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After everything that happened before to Iruma, the whole phantom thieves and that door and everything is a lot to take in for the moment. But, luckily today is the first day of his second year at Babyls, a chance to take his mind off for a while.
As usual, he get up with the help of his alarm, get ready and went downstairs to eat with his beloved family before making his way to the school with his two soulmates… Nothing could go wrong with this, right?...
Shortly after, the three of them get into the royal one. His classmates are loud as usual, especially Lied. It's comforting to say the least. After what he saw through that door, this view is exactly what he needed.
“Iruma-chi!! Are you alrighty???”
He was taken off guard when Clara suddenly hug him from behind and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Ah! Stupid Clara! Get off Iruma-sama before you choke him!!” Asmodeus tried to separate her but it's to no avail since she hugged him tightly.
"Eugh!! But, Iruma-chi has been silent since this morning and it's not like Iruma-chi at all!!”
Iruma froze from his thoughts, right… he’s been silent. Why? It's not like everything bad will happen. His soulmates are here, his classmates are loud and everything is fine. Besides, it's the first day from the terminus break, he should be excited but… why couldn't he shake off this feeling that something will happen?
“It's okay! I'm fine, I just had this bad feelin—"
BOOM
Suddenly, there’s an explosion right behind them. Exactly at the back, near the entrance of the class. All heads are turned toward the source of the explosion and the sight greeting them is an opening of a portal…. And through the portal is a sight of something that didn't exist in the netherworld. Human world. Of course, only one person is aware of this while the rest are baffled and even some grow curious.
"What the heck is that?!” Lied almost jumped from his seat when the explosion happened.
“A portal…? Should we tell the teachers?” Elizabetta said, while already reaching for her hellphone.
"Woah!! A portal—tal—tal? Azz azz, where do you think it will lead to?”
"Stupid! Don't go near it, let's just wait before the teachers arrive.”
All of the demons are busy with themselves, talking about the portal and some even betting on what's inside of it. Too busy to even notice the horrified expression of one of their classmate.
The teachers arrive shortly after the explosion, the first to arrive is of course Naberius Kalego followed by Balam Shichiro and then Opera.
“Silence! All of you get away from that thing."
Kalego moves in long strides and stands in front of the portal in no time, examining it while Opera stand behind him.
"Sullivan-sama will be here as soon as possible, in the meantime we should make sure the students are save.”
"Agreed… I also already called the Border Patrol, since I think this is their field of work." Balam appear behind of them, fixing his mask.
“Very well, then I—" Opera cut themself when they feel someone tugging their clothes, it's Iruma.
“Opera-san… can we… talk?..."
“Very well then. Let's move somewhere quiet. Kalego-kun, I’ll trust this matter to you for a moment."
“Why me?!-" Kalego's protest is cut short when Balam pat his shoulder, and the look Balam gave him is one that Scream 'We should show our cool side to the students' look
"C’mon Kalego-kun, let's make sure the students are save while we wait for the principal and the Border Patrol.”
Avoiding the commotion, both of them walk outside of the classroom and toward one of the empty rooms available.
"Okay, now we’re here. What do you want to talk about, Iruma-sama?" Opera walks toward the door and closes it, ensuring no intruder or eavesdropper are nearby.
“It's… Opera-san… I think.. I think it's a portal to the human world! I.. I'm not sure but, the scenery, it's just too… too familiar.”
Iruma held his own hand while looking down, he doesn't want to go back to the human world ever. He doesn't want to go back and face everything. He doesn't want to let go of everything that he has accomplished.
“Opera-san, what if—"
A hand land on his shoulder, snapping him off of his own thought.
“Listen, Iruma-sama. Whatever happens, I’ll be here. Don't you remember? I'm strong, you won't go anywhere.”
"Opera-san… But-" Iruma shake his head before taking a deep breath. " Okay! I'll trust you.”
