Aria and Amaimon walked in awkward silence, save for the slurping sounds he made as he ate his lollipop. She was rather awkward when it came to meeting new people, friends and in large groups. So she figured instead of potentially embarrassing herself in front of the director's brother no less, she'd stay quiet. At least that way she wouldn't say something terribly stupid. After a few more awkward minutes, the silence was broken by her stomach rumbling. She hadn't eaten anything all day and was feeling famished. Aria carried a bag of random sweets and snacks in her backpack just in case she couldn't eat lunch that day.
Pulling out the clear plastic bag containing her candies, she rummaged through it pulling out a delicate chocolate truffle wrapped in pretty gold paper. She smiled as she unwrapped it and placed the delicate delicacy on her tongue. Savoring the yummy chocolate, she didn't notice the boy's hand slowly creeping closer and closer to her candy bag. Suddenly, she felt a tug and looked down only to catch a glimpse of green arm warmers and black claw-like fingernails snatching her bag. She let out a small gasp and saw the boy now rummaging through her candy bag helping himself to its contents.
"Hey! My snacks!" she exclaimed dropping her chocolate wrapper on the floor.
They boy only gave her a blank stare before answering, with a mouth full of random candies, "Hi, I'm Amaimon, Demon King of Earth." Aria stared at Amaimon, her jaw agape. Amaimon… king of earth… demon prince of greed… if that's true then that means… Mephisto was also a demon?!
"Thanks for the sweets." He continued and walked forward without her. Realizing he didn't know where he was going, he abruptly stopped walking, turned around and gave her another blank stare. "Aren't you gonna show me where your dorm is?"
"Uh… r-right…" She trailed off. Now she was truly nervous. A demon was escorting her to her dorm?! A demon king no less! What the hell was going on?!
"I don't like to be ignored." Amaimon suddenly broke the awkward silence that had ensued after their strange introduction. She noticed he was glaring rather harshly at her and she stiffened in place.
"Uh… what do you mean? I'm not ignoring you."
"I introduced myself to you and you just remained silent. You're rude." His grip on the sweets bag became tighter.
"Oh! I'm sorry I just… well my name is Aria, nice to meet you Amaimon." She wanted to ask him a thousand questions like why was he here? A demon king at True Cross Academy? And what was his brother, Mephisto, up to and so much more.
"Aria… Aria, Aria… no last name?" He childishly spoke but Aria found it quite endearing and sweet. The way he spoke made her subconsciously smile.
"Um, I'm afraid not. I'm an orphan you see and I never really got a last name…" She looked away from him a little embarrassed and slightly blushed.
"Hmmm…. Aria….. Aria Fatal Verse." Amaimon continued to look forward, lollipop being swayed from left to right in his mouth.
"Huh?" The girl gave him a confused look.
"That should be your last name. Since at my brother's school, Aria is a type of Meister that recites fatal verses to demons for exorcism. You didn't know that?" He gave her a poker face stare.
"Oh right! I mean yes I knew that but uh… no…" She giggled at the thought. He was a rather strange demon she noted.
"Your laugh is really cute you know that?" No emotion at all was present on his features. Aria thought he was rather handsome once she got past the whole demon king of earth thing. His golden eyes sparkled mischievously, though his face didn't show it. The girl blushed feverishly at that comment.
"Wooowww now look at you!" He poked her caramel-toned cheeks with his right index finger. "You're so red! Red red!~" he sang, causing her to start feeling light-headed from the blood-rush to the head.
"S-stop teasing me…" she whispered.
He looked back at her, his eyes widening but remained in a poker face. "I'm not teasing you." Then suddenly coming to a realization he gasped. "Shit! I wasn't supposed to tell you who I am or about my brother… now he won't give me my candy reward… oops." He was staring up at the sky in thought again.
"D-don't worry I won't tell anyone, I promise."
Amaimon looked back down at her. "You'd better not. You'll make me mad if you do and that's not good." His claw-like nails were dangerously close to her eyes. "I have a cousin with a thing for the occult, who likes to collect eyeballs… so if you break your promise I'll take one of yours… by the way your eyes look like chocolates." He retreated from her and continued to enjoy his lollipop. Aria's heart felt like it skipped a beat in fear. This was definitely someone she didn't want to upset. His sudden change in emotions made him appear unstable and everyone knows you don't want to piss off an unstable person...
"Y-yeah no worries I won't tell. I promise I won't. My word is good." She awkwardly smiled at him and he gave her a nod of understanding. "So um… may I have my candies back?" He looked at her as if she had said something offensive. "Uh… never mind sorry…" she gripped her right arm with her left in an act of nervousness.
"Don't be afraid of me ok? I'll take this as payment for guiding you home and protecting you. If you bring me more candies, I'll protect you whenever you need it."
"Y-you don't have to… really you don't but thank you… you can keep the candy…" She smiled again. Finally reaching their destination, which was across from Rin's dorm, Amaimon suddenly stopped. Aria, who was walking behind him, crashed into his back. She rubbed her nose and noticed it started to bleed a bit since she hit him like a brick wall.
"Is this it?" He turned around to face her seemingly unfazed by her colliding into him.
"Y-yeah thanks…" she continued to rub her nose.
"You should get that looked at." He blankly stated.
"R-right… Um thank you for escorting me." She bowed to him in respect and Amaimon nodded.
"I'll take you to your room." He stated plainly.
"That's alright, I'll be ok here." She quickly replied.
"If those girls show up again and Aniue found out… he'll be mad and that's not good for me. So I'll take you." He started walking into the building and Aria followed suit.
It was awkward silence again. The girl didn't know how to, or even if she should, strike up a conversation with this very confusing individual. Thank goodness they were nearing her room so all of this would be over and done with. A few minutes later, they finally arrived at their destination and the girl gently tapped Amaimon's shoulder, causing him to stop.
"Well here it is…" she said placing the key into the keyhole and opening the door to her room. Amaimon stepped in first. He took in the surroundings. It was a simple room, with simple furnishings, like a lamp, a chair next to a window, a desk with a laptop sitting on it, a small t.v. and other little things here and there.
"Looks like Aniue gave you a good room…. Kinda boring though." Aria nodded. Mephisto so generously allowed her to attend his elite school absolutely free of charge. Why? He never said… whenever she questioned him, he brushed it off and changed the subject so she never inquired about it again. The girl had gotten a part-time job at a coffee shop to help pay for other things like food and clothes of course, but everything like room and board, classes, books, even if she needed weapons or whatever, were paid for by Mephisto. "Aha! I see you have a window!" Amaimon jumped up onto the windowsill and gently opened it. "Ok I suggest you never lock it again or I'll break it when I visit you."
"Huh?!" She stared at him with wide eyes.
"Yeah, I'll come visit you sometimes so your window better not be locked unless you like to clean up glass."
"Wait! Why?!" But it was too late. Amaimon jumped out the window and she saw him jump from rooftop to rooftop to who knows where… perhaps back to his brother.
