Chapter 2: Tuesday's Terror
Touma woke up aching all over, which was expected, however he noticed a few thing were off as he came round...
1) He was sleeping on something really soft and warm.
2) His pillow seemed a lot thinner and longer than he remembered.
3) There was a gentle and warm breeze coming and going from somewhere above his head.
Touma ran his hand up his surprisingly warm and soft pillow he was wrapped round, and found a raised part of the material that didn't seem quiet so soft... in fact it felt like some kind of strap.
"Oh Touma, you really shouldn't touch that this side of my sixtieth birthday..." Said a voice that sounded suspiciously like Index's, if softer and more playfully that it was in real life. Obviously Touma was having some weirdly unrealistic dream.
"Ahh but Dreamdex, I really want to move onto the next stage!" Touma muttered to the mixture of his pillow and perverted imagination.
"Really!?" Shouted a voice that sounded a lot more like the normal Index, as his 'pillow' pushed him onto his back. "Your really willing to convert to Christianity for me?!"
Touma opened his eyes to find a very happy (and real) Index was on top of him, her hands on his shoulders, and she was 'bed-dressed' so to speak, with her hood missing and habit also missing in part.
"I knew my attempts to show you Gods Love through action would eventually reach your heart!" Index said in a voice as happy as her face. "Because your finally willing to acknowledge our Lord and savoir Jesus so we can move to the next stage!"
"Wait, wait a minute Index!" Touma said in a futile attempt to interrupt.
"Or maybe it was it seeing Kanzaki demonstrate the virtues of Christ as one of his Saints, while seeing all those supernatural powers in the world that made you realise there is a God and the way to Heaven is to become a good Christian like me and Kanzaki!"
"Index..." Said Touma softly as he tried to get a word in.
"Then once your baptised, we be able to get married and..."
What Index was going to say next was interrupted by the bathroom door being blown off its hinges.
"Ok that about as much as I can take!" Shouted a rather pissed off Othinus from the top of the sink, while on her mighty mount Sleipnir (aka Sphinx the Cat), after said cat had jumped up there. "I thought we had a cease fire in regards to hitting on Touma, but here I hear words like marriage being thrown about by half naked nuns who are suppose to be celibate!"
Index frowned at that, before smirking and turning to look at the fairy sized former Magic God.
"Oh that cease fire 'thing'?" She asked in a superior tone. "I remember that one perfectly clear, it said 'neither of us are allowed to try to seduce Touma', however it said nothing about Touma deciding to give his heart to me!"
Index jumped off Touma to face Othinus more directly.
"A angel delivered him to my arms after he was injured facing down the forces of injustice last night." Index explained before talking increasing louder. "She knew to deliver him to me, as Touma always returns to me, as Touma always wants to be with me in the end, when the fighting stops, because -he loves me-!"
"That the lamest treaty violation excuse I've heard since the 10th century!" Othinus shouted right back. " And while I've broke a lot of treaties, at least I broke them in style!"
"And someone like you thinks' you can have Touma heart.. ha!" Index retorted. "Touma saves girls like you all the time from your own folly, don't think your special because he's kind enough to give you somewhere to stay in a world that mostly hates you!"
The retort clearly pissed Othinus off, however there was a sound that ended the argument instantly...
"Knock! Knock!" Went the sound of someone's fist on the Gate of Yodenheim (aka Touma's front door, he really needed to do something Othinus insistence of renaming things), causing Touma to rapidly jump out the bath and to throw his cloths on as the girls went into hiding (this was considerably easier for Othinus).
Touma opened the door and found himself face to face with the Birdway Sisters.
"Oh hello my dear dear friend Touma who I know I can rely on for anything!" Leivinia said warmly as she uncharacteristically took Touma's hand with both of hers. "I find myself in Academy City unexpectedly with my twin sister, and realised that I could always rely on my good friend Touma when I need a hand!"
Touma still remembered that she had got him shot.
Touma still remembered she had used him in Hawaii.
She wasn't Touma's friend, enemy would have been far more accurate. But had she come here with her sister, a sister who was completely unaware Leivinia was the head of a magical cabal, a sister who Touma got the impression was rather precious to her. She wouldn't want to drag her sister into a scheme with Touma were she could potentially get hurt and exposed to the world of magic.
There was only one logical reason she had come to Touma, and that was because she truly was in a tight spot.
"Of course of course Lei-chan!" Touma said in his 'best buddy' voice. "So what brings you out to Academy City again, it must have been a good six month since we saw each other last?"