"Great, you can stay close to me for now. If anyone dares to threaten you, I'll chop their head off." Opera straighten up their posture and place their hand on their chest, their tail swaying behind them.
“Eh?"
Iruma looks at them, trying to figure out if they’re joking or not. Which is not.
"Y-you don't need to do that! Right… I think I'm feeling a lot better, let's go back, Opera-san.”
"As you wish, Iruma-sama.” The butler nod before they open the door, letting Iruma step outside first.
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“This is Border Patrol, please refrain from going near the unknown object before we can confirm its safety."
Azazel Henri steps in while his subordinates quickly moves and surround the portal. Some already taking notes, some are sealing off the area, some are alerting the other, and there is someone who looks annoyed with all of this.
“Why am I here, hm? I have something to do and i can't waste my times on.. oh-”
Behind Azazel Henri, stood a guy with a short white hair. Fenrir.
"Ah, isn't Iruma-kun?” He cock his head to the side, smiling.
Iruma froze on his steps, inching closer and hiding behind Opera. Opera sensing Iruma’s uneasiness quickly stepped in front of him, putting some distance. They also glare at Fenrir, sensing something shady in him.
“Ah… Fenrir-san… how are you?”
Iruma tried to smile, but it came out forced… and awkward.
"Great, except with more work. Especially this one… Don't you think it's disgusting? How this portal just opened up inside of Royal one, a classroom once used by the demon king Delkira-sama. A portal which we suspect might lead to the human… world.”
Fenrir turns his head toward Iruma, already taking a few steps. Iruma, sensing something is wrong, his Overwhelming Crisis Evasion Ability is telling him to get away, to move as far as possible, to run.
"Please, do not take any more steps.” Opera held out their arm in front of Iruma, protecting him when suddenly.
"The portal is lighting up!!”
"Something is coming!”
"Misfit class please step back—!”
All eyes are turned toward the portal when it spews out something from within it. An unconscious blue haired boy, his clothes is almost all white and his hat is thrown off not so far from where he’s laying. For a moment, everyone is taken back and freeze on their track before Balam casts a shield on the boy. No one notice it earlier but one of the boy’s ear, specifically his right ear is bleeding… which make it—
Drip
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Which make some demons nearby actually salivating at the mere smell of the blood. The intoxicating smell quickly spread. Asmodeus is the first one to snap out of it, he looks at his other classmates and shakes their shoulder to make them snap out.
He then looks at his soulmate, Iruma. Iruma too looks at his classmates back, but his face is one of horrified expression. He looks scared, scared of them.
“Iruma-sama please stay close to me." Opera offer him their arm, which Iruma gladly accept.
"No… no, I can't. I can't be scared, they’re my friends…. My dearest friend. It's only an instinct that they act like that since humans are a delicacy…. They still don't know about my identity as a human, so I shouldn't be scared. I shouldn't be…” Iruma suck in some air to calm himself down.
"But why…why am I afraid that those hungry gazes will be aimed at me…"
Henri and Kalego quickly get near the unconscious boy, examining him through the shield that Balam has casted.
“It looks like he has an injury to his right ear.” Henri stated while looking back at the misfit class, all of them are still taking in the sudden information. Henri clear his throat before talking to Kalego. “Listen here, human is a sensitive topic here in the netherworld. Normal demons shouldn't know about them, especially students. We’ll probably need to ask Sullivan-sama to wipe their memory of this.”
Henri look at the unconscious boy before walking toward the misfit class. “My priority right now is to send this human back into their world, and as I stated before we might need to erase your memories about this whole thing—”
"Y’know, human is a delicacy right…?" Fenrir suddenly appears behind Henri before making his way to the shielded boy. “Then, why don't we just devour them right here right now?" Fenrir smiled while pointing at the boy, and that smile immediately sent shivers to Iruma’s spine.
