Highschool DxD: Crawling x Chaos-Chapter 27: First Kiss

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~Yuta Yukimura~

"How does this look, Bobby? Presentable? Handsome? Charming even? Or will it make women violently puke upon seeing me? I am guessing the last one."

"Mrow."

"Thanks, Bobby, you always know what to say."

I psyched myself up in front of the mirror while Bobby watched me from my bed, I was getting ready for my date(?) with Koneko. I wore a crisp white shirt with a red hoodie jacket and black pants. I didn't bother with cologne since Bobby slapped it out of my hands when I reached out for it.

For most of the day, I did as I always did, practising my Metal Manipulation during class time, trying to make up new tricks with it and extending my range of control which was improving noticeably by the day and having a cooking class with Akeno that was... suspiciously normal and Akeno seemed rather out of it but I couldn't get her to tell me what it was. After that, I went back home and did a quick contract before preparing for my date(?) with Koneko.

It was... a strange contract, it was some middle-aged man who demanded that I give him power so that he could tear his boss apart in exchange for his life savings. I insisted that I wasn't the type of omnipotent wish-granting devil but more of a handyman with wings and magic but he was adamant that I was trying to trick him so I had to handle it another way.

Firstly, I pretended to relent and called him a smart mortal for seeing through my folly and agreed to give him a portion of my power. Then I cooked him a Pearl Jam meal and used Natural Weapons with it so that when the man ate it, it transformed his teeth into fangs and nails into claws and made his body slightly more powerful and energized him before applying disguise to make his skin appear paler to really sell it.

After all that, I told him he was now something like a ghoul and to enjoy his power. And I never even lied once, I gave him his desired power, no matter how small it really was. After that, I only took half of his money due to my damned conscience, if he couldn't kill his boss he at least wouldn't end up homeless.

Got me a Silver Ability Gacha Ticket out of the ordeal however so I was content. Before I left I decided to roll it for good luck.

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Rolling Silver Ability Gacha Ticket...

An Uncommon Ability!

[Tinker - Games]

|Rating: Uncommon| |Class: Tinker|

You are supernaturally good at building, creating and designing games or entertainment programs to the point where even a team of dedicated veteran developers cannot match your speed and efficiency at making games and entertainment.

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...What a strange ability, as a test, I slotted it in and felt my head become filled with ideas and blueprints as well as an urge to start creating them. I felt like if I went on my computer now I could easily churn out what would take a dedicated development team a day in an hour. Especially with my coding mastery.

But I quickly slotted it out, it was a... niche ability but I guess making games could be fun? The feeling of being turning into a sudden ultra-savant at making games was weird but not bad, though the nudging urge was annoying.

Giving myself a once over I left the house and speed walked to where Koneko asked us to meet making sure I was 10 minutes early just in case an accident occurred only to find Koneko already there waiting for me with her phone in her hand.

I observed Koneko for a second, it was my first time seeing her out of the Kuoh girl's uniform. She was dressed in a white hoodie with a pink flared skirt underneath with black stockings and pink sports shoes. Once she noticed me she turned to me surprised.

"You are early, Yuta-senpai," Koneko noted with a slight air of surprise but a corner of her mouth curled up minutely. Good thing I left early.

"Well, seems like we both had the same idea. Hope I didn't keep you waiting for long."

She shook her head and walked closer to me.

"Not at all, Yuta-senpai." She sniffed me like she always did and smiled as I racked my brain for what to say, a compliment was best.

"Your outfit looks really cute on you Koneko-chan, I never saw you outside the school uniform before." Koneko blushed and turned her head away while twirling a strand of hair which was critically cute.

"...Is that so? I'm glad. Now, let's go Yuta-senpai." I followed along with Koneko with a smile on my face as we chatted, she was way more open than I had seen before and it was very fun to talk with as I realized Koneko and I shared a lot of hobbies such as gaming and music.

