Hearing the gate door unlock, Shirou stopped cutting the onions. He turned around, waiting to greet his adopted father figure and Iihito’s friends.
“Welcome home.” Shirou smiled before noticing three more figures entering the room.
“Oh, I didn’t know Dad would bring guests. I’ll tell Iihito to prepare more food for everyone.” Shirou said before noticing the small one shiver.
“Oh? What’s wrong, are you alright?” Shirou asked before kneeling towards the little girl.
In a blur of motion, Shirou found his body wrapped by the girl's arms as she began to smile. “Big brother!”
“O-oh, Illya right? Welcome home.” Shirou responded before hugging her back.
Sliding into her usual spot at the table, Aiko folded her hands in her lap and waited for the food to be served. She decided to put her stuff away later.
Raynell waved to Shirou. “Heyo, Shirou. I just need a nap. Call me when the food’s ready!” He then left for his room. “And Gabriel. Be nice.”
Letting go of the little girl, Shirou patted her on the head. “I’ll be making dinner. If you need me, feel free to call out for me. I’ll be here for you.”
“Mhm!” Illya let out, nodding her head. Before Shirou stood up and went back to the kitchen.
Waving the tiny woman over, Aiko patted the cushion next to her. Heading towards the cushion, Illya sat next to the bunny girl whilst the maids stood behind her.
After a few moments of silence, Aiko gave Illya a sly look and murmured something so only they could hear it. "So you like younger men huh?"
Illya returned the look towards the bunny girl.
Gabriel pointed towards Illya. “Abstinence before marriage! It is the only way to have a relationship.”
“Are you kidding me? I don’t plan on doing that yet, dummy.” Illya pouted towards Gabriel.
“Yet?” Gabriel raised an eyebrow.
Before Illya could respond, Iihito shouted towards the living room. “Dinner’s ready!”
Entering the room, Iihito laid the entrees at the dinner table. “I’ll be calling Raynell, feel free to start eating though. I convinced Shirou to stock up extra since I figured we’d have more people heading over here.”
Seeing the glorious spread of food before her eyes, Aiko realized she might want to repay Kiritsugu for the sheer amount of food that was being placed in front of her. Turning towards Kiritsugu, Aiko tapped the table. "Come find me after, I'll refill your ammo stores."
“Much appreciated.” Kiritsugu nodded before beginning to eat his dinner.
Raynell burst through the door, his infectious energy spreading through his voice. “I heard it's dinnertime!”
Trailing behind Raynell, Iihito nodded. “Yeah, just take a seat. We’re still at entrees but feel free to eat whatever you want. The main course should be coming soon though.”
Slamming open the door, Taiga barged in with something on her mind. She decided to keep quiet once she noticed all the people in the house today. "Shirou! There's more of them!"
Shirou looked towards Taiga. “They’re just my sister and her two maids. Pay them no mind.”
"Sister? Maids!? Is she…" Taiga looked at Kiritsugu, realized the potential danger of her questions, and decided she didn't want to know. "No, no, never mind."
She then sat down at the table in a silent manner quite unlike her, ready to eat.
Taking a seat, Shirou clapped his hand. “Thank you for the food, alright. Let’s eat.”
After the meal, Aiko took Kiritsugu aside and dumped five military cases full of origin bullets for each of his guns. She also summoned one Skullmasher sniper rifle from Jakobs of the Borderlands universe with all the enchanted armor-piercing origin ammo he'd ever need.
Kiritsugu rubbed his ribs before grabbing the rifle, and giving it a brief inspection. “Point fifty BMG. Impressive.”
~~Line brake~~
“Alright, class, we got new students entering the classroom today. Make sure to treat them well enough. If you have beef to resolve, make sure you do it outside the class. That’s your cue to enter. Feel free to introduce yourself if you wish.”
Raynell walked in with a beaming smile. “Thank you for the introduction! My name’s Raynell. It’s a pleasure to meet you all. I’ll let my friends take the floor.”
