C2 - I didn't go to Highschool DxD, why is Rias here!

[3rd person POV]

Inside a certain cave behind a waterfall, this place was not made by man, but by nature itself. Even so, the inside of the cave was quite nice and looked beautiful with some flowering plants creeping up the walls.

There was also an gap in the cave that allowed sunlight to enter to illuminate a small part of the inside of the cave. Now, the morning sunlight was shining on the inside of the cave, specifically it was shining on the two people who were still sleeping on the ground. A man and a woman, both naked while embracing with a small white blanket covering their bodies.

One of them, the male, started to wake up. His eyelashes fluttered and his eyelids slowly opened, revealing a pair of black eyes that were as dark and deep as an abyss.

That pair of eyes looked at the cave sky in confusion, when his consciousness had completely gathered, he finally realized that there was someone on his body, or rather a woman hugging him while sleeping.

And it's not just that, as he noticed the soft and warm feeling on his body, he realized that he was naked and the woman was also naked.

They were both naked, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes in shock!

...

[Roel Ascart's POV]

Who am I?

Where am I?

Huh? I'm Roel Ascart and I'm lying in a cave. Yes, in a cave with a red-haired woman who is holding me with her naked body.

I can feel a soft, chewy object pressing against my chest. Is this what it feels like when you feel a pair of breasts pressing against your chest?

Amazing!!

Now, don't take me for a pervert, I mean who is a normal man that isn't horny when they are in this situation? Those who don't, probably have a genital dysfunction problem or something that makes people call them eunuchs, herbivores, monks, b*dhas, or other terms to describe people who are hardly horny or not attracted to a woman's naked body.

Although I am a person who is interested in women and sex, I have no experience in that field so far. In short, I'm still a virgin and have never tasted the sweetness of forbidden fruit.

...

Well I would say that if it was me before losing consciousness after blasting a dragon into minced meat.

Now I feel that I have no right to say I'm a virgin because... My current situation makes me think in a certain direction that I might have lost my chastity to the woman who is lying on my chest.

Seriously, what's going on here? Let's try to recall the time when I managed to kill that big lizard called a dragon. At that time I lost consciousness due to the many wounds on my body that made me lose a lot of blood and eventually fainted.

After that I don't know what happened to me that made me here with a woman who hugged me with her naked body while sleeping.

By the way all my wounds have also healed somehow which makes me even more confused. But maybe this red-haired woman is the one who healed all my wounds, hmm is she a witch with great healing skills?

I'm pretty sure the wounds I had after the previous battle were so severe that they could have killed me if not immediately helped by healing magic, healing potions, or someone's medical skills.

Thinking of myself being close to death and almost dying again for the second time, I smiled wryly, my isekai adventure will probably end with just 2 months after I was transferred to this world.

That's right, it's been over two months since I was transferred to this world. Previously I lived on planet Blue Star as a first-year high school student who had a good life with an otaku hobby that made me love ACGN {Anime, Comics, Games, Novels}.

Until one day, a month after I transferred to a Japanese school, my teacher, classmates, and I got into an accident while we were riding a school bus to a tourist spot in Hokaido.

Before the bus reached Hokaido, on the way through the snowy mountain, the bus suddenly lost control on the road and it hit an iron fence causing the bus to be thrown off the high mountain cliff.

I don't remember that moment clearly, because all I know is that I suddenly woke up in another world, separated from my classmates who I knew that many of them were still alive. It was just that the place where I woke up was different from my other classmates, even though it was still in the same other world.

If people knew what I was thinking at this moment, they would probably ask why I knew my teacher and classmates were still alive somewhere?

Well that's because I know the plot.

...

I knew the plot, to be precise I also already knew that the bus I was riding would have an accident that resulted in me and my classmates being transported to another world. After all, my previous world and this world were novel worlds that I knew from my first life.

In my first life, I was a 24-year-old programmer with an otaku hobby who often read novels in my spare time. One day, I had a cliché accident like being hit by a truck and made me reincarnate as Roel Ascart in the novel world I knew after seeing the protagonist for the first time when I transferred to a Japanese school.

Hehe there I began to realize what world I was reincarnated in and I had planned to follow the plot in the original work so that I could go to the other world and be able to use magic!

Yes, my goal of following the plot was just so that I could get magic skills, and luckily I actually got them. It made me very happy, and I've been diligently leveling ever since.

