Dalkos and the mop

Dalkos stands outside of Shido's classroom, waiting for his next mission, watching over Shido and Tohka as he waited. He always found their antics entertaining, not to mention they were his only friends since coming to Earth through the wormhole.

The COM unit on his wrist beeped and he pushed a button next to a green light to answer it.

"Rogue Jedi Security Service, how may I help you?" Dalkos spoke into the unit.

"You're at the school right?" Kotori asked him through the COM.

"Well, it's Wednesday, so yeah."

"Good. Kurumi's been spotted, so keep an eye on Shido, he's her usual target."

The call disconnected and Dalkos went back to watching over Shido and Tohka. Dalkos thought back to when he read the reports on known Spirits in the Fraxinus' database.

"Kurumi," Dalkos muttered, "isn't she the one that can-"

Dalkos heard a crash somewhere down the hall and instinctively went to investigate. He saw an old man in a cleaning outfit lying on the floor, a mop lying not far from him. Dalkos looked down and saw that the floor was cleaner here than the other hall. Dalkos carefully moved to the old man, taking slow steps in case the floor was still wet, which it was.

"I thought earthlings had wet floor signs to make sure that this like this didn't happen," Dalkos said as he helped the old man up.

"I couldn't find the wet floor sign," the old man said as Dalkos helped him to the school nurse's office, "but that wasn't going to stop me from doing my job."

The two reached the nurse's office and Dalkos helped the old man onto a bed.

"Are you okay to stay here by yourself?" Dalkos asked.

"Yes, but where are you going?"

"Someone has to finish mopping the floor. Plus, I also have my own job I need to do."

Dalkos made it back to the mop and found the mop pail. He started to mop the floor, slowly making his way back to Shido's class. As he finished mopping the top of the flight of stairs that led to the hall with Shido's class, he heard footsteps approaching. He looked up and saw Shido being dragged along by a girl with long black hair that had bangs that covered her right eye. Her visible left eye was red. Tohka followed them, letting out a battle cry as she charged. Dalkos hid the mop behind his back and waited for them to come closer.

"The girl dragging Shido must be Kurumi," Dalkos muttered as they came closer, "5,4,3,2,"

Dalkos grabbed Shido as Kurumi passed and Kurumi stumbled from the action and slipped down the wet stairs. Dalkos watched as Kurumi disappeared into a black puddle as she hit the floor.

"I take it that was one of her copies? " Dalkos asked.

"How did you?" Shido asked.

"Took over for the janitor for the day," Dalkos responded, pulling the mop out from behind his back, "I also read the report on Kurumi." The school bell rang, "You two should head back to class. I need to finish this up."

Shido and Tohka headed back to class as Dalkos continued mopping.