"I know!" Leivinia replied. "I was heading towards Australia, for a little break with my sister, when the plane unexpectedly had to land in Academy City for some urgent maintenance. Were going to be stuck here all morning at least Touma!"
Well that explained a lot. Being a powerful magician stuck in the home of the science side would normally be a little problem, as her raw power would keep most problems away, but being stuck with a precious person who she couldn't use magic around was a serous problem, as she couldn't use that power without shattering her secret world.
Touma decided he was going to help Leivinia through this... he also decided he was going to take full advantage of the situation to get some pay back for all the times she used him.
"It's been too long Lei-chan!" Touma said playfully as he picked her up under her arms and swung her around softly, causing the magical cabal boss to go crimson with embarrassment. "You should at least write to me more, you know I worry about your safety with all the travailing you do!"
Leivinia however was not going to just take Touma attempts to make her feel ridiculous laying down. She reacted after he put her down.
"Oh Touma, I miss you so much too!" Leivinia said as she jumped up and hugged Touma around the neck, deliberately rubbing her left cheek past his. "But now we are back together again, were going to have so much fun over the next three hours and twenty two minutes, aren't we Touma?"
The last three words were whispered in Touma's ear in a tone far closer to the megalomaniac with fondness for old fashioned firearms that Touma was familiar with. Clearly she was reminding him that the act was a act, through he suspected what she did next was no act.
"Please tell me this guy isn't your boyfriend Leivinia?" Patricia said in a disapproving tone as Leivinia was cheek to cheek with Touma, the heat increase being obvious, even if she fell back / pushed Touma back and shouted...
"He's not my boyfriend!"
"Right sis, the guy you were talking about none stop on the way here isn't your boyfriend." Patricia said with clear sarcasm. "I'm sure he picks up all the girls he knows like that, and you were just whispering to him about your evil plot to take over the world, and not sweet nothings instead."
"I've only just turned thirteen and he's in highschool, so he can't possibly be my boyfriend!" The extremely flustered megalomaniac magician pointed out. "Touma is just my dear and close older friend!"
Patricia sighed in clear frustration.
"So basically what your saying is that you, Leivinia Birdway, are not in fact madly in love with this older boy who you called the 'most reliable guy you ever met' on the way here." Patricia said with a disbelieving look. "Or is it more accurate to say your not willing to admit your..."
"Quiet quiet!" Leivinia shouted out in a angry aggressive tone. "I have no time for such ridiculous theories with no base in reality! Also we only have three hours, we need spend them well!"
There was a few second of silence.
"Also can you can carry me on your back Touma? My feet are a little tired." Leivinia asked hopefully, with the most transparent excuse ever.
It was a little later and the trio was now in one of Academy Cities cheaper tourist districts (Touma had a knack for knowing the difference between fair and unfair pricing, mostly because of his wallets constant cries).
"So we can get some cool t-shirts and things around here?" Patricia said in a all too polite tone. Touma strongly suspected she had took a strong dislike to him and his pseudo 'relationship' with her sister.
"Indeed." Touma replied with a equally politely tone. But his was the sort you used when you really wanted to scream 'its not like that!', but you really really couldn't. In fact Touma would have once screamed 'misfortune' at being in such a situation, but after meeting people like Index, the Sisters, Fremea and especially Othinus, he felt his complaints were relatively modest compared to say having his memories wiped every year, or having reality so warped from what he remember it being, that he might as well be alien on a distant world, or you know being told he was born to die. That would be real misfortune.
Come to think of it being stuck in a very hostile city with sister he loved dearly, who wasn't getting on with the person who was there best defence against such hostility was probably a fair bit more misfortunate than his unpleasantness.
Touma took a deep breath. Awkward acting was awkward for anyone, but trolling was very fun, very real and something he knew Leivinia would play right back.
"I know, let me get you a present Leivinia!" Touma suggested as the walked by one of the many souvenir shops. He put the mini megalomaniac down (she had won the fight to ride him in the end).
She looked rather conflicted at the idea, with her expression bouncing somewhere between joy and worry.
"Are you sure you want to buy me a present Touma?" Leivinia asked in a voice that sounded just as conflicted as her face looked.
"I'm sure." Touma said with a confident grin. "Your really going to love what I got in mind."
He took her by the hand and dragged her into the shop. Touma knew exactly what he was looking for, it was a rather poplar gift and common across the city.