I had registered to become an adventurer in the country of the sun and within 1 month I had been promoted to a gold rank adventurer. In that time the protagonist was even in the early stages and was very weak, which made my power development faster than the protagonist.

It's not that I'm competing with the protagonist, it's just that I sometimes like to compare my own development with the protagonist in the original work.

Then a few days ago, I felt very confident and took the SSS rank quest in the adventurer's guild. The quest aimed to kill the Demon Dragon living in the Forbidden Forest.

And that's where I started a duel with that giant lizard that had lasted for 3 days which fortunately I managed to come out victorious in the end. Although at that time I also almost died if this red-haired woman didn't come to save me.

Staring at the woman sleeping on my chest, I could see a bit of her face. She was beautiful, so beautiful that it made my heart flutter.

Her body was also very sexy and her breasts were large which I could see and feel under the small blanket that slightly covered both of us.

Oh my...

Calm down, take a breath, restrain yourself from attacking this red-haired woman. I don't want to be a rapist bastard.

After all with my looks and charm, instead of raping, why don't I do it honestly and make this woman fall in love with me to make her offer herself to me.

...

Damn, what was I thinking.

These teenage hormones are quite difficult...

By the way is it just me or does this woman's face look familiar? I feel like I've seen her somewhere.

"Hn..."

Oh, it looks like the woman finally woke up.

I saw her eyelids open, allowing me to see a pair of beautiful and slightly misty sky blue eyes. The woman rubbed her eyes, looking at me for a few seconds before getting up slowly while picking up her clothes that were lying not far to the side.

I could also see my clothes there, but I wasn't in the mood to look at my clothes, as my attention was fully on the red-haired woman who casually started to put on her clothes in front of me without any shame.

In the process of course I could get a good look at the woman's naked body, especially her big breasts with beautiful pink buds and her big, juicy ass.

Oi.

Seriously?

She even looked at me with a smile, and when she was already wearing her sexy black panties. At the bra-wearing part, she turned her back to me and told me something quite surprising for a woman in this situation.

"Can you help me attach this bra strap? It's a bit difficult to do it by myself, please~"

Her voice sounded soft and coquettish, sounding very pleasing to the ear, making me a little dazed but I quickly got up from the ground and walked over to her.

Even though I was naked, and felt a little embarrassed, but I endured the embarrassment and stood behind her back while trying to attach her bra straps.

She used her hands to move her long red hair forward to make it easier for me to attach her bra strap, or maybe let me see her beautiful smooth snow-white back.

I was stunned for a few seconds, but soon shook my head and tried to be a straight man. Although my uncovered dragon reacted and started to harden at this point, damn. I... I have to put on my clothes immediately, otherwise I'll lose face!

My face is not as thick as a steel wall, I would also be embarrassed if someone saw me naked at my current age, especially if that person is a woman who is not even related to me.

With a calm expression, I began to help the woman attach her bra strap, it only took 3 seconds before I was done and immediately grabbed my clothes for me to put on quickly.

Probably realizing I was in a hurry, the red-haired woman giggled as she turned around to look at me getting dressed. Luckily I had already put on my pants to cover my dragon and only had to put on my shirt.

The woman also continued wearing her clothes, or rather the school uniform which made her appearance even more familiar to me.

After we were both fully dressed, we both looked at each other. The woman smiled and stood right in front of me while holding my shoulders with both of her slender hands.

"Have all your wounds healed? You don't feel pain anymore, do you?"

Since we were almost the same height, our gazes are aligned. I could clearly see her beautiful face, blue eyes, and juicy-looking red lips. It was a beautiful sight, one that would make many men mesmerized and find it hard to resist kissing the woman in front of me if they were in my current position.

But I'm different from them of course, I can still restrain myself from being impulsive. So I slightly shifted my gaze from her face and looked up into the air.

"I... Well, all my wounds seem to have healed. I don't feel any pain anymore.

"Thank you for saving me, my name is Roel Ascart, I will definitely repay your kindness."

I thanked the woman and even took the initiative to introduce my name in a friendly manner.

The woman's smile grew wider, she seemed to be happy to hear what I said. Oh that's good.

She removed her hand from my shoulder, coughed slightly before extending her hand to me as a gesture to shake hands.

"You're welcome Roel. I'm glad you're okay now, and I'm also glad you're smart enough to immediately realize that I'm the one who saved you."

