the flow of the events before her.'

'If that's true, which adds credence to an odd thought on my part, wouldn't that make her a dangerous fighter if applied in such a way?'

Ddraig made an affirmative grunt at Issei's question. There was more to consider and there was only so much a volleyball game would reveal about the girl's talents. The only bit of advice Ddraig could give to Issei at this time was to keep a close watch on her.

Unfortunately, the moment that was 'said' to him was just before the move Maxima made in response to Issei's team getting the volleyball over the net. It was countered in such a way that it set up for the perfect spike and Maxima was taking full advantage of it.

Especially when Maxima jumped up high enough when making her move. Issei had taken position by the net with the mindset to counter the incoming spike. His eyes focused on the ball but for a moment when the line of sight followed the ball in front of Maxima, Issei saw clearly the answer to what he thought he saw before.

Indeed, Maxima Minerva wasn't wearing a bra underneath her gym shirt.

For Issei, time slowed down as he took in the sight of seeing the magnificent bust hidden just underneath a simply shirt. For all the naked chests of girls he has seen over the years, those times also include seeing Areille and more recently Tomoe, seeing the bust of a girl you just met who was easily a beautiful example of the female form was always a joy for Issei. However, the side effect of such a joyful feeling was evident when a telltale sign of a prominent nosebleed began for Issei.

There were some who saw what was happening to Issei in that split moment and the opinions about such a sight easily varied from girl to girl. But the common agreement to the sight in regards to Issei a moment later easily overshadowed everything else that happened mere moments before. Including the fact others had also noticed Maxima wasn't wearing a bra underneath her shirt.

Maxima had started to let the competition of the school game get the better of her. Her team had yet to score an advantage against the other team. Especially with the one on the other team that she had marked as a someone of exceptional note. She wanted to see how strong he might be and so decided to put more effort into her strike than she had shown thus far. Maxima made sure that when she made her move, her intended target would be the only one in position to make a counter move.

Out of what she expected, what she saw happened wasn't even one of them.

Maxima, like almost all the other students in the immediate vicinity, watched as the volleyball flew right at Issei and collided with his face with a significant resounding impact that was heard in the entire gymnasium. Maxima was a little surprise when she saw the result of her powered-up hit which had Issei literally knocked off his feet and sent flying back and through a nearby set of doors. The volleyball itself seemingly exploded on impact with Issei's face which probably would explain the sight of blood on Issei's face.

That or maybe because he crashed through the gym's doors head first.

The expression on Issei's face was easily one of someone who definitely had their bell rung hard. It was also possible that he had a broken nose as well considering the amount of blood coming from his nose.

The gym coach had seen everything and was impressed by Maxima's performance and a bit worried that she might've actually injured the student to the point where he might be hospitalized. It wasn't every day someone could spike a volleyball hard enough to actually send someone flying back, especially that far.

Then again, the gym coach was more than aware that Kuoh Academy had many 'extraordinarily talented' students enrolled.

"Alright, gonna need someone to help take Issei here to the Nurse's Office." the gym coach said after a quick examination told him that while somewhat conscious, Issei's mind was scrambled to say the least.

"I'll do it."

Turning to see who it was that volunteered, the gym coach wasn't too surprised that it was Tsubara as she made her way over to a slouched over Issei who was making weird mumbling sounds.

Tsubara looked back at the gym coach and answered his unspoken question. "He helped me once before. Seems fair to return the favor."

The gym coach nodded in response while Tsubara lifted up Issei by having his right arm slung over her shoulders and her left hand carrying under his left arm. Issei had enough awareness of what was happening that he was just able to walk alongside Tsubara but Tsubara was more than strong enough to carry Issei to the Nurse's Office without much issue.

Momo had watched the whole event unfold and was now more than ever certain that Maxima was more than what she just seemed on the surface. She made a subtle nod to her other peerage members who also made subtle nod as replies in that they agreed with her. When the gym coach told them to go back to their teams and continue the competition, Momo quickly told Tomoe and Reya to keep their eyes on Maxima from here on out.

What happened to Issei was too fast to get a sense if magic was used when Maxima hit the volleyball but Momo was fairly certain that Maxima used pure strength and it wasn't a freak accident either. Momo even asked Reya what she thought as the two of them returned to their team so as to continue the volleyball game.

"If she did that to Issei as a result of just her own strength…." Reya said while sorting out her thoughts and the possibilities that came with them.

"She might actually be a true Amazon." Momo said in a whisper to Reya while keeping an eye on Maxima as she returned to her own team. "No doubt this is a development that Sona has to be told about."

"Speaking of development, you think something might actually happen now with Issei and Tsubara?"

Momo thought for a moment about Reya's words. Taking all things into consideration, Tsubara's preference for the opposite sex and Issei's unusual sense of charm merged together with the unexpected actions of the new foreign exchange student could easily lead to something. What that might be even Momo couldn't say for certain.

"Well….something definitely is happening since I've never seen Tsubara ever do what she did for a fellow student. Have you?"

Reya nodded her head 'no' at first. "Aside from us, can't say that I have. Which makes me wonder if we should not tell someone to keep an eye on those two right now."

Momo had an idea at what Reya was hinting at. Momo herself even considered it but she doubted it would actually happen. "I don't doubt Issei would jump at a chance to fulfill a fantasy almost every high school teenager has in regards to the school's infirmary but I do doubt Tsubara would actually allow it to happen. Besides, with the nurse there, that wouldn't happen anyways."

"True." Reya replied, her thoughts about such a possibility happening between the two were laid to rest.

"Then again…." Momo had a mischievous smile appear on her face as a result of one final thought passing through her mind. "….if the nurse wasn't there….who might make the first move?"

That sparked a kind of debate that both Momo and Reya had going on inside their own minds. Strangely enough, both of them seemed to forget the fact that the reason Issei was being taken to the Nurse's Office in the first place was that he was sent flying backwards almost 10 meters and through a pair of heavy doors after being struck with a volleyball.

Having seen many strange things in their lives did make them somewhat jaded to extraordinary things happening in front of them. In retrospect, both Momo and Reya found it more extraordinary should someone like Tsubara have intimate feelings for someone like Issei.

If only they knew at the time how things were going to turn out this very day…..

The layout of Kuoh Academy had the school's infirmary located what could be called relatively near the faculty offices which was actually some distance away from the gymnasium. It would have been a strange sight that a female student was carrying an injured male student towards such a destination which would have create a storm of rumors and gossip. But since all classes were in session, there wasn't anyone in the hallways that noticed the pair at all.

Tsubara did have a general idea what people might think if they saw her basically lugging a bloodied Issei Hyoudou around, specifically the girls. Telling them the reason why Issei was in such a state was due to an accident during a volleyball game wouldn't fly too well. Tsubara figured they would be more incline to believe Issei was punished for peeping on the girls changing into their gym outfits and if what she heard was true, Issei had done so with his two other male friends just last week.

