Finally without a beard! I have returned!

Hello everyone, IsekaiFan here, sorry for this long period without updates, in fact, I was supposed to post a chapter on the 14th of that month, but right when I arrived, I had a lot of exams at the university, and I didn't have time, besides having to study the which I lost in a week so I couldn't update but finally, I'm here to post it for you guys, sorry if there are any mistakes but I finally managed to do it

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(PoV MC)

I looked to my side calmly, without even being surprised, even a normal person could notice the cat there so there was no reason for me to pretend to be surprised, even so I continued to stare at the cat, appreciating its different "shape" a little, if it was anyone else, they might think this cat was just another regular cat, but I know her identity, Koneko's older sister Kuroka, I wanted to watch her more, but I couldn't make much eye contact, so I decided say something, then I let out a sigh

"Haa, another cat, whenever I make food someone comes to find me… anyway, hello little one, want some meat?"

To be honest, I didn't like saying melancholy things, but I need to sound normal, or rather human, because if I were too suspicious she would obviously be suspicious, I don't want to be found out... not yet, Kuroka beside me just shook her head and "meow", honestly she's much better at this than Koneko who didn't accept her "other side"

So, I simply took a piece of meat and gave it to her, she ate it without even thinking twice, as if she didn't care about my opinion, I tried to pet her, but when I brought my hand closer she just stared at me, so I refrained from doing that, so I started to eat together with her while I watched her, her eyes didn't lie about her feelings, she was loving the food, seriously... how does a piece of meat have the ability to do that?

"Ooh, you eat very quickly friend, no one will steal from you, you can eat in peace, you look like the white cat I met the first time I saw you, you look like a copy of each other"

When I commented on this, I saw her freeze a little while looking at me, she was analyzing me but I didn't care, while preparing another meat, I started to find the way she looked at me strange, she seemed to be lost in thought, I didn't care much, I know how much Kuroka likes Koneko, but unfortunately their relationship ended because of a devil

Looking back on this I was a little irritated but there was no way I could do anything about it, it had already happened so there was no way I could resolve the issue, the only thing I can do is advise and see if their relationship returns, I don't know why I'm so thoughtful about it, but anyway, when I finished grilling the meat, I again offered the cat a piece, he accepted and we ate together until lunch time was over

"Look little one, now I have to go, if you want more, meet me later, I will still be at school"

"Meow!"

She seemed to agree, but soon became thoughtful, I could see her gaze wandering, probably thinking about her sister, but finally, she had decided on something, what I was impressed with was that Kuroka had followed me, of course she wasn't next to my side, but I noticed her look through the window of the room, when the classes ended she was already outside the room, so I decided to take her and go to the library, the reason? It was a quiet place and had a lot of history books, which I'm quite pleased with, for the silence and the stories I can read.

Leaving after a long time in the library, finally at the time that the clubs close, I went towards the gate, as I walked, I saw Kuroka standing in front of me

"Ohh little one, you really waited for me huh? Come on, I'll give you more food"

I took her in my arms, which she didn't seem to deny, probably because she had already let her guard down with me, while leaving, I noticed Issei next to Raynare, with that, I let out a smile, I was getting closer to the one where it would start the plot

After that moment of contemplation, I continued on my own way to the gate, when I suddenly felt a murderous intent directed towards me, I didn't understand, but suddenly I noticed where it was coming from, a white cat was waiting near the gate, and its murderous intent was being directed at the cat in my hands, Kuroka noticed that as well, and as she looked in the direction of the intent, she simply decided to walk away, it seemed that she still wasn't ready to face Koneko head on.

Seeing that I just sighed, but an idea came into my mind, before that, I took Koneko in my arms and went to my house, thinking 'Time for a lesson', I didn't exactly have a plan, but I would use my experience about the subject, as I walked with Koneko in my arms, lost in thought, I noticed that she seemed sullen about something, I didn't understand and pretended not to notice, but there was one thing I noticed, hidden, far from Koneko's perception, Kuroka was following us, probably taking care of the sister, it made me more inspired to repair this family bond, so as not to repeat the same mistake I made...