We walked around the garden while talking and took in the beautiful sights of Kuoh town. Turns out, Koneko was more of a sweets girl(I will make the greatest pancake) and liked Anime which I shared. So we chatted about anime and her favourite shows were mostly Shounen and action ones like Drag So-Ball and Single Shard.

Eventually, we ended up in the shopping district of town and started looking around for interesting things to buy, Koneko was largely looking for cooking implements which I helped pick while I looked for something else.

"What are you looking for, Yuta-senpai?" Koneko commented with curiosity as she hovered around me while I browsed the aisle.

"A drawing tablet, since there are no more church rejects hounding us I thought I might continue with my hobbies." Koneko tilted her head cutely in curiosity.

"You draw?"

I nodded while reading the specs of the drawing tablet in my hands.

"Yep, I used to at least." Back in my old life, since I couldn't get into college I made my money as a freelance online illustrator. "Just hoping I'm still as good."

Besides, I had the idea of maybe ripping off popular manga and games in this world. Some shitty ripoffs of existing media were still in this world but some were absent. And from what I saw, in the underworld, their entertainment industry is kinda... barren. Because of low fertility in devils and the importance of tradition due to the existence of old people just not dying of old age, it was hard for entertainment to progress.

Well, there was Satan Serafall and her magical girl show that. No, I didn't know why one of the 4 Satans ruling the underworld had her own successful magical girl show but she did. It wasn't bad but very cliched for my tastes. And other than that there were few games in the devil net.

And no Yugioh which I took offence to since shitty ripoff Pokemon did exist. So, I decided to go ahead and recreate Yugioh, and with my Tinker ability, I am certain I could make a high-quality Yugioh game in less than a week and even draw a manga version and an anime since they are loosely connected to Tinker, enough that I get a bonus to my efficiency but not so much that it's equal to me making a game.

I am almost sure I could make bank with Yugioh in this world as long as I appropriate it enough, after I can't just pull out The Winged Dragon of Ra on the off chance Ra, who very much exists in this world takes offence and smites me dead instantly from across the globe.

"I see, I didn't know that about you Yuta-san, you usually seem so... well, I didn't think you had many hobbies. Could I see you draw sometime?"

"I'd love to show you my work but from the barren selection of tablets here it seems like I will have to settle for pen and paper." Koneko looked at me with a raised eyebrow as if questioning me

"...Why not ask Buchou for it? She could get you the best one in the market delivered to your doorstep in less than an hour." I rubbed my face with my hand while Koneko snorted in amusement.

"Yes, laugh all you want, it's not easy to remember your boss is Devil Royalty when you were human less than a month ago." I sighed and messaged Rias about the tablet before stuffing it back in my pocket.

After our shopping trip ended we moved to the arcade to end off our date as Koneko had contracts to get to today. Unfortunately for her, she challenged the wrong guy to the arcade.

Not only did I already have great reflexes from living my life in a rip-off of last destination, but I was wearing Wind God's ring that boosted my already great reflexes to inhuman levels. Though I may have overdone it by winning so much against Koneko, I let her win a few times but she could tell.

Now, I was trying to placate a pouting Koneko.

"Sorry, sorry, Koneko-chan, just let me make it up to you? Oh, I know."

Koneko gave me a side eye as I strode over to the claw machine she had been eyeing ever since we got here with large plushies inside. I knew Koneko liked cute and large things so this was the perfect chance.

"Alright, I'll get whatever you want from that claw machine. Which one do you want." That Koneko's attention as she perked up like a cat but tried to hide her happiness and still pretended to pout.

"...The pink cat." I nodded and rolled up my sleeves, approaching the machine with an intimidating stride.

"One cute plushie for the cute lady coming up."

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I glared at the offending crane machine as Koneko stood by the side with a slight smirk, clearly enjoying my frustration with the inferior contraption that I had been attempting to get something out of for 8 minutes now. For a second I was tempted to slot in Shadow Hands and just crush the damn thing before I got an idea and slotted in Iron Manipulation.