Tsubara found it amusing that for a trio of male students, they were able to sneak into the girls' locker room despite virtually being found out every time and suffered injuries from vengeful teenage girls that might actually put most people in the hospital. She did have an idle thought that maybe Issei was secretly a masochist but that didn't fit with what she knew about him. Issei openly said he loved the female form and more so in all of it's naked glory.

That thought made some connections in Tsubara's mind. She almost forgot that Maxima wasn't wearing a bra and when she replayed the memory of the event in her mind, Tsubara realized that from the height that Maxima had jumped and from the angle of view Issei had at the same moment made it possible for Issei to see underneath Maxima's shirt.

The rest of the connections fell into place almost in an instant after that realization.

It wasn't uncommon for girls to look at other girls when they were changing into their gym uniforms. If the rumors she heard were true, some like that girl Aika Kiryuu would 'check' to see how developed others were in certain areas. Tsubara practically noticed right away when Maxima was only clad in her panties that her entire body was easily of the athletic kind. That made the bust Maxima had rather impressive when taken her entire physical form into account as well as make Tsubara suddenly feel a little inadequate.

She knew people saw her as the typical 'tomboy' type and it didn't bother her at all. Her friends accepted her as such and she never really sought out more than that until she met the person that she was helping to walk towards the Nurse's Office. Tsubara would admit that her first impressions of Issei Hyoudou were far from positive and they took an even deeper nosedive during their first shared gym class. Openly admitting that he was a pervert made it seem in Tsubara's view that there was no redeeming qualities that Issei could ever possess.

Then all that instantly changed when he went out of his way to keep her safe when she fell out of tree because she was chasing him for unforgivable acts of perversion. After that, when Tsubara began to know more about Issei than just his name and looks, she couldn't believe the kind of walking contradiction that Issei was before her.

A male teenager that was more than willing to sneak a peek at any girl if given half the chance and would go on and on in debates on the finer points of the naked form of a girl with two other rather equally perverted individuals but would also not hesitate every to help someone at a moment's notice with no desire to receive any kind of a reward except for a simple 'thank you'.

Granted if something of a more sexual theme gratitude was offered, there was no doubt that Issei would jump at the chance in accepting it and in more ways than one.

All of those thoughts ran through Tsubara's mind in unexpected ways. Ways that had a common theme to them in that somehow easily intrigued her. So much so that she didn't realize that she had a smile form on her lips just as she had reached the door to the Nurse's Office.

Tsubara knocked on the door in order to alert the nurse inside and to get some assistance in carrying Issei forward. About a minute passed after her knocking on the door with no response did Tsubara open the door herself. She found it odd that the nurse wasn't at her station but then again, it was possible she had just stepped out for a moment and Tsubara had just missed her.

"Are we there yet, Mr. Freckles that Cat? I want to see the waffles fly to Norway and get me a pizza."

Tsubara looked at Issei when he had said that last sentence. If there was ever proof that he had suffered a kind of concussion from getting hit with a powered-up volleyball strike, then what Issei said was undeniable proof of that.

It wasn't difficult for Tsubara to carry Issei over to a nearby bed in the Nurse's Office and lay him down on his back upon it. Issei mumbled the word 'Comfy' when his head was gently laid down onto the pillow. It was at this moment did Tsubara take a close look at Issei's face and decided to help him out one more time.

Getting a small towel and wetting it down at the nearby sink, Tsubara did her best to wipe away all the blood stains on Issei's face. Tsubara found it rather curious as she cleaned his face that it seemed to her that Issei's nose wasn't at all broken like one would expect. Enough time had passed to where signs of at least bruising would appear even if the nose itself wasn't broken. That was the only thing in Tsubara's mind that would explain for the rather significant nosebleed.

Tsubara might've made another logical point about the puzzle before had her thoughts continued. But Tsubara's mind stopped when she noticed that there was a bit of blood on the side of Issei's lips. It was because of her fascination with the opposite sex when they were in a state of uncleanliness that always got her attention. Tsubara had gotten rid of the blood stains under his nose and his chin but noticed that she had missed a bit on the corner of his mouth.

It wasn't anything major but it was just enough to get Tsbuara's attention. Her mind traced back to the times when she saw Issei getting dirty during gym classes and sports. She knew how strong his body felt especially when she helped carry him while he was dazed.

All of her thoughts swirled in her head until only one conclusion reached the forefront and essentially screamed at Tsubara to follow through with it immediately. As much as she wanted to ignore it, this voice in Tsubara's mind also told her that if she didn't do so now, her chances with Issei would drastically decrease. This same voice had told her that there were others who were possibly seeking Issei's attention with one of them being Tomoe.

The 'voice' told her if she didn't take this chance now, there was no doubt she would regret it. The certainty in such words was enough to convince Tsubara to take such actions.

While Issei's mind was still trying to reorganize itself, Ddraig was more aware of the surroundings and could see what the girl that was just above Issei's face was leaning in to do.

For a brief moment the dragon was a bit indecisive as to what to do. To allow things to progress into what the dragon knew would be the most likely outcome or do a mental splash of cold water to wake Issei up.

Ddraig was aware that Issei had now taken on another mate, or girlfriend as he would put it, but the dragon was also aware that Tomoe was a reincarnated Devil. It wasn't entirely clear to Ddraig on where such a relationship between the two will go despite having seen near countless examples through his various previous wielders of the Sacred Gear. There was a connection that Issei made between himself and Tomoe but even Ddraig knew that it was just formed and there were no real signs that such a connection might last that the dragon had seen.

That was the main reason why Ddraig hesitated because the dragon thought about the idea of Issei forming another connection with another reincarnated Devil. One connection might have a significant chance of falling apart after just a few days of it being made. But several connections being made actually had a better chance at keeping each separate connection intact longer. Ddraig knew it wasn't a sound logical argument but as the dragon had seen before, there were multiple times where enemies, rivals, and about everything in between stood with one another alongside the wielder of the Boosted Gear.

Ddraig knew that if it was virtually anyone else in a similar scenario, they would be written off as having a grandiose pipe dream. But the dragon knew better and knew Issei well enough.

It may have been a move that one would call 'letting the chips fall where they may' but Ddraig wasn't too worried about the outcome as he let things play out.

Ddraig 'watched' as Tsubara leaned forward and softly placed a kiss on Issei's own lips. She didn't notice at all that she had missed a small drop of his blood on his lips when she was cleaning his face. All it took was moist contact for Issei's dragon blood to begin having its effect upon the female teenager.

It felt like a static shock to Tsubara the moment her lips made contact. It quickly turned to a sensation of pleasure she had never felt before. She felt the sensation wash over her entire body until from the very tips of her fingers and toes did she feel something akin to a pleasurable ticklish sensation everywhere.

Ddraig knew it wouldn't be long after first contact that Issei would let his instincts take over in how he would respond to Tsubara's actions. It wasn't even 5 seconds later did Issei, still in a half daze, responded in the only way he would. His own lips moved slowly and made full contact with Tsubara's own lips until both of the mouths sealed against the others.