"Touma, your buying this for me?" Leivinia asked as she examined his gift.
"Indeed Lei-chan!" Touma said as he smiled at her in a ridiculously over the top manner. "And I want you to think of me when you look at it!"
Said gift was a mug with "I 'heart symbol' AC!" on one side and on the other "Believe in the power of science!". Touma smirked inwardly at the irony of a magician drinking out of said mug.
Leivinia smirked at him somewhat evilly from a angle her sister couldn't see.
"Only if you let me buy you back a gift in kind"
"Sure!" Touma said, before nervously gulping. What payback present could she be planning? The evil genius then wandered of to the other side of the shop with her younger sister to get the 'gift'.
It was at this point that the cyborg Kuroyoru Umidori turned up, carrying a plush dolphin toy that would inevitably contained those 'extra arm things' as Touma like to distantly think of them as.
"Kamijou." She asked in a rather business like tone before turning to a more excited one. "You heard the news of that huge bounty on that Birdway bitch and that she's right here in Academy City? If you help me hunt her down and we can both get paid while getting payback!"
Touma immediately leaned forwards and grasped her left wrist with his right hand.
"No." He said firmly and inches from her face. "She is with her completely innocent sister, who knows nothing of her world and shouldn't be dragged into it... are we clear?"
The younger girl nodded back, her cheeks going somewhat pink.
"See.. see you tomorrow!" Kuroyoru shouted as he released her wrist, shortly before running as fast as her feet could take her in the opposite direction.
Touma had a bad feeling about what she was planning tomorrow, but there was little he could do at the moment, but he counted his blessings that nitrogen lances hadn't been fired.
"I heard a shout, is everything ok?" Leivinia asked in a confident and serous tone that Touma had mentally tagged as 'magician at work' as she came round the corner.
"Nothing I couldn't handle." Touma replied in a similar tone. Leivinia nodded in reply, her expression told Touma that she understood exactly what sort of 'thing' had been handled.
"Oh I got you a gift Touma!" Leivinia shouted out quickly in a tone that quickly changed to playful and warm. Touma wasn't surprised to note the change had matched in timing with the arrival of Patricia, who was carrying what looked like a t-shirt under her arm.
"Show dear Touma my...our gift for him!" Leivinia said with a mid sentence change that had absolutely nothing to do with avoiding romantic undertones, (not even one bit!). A somewhat annoyed Patricia held the t-shirt up properly, showing the picture of a older male student with a flaming aura and the words 'One day I'll be a Level 5 if I work hard!". This was of course the extremely unfitting gift she had found for the boy who's very nature made it imposable for him to develop any kind of supernatural power at all (well beside that 'thing', but Touma didn't like to dwell on that, it unnerved him).
"Oh Lei-chan!" Touma shouted out in false enthusiasm as he ran and picked up the tiny tyrant for the second time that day. "You shouldn't of!"
Patricia misread the situation.
"Seriously, just ask him out already!" Patricia said with a stomp of her foot. "It's obvious you don't consider the age gap to be a issue, and your both flirting like crazy!"
"It only like four years!" A highly embarrassed Leivinia screamed a in tone that sounded way way out of control. "No one going to a bat a eyelid by the time I catch up and by then I have every-...!"
Touma looked at her in surprise as she very suddenly shut up. He knew she had something of a thing for him (hence the teasing), but that little outburst had seemed to have been a very deep part of Leivinia's heart being opened up. What did she really think of Touma, what words did her inner voice say when she thought of him?
Leivinia seemed to regain her composer during the time Touma had those thoughts.
"Anyway the important thing is Touma and I are not dating sister, nor are we going to be dating any time soon." She said in a tone that sounded more like the normal Leivinia. "However Touma is a good older friend who I know I can turn too for important things, in fact you could even say he like a ..."
"Older brother figure?" Patricia said with a sigh before putting her hand on her face and muttering in English. "Why is my sister such a weirdo?"
Touma was proud that he understood that sentence perfectly. Shortly after her arrival, Othinus had come to a agreement with Index that only English was allowed in Touma's home at the weekend, on the grounds that "English is the new Latin, we can't have Touma's embarrassing us on the international scene by expecting everyone he meets to conveniently know a minor eastern language can we?" And so between them, they had forced Touma's English to improve by refusing to do things like, turn the TV down when he was doing homework, hurry up in the toilet when he was desperate and leave his favourite desert alone, unless asked in perfectly grammatically and well pronounced English.