I responded to his outstretched hand and shook her hand. Un, it feels very soft. Are all women's hands like this? No, I'm sure not. Most are, but I feel like this red-haired woman is softer than any other woman I've ever met.

"By the way, my name is Ri--"

Before the red-haired woman finished speaking, I interrupted her with a smile and said:

"Your name is Rias Gremory, right?"

"Eh? H-How did you know?"

The red-haired woman widened her eyes, her surprised expression looking cute.

[Should I tell her that I know her name from an anime I watched in a previous life?]

[Red hair, blue eyes, that face, that figure and the school uniform of Kuoh Academy. There was no mistaking that she was Rias Gremory, the main heroine of the harem anime series Highschool DxD.]

[In the original work, the protagonist is a pervert who is extremely obsessed with breasts. Hm... If I'm not mistaken, his name is Hyudou Issei, one of the perverted trio at Kuoh Academy. I don't understand why a woman like Rias would so easily fall for a man like Issei, just because he saved her from her family's arranged marriage to Riser? Well as expected from a brainless anime.]

[It's just that why is Rias in this world now? Was she also transported to this world like me?]

When I thought this in my heart, I don't know why, but Rias looked around in confusion and then looked at me with a more surprised expression than before.

What's wrong with her? Oh right, I haven't answered her question yet!

Damn, what should I say? I kind of regret saying her name first as if I already know her.

...

[3rd person POV]

Rias was very surprised at this time, not because Roel knew her name before she introduced herself, but because of the other voice she heard in her head!

It was definitely not the system's voice, and it seemed to be similar to Roel's voice. Surprisingly when that happened she didn't see Roel open his mouth.

Was it telepathic magic? No, Roel obviously wasn't using magic, because she didn't feel any magic fluctuations from him when the voice was heard.

And what surprised Rias the most was the information she had just heard!

She, Rias Gremory, turned out to be the main heroine of an anime that Roel had watched in his previous life? And it was a harem type of anime where the protagonist was one of the school's famous perverted trio!

Rias who had a good memory, she remembered that there was a first year student named Hyudou Issei in her school. That male student was famous for his perverted behavior of peeping into female students' changing rooms and often discussing "Oppai" with his two perverted friends.

Roel said she would fall in love with that perverted boy? She doesn't believe it!

But Roel's voice didn't come from his mouth, maybe it was his inner voice? Wait, can she hear Roel's inner voice?!

Rias suddenly realized this, and she even suspected that after coming to this world she had also gained the skill to hear other people's inner voices.

You know even not long ago she also acquired the skill to make her become calmer than usual.

At this time, you have to ask the system, right?

'System, explain!'

[Ahem! Host, you almost guessed it right.]

[It's true that you can hear Roel's inner voice because of your new skill, but that skill is related to your investment target and comes from the system!]

Rias was a bit confused by the explanation given by the system, she didn't understand. So she asked again.

'What do you mean, system? Can you give me a clearer explanation?'

Hearing her host's question, the system naturally had to give her a satisfactory answer.

[In short, the host has successfully bound Roel Ascart as your investment target and therefore you have the ability to hear his inner voice.]

[Ding! The investment panel is displayed.]

[CHARACTER INVESTMENT: 1/1

NAME: Roel Ascart (Reincarnator)

RACE: Human

AGE: 16 years old

LEVEL: 120

Inner voice: Can be heard by the host passively and randomly].

[Ding! Because you have successfully completed the mission of getting the investment target. You have successfully unlocked the Live Broadcast feature! The feature is available and ready to be used only when the host wants it.]

Seeing this, Rias was stunned, and her brain began to analyze this and that, eventually coming to the conclusion that what Roel's inner voice was saying was probably true!

And what made her really happy was that she could finally contact her parents and friends! But let's leave that aside for later, because right now she was thinking about what Roel's inner voice said.

Roel couldn't be lying, after all it was his inner voice and he didn't even know that his inner voice was being heard by her.

And besides, Roel turned out to be a reincarnator. As someone who had read many reincarnator protagonist routines in novels, Rias was of course familiar with this and had no doubt that Roel might really be a reincarnator.

Judging from his knowledge of the harem anime that told about her in his previous life, and the few facts about her situation that were known to him.

For example about her marriage or engagement to Riser being arranged by her family, Rias could not continue to deny that what Roel's inner voice was saying might indeed be true.