“Greetings, my name is Illyasviel Emiya. I hope we can get along.” Illya curtsied towards the class.
Taking a deep breath, the bunny girl projected her voice like a stereotypical Canadian at a hockey game. She'd been working on the impression for a while now. "Like, Good morning class! LMAO! My name is Usagi Aiko, but y'all can call me Usagi! I like Anime, Manga, Fanfiction, and Light novels! Let's get along now~!"
Illya and Raynell turned around towards Aiko with matching deadpan expressions.
Rias glanced toward the three, their leaking mana greater than that of Iihito’s.
“Find a seat wherever that suits you. Class would be starting in a minute.”
Appearing in a free seat behind Akeno without warning, Aiko sighed. "It's really too bad we have to keep things T-rated, or I would have just made a really lewd joke."
Smirking as she turned to look back at her, Akeno became interested. "Ufufu, don't be shy now. I only bite for fun."
Raynell sat in the front row next to the window. Rias eyed him, but he paid no heed to it.
“Alright class, now that you have settled down we will begin. Open up your mathematics textbooks to page 156.”
Pulling out a textbook from her bag, Aiko let a few holy bullets slip from the bag and roll across the floor under Akeno's feet with a clink.
Akeno's eyes narrowed, and she stood up readying herself for a conflict, only for the bullets to disappear as if they were never there, leaving her standing like an idiot.
“Ah yes, a volunteer. Akeno if you can please answer the equation before I finish writing it out? Given that f(x) equals six times three to the power of three minus nine x plus four, what is its derivative?”
Going over the question in her mind, Akeno smirked with a triumphant air and relayed her answer. "Well, teacher. It's quite simple really, f′(x) equals eighteen multiplied by two minus nine."
She smirked back at Aiko, eyes pressuring her in a challenge.
“Very good. A particle of mass m confined to a box of width L is in its first excited state ψ2(x). Firstly, find its expectation value of the position and secondly, where is the particle most likely to be found?”
Akeno looked back at him with dead eyes, as she tried to convey just how unfair that was through a staring contest. Despite her attempt to cow her teacher in some small way, the man does not blink. Ever.
“And that’s why you don’t challenge fresh students Akeno, now if you take your seat so I can go back to explaining calculus to the rest of the class?”
Taking her seat without looking, Akeno almost regretted that mistake. However, Aiko wasn't mean enough to actually follow through with her second prank.
~~Line braku~~
“Ah! My eyes, again?!” Matsuda, the bald pervert winced away in pain.
“Why does soap keep landing on our eyes?” Motohama complained, confused as to how the shampoo could even get behind his glasses in the first place.
Issei stared towards the two, glad he chose to opt out of indulging in his instincts. The future harem king saw the patterns. “Where does this soap keep coming from?”
“You’re telling me. I can’t even take a small little peek without being barraged by phantom soap.” Motohama whined.
“Phantom soap?” Issei’s eyebrows raised. He shifted his eyes from side to side, finding nothing.
“You know, the soap that keeps disappearing when you try to look for it. I know it’s real because I keep coming home clean, but I can’t find the stupid damn thing no matter what I try. All the camera footage keeps getting corrupted. I’m telling you, it’s gotta be a ghost doing this.” Motohama pointed towards a shimmering part of the floor.
“Oh gods, youkai, the devil. Anything. Please remove these evil spirits. I’ll head to the shrine to pray every day just please exercise these spirits.” Grasping his hands, Matsuda knelt before glancing towards the ceiling.
“Have you tried not being as horny?” They snapped their heads toward the source of the voice, who continued. “Maybe this is a sign to change your ways?”
“What?! No way, never!” The two snapped back. “The gods would never be so cruel!”
The blonde girl shrugged in response. “Well, alright then. Keep warding off the girls in your vicinity with your disgusting behavior. Not my problem.”
Issei took a step back, the words from the blonde echoing into his mind. "What else can I do? Girls are going to think I'm gross anyway, right? It's all I've known."
