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"I Fell For You" Is A Weird Title

Summary:

So, Raynare's the first ever antagonist in DxD, right? Which also meant that she'd be the first stepping stone for the hero, right? Well, let's just give the middle finger to canon since I'm Raynare now, and as such, I want to live. So Shitsei (Sorry Issei, but you'll have to take the brunt of my anger for a while.) can go look for a different power-up 'cause I ain't letting this fine booty die to some protag who suddenly can killl gods because he touched someone's funbags!
......
God that was embarrassing.

Anyway, yeah, since I'm Raynare now, and a woman at that, with the overrated Gaming System in hand, let's be powerful enough so that I could live my days in bliss playing video games, lesbian sex, eating, and sleeping!

.....
That was also embarrassing. Sounding cool isn't easy. At least I wasn't saying it out loud.

Chapter Text

I stare at the wonderful midnight-black hair that fell nearly to her bum, at the violet eyes I was sure would have never existed in real life, and one where I was sure to lose myself into. Then, I move my eyes to her beautiful and sharp face, one that would surely acquire more than a passing glance, then to her body, to her mouth-watering, curvaceous body (an ample bosom, a beautifully round ass, and long wonderful legs with thick thighs). All in all, she was on a level of a runway model, possibly even be on a higher level.

However, she had an even more eye-catching feature, which was the pair of wing folded softly on her back. The wings, which looked both intimidating, yet so soft at the same time, was black in color, same as her air. And to any avid anime fan (weeaboos, otakus, and other…) and the lesser, especially of Highschool DxD, they would surely recognize who she is.

The woman in front of me was undoubtedly Raynare, the first ever antagonist of Highschool DxD, and of course, the weakest one compared to the others (as far as I know). And she was in front of me in the form of a reflection of a mirror. To get a better understanding of my situation, why don’t I go back to before all this shit happened.

^*^*^*^

It was just another day, one I was sure I would once again fill with procrastination. As a 17-year-old lazy little shit, I didn’t have the strength to resist the temptation of being in front of my laptop playing Rimworld and Dark Souls 3, since it was what I was currently addicted to (which wasn’t much since it was slow to download cracked games with a 100-500 kbps download speed, which I will have for only the first 2 weeks of the month before the internet goes to shit.), instead of focusing on my modules. Honestly, I wasn’t sure if I was thankful for being forced into online classes or not. The upside of it was that I get to do whatever I wanted, did my modules whenever I wanted (unless the deadline was coming up, or my parents were looking for results.), got to play games whenever. The downside? I don’t have much to do outside, we lived far away from the city, so we can not order from certain places, I can’t meet with my friends face to face since they lived closer to the city, and there was no school for us to meet at, then there was the temptation of everything distracting, leading to stress. Last year, on the second semester, I even cried in front of my parents while having breakfast because I was so overwhelmed with the amount of work I had to do, which I had put off because I just had to play games and be addicted to fan-fictions more. And sadly, even after all that, I didn’t strive to be better, and I was going down the same path once again, of barely passing the new school year.

And even after my rant, I did not feel motivated of doing said work, now focusing more on looking through Dark Souls 3 wiki because I was confused at where I should go first. I was at the Catacombs of Carthus, at the bonfire where you fought the Abyss Watcher. I was unsure if I should continue down, since the wiki said I should have met Anri of Astora, or her male version at least since I was using a female avatar. But I had already gone down the Catacombs, had even slain High Lord Wolnir, gone and fought the demonic sandworm? that shot out lightning (by being a fucking bitch and just shooting it with arrows while in front of a tree-thing to block the big ass arrow bolts that keep coming from behind me.

The plan was to check on wiki on where I should go, the steps of meeting Anri, but I was stopped by my recently turned 3-year-old baby brother by his annoying “No like! No like!”s, which he usually said whenever the YouTube video he was watching on the T.V. got boring for him, or when an ad was playing. I rolled my eyes, annoyed at my baby brother, but I still loved him to bits, causing me to stand up from my seat and begrudgingly look for the remote (the little shit was hard to find, even when it was right fucking in front of you.), found it around a minute later. I think, the began looking for another video with Jaiden, my annoying little shit, with him standing in front of the T.V. and gesturing to go up, down, left and right. It was honestly adorable, and it was the last thing I knew before everything went dark with a flash of pain and sound of something loud.

~+~+~+~+~+~

One moment I was about to raise my voice at Jaiden to hurry up and pick a video, the next I was suddenly engulfed in darkness, which afterwards opened up to show me a garden (I could not be anything else, with all the different kinds of flowers arranged so beautifully about). My irritation was quickly replaced with confusion, which soon turned into a more intense, unknown, emotion that made me freeze in place. However, I felt something wrap around me, something akin to a breeze, and I was immediately calm, and afterwards, a melodious voice called out from behind me.

“Greetings, wayward soul.” The voice started, causing me to look behind me and see a rather hard to explain sight. I could very much guess that this…person now in front of me, sitting on a wooden chair, in front of a similarly wooden table, which both looked like it was naturally formed like they were instead of being made, was a woman, with her feminine figure and soft, motherly voice. However, she somehow also looked like a being that mere words could not describe. All I could properly say was that she was both a woman and not.

And, with my acknowledgement of her presence, the woman hummed before gesturing me with her hand to sit on the chair that magically appeared on the other end of the table, while also saying, “Come. Sit with me. We have matters to discuss.”

Without even thinking, I soon found myself sitting in front of her, with the table now filled with what could possibly the most yummy looking pastries I have ever seen! For some reason or another, I began to unabashedly stuff my face with said pastries I have only seen in animes after the woman had said, “You may eat all you like.” with a giggle in the end that made my heart skip a beat. And while I stuffed myself full, I began thinking that this must be a dream, since I did not feel any pain when I discreetly bit my finger while I ate (which, I have learned when you intentionally injure yourself in a lucid dream, causes the part you injured to be numb once you wake up.), and I was more reserved than this. I never would have been this much of a pig if someone, other than people I was close to, offers me food.

As I began devouring the cream-filled donut in my hands with my somehow still hungry stomach, the woman finally spoke once again. “Firstly, let me introduce myself.” I immediately gave her most of my attention, with some of it still on the pastries. She still looked like what she did earlier, being both a woman and whatever else that was, and it just made the theory I was making up deep in my mind become even more believable.

“I am Friede, the manager and sole employee of the Department of Soul Care and Soul Renewals.” As she introduced herself, she stood up, allowing me to clearly see her outfit that was a mix of a business suit and a fantasy elven attire. And even if her outfit was what caught my attention first, once her words settled in my mind, I was overly surprised with how I was not internally panicking with the implications of her introduction. This also made the theory in my head seem more believable, if this wasn’t actually an elaborate dream, but continuously thinking that this was a dream was just making it seem less of a dream and more of my current reality.

And surprisingly, I replied with a, “Ah…I-I’m J-Jake.”, and this allowed me completely ruin any thoughts of believing this to be a dream, as I seemed to not have lost my stutter, and I never, not once, from all the dreams I had that I remember, ever stutter in my dreams. I know it’s a stupid reason, but I find that my theory was now more of my current situation.

Still though, I find myself not panicking, and even if I was, Friede’s smile would have calmed any of my negative emotions down. “Jake, I know this must be confusing for you, but according to your file, which I have read before meeting you, you are quite the open-minded guy, so it would be better if I would be blunt with you.” Friede tells me as she takes a seat, with a file now suddenly appearing in her hand, which she gestured for me to take, which I did.

I opened the file, and I immediately find that the file was about me. Being the curious and self-conscious little shit that I was, I began to read the file, noting from the quick scope I did that this seemed to be a rather descriptive file of me. And as I read, I kept my ears open as I listened to Friede’s calming, patient, and motherly voice that stopped any thoughts of denial. “Now, as I am sure you would have guessed by now, yes, you are most certainly dead.” It was quick and straight to the point, blunt as she had promised to be, and there was a moment where my heart fell and tears quickly invaded my vision, until I once again felt that breeze like feeling pass around me, and I suddenly felt calm.

‘Ah.’ Was my first thought as I realized just what the breeze like thing was. ‘In magical terms, this is like a Calming Spell, right?’ It was my quick deduction of what I had just experienced, and I wish I was this quick in finding out the answer in my academics. Anyway, as scary as being forcefully calmed down from out of nowhere is, I was somewhat thankful for it, because I was sure I would not have been able to stop myself from curling into a ball and crying my heart out. But first…

“Is Jaiden fine?” I needed to find out about my little brother’s current health, if he was alive or not. I just hope that he was alright, as would my other little brother, my grandma, my parents. I needed to know if they were still alive.

And I was once again grateful for the “Calming Spell” that was cast upon me, along with the smile that pushed away my sadness. “No need to worry.” She put her hand on my own, which I then noticed to have fallen on the plate of croissants, rubbed her thumb against my skin, then continued. “The car which had broken through your house had only crushed you. Jaiden was too far away to be caught in the crash, and your other little brother was able to get him out of the house before anything else bad happened.”

Well, that was good to know. It definitely made me feel lighter, knowing that Jaiden was safe. Could have been better if I didn’t die though. Then, looking back at Friede, I managed to straighten my thoughts and ask, “How’d I die? Like, the how?” I died due to a car crashing into a house, but I needed more details. I shouldn’t have died if the car simply crashed into our house on a decent speed. If the car had broken through the wall, which was behind me, then the impact should have slowed down the car, like, by a lot, and in the least, I would be hit be some debris and be squished against the table in front of me (as I had sat back down once I found the remote.). At least, I think I should. I was not smart or sharp enough to know how all of this shit could have gone.

Fortunately, Friede was sure to know, and I was also sure that she was actually a Goddess instead of whatever was that she said she was, or was at least a powerful being. “Oh. Some drunk YouTubers got the bright idea of driving, well, drunk, and streaming it. Things escalated, cops got involved, and the YouTubers hit your house in the attempt to feebly escape the authorities, which was stupid, since they were streaming everything.” After her explanation, I couldn’t help but inwardly curse at the stupidity of these people. Hope they rot in jail, or prison. Whichever was more intense.

“You seem to be taking this rather well.” Her voice broke me out of my musing, and I just realized how much I was cursing the retardedness of these people. But replying to this goddess was more important.

Clearing my throat, I then answered, “I always fantasized about this moment. Of how I would act, of how I would decide, of how I should be. Of course, my fantasy would not really prepare me for the real thing, so I think it’s mostly because of you always keeping me calm.” My answer seemed to satisfy her in a way, since she was smiling wider than earlier.

“Not many people are like you. Most do not notice me using my abilities to calm them down, and most would think negatively of their situation.” Friede supplied, and I just realized that other people had been here, in my situation, billions probably, too.

Out of curiosity, I asked, “What do you do, exactly?”

Then, as if expecting my question, she nodded softly as she waved her hand, summoning a smoothie. Without reservation, I began to greedily drink it all up, relishing at the taste of strawberry. “I am the manager and sole employee of the Department of Soul Care and Soul Renewals. DOSCASR for short. Which means, I and my clones deal with the souls who arrive here, of the people who died in the Original Earth.” I had more questions after that short bit, but I did not want to be rude and suddenly cut in, but thankfully, she answered what I wanted to be answered, which seemed easy enough to do if she was reading my mind.

“By Original Earth, I meant the actual Earth made by the Big G from the Bible, before he decided to make different things, of different Earth’s, different universes. Before we other Gods and Goddesses, of beings humans only thought up as fiction, existed.” That really didn’t answer much of my question, but Friede did not seem to be done yet. “And as much as the fanatics would tell you that God would not play favorites, he actually is my having your Earth be the main focus of a lot of things he created. He even made it so that their would not be any new souls in the Original Earth, so there would also be a set amount of lives on Earth, from the plants, the animals, and humans. He went farther in his favoritism by making the excess souls their own world, but it seems that he at least let the souls still have their hardships and the such, before the cleansing of the soul would begin and send you back to a new body, with no memories and such, with a few exceptions, in a body of either a plant, an animal, or a human.”

Hearing this, I needed a minute to digest all this, and in the end, I realized that, “So, does this mean I’m an excess soul and I’ll have my own world?” I asked, feeling a bit excited.

With her smile never falling, she answered with a simple, “Yes.” before delving deeper into it. “Actually, to have a clearer understanding of it, just imagine being part of a self-insert fanfic, with you as the protagonist. And as such, with how they usually go, you are given the chance to have you, as you humans call it, OP power. Though, you would not be able to choose the world you will be in, nor would you know it before you get sent to it, and your situation and condition would also be random.”

She then spread her arms open, and I was surprisingly not focused on her ample chest, and was more into looking at her eyes that were like the starry night. “So now, give me your wish. What power does this one want? Of course, as I said, God still let the souls we reincarnate have their hardships, so even if you had an OP power, prepare for some weaknesses.”

This was the moment where all my fantasies, all my dreams (I’m exaggerating, but you get it, right?), take one step to being true. And yeah, what I’m about to wish for was overrated at this point, but one can not deny its usefulness, and honestly, I was not smart enough, nor was I as invested into pop-culture, and really know about a lot of things, to choose anything more beneficial than this. I especially was not well versed in anime, books, and shows to know anything that would help me a lot more with my future. So, in the end, my wish was, “I want the [Gamer System].” Of course, I could have also asked for suggestions, or for anything else, but once again, I was not aware of much outside of my own little world.

Hearing my wish, Friede smile became softer, if that was even possible, and her eyes twinkled in amusement. “Ah, yes. Many of the youth wish for this, and like them, it shall be granted. May you use it wisely before the time comes where we meet once again, for a different adventure.”

Then, before darkness once again took over me, Friede’s wonderful smile was the last thing I saw, as if to make sure that everything would all be fine.

^*^*^*^

Afterwards, when my sight was replaced with a rather ugly ceiling, without Friede’s Calming spell, accompanied with her similarly calming smile, the waterworks opened and I cried- hard. I did not wail, rather, I silently cried as I felt my throat and chest tighten, painfully so. Then, after having felt like I had cried for an hour, and dehydrated, I sucked it up, found the bathroom, and was now looking at the person I currently was.

Raynare, also known as…Yuuma Amano? I was bad with names, especially with Japanese ones since they were so different from your usual Filipino and English names. And now that I was thinking about it, Japanese. Ni-fucking-hongo. I, for the life of me, can’t speak. Not even close to being a starter with the help of the internet and Doulingo for a month and some weeks. I recognize some words, can say some of it properly, but I can not understand a whole proper sentence that wasn’t “Owae ma mo shindeiru.”, and I most definitely speak it properly.

[On the contrary, Master, due to the Lady Friede’s help, your /Multi-Lingual/ skill now has Japanese in it, allowing you to understand, speak and be able to write said language.] A voice, a very familiar one, suddenly rang out in my mind, startling me. I nearly panicked and shoot out magic (I was sure the feeling that wanted to escape me was my magic), when a wave of…something, similar to the Calming Spell actually, suddenly wash over me, calming me down immediately.

The voice in my head (the other one) spoke up once again. [I have now allowed /Gamer’s Mind/ to passively help you have a calmer mind, Master. I believe this would allow us to have a much more easier way to properly converse with one another.] Hearing what she had to say, and now with a calmer mind, I was now sure, even without her medieval…accent?, that this was the Fire Keeper in Dark Souls 3. Then, after than realization, I quickly moved on to a different matter.

With both my hands on the sink to help me keep my balance, I asked, “And why did you turn it off in the first place?”, with my voice being as soft as possible, as I was afraid it would break for whatever reason.

[As useful as the /Gamer’s Mind/ would be in battle, for a clearer and more logical mind, it does not help with trauma, and it especially should not be used to force away your emotions.] As she said her reason, I immediately understood why. Keeping your emotions, the negative ones, all the anger, the fear, the sadness, all bottled up, does not end well. I do not want to ever deal with that. This also allowed me to see that my system, if this person inside my head was actually my system in the first place, was a rather helpful and competent one. Having found this out, I couldn’t help but smile, glad that I had such a partner. However, the future will tell me more of myself, and of my system, and everything.

For now, for the present, “Let us talk some more.”

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Chapter 2: Will You Die For Me, Canon-kun?

Summary:

After dealing with her emotions, Raynare now has to make a plan. But a chance appears that should she take advantage of, would make her future both easier and certainly be more uncertain. Fortunately, Raynare made a wonderful friend!

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

As I now sat on the rather lavish bed (which definitely looked out of place inside the basement of a dilapidated church.), I began checking my System. With a simple "Status.", a holographic green screen appeared in front of me. However, even if the "voice" of the system was the Fire Keeper of DS 3, the Status window was definitely not like DS 3's. Though, other than the Fire Keeper's voice, there was another DS 3, related thing in my Status window, and that was the chibi version of said Fire Keeper standing up like a noble lady on the edge of the screen. Obviously, after a quick scan of the stats, which I barely acknowledged, my attention was immediately on the Fire Keeper's! I really need to name her, honestly.

[Welcome to the Status Screen, Master.] Is what she said, but all I could relate it to was, 'Welcome home, Ashen One.'. And, surprisingly enough, the chibi Fire Keeper seemed to have blushed, which immediately told me that she was reading my mind. But, I think it was more like she was connected to it.

And, what the Fire Keeper said next just proved it. [Yes, Master. I am connected to your mind, as I am the System itself. And as the System, it is my duty to help you. As such, being connected to you, being able to listen to your mind, would let me do just that.] Then, her voice became somewhat stern as she continued, [Though, I must agree that you name me something else. "Fire Keeper" is simply a mouthful, Master.]

It was at that moment that my brain went into overdrive. From experience, I have learned that I was not the best when it came to names, and I think it was genetically inherited someway since my parents were the same, naming us three sibling with J's, and our pets had even worse names. But, I just needed a name that wouldn't suck, because I feel that my little cute system did not deserve that kind of torture. Actually, it would have been better if she had picked her own, but her gaze behind her mask-blindfold hybrid just told me that I shouldn't do that.

So, after some time, I finally got a name that I find to be quite fine. "What do you think about Elira?" Okay, in all honesty, I gave up and decided to use my VTuber knowledge and chose Elira Pendora's name. Though Gawr Gura was my all time favorite, calling my system Gura just didn't feel right, but Elira somehow seemed fine. And my system seemed to also be fine with it, going by how she hummed contentedly.

[Though I do not appreciate how you chose my name, Elira feels fine to me. So, Master, Elira is now my name. No need to keep on referring to me as, 'the system' and especially not as the Fire Keeper.] It seems that Elira was content, for now, and for some odd reason, I find myself being overflowed with joy at how I was able to satisfy my adorable little chibi. And by the blush that once again adorned her adorable cheeks, my thoughts were being very clear.

With a fake cough to catch my attention (which it did.), we now are to talk about the other important matter. My Stats.

|~|
Name: Raynare
Age: 2,508
Race: Impure Angel/Fallen Angel
Level: 58
Job: Mage
Title: Megalomaniac Angel
HP: 442/442
MP: 440/440

Strength: 47
Vitality: 45
Dexterity: 49
Endurance: 43
Intelligence: 50
Wisdom: 46
Charisma: 54(-10/+7)
Luck: 11
Remaining Points: 57
|~|

Looking at my stats, I was sure God didn't create us as equals. Because, obviously, the Seraphs were strong from the start, and I was obviously canon fodder. And for Christ's sake, I can't believe Raynare's this old and yet was just level 58! Was this like Dark Souls? Do you need a fucking billion souls to ever reach the limit? (I fucking used cheat engine to give me souls, which didn't work, but I used it to sell a lot of Embers instead.) But that can't possibly it! I once chanced upon Sirzechs supposed age, which was 100-years-old! Like, fuck you!

Thankfully, Elira was here to help me alleviate my frustration. [Master. The reason why the people in this worls are as steong as they are is because they were blessed by the heavens.]

.....okay. Elira was actually quite a little bitch, so fuck you, Elira, but I still love you, okay?

Thankfully, Elira was just amused, and finally gave me a proper answer. [The reason why the people are as strong as they are really are blessed by the heavens. Well, not by God exactly, but rather, it's because of Fate. Fate is what allowed them to become strong, while it was also what forced the canon fodder, the mobs, to be weak. Everything is predetermined, and Raynare stayed as weak as she is, even after through all she went through, because she was chained by faith to be the stepping stone of the hero.]

Well, that was pretty scary. But, honestly, I could see it happening. And in a more deeper observation, Fate was the author, and the author has made some plot holes that had been covered up by glue and flex tape. Because, let's be real, the canon fodder of the Angels, the Fallen, and the Devils, should be stronger than they are, as they are older, which also meant much more experienced. And, if you think about it with my observation, these canon fodders should have a better chance against people like the Hero Faction, who, although were descendants of Heroes and blessed, were still humans and young.

Anyways, I was ranting once again, and I didn't know where I was going. But all in all, the canon fodder and non-human mobs should be stronger than they should be. And blessed people should really be reported for hax.

Though, I have a rather important question. "Is my Fate sealed?" Was I Fated to do something? Was I chained to be weak? Did I have a purpose? Was I Fated to Die? These questions flooded my brain, and I needed them to be answered. Because, what was the point of living your life if everything was predetermined.

Elira, being able to read my mind, actually winced, before a soft smile adorned her chubby face. Ah. That honestly healed my heart a bit.

[Master. There is no need for you to be worried, for you are not chained to anything. Fate is a concept that doesn't strictly guide God's creations. You humans may have your Fates and Destinies, but you are not bound to them. Your futures may be predetermined, but a simple wave of your hand can change it into something else. Especially now, now that you are in your own world.] Hearing this, I immediately relaxed and I felt lighter than earlier. This reassurance was something I needed right now.

"Thank you." Was the words that softly came out of my lips, and even if I had let it out as a whisper, I was sure Elira would have heard it still. Then, seemingly happy with my gratitude, Elira preened, which healed my soul and heart, eliciting a sigh out of me.

"Can you give me an explanation on my stats, which I would easily understand?" I asked, hoping that she would give me an explanation that wouldn't need me to painfully wrack my brains to understand their meaning.

Bowing cutely, Elira waved her hand and a different screen appeared in front of me. [I believe this should suffice.]

|~|

-Every living being starts of with 100 HP, unless they were made strong in the beginning, like the Seraphs.

-Every level-up would add 5 HP and 5 MP, and there will be no Points freely given.

-Free points are gained through quests.

-The Strength you have will be the strongest you can dish out, while also obviously allowing you to carry heavy objects.

-Vitality gives you more health. Current Vitality x 10% + Current Vitality will be added to your base HP. And the recovery rate would be (Current Vitality x 30%) + (Max HP x 30%) per minute. -Also translates into stamina.

-Dexterity would help you with handling weapons and precision.

-Endurance - Attack taken = The Damage overall. - Has relations with stamina.

-Intelligence affects the damage of your magic with; Current INT + 10%

-Wisdom is like Vitality, but with MP.

-Charisma makes you more noticeable, makes it so people listen to you more. Basically, it allows you to be more leader-y.

-Luck affects the events around you, and the loots dropped by certain enemies.

-The - 10 and +7 beside the Charm stat is due to your current outfit, which some people enjoy and some don't.

|~|

The written explanation was very simple, somewhat caveman-ish, but I was able to understand it! I was even sure that Elira made this for me to read because I would understand this better than her verbally explaining it to me. And, after some time and having read it about three times now, I just know that Charisma would be the stat I wouldn't invest in much, since I was an absolute self-conscious, anti-social brat. Strength, Wisdom and Intelligence would be my top priority, since I would like a combat mage build. Sadly, there wasn't a stat for speed, which would allow me for an easier reach for a stealthy combat mage build, but since there isn't one, I would have to make do with what I have to be as stealthy as possible. But thinking about it now, I do not think stealth would be much considering my enemies.

Then, my second priority would be Luck, Endurance, Vitality, and Dexterity. Of course, Charisma would be my last focus on my stats. Anyway, with a build in mind, I must now begin making plans on how to achieve this. But first.

"Elira?" I called out to her, completely ignoring that I had no need to use my voice to talk to her. [We are currently a whole month away from the beginning of it all, Master.] Having no need to listen to my question, she quickly answered it before I could utter a word. And, well, this certainly gives me a bit of time to prepare better.

As I was formulating a plan, Elira had, then, brought me out of my musing. [Master. I suggest that before anything else, you must check your Inventory. A surprise is there waiting for you.] Well, this seemed promising, and from the sound of Elira's voice, this "surprise" would seem to be a good one. So, without further ado and soft murmur of "Inventory", I now face a green screen with 5x5 boxes, with each of them filled with things and- wait! Is that my phone!?!

My phone was my fucking lifeline! And you boomers better not be getting any of your stupid ideas. My phone was my only way to acquiring joy. It is through my phone that I get to read all those wonderful novels, play games, and connect with friends! And hopefully, my phone would still work, 'cause I hell ain't no interested in a new phone now, especially since I am sure that I was around 2008-2009, so my phone would be leagues above anything else!....which also meant that it would probably not work.

[*Sigh* Master, you goof. You should put more focus on the more important bit of the Inventory. However, your phone is a gift from Lady Friede, which she tweaked to be connected internationally, have unlimited data, and be connected with the Original Earth, though the time between the Original Earth and here would be....wonky.] Hearing this, I gleefully squealed in delight, wishing that I could just hug Friede and Elira. With this, it meant that I still get to watch Gura and the others! Hopefully though, Original Earth won't go at a speed of 1,000 years every second here.

And, still feeling my delight fill up my body, I bent said body forward and planted a kiss on top of chibi Elira's head, trying my beat to convey my happy emotions to her. I was then given a chance to once again see her blush!

'Ah~... Just what did I do to deserve this much bliss~...-.. Right. I died.' This was my happy turned depressive thoughts, but I wouldn't let it keep me down. And still filled with positive energy, I began to look through my inventory, looking out for the surprise (since it seems that it wasn't my phone.) and the other things in it. I got to say, I was a bit confused with what was inside it. I wasn't sure if the inventory was filled with he things I owned, or it was filled with random, helpful stuff that I don't recognize. I could see my phone charger, my laptop, its charger, my mouse, some money, some snacks, and some more combat oriented things that I wasn't sure was mine or was gifted to me by Friede. There knives in my inventory, knives which I soon realized were the combat knives I bought from a public store when I was like, 12 years old. I still don't know why they sold it to me, especially since I was obviously a kid, a student, and they were in a rather public place (inside of a compound for small business.), and I still remember fondly that I sold said knives to my fellow 12 year old schoolmates, inside of the school.I can't believe how easy it was to hide a knife in my pencil case, the guards and the staff was none the wiser of my admittedly illegal selling shtick.

But! Once again, I am getting of topic. I must find my surprise, which didn't seem to be in this page, so I clicked on the arrow icon below it and was immediately met with a large box that contained a box that just said "SURPRISE" in big bold letters. "Huh." Was the sound that escaped my lips as I went to read the description it had.

{The Surprise Pack is basically the Beginner Pack, but I added something special in it, just for you~!
-Friede}

Reading the description filled my heart with warmth once again, knowing that Friede was out there looking out for me. Honestly, other than my death and being cut away from my family and friends, my day seems to be getting better and better! Well, not wanting to waste time, I immediately took out the box from the inventory by thinking it, which worked, and I now have the box in my hand. It practically weighed like nothing, but I chalked it up as Game Logic.

Unfortunately, I quickly found out that it wasn't a box. Rather, it was a cube. A full on, solid cube. Confused, I immediately looked at the screen in front of me, which now just showed Elira.

[Try throwing it down.] Was her suggestion, and seeing she was the System, I easily followed her suggestion and just let the cube fall down to the dirty, cobblestone floor, where it shattered into particles. I didn't even get a chance to panic when suddenly, pop-ups appeared on the lower right side of my vision. Somehow, I was able to read it clearly as if it was right in front of me instead of being in my peripherals!

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+1 Claw Gauntlet
+10 Great HP Potions
+10 Great MP Potions
+1 Instant Teleportation Scroll
+1 Death's Contract
+1 Crop Top Hoodie
+5 Skirts
+1 Crop Top Hoodie(Short)
+1 Yoga Top(Open Back)
+1 Yoga Pants
+5 Sets of Lingerie
+3 Pair of Thigh-high Stockings
+5 Pairs of Thigh-high Socks
+2 Pairs of Sneakers
+21,832 Yen(10,000 Pesos)
+1 Dungeon Key
+1 Potion of Invincibility
+1 Potion of Absolute Invisibility
+1 Anti-Detection Charm
|~|

Looking through the pop-ups, I was immensely surprised by the amount of items it had. True, most of the items were nearly clothes for me, but that one box just had tons of things. But first, I must focus on the more important things first. So, quickly going back to my Inventory and to the second page, I immediately found the 16 slots of the 25 were filled with the items I had just received, but of course, the fantastical items were harder to identify with a passing glance, such as which were which for the potions, and the scroll and the contract.

Ignoring the urge to change my current clothes for better ones (I was not into this dominatrix leather "outfit".), I began reading the strongest thing here first.

{Death's Contract
-Tier: EX
-Type: Contract
-One Time Use
-Any name written on this contract will have their soul taken by Death, no matter how powerful and whoever they are, unless they are beings far from the reaches of the concept of Death or are soulless.}

'Fuck! An EX item! Holy fucking nuns praising God's shit! Friede! Thank you so much! An Instant-Kill item!! Fuck, yes!!' I internally began to celebrate in my mind, my body was once again filled with joy. Like, wow, I'm feelin' really lucky with everything right now. Also, hopefully this item would work against beings like Trihexia, and especially whatever ExE was, which I just heard to be stronger than the likes of Great Red and Ophis.