Tsubara was surprised at the response she got but her body didn't move away in the least. Her eyes did open in shock for only a moment or two before closing again. The two teenagers continued the kiss with Tsubara letting herself become overtaken by the sensation coming from her lips alone.

For his part, Issei's mind started to act on instinct which involved his arms moving in such a way to wrap themselves around Tsubara's waist and slowly start pulling on her form so she too would get on the bed and on top of Issei. It was minimal prompting on Issei's part but Tsubara offered little resistance as she continued the kiss. Tsubara was unaware of her surroundings with the only coherent thought being she was now laying on top of something incredibly warm. It was only when she felt something take hold of her butt cheeks, both of them, did Tsubara's senses snap awake.

When she broke the kiss, Tsubara used her arms to prop her upper body up as far as she could so she had a clear view of Issei's face. Tsubara could see a look of confusion on Issei's face while Issei could see a look of surprise on Tsubara's face. Both teenagers stared into each other's eyes for what seemed like an eternity to the other.

Well, more so for Issei than for Tsubara since the girl's senses were still telling her about several facts of her current situation. The first fact was that both of Issei's hands were still holding onto her bottom. What areas of bare skin that his hands were touching was actually considerable parts of her buttocks since the female student gym shorts were different than male student's gym shorts.

The second fact that how she had her body positioned on top of Issei made Tsubara aware of a certain part of Issei pressing against a certain part of her own body. Tsubara wasn't sure if what she was feeling was true considering her mind was going through something of a whirlwind but she was sure that the warmth she was feeling from Issei's bare hands was the same intensity she was feeling where the lower portion of their bodies were touching. If not more so considering that there was clothing between them.

Issei wasn't entirely sure what Tsubara was thinking at the moment. The look in her eyes seemed to tell him that her mind was indeed working but having trouble comprehending immediate events. Tsubara had made no effort to get Issei to remove his hands of her rather firm backside and Issei himself was in no hurry to do so either. Issei was sure that Tsubara was aware that something was pressing against her since he was easily aware of something of hers was pressing against him just by her weight alone.

Tsubara's mind was very slowly comprehending her actions and each thought that came into her mind that was clear all had a common theme to them. The warmth she felt from Issei's kiss, from where his hands were and where their bodies were touching, each passing second in feeling said warmth grew more enjoyable for her.

Her mind managed to create a command for her body to follow. Tsubara managed to adjust her position on top of Issei so she was now straddling Issei. Because of this new position Issei's hands couldn't easily hold onto Tsubara's ass but Tsubara grabbed both of his hands with her own and brought them up. She first had Issei's left hand caress the right side of her face. The instant touch of skin on her face recreated the warmth Tsubara had felt before but now that it was closer to her face, it seemed like the warmth was more intoxicating to her. She even leaned her head into Issei's hand in a small attempt to either feel more of the warmth or to spread it more on her bare skin. Her eyes even closed in response to the sensation she was feeling just from Issei's hand and small smile of joy appeared on her lips.

Tsubara didn't really notice until Issei's right hand took up a position on her chest and was half-holding onto her left breast. Even when she did notice, her hand that was over Issei's hand didn't do anything to remove from that area of her body. If anything it seemed to Issei that Tsubara was holding it in place.

Issei watched as Tsubara's eyes opened just enough to where he could tell that she was enjoying what her sense of touch was telling her. It was when her eyes made contact with Issei's own did he get the quiet message from her.

'And here I thought it would be some time before I could live the fantasy involving the school nurse's office.' Issei thought to himself before Tsubara leaned forward the begin intimate contact anew.

On her way back to the nurse's office after having an impromptu meeting with some of Kuoh Academy faculty members and the headmaster, Shizuka Marikawa was humming mostly to herself as she walked. The tune was rather happy even though the meeting with those members had a rather serious tone to it that most people's thoughts would still be entirely focused on it.

Headmaster Zeoticus Gremory had called the meeting with Shizuka and several other faculty members from the different divisions of Kuoh Academy in regards with some issues that arose from turning the scholastic institution from private to co-ed status. As it turns out, and as it was expected, some of the female students were being a little more belligerent with the male students as of late. Even the Student Council President Sona Sitri had made mentions to the headmaster that though efforts had been made to dissuade the male students from engaging in perverted activities like spying on the girls as they change clothes there were still several students that continued to do so.

And as a result of no real noticeable decline of such acts, some of the female students were taking active independent efforts. It was in that regards where Headmaster Gremory asked Shizuka on the statistics of the male students since the beginning of the school year.

Specifically the reported injuries to which Shizuka tried to add humor in saying that almost ¾ of reported injuries had a common theme behind them.

While her report did get some laughs, even the headmaster cracked a smile at it as well, it was generally and reluctantly agreed that all faculty members of Kuoh Academy would have to come in on a weekend and discuss what extra measures that would need to be put into place. Even if there weren't any new rules created for the school student body, it still meant an essential overhaul of the current rules. Last time they did it was when it was made official that the academy would become co-ed and it was an arduous task even then.

Shizuka figured that the reason why the thought of having to go over the rules and procedures for the school didn't bother her as much as it did for the others was because of her partner Rika Minami. Being a member of prefectural police's Special Assault Team as well a former member of a special forces team during her military service meant a plethora of stressful days and Rika learned many different means of easing such stress including some very special 'techniques'.

That was mostly on Shizuka's mind since once Rika learned of a stressful weekend involving the school, she would make sure all the stress Shizuka felt would be forgotten in moments and replaced with very pleasant sensations all over her body.

If it wasn't for the fact that Shizuka had walked the same path between the nurse's office and the headmaster's office numerous times, she might've actually walked past her destination because of how deep into a select group of thoughts she was having at the moment. Her thoughts even entertain the idea about seeing if Rika would be in the mood for some preemptive 'stress relief' when both of them get home from work.

Shizuka actually even wondered if her thoughts about such a thing were so strong that she was somehow already hearing the sounds she or Rika would be making in the bedroom when her hand reached for the door in order to enter into the nurse's office. It took a moment for her to realize that the sounds she heard were real and it was coming from inside the room. To say her curiosity was triggered was an understatement.

As slowly and as quietly as she could, Shizuka moved the sliding door enough to where she could see inside. At first there was nothing that caught her attention but with the door cracked open as it was made the sounds she knew to be of two in deep intimate much more clearer. Still opening the sliding door as quietly as possible, Shizuka made a big enough opening to allow her head to move inside and sneak a better peek.

The nurse's office was big enough to have at least six beds inside with the nurse's desk closest to the door. A typical school's nurse's office wasn't as big but Kuoh Academy operated under what was called an 'escalator system'. Not widely used but it meant that the academy wasn't just a school for one level of education. Basically from elementary to college and all levels of education in between the two were held at this institution.

And that meant a lot of students and a lot of unexpected injuries happen tended to happen from time to time.

So it was a kind of no surprise for Shizuka that what she saw on the farthest bed in the office. Each bed had a curtain that could be used to add the cover of privacy to whoever was using one. The nurse found it a bit funny that the two occupants of the sixth bed had not surrounded it with the curtain.

