Kuro Sensei

Not to say anything bad about going to university, but I actually didn't want to. At least not in a different country. It was all my parents' fault.

Hi, my name is Olivia Warrington. I'm 20 years old. My hair color is a dark olive color and my eyes are dark brown.
I'm from England. But now I'm living in Japan. It all began when my parents decided that I go to university. It was actually quite okay for me but unfortunately they've sent me to Japan. They said: You will make more and better experiences when you learn to live by yourself.
Thank you mum and dad! But that doesn't mean that you have to send me thousands of miles away from my home! Anyways, just a couple of weeks ago I arrived in Tokyo. I'm living in a small apartment at the outskirts of Tokyo. That means an one hour-long way to go to university every day.

But the way to the university or the language here isn't even half as bad as my two special teachers and flatmates. I could say they are 'demonic', and that's what they actually are: Demons.

It was just a stupid mistake, but with high consequences I would have never dreamed about. It is a nightmare now. These demons, they hate each other! And I'm right in the middle every time. I have to take responsibility and that's difficult. Especially, when the demons are from the nineteenth century. I could continue for hours about the bad sides of it.

Now, I'm pretty sure, you want to ask me why I know so much about these two demons.

Because I'm the one who summoned them.

It all began on my third day at university...

Kuro Sensei

Chapter 1: Forbidden Words

"Uh..." Olivia let out a loud sigh. Carrying the heavy books was the last thing she wanted to do for today, but it was no use. Especially as Toudai student, a student at the great university of Tokyo. She had to study a lot to reach this level and this stress wasn't over. Letting herself fall on a small bench, on the campus of the Toudai, Olivia let her books fall on the ground. "I hate homework... I thought this would end after I graduated from school..." she pouted while leaning her chin in the palm of her hand. "Three more years...," she sighed. Being about to go home, the girl hopped to her feet and took all the books.

"Olivia-chan!" a voice called her.

Olivia lifted up her head, looking for the person who had just called her. It sounded for her like 'Orivia, Waringuton-san or Oribia-chan'. The weird sound of speaking her name in Japanese was at first strange for Olivia, but she already became used to it. A young woman of the same age ran over to Olivia. She wore glasses and had red hair which was bound into pigtails. While racing, the girl stumbled over a small rock on the ground. She almost fell, but luckily caught her balance. "Ow..ow...ow..." she mumbled. Mai was one of the best students at the university. It was her second year now. Even with her clumsiness, she was very intelligent, sporty and always friendly. Her grades were perfect, except for some small bad grades. But they all had the same reason, she sometimes forgot her glasses, so she couldn't read anything.

"Mai!" Olivia yelled, running over to the woman. "Are you alright?" she asked worried.

The woman, called Mai, nodded. "Yes, after I came out of the cafeteria, steam covered my glasses," she told her friend.

Olivia sighed in relief. "How many times do I have to tell you not to run when you can't see?" Olivia asked her Japanese friend. "You could hurt yourself!" the woman added.

"Right..uh... did you already eat lunch?" Mai asked.

Shaking her head, Olivia replied. "No. I'm going to eat when I'm at home. After the course was canceled I don't even know, what I'm still doing here. I should go home now. But... do you want to go to our regular haunt?" Olivia asked while winking with her left eye. Her stomach already started rumbling, she was hungry. Only the imagination of grilled meat or noodle soup or yakitori or even some dangos let her stomach rumble even louder. Olivia wrapped her arms around her belly ashamed. She blushed in embarrassment. "So, you wanna come?" she asked.

Mai nodded rapidly. "Sure, sure, sure!" she jumped, clapping her hands together. "Then I can... see...uh...nothing!" the yelled hastily, waving with her hands.

Raising one of her eyebrows Olivia stared at Mai in confusion. She didn't even dare asking what she had just said. Olivia only wanted to eat something. Without saying something, the two students started their way to their regular haunt; the Hiroki's. A small café with a restaurant. The prices were alright for students and a famous place for young people. It was near the Tokyo university, so the way wasn't a problem either. Olivia and Mai walked away from the campus, heading for the next subway station. Mai and Olivia took the next subway to downtown Tokyo. Just five minutes and they arrived at the next station. The young women went outside, walking along a busy and long street and headed for a small café in a hidden corner.