Then, with a renewed sense of vigor, I began to look at the others.

{Claw Gauntlet
-Tier: SSS
-Type: Gauntlet
-Durability: 100,000/100,000
-A clawed gauntlet specifically made for Raynare, made of Vibranium from the Marvel Universe, and now being quite possibly the strongest metal in the Highschool DxD universe.

Physical Damage: Strength x 200%
Sharpness: 400}

I'm definitely fucking going to use this. And it fit perfectly with how I wanted to fight!

{x10 Great HP Potions
-Tier: B+
-Type: Potion
-One Time Use
-Great HP Potions heals you with 60% of your health.}

The MP potions should be the same.

{Instant Teleportation Scroll
-Tier: A
-Type: Scroll
-One Time Use
-Will teleport you to the location written on the scroll, and will activate through your intentions or when in immense danger, even when inside the Inventory.}

Fucking useful.

{Dungeon Key
Tier: SS
Type: Key
-Reusable
-Destination: RWBY
-The Dungeon Key would allow you to go to another world where you could level up with some level of safety. And time would also stop in the Highschool DxD world while inside the Dungeon. To use, one only need the key to be inserted into a door's keyhole. }

Ooh! Can I get a mecha-shift gauntlet like Yang's? Wait. Is Ember Celica actually gauntlets? Actually, I think their not, but they're close enough. Also, can I meet RWBY?!

{Potion of Invincibility
-Tier: S
-Type: Potion
-One Time Use
-Grants to user absolute invincibility from attacks and debuffs for 10 minutes.}

Alright. That's fine.

{Potion of Absolute Invisibility
-Tier: S+
-Type: Potion
-One Time Use
-Grants the user invisibility from all the senses of every being in the world for 15 minutes.}

Very, very useful.

{Anti-Detection Charm
-Tier: B+
-Type: Barrier
-Durability: 1,090/1,090
-Energy: 500/500
-A charm in the form of a small wooden dragon sculpture that hides your presence from prying eyes and any kind of detection spells. Can also has a barrier that blocks any forms of attacks in addition to the Anti-Detection. Has a radius of 30 meters, and can only work against beings under level 300.}

Yep. Thank you very much, Friede. This definitely would help me out a lot. All of these. And I'm very grateful for all of this.

Next, of course, were the clothes, which I definitely liked! Not only that, but they had Quality instead of Tier, and all of them were High-Quality. Other than that, they add some points to the Charisma stat and have a Defense stat, which wasn't much. Afterwards, I immediately discarded my current outfit, which didn't dissipate like I expected it to be, which meant they were actual clothing instead of one made with magic, and put on the black, lacey lingerie, which took me some time to put on, especially since this was all unfamiliar to me, especially the garter belt and the bra, then the yoga top, the shorter crop top hoodie, the plaid skirt, and of course, the black thigh-high stockings, which I should have put on together with the garter belt. Anyway, with my new outfit, I now looked extremely different!

Gone was the intimidating, over-sexualized, dominatrix, and now there was a cute, girl-next-door type of woman in the mirror! I absolutely loved the look, and I didn't care if I was now a narcissist with how in love I am with myself right now!

However, after all this, I now have to deal with a different matter.

"What do you think, Elira? Should I talk with Azazel?" I asked Elira, hoping for her input, because I don't trust myself with my own decisions, in perfect Japanese now, like I was still speaking in English.

[I believe that that would be fine action to take. With this action, you just mighy receive Azazel's acknowledgement, and possibly a favor. Then, you would also avoid more annoying things that would happen in the future. And, not to worry, you may be destroying most of what the Canonical Timeline has, or will have, the "Fates" of the heroes will be stronger than the enemies, always. So, even with your intervention, "Fate" would still favor Issei and somehow turn him into Gremory's pawn and find a way for him and Asia to meet. Unless, of course, you intervene once again and fully stop Issei from becoming a Devil or letting the two meet.] So basically, I get to kill off some annoyances and I wouldn't receive much consequence future knowledge-wise? That's fucking nice. As much as I hated being overly canon compliant, I needed the future knowledge to be grounded and be properly prepared.

And so, without the threat of being absolutely blind of the future, I now made my decision. "So...how does one contact the leader of the Fallen Angel faction?"

Fortunately, Elira was such a babe and led me through the dilapidated church to find our communication center. I, of course, wouldn't simply send a letter explaining what was happening, in fear of it being intercepted by Kokabiel's followers. Instead, I sent him a letter that was related to his current job for us, which wouldn't alert Kokabiel's people, since it would seem I was trying my best to keep our real mission a secret.

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What do you peeps think?

Chapter 3: Was It Thick Thighs or Thigh Highs That Saves Lives?

Summary:

Raynare now has made her decision, and all she has to do is go through with it. All she has left to do was for to wait for Azazel's letter (why letters!? They had fucking magic! And phones!), but it seems her luck was starting to run out.

Thankfully, it seems Thigh-Highs are truly life savers. Or was it the Thighs?

Notes:

If you find any grammatical errors, please inform me.

Chapter Text

After what I had done, I now felt extremely lethargic. I didn't make any plans other than wait after sending my letter, but I felt that I would do with something to help me level up, like going to the Dungeon. But now, I was now feeling rather lazy, so, for now, let's procrastinate for a bit. Sadly, this church wasn't the best place to waste my time in. Not only was it dilapidated, but it was filled with stray exorcists, and I do not want to deal with any of the other Fallen here, especially since I did not know how to properly act like the original Raynare, nor do I want to. So, the only option was to look around the town. Not only was I wasting my time, but I was also familiarizing myself with the central point of conflict of the anime. Well, I think Kuoh Town's the central point of conflict since this is where the Protagonist and his people are living in. And so, without further ado, with Elira acting as my GPS and with the help with the Mini-Map function (which I had just found out.), I was able to stealthily leave the God forsaken church.

'Ugh. Why didn't the humans of this place just destroy this place. It looks more like a horror house than a church now.' Was my thoughts as I eyed the church, which should barely be considered as a church now. Anyway, I left the place, and was now going through the residential area of Kuoh Town. I've got to say, seeing the difference in architecture makes all this experience more ethereal than it is. Here I am, in the body of the first ever antagonist of an anime, a very lewd one, with my sex changed, being led around by my System.

Still, as unbelievable as it is, this is my life now, and I can't change it. Thankfully, maybe even more unfortunately, I was broken out from my musings by the grumbling of my stomach. Which meant I was hungry. Which also meant I had to go deeper into the town, to the more populated area, and be gawked at by people and quite possibly be approached by unruly men, which I could seemingly deal with, but I just didn't really like to have any kind of verbal contact with other people. I did not want to embarrass myself with my stuttering, which I believed /Gamer's Mind/ wouldn't deal with.

[Master, no need to stress yourself. Lady Friede had blessed me the ability to dispense whatever food you want for free and no limits.] Elira's melodious voice pulled me out of my thoughts, and I was thankful for this wonderful feature Friede had given Elira! Yup, Friede's definitely best girl, along with Elira. This also meant I had no need to make my own food (unless I felt the need to do so.)!

And, without any theatrics, a slice of warm pepperoni pizza appeared on open palm. Immediately after, I began devouring the delicious little thing, and another, and another, and another once again after that! Friede! Since you're a Goddess, there wouldn't be a problem if I used your name instead of God, right? I'm not hearing a no magically coming out of nowhere, so I'm taking that as a "Yes."!

Anyway, with my seemingly black hole of a stomach being satiated, for now, I continued on with my journey.

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6 Hours Later, Azazel's POV
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My current progress with creating my own Sacred Gear is going quite well, which fills me with determination! However, I have been in my lab for a week now, I think....yeah. I checked my phone, been here for a whole week. This also meant I'm really pent up right, so I'll have to call for Penemue to help me "relieve some stress", hehehehe.

"Caw!" A sudden cawing of the Crow I had felt enter my lab caused me to finally give them my full attention. Flicking my lab coat, I stretched out my hand to allow the crow to hop on my hand. Taking some bird feed from the space-storage I had in my lab and placing it in front of the crow, I, then, gently pried off the miniaturized parchment tied to their feet. Then, with the parchment free from its confines, it grew to its original size, allowing me to read it without the need of my enhanced senses. Honestly, its thanks to these little things that the other factions rarely get a hold of our actions, since they focus more on intercepting any magical and technological carriers and ignore our crows.

For some time, the sound that filled my lab was the pecking of the crow and the machines that were still doing their jobs somewhat noisily. Yes, my lab was most definitely not quite, most of the time, but I have gotten so used to it that it now had a calming effect on me. However, I was feeling very apprehensive with this report in my hand. Raynare's group, I was sure of it, were tasked to watch over the Sacred Gear holder that I had found to be possibly have a rather powerful said Gear, which I hoped to observe without the meddling of the other Factions. It was not easy to get a hold of Sacred Gear holders, with my own faction barely having around 5 of them, with only Tobi and Vali being the noticeable ones. And I'm prettly lucky to have both of them, even if Vali's a little piece of shit. But he's my little piece of shit.

Anyway, this report felt rather weird. It didn't seem different from the past reports, but it now had a sense of secrecy, not from the other factions, but from someone else. Then, there was the mention of us needing to speak face to face. All in all, this felt different, and important. And my gut's telling me that something was starting to smell fishy, or maybe I was just hungry.

Waiting for the crow to finish their food, I then went to make my own missive. Though, where should we meet? Actually, meeting at anywhere in Kuoh without being found out by the Devils would be a big "Fuck you." to them, so maybe that'd be a good a place. Though, I seriously need to not be found out. No need to start a war because of my little rendezvous.

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Raynare's POV
^*^*^*^*^

For hours, I had been touring the outskirts of Kuoh, with most of it actually being spent with finding a place to sit down while I ate and watched Gura's newest stream, live. I'll just chalk that up to Friede's intervention and the wonky time difference between the worlds.

Anyway, checking the time, it has been 6 hours since I left the church. And throughout it all, I had yet to enter the more populated area of the town. I promised myself, at some point in time between my journey and watching the stream, that I would fully explore the place, which meant entering the business district and whatnot. I didn't want to, with all the people and the attention I will surely bring to myself, but I had to do this properly. The need for a more comfortable, less skin showing, clothes and the sudden Quest appearing were great motivators though.

|~|
-Quest: Woman Up!
-Time Limit: None
-Required Quest

-Don't let your anxieties hold you back. You are now an independent, Fallen Angel woman, so become a better person than who you are now! Start by entering the more populated area of Kuoh Town, explore a bit, and buy your necessities!

-Requirement/s:
-Enter Kuoh Town's Business Plaza and explore it.
-Socialize a bit and buy new sets of clothes!

-Reward/s:
-+1 Charm
-+1 Free Stat Point
-Ownership of Apartment 102, of the "Serenity" Apartment Complex
-
|~|

A place if my own was a tempting reward, and with it, I now feel a bit empowered to face my socializing fears. I definitely do not want to sleep in a collapsing building filled with fanatics and people that could kill me for acting differently. Honestly, I had some hope that the three Fallens, Kalawarner, Mittelt, and Donhaseek (Friede, remembering names wasn't easy.), were nicer than they were in the anime, that they had some good in them that could be salvaged, enough to pull them to a more neutral, and less destructive side. Also, being surrounded by a hot, older woman type and a lolita was something I was looking forward to if it was possible to convert them to the Better Side, especially since I have more than cookies at hand. But of course, that's least likely to actually happen.

Though, whilst I was deep in thought, I now found myself surrounded by a lot of people, mostly students going home, since it was well past 5 pm now. And as I predicted, many were leering at me, especially at my openly displayed flat, yummy, stomach, my delectable ass and breasts, and my thighs. It was unnerving, the attention all on me. The gazes of the males made my skin crawl, especially I used to be a guy and straight, but the upside was that I got to enjoy the glazed look of a lot of women I passed by. And, with the influence of Highschool DxD's bullshittery, every women was a beauty in their own right.

Anyway, even if I enjoyed having the women's gazes on me, I was still socially awkward, and all I wanted to do now was to just hide in a hole. However, I had a mission! A quest! This was for the place of my own, a place where I could be all alone, and hopefully, a den of sapphic depravity (sapphic' s a big word I just learned recently, and I'm proud of myself at being able to use it in a proper sentence, which is a bit sad honestly.). So, as a compromise, I put on my earphones (I didn't own any Bluetooth earphones that I trusted to not fall off.), played Gura's Ka-wi-okes, and put on my hood, which had become a bit of a problem, since I now had a really long hair, which I needed to fix up first and get used to.

Thankfully, it didn't take long for me to walk around a bit to finish the first part of my Quest, showed by my progress bar at 50%, so that meant that all I had to do was buy some more clothes (I actually had other clothes in my inventory, the ones I owned, but I was a woman now, with a different body type to match.), probably some hygienic equipment, which Elira had told me that she would help with, thank Friede. I had nearly zero knowledge with feminine care.

At around 6:25, I was able to find a shop that sold what I wanted. Extremely large clothes for women and fashionably sexy clothing which I don't know the names of, plus underwear. The staff were quite delicate (I don't actually know if that's the proper description.) with me, the one who was just turned into a woman (which they don't know.), but I gathered enough courage to ask some fashion advices and the like, and they helped me out greatly, especially with the color coding. I even learned new terms for things and such. So, after nearly an hour, filled with trying out new clothing with the help of the staff, and even some of the patrons, some casual flirting that raised up my confidence in myself, I was now 20,000-ish Yen lighter with the absurd amount of clothes I bought, but very much happier, and had even socialized without a problem! This day was surely becoming an emotional roller coaster, but at least it mostly had happier times.

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Akeno's POV
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My day has gone as it usually had, waking up to a naked Rias hugging my similarly naked body, having been once again used as my King's body pillow, after one of our "sessions" last night. Afterwards, I had cooked for little Gasper, Rias, and Koneko's breakfast, before taking a bath and then joining the group, with Kiba soon joining us after having his own breakfast in his apartment.

The morning and afternoon was soon filled with my usual classes, the usual leering from the men and women, paired with their praises for my and Rias's beauty. So, yes, it was all going as it usually did, and if it continued that way, then my evening would be filled with cooking dinner and tending to my King, or following through my summons, or maybe even killing off another stray to alleviate my other itch. However, something...different came about.

There was a feeling deep in my chest, and it wasn't the good kind. It felt kind of familiar, but also not at the same time. It made me curious enough to want to find this out on my own, enough to even cause me to ask to leave my duties for tonight. Thankfully, Rias thought I needed some time off, so she allowed it. Though, I did feel a little guilty about hiding this feeling that could possibly lead me into something dangerous, but I just, for reasons unknown, have the need to do this on my own. To find out this feeling of weird familiarity.

So, here I was, in front of a clothing shop for women, watching the women inside fuss about a woman who I was sure to be the reason for this feeling inside me. And by the Mauos, she was simply an irresistible snack! She had hair, similar to mine, eyes like mine, too. Actually, she, in some way, looked just like me! Which immediately sparked off some warning signs in me.

Black hair was a trait most Fallen had, as do I, with some exceptions like Azazel, but that shouldn't be the reason to suspect her of being from my most hated race. However, this feeling deep within me, I now know what it meant. It meant that my kin were close by, as disgusting as that is. I loathed my connection to my father, and by that, the Fallen. I hated my feathery wings, a clear sign of being a hybrid. But I could never hate myself, as I am my mother's daughter.

However, going back to the now, since she was a Fallen (I believe that she is.), does she know I am here? Are there other Fallen here? This was something I had to report to Rias! But, by some unknown reason, when the woman went out of the shop, my legs began following her!

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Raynare's POV
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With my Quest complete, I now had ownership of my own apartment! My own place to call home! I never would have thought that this was how I would start my first steps into adulthood, even though I wasn't technically out of my teens yet, barely being past it yet, but I am still glad. Though, there was this itch in my chest that I just can't seem to scratch, but I think it's just my happiness practically bubbling out of me! My day had really gotten good! Though, looking through the feminine care section of the grocery store like a retard soured my mood earlier, I was still happy in the end. So happy, in fact, that I was actually skipping towards my apartment! I am a bit troubled with my boobs constantly bouncing though, but it's a problem I will learn to solve in the future. Right now, I just wanted to get my den set up.

Thankfully, there was no need for me to go back to the church, as Elira, basically having knowledge of everything in the supernatural world, told me that the messenger crow I used would somehow find me, instead of going back to the church. Holing up in my apartment would also help me avoid the other fallen, and it was better to have them look for me, hopefully even have them think I had died somehow, than have a chance to be comprised!

Then, after a while, I was soon nearing my apartment, when a Quest pop upped.

|~|
-Quest: Damsel not-so-much in Distress
-Time Limit: None/Situational
-Optional Quest

-You should really, really look out for cliches. Being a hot piece of ass, all alone, out at night, just screams rape-material, which would eventually mean a hero would come save you.

-Requirement/s:
-Don't scare the humans away.
-Wait for your knight and shining armor to come.

Secret Requirement/s
-???

-Reward/s:
-???'s hate for you will disappear.
-Chance to have a civil relationship with the devils.
-???'s reluctant acceptance of you for being a good girl.
|~|

And just as I finished reading it, barely even having time to think about this Secret Requirement, the sound of a can being kicked about reverberated in the alleyway beside me, causing me to look left. Then, there they were, gangsters.

"Woo-hoo! Well, looks like tonight's our lucky night, boys! We gotta beauty here with us! Haha!" The leader, I presume, hollered out, a grin present on his fave as he led his group of...skeletons.

"Hoo~, doggie! Hey, babe! Why don't ya come with us! We'll surely give ya a night to remembah!" One of the skeletons called out, touching his groin in an attempt to look dominating, with his other hand tightly gripping his bat. Yeah, they were skeletons. But they were skeletons with weapons, which common people wouldn't be able to fight against much. And guessing by the lack of people here, I could only guess that this was a known territory. How people like these, clearly criminals with the case of rape, with how familiar they seemed with all this, were still here and not in prison, I did not know. However, what I did know, was that this was my chance to get goody-goody with the devils (which I didn't exactly need, nor did I necessarily be part of the devils or the like, but the more allies, the better my chances of living.).

Though, being the socially awkward 17-year-old boy turned 2,500-ish-year-old woman that I was, I carefully backed away, clutching my bag of clothing (most were discreetly placed in my Inventory.) tightly in my grasp as I prayed that my knight in shining armor, who I believed to be Issei being watched over by Gremory, to come quickly, so that I don't have to deal with all this humiliation and cringe. And to also, hopefully, punish these bastards for the women who were unfortunate in meeting them. Yeah, I have a small, hero-complex, so what?

"Ah, ah, ah. No need to leave now, babe. The party's about to start. Come on, let's have some fun." The leader said, trying to be imposing, and also pulling out a gun to put in some fear in me for compliance, which did put a little bit of fear in me, since I was unsure of how much a gun could damage me. And, honestly, if they say "let's have some fun." once again, or any other innuendo, I wouldn't be able to stop myself from curling into a ball and cringing, hard, from all these generic dialogue I'm putting up with.

However, time just seemed to suddenly stop when a different voice reverberated through the street.

"M-mommy?" The voice of a young girl caught all of our attention, causing all of us to look at a pair of mother and daughter, both looking on with fear, with the child having more confusion mixed in, not fully understanding the situation.

"Shit! Boss! There's a kid! Can I get her first! Can I? Can I?-" One of the men began to annoyingly ask, and dread filled my body as laughter soon followed after the questions. This just got more precarious, and I was not sure on how I could properly deal with this.

"Hahaha! 'Course you can! I'm more'nto the lady in front of us! So, I'll have her first and you guys can go for the other tw-" Without even thinking about it, I cut the man off, with my fist directly in between his eyes. Then, without wasting any time, I pried the gun from his hand, crushed it with all my strength (thankfully, it didn't set off the bullets), making sure he wouldn't accidentally (or intentionally) shoot the people behind me. I didn't care about the Quest anymore, well, I did. But I was too disgusted with these trash that it's overshadowing the disappointment of not completing the Quest and not receiving the rewards.

Then, just as I was about to grab the nearest man's bat to use it as a weapon, because I had priorities, which were to not touch trash with my bare hands, when I suddenly felt the presence of another person join in, which was a weird feeling, but I could only guess that the other person behind me was my supposed knight in shining armor, who I presume was to be Issei, or maybe somebody else entirely.

Anyway, bat in hand, I Sparta-kicked the douche in front of, twisted my body, then used half my strength to swing the bat and hit another flesh bag of trash, hopefully not enough to kill them, since shit stains like them need to rot in prison before being incinerated in hell!

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After dealing with the men, I immediately went to the mother and daughter pair, who both stood frozen in place, but it seemed that the mother was still able to call the authorities. Then, I began checking if they were all fine, hoping that our battle hadn't somehow injured them in a way, which also meant I had to check for the child's mental health. The kid didn't need any kind of trauma from this. Thankfully, however, her childish mind had done its job, which lead to now.

"Wow~! Are you a hero?! Did you defeat the bad guys!!?" The little girl asked in childish ignorance, and it took a moment for my brain to catch up, before it all but shoved away my feelings of embarrassment away as I posed heroically, causing the child's eyes to light up.

Thumping my fist to my chest, I then said with the most awe-inspiring voice I could muster, "Of course I am! The bad guys were going to do bad things to you and your mom, so I transformed into a hero and beat the bad guys up and saved the...uh...night!" By transformation, I meant that my hoodie sadly got sliced half-through, which was then fully ripped apart whilst in the battle, but I didn't need to tell the kid that. And, hopefully, I could stitch it up back to normal and make it seem that it was meant to look that way.

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Akeno's POV
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For some reason or another, I was still following the woman! But, I believe, that since she was a Fallen, she was certainly up to no good, and as such, I must make sure that she doesn't do whatever that is while looking for a chance to call for Rias, since I was not sure I could take on an unknown Fallen all be myself. I surely won't be able to deal with the collateral damage and the humans that would be caught if I made a mistake. And I am also not sure if she'd be able to sense magic if I tried to call Rias through it, and, conveniently enough for her, my phone's battery just ran out.

And not only that, but her thighs were distracting! I'm bi and proud of it, so my female hormones, upped by my devil nature, just made me want to suffocate myself on those luscious pillows, completely forgetting my hatred for her and her kind for a moment. However, when she abruptly stopped, I was immediately on gaurd, preparing for an attack.

Though, what happened next was unexpected. A group of gangsters appeared! But, actually, if I was more aware of my surroundings, I would have known this was the territory of a known gang that had been able to avoid the police for some time. And since they weren't supernatural matters, they weren't our top priority.

Then, seeing the situation she was in, I was prepared to just...let her kill them (as I sure was how the woman would react to being approached by them, but there is a possibility that she'd actually join them!), since this was killing two birds with one stone. We get to get rid of scum, and I would have my opportunity to call for back-up and hopefully surprise her and kill her, or buy enough time for back-up to come.

Though, things had taken another unexpected turn. A mother and daughter had somehow found their way hear, and I was about ready to comprise my person to save the humans, when suddenly, those thighs just disappeared, then reappeared in front of the gang leader. Then, without thinking, I was soon beside the owner of said thighs, fighting with her, and getting deeply aroused inflicting pain on these scum while there was a hot babe fighting with me.

Afterwards, things got weirder. The Fallen all but ignored me, and went straight for the humans behind us. I was suddenly prepared to fight her, when the Fallen just struck a heroic pose, causing the child to squeal in delight! That pose she had done, however, greatly showed off her thighs and I wasn't able to help myself from saying, "Great job out there, oh valiant Thunder Thighs."

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Chapter 4: Want A Cupcake?

Summary:

Raynare meets the Knight/Queen.
Akeno gets frisky.
Something happens.
Koneko loves sweets.
We have a system that gives out free food.

Nom.

Chapter Text

Raynare's POV

I eyed Akeno warily, prepared to intercept any kind of attack she'd send my way, making sure that my body was blocking the mother and her child behind me. In most of the Highschool DxD fanfics I read, it was usually mentioned that Akeno loathed the Fallen, because of her father, which dumb all things considered. But I was in the present, with her in front of me. In the anime, which I don't remember much, Akeno pretty much killed the three fallen that followed Raynare by herself, and had the air of confidence that implied she could have even taken Raynare, me, the leader of that group, without a problem. So, it was safe to say that Akeno was leagues above me, currently, and I need to somehow find a way for things to end up in a manner where I wasn't dead, or hunted.

"Ooh~! Hero onee-chan's name is Thunder Thighs!" Though, the tension was immediately fucking bodied when the innocent child's voice filled the street. Turning almost robotically at the child, then making a smoother turn to give Akeno a look, the tension was all but forgotten as the two of us, even the mother, began to laugh, the little girl soon following our example to not feel left out.

"Haha~! That's right! I have thighs so strong, when it hits the bad guys, thunder fills the world!" I unashamedly called out, not having an ounce of care for my dignity and just going along with it. Then, as my enhanced hearing picked up the sounds of sirens, I quickly thought up of a plan of escape, which was easy enough to do.

"However, you are not only the people who needs help! Together with my sidekick," I gestured to Akeno, while silently using my chin to point at the direction of the sirens. "we will go save more people in need! So, for now, good bye, little one, may we meet again!"

Without any further ado, I grasped Akeno's hand (Friede they were smooth.), and just fucking ran. I did not need to deal with talking with more strangers. As fun as it was talking to the staff in the shop I was in earlier, my quota for talking's now filled up! Then, as we got farther and farther from the scene of the crime, I was starting to feel safer. However, I wouldn't fully feel safe until I somehow lose the black haired beauty behind me. So, with all of the courage and adrenaline inside me, and with all my skills in acting, I remained in character and smoothly let go of Akeno's hand as we slowed down to stop.

Turning around, and still hoping Akeno was still amicable enough to listen before asking her questions, I then said, "With the mother and her child saved, we now must go take our separate ways. I thank you, immensely so, for the help you have given me, but we could do more when we are apart. And as such, good bye." Hopefully, that was enough to weird her out or something to give me enough time to run away.

Unfortunately, just as I had turned my back to her, I was suddenly pushed against the wall (in my urgency, I had not noticed I was about to crash into a wall for escape.), and was quickly trapped against it by the soft body pressed against my back. Damn, it felt good, and hot, and I would have even moaned out at the experience, but I held it in, fearing for my life.

"Ara~ ara~. Hero-chan~, you can't just run away like that~. I'm your sidekick, remember~? You simply can't just leave me in the streets~. You must take responsibility for it~." That....was unexpected. The sensual voice, the soft rubbing of her body against my back, the delicate touches against my hips....Friede I didn't expect this at all. And as such, I let out a small whimper, which elicited a giggle from the currently S Akeno. Well, if she was seducing me instead of flaying me alive, then she surely doesn't think I'm a Fallen Angel and all of this were coincidences.

"But~, on a more serious matter..." Her sensual voice suddenly turned stern, crushing my hopes. "Why don't we talk, Fallen?" Yep. She knows. She knows she knowssheknowssheknowssheknows!

I, then, felt her hands wrap around my wrist, taking control of them and pining them against the wall, right beside my head. Once again, I would have been aroused by this, but I am more current scaroused, emphasis on the scared part.

"What are you doing here?" Akeno asked with the same level of sterness from earlier, and I just had to answer, somehow, someway, with anything, so that I could continue on living.

"I-I-I was j-just out shopping for c-clothes." Hearing my own voice, I winced at how much fear I was displaying through it, especially with my stuttering that wasn't caused by my social awkwardness. Though, my answer didn't seem to amuse her, as the grip on my wrists got tighter, causing me to whimper, but I think it was more because of her knee rubbing my thighs that elicited that reaction.

"Don't play games with me, Fallen. Tell me. What. are. you. doing. here." The Lightning Priestess asked in a much, much more sterner, scarier voice, that obviously worked too much because I was now shivering. Of course, I could tell her the reason, maybe speed up canon, destroy it, or whatever, but Azazel would probably kill me when I leak out mission details. But I would probably die now if I don't say something acceptable!

"I'm he-here 'cause of a m-mission th-that would d-definitely benefi-fit us Fa-Fallen and De-Devils..." I stuttered out, and hopefully, she'll believe me. I had no form of protection, none that I know I could use, because I was stupid enough not to check my skills, too absorbed in moping about, and the Instant Teleportation Scroll didn't have a location put into it. And with my current position, I wouldn't even be able to do something that would allow me to quickly attack her enough to immobilize her and escape at the same time.

Then, her grip on my wrists softened, before letting go of it fully, allowing some hope come seeping through the cracks of my being. I stiffened, however, when her hands went from my wrists to my waist. The only reason my hopes weren't crushed was because of her now softer tone in her voice as she said, "A mission that benefits us both, you say? If that's the case, why don't you let us help you on your mission then, since it's beneficial for us and all that."

It was obvious she didn't believe it, and that she was trying to interrogate me for more. But, at least, it wasn't certain death! So, with a meek voice, I uttered out, "Okay.", and I wasn't sure if Akeno purred, or if it was my spine shaking.