Especially with what the two were currently engaged in doing.

Shizuka was able to see the teenage girl, clearly naked and lightly covered in a sheen of sweat, was in the typical cowgirl position with her legs wrapped around the waist and her arms wrapped around the area of the neck of the teenage boy who seemed to be the one easily lifting up and letting the girl drop back down onto his lap at a rather steady pace. She couldn't see the face of the boy because the girl was resting her head on his shoulder while openly letting out sounds of pleasure she was feeling.

If her eyes were open, Shizuka knew that the girl would have easily seen her watching the two of them. But the nurse could still tell just from the girl's expression alone that she deeply feeling what the boy had been doing to her for what she could guess was for some time. Even the teenage boy was showing some light sweat on his back.

The adult felt it was rather bold of the two teenagers to be engaged in fornication in the middle of the school day. Of course there were several facts that came to her mind about what was happening in her view.

Shizuka was well aware that in this age of society it was hardly unexpected for high school teenagers to become sexually active nor was it completely unheard of such times happening on school property. She was also aware of how there were individuals among the student body who were more than what they appeared to be. It was that fact that entered into her mind when Shizuka recognized the female student as member of Sona Sitri's peerage: Tsubara Yura.

The nurse had gotten the impression of the teenage girl that she was more of a tomboy than most. She was clearly an athletic person which was made clear to Shizuka from seeing more of the girl's naked form. It didn't matter if her figure was the result of natural athleticism or being a reincarnated Devil in Shizuka's view. If anything it seemed to add more credence to the notion in Shizuka's mind that there was only so much physical enhancement made for a girl becoming a reincarnated Devil.

Not that what she knew about Tsubara said otherwise but Shizuka got the feeling the teenage reincarnated Devil was comfortable with her bust size. A rare thing to happen during the teenage years since even now Shizuka could easily remember all the looks of jealousy and lust she got from the student populace when her own chest started to grow. Shizuka also thought that now with the introduction of male students, the girls whose bust size were already in the D cup range would either be more self-conscious now or utilize their natural 'assets' to earn 'favors' from some of the male teenagers.

Back to the two copulating teenagers, Shizuka found that she was rather split on the decision of what she should be doing at the moment with them.

The school-nurse side of her said to stop the two right then and there. Shizuka knew from her own personal experience along with what she learned in her courses to be a nurse that there were major consequences to engaging in acts of sex. There were a couple of times in her youth before she found her true side that she enjoyed such acts and there were more than a few times where she thought she had become pregnant as a result. It was a cold splash of reality for her at those times but she had seen a hard punch dealt to those who did end up being pregnant while still just being high school teenagers. That was what half of her mind was telling her right now.

But the woman side of her said that she should allow the two some privacy. There wasn't any real logical reasoning to back up such a decision. In truth, the only reason that popped into her mind as to why she should allow the two to be alone together was because of what Tsubara actually was. She may look like any other typical high school girl but only on the surface. It was a safe bet in Shizuka's mind that this boy that Tsubara was with had no real idea she was a reincarnated Devil.

If it wasn't for that one time she overheard another reincarnated Devil speak about how lonely it can be at times, someone she believed who was another one of Sona's peerage named Tomoe Meguri, then Shizuka never would have considered the woman side of hers suggestion.

It might be a bad decision on her part but Shizuka felt that it wasn't her place to say anything to the two. That and she believed that in terms of contraceptives, there was probably a spell or two in the Devils' possession that would ensure no one would either catch an STD or get pregnant.

As quietly as she could, Shizuka went over to her desk to retrieve a sign that said 'Office Closed', placed it on the door itself and headed to the cafeteria to get something to drink or a snack. By the time she got back, 20 or so minutes should have gone by which was probably more than enough time for the both of them.

Tsubara and Issei were deeply enjoying what they were engaged in, neither one saw or heard the nurse at all. Even when she closed the door and a 'thump' sound was could actually be heard, Tsubara's constant gasps of pleasure from Issei's motion covered all the sounds Shizuka had made.

Tsubara was holding onto Issei with both her legs and arms in what could be close to the saying 'for dear life'. All of her senses were focused solely on what her body was feeling each time Issei raised her body and then just dropped her onto his dick. She had never known anything remotely close to what her body was feeling and couldn't help herself from craving more.

Time was a concept completely lost to Tsubara even though she and Issei were still fully clothed only minutes ago. Both teenagers were kissing the other rather heavily before Issei snuck a hand underneath Tsubara's gym shirt and began to feel her chest. The moment Issei's fingers brushed up against just one of her nipple made Tsubara gasp loudly in response. She wasn't sure if her nipples were that sensitive before feeling Issei's touch. She was only sure that now whenever he did touch them, even simply brushing his thumb, it was a sensation that sent a bolt of pleasure throughout her entire body.

It became too much for her when Tsubara didn't notice in time when Issei removed her gym shirt entirely in one quick motion and latched onto her erect nipple with his mouth. That was when all concept of time left her mind and became flooded with bolts of excitement and pleasure.

Tsubara didn't even realize that she was laying on her back until Issei moved away from her chest area. It took a moment for her sight to clear up so she could see and understand what was happening. She didn't even stop Issei when he removed the last of her gym uniform making her completely naked to him. All she did was watch as Issei placed his mouth to her nether lips and began doing what Tsubara had only just heard other girls talk about.

That made Tsubara grab onto the bed sheet for dear life just moments after she felt Issei's tongue push passed her wet folds and began stirring the insides in ways she never felt before. Tsubara was able to feel that her legs were being held in relatively the same place but her hands tried to grab onto anything because of some instinctual response. She even grabbed onto Issei's hair and was conflicted from either having him continue or stopping him so she could catch her breath.

Her mind and vision exploded into flashes of white light when her body achieved something she had never truly known before: an orgasm. Of course she had experimented with herself once or twice and felt her body react in a similar fashion. But what Issei did to her was beyond anything she had felt before. Tsubara didn't know whether she had screamed out or not, only that her lungs were in desperate need of air.

After a few moments of catching her breath and her vision again readjusting to be of use, Tsubara looked up at Issei and saw that he had finished undressing himself as well. Had her mind been a bit more rational, even of only by a hair, Tsubara might've said 'no' to the question Issei asked her.

But she looked directly into Issei's eyes and nodded 'yes'.

That decision Tsubara made exposed her to a whole other world of sensations and pleasures that she never even dreamed. The briefest amount of pain led to her feeling something so incredibly warm that touched the very core of her being.

The only thing that Tsubara was aware after that was of the rhythmic movement Issei made into her and how her body reacted to each motion. She barely registered the motion of her own body being picked up and being basically dropped down onto Issei's lap. All she could do was wrap her legs and arms around Issei's body and hold onto for as long as she could while Issei's actions were steadily pushing her over the edge.

It was only when she realized that what was inside of her started to actually somehow increase in size did her mind managed to break through the ever growing haze of intense pleasure and tell her what was about to happen.

