Chapter 2: Issei Hyodou

Issei kept walking happily. There were a few minutes left to go to class, but the joy of being alive, and being in a fantasy world had completely overwhelmed him.

'Anyway, I already passed high school in my previous life, this won't be complicated at all' Issei thought, whistling calmly, while the soft morning breeze brushed against his face.

When he got home his parents were not there, maybe they went to work earlier than usual. He felt happy because in this life he did have parents and loved ones around him.

Gorou and Miki Hyoudou, his father was an ordinary office worker, and his mother was a housewife. He was an only child, so Issei did not lack love and attention during his childhood.

'Well, I'll see them later. This afternoon I have to start training' thought Issei now more serious. Fallen angels were haunting the city of Kuoh killing Sacred Gear wielders.

And of course he didn't want to be killed again by Reynare, the fallen angel who was responsible for his waking up in the hospital. He wanted to be able to take on her and the other Fallen Angels the next time they met.

He was so submerged in his thoughts that he did not realize that he was in front of the entrance to the Kuoh Academy, the city institute that years ago was exclusively for the female sector, but now the percentage of men increased progressively.

Issei swallowed to notice the presence of two girls in front of him. The two with glasses, one was Tsubaki Shinra, and the other was Sona Sitri, Kuoh Academy's student council vice president and president respectively.

"Sona, Tsubaki, how are you?" asked Issei raising his hand cordially and Sona's eyebrow arched at those disrespectful words.

"Where are the honorifics, Hyoudou Issei-san?" Sona asked adjusting her glasses slowly and Issei swallowed surreptitiously. He remembered that by reincarnating as Issei, he became a minor. He went from being 20 years old to being 17, and therefore younger than Sona.

"I'm sorry senpais, I hope to see you soon" Issei said goodbye heading to class with a smile, 'So that's how the devils look up close, they really were beautiful'

Indeed, just as Issei had inquired, the student council president, Sona, belonged to the Sitri clan, one of the 72 pillars of the Underworld, the place where demons resided.

The demons possessed chess-based pieces called Evil Pieces, which allowed other beings, humans and half-bloods, to reincarnate into demons, and Tsubaki was a human who later became Sona's queen.

"Don't you notice something strange about him, Tsubaki? It's the first time he's greeted us" Sona looked at her vice president as her glasses sparkled with a hint of mystery.

"I thought that Gremory-san was going to reincarnate him, but it seems that it wasn't like that" Tsubaki replied leaving some intrigue in Sona, "I haven't sensed any kind of demonic power in him"

"It's funny and at the same time quite strange, I'll ask her later" Sona turned around and closed the door, preventing a student who had arrived late from entering.

Meanwhile, Issei was entering her classroom. As soon as he agreed, most of the females frowned and Issei immediately remembered the reason, 'Oh, because of spying on them in their changing rooms'

Issei was originally a rather perverted boy who, together with his group of friends, commonly known as a "pervert trio", spied on bathrooms and changing rooms in order to see the girls naked.

'What a reputation, I'll try to change that although I don't care what they think of me' Issei thought as he sat down in his seat and suddenly two boys approached him. One was bald, and another had glasses that flashed an enigmatic touch.

"Where have you been, Ise?" asked the bespectacled boy, named Motohama, as he shook Issei's right arm vehemently, "You're a traitor!"

"Traitor? And why is that?" Issei asked without understanding what the two of them were referring to, although according to his memories it was not easy to guess that they were surely referring to something perverted.

"And you seriously ask?!" this time it was the bald one, Matsuda, who stretched out Issei's left arm, "Last night I played a hentai chapter marathon! We had been preparing it for several days but you didn't come!" he claimed him with comic tears.

Issei scratched his head, really these guys were pretty dramatic. "Sorry, I fell asleep hehehe, I hope we can repeat it some other night" Issei apologized as sincerely as he could.

"Any other night? THIS night!" Motohama exclaimed with a devilish aura and Matsuda supported him with a fervent nod. Issei just sighed in resignation.

"We'll see" he answered simply. The paramount thing for him right now was to train to become strong enough to withstand at least three boosts from the Boosted Gear.

"Ise, are you alright?" asked Motohama seeing him so serious. The Issei that he knew would have been more predisposed but this time it seemed that he didn't care, "Don't tell me you're not one of us anymore"

"Not at all, we're still friends but I've understood that there are things we have to change... if we want girls to pay attention to us" Issei declared with a smile.

"Damn, I'm curious, what have you discovered?" asked Matsuda showing some interest in Issei's words and Motohama was the same as him.

"That if we pretend not to be perverts in front of everyone, they'll look at us with different eyes" revealed Issei, leaving them speechless due to those words, "Pay attention and observe"

Issei got up from his seat and stood in the middle of the class, earning glares from the girls. "Hey, what's up everyone? As you know I'm Hyoudou Issei, I'm sorry for my previous behavior towards you, especially my classmates"

"Spying on you in the locker room was not right, maybe we were tempted because you are too beautiful but it was not good, both my friends, Matsuda and Motohama, and I promise not to do it again from now on. Thank you" Issei He finished his speech and walked to his seat.

He didn't finish sitting down when some applause began to fall on him. A couple of girls were excited by those words, others were confused and some mistrusted the boy they had caught spying on so many times.

"What are you saying Ise?! How come we're not going to spy on them?" whispered Matsuda holding back his tears and Motohama put his hand to his chin.

"I don't know... there are some who have applauded and seem to trust us not to" Motohama spoke observing the reactions in class. And Issei nodded.

"You'll see, now everything will be better for us" Issei commented with a smile. This he did more than anything for his friends, the only ones he had, in the hope that his reputation would improve, and a more promising future would hold for them. Not one filled with allegations of sexual harassment.