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Irumas personal bodyguard... I mean sister

Summary:

After Nayuri had the stupid idea to rob a higher ranked demons pantry, she found herself as said demons granddaughter. Now she tries to protect her new human brother from all the dangers the Netherworld brings... More or less succesful...

I really suck at summerys and will probably update it ones my creativity strikes again.

Chapter 1: Prologue

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

It was the middle of the night, roughly a month before the new school year begun. Everyone in the mansion seems to be asleep, the girl thought while looking for the perfect entrance point. What she didn’t saw, was the little light, still burning in the office of the home owner, preparing the school documents of his new Grandson.

“Opera, can you please make me another cup of tea” he asked his butler with a whiney voice, not that the girl would hear it anyway.

 

She was way to occupied with breaking the window of the kitchen open. After a little magic she could hear an little click and quickly jumped inside.

-Ok, now quickly- she thought while crouching down behind the cabinets -if I where rich, where would I put my emergency rations?... probably in an pantry or something like that-. Still in her crouched position the dark haired crawled forward, analyzing which one of the doors could possible lead to food. Considering the layout of the mansion she decided to try out the right one. Slowly she made her way over and opened it as slowly and silent as she could. Holding her breath, and hoping that she choose the right one, she squinted through the slightly open door. Nearly crying out of happiness she stared at the more than full shelves. She was so happy, that she seemingly didn’t notice the butler of the house creeping up to her.

“How did you got in here” the butler asked while grabbing her shoulder.

Activating her fight or flight instinct she stands up while turning around, trying to kick them in the hip. Unsuccessful, because now the red haired cat demon got her leg.

-Fuck, how could they react so fast, she thought before trying to punch them with her fist in they’re abdomen. Unsuccessful, because now they hold her left leg in one and the right arm in the other hand.

Suddenly the light flashed on, causing not only her but also the butler to squeeze their eyes shut with an pained hiss. Sadly the grip on her limbs didn’t lose a bit.

“What in devis name is going on here” a tall man with round glasses asked, standing in the doorway.

“I found an intruder going through our kitchen lord Sullivan” the red haired answers while glueing their eyes on the hooded figure in front of them.

“Is that so?” the man asked in an creepy low tone, while making his way towards the two. “Then let’s see who is bold enough to try to rob us” he says in the same tone, causing an poor attempt to escape from the girl and an even harsher grip from the butler.

 The hood, which covered nearly her whole face was ripped from her, which lead to the butler now staring directly into her eyes… or her soul… she wasn’t so sure with that.

“Who are –“ “How old are you?!” the tall man interrupted the butler, which by the way, still held onto her limbs, while staring at the unnormal thin girl with dark greasy hair.

“Does this really matter?” she asked, now looking up to the man.

 “How about this, you answer some questions and Opera is getting you something to eat?” He proposed smiling.

The girl thought about denying but the last time she got to eat something warm was more than a month ago so she nodded in defeat.

A few minutes later she sat at the giant table with several meals around her. The butler now watched her without even blinking while the master of the mansion sat across from her, still smiling.

“Ok, lets start with your age, how old are you dear?” he started after she took the first bite.

“15” she answered after swallowing.

“15… that’s pretty young, where are your parents?”

“Dead”

“Guardians?”

“Don’t have one”

 “That’s… interesting” the man grumbled.

 “I would call it concerning” the butler mumbled still watching her.

“How long are you wandering around and breaking into other demon’s homes?” the bald man continues, ignoring the butler.

“Little over a year…” the man hummed.

“Oh dear I completely forgot to ask about your name!” he said slightly shocked about forgetting. Considering her options the girl answered after a moment

 “Nayuri”

“Nayuri… hmm … Nayuri Suzuki “ He thought loud, causing one of  the butlers and the girls eyebrows to rise.

“You know, I could just call the border control… or” panicked the girl stopped eating, looking for an quick escape.

“Or you could become my dear granddaughter and sister of my perfect grandson” he exclaimed overly happy, while the girl just blinked in confusion, looking from the old man to the butler and back.

“What?! I- I don’t think I understand” She mumbled still confused.

“You see, I adopted my grandson two days ago and I still feel like I need another grandchild I could love and spoil rotten. Another point is, that my lovely Iruma will be so lonely till the school starts next month, not to mention that he probably will need an protector!” he explained still way to happy.

“Why does he need protection” Nayuri asked him confused.

“Does that mean you will be my little granddaughter?!”

“I don’t really have another choice”. Suddenly the man  looked like an egg and was jumping around happily. After a while he calmed down and sat down in front of her again.

“To answer your question my dear, Iruma is human” he answered smiling.

“Wha- hu- hah” she tried to form a sentence and failing miserably.

“You see, the parents of my lovely Iruma didn’t want him, so they gave him to me. I’m a little bit concerned about his health and was already thinking about hiring another security demon but now I have an lovely granddaughter who can keep an eye on him. That isn’t an problem or…”

“No, NO of course not… I was just a little… surprised” she answered still feeling the eyes of the butler on her. “Uhm not to be rude or something… but what’s your name again?” she asked uncertain.

“Oh I’m lord Sullivan but you will call me grandpa of course and that is Opera” Sullivan introduced, while pointing at the still not blinking demon.

“Nice to meet you I guess” she mumbled, when she heard someone coming from upstairs.

“Grandpa? What is going on here?” A tired looking blue haired boy asked while rubbing his eyes.

“Iruma! Why are you still awake? Is something wrong? Are you hungry?” Sullivan bombarded the human with questions causing him to take an defensive pose,

“No, I- I just notice the light was still on and then I heard you talking, so I went looking, what is going on” he explained.

 “Oh well, since you already awake, I want to introduce you to your new big Sister Nayuri” he presented him the girl.

“My SISTER?! “ he exclaimed loudly looking shocked at the girl, which was now winking at him.

“But we will continue this in the morning, you go back to bed and Opera will make the Guest Room ready for my new Granddaughter” Sullivan told them.

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Next Morning

WTF happened last night?! How could I be so stupid and not only break into the house of some higher up demon but also agree on being his granddaughter?! This is a fucking nightmare… even though this bed is quiet comfy… NO! Concentrate on the relevant things now Nayuri… I need to protect the human… Iruma… my brother, devi where did shit go wrong in my life? She thought while lying on her new bed. A knock on the door ripped her out of her thoughts.

 “Yes?” she asked into the room whereupon the door opened. The blue haired boy peeked into the room and looked around till his eyes stopped at the figure lying on the bed.

“Uhm hi… I- I wanted to talk to you?” he mumbled in an high pinched, slightly whiney tone. Oh derkila, why have you forsaken me…

“Come in and close the door” she told him, without moving. Her eyes followed him coming in, closing the door and coming to hold right before the bed. Sighing the dark purple haired sat up and gestured him to sit in front of her.

Now the two sitting in front of each other, Nayuri watching Iruma and he focusing on his own hands.

“I thought you wanted to talk to me?” She interrupted the silence, causing him to wince and shily looking up.

“Ohm… I- He didn’t kidnap you or” he asked, looking like the question physically hurt him.

“No, Grandpa didn’t kidnap me, I broke in last night to get food and he offered to adopt me… How did you end up here?” She answered truthfully

“My Parents sold me…”

“Oh… that sucks”

“Yeah… Why don’t want to eat me!” he suddenly blurred out.

“Do you want me to eat you?” She asked confused

“NO, I just- Grandpa meant that Demons eat humans and so-“ he paused uncertain

“You are scared that I’m going to eat you”

“No!” That caused Nayuri to raise an eyebrow “Ok maybe a little…”

“You don’t need to be scared, after you went to bed last night I signed a contract which also included to keep you safe. I’m your protector now and I take this serious, so if you want to know anything you can ask” she explained and smiled a bit.

“Thank you! That’s so nice of you Nayuri-nee” Oh devi, that boys smile is brighter as the sun she thought.

“No Problem… If you want we could prepare for the new schoolyear together!”

“That would be nice… you know, I didn’t went to school very often in the Human world, so I probably need some help” he answered sheepishly

“I lastly went to school 6 years ago”

“Oh…” They are totally fucked.

The following weeks the new siblings spend the majority of their time trying to get the basics into their heads, while also getting to know each other. Much to the delight of their Grandfather who occasionally cuddled them to death. This always lead to the dark haired trying to flee and the blue haired to freeze like a deer in headlights. Even dough they slowly getting accustomed to the change. It now is the last weekend before school started.

“What are the trademarks of the devi crows?” Nayuri asked Iuma, while looking into the textbook.

“They get up to 55cm heigh and mostly eat cadavers, you can get rid of them by showing signs of being still alive” he answered 

“That’s correct! Now give me something to drink” She looked up from the textbook and analyzed his reaction. When she got to know, that he can’t say no, even if he would hurt himself with the task, she took matters into her own hands.

“N-No” he fought against his instincts

“Pleeeease?” with her saddest voice she blinked at him, while watching the inner fight of his instincts increase in intensity. With an pained cry he stood up from the carpet and nearly jumped to the table to get the drink. With an sigh Nayuri took the water spray bottle and sprayed him in the face as soon as he turned around. He squeaked when the cold water hit him

“Bad brother bad, I can get up and grab my own drink” he got scolded.

“I’m sorry” he shrunk a little, which caused another spray of water

“We don’t apologize to things like that” he got scolded again.

“Ok Ok, I got it nee-san” he persuaded the grim looking girl. With another sigh she put the bottle back down.

“You’re getting better but other demons will still be able exploit this weakness, if they get a wind of it” Nayuri tried to motivate him and managed to make him a little happier with that. Before they could continue to learn, their Grandpa stormed inside.

“My precious Grandchildren are learning so hard” crying he started clinging onto the girls side. Meanwhile her brother slowly sneaked towards the door… traitor… she thought with an darkening expression. “You are clearly exhausted you poor things” he whined clinging tighter to the girl, while Iruma tried to flee through the door. His attempt was stopped by the cat butler.

“Oh hello master Iruma, do you want a snack?” This caused Sullivans attention to shift from the purple haired in his arms to his Grandson.

“Oh Iruma” and now he was clinging whining on her brother. While Iruma was now suffocated by the embrace of their Grandfather, Nayuri made her way to Opera who was holding a tray of snacks.

“Thank you Opera” she thanked the Butler smiling, her black tail swishing behind her. The ears of the butler twitched at the sign of the Cookies munching girl, who now watched her brothers misery.

“Sister help” he winced while reaching out to his unimpressed sister

“Why should I help a traitor?” She asked with crossed arms and an raised eyebrow.

“You will get the rest of the Cookie batch Opera made” he plead

“And the muffins” she negotiated. Iruma thought of it and hesitantly agreed to the deal, after their Grandpa squeezed him even more.

“How about we sit in the Conservatory and drink a cup of tea together before we get back to work” She offered her Grandfather who luckily agreed. After the little tea break the two of them continue to study.  

The rest of the weekend went smoothly and currently they have their last meal before the school year starts. Silent everybody was lost in their own thoughts, even though they are all the same. The last month was eventful for everyone in this household. Sullivan gained two grandchildren, Opera got a new master and mistress which keeps them on their toes. Especially the young mistress which gives certainly everything to teach her brother how to be a passable demon, this seems to contain an abnormal amount of arson. Nayuri herself thought how her life could turn from being an runaway to having a family and how she could gain access to the kitchen again, after Opera banned her from entering. Then she thought about that one time where the oven exploded causing Opera to chaise her through the mansion. With an chuckle she continued eating. Meanwhile Iruma thought how lucky he had gotten to gain such an unusual family. Little did he know which chaos will erupt the next day.

Notes:

Hey, like it said in the tags english is not my mother tongue so please correct me if I made any mistakes. At the moment I also don't know which ships I'm going to add... But if you want you can write some suggestions for Nayuri :) !

Chapter 2: Disrespect your surroundings

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The loud scream of her alarm clock woke Nayuri way to early. Grumbling she turned it of and got ready for school. Luckily the first week was an orientation week, where the teachers still got time to plan and sort the students in classes. In theory everything will be smoothly, she just needs to keep an eye on Iruma and get into the same class, then everything will be fine.

This mantra stayed in her head at breakfast, while their grandpa and Opera made dozens of pictures from them and even as they sung the fucking hymn which she forgot to warn Iruma about. It finally broke, when they learned that Sullivan is not only some higher up but also their principal. Maybe this isn’t to bad Nayuri thought shortly, only to be interrupted by the giant poster of her and Iruma. Her brother smiled in the camera like the fucking sunshine he is, while she looked like she enters her evil cycle any minute. Her dark purple hair was in an messy bun, light blue eyes glared in the camera and her black horns looked sharp enough to pierce through the body of her enemies. -I’m going to end this fucker- she thought, till the brown haired teacher called her and Iruma onto the stage to say welcoming words to the students.

Needless to say, that Iruma nearly dragged his uncompliant sister to the stage. If somebody would be able to kill by simply staring at someone, it would certainly be his sister and it would be a massacre he thought, still trying to get her up the stairs.

“I’m going to kill him and if this is the last thing I will do” she mumbled, finally reaching the mic. Both sibling stared at each other, till the blue haired gave up and leaned towards the mic, to read the words on the paper before them. Unfortunately Nayuri hadn’t looked on the paper before her brother read the words in full confidence. Her eyes widen in shock as she recognized the spell her brother just recite without a worry. Franticly she searched in her pockets for her emergency plan. Iruma was nearly finished when Nayuri pulled out a  black paper box, and lighten one of the containing matches. The moment her brother spoke the last syllable the paper catches fire. With a shocked scream, the boy let the paper fall on the podium which was now also catching fire.

Silent the students watched the podium burning down, Iruma looked at his sister, while she looked confused at the matches.

“this were the wrong ones… Upsi” she said, while some of the teachers tried to extinguish the still burning fire “Iruma can you remember me to get more Infernal fire matches, they seemed to do a good job” she added way to happy, while her brother still stared at her.

“You nearly set me and the school on fire” he complained

“If you wouldn’t have read a spell that could explode you limps of your body, I wouldn’t have set this thing on fire!”

“This spell nearly did what to me?! What did I gain from it?”

 “You will not stumble a single time today” The siblings stared at each other, the fire was finally extinguished and the angry purple haired watch dog was making his way over while the other students erupted in cheers.

“What do you morons think you’re doing?!” he snarled angry at them. Iruma suddenly looked very pale, in comparison to his sister who happily exclaimed, that she confused her matches. Both of them were send to their seats with an warning.

The rest of the entrance ceremony went over smoothly, even though the teachers needed to get a new mic, because the other melted in the flames. As soon as the teachers said their last word chaos erupted and the two of them lost each other.

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-This day is the worst day I had in a long time! What was Grandpa thinking, putting us on stage without saying a word- The girl though angry while she searched Iruma in the mass of students. Sadly neither of them are very high so it was absolutely useless. Sighing the purple haired leaned on the wall and closed her eyes for a moment, when someone bumped into her. Before she could get mad the boy was already apologizing.

“I’m so sorry, I didn’t watch were I was going, I hope I didn’t hurt you?” the boy was asking, while she was just able to stare at the amount of hair he has.

“No problem… are you even able to see, with the amount of hair in your face?” He stared unblinking at her for a moment.

“Uhm yes, I can see just fine! I’m Gaap Goemon” he suddenly changed his rater shy appearance to an enthusiastic one and held his hand out. Skeptical Nayuri took it in hers.

“I’m Nayuri Suzuki” she introduced herself

“I know, you and your brother made quite a show”

“Yeah, we didn’t know, that the principle would let us called on stage so we needed to improvise”

“It was refreshing, the whole speeches were draining my spirit” he joked

“Oh yeah, if my brother wouldn’t have poked me into my rips every five minutes I wouldn’t have had the chance to nearly burn the school down! I would have been fast asleep!” he chuckled lightly when she suddenly remembered that she still needed to find said brother. “I totally forgot, that I still need to find this blue haired moron, but I would give you my number because I really need to know your hair routine” Nayuri exclaimed and wrote her phone number on one of the post its buried in her backpack, punctual to an loud noise outside the building. “I swear to the devil, this was my moron” she mumbled giving the white haired the post it and made an beeline towards the commotion. Said commotion turned out to be said brother who just knocked out a pink haired student.

“I lost you for ten minutes and you started a fight?! Without me?!” she ranted with her arms at her hips. Shocked Iruma turned to face her.

“It’s not what it looks like, he is the honor student and challenged me to fight because we technically stole his speech. I wanted to decline but he didn’t listen and started to attack so I dogged everything, which made him even angrier and then I accidentally knocked him out because he would have hurt another student” Iruma rambled without taking a breath.

“Ok calm down, there is no need to panic, we just go away from the scene”

“We can’t let him lie here! We need to bring him to the nurse!” The blue haired insisted. Taking a deep breath she looked at the unconscious guy.

“Ok you take his right arm I the left” she complied and so they dragged him to the infirmary. Once there the healer, who by the way looked like he just lost a fight, checked over the still unconscious boy, before they were finally allowed to go.

 “I still can’t believe, that as soon as I lost you, you decided to cause trouble!” she mumbled still upset with her brother.

“I’m sorry!” he whined “but to be honest, I don’t think you would have been helpful” he added.

“Excuse you?!”

“I mean you’re rather provocative and probably would have made everything worse” under the girls intense staring his voice grew shriller.

“Did you just say I’m a problem?!”

“More like a safety hazard but I mean let’s see it positive, I got in a fight and survived”

“You got a point” she answered still angry.

“So you’re not angry?”

“Never said that” . They probably would have continued with whatever this was, when the two of them wouldn’t have heard someone walking up to them rapidly. Without a second thought Nayuri pushed Iruma behind her and was eye to eye with the previously unconscious boy.

“If you want to continue this fight I have to warn you, you will not stand a chance against me” she threaten staring unblinking into his eyes, like Opera taught her.

“I don’t want to fight you or Iruma. He won the battle honorable so I will stand in his service from now on” he answered way to happy while bowing.

“Y- You don’t need to serve me” Iruma chimed in still being protected by his sister

“It is an old rule where the loser of an duel would serve the winner for the rest of their life, I couldn’t imagine something more honorable than to help you overtake the school Master Iruma” He absolutely ignored the barrier, aka Nayuri, between them so she made myself noticeable again

“Since when do you want to take over the school?! And why do I get to know this from pinky pie?!”  she looked over my shoulder in disbelieve.

“It’s Asmodeus”

“I don’t want to take over the school!!” pinky pie got absolutely ignored from the now grinning girl.

“To late, now I already have a plan and an back up!” she replied.

“NEE-SAN” Iruma whined while she repositioned herself next to him, because one, her neck hurt and secondly pinky pie isn’t viewed as a threat anymore.

Together the trio walked to the entrance, the first of the five orientation days already over. The way home was silent and the siblings were deep in their own thoughts. Nayuri was glad that they got rid of the pink self-proclaimed servant because he seemed like the chatty type. Sadly he now has the numbers of both siblings, because he only accepted departure when they (Nayuri) bribed him with them. -I don’t think I can stop him from following us tomorrow- she thought already annoyed…. -Maybe If I take Iruma and run away we can flee?-

Unfortunately the silence was over way to quick, when the giant mansion got into sight and they were faster in an tight embrace than they could think.

“Oh my lovely Grandchildren! How was your first day” Sullivan sung, clinging on his Grandchildren.

“It was rather shitty, because we were forced to go up to the front, where Iruma read a forbidden spell out loud. On top of that the teachers probably think that we are crazy, because I was, more or less, forced to burn this thing, causing the podium to burn down, with the mic… but you probably know this already, because this was your fault!” the girls outburst only caused the old man to smile even more.

“Oh yeah, this was quite a show! Thankfully Opera got everything on camera!”

“Wohoo, it would be a shame if we just forgot that it ever happened” you could clearly hear the sarcasm in her voice but it seemed like nobody was interested in that.

“What happened after that? You have to tell me everything!” their Grandpa remarked over enthusiastic, only to be interrupted by Opera who shooed them inside to get tea.

By a cup of tea Iruma and Nayuri talked about their day, even though she didn’t told either of them that she gave her number to another student. One reason for that would be that she absolutely forgot his name the moment they parted ways. Another reason would be that they would think she became social over the last month!

-I can’t let this destroy my good reputation- she thought stirring her tea. So she settled on telling them that she searched for Iruma till she heard the commotion, Iruma as well as Grandpa seemed to buy this story but she could see the doubt in Operas eyes. Even though they seemed to not believe Nayuri, they didn’t vocalize this, much to her relief. So the first day comes to an end, the girl hoped the summoning tomorrow will not lead to any problems.

In retrospective she should have known better.

Chapter 3: World domination

Chapter Text

When Nayuri woke up next morning she had two messages from unknown numbers. The first one was:

Hello, this is Gaap Goemon we ran into each other in the hall and you gave me this number… I’m really sorry that I didn’t write sooner… Maybe we see each other at the summoning today :)

The number got saved under pretty hair…  Mostly because she would probably forget who Garp was in the next couple of minutes… and because she only gave her number to two people she could save the other under pinky pie.

Satisfied the purple haired put the phone away and made her way downstairs, where Iruma already shoveled food in his mouth. It still astound her, how much he could eat…

“Grandpa?” he asked after swallowing down “You know that we both attracted attention yesterday” he continued.

“Oh yes! There are already newspaper articles about the podium and your fight with the Asmodeus heir!” he replied and proudly showed them the articles. The flames looked even better from the distance! Nayuri thought, probably because there you didn’t had to fear about catching fire yourself.

“How great… either way, I thought it would probably be better to not stand out that much… I don’t want anybody to figure out, that I’m a human” Iruma continued.

 “If that’s what you want I will look into it!” He replied smiling and panic started to turmoil inside his sister. What if they put her in a different class than Iruma! What if he gets into trouble while she sits in another class?! This thoughts continued till it was time to get going, when Opera called her aside seemingly noticing how worried the girl looked.

“You seem to be quite nervous, is everything all right?” they asked with the same neutral look as always, only the slight swish of their tail showed that they were indeed a little concerned.

“Yes, No… I’m concerned that Iruma and I will not be in the same class… I mean, I know that Grandpa can probably rearrange classes like he wants  but what if he can’t excuse why I should be in the same class?” she started rambling till Opera squeezed her shoulder. Confused her focus snaped back to the cat demon.

“If you are scared that you won’t be in the same class as Iruma you can just make sure you will be”  To Operas dismay the girl didn’t catch the hint and looked even more confused than before. Sighing they continued “Lord Sullivan wants to put Iruma in a class with troublemakers…”  in an instant the girls face lit up.

“I have an idea!” With that she took her backpack and hurried up to follow Iruma out of the house, taking money with her. In the meantime the corners of Operas mouth twitched slightly upwards, which wasn’t noticed by anyone.

After they managed to get away from their crying Grandfather, who was forced to work from home by the butler, they made it punctual to school, were the pink haired was already waiting.

“You really did wait for us at the entrance?” Nayuri asked him calculating.

“I woke up extra early to make sure I will not miss you!” he exclaimed proudly putting one of his hands over his heart.

“How long are you already here?”

“Exactly six hours and six minutes!” he continued still proud.

“WHY in hells name should anybody be here this early?!” the girl exclaimed exhausted, while Iruma persuaded pinky pie to not wait that long ever again.

“Do you know where the summoning takes place?” Iruma changed the subject and before his sister could answer the pink haired did, still happy about his master looking out for him

“I know where it is!” he was literally beaming at her brother. What a weirdo… girl thought trying to contain her neutral face. And there she thought this day will be peaceful. Reluctantly she followed the two of them, surprisingly pie really led them to the right room. He seemed quite proud with himself… what a douchebag she thought still trying to not let her emotions show. While the two of them continued talking she checked out the room.

-They split us in several groups – she analyzed, noticing that there were way less demons than yesterday. Sadly she wasn’t able to spot pretty hair. Seeing that his sister was totally lost in her thoughts Iruma poked her in her cheek. Irritated from the sudden touch she turned her head looking at him frowning.

 “Asmodeus asked if you got his message because you didn’t answer”

“Yeah I got it and already saved your contact, I just forgot to answer” that’s a lie but he didn’t need to know that. The pink haired looked pleased with that, as the angry purple haired teach walked in with an “silent” forcing their attention towards him. He seems to be really fun to be around. Not. Iruma shrunk slightly when the gaze of the teacher met us, while he was speaking about trash. Hmm I thought we are going to summon familiars and not learn about recycling confused she focused again, totally missing the point where their teacher literally called them trash, when he summoned a pink heart. And killed it merely a second later. RIP little cutie, I’m pretty sure you were Grandpas idea just to annoy his employees.

One after another was forced upfront and embarrassed themselves with their summoning. Nayuri pitied these unfortunate ones, especially that one guy that literally summoned a miniature giant space hamster… How could this even be a thing… like what the fuck?! Pretty hair got something good, luckily. He got a elegant grey crane with red dots on his cheeks, rumors say, that they can produce really potent poisons. Next up was pinky pie.

Would it be mean to wish that he gets a bunny or even better a caterpillar? The girl asked herself and for a short moment she thought it become true. Is that a giant caterpillar?! After getting a better look at it she noticed it was in fact not a caterpillar, of course he got a fucking Gorgon snake. And it was pink! Like how?! How is it possible to be have so much pink in his live?! If this continues that way he will become the color.

Smiling he did come back, after the snake also pleaded to serve Iruma. This animals really resemble us. While she was caught up in her thoughts Iruma went next. Wait a second… Iruma is human… humans are not able to summon familiars! Oh shit! What if he gets kicked out like sensei threatened before. Panic creeped up her spine again as she watched him going through the ritual and then poof… sensei’s head appeared in the circle. SENSEIS HEAD. APPEARED. IN THE. SUMMONING. CIRCLE. Iruma summoned him and he was stuck.

“Push me” the teacher barked enraged as he noticed the situation he was in. This caused Iruma to panic, hurryingly he tried helping his legs through the portal. Because Nayuri is in fact the best sister ever existing, she of course helped Iruma, while the purple haired continued to scream at them. Together they managed to get him through the portal and poof there appeared a fluffy purple bird thing. That was Nayuris last straw, without being able to hold it any longer she broke out in laughter. Wheezing she clutched pinky’s shoulder who has come over to check if everything was alright. Slowly the girl managed to even her breath and tried standing straight again but as she looked up, the fluffy dumpling was flying right on her eyelevel. His annoyed stare gave her the rest with a cry she started laughing again and sunk on her knees.

“Is everything alright nee-san” Iruma shyly tried to get his sisters attention, hopefully before she got killed by their teacher

“He looks like a plum with wings” she cried out, not helping her case “It looks so cute but the face he’s making!” she couldn’t talk much more but nobody would have been able to understand it anyways.

“Nayuri Suzuki you still need to summon your familiar or do you want to leave the school” the cold voice of Iruma’s familiar brought her back, even an idiot could sense that he was seconds away from exploding and/or killing the girl. Still chuckling she managed to stand up, while absolutely avoiding eye contact with the still bird looking teacher. Don’t laugh or he will kill you, don’t laugh or he will kill you, deep breath in and out.

With her breathing finally back under control she managed to go into the circle and put some of her blood onto the paper. Okay, relax there is nothing that can go wrong, we are calm and collected, calm… and collected. With a last deep breath she held the paper into the flame. Smoke radiated from the paper licked by the bright burning flame of the candle. It somehow calmed Nayuri down, to see how the flames danced around the crumbling paper and the smoke spilling onto the ground and slowly rising behind her. As the last piece of the paper crumbled into ashes she felt a slight sensation crawling up her spine. It was unnoticeable at first but as the seconds went by, it grew stronger. As the purple haired turned around something manifested itself.

A… hairy leg? How did this happen? Confused she looked up and saw… a hairy belly? What the fuck is that… Taking some steps to the side and then backwards she was finally able to identify what it was. A giant dark blue spider with beautiful black shining eyes and fur that looked even fluffier than sensei’s. An evil chuckle erupted from the girls throat. With this giant thing I can ride to any battle and claim the world as mine!

“Oh no, that is her World domination chuckle” Iruma mused outside the circle earning concerned glances from his schoolmates.

“First I let it eat my enemies and then there will nothing remain in my way to claim this world as mine” she chuckled with an evil glimmer in her eyes.

“Nee-san you’re fifteen, how many enemies do you have?” With an sinister smile on her lips she turned around and locked her eyes with her brothers

“Enough and they will all plead for mercy when my beast strikes them down!” the girls malicious episode came to an end when she felt something fluffy rubbing at her side, bewildered she turned back and immediately thought her eyes are deceiving her. The giant spider did cuddled himself against his summoner and grumbled happily.

“Kokushibo no!” Nayuri cried out “Your dangerous!” the spider grumbled again and laid down. “Ok, you won this time ok?!” reluctantly she started petting the top of Kokus head, which she could barely reach. This caused the spider to grumble in happiness… Fantastic my Familiar is a softy.

After she managed to get Koku out of the absolutely destroyed summoning circle there where only two summoning remaining. Sadly she needed to help setting the barriers up again because the fat ass of her spider broke them down like a wrecking ball.

“Why do you need to be so fucking huge” the girl complained. Eight eyes were blinking at her before the giant thing shrunk down to the size of bird sensei in his bird form. “You can shrink?! Oh my devi…. Why haven’t you done this before?!” . Luckily the rest of the lesson went over smoothly, they departed from their familiars and Iruma was Kidnaped by the teacher, leaving his sister and the idiot alone.

