"You're 11?" Yukime sounded shocked after forcing Otto to reveal his real age, threatening him to be kicked out.
And of course, He played along.
"Seriously? Your body looks like an adult..."
She suddenly felt wrong to touch him. As she too knew what it felt like to be molested. When she was young, her family sold her off to be a prostitute in an illegal brothel. Just because she was different.
That's also when she grew to dislike men, as she was constantly being abused by male customers since most of them find dominating a beautiful young fox like her, pleasurable.
As time passed, her fox abilities like the fox fire awakened. Where she then used her beauty to catch the men off guard, before them killing, and destroying most of the brothels in the area.
After enduring those hardships, she made a name for herself in the underworld and created several businesses around Kabukicho. As most of the entertainment establishments around are owned by her. The majority of her workers are all females with an 8:2 ratio since she found most of the men who tried to apply disgusting. The men whom she accepted were all mostly interested in the same sex.
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"Are you going to kick me out?" Otto asked curiously. If he were to be kicked out, he would go to Bukyoku Academy and deliver a letter to Nene Saikyou to then pass it to Nangou Toragirou who is her master.
"No. But on one condition." She shook her head.
"Go on."
"You must attend 1st year middle school." Once she said the word, Otto's face crumpled as he thought that most of the things they teach are probably known to him from his previous life.
"In a knight school specifically, and compete in the Senior Blazer League." Yuki encouraged him, since with his talent he would easily win the children's tournament.
She also wondered where Otto's parents were, since he refused to tell her about them.
"Accept it, Otto," Brynhildr said as she found bartending boring to watch.
"Alright, I accept. But what school should I attend to?"
"How about Bukyoku Middle School Academy? It's near my home town in Kyoto. That so I can visit you when I have time."
Otto felt she had become his guardian, at the same time he felt slightly happy since he could finish 1/2 of the delivery quest while he was there.
"..."
"Why would you sponsor me to go to school?" Otto viewed her proposal as a sponsorship.
"Simple, because when you get big in the future. I want you to advertise my business." She said smugly.
"Advertise!? On media!?" Who in the right mind would advertise a hostess club on social media, when people of all ages can see it? Otto thought that it was a bad idea, but accepted her offer nonetheless since the fruit hadn't grown up yet. He would worry over it once he'd get famous anyway.
"Yup, and with my connections you should be easily get admitted to the school."
"You sure put on a lot of effort on it, when you're not even sure it's going to work out well." Otto didn't know how her business mind processes things, since he didn't have any knowledge of business.
"Don't tell me you're going to half-ass the school since I'm doing it free for you?" She frowned at his comment.
"Obviously?" He didn't want to brag to her, but he could 100% beat anyone his age, and going all out would just be overkill to the other kid.
And besides, he could afford the fees if he enrolled in the academy since he was rich.
"*sigh* How about this? If you made a name of yourself in there, I'll reward you in the future." She slightly pulled the hems of her kimono. Yukime didn't mind if Otto would sleep with her, since he was just a kid.
'To be honest. If Marie hadn't told me that you were a boy, I would've thought you were a girl at first... Plus his beauty is on par with mine.' She secretly praised him.
"Uh-no thank you." He flatly replied.
"I know you wouldn't ref—huh?" She thought Otto would accept her flirting and would put in more effort, but he seemed disinterested.
'Is he gay?' This was the first time that someone refused to sleep with her. And felt disappointed that he used his beauty to entice men, instead of women.
"No. And no I'm not gay. It's because I already have a girlfriend..." He can't say she didn't have a body, or else Yukime might think that his lover was just the delusion he had created since Brynhildr couldn't communicate with others.
"Oh..." She rolled her eyes.
Just now the door from the back where Marie had been resting opened.
"Mmm? Boss?" Marie who just woke up came out seeing that Otto and her boss had already introduced themselves.
"What's with your look boss?"
Meanwhile, Yukime looked at Marie with disgust for seducing Otto, but let it off since Marie didn't know his real age.
"Nothing..."
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5 months later Otto had been doing his side job as a chef in the bar since Yukime refused to let him mix drinks. Because she thought that he was bad at it and that their customers only liked it was only because a handsome man was mixing it.
And Otto was at the middle school where he'd be spending his 3 years.
"This doesn't feel so bad at all," Otto commented and thought that school in this world was boring.
"What did you even think when it comes to school?" Brynhildr had told him several times to attend a middle school but didn't listen to her, but instead listened to a random woman he barely knew. Making her jealous.