Iihito rolled her eyes before sighing. “Well for one, you can stop with the open pervertedness. Don’t get me wrong, girls do sometimes like perverted men. But more importantly, girls want to feel safe and comfortable with their partner. Leering around, trying to stare at tits and asses all day isn’t going to make a girl feel safe or comfortable around you.”
Seeing an opportunity to get out of his loveless situation, he looked her in the eyes and nodded. The prospect of changing himself and how he acted bothered him little. He just wanted to get a girlfriend who cared about him as a person.
Glancing towards the hallway, Iihito looked at her watch. “Look, I’m willing to help out more, but I got PE. We’ll continue with this later if you still need my advice.”
Giving a rare genuine smile, Issei expressed his gratitude. "Thanks. I really appreciate it."
“Oh, and if you can. Try to distance yourself from those two. Being near them and indulging in their attitude while they refuse to change would drag your reputation down with them. Not saying you can’t hang out with them, but if you are, make sure nobody is around to see it. If they seriously want to partner up with someone, they’d stop with the open pervertedness.” Turning around, Iihito raised an arm to wave goodbye before leaving their sight.
Issei thought about this topic as the days went by, attempting to follow her advice. He determined to meet with Iihito again to learn and practice more.
~~Line break~~
Feeling the rays of light bounce on her skin, Iihito tapped on the table with her pen. It dawned on her that the class was kinda boring. It didn’t help that the teacher insisted on providing the same questions over and over with slight differences on her sheet. Oh, and the oh-so-hilarious line of ‘You’re not going to carry a calculator in your pocket all around you all the time. Are you?’
Yup... Totally not just going to resort to her phone to do tedious math or anything... Totally not just going to use Wolfram alpha for complicated equations or anything.
“Oh? Have you done your questions Iihito?” The teacher's voice rang towards her.
Iihito glanced at the teacher, eyes half open to the teacher’s question. “Yup, just remaining silent until the test is done.”
The teacher paused, looking into her eyes, before reaching out his arm. “If you are done with your test, you may bring it to me. You’re not in an exam, that’s to come in a couple years.”
Heading towards the teacher, she handed him the paper before heading back to her desk.
“You are free to privately study until the test is done, as for the rest of you; There are thirty minutes remaining.”
There was a knock on the door. Heading towards the door the teacher opened it to see who it was.
“Ah, Smith. Gremory wants your attention. Seeing that you are finished with your test, you may leave the class.”
Looking towards the teacher, Iihito picked up her things before heading out the door. The audible clicking of the door echoed behind her as she entered the hallway.
Looking directly towards her eyes, Iihito shrugged. “So. What do you want, Gremory?”
The tips of Rias’ mouth rose before an index finger reached towards her cheek. “Oh, I just so happened to notice you were done with your test. You seemed bored and I didn’t think you’d want to be stuck in the classroom for the rest of the school day.”
Iihito lowered her eyelids, her mouth flattening. “You just wanted to hang out, didn’t you?”
“I’ll be lying if I said no.” Rias nodded.
Iihito shrugged after a moment of pause. “So... Where to?”
Taking a step back, her hand lowered towards her chest. “Eh? You want to hang out?”
Iihito kept the same expression. “Yeah, you wanted to play with my Switch again right?”
Dropping her arms, Rias leaned forwards towards Iihito. “I can’t help it. How did you even get that game anyways? I scoured all over the internet and found nothing!”
Iihito paused, unsure as to how to proceed. “I don’t know. I just found it on the Nintendo eShop and bought it... You want to know where you can buy a Switch yourself, don't you?”
Rias began to pout. “Why wouldn’t I? That thing is practically from the future!”
Reaching toward her forehead, Iihito proceeded to massage her temples. “You’re not going to stop bugging me until you get your hands on one yourself aren’t you?”
Hearing a thud near the redhead, Iihito noticed Koneko suddenly standing next to her. Looking towards her with widening pupils. “Can I also have one?”
Iihito dropped her arms, mimicking Rias’ pose. “I’ll... See what I can do...”
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