"Is this game really as fun as you said?"
Issei Hyoudou held the game in his hands, especially staring at the beautiful girl on the cover with her incredibly impressive assets, his face filled with anticipation.
Everyone had different tastes. As a boy influenced by a certain uncle since childhood, Issei Hyoudou had regarded those massive breasts as his faith from a young age.
"Of course it is. Why would I lie to you?"
"Don't worry, Hyoudou. This is my lifelong recommendation. Since tomorrow's the weekend, prepare some extra tissues. It doesn't matter even if you play until you're completely drained."
Motohama, Issei Hyoudou's troublesome friend beside him, pushed up his glasses and flashed his white teeth as he spoke with utter confidence.
He understood Hyoudou's preferences very well. This game he had recommended was enough to make the guy excited beyond belief.
"Then I won't hold back."
Accepting the game, Issei Hyoudou was filled with anticipation as well. It seemed he would not be lonely tonight.
But as he watched the girls passing by ahead, Issei Hyoudou's excited expression suddenly became somewhat dejected. His current situation was completely different from what he had imagined as a child!
Back then, he had thought that once he grew up, he could experience that sort of feeling himself. Especially his favorite things—he could personally feel them. But now he realized it was nothing like that.
"With such a great game, why are you sighing, Hyoudou?" Matsuda could not help patting his shoulder when he saw Issei Hyoudou's expression.
Wasn't this kind of game Issei Hyoudou's favorite?
"Don't you think we're complete failures?"
Pulling his gaze back from the curvaceous female classmate in the distance, Issei Hyoudou looked seriously at his two best friends.
"Failures? Failures at what?"
Hearing that, Matsuda and Motohama both looked utterly confused. This guy had suddenly become inexplicable.
"Think about what we desire!!"
Stopping in his tracks, Issei Hyoudou placed his hands on their shoulders, one on each side, his expression extremely serious.
"What we desire? Lewd stuff?"
Matsuda answered hesitantly.
Compared to Matsuda, Motohama was completely certain.
"No, it's boobs, right, Hyoudou!"
"...Motohama, you bastard. Fine! You're right. What we desire is boobs."
Having his words stolen by Motohama, Issei Hyoudou felt a little speechless, but then he nodded in complete agreement.
"But look at our current situation. We can only comfort ourselves through games. We're in an academy with so many girls, yet we're still single even now. Isn't that a complete failure?"
Issei Hyoudou was deeply troubled. Especially when he could not sleep at night, the faith he had longed for since childhood still had not been realized.
Despite attending Kuoh Academy, where girls outnumbered boys, he was still single since birth.
This was not what he wanted. He wanted to change everything. He even had a dream—a grand dream of becoming the Harem King.
Yet he could not even take the first step.
"What else can we do?"
"Exactly. Even if there are lots of girls, that doesn't mean we can find girlfriends. With the way those girls treat us now, Hyoudou, do you think it's possible?"
Motohama and Matsuda spread their hands helplessly. Before entering Kuoh Academy, they had both dreamed of finding beautiful girlfriends, but now they had almost completely given up hope.
"Who wouldn't want a beautiful girlfriend? I'm so jealous of Kiba Yuto! If I were him, I'd switch girlfriends every week."
"Yeah! I'm jealous too, but he doesn't seem to have a girlfriend, does he? So many girls confess to him, yet he doesn't have even one girlfriend. He's so handsome too. Do you think he might be gay?"
"That's possible."
"..."
Issei Hyoudou stared speechlessly at the two guys in front of him. Somehow, they had dragged Kiba Yuto into the conversation again and started discussing whether he was gay.
Weren't they talking about girls?
He was jealous of Kiba Yuto too, but he did not want to mention him at all. Mainly because the gap between them was simply too huge. It was depressing.
"Don't let the topic wander too far. What's there to talk about with that guy? He's practically the enemy of all men!"
Interrupting their discussion in annoyance, Issei Hyoudou pulled the topic back.
"So, don't you want to change all this? Don't you want to truly experience the real thing, have an actual girlfriend, instead of merely fantasizing in games?"
As he spoke, Issei Hyoudou raised a hand and grasped at the air. How wonderful would it be if he could truly feel that kind of beauty?
And the prerequisite was getting a girlfriend.
"Change? Forget it!"
"Hyoudou, you aren't still clinging to fantasies, are you? Rather than fantasizing about girlfriends, why not do something meaningful?"
Clearly, these two had long since given up fantasizing about such things. The reputation of their trio of perverts was known throughout the entire school.
Who would agree to become their girlfriends?
"...What meaningful thing?"
Issei Hyoudou knew that too. Though unwilling to give up in his heart, he said nothing more and instead asked curiously.
"I recently found a great spot. During PE class, we can sneak a look inside the changing room..."
Motohama leaned closer to them, lowering his head as he spoke to the two in an extremely quiet voice.
"Really?"
"Quick, tell me where it is!"
Upon hearing that, the other two hesitated only briefly before becoming interested.
But just as he was about to reveal the location, he suddenly looked to the side. For a moment, he was completely entranced and forgot to continue speaking.
When Issei Hyoudou and Matsuda saw that he had suddenly gone silent, they were about to complain, but when they noticed where Motohama was looking, they became the same way.
There she was... beneath the warm sunlight, a beautiful white-haired, red-eyed girl strolled along the road. At a glance, together with the afternoon light, she seemed like a gorgeous painting.
She wore the academy uniform, her long white hair smooth and beautiful as it naturally fell over her shoulders, accentuating her delicate features and fair skin.
Her eyes were like brilliant rubies, brimming with the vitality and anticipation of youth.