"Good girl." The Sadistic Queen said. "I'm sure that we'll complete this mission of yours faster with our help! But for that to happen, I must first take you to my King." I had no choice but to follow, and there was no point in struggling, as such, I didn't struggle when my hands were suddenly engulfed in blue light, before turning solid, acting as handcuffs.

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Akeno's POV
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Well, this was definitely unexpected. I had believed that the Fallen would all be nothing but trouble, but surprisingly enough, the little things was cooperative enough. What was more surprising, however, was me not incinerating her like I should have. And now, I have her in solidified mana handcuffs and a collar (which I kept around just for laughs), leading her in the sky towards the ORC with my hands gripping tightly on the mana leash tied to the collar. Honestly, if this was not such a serious matter (of a Fallen being inside the town without our knowledge.), I would have forgone my hatred for the Fallen and had been scouring her body for her pleasure points.

She was just the perfect little thing for my sexual tendencies, with her being so meek and receptive, and being a Fallen just made it feel like some kind of power-play. But, as I have said, there were more important matters than me finally getting some from something other than my own hands.

Though, I also believe that this Fallen one was different from the rest. She's a bad liar, for one. For two, she saved humans, entertained them even. And for three, she wasn't doing anything desperate in the hands of the enemy. She and I both know I didn't believe all those things about her "mission", and if it were someone else, even I, they would have rather died than be in the hands of their enemies. I woukd have at least taken my captor with me to my death.

Thankfully enough, this Fallen was different, and if nothing bad happens, well, maybe something interesting would happen with her around. Hopefully not a war. No sir-rie. We'll have to find a way to not get any of the Maous mad with the Fallens' presence here at Kuoh. But first, I must find a way to make sure Rias wouldn't act rashly.

'*Sigh~* It's hard being a Queen.'

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Raynare's POV
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So, here I was, in the fantastical ORC. The anime didn't do this place any justice, because hoo-wee, this place looked faaaancy as hell, expensive too. Thankfully enough, Elira had finally started talking to me again, telling me that she was silent earlier because she was trying to figure out how I was going to deal with all that, which was a bit of a bitch move, leaving me like that all so suddenly, but I at least was reassured that I wouldn't die to the hands of the Devils, to Gremory's Peerage, because I had completed the Quest! It seems that the scum were too shocked to be scared when I attacked them, and when Akeno came, it just completed all of the requirements! So, that meant that a civil relationship between the devils and I are a sure thing to happes! Also, the question marked person had turned out to be Akeno, so ot meant that she didn't hate me for being a Fallen, and there shouldn't be any problems between us! Yay!

Also, the Secret Requirement was for me to save the civilians, which I did, and I received another reward, which, I didn't know of I should throw away or cherish with all my heart.

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-Basic Fallen Angel Magic Than Even A Dummy Like You Would Understand
-Tier: E
-Type: Book

-A book made for Raynare to understand Fallen Angel magic to be able to save her own ass instead of relying on someone else or luck!
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This book was very insulting, and not for the person reading it, but for me specifically! But, anyway, I now have a way to help me wield magic! Pretty sure I have the Skills to use magic and other magical skills here and there, but I believe that understanding the core of all of it would immensely help me and becoming more proficient and stronger with magic!

However, I had no time to curse the book even more, as the doors were flung open revealing the scrumptious Rias Gremory, and her equally yummy looking Queen. There was no need for me describe their looks, as many of you already know that, but all it really takes to describe them was all with one word, Tasty.

Though, thankfully enough, there wasn't any oppressive atmosphere that appeared with them when they came in, and both of them were actually smiling gently at me, which both unnerved, thinking this was some ruse of some kind, while also reassuring my heart.

"Well, let's get down onto business." Rias spoke up first, her gentle voice comforting me somewhat. Really, hearing her voice, you'd think she was an Angel, rather than a Devil.

She, then, sat behind the desk in the middle of the room, with Akeno going somewhere else, but also quickly coming back with a tray with a tea set and some biscuits. Thankfully, my stomach was a bottomless pit, so eating some cookies wouldn't affect my dinner. So, with the tea offered to me, we soon began talking.

"I am sure you would not be uninformed of who we are, since you are a Fallen in our territory, but for the sake of formality, I am Rias Gremory." The red head introduced herself, before pointing at her Queen. "And the lady that brought you here is my Queen, Himejima Akeno."

The first I noticed in her introduction was that she introduced herself with her first name first, and with Akeno's last name being the first. And that's all. There wasn't really much to say about that. Of course, since they introduced themselves, it was obvious that I was next.

"W-well...I am Raynare, nice to meet you." Good, I only stuttered once, I'm getting better. Then, after my own introduction, Rias nodded.

"Hmm... I am sure you know why you are here, Raynare-san?" Huh, Japanese honorifics. I forgot about those.

With a calming breath, I twiddled with my fingers for a moment, before I looked straight into Rias's mesmerizing blue-green eyes, which caused me to get lost and be silent for another moment, but I was able to recover and answer. "*Kuhum.* I'm a Fallen Angel that's going on about in your territory without your knowledge." I answered without a stutter, good job me!

Hearing my answer, Rias hummed as she seemed to have uncrossed her legs to replace it with the other underneath her desk. Then, seemingly having finished setting her thoughts straight, she focused back on me. "And that would usually warrant your death, and some political fighting with our faction and yours. Let me rephrase my question. Do you know why exactly are you here, in this room, with us, and still alive?"

Ah. With the new question, I needed a moment to think, before I just decided to go with something amusing. "Because I was a good girl?" Yes, I unashamedly answered with that, taking it out from my previous Quest. Though, it fortunately seemed to have done the job, and both of them were now smiling more genuinely, but Rias looked a little bit weirded out, while Akena just had a...glint in her eyes.

Then, after a soft chuckle, Rias went back to being serious, but the tension wasn't all there now in her eyes. "That is a way of saying it. But yes, because you have cooperated, rather wonderfully at that, according to Akeno, and having also saved some humans, we decided that you are worth talking with."

Basically, I was a good girl, so I get to live! Yay!.... My personality's starting to get weird.

"Though, we would really need to know why you are here, in the territory of the siblings of two Maous. If you remain cooperative, we are sure that we may make a compromise for your reason for being here." Rias explained, and I took my time to properly come up with an answer that would be sufficient. In the end, this is what I came up with.

"Ri-Rias-san...as much as telling you what my mission is would help us, since we would be able to do it without the need of being discreet, if you even somehow approve of it, I am just a grunt, and compromising the plan would get me killed....I shouldn't even be telling you all this..." I trailed off, raising some suspense, and I could see that the two women were waiting patiently for my next words. "But I be-believe that continuing our current mission would endanger not only you Devils, but us fallens as well, and maybe even possibly the Angels." My meaning was clear, and the two women in front of me understood it. Our current mission could, quite possibly, start a war between the factions, which was actually the main goal of the mission (I think. I don't actually know the full mission details given by Kokabiel, since I have bad memory, and I have no memories of Raynare's past.). Also, I was making decisions without any approval from my superiors, which is probably grounds for death in this world, but hopefully, all would be good!

However, I didn't stop there. "I-I also believe that our current mission is too...shady..." I cut in, and I immediately caught Rias and Akeno's attention once again.

"What do you mean by that?" Rias asked with a pointed look, prodding for answers.

Not wanting to raise the tension higher, I answered. "Well, this mission was originally...a scouting type, given by Azazel...-sama...but Kokabiel-sama had suddenly taken over it and the orders given are quite...damaging." I tried my best to sound as vague as possible, so that if asked by Azazel, my attempt to cover up the mission (which I don't know the full details of in the first place.) would hopefully save my life and since, yeah, I didn't know the full details of the mission.

For a minute, us three were silent. Afterwards, Rias stood up from her chair, giving me an appraising look that made me shrink back, before it softened, allowing me some room to breath in. "Thank you for your cooperation, Raynare-san. Your compliance is greatly appreciated, and you might have just earned yourself a promotion!" She disengaged from her desk, and she now stood in front of me, causing my insecurities to come crashing back down. Thankfully, Rias had on an comforting smile that made me feel fine.

Then, unexpectedly, she asked, "Why don't you actually stay for dinner! I believe that there are more things we could talk about!"

This was absolutely a surprise, but it was a surprise I would gladly take advantage of for making alliances, my safety, and more free food! "I-I didn't buy anything to eat at my new apartment, so...ye-yeah. I will gladly stay for dinner." I answered with a happy voice, hoping that this was a chance that would lessen any of the problems in the future.

Though, I am also grateful for my decision, as it allowed me to see their smiles that made my heart swell with comfortable heat. "Follow Akeno, then. I must first speak with my brother about this matter." Then, after her declaration, she left the room, and I was now left alone with the Lighting Priestess once again.

Fortunately, however, Akeno was now friendlier, both confirmed by Elire/the system, and with how her smile now was practically beaming.

"I'll lead you to the dining room, then." The ravenette said while she balanced the tray in her hand, and I was surprised when I noticed that my cup was empty, and that my plate of cookies were nearly gone. I didn't notice that I actually was eating while we were in the "meeting", much less that I was actually drinking tea! I was never a tea man, so it’s really surprising that I actually finiahed it up. However, that may be due to the tension earlier, actually.

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Koneko's POV
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I knew that Rias and Akeno was meeting with someone earlier, but I didn't realize that they would be joining us for dinner. This also meant I would have to eat less, since we only had enough for 3 Devils, which was practically for 5 adult humans. Gasper's dinner was already sent to his room, so, yeah, our current dinner was for three.

Though, other than that, the woman, Raynare, smelled like, and even looked somewhat like Akeno. It was a no-brainer with those that this Raynare character was a Fallen Angel. But, since she was here, happily talking with and eating with us, I felt no need to be overly on guard.

However, I was caught off guard when a cupcake suddenly appeared in her hand, more so when she added, "Want a cupcake?"

....

The cupcake was absolutely delicious, and Raynare kept on supplying me with them from somewhere. I asked where she was getting them, and she cheekily answered with, "Magic."

All in all, Raynare, the Fallen Angel, was actually pretty cool. Especially since she keeps giving different kinds of delicious cupcakes.

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Chapter 5: Wonderful Intentions

Summary:

Koneko's a house cat.
Raynare's beginning to finally get herself into some action.
Akeno gets some healing.
Rias's teenage life is starting to get better.

Where's Issei?

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Akeno's POV

When I dropped off Raynare in the ORC's main room, I immediately sought out Rias. Thankfully, Rias was in a happy mood at that time, so she didn't act rashly when I mentioned I..."brought home a girl", as she teased me with afterwards, a Fallen one at that. Then, after some more explanation and, Rias forgive me, manipulation, she finally decided that Raynare was to be roped into being part of the peerage. Rias was starting to get desperate with her plans on breaking off her engagement with Riser, the stupid fire turkey, desperate enough that she would have Koneko watch out for that Issei boy because said girl picked up the scent of a Dragon from him (The boy's honesty is rather adorable, actually.), and I managed to manipulate her desperation, forgive once again, my friend, to think about adding a Fallen into our ranks, especially since Raynare would retain her Holy Magic, since I still had my father's accursed lightning (thank you Rias for not forcing me to use it.)

And it wasn't like my manipulation was purely for the selfish reason of finally having a Fallen companion, one that I could possibly learn from, but if she somehow mixes her Holy magic and Devil magic, it would be a boon to Rias! Riser Phenex may be immortal, but I am sure even he would not allow himself to be turned into swiss cheese by what was the Devil's absolute poison, though it was a sight I would immensely enjoy!

Anyway, somehow adding Raynare would be a huge help to our group, especially in Rating Games, against fellow Devils! Though, all said and done, even if Rias did take a liking to Raynare, and was hoping that my idea would be realized, there still a problem with politics. The other Fallen would rather kill Raynare than have her turned into a Devil, and the Devil's might not take too kindly to mixing a Fallen into their blood, with I being the only possible exception since I was a Hybrid. Hopefully, Rias's siscon of a brother would be able to use his position to somehow get Raynare, if Rias does follow through with my idea and pass it on to her big brother.

Sadly, one could only hope.

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After our meeting, and when we were well about to finish our dinner (Rias, Koneko, and I got to learn more of the woman who was Raynare), I was surprised when a cupcake, a freaking cupcake, appeared on Raynare's hand from out of nowhere! Then, she somehow summoned more and more to use it to tame Koneko! And tame she did! Koneko was basically Raynare's pet at that point, and Raynare was Koneko's hooman, and it was absolutely adorable!

It was such a "aww~" deserving sight, Koneko and Raynare. Raynare would continously summon a cupcake, with each of then being different from the one before it (didn't she say that she didn't have anything to eat at her apartment?), and basically offering it to Koneko's black hole of a stomach! The sight was so domestically sweet that I felt that I was sure I had cavities!

Still, this all just warmed both Rias and I's heart. I think this made my idea more appealing to my King, and Koneko now has another older sister! And, it would seem, that there was more to Raynare that meets the eye, and I am most definitely, finding out just who Raynare fully was.

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Raynare's POV
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After my time with the Devils, I now felt that I had enough happiness for the day, not that having an excess of it would have been bad. Still, I was happy, and I can't believe how much I have said happy at this point on the same day, and meaning it, not that my previous life was dreary and depressive. This happiness was more...actively obtained. I worked hard for this feeling, and not just through watching my favorite YouTubers or funny videos. It made my life more...better.

Anyway, with all that done, all that was left to do was to finally go to my apartment! I was feeling really tired, thanks to the fighting earlier and all the tension with Rias, and I needed sleep Michael dammit (I didn't want to use Friede's name as a curse, and since God's dead, Michael's the better choice.)! Thankfully enough, Elira had told me that I had an /Camouflage/ skill, so I had used it while flying fast in the sky to avoid any of my Fallen brethren.

Then, there I was, in front of the apartment complex. I was honestly clueless with what I had to do, because this was absolutely the first time I didn't have someone to guide me through all this (Elira not included), with all the talking with the receptionist, having my own apartment and all that. I was still 17 for Michael's sake, a socially awkward one at that, and everything was just so different now. I wasn't a boy, I wasn't with my parents, I wasn't even in my home country! However, I needed to face this head on. So, with a huff, I entered to compound and began searching for my apartment while trying my best to stay grounded.

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Okay. It took some time and a lot of effort to be able to face strangers with a straight face (I also had the same problem with the people from the clothing shop.), but when I was finally confident enough to speak to the receptionist without a stutter, mispronouncing my words, and not hurrying my sentences, I was, then, given the key to my apartment after I gave the confirmation that I now currently owned the place (through the magic of the system), took some time to actually greet my neighbors who were still walking about at such a late time, and soon found my place.

Open opening the door, I now just realized I was in an expensive apartment complex! What greeted me was a rather stylish, modernistic sight! The hallway may be small, but it had a fancy desk that held some expensive looking decorations. Then, at the end of the hallway, I was able to immediately see a fucking leather couch. With us having a leather couch back in our home, I was sure that it would rip in one way or another. Was this a way to get more money from the people living in the apartments?

Anyway, other than the leather couch, the living room looked tastefully modern (modern enough for the 1st decade of the 21st century). However, as much as I wanted to explore my crib, I needed some sleep. Even Elira's encouraging me to sleep. However, just as I was about to look for my room, a tapping sound startled me! Quickly looking around for the source, I immediately found to be a crow tapping at my window. Both scared shitless and surprised, I quickly moved to let the bird in.

With the bird now inside, I quickly summoned a palm-sized pancake on my hand and offered it to the crow on my living room table. Then, when the crow began to eat his/her well-deserved food, I slowly pried away the parchment (it's definitely not paper.) from their little feet. As expected, the parchment grew to its original size(I still question if there was a better way to send messages and such.), and I hurriedly read its contents, which wasn't much, actually. Just a time and place for Azazel and I's meeting, then his signature. There wasn't anything else. So, with my adrenaline from the anticipation and mostly from being scared shitless, I crashed down onto the leather couch and let the darkness take me.

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Surprisingly, when I woke up, I didn't feel the urge to go back to sleep, which felt wrong. I always loved trying to go back to sleep once I wake up. After that, I stretched my body and Friede did that feel absolutely satisfying. Then, I began to do my morning routine...which I realized wasn't going to work. Whenever I woke up, I would force myself back to sleep, which, after some time, I would be then be woken up by my grandma or Jaiden, causing me to leave my wonderful bed, so that I could help bring down Jaiden's milk and all to our smaller house (we had two houses, one was old and was made by my grandpa, which was more used by its bedrooms now more than anything else, then we had a smaller house-store below it made by my dad, where most of us would usually be.), deposit said milk, then go to the bathroom to take out my teeth retainers and waste my morning away.

That realization immediately got me depressed, but Elira's voice and pseudo rubbing of my back helped me shake my depression away. I had plans today! One I finally, fully, intend to follow through! And, as regretful as I am, I allowed Elira to shock me when I was even thinking of procrastinating when I found out she could do that yesterday! So, without further ado, I began creating a new routine!

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It was 7:45 AM, still too early to be so active, but if I started lazing about, I would get shocked by Elira. Was I masochist for allowing her to do that? I don't know, actually. Was it a great motivator? Definitely.

The first thing I did was take the Magic for Dummies Book (I shortened its name.) out of the inventory, then, began reading it as I ate whatever I could think off.

....

The Angel and Fallen Angel's magic system was...just fucking light manipulation! Magic that humans wielded was based on calculus and equations (I'm never, ever, going to learn human made magic if math was involved.), Youkai's were Senjutsu, and Devil's were with the power of imagination and bloodnline! Like, simply manipulating light didn't seem powerful at all against all the other magical systems. But...the Angels and the Fallen wouldn't have been able to fight against the Devils if Light Manipulation wasn't that strong, even if you ignore that Holy Magic was the Devils' weakness. So, yeah, simply manipulating light didn't seem as cool as summoning weapons made out of the different elements and having them rain down on your enemies, but light manipulation was still powerful magic, in the end. This also technically meant that Angel and Fallen magic wasn't far off from Devil Magic, since you use your imagination to manipulate the light! So, not too bad, not too bad.

It also meant that using Light/Fallen/Angel Magic wouldn't be hard! However, the book didn't just tell me that I could just be the Light Bender, but it also gone about racial abilities of the Fallen Angels! There was the Mastery of Languages that allowed you to speak and understand any language (which I should have remembered after my crying session, but was too stressed to do so yesterday.), our ability to fly and freely use our wings as weapons, as our feathers can become as hard as steel, and can even be used as projectiles! Then, while Devils had their Hypnosis, we had Memory Alteration that reached to even to technology! One such example was how Raynare used said ability to erase memories of her from all the people that had met her, and even somehow deleting her own contact from Issei's phone.

Anyway, all that reading took about nearly an hour, and I was a little burned out. So, with a bit if pleading to Elira, I got myself an hour of lazing about before once again getting back into my "studies". Sadly, I'm still a procrastinating little shit, but hopefully, Elira's disappointed glances from her independent screen (she didn't need me to open up the system so that I'd be able to see her.) would motivate me into letting go of such tendencies.

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Rias's POV
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Today was a Saturday, a day for us to be somewhat relaxed. Koneko was conversing with Gasper with the door between them, as per usual, Akeno was shopping for groceries with Sona's Queen, Kiba was outside, training, and here I am, trying my best to contain my joy! Finally! Everything's starting to get better!

My peerage were getting better, mentally, and physically, I had a new manga that I was getting ready to read, I possibly have new peerage members in a form of one human with a dragon's scent on him (Issei's a disturbingly honest boy, but he has a good heart...hopefully...as there were no reports of physical harassment, which was surprising, as someone with his level of lust and openess would have likely done something more extreme by now, and would fit nicely as a Devil.) and a Fallen one! One who Akeno herself had suggested for me to hopefully turn into a member of my family, which was saying alot since Akeno has an unhealthy hatred for these black winged Angels. With the both of them (Onii-sama had promised to find a way for me to have Raynare. Not only was she a must for her Holy Power and Light Magic, but Koneko actually seemed to like her! She really needed to let more people into her life. And maybe, just maybe, she could help Akeno better with her misguided hatred to the Fallen, better than I could.), I hope that I could finally break this Maou damned engagement!

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Akeno's POV
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Doing grocery shopping with Tsubaki was always calming. One wouldn't know it because of her stern, bone-chilling glare, but the girl was rather the conversationalist, and was also a great listener. So, times like these, where there was only us two friends, was always appreciated, since she listened to me in a way Rias can't do because of reasons, and was able to talk to me without any need to sugercoat anything.

And, just like so, I began telling her about Raynare, since we would inevitably need to report to Sona some time soon about her being here anyway.

"Sounds to me that you have a crush on this Raynare girl." Was Tsubaki's blunt observation, causing me to softly sigh. I wasn't going to deny it, but it also felt too early for something like that, especially when Raynare was still technically an enemy in the eyes of other Devils. However, one could not deny that Raynare was an absolute beauty, and had this wonderful gap moe of having a mature air and body, but having such a reserved and meek personality. Honestly, I never would have believed a Fallen could ever genuinely be meek.

"Maybe, Tsubaki, maybe. And even if that was true, our lives isn't a fairytale that would allow the two of us to suddenly have a Happy Ending." I did not, for one second, believe that if I were too pursue the other Fallen (I never would have thought that that would be something I'd ever do.), then it wasn't going to be easy. And, once again, it's too early to say anything about this, as a day has not even passed for me to properly explore Raynare's person.

"Oh don't be so glum. I feel that you pursuing this woman would be a good thing! Though, to be honest, I'm mostly saying that because I am interested to see a forbidden relationship between you two bloom!" The bespectacled lady easily admitted the real reason for her support, and I could only chuckle at this. Tsubaki was really such a romantic beneath all that icy exterior.

"However, not only that, but this could possibly be beneficial for all of us." This caught my attention. Curious as to how this would be "beneficial" as she says, I stared at her, prodding for more answers.

"If you get into a relationship with this Fallen, and be happy with it, it may possibly spark peace between the factions, if they realize a Fallen and a Devil could have love between. And with peace, Sona can make her dream come true with less problems in the future.... Even though it may seem to be far off from being a possible, but one could hope. As you have said, our lives isn't a fairytale, and many would obviously oppose to that." I listened to Tsubaki's, seeing her point of view in this matter. Though, I was more amused at how, in the end, she was thinking of her King's dream. But, she was also right, in a way that peace could spark between us, finally, if love was possible between the two members of the different factions. Sadly, Tsubaki forgot just how much negatively the people would react to this, with the previous overseer of this Town, Cleria Belial, being a gruesome example of this.

"Also, like I said, this could be good for you. You finally get a woman, you get happy, and hopefully, with her being a Fallen Angel, she could help rid your unhealthy misguided hatred for the Fallen." This made me both happy, but also grit my teeth at the "misguided hatred" part, as even I knew my hatred for my Father does not warrant my hate for the Fallen (though there could be easily more different reasons to hate them. But, we are, hopefully, at the threshold of peace, so my said hatred would all be unnecessary.). Though, in the end, I was glad that my friend was this helpful on our weekly grocery shopping.

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Koneko's POV
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It was nearing the afternoon, and I was all out of snacks. I needed more snacks, so after I ended Gasper and I's conversation for my journey for snacks, I was picking a store in my head where to buy them, when I remembered Raynare. The Fallen was...unique...I think? I never really met much Fallen, much less got to know them, but Raynare really does seem to be unique. She also had the amazing ability to summon treats! That's a win in my book.

And speaking of the Fallen, I need my supply of sweets. Fortunately, Raynare told us yesterday where she lived now, since we have this weird kind of alliance now.

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Raynare's POV
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Well, when my hour-long rest was finished, Elira shocked me a bit, which zapped away my lethargy and had me beginning to finally check on my Skills.

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/Light Manipulation/: 4/10/+
/Aerobatics/: 6/10/+
/Wings Proficiency/: 5/10/+
/Memory Erasure/: 5/10/+
/Seduction/:6/10/+
/Translator/: ~/+
/Camouflage/: 6/10/+
/Spear Proficiency/: 3/10/+
//Guitar Proficiency//: 0/10/+
//Dancing//: 4/10/+
//Acting: 6/10/+
//Lying//: 8/10/+
//Cooking//: 3/10/+
//Parkour//: 2/10/+
//Multi-Lingual//: ~/+
//Author//: 5/10/+
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Looking at my skills, I immediately noticed that, one, I believe that my overall average was 5-ish, the second, I had skills with singles slashes and double slashes in them, third, I was definitely a natural liar (my lie to Akeno notwithstanding since I was too overwhelmed with scarousal.), and fourth, why is my //Guitar Proficiency// fucking 0?! It should at least be 1! Or not be there at all!

Though, ignoring that, I immediately went for Elira for answers.

[Firstly, Master, the average is 4.84.] Why does that make my heart ache a bit? [Second, the Skills with one slash around it are Raynare's own skills, while the ones with two are yours. Of course, you know that you have more skills than that in your past life, but they were not worth mentioning.] Understandable, but there was no need to quip about my other skills being practically not having any worth. [Thirdly, yes, you are a natural liar. Though, I believe that it's more on white lies] Oh...I'm sad now. [And lastly, //Guitar Proficiency// is zero, rather than one, because some skills have skill degradation.] Now I could see that.

Anyway, with that out of the way, I'll just take a quick read on my Skills and make a summary. However, before I could do that, Elira said, [There is no need for that, Master.]. Then, with my attention back to her, I waited for why.

[The descriptions have been simplified enough for you, as I know that you would take too long to understand the Skill if the description of it were too complex.] Elira admitted, and I was both relieved and hurt with how much my intelligence and understanding was being attacked. I was a slow person, yes, but that didn't make me that challenged! Anyway, since I didn't need to try to deeply look into the Skill's description and make a simple summary of it so that I wouldn't need to do it again and again once I eventually forget about the description of the Skills, I began finding out more about my Skills.

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/Light Manipulation/
-4/10
-Type: Magic/Offensive/Defensive

-Light Manipulation is, well, it's in the name. You can manipulate light, and you do so by using your mana, turning it into light, and like with the Devils, use your imagination, and your intentions, to manipulate said light. And, if you use more mana on it, depending on what you want, a Light Spear would multiply, get bigger, or become much sharper!
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It was easy to understand, and I immediately followed what the description said and, with my instincts, used my mana and turned it into light. But, well, since I just wanted myself to be able to summon light, my subconscious merely turned that light into a small, golf-sized, glowing ball. However, I quickly rectified that and, moments later, the ball turned into a miniature generic spear floating atop my palm. Seeing this, I felt a surge of pride of being able to manipulate light, before I let the light spear dissipate, because I now had a question in my mind.

Looking at Elira floating in front of me, I asked, "How would I level up my skills, anyway?"

Elira, as the system, quickly answered. [All Skills have different requirements to level up. Some level up through repetition and learning, but some Skills simply needs you to break through it's threshold. That's also the reason why most of Raynare's Skills are so low, because they can't level up due to simple repetition. To level them up, she needed to break through them, to become better than better with her current level.]

Okay, what I got from that was that I needed to do was become a chinese novel protagonist (was it xianxias? Can't remember.), and breakthrough the bottlenecks with the usual determination and items. Then, being able to read my mind, Elire just smiled wryly and said, [Yes, Master, just like that.] And like a little kid being praised by their parent, I preened a bit.

Anyway, back to my skills.

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/Aerobatics/
-6/10
-Type: Maneuver

-This is the ability/skill to move around the sky in with both simplicity and complexity. This also means aerial combat and dodging and the like in the air!
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I'm guessing that Raynare's skills would be an instinctual thing for me, as was with my /Light Manipulation/ earlier, so this meant that I'm rather great in the sky then!

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/Wings Proficiency/
-5/10
-Type: Offensive/Defensive

-This is the ability/skill to use your wings in combat.

-Extension:
/Feather Shot/ ~/+
/Hardening/ 3/10/+
/Control/ 9/10/+
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I'll just guess that Extension is simply a Skill in a skill. [It is.] Ah. Okay. Also, let's skip /Seduction/, /Camouflage/ and /Memory Erasure/ since I didn't really need to know more about them. [Master, please read their description later.] Was Elira's stern chastising, and, yes, I admit, I was a bit too excited with my other skills.

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/Translator/
-~
-Type: Linguistics

-This skill is not simply the skill/ability to translate languages. This skill is a magical variant of the mundane tranlating skill and allows you to understand and speak other languages without even knowing about them.
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Useful, and no more need to fucking learn about other languages! I can finally speak French like it was English! [You would still need to learn how to write in their language, Master.] Elira suddenly said, and I felt myself deflate at that.

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/Spear Proficiency/
-3/10
-Type: Offensive/Minor-Defensive

-This skill is how you properly use a spear in every account, in offense, defense, and creativity.

Extension:
/Accuracy/: 6/10/+
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Well, I wasn't much of a spear person, but as a gamer, and wanting more options, letting this skill be this low would not sit well with me. So, other than being a grappler-brawler, it seems that I'll be a Lancer as well (What's the difference between a lance and a spear anyway?).

And as for my skills, there was no need to read up on them with how simple they were. Though, I was curious of one thing though.

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//Multi-Lingual//
-~
-Type: Linguistics

-This is the skill/ability of being able to understand, speak, and write in different languages.

-Known Languages
-Ilokano
-Tagalog
-English
-Japanese(Gifted by Friede)
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So that's the difference between /Translator/ and //Multi-Lingual/ huh. That's nice to know. Well, for now, I better check up on my offensive skills, because I'mma go Dungeon diving later! And I do hope that I'd get to meet any of the RWBY cast!