His suffering for those first few months had been considerably, but Othinus strategy (cruel it might had been) had worked, and let him now do the following..
"Who knows?" Touma said in perfect English. "But I know she loves you a lot and is a bit stressed at the moment, so give her some slack Patricia."
Both girls looked at him with surprise.
"I remember your English being distinctly worse last time we met." Leivinia stated. "Has a certain ever hungry person with a fondness for books been giving you lessons?"
"Sort of." Touma stated before explaining. "A certain Norwegian with a fondness for Norse mythology pushed the idea that I needed to know English to deal with the international scene. So they both conspired and forced me to use English at the weekends."
Leivinia smirked, but Patricia looked like something had just dawned on her.
"So that how you know Leivinia!" She exclaimed. "Your one of those nice guys who volunteer to look after foreign guests aren't you? I bet that's why Leivinia knew to go to you this morning, because your teacher will understand that you've took time off to demonstrate Academy City's hospitality!"
Touma wasn't going to correct a really convenient excuse like that.
"Indeed!" Touma said with a smile. "Leivinia was my guest for a few times in the past, about the same time at Lessar most recently if I remember correctly."
"Oh so you have a lot of guests then?" Patricia inquired. "What kind of people have you had?"
The conversation went on for a while. Touma had to do some rapid mental editing to his friends identities, but he tried to keep to the core of who they were, even if he had to careful remove anything connected to the Magic Side. So Kanzaki Kaori became a duel Japanese/British national who often travelled between the two counties and was also part of a minor Christian sect that had elements of Shinto and Buddhism mixed in it (It's really complicated, Touma had explained). Stiyl and Orsola became travailing missionaries and Himegami became a quiet girl from the country with a tragic past (Don't ask her about it, she's got a lot of painful memories, Touma had warned) who had a bit of trouble with her first school, so she eventually transferred into her friends Touma's school.
And so after the awkwardness, it seemed Patricia had finally warmed up to Touma, which meant of course some other problem had to rise its ugly head, because you know life would never went that smoothly for Touma.
Musujime Awaki teleporting a selection of empty vehicles around Touma's group that (in)conveniently meant Touma's group was trapped, should have been half expected.
"Leivinia Birdway." She stated coldly. "You really should have planned your travel arrangements more carefully, esp.."
Touma didn't let her finish that dangerous sounding sentence, he immediately charged towards her with the line...
"Awa-chan, it's been so long!" He said in a super friendly manner as he gave her a super best friend, Imagine Breaker in contact, styled hug. "And I know young Patricia would love to meet a proper powerful Level 4 Esper like yourself!"
He motioned toward her, Patricia gave the two of them a friendly little (and completely danger oblivious) wave.
"Are you a teleportation type Esper Awa-chan?" Patricia asked in a curious tone that showed she had absolutely no idea she was talking to person with ill intent towards her sister. "I heard teleportation type Espers are really rare, and Touma said your a Level 4 too, so you must be one of the best Esper's in the whole of Academy City right?"
Musujime looked extremely confused at Touma sudden closeness of words and proximity and her targets sisters friendliness. Leivinia had a extremely guarded expression, but it seemed she was happy to let Touma handle the situation and was silent.
"Well obviously..." Musujime replied after a awkward moment of silence. "Through I rather you call me Musujime."
" Course course." Patricia said with a polite nod. "My apologise for being too informal Musujime... but I can't believe I've met a real Level 4 Teleporter!"
"Oh don't think all Level 4s are the same in power either." Musujime stated with a superior tone. "I'm way stronger that that silly perverted, pig tailed, Judgement Girl. She can teleport herself and up to two people tops, and only if she's touching them! While I can teleporting things like cars from a distance. It's only because there five power level brackets that I get grouped together with her!"
Patricia made a big 'oooo' noise at that.
"But anyway, let me steal Touma a moment, I need to catch up with him on a few things.." Musujime stated as she grabbed Touma rather roughly by the shoulder and pulled him in for a whispered conversation.
"Why are you protecting a international terrorist and acting like this is some happy daytrip?" She whispered seriously.
"Because her sister is both oblivious to her nature and completely innocent. I've met enough messed up people to know dragging her into that world is unjust and cruel." Touma replied equally seriously.
There was a few moments of silence.
"You sure this isn't some big brother complex, mixed with the fact there cute twins?" She asked with honest seriousness.