"Issei…wai….oh...oh...sweet Kami….oh,oh,oh,OH KAMI!" What Tsubara said at the moment wasn't what she had originally wanted to say. Her mind lost all reasoning functions when she felt something incredibly hot enter into her and caused her to have a new kind of orgasm she never knew was possible to feel.

Tsubara's mind replayed what had just happened to her over and over again in some weird way to understand what happened. She knew Issei's dick was pushed into her as deep as he could go and it felt like the tip had actually pierced into her womb itself. What she felt next could only be what she learned in both health classes and chatter from other girls. Tsubara knew that she had good reason to worry about what just happened to her but her body was, for a lack of a better term in her mind at the moment, overloaded.

Her entire body felt like it had been hit with a bolt of lightning which Tsubara couldn't help but laugh at the irony of it. But instead of feeling pain of any kind, all she felt was her body going numb from the combined intense heat from Issei's sperm entering into her womb and rest of her body relaxing after having tensed up so much at the moment when her orgasmic bliss flooded every bit of her.

Tsubara realized that catching her breath before wasn't filled with as much after-excitement. That it was all worth feeling and the ever-increasing desire to feel it again.

Issei for his part was satisfied with his efforts. He knew it was rather risky to say the least in having sex with Tsubara in the school's nurse's office of all places. But he figured that it was something of a once-in-a-blue-moon kind of odds in where he could live out the typical fantasy of sex in a high school setting. That and maybe have somehow establish a kind of dialogue with Tsubara with her being a Devil and all that entails with it.

It was after that thought did he realized that it might be hard to explain why that the scratch marks on his back would disappear after a day. Issei definitely felt Tsubara's fingernails dig into his skin and when her orgasm hit her that she dragged her nails across his back. He didn't feel any significant amount of pain from it but he knew it would be rather hard to explain that a normal human didn't have scratch marks on his back after a giving a Devil girl a ride to cloud nine.

The first idea that came to Issei to help Tsubara not notice any possible mark she might remember that she left on him was give her another orgasm. Personally he was more than up for another round and having such a naked beauty pressing up against him while his rod was still inside of her was an enticement that was hard to ignore.

That was when an idea entered into his mind that actually surprised him on how 'out-of-nowhere' it seemed to have come.

The idea came from something Ddraig had said to him on several occasions during training with his Sacred Gear. How having the Boosted Gear can allow the user to stockpile power and then transfer it to another. The Heavenly Dragon said that it didn't fully matter if the person whom the power was transferred to was either magically able or not. Even a normal person could be given some of the power but the rule was that only as much as their bodies can handle.

And since it was his hands, mostly his left hand but if need be he could use both, that he could use as a means of transferring the power build-up, Issei's idea had a lot of potential for fun for him. He figured it would be equally beneficial in Tsubara's view once she saw the results firsthand.

Tsubara was still attempting to steady her breathing while still enjoying the lingering sensations that her body was still feeling. Her senses were just aware enough of her surroundings that she felt her body shift positions on the bed. Issei's movements were subtle as well as gentle as he had Tsubara now laying flat on her stomach on the bed and he himself kneeling behind her.

Issei took a moment to enjoy the sight before him. He could clearly see that Tsubara definitely had a tone body. Clear sign of being athletic. It was something of an extra delight to see the naked skin shine because of the light layer of sweat covering most areas. Issei waited a few more moments before he made his move to see if Tsubara would do something on her own. She hadn't passed out but she wasn't moving other than breathing rather deep which somehow made the sight to Issei a little more erotic.

Still moving as gently as he could, Issei took hold of Tsubara's hips and raised her lower half up enough to meet him in his kneeling position. Issei kept watching to see if Tsubara would react. To see if she understood what Issei was generally going to do next with her. Even when he lined up his cock to her dripping wet pussy and just pressed against but not entering, Tsubara did nothing but make a small moan in response to contact.

It was rather difficult for Issei to just wait and not start thrusting into Tsubara but he wanted to be as sure as one could be. To be sure that the Devil's senses were going to focus on one thing in particular and not two things separately.

"Please…."

That caught Issei's attention when he heard it. More so when Tsubara turned her head from where it laid on the bed so she could at least make eye contact with Issei.

"Please….give me….give me more…."

The subtly pleading look in her eyes was all that Issei needed. The girl wanted to experience more of what Issei had given her just before. Issei knew it wouldn't be fair to turn down such a request and he felt that he should put everything he got into this effort to guarantee that Tsubara was completely satisfied.

Issei entered into Tsubara slowly at first. He did so because he wanted to make sure she could handle what was to come. He also wanted to make sure how far he could reach inside from this position with her. Issei knew he had pushed the tip of his manly spear past the final wall inside of Tsubara's core and that was from a sitting position. This time around he wanted to see that not only could he still do so but add in some extra sensation for Tsubara to experience if he could. It didn't take long for Issei to feel that he reached the end inside of Tsubara and that he could easily add more of himself with just a little extra push.

Tsubara felt that what Issei was doing to her was both a delicious and mild torture sensation at the same time. With each inch that entered into her, Tsubara's grip on the bed sheet increased in strength until she felt her fingernails seem to be cutting into the fabric itself. It wasn't until she felt something hot press against her womb did another gasp escape her lips. Her senses were clear enough to tell her that Issei wasn't all the way in since she didn't feel him pressing against her own skin.

It was after that touch sensation did Issei begin his motions of thrusting back and forth with Tsubara. It started slow but quickly became faster and steady with each time the tip hit her womb did Tsubara let out a gasp.

"So….good….so damn….good….ugh…." Tsubara said with each word coming out the moment Issei's cock touched her womb just enough for the heat of the contact to send bolts of pleasurable electricity up her spine.

Issei tried his best to keep his efforts at the level they were at but even he lost himself to the feeling of his dick touching Tsubara's inner core no matter how brief it was. But his instinctual side convinced him that he should put all he had into pleasing Tsubara so she wouldn't notice what he had planned to do. Issei didn't even even hesitate after that thought went through his mind and began pushing his entire rod into Tsubara.

The first time the head of Issei's penis pushed past into her womb made Tsubara gasp loudly. She almost screamed out but her voice practically left her once the sensation within her womb became a rhythm. It was both a mixture of pain and pleasure that was so unique to her that Tsubara's mind couldn't process as one or the other nor did her brain ever had to do so before in any significant capacity.

For him, Issei definitely enjoyed what he felt from his manhood. In a way it was like a kind of teasing sensation, almost like a tickle of sorts. In a way since Issei had only been with two other girls, mostly with Areille before his one night with Tomoe, it did confirm something he had heard and read about with his two friends Matsuda and Motohama. As every guy had a different kind of sword, so too do girls have a different kind of velvet sheath. Issei did briefly wonder if maybe it was the result of becoming a reincarnated Devil but those thoughts died out when he noticed that Tsubara was now putting her own effort into impaling herself completely onto his rod.

