2 Chapter 2 He would need to train.

Shin and Issei were on their way to school, walking along the path as they passed several other people on their way to various schools. While this was happening, Shin took the time to recall everything he could remember from Highschool DxD, which suffice to say, was a lot.

Highschool DxD was a light novel series which he had read all of, multiple times, meaning he knew every little detail of the dxd world. One thing that came to mind was that he knew for sure, he had to have a sacred gear.

In the light novel of Highschool DxD, it is explained that Issei's parents spent several years trying to have kids, his mother getting pregnant twice, but had miscarriages. When his father found out she was pregnant for the third time, he paced in front of Shinto shrine, praying that this time nothing would go wrong. Thus, he was born with the Boosted Gear.

However, in this timeline, his mother only had one miscarriage, her second time getting pregnant resulting in his birth. After he was born, they tried again, and successfully had Issei. Issei and himself were 19 months apart in age, putting his birthday in November. November 19th to be exact.

As Shin was born first, it was a mystery as to which of the two had the Boosted Gear. It could be Shin, it could be Issei. However, he did know it was likely they both had a sacred gear.

So with Issei being 15-years old, that means they are one year away from canon, giving Shin a full year to plan and train. The first step would be to plan out several key points in the series and alter the events leading up to them to turn in his favor.

Secondly, he would need to train. So far, it was apparent that he already had a head start in that department from what he saw of himself earlier. However, awakening the sacred gear is more strength of mind than body, meaning meditation will be involved. The quicker he awakens his sacred gear, the faster he can plan out his approach to getting stronger.

All of this planning and deduction was a natural phenomenon for him. In his previous world, he was an otaku who played a lot of mmos. Playing mmos is where he got most of his planning and deduction skills. Deduction skills coming from underlying messages and actions that would often appear in questing. His planning skills is something all gamers have.

To couple with this, as an otaku, he knew a lot about going about gaining strength, even if not all methods were completely accurate. After watching Gohan versus Cell, however, he was inspired to become stronger in his previous world.

Thus, he went about working out, starting with just a pair of dumbbells, mainly doing a lot of curls. From there, his workout kept increasing until he was what one could consider a fitness enthusiast. It's likely this fact that he had been reincarnated with a physique very similar to his previous one, only with much better genetics.

"Shin, what do you think we are going to be doing for the first day of the school year?" Issei asked him, drawing his attention to him.

'First day of the school year? That's good to know.' Shin thought. "Most likely just a lot of orientations, explanations of class rules, and exercises to get you used to your classmates. You know, the usual stuff you do on your first day." Shin said.

"Yea, guess your right," Issei said. "So, Shin, what was that about this morning? Are you finally turning to the way of the eros?!" Issei asked excitedly.

Pulling a page right out of Kakashi's book, he kept his face forward, ignoring Issei. "Hmm? Did you say something Issei?" Shin said, looking at Issei bored.

Issei's face faulted. "Stupid pretty boy!" Issei threw what he considered to be an insult at Shin, to which Shin just ignored.

The longer he was in this world, the more he remembers about his life here thus far. From what he knew so far, Issei called him pretty boy quite often, mostly doing to the fact that just like Kiba, he had the attention of most the girls in the school.

This made him mentally face-palm when he remembered what nickname they had given him. Kiba was the Prince of Kuoh due to his knight in shining armor personality. However, Shin had decided to stick to himself, deciding not to get himself involved in much.

Somehow, in all the girls' minds, this translated to him being mysterious and sexy, earning him the nickname King of Kuoh. He wanted to avoid attention, but it seemed to be that that exact mindset only drew more attention to him.

Then again, however, when you do to a school with little male populace, and you are considered a pretty boy, it's essentially impossible to avoid attention. Maybe he would have been better off acting like Issei, and openly show his perverseness. Which as an otaku, he had a lot of that.

After two grueling hours of orientation, he was assigned his classroom, which admittedly took him a while to find due to this being his first time navigating the school despite actually attending here for a year.

The classroom was already full, him being the last person to arrive, meaning all eyes were on him, especially the female populace.

Going to the blackboard, he took a look at the chart hung on it, showing the seating arrangements. He was seated near the middle of the class, however, his eyes widened when he saw who was seated next to him.

Looking back, he looked for the single most eye-catching thing in the room, Rias Gremory's crimson red hair. When he found her, which was relatively easy to consider her hair color, he was surprised he didn't pop a hard one then and there. The anime truly did her no justice.

This just went to show, no matter how much we try and convince ourselves, 3d is better than 2d. Walking over to her, he took the seat next to her, the only seat not occupied in the entire classroom. Setting his bag down, he heard the most shiver-inducing voice he had ever heard.