{Word count: 4,300}

Notes:

Can't believe barely 2 days had passed in this fic. Like...damn.

Also, if you have any suggestions, you can tell me and I might consider it, if it goes along with what I have planned (which wasn't much, actually.).

Also also, we're going to RWBY for a bit! Though, hopefully, it wouldn’t take a whole chapter, since this is more on Highschool DxD.

Chapter 6: Gamer Moments

Summary:

Raynare finally does something Gamer System owner worthy!
Koneko's hunting for her hooman for her sweets.
Azazel's irritated.
Sirzechs is a sis-con. Serafall too, but she's not here yet.
Rias's days are starting to get better.

Chapter Text

Raynare's POV

Okay, trying out my /Spear Proficiency/ inside an enclosed space wasn't the greatest decision. Thankfully, I did not damage anything. So, after that, Elira suggested that I learn more of how to use my skills in the Dungeon, which made me apprehensive at first, worrying about being suddenly attacked by my enemies and having to use skills that I was both familiar with and not. Fortunately, Elira told me that I wouldn't be suddenly cast out to the wolves, so I'll have some down time before I start looking for my enemies.

So, with Elira's reassurance, I took out the Dungeon Key from my Inventory, which looked like a generic medieval dungeon key, and put it inside the keyhole to my bedroom, and turned it. Then, opening the door after a *Click.*, instead of a bed and all that, I was now looking at a forest. At that moment, I froze up, but with Elira putting /Gamer's Mind/ up (I asked Elira why they weren't in my Skill list, and told me that what /Gamer's Mind/ and /Gamer's Body/ description was common knowledge, so she didn't include it there and just put it somewhere else.), I was now calm, my anxieties forgotten, and my mind now clearer.

"Ha...let's go." I told myself, and I felt a bit empowered when I entered through the door. This was going to truly be my first step into becoming stronger, and also a proper Gamer System wielder.

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For two hours, with snacks in between, I was familiarizing myself with my offensive skills. I was able to easily make a light spear in an instant, with complete concentration, summon 6 light spear to hover around me and shoot them like projectiles, can throw my light spear and hit bullseye six out of ten times, and I felt confident to summon a solid shield-like light in an instant and also have the reflexes to do so.

Though that wasn't my sole focus. I tried to attack imaginary enemies with solely my spear, and I felt that I had a decent grasp in my spear handling after some time. Next was focusing purely on my /Light Manipulation/, which I did by creating multiple generic weapons made out of light, and basically using my imagination! However, it seems I found out some of my limits. When I tried to do something like a lion out of light, nothing happened. After a moment confusion, then a flash of realization, I made a gigantic light paw, which worked, made it fade away, then created light shaped like a cartoonish lion, which worked! But, when I tried to make an actual lion of light, nothing happened. So, having realized something from that, I did my utmost best to concentrate and imagine a fully functioning lion. I imagined the muscles, the bones, the organs (of course I didn't know everything about there is about a lion, especially the anatomy of it, but I hoped this idea of mine would work.), and afterwards, with a clear image of a lion in my mind, I controlled my mana to follow what I had imagined and...a white lion appeared in front of me! Afterwards, my /Light Manipulation/ leveled up into 5! Then, I soon found out that my lion did now function like a proper lion, because I was sure it was because it didn't have the proper body of a lion, but in the end, I was able to make a lion out of light (a bit dysfunctional, yeah.) and was able to use what I knew of animal behavior to make it somewhat act like an actual lion as best it could, and I was able to give it orders through my mind/imagination!

After that, I began experimenting more with my new found realization and, my /Light Manipulation/ had become level 6 when I focused more on the details of my light spear and the materials it should have been made off! Sadly, my moment of genius ended there, but I was still happy with my progress!

Next up was aerial combat, my /Aerobatics/. At first, I simply flew around, then began making quick turns, then stunts, then even dancing (I also found out that my wings were surprisingly really flexible! The tips of my wings could even wrap around my spear!)! I probably even invented a new type of dancing with that! Later on, I began fighting imaginary enemies in the sky, which was much harder that doing it on the ground, and I even fell to the ground a lot of times when I mistook the timing to flap one of my wings. But, in the end, I was able to slowly get used to it, and begin getting creative. Since my wings were so flexible, almost acting like an arm and hand, I tried incorporating grappling with my wings, which seemed to be a good thing, since my /Wings Proficiency/ leveled up to 6! I decided to celebrate my accidental leveling up with a few barrel rolls!

What followed up after that was using my wing's other abilities, such as the /Feather Shot/ and /Hardening/. /Feather Shot/ was simple enough. With a wave of my wings, my feathers would shoot out at a speed that was nearly hard to follow, which was saying a lot with my enhanced senses, but I was pretty sure, since I could still see it, others, other than average humans, would be able to see it too. My /Hardening/ was a weird experience. I was able to quickly adapt and get used to my wings, but in the end, they were still new to me, which also meant new and weird experiences. Using /Hardening/, well, hardened my wings, as hard as normal steel, according to its description, but it also made my wings uncomfortably numb, which wasn't a good thing for me. So, to alleviate some of the numbness, I tried to used /Hardening/ in quick successions (turning it off and on.), which was a bad idea, and I think I have wing cramps.

After that....I found out that I had a Perk list, which made me whine and all that to Elira, but I immediately turned into a "kicked puppy", according to Elira, when she pointed out that I, once again, fully checked what the System had, which I promptly did. Other than the Perks, Status, Inventory, and Skills, there was a Shop, Customize, tab for Elira, Pets and a Level Up tab! I was curious with those, but first off, I checked the Perks and found out some pretty neat and eye-opening things.

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{Holy Power}
-Your mana is infused with Holy element, which is poisonous to creatures of darkness, such as Devils!

{Megalomania}
-You hunger for power, maniacally, but with the help of the {Empathy} and /Gamer's Mind/, this usually negative trait is now a perk that makes you Determined to become more powerful.
-This Perk is adjusted by {Empathy}.

{Ment Interest}
-This perk is made due to your innate curiosity of finding out how a person's mind works, of how their past had affected them and such, making you a great listener and allowing you to give off an aura that allows people to feel fine with you around.

{Dual-Personalities}
-You have two personalities that interact and complement each other, making some negative traits work well with your better traits.

{Empathy}
-You are a person who naturally cares for others, making it so that you find ways to keep those people who are close to you safe. And because of this, you give off an aura that make others safer with you.
-This Perk is adjusted by {Dual-Personalities} and {Psychopath}.

{Psychopathy}
-Psychopathy is a mental disability, with the person having one manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, shows a lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, expresses extreme egocentricity, and demonstrates a failure to learn from experience. So why is this a Perk? Well, it is one thanks to {Dual-Personalities} and {Empathy}, making the Psychopathy be not as defined, and the benifts of being psychological, as the way to cut off emotions and being methodical in approaches or cunningnes, are kept.
-This Perk is adjusted by {Dual-Personalities} and {Empathy}.

{Altruistic}
-Altruism is the unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others, with people having major Altruism casting out their own welfare for the safety of strangers. As heroic as this seems to be, is dangerous. However, because of {Psychopathy} this trait is lowered to a managable level, and the perk received is Fate's favor for having an air of a Hero.
-This Perk is adjusted by {Psychopathy}
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Reading all my Perks, I just learned more about myself, one that I never would have found out in my previous life! Everything here explained a lot of my behavior, especially with ones that contradicted each other, which also led to hypocrisy! Micheal damn it!

After some time of digesting this new information, I felt...content, learning more of how I ticked, and I chuckled when I realized that my {Mental Interest} perk also targeted myself. Anyway, with my Perks done, next up was the Shop, which was locked!

Then, Elira, the ever helpful (also snarky.) system, explained why. [You still need to become stronger for access to the Shop, Master.]

I was a bit irritated with that requirement, but I at least has something to look forward to in the future! So, with the Shop being inaccessible, I, then, checked Customize, and immediately fell in love with it! Customize was, well, it allowed for me to customize myself! Of course, it didn't include completely changing my bady and such, but it was more for vanity. I immediately tried to see if I could shorten my hair, then make it longer again, and found out that I could! So, using the customization, I shortened my hair enough until it reached just below my nape, so thay my hair wouldn't get caught up in the fight, but also wanting to lokk stylish, I made it so the ends were slightly curly, put the back of my hair into a high pony tail, and I let the flicks of hair beside my bangs hang loosely on the side! Looking at my body on the screen, I squealed a bit with how beautiful I looked! Yes, I think I'll go for this hairstyle for now.

Then, with that done, I now checked on the Elira tab, which told me that I could summon Elira as a companion when I had to fight, just like with Dark Souls before you fight the bosses! There was also another tab beside the Summoning tab, but it was blurred out. When I asked Elira about it, she stiffened for a moment, before quickly telling me (as if embarrassed) that I needed to complete a requirement to unlock, which she didn't tell me was. Shrugging my shoulder at that reaction, I continued to look through the Elira tab and realized that I could use EXP to make Elira stronger by buying her weapons (I could give her my own, she told me.), and leveling her up! This made me question why I would use my own EXP to level her up instead of using points or whatever, when I realized that the System's/Elira's similarity with Dark Souls didn't end to what I originally believed it to have ended at. Since there was also a Level Up tab, I could easily guess that I don't automatically level up once I reach enough EXP, and I would possibly have to use my EXP to buy in the shop!

Elira, being inside my mind, softly hummed to catch my attention, which it did, and began explaining. [Your thoughts are true, Master. Your EXP acts likes Souls in Dark Souls, which you can use to buy things in the Shop and help me grow stronger. As for your Leveling Up, it truly will be just like Dark Souls, except you'll naturally have 5 points to your HP and MP with each level up. This also means that you get stronger differently than others.]

Listening to Elira's explanation, I could only sigh in slight dread at the implications of this. If it really was just like Dark Souls, then grinding wouldn't probably even matter.

Then, Elira, knowing exactly what was going on inside my head, gained a softer tone in her voice as she reassured me. [Do not fret, Master. Like the rest, you could become stronger through natural means! But you have another means to quickly get stronger!]

Hearing this, hope took root in my heart as I looked at Elira expectantly. Then, feeling my stare on her, she blushed lightly before continuing. [Quests, Master. Quests! Quests and Rewards! Until now, I was holding back, but I can now begin rewarding you as much Free Status Points as I can without angering God for his rule of humans experiencing hardships!]

Then, immediately after that, a Quest screen popped up in front of me, promptly causing me to be on the edge of my seat (I was sitting on the ground though.) and quickly read the Quest.

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-Slay The Darkness Within Thyself
-Time Limit: None
-Required Quest

-You have your fears, your anxieties, I get it. But you shouldn't let those hold you back. You could be so much better than that! So I, as your magnanimous and amazing System, grant you this Quest to help you find your better self! Baby steps, alright?

-Requirement/s:
-Slay 10 Beowolves without /Gamer's Mind/: 0/10

-Reward/s:
- 1 Novice Pack
- 5 Free Stat Points
- 5,000 EXP

-Penalty for not completing the quest:
- 2 Day ban from Free Food Function of the System
- Repetition of Quest
- No breaks when training
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You know, Elira can be absolutely sweet, and can be an absolute monster! She was all so sweet when it came with the...description part? (It's more like a message board instead of the Quest's description.), but she didn't have to be so cruel with the penalties! And, being inside my head, Elira knew all this, so she gave me a stern glare, making me look away from said glare.

[Don't test my patience, Master.] That was all the motivation I needed to get my ass moving.

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Koneko's POV, Before The Time Stopped When Raynare Entered The Dungeon
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Once I got Rias's permission to go looking for Raynare, I, then, set out to find her. If I remember correctly, she lived in an apartment complex called "Serenity", 102. I heard of the place, since it was a pretty fancy and expensive place, with most of the apartments being bigger than the average apartment complexes.

'I wonder where she got the money to buy a place there.' I thought that to myself as I quickly walk pass a pretty handsy couple, not wanting to look at their PDA. 'She's a Fallen though, so she must have either erased someone's memories and took it from them.' This was my initial conclusion, but comparing the Raynare I met yesterday and the Raynare I thought about just didn't seem right, so I just shook away the thought.

"I'll ask her later." I tell myself that as I, then, see the building I was looking for, with my thoughts now being filled with, 'I hope she has taiyaki.'.

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Azazel's POV, Same Time As Koneko
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Here I am, back in the human world, inside a bar, drowning away all the stress I got from dealing with that damned sis-con. I don't understand how a man as powerful as he even attempt doing a "puppy-dog eyes"....right...a damned sis-con. His attempt to look like a kicked puppy when I denied him his request was utterly disgusting! He may be my friend/enemy, but Father be damned! There are just things that you shouldn't even be thinking of doing! Did he even have an ounce of pride when it comes to his sister!?

Damn it! And I had to go through all that because of that trouble maker! When my gut told me that she was going to be trouble, I didn't think that she would somehow cause all this to happen! I am, most definitely, gonna have a word with her when we meet up tomorrow.

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Rias's POV, Same Time As Koneko
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My days just keep on getting better and better! Somehow, my brother had made a deal with the Fallen Angel's leader, peacefully at that, that Raynare would temporarily be part of my family as a form of punishment for her "releasing of mission details to the enemies" and acting without her superior's acknowledgment! Though, not as a part of my peerage, sadly, but she'll still be part of the family for the time being! Thankfully enough, this was Raynare's only punishment as she did not even disclose much information, and her decision, though would have proven fatal, to had done so, had quite possibly saved us all. However, not much was revealed to me, but I could only guess from what Raynare had told us yesterday was that it had something to do with Kokabiel.

In the end, I now have a Fallen Angel in my group! This just gives me a better chance to break Riser and I's engagement! Just...I hope my idea for a Rating Game to decide the matter would be approved. I know that onii-sama would happily help me with this, but if he did, it would be known to everyone and would be a blatant show of nepotism.

Though, before all that, it would seem that I would need to train Raynare. Akeno had said that she fought well against the human scums, but that was what they were, just scums, nothing to write home about. However, the more important part was that Akeno mentioned that Raynare basically folded like a house of cards when she had caught her, so I must deal with that. For now, I will do what I can while waiting for Raynare's punishment to commence. But really, is it that much of a punishment?

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Raynare's POV, A Few Minutes After Elira's Threat
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I was surprised at how fast I was able to find a grimm. I wasn't even that far from where I had been noisily getting my bearings! I could only guess that that place was a safe zone. And I could only guess that the sudden feeling of anxiety coming back was Elira turning of /Gamer's Mind/. Thankfully, I didn't panic when the emotion suddenly came back, but I was still anxious.

'*Sigh* Come on Ray. Channel your inner badass and psycho and be brave.' This was my silent encouragement to myself, which did help me calm myself down a bit, before I felt a hand like thing rubbing my back, and I felt even less anxious now.

'Let’s get a game plan going.' The requirement was for me to slay Beowolves, which was rather broad. To slay meant to kill. Just like that. It didn't have to be anything else, as long as they get killed, as long as they die in the end. So, I didn't need to do anything specific when it comes to slaying the beowolf! And, in that case, since I'm not so sure just how much damage I could deal to the beowolf, it was better to be safe than sorry.

So, while the lone beowolf (thank Friede for that.) was scratching its back against a tree (why would it do that anyway? Did they have actual, working, bodies similar to animals? Maybe? I think I remember them roaring in pain when I watched a bit of RWBY before.), I began making a pile of light spears behind the bush I was hiding at, feeling and seeing the drain of my mana/MP (there was a HUD option, so I turned it on, which showed both my HP and MP, but nothing else.), until I had six light spears and around 70% (I am not going to use fractions!... I'm bad at those.) MP left, which was gradually filling back up, as per my plan of conserving MP just in case (the light spears would dissipate in about a minute once cut off from my mana, so I planned on preparing some light spears and wait a bit to let my mana refill.)!

Then, with a light spear in hand, I gave most of my focus to the beowolf, as I had reminded myself to keep a certain level of awareness to my surroundings. And, with a calming breath and a wind up, I simultaneously exhaled as I threw the light spear with all my strength! My hand was immediately on another light spear after my throw, prepared to do it once again if my attack wasn't enough to one shot it. But, thankfully enough wether through my strength, my light-based weapon, or both of them, the light spear I threw seemed to have penetrated through the beowolf's shoulder, then out of its other shoulder, like butter, before nearly fully piercing the tree that the beowolf was rubbing against itself (the spear was about a meter long)!

Seeing the result, I hopped to my feet and did a giddy clapping thing, feeling the tension that hanged on top of my chest dissappear! And, I felt happier when Elira acted like a doting mother and had begun praising, while also keeping me grounded. [A very good job, Master. You made a wonderful plan to test your strength with endangering yourself much to the unknown! However, that was only your first kill, and that kind of scenario would not always appear, so you must calm yourself and prepare for a much harder task.]

As Elira had told me do so, I calmed down. Afterwards, I went to check up on my pup ups, which I had ignored earlier in favor of celebrating my small victory.

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+60 EXP
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Well, that was a bit disappointing, but also something I expected. Anyway, I looked back at the beowolf I had just killed, and noticed it was slowly, very slowly, dissipating, unlike my light spear, which was already gone, with the only evidence of it being there was the hole in the beowolf and in the tree. Then, seeing the beowolf's dead body, an idea popped up in my head.

With hurried steps, I now found myself in front of the beowolf, without an ounce of fear due to the pop up that showed the amount of souls I received from it when I had killed it. Not wanting to waste any time, I summoned a karambit from my inventory (the store that sold those knives had a lot of different kinds of knives.) and made a karambit knife out of light with similar design as the first one, and dropped them on my right, the magic knife and my mana remaining connected.

I wanted to know how tough the beowolves were, of how hard their...flesh? was, to get a better grasp of my strength against these creatures of the dark, and to also know if they were affected by Holy Power. However, before cutting it up to see the difference, I gave the beowolf's arm a punch to confirm that it wouldn’t just disappear when I would cut it, and it didn't. The body was still solid, even if it's back was slowly turning into dust, or whatever it is.

Without further ado, I first went with the metal karambit knife, and shanked the body with a decent amount of strength. The knife went through, following a curve as it is shaped, and I felt some resistance. Next, I took the knife out and put the tip against the skin, before gradually raising my strength and penetrating the skin and digging deep into its flesh. Lastly, I moved back a bit and slashed at it, and I was able to slice its side, from its armpit to its hips, with only some effort! This proved that I could use normal steel and
weaponry against it! Then, I did the same with my light made karambit, and it took much less effort! However, I first tested if Holy Power did affect these creature of darkness by laying the knife on its neck, and it didn't.

So, after that, I was now feeling more confident to deal with these grunts in a 1v1! I'd say I could even go for a 2v1, but I barely had any experience with actually fighting (let's not include my fight against the gangsters yesterday, since that was unfair, and the only fight I ever had as a human was when our play wrestling turned into actual wrestling when I was a kid.).

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Chapter 7: Are you a Coffee person or a Tea person?

Summary:

Raynare's trigger-happy.
Some RWBY friendship.
And a date's gonna come up!

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Raynare's POV

I finally found some beowolves, two of them, after some trecking around the forest for about 10 minutes. The both of them were, I could only guess to be, play fighting, like puppies (wolf pups?), and it was an interesting thing to watch, and watch I did while I started to formulate a plan atop a tree branch. However, after awhile, another beowolf joined in the playing wolves from out of nowhere, making me scrap my earlier plan.

Still, with the twosome now a threesome, I bounced around the idea of fighting all three of them at the same time inside my head. I mean, I seem to be strong enough to take on all of them at once, but I lacked proper experience. However, this could be my experience, but ultimately let go of the idea and just decided to kill two of the three beowolves and having a proper 1v1 with the one that was left while trying to see if any of my ideas with my /Light Manipulation/ would work.

So, summoning two spears of light in both my hands (I wanted to check if my left hand's accuracy.), I waited for the right time where I could kill of two of them at the same time, or at least kill one quickly before going onto the next one when I miss with my left hand. Then, when the opportunity came when they pushed each other away, I threw both my spears at the same time, with the one from my right hitting one beowolf square in the nape, while the one from my left missed the mark, which was the heart, but luckily hit the other beowolf's neck instead. I also ignored the pop-ups, focusing only on the last beowolf. And so, with both of them dead, the only live beowolf had tilted its head in confusion, seemingly not understanding what had just happened to its playmates.

I stood up on my branch, scanning my surroundings, making sure there were no other beowolves or other kinds of grimm nearby, before nodding to myself when I found none, and promptly jumping down, with my landing a sound loud enough to alert the beowolf.

It's reaction time was definitely better than its situational awareness, because it immediately jumped up and got on all fours, prepared to attack. Then, once it saw me, it began growing and...just heading straight towards me. For a moment, I stiffened in place, but I shook it away as I prepared to intercept to beowolf.

Spears were meant for thrusting and throwing, and anything that had to do with thrust, but it didn't explicitly make it so that it could not do other things. So, when the beowolf was a mere two meters away from me, I swung my spear sideways, and with the timing, hit the beowolf straight to its ribs. Then, being far stronger than anticipated, the swing that was meant to direct the beowolf away from me actually had enough force to make the big, humanoid, wolf fly some distance away to my left.

Since I did not expect I had so much strength to lift up and launch a beowolf that was probably around 90 kilograms a fair distance away, I had a stupid moment where I froze up in disbelief, before I forcefully calmed myself, just in time to see the beowolf make a quick recovery. However, I believe that what I was dealing with was a young grimm, as it didn't seem to learn from its earlier mistake and just, once again, charged straight towards me. Though, this feels like something I could benefit from, since as long as the beowolf continued charging whenever I launch it away, then I could learn from this.

....

I asked Elira how long I took with the beowolf, and she supplied with [10 minutes, 43 seconds.]. So, for around 10 minutes, I was practically toying with the beowolf and had continously thrown it around like a basketball. Thankfully, for that whole time, the beowolf had just repeatedly charged at me (which showed that it didn't have any survival instincts.), and I was able to learn a few ways to counter and parry an incoming tackle and the like! I also learned how to properly control my strength! Of course, the beowolf learned some things, but ultimately, was even more stupid than animals and still was adamant to attack me with the same pattern.

So, I now have a total of 240 EXP, and an item I looted from the beowolf, which was in the form of a white ball thing, similar to Dark Souls, once again, floating above its chest. It wasn't much, just a Lesser MP potion, which, of course, was lesser than its greater counterpart and only gave me 20% of my max MP.

Afterwards, I went around looking for other beowolves, and this time, I'm planning on fully using my /Light Manipulation/ which I forgot to use earlier because I was having too much fun. I've got to say though, this forest didn't seem to have much grimm, since said grimms should have been attracted with my "fight" earlier due to the growls and the roars. [I believe that, due to your overwhelming amount of positive emotions, the grimm are inclined to be as far away from you as possible, unless, of course, you interact with them.] Elira suddenly worded out her deduction, and I think that that's a logical answer to my current dilemma.

Though, even with that, I wouldn't force myself to get depressed just to bait grimm. And if I did, I might attract a grimm that was out of my league, like a King Taijitu (was that its name?) or those huge scorpion grimm! However, with all these looking around for grimm and my earlier work out (yeah, that seems to be more appropriate.), I was now tired, and hungry. And fortunately, Elira didn't dissuade me from the idea of taking a rest.

I looked around for a place to rest, and found a rather big tree (the only tree's name I could clearly were pine tree, maple trees, sakura tree.) with a perfect place to rest at! It was like, a really fat tree, and it's top was like...what's the word, well...it was like an open space where the large branches sprouted out off. Oh! It was like the palm of a hand! Yeah, that's a better description!

So, once I settled myself in my resting place, I took out the Anti-Detection Charm, tried to figure out how to activate it, with Elira helpfully informing me to [Just stick it onto any surface, Master. It would even work on top of water. And, you could easily peel it off when you want it back.] Following her instruction, I slapped the charm on a branch that went straight up like that dude in that flex tape commercial/meme (it was a commercial or a meme, right?), and immediately saw...it looked just like how your eyes would make things look like there were watery and wavey due to heat, which I guessed to be the 30 meter perimeter (was that right?).

Now, with my safety ensured, I took out my phone, looked for anything good to watch, placed it in front of me, and began eating.

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Opening my eyes to the sudden loud sound that entered my ears, I took a moment to clear the cobwebs from my thoughts before realizing that I had somehow fallen asleep at some point. And that I got woken up by the sound of roars and shouts. Immediately straightening myself up, light spear in hand, I scanned my surroundings, and quickly found the source of the fighting! There, just right outside the perimeter of the Anti-Detection Charm, were people! And they were fighting against a whole lot of beowolves! So, without any second thought, I pried off the A-DC, bringing down the barrier, put the item back into my Inventory, and joined the fight by throwing my spear at the farthest beowolves, which had pierced through the first beowolf and hit the other grimm behind it.

The people immediately noticed my intervention, but I paid them no mind and just summoned another light spear and stabbed the beowolf closest to me. Quickly pulling my spear out of the grimm, by pure instinct, dodged a swiping attack from a beowolf behind me by twisting my body, before giving the grimm my own swipe, which nearly bisected it. Then, seemingly forgetting how afraid I was of fighting more than two beowolves at once, I released all of my inhibitions and began killing, killing, and killing whatever blackened beast that got close to me, never once receiving any injuries that went over a scratch!

I stabbed, I swung, I thrusted, parried, blocked, dodged, kneed, punched, clawed, at anything that entered my sight, with each kill filling me with confidence. Everything, then, was becoming a blur, a happy blur. And, before I knew it...I didn't see any red-eyed monster towering above me.

"Whew! Damn girl, you were like some kind of Valkyrie out there!" A voice called out, and it broke me out of my frenzied mind, making me realize just why I was fighting earlier. Turning my head to the source of the voice, I was met with an unfamiliar, yet also familiar, bespectacled face.

"Sheesh! Eleven outta ten!" Coco, the leader of team CFVY, exclaimed while fanning herself with her glove covered hand (which I really wanted!). Though, I was confused at what she was talking about.

"Calm yourself, Coco." Another voice interjected, and I was met with the tallest man (boy?) I have ever seen. Yatsuhasi something, was quite possibly, a tower shield with how tall and broad he was!

Then, hearing her team members words, Coco simply waved him off before stepping closer to me, and closer, and closer, until she was directly in front of me, our bodies nearly colliding with one another, and also towering over me with her high-heels! And here I stood, slightly intimidated and trying my best to look smaller once again at the face of such a stunning beauty.

Seemingly enjoying my reaction, Coco preened from the corner of my eye, before nodding and stepping back slightly. With her hands crossed in front of her chest, she spoke with a confident voice. "Thanks for the help! Didn't really want to waste any of my ammo!" Afterwards, she uncrossed her arms and extended one hand for an obvious gesture to shake hands. Though originally a bit scared of engaging with physical contact, I was able to calm myself down and shook her outstretched hand.

With a smirk and a slightly haughty voice, she introduced herself and her team. "The name's Coco Adel, the leader of this team whose asses you helped out!" She still held my hand. "And the dunces behind me are my friends and team! The tall as hell guy is Yatsuhashi Daichi." I heard a soft "Greetings." from the man, which I reciprocated by waving my left hand at him, since my right was still in the coffee-haired babe's hand. "The chocolate treat is Fox Alistair." Said chocolate treat said "Hey." in greetings, and I gave him a thumbs up with my left hand, since my right was still stuck in Coco's. "And the bunny babe is Velvet Scarlatina!" The bunny babe in question just meekly nodded when called out, and I did the same to the shy, adorable rabbit (are rabbits and bunnies the same?).

"And, really, thanks for the support! Dust bullets aren't easy with the inflation these days." Coco chirped out, as if she hadn't been holding my hand for like, a minute now.

And, as much as holding hands with a pretty girl was nice, I was, once again, socially awkward, so I tried to pull my hand away, which didn't seem to work. Thankfully, her friends were there to call out Coco, with Yatsuhashi and Velvet doing so at the same time, the former with a fake cough, and the latter stuttering out, "Co-Coco!".

Having been called out, Coco seemed to reluctantly let go of my hand. Thankful for having control of my hand once again, I just shyly introduced myself. "I-I'm Raynare. Raynare...Charlamane..." Raynare didn't have a last name, and I just felt like I needed my own, though I only said what had been at the top of my head at the moment. But, Charlamane didn't sound too bad, though, I think Charlamane's more of a first name than a last name.

"Raynare, huh? Sounds exotic~. You're not from around here, then?" There was a slight purring in her voice, and I couldn't help but shiver a bit in arousal. Was she flirting with me? Or was she just naturally this sexy?

Anyway, not answering would be rude, and awkward. With a clearer voice, my social awkwardness receding back a bit, I responded. "Yup. I journeyed from my home to here, taking on jobs here and there available for a Huntress like me." With my //Lying// skill at 8 and my //Acting// at 6, I finally found a proper facade and made a vague answer that would, hopefully, not bite me in the ass later. Though, I could always just leave. This may be the RWBY world, but this was still also a Dungeon.

My answer though seemed to surprise the group of teens, which I expected before I had said what I had said. Raynare, I, didn't look old enough to be an experienced Huntress (I wasn't even close to being experienced in the first place.), and at least looked around to be 19 years old.