The grunting sounds from Issei and the moaning sounds from Tsubara were just overshadowed by the sounds of skin slapping against skin. Their combined motions were also getting intense enough to where the bed itself was starting to rock back and forth.

Issei might've actually forgot what he was going to do because of how he was feeling and losing himself in the moment. Tsubara had been half laying on the bed with her shapely ass held up in the air by Issei's hands. But when she started to combine her effort with Issei's, Tsubara propped herself up with her arms in order to put as much strength as she could when she slammed herself back on Issei's rod.

Even though Issei had only a clear view of her back, the change in position on Tsubara's was enough to re-spark the idea he had. Issei continued his motions in this position for a little longer more before he reached down and grabbed both of Tsubara's boobs and made it so she too was in a kneeling position with her back pressed up against Issei's chest. Issei maneuvered his head to Tsubara's right side and managed to capture her lips with his own. The amount of passion and lust that came from Tsubara's lips told all Issei needed to know.

After Issei made sure that Tsubara's eyes were closed as they kissed, he looked down at where his hands were as best as he could. He did wonder if his hands were moving on their own considering how they were both massaging the breast they held in rather different ways.

Issei did hear Ddraig's voice in his mind about the dragon wondering if Issei was sure about what he was going to do. He replied by saying, 'Just testing a new application of dragon power. I think I'll call this move 'Overbuster'.'

Issei could 'hear' Ddraig rolling his eyes in response to the name of this impromptu new move but blew it off. He watched his work unfold by having both of his hands overlap on Tsubara's chest so the red energy that manifested on his left hand could connect with his right hand. When both hands were glowing with red energy, Issei essentially unleashed his hands on Tsubara's breasts and actually had a smile on his face when seemed to massage the respective tit with vigor.

Tsubara still had her eyes closed but she threw her head back in ecstasy the moment she felt her entire chest become flooded with an incredible warm sensation like no other. Especially with what she felt earlier.

Issei wasn't sure if he would see some immediate reaction to his efforts but realized that he had stopped his efforts with his lower body. It was tricky to manage at first but Issei was able to resume his thrusts into Tsubara while his hands massaged every aspect of her breasts. From the mounds themselves to the nipples did Issei's hands work their literal magic.

Tsubara felt like her entire body was being stimulated. Both her upper and lower halves of her body. She didn't realize that her hands had reached back and were somehow holding onto Issei's own hips. Whether it was for dear life because of the sensations were starting to be too much for her to handle or to coax Issei into increasing the rhythms of his thrusts, it didn't matter for Tsubara was starting to feel her mind slipping away from her. And she didn't care in the slightest.

Issei kept his efforts up as intensely as he could. With his thrusts into her dripping wet vagina to his massaging of her tits, Issei was thankful that his stamina was better than a typical human's at his age. But using magic at the same time while having sex with a reincarnated Devil seemed to drain him faster of his stamina than he expected. Plus he felt himself reaching his own limit at the same time.

To make sure Tsubara was completely satisfied, Issei put all of his remaining strength and stamina into one feverish rush of thrusts that made it seem like Tsubara was being lifted into the air off the bed. Even the bed shook more than it had before in response to the motions.

When Issei felt he had reached his limit, he made sure to bury himself as deeply as he could into Tsubara. He felt that he had managed to actually push into her womb itself before he unloaded every drop of cum he had left in his balls.

Tsubara eyes shot right open the moment she felt her insides get flooded with Issei's white hot essence. She threw her head back and was starring at the ceiling but her vision was nothing but explosions of various colors. Mostly being mixture of white and red colors.

While that was what Tsubara 'saw' while her orgasm rocked her entire body, Issei was able see something else entirely different. Issei hadn't really used his transfer ability this much now that he had time to recollect so seeing the entire infirmary filled with red light was a little bit of a worry. Tsubara yelling out in orgasmic bliss was a distant second worry in comparison. But once she yelled out all the air in her lungs did Tsubara simply let herself slump against Issei.

Issei watched as the intensity of the red light slowly died down and seem to be 'absorbed' into Tsubara's chest. Whether his new move, the 'Overbuster', worked or not didn't seem readily apparent at the moment. What did see apparent was the look of pure bliss on Tsubara's face. She was breathing heavily but it was clear from the vacant gaze in her eyes that her mind was nowhere to be found. Issei quickly found out that he was supporting Tsubara by simply holding onto her breasts as her body was leaning heavily back into his own.

Once he was sure he had completely emptied every drop into her, Issei repositioned Tsubara so that she was now laying completely flat on her back on the bed. The rather vacant look was still in her eyes but smile on her face was still a solid reminder that Tsubara's senses were overloaded with bliss. Whether his little magic trick worked on her or not wasn't in the front of Issei's mind. He was currently more pleased with his efforts in having the girl before him floating in a haze of after bliss. The layer of sweat all over her naked and spent body along with the traces of their combined juices between her thighs definitely said to anyone this Devil was sent to Heaven.

After Issei finished admiring his work, he looked around to see what time it was and saw that gym period was almost over. He again was impressed with himself that his time with Tsubara took up as much time as it did. He knew he was knocked for a loop when he was hit in the head by the volleyball but he was glad such a hit didn't take up too much time.

It was obvious that Tsubara wasn't going to be coming back with him to gym class or probably any classes any time soon in Issei's view. He decided that it was best to let her rest for now and return to classes but not until after gym class was done. Even he knew that if he returned to the gymnasium without Tsubara there would be more than a few awkward questions to answer and he didn't want those questions to be asked by Momo or Reya. Issei already had some suspicions that those two made more than a few remarks by now on what he and Tsubara might have done after all this time out of their sights. Granted he was putting off the inevitable with both Reya and Momo but his choices were a bit limited. The best one he could come up with under the circumstance was return to class after gym period was done since next period for the class was a study period which would allow for some kind of excuse to have more merit and ease any suspicion.

Not much suspicion would be alleviated but it was still better than nothing in Issei's view.

Covering up Tsubara's naked body with the bed sheet and folding up her gym uniform and placing them on the nightstand next to the bed, Issei put on his own gym uniform before making his way back to the boy's locker room to change back into his school uniform. He made sure that he closed the door quietly even though he was pretty sure that not much would wake up Tsubara at this point. Issei noticed that when he closed the door there was a sign that said 'Office Closed' which made him pause for a moment. Mostly because he was trying to remember if the sign was there originally or not when Tsubara helped him here in the first place. Issei figured that it had to have been since if the nurse was in the infirmary from the beginning then there was no possible way things would have gotten as far as they did.

'Not like a nurse would allow two teenagers to do what we just did and if she showed up later, no doubt she would have stopped us. That would have been awkward to say the least.' Issei thought to himself as he walked away from the nurse's office. He felt confident in his reasoning grow with each step he made away from the door.

'That awkwardness would be preferable compared to the troubles you might have to deal with in the immediate future.'

