"... Issei"
"Hmm? What's the matter, Nee-san?"
"I have something to confess"
"Eh? What is it?! Did you decide to become a devil? Do you finally have a boyfriend?! Do you want to become the hare—"
SMACK
"YEOCH!"
"Shut up! Our parents are sleeping and don't say stuff like that openly!"
"Ahh… it hurts…"
"Now don't be a pussy and listen to me Ise. This… this is important"
Issei, finally learning the sincerity in my voice, perked up from his bed and gave me his full undivided attention.
"... Issei, I Hyoudou Yuril possesses… a Sacred Gear"
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"EHHHH—"
I quickly jammed his mouth with my palm as I hissed at his face.
"Quiet!" I hissed. "Quiet! You don't want to wake up mom and dad…"
"S-sorry Nee-san. But do you really have a Sacred Gear?"
"Yes… yes I do"
"Where is it? Can you show me?"
As Rias and I talked I managed to get her to talk about everything that Issei and I needed to know. Issei to know how powerful he is and how serious the situation is, and I to make sure if my information about this world was correct or not. It was right. She talked about the Sacred Gears, Vatican, Angels, Devils, the 72 pillars, the Evil Pieces system, the Great War and holy swords. No wonder that left both of us exhausted since we had to absorb all the information and store it carefully in our brains.
I sighed before opening my left eye that started to glow red then burst into small flares of pure energy.
"W-whoa"
Issei's voice was full of awe and admiration as he stared into my left eyeball.
"When?"
"When what?"
"When did you awaken your Sacred Gear?"
"... Remember when we were five years old Ise? The year when that bully tried to hurt you." During our walk home, I figured out how to lie about my Sacred Gear's awakening. I couldn't keep hiding this power from anyone else and the time when I'm using the sacred gear is coming fast and I wanted my brother to be the first one to know about this little secret of mine.
"... I-I… Of course I remember! You nearly killed him at that time... No wonder you became so strong. So…" He gave me an excited look on his face. "... what can your Sacred Gear do?"
I gave a short laugh before explaining.
"Yare, yare, Issei calm down… First of all Issei, this Sacred Gear is called Sage's Wisdom and it's implanted into my left eye. For its powers, it can—"
"HYOUDOU Yuril, PLEASE COME TO THE STUDENT COUNCIL ROOM IMMEDIATELY. I REPEAT, HYOUDOU Yuril, PLEASE COME TO THE STUDENT COUNCIL IMMEDIATELY."
I tilted my head upwards to the announcement before I stretched my back and made my way towards the student council. School had ended and I was about to follow Issei to the ORC. But then that announcement had to blare out. Saying goodbye to my brother I trudged towards the Student Council room. While walking I suddenly decided to take a different route to go inside. Why you ask? Because I really love to see Sona senpai's usually stoic and calculating face crumbling away leaving disbelief, humiliation, pain and suffering. What? Didn't know I was a sadist? Now you know now.
So… which floor is the room in?
Then I spotted it. An opened window in the Student Council room.
[Zero Gravity]
I sneakily levitated up the school wall (after making sure that nobody was around) and slowly entered the window. Meanwhile Sona and her peerage was facing the opposite direction which was the door to the students council. I believe Sona ordered her peerage to take their positions like this to try and overwhelm me but… here I am coming up from above. I was like freaking Napoleon, crossing the alps to fuck the Austria Hungarians. Crossing the alps was a variable nobody but Napoleon thought of which resulted in his absolute victory. And here I am, trying to be as sneaky as possible.
[Zero Gravity + Gravity Direction Control]
I floated right into the window without making a sound and hiding my presence as best as I could. Thankfully I controlled the fundamental forces via wisdom and not by magic which made them impossible to detect me through magic detection. I floated and positioned myself directly behind them but never placed my feet on the ground fearing that their enhanced senses of hearing could catch my footsteps. So I floated only half a centimeter off the ground as I waited for them to make their first move.
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"Damnit, where is that human?!"
"I think she ran off Sona"
"Yare, yare, why would I do that?"
