Sacred Gear: Heavenly Crown

Chapter 3: High School of God (1)

General Text

"Speaking aloud"

'Thinking'

'Speaking to one's Sacred Gear/Telepathic communication'

Emphasis

Ability or Sacred Gear Title

"Sacred Gear/Demonic/Draconic voice speaking"

"Sacred Gear/Demonic/Draconic telepathic/internal communication"

"BEEP. BEEP. Proverbs, 13:4. BEEP. BEEP. The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. BEEP. BEE-"

SMACK

"Ugh," Issei groaned, covering his eyes with his arm. "I can't believe I lost that stupid bet with you."

"Pretty sure that this is a fairly tame 'punishment' for losing a bet, Issei. Besides, you get to wake up every morning to someone reading one of my quotes about how sloth is a sin! How could you not love waking up to my wisdom every morning," Yahweh said smugly.

'Pride is a sin you know,' Issei grumbled back, rolling himself out of bed. 'And before you say anything, yeah, yeah, I know. You're a Sacred Gear now so the rules don't apply to you as strongly anymore or whatever. Next time we make a bet, I'm winning for sure.'

"Issei, you do understand that even if you do manage to win a bet against me, keep in mind that is a BIG if, there's nothing you can actually make me do, right? I'm a Sacred Gear. I can't exactly do something that warrants you making a bet with me," God pointed out.

"If you want me to. I still don't see-OH NO. YOU WOULDN'T DARE."

'You made me buy an alarm clock that reads me bible verses about the sin of sloth every morning. Try me.'

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"I will keep that in mind."

"Issei, dear!" shouted Miki from downstairs. "Breakfast is ready! Hurry up or you'll be late!"

"Coming!" Issei yelled back while finishing putting on his uniform. 'This seems really clichè, don't you think?'

"What do you mean?"

'Haven't you paid any attention to any of the manga or anime that I've looked at? The main character lives in relative peace until he's sixteen or seventeen and then everything starts going wrong on the first day of school after someone tells him to hurry up and eat or he'll be late. It's the beginning of every light novel, movie, manga, and TV show ever made.'

"I'll be honest with you, Issei. Whenever you look at those things I tend to take a nap."

'I don't think you could be any more boring if you tried...' Issei deadpanned.

"Hmmph. Just for that, I'm going to take a nap right now. If you don't mind..."

"And here I thought sloth was a sin..." he muttered aloud.