Hearing Ddraig say that to him did confuse Issei since his dragon partner's words hinted at some specific problems Issei should have taken into consideration earlier. When asked to make clear what Ddraig was hinting at, Issei wanted to slap himself upside the head at how obvious such concerns were and how much of a knuckle-headed move it was on his part to so easily ignore them.

'From my experience, having one lover knowing who you are is easy because there's no real secret kept between the two of you. I know Areille more or less gave you something of a blank check but that was only for the possibility of you taking on multiple lovers. I didn't see it as a full open admission to do so but that's just me. Plus, you haven't really told her that you've slept with that girl Tomoe just yet though I doubt she'll see much issues with it.'

'So what's the point you're trying to make, Ddraig?' Issei was slowly getting an actual idea but he still felt that Ddraig's point had a more broader scope.

'Isn't it obvious? Tomoe and Tsubara are friends as well as reincarnated Devils. Its a strong possibility that they both belong to the same peerage and now that they have both slept with you, the chances of them finding out such a fact does almost make it an absolute certainty. But that issue would be secondary to the fact that while they are reincarnated Devils, their biological reproduction abilities are relatively human meaning…'

'Meaning that even though it was just one time with each girl, there is a possibility that one or even both might be pregnant because of me?' Issei realized that because of all his times with Areille, he hadn't really considered such an outcome should he become intimate with other girls. That was one oversight he needed to change for any future encounters.

'Correct, however its just as likely that being Devils and teenagers at that, there could be a contraceptive spell of sorts to keep them from getting pregnant. I've heard that Tears of a Phoenix can actually reattach a severed limb as if it never happened in the first place so there could be something equivalent to the morning-after pill humans use that Devils might have but that's just a speculation. But that isn't the real issue.'

'Something outdoes the chance of these girls being pregnant by me? Like what?' Issei wouldn't openly admit it but he did feel some sense of relief that even if there was a chance the girls got knocked up by him, at least there was a chance they had access to similar means that normal people had to prevent pregnancies.

Unfortunately, that sense of relief somehow increased the sense of dread at what Ddraig was going to say next.

'Well maybe that girl Tomoe might be a more of an aggressive possessive jealous type if how she reacted to you looking at that new transfer student was any indication. Her learning that you screwed a friend of hers senseless might have some consequences that you'll wish was the biggest source of your future problems.'

Issei thought that his dragon partner had something of a knowing smirk on his face when he said that but it was too brief and the seriousness of his tone when he spoke up again eliminated that thought quickly.

'That….'move' you did with that girl….' Ddraig started to say but his annoyance was evident in his voice.

'The 'Overbuster'?' Issei tried to smile when he said it's name and create a kind of pride for it but it didn't really set in like he hoped.

'Yes, that.' Ddraig's annoyance was still clear as a bell. 'I didn't say anything at the time because I actually believed it wouldn't have worked. Magical augmentation of the body is possible but I've never seen it applied specifically or heard that such an attempt was successful. That said, I honestly didn't think there would be any cause for me to stop you from using such power to make that girl's bust bigger. Until now.'

Issei's first reaction was positive. Hearing that what he did worked almost made him feel like he should celebrate because he had found a what he believed was the cure for what he figured was an epidemic to the women population: The Underdeveloped Breast Syndrome.

He almost couldn't wait to spread the news of a such a cure but was stopped in his musings when Ddraig spoke up again.

'I realize it was in the heat of the moment but you used a lot of my power when you tried that little stunt. You've become well adept at masking your presence so no one can tell you're more than human unless others were masters in such perceptions or if you dropped your guard completely. But masking one's presence is different compared to using my power. When the room filled with light like it had, only the blind wouldn't see such a display but….'

'But the same kind of guarantee wouldn't be there for those who would sense or feel such power being used?' Issei knew when he finished Ddraig's sentence, it wasn't really a question he was asking but a confirmation that he had reached the conclusion of Ddraig's point.

That was when Issei took more note of his surroundings to see if anyone was within sight acting as though they were searching for something. Or actually someone. When he didn't see anyone in the hallways as he continued to walk towards the boy's locker room, Issei began contemplating the idea that maybe he should start making his way off school grounds as soon as possible if not immediately.

'There might be an unexpected factor working in your favor right now.' Ddraig knew that would get his partner's attention immediately so the dragon had to quickly follow up with what he meant by that. 'Granted what you did had a similar result as one would achieve when shooting up a flare in the dead of night over the ocean but in that context, someone would see or sense it like that only if they were considerably far away.'

'How far away?'

'Far enough to where they would get a general direction but not see which town, city or even countryside that the flare originated. What could be considered as 'ground zero' would still be difficult for those to pinpoint unless they actually saw the light as well. Since you were in room and the room itself contained much of the light that appeared when you used my power, anyone that sensed it would only know it happened but have no real direction of where 'ground zero' is located.'

Issei found Ddraig's words not as reassuring as he thought they would be. Something seemed off in his view so he asked his partner that by using his power in such a way that would it not have acted like a pulse which would mean a possible general feeling direction of where the pulse might have started.

'Any other time you would be correct but I noticed that this time seemed different in a way that I've never seen before. A pulse usually creates a sphere as it expands until whatever energy that created it depletes itself. What you did seem to cause a kind of cascade effect. The best way I can describe it right now is that there are flowing waves of natural energies that have no real beginning or end that exist all over the world. They just are even if they cannot be seen but felt and when you did what you did with that girl, either you somehow tapped into one of those waves unexpectedly and unknowingly or the wave itself somehow became influenced by your actions. Either way, that flow of natural energy essentially cause the pulse effect to spread through the wave. I tried to follow it myself but couldn't since flow itself seemed like to be as big and long as the Shinano River.'

'I'm afraid to ask but is that a good thing or a bad thing that I somehow touched a flow of natural energy that you describe to be as big as one of the three largest rivers in all of Japan?'

Ddraig thought for a moment, gathering his thoughts for his reply. 'Can't say what it could be call in the long term but in the short term, it might actually be a good thing in your case.'

'But you somehow made it sound like I did and didn't drop a large stone in a river. So which is it?'

'That analogy doesn't fully work with what is Senjutsu. Since you haven't had any real training in that form of knowledge, the best explanation I can give you is that you've made a river become known when no one was even looking for it and a large river at that. A river that essentially has no beginning or end and flows in almost any direction it pleases so there's no real way to tell where you dropped the stone unless someone was there with you when you did it and we both know the only other person who was with you definitely wasn't watching.'

Issei did feel some relief when hearing that. If he had somehow made a river known like Ddraig had said, it still meant he caused something that would garner people's attention. But it also seemed at the very least it could also mean they may not know it was him or even a dragon that did it. A stretch of sorts to believe in but at the moment, it was the best he could hope for.

After he had changed out of his gym uniform and headed back to his assigned classroom, Issei took note of his fellow classmates that he knew were Devils to see if their demeanor suggested anything he thought was out of the ordinary. The only thing that stood out the most was that Momo, Reya, and Tomoe hadn't returned with the rest of the class. When he asked the others on if they knew were they might've gone to, one of his classmates said that they were called to the Student Council's room for some kind of 'emergency session'.