"Huh. Should have guessed with how brutally efficient you were..." Coco started, before gaining a contemplative look. For a moment, silence reined our surroundings, before Coco smiled and snapped her fingers!

"Hey! Since you're a Huntress and all, why don't you help us out on our assignment! Of course, I'll pay with dinner at 'Kanu-Lee'! Place's got like, a 5 star rating and all that!" Okay. Maybe my "Huntress" bit was now nipping at my ass, but free food was free food! Though, I did notice how she said "I'll pay", instead of "we'll pay", which sounded like a date, but maybe she was just, I dunno, hiring me with her own money, instead of her team's? I'm really confused.

Still...free food!

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For about an hour, team CFVY and I spent the time slaying any grimm we meet, since the assignment/mission turned out to be exterminating the grimm that had suddenly gotten close to the nearby town's perimeter. And I think that was maybe due to me, and also, this was some fast reaction time, since, if the grimm getting near the town's perimeter really was due to my overabundance of positive emotions earlier (there was no mention in RWBY lore that I know of that mentioned that positive emotions could make grimm avoid you, so maybe this was an AU world or a me thing.), because I was sure that I came here around five hourse ago, with the later two hours spent by sleeping inside my A-DC.

And, speaking of slaying grimm, my Quest had been completed when I fought with CFVY the first time! So, I now have 62 Free Status points! I didn't allot them to any of my stats yet, since I was still apprehensive with how I would go with things, doing my best to adapt with my current situation. And, other than that, including my 5,000 EXP from my previous Quest, I now had a total of 14,200 EXP! I had killed a lot of grimm in this one hour, with most of them being beowolves, but a good amount of it being from Ursa Minors and Boarbatusks!

Along the way, I got confident enough to even use my gauntlet, and I now had /Hand-to-Hand/ and its extension, /Grappling/, the former being level 2 and the latter at level 1! Though, I believe that the reason why they remained this low in level when I believe I could have done better was because my gauntlets were too OP! With the claws, I barely felt any kind of resistance when I slice the grimm into pieces, which was an experience hard to properly explain. So, yeah. I think that I needed a much less powerful weapon, or just use my bare hands, to level up my skills properly.

Of course, we wouldn't spend all that time fighting without any kind of verbal interaction with each other which didn't relate to the fighting. Throughout the hour, I got to know more about the team of teens. Yatsuhashi was like, the male version of a Yamato Nadeshiko, which was meant the "personification of an idealized Japanese woman" (I almost said nakadashi, but with my new understanding of the Japanese language, that word actually meant "creampie".). Fox was like Yatsuhashi, but he was a bit more rowdy and more outspoken. Velvet was, well, a cinnamon bun! Friede the girl was just an absolute cutie! One moment, she's a badass killing three beowolves at once, the next she was all meek and shy! That girl deserves a hug! And thankfully, she let me do so when we were taking a break and using my Free Food function to give them what they wanted to eat. They asked where the food and drinks were coming from, and I simply said, "Magic.", which wasn't far off from the truth. Coco also not so subtly mentioned that I could hug her too, but I simply leaned on her as I ate my muffin, my social awkwardness disappearing thanks to our teamwork and coordination facing off against monsters.

They were cool people, all in all. Definitely great friends as well. And as such, I would not let them down. Even Elira agreed with them being great friends with the Quest she issued.

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-Friends Are Easy To Find, Great Friends, However, Aren't.
-Time Limit: 01:08:23
-Required Quest

-Friends are easy to make, but true friends are hard to find.

-Requirement/s:
-Help team CFVY, your friends, complete their grimm extermination assignment.
-Keep any of the members of team CFVY from being fatally wounded.
-Know more about Coco, Fox, Velvet, and Yatsuhashi.

-Reward/s:
-A date with Coco.
-Team CFVY's friendship
-3,000 EXP
-2 Free Status Points
-¥10,000

-Conditions for failure:
{If a requirement has been completed, the Penalty is reduced and a Reward may be given to you.}
-Not completing all of the requirements before your timer runs out.
-Failing to follow the requirement/s.

Penalty/ies for failure:
{If a requirement has been completed, the Penalty is reduced and a Reward may be given to you.}
-Rewards will not be given.
-2 day ban from the Free Food function.
-Team CFVY's hate
|~|

The Quest was nice, but I quickly noticed the addition of the Conditions for Failure, to which Elira had said that, [I am adapting to make it so you have a far easier time using the system's functions.] What a good girl Elira was, being so helpful. So, as it turns out, even if I fail, I would still get a reward if I had completed a requirement and my penalty would be lessened. But, of course, I had no plan on checking just how that would workd.

Anyway, an hour was all it took to fully clear the part of the forest nearest to the town, so, that meant my Quest and CFVY's assignment was complete! I would have liked to have celebrated there, but, even though CFVY was also in a celebratory mood, they had a more objective mindset and sought out to properly complete their assignment by giving their report. However, since I had done my part, I now had a date with the model-like fashionista! And as such, I would need to follow her back to Vale so that we could have it. So, in the end, I followed the team to the town that had filed for the assignment to reasure its people, to which we got praised and cheered for, Coco having told the Mayor my involvement, before we had, then, entered the Beacon owned Bullhead and webt back to Vale. Though, I hope no one would ask for my I.D. card for being a Huntress (if they had those.).

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"I see your point, Raynare. Tea's not for everybody. However, it was not necessary for you to waste it by pouring on the ground, even though you somehow keep getting all these drinks from out of nowhere." Yatsuhashi reprimanded my earlier action of dumping the cup of tea he made me summon and taste, which I absolutely loathed and quickly gave it to the ground.

"Yatsu! That's not it at all! I didn't waste it! Since I didn't like it, I gave it to something that needed it more! The grass, Yatsu, the grass! The grass would benefit more from it than I!" Was the counter-argument I somehow came up with on the fly, and I believe it was quite good, really. Even the one arguing with me thought it was funny, if the smile on his lips said anything about it.

Currently, Yatsuhashi and I were in Beacon's courtyard, which was huge by the way, while the rest of CFVY were giving their report to the people handling the missions/assignments. And how exactly was I inside Beacon facing no problems at all? Turns out, Beacon's security was very...lax. But it's like that because the staff were skilled former and part-time Huntsmen and Huntresses. And unlike the the series show, Beacon does have other staff members. There were janitors, teachers for lesser subjects that Huntsmen didn't usually deal with, people manning the canteen, and everything else! Actually, they probably part of those black figures in the background, so we didn't get to know more of them.

"Anyway, anything fun to do here?" I asked the tall, asian-like man (there were no asians here, I think.), feeling quite bored from all this...peace. Usually, I would have enjoyed this kind of scenario, of watching the greenery sway gently with the wind, especially after doing something so excessive like slaying hundreds of monsters, but it was because of that that my body wasn't all that calm yet! I wanted to see more action!

Fortunately, Yatsuhashi gave the perfect answer. "It's monday and around...two in the afternoon, so we could watch the firsties in their combat class."

Hearing this, I beamed, but my curiosity got the better of me, so I just had to ask. "How come we get to do that?"

He didn't reply instantly, opting to pat the dust away from his clothes first as we stood up from our seat. "Well, Professor Ozpin had arranged it so that the free time of the first, second, third, and fourth years matched with any of the other year's combat class and encouraged us to use our free time to observe whoever was fighting that day, because he believes that we could learn something from it. Heck, I heard some fourth years even gain some inspiration thanks to the firsties." Yatsuhashi explained as we walked, while he also took out his scroll to probably text Coco where we were going to. And, Michael, I just realized how stupid I was! I was in a combat school! A school teaching it's students on how to fight grimm and save people! Just like Yatsuhashi mentioned, I could gain some sort of inspiration from this!

Maybe I could even get to watch Pyrrha fight! Though, then again, I think Pyrrha's weapon was a javelin instead of a spear, so maybe I won't learn as much as I was expecting to. But still, now that I think about, can I do the same thing Pyrrha does with her semblance? I can't be bohered remembering what it was called, but it had something to do with magnets. So, push and pull. Can I actually, for example, pull back a light spear I threw back to me? I'm not sure, since once my light constructs get too far away from me, they get cut off from me, from their continuous mana supply, and effectively be out of my control. But, maybe if I out in some more thoughts in it, I could do just that!

And, halfway through my musings, Yatsuhashi and I had reached to arena, and when I was finally done with my thoughts, it was just in time for Glynda Goodwitch (I'll be a good bitch for her ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).) to pick the the ones to fight.

"Winchester, please enter the arena and choose your opponent." Glynda's loud and stern voice filled the place, making me question just how much does that translates when she's screaming! But, fantasies aside, seeing the infamous bully enter the stage, I could only huff at the exaggerated swagger of a male small time antagonist. I was also expecting time him to pick on poor Jauney boy (what timeline/volume am I at anyway?), who I could see from where I was surrounded by his teammates (Friede! Nora was hot!).

Then, back to the ginger (Cardin is a ginger, right?), I watched as he grinned at his victim, the poor little knight. I was even ready to watch the kid absolutely destroy the blonde, but he suddenly froze a bit when his eyes had fallen on me. Afterwards, a viscous grin was plastered on his face, and I gained a headache, knowing what was about to happen. "That girl over there! The transferee in the other class!" The ginger called out, and I had to bite back a groan at how stupid this was. Why did this have to happen? Why did I suddenly gain a protagonist's luck with misunderstanding? And there was actually another class!? What the fuck Oum! No one said about the first years having more than one section! Why is there a transferee anyway!? Did they have an initiation like the rest!?!

Though, even when I was complaining in my head, I still had the indifferent facade I made displayed to the people. Then, looking at Glynda, who I hoped would have dissuaded the idea, since she knew I was a Huntress (I wasn't. She had just asked who I was when we passed by earlier and I lied for my life!), but the witch seemed too amused with the situation that she just nodded at me, encouraging me to put the kid in his place, which I could. I now knew my limits, and this stupid bully can't even reach up to half of it (okay, maybe he can since he had an aura and a semblance, which I didn't know of.).

So, with a sigh from me and a hearty laugh with a pat on the back from my tall friend, I made my way towards the stage like a runway model (I was still in my outfit from earlier, which was my yoga outfit, and it's the outfit I picked for fighting grimm since they were made for strenuous activity, and I didn't have any proper armor yet, so, yeah, I was sexy!) while I was internally groaning. Though, I was looking for action anyway.

So, here I was, standing in front of the mace-wielding cocksucker, not even bother to raise my head to meet his gaze since I didn't want to give myself neck problems. Then, from my left, Glynda called out. "Miss Charlamane, please connect this device to your scroll so that we could monitor your aura."

'Ah. Aura...I forgot I didn't have that.' This was my initial thought, but being the natural bullshit dispenser I was (Ugh. That sounded so wrong. Ew.), I was able to make up a hopefully convincing reason on the spot for wht I had no aura ."Nah. No need for that Ma'am. It wouldn't work." I started out with this first, already expecting Glynda to look for an explanation, one I had already made.

"And why is that, Miss Charlamane?" Glynda asked in softer tone, being curious, intrigued and concerned.

"My Semblance, /Light Manipulation/, sacrifices my aura to better keep said semblance stable and controllable. So, I suggest that the winner should be decided by knock out, out of bounds, or whatever else you can think off." I supplied to the curious witch, and thankfully enough, she nodded in understanding.

With a cough to clear her throat, Glynda spoke up in a stern voice once again. "I see. Well, your case is rather rare, but we have dealt with aspiring Huntsmen with aura's sacrificed for their semblance's efficiency before, so it is nothing new." Then, after revealing that bit to us, it seems that not many had known about this kind of cases, since the students were now whispering amongst themselves. I am also grateful that people had these kind of semblances, since it saved me from the trouble of getting caught.

The whispering, which filled the arena, quickly disappeared with Glynda's glare. And when silence was now what could only be heard, Glynda continued. "Due to Miss Charlamane's condition, the requirements to win are: by knock-out in Winchester's case, and complete aura break by Miss Charlamane. And, of course, both parties are allowed to surrender."

Glynda's announcement caused to students to stir, noticing how my situation seemed to be "unfair". I could even hear a familiar, yet unfamiliar voice quietly protest about the "unfairness" of my situation thanks to my enhanced hearing. Though, in truth, it wasn't. Glynda "knows" that I was a full-fledged Huntress (I think Huntsmen do have I.D.s, and Beacon's just overconfident with their security?), so a firstie couldn't possibly win against me. And I believe that Cardin has no chance against me, since even if he would be able to fight against me on even grounds physically, I had fucking magic! This also makes up as a good gauge for how well I could keep up with Huntsmen-in-training, because as much of a bully Cardin was, he was still fairly strong (i think.).

"Combatants, begin!" It was sudden, it came out of nowhere, it was fast. Glynda gave no warning for her announcement, had no other words, but I just grinned at how amusing she was making this fight to be. While Glynda's announcement had befuddled Cardin, I was already sending my foot to his thigh.

{Word count: 5,159}

Notes:

I didn't want to make a chapter dedicated to the RWBY world, but, in the end, I still made one.

Chapter 8: Date Night

Summary:

Raynare has a date.
Protagonist luck is stupid.
Coco's a fashionista.
Fox and Yatsuhashi are big brothers in the background.
Velvet's cute.

Chapter Text

Raynare's POV

I didn't waste any time when announced that we begin. As soon as the words left her mouth, I dashed towards the mace-wielder, doing so in nearly less than a second, before giving his thigh a sparta kick. With my controlled use of my strength and the surprise attack adding to it, instead of losing complete balance and falling face first, my attack had broken him out of his stupor and had quickly recovered and was instead now kneeling on the ground. I did not waste the opportunity however. When I saw his kneeling form, a flash of realization came through my head, causing an excited grin appear on my lips.

Cardin had tried to stand up and swing his mace, but I was already behind him at that point, with two light scythes crossed and in front of his throat. And just like Sister Friede had done in Dark Souls III (A DLC boss.), I put my foot to the middle of his back, pushing him further to my scythes' blade (I made it as sharp as an overused kitchen knife. Didn't want to get hunted down for accidentally beheading a student.). Then, without wasting a moment and caring about the ginger's grunts, I pushed him forward with the foot already planted on his back while simultaneously pulling my scythes.

And, somehow, just like with what happens when attacked by Sister Friede like this, Cardin was seemingly gurgling as he fell forward (I was pretty sure the Ashen One would be semy-standing up, but Cardin was just too tall.). I heard gasps fill the arena, and I felt a smidgen of pride from eliciting such a response. However, when I took a moment to look around, I saw just why they had gasped. The jumbo holographic screen high up the arena, one that showed the aura gauge, showed that Cardin lost 52% of his aura! Like, holy shit! Imagine if I hadn't dulled my scythes!

"Huh." Was my simple auditory response, a bit overwhelmed with how strong my attack was. However, I couldn't think much about it anymore, since Cardin had recovered from his coughing fit and was now trying to balance himself.

"*Cough" Bi-*Cough"-Bitch!" He cursed simply, and without seemingly any kind of plan, he charged at me, his mace to his side, making his attack predictable. Rolling my eyes at the display of losing oneself to their emotion, I decided to just be like Sister Friede and take a back step, before using /Camouflage/ since I couldn't make myself go invisible like the woman did. I was sure that my /Camouflage/ was good enough to act as invisibility, made more sure with everyone begin to frantically look around (if anyone asks, I manipulated light to pass me by. And now that I think about it, I should remember testing it out in the future.). And, since I was copying Sister Friede's weapon and attacks, I begin dashing to places, making sure to kick up dust whenever I stop to go to a different location. Then, some time later, when Cardin was starting to get scared from the anticipation, I dragged my right scythe on floor, canceled my /Camouflage/, and hit Cardin squarely in his chest and raised him up with a decent amount of effort. Of course, instead of piercing through him, I just imagined the blade splitting up in the middle when it touches Cardin's chest, go around his chest, then connecting with each other when they reach his back, effectively trapping him.

I did not let him stay in the air for too long and promptly threw him to the ground with enough force to make him bounce, and by instinct, my left hand swung up, trapping Cardin once again and doing the same with my previous attack and threw him farther away from me. And, since I seemed to have the time, I looked up back up to the aura gauge and found out that from 48 percent, his aura was now at 21 percent.

Then, high on the adrenaline, I let my scythes disappear and began making a new weapon. With some concentration, I began making a mallet, just like Harley Quinn's, and making it as heavy as possible (my light constructs were originally weightless, but when I properly visualized my weapons, like what they were supposed to be made of and their supposed weight, I was able to make a much more stronger light weapon. This also helped my with my previous level up hours ago!). And, when I felt the mallet being heavy enough without making me sluggish, I began to run considerably slower than my dash-like runs.

However, Cardin was still trying to get himself up, so, when I reached him, he was in the perfect position to hit with all of my mallet's large, flat, surface. My attack had a lot of my strength behind it, and with my mallet's weight, with the combination of the two, Cardin, naturally, flew, straight to the wall, his aura being broken by my attack, and the wall probably breaking his back. At least he didn't go splat and turn into a bloody meat paste. And he's still breathing...though it was very labored.

Glynda, however, took it in stride, and announced my win. "The winner is Miss Charlamane!" After her announcement, however, I was met with silence. Curiously, I looked around and saw many kinds of faces and silent reactions, but all still relating to surprise. And as the kids remained as they were, the sounds of Cardin's groaning (he's surprisingly still conscious.) and the medics hauling his ass to the infirmary with a comical "Hup hup hup, hup!".

Anyway, the silence didn't remain, as it was soon replaced by a certain red-head's excited babbling. Even with my enhanced hearing it was hard to understand her babbling, but I was sure I heard "scythes!" in there. Glynda, being the stern and scary teacher that she was, only glared at the only source of the sound in the arena, effectively shutting her up. Afterwards, Glynda gestured me to sit on the chair beside her, and I didn't see any reason not to.

When I was seated, Glynda cleared her throat before asking, "Can any of you observers tell me the reason as to how Winchester lost?" After that, the students begin giving their answers, with a lot of them having great and understandable answers. Though, it was people like Blake, Pyrrha and Weiss and some I won't mention that gave a more detailed answer. Glynda, for her part, was seemingly proud with what she was hearing, probably glad her students were that observant.

However, I was surprised when Yatsuhashi's name came out of Glynda's mouth. "Daichi. You are the only second year here right now. I hope you have a better observation than the rest." What she said wasn't meant to belittle the first years, but rather, it was because Yatsuhashi was more experienced that she hoped for him to see something her firsties didn't see.

Standing up and gaining everyone's attention, the tall man, then, answered. "Winchester was brutally beaten by...Miss Charlamane..." I could see Yatsuhashi holding back a chuckle there. "Because he assumed that she was the transfer student, expecting her to be new to Beacon and how it works, possibly wanting to beat up the...'newbie'. However, because of his arrogance and assumption, he did not think that the person he called out was an active Huntress."

After Yatsuhashi's answer, gasps filled the arena, and eyes were now on me. Then, Glynda, easily being amused with Yatsuhashi's answer (having probably expected it.), smirked as she" confirmed" my status. "Good! Just like Daichi had said, Winchester was...brutally beaten...by Miss Charlamane because of his assumptions of having an 'easy' target. Also, I hoped you learned just how much more skilled a full fledged, still active, Huntsman can be." I actually find that hard to believe, that these students don't know how strong an actual Hunstman can be when they were in a school filled with them.

"Now, then, who else would like to try their mettle against Miss Charlamane?" Hearing this, I whipped my head towards Glynda, who only batted her twinkling eyes at me, clearly enjoying all of this. I didn't like how she was doing all this without my consent, but other than having this situation help me hone my skills, Glynda just had...that smile, that damned smile, that just made me follow her every whim. 'Friede. I was such a sucker for pretty ladies.'

Anyway, while I was pouting at Glynda, hands had begun to raise, with some apprehensive and some being excited. I even heard someone singing "Me!" in a jovial tone. You could easily guess who that was.

Glynda, seeing just how many had volunteered themselves to be beaten up, smirked somehow sadistically, maybe even vindictively! "Well then, since you are looking so forward to receiving your punishment, Miss Valkyrie, please, join us." Ah. I see why she looked vindictive earlier. Since detentions are what Glynda could dish out as punishments, and as a teacher, she could not do anything directly physical, she was probably using me as a tool to punish the students who probably don't learn from those detentions.

Though, for her part, Nora Valkyrie looked like a mischievous fairy as she skipped down the steps to enter the stage. Seeing her in all her slightly insane, yet wonderful, glory, I was trying my best to not squeal at how adorable she was with her overabundance of energy.

Not waiting for Glynda, I soon entered the stage once again. Now, face to face with the bundle of chaos and energy, I smiled amicably, with Nora giving her own broad smile.

Then, with her usually loud and hyperactive voice, Nora made sure she had my attention with a, "Hey Huntress-lady!", before asking, "Can you use your mallet!? Can you?! I never fought anyone with a weapon close to mine!"

Listening to Nora's request, I couldn't help but be endeared with her personality, with how extroverted she was, usually my complete opposite. Of course, always willing to make a lady happy, I made a hammer instead of a mallet, copying Nora's weapon. Sadly, I didn't know how mech-shift weapons worked, especially how Nora's weapon, specifically, so my hammer was just a normal light hammer with the same design as Nora's and not having anything like a grenade launcher inside of it. Though, Nora did squeal in delight once she saw an "identical" copy of her weapon in my hands.

With excited hops, Nora exclaimed. "Ooh~! That's even better!" After that, without any warning, from both her and Glynda, Nora began running at me, with a smile still on her face.

Quickly, I began analyzing my advantages and Nora's own strengths. From my experience with Cardin (which did not say a lot.), my speed and strength could overpower a first year. However, Nora wasn't an ordinary first year. She was stronger than average, in spite of her size and frame, and I could clearly remember Nora hitting Yang through the roof when they had their food fight, with Yang coming back down after a good amount of time, which shows she has immense strength, maybe more than my own (And that Yang can survive a fall from where she had reached, though maybe that was cartoon/anime logic at work.). She was also fast! And, other than that, I was using a weapon I was absolutely unfamiliar with, against someone who know her stuff! Though, my other advantages were that Nora's semblance wasn't easily called upon. Her semblance allowed her to channel electricity in her body (veins?), which gives her even more strength!

All in all, Nora could, quite possibly, beat me instead! However, I had my own tricks to even out the playing field.

And, with my analysis complete, I made to dodge Nora's charge. Though, when I was able to get a good distance away, Nora abruptly stopped, canceling all inertia with pure strength before twisting her hips and swinging her war hammer at me. Having not expected her to do what she had, I relied purely on reflex with dodging her attack, before spinning and using the force in it to guide my hammer. Nora, for her part, quickly used her hammer's handle to block my strike, barely even budging when she did.

Quickly enough, Nora backed away from me with a parting gift. She had switched her hammer into its grenade launcher form when she jumped back, leaving me with a grenade. However, thanks to my enhanced reflexes, I grabbed the ammo by its backside and returning it to its owner (the front was a pin that caused the ammo to explode on contact). Nora, in a show of her own set of reflexes, shot another grenade, with this one hitting the ground below the first grenade, since she was still in mid-air, and was only able to safely do this because she was a fair distance away (with how far she jumped, I'm curious if she could absolutely wreck a watermelon with those thighs and legs of hers.).

Then, with two explosions and a cloud of dust, I used those to block my next actions. Predicting just where Nora would land, I threw my hammer from behind the dust cloud, and from in front of the dust cloud, I heard a grunt. A hit. I quickly checked her aura and saw that I chipped off a good 5%.

Though, never wanting to lose due to stupid reasons, like letting myself get distracted, I quickly summoned another war hammer and decided to finally properly humor Nora.

Dashing through the dust cloud, I immediately locked onto Nora, who was in a stance, prepared to intercept me with a grin still plastered on her face. "That was dirty~!" The orange-haired babe exclaimed playfully, taking no offense to what I had done. Sadly, being not much of a talker, I didn't give back any kind of crearive quip, just returning Nora's grin.

Then, a moment later, our hammers clashed.

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It have been in this RWBY world for around nine hours now. For the first five, I had been alone, the next hour after that, I met up, made friends, and fought together with team CFVY. The next two hours was spent restlessly fighting against first years! Nora was a strong opponent, like, the strongest in a physical sense. And throughout our fight, I managed to not be hit by hammer, which I was grateful for, because I felt numb just from blocking her hits with my hammer's handle had been hard! After Nora, the most notable ones I fought with were Ruby (who requested I fight her with a scythe), Blake, Jaune (surprisingly. And being the kind-hearted psycho that I was, I went easy with him by just training my /Hand-to-Hand/ with him.), a kid that used a clawed gauntlet (who helped me learn a thing or two.), and Weiss (though she was a bit if a bitch when she snubbed me about my choice of clothing in a, somehow, respectful way.). I had wanted to continue fighting, but I was too tired and the injuries I got from being tired and sluggish piled up.

And from beginning to the end, from my first time here to now, Elira finally decided to show me the status points I gained from all the fighting I did!

|~|
+8 Strength
+10 Vitality
+12 Dexterity
+10 Endurance
+5 Intelligence
+9 Wisdom
+3 Charisma
+1 Luck
|~|

Then, with this, my stats were now:

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Name: Raynare
Age: 2,508
Race: Impure Angel/Fallen Angel
Level: 58
Job: Mage
Title: Angel of Queer
HP: 451/451
MP: 451/451
EXP: 17,200

Strength: 55
Vitality: 55
Dexterity: 61
Endurance: 53
Intelligence: 55
Wisdom: 55
Charisma: 57(+15)
Luck: 12
Remaining Points: 64
|~|

Other than my stats, my Title changed too at some point. I, of course, first thought about how, then to why, then to was it because I was gay? Elira, then, clarified that it meant queer as in odd. So I was the Fallen Angel of Oddness and Eccentricity then, and I'm not in the least bit offended by it, feeling that it fits me quite well.

Also, I had even gotten a new Skill from all this!

|~|
/Weapon Junkie/
-3/10
-Type: Offensive/Defensive/Boost

 

-Weapon Junkie is a skill that allows you to learn how to use different kinds of weapons faster, and also allowing you to better handle any kind of weapon.

-Extension:
/Spear Proficiency/: 5/10/+
/Scythe Wielding/: 2/10/+
/War Hammer Wielding/: 3/10/+
/Odd-Weapon Proficiency/: 3/10/+
/Mace Wielding/: 2/10/+
/Sword Proficiency/: 2/10/+
/Gun Handling/: 4/10/+
|~|

This skill is definitely helpful. With it, I'd be able to learn how to use weapons faster, and with that, I would be able to change to any weapon to fit the situation!

Then, the whole hour after that was spent getting to know more of team CFVY! Other than what I already know of them, Fox was actually somewhat lazy, Yatsuhashi was good with a lute, Velvet was kind of a peeping tom, and Coco has a wardrobe packed with clothes. Though after a bit, we went our separate ways. Yatsuhashi and Fox went out for their bro-time, Velvet was doing an assignment she had yet to finish, and Coco was preparing for out date, which meant she had made their dorm's bathroom her own. Our date! Friede that was such a weird thing. In the last, I never really had much of a belief that I'd catch the fancy of a girl to go on dates with, being self-conscious and socially awkward and all that. But now, I'm going on a date!

Yes, I have to admit, even someone as inept as I was in practical romancing knows that shit went a lot faster than usual, but in the end, this would be something I'd enjoy! And maybe these sort of things did happen in real life and not just in stories. Anyway, since Coco was preparing for our date, so too did I! So, since I was all sweaty and a bit stinky (Coco not so subtly saying she'd lick me clean of my sweat, Friede that was arousing.), I asked for where the shower was, and Velvet helpfully gave me the directions, and like I, have spoken clearly as she did so, not stuttering like she first had!

So, here I was, in the public showers, washing away all the sweat and grime. Fortunately, I was alone, having heard and seen no one in the other stalls. Although, I did have a problem with the knobs and buttons for the shower, since it wasn't like what I was used to. Though, a minute into the shower, I was beginning to uncomfortable. Not because I was showering in the public shower room, but it was because I usually had music playing to dance to whenever I was showering. It was just something that happened at some point in my life, and it was something I continued on doing. And, since there was no one here, I took out my phone, propped it up on a place not reached by the water, and played music with the volume not being too loud and loud enough that the running water wouldn't overpower the music.

Of course, some time later, someone else came in. Actually, a lot of someone elses. Familiar someone elses.

"So, Rubes. What do you think of that Huntress from earlier? With her semblance, I think she's basically a dream come true for you. Some would say that, she may even be the light to your life! Ha!" That was Yang, obviously, made more obvious by the pun.

"Right!? She can make so many cool weapons! She even made a copy of my baby! Ooh~! We can have the same babies like that!!" That was Ruby, who completely missed the innuendo from her older sister's words and had made a rather raunchy comment, but she was too innocent, or too naive?, to notice it.

"Well, having the same babies aside. Miss Charlamane was rather well versed with weapons she had wielded. A show of her experience with her semblance and experience. Though...it would have been better if she didn't wear something so...distracting." That was Weiss, and thank you for the praise!

