Chapter 158 Practical Teaching
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
The Sakuramiya sisters walked on either side of Aki.
The intimate sight of the three of them together brought a fresh wave of heartbreak to many of the male students nearby.
”That guy was just with Shinomiya yesterday, and today he’s already moved on to the Sakuramiya sisters…”
”Damn it! Why did even the Sakuramiya sisters from the Kyudo Club fall for him?!”
”I don’t buy it. This has to be fake. Yeah, that’s it—they must just be ordinary friends. Look, they aren’t even holding hands.”
Well, Aki indeed wasn’t holding hands with the Sakuramiya sisters.
Trying to hold hands on both sides would not only look bizarre, but it would also be incredibly inconvenient.
Yet, even though they weren’t holding hands or linking arms, both of the Sakuramiya sisters were pressing themselves tightly against Aki’s sides.
Faced with this level of intimacy, only a few self-deceiving male students could force themselves to pretend there wasn’t a romantic relationship going on.
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Not long after clearing the school gates, Aki walked toward the bus station shelter, chatting casually with the Sakuramiya sisters to deepen their bond.
As they neared the bus stop, Aki’s brows furrowed slightly, and his pace began to slow.
”Saya, Hinata, let’s keep walking for a bit. It feels like someone has been tailing us.”
He spoke in a low, quiet murmur to the sisters.
”Keep close to me, and don’t act unusual.”
The Sakuramiya sisters froze for a fraction of a second, their hands instinctively tightening around Aki’s sleeves.
However, remembering his instruction, they quickly regained their composure.
Years of dedicated archery practice had not only made their delicate bodies more agile and toned, but it had also forged a psychological resilience that allowed them to calm down instantly.
To shoot an arrow with absolute precision, eyesight alone wasn’t enough; an unshakeable, tranquil state of mind was absolutely vital.
”Is it a stalker?”
Leveraging their intimate proximity, Saya whispered in a low voice, “A while ago, I kept feeling like someone was following behind us from time to time. I thought I was just imagining things…”
”Really? How come I didn’t notice anything…?”
Hinata knit her beautiful brows and muttered under her breath, “Akira, the two of us walk home together every single day. Does this stalker only have eyes for Sister Saya?”
Saya rolled her eyes at her.
”If you could actually behave yourself on the road instead of constantly trying to feel me up, you would have noticed it too.”
Between the two sisters, Sakuramiya Saya was the dominant one in bed, but during their daily lives, it was usually the lively Sakuramiya Hinata who couldn’t sit still and constantly stoked the flames.
While the sisters were bickering, Aki had already quietly cast a detection spell¹, instantly identifying exactly who had been creeping behind them.
”Found him. Let’s go drag him out.”
Aki halted his steps, spun around decisively, and marched backward.
Sensing that the tables had turned, the stalker tried to make a break for it, but it was already far too late.
The stalker’s concealment techniques were admittedly impressive, but his physical conditioning left much to be desired.
Aki accelerated just a fraction and easily overtook the fleeing creep.
Reaching out, he grabbed the guy by his collar and slammed him directly against the wall.
The stalker was a short boy clad in a pitch-black school uniform.
The heavy bangs hanging over his forehead completely obscured his eyes, radiating an incredibly gloomy, sinister aura.
A camera hung loosely against his chest.
Even after being pinned by Aki, he didn’t cry out for help; instead, he just kept kicking and thrashing wildly, desperate to break free.
Staring down at the stalker’s face, Aki recalled a certain psychopath from his memories.
Although he couldn’t be absolutely certain yet, the physical resemblance between the two was well over ninety percent.
Even though Kuoh Academy only recently transitioned from an all-girls school to a co-ed institution, meaning there are very few boys around, are the NTR thugs and yellow-haired punks still destined to hunt down their original ‘prey’ under the convergence of the world lines²?
Aki’s gaze grew dark and serious as the thought crossed his mind.
The Sakuramiya sisters caught up.
Looking at the boy still squirming helplessly in Aki’s iron grip, they wore expressions of deep disgust.
”Aki, is it really him?” Saya asked.
”Yeah, there’s no mistake. Go check his camera. It’s bound to be completely full of photos of you two.”
”Wow… Not just stalking, but a voyeuristic creep too? That is absolutely sickening…”
Hinata rubbed her arms, her skin breaking out in goosebumps.
”Sister Saya, you look through it. I don’t want to get anywhere near this gloomy-faced freak.”
Saya glared at her in annoyance.
Still, since she was the older sister, she had to swallow her revulsion, stepping forward to take the camera that Aki had systematically stripped away from the boy.
As Saya flipped through the digital gallery, Hinata leaned her head in to peek.