As soon as I spoke I immediately canceled out my zero gravity and finally touched the floor while everybody jumped in total shock and surprise. Several even eeped and shrieked as they were taken away by surprise but I enjoyed Sona's reaction most of all.
"?!"
The devil made incomprehensible noises as she whipped her head back to stare at me, maw wide open, eyes twitching uncomfortably and hands trembling, the great Kaichou, Sona Sitri greeted me.
"Yo Senpai," I said, leaning forward, smirking a bit. "Yare, yare, I never knew you and your 'Student Council' was a group of devils but eh… Senpai and her group don't look that intimidating…"
Instantly death glares were thrown at me as a few even leaked their killing intent. But humiliation was written on all of their faces as they were ashamed of not noticing me and to be greatly surprised. Sona on the other hand looked at me with hatred (with a red face of humiliation for being pranked) before pulling out her chess board. I chuckled lightly before walking around the table. When I was across from her, I sat down on the chair and smiled lightly before pissing on her pride.
"Trying to make the score 16:0 senpai? I didn't know you liked to lose…"
"This will be the day when I will beat you Yuril and trust me, you will never see your victory ever again"
"Ohhh I'm scared Senpai," I replied sarcastically as I helped her to set the chess pieces. "... So why did you call me?"
Sona moved her black pawn as I moved my white pawn. "How did you know that we were devils?"
"From my rank A gut feeling and the fact that you used the term 'human' just a few seconds ago and because your 'kouhai' is just so amazingly awesome."
Sona's eyes twitched in annoyance as she moved her knight. "How did you come in?"
"The window"
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"Why would you do that?"
"It was opened and I felt like it."
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"There goes your knight Senpai."
"Why weren't we able to detect you?"
"Hm? No offense Senpai, but I think you just suck at detecting"
She gritted her teeth before taking my bishop with her knight. "How did you break Koneko's arm?"
"I did? Well… I better apologize to her later…"
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"Martial arts"
"Pardon?"
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"Martial arts," I said before I created a fork with her rook and her queen using my white knight. Sona clicked her tongue before watching her rook being taken by my knight.
"Martial arts. You claim to destroy my friend's rook just by using martial arts." She said, obviously not believing my statement.
"And some intense training and that's all."
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"Do you have a Sacred Gear?"
"That's up for you to decide. Checkmate in seventeen moves Senpai"
"?!" Sona's eyes widened as she desperately tried to find what I was talking about until she saw it. Sighing she knocked off her king showing her surrender. Then she gave me a small smile. "Seems like I can never beat you Yuril-kun"
"You're right on that part."
Her smile turned into a scowl as she growled at me. "Damned brat"
"Aren't you technically more damned than I am?"
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"Somehow I feel like you are cheating when playing chess Yuril-kun"
A single bead of sweat rolled down my neck as inwardly I felt a bit guilty. When I played chess with her I always used my Sage's Wisdom to beat her and of course, that action is considered cheating since the game chess is played by skill, experience, intelligence and luck and is not played by relying on your Sacred Gear. But as Daniel J. D'arby said, if the cheat isn't exposed, it is a "fair game"... wait… does this mean that she's going to kill me after she finds out what my Sacred Gear can do? I did told Issei to keep my Sacred Gear as a secret from the others and I am sure that he would keep his word… but my brother sucks at lying… Fuck! For now I decided to ignore her words.
"Haha, it was a fun time, Senpai" I replied slowly, pulling myself up. "So, what's your evaluation of your little kouhai?
"... You're disrespectful, cocky, scarily smart, inhumanely strong and—" She gave a small smile at me. "—a good big sister… I guess."
I puffed my cheeks in annoyance. "Yare, yare! Senpai! I am the greatest big sister you could ever see! Anyway… other than that Senpai, what else?"
"What do you mean?"
"Do I look like a threat to your peerage? Isn't that the main reason why you called me in the first place?"