"A boring place, where I thought it was a waste of time. But it seems like I was wrong..." The middle he was currently attending was meant for young Blazers who had awakened their mana at a young age. So the teachers in the school barely teach boring things and focus more on the basic things of becoming a full-fledged blazer, like mana control, battle strategies, and theories.
But what surprised Otto the most was that people knew the existence of the 3 factions from High School DxD, namely the Angels, Fallen Angels, and the Devils. He asked one of his teachers about Spirits from Date a Live but seemed to be oblivious to it. Like they don't know what they are, possibly that the government was hiding it from the public like in the anime.
"Who are you?" A white-haired boy with hazel eyes, who was the same age as him approached Otto with an unfriendly expression.
'Vali Lucifer?' Otto could recognize that sudden arrogant speech from somewhere. It was the White Dragon Emperor's host. Ddraig's and Issei's rival.
"Who are you, kid?" Otto said since Vali was shorter than him.
"I'm Vali..." He didn't state his last name since it would be dangerous for him.
"Okay? I'm Otto." He replied briefly before he walked away from him.
"Hey! Let's fight for a moment." Vali shouted like it was another day of beating up someone.
"Why?" Otto was confused as to why this kid was trying to fight him, out of nowhere.
"You're the red dragon emperor right?" Vali whispered.
"Haah—?" Otto thought that it was because he absorbed half of Ddraig's soul, that Albion, The white dragon. Mistook Otto as Ddraig's host, and told Vali about it.
"Come." Vali sized up Otto by raising his fists in front of him.
The scene was comical to the audience that was watching the two squaring up. And thought it was just a setup to get the passersby's attention since the outcome was decided that Otto would win.
"There's no way the blond man would knock the kid would he?"
"It's probably just a setup to get everyone's attention."
"Where is the camera though?"
Several voices murmured around the two. Making Otto feel uncomfortable at Vali's stupid and sudden action in public, not to mention in front of the middle school where he is attending.
He didn't want to look like someone who picked on the weak by beating Vali in a fight, as most of the time people on the internet might take it as out of context. And brand him in a bad light.
"Come, are you perhaps scared that you would lose?" Vali taunted Otto.
"No, it's just that there is no way for you to win against me, Vali. And besides, why are you even picking a fight with me?" Otto was genuinely confused by him since he wasn't the Red Dragon Emperor that Albino thought he was.
"Nah, we're rivals. So it's logical if we fight on who's the stronger one."
"I don't even know you," Otto replied, making the audience want to egg on him for trying to avoid a fight.
"Fight him." A random voice from the crowd sounded before the others joined.
"See? Even the people want to see the duel between the two dragon emperors." Vali said as he summoned his sacred gear The Divine Dividing, which was in the form of blue transparent wings. It could half the target's power every 10 seconds. Opposite to the boosted gear which could double the user's power every 10 seconds.
Once the Divine Dividing halved the target's power, that power would transfer to the wings strengthening the user. It also had the function of releasing the excess power if it had reached its maximum limit. Keeping the user at top performance.
"A duel..." Otto thought for a moment.
"Alright." He stated before... "but first look behind you."
"???" Vali listened to his words, as he looked behind him for anything suspicious that could interfere with their fight.
The next thing he knew Otto had already disappeared from the spot immediately, surprising the crowd at how fast he ran away from the fight.
"You—!!!" Vali couldn't believe that he was tricked in such a simple manner.
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"Hmmm... Who was that man?" A petite short brown-haired girl wearing a crop top slightly exposing her chest that was covered with a sarashi, asked the girl beside her.
"I think that was a new student boss." The big-breasted girl timidly replied to her question.
"Hmph, get more information about that man." She ordered her lackey.
"On it Boss Nene." The two battered men replied in unison.
"Heh— good... Now go!" Nene shooed the two boys away, leaving just her and the big-chested girl alone.
"Wu-wha-wait—" The big-breasted girl was caught off guard now that she and Nene were alone as she was getting groped by Nene in the chest.
"Stop it Nene-san. Hehe he ahah—" She tried protecting her breast but was tickled by Nene instead.
'Who was that man?' Meanwhile, Nene was thinking about how that man managed to escape from her field of vision so quickly, that she didn't even have time to react.
'Fufufu— either way all I'm interested in is that, are we going to fight?' She thought that Otto was the same age as her and was going to compete in the tournament.
A battle-hungry person such as her wanted to fight strong opponents like her rival she met back in her middle, Kurono Takizawa. She was sick of beating up weak opponents since it got so boring, that it wouldn't even get her blood boiling.
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-Chapter End-