“You’re hungry?” she asked looking up at the pink haired

“You want to go to the cafeteria with me?” he asked shocked.

“You can keep waiting if you don’t want to but I don’t want to hear complains”

“Of course I accompany you! I just thought you can’t stand me but it seems like your very much like your familiar” he said and started walking towards our destinated place.

“What do you mean by that pinky pie” Nayuri narrowed her eyes at suspicion

“Oh you both look intimidating but at the end of the day you just want a head pat” he answered with an glint in his eyes

“Take this back!”

“I did just answer truthfully!” bickering they walked to the cafeteria. The food there was delicious. I don’t think I will get Iruma out of here when he tries it out, she thought when pinky pie interrupted the silence.

“I have a question” Still chewing Nayuri raised her eyebrow, as a sign that he should continue. “Why are you calling me pinky pie?”

“Because you’re really close to being the personification of pink” She answered after swallowing.

“Wouldn’t it be easier to just call me by my name?”

“I don’t even know your name anymore. I’m really bad at remembering several things… like directions, where I put some things or names.”

“that sounds tiring”

“It’s really nothing, it takes just longer to learn something and in the worst case I see many new places that I will never find ever again” the girl joked causing pie to crack a smile. After this conversation they remained silent and ate the rest of their food. Shortly after they left the cafeteria Iruma got released.

“Oh did your kidnapper already let you go” his sister asked amused.

“Yeah… he wanted to cancel the contract but Grandpa said that it doesn’t work like that and now he is my familiar for this year…”

“As expected from my master to keep the strongest familiar” how is he able to sparkle?!

“Hey, Kokushibo could eat both of your familiars as a snack if he wants to!” Nayuri defended her fluffy familiar.

“Yeah, but luckily all he wants are belly rubs and head pats”

“That’s only because he doesn’t view your shitty snake as a threat!” before the pink haired could say something Iruma broke their argument,

“I think all our familiars are strong!”

“Your right master Iruma, as always”

“You just know him a day!”

“And he was never wrong ones in that time !” Now Iruma interrupted his sister with the reminder that they should get their books.

“Oh yeah… I forgot something, could you get my books as well?”

“Of course nee-san!”

And with that Nayuri started Mission Misfit!

Chapter 4: Mission Misfit

Notes:

Hey, just a little warning: I changed the POV, I hope you like it anyway :)

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Today is the day where I have to seal the deal! If the mission fails Iruma will die! …ok maybe this is a little exaggerated but I can’t trust pinky pie to keep him safe from the maniacs that will be in his class. The thought alone made me shudder. So after studying the school layout I figured out which hall would be the one mostly used by teachers but less by students. From an nearby classroom I got a trashcan and filled it with useless papers (mostly crappy drawings where I tried to improve my skills) and cautiously poured spiritus in it. With a sly smile I got the normal matches out of my pocket and lit the whole thing on fire. Now I just need to put the Marshmallow on a stick and wait. I sat down on the small camping chair I had stuffed into my bag, the stick with the Marshmallow in one hand, my smartphone in the other.

Opera

How is it going?

Me

I´m sure I will be in the Misfit class

Opera

Great  =^._.^=

With that I put my smartphone away and concentrated on not setting my marshmallow on fire, even if it would create a beautiful blue flame. When it just looked perfect I squeezed it between two chocolate cookies and ate it, while I nestled the next Marshmallow on the stick. After that it just took a minute till I heard the sound of someone coming around the corner. When they didn’t come any closer I looked over my shoulder, Marshmallow stick and Sandwich still in my hands.

“Want some?” I asked the startled looking teacher, while I held out the Marshmallow Stick to him. He looked at me, at the burning trashcan, the marshmallow and then me again.

“I- I don’t even know what to say” the Man said, I think his name was Daisy.

“You should try one, without praising myself too much, they are pretty good” I said unimpressed, while taking a bite from my sandwich. He still continued blinking at me… he looks a little like a deer before it gets eaten by an hellbear. In this case the hellbear seems to be smores? If I remember it correctly that was how Iruma had called them when we made them (and got banned from the fireplace). Just when I thought that I may have broken him, two more man came around the corner.

“Plum-sensei hi!” I chirped while waving at him and the white haired giant beside him. “I have enough Marshmallows and cookies for everyone… I think”  the two man where also speechless. Fantastic. My tail twitched slightly in mischief, as Birdy took in a deep breath.

“Nayuri, what in Delkiras name are you thinking” he asked, trying to compose himself.

“Hmm- actually I think pretty much right now… but most importantly I think I may have not as much Marshmallows as I thought… it would be better if you not tell the other teachers, I don’t want anybody to be sad because they don’t get one. I think Iruma got a hold of them I even hid them in my backpack the rest of the day! He is worse than this fucking trash pandas” I mumbled the last part while looking at the half empty bag, I just now got to notice. He took another deep breath.

“This is not what I meant, WHY are you making Marshmallows INSIDE the school over an burning trash can”

“OHHH easy question, outside are other demons, I don’t like other demons, so I thought I should be staying inside but then I was suddenly craving Marshmallow sandwiches and because I already had this bag of marshmallows with me, I bought some cookies and made a little fire. Isn’t it pretty?! You don’t need to worry, it’s all save, look, even on the spiritus bottle it says ´safe´” I explained, securing the stick between my tights and showed them the bottle.  What I didn’t thought of was the loose lid, so a few drops of the liquid got into the already strong burning fire and this led to a stronger burning fire. And suddenly it rained. Fuck. “No no no nooooo, my marshmallows” I cried out.

“Nayuri pack your stuff we’re going to the chair demon, NOW” Birdy barked with dripping hair and it took my whole willpower to not laugh at the three teachers.

Everything is going according to plan, more or less. I mean I’m pretty sure grandpa wont kick me out, I just hope his wish of having  ‘two cute grandchildren’ will overweight the trouble of nearly setting the school on fire… a second time… . It was Operas idea, not the details but we had to make sure I can keep my eyes on the human. Thinking of him, I wonder how he is doing right now.

Nayuri will eventually find out that the fan club of her adoptive brother has just grown by one more person. But right now she was sulking in front of her grandfather.

“Nayuri my precious granddaughter, why did you set the school on fire?” Sullivan cried out after the purple haired explained what happened. Ok now try to look sad and DO NOT stat laughing!

“I’m so so sorry grandpa, really, I just wanted to make a little snack… I didn’t want to cause trouble…” a tear slid down my face for the extra touch of drama.

“Awww my precious little Yuriii, I can’t be mad at you when you look like that, it’s all forgiven” he screamed crying in his weird egg form while hugging me to death.

“Really?! No punishment at all” Sensei asked disbelieving and still dripping wet.  

“As long as she is sorry and doesn’t do it again I don’t see any problem! She is still just a little devil isn’t she” Now he is pinching my cheeks, this is punishment enough. With that Grandpa let me go, rubbing my hurting cheeks I fled from the room and the growling sensei.

This actually did go better than I thought. Quickly Opera got an update, if I’m not in the misfit class after that I don’t know! My instincts led me into the garden and sure enough I already could see Iruma with his pink haired number one fan boy and a green haired maniac who just pulled snacks out of her pocked. Shortly I thought about turning around and going back inside, but it seemed like my luck was out for today, because Iruma already weaved to me.

“Yuri-nee where have you been” Iruma asked beaming at me.

“Why are you soaking wet” pinky questioned while looking confused.

“Didn’t you hear about that crazy student who was setting a trashcan on fire in the middle of the hall? I just got to the crime scene, when the sprinkler activated” I told them, they don’t need to know the truth.

“Please tell me you weren’t the crazy student” Iruma sighed

“I was not the crazy student”

“Are you lying”

“Maybe” the pink and green haired watched us like a tennis match

“You really have an unnatural addiction to fire”

“Fire loves me! Besides I did this all for an higher good” I explained when I suddenly had a towel in my face.

“Here, you can use it to dry yourself” the green haired girl offered while coming way to close into my personal space.

“Thank you…I’m Nayuri, his sister, by the way”

“I’m Clara! We will have so much fun together” she declared and throwing herself at me while ignoring my outstretched hand. Fantastic. Pinky pie just breathed heavily out while the gremlin probably tried to break my rib cage.

“You need to play with us” she stated while looking up to me.

“Oh yeah? What are you playing?”

“Tag! You’re it” she screamed and ran away. Ok, tag it is, I can do this. Quickly I charged at the still slightly annoyed pie, slapped him across his back and screamed

“Got you” while running away. This seemed to wake him up from his thoughts and he charged back at me with high speed.

“Oh crap, Iruma be my meat shield” I screamed and shoved him into the way of the pink haired. Seemingly Iruma got caught by him because he cried out

“That was cheating Yuri!”

“It’s called being an tactician but don’t worry, they teach that here” I replied still running away while the green haired chuckled and was quickly caught by Iruma.

We played several games for hours it was a little tiering but somehow fun… I can’t remember when the last time was that I felt like this. Our happiness was interrupted by three guys that did come near. “Hey Clarin how about we play a little bit and you give us snacks?” The sweet peas smile faltered

“EY are you blind or something? We’re playing right now!” I chimed in

“Is that so? Well we come back later, after you got your compensation” He smugly replied causing his friends to laugh before they finally backed of.

“What is wrong with those idiots?” I mumbled looking at the green haired for an answer.

“Oh I give them some snacks and then they play with me… sometimes… but that’s ok! Really, no problem at all” she exclaimed happily and dragged my brother to the next game. Still standing next to the pink haired I looked over with an raised eyebrow.

“Is it just me or does that sound like they are exploiting her?”

“Nayuri-san, they literally said that they will come back after we got our compensation. If that doesn’t scream exploitation I don’t know” he answered

“Ok you genius, no need to get cocky with me” I grumbled

“Onee-chan, Asmodeus-sama are you coming?” my brothers voice pulled us out of our conversation, calling us to play a bord game.

“Hey, you do know, that you don’t need this guys?” Iruma asked after he threw the dice.

“But who is going to play with me than?” the bean asked so quiet that I nearly couldn’t hear her.

“We! It is really fun to play with you and I’m sure Asmodeus and Nayuri agree with me on this” critical the girl first looked to the pink haired, who apparently didn’t hear the conversation while he stared at the board trying to figure out the rules of it. Giving him a jab he got thrown out of his thoughts.

“That hurt!”

“Boohoo! They are talking about you and asking for confirmation”

“Wha- oh master Iruma I‘m sorry for my rudeness” he started apologizing

“It’s ok! I just told Clara that we like playing with her”

“Oh yeah… that games are really interesting and unique”

“That’s his way of saying that he had fun” I explained “and I would play with you again too, if you would want that” Her eyes started glowing and the mood turned up again as Opera showed up to accompany us on our way home.

This day didn’t leave my mind, the thought of that weird green haired girl kept me awake the whole night.

 

 

“Nee-san, you’re looking…” Iruma started as we made our way to school

“Just spit it out”

“Are you familiar with trucks?” the change of topic caused me to snap my head in his direction.

“Is that some non-demonic thing like vampires and zombies?”

“No… I mean it is non-demonic but it’s not a creature… It’s like… you have carriages here right?” when I nodded confirming he continued “Ok, so now imagine a huge carriage, like bigger than that tree” he said pointing at an apple tree

“What does a huge carriage have to do with my looks?”

“Well, you look like you got run over from it”

“You know, sometimes I miss the time you were like ‘hey Onee-chan you look tired, didn’t you sleep well?’ with that sweet smile… Now I have to deal with ‘hey nee-san you look like you got run over by a giant carrige’ thanks for that I guess.” I stated deadpanned

“You said I should be bolder and to not sugar coat everything, because and I quote ‘you will get diabetes from that’”

“Yeah yeah… we now just need to get you to use that backbone against aaaall the other demons”

“Master Iruma, Nayuri-sama! Good morning”

“Oh devi no” I grumbled at the sight of the pink haired

“Good morning Asmodeus! Do you know what is on today’s list?” Iruma started the conversation while I looked around to maybe spot the green haired… or pretty hair… I hope he found some other demons to hang out with.

“We are free to get familiar with the school grounds today, because tomorrow will be the first official school day”

“Hmm… we could look for Clara and then get going?”

“I don’t think we will be able to find her in that mass of students master” Asmodeus stated trying to get a better look while standing on his toes.

“We could split into two groups, two of us could get a better look on the school while one of us looks for the bean” I suggest

“Ok, how about you and Asmodeus are scouting the school while I look for Clara?” Iruma proposed shyly

“Why should I be walking around with him?”

“Hey! I can hear you!”

“Because you are not that good in directions so you would probably get lost while searching for her and Asmodeus knows the school quiet well so he could help you” he has a point and he knows that, I still narrowed my eyes in disapprove. “And you two would get to know each other better”

“I will show your sister everything so she will never get lost again” pinky pie accepted the challenge and shoved me in the direction of the school. With a last glance towards Iruma I showed him that this isn’t over yet.

The next hours I was stuck with the pink haired who shooed me through the school with a map. We already looked where the classrooms will be and some of the subject specific rooms. Currently we are inspecting the Diabotany tower. Thankfully this week is a coming back week for the second years as well, so we don’t disturb any lessons.

“I heard that some of these plants are carnivorous so you shouldn’t get to close to them” pinky mumbled, guiding me a little bit more in the middle.

“oh are you looking out for me?” I teased back making more room between me and the plants.

“Don’t think too much of it, I just don’t want to explain to Iruma why his sister got digested by a plant under my watch” he retorted smirking “We probably should get going, I still have to show you the staffroom, the headquarter of the student counsel, you should know where these two are because you can go there if you have a problem and lastly the infirmary”

“oh that’s good, than I can carry you there when you got knocked out next time”

“Are you referring to the magical moment where Iruma and I met?”

“Why are you like this?” still smirking he escorted me out of the room. Due to the student counsel being closer he first showed me the outside of their room.

“Really? You just brought me here to show me closed doors?”

“I showed you how to get to these closed doors” he corrected me. I probably shouldn’t tell him that I don’t know where we are nor where the next exit is… After showing me these doors he showed me the doors of the staffroom. “Here are the teachers before the classes start, in their breaks and after school. Oh there comes the history teacher, his name is Dantalion Dali” he whispered the last part as I turned around and spotted

“Oh hello daisy sensei”

“Wha- I just told you his name! You need to show respect, he is your teacher” pinky started berating me. “She didn’t mean it in an offensive way sir” he excused me while giving me a nasty side eye.

“Oh no need for excuses, nice to meet you again Nayuri-chan” the teacher gave us a closed eyed smile.

“When do you met one of our teachers” Asmodeus wanted to know.

“You know when I had this little iddy biddy fire accident yesterday? Apart from Plum-sensei, he and another one found me” I explained “I hope it wasn’t too much work getting rid of everything… sorry for that I guess… but you really have to try these sandwiches!” this caused the teacher to chuckle while pinky just asked himself what sandwiches I could mean.

“thanks for the recommendation, I need to get going now but we will probably see each other again when classes begin” with a last wink he entered the door pinky and I where viewing before.

“You really set the school on fire for sandwiches?” and here I’m being side eyed again

“Don’t look at me that way, show me where the infirmary is, so that we can get back to Iruma” that seemed to get pinky’s spirits back because he began shoving me through the halls again. We managed to get there rather quickly, the pink haired explained that it’s the case because one of the teachers helps running it.

“We still just watching the door?”

“Of course we wouldn’t want to disturb a healing process! I think that would be the most important places at the school, now let us ask Iruma where he currently is” while he was talking I already texted my brother.

“He says he’s in the garden, with Clara” letting out a deep breath pinky led us into the said direction. It was a rather silent walk.

“Azz Azz! Yur Yur there you are” we were being greeted by the green haired

“How was your exploration?” Iruma asked while moving his figure across the game board that was between them.

“Pinky showed me many doors” confused the two on the ground where looking at the pink haired.

“I showed her the classrooms, the rooms to special classes and the way to the student counsel, the teacher lounge and the infirmary” he enumerated “what did you do?”

“I will come back to you in a moment Clara ok?” Iruma suddenly asked the green haired, ignoring pinky’s question. “When I found her she started gifting me stuff because she overheard the guys from yesterday. They apparently said that we only play with her out of convenience, I managed to calm her down and assure her, that we play with her without the need of being played” he looked back to her, watching how she set up a new game, before shifting his focus back to us “The guys came back and she … stood up for herself you could say, but I’m afraid that they will not leave her alone…”

“Don’t worry about that Master I will settle that manner”

“Hey I want to do that!” I vetoed

“I wanted to ask if both of you could talk to them, I would not want one of you getting hurt because they outnumber you”

“Don’t worry about that brother, we will handle that” I assured him smiling

“Without killing them”

“Of course, I would not want plum-sensei to find me again”

“I heard that Kalego-sensei is currently not at school, rumors said that he left early yesterday and will only come back until later that day”  Pinky told us, looking at me like I had done anything.

“That’s good, the other teachers are way more chilled than him!” with that I took him by his arm and walked back inside. “Where would I hide if I were a massive douchebag…” I wondered looking at the pink haired for an answer.

“Why are you looking at me like that?!”

“Isn’t that self-explanatory?” raising an eyebrow I watched him trying to contain his anger

“Let us search in the cafeteria, it is nearly lunch time, so we can maybe find them there”

“See I knew you had an idea! Now we only need to find the cafeteria” rolling his eyes pinky now took me by my arm and started probably into the direction of our aimed destination. Thank the devil we didn’t even need to walk that far, because we already found them loitering around on a staircase nearby.

“Hey, aren’t you the guys that keep our Clarin occupied?!” they made themselves noticeable

“Oh look, the idiots made it easy for us!” I told pinky pulling slightly at his robe.

“Uhh Yoh looks like the honor student send his bodyguards after us” one of them joked

“We just came here to make it clear that you will not bother …”

“Clara”

“right I knew that but thanks pinky, So where were I? Okay, you will not bother Clara any longer, she is now one of us and you will stop exploiting her” I looked at pinky who gave me a thumbs up.

“Oh yeah? And what if we don’t do it” like on command the boy next to me created a fireball while I just took some steps forward, right in front of that dude and lowering my upper body to be on eyelevel with him.

“Then we will have great fun with each other” I grinned at him before I continued “You know, the skin of you three looks so fresh it would be a shame if it would suddenly littered in very very painful marks…”

“Are you threatening me? How about we are settling that outside?”

“with great pleasure” pinky answered and I straighten my back again, we managed to look rather civil while walking outside. As soon as I neither heard nor smelled anybody nearby I kicked the first one in the back.

“Hey we weren’t ready yet” he complained, while pie took on the other minion.

“Who said we are going to play fair?” I asked, knocking him out with a stomp on his head. Pie managed to finish his guy only seconds after. “So one question remains… what are we going to do with him?” I mused while the leader of the group walked slowly backwards.

“We could burn him to ash” pinky offered re lighting his hand again.

“We promised not to kill anyone… but I have a great idea”

Twenty minutes later the teachers noticed a commotion at one of the flagpoles. It turned out, that the second year student Yoh was bound to a package and pulled up into the air feet first. His comrades where found unconscious at the bottom of the pole. Mysteriously nobody saw how it happened, mostly because of the ruckus the honor student Iruma started with summoning his familiar in front of the Camu Camu shop.

Laying in my bed I thought about everything that happened today, from the walk to school, to my time with pinky and lastly the declarations of friendship… this day was a great success!

Chapter 5: I believe I cannot fly

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Uncertain the four of us looked for our names on the giant bord in front of the school.

 

“Suzuki… Suzuki… There! Suzuki Iruma Misfit class, Suzuki Nayuri also misfit class! Yes!” I screamed shaking my brother.

 

“Did you really thought Grandpa would split us”

 

“Doesn’t matter now, we are in one class together! Nothing can split us apart!”

 

“We are misfits too!” the bean exclaimed happy as she found her name on the list.

 

“Of course they put me in a class with master Iruma! It would be foolish to think we would go separate ways” Sometimes I really think his parents dropped him on his head as baby. Together we kidnaped an arrow which showed us the way to our class room. This feels like a fucking treasure hunt. Ok … I think the arrow is lost.

Even the garbage comes before our class room… The arrow suddenly came to a hold at a giant door, after a huge pile of garbage. Puzzled I looked from the arrow to the door to my friends.

They. Cant. Be. Serious. THEY PUT US IN THE FUCKING BASEMENT! Angry I stared the door down, while the garbage pile burned away my ability to smell.

 

“Don’t look like that Nee-chan! I mean it’s not that bad and maybe it’s really nice inside!” slowly I turned my head towards Iruma who ducked away from my view.

 

“Oh Master Iruma I wish I could be as optimistic as you but THIS place is a disgrace that should be burned down” the pink haired exclaimed while pointing at the door.

 

“This sounds like a future project to me but I don’t think we have another choice now” I mumbled. Iruma saw himself as chosen and got through the door first.

 

“IRUMA!” we nearly screamed unison while the blue haired just barely dodged all weapons that were thrown at him.

 

Pinky pie started berating the cause of that (our dear classmates) in an instant backed up by the greenet, in the meantime I went to my brother.

 

“Is everything all right? Are you hurt?” I asked while checking him for any injuries.

 

“It’s ok Nee-san I only got a little scare that is everything” accusing I focused on my classmates.

 

“Only one word and the walls of this UGLY excuse of an classroom bathes in the blood of their TORTURED bodies, ripped apart in so many shreds that no one will be able to puzzle them back together” I threatened now in the direction of the Morons, which shrunk a little under my gaze.

 

“N-No Nee-san don’t kill anyone… please”

 

“You heard him” I said, “I won’t kill anyone NOW, if anything like this happens again I will make sure your screams will be heard all across the campus! Did I made myself clear?”

 

“You know that sounded a little bit ambiguous”

 

“Ok, that is enough I kill this Moron” I said, ready to jump on the yellow haired who just said that, when pinky pie jumped into action and caught me. “Pinky pie let me down, so that I can punch SENSE INTO THIS MORON

 

“Nee-chan calm down”

 

“I am as calm as I can be after you nearly  got the same treatment as HIM” angry I pointed at the giant blond haired dude with several weapons in his upper body.

 

“Aren’t thou the one who beat the honor student?” His booming voice asked on point, only to tell my brother about his ambitions. Bored I tried to accept the room as our classroom… They really couldn’t got us a better room. My malaise was only broke by  the end of his tirade

 

“And there for you are my rival, the one ark needs to fight as step to become the next demon king”

 

“Wait a second big boy, before you even get near to him you will get through my dead rotting body” I defended Iruma  

 

“Then I will fight thou first” before anything could happen a sharp

 

“SILENCE! Get in your seats” echoed through the room. Oh no, not him! Welp this will be interesting I guess. After Plum-sensei checked the attendance we moved on to an test outside. Which crazy school test their students on the first official day?! I don’t know even one name from my classmates but I will have my first grade… love it.

 

“This exams purpose is to determine your ranks. It is a race through Saezuri Valley but more will be explained by the educational heart” that was the exact moment my brain stopped braining because what the fuck is this thing and why is it so happy. Last time it appeared it was way to far away to notice… Grandpa seemingly likes to annoy his employees. Oh no it got killed again. RIP I guess. Wait. How should we go through this… Maybe it is a flying test? As if the Universe suddenly had the urge to answer me, everyone around me manifested wings and before I could say something or even search for Iruma I was in the middle of over motivated students. What the fuck is wrong with them… wait that was pretty hair over there! Nobody noticed that I literally got dragged with them and so I was quickly send flying. Downwards. Days alive at my new home… Fuck I forgot to count but I think it was nearly one and a half months? Why does falling into death take so- everything went black.

 

While Nayuri laid unconscious on the ground her brother befriended the child of the guardian bird and Asmodeus arrived with Clara at the finish line.

 

What I hated more than waking up was waking up with an head ready to explode. Cautiously I tried to open my eyes and was hit with so much pain that I nearly threw up. Most likely a concussion. I blinked a few times and when it got better I tried standing up. I survived worse, I can totally do this. With the power of friendship it will work. I will ignore that they left me falling into my death. Slowly I made my way towards the finish. This will be a long walk. A long and painful walk.

 

When Nayuri reached the halfway mark of the race her brother now befriended the guardian itself and her classmates grew more worried about their three missing classmates every second.

 

“Fuck of you stupid birds, I have several infernal fire matches in my pocket that will make you look like a flying FIREBALL” I screamed at this motherfuckers who tried to eat me while I was still walking towards the finish. Smelling my blood they both tried to creep closer since I’m halfway through. “I’m still more than alive, so if you not start to fuck off I swear to the devil, I WILL eat you AND you WILL taste delicious” I told this cheeky bitches while pointing at them aggressively.

 

When she reached three quarters of the race Asmodeus drew his batch from the bird, while the rest of the class still looked in the sky concerned for their now last missing member. After Asmodeus got his rank he made his way towards Iruma to console him, after Kalego removed the name of his sister from the class list.

 

I don’t know if Huggin and Muggin just want to keep an close eye on me, to eat me as soon as I drop dead, or if they now updated themself to a pet, but they sat on each of my  shoulders since half an hour. Maybe they are just too lazy to follow me themself.

 

“Can you believe it? They literally pushed me down a cliff, left me to die and don’t even search for my dead ass!”

 

“crow crow”  waving my hands through the air I answered

 

“I know! Unbelievable! Call me Friend and now this!”

 

“crow” coming to an stop I looked firs at Huggin and then at Muggin  

 

“Maybe it’s just the concussion and the dehydration speaking but you are real friends, not like these fakes!” Suddenly a loud scream erupted, it was so intense that the ground stated to shake. I looked at Huggin, Huggin looked at me and Muggin started flapping his wings in panic. I started running with the startled crows on my shoulders, because I just knew that my lovely brother is in the middle of whatever that is. When I reached the giant finish bolder the scream stopped suddenly. And was replaced by my whaling grandfather.

 

“Do you two have a family?”

 

“craw” Muggin answered, I sighed

 

“That is my grandfather, he is weird, adopted me a while ago… Do you know how I get up there? My head hurts like a bitch, I don’t think I’m able to climb”

 

“craw craw”

 

“Wait I have an spider as familiar! You two are so intelligent!” I Quickly called Koku who was thrilled by his new assignment. I quickly send Huggin with my ribbon up to “The one that smells like dog and not the crying one” , so they know I’m coming. And there he flied up… in the wrong direction “The other left you idiot” thankfully he changed his direction and as I cling on Kokushibo who now hanged vertically on the bolder I heard the crying grew louder. I don’t think they go the massage but devi does that old geezer have premium lungs.

 

Meanwhile the Bird is shoving the ribbon into the face of the guy which smelled like a dog. “Can you please stop that?!” He barked at the confused bird and ripped the bow from its hold.

 

“Craw crow crow. Craw”

 

“He said” started  Caim while holding up a finger “And I quote: The odd, mentally confused girl brought me here, she is really mad and badly hurt. Fell down the cliff she said, is now riding up on a giant spider and is ranting like crazy. Told me to give that to the guy who smells like a dog and not the one crying” he ended his speech and Kalego squeezed the bridge of his nose. Slowly he made his way to the cliff, followed by the rest of the class and looked down. Like the bird told them, the purple haired sat on her spider who climbed upwards in record time, blood running from her forehead and glaring angry at her classmates.

 

“NAYURIII-SAAAN WE THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!”  the yellow haired guy I wanted to kill earlier screamed way to loud.

 

“BEFORE I DIE I SMASH YOU INTO THE HANDS OF DEATH!” I screamed back. That made him retreat a bit but I was at the top anyways and quickly jumped of Koku. “Thanks for the search troop I really could have died out there! Oh wait a second… YOU LEFT ME TO DIE WHILE I HAD TO FIGHT OF TWO BABY DEATH CROWS WITH A FUCKING CONCUSSION!”

 

“For someone with an concussion you surely are loud” one of the students complained but before I could counter Iruma threw himself at myself crying.

 

“It’s alright Iru, I’m ok and alive so stop crying” patting the crying boy I hoped grandpa wouldn’t take this as an invitation to join. Still trying to calm the boy I looked around and spotted pinky and the knife holder on the ground.

 

“Iruma… why are those two dead? Unconscious?” 

 

“I drew a ring from the ranking owl which ate their mana” he whined.

 

“Wow…I hope there is a video going around” Iruma chuckled lightly and let me go. Grandpa took this as his sign to grab my face and inspect it with concern.

 

“Oh my poor Yuri, when were at home you will lay down the whole weekend!” he said closing my wounds with his mana.

 

“Fantastic this were exactly my plans, quick question, where is the owl that determines my rank?” I looked at the still noticeable annoyed teacher

 

“It flew away screaming, after your brother got his ring, we will use the weekend to discuss what we will do with your and your brothers rank, so come early on Monday!” I got my answer

 

“You really traumatized the owl?”

 

“I’m sorry!”

 

“You have to tell me everything!” with that we brought pinky and knifey back to life and made our way back to class as I suddenly remembered the white haired classmate.

 

“Pretty hair! I didn’t notice you were also here!” I said laying my arm around the student, totally not because everything started spinning.

 

“Did she called him pretty hair?!” I faintly heard the others mumble

 

“Hi Nayuri-san, nice to have you in my class as well! We need to catch up when you recover from the drawbacks of your wounds”

 

“Totally, we can text or call each other if that is ok for you”

 

“Absolutely!”

 

“Yuri-nee since when did you made a friend” Iruma asked now walking next to me.

 

“Oh we met when I lost you on the first day, he is the one that got this beautiful crane as familiar”

 

“Ah this is nothing, your spider is really cool!”