Finally arriving at my apartment, I put Koneko on a table, and dropped the bags next to the bed, but I noticed something in one of the bags that was half open, a painting, when I took it I saw the photos in them, Koneko who saw me standing with the painting in hand, she noticed something that I made subconsciously, a smile, not just any smile, but a smile of memories, as if I had gone back to the past, even if these memories are not mine, it's like a feeling of nostalgia for something that I had long forgotten

After coming out of my "trance", I noticed Koneko staring at me

"Haha, sorry little one, I just got lost in memories, I'll make dinner soon"

While I was apologizing putting one of my hands on the table, I was about to go prepare dinner when I felt something on top of my hand, to be more exact a paw, looking in that direction, I saw Koneko looking at me as if she sympathized with me, I smiled a little when I saw that, arriving in the kitchen I started to fix things for dinner, but I almost forgot the main reason I had at the moment, so I stopped for a bit and commented, I didn't plan to hide this from the beginning, so I don't mind talking

"You know, in this picture only 2 people are human"

Koneko looked a little startled and looked at the photo I left on the table, not only her...but also Kuroka who was hiding outside, probably protecting her sister, even in the dark, I could still see the reflections of her eyes through the window

Again I took the painting, now showing it to her

"Look here, the only humans are me and the super muscled guy, I'm saying this to get into the story I'm going to tell today"

When I said that I stopped pointing at Escanor and put the photo back on the table, Koneko was staring at me, noting that today was about something different and maybe very serious, but Kuroka outside, was showing a certain disinterest, even though she was clearly curious

"When I was younger, the girl I loved was killed by a demon at my side, that day I was supposed to die, but that didn't happen, at that time I swore to kill all demons and soon after, I went to be part of a group, the holy knights of Liones, I was not supposed to be a knight, but I was convinced by a person who I thought was my best friend, I was not a nobody within this group, I was part of the seven deadly sins, the elite, the strongests of the holy knights, during that time, I found out that my captain, who was also my best friend, was a demon."

After I said all that, I stopped for a while to see Koneko and Kuroka's reaction, Koneko looked at me in astonishment, while seeming to remember something, she looked directly at the image on the board, Kuroka however, didn't seem to care, until I said about betrayal, and especially someone close, after seeing this I continued

"I couldn't accept it and I ended up almost killing him, but I ended up giving up at the time, then I discovered his story, his life, and I ended up understanding everything, when he left the group, I felt betrayed, we were like a family, but at that moment i understood, that i had to help him somehow, what i mean, is that sometimes, being abandoned by someone, doesn't mean that the person hates you, sometimes it can be to protect you, or sometimes it's because of his motives, a story you wouldn't know, the reason he betrayed us, it was because of love, frustration and he was already tired of his situation, it's just a matter of understanding the side of someone else, at least in the end, we remained friends."

When I finished, I could see that Koneko wasn't paying attention to me anymore, her gaze was wandering, she probably froze, thinking about several things, mainly in the past, Kuroka wasn't different, she was looking at Koneko, different from Koneko, her gaze seemed more of concern, while also seeming to think of something, seeing that, I decided to give them some time to think while I started to prepare dinner

Seeing that the atmosphere in the room has returned to normal... not so much, I commented while preparing dinner

"Our group was pretty funny too, in the photo, there are two humans, a goddess, a demon, a giant, and a fairy, two people in the photo were of unknown races"

(A/N: yes, Merlin in the game is considered of unknown race and so is Gowther since he is a doll)

With dinner done, I walked over to the table and placed the plates on it, Koneko, had been drooling for a long time as she smelled the food, Kuroka outside was the same, unfortunately, she left when she had the chance to come eat with us, now we had finished eating, and I went to get ready for bed, finally, after an exhausting day, I went to sleep, Koneko was with me, it seemed that after the story I told, she was also affected

Waking up in the morning, I saw that the two cats were still there, Kuroka was sleeping on top of a tree, while Koneko was sleeping on the bed, it made me smile a little, I think Kuroka was worried that I would do something against her sister while she was sleeping, I smiled a little when I saw that, but then I got up without making a sound, so I took my cell phone out of my bag and looked at the time, it was still 6:00 am and in the place where the notifications were posted I saw that the editor had sent me an notification about the first volume and another one yesterday morning

Saying that volume two had already shipped to stores, plus they received an animation proposal from a studio, I wasn't in a rush to animate the manga so I put it aside, made a little breakfast for me and the girls, I made an extra portion for Kuroka since she had just watched Koneko and I eat

I ate my share, left Koneko's food on the floor and left food near the place where Kuroka slept, after that I finally left the house, it was still 6:20 am when ophis appeared next to me again, and I started to feed it to her until she being satisfied, with that 30 minutes have passed... yeah... feeding a dragon is not easy

"Seriously… feeding a dragon is a lot of work"

I muttered while on my way to school, on the way, I noticed that there were more people than usual, and that several of these people were looking at me and taking pictures, it seems that I became famous throughout the city, yet my walk to school did not was interrupted, so soon I arrived quietly at the school gate

"Good morning Sona-Kaichou and Tsubaki-fukukaichou"

"Good morning Ban-" 2x

Upon arriving at the gate I obviously greeted the two, but when Sona and Tsubaki were responding to my speech, they froze, I didn't care much, I was just passing by them so I went on my way, they looked surprised and looked at me strangely, after that, I saw Issei, Matsuo and Motohama arguing about something

'Damn, it looks more like they're going to kill Issei'

So I decided to intervene

"Yo! Perverted trio, what's all this arguing about this morning?"