After all, Roel even knew about her engagement with Riser, and knew that in the future she would probably fall in love with a boy named Hyudou Issei as the other party who would save her from the fate of a political marriage arranged by her family.

Rias felt a bit dizzy thinking about this, but after knowing this, she certainly had no intention of becoming the Rias Gremory that Roel had said in the original work.

After all, with the system that would help her become stronger, she felt that she didn't have to worry too much about her engagement. As long as you have enough power, you don't have to worry about your fate being decided by others.

Don't know why, but when Rias thought about this, she felt that something changed as if she was freer than usual, and she felt that the world she saw through her eyes now became clearer.

What's going on?

[Ding! Congratulations host, because of your emotional fluctuations, your mentality changed and you gained enlightenment!]

[Level increased by +1]

[Ding! Displaying the host status panel]

[~STATUS~

NAME: Rias Gremory

RACE: Pure-Blooded Devil

AGE: 17 years old

LEVEL: 74

(PS: This level is the host's power level in the Multiverse calculated by combining all your stats and skills.)

SKILLS: Power of Destruction (S+), Castling (B+), Healing (B+), Memory Alteration (B+), Summoning (B), Defense (C), Transformation (B), Enhanced Durability (A), Keen Intellect (C), Expert Tactician (C), Master Chef (B), Master Dancer (B), Master Designer (B), Stealth (B+), Flight (C), Calm Mind (C)]

Rias felt that today was extraordinary. Is this how it feels to have a cheating golden finger that helps you become stronger easily?

By the way that status panel made her eyes sparkle, the thrill of seeing the details of your own power was quite pleasant. It was just that she was a little surprised to realize that her level was dozens of times lower than Roel's.

Rias didn't expect that she would be less powerful than Roel, but when thinking back to the scene of Roel blasting the dragon with the ultimate class into minced meat, she felt that this difference in power did make sense.

Although Roel was human, he was extremely strong at an age that was one year younger than her, and it seemed to be true that he had great potential.

Rias was naturally happy, because the stronger the investment target, the better it would be for her so that other party can help her.

But before that, she still had to persuade Roel to become her partner and help her to complete each mission from system.

...

[Rias's POV]

"Well, actually I--"

"Roel, actually--"

We both spoke at the same time, making what we wanted to say stifled.

"You can speak first."

I took the initiative to give in, after all the other party also wanted to say something and it must have something to do with the reason why he knew my name.

Although I already knew from his inner voice, I wonder if this man will say the same thing as his inner voice or not?

Roel nodded, oh he didn't follow the routine to persuade a girl to let her speak first. Interesting, he seems like the type of person who doesn't like small talk.

"Actually the reason why I know your name is because of one of my skills called <Eye of Insight>."

"If I use that ability on someone, I can see a bit of their status such as their name and level."

It was one of those cliché skills that isekai protagonists usually have. Very useful and pretty cool, just... Roel, do you think I don't know you're lying? You obviously know my name because you know the anime about me!

I'm a bit annoyed that he lied, but it makes sense that he would also want to keep his own secrets, especially about his reincarnation.

At least to get him to open up and be honest with me about his secret, I had to get him to trust me completely first.

Putting on a look of surprise and slight admiration in my eyes, I pretended to believe him of course.

"Wow! That's a cool skill!"

"Cough! It's normal."

Roel pretended to cough, the corners of his lips twitched, oh it seems he felt guilty for deceiving me.

Hehe cute man, you still have a guilty conscience. Seeing him like this somehow makes me want to tease him.

Then he looked at me as if he wanted to ask something, he hesitated for a moment but still opened his mouth.

"By the way Rias, since you saved me before where I almost died. I just want to know... How did you save me? And why did we sleep naked together before?"

Hearing this question, a hint of embarrassment appeared on my face. I couldn't help but remember Roel's naked body that had six-pack abs and certain parts of his body that I had actually seen clearly, even I slightly touched them out of curiosity as I hugged him while sleeping to heal his wounds.

D-Does he dislike the idea of sleeping with me?

Did he feel that I had taken advantage of his weakened state and... raped him while he was unconscious? Wow! This is bad, Roel, you misunderstood!

Just as I was about to explain, I suddenly heard Roel's inner voice that made me freeze.

[Although I already knew in the original work, I still wanted to ask to confirm it. In the anime I've seen that Rias has a healing magic skill and she once used it to heal the protagonist's wounds.]