 

“Don’t say this, your crane is so pretty and it fits you really well!”

 

“You didn’t tell me that you made a friend?! I mean I didn’t thought this was possible” Iruma made himself noticeable again.

 

“What do you mean with that?!”

 

“Well you not the social type”

 

“That’s not true! I’m even half hugging pretty hair right now!” I exclaimed while clinging on said student.

 

“Yeah but you also look like you fold as soon as you let go of him”

 

“Art can carry thous sister to safety, as thank for the help with the guardian!” I heard someone speak when I suddenly dangled like a potato sack in the hold of the knife holder.

 

“Just that you know, if I had any fighting spirits left I would slice you in half!”

 

“Art knows!”

 

“Good!” With that I let myself being carried by the giant. 

Chapter 6: Renovating the school à la Iruma

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On Sunday evening I finally had enough! Till now I had spent the most time in my bed and Iruma didn’t come over even ones! It’s not like I didn’t tried to get to him before, I just never succeeded thanks to Opera, who always seems to appear out of thin air to carry me back to bed. So now I tried again, while Opera was occupied with cleaning the dishes. Silently I opened the door to Iruma’s room and closed it after me.

 

“Onee-san what are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be in bed and resting?”

 

“I would be resting if you wouldn’t avoid me since Friday! What happened?”

 

“It’s nothing” he mumbled.

 

“Well if it would be nothing you would have visit! Or texted me!” I accused him, sitting down next to him on his bed.

 

“I… Don’t you remember what you told me about wings and stuff?”  

 

Concentrated Iruma read in his textbook about basic demonic anatomy, as a responsible big sister I did wait for any questions. And ate our snacks. We wouldn’t want that they go bad, this would be a shame. “Nayuri… Does every demon has wings?” “Well we are born with them but there are illnesses that can damage them, they can also be damaged in a fight or really long time ago there was a torture method where they did cut out the wings with the base completely” Iruma shuddered as he imagined it. “So you don’t think anybody will find it suspicious that I’m not able to fly?” “No of course not, there are many reasons why a demon cannot fly at all. For example you could have to small wings or like in my case, nobody taught you properly” I further explained “You’re not able to fly?” “Nope, and I don’t have the necessary muscles, so it would now take a while to learn…”

 

“You mean when I told you that I can’t fly?”

 

“Yes! I stood there alone with Kalego-sensei and was so scared about the height that I didn’t told him about your problem! You- You could have died!” it bubbled out of him.

 

“Oh Iru, that little fall is not able to kill me! And it wouldn’t have been your fault at all! I could have told him or grandpa beforehand! Don’t carry the burden of something you had no power over!”

“But-but”

 

“Iruma, you’re not in the human world anymore. Nobody makes you responsible for everything. Look at me, I’m not mad at you, I don’t scream and most importantly I don’t accuse you of anything” As it this were some magic words the boys floodgates opened. I tightly hugged him trying to make the tears stop with soothing hums. I mean they did their job and soothed him, but now he’s fast asleep, clinging onto me like I’m his lifeline. This was totally not the plan but I guess I’m sleeping here for today. Was the last thing I thought before sleep got me as well.

 

What the two of them didn’t notice was the red eared butler who found them a little while later, as he went looking for the missing girl. That caused several new pictures for the Foto album and a new framed picture for their grandfathers desk.

 

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I will kill this fucking alarm clock. Was my first thought when this fucking thing screamed into my ear way to early.

 

“Aneki wake up, we need to go to school earlier today, because we didn’t got a rank” sighing I rolled over and sat up grumbling.

 

30 minutes later I let myself be dragged through the school by Iruma because I already managed to run into the wrong direction… twice. And grandpa was forbitten to follow us by Opera. Nervous we stood in front of the door that separates us form the staffroom, hopefully, I don’t really trust Iruma’s sense of direction either.

 

“Are you going to knock?” I asked him, raising one of my eyebrows.

 

“Why should I knock? We are mainly here because of you!”

 

“Since when? The last time I checked you shooed my owl away!”

 

“I didn’t shoo it away! It shooed itself away!”

 

“I don’t-“ before I could finish my sentence the door was ripped open and Birdy sensei greeted us with an very annoyed gaze.

 

“Are you two coming now or do you rater continue fighting” he snapped at us.

 

“We got a choice?”

 

“I think this was rhetorical Onee-chan”  humming I squeezed myself in because Birdy was rather unmoving. Inside we were greeted by some of the staff.

 

“Because Iruma already got to draw his batch from the owl we decided to give him the rank aleph. Nayuri however didn’t get a chance so the owl will decide your Rank. It will follow you around till it decides which Rank you will get. Are there questions?” Birdy-san ended his speech.

 

“Yes, am I allowed to name the owl?” I asked, causing some of the teachers to chuckle and Sensei to huff out in annoyance

“No”

 

“To late, while you took your sweet time to answer I already decided to name her Fortuna!”

 

“I think we should go now Nee-san” 

 

“Bye Birdy and the rest… Oh look Daisy-san was also here” I waved in the room while Iruma not really whispered

 

“His name is Dali not Daisy and now come”

 

“hmm close enough” I mumbled mostly to myself while following my brother.

 

When we made our way into the shithole called classroom all of our classmates were already there, even though we still had one hour before homeroom begins. As soon as they spotted us they started to bombard us with their questions.

 

“One word and I set the whole room on fire” I mumbled causing Iruma to look at me warningly.“ I just wanted to remind you”. Ignoring me he answered their questions about our ranks. After that they exchanged money… This morons did bet on us!

 

“Ok the next bet is about Nayuris Rank, I’m the bank” exclaimed goldy hands.

 

“YOU are not the bank! I still didn’t got my money back” undiagnosed ADHD rambled and took over the job as bank. And so I got to witness their tips about my rank, I only managed to hear some going with beth or gimel, the majority of my concentration was held captive by the pink haired who stopped Clara from placing a bet. Exhausted I went to my seat and tried to get some sleep.

 

Shortly after that Birdy sensei send everyone to their seats and started teaching. Homeroom did end rather quickly with the announcement, that the first rank enhancement exam will be on Friday next week. So we made our way to the first transfiguration lesson. Sadly we were last to get here, so I gave up my spot next to Iruma and sat on the only other available seat, next to the beautiful blond haired girl. Surprised she looked over to me, but before I could ask what’s wrong she just smiled at me and turned back to look at the bord.

 

“Good morning everyone, I’m Momonoki Morax your teacher in the subject transfiguration. I will now call for attendance and then going to explain what we are going to do this year” the light blue haired teacher started. “So now that we made sure that everyone found their ways here I will start with a short explanation of what transfiguration is and then what fields we are going to cover that year. In general transfiguration is a change of form or appearance. That could be the change from inanimate to animate or the change of color, form, brightness and so on. For our first year starter course we will start to increase your focus first with some nonverbal spells, before we start with the first real transfiguration topics. We will have theoretical lessons as well as practical, starting with the use of transfiguration and going over to color changes and the changes of the state of matter. Ok, now to the rules of this class, you are not allowed to experiment with spells at your classmates. There will be a time where we will work with spells which can be used on ourselves or other demons, but we will refer from that till you get to a certain level. Another rule would be, that you are not allowed to use any spells I didn’t allow beforehand, that could endanger your classmates ok?” after we our confirmation we started with the topic on how get to a concentrated state, with meditation. Its needless to say, that it took everything in me to not fell asleep and I was relieved when I could finally pack my stuff and go to the next class.

 

“Hello dear students, I’m Orias Oswell, your Astrology teacher” he introduced himself with a tap on his hat. I think I want to go back to the blue haired lady… “In this class we are going to use spells that are connected to star constellations, for that we of course have to learn the specifics of each planet and star. That includes their basic information, which effect they will have on magic in general and how it changes during the cycles they are going through and lastly how to awaken their given powers or boosters! We will start with the moons and will then slowly go over to each star, this year is mostly theoretical but if everything works out we might be starting with more practical stuff at the end of the year” he smiled, as if he not just doomed us with torture in form of theoretics. After we started to create a map of all the stars as first page in our notebook the time got over quickly so we could finally go over to the next and last lesson before the break.

 

Our way to the Diabotany tower sadly wasn’t as quiet as the walks to the other classrooms. With my habit to give other demons nicknames I have probably dug up my own grave.

 

“So Yuri, tell us why you called Gaap pretty hair” the yellow haired demanded as he caught up to me.

 

“I’m really bad at names-“

 

“and directions” ignoring Iruma I continued

 

“so I give everyone nicknames. His hair is pretty, pretty hair. He is pink, pinky pie and so on” 

 

“What’s my name?” Clara wanted to know, while hanging on my back.

 

“Green bean”

 

“Uhhhhh I like it”  after I answered her I noticed the rest of the class looking at me curious.

 

“Why do I get the feeling that you all want to know which names I gave you” “Pretty please” undiagnosed ADHD pleaded.

 

“No”

 

“Yuri-nee you promised to be more social”

 

“When did I promise you that?”

 

“You remember the day where you lost against Opera?”

 

It can’t be possible, that that damn cat does not blink! “Young Mistress are you alright?” they asked me. “You don’t blink” this caused the human to crook his head. “I think they just do it really spontaneously” “See even the human noticed” “My name is Iruma” “That’s what I said”. The cat demon raised their eyebrow and then hummed. That doesn’t look good for me. “I noticed that you still don’t use neither of our names, could it be, that you have memory issues?” “No I don’t have any problems! Don’t you remember that I call him by his name really often?” I defended myself. “If that’s the case you should be able to call me by my name” they crocked their head to the side still not letting any emotions come through “I even grant you three guesses, if you win you can wish for anything you want…. But if I win, you will need to socialize with your future classmates and learn their names”

What the young girl didn’t know, was that their Grandfather was mostly behind this, because he worried about his grandchildren’s ability’s to navigate among other demons. Unnecessary to mention that the girl lost and also forgot her promise till now.

 

“Why do you remember this” I stared at my brother

 

“Maybe because I’m not the one with memory issues”

 

“You know, when I helped you to grow a backbone it was to use it to navigate amongst our peers and not to punch me with it!” at this he just smiled… idiot, sighing I complied and pointed at the giant “He’s knife block, because of the weapons he caught on Friday. This is bird and this is kitty cat” I said while pointing at the owl dude and the lion. Continuing like this we had princess, icy, goldy fingers, fluffy cloud “and the last would be undiagnosed ADHD” the blond haired looked stunned for a moment, while some of the others chuckled lightly.

 

“What?! I’m not undiagnosed!”

 

“Don’t worry, they change rather quickly” Iruma reassured his indignant classmate, without giving me a chance for an funny remark,  as we went into the next classroom.

 

The Professor is really cute, shortly after I “choose” my table between ADHD and goldy she started explaining the rules of the room. It was just basic stuff just as “Don’t feed the plants trash or candys” (this caused the majority to look at Clara who apparently didn’t notice) as well as “Don’t go near the flesh eating plants even if they look like their sleeping, they are certainly not”. It’s really reassuring to know that safety is really important for them. Right after that we started with the actual lesson.

 

“Just hold your hand over the Pot and think about a plant, yis. Then you pour you mana in it with the words Quan Quan and it will grow, yis” as soon as the words left her mouth my classmates started.


Knife block was one of the first and his… Interesting plant decided to use its braincell to commit property damage on its own pot. That really speaks for him. While he proudly showed his abomination of nature, called ‘the destruction god’, the cute teach graded it with an B+. Probably because the costs that thing will have… Oh never mind goldies plant can certainly cover that. His protests seemed to cause a short cut in pinky’s brain so he decided to make a burning plant, which got graded with an A+ and brag about it.

 

“Don’t plants need water to survive?” famous last words I guess… even more if you decide to empty an entire bucket of water over it. RIP knife block you will be missed.

 

Trying to Ignore their bickering, as well as the others who apparently are admiring beans plant I also put my hands over the pot. Closing my eyes I focused on a beautiful plant, at the moment the necessary words left my mouth I heard knife block emptying another bucket causing pinky pie to threaten him. That shifted not only my mood, but also my concentration and probably explained what happened next.

 

My plant did grow beautifully, the leaves erupted at first from the normal brown pot and then it grew in the high. The stem did curl itself, before the bud was created and slowly opened. Opening it’s petals the flower reviled it’s beauty, from the inside they looked like they are made of glass with a light hue of burgundy. In the middle of the flower the filaments seemed to move, while the pistil opened and closed itself. Unfortunate for the two discussing students the stem unwired itself and suddenly charged at knife blocks flower and completely SWALLOWED it letting the pot remain, only to focus on pinky pies and repeating the process. Satisfied it came back, the stem curling itself and the flower closed again.

 

“Did your plant just eat my plant?” Asked Pinky pie behind me, really close to growling.

 

“In my defense you disturbed my concentration with your bickering” I answered taking a step away from my plant.

 

“Your plant ate two other plants because you were annoyed?” ADHD asked also taking a step back with his flower in his hands.

 

“Your plant ate arks B+“ knife block now accused me

 

“I’m sorry ok?!”

 

“This was interesting, yis” the teacher said, looking at my plant and then writing something down. Why do I have the feeling that it is nothing positive… “I will give that an A-, yis” she said, while Iruma decided to take a phone call. It was probably some architect because he apparently thought this room needs renovation. At first his plant started to grow normal, till it stopped doing that, crashing its pot and take the cement as soil. From that point the thing grew so rapidly, that the whole tower shook. He got lifted into the air by one of the branches, I don’t got that lucky and unlike him I’m also not a professional at evading danger, so I nearly got killed by his pink tree of murder. Hanging on one of the higher branch like an towel on an rack, my cannibalistic plant secured in my hands, I quickly checked if everybody was there. No one seemed to be hurt so I stared at Iruma

 

“Next time if you want to kill the whole class please plant a bomb into our classroom so that this shithole burns down with us” I grumbled loud enough for him to hear. In the meantime Pinky pie congratulated him for his attempted murder and the teacher gave him a A+++.

 

“I’m sorry Nee-san” he smiled apologetic at me while the class mumbled disapproving, probably because he only apologized to me. Shaky I started to climb my way done, I probably should have left my plant to die,  because it was really tricky to climb down with it, as my classmates opened their wings to fly down.

 

“Hey Yuri-chan why aren’t you flying down?” one of them asked me

 

“Don’t need to bother with flying if I’m perfectly able to climb” I argued back.

 

“Does thou need arks help again?” I heard knife blocks voice and before I could decline I felt his grip around my waist. Hanging in the air like a potato sack again he started to fly downwards.

 

“You big idiot I could have climbed down on my one!”

 

“Thou needs to work on herself if thou wants to keep up with ark and thous brother!” he totally ignored me. When we arrived at the bottom Iruma offered to help clean up his mess and as his protector I of course wanted to helped as well. My offer was declined and I was forced to attend the remaining courses.  So now after the really short break I’m sulking at the history classroom, sitting next to princess again but this time also next to icy. As the teacher walked in… no way… instead of sulking I started to grin at the sight.

 

“Good afternoon everyone, I’m Dantalion Dali and we are going to have history together. This year we will begin with the basics of how this world was created and used to be and then we will slowly work our way towards today.” This caused some of the students to grumble in annoyance because most of them hoped to hear stuff about Derkila. “Fear not dear students, we will have enough time to cover the last Demon King to an extend that will make everyone happy! Now let us get started at our rough beginnings as the demons where more … uncivilized and ruthless you could say. For that please open your textbooks on page six” The first page of the book started off with everything that happened before the first demons split hell into three parts, they were Lucifer, Beelzebub and Samael. You could see that Daisy really likes his subject because he did tell us everything with so much animation and passion, that the lesson got over way to quick. Leading us to the last lesson for today Medicine.

 

“Hello students, My name is Buer Blushenko and I will teach medicine on a physical level, the psychological level will be taught by Murmur-sensei at a later date. The rules of this class are simple, you will not test any medicine, plants or other stuff on yourself nor on other students. This could cause you harm or allergic reaction which could be a problem for any emergency you may find yourself in later on. You will also not hurt another demon nor yourself to and I quote ‘test out if that shit really works’. This could not only harm you or lead to further problems, this could lead to your death in the worst case. So no ‘little’ stabbing, punching, ripping of limps or improvised operations, did I made myself clear” What the FUCK happened in this class?! Looking over to my classmates I saw that they were taking a back a little as well. “I take your silence as conformation, so we move on to our topics. We will start off with a little demon biology, that means we will cover what our organs do for us and why they shouldn’t be stabbed. After we covered this we will go over to different methods of healing, namely spells, plants and magic objects with healing effects. Let us get started on page seven” several students started giggling at the sight of the printed pictures. They showed a naked demon and demoness front, behind and inside. “Teenager, every year the same shit” I heard the teacher mumble as ADHD next to me pointed on the liver and said ‘look Jazz that’s you’ while jabbing the black haired into the side.

 

My happiness of surviving this madness sadly only lasted till after dinner. “So you gave all your classmates weird names?” Opera asked while washing the dishes. They wanted to talk to me so I followed them into the kitchen and sat myself on one of the counters.

 

“Iruma told you” I stated causing the cat demon to nod. Sighing I continued, “And you have a problem with that?”

 

“I wouldn’t call it a problem but it may causes your classmates to resent you. As you know Demons are very prideful so giving them derogatory names could cause you problems”. Frowning I stared at my hands… I haven’t thought about that way. A strange feeling settled down on my chest and I suddenly felt difficult to swallow. It’s like I swallowed a whole potato and it got stuck halfway through.

 

“I didn’t mean it like that and I also explained my problems…” nervously I fiddled with the hem of my shirt

 

“You are a weird Demon” this caused to snap my head back up

 

“why?”

 

“Normally a Demon would do anything to overcome their weaknesses but you just accept them” Opera crooked their head staring curious at me.

 

“What should I do?” seemingly pleased with my question they offered their help

 

“I could make you flashcards and ask you every evening”

 

“If it doesn’t trouble you… but please don’t tell anyone”

 

“Of course my Lady”

 

After my talk with Opera they helped me printing the pictures of my classmates and writing their names on the other side. We decided that I will start learning alone and from Thursday Opera will ask me every evening.

Chapter 7: Deadline

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The next day’s felt kind of weird. Iruma vanished every break to some private meeting he doesn’t want to tell me about. This somehow caused our little group to break apart, more like I got left on the sidelines. Maybe they are more Iruma’s friends than mine I thought, watching the clouds move in the sky.

 

“Craw” the black raven who was still quite small, picked at me.

 

“Huggin, I’m still breathing, that means I’m in fact still alive” I told this stupid idiot, still looking upwards when his friend landed on my other side. “What do you guys want?” sitting up I stared at the two troublemakers. Happy both Crows got closer to me. “Are you hungry?”

 

“Craw Craw” Muggin answered crooking his head. Huffing out I grabbed the bag behind me and searched for the desired item.

 

“Here you go” I mused now handing both of them a share of my food. “Didn’t your parents taught you how to hunt?” I continued, without expecting an answer. “poor things… You know… I could care for you. How hard can it be to catch some rats and stuff?” smiling I ran my fingers over the feathery coat from Muggin. The first warning scream of the school clock disturbed the peace, signaling that it is nearly time for homeroom. I emptied the rest of the box for the two birds to eat and get going. Today we had our short day, lesson wise, because we will choose our electives tomorrow and they are normally every Wednesday. Sadly that doesn’t mean that we can go before lunchbreak, we just have a longer break.

 

In Transfiguration we started today with the first spell, we should change the brightness of a lightbulb without casting the spell out loud. It was really a misery to watch. No one managed to lighten it up… I mean I could probably make it burn but that’s sadly not the task. Afterwards we had basic magic by the grandfather of our transfiguration teach. This was a really tiring time, instead of learning cool new spells we only do theoretics right now, because he didn’t trust us to not kill each other. Why are all the teachers so distrusting? Sure enough the long lunchbreak rolled around and after only half an hour Iruma left our table to do business.

 

“I have enough! I’m going to find out who is stealing our Iruma-chi!” and with that the green haired followed by Asmodeus left. Sighing I continued eating, even if my hunger was not existent.

 

“Is here free?” I heard a soft voice, looking up I saw the blond haired girl from my class, close behind her was icy.

 

“Yeah you can sit here… I’m nearly finished anyway…”

 

“Oh no my dear, you don’t have to go, we want to sit with you!” she quickly reassured me, before taking a seat. “We sit quiet often next to each other in class so I thought we should get to know each other better! I’m Elisabetha and this is Crocell” she introduced herself and the blue haired.

 

“Nayuri, nice to meet you?” my confusing look caused the girl in front of me to chuckle. This is all really weird. 

 

“So Nayuri, did you already thought about which elective you going to choose?” the blond asked after some bites of her food.

 

“Not really to be honest… I probably going to choose the same thing as my brother, so it is up to him” the girl in front of me crooked her head while taping her index finger against her chin. Raising an eyebrow I waited for her next question.

 

“Why don’t you choose something for yourself?”

 

“I need to keep an eye on him, don’t want him to get himself into trouble”  I answered half truthfully.

 

“But don’t you think that you limit you and your brother with that?”

 

“What do you mean with that?” smiling the girl continued.

 

“You and your brother are very different characters. The elective as well as the battlers are made to help us achieving our goals and fulfilling our own desires and interests, if you always put your own wishes behind your brothers you will always be in an disadvantage” on point after she finished the bell stared ringing, signaling the end of the break. “Oh my the break is already over, lets head back together” the blond added and stood up with her stuff. Silently I followed the two of them to our classroom.

 

The last lessons in the afternoon where classroom lessons, namely math this time. Fully concentrated on erasing my wrong answer I didn’t notice how my pencil rolled out of my reach, towards the edge and downwards. Exhausted from the whole day I rubbed my face.

 

“Asmodeus would you be so friendly and give me my pen?” I asked the boy next to me. He didn’t seem to hear me because I didn’t get an answer nor my pen. “Hey Asmodeus I’m talking to-“ I stopped as I turned around only to see him staring wide eyed at me “Did I say something weird…” I questioned.

 

“You called me Asmodeus!” he finally answered causing me to think about my flashcards, maybe I got the wrong name?

 

“Was it the wrong one? Damn that shit” I grumbled disappointed with myself

 

“You are trying to learn our names?!” that caused the green haired and Iruma to shift their focus on our conversation “and you learned mine first? I feel so honored” he continued, sparkling “I didn’t know our connection means so much to you”

 

“Get down from your high horse you idiot, your name was just the easiest, could you now please get me my pencil?” I grumbled again

 

“Of course Nayuri-chan” he smiled as he reached for my pen. Maybe this whole thing was a bad idea.

 

The rest of the lesson got over without any disturbance. The teacher reminded us, that we will get to choose an elective tomorrow and will have our first lesson directly after lunch. While I was still packing my stuff Iruma excused himself and took off to another secret meeting. That means I’m going home by myself again. Huffing out I stuffed the rest inside my back.

 

“Nayuri-san, I would like to have a talk with you… alone” our homeroom teacher stopped me before I could even think of leaving. The rest of the class got outside quickly to not be the receiver of the teachers wrath. Expectantly I stood before his table.

 

“You still not managed to get ranked from the owl is that correct?” He more stated than asked.

 

“Yes sir”

 

“This is quite unusual, there are only two reasons that could be the cause of that” the teacher said leaning forward, staring directly into my eyes. “The essence of both would be, that she is confused, either because she got the feeling that she didn’t saw your full potential or” now he smirked a little “because you’re weak. Taking into consideration, that you only managed to learn one of your classmates names till today, even though your around them all the time and that you didn’t manage to even unshed your wings at the flying exam I think I know the answer. I will give you time till the first rank enhancement exam to convince the owl to give you… anything, if you fail I will get you expelled and now go, your dismissed.” Swallowing down the lump in my throat I nodded and rushed out of the door up the stairs. I didn’t even notice Asmodeus and the green haired who waited for me.

 

“Yur Yur wait!” the green haired shouted as I reached the top of the stairs.

 

“Iruma is in his meeting, you can -” I started only to be interrupted by Asmodeus.

 

“We weren’t good friends to you the last days and we are deeply sorry for that” he bowed, dragging the green haired down with him.

 

“It’s ok… I mean you are more his friends than mine, it’s not a big deal” I tried to calm booth of them down.

 

“But it is! You are our friend as well Yur yur! We weren’t fair and we want to make it up to you!” the girl managed to free herself from Asmodeus grip, pleading for forgiveness.

 

“I won’t stop you, but that’s not necessary” the bean lit up at that and embraced me in a hug.

 

“Uh I will help you with my name if you want” at my nod the girl started to speak about herself in third person. “Clara will accompany you on your way home! Clara thinks the weather looks nice today so Clara is of the opinion that we can take our sweat time”

 

“Oh devi this will be a long walk” Asmodeus sigh.

 

“Clara thinks Azz Azz is boring”

 

“Can you finally shut up?!” he snaped at her. Shaking my head we got out on the school garden.

 

“Did you two find out with whom Iruma spends his breaks?” maybe they finally found something that explains his odd behavior.

 

“Clara and Azz Azz could find out that Iruma-chi spends his break with Lady red hair. They are doing some sort of reading session, Clara wants to now what they are reading but Clara couldn’t find it out” Clara explained, having to remind herself to speak in third person which caused her to stutter a bit.

 

“Who is Lady red hair?”

“The student council president Ameri Azazel” Asmodeus enlightened me.

 

“And they are just reading?”

 

“As far as Clara noticed they are reading a book” Clara confirmed. Humming I thought about the given information. Maybe I need to interrogate Iruma when he comes home.

 

“Another question, Asmodeus you are quite good in this fire magic stuff, right?” I continued without waiting for an answer “could you teach me one of your fire spells? The rank owl needs to see my potential”

 

“And you think the best thing would be to learn fire magic for this?” he asked stopping at the border of the garden under a tree.

 

“Obviously” taking a deep breath Asmodeus considered it and with a nod he reached out his hand.

 

“Ok, I will show you how to make a little flame” standing around him he created a small flame between his index finger and thumb. “All you have to do is to say ‘ignis’ with that you create this little flame you can use as light source or as fire bolt” he said, letting his flame grow a bit. Thankfully the tree was rather high so his fire couldn’t reach even the lower branches. Smiling I stretched my hand away from my body.

 

“Ignis” nothing

 

“Try to think about the flame and pour more mana in the spell” he advised me. Taking a deep breath I focused again.

 

“Ignis!” sure enough a little flame started to dance between my fingers. Testing I poured more mana in the flame, causing it to grow.

 

“Wow” Clara broke her own tries to look at my flame.

 

“That was really good Nayuri-san, I’m sure you will get a high rank from the owl” Asmodeus praised me, as Clara gave the whole thing another try.

 

“Ignis” she said, while pouring way to much mana into the spell. How I knew it was to much? Clara produced a darting flame which went really high, high enough to threaten the tree. In a panic she broke the spell, got out an axe from her pocket and chopped of the lower branch. Shocked we looked at the evidence. The evidence of using a spell we didn’t learn with a teacher, I don’t know if that could get us in trouble, but I’m better safe than sorry.

 

“Asmodeus, destroy the evidence” without another word he destroyed the branch controlled, the only evidence now is the missing spot in the tree and the brown slightly burnt gras beneath it. Silent we made our way home.

 

Later at night

 

Lied created the Group >Misfit class<

Lied added you to the group

 

Lied: Hey guys, I made us a groupchat!

 

Jazz changed >Lied< into  >diagnosed ADHD<

 

Diagnosed ADHD: Haha how funny

 

Nayuri: XD

 

Jazz: ;)

 

Asmodeus: It’s the middle of the night could you stop?!

 

Sabro: Are we disturbing thous beauty sleep?

 

Asmodeus: I’m going to burn you

 

Nayuri: @Iruma why is Asmodeus allowed to burn other demons and I’m not?!

 

Iruma changed >Nayuri< into >safety hazard<

 

Diagnosed ADHD: XD

 

Safety hazard: -_- you serious

 

Iruma: yes and we should sleep, I think I heard Opera ^._.^

 

Safety hazard: Oh shit, good night see you tomorrow

 

Safety hazard went offline

 

Iruma: Good night guys, sleep well!

 

Iruma went offline

 

Asmodeus: you should also go to bed!

 

Asmodeus went offline

 

Diagnosed ADHD: do you know what would be funny?

 

Sabro: what is on thous mind?

 

Jazz: ?

 

Diagnosed ADHD send >Kalego-sensei< an invite to the group >Misfit class<

 

Jazz: Oh devi

Sabro went offline

 

Diagnosed ADHD: Are you scared?

 

Kalego-sensei accepted the invitation

 

Jazz: Oh devi

 

Diagnosed ADHD: *surprised Pikachu face*

Chapter 8: The art of seduction

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The next day homeroom started with our teacher handing us the list of electives we could choose from. The conversation from yesterday was still in my mind, but I can’t leave Iruma alone.

 

“What are you going to choose Iruma-sama?” Asmodeus asked, after he merely scanned the paper.

 

“I don’t know, probably classroom lectures it seems to be the most unspectacular one… Nee-san, Clara what do you think?” he asked and quickly got his answer, as Clara selected one of the option eagerly.

 

“Seduction, only for girls” I read over her shoulder “are you sure about that Clara?” looking up to her I saw her nod. Ok, if she really wants to take it, why not.