This demon definitely know something. No, he definitely knows about Iruma’s identity. He keeps talking about human right in front of him… and he’s definitely trying to edge him. As much as Iruma doesn't want to admit it, he's affected by those words…. Devouring human, devouring him…
Iruma unconsciously grip Opera’s clothes tighter. Opera notice this then quietly walks away. Pretty far from Fenrir but not far enough that they’re out of the classroom. Iruma look back at the boy, he look at him and take a note of his details. Iruma then look at the boy’s face, he gasp in horror as the boy's face is strikingly similar to his own. No, it's a one to one copy. But, how…?
“Iruma-chiiii!!!!!"
Iruma turn his head toward the sound and Clara is running toward him in full speed before hugging him to the ground. “Iruma-chi! Are you okay!! Not hurt? You look so scared!" Iruma’s eyes widen as blush creep on his cheek. “Hmh! I'm fine! Opera is here too so I don't have anything to be scared off." Iruma smile softly before a heavy stepping sound can be heard. “Stupid Clara! You don't go off running like that!" Asmodeus walk toward both of them before focusing his attention to Iruma. “Iruma-sama, are you alright? I shouldn't have wander too far from your side.” "Also,. Iruma-sama… pardon me but… Do you have a twin brother.. perhaps?”
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“Eh?" Iruma cock his head to the side, taken back by the sudden question.
“Forgive me, Iruma-sama but!! That boy, it just looks so similar to you, even the others are thinking like that too. Even Shax already theorize something about him being your long lost brother who got lost in the human world.”
"No… as far as i know, i don't have a twin brother… Maybe it's a coincidence?” Iruma shake his head, denying it. If he has a twin brother, he'd know… He look back at the boy again.. His face is just too similar…
"We should bring this boy back to the Demon Border’ office soon. Make sure no news escapes from this room." Henri moves toward the boy while ordering his subordinates. He glanced toward the misfit class again. "All of you should wait for Sullivan-sama's arrival. We have something to discuss with the teachers in the meantime. Please be quiet and cooperate with us.”
Lied huff in annoyance, he actually wanted to watch because this is human they’re talking about. A species that they believe is a myth, a myth?! “Is he really a human? Wow… a human! A human is real?" Lied turn his head toward the rest of the class.
"Human, a rare species in the netherworld, even mere folks thought that they were just a myth. But, this sight in front of us just prove that human is real." Aloccer start to rumble while Jazz is looking around, making sure everyone is in the room before he start to speak. " Now now, I think this is something we shouldn't butt our heads into. Why don't we find a room somewhere? And I think those adults also didn't want us here.” He whisper the last part before glancing at the others for confirmation.
Asmodeus then walks up to the group before speaking his opinion. “There's an empty room beside the classroom, we can use it in the meantime.” He look back at Iruma and smile, asking for his opinion. Iruma just nod before he too join the group.
The group excuse themselves and start to walk out, while the adults are trying to find a way to move the boy somewhere at least for now. "The human smell and his blood would probably trigger your demon instinct. For safety reasons, non-border patrol should leave this room immediatel—" Before Henri could finish his order, a faint sound caught everyone’s attention. A groan from the boy, he’s waking up.
In an instant, all of them are moving away from the portal. Asmodeus steps in front of Iruma and Clara, already casting a fire spell in advance. Kalego summoned his cerberius and the other member of Border Patrol already in stance, ready to attack in any moment.
“Now now, no need to get violence no?” A presence appear in the room, their figure is proud and tall.
“Sullivan-sama!" Some demons shout, before bowing to show respect to one of the three greats.
“I’ll take over from here, rest assured.” Sullivan smiled warmly while making an ok sign.
(Mafia AU)
After meeting up with the casino’s members and retraining the gem back, Iruma is making his way back to the Babel alongside Kalego and Robin. After that round of Hopeless Russian Roulette, now he has a ruptured eardrum because of the gun’s loud noise. The bleeding hasn't stopped yet so he need to hold a towel on his ear.