The three looked at me, as I had approached like a ghost, but soon they recovered, Motohama was the first to speak

"It's Issei, that bastard! He broke our brotherhood and got a girlfriend! I'm so jealous!"

Motohama out of nowhere started crying blood and I wondered how this is humanly possible, ignoring that, obviously I should show surprise in this situation

"Ah! So my little friend Issei who was oblivious to any kind of female interest in him got a girlfriend?!"

Issei, who hadn't said anything until now, put his hand on the back of his head, embarrassed and clearly proud of having gotten a girlfriend, but then he said

"Ye-yeah, her name is Amano Yuuma, she is a kind and friendly girl"

The two beside Issei when they saw his attitude spoke in perfect sync together

"Die!"

Seeing that, I just shrugged my shoulders and got ready to leave, I've never been a very social person and I used to talk a lot so I didn't have much to say, Issei who was being beaten up by his two friends noticed that I was leaving and said something to me

"A-ah! Ban! If you like that beard and mustache protect them with your life! Everyone at school will probably hunt you down, be prepared!"

Hearing that, I paralyzed a little, but then I continued my walk towards the room, while smiling thinking

'Take off my beard? We'll see if they can do it'

I already knew that all this strangeness had a reason, so obviously they've seen what Ban looks like without a beard, and since I'm a perfect copy of him, they want to see what I look like behind it, even so, I don't think they'll be able to do it, arriving in the class, I see that everyone was looking at me and others were exchanging glances with each other.

'Seriously… today is going to be a full day'

After sitting down, I just hid my face on the table as I pretended to sleep until class started.

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Close to the end of the classes, I noticed even more students' gazes at me, some even started to leave their desks, surrounding me and preventing me from leaving the door, the teacher looked at that, but in the end decided to ignore it, another student who was sitting started taking something out of the bag, Issei and his friends found the situation unreal and were strange, after that, Issei looked at me with a face that said:

'I warned you'

I just smiled at that and took advantage of my chair being close to the window and opened it, everyone was looking at me soon I said

"Oh, don't mind me, I just want some air"

Even so, everyone was staring at me, and soon the bell rang, at this moment the people who surrounded me said in unison

"Now!"

And they ran towards me, I was the biggest one there, being 220cm, the biggest person in the room after me was only 180cm, they apparently wanted to restrict me using a larger number of people, I looked at one of the boys who was holding a shaver just waiting for me to be stopped, my smile at that moment widened and I sat at the window and said

"Check Mate"

I leaned back and so I fell out of the room, I noticed that everyone who was at the windows was looking at me scared, after all, that was the third floor of the building, I turned in the air and fell on my feet on the floor, the people in my room were looking at me startled and open-mouthed, but soon one of them shouted

"He escaped! Attention! Ban left the building!"

After these words spoken by some random person in my class, I heard a big movement coming from all over the building.

"Seems like all the students want to see me without a beard huh?"

I walked a little outside when I saw Rias and her group (with Koneko) approaching me, Rias also had a shaver in her hand and soon said to all her members of her peerage who were close to her

"Kiba, Koneko, hold him! This is necessary for our study of culture!"

...

'It looks like Rias' inner Otaku has taken over her body'

"Yes Buchou"

Kiba who answered first showed a smile that clearly apologized to me, and Koneko who followed beside him had a serious face.

"You can leave it to me"

Ban: 'o'

This is the first time I've seen her with such a determined expression on her face, so I had decided internally

'It won't be that easy'

Kiba, who was carrying a wooden sword, ran towards me, swinging his Shinai against me, seeing that I just took a step back, but I soon realized, he had advanced further than I expected, so I had to dodge with a little more will, soon he continued attacking and I realized that he didn't hold back, I continued to dodge pretending to have the skills of an ordinary human at his peak, and while I was busy dodging Kiba's sword, I noticed that Koneko was behind me wearing gloves and about to punch me saying

"Sorry Senpai!"

I just smiled and dodged, like that, Kiba's Shinai and Koneko's punch collided, resulting in Shinai being broken, taking advantage of that moment of carelessness, I tripped Kiba and with a kick in the back of the head I ended up leaving him unconscious, phew, thank goodness that I held back, otherwise his head would have exploded by now

Rias and Akeno who were watching were surprised, but Koneko was not surprised and continued to attack, Rias seemed to be irritated and a small crimson aura started to appear, but Akeno stopped her, Koneko continued her attacks but I just dodged with the minimum of movements, soon after a few minutes, many people appeared and surrounded the place but didn't dare to interfere in the "fight", even Issei and his friends were there.