"Mm-hmm. Distracting, huh. Or maybe you were just jealous she so well-endowed. Or maybe you had some lind of sexual awakening of the sorts?" And lastly, that was Blake. Also, it would have been cool if I was the Ice Princess's sexual awakening, actually. Unless she's already gay, or just full-on straight. I've not even sure what Weiss's sexual orientation was with all the White Rose fanfics and barely watching season 1 of the RWBY series, focusing solely on fanfics (I actually found out about RWBY through fanfiction by accident.).

Then, Weiss, either being mad or embarrassed with being caught (which of the two reasons, I don't know.), barked. "Oh! If any one of us would have this 'sexual awakening', it would either be Yang or you, you horny cat!" So Weiss already knows about Blake being a Faunus. Did that mean, seeing as the academy wasn't in ruins, that the Vytal Festival was close by? But Blake didn't seem to have been running herself ragged, and there was no conflict between the teammates. Was this a complete AU?

Anyway, with them now here, I sadly had to stop the music now. However, before I could, Blake, probably due to her cat ears, called me out. "Is somebody here?" Her question effectively silenced her teammates, and I could only sigh, bot wanting to deal with them, even if they were the protagonists of this world. But, suddenly, like a switch that was flipped, I shook away my social-awkwardness (and shame.) and promptly stretched my body over the small door to the stall, allowing them to see my chest up to my face.

"'Sup." Was my simple response, but my sudden appearance, and nakedness (they had towels wrapped around themselves.), had frozen them on the spot. Afterwards, things started to get into motion.

Ruby, being as innocent as she was, was still a teenager, and so, a blush simply adorned her pretty little face.

Weiss, the supposed prude, had a nosebleed, her eyes focused on my breast.

Yang was, well, eyeing me up like there was nothing wrong.

And Blake was, out of everyone, like a blushing maiden!

"So, what was this about a dream come true, babies, and sexual orientation?" I asked in a casual tone, making sure my nipples weren't exposed by wrapping an arm around them at the same time.

Yang, being the least affected by the current situation, smiled cheekily as she answered. "Oh nothing, nothing really. Just some girl talk." The blonde li- well, she wasn't lying actually.

"Still, we didn't think you'd be here, Miss Charlamane. Gotta say, you were an absolute beast earlier! Too bad I didn't get to fight you though." Yang began conversing with me, like everything was just fine and all that, which was nice actually.

"You know, our uncle and dad are Huntsmen, and I'm sure they wouldn't have last as long as you have." The blonde, then, began taking off her towel as she entered a stall. However, she didn't stop talking like we had been friends for a long time. Was this how natural born extroverts usually acted? I mean, back in my place, speaking with strangers was easy, but that was because we were Filipinos. Getting buddy-buddy with strangers wasn't too hard a task. I didn't know how other people from a different culture would react to strangers.

As she began to shower, she exclaimed, "Oh! And the water's fine, girls!", causing the three girls still standing in the middle of the room to scurry towards any nearby stall.

Then, Yang, seemingly wanting to continue speaking to me, asked, "Hey, Miss Charlamane, can I call you by your name?"

With all of the ladies in their respective stalls, I decided there was no more need to put my body on display, so I, then, continued with my showering. Though, it was nice to have someone to talk to, replacing my need for music to dance to.

Since I haven't told them my first name earlier, and probably due to my status as an adult and a "Huntress", Yang had been formal with her question. Seeing no problem with any of it, I answered. "Sure. It's Raynare, by the way."

Now knowing my name, Yang seemingly saw this sign to be friendlier, her tone now becoming, well, friendlier. "So, how long have you been a Huntress?"

*****

My experience in the public showers earlier was honestly weird, but appreciated. Though it was a bit awkward with RWB, Yang was really nice. She was friendly, knew how to talk without making it awkward, made bad puns that made you want to cringe, but still liked, and she was an honestly curious girl. The blonde had asked me about my missions as a Huntress and all that, and I just lied about nearly everything I said (which made me feel somewhat guilty, because Yang was just such a great friend!). Sometimes, the other members of RWBY would occasionally ask questions, but were usually a bit awkward or shy while at it. However, when the 10 minute mark was reached, I decided I was done with the showers and left. After giving my goodbyes, I entered the locker room and looked around in my Inventory for some date clothes (most of the clothes I bought yesterday was still in it.), and with Elira's input, I chose to go with a white camisole top with the shoulder straps being golden chains, a mini denim skirt that barely went pass the middle of my thighs, one of the pair of sneakers I got from the Suprise box, and some jewelry that I bought along the way back home yesterday.

Anyway, I was beautiful! And I was definitely ready for this date.

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Yang's POV
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When I first saw Raynare, the first thing I did was compare our bust (hers were slightly bigger.), the next was comparing her hair and mine (she had beautiful hair.), and finally, fully checking her out. Raynare was, most definitely, an 11/10 at rest, but a completely 15/10 when she was fighting! She was an absolute beast when it came to fighting, a beautiful beast. A beautiful, efficient, dangerous, versatile, beast.

She even defeated P-Money! The invincible girl (Though, if you think about it more objectively, the only reason Pyrrha was the Invincible Girl was because she fought in tournaments made for people in her age group and was better than them! In the face of an actual Huntress? Yeah, my money's on Ray-Ray.)! And in every fight, as versatile as she was, I think she handicapped herself by using the exact same weapon as her opponent was using. But still, she won every match without gaining much injuries! The only reason she backed out from more was because fighting around 21 combat students was definitely tiring her out! And I think even Dad wouldn't be able to handle that many opponents, even with his semblance.

Anyway, other than being a terrifying thing in combat, she was a great person to talk to! She listened to whatever I said, not once cutting in, and giving back great answers! Her experiences were pretty cool too! However, she didn't just say things that went like the "Being a Hunstman is cool, come save the world with us." propaganda bullshit that the T.V. says, and had told us the hardships we'd face in being in her profession (Professor Port really needs to learn from Ray-Ray.).

I really hope I get to see her more. She might actually become my idol!

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Raynare's POV
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Thankfully, my phone was compatible with Scrolls and whatever this world's cellular service was, which allowed me to save Coco's number in my phone and be able to use it and vice-versa! So, as instructed by Coco, I was sitting on one of the benches in the main avenue, waiting for her. Fortunately and not, people started approaching me. The fortunate part were where the students who were in the arena earlier had come up to me and praise me and get some advice. The unfortunate part, however, was some of them had started to approach me for a rather obvious reason. However, being as biased as I was, I scared off the guys with a light spear to their crotch, while the women were turned down nicely.

Then, after about 10 minutes later (I had gone to our meeting place 20 minutes earlier, since I was used to always being early, excluding anything related to my academics.), my date finally arrived, and Friede, she was gorgeous! Since she was a fashionista, I expected her outfit to be wonderful, but I didn't think it would be this nice.

Unlike I, who went for simple, yet still sexy, Coco went for complex and jaw-dropping. For her top, she had on a mocha-colored bustier that had a lot of straps as a shirt (very bold), and a plaid skirt with her usual color palette that was a bit longer than mine, and thigh-high boots! As for her accessories, she had on multiple necklaces that just made her neck look really appetizing, her usual gloves, and a shoulder bag. And, of course, her trademark beret and aviators!

With her arrival, the people that had surrounded me had slowly parted away, making a path for my date. "Well, aren't you popular." Coco pointed out with a smirk, making her gaze go over the students around me, some of which was saying their silent goodbyes, feeling a bit awkward.

"Heh. You know, there's this kid that turns people into his friends after punching them. Maybe we're the same." Naruto not only did have talk-no-jutsu, but friend-punch-jutsu as well.

Coco hummed in thought at what I has said, lightly amused, before she cast her gaze at the students that had yet to leave. "Scram! Are you blind? Can't you firsties read the mood?" My date seemed to be quite infamous, since the students ran away without a second thought. It was a funny sight though, like it was out of a movie.

With the others gone, Coco gained a delighted grin as she said, "My lady~." with a purr in her voice, extending her hand at the same time.

Rolling my eyes at her antics, I grabbed her hand and allowed it to pull me. Now, we found ourselves chest to chest, hand in hand, and eyes locked with one another with the both of us sporting a smile.

"Let’s start our date then, shall we?" Coco was the one to part her body from the other, but her hand was still in mine, constantly reminding me that I was on an actual date for the first time in my life. Sure, Coco was technically still a stranger, with some hours not being enough to know so much about one person, but I had some unfair advantage of knowing a bit of what kind of person Coco was in the series, and the date was a way for us to know each other more. Of course, I don't expect anything much happening here. This wasn't some kind of fairytale where you'd meet the right "guy" and romance and love would spread and appear and everything would suddenly be happy ever after. And, this date may even just be a friend thing, or a thing that keeps us as friends. Also, this wasn't my world.

Though...that didn't mean I could not have my fun here.

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Coco's POV
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Raynare was simply...wonderful. She was the type of woman I was just looking for! She had kind, shy, meek and adorable side, and she also had viscous, cunning and deadly side! Though, those sides I mentioned would suddenly come and go, with one moment she was hiding behind me when a group of thugs were trying to talk us into following them, then the next she would suddenly behind them with a sadistic grin before promptly, viscously, attack their balls! Yep. There was no denying it, I really, really, really, liked Raynare Charlamane.

I'm just so glad I decided to pay her with a date, especially when she simply accepted out of amusement at first. I also made the date thing a joke at first, but when you see a badass, sexy woman easily throw a Ursa Minor off a cliff, how could you not want a piece of that? Then, we got to know more about each other. Raynare wasn't just a badass, but a sweetheart as well, similar to Velvet! It was shown with how she was doing her best to not scare off the bunny of our group, always giving the girl sweets from wherever she keeps on getting them from.

And, now nearing our date filled with shopping, food, laughter, and romance, Raynare just seemed to be even more better than I had imagined! Hopefully, however, Raynare was feeling the same way I was feeling for her. It's too early to call it love, and too corny to do so, but it's most definitely attraction and connection.

"Want another cupcake?" Raynare asked me with her usual sweet voice, the said cupcake being offered on top of her palm. Honestly, when I said our date was filled with eating, it was filled with eating. I don't know about Raynare, but even I'm starting to get conscious with my weight with the amount of food we ate, and I was an active Huntress-in-training! And I was getting very, very full.

So, I shook my head as a playful smirk played on my lips. "Babe~. Stop, haha. My stomach can't handle anymore food, hahaha!"

Then, gaining a playful smirk of her own, Raynare took a bite of the cupcake before saying, "Weee~eaaak~."

This, of course, didn't offend me in the least, but as per my personality, I wouldn't let this transgression go as simply as that. "Well, I'm way younger than you, still 'developing'"

With a mock glare pinned on me, Raynare begins to "angrily" say, "Are you calling me old?"

I expected her to say that, and she fell right into my trap. So, with my most suave voice, I leaned into her ear and replied, "Yes~. But that's just what I was looking for~, so there's no need to worry about it~. Mature women are surely the best kind of women out there~."

After what I said, things had just suddenly escalated. One moment, I was sure that Raynare was now a blushing mess, then the next, her lips were firmly planted on mine. I was confused for a second, but I soon pressed my lips further into her own afterwards.

Then, for some time, we simply locked our lips together, before Raynare inevitably, gently, broke away, with her burying her head between my breasts.

With a soft and mumbled voice, she said, "You big dummy." before nuzzling deeper into my chest, and I just pulled her deeper into it with a hug as I smelled the sweet scent of cinnamon in her hair.

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Chapter 9: "Punishment", They Say

Summary:

We're back.
Koneko's hungry.
Sirzechs is a sis-con.
Azazel could be a good bro.

Chapter Text

Raynare's POV

Last night was, quite possibly, the best night I ever had! No. There was no sex, just some cuddling on Coco's bed (How was I still allowed to enter the Academy late in the evening?!) and some kisses on the cheeks. Yeah, definitely the best.

Sadly, Fox had to wake us up since they now had classes to attend to, meaning I had to leave. I mean, I could have just asked for Elira to give me more quests while I wait for Coco, but it turns out that I can't simply stay in the Dungeon for too long, or else the dungeon would automatically kick me out.

Thankfully, Elira had already informed me beforehand that, even if this RWBY world was a dungeon, it was still as real as an actual world instead of a simulation. That was also the reason why I even decided to allow myself to form a connection with this world's inhabitants. If this dungeon had had been a simulation, if the people weren't real, I would have done my best to stay away from the people, because it all wouldn't matter in the end if they weren't even real in the first place.

So, back to the now, I was currently talking with Yang, who I found was playing hookie from Professor Port's class, since I still had a bit of time before I get kicked out.

"What are you still doing here anyway?" The blonde asked while she twirled a strand of her hair with her finger while the rest of her beautiful main was swaying gently with the wind since we were up on Beacon's rooftops.

With my gaze still on her hair, making me contemplate about the proper color to highlight my own, I replied. "I was traveling, looking for a place to earn some money because I'm broke, met a team of Huntsmen-in-training, got roped in their assignment with the promise of a date, then I came here to Vale. And, since I had no money, wasn't native to here, and because the date went well, I slept with her in her room. I'm really just wasting my time here for a bit before going on to look for a mission."

Yang, who was listening intently to what I said, smiled slyly as she began to wiggle her eyebrows (How does she do that!? I want to be able to do that too!) suggestively. "Her, huh? Never would have thought that you'd be gay. Most of those I met had some ticks that made it easy for me to see, but you just don't seem to be the kind of gal to go after pussy."

Hearing what Yang had to say, I just chuckled as I waved her off. However, she wasn't done there. Crossing her legs and propping her elbow on her knee then resting her cheek on the propped up limb, she suddenly had a glint in her eyes that reminded me whenever my mom and aunt began to gossip. "Since your date's obviously here at Beacon, can ya tell me who she is? If she can snag someone as hot as you, then I'mma need to get me some pointers!"

Her comment made me raise a brow, contemplating if Yang was looking for tips to hook up with men or women, or both. I was honestly curious if the blonde in front of me was gay or not, since I had read up that the canon Bumblebee was a rather forced relationship.

Still, my curiosity aside, I didn't see anything wrong with revealing who my date was, so I answered with, "I think she's really popular, so I think you know her. She's a second year student, Coco Adel, team CFVY's leader." It never really was shown if Coco was actually popular or not in the show, but with her personality and her fashion sense, how could Coco not be popular?

And, it seems I was right to assume so as Yang's eyes widened and her mouth dropped. A moment later, when Yang had fixed up her jaw, she exclaimed, "Yooo~! For real!? I heard that Coco was into women, since she never really went out with any of the guys that asked her our, but I didn't think that was true! She never told me that! And she was seriously your date?! Damn! I knew that Coco had game, but I didn't she'd have enough to get someone like you!"

From what I could get from what Yang had said, then she and Coco were friends, or close acquaintances at least. I don't think that the series ever showed that Yang, or any of RWBY, were really friends with the older girl and her team.

I wanted to talk to her more, probably find out how to properly take care of my hair, but Elira had suddenly cut in. [Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you have ten minutes left before the dungeon kicks you out.] Hearing this, I could only sigh and shake my head.

Yang, seeing my action, stopped whatever she was going to ask, and looked at me in worry. "Everything alright?" The blonde asked, and I was disappointed that I had to leave my friends and my other friend who was most likely my girlfriend for a some time to deal with matters in my world.

"Sorry to cut this short, Yang, but I gotta go." Yang seemed to share my disappointment at what I had revealed, and it just made me want to cheer her up. Thinking quickly of something to cheer the girl up, I soon ended up with something good enough.

"Can I have your number?"

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Now back in my world, the first thing I did was take a shower. Afterwards, I changed to casual clothing (an extra large t-shirt with nothing else beneath it.), turned the T.V. on for background noise, summoned a plate of taiyaki, and began sorting out a to-do list, which came out like this...

-Level up
-Check the loot
-Try learning new skills
-Make a Quest with a monetary reward with Elira's help.
-Write down DxD's timeline
-Get closer to the Devils
-Level up Elira

These were all I could think of for now, and afterwards, I decided to laze around a bit more before doing any of the things listed down. The first thing that came to mind was trying out if I could somehow call and text my friends in the RWBY world from here, since Elira had told me that, while the time stops in the DxD world while I was inside a dungeon, the dungeon's time, however, would flow normally when I was in DxD. And, after awhile, when I was able to send my text (which was a good sign.) to Coco, telling her that I had found a mission to do, I soon got a text back from Coco! So, for some time, Coco and I had begun texting one another, before we eventually had to stop because her break time was up and she had to go back to her classes.

Though, like magic, just when I lost my texting buddy, another distraction came about in a form of my door being knocked upon. Curious as to whoever it was, thinking that it was either my neighbors or maybe the Devils, I quickly made my way to the door and looked through the peekhole...and saw nobody. I initially thought that some kids were playing a prank, but the originally empty hallway now had a very familiar person there! Turns out that it was Koneko on the other side of the door, and I wasn't able to see her at first because her height!

Speaking of the little devil, I immediately unlocked my door and opened it, greeting the white-haired cutie with a massive smile. "Hey there, Koneko-chan. What brings you here?"

Just like in the anime (practically every anime actually), Koneko was still in her school uniform, even if it was the weekend. "Snacks" Was her simple answer to my question, and I just began cooing at Koneko as I guided her inside my home.

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Koneko's POV
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When I met Raynare-san yesterday, I had compared her with Rias and Akeno, and I could safely say that they nearly all have identical body shapes, with Akeno being the tallest and Raynare the shortest, and Rias being more slender, Akeno being bustier, and Raynare being more fuller in different areas. And, other than their bodies, I compared their personalities with one another. Rias was the protective sisterly-type, then Akeno being a Yamato Nadeshiko with S&M tendencies, and Raynare (from what I could find out from the hour we spent.) was very caring and was absolutely nice. I would like to believe that I had a decent grasp of Raynare-san's personality.

However, when she opened her door to me, I almost felt like my observational skills were lacking, since this Raynare was completely different from the meek, yet also excitable, woman from yesterday.

I didn't think it was possible, but a simple change in hairstyle really can change a person. With her new hairstyle (her hair shortened and curled, tied into a high ponytail and with flicks of hair nearly covering the front of her ears.), Raynare-san looked much more beautiful and approachable, unlike when her hair was straight and reached her hips, which made her look more mature and defined.

Honestly, even her current personality was different from yesterday! However, I did just spend around an hour with her, so my mistake in that part was acceptable. Then, other than that, Raynare-san was definitely not expecting someone because her shirt showed where her nipples were! Hopefully, this wasn't a sign that she was a pervert, since I'm surrounded by so many already, with Rias being a nudist and an exhibitionist and Akeno with her S&M and seductive nature, and at school, the Perverted Trio. Of course, Rias and Akeno had control of their pervertedness, unlike the Perverted Trio, and that's saying something because the two women were Devils!

Anyway, being ushered in, I went inside her apartment, and then I immediately noticed how expensive this place was, considering I lived with expensive and fancy for most of my life. However, that was not my main focus. My focus was on the plate of Taiyaki on the table. Without another word, I began eating the delicious fish shaped thing with glee!

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Raynare's POV
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With Koneko here, I decided to kill two fallen with one light spear by getting to know her more, as per what I had listed on my to do list, and dote on the adorable creature!

"Do you want some more, Koneko-chan?" In my hand was a steaming plate of takoyaki, and, Koneko being Koneko, hummed in as much joy as her apathetic face could muster, nodded, then began devouring them, even going as far as licking the bits off of her fingers. I smiled at this, at being able to dote on her, someone that could easily be a little sister. Honestly, the main reason, aside from being good with kids, just wanting to make Koneko happy and acting as her big sister due to her past, but this was also a way to remind myself of my baby brother, who I usually fed whenever he was looking for food. Was I torturing myself with the memories? Kinda. But I would need to learn to move on. I already accepted the fact that I had died and I left my previous world where my family and friends are, but I hadn't moved on yet.

However, pushing those depressive thoughts aside, I just smiled warmly as I began rubbing her head. And, like the cat that she was, Koneko purred softly as she closed her eyes and pushed her head deeper into my hand. Seeing this, warmth once again filled my heart, the image of Koneko being my little sister in this world placing itself deeply in my mind.

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Sadly, after about an hour of pampering and feeding, Koneko had to reluctantly go back to the ORC by her master's call. I, of course, was disappointed and reluctant with letting her go, but I just shook my head, gave her a bag of treats, and ushered her out. Not only did Koneko need to be by her King's side right now, I also had other matters that I had to do. So, with a sad goodbye, but promise of more visits and sweets, Koneko left.

Now alone, I began looking through the loot I picked up yesterday.

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+10 Lesser HP Potion
+4 Lesser MP Potion
+1 Lesser Potion of Steel
+2 Lesser Potion of Wit
+1 Sharpening Gem
+2 Fire Gem
+1 Dagger
+7 Throwing Knives
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What I had wasn't much, but at least there were some new ones.

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-Lesser Potion of Steel
-Tier: E
-Type: Potion
-One Time Use

-For 10 minutes, your skin will become harder, raising your endurance.

-+5 Endurance
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This was useful, as like any other potions I had received. And the Lesser Potion of Wit should be the same, only with Intelligence, so I'm skipping that. Also, I'm pretty sure I know what the Sharpening Gem and the Fire Gem do.

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-Sharpening Gem
-Tier: B
-Type: Augmentation
-One Time Use

-The Sharpening Gem, when infused into any bladed weapon, would make it sharper than its usual limit. A single weapon can be repeatedly infused with the sharpening gem without any limit. However, it wouldn’t matter how sharp a weapon is if it could easily break.

-+10 Sharpness

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-Fire Gem
-Tier: B
-Type: Augmentation
-One Time Use

-The Fire Gem, when infused into any weapon, will coat the weapon with flames that would easily latch onto anything that is attacked by it. Give a weapon enough Fire Gem, then it would be as powerful as the sun!

-+Fire Attribute
-+10 Burning
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These two were useful, very much so. If I would focus on one weapon and continously pour it with any of these gems, and the others I have yet to find, then I could probably make a simple sword have the same sharpness as my Vabranium claw gauntlets, or maybe a sword that could cut through Sirzech's true form (I keep hearing he has one.) with its heat! Then, speaking of the Vabranium claw gauntlet, I got tempted on giving it more sharpness...but it was already too OP, if you compare it to the early antagonists of DxD, so I'll put the thought in the back of my head for now.

Anyway, with my loot sorted out, that's a check on my to-do-list, and also a bit of a semi-check on my "Getting to know the Devils" part now that I'm doing it. Up next waaasss~...leveling up!

[Finally doing something productive with your time, Master?] Elira, who had been silent this whole time, appeared in front of me in her 2D chibi form, a wry smile plastered on her adorable face.

Taking no offense to what Elira had said (maybe I am a bit offended.), I smiled back at her and nodded. Happy with my response, my Status screen appeared in front of me, but with the addition of arrows pointing at a column of zeros and a "Needed EXP: 100" part below my EXP. Yep, definitely Dark Souls.

[I'm sure you would know what to do, Master. And, as you would expect, every level up would make your needed EXP raise by a hundred each time. I know it may seem not so much early on, but I could tell you realize how frightening it could be.] Hearing Elira's comment, I shuddered at the memory of the amount of souls I had needed to reach the limit in Dark Souls. Yeah, yeah, I cheated with Cheat Engine, but it didn't matter, because even if you were level 802 through cheating and using practically billions of souls (I think I had to empty a total of 999,999,999 souls two or three times.), Dark Souls needed the actual skills of player and not maxed out stats. And with that, I can't believe someone actually had done a No-Hit runs with the games.

However, as intimidating as needing nine billion EXP for a single level up was, it wasn't like I didn't have other ways of raising my stats. Like with everyone else (unless you were Fated to be weak), I could do it naturally, with training, fighting, experience and whatnot. And, other than that, I had Free Status Points from Quests! And so, with those thoughts in my head, I was now filled with relief, which was enough to finally enough for me to start leveling up.

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For nearly 20 minutes, I finally leveled up properly after deep thoughts and Elira's constant inputs and reminders, and this was my status now.

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Name: Raynare
Age: 2,508
Race: Impure Angel/Fallen Angel
Level: 75
Job: Mage
Title: Angel of Queer
HP: 451/451=541/541
MP: 451/451=541/541
EXP: 1,900
Needed EXP: 1,800

Strength: 55+2=57
Vitality: 55+5=60
Dexterity: 61+1=62
Endurance: 53+1=54
Intelligence: 55+1=56
Wisdom: 55+5=60
Charisma: 57(+11)
Luck: 12+2=14
Remaining Points: 64
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For 17 times, I leveled up. I added five to each Vitality and Wisdom, since I wanted a faster recovery rate in my HP and MP, then two in Luck to increase my dropped loot chances for the Gems, and the remaining three distributed evenly to my remaining stats not including Charisma. Then, I left some EXP for Elira. And for now, let's leave our Free Status Points. Anyway, that's a check in the to-do-list.

Next up was Elira. Going to Elira's tab and looking around, I realized that, aside from her status (which were 200 on average!), there were a lot more things to level up and use my EXP on! There were things like increasing the cooldown reduction for summoning Elira for battle, increasing her capabilities as the system, skills and weapons that could be bought for her, and even leveling up her skills for her! However, there was something that caught my attention more than the rest.

{3D Avatar}

It was a no brainer. I checked how much I needed for the 3D model, and when it was only for 1,500 EXP, I immediately wasted said amount of EXP on it, and chibi Elira, who seemingly rooled her eyes behind her eye-mask thing, then turned into a fairy! Instead of the chibi version of the Fire Keeper that I got used to, the Elira now was like a fairy-version of the Fire Keeper due to her size! But, in the end, my decision was most definitely the best decision out there!

Curiously, however, after I had finished marveling at her marvelous form, I tried to touch her. Elira, however, being inside my head, huffed and slight disappointment, but there was amusement in it, before landing on my palm and I felt weight on it! Obviously, I squealed, and Elira was promptly brought to my bossom. There were sounds of protest, but no signs of escaping. Yeah. I definitely bought the best thing out there.

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Azazel's POV, The Next Day
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As I had appointed, I had arrived at the only Wacdonald's joint in Kuoh at exactly 8:00 AM, prepared to meet with my troublesome subordinate. Unsurprisingly, Raynare was here earlier than appointed, knowing to be better than punctual if she wanted to not piss off her boss more. Though, I could only feel my eyebrow twitch when the table was filled with different kinds of food that this fast-food restaurant had, and I somehow felt that this was something like a way to bribe her way out of her incoming punishment. Although, in reality, it would have worked, since her decision had been a great help to finding out just what that damned War Monger had been hiding these past year, so her punishment would have been a slap on the wrist and would even be given a reward, probably a promotion. However, with that annoying sis-con's meddling, a more "appropriate" punishment was needed, he said. Bah! The bastard preaches his sister's name more than priests would with Father's!

Anyway, Raynare made a good decision with putting out the food. Speaking of the Fallen, she was currently speaking to someone through her phone, but when she saw me getting closer, she was quickly trying to end it. Then, when I got to sit down on the chair in front of hers, I was able to hear the end of her conversation with my normal hearing. "-orry babe, got to cut the call. My boss is here....mmm...miss you too. And you better not be so rough with the kids, 'kay? Bye babe."

So it seems that someone's in a relationship, which was surprising to say the least. Raynare sounded really genuine, without an ounce of deception in her tone, implying that whatever this thing she was having was real, and if it was a real relationship, then that would be something other Fallen Angels would be envious of, with their corrupted nature not allowing them to be able to properly feel any healthy emotions without unhealthy ones holding them back. There was always this sense of imbalance in us, with the corruption of our falling always fighting the blessing our Father had given us, making most of us unhinged in a way.

Still, shaking off the surprise and my nature to find out just how Raynare had seemingly found her balance, I was now ready to get down to business.

"Raynare." I started off first, gauging the woman's reaction. However, it seems that Raynare finding her balance had made her more interesting than she used to be, as, instead of bowing her head submissively as she used to, she was now simply smiling at me, almost lazily at that, a complete contrast to how she usually acted.

"Good to see you, boss." Her voice was rather cheerful and...free, if a bit fearless. A curious thing.

"Well, since I have a faction to manage (not really.), I will make this quick." I said that, but I now was ravishing a burger. Truly, humans are both a blessing and a curse made by father.

Raynare, for her part, looked on curiously, and suddenly just decided to help herself and eat just like I was. Really a curious thing. As bold and brazen as most fallen are, they wouldn't just suddenly decide to eat with their leader, unless it was in a party, much less eat without my permission. Raynare truly was starting to look even more interesting than she originally was.

"*Gulp* Ah. Anyway, back to the topic. What you did Raynare, was a foolish thing...but it was a good thing in the end. And before you ask, the devils that you talked with reported what you said to Sirzechs, who, then, went to speak to me about the matter and, well, we made a deal." I admitted, cringing when the sudden memory of Sirzechs wailing like a kid when I denied him his sister's wish came up, to which I obviously relented to and accepted, just to stop the snot that kept on running out of his nose that was dripping on my floor.

The woman in front of me was, obviously, surprised with this, but she eventually gave out a simple, "Ah." as a response.

"Anyway, when I got the report from Sirzechs, I began looking deeper into the matter and, thanks to some luck, was able to find out what just what Kokabiel was doing. At first, everything just didn't make sense, with how scrambled the information we found seemed to be, but when someone had the smart idea of suggesting to 'think like War Monger', things had begun to become clearer. And it's thanks to your actions that we may have just dodged a bullet." After that long explanation, I began devouring the nuggets while my eyes remained trained on Raynare's reaction, and as I had expected, she was surprised with this.