He walks along the hallway and watch as Robin get dragged by Kalego by his collar. “I should express my gratitude to Robin-san after this…” He continue to walk behind them when something catches his eyes. A narrow hallway…., but he has explored this place before and swear that this hallway didn't exist back then.
Did they renovate it when he’s playing Russian Roulette? Or maybe it's a secret hallway he shouldn't know? He wanted an answer to this.
"Sensei, is—” Before he could finish, something was pulling at his ankles, a black shadow like mist was wrapping his body in no time and before he could realize it he lost his consciousness.
Everything happened in seconds that by the time Kalego hears Iruma’s call, it's already too late. He turned back only to see a stained towel used by Iruma in front of a wall, but Iruma is nowhere to be seen.
“Boss?" Kalego walk closer to the towel, examining it. It's still warm from Iruma’s body heat. "Boss… it's not time for a joke or hide and seek." He looks around the room, finding no trace of his boss, he finally pulled out his phone and call Iruma’s number.
—Contact is out of reach—
"Out of reach? just what does that mean? He’s far away? But, I just heard his voice just now.” Kalego thought to himself, already feeling himself stressed and feel the need to smoke again. “This is bad….”
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Everything hurt, his head hurts, his ears are ringing. “Where am i…?” Iruma tried to recall everything that have happened. He’s at the casino with Kalego and Robin right…? His memory is hazy and blurry. He’s walking and then-?
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A voice cut through his thought. The voice sounds familiar, too familiar… it's like… someone he know… But, the language sounds strange, almost like reversed or something out of demonic movie. He turn his head up and found that the person talking to them is an eldery..? Man? He can't make sure. But, the most strange thing out of it is, the man? Has horns on both of his head, his clothes are purple and looks… menacing? Is he in a cosplay con? But, the room he’s in is secluded and now he’s currently seated in a chair, his hat right on his lap. And something is tickling his nose, something like a foreign smell? A perfume?
"What…?... Huh..?”
He cock his head in confusion, he looked around the secluded room and found several other people. Why do all of them look…. Familiar? Behind the elderly man is a butler? With red hair, is that a cats ears and tail? Somehow that person reminded him of Opera. He looks at the corner and see someone, menacing, cold, with sharp eyes and combed purple hair, he looks like Kalego. He continues to observe the room and the peoples in here just look familiar, they just reminded him of someone he knows, Doctor Balam, A male version of Ameri? But, their features look inhuman…
As he ponder in confusion, the elderly? Man snapped his fingers. In an instant he feels like something just intertwined with him and envelope his whole body.
“Now, do you understand me?" The elderly? Man speak again.
“Huh? Yes!! Wait, how! How did you know my—? Nevermind, where am I?" Iruma ask out loud, whenever he’s now he must go back, the Babel needs him and if he goes away without any news, he can't imagine the chaos.
“Before I answer your question. Why don't you tell me your name first?” The man smiled warmly, it kinda reminded him of his own grandpa, come to think of it they did look like his grandpa without the horns.
Iruma hesitated at first, could they be Babel’s enemy? Are they here to kill him, tortured him for infos? He knew that becoming The Young Boss will come with responsibility, risks, and maybe even death. But he didn't think it'll come this soon.
“Will you… harm me if I said my name?” Iruma looked the man in the eyes, trying to read it. He knows a bit or two about reading eyes from Doctor Balam when he’s visiting but this man. His eyes are just too… neutral, it's unreadable.
“No, we won’t." The man answered in a simple sentence. No way to know if he’s lying or not.
He doesn't entirely trust the man, but the instinct inside of him keeps telling him that this man is harmless. For now, he’ll trust his instinct. He sit up from his chair which momentarily make some people in the room hold their breath. He’s holding his hat before he make a bow and placing his hat on his chest, a gesture his grandpa thought him when he need to make a formal introduction, usually to other mafia.
"Greetings, I'm the Young Boss of The Babel Mafia,” He looks up at the man and smiled before continuing,
“I’m Sullivan Iruma."