Sona chuckled before shaking her head. "Of course a human like you should see that from the very start. No Yuril. You were never a threat to me or to my peerage since the day we met up until now Yuril… You may not act like one in front of me but you are a kind person Yuril"
I cracked a grin at Sona as I tipped my head in gratitude and I made my way to the door. And before I made my exit…
"But I am a threat to your pride in chess Senpai." I gave a wink before running as fast as my legs could carry me as Sona threw her chessboard in my direction with a scream filled with curses.
I do love messing around with my senpai.
"Psst!"
"Argg… who the… Ise? What are you doing here?"
"Nee-san! I-I activated my Sacred Gear too!"
I activated my proud acting skills as I forced my maw to drop open. "H-huh? Whoa! Issei, that's awesome! Come on Ise, show me your Sacred Gear!"
"W-wait Nee-san…"
Issei furrowed his eyes in concentration as his left arm started to emit some supernatural lights and energy. My eyes widened as I felt the raw power of the Ddraig dormant inside that gear. The power… could possibly overpower my Sage's Wisdom, and its potential is definitely in the same rank as mine. Issei's Boosted Gear is a gear that doubles the power on what the wielder wants. Strength, speed, durability, an individual either than Issei himself, you name it.
"Eh… I know your Sacred Gear is way better than mi—"
"Issei… this… this Sacred Gear nearly equal to mine… heck, I think it can even surpass mine!"
Issei's lowered head shot straight up as he looked at me full of hope and happiness as he broke out into a wide smile. "Really?" He said. "Really Nee-san?!"
I snorted before petting his head as I activated my own Sacred Gear, my eye flashing and flaring up. I just did that because I didn't want to be the only one without any cool visual effects. No other reasons.
"Ise, it's up to the wielder's imagination, will-power and self-determination to improve their Sacred Gear's and unlock their potential. But there are definitely some Sacred Gears that are far more superior than others such as mine." I paused to smile to myself with pride as I forced the flares in my left eye to shine brighter and grow larger. Ise snorted. "But from what my Sacred Gear tells me… Your Sacred Gear, is extremely destructive and powerful. There's no doubt of that"
Issei's eyes widened with happiness and pride as he took my evaluation. "S-so, my Sacred Gear can become great as yours Nee-san? Will I be able to do some cool shit like you do? Can I?"
"That Ise," I said, poking two fingers to his forehead. "Is up to you…"
"... Thanks Nee-san"
"No problem, we'll continue tomorrow okay? So for now, let's go to sleep"
"H-hai!"
"So what is your opinion of her, Sona?"
"... She is definitely human Rias, that I can clearly clarify. No demonic energy, no holic energy… she is definitely human"
"... Any chances that she is suppressing any sorts of supernatural powers?"
"Zero Rias. I quadruple checked and you also have my peerage as witnesses. Hyoudou Yuril is a 100% human being"
"Damnit… then what's with that power of hers?"
"According to her she said that she went through some 'intense training' and learning martial arts."
"... That's it? She did some 'intense training' and martial arts to become that strong?! Sona! That doesn't make any sense!"
"... or she has a Sacred Gear already activated. She never denied of having a Sacred Gear when I asked her if she had one also... "
"What Sona?"
"She made quite an entrance to our room… She suddenly appeared right behind us while we expected her to come through the door… She confessed that she went through the window but…"
"You didn't feel her presence, correct?"
"Yes Rias! I just can't figure out that part! For some reason we couldn't detect her smell, our ears didn't pick up any sounds of footsteps, heck, we didn't even feel that there was somebody behind us but…"
Sona rubbed her face with both of her hands after she took off her glasses for a bit. "There should've been some sort of sound or vibrations when she climbed up the wall and when entering the window. But we heard not. A. Damn. Single. Thing!"
"Couldn't it just be that she levitated or teleported?"
"Then I would've sensed her magic. No Rias. Yuril has almost zero amount of mana in her body. Its amount is so low that it cannot allow her to properly create even a basic magic circle"
"... Then what the hell is she?"
"I don't know but one thing for certain is that she is a human"
"... I so want to call bullshit on that Sona…"