"And because you saved us from possibly certain doom, I planned to ignore your bit with revealing yourself to the devils and cooperating with the enemy, since I could chalk it up to you believing that what you were supposed to report to me today was super important, and you even made friends with the devils, not many fallen would and could do the same, but someone wanted to still give you a more 'fitting' punishment than I had originally had in mind." Sirzechs was bad at negotiating with friends, but it was so bad that you couldn't help but feel pity for him and just let him have what he wanted.

Raynare, after listening to what I said, raised an eyebrow, looking a bit ready to murder Sirzechs, and probably wanting to find out just who was the smart guy that wanted to punish her. Not that her "punishment" was barely a punishment anyway. More of a badly concealed way of connecting two Factions with one another.

"Bah! No need to go murdering the guy, you probably wouldn't even last a minute against him." I informed the woman, and for a moment, a flash of fear passed by her face, before she went into a more contemplative look. "The punishment isn't even that bad, if what they said was true. For your punishment, you would be watching over Kuoh's overseers, more specifically, you would be protecting the the little sisters of the two Maous, along with having to sign a contract saying that you were 'hired with my permission' by Rias Gremory so that other devils wouldn't whine as much with a Fallen freely going around another Devil's territory." After another long explanation without any stops in between, I went straight into devouring the chicken leg in my hand. Of course, Raynare had most of my focus. And speaking of which, she now sported furrowed eyebrows, from either analyzing the situation or anything else, I don't know.

Raynare, after some time, however, sighed and looked at me with a tired gaze, which had something familiar in it. Though, the name that came out of her mouth definitely surprised me. "Sirzechs?" I didn't know how she'd found out, but it was obvious she knew something about the man's sis-conness somehow (it wasn't common knowledge to Fallen Angels that he was a sis-con.) if she had this tired look in her eyes that now reminded me of myself whenever I had to deal with the over-powerful man baby.

Somehow, Raynare also knew somethings she wasn't supposed to know, or stuff that wasn't easy to get at least, but at least she seems like a kindred spirit right now. Then, sporting the same tired look, I answered with, "Sirzechs."

Afterwards, I completely ignored my earlier comment of needing to govern my faction and just ate and decided to find out more of this Fall Angel.

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Raynare's POV
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You know, I knew Azazel would be cool, thanks to the anime, but I didn't realize he could be such a good bro. The man was really honest, and with that honesty, he began ranting about how hard it was to lead a faction filled with, according to him, rebellious little shits, and I was really interested in how he does it. In my mind, Michael wouldn't have much trouble with his people, but Azazel and Sirzechs would.

Anyway, after we had eaten all of the food I had bought, Azazel brought me to a bar. However, as I had never really had much alcoholic drinks in my life, especially going in a bar, I was lost at what to do while Azazel began drinking whatever. Other than wine, sparkling water and a sip of 2x2, and probably some other kinds of alcoholic drinks I didn't know about and had consumed, I had completely no experience in all this. And, ever since I was younger, I never had wanted to become drunk, with the main deciding factor was how my father would get rather loud and be a bit scarier than usual. However, it wasn't so bad to sometimes break your promises to yourself. So, after I was able to get whatever drink that was that had the lowest alcohol content there, I began to listen to Azazel tell me about his troubles in his faction.

After that, when the Fallen Angel leader was effectively drunk, and I not even being close to it (I don't know if it was due to my new body's own resistance or because of my race.), Azazel decided that he wanted to have some "fun". He, of surprisingly, didn't bed me, something about "finding balance" and "not NTR-ing undeserving kids", and had promptly kicked me out of the establishment, but now before putting something in my hand. So, now that I was out of the bar, I quickly put whatever the thing that Azazel gave me inside my Inventory before finally doing some Quests that Elira had been able to give out.

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Chapter 10: Hyouduo Issei, Future Harem King

Summary:

Here's Issei!
This is a timeskip BTW.
Like a long timeskip.
I'll try to summarize whatever happened in the one month timeskip without it being much of an info dump.

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Issei's POV

"Matsuda! Get out of the way! It's my turn to see those heavenly peaks!" I whisper yelled at my friend, doing my best not to alert the kendo girls from the other side of the wall while I tried to pry off my physically stronger friend from the hole that God had blessed us with!

And, as I mentioned, being the physically stronger one, being an athlete, Matsuda didn't budge. "Yell quieter, Issei! Do you want us to get caught!?! They'll patch up this whole when they do!? And when it's gone, no more thighs for me bro!" Matsuda, in a somehow quieter, yet still louder, whisper yell, barked at me while using one leg to push me back.

Thankfully, our other friend, Motohama, who had yet to get his fill of God's most beautiful creation, began helping me with Matsuda. "Damn it man! Let me see the Garden of Eden too!! I need some new materials for my spank bank!!!" With the two of us prying off Matsuda at the same time, physically stronger or not, we were finally able to got our chance at looking at the land of magnificent boobies!

However, mistakes were made, and Motohama and I headbutted each other when we went straight for the hole, causing us to shriek in pain, me crying out louder because of Motohama's glasses's edge hitting my eye. Forgetting the passage to God's land for a moment, I could only writhe on the ground in pain I was not used to. Being hit repeatedly by a bokken? Been there, done that. Getting poked painfully in the eye? Oh hell no! Though, I really should have fought through the pain, because with the loud yell of "He's here!" had caused me to subjected to both of the pains I've mentioned.

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For about 10 minutes I was continously beat upon with sticks. Thick, long, sticks. Thankfully, one of the kendo girls had mentioned they were hungry, causing everyone else to quickly agree to leave me in favor of going to the cafeteria. And, though an hour may have already passed since the end of school for today, ever since our new, super-sexy, very busty, lunchlady came, our food got so much better! The cafeteria had basically become an international buffet when she came! And, other than that, the cafeteria was open even until night! So, whenever someone got hungry, they would immediately go to the cafeteria, and some had even taken some from food home for their dinner!

Anyway, thanking God's Angel in a form of a lunchlady for her existence, I slowly got up from my spot, feeling a lot of pain, sweat, and dirt. It looks like I'll just make do with my porn mags for tonight.

Sighing, I slowly trudged back home, knowing that I wouldn't get another opportunity to looking at those magnificent pillows until tomorrow. However, someday, I won't have to stoop so low as to fight for peeky holes! Someday, I'll be the Harem King! In the future, I wouldn't need to try so hard, because all the boobs would come to me soon enough!

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Rias's POV
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As I eyed ny future family member struggle to walk, a soft, melodious giggle came from beside me. Looking to my left, I gave Raynare, the usually meek, reserved and all-around nice woman, now a...mess of personalities after her switch had been flipped, a mock glare.

"Must you laugh at the misfortune of others?" It was a stupid question. Who doesn't laugh at the misfortune of others?

Though, to my question, Raynare simply reolied with, "Yes. Yes I do."

Throughout this whole month that we had "hired" Raynare, we, obviously, got to know the woman more. And, throughout that whole month, we found two proper words to describe her; Wonderfully Chaotic. In a sense, everyone is a mix of different personalities, but Raynare was just...more than that at a lot of times. She could be sweet and mean, cold yet caring, protective yet toxic. You could argue that she was the same as everyone else, but we would deny that claim.

"At least he's determined, for what's it worth. This was the fifth time that he got beaten up this week, and today's Wednesday!" She eyed Issei leave through the school's entrance, a calculating look etched deep into her eyes, a plan for something most definitely being cooked up in her beautiful head. I have known Raynare long enough that whenever she had this look, either something good or bad would happen. Usually bad.

"Anyway, you better hurry up with your recruitment, or I'll do it myself. I am getting rather tired of you fussing on and on about how you could get Hyouduo-kun to enter your little band of misfits." There was an edge in her tone, and I could only simply hold my giggle back. One time, when I had made a joke of seducing Issei to join my peerage, Raynare hadn't taken well to that and had made me swear to never use my body like that. It was both a sweet and irritating thing, but I appreciated it, even if the woman had overreacted like that.

Still, I really have to hurry up unless I want Issei-kun to be traumatized with whatever Raynare had in mind.

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Raynare's POV
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"You good for another date babe?" Recently, I was struggling to lessen my guard, always prepared to fight something Fate would throw at me. The reason why was because I was now in the beginning of the anime. However, since there were no other Fallen Angel here other than me ever since three weeks ago (when Azazel had called them back to be punished after he and the rest of the Grigori had driven away Kokabiel and a good chunk of their fellow Fallen in their faction away in their failed operation to capture the War Monger), and with the stray priests being hunted down, it meant that the Raynare Arc or whatever wouldn't happen. And it's because of that that I was so high strung recently, prepared for Fate to do something because Issei was the protagonist of this God forsaken world (technically literally.). And that was why I was asking Coco, my girlfriend for one month, out on a date.

Throughout the month, I, of course, didn't just stay here in the DxD world. Every other day (because the dungeon had a one day cooldown after use.) I would immediately go back to the RWBY world, slay grimm, get stronger, talk with friends, go on dates, and take on actual missions since I had become an official Huntress through Elira rewarding me the proper I.D. and paperwork after a quest, and through the regular missions, I got Lien that I could convert to Yen. That rhymed.

Of course, since I didn't like the feeling of guilt that crashed down on me whenever I left the dungeon, Coco and I had a heart-to-heart, and thank Friede Coco had just readily accepted everything I said! It turns out, as natural a liar as I was, I still had cracks that she had found. So, with a lighter heart, my like for her bloomed into love, and I could safely say that I couldn't be any happier!

"Hah~. Sorry, Ray, but our exam's coming up and I need to help out some of my classmates since our team was the only smart group in the whole second year student body." I could hear and feel the disappointment in her voice, and it just made me want to punish her peers for taking her time away from me. But, I wouldn't be doing that, 'cause I was a good girl.

"I'll make your team some mapo tofu for tomorrow then?" Though I had a system that easily dispensed food without any need for anything, cooking was something that reminded me of my parents, so I would occasionally cook my own food from scratch instead of making it out of thin air. And, thanks to Akeno's help, my //Cooking// skill was now 7, more than good enough. Then, when I gave Coco food that I made with my hands, she suddenly gave out a corny line about the food being better than normal after taking a bite out of it. I wasn't really sure about that, since I compared the food I made with a system made one and the one made by the system was better, but I did feel empowered by her words and sometimes cooked food for her and her team.

Anyway, back to the now. "That would be wonderful, my angel." Hearing Coco's pet name for me leave her mouth, I rolled my eyes, not at all regretting telling her I was a Fallen Angel.

"Good night for now, then. Love you." It was getting late, and since Coco said their exams were near, I didn't want to be the reason why she'd lose her sleep and lose focus.

"Good night, and I love you too. See you tomorrow." Through the phone, I could practically feel her anticipation, and it just made me smile wildly

"See you." With that, I ended the call and put my attention back to the scene in front of me. Ever since I had been "hired" by the Gremory's, I decided to take advantage of it and be their hired trainer. Of course, I had zero teaching experience and at that time, still a bit weaker than them, but it was still accepted. Afterwards, I forced Rias to finally get her shit together and be a proper leader, though I still had some things to work with. Gasper was now out of his room, after I had suggested that instead of sealing him in his room, we were to use a suppression seal on him. Of course, they had already thought of that, and it hadn't worked. Conveniently though, I had my own Tier: B, Great Suppressing Choker, that worked. Of course, to prove that it would work to the members of the ORC, I barged into the cross-dressing half Dhampir's sealed room, surprising the feminine boy, promptly causing him to activate his Sacred Gear, which didn't work for me since, at that point, I was strong enough to not be stopped by his Gear, and put the choker on his neck, and shoved the boy to Rias.

That wasn't my best first impression, but in the following week, Gasper's fear for me lessened enough for us to bond through video games.

Other than Gasper, I, of course, didn't leave out Kiba and had received a proper dressing down from me with the Holy Sword project matter. With my interest in psychology and Perks relating to my aura, I had been able to get him consult to an actual devil therapist, something Rias hadn't wanted to bring up in the pass because she was too afraid to hurt her Knight, the redhead confessed.

For Koneko, being a big sister was enough. For Akeno, my existence seemed to be a a good form of therapy for her. Lastly, Rias and I had a heart to heart conversation. She had her fears, her insecurities under all that beautiful, seemingly perfect, face, and I did my best to relate in some way to slowly heal the girl, and for the love of Friede, my impulsive decision to act as a therapist had been a good one and the Devils now in front of me were definitely better than the one in the anime in the same time. I was even sure that they could win against Riser, but I was just about 46% sure, since a lot of variables can pop up and affect the future.

Anyway, in front of me were Rias and Sona having their mock Rating Game in the outskirts of Kuoh. Nothing excessive, but it would still help them prepare for the future. And while they did that, I began to recheck the skills and important loot I got throughout the month and my current level to fill myself with pride, a thing I usually did. It was just great reminding yourself that you had been weak once, and was now strong.

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Name: Raynare
Age: 2,508
Race: Impure Angel/Fallen Angel
Level: 75=143
Job: Mage
Title: Angel of Queer
HP: 541/541=899/899
MP: 541/541=899/899
EXP: 6,308
Needed EXP: 8,600

Strength: 57+10+8=75
Vitality: 60+8+8=76
Dexterity: 62+8+8=78
Endurance: 54+10+8=72
Intelligence: 56+8+8=72
Wisdom: 60+8+8=76
Charisma: 57+8=65(+12)
Luck: 14+8+16=38
Remaining Points: 25
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I'm really thankful that Elira knows me so well that she had a History of my level ups. I was sure that the one on the second column of my stats were from my level ups while the third were from the Free Status Points. And, like I told you, seeing the result of my hard work puts a smile on my face.

Next up were my new skills and the skills I had level upped.

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/Light Manipulation/: 6=>9/10/+
/Aerobatics/: 6=>8/10/+
/Wings Proficiency/: 6=>8/10/+
/Seduction/: 6=>7/10/+
/Camouflage/: 6=>7/10/+
/Weapon Junkie/: 3=>6/10/+
/Hand-to-Hand/: 2=>6/10/+
//Guitar Proficiency//: 0=>5/10/+
//Dancing//: 4=>7/10/+
//Acting: 6=>10/10/+
//Lying//: 8=>9/10/+
//Cooking//: 3=>7/10/+
//Parkour//: 2=>6/10/+
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/Wings Proficiency+/
-Extension:
/Hardening/ 3=>5/10/+
/Control/ 9=>10/10/+
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/Weapon Junkie+/
-Extension:
/Spear Proficiency/: 5=>9/10/+
/Scythe Wielding/: 2=>4/10/+
/War Hammer Wielding/: 3=>4/10/+
/Odd-Weapon Proficiency/: 3=>9/10/+
/Mace Wielding/: 2=>3/10/+
/Sword Proficiency/: 2=>5/10/+
/Gun Handling/: 4=>7/10/+
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/Hand-to-Hand+/
-Extension:
/Grappling/: 2=>7/10/+

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/Light Manipulation+/
-Extension:
/Living Light/: 6/10/+
/Infusion/: 5/10/+
/Mixer/: 7/10/+
/Invisibility/: 2/10/+
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/Hand-to-Hand+/
-Extension:
/Muay Thai/: 2/10/+
/Krav Maga/: 1/10/+
/Taekwando/: 5/10/+
/Judo/: 5/10/+

=
/Mana Manipulation/: 8/10/+
/Elemental Call/: 6/10/+
/Emotional Aura/: 3/10/+
/Healing Song/: 3/10/+
/Force Mentality/: 4/10/+
/Impenetrable/: 5/10/+
/The Force/: 7/10/+
//Singing//: 7/10/+
//Driving//: 4/10/+

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Okay. One would question how I had so many skills with a lot of them at high levels in just one month, and in truth, the reason why I had so many high leveled skills in just under a month was because the leveling system was different for said skills. The way you leveled up your skill was through understanding, experience, and determination. When you understood what your skill could do, it would level up, but you would need your experience with it and the determination to make your understanding of it become possible. That is why I had so many high level skilled. To make an example, /Light Manipulation/, /The Force/, /Mana Manipulation/ and /Elemental Call/ were basically the same with different sources and mediums, and because I already had my experience and understanding with /Light Manipulation/, I incorporated what I learned from that skill to the new ones, which basically instantly leveled them up.

I'm sure there was no need for me to read every single skill's description, since I'm sure you're smart enough to know how they'd work.

Anyway, I was about to go over the important loot that I had, but I was brought out of my world when I noticed that the sound of fighting was replaced with cheering. Looking up, I saw that Sona's group were all celebrating, while Rias and the rest was despondent. Of course, being agood sport, Rias and everyone else in her peerage congratulated their opponents, with Gasper even managing to let out a full sentence without stuttering out all the words.

Seeing that the devils were finished with their team sparring (it could be called that, right?), I went down from the branch I was sitting on and landed softly on the ground.

"Ready to go back?"

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Sona's POV
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"Ready to go back?" From behind us, the melodious and mature voice of our "bodyguard" came. Raynare Charlamane was a Fallen Angel that had been, after her actions that had helped us avoid a possible war, practically given to us as a sick sort of punishment by Sirzechs because Rias had mentioned to him about wanting her. I didn't approve of this punishment of hers, because it made me feel like I had enslaved her and I didn't like that(a feeling usually not present in my fellow devils). And, no. Enslaving her and the Peerage system were fundamentally different, unless latter was used solely for that reason with a less reasonable devil.

However, I could easily admit that giving Raynare-san to us was possibly the best help Sirzechs had given to us! Because of this Fallen, Rias was finally coming out of her shell and losing some of her unusual way of thinking, Akeno had lost her hatred for the Fallen race as a whole, according to my ever helpful Queen, Gasper was finally out of his (or should I go with her?) room, Koneko was happier, and Kiba was taking therapy sessions with a well known therapist in the Underworld.

However, they were not the only ones that Raynare-san had helped. Raynare, even though it wasn't usually easy to pin down her current true personality (her personality's a mess, but a well-controlled, chaotic, mess.), was a massively helpful friend. A friend that you could not help but reveal your secrets to, and one who would keep it and help you find the answers you were looking for. It was due to her friendship that Momo, Reya, Tomoe, and Tsubasa, finally got to talk about their insecurities of being Reincarnated Devils, which I had not known about and I still regret that I had not been able to help them with it. Fortunately, Raynare-san had her ways, and slowly, the four women had come to accept their insecurities and better themselves. For Saji's case, Raynare was able to beat it into his brain that just because he was the only man in our group didn't mean that he started taking everyone's burdens as his own. It was endearing how he wanted to help, but what he was doing wasn't going to help himself. So, after Raynare had set him straight, Saji didn't throw away his own needs for the needs of others at the drop of a hat.

As for Tsubaki's experience with Raynare, the fallen was able to melt away my Queen's frigidness and talk to that scared girl who I had met all those years ago, crying for help when her clan had kicked her out for simply possessing a Sacred Gear. And lastly, my experience with Raynare was...embarrassing, honestly. I didn't know how she knew, but what we talked about was my older sister, Serafall, and her tendencies and..."advances" towards me and how they affect me as a person. Honestly, I never really thought about onee-sama's excessive...love, for me to have any kinds of negative effects, but after a really long talk with Raynare, I found out that I had unknowingly gained...incestuous feelings for my sister. It was a mind-boggling revelation, one I had quickly, adamantly, denied. However, Raynare was both patient and stern, and had soon made me think deeply on that matter. Of course, Raynare wasn't an expert in all this, but what she had done for my peerage and my friend's peerage was a show that she at least had a tight grasp on what she was doing. In the end, we gave it the benefit of a doubt, and I would wait to see my sister again to confirm Raynare's theory.

However, going back to the present, answering Raynare-san's questions were various variations of agreement.

"I'll meet you guys back in the club room then." As Raynare-san was a Fallen Angel, our teleportation spells wouldn't allow us to take her with us, since this spell was made just for us Devils. Then, since we could instantly teleport to our destinations from here, Raynare had opened her wings and gone back first.

A moment later, Raynare-san was but a speck of dust in our enhanced vision, a display of strength in her wings. Usually, we had no need to flap our wings to fly, but doing so would give us a boost. But, if any of us were to ever challenge Raynare-san in an aerial race, she would definitely defeat us without a doubt.

"Come on guys. She's probably already back at school." Rias's voice filled the forest, and it was due to that that I just noticed that we had been silent the whole time, watching as Raynare-san quickly disappeared in the starry sky.

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Issei's POV
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Today was another failure. Not only did they destroy God's blessing to us, but none of the clubs were...around. Oh they were at school, but seemingly just about every girl decided today was their "cheat" day and was being served by Raynare-sama, our very own Angel. God, what I would do for her to simply just wrap her breasts around my face.

Since there wasn't anything else to do, and since Motohama and Matsuda were still running away from me because they left me to "die" yesterday, I decided that going home was the best thing to do right now. However, as I was crossing the overpass, I saw the unmistakable image of boobs! Without needing to think, I was already on the boobs...captured in a picture of the highest quality! Today seemed to be my lucky day!

....and it got even better when I saw a trail of boobs! The only reason I could think off was that someone like me had painstakingly taken such beautiful pictures and was unlucky enough to lose them from his bag or something. However! To not waste his effort, I will put these boobs in my shrine and thank whoever he is everyday for this blessing!

So, without further ado, "Boobs galore!"

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Raynare's POV
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You know... I expected Issei to think with his stupid second brain when boobs get involved....but I never expected he'd start acting like a kid following a candy trail right towards a kidnapper's van, which is the perfect analogy for this. Isse was the kid, I was the kidnapper, and the pictures of boobs I got out off the internet (from my previous world's internet since the one here was still improving and too outdated for my tastes.) and printed were the candies.

Anyway, this made my job easier. So, with Issei's "participation", let the games begin.

{Word count: 3,859}

Notes:

Therapy was needed, so I gave it to them, but in summary.

Chapter 11: Fate BS

Summary:

Issei's power comes from boobs.
Someone appears.
Ruby's a cinnamon roll, but she's actually a naughty girl.
Things have escalated all of a sudden.
Consenting adults
There's a reason I had put up Imaginary Smut in the tags. You have to imagine what happened.
Everyone is a perv, including the prude ones.

Chapter Text

Raynare's POV

The first event I had for Issei was something to see just how fast he could be. So, I had glued a picture of boobs on the back of a car I had...borrowed. Yeah, I borrowed the car because Elira was being a good system and wasn't just always giving me whatever I wanted through rewards from Quests. Anyway, the moment I saw Issei's eyes twinkle upon seeing the image stuck behind my car, began going after it like a man on a mission to save the world. Of course, when he had gotten close enough, I drove off in a decent speed. The shouts of "Hey!" and "Stop!"s were ignored, and I just watched Issei slowly start getting smaller and smaller, like one would expect when you compare a car with a human, unless you were Usain Bolt. But, as expected, even when Issei was weak, both as a human and a Devil in the early seasons in physically, when breasts got involved....Issei was slowly catching up to me, who was driving at 20 mph (I couldn't go higher, obviously, since that would defeat the point of evaluating Issei's capabilities and how much he could break his limits for boobs.).

Anyway, when he reached "my" car and had promptly snatched the picture from on top of the trunk, I drove a fair distance away before leaving it and going to the next thing I had planned.

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The second event I had for Issei was to check his resilience. With my /Invincibility/ and without really needing to flap my wings to fly, I held a picture of breasts (printed in normal paper) in my hand and made it seem like it was being blown away by the wind. Issei, of course, once he saw the flash of breasts flying about, didn't think that anything was suspicious and began chasing it with a "Papa's coming baby!". It was there that I began making the picture in my grasp fly in seemingly random directions, but it was actually a distraction, distractions which caused Issei to hit a multitude of things headfirst. A car, a tree, wall, pole, people, and a lot more things. However, unlike a normal person would, his survival instincts were turned off and he continuously let himself hit whatever kind of surface there was in the pursuit of breasts, but he didn't stop.

After a while, I just let go of the picture and let the kid have his prize. I had to test how smart and fearless he actually was.

***

The third even was to test if Issei was smart enough to cut his losses and to see how fearless he was. Of course, with the scenario I had put up, he wouldn't be able to achieve both of them. Still in my /Invisibility/, I flew with a different picture of boobs and, with Issei being a fair distance away, I entered a Yakuza Compound. One should know that the Yakuza members were usually noble, respectful and polite, unless they were making money or going against other gangs, so they wouldn't usually trouble people (again, unless they were making money.). But if someone just enters one of their compounds without an appointment? You're dead.

And Issei was a stupid dead man.

I don't know if Issei didn't notice, or ignored, that he was entering a Yakuza compound, which was impossible with the imposing large gates and walls they had, but he still climbed up the high walls like Spider-Man and hadn't managed to break his legs when he jumped from said high walls. Afterwards were a series of shouts, curses, and sword flinging.

For about 10 minutes, I flew around the building inside the compound, since it would be hard to fly inside, and had lead around Issei in the open. The Yakuza members, of course, didn't take kindly to a stranger entering their compound, ignoring them, and annoyingly shouting out vulgar variations of boobs.

When I was done feeling amused, I just let go of the picture, which Issei had caught. I, then, left him to have his happy moment, before he was promptly beaten up by the Yakuza. I didn't worry that they'd kill him, since, he was the Protagonist.

Anyway, after everything I had put the kid through, Hyouduo Issei definitely deserved his title as the Breast Dragon Emperor.

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Ruby's POV
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My first proper impression with Raynare hadn't been the best. We were going to take a bath in the public showers because our bathroom was under maintenance (which wasn't caused by the ice dust I left inside the toilet by accident. No sirrie!). Then, when we had entered the showers, we were talking about her, which, at first, had begun nicely, but it just got weird in the end. Thhheeenn! It turns out that she was actually in the showers with us, and had all heard our talk! Though, I was more embarrassed with seeing an older woman's naked breasts and not with the person we were talking about had heard our weird talk about her. Though, afterwards, Raynare and Yang just started talking to each other, and the rest of us slowly joined in, albeit still somewhat embarrassed.

The next meetings with Raynare, however, had been the best! For two months, in every other day, we got to know more about Raynare! She was like, my second idol (my mom being the first and uncle Qrow now my third favorite idol.)! Raynare was a mess of personalities, but in the end, the best person you could be with! Nothing seemed to deter her, not my rants with weapons, not Weiss's arrogance, my sister's flirting, and Blake's barely concealed horniness (I was 15, not 9!). The older woman had gotten along well with all of us! And thanks to her, Weiss was less haughty, Blake talked more, Yang had found her bestest friend, and I had someone that I could talk with weapons with!

Of course, with all the help she had done and Raynare being herself...it wasn't hard to fall for the older woman. And I fell hard.

But it wasn't meant to be. Not only was I just 15, and she being around her 20s, we never found out her real age, she was already in a relationship with Coco Adel, a second year. I was surprised when I had found that out, her being with a woman, not Coco herself, but it was also there that the idea of being with Raynare for the rest of my life had blossomed. However, like I had said, it was not meant to be, because Coco and Raynare were in a happy and healthy relationship.

So. Imagine my surprise when I heard the sounds of three women moaning inside our dorm room, used my I.D. to unlock the door and peek inside, and found Raynare, in between Yang and Coco, all three of them naked, taking in two strap-ons at the same time at the same place!

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Raynare's POV
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You know, even after all my want for a harem as a boy in my previous life, and still with my current lust amplified slightly by being a Fallen Angel, I had imagined Coco and I would be in a normal relationship, with our lives being the only two of us. However, never woild I have thought that Coco was so much of a kinky bitch like I was and had wanted to bed more women. Of course, when I had found out that Coco was interested in adding women into our intimate activities, she had confessed that she would have continued being a playgirl and making no meaningful relationship with any women in the past, until I came into it.

So, with both our consent, we were now open with our appreciation of other women, and with the two of us combined, there was no woman that had been able to resist our charms. However, in the odd two-ish months (with my constant entering in the RWBY Dungeon world, two months had passed her while only one month had gone in DxD.) I had come to make more friends, learn more things, experience more things, I never would have thought of my best friend, Yang, to just up and ask "Wanna fuck?" while Coco was right beside me. Of course, in a normal relationship, Yang would have gotten a hard slap across the cheek and her friendship with Coco and I's destroyed, but Coco simply laughed heartily before passionately making out with Yang.

After awhile, when I had had my turn on her abused lips, I found out that she had actually loved me (I knew she had a crush on me, just not how intense it was.) and had gotten the courage to do what she had done because rumors around Vale (yes. Vale.) had gotten around about our relationship.

So, following her confession, here we were, in Yang's dorm room, because she was sure the rest of team RWBY were out and wouldn't be back late in the afternoon, being DP'd in the pussy with their strap-ons! Friede it was the greatest pleasure I had felt!

"Friede fuck-ahh~! -Fucking damn it! Do me-shit!-harder! Please! Ahh~! Harrrddeerr~~!!" Lost in all this carnal pleasure, in all this lust sprinkled with love, I demanded to be even more pleasured! Friede! I had had it both in the ass and the pussy before, in the rare occasions, in all my holes, but none of both the two fake appendages in the same place at the same time before!

"Oum! Fuck! Babe! Take our cocks you damed horny slut! Guhh~! Yes~!" Coco, being the best girlfriend ever, began to plowing deep into me harder than earlier, prompting Yang to grunt before doing the same soon enough.