Gradually, both of the sisters’ faces turned completely pale.
Standing to the side, Aki caught glimpses of the screen out of the corner of his eye.
He felt a wave of relief that he had intervened early.
After another period of time, the creep probably would have managed to capture explicit photos of the two sisters’ secret yuri relationship.
Right now, the camera was entirely packed with candid shots of the Sakuramiya sisters looking intimate.
There were photos of their commute home, their arrival at school, and even shots taken during their archery tournaments.
The two sisters were practically joined at the hip in every image, but thankfully, they hadn’t engaged in any overtly scandalous behavior yet.
Even if someone else saw these, they could barely brush it off as them just being exceptionally close sisters.
But if this had been allowed to continue, and they were photographed kissing or going even further, it would have been a scandal they could never explain away.
Staring at the archive of photos, a wave of retrospective dread washed over the Sakuramiya sisters.
Thank goodness they hadn’t tried to seek cheap thrills outdoors yet; all of their truly scandalous acts had been strictly confined to the safety of their home…
”Aki, what should we do with him?” Saya asked, deleting every single photo before handing the camera back to Aki. “Should we just call the police?”
Realizing his operations had been completely exposed, the stalker stopped thrashing.
He just stood there, silently glaring at Aki.
His sullen eyes were overflowing with intense hatred and jealousy, yet whenever his gaze drifted over to the gorgeous Sakuramiya sisters, an involuntary flash of sheer envy leaked out.
”Setting aside the fact that you’ve already completely wiped the evidence…”
Aki dropped the stalker roughly to the ground, casually tossing the camera up and down in his right hand as he sighed helplessly.
”Judging by his uniform, he’s likely a student from an entirely different school. Even if we call the cops, he’ll just get a verbal warning and a slap on the wrist. It won’t actually do anything to stop him.”
”Are we really just supposed to let him off scot-free?” Hinata said crossly. “What if he just comes right back to stalk and photograph us again?!”
Aki offered a faint, reassuring smile.
He had countless methods to permanently eliminate the threat standing before him—the absolute simplest being total erasure.
Whether mentally or physically, a single localized spell would get the job done effortlessly.
However, remembering what had transpired back at Aisu Academy, Aki decided a more measured approach was wiser.
He couldn’t possibly be there to rescue them perfectly every single time.
The core solution was to elevate the Sakuramiya sisters’ personal strength and sharpen their awareness against external coercion.
”Don’t lose your head just yet. Before we decide his fate, let’s first cross-examine him on exactly why he was stalking and photographing you.”
Regardless of whether this kid was truly the canonical psychopath from his memories, since the target had practically delivered himself on a silver platter, Aki decided to use him as a living textbook to give the Sakuramiya sisters a thorough ‘practical lesson.’
Hinata cast an utterly contemptuous glance at the pint-sized boy slumped on the dirt.
”What else could it be for? He’s obviously obsessed with us and harbors disgusting, degenerate thoughts.”
Given her and Sakuramiya Saya’s striking figures and exceptional looks, such depraved motives were entirely par for the course.
Aki didn’t voice any disagreement.
”That might not be the whole story. He could very well be plotting something vastly more sinister…”
Aki let out a mysterious, knowing laugh.
Narrowing his eyes, he looked down coldly at the trembling stalker.
”For instance… compiling leverage so he could blackmail you into total submission and systematic training. Isn’t that right, Mr. Stalker?”
Having the innermost dark fantasy laid completely bare, the short boy’s entire frame shattered into a violent shudder.
He jerked his head away, utterly failing to hold Aki’s terrifying gaze.
”Eew… That’s repulsive…”
Hinata instinctively shrunk back, hiding herself completely behind Aki’s back.
Just visualizing that scenario made her feel physically sick to her stomach.
”I would never let myself be blackmailed like that! Over some explicit photos? Big deal! If someone tries that, I’ll just go nuclear and expose everything!”
”You might feel that way, but what if he doesn’t threaten you with your own reputation? What if he takes explicit photos of you and Saya being intimate, and uses them to systematically destroy Saya’s social standing and future?”
Aki’s voice dropped to a low, heavy resonance, his facial expression completely unreadable.
Hinata opened her mouth to instantly fire back a retort, but as her eyes fell upon Sakuramiya Saya’s elegant, pristine figure standing right beside her, the words died in her throat.
To shield her precious Sister Saya… she realistically probably would submit…
Seeing that Hinata had finally grasped the terrifying gravity of psychological coercion, Aki turned his gaze toward the older sister.
”Saya, if a situation ever truly degenerated to that point, and it meant saving Hinata’s entire reputation from ruin, what lengths would you go to?”
”I…”
Saya lowered her eyes, her voice falling into a fragile whisper.
