The Maniac of DxD (Highschool dxd insert/ semi-crack): Chapter 26

I lost myself in my meditation, concentrating on my Touki and other abilities, looking to break the paywall a little bit more.

However, just like how things have turned out recently, I felt my perception slip, and I nearly lost my sense of self.

Suddenly, the darkness of my mind was replaced by a void of white that triggered my PTSD-

A Void of nothingness.

What is the beginning? And what is the end?

What is color? What is sight? What is sound?

What is Existence?

Who are you?

Are you the beginning? The one who watched the Great Heroes of Creation work alongside the one who dreams?

Are you the end? The one who shall awaken the Rainbow to end all of existence?

As you become one with the Dreaming, you become one with yourself and those who came before you and those that will come after you.

You are Life, that flows through everything, and yet, you are also Death, that which greets the old and untimely ends as a friend-

Yeah, enough of that.

I forcefully severed my Meditation, bringing me out of the white void that was on the verge of shattering and abandoning my soul to the mercy of the dimensional gap.

My biggest mistake in this life was learning the meditative methods of the Diyari from one of their tribes in Australia.

I swear, shit has been really weird ever since I learned from them and combined their techniques with my own.

Especially the strange interaction between my Asura Touki technique and the Diyari technique.

Looking down at my body, I saw my coal-black skin return to its normal color while the fiery veins that glowed beneath the skin like rivers of magma cooled and disappeared as well.

My Senjutsu calmed down as well, making me look at the floor with annoyance and exasperation.

“….Looks like I’ll have to replace the floorboards with Stone this time around.”

I got up from within the tall Grass, roots, and a few young trees that grew around me, straight through the floor of my basement thanks to the strangeness of my techniques.

Ever since I combined the Diyari technique with my Asura technique and Senjutsu a week ago, things have been like this.

Every time I meditate, my body takes on a black coloring and makes me look like a genuine Asura while my soul is lost in some kind of void similar to the one I was trapped in before I was born in this world.

All the while, my Senjutsu goes haywire and puts all lifeforms around me into overdrive, causing shit like this to happen.

Seriously, this is the third time I’ve had to replace parts of my home because plant life grew straight through them, and it is starting to get very annoying.

Looking at the clock, I saw that it was nearly time for school, so I need to get going-

……Wait a minute. School?

I grinned as an Idea formed in my mind.

I know exactly where to vent my frustration and be productive about it.

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Kuoh Academy, Junior High School section.

Within the building, the Teachers and students with authority patrolled the halls in the early morning, looking for things that might be out of place or might leave a bad impression for the students when they start arriving in a few minutes.

It was during such a time that three male students in their final year ran with all their might across the field, being chased by a sizable group of women who wore gym clothing.

As was usual, the three students had tried to peek at the girls changing, only for a certain someone to out them, instantly starting this chase so early in the morning.

However, as the chase went on, something strange started to happen.

Out of the three students, one veered off unknowingly, seeing things that no one else saw, forcing him to separate from his friends. Similarly, the rest of the humans, including the group that was chasing them, did not see the single student veer off into the woods around the school as their senses were fooled through supernatural means.

Hyoudou Issei, the self-proclaimed future harem king, ran for his life, seeing a group of teachers after him despite there being no such group, forcing him deep within the woods.

By the time the illusion faded and allowed the perverted boy to catch his breath, he had already run right into the trap set for him.

“Damn it! Why were the teachers after us as well!? They usually don’t care much because of their minimum wage lifestyle and became relatively lax after that bout of seriousness a few weeks back- wait a minute.”

Issei instantly caught on to the strangeness of his situation.

Credit where credit is due, Issei Hyoudou had excellent awareness of his surroundings and stealth for a mere human. This was why he was able to catch on to the strangeness of his surroundings.

The woods were eerily silent. Not the normal silence as expected from a place rarely frequented by humans, but the kind of silence where not even an insect put out any sound, afraid of provoking a predator on the loose.

Issei did not know any of the science behind this phenomenon. The boy only knew that the woods were eerily silent, and it rubbed him the wrong way.

As his paranoia, honed by countless nights of horror movie binging, climbed up, pushing his blood pressure and pumping adrenaline into his system, he felt like the shadows in the forest started to stretch.

“…..Nope!!”

The boy turned right around and ran for it.

Unfortunately, the boy was already caught in the web of the predator chasing him, who would not let him leave so easily.

Once again caught in the illusions, the boy ran for his life, not knowing that he was simply moving in circles before he finally grew tired and collapsed on the floor.

Then, and only then, did his stalker reveal himself.

Issei instantly took on a shaky boxing stance, despite his legs shaking like jelly in terror, whispering to himself to keep his mind from panicking.

“Stranger danger, stranger danger, stranger danger-Wait! Sitri-Kaichou!?”

‘Sona Sitri’ snorted at his surprised shout before glaring at the boy.

“Don’t you dare speak those words, Issei-Kohai. Especially when you are the very embodiment of ‘Stranger Danger’ towards anything with boobs.”

“Hey!! That’s uncalled for!”

Fear fled the boy as indignation filled his very being at the accusation leveled against him (even if the words were true, and the boy knew it as well)

‘Sona’ shook her head with amusement before walking towards the boy, who collapsed in relief, finally spotting a familiar face in the eerie woods.

“What are you doing here? Kaichou?”

“I was waiting for you. After all, it has been a long time since I’ve eaten anything, and the meat of a virgin boy is exactly what I am craving right now.”

“….Huh!?”

Issei’s mind short-circuited at those words, making him shoot up in surprise, only to find that he was alone in the woods once again as an eerie laugh filled his ears.

“Run as far as you can~ Issei-chan~ There is no fun in hunting food that does not run~”

The girly shriek of terror that rang out across the academy that day would become the talk of the town and a new urban legend in Kuoh Academy.

The Legend of the Ghost in the Woods that hunted virgin boys and ate them whole.

All the while, the victim of said ‘Ghost’ would not dare go to school without his friends by his side for a few weeks after that incident and would always be ready to ditch said friends as bait for the ‘Ghost’ if it ever cropped up again.

As for said Ghost, he was busy laughing his ass off as the video recording of Issei’s terrified face and his subsequent fainting would play on repeat on his PC’s monitor.

The only silver lining for the perverted boy in this whole debacle was that Ren had not broadcasted this video recording since he did not want to torment the boy too much and run out of content too quickly. But the damage was already done in the form of creating PTSD for the poor boy, making sure that he can never look at any forest without the risk of wetting himself in fear.

Unfortunately for the Junior High student, his suffering had only just begun as Maniac Ren had not yet gotten his annoyance out of his system, which meant that he had other things planned for Issei Hyoudou.

Truly, the future looked very bleak for the Pervert and very entertaining for the Maniac.