"No its nothing like that!" Touma replied defensively. "I'm just seeing them both out of the city safely and without Patricia getting dragged into her sisters mistakes."
"Look I'll understand if you been seduced by a pair of pretty young multimillionaire twins, but there no need to be pretentious with me." Musujime explained with a perfectly straight face. "If a pair of pretty young twin boys ran up to me and said 'Oh great and beautiful elder sister, will you protect us from all the nasty people chasing after one of us for international terrorism charges?' I turn into there ever loyal protector too!"
Touma had often heard Accelerator commenting on Musujime being a twisted pervert. Now he understood why.
"I'm just protecting Patricia here." Touma explained. "There is nothing perverted going off. If Leivinia was alone, I let her sleep in the bed she made for herself and face justice, but she isn't, and I prioritise protecting innocent people over punishing guilty ones."
"Whatever you tell yourself." Musujime said dismissively. "It's pretty clear to me they worked there magic on you, and I've got enough sense not to get into fight with someone scary enough to unnerve Accelerator... so I'll leave Leivinia Birdway be, for today at least."
They stopped having a whispered conversation.
"Anyway I have some business too look into." Musujime explained as she teleported the cars back to there original positions. "I'm sure Touma will take real good care of you anyway."
She said the last line with a wink and a mischievous smile in Touma's direction, he face palmed. Leivinia smirked softly and Patricia just looked confused.
"Why does this sort of thing keep happening to me?" Touma silently thought to himself with a sigh.
They were fairly close to the airport now. Leivinia had needed to take a bathroom break, leaving Touma alone with Patricia. She had been rather talkative till her sister had disappeared, but now she was quiet and rather distant looking.
"You ok?" Touma asked as the silence seemed to drag. She looked at him with a expression that said very much no, then sighed.
"My sister never use to hide things from me." Patricia said with a pained voice in her native English. Clearly the effort of translating her words was a bit too much for her right now. "She was always more assertive than me when we were little. But she always talked with me about everything, she always valued what I thought and felt. She always use to say that saying her thoughts out loud to me was a good way to get her thoughts in order."
She clenched her fingers into a fist.
"They took them from us, they tore them from us and left us all alone." Patricia said in a pained voice, tear clearly starting to well up in her eyes. "I became a useless wreck, I wanted to run away, to turn back the clock and pay the dam money, but Leivinia, Leivinia didn't run away, she didn't fall apart. She started to run everything. She saw to everything, and during her spare time she went on all these trips to places she wouldn't diverge even to me."
Touma bit his lip. Was he hearing the tale of the birth of the magician known as Leivinia Birdway, boss of the Dawn-colored Sunlight? Normal people didn't become Magicians, only those who had suffered some great trauma usually had the convection to take up a magic name and brand it on there soul.
"Secrets upon secrets." Patricia pretty much spat out. "I use to know her so well, I use to be so in synch with her, yet now I feel like a stranger in my own home! I mean Mr Space is technically classed as a butler on all the houses books, but I know he no real butler, he part of that 'other' she won't talk to me about, that 'other' that has her leaving the house at three in the morning and looking over her shoulder in the most innocent of places!"
"Oh Leivinia." Touma sighed in his head "Did you really think you could hide something this big from your twin sister without a trace?"
"I try to keep myself busy." Patricia explained as she tried to regain her composure. "I put myself back together and started to take over pushing forwards the name of Birdway again. My father made his money pushing forwards technological innovation and investing in bright idea's. I will continue that family tradition, even if sister seems more preoccupied with that 'other', even if money seems to flow from place's I have no idea of, I will keep shining that light, that light that is Birdway, and I'll keep smiling for Leivinia sake if nothing else."
Touma knew he had to something. This young girl was suffering alone, and had been suffering alone for too long.
"Your sister is complicated." He stated, grabbing her attention. "She is not a easy person to read and likes pulling strings. Half the time I don't know what think of her and I don't know what her agenda is..."
Patricia looked at him with concern.
"But I know this too. She is brilliant, she works hard, when she set her mind to something, she think dozens of moves ahead of everyone else and for all her fluster, for all ego, she thinks of the little people far more than she likely to ever admit. I also tell you this, I have met people far more broken, far more upset and angry than her... and seen them achieve miracles you wouldn't believe."
Patricia looked at him with wonder. Being left with nothing but fear and mystery must have put a great strain on her. But Touma words were easing that strain, because she knew that he knew the truth, and he was saying...