 

“But you will be alone” Iruma chimed in “It’s only for girls” Clara looked still firm with her decision, so Iruma looked at me. Being a sibling comes with the perks of being able to communicate with just looking at each other. This apparently also applies for adoptive siblings. I could hear Asmodeus and Clara discussing, in the meantime Iruma and I ‘talked’

 

-We can’t leave her alone Nayuri- he communicated

 

-I don’t think we can change her decision, she looks like she really want to go there-

 

-You’re probably right, but we can’t let her do this alone!-

 

-I hope I just imagine what your implying here-

 

-Pretty please?-

 

-What do I get for that?-

 

-You can wish for anything you want-

 

Sighing I contemplated the deal. So much to “choose what you want” but he is right… I can’t leave her alone, she is way too soft for this. Swiftly I took my pen and set my cross at seduction.

 

“Nayuri you will also take the seduction course” Clara asked, staring wide eyed at my paper.

 

“Yeah” I answered and you could probably hear how happy I was about this.

 

“This will be so much fun” she smiled and hugging me tightly. I hope Iruma knows what he signed up for, when he asked me to do this. If not, my gaze probably tells him enough. Swallowing hard, he made his cross, probably at the classroom lesson as he had planned. I really really hope this isn’t as bad as I think it is.

 

“Oh my, it seems like we girls will stay together” the blond girl said from the other side of the room, taping at her own cheek thoughtful.

 

“This is sexism! It can’t be allowed! Why do only girls have the chance to learn the beauty of seducing?” the avian boy started to rant.

 

“Hey Clara, can you make me a water gun?” I asked the girl whispering. Happy she complied to my request and shortly after I filled it with the help of a water spell. The boy was still ranting and wanted to start a protest march, as I unnoticed from everyone, except Clara, aimed at my target. When I thought I had a good shot trajectory I activated the gun… and managed to hit his head.

 

“Wohoooo 100 points for Yur Yur!” the green haired cheered as the others looked around confused.

 

“What was that?!” the yellow haired asked, curiously bouncing on his tail.

 

“An Educational measure, he misbehaved so I corrected his behavior” I explained, securing the gun, I wouldn’t want to activate it accidentally.

 

“Clara, what have you done?” Iruma whined meanwhile.

 

“Wait, does your sister also shoot you?” one of the misfits asked.

 

“Like I said, Educational measures you don’t have to fear the water gun if you behave correctly. That being said, we probably should go, we wouldn’t want to not get on time to sky-sensei” I said, packing my things, ready for the transfiguration class. Already mentally preparing myself for the seduction class after lunch.  

 

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Defeated I sat at the seduction classroom, why don’t we have a classroom like this?! I feel betrayed, how could grandpa give us that landfill? Isn’t he the principle of the school? Looking around I could spot some girls I already had seen at the orientation week… I think one of them was saved by my brother after the entrance ceremony. It seems like this course is popular under the female students… I mean it has it’s perks to be away from the boys for a while.

 

“ Mupah I’m your teacher and the succubus Raim-sensei and I will show you the art of seduction” she started with an pose… Oh I will let Iruma suffer for this.

 

“First of all your sexiness is your tool. To lure prey we change our appearance to their preferences” she started and Clara took notes. “We want to look appealing to them, so we can reach our own goals… I brought some books with me…” she started and was quickly interrupted by the draconic girl.

 

“Devi! She brought seduction 2!” she fawned, looking at the one eyed students desk, causing everyone to ohs and ahs. Should I know this book? I asked myself, confused about the reaction from the other girls. Chuckling the succubus interrupted the enthusiastic chatter of my classmates.

 

“Before we start with that you have a long way to go, but we will come back to it on a later date!” this dampened the mood a little.

 

“Objection, it is not ok to withhold the girls these materials, they need to have the chance to enhance their sexiness as soon as possible” the bird interrupted. Wait a minute… WHAT in devis name is he doing here?!

 

“Ey birdy, this is a class only for girls so get your ass out of here”

 

“I cannot comply to that Nayuri-sama I started this revolution against the restrictions for us men to be part of this cl- ak” while he was talking I could manage to get my gun out unnoticed and shot directly into his mouth.

 

“You have exactly 5 seconds till I will use stronger methods… one” I started counting as the avian hurried to get out of the class. “Close the door behind you and DON’T eavesdrop” I called after him.

 

“What a passion! How magnificent!” the succubus mused clasping her hands together. Turning I also saw the whole class staring at me like I’m a knight or something.

 

“Nayuri the protector of the girl class” Clara chuckled.

 

“Can we please continue” I dead planted as the rest of the class started to murmur at Claras comment.

 

“Right my darling, lets continue with the rules of this class shall we” the teacher continued explaining that everything in this room shall stay here, we should not tell anyone the secrets we discussing. Another one and the most important would be, that we are not allowed to a) make fun or laugh about the appearances and questions other girls in this room have and b) to judge but we are allowed to friendly suggest improvements so that everyone would be able to reach their goal. “Now let’s see what sexiness level you have, to find out if you need improvement!” I would lie if I would say that I’m not hooked by the subject, not that I would ever admit that. The succubus started with one of the girls in my class who got a score of 89, one by one got scanned till it was my turn.

 

The teacher looked at me for a moment. “Oh my another 89%! How lucky we are!” she cupped her face in happiness. Clara did absolutely crossed my comfort zone staring at my side profile. “I think you could already improve by using a bit of makeup to compliment your eyes and maybe letting your hair run open or in another hairstyle” the woman suggested after a moment before moving on to Clara. Where she stopped in shock.

 

“What? What am I? A hundred? A thousand?” she bombarded the teacher excited

 

“Clara, there is not such a thing as thousand percent, a hundred is the highest you can get” I explained.

 

“So I am a hundred?” If the look on the teachers face didn’t said it, the amount of books did. Shortly after the class ended, where Clara also got help offered by the woman I took the girl aside.

 

“Clara you do know that you don’t have to change? Sexiness isn’t the only thing boys or men will fall for. You are really adorable and your happiness is infectious, the right guy for you would absolutely love you for these assets, ok” I looked her in her giant doe eyes, she blinked at me once, than she smiled.

 

“You’re so sweet Yur Yur, but I will overtake you in no time!” she is really enthusiastic in… everything… this is getting creepy. Suddenly I was embraced in a tight hug “but thanks for coming here with me”.

 

“No need for thanking me, like you said yesterday, we are friends and we help each other”

 

“Oh no, Master Iruma look, they broke Nayuri already!” I heard the idiot talking. Taking a deep breath I turned to face them.

 

“I am not broken”

 

“She is sexy!” Clara defended me and managed to embarrass me in the same time.

 

“Wha-“ Iruma started confused but got interrupted by Asmodeus.

 

“Don’t listen to her Iruma-sama!”

 

“Hey! Are you questioning my sexiness pinky?!” Yeah… sometimes I manage to dig my own graves.

 

“I never said anything like that!” he defended himself and dug his grave next to mine.

 

“Azz Azz thinks Nayuri is sexy!” Clara said loud enough for many other students to hear causing both of us as well as my brother to blush.

 

“I didn’t said that either you moron!” he grumbled, only making it worse. Sighing I started to walk away from the symbolic wreckage we just created.

 

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The next day only Asmodeus picked us up, so I texted Clara where she is. The only answer I got was that she is ‘preparing’ something. That can’t be good. What also wasn’t great were the angry glances I got. What did I do now. Quickly I thought about everything I did that could cause that many first year girls to look at me like that. Iruma quickly excused himself to visit the red haired girl, leaving me and the pink haired alone.

 

“I have some business to do, so you can follow me or already go to class” the pink haired looked at me for a moment.

 

“Lead the way Nayuri-san” walking around for a bit I found the spot in the garden. Cupping my mouth with my hands I made a calling sound. “What in the hells are you doing” Asmodeus questioned my actions. In response I just motioned him to wait and sure enough Huggin and Muggin landed.

 

“Hey my little guys, did you miss me” I greeted them. “Look I got some good stuff today” Putting my back in front of me I searched for the little package. “Here you go!”. With a ‘craw sound they hoped near and ate the stuff I brought out of my open hand.

 

“Aren’t those the ones you found at the race?” Asmodeus asked watching us curiously.

 

“Hm… yes, they visited me here after the weekend and looked very thin, so I figured that their parents must have left them before they taught them how to hunt properly. So I took matters into my own hands and feed them at least once a day” I explained as Muggin had enough for today and flew away.

 

“This is really interesting I never saw domestic devi crows!”

 

“They domesticated themselves I guess, after they couldn’t eat me, they probably decided to look for another way to get food from me… Oh hey Muggin comes back” turning my attention to the crow, as  I saw that he had something in his beak. “What did you got here?” I asked holding my hand out for him to lay it in there. He understood what I want and shoved a beautiful bracelet in my palm.

 

“They stole something for you” Asmodeus mused looking at the beautiful jewelry. “It would suit you well I think” carful I let my right hand slide into the silver band. It had one main band and two other who were meandering and curling around the main one. To top it off it was decorated with leaves and some black and purple gems. As soon as I got it behind my wrist it suddenly tighten, now appearing as it was forged around my arm, not budging a bit.

 

“Seems like I will never get rid of it again” I huffed out, taking my bag to make my way to our classroom.

 

“As long as there is no mana eating shadow who attacks me…” Asmodeus grumbled, rubbing the back of his head in memory. We met up with Iruma again, who was looking a bit troubled but didn’t want to tell us why and made our way to class. The mood of the other students around didn’t lighten up in the time we were in the garden, they are still all staring at me with hatred. Thankfully I finally found out what was wrong when I entered the classroom.

 

“Look there is the happy couple!” the yellow haired classmate of us cheered as we entered.

 

“It seems like Raim-sensei’s lesson showed effects pretty fast” the girl… I think this is Elisa or something mussed. Confused I looked at them.

 

“What are you all talking about?” I questioned them.

“No need to be shy, the rumors about you and Asmodeus already reached us!” the blond haired boy answered again with an grin.

 

“The WHAT?! There is no me and him!” I said pointing at the pink haired who mumbled something that sounded like ‘damn you Clara’

 

“But why is everyone talking about it then?” Eli asked now.

 

“This is all just out of context, HE thought I was broken and Clara said that I’m sexy, that confused my brother because it had no connection, so Azz answered that Clara is a moron, which hurt my Ego, so he clarified that he meant her in general and then Clara screamed that he thinks I’m sexy. End of the story!” I explained in great detail.

 

“So you’re not together?” pretty hair asked for clarification.

 

“NO!” we answered unison and suddenly one part of the class started grumbling, while the other were extremely happy.

 

“You bet again am I right?” Asmodeus asked annoyed, took Iruma’s arm and moved towards our seats “Come master don’t let these influence you”. My eyes followed them, but instead of walking with them I made a beeline to the yellow haired boy.

 

“Hey, I set twenty on my brother and Asmodeus as couple” I whispered so they wouldn’t hear me.

 

“Interesting… I bet against it and say that Iruma and Clara will be a thing”

 

“Clara… Why do you think that?”

 

“Why do you think she is taking the seduction curse?” he said with a grin.

 

“No way! She what?! Why doesn’t she just asked me for advice, now I’m stuck at the seduction course half a year” I whined.

 

“Ah come on it can’t be that bad” the dark haired chimed in.

 

“Yeah, but I really wanted to take the torture class!” I grumbled

 

“You know, hearing that from you kind of scares me” pretty hair also joined the conversation.

 

“If you are scared of her being in the torture class you should also be scared of her being in the seduction class, because that can be far more dangerous” the girl behind them added. Before I could answer we were sent on our seats with a barked ‘silence’. Clara still was nowhere to be found… How odd… I hope everything is ok.

 

I didn’t saw the greenet the whole day. She didn’t even ate lunch with us, so Iruma left me alone with Asmodeus again. This time we decided to walk around the school for a bit, in silence and several feet apart because of the rumors. When it was time to meet Iruma to go to class he looked even more conflicted and I really hoped, that he trust me enough to come to me if he got into problems. While Iruma talked with Asmodeus near our assigned seats I was watching knife block train. When did he put all this stuff here… My train of thoughts was interrupted by the worst smell I ever smelled. Coughing I jumped from the table I used as seat and stumbled to the windows.

 

“Nee-san are you alright” I heard Iruma worried, but I wasn’t able to answer. Every breath burned in my nose.

 

“Do you smell that?”  Someone seemed to notice as I finally managed to reach the window and ripped it open. Leaning out of the window I managed to breathe again, while the whole class started to smell the thing I was fleeing from. Someone joined me at the window, while the pink haired gave my brother a gas mask?! Why the fuck does he have them on hand?

 

Shortly after my nearly occurring death Iruma decided to look for air refreshers. My eyes and nose still stung from the weird smell as suddenly the source of it come through the door. Clara. I could see in the faces of my classmates that they wanted to laugh.

 

“Laugh and I will take Educational measures” I grumbled and walked over to Clara  who seemingly discovered make up, breathing very light so I don’t die from the sickening air around her. “Hey Clara, I see you are practicing the tips you got” the girl nodded eagerly. “You know you took a little bit too much”.

 

 Someone in the class parroted “a little bit” questioning.

 

Ignoring that I continued “Make up is used to compliment your assets not overpowering them. Come we go to outside and then we can see how we can improve you work ok?” I asked and hoped that the girl will comply. Thankfully she nodded eagerly and so we spent the last ten minutes before the lesson started outside to get her makeup fixed. While doing so I explained her why I made certain things and how.

 

“I didn’t know that you could use make up that well Nee-san” Iruma complimented (?) behind me with the air refresher.

 

“I will take this as an compliment and not as an insult so thank you Iruma”

 

“Your welcome” I looked at him over my shoulder and saw him smiling at me.

 

“Go and repair the air in our classroom” I grumbled and he complied snickering at my antics. A little while later Clara and I were ready to go back to class. Let’s say we tried, because thanks to Iruma, the classroom is even more mephitic.

 

“I’m not going in there” I refused, smelling the toxic air.

 

“It’s not that bad Yuri, you will accustom in some minutes” One of my classmates tried to persuade me.

 

“Asmodeus is currently wearing a gas mask, he” I pointed at my hairy classmate “didn’t leave the window since I left with Clara and he” pointing at knife block I continued “is unconscious!”

 

“I’m not unconscious, I just relax till the room halts rotating” He answered. Hearing steps approaching us, Clara and I turned around to face our teacher. His face scrunched up in disgust.

 

“What in hells name did you morons do to that classroom” he really tried not to breath in, but we noticed quickly that it didn’t help much because he ended our lesson really fast.

Chapter 9: Training

Chapter Text

“I want to enhance my rank” Iruma told me after school ended on Friday. Apparently he spoke with the pink haired about it as I was feeding the crows in our lunch break. “Do you want to come with us? Azz is showing me how execution cannonball works”

 

“Of course, as if I let you train alone with him” I said taking the lead.

 

“Nayuri-sama that is the wrong direction” Asmodeus intervened, annoyed I changed my direction and followed his lead into a cave.

 

“You know… maybe someone should start checking the school for safety hazards” I mused looking at the tall stalagmites. Ignoring me Asmodeus started with his history lesson. “Just say that we have two teams, one in that part of the field one in the other and then we try to throw a ball at them. If you get hit your out. You’re allowed to use magic on the ball but not on the surroundings or your classmates, if you do you’re out. Understood?” I interrupted the pink haired as he started with the barbaric killing side of the game when it got invented. I don’t think the heart of my poor brother could take the whole story.

 

“Oh ok… that sounds better”  Iruma exhaled, the tension leaving his body, in the meantime Azz looked at me angrily because of the interruption.

 

“Let’s play! Let’s play!” Clara jumped taking a ball out of her pocked.

 

“Ok, you take Clara and I take him” I told directed to Iruma, pointing at Asmodeus.

 

“What why?! I want to be on a team with Master Iruma” the pink haired exclaimed offended.

 

“Not happening, you would throw the ball in my face or some shit like that!” expressionless I looked over to him.


“Why should I do that!” Now he starts gesturing wildly, as if that would help his case.

 

“I don’t know but you totally would!”

 

“That doesn’t make sense”

 

“Hey guys, can we join your little training” the yellow haired stopped our fight.

 

“Sure why not” Iruma accepted and so we made two teams with me as coach.

 

“Ok, the rules are, no magic against your teammates, only directed towards the ball, that includes the surroundings. You are allowed to manipulate them only to affect the ball not to hurt your opponents! It is also not allowed to aim at the heads of your opponents, that would automatically cause your disqualification. And the last and probably most important rule, don’t attack the coach!” I ended and took several steps back as safety measure. “You may begin”. As soon as these words left my mouth the massacre broke loose. “Oh dear devil, they are all maniacs” I mumbled to myself as I watched Icey barely managed to make a wall out of ice as knife block smashed the ball at her. It bounced off and nearly crashed into the guy on the cloud if he hadn’t react as fast as he did and made a wall out of stone.

 

“I think I need special training” I heard my brother. Thank the devil, one time against them is more than enough… . Shortly after that statement we finally took off. I should probably also train a bit… I thought and plan my training till we got home.  

 

“Grandpa… I have a question” Iruma started shortly after we arrived. Curious I looked at him seeing Grandpa nearly crying in happiness in my peripheral vision. “Could you help me training for the Execution Cannonball exam?” he finished his question quickly closing his eyes shut. As if the old man would deny him something like this.

 

“Of course my little Iru, come we go outside” nearly singing he took Iruma’s hand and hopped outside. Intrigued I followed after them after a short while, with Opera hot on my heals. We came to a hold at the door, as Grandpa apparently showed Iruma a spell. Fixing his stance my brother breathed deep in and out, before repeating the spell while throwing the ball. This caused a beautiful blue dragon with golden accents to erupt out of his hand. It took the ball in his mouth and roared in the sky ending the whole thing with a giant explosion.

 

“Iruma! I thought you don’t want to kill our classmates” I accused him after the light from the dragon fated.

 

“Eh- I don’t want to kill them, I just want to learn how to play the game with my own strength!”  He whined.

 

“Then I’m probably not the best trainer for you, but I know two demons who would like to help you” Grandpa mused looking over to me and Opera.

 

“Oh I would love to shoo him around, but I have to train myself because this stubborn owl needs to give me my rank.” I clinked myself out as Opera took over with way to much joy. RIP Iruma, you will be missed. Getting myself seated on the sideline I watched the first few rounds of them, still not quite sure how to get the owl to rank me, as Opera stopped the ball midair in front of Iruma’s face.

 

“Woooha wait a second what spell was that?” Interested I stemmed myself of the ground and walked towards the cat demon.

 

“I assumed you didn’t want to train with us” they stated unimpressed.

 

“Oh I want to train alone but more importantly, I need that spell”  raising an eyebrow at me the cat told me the spell, causing me to grab a ball and get away quickly. On the space around the corner I started throwing the ball and concentrate on the spell. I tried to stop the ball midair till Opera called me to come inside for dinner. Maybe I could try it with something that flies better first before I try to stop the ball… so I could memorize the spell and then practice it on a ball. Rushing to my room after dinner I realized my idea. I took a paper from my desk, stretched myself and let it fall down. Quickly I let myself fall underneath the paper and tried to stop it. Sadly without success.

 

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The next morning I got out of bed earlier and started with yoga. Well that was the plan to help myself getting more flexible. Struggling I now hanged in an position with an cramping muscle as the door opened.

“Good morning- Mistress what in hells name are you doing?” Opera asked, crooking their head to one side.

 

“Yoga”

 

“I don’t think you’re doing this right miss”

 

“Oh really? You think so? Maybe the problem is, that I’m stuck and a cramp is stopping me from getting into an more comfortable position” Sighing they put the tray with tea on my desk an then helped me to unknot myself.

 

“I could make you a plan you could use to train yourself if you want” Opera offered as I rubbed my hurting muscles.

 

“You don’t need to do this for me” I told them, embarrassed about the whole situation. Their ears twitched slightly as they answered.

 

“I would like to do this to keep your wounds on a minimum, even though I still will check for any signs of strains every evening to prevent yourself from hurting” they stated before helping me up.

 

“Thanks Opera”

 

“No need to thank me for something like that mistress” their ears and tail twitched again.

 

The following day the siblings both woke up pretty early to train as much as possible. On Monday Iruma used the time before school to throw himself a tinier ball in the air and catching it, while his sister trained her flexibility with stretching and yoga exercises. After that they got ready for school and ate breakfast. As soon as they were ready they both jogged to school, followed by an enthusiastic green haired and an weirdly proud pink haired. Unnoticed to them their enthusiasm also caused their classmates to take this whole thing more seriously. For example Sabro started to train even more during class, while Crocell and Agares trained their abilities to make better walls to hold potential balls throwed by the blond haired, having their last encounter in mind. Caim on the other hand tried a similar approach like Iruma and mainly trained catching balls to ‘protect the females from them’. Clara did the absolute opposite and trained throwing as many balls out of her pocket as she could, while her family cheered her on. In the meantime was Asmodeus thinking about how he could assist Iruma in any possible situation he could think of. The siblings themselves trained the whole afternoon as soon as they came home. While Iruma, as stated prior, still tried to catch a ball without jumping out of reach, the girl trained her newly discovered spell at first with paper and as she managed to stop it midair she moved back to try to do the same with the ball. Like the last days Opera made sure that neither of them had any injuries before they went to bed.

 

“Nee-san, can we train together today?” Iruma asked as we made our way home. “I mean Opera is a pretty good teacher but I want to see if I even would stand a chance against my peers” he further explained.

 

“If that’s what you want we can train as soon as were home”

 

“Oh I wanna see! I wanna see” Clara cheered hoping around and waving her hand around.

 

“Don’t be such a menace Clara!” Asmodeus scolded but I could sense that he also would like to come around.

 

“I don’t have a problem with that, If it’s ok with you Iruma”

 

“Yeah sure!”

 

At home we swiftly put our bags inside and while Iruma gave Opera a heads up, that our classmates will come visit after they put their things home, I looked for a blanked for them to sit on. We managed to put everything outside right in time.

 

“Hello Yur Yur, Iruma-chi we are back again” Clara cheered from afar and got scolded by Azz for doing so.

 

“Now that you both are here we can start” Iruma told them determined. He positioned himself a few feet away from me. “Bring it on Nayuri”.

 

“As you wish” I positioned my legs shoulder-width apart, focusing completely on Iruma. The ball was mainly in my left hand, turning my hip to the same side I also used my right leg for extra momentum and then I threw it. Bypassing the distance between us it impacted on my brothers outstretched hands, sadly he didn’t manage to hold it.

 

“Oh man… I really thought I had it this time” he mumbled disappointed with himself.

 

“Hm… Iruma, try to round your hands a bit more and try to come more from the sides than from the front, let us try again” after two more slight corrections he managed to hold it. Cheering he wanted to try again and when we were sure, that the catch training worked out we moved over to throwing.

“Ok, depending on how the ball is thrown and who you target is there are different forms of throwing. With certain moves you can manage to make the ball fly a curve or spin which would make it harder to catch it, as well as if some points are given you could use the energy of the throw to throw it back at your opponent. But this is all rather complex, for now we focus on you trying to throw strong enough to reach me. Put your legs shoulder-width apart, now you could either do it like me and take the ball in one hand moving your complete body into that side or you put the foot from your non dominant side a bit forward. Then you move the leg from the dominant side with the throw” After a short pause Iruma decided for the second form. “Ok for the throw itself look for a point at my body that you can hit. For example you could try to hit my legs, because I probably wouldn’t be fast enough to catch it there but you may miscalculate the throw and it hits the ground or it flies past them because the surface is not big enough. That all counts for places near the outside of the body like shoulders, so for the beginning we will focus on hitting the middle of the body with enough surface to land a hit, the best part is somewhere at the upper body. There will be a high chance for your opponent to catch the ball so we need to make sure that you hit with enough strength… Oh and don’t forget, the head is of limits” Iruma nodded and got ready for his first throw. The ball sailed through the air and landed in my hands with a bit force.

 

“Yeah Iruma-chi that was great” Clara cheered from the sideline while snaking on some fruits Oprea got out earlier.

 

“Ah… that was nothing…” he answered scratching his head embarrassed.

 

“Seems like we need to work on that as well”

 

“Huh what do you mean Nee-san?”

 

“Your appearance! I mean in some fights it can be beneficial if you appear weaker than them, because that will lead your opponent to become careless, thinking they will win either way. But in the situation of Cannonball you need to act like you know you will win, that confuses your chosen pray. Maybe try to smile, don’t avoid eye contact…. Hmm best would be if you imagine some situation where you feel confident… As if your enemy tries to steel food from you and your only weapon to stop him is the ball in your hands. Now to your throw, it’s good that you manage to get the ball to me but you need more force… Find your inner anger and convert that into energy into a throw ok?” Nodding Iruma closed his eyes for a moment, took his stance and while he swing out for the throw he opened his eyes again. Determination shimmered in them, as his mouth parted for an evil grin. Taking my stance I braced for the impact and sure enough he managed to hit me slightly underneath my arms in my stomach.

 

“I did it” I could hear him mumble unbelieving.

 

“And that just after the second try, I’m proud of you brother”

 

“Master that was- that was so-“

 

“Wush Kaboom badam” the green haired interrupted, causing Asmodeus to lose his dreamy expression

 

“What the hell does that even mean?!” he asked the girl annoyed.

 

“That looked very good, Iruma-kun, it seems like the little mistress is quite a good teacher”  Now Opera chimed in taking pictures of the whole scenery. “But you should probably come to an end for today to not overuse your body’s. Tomorrow is another day you can use for training before letting your body heal for Friday. You can spend the time I need to prepare dinner together but after that you two probably should head home before your parents worry” They directed their last sentence to our guests. The rest of the evening we chatted a bit about the upcoming event and after dinner and bathing I fell asleep fast.

 

The next day we used to train more throwing and catching. For that we acted as opponents and tried to hit the other. Iruma even managed to hit me a few times, smiling each time as I praised him. But on Thursday, the day before the examen we decided to rest.

Chapter 10: Party Plans

Notes:

Hey,
I will change my upload rythm to every two weeks because I want to give myself more time with writing and reading over the chapters :)

Chapter Text

Diagnosed ADHD:

We should celebrate after the examen,

it doesn’t matter how we score or who

won we should just celebrate that we are still alive

 

Elisabetha: 

Oh my, are you not well my dear?

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

I trained with Jazz, I think that explains enough

 

Asmodeus:

I don’t think you trained more than Master Iruma

and Nayuri-sama, she was a strict and merciless

 teacher who pushed her student to success!

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

Nayuri trained Iruma?!

 

Allocer:

what an unfortunate soul

 

Clara:

It was so flashy! The ball was flying around like

Boom Kapow and then there was blood!

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

Did Nayuri kill him?!

 

Jazz:

RIP

 

Sabro:

My rivals are not to underestimate

 

Safety hazard:

 What the fuck?! First of all I’m not a slave driver,

 Secondly what blood?! And I showed mercy!

 

Iruma:

I’m really fine, my hands only hurt a bit but

it gotten better :)

 

Asmodeus:

Oh my brave master!

 

Safety hazard:

You are totally exaggerating

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

for my own wellbeing I decide to ignore this

conversation… So what do you think of my

 party plans

 

Safety hazard:

What party

 

Iruma:

didn’t you read the chat?

 

Safety hazard:

No I just saw how azz and Clara are destroying

my reputation and needed to defend my honor

 

Ha I hope Jazz broke you

 

Asmodeus:

so much to your reputation and honor…

 

Jazz:

XD

 

Safety hazard:

You can say about me what you want but

 I’m not a bad sister

 

Elisabetha:

The love of a family how pure

 

Caim:

How right you are my lady

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

Ouch that hurt but I’m fine… physically…

 

Sabro:

I have no objection to thous plans

 

Clara:

Party! Party! Party!

 

 

Caim:

We could visit an onsen together

 

Safety hazard:

I would drown you before you could lay your

 eyes on any of us

 

Jazz:

This went dark rather quickly

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

Ok, no onsen I guess… how about we are just

making some snacks and chat on the weekend?

 

Iruma:

Like a picnic?

 

Jazz:

?

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

?

 

Allocer:

I’m not familiar with that term

 

Asmodeus:

I’m ashamed to admit that I have never heard of it either

 

Sabro:

Typical for my rival

 

Safety hazard:

Haha, even I know what it is XD

It is an activity where you make different types of

finger food like sandwiches or baked goods to eat

 them in nature… For that purpose you lay out an old

blanked to sit on and then you can enjoy your food ;)

 

Jazz:

Oh that sounds nice…

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

everyone could make a little bit and then we share

 

Iruma:

Thanks for the explaining Nayuri :)

and yes we could write what we want to bring so

that we wouldn’t have doubles

 

Agares:

Can you stop spamming ?

 

Gaap:

I don’t think this sleep schedule is healthy for you…

 

Allocer:

Many studies have shown that too much sleep is

 causing troubles for several body functions

 

Safety hazard:

Is this an intervention?

 

Agares:

Fuck off

 

Safety hazard:

If it was an intervention I guess it wasn’t that successful

 

Asmodeus:

How did you notice that?!

 

Safety hazard:

You should take Agares advise

 

Asmodeus:

Do you even know who Agres is?

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

Uhhh its getting heated in here

 

Jazz:

You really think it is a good idea to comment something like that?!

 

Caim:

The female rage and passion… I can feel it

 

Iruma:

 

Safety hazard is offline

 

Jazz:

This is bad, and I don’t even know which one of you is fucked the most

 

Sabro:

the bird

 

Clara:

Yur yur is getting pretty good with names!