Her brows were slender and neat, adding a touch of elegance to her face. But what was most captivating were her smiling lips, curved into a beautiful arch that no one could resist.
Walking along the sunlit road, her steps were light and graceful. Her knees appeared and disappeared beneath her skirt, making her seem so lovely and adorable.
Her hands swung gently, as though she were playing a melody of youth. Her fresh presence was like the breath of spring, bringing an incomparable sense of comfort and peace.
She was simply the most dazzling sight on campus, making people yearn for and adore her.
"It's her..."
Looking at the white-haired girl before him, Issei Hyoudou remembered having seen her before. Even afterward, her figure had remained in his mind during class, impossible to forget.
He had not paid attention in class at all and had no idea what the teacher had taught.
Because of that, the teacher had caught him several times.
"So pretty! Who is she? Why haven't I seen her before?"
"You don't even know her? She's the senior who just transferred to our school. Because of her, quite a few boys who originally liked Senior Rias have directly switched sides and fallen for her instead."
"The number one spot in popularity will probably change very soon."
Motohama adjusted his glasses and analyzed with a confident expression. He had specifically gathered information about the beautiful girls in the school.
Even if nothing could possibly happen, he could not afford to know nothing.
"No wonder she's so beautiful. What's this senior's name...?"
"I think it's Theresa, or maybe Senior Moonlit. All right, don't get too excited. We can only look at a girl like her. We can only look."
Aware of his own limits, Motohama mocked himself as he teased his two best friends.
Yet neither Issei Hyoudou nor Matsuda answered him.
Because they realized that beautiful girl seemed to be looking at them too.
"Hyoudou, am I seeing things? That Senior Theresa seems to be smiling at me. No wonder she can threaten Senior Rias's position. She looks so good when she smiles!"
Looking at the beautiful girl's smile ahead, Matsuda excitedly slapped Issei Hyoudou's back and hurriedly asked.
"...You're not seeing things."
But she definitely was not smiling at you. She was obviously smiling at me. Thinking about that morning, Issei Hyoudou became even more certain.
"..."
"Lady Moonlit, let's head back together!"
Tosca came to Moonlit's side carrying some things, a happy smile on her face. The student council did not have any tasks today, so she could go back early with her master.
"Wait a moment, Tosca. I have something to do."
Looking at the familiar figure not far ahead, Miss Moonlit saw him as though he were a heap of Crystals worth at least ten thousand.
After waiting so long, it was time to reap the harvest.
When she had first arrived in this world, the girl had already set her sights on it.
S-Rank collection mission: Obtain the elite Sacred Gear "Crimson Dragon Emperor's Cage." Bounty reward: 3000 Crystals.
The bounty reward alone was three thousand, the maximum possible reward for S-Rank Bounties. Was this the protagonist of this world's cheat ability for you?
It was worth even more than the "Sephiroths Cup" she had obtained before.
She wondered what price the recovery system would offer for Crimson Dragon Emperor's Cage...
Based on its portrayal in the anime, this elite Sacred Gear was the strongest Sacred Gear. After all, it was the protagonist's cheat ability. Later, even the top-ranked Twilight Holy Spear performed worse than it.
It had even grown directly to the level of a quasi-Dragon God. All it needed was one more push from EXE Mechanical Evil God to continue cheating its way upward and become directly comparable to an Evil God.
"Something to do..."
Tosca was confused upon hearing that, but when she noticed her master's gaze—especially the way she stared at the boy ahead as though looking at some magnificent treasure—she immediately felt a little uncomfortable.
"Issei Hyoudou..."
Tosca frowned slightly. Naturally, she did not think her master had taken a liking to that guy. Especially with Kiba Yuto as comparison, there was no way she would like that pervert.
Thinking of the things her master usually cared about, did he possess some incredible artifact?
That seemed to be the only possibility.
After chatting briefly with Tosca, Moonlit looked toward Issei Hyoudou and was about to go speak with him, mainly to confirm his situation.
Because the girl suddenly remembered that it was not only Cao Cao. Issei Hyoudou's Sacred Gear, Crimson Dragon Emperor's Cage, was also connected to Indra.
It was just that Indra's attention toward Issei Hyoudou was far less than toward Cao Cao and the others. It could only be considered something he had done casually.
"Huh..."
Before Moonlit could approach, a beautiful girl with an innocent appearance reached Issei Hyoudou first. Her voice was not loud, but Moonlit could still hear her very clearly.
"Senior Hyoudou, could... could you go out with me?"
She was a beautiful girl with black hair, purple eyes, fair skin, and a tall, curvaceous figure.
She also wore the academy uniform: a dark red jacket over a white shirt, paired with a green short skirt. Though she was not among the absolute best, she was still an exceptionally beautiful girl.
Suddenly being confessed to by such a beautiful girl, Issei Hyoudou, who had never experienced anything like this and felt as if a pie had fallen from the sky, felt like he was dreaming.
Seeing this scene, Moonlit, who had been about to go greet him, stopped in her tracks. She had not expected to witness such a classic scene.
Yuma Amano—no, she should be called Raynare.
"Huh, how strange... A girl actually confessed to that guy Issei Hyoudou."
Tosca beside her was not an ordinary person either, so she naturally heard the confession. She only found it unbelievably bizarre.
With the trio's reputation as perverts, what normal person would like them, much less confess first?
They would not dare dream that boldly.
"She's a Fallen Angel..."
Moonlit spoke softly. Not only did she not stop it, but the smile in her eyes grew even deeper. She had not remembered earlier that Indra might also be watching Issei Hyoudou. Luckily, she had not acted directly. Though that guy probably would not interfere.
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