4 Chapter 4

Standing in his room, Issei quickly placed his sledgehammers back into his inventory. Checking the time, he noticed that it was already morning. He left during the night, came back early morning. Not something that he was expecting, but he would definitely take.

His mother opened the door to see him standing there with a little bit of dust on his coat. Smiling at his mother, he noticed that she had dried up tear marks going down her face. "What's wrong?"

Running to her son, she hugged him and began crying into his chest. "Where have you been?"

"What?"

She gripped him tightly, looking up at him before beginning to screech in anger while crying. "DO YOU KNOW HOW WORRIED WE WERE? YOU DECIDED TO DISAPPEAR LAST NIGHT AND WE COULDN'T FIND YOU!" She began choking on her tears before continuing, "ME AND YOUR FATHER... WE THOUGHT YOU LEFT BECAUSE OF HER! WE THOUGHT YOU LEFT AND... AND... and..."

She couldn't finish her sentence before Issei hugged her again. He didn't think this through... he thought they wouldn't check his room during the night. "I'm sorry... I decided to go for a long walk... I... didn't mean to worry you."

"LONG WALK! HOW LONG WAS THIS WALK? WE CHECK YOUR ROOM TWELVE TIMES DURING THE NIGHT!"

He needed to quickly come up with something to say... "I went back to the fountain... to where it all ended."

With those words... His mother began crying even more. "Why did this have to happen to you? Why couldn't she have been normal? I knew that she was a rotten bitch! Coming in and trying to lie to my son..."

Issei may or may not have mentioned that the woman decided to leave him after how much money he spent for her. "Mom... She's the one missing out. I'm... I'm okay. Don't worry about me. I'm back... I will never leave you and dad."

After those words, his mother simply stayed silent and continued hugging him...

While this was happening... Issei's anger was beginning to rise once more. Not only did that woman already destroy him, but she began hurting his family.

After a little while... Issei walked out towards his school. It had been a while since he went back to school. Ever since he had initially died, he didn't want to go back to school for a couple of days in which his parents agreed with. Walking towards the school, he noticed the shocked looks of many of his peers. Ignoring them, there was only one thing on Issei's mind...

'Level up...'

Walking past the many people that eyed him, he began hearing many rumors going around, the classical high school gossip. Sitting down in class... he was approached by his two friends.

"Yo! Issei my man." Turning to see Matsuda and his other friend Motohama... Issei remained stoic.

"Yes?"

"Where have you been man?" Matsuda nudged Issei's shoulders.

Issei looked at his friend before speaking,"Home... didn't feel well." He didn't want to mention anything about the date he had been on. If anyone were to have known that he was dumped... he would become a laughingstock immediately.

While they were talking, Issei began scanning his friends for their stats, to his surprise, they were around the same as him before he began leveling up. They had the number one in all their stats... that would mean he could literally rip them in half with relative ease with his strength...

"You sure? Or were you watching too much of the good stuff." Motohama added in...

"Not really... I was just very sick." Issei was really trying to divert the conversation from... women. He didn't want to talk about women anymore...

Before anything could escalate, the door to their classroom opened.

Kiba walked in, all the girls in the classroom looked to see their prince charming, while Issei squinted his eyes to see Kiba heading towards him. The only thought that he could come up with is... What did the prince of the school want with him?

"Are you Issei?" Kiba politely asked while keeping his charming smile on.

"Yes..." This is already turning awkward. Kiba and Issei have never talked with each other before this interaction, so they had no idea how to speak with each other.

"Umm... Well, my president wanted to speak with you." Oh... Rias Gremory, one of the prettiest women in the entire school wanted to speak with him.

That would have been great... If she didn't have any ulterior incentives. It was obvious, Issei already been through this, no woman would want to even speak with him with the way that he acted normally. He already felt the pain of being backstabbed, now he had no idea what type of pain Rias Gremory wanted to give him. It didn't make sense for someone of Rias's caliber to casually speak with him...

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Emergency Quest: Survive the meeting with the Devils

Reward: Level Up x 2

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And he guessed right... Devils? After meeting with the feathered woman, he could kind of guess that Rias may be a devil... Speaking of which, Issei decided to scan Kiba.

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Name: Kiba Yuuto

Race: Reincarnated Devil

Title: Knight of Gremory

Level: 28

HP: 1700/1700

MP: 500/500

STR: 26 (+4)

AGL: 33 (+10)

END: 34

INT: 25

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Holy shit... Issei couldn't do damage to him. The level difference between the two was so significant that Kiba would also deal 200% more damage to him combined with his higher strength stats. Keeping himself together, obviously beginning to sweat a little bit, Issei nodded. "Oh... She wants to speak with me? Are you sure you got the right guy? Who would want to speak with me?"

Kiba chuckled, "Don't worry, I did get the right guy. You shouldn't doubt yourself. You're not as bad as these women make you out to be." Turning around and walking along, "Come on, we can talk together while reaching the occult building."

Okay... Kiba didn't seem too bad of a guy. "Sure..." Walking along with him, escaping the room while ignoring the many glares from the girls when walking side by side with Kiba, Issei couldn't care less of those glares.

While walking, Issei decided to ask, "So... How is the club?"

"Doing very well... Probably, due to Rias and Akeno keeping the spirit up in the clubroom. You should see Koneko... She definitely needs to cheer up."

"Having the mascot of the school, the two queens, and you... the club must be the best one here."

Chuckling, Kiba shook his head, "Far from it... I would easily say that the basketball club or the volleyball club are leagues better. We're just a bunch of nerds that decided to have interest in the supernatural world."

Smirking and jokingly said, "Rather be a nerd than a pervert... Look at all the girls swooning in over you."

Kiba laughed upon hearing that, "And sometimes I would rather be the opposite. Do you know how many love letters I get and have to turn down? The number of times I was screaming on the inside and wanting to tear them apart when they are in the way of my school stuff... Oh... just thinking about them makes me slightly heat up."

"And only you would say that... Prince Charming." Kiba groaned while Issei laughed.

"Not that name..." The two continued bickering while approaching the occult building.