 

Iruma is offline

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

we are screwed

 

Jazz:

You, Asmodeus and Caim are screwed don’t put us on the same line

 

Elisabetha:

Oh my, I’m going to check in with her

 

Meanwhile at Sullivans mansion

 

“IRUMAAAAA! DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE FUCKING RECEPIE BOOK IS?!”  I screamed hanging in my bookshelf.

 

“WHich…..”

 

“WHAT DID YOU SAY?!” I screamed back at him

 

“WHI…. SAN” I got the cryptic answer

 

“WHA-“ I stopped as my door was ripped open

 

“Which one do you need” he asked

 

“The one with finger food, snacks and shit” humming he came over and quickly scanned my shelve.

 

“Are you sure you had it on your shelve?” he asked looking down at me as I looked threw the bottom ones again.

 

“Pretty sure, I put it in here after our pancakes came out as burned frisbees” humming again Iruma thought back to that day.

 

“Maybe Opera took it?”

 

“OPERA-SAAAAAAAAN” I screamed, causing Iruma to hold his ears. A few minutes later the door reopened.

 

“Yes young mistress how can I help you” they asked, ears twitching.

 

“Do you know where the finger food cooking book is?” I asked them now sitting instead of kneeling on the floor, while Iruma still thought where else it could be.

 

“Yes I put it to the others in the kitchen, why are you asking” they wanted to know, squinting their eyes in suspicion. Thankfully Iruma answered for me.

 

“We are going to have a picnic after the examen and probably need to bring something with us”

 

“Ok you will decide what you want to bring with you and I will cook it”

 

“That isn’t necessary” I started persuading them in hope I would be allowed to cook again.

 

“We wouldn’t want to burden you” Iruma added rubbing his neck. Uhh we’re having good chances. I barely managed to contain my grin.

 

“No chance I will not let you two enter the kitchen again” they crushed our dreams looking at us sternly.

 

“But-“

 

“We promise to-“

 

“No and that’s final! I get you the book so you can choose” they said turning on their heel and walk way. Groaning I let myself flop on my back, while Iruma sat next to me. Sighing I held my smartphone above my face, seeing a direct message.

 

Private chat Elisabetha and Nayuri

 

Elisabetha:

Hey are you alright?

 

Nayuri:

Yes, I was looking for a recipe for the picnic and

after I couldn’t find it I put my smartphone down

 

Elisabetha:

I’m glad that you are Ok!

Don’t let your mood darken from our classmates :*

 

Nayuri:

Thanks for your concern <3

 

 

 

Private chat Gaap and Nayuri

 

Nayuri:

Hey pretty hair, quick question what products

are you using again?

 Opera needs some stuff from that shop you

recommended and could get it for me :)

 

Gaap:

conditioner and hair masks, I would recommend

you some products to embrace your curls too ;)

 

Nayuri:

how do you know that I have curls…

 

Gaap:

Because your hair isn’t really staying in the bun and

is rather flying around, it would help to either

embrace your locks or to straighten your hair but

that could damage it…

You should probably get something to protect them

from the heat anyway, if you decide you want to straighten

 them someday ;)

 

Nayuri:

Thanks for the help :)

 

 

Group chat ‘Misfit class’

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

Oh devi I don’t wanna die

 

Jazz:

XD

 

Safety hazard is online

 

Safety hazard:

Ok, the good thing is I finally found that fucking recipe book

 but neither I nor Iruma is allowed in the kitchen …

So our stuff will be made by Opera -_-

 

Sabro:

Why aren’t thou allowed into the kitchen

 

Iruma is online

 

Iruma:

We are not trustworthy enough

 

Jazz:

What did you do to not be trusted in the kitchen

 

Allocer:

I’m also curious

 

Asmodeus:

I’m sure this is a misunderstanding, Master Iruma

 can’t be bad at cooking!

Sabro:

Thou want to tell me that thou can cook?

 

Asmodeus:

Yes I can cook Sabnok! Why shouldn’t I be able to?!

 

Clara:

….

 

Sabro:

 

Safety hazard:

because you look like a rich bastard, that’s why.

 

 But back to your questions: Iruma can only cook…

certain meals… and is not quite familiar with measuring

before putting stuff into a bowl…

 You could say that he is more like a trial and error cook

 with too much errors for Operas liking

and I’m apparently an arsonist

 

Iruma:

You set the Oven on fire, you nearly created a wildfire

when we used the fireplace and you let our toaster explode…

 

Safety hazard:

My trial and error is just a little fire,

yours is food poisoning so keep quiet!

 

Iruma:

It wasn’t that bad…

 

Asmodeus:

You know, I suddenly regret the fact that I taught

Nayuri a fire spell…

 

Iruma:

YOU DID WHAT

 

Safety hazard:

Muhahahaha

 

Jazz:

We are fucked

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

I’m surprised that our classroom didn’t burn down

 already so I don’t think it will be that bad

 

Clara:

Uhh that was fun, Iruma-chi was with Lady red hair

so Azz azz showed us both the fire magic! It made

wush and suddenly the tree caught fire so I had to

chop of the branch and Azz destroyed the evidence!

 

Iruma:

YOU DID WHAT

 

Safety hazard:

 I think you fried his brain…

 

Gaap:

I knew there was a branch missing at this one tree

but you didn’t want to believe me @Agares

 

Kalego-sensei is online

Kalego-sensei is offline

 

Safety hazard:

 We are fucked

 

Asmodeus:

Stupid Clara

 

Safety hazard:

 I’m sure he added that to his negative list

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

His what

 

Safety hazard:

didn’t you notice how the teachers made notes

of how we behave in class?

For example after my plant ate the other two the teach

 wrote something down and I’m pretty sure It has

 something to do with analyzing our behavior

 

Iruma:

You’re doomed Nee-sama

 

Safety hazard:

I’m sure I’m on the green list of daisy-san

 I’m pretty good in history so…

 

Iruma:

 …

 

Safety hazard:

come on, as if you are any better!

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

are they fighting over chat even though they

 are in the same house?

 

Safety hazard is offline

 

Iruma:

Oh shit

 

Iruma is offline

 

Jazz:

you killed him

 

Clara:

bye bye Iruma-chi

 

Sabro:

Do my rivals train again?

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

Iruma is getting survival training

 

Asmodeus:

I hope that you know that your actions will

have consequences

 

Clara:

Azz azz is going to fight lied-kun

 

Diagnosed ADHD:

Oh man

 

Jazz:

RIP

 

Elisabetha:

Oh my

 

Caim:

So much female empowerment

 

Meanwhile in Sullivans mansion

 

“Have mercy Nee-san, I’m your only brother” Iruma huffed out as I let him breath for a moment.

 

“Is this the only thing you have to say for yourself?” I asked while cornering him a few floors away from my room, while having a pillow secured in my hands.

 

“I beg you for forgiveness you merciful and nice queen of pain and suffering, let me you dear brother live to see another day and I shall grant you whatever you want”

 

“Aww now you humble me, but fine I shall grant you, my one and only brother, in everything but blood, your freedom till you decide to annoy me again” I said while letting him go. With a handshake our deal was set.

 

“I got the book” Opera told us while handing us the wished item. At that opportunity I also told them what I need from that hair shop, before I forget it again. The rest of the day Iruma and I looked through the recipes and decided on two.

Chapter 11: Execution Cannonball

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Our teacher led us to the underground cave arena we already know and I could feel the adrenaline starting to bubble inside of me.

 

“I will go swiftly over the rules. You will be separated into two teams, each team has their own field and is bound to it. If you are hit, you will go out of the bounds, a hit is not valid if you strike the head and/or used magic on your opponent. The use of magic is only allowed at your surroundings and the ball, not on any demon. You all get graded on how high ranked the demon is you managed to hit, only if you show enough strength you will be ranked up” Plum sensei explained bored. “now come over and get your batch” with that we lined up and one after another got a red batch for team A or a yellow one for team B. I landed on team A, with me where knife block, the guy who’s existence I only know because of the thirteenth smell and the flash cards, kitty cat, Elisa- something, goldy and Iruma. Even though he haven’t noticed yet. Sadly that means we are not only against Azz, we are against Clara as well… That doesn’t seem really good balanced! The highest ranked on our team is goldy… we are screwed.

 

The game started as my brother realized that we are the opponents of Azz and Clara. Goldy managed to steal the ball immediately and gave it to knife block, who nearly managed to hit Icey, if she hadn’t managed to strengthen the barrier she just made. The ball landed into Claras hands who also didn’t hit someone. I used the time to scan over my opponents to maybe find out how I could get them. In the same time I noticed how our invisible dude got out of the bounds and sat on one of the stairs. Ok now we are official in disadvantage. I shifted my concentration back to the game where they managed to get the bird and icey out. Unfortunately my team was too greedy and tried to get Azz out, because he didn’t look like he was on guard. With that stupidity we managed to only have three of us left, Iruma, goldy and me. I have to say, I admire how stubborn they were on taking Asmodeus out.

 

“Nayuri Suzuki do I have to remind you, that I will kick you out of this school if you not start to show even a little bit of power?!” I heard the teacher bark outside, while I tried to find an attack point, ball secured in my hands. His statement caused the class to mumble outside, getting me stressed further. Why can’t they just shut up?! That is not your business, so keep your noses out of it. Clenching my teeth I closed my eyes, trying to get me back to focus but instead… You really thought you can protect them?! You are cursed, you are useless waste! Maybe you should have died with them, you would have sparred us so much trouble! The voices of the past echoed in my brain, opening my eyes again they vanished as fast as they appeared in the first place. With my focus now back on the game I somehow could made out a string made of light. Frowning I realized it connected the yellow haired, Clara and the cloud… how weird… It looks like a plan… If I manage to get enough speed and spin the ball in a certain way, than I could get all three of them out in one shot … I also need a higher ground.

 

“Ey goldy can you position yourself here? When I jump on your hands, push me in the air got it?” I asked him while correcting his stance. Confused he nod as I got to the end of the bound, he was in the beginning of the last third of our field, that would give me one third to land. Ignoring the confusion of our other teammates I run towards him and jumped into his hands. Thankfully he did his job and pushed me upwards. Using the momentum I threw the ball which flew the line I saw perfectly. Out of shock none of my victims moved as the ball managed to bounce from the yellow hairs shoulder to the side of cloud colliding with his hip and moved on to Clara hitting her on the tight.

 

 

“What the devi just happened” I heard the black haired in my team ask, as I landed back on my feet.

 

“Lied, Agares and Clara are out” the voice of our teacher rang through the cave, while Clara screamed ‘buh Yuri Buuuuh’ walking out of the bounds. Still in this weird state of focus I scanned the other zone to track down the ball again, as something crazy happened. Frowning I watched how a figure slowly appeared in the middle of the other field several feet high. In shock I stared at that demon who was still materializing themselves. Through the cloud of fear I could distinctly feel how my arm seemed to burn, which only fueled the numbing fear in my bones.

 

“Who do you think you are?! Challenging me like that you MAGGOT” the clearly male voice boomed, pointing it’s hand in my direction and with a flick of its finger I was flying towards the wall. My back collided first, awful crunching at the impact. Wheezing I slid down, clenching my eyes shut as my body pulsate in pain. I wasn’t able to move a muscle, even as I heard heavy steps coming closer.

 

“-Uri? Do you hear me?” painfully echoed in my brain. A pained noise escaped my clenched lips. Cautiously I managed to pry one eye open, seeing my teacher kneeling in front of me, with an concerned frown on his face. “I will heal you now, ok? Please stay still” He said, reaching one hand out for me. Even if my spine wasn’t splintered in pieces, with the painful throbbing of my head I still wouldn’t be able to move. Blue light started to radiate from my teachers outstretched hand seeping into my body. A slight tingle waved from the middle of my spine through my body. “Can you tell me what happened?” the purple haired asked after giving me a moment.

 

“I- I don’t really know… I think…” I risked a look over his shoulder, the man was nowhere in sight only my concerned classmates. Holding my still slightly throbbing head I continued “never mind… it probably was the recoil of my mana or something like that” I mumbled.

 

“Ok, I will put you out for the rest of the game, can you stand up on your own?” he sounded doubtfully.

 

“What?! But what is with my rank?” I tried to stand up and slid back wheezing because of the pain.

 

“The Owl already decided and even if not, I would not have let you back on the field in that state” He said while calling Clara over. “Help her to the sidelines and keep an eye on her, we determine your rank after the match ends” he stood back up, watching how Clara moved to help me after a short “aye aye Eggy-teach”. Careful she swooped her arm around my waist, causing me to cling mine around her shoulder. Together we managed to stand back up and move towards our classmates, who helped me sit down on a chair, which Clara pulled out of her pocket.

 

“Continue already” the booming sound of our teachers voice ringed in my ears.

 

“You’re ok Yur Yur?” Clara asked putting a hand on my shoulder.

 

“It’s getting better” I answered, directing my attention towards the game. In the meantime my team managed to remove pretty hair from the field, leaving only Asmodeus, who kicked the black haired out in just that moment, leaving only Iruma for our team. The former turmoil inside the pink haired seemed to have cleared itself, because now he was staring determined at my brother, who smiled at him fearlessly. Correcting his stance he waited for the throw and you really couldn’t deny that the pink haired really put everything into his throw. Holding my breath I watched how the ball impacted with Iruma’s hands, causing him to slide a few steps backwards. In the matter of seconds he managed to convert the power of the throw to leap into the air directing the ball back at the pink haired, still smiling. That probably caused a short cut of Asmodeus brain, because he didn’t even try to get away, taking the whole impact of the ball.

 

“Team red wins” the teacher declared causing my Group to break out in cheers. Thankfully my pain had vanished in the meantime so I could go over to congratulate, as the teacher continued “Iruma will rank up to Beth”. Happy I embraced Iruma in a hug as I finally reached him.

 

“Nee-san, I don’t think you should be back up” he voiced his concern.

 

“I got already healed silly! Now let me congratulate you!” With that I got him to hug me back.

 

“You did really scare me” he mumbled in my ear “Don’t do shit like that again, promise?”

 

“I don’t plan to break my spine in near future, promise!” this caused Iruma to wince slightly.

 

“Nayuri Suzuki, the owl is waiting” the teachers voice broke our sibling moment.

 

“Right…” turning back to the sidelines I saw the owl now sitting on the back of the chair Clara had made. With light steps I made my way over, scared that I will accidentally shoo her away like my brother did.  “Hey fortune, nice to see you again, even though you could have appeared earlier” I chatted to get my nervousness away. “Ok let’s see” I let my hand slide into the fanny bag of fortune. Interestingly the inside was pleasantly warm and felt like leather. The three eyes blinked at me as I closed my hand around the batch and slowly retreated my hand. With the gazes of my classmates pinned on my back I opened my hand right in front of me. I could feel somebody stalking closer as I stared on the batch incredulous. My nose caught the scent of the teacher, who hummed with affirmation before announcing.

 

“Nayuri ranked He”

 

“I won!” the red eyed cheered causing the yellow haired to confirm this, clearly exhausted.

 

“Of course YOU of all demons won and that alone!” grumbling he searched for his pocket only to find the money missing. “Oh come on! When did this happen?!” he exclaimed looking accusing to his classmate.

 

“I’m sorry?”

 

“Why do I not believe you Jazz” breaking out of my rigidity I made my way over to Asmodeus.

 

“I hope you know what this means Azz Azz” I started lifting the corner of my mouth. “I am better”

 

“Not for long, that is for sure” he said through gritted teeth. Laughing I followed the class out of the cave. The feeling of being watched didn’t go away for the rest of the day. Not while we had lessons, not on the way home and certainly not at home, while we celebrated our success. My mind still wandered off to that guy who appeared in the field, I would have thought that I imagined it, if I wouldn’t went flying through the arena.

 

Occupied with her thoughts all day Nayuri didn’t notice the worried glances she got, not only from her classmates, but also from her teachers as they got informed from Kalego.

And now, finally after hours of thinking and staring up the wall she drifted away in deep slumber. Till she felt something or better said someone touching her cheek.

 

“Iruma stop that! If you had another nightmare just crawl in” I grumbled half awake. Sure enough, the pinching stopped. I could feel how my body dived back into sleep, as that ass head hold my nose closed. Startled I sat up, shoving his hand away and turned the lights on, before I turned back at my brother. Only that there wasn’t my brother sitting on my bed, the man from the morning did reappear and loomed over me. Shocked I crawled backwards, wanting to scream for Opera, as the giant put his enormous hand over my mouth.

 

“psh, we wouldn’t want to wake someone wouldn’t we? I just want to talk ok?” he paused, looking for conformation in my eyes, even if I couldn’t look into his. “I will just take this as conformation…” he mumbled, still keeping my mouth shut “I wanted to apologize for what happened in this game. The last memory I had was me being in some kind of fight and when your mana and anger increased I attacked without thinking. I’m really sorry for that so please don’t start screaming when I take my hand away ok?” slowly he took his hand back, while I just glared upwards.

 

“Where the fuck did you even come from?!” I whispered angrily after I figured out that he waited for an answer.

 

“I asked this myself, after your classmates didn’t scream when I flicked you into the wall… I mean they did scream, but nobody even looked at me… What I wanted to say is, that it seems like that my soul is trapped in your little bracelet”

 

“Like that shadow in my brothers ring?”

 

“Yes and no… As much as I could figure out, the ring is only mana, while I’m just a ghost with little to no mana” Fantastic, he isn’t even useful “Oh, don’t give me that look! I don’t like this either… But we will make the best out of this” I still looked up to him “look I even try to accommodate you and see it positive only because of me you got ranked that high” he continued while starting to shrink, so I don’t have to crane my neck like that.

 

“What do you mean with that ranking part” I asked raising my eyebrow

 

“You see, your bloodline ability and mana itself is a little bit weird, that confused the Owl greatly and even after that throw you made she couldn’t manage to figure out what rank you are. But as I send you flying she saw a glimpse of your mana because you made a protection spell, and thought about giving you Gimmel or Daleth. Now I thought because I hurt you I need to make it up to you before I could speak to you so I… discussed with that owl and managed to get you He!” He grinned over his whole face

 

“And you thought the best time would be in the middle of the night?”

 

“Well you are the only one seeing me so I thought I wait till you’re alone, but then I fell into meditation” Taking a deep breath I tried to get a hold on the situation.

 

“So you are some ghost, spirit thingy, that possesses the bracelet I can’t get rid of. You thought I attacked you so you tried killing me and then discussed my rank with an owl?”

 

“That sums it up pretty well!”

 

“Who even are you?”

 

“I am the demon King Derkila, now in your service till we find that little body of mine”

 

“Please tell me that’s a joke”

 

“Oh no my little lady, we will have so much fun” he said grinning even more. “But you should probably sleep now, we wouldn’t want you to be cranky”  

 

What have I done to deserve this?

Chapter 12: Picnic and socializing

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After that weird encounter last night I slept pretty well, till my door was ripped open and someone threw themself on my bed. Grumbling I squinted one eye open just to see the bright smile of my brother.

 

“Ahh, my eyes it burns” I mumbled closing my eyes and shielding them with my hand for god measure.

 

“Stop that Nee-san” I got a jab on my shoulder “Did you forget the Picnic?!” He was way too excited for that early hour.

 

“Oh, Is the mistress already awake?” I heard Opera enter. After a short gaze to my clock I saw that it is only eight thirty in the morning.

 

“It is not even nine o clock, do you have a death wish?!” grumbling I rubbed my eyes.

 

“It is already eight thirty and we have the Picnic Nee-san! The whole class is coming!”

 

“We are meeting in four hours and don’t even need half an hour to get there!”

 

“But it is so exciting! I could barely sleep!”

 

“Do you want to have a tea Nayuri” Opera interrupted Iruma before he could ramble even more.

 

“Yes pleas, I’m going to take a shower before I join you downstairs”

 

“Your tea will be ready then!” with that Opera got going “Master Iruma are you coming? We still have to treat your hands” they called my brother, who didn’t look like he want to go.

 

“I’m down in fifteen don’t annoy Opera to much till then” with a nod he followed them, closing my door in the process. Sighing I made my way out of my blanked cocoon towards my closet. I grabbed some cozy home clothes and got into my bathroom. Remembering the ghost I brought the bracelet towards my face and whispered “Don’t even think about coming out of that thing while I’m showering”.

 

“As if I want to see a fifteen year old naked! Who do you think I am?!” I could hear his offended sounding voice echoing through my head. With a huff I went into the shower, with the plan of trying the stuff pretty hair recommended. Afterwards I put some hair care products in and blow dried them. That whole process revealed what he already suspected… I have curly hair. Normally it would reach the middle of my back, now it had jumped up to the end of my shoulder blades. With a last check in the mirror I got down in the living room.

 

“What the… Nayuri-nee! Your hair looks so pretty!” By Derkila how much energy does he have?

 

“It looks nice… maybe we can get some other products to style them properly” I heard Opera behind me while going through my hair.

 

“Thank you? What are you thinking of Opera” asking I looked upwards while they still where in my hair.

 

“I need to watch some videos and then we can make some pretty hairstyles” they mumbled. Oh no… I have a bad feeling about this.

 

“You don’t need to do that” I tried to decline, already envisioning the long hours of trying to get my hair into a certain style.

 

“We need to be prepared for any event young mistress, I only ever styled straight hair, so I need more information to practice them. But now take a seat, I will serve breakfast in an hour. The first load of the food you are taking to the picnic is already done.” With that they let go of my hair and went back to the kitchen. Sighing I took a seat next to my brother, grabbing my tea.

 

“You really should wear your hair open more often, it suits you!” he started a conversation.

 

“Thanks, but it’s really impractical, for today its okay I guess.” I took a sip of my tea before changing the topic, “How are your hands? Do they still hurt?”

 

“No they’re fine! Operas cremes worked wonders! How is your back?”

 

“All patched up, It’s like I never crashed into the wall!” I joked.

 

“That was really freaky… you scared the shit out of me Nee-san… “

 

“You don’t need to worry so much” I said while leaning my head against his. “Demons don’t die as easily as humans and Birdy was there as well”

 

“HE IS A HUMAN?!” The Ghost screamed and started fussing over Iruma. It cost all my willpower to not react to any of it. “I have sooo many questions! Why didn’t you tell me that he is human?!”  I was so occupied with channeling my inner peace that I didn’t notice how Iruma’s breath evened down till he started sliding down a bit.

 

“Are you kidding me?! He wakes me up at fucking eight thirty but than falls asleep on me!” I mumbled before accepting my fate and taking my phone out. Opening the Memo app I started typing.

 

Can you read that?

 

I saw how Derkila bend over to look at my phone, as he realized that the message was for him.

“Yeah I can read it”. Erasing the previous sentence I typed.

 

What do you want to know, maybe I can answer you some questions

 

“First of all how did he land here? Did they cancel the law from the previous King?”

 

No, long story short, his parents made a deal selling him to our grandfather

 

“WHAT?! That could have been his end!”

 

I think they didn’t really care. They were really assholes, they should hope that I never find them…

 

“But another question, who is your grandfather that he brakes the law like that?”

 

Don’t know if you know him but its Lord Sullivan

 

“SULLI HAS GRANDCHILDREN?!”

 

Hmm I see, you apparently know each other

 

“Of course I know him! He was basically my right hand and ally! I didn’t know he had a child… or even a wife…”

 

I’m also adopted

 

“Oh devi and how did that happen?”

 

Broke in two days after he got Iruma and decided to keep me

 

“I will not comment that… Did your brother tell you any interesting things about the human realm till know”

 

It’s really different from the Netherworld but in the same time not really… The most differences are in the appearance of stuff… Like some fruits or even the sky. In some points they are more technical than we are as well as more modern, but in some parts we are more open minded. I can explain everything in detail when we are alone.

 

“Thank you Nayuri, I need to recharge a bit and come out some time later” With that the Ghost disappeared and I was left alone with Iruma. I wasn’t awake for much longer, the silence and all the shit yesterday and in the night made me sleepy again.

 

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“Iruma-san, Nayuri-san, wake up your breakfast is ready” I could hear someone. Opening my eyes I saw Opera kneeling on eyelevel in front of us while Grandpa was crying in the back.

 

“how long did we sleep?” I asked after a yawn, while Iruma rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.

 

“After I notice you both fall asleep I let you be for a while so now its nine thirty” They answered.

 

“I need more space on my table for all the pictures off my precious grandchildren” Grandpa still cried.

 

“What do you mean with pictures on your table” I felt suddenly really awake.

 

“Well I have some of my favorite pictures on my desk” He explained more sober now.

 

“The desk at home, you mean the desk here in this place and not the one in the school do you?” I asked slightly panicked, Iruma also seemed to be more aware of the situation.

 

“Both of them of course”

 

“Please tell me the teachers didn’t see them”

 

“Only Marbas saw the one where you slept in one bed cuddled together” he answered smiling. “And he thought that it was adorable!”

 

“That may be my thirteenth reason” Iruma mumbled slightly shocked.

 

“Don’t know what that means but I’m agreeing” I mumbled back.

 

“Remind me that I need to continue teaching you human memes and jokes so someone understands what I’m saying”

 

“You want me to remind you about something” I now asked louder looking at him.

 

“Never mind I make a reminder in my calendar” he answered while looking for his phone. The rest of the morning thankfully got over without more embarrassing revelations, so we changed into our outdoor clothes and got to the venue on time with two giant packets of food.

 

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“Yur Yur, Iruma-chi, we are over here” Clara screamed waving as she spotted us loaded with all the stuff Opera gave us. Shaking my head I tried to get my hair out of my eyes, devi is that impractical… maybe I should cut it… . “Oh yur yur your hair is bouncy” she noticed as I put everything down.

 

“I see, my tips did wonders to your hair” flipping it back I focused on the boy. “even though I thought it would curl even more”

 

“Oh devi I have already enough problems with that I would probably get myself a buzzcut if it would curl even a bit more” I complained walking towards the rest of the class.

 

“Hey guys, like promised we have sandwiches and muffins!” I told them setting everything on the ground.

 

“Uh, they look delicious” Elisa said clapping her hands together, “Your hair also looks lovely today Nayuri-chan”

 

“Thank you!”

 

“Now Yur yur looks even more like a 89!” Clara chimed in hanging herself onto my back. It seemed like we naturally divided into two groups, one with all the boys and one with us girls… plus Asmodeus. While the boys played with a frisbee, we sat on the side. How could they have so much energy left?! My fucking arms and thighs are still killing me and they are running around like maniacs… Even Clara keeps sitting with us!

 

“Oh my, how energetic they are” Elisa said looking invested at the game. Icey just gave some disapproving sound while Clara was also way to invested.

 

“I’m wondering how they have so much energy left… I’m still recovering” I mumbled still audible for the others.

 

“Probably because they weren’t flying across the room yesterday” Asmodeus answered looking me up and down.

 

“Right Yur Yur, what happened yesterday? Was this some special move?”

 

“I don’t think breaking her spine was a special move Clara!”

 

“I was really concerned! Thankfully Kalego-sensei managed to help you” Elisa chimed back in.

 

“It seemed like you were seeing something” Icey now made herself known for the first time.

 

“What do you mean?” the pink haired asked her, while I started to feel uncomfortable.

 

“She looked over Sensei’s shoulder as he checked her over… as if she searched for something” now all of their attention laid on me, waiting for my answer.

 

“Hm? Oh… I thought I saw something, but it was probably just delusion because of my headache…” they looked at me concerned and somewhat unbelieving.

 

“If something feels wrong… just tell us ok? It looked pretty bad yesterday” Asmodeus voiced his concern.

 

“Yeah Yur Yur, if you see something weird again just tell us!”

 

“Don’t worry… I’m fine again, but thanks for the concern” silently we continued watching the rest play till they fell into the grass exhausted. “hopefully Iruma sleeps longer tomorrow and doesn’t wake me up in the middle of the night”

 

“Why that?” Clara asked concerned.

 

“He was excited so he woke me up at eight thirty! On a fucking Saturday”

 

“That early?” Elisa asked while Asmodeus reacted with “eight thirty isn’t the middle of the night”

 

“Eight thirty is really early! So it basically is night!” I retorted.

 

“I was awake hours before that to cook the dish for the Picnic” he responded aghast.

 

“That sounds like a you problem… and furthermore it doesn’t change that he killed my rest”

 

“Asmodeus, a girl needs her beauty sleep!” Elisa protect me.

 

“Yeah Asmodeus, its not something you would understand” I grinned at him while he just deadpanned.

 

“For your information, my mother is a succubus so I know everything about beauty tips… sadly…” he mumbled the last part and I could swear that Claras eyes suddenly started to glow.

 

“Your momma is a succubus?! She needs to teach me!” she screamed shaking the pink haired.

 

“Stop that! I will not introduce you to my mother!” he shrieked.

 

“Buh Azz Azz! Don’t be such a gatekeeper” she discussed.

 

“That has nothing to do with gatekeeping!” and with that they started bickering at each other.

 

“Oh my, how passionate they arguing… either way Nayuri, what are your favorite Novels?” Elisa changed the subject while the other two continued fighting.

 

“Eh… novels?” that question lead Icey to look over intrigued.

 

“You know like books about love or fantasy or even better romantasy… where the lovely prince saves the princess from her tower and they live together a live of never ending love” I just raised an eyebrow while Elisa sighed dreamy in her own thoughts.

 

“or you could read mystery and thriller… where some ruthless murderer kills innocent teens… who could it be? The perverted sports teach? The weird neighbor who is collecting dead animals? Or is there an unknown danger which lays in the woods” Icey added unblinking, starring straight in my soul, which shook Elisa out of her nice thoughts.

