High School DxD - Finding Love in a New World

Chapter 1 - New Life, New Love

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Reincarnation is a fickle thing, at least from a Mythological standpoint.

You could be reborn as a wealthy human, a sick human, a tree, an ant, any living thing really.

When it comes to fanfiction, however, people are most always reincarnated as some sort of humanoid.

Occasionally, people are reincarnated as slimes, or a something along that vein, but usually they're human.

Those types of stories are common, Ones where someone is reincarnated into their favorite franchise as a powerful guy and get all the girls, so something like that.

As for me, I got reincarnated as a human. One Issei Hyoudou.

Am I in a manga, a video game, an anime? Who knows? I watched lots of anime, but never heard of this character.

Am I an OC? Or have I just been reincarnated into another Earth? Another boring Earth? Who knows?

What I do know, is that I'm not in Louisiana any more. I did start learning basic Japanese, so that helped when I ended up here in Japan.
Still, my life hasn't been very exciting. Let me tell you, being a baby sucks ass. Thank god you sleep so much, but when you're awake? Torture of boring proportions. Absolute boredom. It's hell.

My parents' friends, our neighbors, had a kid as well, a girl named Irina. She was a born a few months after me. I never liked babies, but god could she be annoying.

Soon, we grew up, both of us. She became a good friend to me, and I returned to my baser, childlike-instincts, causing mayhem wherever I, or rather we, went.

Still, I missed being able to converse with adults. Fortunately, I was born in 2005, so I was able to have the internet and play games. This really was just another Earth, all the same games existed too! Maybe 'I' still exist in America. Isn't that a weird thought?

Anyways, now it's 2021, March. School starts next month. Let me tell you, comparing American schools to Japanese ones is like comparing night to day.

These Japanese take their schools fucking seriously!

I had pretty good grades in my past life, but I can't compare to these people! Having prior knowledge made me seem smart when I was young, but soon other caught up and I really had to try.

My already good grades helped me get accepted into the best school in the city, Kuoh Academy. A previously all-female school, turned co-ed recently. Quite odd, since it had been all-girls since its' inception.

Regardless of all that, I was accepted and will start me first year there next month.
Usually animes are set in High School, so maybe something will happen.

Something. Anything. My life is just as monotonous as it was before.

Irina and her family moved back when we were six and I've been a loner ever since. Not by choice, kids are just fucking annoying. Irina got a pass because she 'grew up' with me, but not these kids.

Who knows... maybe I'll find something to brighten up my bleak life one day...

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Three days until school begins. It's an unnaturally hot early April day. It's not 'Louisiana in the summer' hot, but it's definitely hot for Japan.

I walk around Kuoh Town, to pass the time, the sun's rays beating down on my neck.

As I pass the park, I notice a guy running an ice cream stall. He usually only starts to show up in May, but we've had a heat wave this week, so he's been out here.