"Shit! Shit shit shit shit!!! Damn it -gah~! If you keep talking like -fuck~! If you keep talking like a bitch in heat, -nnn~, then I can't stop myself from doing you -ahh~, harder!" Yang, the younger woman, was very enthusiastic. And she was currently trying her best to prove her worth, and Friede was she proving it!

"Ooh~~! Yyeess~~! Just like that! Fuck your whore like -kya~ ooh~...like- ah~... Like the bitch she is! Fucking wreck me damn it!!!" Whenever we had rough sex, I had found out that I was quite vocal, and through this, I had found joy in dirty talks and definitely enjoyed referring myself as a slut and any other variations of it out there!

However, as my climax kept getting closer and closer, even with my hazy, pleasure focused mind, I was able to notice the door, which had been locked earlier, now slightly open. It would have been enough to make me stop all this, because even if public sex was a good thing, I did not enjoy showing my naked, fucked body, to men....however, the reason I didn't stop was because women were a definite exception, and the familiar silver eyes beyond the crack had made the gender of the person on the other side of the door known. So, with the more corrupted and lust controlled part of mt mind taking over, I decided to give our little voyeur a show.

Then, in a single breath (not really.), I shouted, "Friede! Yes! Yes yes yesyeyesyes yessss~~!! Fuck me like the slut I am! FUCK!! Use your cocks and stir up my womb!! Stir- SHIT! Yess~! Just- hah, like that!! Fuuuckkk~!! Yes! Fuck me like you want, need to plant your seeds in me!!! Shitshitshit!!! Yes~! Oooooohh~~!" With their hard, deep thrusts constantly assaulting me, it wasn't long before I reached my climax, which seemingly had been a trigger for my two lovers, as they, too, had moaned aloud, giving in to their own climaxes.

However, after riding out my high, I stared at Ruby's eye, and smirked.

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Ruby's POV
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'Oh...wow...wow wow wowowowow wow!!! Y-Yang, Coco...Ra-Raynare...wow... This...th-this is-isn' t real, right? There's no way someone could have two of those in their places at the same time!' Even though I was having these thoughts, I couldn't drag away my eyes from the...view...the scene in front of me. I wanted this to be a dream, a disgusting dream because I was seeing my sister have sex. And Raynare being teamed up by Yang and Coco. I wanted all of this to be a bad dream, but a simple pinch to my wrist had told me it wasn't. So, here I was, watching Raynare, ever perfect Rayanare, being fucked by her girlfriend, together with my older sister, and I couldn't, for the life of me, take my eyes off them.

I stood rooted in place, peeking through the crack and listening to all those melodious moans that kept on coming out of Raynare's delectable lips. Then, came the climax. I never thought of being great ever since dad had told me the birds and the bees, even going as for as calling it "Icky.". However...the way Raynare just looked so...wonderful...primal...so..so wonderfully fucked made me rethink that thought.

And now, I saw another side of Raynare. A side where she just looked so much more beautiful than she usually was. I didn't even care that the reason she was looking like this was caused by my sister and her girlfriend...that it wasn't me that made her look so gorgeously sweaty and hot. I didn't care about that.

However, the moment Rayanare looked straight to my peeking eye and smirked, all the embarrassment came crashing down on to me and I just...ran.

Without any other thought, I ran away, not even apologizing to the person I bumped into.

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Glynda's POV
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I was making my rounds around the dormitories as per my job, making sure all these children weren't doing anything stupid, when all of a sudden, a familiar blur passed me by and had bumped onto my shoulder. As usual, Miss Rose was being rowdy again, and I was prepared to turn around and see her stand there, ready to be reprimanded. However, she wasn't there. Gone was the blur in a flurry of petals, and then there came my anger. If I ever saw Miss Rose again, she must prepare herself for her fifth detention this month.

Knowing that chasing Miss Rose would only prove to be a feuitless endeavor, I decided to leave her be for now and continue my job, when I saw something glisten at the edge of my peripherals. Looking down, in the middle of the trail of rose petals (the janitors will hopefully deal with those soon, bless their souls.), there was a smaller trail of glistening liquid, which I followed with my eyes, and soon found that it led to a large patch of liquid in front of Miss Rose's dorm room. An idea soon came to me at that sight. Hopefully, Miss Xiao Long was in their room, so I can punish her for playing hookie once again in Professor Port's class (I respect the man, but he needs to get his shit together) by having her to clean up the mess her sister had left.

However, the most baffling scene had graced my eyes upon arriving at team RWBY's slightly open door. On the other side of the door, on top of the bed, were one Coco Adel, Yang Xiao Long, and Raynare Charlamane....all naked and seemingly having just ended an intimate moment.

The only thought that filled my head right then was, 'Nice. ' It wasn't one of the smartest train of thoughts, but how could you properly react when the object of your fantasies lay there, looking absolutely fucked and hot. Speaking of fantasies... I looked around, noticing that there was nobody around. And, with no one else around me, I slowly opened the door wider, took out my scroll, and took several pictures. I would have wanted to get a closer, more intimate look, but I didn't want to expose myself. So, when I felt that I had enough images of my beloved Raynare's wonderful body, some involving her lovers own, I slowly closed the door and locked it with my I.D.. Immediately after, I threw away my previous objective and went straight to my room to make proper use of the images I had procured.

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Raynare's POV
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As always, I used up all my time in the RWBY world and was promptly kicked out of the dungeon at the exact same time I had entered said dungeon. Afterwards, I put the Dungeon Key back into my inventory as I pushed the door to the kitchen open, as being the lunch lady was my side-job.

"Anything important to do today, Elira?" Since there were no one other than me here, I decided to talk with Elira verbally, since I enjoy that more than speaking to her through my thoughts. Though, the main reason was because I loved my voice more than any other reason I have up in my head.

[Nothing to note of. The beginning of the anime had already passed, you have already finished finding out if Hyoudou was worthy of being in Rias's peerage in your terms and any other events canon wise are too far away or have already been crushed by your actions.] For the past two months (I'll start using RWBY time now, because that's where I usually got my strength from.), I had earned a lot of EXP, most of which I had used on myself, but some were naturally given to Elira, which I used to upgrade some needed cooldowns, but the important things was...Elira was now the same height as I! After buying her {3D Avatar}, I learned that it was upgradeable. As such, I leveled it up enough that Elira now has the appearance of the most beautiful, ethereal, ghost!! Actually, I was expecting that, if leveled up even more, Elira would have an actual body and I wouldn't need to summon her in battles (which I hadn't done, because Elira didn't want to deal with the grimm I fight because they were trash.).

Anyway. My relationship with the devils and my friends in RWBY weren't the only thing that improved. Naturally, as Elira was the person that watched over me, making sure I was constantly getting better, which effectively also made it so that she was keeping me safe by making me powerful enough to keep myself safe, friendship was my way of repaying her. And, as the only person who could easily go through my mind, our friendship had some weirdness in it that both of us appreciated. I can't keep my secrets from her, and she has no reason to keep secrets from me. So, while I go around acting as other's therapist, Elira was here to heal me whenever I had my moments. It's thanks to her and everyone else that I began to grow better as person.

"Do you think Fate would do something stupid?" I have yet to see Fate in action, and I wanted to see how they do so that I could prepare against them in the future. For all I know, Fate would fix hp what I did with some flex tape and glue, or just use a bazooka and rewrite everything.

[I believe they would, but nothing too excessive.] Hearing this bit, I sighed in relief, glad that I wouldn't need to start stressing about all of this once again.

Then, as Elira and I spoke to one another, I went to the fridge and took out a wonderful, simple, chocolate cake that I had made yesterday and began halving it, one half being mine and the other Elira's. In her current form, she was close to being an actual ghost, one that can't affect her surroundings physically, so she would not usually be able to touch anything, much less eat. However, one day, when I got a bit guilty with always eating and not sharing some of it to Elira (even though I knew she most likely didn't food.), I found out that as she was the System, the Free Food function part of her, so there was no need for my permission, for one, and for two, she could eat and taste the food. So, after some time, when my interest in cooking came, I soon found out that I could give her my food through the Inventory, and she started eating it right away. Ever since then, whenever I occasionally cooked, I cooked some for Elira because I always loved it when she praised me with my growing skills in //Cooking//.

So, with the other half of the cake in my Inventory now, which quickly appeared in Elira's hand on a her own plate and a fork, we began eating our cakes while talking to one another, and I absolutely enjoy times where there was just the two of us.

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Rias's POV
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"Can you repeat that?" I believe I misheard it, but I think I heard Raynare said she had "tested" Issei-kun.

"I tested Hyoudou." Ah.... That was bad.

When Raynare had been "hired" by us, she had decided to make it worth her while and trained us. And, by the Maous...her tests hor us had been excruciatingly painful! Even Akeno didn't get off on it! So, it was understandable that I worried for the poor boy.

"Is he...alive?" That was the most simplest question I could ask, because if Raynare had been in any of her "bad" personalities, them Issei couldn't be anything but dead.

Fortunately for me and the boy, Raynare simply rolled her eyes as she waved her hand. "I'm not that cruel. I made it so that he wouldn't die! If anything, he was trying to kill himself with the height his lust can reach! Even a simple picture of boobs would probably make him jump straight into Fenrir's mouth." And so, with her reassurance, I let the matter go before following up with my next question.

"You approve of him, then?" Raynare was very protective of her friends, to the point that she'd kill anyone who would simply give any of us a scratch. However, in contrast, she would readily throw us into a den of Hydra's to make us stronger. And, to my point of Raynare being protective, she would most likely not let me even look at Issei-kun if I still had thoughts in recruiting him in my peerage if he hadn't passed her test, as it would mean that his potential was not worth cultivating. And...if that was true, if Issei-kun wouldn't be worth the time, then I would give up on him and hope to find a better member to my family. And, it wasn't like I was desperate for help anymore. It was thanks to Raynare that we were stronger than we used to be! We were better! So, in the end, we owe everything to Raynare, and listening to her thoughts on the matter with Issei was definitely the least I could do.

"The kid's the weakest human I have ever met." It was blunt and straight to the point. I was hoping for Issei-kun to prove his worth with whatever Raynare had put him up with, but since he hadn't, then it was a loss I would be willing to take in the end.

However, all those months of stressing myself out on how to properly recruit the boy hadn't all been in vain with Raynare's next words. "But, eh, kid's got potential." Hearing what my Sensei/Friend/Bodyguard had said, I immediately looked at her, not believing what I was hearing.

"H-How?" There wasn't any other way to ask the question. Raynare was truly an evil tease. I am quite sure that she had said her first comment to get back at me for something bad I probably did.

"Hmph. Kid has guts, I could tell you that. And, he achieved super human feats, one like you wouldn't believe, all because of this...unique power of his..." Hearing the words "unique power", I immediately sat at the edge of my seat, hoping that Raynare wouldn't be in a dramatic mood and suddenly change the subject as a way to raise the suspense, that cruel woman.

Then, with a cat-like power, she answered with the most unexpected, yet surprisingly fitting, "...love for boobs."

For a few minutes, I sat there, frozen from such a stupid "unique power", while Raynare was there, cackling like a witch, immensely enjoying how my brain was processing all of this.

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The Next Day, Raynare's POV
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"Wah wah wahwah! Ple-ple-please take care of m-me!" That was Asia Argento. The Asia Argento, whose whereabouts were previously unknown because of the first season or whatever blew up. The Asia Argento that was now in my front door, with Donhaseek, the tall, brooding bastard, was giving me a look that just wished he was anywhere else other than here.

Still, being used to complete bullshit right now (anime logic and the like.), I just stared at the taller Fallen and asked, "Run that by me again?"

The man seemed tired. And his slugging movement showed it. "*Sigh* Let me just summarize it for you. After what you did, when they drove of Kokabiel, us three were put on probation because we had followed along with Kokabiel's plan. A few weeks later, we were punished with cleaning up the base, and afterwards, we were deemed good enough to go back to work, though we were still observed from far away. However, since I was the one with the nest behavior, I was trusted to do this assignment."

Hearing his explanation, I gave him a once over and noticed that he was probably tired right now due to all the stress that was forced onto him. Being the magnanimous person that I was, and that I didn't have a grudge against the man, or memories of it, I deemed him good enough for my Free Food. "Want a drink?" I asked him, sure that he wouldn't deny my gesture.

Then, to my question, Donhaseek's eyes widened for a moment before he dipped his head in appreciation. "I-...yeah. I could use a drink."

With his answer, I opened the door wider and left it as is while ushering the two inside. Then, once they both sat, marveling at my crib, I asked, "What do you want?"

Of course, since he wasn't familiar with the "new" me, Donhaseek merely raised his voice slightly and tilted his head as he returned with a "What?".

Being in one of my patient moods, I didn't snark at him when I replied. "Your drink, buddy. What do you want to drink?"

For a moment Donhaseek was stumped, before he tentatively asked for what he had wanted. "Got any whiskey?"

The choice of drink was not expected, but I decided to just let it be and a large bottle of aged whiskey appeared on my hand. This, of course, surprised the two, and it was a refreshing thing, as everyone I did this for was too used to it. Without another word, I pushed the whiskey to him and set my sights to the innocent little nun. "How 'bout you? Got any drinks you want?"

Asia, being the shy, socially troubled, girl that she was, "eep"ed, before calmed down enough and stuttered out "Wa-water wo-would be fine, Raynare-sa-sama."

I predicted the case, but instead of getting plain water from the kitchen, I summoned a glass of orange juice and gave it to her. "Orange juice. Better than water." And either due to being too afraid to interact with me, or she just accepted the change and was thirsty, the blonde girl took the glass of juice from me and was quickly downing the drink.

Then, going back to Donhaseek, I moved my gaze towards him just in time for him to take in a huge gulp of whiskey. I waited for a moment for him to finish with his drink, and when he was, I continued with my questions. "So is she your assignment?" I ask him as I point my chin to Asia, who was now slowly drinking her orange juice, nose looking a lot more calmer than earlier.

"Yep. Asia here's a good girl. Too good for her own good, however. She healed a devil with her Sacred Gear, Twilight Healing, and the priests threw her out of the church. Then, because of her healing a devil with her Sacred Gear being spread to the public, Michael-sama could only let it all happen. But, a Fallen heard what happened, reported it to Azazel-sama, and he had the great idea of keeping Asia-chan safe by taking her in and making Heaven owe him a favor. And, since the Seraph was also too good for his own good, accepted Azazel-sama's proposal. But...someone like Asia-chan wouldn't survive with any of the other Fallen out there...however, out of probably all of us as a race, you're the only kind Fallen out there, so...yeah...Azazel-sama had me send Asia-chan to you." After his long explanation, Donhaseek went for another gulp of his whiskey. As for I, I just furrowed my eyebrows in irritation, not appreciating the responsibility being passed to me. However, one look at Asia's sad, hopeful eyes made me soften my features and smile at the younger girl, to which she returned with her own.

"Huff. Bastard's lucky I got an extra room for her. Now, get to it!! Out of my house!!" With everything I wanted to know told to me, a switch was flipped, and here I was, pushing out the, surprisingly, tips Fallen out of my apartment. Some curses were thrown about, but Donhaseek was now out of my place and I came back inside with Asia's luggage.

Then, when she and I made eye contact, I couldn't help but throw away my irritation and be in a calmer state. "Anyway, let me properly introduce myself. I'm Raynare Charlamane, a Fallen Angel, and it would seem that you will be living with me until further notice."

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Chapter 12: Kentucky Fried Chicken

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Koneko's POV
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Raynare-sensei was an anomaly. Everyone close to her knows that. Or, rather, the most human out of all of us, and you could see the irony there. Of course, that is when we follow the philosophy of Humans being the greatest hypocrites there is, always contradicting themselves and being more sinful than creatures of sins themselves and whatnot. Honestly, I don't follow said philosophy, but I could see how some level of it is right. Nobody is perfect, not even Him, and humans would be far, far from His level of "perfection", if you would call it that. Anyway, to put it simply, humans were hypocrites to the maximum level and Raynare was just that, a big 'ol ball of contradictions and hypocrisy.

Of course, that's an exaggeration, but you get my point. And, with this point I mentioned, it's what made her that kind of "normal" in a twisted sense. That is also why I like her just the way she is. I know that Raynare-sensei has her problems, I could sense it, really. In the past, I wouldn't even begin to realize how...dark Raynare-sensei's aura had been, in a depressed way, but with her forc- aggressively guiding me to accept my Nekoshou side and use Senjutsu, I could now see through her millions of masks. Though, I don't exactly see through her masks, and just more off "see" her emotions.

Fortunately enough, it seems that her depressed aura had started to slowly fade away. It's still there, but not as pronounced as before. Honestly, I wanted to confront her about this matter, but...I was too scared to do it because I didn't know exactly how she would react to it. She had many masks to cover up her "real self", but all of them had a level of truth in them, and I did not want to face her true anger.

It is irrational, I know, but fear makes us do illogical things, such as this one. Hopefully, all my cuddles would help her heal whatever it was that made her so sad.


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Kiba's POV
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Raynare-sensei was, forgive my language, a hardass. But she's a badass, nonetheless. She wasn't much of a swordswoman, but her experience had filled in the gaps and her initial strength and speed was more than enough to beat me in a duel. And I call it a duel instead of a sparring match because of how real it was, with how merciless she had been in it. Actually, looking at it now, it was more of a fight rather than a duel. Yeah, let's just call it a fight.

Anyway, as brutal as she is when we fight, she was still a rather good teacher. Not in swordsmanship mind you, but in "Not getting yourself killed.". "What was the point in swinging your sword when you could get killed before you could even get a peep out of yer pretty boy mouth.", she said. Afterwards, the brutal fights commenced and I didn't even last a minute every time. It was only due to sheer dedication and, later on, receiving healing from Raynare-sensei's ward, an Asia Argento and a current 2nd year student here in Kuoh Academy.

And, I do have to admit, I do like the results.

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Rias's POV
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It felt like months had passed when Raynare had come into our lives, but, in fact, Raynare had been with us for just about a month now. However, in this whole month, after her initial shyness and seemingly weak will, I had learned so much of the now more confident, aggressive, and very capable, also very dashing, Fallen Angel. It was a surprising change, but a welcome one nonetheless (even if Raynare's masks/personalities were a complete set of mixed up switches.). And she was still there, the meek little Raynare. Being just close to her wouldn't allow you to see the cracks in her masks, but I pride myself in my own ability to see through people's facades (Raynare had chewed me out when said ability fell short on my own little family's own inner turmoils.). Raynare was a big girl, so she could sort out her own problems, but she definitely needed something to cheer her up, which is something we could provide.

Raynare absolutely adored Koneko, to the point where the little girl had let a soft "Onee-chan" slip from her lips from all the doting she received from the ravenette (after training of course.). Akeno's smiles becoming more genuine had greatly allowed her and Raynare to bond more with each other. Gasper and Raynare had their gaming sessions. And Raynare finds amusement in "corrupting" our little knight.

As for me, well, we had our own time set out, which was baking, surprisingly. I never had thought of baking myself, but after Raynare constantly making food appear out of nowhere, I had, then, gotten the urge to bake, which Raynare and I bonded over since she didn't want to always rely on her ability to summon food.


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Raynare's POV
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Earlier in the morning, Rias had finally said she was going to recruit Issei. Good on her, really. Sadly (not. I had my fill -ew- of Issei's shenanigans and I plan to not have more of it.), I could not be with them in their meeting because I already had one set up prior to this...Okay, honestly, I just wanted a reason to not deal with Issei at the moment. He's a good kid, he's a protagonist for a reason, but I simply can't bear to be in his presence while he ogles at Rias's and the rests' bodies. Of course, I could easily stop him from doing so with a few scathing words and a possible beating, but the kid didn't deserve that. And I sure as hell am confident that I wouldn't be able to control myself from doing so because I was currently dealing with some things, which was why I originally had a meeting set up before this, but it was in the RWBY Dungeon/World so it wasn't really needed for me to skip Issei's "initiation". And I definitely don't want to deal with Issei's pervertedness after I finish my meeting, because I might not be...tame enough after this.

Anyway...[You have until 5:57 PM tomorrow before you get sent back.] Hearing Elira's voice calmed me a bit, it always does, honestly. But it wasn't enough to completely help me with my predicament.


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Blake's POV
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"Catch!" That was Nora's voice calling out to her partner, Ren, as she threw the wrapped up hamburger to the tall boy. "Mm." Was his simple response, but it didn't deter the ever exuberant energy in the form of one Nora Valkyrie. To this day, I question whether the two were in a relationship, or if Ren was gay, or they just had this connection that only they share. I honestly didn't have the energy to find out.

Currently, we were out of Beacon, just all of us two teams, RWBY and JNPR, eating out. Honestly, I could have used this time to do a much more extensive search on the White Fang's current activities, but I had taken Raynare's many advices to heart and just decided to...relax. Honestly, most of Raynare's advice to me had been related to relaxing, but I honestly can't blame her for that, not after when I had pushed away my friends because of my search for answers.

Fortunately, Raynare didn't take shit from no one and had spanked me like a girl who refused to listen to her mother (it would and could have sounded kinky, but emotions were high at the time.). Afterwards, once Raynare had taken away my rather self-harming obsession, she had confiscated all of my findings and had promptly sent it to the authorities, and had treated me with a well deserved dressing down (again, it sounded kinky, but it wasn't, sadly.). It was then that Raynare had quickly chaged her tone and had gone from some Military Sergeant or something to a mother listening to her child. There were some tears from me, a bit of slapping that was blocked by Raynare, but a progress was made in the end.

My life with my parents were a good one, with them raising me like how parents usually did. However, my time in the White Fang in Adam's control had been...detrimental to my mental health. The constant fights, the deaths, the killings, the cruelty...it scarred me. Then, there was Adam's machinations and manipulation. Honestly, they were matters that I had thought I had left behind, but in reality, they were simply...just hidden deep within my mind. Thankfully enough, Raynare had been there to help me deal with it, and eventually, my team had found out about this too from Raynare and they had stuck by me with that.

And, it was because of that that I, well, fell in love with the Ravenette. Sadly, it seems that my love was like that of a side-character's in the many of novels I have read. Unrequited love.

Coco and Raynare were in a happy relationship with one another, and I can't bear to follow the footsteps of some of the more domineering characters in my novels and break them apart from one another. They didn't deserve that, especially not Raynare.

Though, there had been a time when I had thought of a three-way relationship. But that was simply the perverted part of my mind speaking up. Actual three-way relationships didn't exist outside of fantasies and imagination. I mean, open relationships existed, but an actual three-way relationship? That's a different matter entirely.

Still, I was an imaginative person, so my fantasies were easily filled with Raynare's hot, naked, sumptuous body, easly shaped from my memories of our first meeting. However, it seems that my fantasies leek out sometimes because I would, at times, feel like Yang, Coco and Raynare were having an actual romantic relationship with each other. I must really be getting desperate if that's happening, because, why Yang of all people? She's hot and all, but she's not exactly my type. I mean, she is a bit my type, but not too much.

And, as I bit into my burger, I caught Ruby staring rather, dazedly at a certain direction. Curious, I followed her gaze and found out she was watching Yang leave the restaurant. "Why is Yang leaving?" Was the question I immediately asked.

Raising her white eyebrow like the prim and proper heiress she was (I honestly want to see if the carpet matched the drapes.), Weiss answered. "Did you not hear? Yang went out to get her "precious" Bumblebee from the mechanic."

Okay, it seems that I was too absorbed in my thoughts there for the moment. If I wasn't, I would have pointed out that no one touches Bumblebee, not even professionals. "No one other than Yang can touch her bike. No one." So I decided to say it now. It seemed kind of suspicious really, and Yang's currently disappearing form did not help since she was actually was looking shifty. Luckily, it wasn't only me who saw that.

"Yeah! She even punched me just for grazing the thing before!" An indignant cry came from Nora, which was soon followed by a more excited tone. "Ooh~! You know what, Yang's been acting pretty suspicious lately! You guys feel it to, yeah?" A chorus of "Yeah"s and other variations went around the group, and I was sure I knew where this was going. Nora just had that predictable train of thought.

"You guys feel it to, then? Well, I feel like Yang's keepin' a big secret! And as her friends, I feel like it is upon our duty, as Yang's greatest friends, to find out what her secret is." Normally, I would be one of the people to tell Nora to put her foot down from the table and discourage her from doing what she was planning on doing, but after what happened with me keeping my own secrets from my friends, I felt like I needed to find out Yang's secret, in case it was dangerous.

There had been some disagreements, but since I myself was invested in helping out my friend face something possibly dangerous and with them knowing what and how I dealt with secrets in the past, it was decided that the boys would clean up and pay for our mess and go back to Beacon in case Yang went back there and make alibis for us, while we girls would follow Yang.

Though, it was a curious thing when Ruby had been adamant with not following Yang, but we eventually changed her mind.


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Earlier in the morning, I received a text from Raynare, and I wasn't happy. Of course, Raynare didn't say anything bad, rather, the content of the text were simple and short, but it was enough to let me know that Raynare was having one of those days where she was simply...depressed and vulnerable.

After that fateful day Raynare admitted about her past, she had been rather open to me. And it was because of this that I found out that, at random, she would be hit with a wave of depression. At that state, she was rather vulnerable to many things, especially to her own demons, as a person suffering from depression would normally face. Sadly, Raynare had many demons and many of them are rather...powerful. Powerful enough to make Raynare simply...stop functioning for a time before she pulls herself out of there.

However, when I found out about it, I immediately had a talk with her about it and, fortunately enough, found out it was a rather rare occurrence, but unfortunately enough, it still happened. It was at those times where she needed me the most, and now, with the addition of Yang to our lovely relationship, she now has two women who loves her to help her deal with her demons.

And, currently, all three of us were simply hugging one another as we watched the sun set. It was romantic really, and I'm just glad it was helping Raynare out of her depression, if her nuzzling was any indication.

"I like this." Yang, the ever loud, fiery woman, broke the silence as she softly remarked.

Hugging her tighter, I whispered out, "Me, too."

Then, it was a surprise when Raynare suddenly cut in and said, "Let’s have more dates like this."

This wasn't a date, but it sure as hell felt like one now.

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Weiss's POV
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As surprising and scandalous as the sight of Yang, Coco and Raynare kissing each other was, I felt like we were intruding into something we weren't meant to see. Of course, it was something not normal, but the sheer raw romance in the air just made it so that it was clear this was a lovely evening for the three, and was especially a private moment. And, as much as I, admittedly, wanted to see more of said scandalous activity to continue, so that I could have more evidence to berate the three with later, I was rational enough to decided to give them their privacy.

Sadly, however, it seems that my friends weren't of the same mind. Pyrrha was watching with scandalized interest, Nora with excited and barely contained glee way of interest, Blake with obvious horny interest, and Ruby....surprisingly, unlike the disgusted interest of seeing your older sibling make out interest was watching on with...longing.

I sighed at that. It was clear that our young leader was taken with the ravenette, but the age difference and her current relationship with Coco were wall that weren't meant to be scaled or broken. Especially not broken.

I had, however, half the mind to pull them all by the ear, when moaning had suddenly filled my ears. With a rather robotical twitch, I moved my gaze from Ruby to the three women hidden in the greenery that were now naked. And all I could do was stay frozen, unable to comprehend the naked bodies that were grinding with one another.


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Pyrrha's POV
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This. This was unexpected. Yang keeping a big secret from us? Somewhat unexpected. Yang managing to be somewhat stealthy? A bit unexpected, considering she was usually brash and loud. Yang, Raynare and Coco having a secret rendezvous of some kind? Definitely unexpected. This? This?! Them suddenly having public sex!? That was definitely unexpected!?

It was so unexpected that I had been frozen for a good minute, before I had been unfrozen and had recieved the biggest sjock of my life up to date. In front of me, in the fairly secluded place atop the cliff facing the sun set, were Yang, Coco and Raynare making sensual, passionate, love with one another.

I could have quitly pulled back and went back to Beacon while hiding my embarrassment and forgetting all this. But no, my teenage mind and seeing my first ever sexual intercourse between women, and quite possibly, going gay, stopped me from doing so caused me to simply...watch this rather magical moment happen.

However, my body was having a mind of its own, because no sooner did I find out that my fingers were now deep within my quim as I watched and listened to the three women's moaning and registered just that, ignoring how my friends were now effectively doing the same as I was.

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Elira's POV
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As I sat on my bed, four fingers deep inside my womanhood, I moaned and groaned in the safety of my "room". I will never admit this to Raynare, but damn it, eons of just existing and doing this and that had caused me a lot of pent up stress, which led me to my current situation, watching Raynare get lovingly fucked in 3rd Person POV in my large holographic T.V. And on smaller monitors were of five of the female RWBY main characters having their own moment in their voyeurism.

Honestly, I can't wait for the day Raynare can finally do all those thoughts she has had about me. She really doesn't realize just how deep I was in her mind, meaning she can't keep away the thoughts she has had about me when she inevitably gives me a physical body.

Friede, the things I want her to do to me. Raynare's such a kinky bitch and I want her to do so many kinky shit to me.


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Raynare's POV
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As I laid there, in between Yang and Coco, I can't help but smile in utter content. I'm happy. Really, really happy. And I sure as hell will keep myself that way, for them. As for now, a barrier to keep people away should do fine.

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