 

“Okay… I don’t think I have read Novels before… not that I could remember… Only some books about school stuff”

 

“We need to change that… I will text you my favorite romance books, you really need to read them!” the blond exclaimed setting herself a timer.

 

“I will send you mine as well… for the case you don’t like the romance stuff” the blue haired followed the lead of the blond, who paused in her typing to cup her face with one hand.

 

“Oh my this is like a little book club, this will be so much fun! We can review Books, drink tea and eat self-made cookies… I will make a group chat, there we can write our recommendations and when you finished some of them we can look for something we can read together!” she enthusiastically started to make a group after she finished, causing me to smile a bit.

 

“Sounds fun!”

 

We only stayed for another two hours, spend with chattering about school and teachers. I mostly let the others talk, the exhaustion from yesterday as well as the healing making me quite sleepy. So I wasn’t too sad when we bid our goodbye. At home we changed back in our comfy clothes, even though I only managed to stay awake till shortly after dinner. When I looked on my phone a last time before turning of the lights I saw the amount of book titles they send me and decided to just sleep, because that could wait for tomorrow.

 

 As Nayuri told Opera about the book club and the amount of books the girls recommended they quickly controlled if the books are already in their possession before ordering the missing ones. Not only because they where happy Nayuri managed to connect to some of her classmates, but also because they love to read books as well. Who could say no to a good romance book, drama or murder mystery? Opera certainly not. With that Nayuri not only picked her first book to read, but also gained another recommendation list from Opera.

Chapter 13: Emotional support ghost

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The whole Sunday Derkila didn’t show himself so I could spend the time with my first book… Opera said it shouldn’t be so complex and easy to read so I don’t lose my motivation already. I probably would have mostly forgotten or suppress the thought of being stuck with the ghost of a supposedly missing king as Monday rolled around. I said probably because that bitch is really ADHDs rival for “who has the more severe type of it”. The plus point for the yellow haired is, that everyone else can see and hear him, while I would look crazy if I tried to argue with a non-existent demon to shut the fuck up. So I was stuck with his excitement about literally everything the whole time. He was even excited to meet my classmates, because he missed the picnic because of his meditation… Next time he is meditating I scream in my bracelet or shake my arm only to fuck him up.

 

“That is so exciting! Do you know when the last time was I went to school? It will be so interesting to see what changed in my absence… If they are still keeping my old classroom around? Oh my devil what happened to the Diabotany tower? Is that a plant from the human realm?! Did Iruma brought it from his home?” This filled my whole morning… I really contemplated to just throw me from the next cliff. “Uhh that guy looks grumpy… Wait a damn minute is that a Naberius?!” Can I kill a ghost? I could get rid of him if I get the bracelet of… Do I really need that arm?

 

“Today you will be having your first Familiar lesson with your actual teacher, you will be showing him respect and have manners. Did I made myself clear?” A chorus of ‘yes sirs’ chanted through the room causing him to massage the bridge of his nose. “Just get out” Without needing to say this twice we made our way towards our next class. Today we will have Transfiguration, Astrology and diabotany in the morning, continuing with the familiar lesson after lunch. We were still trying to get the lightbulb to glow. Some of us managed to get a dim light but in general not much is happening.

 

“You all need to clear your minds, try to think about nothing” the beautiful teacher tried helping us.

 

“Namaste sister” the former king said sitting on the ground next to my seat. “Did you hear her? Think about nothing, black void that consumes your thoughts, wush” he made a wavy move with his hands. “No serious relax, empty your mind and then think about a light that is glowing, focus on the form of the lightbulb and how it starts glowing dimly and continuing to get brighter, till it lightens the whole room and then pour mana into that thought” I shot him a glare causing him to grin. Taking a deep breath in I cleared my mind. And then thought about white light, the warmth that radiates from it, how it puts everything into a gentle brightness and creating large shadows. Now I started to think how mana flows into this and lets it even become brighter, not only lightening my hand, but a larger space of the room, till it reaches every corner of it.

 

“That’s good Nayuri-chan! You’re doing really well” I heard the teacher and when I opened my eyes I could see how the lightbulb in my hands lighten up the space around me. Elisa looked at it in awe as well.

 

“It looks so nice and pure” she said “It feels really cozy” rubbing the side where the light hits her.

 

“She is right, you poured a good amount of mana into the radiation of warmth, try to focus on making it larger now” my personal ghost helped me. With the former image back in my brain I tried to pour more mana inside. Slowly the Lightened Area did grow.

 

“It seems like you got a hold of it, nice work!” the teacher chimed in again, smiling brightly at me, before shifting her concentration to the still struggling students.

 

“How did you manage to do that?” Elisa asked, watching how I slowly decreased the brightness.

 

“I don’t really know… Instead of clearing my thoughts completely I tried to imagine how a lightbulb could feel if I held one in my hand while glowing and how the light creates shadows, while pouring mana into that thought” I answered, causing the girl to close her eyes and trying it for herself. Sure enough a light pink hue started erupting from her hands, “try to think more about the brightness and its effect of its surroundings”. Scrunching her eyebrows together she complied, because suddenly I was hit with eye burning brightness. “Oh shit” I turned away clenching my eyes shut while the Ghost erupted in laughter.

 

“Oh devi, I’m so sorry, are you ok” Elisa asked while carefully putting a hand on my shoulder. Careful I opened my eyes.

 

“Yeah, everything seems to be alright… I probably shouldn’t have looked directly into the light” she chuckled lightly at that. Soon the other students also got a hang of it what means, that we will have theory on Wednesday

 

On the way to the Astrology class Derkila continued to stare at literally everything. Standing in the way of students, not that they would notice him anyways, and tried to figure out from which family they come.

 

“Your next subject is Astrology? How interesting! The stars probably changed a bit since I was gone” He thought as I walked to my seat. Till now we only managed to create the map of the current sky and the cycle of the moons, today we will start with the basic information’s of them. While I was now trying to focus on the extra text sheet the teacher brought with him, Derkila was occupied with finding out how much he could do in his current form. Till now he only managed to piss me of. “So, Iruma is human… I figured out that the others do not know that?” I taped the end of my pencil on my chin. “See I told you that this form of communication will work! I wish I could hold a pencil or something… maybe we could train your mana more and then you could make me solid?” I taped my chin two times. “Oh come on!” I let my pen tap on the table now. “That was rude!” smiling I focused back on my text and marked the next information I deemed important. Meanwhile the King let himself fall theatrical on the floor. Maybe he will leave me finally alone.

 

“Your moon looks like shit!” Oh look who is awake again. Closing my eyes I took a deep breath to contain my emotions. “It looks like cheese… Old molding cheese… have you ever looked up in the night sky?” Derkila asked, side eyeing me. “Or does the moon now looks like that…” Ignoring the Man I erased the moon I had drawn and started new. “So it doesn’t look like that… thank the devil”. He should be happy that he is a ghost or else he would be one by now.

 

“So class, everyone that doesn’t finish the assignment finish it at home to the next lesson. Goodbye and have a good day!” Mumbling our good byes we went to our diabotany lesson in the school garden, because they still need to find a new room.

 

“Good morning Students, today we will learn how to identify the most threatening plants in the wild yis” we started the lesson. Derkila nearly vibrated in excitement because he thought we will watch them in the wild, sadly we didn’t, we looked at pictures in the schoolbook and looked for similarities in all the plants. It’s probably better that way, I’m pretty sure some of my classmates wouldn’t survive that.  After that more practical orientated subject I searched for my two crows to feed them. They finally started to grow a bit and didn’t look that thin anymore. Sadly they are really bad at hunting so I still have to feed them.

 

“They are cute what are their names?” asked the King sitting next to me.

 

“Huggin and Muggin” I answered after checking if I’m really alone. “Do you have any questions? About school or anything?” Humming he started thinking.

 

“Did the rookie hunt already happen?”


“The what?” he started grinning like an idiot, that can’t be good.

 

“Uhh that will be so much fun! Don’t worry I will keep an eye on you! Another question, which elective did you choose?” he continued.

 

“I got bribed into the seduction course, why?” that caused him to freeze. Confused I crooked my head to the side. “You’re ok?”

 

“Oh my devi, the seduction course. Finally I will discover the secrets you are discussing in that course! I didn’t took you for someone who would choose something like that”

 

“Well, like I said it wasn’t really voluntary but I have to say it is kind of interesting. I mean I don’t see the things we learn as a way to find love, it is more a way to learn how to manipulate others in doing certain things. Sharing information for example, you can’t always choose violence or torture, sometimes you have to be more devious to get what you want.”

 

“That is a perspective I haven’t seen… Either way, I’m really curious what you learn there, when will be your next lesson?”

 

“Tomorrow after lunch”

 

“Nice…” the gong interrupted the rest he wanted to say. “You have your familiar lesson now?”

 

“Oh shit, I don’t know where the secured part of the garden is” shocked I looked at the King. “Fuck… I will never find that place” grumbling I squeezed the bridge of my nose.

 

“No problem, I can led us there!” he did as he said and managed to get us there first. To the surprise of my classmates.

 

“Nee-san how did you manage to get here without help?” Iruma asked confused.

 

“I informed myself about the layout” I said checking my nails.

 

“Uh Yur Yur is getting better with her memory!” Clara smiled jumping over to me.

 

“You have memory problems?” I ignored the question from the King as Clara started to hang herself on my back.

 

“Good afternoon class! I’m your familiar teacher Robin Bars …” oh my he looks like he is related to Clara. That can’t be good. After the first introduction we were asked to summon our familiars.

 

“I’m so curious what you got” the former King sat in the Grass beside me and stared at me in anticipation. I complied the teachers wish and summoned Koko, who was currently not bigger than the crows I feed. “WHAT in HELLS NAME is this?!” Derkila shrieked and got on eye level with the spider on my shoulder. “Is this a new species or something… I never saw something like that…”

 

“Aw what a cute little spider you got there Nayuri-san, Iruma why don’t you summon your familiar next” This little sentence led to a little discussion between him and my brother, which reviled for us, that the teacher apparently doesn’t know what familiar he got. A grin crept on my face as birdy got summoned and quickly dissed by the new teach.

 

“Do you want to tell me why that bird has the same mana as your teacher?” Derkila asked still on eyelevel with Kokushibo. I probably have to give him a run down on the situation. My good mood quickly went away as the teacher wanted us to play fetch with our familiars.

 

“That is stupid” I vocalized my thoughts “the most of the familiars wouldn’t even be able to do something like that, we should look for another way of bonding in which all of them get equal chances.”

 

“That is a good remark I didn’t thought about that when I created the lesson, what is in your mind” the teacher complied thankfully.

 

“How about cuddling, reading or just enjoy the peace” Iruma chimed in.

 

“I wanted to say hunting or fighting but I guess its cuddling” I mumbled towards myself as I started to feel watched. Looking to my left I saw… Jay? Jazz… Jazz standing next to me, staring right into my soul. “Is something”

 

“No nothing… Don’t even think about letting your spider fight my familiar” he answered, causing me to look for it.

 

“Where is your familiar…” I asked him still looking around. At my words he also started searching, then cussing and then he was gone… Hm weird. After it was now decided that we are not going to hunt but cuddle I sat myself down on a sunny place and started brushing my spiders hair, with Derkila next to me still studying Kokushibo.

 

The peace only remained till Knife and Azz started fighting. Are they going to do this every lesson? Looking over to them I saw them getting in position for a fight. From my seat I also saw Birdy getting ready to intervein as the newbie didn’t notice shit as he was talking to Elisa. Thankfully Birdy sucker punched their familiars into the ground and before he could scold them I saw this as a que to show of my newly acquired skill.

 

“Dishonor on you” I gestured at the two formerly fighting students, causing them as well as birdy to stop in their tracs to look over to me. “Dishonor on your families” I continued still widely gesturing around while now walking into their direction “and dishonor on your cows” I ended, pointing at their familiars and then quickly looking over to Iruma for conformation. The boys followed my gaze and could see how Iruma nodded giving me a thumbs up. Satisfied I looked back at them.

 

“Ehm… that’s a Gorgone Snake” Asmodeus mumbled slightly shocked.

 

“And that’s a kelpie” Knife added.

 

“That isn’t debatable” I said walking over to Iruma leaving them confused.

 

“Nicely done Nayuri, it was really close to the original!” he praised me.

 

“Aww, thank you brother! I will totally abuse this meme in any minor inconvenience” I smiled sweetly.

 

“I have created a monster” he mumbled mostly to himself as he petted my shoulder.

Chapter 14: Rookie hunt

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The whole morning went over smoothly but then lunchtime came. I noticed how Asmodeus looked towards me, until he finally grabbed my elbow and gestured me to slow down. Iruma didn’t notice anything, he was way to occupied with Clara.

 

“We have a problem” he whispered still looking at the two in front of us, in case they notice.

 

“And that would be?” I whispered back looking up to him.

 

“Today is the rookie hunt… we have about thirty minutes left before the battlers will raid the cafeteria”

 

“What do you mean the rookie hunt is today” I whisper screamed at Asmodeus.

 

“I forgot about that whole ordeal, I’m sorry Nayuri-san” He apologized. The whole conversation was still unnoticed from my brother.

 

“We need a plan… I’m pretty sure the most of the students will be after alef or beth ranked students, because they are weaker, so we need to protect Iruma… I don’t think many will be after Clara because of her reputation, so we can mainly focus on him”

 

“You’re probably right but there is a possibility that they are also out for us, you to be more specific because of your rank” he said shooting me a slightly concerned look.

 

“You could be right… Promise me one thing, if they get me keep Iruma away don’t let him go after me and protect him till the rookie hunt ends”

 

“You sound like you’re going to war” Derkila joked next to me “Don’t worry, the possibility that they get you is slim… They would be stupid to attack a first year who is already ranked He and you still got me, I’m going to warn you” he tried to reassure me.

 

“If that’s your wish I’m asking you to do the same If I get caught” Asmodeus said after being quiet for several minutes

 

“Of course” with that we entered the cafeteria and waited for the start of the hunt. Everything until the scream echoed through the school went smoothly even if I shortly had to protect my brother from being crushed. Nothing that a glare at the direction of the girls couldn’t solve. As the alarm started screaming Asmodeus ushered us closer together protecting us with a ring of fire. The upperclassman raided the room like maniacs, for a moment I thought they are going to ignore the fire and just grab us.

Because of that we made the stupid decision to keep moving. Asmodeus was leading us, while I kept my eyes on what’s happening behind us. It was a massacre, everywhere I looked where bigger and physically stronger upperclassmen that were snatching the younger ones and often even fought about them.

 

We made our way through the corridor, ignoring the chaos around us. Derkila was like a little child just in the middle, excited to just be there, while Asmodeus and I shielded Iruma from intruding classmen. My adrenalin was rising, we somehow managed to walk right into the main pulk.

 

“We need to watch out, the hall is getting cluttered, they can attack on every direction so focus and don’t attract attention…” I stopped as I felt something creeping up my leg. Looking downwards I could see a strange black rope was slung around it… that can’t be good. “Asmodeus, I think I need your fireeeeee” I started screaming as a jolt went through my body and I harshly landed on my stomach. In retrospective I could be happy that I’m always wearing shorts under my skirt. As the rope started pulling Iruma and Clara grabbed onto my arms, trying to stop me while Asmodeus set the thing on fire.

 

“I can’t burn through it” Locking eyes with the pink haired I just nodded. With a last sad look he got to the other two, pulling them away.

 

“No Asmodeus we need to help her” Iruma wanted to fight him.

 

“It’s ok, I’m going to see you in class” I tried to console him, ripping my armed out of their grasp.

 

“No NAYURI-NEE” Iruma screamed held back by Asmodeus, while the rope started dragging me away.

 

“I’m sorry master” was the last thing I heard Asmodeus say, all three shooting me heartbroken looks as I was dragged around the corner.

 

“That was really dramatic” Derkila started talking, walking next to me. After I checked that nobody was nearby I answered.

 

“What about warning me?!”

 

“To my defense, I was occupied with the whole spectacle going on and the rope is nearly invisible on the ground” before I could answer I felt the presence of other students and suddenly was pulled upwards, now dangling above the ground on eyelevel with a group of boys.

 

“Yes Jin you genius got us a big fish” a brunette boy appeared in front of me.

 

“Told you so!” The boy who seems to be called Jin answered, standing in the little crowd of five other boys.

 

“Our first female member” a red haired cheered, while I was still slightly swinging through the air.

 

“Who said I’m going to join your dumb battler?!” angrily I gestured around, causing me to swing even more.

 

“You don’t really got a choice because we only let you down if you choose our battler” One of them retread smugly.

 

“Ok, how about you tell me what your battler is and then we can see if I want to join” I decided to accommodate them to maybe get my leg of the trap.

 

“Haha, see I told you we get freshmen! I’m Kaneki and I’m the leader of the Weapons battler! We are designing and forging magical and non-magical Weapons, Traps, Torture devices and Amor. They can reach from recreating long forgotten devices to completely new ones, or an interesting way to combine these.” He advised.

 

“So you just invent stuff you think could be useful ore interesting?”

 

“The fish took the bait” I heard one of them mumble to another… morons… no wonder they are only are seven guys. As if I called the God of morons personally, Derkila made himself noticeable again in form of breaking out into laughter.

 

“The fish is going to punch sense into your goddamn minds” I barked swinging slightly again. “And do you really think I let myself getting threatened or whatever this is into your battler?! So release me in an instant!”

 

“Oh no no no, that’s not how this is working fishy! You will be our new freshmen, if you like it or not!” the brunet smiled wiggling his index finger in my face. “We are the only demons who can release you from this misery so you better sign this little paper” he continued now holding a clipboard and pen towards me.

 

“So you think our teachers can’t release me from here” grinning  I questioned them, dangling from the left to the right, like a fucking pendulum.

 

“Jep, you see the materials used in this trap react to Jin’s personal mana so only he is able to set off the release and even then it is secured by many individual components that only we know to handle. So yes we are pretty sure that no one except for us can set you free, in addition every attempt in freeing you with force will only cause you to be even trapped further.” I felt the color draining from my face the more the white haired speak. Swallowing I looked around for something to help, but I found nothing… Fuck I have to surrender. Gritting my teeth I swallowed down my pride.

 

“Fine, give me that shitty thing” I tried reaching out, only to start swinging again. Meanwhile my upperclassmen started cheering. I quickly signed the sheet, before I could lose my hold on it again.

 

“Now that is settled, we will make sure your teacher got this” the brunet cheered and they started to set me free. Finally free we made our way to the staff room, Guarded by them I didn’t got a chance to run. The red haired knocked at the door, which was quickly opened by Birdy-sensei. Taking a big breath I pushed the form into his direction.

 

“I see, you let yourself being caught and that as such a high ranked student” He made this cruel smile that made my blood boil.

 

“We will see who of us will smile last teach, now take that thing” I grumbled, thankfully Birdy finally took it and got back inside.

 

“Now that is settled we show you our work pace” And here I’m being swarmed again by the battler. Our room was much like our classroom parked in the basement. The reason for that where the giant forging materials.

 

“Here you can see our inventing room, I mean that’s what we call it” the maroon haired explained. “Here we all have our own workspace where we mostly plan on what we do as well as doing fine work. Fine work would be hone, graving or decorating stuff… Some of the leather works are done here if we don’t need the bigger devices and most of the traps are set together here. You will figure out where you can work on what pretty quickly, don’t worry. The first week or two you will hover around us anyways till we get your space and shit set up” he continued while walking towards another room. There were four oven, bellows, some anvils and other stuff dedicated to the more physically demanding part. “As you can see here we forge our inventions, mostly working on metal here but also with glass and on the far end of this room we have a whole section for leather stuff. Here we tan and form the leather, the door there leads outside where we have a small testing area, which is secluded from the rest of the school, so we don’t kill anyone accidentally. That would be all for now… But like I said you will get a hang of it when you watch us for a while… Do you have any questions?” he gave me a smile, as if he didn’t just information dumped me.

 

“How many first years are you taking in this year?” I decided to check if I could get the others in this battler.

 

“Sadly we were only allowed to recruit one student because of the restrictions in ovens, but if we do good enough on the battler party we may get more funding and equipment” and my dreams where crushed.

 

“I have a question” the red haired chimed in “What is your name again?”

 

“Really? You recruited me without my background info?”

 

“We just heard that there is a first year who got ranked he and is the grandchild of the chair demon. We already knew that your brother was ranked alef and because of your stunt at the entrance ceremony we knew what you looked like, the rest could be clarify later” one of them explained.

 

“I’m Nayuri who are you?”

 

With that all seven introduced themselves. The leader is called Kaneki he also was the smallest of them and had brown hair with no horns and brown eyes. Next was Jin, he is mostly interested in traps and also made the one that caught me, he had black shoulder long hair and piercing green eyes with two curled horns. The other black haired was named Kage, his hair reached to the middle of his back and he had blue eyes as well as a pair of white horns which were set above his ears and were curved backwards and then upwards. The red haired was named Raijin his eyes were as red as his hair. The highest of them was the white haired Akiro, who had grey eyes and a small set of blue horns. The last two are named Masato, he was the one who showed me around, the one with marron hair and dark eyes and Natsuo who was blond and had purple eyes. I will totally forget their names… Before I could go to class again I had to give them my number so they could add me to the group chat. Saying my goodbyes I let Derkila lead me to my classroom.

 

“Today the battlers start recruiting, that means you will have three days to choose one of them” Sensei looked into the classroom. “By the end of the third day I want to know your choice, you can either give me the form after class or one of the teachers in the staffroom. You WILL choose one do you understand?” we all nodded “I need the sign of the battler leader as well as yours, but they will help you to fill it out properly. This all doesn’t apply to you Nayuri, because you already gave me your form” smug bastard. I could see in his grin that he wants to humiliate me because I got caught.

 

“Quick question sensei, my form is already finalized and approved right?”

 

“Yes, you can’t back out if you got caught in the rookie hunt” he still smiled and I could hear whispers among my classmates

 

“Did you check which battler managed to recruit me?” I asked holding back my smirk because I could already feel the answer.

 

“No I haven’t had time for that, why did you ask?” Uhh someone is getting suspicious.

 

“Oh I was just curios…” I could feel the nervousness among the class.

 

“Which battler caught you yur yur?” Clara asked enthusiastic “Maybe we can join!”

 

“Sadly that isn’t possible, I already asked… they are just taking one student this year…” Sensei still didn’t had a clue “The main reason for that is because they are already seven, eight with me and we only have four oven…”

 

“Please tell me it isn’t a cooking or baking battler”

 

“Don’t worry Iruma! Its neither cooking nor baking, it’s the weapon battler! I am allowed to invent and forge my own weapons, traps and torture devices” I said only allowing myself to smirk now. Many students silently started to pray for Derkila’s mercy, causing his ghost to break out in laughter.

 

“That is the best day of my life” he wheezed, knowing that he doomed this school because he missed to warn me.

Chapter 15: How to not die, while finding a battler for Iruma (more or less successful)

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Even though I already had my battler I planned on guiding my brother through his choice. The teachers were so nice to give us the afternoon lessons as time to look through the battlers.

 

“Woah so many battlers… I don’t even know where to start” Iruma mumbled at the sight of the overly full hall.

 

“We need a tactic so we don’t get lost and see everything” Asmodeus contributed, while Clara already started weaseling through the masses.

 

“If we continue like that Clara will be gone” was my helpful comment to the situation, as I noticed some succubae’s. “Oh no no no! Clara come over here!” I screamed power walking towards the greenet till she was in my reach to pull her away. The succubae didn’t seem to get the memo.

 

“Come on my sweet kitten, you will do great in our battler” one of them purred, while the other started laughing sweetly.

 

“You’re both so cute, with our help we will embrace your sexuality” she smiled at us, causing me to shove Clara even more out of their reach.

 

“Back of your horny bitches or I will use force” Franticly I pointed at them only for them to giggle and coo at our ‘cuteness’ as I backed of pulling Clara with me and never loosing eye contact.

 

“Is everything alright?” Iruma asked as we got to them through the mass.

 

“Yeah, needed to save her from the vultures… Can you give me a stick for self-defense?” I directed the last part towards Clara who happily complied. With my newly acquired self-defense stick we looked for the first battler room to visit. We ended up going to the gardening battler first.

 

“Oh hello students, you are interested in our battler, yis?” our teacher asked as we got through the door. While Iruma and Asmodeus talked with her Clara and I looked around for a bit. There was a section dedicated to grow new plants through crossing different species, finding out new use for them or how prevent being killed. I was reading through some information’s on a board to the topic of crossing plants, as I heard a muffled giggle.

 

“Clara, you’re not really sneaky, I know your behind me” I said without turning around, as I heard her giggle again. This time I decided to just ignore it, till I felt something poking my shoulder. Sighing I turned around “Clara I want to re-“ stopping midsentence as I only saw her legs hang out of a giant plant who tried to swallow her. “OH SWEET FUCKING HELL SPIT HER OUT YOU BITCH” I screamed, poking the stem of the flower with my stick. The only reason why I didn’t destroy it was the teacher, who would probably kill me for hurting her baby. “Spit. Her. Out” with each word I gave the plant another jab as I noticed the teacher rounding the corner with the boys in tow.

 

“CLARA!” Iruma screamed, while Asmodeus just squeezed the bride of his nose.

 

“Don’t worry, I will free your friend, yis” and after a quick spell the plant did fall asleep so we could pull Clara out of her mouth. The girl was only chuckling, causing me to rub my eyes exhausted. “I think maybe this battler isn’t the right thing for you, yis” even the teacher didn’t want them.

 

“Come on guys, I heard that there is a battler with animals, we should go there next” Iruma offered, taking the lead with Clara, while Asmodeus and I still hanged back.

 

“She nearly got killed by a plant, but sure why not scouting out a battler with animals” I mumbled starting to follow them, even Asmodeus huffed in agreement. Making our way through the halls we quickly found the taming battler. Thankfully they only had the smaller ones in here, so nothing could eat us (Clara). Unlike in the first room we all split up to scout out the room.

 

“Look! There are kitty’s” Derkila suddenly made an appearance cooing at the bunch of baby beasts. Complying his cooing I went towards their section and set myself in front of the enclosure to just watch them. I only could rip my attention away as I heard the distressed scream from my brother. Turning around panicked I saw a green snake which had Clara in a choke hold, meanwhile Asmodeus half hugged Iruma because apparently he wanted to help her. Sighing I grabbed my stick and went over to the distressed members of the battler who tried to free Clara. While they tried to pull the snake away I grabbed the girl and pulled her in the other direction, till we stumbled back and landed on our asses. Clara was chuckling like crazy and I just let myself lay on the ground.

 

“Yur yur is my savior” the girl said before throwing herself onto me.

 

“Are you ok Clara?” Iruma asked concerned, now released from the pink hairs hold. Of course the girl confirmed that she was alright and after the battler apologized to her we could finally get out of there.

 

“Maybe you should look for a battler where nothing would be able to eat any of you” I told them while we kept walking. On our way to the more academic battler we met some of our classmates.

 

“Hi guys, how is your search going?” Iruma asked the black and yellow haired as we spotted them.

 

“Hmm? Oh hello! My search is going well, I’m probably going to join the gaming battler!” the yellow haired  answered.

“You just want to play games all day!”

 

“There is a gaming battler?!” Asmodeus and I answered concurrently, causing the pink haired to looked over to me shocked. “What? I would have liked to join them if I wouldn’t have been caught!” I grumbled. Ignoring that Asmodeus berated him that he shouldn’t just choose anything.

 

“What’s with you… Jazz?” I asked trying to get the name right. Which I apparently did, because he didn’t correct me.

 

“Oh, Currently I’m interested in joining the new magic development battler, but I want to keep looking around for a bit” he answered scratching his neck.

 

“That sounds cool… We should look over there too…” I thought as my handy announced itself. I quickly excused myself and went around the corner to take the call.

 

“NEWBY! WE FORGOT TO TAKE YOUR MESSUREMENTS” one of them screamed as I held the phone away from my ear.

 

“You know that I’m able to hear perfectly fine? I can send you my measurements when I’m home, I have written them down somewhere… but why do you need them anyways?”

 

“Is that Nayuri?! Say hi from me!” I heard one of them in the background followed by a chorus of greetings

 

“Ohm I should tell you hi from the guys and we need it for your apron”

 

“I heard them, like I said, my ears are good. Either way, please send me a reminder in the evening, I will write you then… Oh and greet the boys from me… I will come over tomorrow probably.”


“Alright, have a nice a day!” he said his goodbye. Going back to my class I noticed that my brother was gone and the rest was standing around staring into the opposite direction.

 

“Where is Iruma?” At my question they turned around looking somehow scared.

 

“Oh… Master Iruma is getting something to drink…” Asmodeus answered.

 

“ok…. Should we go after him than we can look for the next battler?”

 

“NO, I mean it’s not necessary, because…” he started but then got interrupted by Clara

 

“He wants to seek out one of the bookish battler afterwards and they are in the other direction…”

 

“Hey, Nayuri didn’t you say you like gaming?, I need to show you some games” the yellow haired broke the awkward silence.

 

“But what is with Iruma?”

 

“Asmodeus and Clara are waiting here for him and then you can meet up again” Jazz said calmly taking my upper arm and started following the lead of the yellow haired. Looking over my shoulder a last time I could see how Asmodeus and Clara hurried in the other direction. Something is foul here… I thought while I got practically dragged through the school.