It did cause worry within Issei to hear such a term being used even though his classmate also added that there was another pervert caught peeping on the girls as they were changing out of their gym uniforms before those three girls were called by the Student Council President. The worry within him did increase somewhat since he didn't see girls the rest of the school day.

Issei made sure to keep an eye on his surroundings as she left Kuoh Academy. He didn't notice anyone watching him as he left or felt any kind of presence nearby that followed him all the way back to his apartment. There was no doubt that his thoughts wasn't focused at any of his school work since his gaze was directed out the window watching the sun set. It wasn't as if he was waiting for something specific to happen but couldn't shake the feeling something was going to happen.

During the time when Tomoe, Momo and Reya were summoned by their King Sona Sitri, there was a conversation that happened that would have both justified a worry and a relief at the same time for Issei Hyoudou.

As Ddraig has explained, the effect of Issei using the dragon's power did not go completely unnoticed. But what was noticed was cause for alarm among select groups and individuals at Kuoh Academy. At first it was suspected to be some kind of attack directed at the school. But that idea became less and less likely when no evidence was found that items or properties were damaged or missing as well as all students were accounted for. It was also clear that the other factions, the Holy Angels and the Fallen Angels, wouldn't have made an attack on the academy in broad daylight. Such an act would easily be the first step in starting another war which was a prospect that most Devils would not want happening if it could be avoided.

Where there was once the 72 Pillars Of The Underworld, 72 different clans as it were, only three truly remain which also meant that the Great War fought all those millenniums ago has push the remaining Devils close to being an endangered species. It wasn't truly confirmed but it was the general belief that the Holy Angels and the Fallen Angels suffered similar losses at the end of the Great War which limited their warfare ability as well.

Once the idea that both of the other two factions weren't behind what happened was reasonably eliminated, the idea that maybe a rogue Devil with a desire for vengeance or several rogue Devils were flexing his or her muscles in some arrogant display in front of the academy. That seemed more likely to be the case due to an uptick of rogue Devil activity recently. That was the purpose of the emergency meeting Sona had with her peerage.

Both Sona and her friend Rias were told to be on active lookout for any suspicious activity and to have their respective peerage participate in a night patrol in suspected areas. They were also to keep an eye out for any increased activity by the Holy Angels and Fallen Angels because even if neither were behind today's event, either faction would have noticed the event itself as well and their curiosity would certainly demand that they investigate just as the Devils were doing so now.

What was unknown to both Issei and the Devils within the walls of the Kuoh Academy was that an individual party was also going to be undertaking an investigation of sorts during the night as well.

Maxima Minerva wasn't absolutely sure that the one she sought in these lands but she was more than sure that the one named Issei Hyoudou was worth her attention. The accident during the volleyball game that caused Issei to bleed gave a stronger smell for her to track now than before. Her trainers had helped hone her tracking skills to the point where what she had before of Issei was enough for her to follow. But the scent of his blood allowed her to follow him even if the trail had been cold for a long time.

The Amazonian always believed in taking direct action in any given situation. With that in mind, she believed the best way to see if Issei Hyoudou was one of the two Heavenly Emperor Dragons was to openly challenge him. Maxima did understand the possibility that their fight could easily reach the point where one of them might die. But death by combat was something every Amazon was taught to expect and she was no different in that regards. She would definitely give the fight her all.

However, if she managed to kill the wielder than it only meant he hadn't mastered the strength within him. And that the other wielder of the Heavenly Emperor Dragon was the one the oracle saw her to be with. Maxima believe that was probably the path before her. That she wouldn't be considered worthy of one until she defeated the other.

Whatever destiny had in store for her, Maxima prepared herself in which she had been taught and trained virtually all her life. The apparel she wore was typical of what her fellow Amazonian wore when going into battle. It stemmed from ancient traditions that the first Amazon tribes wore but Maxima was aware that most cultures in today's age would see her wearing a skimpy two piece fur and leather bikini while ignoring her gauntlets and shin guards. There was actually a special purpose to her outfit to compliment her unique ability. And she knew it wouldn't be long before she showed what she could do in a fight.

Even the sword she brought with her was made by the Forge God Hephaestus: a Xiphos. While most wouldn't see anything that stood out about this one-handed short sword other than it being used in some movies set in times of Ancient Greece, that was what made it all the more deadly. It was a blade that would never dull so long as the wielder's will remain strong. So say both Hephaestus and Athena when they presented the weapon to her and their words were never to be questioned.

With her preparations complete, Maxima quietly waited in her assigned domicile until the sky turned to starlight before she set out on the hunt for Issei Hyoudou.

It was easy to move with both speed and stealth among the urban environment. Be the forest or jungles filled with trees or structures of concrete and steel, Maxima followed her instincts towards her prey.

And as each step she took drew her closer, Maxima could feel her heartbeat increase with each step taken.

Her heart was practically pounding in her chest when she reached an area outside of a park that had large forest within it. The scent she had been tracking led her here and it took only a moment of staring into the park itself to see her prey. Maxima was aware that at this time of night it was strange to see a teenager in a deserted park. She took a scouting position at a nearby building's rooftop and looked around to see what might've brought him here instead of his home or anything that might seem out of place and a possible trap. Nothing stood out and her instincts that never failed her told her that what she saw before her was true.

Issei Hyoudou was alone.

The excitement welled up within her so much that she felt that a grand entrance was worth making this time. Maxima wasn't looking to make a quiet kill as a hunter. She was looking for a fight as a warrior. And to ensure her entrance would not be forgotten should Issei defeat her or elude her, Maxima tapped into the strength within her or as her Amazon sisters often regarded it as 'unleashing the beast'.

The movement she made from the rooftop to a spot that was just 10 meters in front of Issei left two impact craters. Maxima knew she was going to basically break the spot of the roof in order to make the distance in one jump and that her landing would easily break the concrete beneath her feet but she didn't care. She would never openly admit that she enjoyed cutting herself loose because of how few times she felt that she truly able to and her instincts were telling her this was one of those times.

After hearing the startled question come from Issei's mouth, Maxima only said six words as both a reply and the Amazon battle cry.

"Fight To Live. Live To Fight."

And with that said, the quiet park erupted into battle.

Next Chapter: A Warrior's Duel

Author's Note: Sorry for the long delay. Lost my desire to write and my muse until recently and with all the nonsense of the world lately, a lot of time to find both again. On the part where it felt like it was generally skipped on why Issei was where Maxima found him to be in the middle of the night, that will be covered in the next chapter along with what Maxima has become since I want Issei's POV to best describe it as he has with all the other girls he has ever met. And I want Issei to show off what his training with Areille has taught him and the best way to do that is with a serious opponent. Also the repercussions of Issei's actions as of late will be made clear as well. Because honestly there is no real way that the kind of ripple he caused in school full of supernatural beings would go unnoticed.

Until next time and hopefully a lot sooner than it took for this update to be written.