The claw was made of stainless steel, an iron-based material. Trivial for me to manipulate. I played it normally but just before the claw tried its weak baby grip I used Iron Manipulation to instead make it clamp around the plushie and successfully pull it up and finally get me the plushie that I promptly handed it over to Koneko who grabbed it with a smile.

"Thank you very much Yuta-senpai, I will treasure it." I was almost tempted to pat Koneko's head as she hugged the plushie but I refrained from interrupting her moment. She looked around and blushed for some reason before speaking again.

"Yuta-senpai, could you lean over for a second? I need to tell you something?" I raised an eyebrow and did so, and was taken by surprise when-

Chu~

Koneko quickly placed a chaste kiss on my lips and pulled back instantly with a twitchy coy smile on her face that was blushing heavily as I was stunned.

"Thank you very much for this date and everything you do for me Yuta-senpai. I hope I was able to show you some of my feelings." Fuck. My heart felt like it just got hit with a comically large sledgehammer.

My love life was getting really confusing, what was happening with Akeno, Koneko and Asia? Do I have to pick? I don't want to hurt Koneko's feelings but-

Koneko seemed to read me like a book as she blushed and looked away, her hands behind her back twirling nervously.

"I-I know what you do with Asia-chan and Akeno-senpai. I can smell it you, their scents and saliva." My eyes widened. "A-and I don't mind that you do, I didn't think I would have you all to myself anyway. Monogamy is more of a humanity thing, for us devil's, men having multiple partners is the norm. And it's only natural for a wonderful person like you to garner so much affection." Koneko said in a flustered but blunt manner, pouring her heart out.

All the while I felt my mind bluescreen.

Koneko, the idol of our school, my senior devil and the girl who barely changed expressions was essentially confessing to me and saying that she didn't mind me dating other women?

"Huh?" At this moment, I felt like a fool as Koneko lightly smiled again.

"See you tomorrow, Yuta-senpai."

I watched Koneko leave with a dumbstruck expression.

That... was my first kiss.

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Feat Achieved! Earn Koneko's Affection +1x Gold Trait Gacha Ticket

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~Yuta Yukimura~

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I laid in bed, my head a mess with a flurry of thoughts about Koneko's sudden confession and such. I had just spent an hour developing Yugioh to keep my mind off things, creating 120 cards I remembered and editing them a little, making the women more skimpy and attractive to be more appealing to the underworld etc.

I felt like I was overthinking this whole Koneko confession thing, if she wants to date me then I shall be grateful for such a cute girl wanting me of all people. I think I had to offer Helltaker a thank you for this.

This was my first real experience with romance, the thing with Akeno and Asia felt more like casual stuff compared to what I did with Koneko.

As I was rambling to myself with my internal monologue I saw my floor light up with a red light that flooded the room that I recognized as Rias' summoning circle making me tense up, was there an emergency again?

Rias emerged from the circle, looking agitated, further cementing my worries as I jumped out of my bed. Prepared to hear about another murder or something.

"Rias-san? What happened? Is there an emergency?"

Instead of answering my worries, Rias placed her hands on my shoulders.

"Yuta-kun, I need you to take my virginity! Take me now!"

'...'

'What the fuck?'

A/N: Koneko takes the lead by a massive margin by skipping the flirting part and going straight to date, poor girl never stood a chance against Yuta and his 4x advantage against her boosted by his cooking. Also, step aside Oppai Dragon, Yuta is about to dominate the entire underworld and above industry with his Tinker Ability. Did you guys like Koneko and her date?

Also, for the first time, I am not delaying the Riser arc for a year and 80 Chapters. And unfortunately for Yuta, that means a whole lotta pain to get through to be able to defeat Riser. He will need to find a way to get more rolls quickly and I am very excited for the Riser arc because I have a lot of ideas for it already. I hope you guys are too.

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