Introduction
Last time on Rosario & Vampire, Tsukune went through an astonishing transformation into a legendary Super Ghoul. All the while, the girls went head to toe with Demona, a clone created by Professor Yoshi Serizawa using their DNA. Demona had inherited not only all their powers, but the one thing they all had in common, their desire for Tsukune. While Tsukune went through his metamorphosis, Demona challenged the girls to a fighting tournament, with Tsukune as the prize. Yukari, Ruby, Mizore, and Kurumu were all defeated with minimal effort, when not even Moka could stand up to Demona, it was Tsukune to the rescue! With his transformation complete, Tsukune engaged Demona in a vicious battle utilizing his newfound power. The clashes were brutal and Demona was unwilling to give up having Tsukune as her mate. Finally Tsukune realized that the only way to convince Demona that he would never love her was to kill her. For this he used his ultimate attack, The Blue Wave of Death.
Demona's body was never found, it was the Headmaster's theory that the blast vaporized her. After the battle Tsukune was taken to the infirmary, where he was reminded by Moka's father never to lose control of his new nature… or else. Later Moka came to visit Tsukune alone, she asked him nicely if he would make love with her. He politely refused her on the grounds that her father would kill him if he found out, among other things. But he promised her that they would some day, but there is a problem with that…
Tsukune Aono may have won the fight against Demona, but he had fought that battle on heart alone. He needed to learn to better utilize his new powers and control them, which is why he had been sneaking out at night for the past month to practice. He was guided by the spirit of his predecessor, the late Udar the Wicked, who had granted Tsukune the level of super ghouldom as a gift, so that Tsukune could stay with Moka and have what he himself never had but craved the most, love.
"Alright… PULL!"
A disk came flying through the air at Tsukune, he reacted by blasting it with a burst of energy that he fired from his hand. Soon several more disks came flying at him all at once. He blew them up by firing continued bursts at them.
"Good… Now do it blindfolded."
"Alright Yoda, just give me a minute."
Tsukune blindfolded himself and got ready.
"Okay… Pull!"
A few weeks ago Tsukune would have had trouble with this, but with guidance he was able to learn to use his other senses to see what his eyes couldn't.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
"Seven out of seven, perfect, do it again."
After he had done his homework Tsukune would spend hours training like this every night. He always did it this late because he didn't want the girls to know that his predecessor was telling him to do things and showing him how.
"Well done Tsukune, you've made excellent progress this past month. Now I think it's time for a reward."
"What kind of reward?"
"Raise your hand in the air and say, to me Kaiser Katana."
"Okay… To me Kaiser Katana!"
Suddenly a sword came falling out of the sky and landed in the ground beside Tsukune. Its hilt was a shiny black and was in the shape of a skull. The blade itself gave off something of an eerie indigo glow.
"What's this?"
"It's my old sword. You won't always be able to fight with just your bare hands. Sometime you will need a weapon, and not just any weapon."
Tsukune took the sword in his hand. He wasn't sure what kind of metal it was made off.
"Do you think I could get a good price on this at the antique shop?"
"You imbecile! That is the last of my possessions that wasn't taken after my untimely demise! You can't put a price on that!"
"So, I could just take the best offer."
"Why are you suddenly so worried about money?"
"You know very well. Graduation day is just a couple months away. And that means I need to tell the others…"
During the fight with Demona, Tsukune had stated that he was not a prize to be won, and that only he would decide who he would love. As soon as he recovered from the fight, the girls and their mothers asked him who he was going to pick. He had told them that he was not yet ready to make a decision.
"I don't need the power to read minds to know you lied to them. You made your decision a long time ago… You just don't know how to tell them."
"You've never been in my shoes before. You've never had to break the hearts of four girls."
"You're right about that. I can teach you how to fight and how to charm someone, but when it comes telling them the news without destroying them, you're on your own. But what does that have to do with money?"
"Simple… Without money, I can't buy a ring."
"Oh… You're ready to take the plunge already?"
"… I'm not just some crazy teenage boy who's in over his head… I know what I want… But I can't paint a masterpiece without paint, and I can't buy paint if I don't have any money."
"Well, selling my old sword is out of the question. I'm not sure too many people would be comfortable with a glowing sword in their store."
"Whatever… So… are we done for tonight? I'm so tired."
"You can sleep on the bus tomorrow."
Tsukune remembered that tomorrow he and the rest of the newspaper club would be going on a field trip. For some reason they had been invited to the beachside manor of who according to Yukari was the most witch in the whole world, Jessenia Esmeralda. Of course to the humans she was just a famed fortune teller, but she was so much more than just that.
"Why would the most famous witch and the world decide to invite us to her house?" asked Tsukune.
"It's a mystery that beats the hell out of me. Now get on with your exercises."