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(Main manga)
Everyone froze, no it can't be. There’s only one Iruma, especially one bearing Sullivan’s name. One of the three greats.
“Opera, call him here." Sullivan turn toward his butler, Opera nod and quickly went outside without question. While the so-called ‘Iruma’ is visibly taken aback when he heard Sullivan called Opera.
“Balam, is he lying?” Sullivan then turn his head toward Balam, he knew that this boy isn't lying but he need confirmation.
"No… Sullivan-sama, he’s not..” Balam sucks in a breath after answering, he too looks taken aback. Kalego also looks shocked? He raise his eyebrows, trying to come up with something to explain how there’s two ‘Sullivan Iruma’ and one of them is a human, or both of them… since he has some suspect about him since the latest Deviculum when his brother warn him about it.
Before a minute passes, the door swung open and two people walk in, it's Opera and behind them is Iruma. "Sullivan-sama, we’re here.” They bow slightly before letting Iruma walk up to Sullivan.
“Grandpa, I'm here.” He looks at his grandpa before scanning the room and spot the boy earlier. The boy seems to stare intensely at him, his face is one of confusion.
"Iruma-kunnn, Grandpa has something to tell you.” Sullivan crouch and get to Iruma’s level before whispering something. Iruma listen to it, nodding before he makes a shocked noise.
“E-eh?!?!" He immediately turned his head at the boy. "So, you're… Iruma?!” The boy nodded, he seemed taken aback. “Yes… and you… are?”
“My name is Iruma too!" After Iruma said that out loud, both of them just stand there silent for a moment before they look at each others head to toes and notice all the similar resemblance.
“E-EH?!?" both of them shout in unison.
(I’ll use iruma for the og, and S. Iruma for the mafia, stand for Sullivan Iruma to make the writing easier to understand. But, if there's only one Iruma in the room, regardless of the version, i’ll use Iruma)
After they calmed down, both of them sat across from each other, with Sullivan and Opera on Iruma's side and Balam, Kalego, and Henri observing behind them.
"Now… Iruma-kun? Because you've told us your name, we’ll answer your question. About where you are right now.” Sullivan straightened up his posture, the other demons seems tense, especially Henri. They’ll tell a human that they’re in a netherworld... Where demons lived and roam free. A place where humans are considered a delicacy, be hunt and eaten.
"If they’re scared, then it's normal. We're a symbol of evil in their eyes, if they tried to attack us.. Then, violence can't be helped.” Henri thought as he look at the boy, reading his expression.
"So, Iruma-kun… Right now you’re in the netherworld, where demons live and roam free. You fell from a portal, this is not the world you’re familiar with. In here humans are considered delicacy, and something to hunt. So, Iruma-kun—” Sullivan look at the boy and expected a scared, shocked, or terrified face. But, what face greeted him is nothing he could prepare for.
“Demons..?" S. Iruma mumbled before he looked up at Sullivan. Instead of terrified, his eyes sparkle bright and his face is one of amusement, awe, and excitement. "Demons… are real! They’re real? They live here! Demons!" S. Iruma stands up from his seat, he looks so excited that it feels unreal. All of the other people including Iruma is taken aback by his reaction.
"Aren't you scared? We’re demons-” Henri step out from his place, looking at the boy in disbelief but his word cutted short when the boy look at him instead and say something he couldn't comprehend.
"I mean… What's wrong with being a demon?...” S. Iruma look at Henri back, his eyes are almost empty, all of the sparks that he once showed are gone, replaced by a terrifying gaze.
S. Iruma snap and blink a few times before clearing his throat. “Ah, sorry… I mean, it's just the way demons survive, right? Like us humans, we have our own ways to survive. And… If eating humans is the way demons survive, then what's wrong with that?” S. Iruma smiled innocently, Kalego who has been watching couldn't take this absurdity anymore.