Olivia opened the door, walking in, "Oi, Hiroki!" she exclaimed. A rather old man white grey beard came out of the kitchen. "Mai, Olivia, nice to see you again. Come, please take a seat," he said, mentioning to sit down at a table in the corner. "How are you today? What would you like?" he asked the girls.
Hiroki was the owner of the café. An old man who had fulfilled his wish to run a café. He was nice and friendly, but strict with his apprentices. Especially with...

!BOOM!

A loud coughing voice could be heard. "That damn...thi.." that person in the kitchen who actually caused the explosion coughed heavily. "I hate..."

An explosion inside the kitchen let Mai, Olivia and Hiroki jumped in surprise for a moment. "This little...I could..." Hiroki mumbled something in Japanese. Luckily, Olivia didn't understand everything. She didn't even want to know what he had just said. Hiroki stomped back into the kitchen. Dark smoke came out and it smelled like something was burned. "What have you done again?! Clean this up! Right now! Baka!" he yelled at his youngest apprentice. And some other sounds let Olivia's skin tingle. She heard Hiroki wielding a ladle and slamming it on someone's head.

"That sounded like..." Olivia whispered to Mai.

Mai just nodded. "Yep... Benny," she whispered back.

Benjamin, or actually Benny was the apprentice in the Hiroki's. The blonde-haired man came from Germany but his cooking skills were absolutely... if you could picture his cooking skills in points with 1 as the lowest and 10 as the best then he would gain -5 points. His cooking skills were made of coal briquettes, acids and other dangerous and toxic things. And if his food didn't kill you, it developed an own life. The people who survived his food survived everything. In other words, Benny's food was the best explanation to the sentence: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Benny stuck his head out of the kitchen window. "Oh, if that isn't Olivia and Mai," he said in a cool and calm voice.

"Stop flirting! Start cleaning!" Hiroki, the kitchen chef, screamed in anger.

"Ja...ja..." Benny first mumbled. "Yes..." he finally said, starting to clean up the kitchen.

Mai blushed slightly as she saw him, she hid her red cheeks behind the menu card. "I- I would like..." she stuttered with a shaking voice.

"The usual for us, please," Olivia said to Hiroki. He went into the kitchen while nodding, preparing the meals for the two hungry women. "Hey, Mai. What's wrong?" Olivia asked with curiosity. "Is it because of..." she stopped whispering but pointed to the kitchen window. "You know.." she said.

With a nod, Mai replied. "No, it's just that..." she stuttered. "I actually...come closer!" Mai said to her friend. Olivia and Mai moved closer, so that they were able to talk more privately. "I actually wan to have a boyfriend," Mai admitted unsure.

"Well, that's no surprise," Olivia whispered.

Gulping, Mai took her glasses in her right hand. "Yes, but I don't think men like me. I'm just not beautiful. Then, they call me nerd because of my grades and I'm just..."

"You only need to be more confident!" Olivia cheered her up. "And don't say something like this! You are a beautiful, interesting, friendly, and intelligent girl! Why should men don't want you? I think, it's just a matter of time. Don't think about it! The right one will come for sure," she said with a smile. Olivia always cheered Mai up every time she became sad and the same thing in the opposite way. "But, honestly...do you like..." Olivia asked, glancing at the kitchen window again, seeing a blonde-haired apprentice looking for a fitting pot.

Shaking her head rapidly, Mai blushed. "No, I like him but not..you know what I mean..." she stuttered.

"Okay, just asking," Olivia replied. Already taking her chopsticks, she prepared herself to grab her meal and eat it as fast as possible. She was hungry and her stomach didn't became quiet. Rather the opposite, it rumbled loudly. The sound echoed through the café. It was kinda embarrassing for Olivia.

"Here we go," Hiroki said, bringing two plates with Tempura over to the girls. He put the plates on the table. "Good appetite," Hiroki said, going back into the kitchen.