 

“And here is the gaming battler, come in” the yellow haired presented, while the black haired shoved me inside. ADHD showed me around and presented me some interesting games, telling me what they are about and what type they are. I have to talk to Grandpa about getting us a console… There were some that sounded nice and where multiplayer, so we could even play together. I quickly glanced at my smartphone as he went to look for another one. Still no message… that’s getting weird, how long do they need for water? Maybe they wanted to be alone because I already had a battler?

 

“Hey how about I show you the new magic battler? Come on Lied we are going to my battler!” Jazz called for his friend while leading me out of the room again. “You’re in the weapons battler right? I think that one is nearby… they had put it into the basement because there it is safer to experiment” he explained while going down the stairs.

 

“Oh hey Nayuri! I thought you wanted to send the measurements?” the white haired from my battler met us nearby the magic battler.

 

“Oh, yeah… I hadn’t planned on going down here today, because I’m helping my brother to find a battler but he is currently looking for something to drink so my classmates are showing me the battlers they are interested in”

 

“That’s nice… If you would have a minute or two we could quickly take them now so you won’t forget” he offered looking shortly at the boys next to me.

 

“Sounds fine for me” Jazz answered, while Lied confirmed with a nod, so we went to my battler instead. Not even a second inside the red haired of my battler ran over to us.

 

“Newby nice that you came over! JIN BRING THE MESSURING TAPE” so he was the one that called me good to know. Shortly after his shout Jin came from the forging room.

 

“Oh hello Nayuri, I will just need some small measurements so the protection can work flawlessly… Your classmates can look around here in the meantime… Rai, why don’t you show them some of the inventions?” he asked before taking me some steps away from the door. Like he said it was over quickly, so we could go to the magic battler before school ended. Jazz explained everything he already knew, which was quiet a lot so we spend the rest of the day down here. Sadly I didn’t got the answer on why they all acted so weird, even Iruma stayed silent.

 

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Thankfully his silence only lasted till the next morning, as he barged into my room before breakfast.

 

“Nee-san I want to tell you something, but you have to promise to not get mad” he told me looking at his feet. A strange feeling made itself known. Suspicion.

 

“Why should I get mad? Or the better question at who?”

“Just promise it to me” he insisted.

 

“Ok” I answered while taking a deep breath bracing myself for his story.

 

“You know yesterday were I vanished? My ring did let me fly to the school because it got attracted by someone and I didn’t find the right way back… Asmodeus and Clara found me later and told me that they were a little bit scared that you would get angry, so they told you that I’m going to get a drink… Please don’t be mad at them” I knew something was off

 

“That idiots, don’t worry I’m not mad” I assured Iruma “Why did it send you towards that person?”

 

“He thought it might be because of his necklace… Oh and he has his own battler, I could even be a member without having mana! Isn’t that cool?”

 

“Sounds nice! Maybe we can look through it today!” relived he nodded, so we could now concentrate on surviving another day at school.

 

The school day itself did go over really fast, so soon enough we could continue to look through the battlers. With the security stick in my hand we made our way towards the more theory based battlers as a door opened behind us.

 

“Hey sweeties don’t you wanna come in?” A flirty voice asked and as I turned around the two succubae from yesterday greeted me.

 

“By the damn devil! Back the fuck off or I’m going to punch you with my fucking stick of doom!” I lashed out, while Asmodeus grabbed Clara already looking exhausted.

 

“Come on Nee-san this isn’t good for your nerves” my brother said grabbing my shoulders to lead me away. With a last threatening gaze I followed them. Only to run into the Bird guy, who wanted to get us into his own battler. I can’t take this anymore, I just grabbed my brother and pulling him away with me. The rest of the way was unspectacular, so we could finally scout out the Demon king battler. That has to be the safest battler in this school, only books and looking through historical… Is this knife block?

 

“If this isn’t my rival! I thought thou already have a battler!” he came over, carrying several books.

 

“Oh yeah, I just accompany Iruma, Asmodeus and Clara… you are interested in this battler?”

 

“I’m not only interested, I’m a member of it! I filled out the form yesterday, as future Demon King I have to study the former ones!” He told me prideful as a loud crash echoed through the room. Please don’t let it be my idiots.

 

My hope was totally crushed as Asmodeus started berating Clara, who apparently managed to destroy one of the bookshelves. My Brother ushered them out quickly apologizing for the damage, while the battler just glared at them. I shot him a quick message, that I will help them setting it back up and that he didn’t need to worry. While the battler was still trying to calm their nerves I started to get the books out of the pile and stacking them on a nearby table. After a short while I was accompanied by knife block and so we managed to clear everything in only half an hour. The shelve itself was too damaged to set it back together so they will have to get a new one. Before I left for my battler, because my apron was already finished except for the protection spells, which they will add tomorrow, I apologized for the chaos Clara made. I could only hope that the rest of their scouting went uneventful.

Chapter 16: First day at the battler

Notes:

Hey,
first of all happy new year! Secoundly, sorry for the delay, I couldn't find time to write in the last two weeks, but now I'm back and hope you like the new chapter! I posted it nearly as soon as it was ready, so I hope i didn't made to much spelling or grammar mistakes...
The next chapter probably comes in two weeks from now :)

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Jin added Nayuri into the Group >Weapon battler<

 

Rai:

Hey Newby

 

Jin:

Hello Nayuri, I wanted to inform you, that all

necessary safety precautions are done at your

apron, and that we will go over a little plan to

introduce you to all materials and devices

tomorrow. In the span of the next three weeks

we are going to help you to invent your own

weapon, amor, torture device or trap, you can

already brainstorm if you want to, but you can

also wait till you feel creative enough to come

up with something!

 

Rai:

 Jin and Kage are a little bit weird don’t mind

them to much :)

 

Kage:

Why am I weird?!

 

Natsuo:

probably because of that one time when you

 cut our pizza with an axe

 

Kage:

It wasn’t precut and you guys wanted to just rip

it and let ‘fate’ decide the size of the pieces!

Jin nearly got a heart attack!

 

Kaneki:

Can we not discuss this when we literally just

got a new member?

 

Masato:

As if she could run …

 

Akiro:

… That sounded like something a predator would say…

 

Kaneki:

Is it too much to ask you guys to just be normal for

some weeks so she can settle in?!

Akiro:

To be fair, I didn’t do shit and technically it’s all Rais fault

… who could have thought that… oh yeah me, did you

listen to me? No

 

Rai:

Hey! If Jin wouldn’t talk like he had a stick up his ass

and if Kage would stop listening to his intrusive

thoughts that all wouldn’t have happened!

 

Kage:

So we call basic thinking and intelligence now

intrusive thoughts? Well that might be explain

some things that went wrong with you

 

Masato:

Don’t worry! They are getting worse with the time

*thumbs up*

 

Natsuo:

I will include you into my prayers to the dead Nayuri

don’t worry

 

Nayuri is online

 

Nayuri:

Theoretically, how much blood do I need

to make a iron sword out of my enemy’s blood?

 

Jin:

Around 2865 liters

 

Nayuri:

How much is that in demons?

 

Jin:

round about 521 adult demons, depending on

the height of the individuals

 

Nayuri:

…hmmm…

 

Rai:

Am I the only one that feels a little bit unsettled?

 

Natsuo:

 I don’t know for whom I should pray now…

 

Kaneki:

why can’t this battler be normal?

 

Nayuri:

:D

 

Masato:

I regret every live choice I made to let me

End up in that battler

 

Putting my smartphone away I waited for Birdy-sans arrival. Yesterday was the last day for us to decide which battler we want to choose. We mostly used that day to mentally prepare ourselves for the following weeks. Apparently we will have to show off our battlers to our families, that can only end horrible.

 

“Silence! Since everybody managed to get into a battler, we will now discuss the battler party” happy chatter went through the room which caused the teacher to sigh in annoyance “YOU WILL prepare something with your battler, to show your families what you learn here. So you should better think about what you want to do to not embarrass yourself” he smirked knowingly. Yeah I can feel it clearly… something will be going wrong… I can only hope that it will not affect my brother or myself… After school we were free to go to our battler. I quickly told Iruma that I will pick him up after I’m done with my battler and that he should not trouble his upperclassmen to much, before I joined Jazz on the way towards the basement.

 

“What do you think your battler is going to do for the party?” I asked, while walking next to him.

 

“Hmm… Good question, we are probably looking for some cool spell to display… what does your battler plan to do for the party?” He asked back eyeing me from the side.

 

“Oh, I’m allowed to make my first weapon or trap and we probably going to show them off”

 

“Sounds cool, do you already know what you want to do?” he sounded honestly interested.

 

“I thought it would be cool to make a sword out of blood but I would need way to much for that… I probably will have to look through some history or fantasy book for inspiration”

 

“It’s probably better that way, we wouldn’t want the Border Patrol to investigate you” he crooked a smile, ginning I answered

 

“As if I would let them catch me”

 

“Like they didn’t caught you destroying the school on several occasions?”

 

“Maybe I want to get caught” he just laughed probably not believing me, as we arrived downstairs.

 

“Have a nice time in your battler Nayuri and don’t kill other demons, we would miss you if you would be imprisoned because of murder”

 

“Aww, don’t worry, even if I would kill, the oven get enough heat to destroy the evidence” with a last big smile I turned around and went inside.

 

“You are not going to make a sword made out of blood” the leader greeted me.

 

“He doesn’t like it when we get creative” the black haired… Jin? grumbled, drawing his new idea.

 

“If your creativity endangers other demons than yes I have something against it”

 

“We are a weapons, traps and torture battler… You know that right?” he responded emotionless.

 

“For show and maybe hunting but not killing!” the leader argued back.

 

“First of all, hunting is killing, secondly you can technically also hunt other demons, it’s just illegal” the  other black haired chimed in

 

“I told you we should make a psychological check before letting new members in” the white haired added while looking over a sword.

 

“Did you just call me mentally unstable?” I asked, as answer he just looked at me and raised an eyebrow before continuing his work.

 

“No blood sword and this is final” the boss stated again.

 

“I mean how do you guys think I would manage to gather so much blood?!”

 

“Hmm… When hunting is on the okay list we could hunt down beasts… It would take a while, but we could cooperate with the cooking battler so we would be faster” Jin thought out loud

 

“NO. BLOOD. SWORD” the leader tried again, letting out a deep sigh “Jin will show you around today… I somehow regret that decision but we already decided this weeks ago, so please don’t do illegal shit” he added pointing at Jin’s direction. Going over he already started to put his pencils away.

 

“I will show you how the forging works, when you decide on what you want to forge I will help you with the practical stuff ok?”

 

“Yes, thank you for showing me everything”

 

“No problem! Do you already have another idea?”

 

“Not really, I will look through some books for inspiration over the weekend” humming he started walking towards the aprons.

 

“Here is yours, you put on the wing root protection first. Put your head through that and then close the button in front of you” he showed me everything at his own apron, “ Then you take the normal apron and bind it like that on your back…. Looks good” he mumbled after scanning me up and down for any mistakes.

 

In the forging room he explained me, how the forging of weapons works. While they make forms for traps to fill in liquidated metal they make swords in the old ways. For that the oven is heated through fire magic, depending  on your class it is an internal flame who doesn’t go out that quickly or a normal that needs to be reignite every now and then. The start of every sword, dagger and similar stuff is a truncheon made of Iron, bronze or Damascus steel. Now, depending on how many materials you want to use, you either stretch and fold the truncheon or you first combine the other materials through welding it together. If you have folded it enough you have to stretch it. With that it goes thinner towards the edges, till you have the form of your sword. After that it’s going to be heated evenly and cool down so that the tension leaves the metal. This tension was building up because in the process of forming the sword, the blade was heated differently and with setting it on the same temperature it can release that. If we wouldn’t do it the tension in the blade can cause it to weaken. The last part of the forging is the quenching before moving on to the Finishing. Here we polish and decorate the sword including the production and installation of the handle, protection and scabbard.

 

I now have to decide for myself if I want to make a sword or a little trap. The torture devices would probably be too much to make till the party starts and the Armor is too complicated for now. The boys told me, that they are mostly specialized on weapons and traps because armors are unusual for demons (and needs sewing which the most of them are not capable of) and for the torture devices they would need a new idea, because every forger can make an already established torture device.

 

Saying my goodbyes to the boys a bit early to look through some books in the library, I exited the room. Turning around, I was greeted by the black haired.

 

“By Derkila you scared me Jazz!” I grabbed my chest. Amused he leaned on the wall, now pushing himself away from it.

“Did you already kill someone or why else are you so jumpy?” he asked, while starting to walk up the stairs.  

 

“No, they don’t let me, I just didn’t thought that I would run into anyone… Do you by any chance know where the library is? I would like to go there before meeting with Iruma”

 

“Yeah… but do you think a description will help you? I heard your direction sense isn’t that good”

 

“tsk, I will find my way, don’t worry” he stopped looking at me, than at his watch… Since when does he have a watch?

 

“I will bring you there and then help you find Iruma, Lied is still at his battler so I would have to wait either way” he shrugged and destroyed any possible argument to decline for me. Sighing I gestured him to lead the way, which he did smiling. In silence we made our way to the library and I started thinking which books would be good, as Jazz already hold one up looking at me questioning. Walking over I took it out of it hands.

 

Weapons through the time… before I could look through it he already gave me two other from the same series, only with torture and traps.

 

“That could help, thank you… I only want one or two about some weapons from legends”  I whispered, looking at the signs in front of the rows. From the side I could see Jazz nod and also looking upwards. Seeing what I searched for, I tapped on his shoulder and pointed the direction. Together we went over there and found what I needed pretty fast. After I checked out by the Liberian I joined Jazz outside. “Thanks for your help Jazz… You know that you wouldn’t need to do this?” I asked, following his lead to my brothers battler.

 

“I would be a bad classmate if I wouldn’t help you” he smiled, after that we fell into an comfortable silence. As we managed to find the right floor I thanked him again before he went off to look for Lied. I quicky knocked before entering the battler.

 

“Hi, are you guys ready?” I asked looking around. Iruma was currently helping his upperclassmen to stand upright, while Clara and Asmodeus where bickering on the other side of the room.

 

“Oh hello Nee-san, you’re quite early!”

 

“Yeah, I still need an idea before I can start with my project… Hello, you must be the leader of this battler? I’m his sister Nayuri, I hope it’s ok for me to be here” I directed the last part towards the upperclassmen, readjusting the books in my arms.

 

“I don’t mind you being here Nayuri, I’m Kirio, nice to meet you” he gave me a close eyed smile.

 

“Nice to meet you too” I mumbled scanning him up and down. Just as I thought that he was somehow weird, Derkila appeared next to him also eying him.

 

“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but that kid gives me the creeps” he said “I feel a very strange magic coming from him… but I can’t pinpoint it”

 

“Hmm… Do you mind me asking in which year are you currently in?” I asked him, as Iruma and the rest didn’t seem ready just yet. Maybe this will ease my suspicions on him…

 

“I don’t mind at all! I’m in my third year currently”

 

“Your battler seems to be quite… small…”

  

“The most demons like to show off their mana and my battler isn’t made for that… I mean I don’t really have much mana myself so It’s not that popular. By the way, which battler did you choose?” Humming because of his statement I answered,

 

“I’m in the forging battler, with weapons, traps and stuff… I don’t really choose the battler, they chose me by catching me on the rookie hunt” that caused him to crook his head to the side curiously.

 

“They really managed to catch a student ranked he? Impressive”

 

“As if my rank says anything about my situational awareness or experience with stuff like that… Mana isn’t everything, I’m sure that the most high ranked demons wouldn’t survive living on their own in the woods for a month, they would went crazy without their bonuses” the boy just huffed as Asmodeus chimed in.

 

“My mother certainly would not survive a week in the woods… she would probably went crazy the minute she needs to hunt for herself…” he grumbled.

 

“I can’t imagine grandpa in the woods either” Iruma said while still trying to imagine that picture.

 

“I can’t imagine Grandpa surviving without Opera” I added grinning.  After that the three pact their stuff and I sadly couldn’t continue figuring out what was wrong with the boy. Maybe I just went crazy… Or my intuition is trying to tell me something…

Chapter 17: Start of the preparation

Notes:

Tw: mentions of suicide

Chapter Text

Chain Sword

Type: Myth/Legend

Reality check: till today no one even tried to recreate it

 

Myth:

In times were the Netherworld was still unruly and deadly there was a slave driver who wanted to rule over hell. He was so obsessive about his goal, that he forced his slaves to forge him a weapon, mighty enough to kill the current ruler and change hell to the better. One slave after another died from his hands, as he was never to be satisfied with their work. The last slave he forced into forging managed to create a sword, which could also be used as a whip. The slave was satisfied with his work, hoping he could free his family through it. Showing it off to his master he received the same treatment as the rest. The slave driver started laughing, not believing that anything like that could be forged but before he could kill the man, his head got served from his shoulders. The slave proved that his work is able to kill, sadly the slave driver would never know. It is said, that the former slave now went around, freeing many colonies of slaves and created a save city for refugees.

 

Technical description:

The Chain Sword looks like a normal long sword but is separated into scales. This scales are bound together by a chain and when activated they stop clinging together and work more like a whip. It is unclear how the technique works, how the lose scales can be hold into the form of a sword and how they can go back into the form after being activated.

 

 The bleeding heart

Type: Myth/Legend; cursed item

Reality check: It is said that demon king Derkila destroyed the weapon with several other cursed items

 

Myth:

While being at an mask ball for royalties a young noble girl was asked for a dance. The mysterious man was so charming, that she immediately fell in love. After long months of sending letters she was finally able to meet him in person but instead of happiness the man felt shocked. He never asked for her age, assuming that she was older because of her attendance at the ball. It hurt him deeply because he fell in love with her character and intelligence but he couldn’t be in a relationship with someone that much younger than him. It may have been the norm to have a younger woman but he didn’t like the thought of being together with someone over a hundred years younger than him. That send the girl into a deep depression, no one was able to help her and even though she was watched the whole day, she managed to kill herself with the dagger she had commissioned to start courting the “owner of her heart”. Through stabbing herself into her heart it was said that her pain and sorrow got transferred into the dagger.

 

Technical description:

The dagger looks like a normal one for courting purpose. It was said that the handle was made of gold and the blade out of a glass like material. The blade was decorated with gold pigments and miniature roses. It was handed down that everyone who owned the weapon went crazy in the span of half a year, which is said to be exact the same time it took from the ball to the girls suicide. It apparently started with the owner being really happy, which normally didn’t attract to much attention but after three to four months the owners started to become rapidly depressed and suicidal. Every known case is documented to have ended in one, even though none of them did it with the cursed item itself, which caused the interrogating force to struggle several centuries to find the cause. Another rumor is, that only female demons where affected by the curse, the last victim stated to always hear crying and begging thoughts as well as feeling a painful ache in her heart while her husband never heard or fell anything.

 

“Myths and Cursed weapons… interesting… I hope you don’t plan to kill us?” the yellow haired interrupted my search for a weapon, chuckling uncomfortable.

 

“Like I need a weapon for that… Don’t worry, I’m just looking into designs and techniques…” I mumbled back looking into the book again.

 

“That doesn’t really makes it better… I guess you didn’t really find something till now?”

 

“Nope… Its Thursday and I still haven’t found anything…”

 

“Don’t worry, you will surly find something” Elisa comforted me as the teacher walked in and ADHD was forced to turn back around.

 

History sadly goes over really fast. Probably because I really like the subject and with my ghost bonus I even got better. We currently are covering how the first war broke lose causing new Kings to take over and shit going down faster, leading into the second war. If I remember correctly after that we will cover how they decided on a lone ruler with several people under him creating the first type of rank system. So next up was Medicine. There we will start with normal first aid today, before we go over the healing plants.

 

“Ok students, you will work with a partner today. Before you even think about roaming around in the room, your partner will be your seatmate.” Looking over to my left I saw my partner, undiagnosed ADHD, grinning at me. Please don’t be something dangerous… “We will go outside for that lesson, so behave!” after a short walk we stood in the garden, matts lying around everywhere. “Ok, we will start with checking if someone is still alive and then how to put them in Stable lateral position, decide who lays down first”. What is better… do it first or be victim first…

 

“I can lay down first if you’re ok with it?” the yellow haired offered bouncing on his tail. After short consideration I agreed.

 

“In some higher class you will learn spells to scan body’s to control functioning but even than it is necessary to now the basics. Why? Because not everyone might be able to use that kind of magic or it may be not work in a stress situation. Next thing is that till you learn the spell you need to be able to help in emergencies. So we assume that you found your classmate fainted on the floor… Do you guys lie like that when you faint?” The teacher complained as everyone laid on their backs like sticks.

 

“Don’t know, never looked in the mirror while being unconscious” Jazz, who laid right next to us mumbled, causing ADHD to struggle containing his laughter. If he continues to hold his breath to not laugh out loud, we will have it even more real… . After they repositioned themselves to look more unconscious the teacher continued.

 

“Ok, I will just continue… the first thing you do is look for injuries. Without. Touching. Just scan over them” I did as he told us. “In this scenario you obviously find nothing. So now we will check for breathing. For that you position your head above theirs and check if their breast rises, as well as listening for their breathing and by the sake of Derkila please keep your hormones in check this is serious” we did as he told us.

 

“You smell nice” I heard  whispering from below.

 

“Dead people don’t talk” I mumbled back still looking for his breath

 

“I’m unconscious not dead!”  

 

“Not yet” grumbling he remained breathing. “But thanks for the compliment I guess” I whispered while sitting back up.

 

“Ok, they are still breathing… I hope… Now you put them in the stable lateral position. This only works if their wings aren’t out. If they would be out you would let them be, first of all because you probably would hurt them in the process of moving and secondly they probably fell from a higher distance so you don’t know what little movement could do. For example, their neck could be broken and you would accidentally kill them through moving them. So back to the topic! First step, lay them on their back” you could hear the rustling of motion. “Next step, ankle their left leg”

 

“That’s my right leg” ADHD whispered.

 

“You’re sure?” I asked taking the other. While looking over to the lion and Jazz. Fuck ADHD is right.

 

“Pretty sure” he answered my former question eyes still closed. I followed the instruction and waited for the next to come.

 

“Now take their left hand and position it on their right cheek. Palm pointing away from them.” he waited till we did what he said. “And now turn them on their left side, the head is to be moved downwards and mouth open… That looks acceptable for your first round… Try to be more gentle next time… Alright now change position” ADHD moved away and I positioned myself above the mattress thinking how I would lay if I faint. I decided to just let myself fall to the ground.

 

“Wasn’t that a bit dramatic?” the black haired boy next to us questioned, while the yellow haired crooked his head to the side thoughtful.

 

“If I have to do this shit I do it right” ADHD just shrugged and waited for the teacher to continue. We did pretty well to be honest. I mean he experienced it on himself already, that probably helped.

 

“And now, because the principal decided it is part of my lesson we will now look into ways to carry an injured person without killing them” Oh that is so because of what happened at the flying test… Grandpas way of overreacting is showing us how to act in emergencies. “First of all I want to see how your instincts tell you to hold them”

 

“Why?” someone in the crowd asked

 

“Just out of interest” he totally want to joke with the other teachers about it. “The ones who laid on the ground first are again the first victims” Oh that will be interesting, even though my partner isn’t that much bigger than me. Iruma and Clara are probably struggling more, I mean they have to carry Azz and knife block. Ok concentration, he is hurt and laying on the ground… Oh I know how to do it! I ankle his leg like prior, took his arm and then slung him around my neck like a sheep.

 

“What the fuck” he just said in my ear.

“What? That is the easiest with still being able to move” I answered and showed him with making two squats and then starting to walk around.

 

“Woah stop it!” he complained

 

“Your unconscious. Unconscious demons don’t talk”

 

“Really Nayuri?!”

 

“Yes ADHD”

 

“It’s Lied”

 

“Then yes Lied, even though I’m wondering how you could talk…” he just huffed at that causing a smile in my face.

 

“Now the other way round” the teacher demanded as we made our way back to our matt. I sat Lied back down and laid back down. After a quick look he decided to just hold me in bridal style.

 

“See, that is how you hold someone” he said

 

“You can be happy that you’re not Clara!” I complained after checking on the others. The most where in the same position as I was, including my brother who was held by a very red Asmodeus. Then there was Clara who was held like a potato sack.

 

“Yeah it wasn’t that bad” he agreed and sunk into his own thoughts until “Hey Jazz foot war” and with that he attacked the feet from the lion in Jazz arms with mine.

 

“Are you serious?”

 

“Shh Nayuri you are unconscious”

 

“That’s mobbing” Thankfully the teach ended the lesson shortly after, telling us that the bridal stile was good and mine was also ok as long as the person isn’t that much hurt.

 

The last lesson before the brake was magic and to be honest I don’t really know what happened because I thought about all the weapons I read about. In a moment of absolute creativity I decided on one. We don’t meet today in the battler because more than the half of us has other shit to do and we need a minimum of four people at the room while working for safety measures. The guy just told me that I should write everything down and Jin send me a video of how to make sketches to be prepared for tomorrow. They didn’t want to hear the idea itself because they wanted to be surprised by it tomorrow, to the displeasure of the leader who was still a little scared from my last idea.

 

So I thought about the details in the remaining break, thinking about how to draw it at home. With the first ring of the bell Clara grabbed me and pulled me towards the seduction course. Derkila sat himself next to a wall, happy that he finally see the seduction course.

 

“Mpah dear students! I missed all of you so much, our time slots got moved so often I hope you still remember everything!” Raim cried when she entered the room. “You all look so lovely today! I hope your battler preparations going well and that you will succeed with everything you planed! Now let’s begin! I think we here stuck on the fifth out of nine types of seducers… To get everybody back onto the topic we will make a quick rundown on the first four… who wants to start?” she asked looking around. “Yes Elisabetha, what do you remember?”

 

“The first type is the siren, they harness feminine energy, is often coy, glamorous, regal and gravitates towards a life of leisure and comfort. Another point is, that they have an instant effect on their lover due to their sex appeal. Their tactic is to make the partners pursue them and to stay slightly out of reach” Elisa  answered staring thoughtful into the air.

 

“Nicely done! That sums it up pretty well, who wants to go next?” The hands from the students rose again. “Donsanko why don’t you continue?”

 

“I love to! So the next type would be the rake, they are mostly targeted towards women because they seem to be madly in love and they don’t hesitate to admit this weakness, luring their pray with it. As well as the siren they also have a great amount of sex appeal but they also know how to use their words to show devotion. They also use their open shown popularity as lover to generate interest of other potential partners. Characteristics of them would be, to be charismatic, confident, adventure seeking, unpredictable, independent, self-centered, reckless, charming and of course seductive!” she smiled after pointing out everything and Raim chose the draconic girl to continue.

 

“Ok, Ehm the next one was the ideal lover. They are the most successful and represent a fantasy lover who makes their chosen one feel lofty and great. They are making themselves irresistible by giving their partners what they seem to miss in their lives… For that they observe their partners to determine what they need and then presenting themselves as exactly that.”  After she ended Raim also praised her and let Icey finish with the last one.

 

“The Dandy was our last type, they offer the kind of forbidden freedom everyone wants but mostly don’t achieve. Essentially you could describe them as a radical who isn’t conform to tradition and often relies on insolence to attract their wanted demon. Dandies can be of any gender and does have equal chances with any gender as well… even though men and women act kind of different as dandy. A male one is not an aggressive seducer but rather a sophisticated and graceful one. Now while a male dandy would be described to wear more feminine clothes and give great attention to details a female one goes more into the masculine direction in appearance and attire. With that they stand out and break conventions, even though they are nearly extinct because the society is way more open in how demons show themselves as to the time the roles where determined”

 

“That was all really good my dears! I’m so glad you haven’t forgot anything! So today we will cover the Natural with the same schema as before, who are they, who do they want to seduce, methods, characteristics and lastly one of you will play the pray and the other is going to meme a natural! Now let’s start!” with that we learned how to meme a natural and I was really happy that I wasn’t chosen to play pretend. Till now I managed to stay under the radar but I will probably have to contribute my nonexistent acting talent. Derkila was so hooked by everything that I didn’t hear anything from him.

 

I got at home alone, Iruma still had his battler meeting today. The thought about him being near that weird guy makes me really uncomfortable and I can’t even put my finger on why. I got straight up in my room, getting a notebook to create the plan of my weapon. Or should I say weapons? Full on concentrated I lost quickly track of time, so I was really surprised when Iruma knocked on my door after what felt like ten minutes. He just informed me that Opera is starting to cook and went straight to his room.

 

“Hmm you look concerned” Derkila leaned against my table in his small form.

 

“I still think this guy who runs his battler is really weird…” I answered still looking at the door my brother just closed.

 

“What do you mean with that?” now looking directly at him I remembered how I never saw his eyes.

 

“I can’t really put a finger on it but somehow everything screams danger around him”

 

“I know what you mean… his aura seemed off and he didn’t seem… sincere, if you know what I mean” Derkila answered thinking about the one time we met the guy.

 

“Yeah… It is like Icey who tried to play the natural today but lacked in security… It just seems off…” before I could continue the phone in the hall downstairs started ringing and because Opera was cooking I had to answer it.

 

“Devil morgue and pizza, your loss is our sauce! How can I help you?” Let’s hope it’s nothing important.

 

“Oh Nayuri my sweet devil, it’s me your grandpa!” he answered… do I hear happy tears?

 

“Aren’t you in your office? Wondered why everything was so silent” I mumbled the last part but apparently he could still hear it.

