AN: Sorry that I'm late with this chapter, but school is a pain in the ass.
Also, don't expect this chapter to be very well-written. I'm not good at writing scenes like this.
One last note, I may or may not post subsequent chapters everyday from February 12th-17th.
As it turns out, Achos' plan wasn't perfect.
At Tomoki's house in the dining room, Achos nibbled on a rice ball, his hood pulled over his head. He'd already denied to remove his hood several times when asked, and it didn't look like he was going to do so anytime soon.
Tomoki, Sohara Mitsuki and Chaos stared curiously at him. Ikaros and Eishirou Sugata looked at Achos with their usual deadpan look. Nymph paid no attention to him, eating chips from a bag as she usually did. Astraea also paid no attention to him, gobbling down a rice ball. Lastly, Mikako Satsukitane looked at Achos with a sadistic open-mouthed smile, her head tilted to the side as her cheek rested against her hand.
"Quite an interesting friend you've got there, Tomoki," Mikako remarked.
"Well, I just met him, so..." Tomoki said, looking at Achos again. He had both a strained and frustrated look while he slowly ate his rice ball. One problem Achos was having was that he'd forgotten how he'd be able to deal with his angeloid ears, so his hood was the only thing covering them right now. The other problem was that he'd underestimated the time he'd be able to keep his wings flat against his back behind the hoodie (he couldn't make them invisible like Nymph, and he couldn't retract them to that point for too long). So now, he was figuring out what to do to deal with both problems.
It seems that... I'm not completely smart, Achos thought miserably to himself. At this rate, I will have failed my mission faster than both Nymph and Astraea. They'll know why I'm here in 2 seconds flat.
"I hope he isn't a pervert like you," Sohara mumbled, but not loud enough for Achos to hear.
"That'd be nice," Tomoki responded with a dreamy smile on his face as he imagined all the perverted things they could do together, which earned him a karate chop on the back of his head from Sohara.
"Are you going to finish that?" Astraea asked, pointing at Achos' rice ball with a hungry look. Achos looked up at her and tossed the rice ball to her.
"Nah, you can have it," he responded, the words coming out of his mouth faster than he intended.
"Hey, is there something wrong?" Tomoki asked. "You sound nervous and you haven't taken off that hood since you put it on." If there were any pieces of the rice ball in Achos' mouth at that moment, he'd be choking on them.
"No, there's nothing wrong! Why would anything be wrong?" Achos gave a nervous chuckle, and soon Nymph took a sideways glance at him.
"The way you're talking says otherwise," Nymph said, biting on another chip. Suddenly, Achos' strained look became even more visible. He was having a really tough time trying not to have the wings tear through the fabric of his hoodie.
Crap, he thought, a few beads of sweat running down his forehead. I can't keep them like this for much longer...
"So, care to explain how you suddenly ran into Tomoki earlier today?" Sugata asked, placing a finger to the bridge of his glasses, propping them up against his eyes.
"By chance, I guess," Achos said, a little too quickly to qualify as a normal response.
"Like Nymph said earlier, the way you're talking is saying otherwise," Mikako said, her smile widening. "So, how did you really meet up with Tomoki? Were you stalking him?" Achos bit his tongue.
Definitely not good, he thought as he swallowed hard. "No, that's a lie! Why would there be any reason to-"
He suddenly stopped in his tracks.
Shit, now they'll really know why I'm here. Defeated, he decided to just let it all go. His wings tore straight through the fabric of his hoodie and became outstretched to its minimum length. Everyone with the exception of Sugata and Mikako had shocked looks on their faces, slowly beginning to process what he'd been hiding.
"So... you're a..." The realization hit Tomoki like a train, and he began to get pissed off, knowing what was coming next. Achos slowly removed his hood, revealing ears that were similar to Ikaros'.
"OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, ANOTHER ONE!?" Tomoki shouted, flipping over the dining table and nearly crushing Mikako, Nymph and Astraea in the process. Then he began a loud and incoherent ramble, frustrated that another angeloid arrived at his household. Nymph, meanwhile, initiated a scan, trying to determine who Achos really was. In a couple of seconds, she had a basic outline of who he was.
"Apparently, he's a Battle Class Angeloid, type Omega, Achos. Oh... so Achos is his real name..." Nymph said aloud.
Tomoki suddenly burst into laughter, earning him confused looks from others around the table (except for Mikako, who sat there staring at Achos with her usual smile).
"What's so funny, Tomoki?" Sohara asked.
"Oh, it's just that Ikaros is type Alpha... so now we have an Alpha, and an Omega."
He started laughing again, and soon Sohara and Nymph joined in. Astraea didn't seem to care, Chaos gave Tomoki a curious look, Sugata understood the reference but didn't do anything other than switch his gaze between Ikaros and Achos, and Mikako continued to smile. Ikaros, however, simply stared at Achos. The moment Nymph read his info, Ikaros didn't trust this new angeloid. There was just something odd about him that didn't sit right with her.
I should keep an eye on him, she thought, placing a hand to the area where her reactor was. It was in pain again, because she was thinking about the horrifying thought of Achos bringing harm to her master. Like she'd said during her first battle with Chaos, the thought hurt worse than anything.