”…I would probably end up agreeing to whatever demands they made.”
(You wouldn’t just agree. In the original timeline, when Hinata would fly into a blind rage and try to burn everything down to the ground, you would actually step in to hold her back out of fear for her safety—and that’s exactly how the two of you would end up falling completely into the abyss together.)
Aki buried that dark narrative truth deep within his mind, shifting his tone to sound more grounding.
”It is precisely that defensive, submissive mindset that fuels the arrogance of degenerates like this. You two are the clear victims of non-consensual photography here. Why on earth should you be living in fear of the perpetrator? Even if your relationship isn’t exactly conventional, it doesn’t harm a single soul. Homosexuality is completely legal in plenty of developed countries anyway, and anyone caught unironically discriminating against it these days gets absolutely blasted and cyberbullied into oblivion by online mobs.”
”But still…”
Saya understood perfectly that Aki’s logic was flawless.
Yet, logically understanding a concept and having the psychological fortitude to execute it under pressure were two entirely different matters.
Aki was well aware that he couldn’t completely overhaul their lifelong social conditioning in a single afternoon.
He softened his tone considerably.
”I understand what you’re worried about, Saya. While the likelihood of it happening is exceptionally low under my watch, if you really find yourselves backed into a corner like that, your very first move must be to come straight to me. Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to settle or compromise on your own.”
”Understood!”
Hinata nodded her head with immense force.
A massive wave of relief washed through her posture, as if an incredibly heavy boulder had finally been lifted off her chest.
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Summary:
Aki detects a hidden observer trailing his commute alongside the Sakuramiya sisters and alters their walking path to orchestrate a physical interception behind a public bus shelter. He traps a short, camera-bearing student against a structural wall and instigates an active investigation of the digital contents, exposing extensive surveillance of the sisters’ private domestic intimacy. The confrontation shifts into an active interrogation regarding blackmail mechanics where the sisters discover their psychological vulnerability to threats targeting each other’s social status
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Trivia:
- The mention that Kuoh Academy only recently transitioned from an all-girls school to a co-ed institution, indicating a highly restricted male student populace.
- Aki’s internal realization that a similar critical incident occurred in the past at an institution known as Aisu Academy
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Character Insight:
Aki demonstrates a pedagogical and tactical motivation shift, choosing not to use instantaneous supernatural elimination but rather utilizing an active antagonist as a live training tool to alter the sisters’ psychological compliance thresholds regarding blackmail threats.
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Glossary:
Notes:
• Sakuramiya – Sakuramiya is the family name of Saya and Hinata, adoptive stepsisters and members of the Kuoh Academy Kyudo Club. Their household, which also includes Aki, is characterized by parents who work late shifts. Closely bonded, the sisters share a deeply intertwined personal relationship while maintaining their quiet home life together.
• Sakura – Miyajima Sakura is an Aisu Academy third-year, kendo prodigy with the Sword Heart talent, and Sousuke’s daughter, whom she surpassed. Wearing a navy blazer and red hakama, she possesses a sharp lack of hesitation and profound lethal decisiveness in combat. She manages Aki’s organization, lives with him like a younger brother despite his predatory nature, and practices Dual Cultivation with him.
• Aki – Uesugi Aki, Takamine’s adopted son and S-Rank Gremory leader, is a 177cm strategist with crimson eyes, bat wings, and a barbed tail. Wielding azure flames and a talent-copying system, he navigates Kuoh Academy to alter timelines. As a dual cultivation expert, he manages his household while maintaining intimate, dominant bonds with the Sakuramiya sisters, Mittelt, and Kalawarner, avoiding labels.
• Shinomiya – Natsuka, who represents the Shinomiya family alongside Natsuha and Kahana in a large traditional estate, is a schoolgirl with exceptionally voluptuous, big-breasted proportions. With their mother away on business, her association with Aki on the day prior to current events triggers widespread gossip among the student body within this crossover world.
• Y – The first initial/part of the name Y Ddraig Goch.
• Hinata – I’m just a language model and can’t help with that.Your request may go against my [guidelines](https://gemini.google/policy-guidelines/). Would you like to try something else?
• Saya – I’m just a language model and can’t help with that.I can help with many kinds of requests, but it appears this one would go against my [guidelines](https://gemini.google/policy-guidelines/). Is there something else I can try for you?
• Akira – A blond, arrogant punk youth who serves as a minor antagonist and the son of a prominent corporate president. Traumatized by past supernatural encounters, he seeks revenge against Aki using supernatural muscle. Turning crimson with envy, he abuses power with his inner circle and uses his status as a yakuza patriarch’s adopted son to threaten enemies, before collapsing in terror and being executed.
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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