“Is anyone with Iruma’s name just a pain in the ass?... Listen, kid. I don't know what's going on that mind of yours. But, we have some questions we’d like you to answer.” Kalego glance at Balam before continuing. "First of all, is how you get in here and your identity. In details."
S. Iruma look at Kalego before sitting back again. “How did I get here? I walk down a hallway and spotted another hallway that… didn't exist before. I approached it because I'm curious and then I got pulled… I don't remember anything after that. But!—”
S. Iruma look at them again before continuing. "Before I continue… I need to say something… it's been bothering me since this started… you all, look… terribly similar to someone i know- No, you all look the same!" Iruma then look at Sullivan. “You look just like my grandpa, Sullivan. And then you look like Opera and you look like my teacher! It can't be a coincidence! Are you all… pranking me–?”
"Especially you!” S. Iruma then points at Iruma, which caught him off guard. "You look just like me….”
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“That's what I've been wondering too." Henri cut through the silence. "Something like this shouldn't happen and I have nothing that could explain it.”
Iruma thought for a moment… "A version of me? Similar, from different world… Ah!” Iruma’s eyes went wide with realization. "Could it be something like an alternate universe?” The other demon then looks at him, like he just said something stupid, which probably is, "L-look!! I know it looks stupid! But, I played this game before with Lied-kun where there is another version of the main story, same character but they have a different story. I think that’s what happened."
The other Iruma just look at him before nodding in agreement, it looked like they even shared the same brain cells. “I see, I also played something like that with Opera before! So, does that mean, you’re me in a different version?"
“Yes!!" Before they know it both Irumas have started a conversation, their voices are loud and thick with excitement. Both of them are exchanging different stories, like what they usually eat and etc.
Then, they remember that there are other people here, they look around only to find that Egg-Sullivan is drenched in tears. "I HAVE TWO GRANDCHILDS!! OPERA! PHOTOS!!!” Opera soon quickly appeared, holding a camera and already pressed the shutters several times. "As you wish, Sullivan-sama.”
“EHHHH?!? ANOTHER VERSION?!" The misfit class yell loudly, their voices are echoing through the Royal One’ classroom.
“I-iruma-chi version? Two-chi? Machi?? Two Iruma-chi??!"
“Two… Iruma-sama?! Iruma-sama…” Asmodeus froze in his place, his face is in awe and admiration, he’s so shocked that it looks like he could faint in any moments.
"Hah! Two rivals! That means I need to train harder to beat both of you!”
"Ara! Another version? That's why both of you look so alike!” Elizabetta chime in, clapping her hands in amusement.
"Two Iruma? Then, how should we call you? Wait, is Iruma number 1 and Iruma number 2 could work? But, if we use that then Asmodeus would insist that all Iruma is number 1. Wait wait wait, but that Iruma is a human right? How absurd, I thought they’re just a myth but they’re not, I guess I’m wrong after all. But, a human is something rare right? What if we harm him? Asmodeus will roast us into ashes………….." Purson keep spilling out his thoughts nonstop.
The misfit class keep getting louder that it finally become silent when Kalego, who apparently has been watching from a distance, snapped.
“SILENCE! You can be all excited but look at him, he’s overwhelmed." Kalego pointed at S. Iruma, his face is all red from the overwhelming questions he received. “If you wanna be excited, at least be quiet!"
The misfit class is silent for a moment before continuing to talk in lower volume. Iruma watched as his classmates grew curious toward his other version despite him being a… human. He watches in silent while there's something numb aching in his chest. A feeling, a secret, a truth he wants to let them know. A secret that has burdened him all these years.
“Did…. They won’t mind… If I'm a human..?” Iruma thought to himself, maybe… maybe they won't mind, maybe they won't reject him. They could accept his other version, so they could accept him too, right? It hurts, it hurts him how his classmates accept the ‘human’ version of him so easily and yet, he couldn't make himself to tell them his secret, about what he really is.
Iruma wish, he could be him.