"Everything is going to turn ok in the end." Touma stated. "I won't let Leivinia suffer alone in the dark, its not in my nature. And now you told me how her story started, and trust me you've told me far more than you realise, I can help her far better."
"Who -are- you?" Patricia inquired inquisitively.
"I'm just Kamijou Touma, Normal Highschool Student." Touma explained with a confident smile. "Just leave your sisters troubles to me ok?"
Patricia grabbed his hands with her own.
"You promise to help my sister returns from that place and be the sister I can trust again? She asked with her eyes firmly planted on Touma's.
"I promise." Touma sincerely replied. She smiled brightly before lunging forwards and hugging him tightly.
The hug went on for a while, before a large explosive noise reverberated through the area.
"What was that?!" Patricia asked as she broke the hug. Leivinia swiftly came from the direction of the bathroom. "No idea, but if we don't get a move on, were going to miss our plane!"
They swiftly moved away from the scene and Touma had good idea of the source of that noise.
The managed to reach the airport without further incident and strangely enough in fairly good time (it was almost like they hadn't needed to rush at all).
"So anyway Touma, thanks for everything." Leivinia said as she stood ready to go board her plane. "I know I must have thrown a spanner into your plans for today, but I hope one day I can return the favour you've done for me this morning."
"I missed all my morning lessons, but I think Komoe-sensei will be understanding of the situation." Touma replied.
"Ahh that's good." Leivinia replied with a soft smile, before awkwardly staring at him.
"Anyway I'm going to listen to this really loud heavy rock band with my headphones on." Patricia injected before putting said headphones on and humming while looking away from both Leivinia and Touma.
"Heh." Leivinia said simply as looked down. "She letting me have my private moment with you."
"Explosion?" Touma asked bluntly.
"Another magician was stalking us." Leivinia explained. "He won't be doing again for a long time, but before you ask, I was merciful and left him with his life."
Touma sighed in relief.
"You need to tell your sister who you really are Leivinia." Touma explained seriously. "She knows your hiding something big from her, and it's tearing her slowly apart, even if she puts on a mask that everything is ok."
Leivinia lip trembled briefly.
"I don't want to drag her into the world of magic." She replied uneasily. "You know firsthand how dark and dangerous some magicians are."
"I do, but isn't your real fear about her finding out dark and dangerous -you- are?" Touma noted. Leivinia shook slightly at the words, clearly he had hit dead on target.
"I reassured her that even through you are a complex person, your not a monster, that you do good things " Touma explained. "If your scared she won't like what kind of magician that you are, and that she will see a villain.. then don't be a villain, be a hero, even if you become some kind of pragmatic Nick Fury-esq anti-hero who pulls the strings behind the scenes for the sake of her smile. Because if you can be that sort of hero, then I can certainly be the sort of man who will call you a good friend with all his heart."
Leivinia blushed slightly before speaking.
"Your such a unbelievably optimistic man Touma. I find it so easy to believe that you truly did break a Magic God's will with that attitude."
She stepped forwards towards Touma.
"You want me to be brave for the sake of love, then let me show you a taste of that bravery." Said a increasingly redder Leivinia. Touma didn't realise quiet what she was doing till she pulled his neck down roughly and gave him a quick and clumsy kiss on the lips.
"Lei- leivinia!" Touma strutted shouted. The magician smirked back with her red face.
"You should know I always get what I set my mind too Touma. I will be seeing you again in the not so distant future!" Leivinia declared loudly.
And that how my Tuesday morning ended. I managed to avoid explaining how my Monday date went to everyone by claiming I was tired and would explain it all on Wednesday, I suspect by the fact Kumokawa Seria smirked at me all the way through afternoon break that she had heard the truth, but she didn't talk with me about it, only smirked.
However I did have to explain where I had been all morning to Komoe-sensei, so I explained that I been busy looking after some young tourists. (Thankfully she didn't punish me too much over it, because I been doing a good deed, however it did mean my homework was considerably bigger.).
Index and Othinus were of course waiting for me when I got home, worried that I had been dragged into some dangerous scheme by Leivinia Birdway. I told them about the fact she been stuck with her sister, through much to my latter regret I didn't tell them about the kiss.
What came next was Wednesday's Wickedness, which I'm sure you heard some very wild rumours about... which I wished were all false.
A/N: This chapter really grew bigger on me .
Anyway as you can likely see, I'm trying to make each chapter work as a stand alone that focuses on a specific ship primary, but with threads that lead up towards the big final. :)