High School DxD: The Game Master

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Rias accepted Sona's words about Ryuji at face value but knew that wasn't all, "And?"

Sona sighed deeply, "We discussed clubs, I wanted to know if he was interested in any.

He isn't. Out of curiosity, I asked if he was interested in joining the student council, I just wanted to get a better read on him, not seriously invite him." At Rias's raised eyebrow she continued, "He figured out that I wasn't born and raised in Japan and then ripped me to shreds over being a member of my 'dystopian regime' his words."

Sona grabbed Rias's floating sake tug and poured herself a cup.

After downing it she continued, "He then proceeded to point out all the laws, actual laws, that I had proceeded to break and how I blatantly violated the school charter like some despotic ruler." She gave Rias a bewildered look, "Did you know that Japan has a whole host of laws based around public decency?"

Rias looked truly surprised, "Really?"

Giving a resigned nod, Sona explained, "There are. The things the perverted trio did? It might have been considered harmless, silly even, by Devil standards, but it's a legitimate crime in Japan.

Tsubaki tried to tell me once and I just blew her off, thinking I knew everything I needed to know." Her shoulders slumped, "So for all of last year I was scolding all of the female students for minor things while letting those boys get away with breaking the law. The trust the students have in me is minimal, at best."

Rias grimaced in sympathy. If she'd been in Sona's position, she would have made the exact same mistake. She'd thought the boys being openly perverted was cute and harmless when it was apparently anything but. It was clearly a case of clashing cultures where their cultural bias had led to an issue.

A groan from Sona drew her attention back, "And then, to cap off all of that, he beat me at chess!" she instantly started making excuses, "Of course, he was ripping me apart verbally and distracting me from the game, so it obviously doesn't count." she looked pleadingly at Rias, "It doesn't, right?"

Rias answered in the only way she could, "Of course it doesn't! He's just a human with some magical talent, not even a reincarnated devil, let alone a pureblood. Besides, it's not like your parents know so it never happened, right?"

Sona nodded along, "Right. It never happened so he's not my fiance. It doesn't count. I'll just have to thoroughly crush him next time, that's all."

Rias nodded in agreement, "Right! He totally isn't your fiance!"

Ryuji stared at the screen showing his scenario in horror, "What the fuck?!" When it didn't change he continued, "No, seriously, what the fuck? Who the hell decides they're going to get engaged to someone over a chess match then challenges a random stranger to a chess match?! That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard."

He changed the live view of his Onsen Scenario to a different area where Koneko was, in her room and stuffing her face with sweets.

At least this view was wholesome and didn't make him want to jump into the scenario and beat common sense into someone.

Yes, he was fully aware that he was being a complete voyeur and he didn't care. He wasn't watching them to get his rocks off. He was doing all of this to gather as much intelligence on the devils of kuoh as he could. His memories of the show were sparse, at best.

He remembered something about Rias having an engagement to some loser and something about a fallen angel wanting to start a war. That seemed about right.

Anyway, the point was he didn't know nearly enough, and with the devils already sticking their noses into his life, he needed a way to stick his nose into theirs. It just so happened that making the onsen would let him kill two birds with one stone.

First, the obvious spying. Second, he would gain energy from them spending time inside of it! He gained energy based on the number of people and the duration they stayed in a scenario.

He also gained energy from their emotions and activities. He did get more energy from darker emotions like anger and fear, but he figured that getting them to sit in a scenario for hours, or even the entire night, would generate much more energy than the simple short combat scenarios he could create.

Someone dying generated even more energy, but it was based on how strong the person dying was. Issei hadn't given much energy at all. He'd get an order of magnitude more energy if he killed Rias or Sona inside of a scenario.

Of course, he probably wouldn't live much longer if he did that.

It was a whole quantity versus quality thing and he was firmly on the side of quantity being a quality all its own.

With just under a dozen people all sitting around inside of it, he was generating way more energy than he had last night.

Which was good, because he spent all of that energy to increase the size of his pocket dimensions for bigger scenarios. It was the only way he could make the large onsen inn he'd granted them access to.

He planned to leave the onsen up and running for the time being. If they used it multiple times, daily even, then he could farm them for energy to continue to upgrade his abilities. His next upgrade was already planned out, he wanted to be able to open up a second scenario.

The more scenarios he could run at a time, the more energy he could gather, and the more quickly he could make himself stronger.

He was under no delusions about how weak he currently was. His experience with the devils' memory magic had been eye-opening and something he never wanted to experience again.

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