"Itadakimasu...oh, I can't wait!" Olivia said, taking the first bite. She sipped the noodles quickly, not leaving anything back. Her hunger was huge. Meanwhile, Mai just played with her chopsticks. She sometimes took a small bite but her food became cold. She wasn't really interested and hungry anymore. Olivia just slurped quietly. She felt bad for her friend somehow. "Don't make such a face. I'm almost about to cry," she mumbled. "Don't worry. Something will happen," she said, putting her hand on Mai's hand.

With a smile, Mai thanked her. "Yes, thank you. But what about you?" she asked, taking the first real bite.

Almost choking on her noodles after that question, Olivia coughed. "Me?" she shouted. Olivia blushed slightly. "To be honest. I don't want a boyfriend! At least not right now. The university is much more important for me now. And honestly...a man around me would just annoy me," she whispered. Glancing to the kitchen, Olivia took a quick look at Benny. She shook her head rapidly. "And if someone wants to be my boyfriend, he has to cook well at least," the girl whispered with a grin. Winking, she chuckled. Both girls had to laugh silently. For their luck, the blonde-haired apprentice didn't hear them.

"Okay. Do you actually have everything for your first homework?" changing the subject, Mai asked.

A huge question mark appeared above Olivia's head. "Homework?" she asked.

"We have to collect information from some books. Did you just forget it or did you sleep in that lesson?" the Japanese girl asked.

Olivia opened her mouth to say something but it was already too late. Mai already knew her answer. "Oh, dear. What about the books?" she asked. "Do you have them?"

Again, Olivia opened her mouth to reply but not a single sound came out.

"You should go to the library. It's still open. And you don't have much time for that exercise," Mai suggested, eating the rest of her Tempura.

"Right! See you tomorrow!" Olivia exclaimed. She swallowed the food she had in her mouth and jumped to her feet. Grabbing her purse and putting the money on the table, she headed to the door. "Thank you! I will come again," she yelled. "Bye!" she said when she disappeared behind the door.

And that was the point where the whole trouble started. Back then, I didn't know what trouble this decision caused. But that wasn't all. I made three huge mistake at this day. Three mistakes who turned my life into a whole chaos. The first mistake was to go back to the library of the university.

Olivia ran back to the subway station. It was already becoming dark. Not much time left until the library would close. She jumped into the last subway that almost started driving. Every second Olivia counted passed faster than normally. About five minutes later, the subway stopped at the station near the university. Olivia left it quickly, rushing up the stairs. She dashed over the street, reaching the huge area. Running over the campus, the young woman headed for the huge building on the other end of the campus. She rushed into the library. "I'm sorry! I forgot something!" she said to the woman who worked there.

"But hurry up. We will close now," the woman said.

"Thank you!" Olivia exclaimed, running to the other end of the huge library. "History..history...ah, there!" Olivia ran to the last bookshelf in the corner of the end. It was huge. The books she was looking for were at the top of it. Olivia quickly grabbed a wooden ladder to reach the books she needed. The first one was right in front of her, she pulled the heavy book out and put it on the ground. Just two more left. Olivia climbed on the ladder, reaching out for the last books she needed. She pulled them out of the shelf.

A small 'thud' sound behind the other books caught her attention. A lot of dust flew into her face. That part of the shelf wasn't used were often. Olivia shook her head. "Hello?" she asked. She was sure that she just had the feeling of getting watched. Looking around, Olivia was sure that nobody was there. And she was wondering, did she just heard a book toppling over? Who would put a book behind other books that nobody could see it. She reached for the other books all at the top of the shelf and shoved the bunch of heavy books aside. The young woman couldn't see it, it was still too high and the ladder too small. She carefully touched the board of the shelf, finding something old and dusty. Olivia stretched every part of her body to reach what she had just found. She grabbed the heavy book and pulled it out. "Got it," she smiled but the smile disappeared when the heavy book fell down. It was much heavier that it looked like.

My second mistake for that day was to grab that book. But my curiosity didn't allow me to ignore it.