[The method to use her healing magic is by skin-to-skin contact with the person she wants to heal. And the easiest and most effective way to do that is by sleeping naked together.]

[I actually have no problem with that method and even I'm happy that Rias is using it on me. It's just that something is bothering me, I mean is this the first time Rias has used this method on a man or has she done it with other men as well? For example with the protagonist? Damn, somehow I feel upset at the thought that Rias might have done it with other men as well.]

[Wait, when exactly which timeline was Rias transferred to this world from her world? If it was before she saved the protagonist and slept naked with him, then I might not have to feel uncomfortable like this.]

"...."

I was surprised, because of my high EQ, of course I could guess why Roel was so uneasy in his heart.

The corners of my mouth turned up, I must be grinning right now. If it was Akeno, she would probably be saying "Ara ara~" right now.

Roel...

Is he jealous? Hehe~

I don't know why I feel happy about Roel's jealousy.

Roel looked at me while frowning, he seemed to notice my grin. Oh no, he probably misunderstood.

I quickly smiled gently and said, "Actually in order to save you before, I used my unique healing magic where I need skin to skin contact with the person I want to heal."

"Since your injuries were so severe back then, the most efficient way to heal you is of course with more skin-to-skin contact between us. So sorry, without your permission I have taken off all your clothes so that we can sleep naked together."

"Oh, and this is the first time I've used my healing magic to this extent on someone. I hope you don't misunderstand and think I'm a woman who has done it many times with others."

That's right, I'm not lying. This was indeed the first time I used my healing magic to this extent, especially on the opposite sex. Usually I only used my healing magic on the female members of my peerage and that was by rubbing their wounds with my hands. Since the wounds they had were minor, I also only needed to make minimal skin contact to use my healing magic on them. This was obviously different from the way I did it with Roel, because yesterday his wound was so severe that I had to use more skin-to-skin contact to heal his wound.

After I said that lightly, Roel sighed and immediately waved his hand, but I could feel his mood getting better and he seemed to be very happy.

Oh my... You really love being the first man to sleep naked with me, don't you? I don't know whether I should laugh or cry. After all, I've also sacrificed a bit to sleep naked with you, and I also have my own considerations.

Well Roel is actually not bad, so far his appearance is the most handsome boy I've ever seen. His good looks are even comparable, or maybe a little better than my older brother.

And after interacting with him until now, I also feel comfortable with him and feel like hanging out with him more.

I feel like getting to know him better and am excited to make him my traveling companion.

"No, no, you don't need to apologize for that, Rias. In fact, I'm very grateful that you went to that extent to save me."

Roel smiled softly, the sunlight from the gap of the cave shining slightly on the side of his face, making him even more handsome. I can feel my heart beating even faster than usual.

Huh? There's no way I...

No, no, it's too fast!

Okay, I admit that I had a very good impression of Roel and I even liked him a little.

But love? That's still a long way off, okay? I'm just a little mesmerized by his good looks.

Anyway instead of thinking about that, it's about time I got down to business.

"Um... Roel, what are your plans after this?"

Hearing my question, Roel seemed to remember something and said: "Since I'm working as an adventurer, I have to return to the adventuring guild to report the missions I've completed."

I nodded at his words, according to the information I got from the system. In this world there is indeed the existence of an adventurer's guild and the adventurers will perform various missions, mostly hunting monsters and after completing the mission, an adventurer will get a reward in the form of money.

Now I'm thinking about it, because I was transferred to this world yesterday. I have no place to live and don't even have the currency of this world to buy food.

Wait. Doesn't that mean I'm a poor person in this world? Even if I bring my wallet that has a lot of money, that money is Japanese Yen. Money from my world would obviously be useless in this world!

I fidgeted and looked at Roel frantically. Probably because of realizing my wrong state, Roel couldn't resist asking.

"Hey Rias, you..."

[Now that I realized it, when exactly was Rias transferred to this world? From her school uniform, it's clearly not something that exists in this world. Besides, I'm sure there's no Kuoh Academy around here, at least not in this country. Which means Rias was most likely transferred from her world to this world.]

[I don't know why she's even in this Forbidden Forest and happened to find me near death before. With all this, I suspect she was transferred to this world not too long ago, and she might not have a place to stay?]

I just wanted to say that...

Roel-kun, isn't your guess too accurate?