 

“Don’t be so mean to your grandfather!” he cried, “Could you please get Opera on the phone?”

 

“Why? Where are you? Do you need to get rid of a corpse? I could sent Huggin over with my fire matches if you want to” I offered, leaning against the wall.

 

“What? No… but I have some trouble with the border patrol and will probably not be home for the next few days…” he went quieter near the end and I just stood there in silence before answering with the coldest voice I could muster.

 

“I don’t know nor care what you did, but if you’re not back by the day the battler party is and disappoint Iruma with your absence, I will make sure you never forget”

 

“Don’t worry I’m not planning on missing that, I already booked several cameras to capture everything!” He cheerfully told me.

 

“Good… I mean the part with coming to the party not the filming part… that sounds really horrible… either way… OPERA GRANDPA IS ON THE PHONE! HE IS IN PRISON AND WANTS TO TALK TO YOU” I screamed before getting back to the call “They are coming and don’t worry, Iruma didn’t hear the last part, he is still in the shower! So bye grandpa and if you need to get rid of a witness give me a call!” With that I gave the phone away.

 

“You are not going to kill anyone young mistress, that would be bad for your mental health” they said before answering grandpa. I just wonder which mental health they mean… With that I got my, nearly finished, third book for our club from my room, to read while Opera was still cooking, ironically it was a thriller.

Chapter 18: The days towards the battler party

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“Ok I have to say your weapon idea looks really groovy!” One of my battler colleagues said. They were all standing around the table to see with what I came up with.

 

“Who the fuck still uses groovy?!” the blond asked, looking appalled at his friend.

 

“I said it… like five seconds ago… maybe you need to see Blushenko“ my mentor deadpanned.

 

“But there are so many words you could have chosen from, like lit, fantastic, cool, phenomenal, savage, dope…” the redhaired chimed in.

 

“Thank you Rai for mimicking a dictionary but I’m perfectly able to articulate myself” he said, squeezing the brick of his nose.

 

“I also like your idea” the other black haired mumbled still studying my notes

 

“It doesn’t contain any blood?” the leader tried to sound uninterested.

 

“No, no blood… just normal boring iron” he ignored the last part and just answered

 

“Well, Jin will help you with the first two, the other two you will make alone only being watched by one of us, if something happened… It will be quite a work if you want to be ready by Friday next week, but I guess you will be perfectly fine… So let’s not waste any more time and go to work!”

 

Not going to lie, I thought it would be easier. I decided to create four chakrams with some magic abilities… who could have guessed that it is so exhausting to make a round sword?! I stayed overtime every day, so I was in school till like eight in the evening. Thankfully the others from my battler stayed a similar long time, making some daggers, kunai, shuriken and even some little stuff like rings with knives, combs that are knives, hair needless that could be used as knives and other shit to sell at the party. And my idea with the blood iron was crazy but let’s make everything into weapons… I see… . Either way, Jin my mentor who told me his name so often till I could remember it, recommended, that we do everything step by step. That means, we forge all of the weapons first, than all of them get their final touch with sharpening and shit, than the handles and decorations are made and lastly the magic. The negative thing and the main point why I’m forced to stay so long is, that I can only leave if one ring is completely forged, it would not be that good to let everything cool down completely and then reheat it.

 

“I swear to the devils, if anyone dares to say something slightly bad about my weapons, I’m going to rip them apart and make weapons out of their puny bones and use their fucking meat as leather for the handle” I grunted while slamming the hammer on the metal of the third ring.

 

“Hmm… You would need to support the bones… make them more sturdy or else they would probably break while using the sword or even while forging it… maybe it would help to coat it with something to make it unbreakable or make a mix of materials to prevent damage and breaking… For the skin part I don’t really see any problems… Maybe we can combine the blood iron with the bones and the skin and make our first cursed weapon?” Jin thought out loud causing me to stare at him.

 

“Where have you been all my live?” I asked, sweat dripping from… every part of my body… that oven will be the death of me.

 

“I can’t help you with that question, but in the future you two can probably find each other in jail” Natsuo deadpanned

 

“Hmm… theoretically we could just harvest an already dead demon for research purpose, that wouldn’t be as illegal as killing one and process them into a sword”  Kage just ignored what the blond said. It’s funny how fast I managed to learn their names…

 

“And we wouldn’t have a problem with how to murder them, because they would be already dead” I chimed in again

 

“And we also wouldn’t have a problem with a) choosing a victim and b) covering up their disappearance” Jin continued the thought while Natsuo just staired at us.

 

“Oh right and we could charge the murderer because we dispose his victim!” I cheered

 

“You are a genius!” Kage cheered with me, as our leader walked in from the other room.

 

“No blood sword, no skin handles, no bone swords, no murder in general and no disposing of already dead demons! Got it?! I probably need to renew our rule book…” the leader grumbled pointing at us with a hair needle he currently sharpened.

 

“Technically we always use skin for our handles” Kage corrected.

 

“And what would be if we opened some fresh graves, take the body and then just close it again?” I thought out loud causing the boys faces to lighten up… except for the boss and Natsuo’s.

 

“NO crimes, that includes murder and disturbing the rest of the dead, we do NOT make weapons out of remains of demons GOT IT?” the leader didn’t wait for our answer and just left us be.

 

“He just said no demons” Kage nearly whispered.

 

“You think what I’m thinking” I asked, squinting over to him.

 

“Beast sword?” Jin asked.

 

“Beast sword!” we whisper cheered, causing Nasuo to sigh and I think I could hear him mumble about being doomed.

 

Thankfully I managed to get ready with the rings the next day, so after the weekend I started sharpening… and it was fucking uncomfortable. The biggest bummer was, that I noticed that my rings don’t have the same size… Fucking ridiculous. The boys tried to lighten my mood, because apparently it is good work for my first time forging but I thought it would be better. Sighing in disappointment I continued sharpening all of them roughly so that I could start the fine work on my bench.

 

“They are really good! And you will get even better with time, my first weapon looked like shit so don’t be too harsh on yourself!” the white haired tried to make me feel better again.

 

“Oh yeah, it should have been a regular sword, which should be able to lighten up like a torch and it was really crooked” Kaneki remembered

 

“And when he tried to use it, the blade wobbled” Natsuo laughed.

 

“Hey, only I’m allowed to shame my wobble sword! It’s not like your armor was any better!” Natsuo gasped at that and held a hand on his chest.

 

“It was a chain amor and he didn’t manage to close all of the little rings, so he accidentally pierced his nipple” Masato explained

 

“Did you really had to tell her that, mister ‘let’s make a laser sword and set our tent on fire’?”

 

“At least mine worked” Masato said, looking at Jin who polished a sword.

 

“I don’t know what you mean, my bomb worked perfectly fine” he said, not stopping his work.

 

“Yeah… your bomb, which was meant to be a fire sword” Rai chimed in, causing Jin to look thoughtful into the air.

 

“Oh yeah… totally forgot that it never should have exploded…” he mumbled. Huffing out a laugh I got back to my work… Maybe they aren’t that terrible… .

 

It only took the rest of that day to make the first rough sharpening, so the next day I could do the fine work and polishing. After the conversation yesterday I felt slightly better and so I managed to finish all four rings. The most exhausting steps where done now, so the next day I was honing the wood handles and deciding on which leader to use. So after Wednesday I was also ready with that and had the whole day tomorrow to put magic into them and be ready with everything right before the party. Exhausted I sat on table that evening, while Iruma was fidging around nervously.

 

“Ehm Opera, I would like to stay overnight in school tomorrow… we want to test our device and this is only possible at night…” Iruma started the conversation while we were eating.

 

“Wait… we are allowed to do that?!” I exclaimed while taking my phone and writing in our battler group chat. These idiots, we could have done that and wouldn’t have to stress that much!

 

“Is some teacher there to watch you?” Opera asked, ignoring my outburst.

 

“I think Kalego and Dali are going to be there… I promise I will behave!” Iruma pleaded

 

“I have no doubt in that young master… I will allow it, but you will come home from school first and then go back, so you won’t have to take all your bags to school… and you will shower here as well as applying enough from your parfum” Iruma happily nodded along, while Opera seemed to wait if I get the approval of my team as well.

 

Weapon battler

 

Nayuri:

Can someone tell me why the fuck we are

going home every day if we just could stay

Overnight?!

Rai

We are allowed to stay overnight again?!

 

Masato

I don’t think the teachers approved of it …

And they probably will never let us ever again

 

Jin

I think she didn’t ask because we are allowed

to stay in school overnight but more because

she got to know it would be a possibility

 

Kage

As if they let us stay again…

Nayuri

What do you mean with “being allowed again”?

 

Kage

We were allowed to stay overnight last year…

but then shit went south

 

Nayuri

Can you elaborate that further?

 

Kage

To be honest I don’t really know why we aren’t

allowed to stay overnight

 

Natsuo

Probably because you have an unreasonable

Hyper fixation on using that damned axe for

everything

 

Akiro

Don’t remind me of that time… my therapist thought

I imagen you and wanted to treat me for schizophrenia

 

Kage

-_-

I wasn’t fixated on that axe! I had an ex that stalked me

… and was mentally not that normal…

 

Masato

….

 

Jin

So when you tried to kill Marbas sensei you thought

Your Ex was attacking us

Nayuri

Who is Marbas?

Natsuo

That is the information you want to have?!

Nayuri

… I don’t really know what to say

to be honest…

Jin

He is the torture teacher you will get in your

2nd year and controls if everything is going well

in our battler. Mostly because he is interested

in the newest torture inventions

 

Kage

I didn’t attack him!

 

Masato

Hmm… how do we call it if someone throws an

Axe towards your head…

 

Jin

Depending on your success attempted murder or

Murder

 

 

Kage

I hadn’t try to murder him! He is rank six or seven!

I was rank beth at that time, if I would have managed

to kill him like that, it would have been natural selection!

 

Jin

… If you ever going to be in court for a crime, please get

an attorney

Nayuri

So… you wanted to kill your ex?

Kage

NO! If it would have been her I would have thrown to high

to even hit her

 

Masato

Absolutely not concerning

 

Akiro

Hmm… and there I thought it was because Rai drank the

alcohol he should have use to sanitize his wound…

 

Rai

YOU told me “use this”! Normally demons drink liquid!

 

Nayuri

Did it taste good?

Rai

To be honest I don’t remember shit of that night…

only the pizza Kage cut with his axe…

 

Natsuo

You puked in the oven and then burnt it

It took hours to get rid of the smell, I think on bad

days I can still smell it

 

Jin

Oh you mean when he screamed he managed to

create a Home fragrance?

 

Rai

Yeah, that sounds like me but my memory isn’t really

there

 

Akiro

It was the worst thing I ever smelled…

 

Rai

Ok, I probably said that I’m sorry so quit it!

And what I didn’t forget is, that I was only hurt because

you wanted hair of that fucking beast so you let me break

into the cage of that dangerous beast!

 

Jin

Didn’t you only get hurt because you didn’t manage to climb

back up and hurt yourself on the fence?

 

Rai

It doesn’t matter! I wouldn’t have lit my puke on fire if I wouldn’t

be hurt because of YOUR wobble sword

 

Akiro

Don’t talk about my sword like that

 

Kage

And I am the problem…

Nayuri

… And I am the one you call crazy

Masato

Hey, I didn’t do anything!

 

Jin

If I remember correctly you glued Rai on the wall so he would

Stop doing shit and it took four hours as well as Marbas help

to free him

 

Masato

Well and who caused flooding in the toilette because you

had some plants you weren’t allowed to have?!

 

Jin

That was Natsuo, I got into the library of those king freaks and

changed the order of their books so they wouldn’t have time

annoying me about making a replica of the former kings

weapons

 

Kaneki

The teachers don’t know about all that, Marbas never told

them because he don’t want our battler to be shut down…

 

The only reason we aren’t allowed to work there after a certain

Hour is because the beasts in the beast battler are not getting

Enough rest if we are keeping our forging volume through the

Night. The plant battler also didn’t want us to stay to long because

apparently flowers sleep as well and we are disturbing that

Nayuri

I think they just didn’t want

to hurt your feelings and tell you, that

you annoy them…

Kage

Doesn’t matter I am innocent and happy

 

Closing the chatroom I told Opera that I wasn’t staying overnight and will probably be at home at eight again.

 

The next day happened as I told, at eight I was finally home, after I managed to create a force field in every chakram and made them able to fly and follow my movements. The last part was thanks to Derkila. At first it was only planned to let them hover in the air, so I wouldn’t have to search them in high grass, then Jin asked if I want to be able to step onto them. That was the point were we decided to make a force field and then Derkila said that it would be nice, if they would come back after throwing and following my movements so they could be more or less thrown like that. So I tinkered around and they will now come back and can fly around me but it’s still really unsafe and I need to concentrate heavily. I hope that everything will be more chilled after we had that party… And I hope grandpa will be back by then. I really hadn’t had much time for myself in the last two weeks and I also didn’t see Iruma that much outside of school. My classmates are also really on edge… Elisa is practicing really much, I think she is in some singing battler, even though she really liked the succubus battler as well. The only other demons I heard from where, my brothers group obviously who had great problems to decide what to do, knife- Sabro who practiced his role every semi free lesson… Derkila was really hooked by his display of him, Lied who is doing some adventure thingy where you will be able to go into a game or something like that. Oh and there is Jazz who I probably saw the most outside of lessons, he sometimes visited me when he got a break and sometimes I got over to them. The funny thing is, as soon as he visited me we had to check, that he didn’t steal stuff and every time I went over they had to check that nothing blew up.

 

Because of the stress in the last few days our book club decided on an online meeting. Opera even made some snacks for me. Opening my laptop I quickly joined the online meeting Elisa set up.

 

“Hey guys” I greeted Elisa and Crocell

 

“Hey”

 

“Hello my dears, how did your readings go?” Elisa started.

 

“I finished yesterday… I think I’m traumatized… it was intense” I updated them.

 

“I’m also finished… I have to say, the ending really hit me” Crocell agreed.

 

“That is great! I mean that you both finished because we can now talk open about it, not that you are mentally affected by it” Elisa taped her chin thoughtful

 

“HOW in hells name can you not be affected?! We just learned that the protagonist we hoped will survive and be reunited with her love was actually killed in the SECOUND chapter, didn’t realize it till the second half of the book! AND if this wouldn’t be enough, we then hoped that her killer will be found, only to learn that her BOYFRIEND killed and ATE her and therefor wasn’t brought to justice!” I ranted

 

“Hey on the bright side, he was killed by a beast in the end” Crocell didn’t really look that happy herself.

 

“THAT was the most random shit I ever read!” I agreed passionate, causing Elisa to chuckle

 

“Ok, I have to say it wasn’t the best, even though I have to say, that I liked the motive of the killer… To kill and eat your loved one to be with them on another level and he did die in the end which gave her more or less justice…” Elisa told us her thoughts.

 

“Please don’t kill and eat your potential lovers Elisabetha” Crocell deadpanned.

 

“Oh no, I think it is an interesting trope, because mostly they use jealousy or something like that as motive and not to be closer to your loved one”

 

“Yeah ok, that was really interesting, but that poor ghost of that girl, she never got closure, because he was never convicted…” I groaned disappointed

 

“He got eaten alive by an bear… In that sense he got the same treatment as his former girlfriend only on a more brutal level, which shows us on one side, that some people will never get justice because of the lack of evidence but fate will revenge our souls and judge you for your crimes” Opera decided to speak from the off.

 

“Wow… now I’m even more depressed but on a deeper level…” I mumbled.

 

“Oh my that is such a good interpretation!” Elisa cheered, while Crocell agreed with me.

 

“So you liked the book Opera?” I asked them.

 

“Oh devi no, the writing style was not mine and as much as I understand the conclusion of the story on a deeper level, I still don’t really like it… Even though there were worse books… I would probably give it a two out of five. It really had some good approaches which the author didn’t really develop and so it was more a disappointment” They explained while sitting down next to me.

 

“Wow… That was deep” Crocell was the first one to speak.

 

“And so detailed, you really described what I felt Opera-san” Elisa smiled, crocking her head in thought. “Which books do you like to read?” she asked the cat demon.

 

“I read nearly everything, I don’t restrict myself on a genre, if I like the description I give it a try” They gave their answer. Humming Elisa continued

 

“Would you like to join our club Opera-san? We mostly read romance, thriller or fantasy and we decided to make a meeting ones a week to discuss what we have read.”

 

“I would like to join you, if it is ok for all of you” they nodded, while Crocell and I quickly agreed and welcomed them into our group.

 

“So now that this is settled, what book should we read next?” Elisa took the initiative again.

 

“I don’t really care as long as it is happy… I need something nice to forget that” I gave my opinion.

 

“How about a more adventurous book with love on the sidelines?” Opera suggested.

 

“That would be a welcome pause I guess” Elisa thought.

 

“What do you think of?”

 

“Maybe ‘cinnamon muffin and iced latte’ ? The protagonist owns a bakery but finds a book with a map to a long lost treasure and so she leaves everything to find out where it leads her. It has really good reviews and I thought about reading it for a while now…” Opera answered Crocell and all of us agreed on it. So we decided to start reading after the battler party and discussing the first two chapters next week. I have to say, that I’m really happy with the book choice and Opera also seemed pleased and happy (?) to now be a part of the club.

Chapter 19: the tiring preperation for the party

Summary:

I'm back... more or less, I'm currently trying to write a bit in advance, but I'm still a bit stuck -_- but I try my best to update more frequently again <3

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“It was so cool Nee-san! Everything just worked as planned and the others praised me for the idea… Even though I think Asmodeus is still unsure if we could shoot demons from the sky by accident… Don’t even think about it Nayuri-nee! Either way, we even made a pillow fight! Oh, and Kirio showed us his Bloodline, it’s so cool, he can make invisible barriers! When are you arriving at school I have so much to tell you!” Iruma rambled as I got ready to head out.

 

“I’m currently putting my shoes on and then I head out, without the morons I will probably be arriving in the next twenty minutes… We can probably talk for a bit but then I need to see how I can help my battler with setting everything up” I answered while grabbing my bag and heading out the door. “I will probably have to hang up because I don’t want to use my mana for loading my phone”

 

“Alright, see you at school, be careful and don’t get abducted on your way here!” Iruma cheerfully ended the call. Huffing I stored my phone in my bag and started my walk. It’s the first time I walk in absolute silence, I thought but was quickly interrupted by voices just as I left the gate. Let’s hope Iruma didn’t jinx the abduction part I thought while looking for a threat, as Jazz and Lied emerged from the forest.

 

“Ha see! I told you we will arrive on time!” the yellow haired bragged

 

“Yeah but we would have been even sooner, if you hadn’t forgot to take nearly everything you need for today” Jazz countered.

 

“Uhm… what are you doing here?” I interrupted them confused, gaining back their attention.

 

“Well, Iruma, Asmodeus and Clara where sleeping in school today” raising my eyebrow I waited for more but they were just grinning.

 

“Okay, that explains literally nothing”

 

“We didn’t want you to walk to school alone…” Lied added

 

“Yeah, you probably would have managed to get lost or something” Jazz continued

 

“And then you would have been eaten by a bear or some shit and we wouldn’t want that” Lied took over again.

 

“And of course we didn’t want you to be lonely, so we decided to walk with you today” Jazz ended and together they started walking toward school. I quickly caught up to them.

 

“You know that you didn’t have to do that?” I asked walking next to Jazz.

 

“Yes”

 

“I would have found the way on my own!” I continued

 

“Maybe, but we didn’t want to take the risk and since we hadn’t had much time to talk outside of school the last week I thought we could use that walk to really catch up” He’s probably talking about our decrease in visits as we worked on our project, even though I met him at least two times this week…

 

“What do you mean by that?” Lied asked him and I answered him promptly.

 

“Jazz and I visited each other sometimes, because our battlers are right across from each other and due to the preparations we had to limit the visits and keep them short.”

 

“What?! You haven’t told me that!” the yellow haired boxed Jazz lightly.

 

“Hmm? I probably forgot” Jazz just mumbled.

 

“Yeah yeah of course you did” Lied grumbled, “Either way how were your secret meetings” he continued looking smug.

 

“They weren’t really secret… And his battler buddies didn’t let me touch anything!”

 

“To be fair I wasn’t allowed to touch anything as well”

 

“No, you weren’t allowed to steal shit so we had to keep an eye on you” Lied chuckled at that

 

“Why wasn’t she allowed to touch your stuff?”

 

“Well… my battler heard about the several incidences with her and was afraid that she accidentally set anything on fire” At that Lied just burst out laughing.

 

“Hey! That is a totally unreasonable fear!”

 

“The branch from that tree would probably say differently”

“To my defense, that was Clara… But let us change the topic, before this character assassination continues, how did your preparations for today go?” I changed the topic and we talked about that the rest of the way. Lied told us how they managed to finish the game two days prior, so yesterday they just made some final testing. Jazz got more into detail how they needed some time to decide on a project, as some news guys reported about the declining water quality in some regions. They then researched which natural occurring things save water and doesn’t really need it that much. As they figured out that stones where the way to go, because the stored water in them is remarkably clean, they started creating a spell to harvest the water. He also mentioned that the spell they come up with did work, but sadly it was a rather slow process and they didn’t had enough time to speed it up. After he finished I also told them about my weapons and surprisingly they seemed really invested. They even want to come over when the party starts to see how they work.

We meet the rest of our class, including my morons, outside so I could get updated by Iruma how the night had gone and told them about our meeting yesterday. Just as I decided that it was time to go to my battler the battler came to me… unfortunately.

“NEWBY HEY!” the redhaired screamed over from the school building and only a few seconds later I had an arm thrown over my shoulder. “Is this your class? Cute!”

 

“Stop that Rai, you embarrass her” Kage also came over. My class just starred at them unmoving.

 

“I told Kaneki that he would manage to disturb her class… I should have bet with him” Jin mumbled.

 

“What are you dumbasses doing here?!” I ranted, trying to free myself from Rai’s hold. Sadly that only caused him to cling more.

 

“To get you to help us building up our booth, obviously” Jin grinned and Rai started to drag me away sighing.

 

“It was nice to meet you kiddos but we have to get going, see ya” Kage finger gunned them and then followed us.

 

“Aren’t they just two years younger than you?” Rai mumbled.

 

“Do I look like I care?”

 

“I can walk by myself you idiots, let me go!” Thankfully we got quickly out of the sight from my classmates.

 

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“So, because last year our tent got set on fire” Kaneki was looking over to Masato.

 

“At least I didn’t try to blew us up” he grumbled, which was absolutely ignored by our leader.

 

“We are going to try hardwood with a little fence around our space and the most of our stuff arrayed outside for this year. Inside the booth we show of everything we can sell” Kaneki explained, “Nayuri, Akiro and Kage you will set up the fence. Jin, Natsuo, Rai and Masato you will set up the booth and I will watch all of you, so you don’t fuck anything up. SO grab some stuff and up to our space!” Oh man, he is surely just too lazy to help! The parts needed where already on some carts in our space, since these kind of supply’s are stored elsewhere. It would have been a pain to carry everything, thankfully we just had to transport some small stuff.

 

“Can’t we just use some fancy spell?” I grumbled looking at the woods for the fence.

 

“Nope, the last time we tried that nothing went as we wanted, so we had to build everything either way! “ I got my answer and with a disapproving huff I started working.

 

“You got this Nayuri! Maybe you should think about a crafting job in the future!” The King decided to try and motivate me… not really successful, as I currently tried to get the felt hundredth fence post into the ground. Glaring at him I answered,

 

“If you don’t shut it immediately, I will figure out a way to shove a post up your ass” mumbling so the others wouldn’t question my sanity. It didn’t got the wished effect, because Derkila just gasped, held his hand over his breast and grinned like an idiot. The only positive thing in this whole shit is, that because we are the weapons battler, the other battler don’t annoy us. Kaneki on the other hand took over that job pretty well. Even though he is more focused on setting up the selling booth.

 

“I think I’m going to commit murder” Akiro mumbled as he walked by to get more posts.

 

“Oh no Aki is broken” I teased him.

 

“And you will be the first one” he said darkly while glaring at me.

 

“KAGE! AKI WANTS TO KILL ME!” I screamed over to the still working boy. Confused he looked in our direction hammer still in position to ram the next wood into the ground.

 

“What did you do?!” he shouted back, causing Akiro to grin.

 

“EY! I didn’t do shit!”

 

“That’s probably the problem! All of you, back to work!” Kaneki broke our fun and then turned back to the others. Swearing under my breath I turned back on putting up the fence. It took another hour till we got finished with it, so we were told to get our stuff from our battler room. Akiro and Kage took either one of the carts and because I worked way harder than them I sat on Kage’s and let myself be driven to the battler room. Till the next obstacle arrived, the stairs. Of course we could use magic to get them down, but getting them up would be way more difficult than just walking up the stairs like a thousand times.

 

In our room we decided to try to get everything in boxes, we got a sword box, which took Akiro and myself to get up and even than we nearly died. The next box got my weapons and some other special shit. All of the stuff we will sell got into two boxes and then there where the torture devices and traps. It took ages to get them into boxes… several boxes… and with that we had one cart full. The other got loaded with Stands for the swords and the single metal armor as well as other stuff to present everything… oh and dummies we can wreck while showing off our stuff. Fully loaded we slowly made our way back, just in time as the rest got ready with the little booth.

 

After another one and a half hour we got all of the little things into the booth, the swords and special weapons got arrayed on stands left to the booth and the single armor on the right. Next to the swords where two dummies on which we will present our stuff. We got lucky, that we only have another battler on our right so even when something went wrong we don’t kill someone… hopefully. On our right side where some of the new traps and torture devices, we also got some leather armor, but we decided on wearing them ourself later. So now I was free to walk around, till the event really starts.

 

My plan was to find my brother first. Did I succeed? Absolutely not, but I did find the rest of my class.

 

“Hi Nayuri! … You look like shit” I got greeted by the yellow haired.

 

“I will take a shower later, when everything will start for us, but thanks for noticing! I worked really hard to look that wrecked”

 

“Did you guys train or?” Lied asked further ignoring my snide remark

 

“No I was setting up a fence and then had to get everything from our battler up here and set everything up, but since we are apparently to destructive to use magic, we used our hands. Sadly I only got the 6th spot for showering, so I have to wait for Jin to give me the go”

 

“You have only one shower?!”

 

“Yes, we got a tiny bathroom with a shower for emergencies, you can lock it before you think anything weird and we always got towels and change stuff in a locker there” I explained “So where are your battlers? I want to find all of you when everything starts” with that we quickly visits all of the currently empty battlers, till I finally got to take the shower.

 

My boys waited for me on the outside to help me in my armor, because apparently we have to train our look for tomorrow. Funnily we had exactly one female armor and with a little magic we got it in my measures. It was built like a Top with a high neck and extra shoulder plates out of metal with an flower design. Jin helped me with the lacing and it was surprisingly really comfy. I was already wearing the trousers and high boots, the trousers where made out of a mix of leather and fabric. The boots covered my knees and had also metal protection there. As finishing I also got forearm protection out of metal, a cloak, a belt with a bag and straps for daggers and a scabbard, unfortunately all empty. The whole set was apparently made by Akiro, because he told us when something was placed wrong. I got a glance in the mirror and I had to say, the armor looked great on me. It was all black with some gray stiches and the silvery metal protection.

 

Afterwards Masato did my hair, he told us, that he got practice because of his little sister, so he can do several hairstyles. He decided to do two small tight braids on each side of my head, so it looked like I got an undercut and a bigger in the middle. The rest of my hair remained open. The boys with long hair also got some fancy hairstyles. We than put some jewelry in them as well as fake piercings we got some weeks prior. For some finishing touch I put some warrior like makeup on. Looking one last time into the mirror I could see my blue eyes glow because of the dark makeup around my eyes, I also did some patterns which looked really nice. The fake piercings on my ears as well on my hair fitted really well because of the metal I already had on my armor. Lastly I also put some horn jewelry on, they looked like the rings with patterns in my hair.

 

“So lady and gentlemen, I hope you all know that we will have to keep everything up for the next two and a half days. We will meet here again tomorrow really early to style everything again… But now go to eat and have fun! We will see each other later at our battler!” with that I made my way towards the cafeteria because my class told me we will all eat together when I’m back and when they find Iruma and his squad.

 

The good thing about my class is that they are really loud so as soon as I set my foot in the cafeteria I knew where to go. So I quickly got into the food line and then made a beeline towards our table.

 

“Hey guys, sorry that it took so long…” I excused myself as I took a seat. When I looked up again I was met with the stares of my classmates. “… Is something wrong?”

 

“You… you look…” Jazz stammered and blushed when I looked directly at him. How weird… I knew it was a terrible idea to already go in costume.

 

“I hope my look doesn’t make you uncomfortable… It’s a amor one of my upperclassmen made and I was asked to display it…”

 

“You look so gorgeous my dear!” Elisa cheered me up.

 

“Female empowerment at its finest!” Maybe I should get rid of the bird…

 

“Like a real warrior! Thou would have made a great actress for our battler!” Sabro patted me on the back while Clara cheered something along the lines of “let’s go to war and shoot demons from the sky” Smiling we went back to our meal, even though I still wondered what Jazz wanted to say. In the middle of our lunch was also the announcement of the prices for the best battlers, nothing I’m really interested in, we mostly hope that we will get sponsored by someone in need of interesting weapons.

 

Afterwards we decided to scout out some of the other battlers, before I went back to mine because the most of them weren’t open yet.