Olivia climbed off the ladder. She blew some air at the old book to free it from the dust. It was really old. The book cover was made of red leather but some spots already got brown. In the middle of it was a pentagram. "What's that doing here in the history section?" she asked herself. Olivia's curiosity took over. She turned it around, staring at it interested. One thing that she noticed immediately was that a leather clasp closed the book. Olivia turned her head again. Nobody was watching her. The young woman looked at the pentagram again, it was just fascinating. Mysterious, fascinating but also something dangerous surrounded the book. Gulping, Olivia grabbed the leather clasp. She pulled on it with all her might. It was difficult but she opened it finally.

And the worst mistake was to open it...

"What..." Olivia's eyes opened in surprise. She skipped some pages. Some of them weren't even readable. The pages already turned yellow. The ink slowly had disappeared within the years. Olivia skipped page for page until she found some well preserved pages. Some of the sentences were written in Latin. "P...prohibetur v-v-verba..."Olivia stuttered, trying to read it. "Ah, prohibetur verba. And that...maledictus ipsum... I wonder what that means," Olivia mumbled. She skipped one more page. The next page was much more interesting. Finding two different kinds of pentagrams on this page and some words in English, she took a closer look. The words were almost not readable but Olivia wanted to know it. "Those who..will get burned by the sealed curse. Read the words out loudly without your mind and heart. Understanding the meaning of a soul getting ripped apart. A body burned and a soul earned. My life is turning like a wheel but all ends with the broken seal..." Olivia read loudly. She shrugged with her shoulders. "Weird..." she mumbled. Finding another sentence in Latin, Olivia slowly deciphered it. "Daemones, quos ego faciam tibi!" she read. "And what does that mean now?" Olivia snapped. She skipped another few pages, finding the same pentagrams as before and the last sentence in English. "Ah, it means... demons, I call you," she said.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew through the hall of the library.

"Huh..did someone forget to close the windows?" Olivia mumbled. The wind became stronger and stronger. It ripped some pages from the old book the young woman held. It blew through the whole hall. Some books got pushed out of the shelves. Olivia jumped to her feet in shock. "What the.." she stuttered. The wind skipped the pages of the aged book. It opened one page. The picture of two pentagrams sharing one blue spot. The blue spot was a human soul.

Out of the nowhere the wind destroyed all lamps in the room. Olivia ducked and covered her head with her arms in fear to get hit by some books which could fall out of the shelves. She heard the secretary scream in fear. Everything was dark, there was no light. The library changed into a room of darkness. There was no ground, no shelves, no walls. Just darkness. Olivia squealed as she noticed herself standing on two shining stars in circles, the first one was purple and the other one orange. Olivia stepped back in surprise. "What the...help me!" she screamed, moving backwards until she felt something on her shoulders.

"Finally someone read the forbidden words..." a male voice said. It was right behind Olivia, she was shaking in fear. That voice sounded icy, deep and dangerous. Olivia quickly moved away but the other side was blocked as well.

"The seal is broken now," another voice said. Also a male voice with the same mysterious and dangerous aura.

"Wha..." Olivia stuttered. She felt two pairs of red eyes watching her.

"The contract can't be withdrawn. You summoned us, the servants of hell," the voices said in the same time. "You are our new master," the voices said again.

In fear, Olivia turned from side to side, seeing pairs of red glowing eyes. Something came closer to her and surrounded the girl. With sweat drops running down her forehead, Olivia searched for a way to escape. She was in total panic. "Leave me alone!" she yelled in despair with tears in her eyes.
In the next moment, feathers surrounded her, black feathers. They were flying around her. And suddenly, she felt two icy hands touching her at her back between her shoulder blades and her belly, right on her belly button. A strong pain was sent through her body, it felt like something had marked her with fire.

Olivia screamed in pain before she passed out. Darkness came over her...

First chapter done. Yay!
Please, tell me what you think. And don't ask me how I got this idea about a student from England summoning two demons. And you should already know which demons I mean ;)

See you in the next chapter.

Extra:

Olivia: Wait! I don't want this!

MariiKo: I'm the author! I will decide what will happen.

Olivia: But that's mean! You can't do that to me!

MariiKo: Sure I can.

Olivia: But...

MariiKo: Stop complaining! Just get ready for chapter 2!