5 minutes later, Koneko was already getting tired, Kiba had already woken up but was just looking at the scene knowing that he had already lost, even so I was impressed with his recovery speed, by my calculations he was supposed to be at least 15 minutes unconscious, but there i was forgetting that he was a devil, finally after seeing Koneko's situation, who was sweating a lot, I decided to carry out an attack to end the game, like this, with my right hand I would punch her face, Koneko at that moment seeing the fist approaching, closed her eyes waiting for the pain, but I suddenly stopped when next to her a translucent little girl appeared

'Elaine...'

(A/N: For those who don't understand, basically the protagonist is becoming Ban, but a Ban with someone else's memories)

When I stopped the punch, everyone was looking at me and Koneko opened her eyes without understanding, at that moment, I just sighed and said

"Haah, fine… you win, shave my beard before I change my mind"

I sat on the floor, but even so I managed to get almost the size of Koneko, I stayed there, just waiting, some began to understand the situation and advanced with the shavers, when suddenly, the perverted trio surrounded me, preventing anyone from approaching , faking fighting stances that they thought were cool, but others who saw it would think differently, 'how cheesy', Issei was the one who said

"Did you not see how hard he fought to keep his beard and mustache? Stop being selfish and leave him alone!"

Koneko, who was listening to all that beside me, soon turned to everyone and positioned herself protecting me while saying

"Whoever advances will have to pass through me"

Everyone seemed to start to give up on the idea and Rias was surprised that Koneko was protecting me, I admit I was too, Rias soon started to give up too, it made me think again about how the Talk no Jutsu of protagonists is something efficient, but at that moment that everyone were giving up was when I had made up my mind, I got up from the floor and walked towards Rias, who was the closest person with a shaving machine in her hand.

"Excuse me miss, could I borrow this?"

Rias just nodded without understanding handing me the shaver, as I took it, I started shaving my beard and mustache in front of everyone, Koneko looked amazed by my action but at the same time was curious, a few minutes later, my whole face was exposed to for everyone to see, the hair was still long, but I had decided to find a place to cut it later, my completely naked face was there in everyone's view, my scar was there, no longer hidden by the beard, at that moment I gave a smile which obviously made a lot of girls blush

But at that moment, I did something unexpected, I passed through the crowd, or rather, they opened a path for me, but when I had already left the circle of people, many were still looking at me, and some began to notice things falling in the floor

"H-hey, isn't that?"

Soon more and more fell to the ground, there were dozens of wallets, making everyone surprised by the amount, so I looked back with an even bigger smile and my hand full of money

"Thank you for your contribution dear customers, but the show is over, I hope you all enjoyed it!"

Soon all the people started to process the situation and put their hands in their pockets noticing that something was missing, not even the perverted trio was spared, everyone looked towards Ban again, and saw that he started to run, soon a synchronized scream was heard in the campus, of students running in search of the cause of the scream

"Baaaaan!"

"Haha! Really a lot of excited people!"

Ban soon started to run, with a large crowd following him, and thus, this long morning finally ended.

But now, I already started to regret it, several girls surrounded me as I walked around the campus, even if I rudely sent them away, they continued to surround me, on the same day I received a title more shameful than Kiba's, "The wild prince from Kuoh"

I had even appeared in the school newspaper with a sentence saying "Who will tame this beast!" or something like that, i got that title because of my scar and way of acting, even after i pickpocketed everyone who saw me shave my beard, they still liked me

'Haah... how boring, now I understand what Kiba has to go through every day'

Finally the afternoon was over, there were no more girls surrounding me because everyone should already be going back to their homes, when I left school, I noticed Koneko in her cat form standing at the gate looking everywhere, when she felt satisfied, she again had a winning look on her face and her chest slightly lifted, and my mind at that moment formulated a question

'Was she looking to see if the black cat wasn't here?'

Arriving in front of her, I took her in my arms and walked home while lost in thought.

'One more day left to start the plot!'

My smile started to widen and it was no longer hidden under the beard, so women on the street would stop to see me, even those women who had boyfriends or husbands by their side, I however was not aware of it, otherwise I would blame myself for ending relationships

'The days just got even more interesting'

but I would soon notice the first effect I caused on arriving in this world

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Hello everyone, IsekaiFan here, finally got around to posting this, sincerely my apologies, I've been putting it off for issues I had returning from vacation, as well as being discouraged to get back to writing this on account of my comfort in doing nothing while on vacation, but I'm back, writing to get excited about posting chapters again, my scripts are over, now I'll have to get back to writing more chapters, so it might take a while, but again, it's one chapter a week, in case you want a fanfic recommendation to read while I'm away , I recommend League of Legends: The Grim Wolves a Fanfic that honestly I really liked

This chapter have 4,4k of words, Enjoy!