A/N: Writing in 3rd POV is hard, but it's kinda fun.
Chapter 3 : When He Forgot
"You're up earlier than usual."
Zero turned around almost immediately after hearing Dio's familiar voice. He is surprised he managed to caught him sneaking out of the room. Even Grandark didn't noticed his action and left alone in his room. The male noble demon is a light sleeper, he noticed he should've been more careful.
"Pardon me, I forgot to consider your sleeping habit." Zero apologized politely.
Dio huffed in annoyance. Zero is not his butler, let alone his subject. Polite speech is not needed.
"I told you to quit being so polite in front of me."
"I apol- I'm sorry…" The artificial demon replied timidly. He fidgeted slightly, clearly not used to using an informal speech to the noble demon.
"Forget it, we can fix that later. What are you up to anyway?" Dio shoved the matters away and asked his fellow comrade.
He waited for an answer.
A whole minute of waiting in the empty hallway, he is starting to get impatient. Dio felt something is off with Zero but never to this extend. Since yesterday he tripped on the carpet, bed sheet, shoes, and even Grandark. How in the world did he managed to misplaced Grandark on the floor when the sword is almost 24/7 with him? Dio didn't know.
"Listen here Zero, I won't understand if you didn't say anything."
Zero opened his mouth to say something but closed it again.
'This is going nowhere…' Dio felt frustrated. He is a demon, not a physic. He doesn't posses any 'people reading ability' like Lire or Ronan.
He is a leader, if he can't solve his comrade's problem how can't he lead his subject in the future?
Then it suddenly clicked.
Aira.
That female artificial demon.
"…You want to see her?"
"Who?" Dio smacked Zero's head a bit harder than he intended but he didn't care anymore. Zero is playing dumb and this annoys him to no end.
"You know what? I feel stupid for trying to talk to you. Let's just visit her quickly before Ley's awake."
Before Zero can protest, Dio dragged him along the hallway.
The hallway is dead silent besides the two demon.
Both of them are standing in front of Aira's room, Zero didn't show any initiative to enter so Dio decided to step first.
He knocked three times.
At first no one's answering, but then Zero's ears catch a soft voice from the inside. His ears are modified, it's not as sharp as elf's but still a lot sharper than the normal one.
"Dio…"
"Is she inside? Let's go."
Trailing like a lost puppy, Zero followed Dio inside the bedroom.
The inside still looked exactly the same as yesterday, complete with its occupant. They are surprised to found Aira lying on the mattress floor. She looked like she's in a lot of pain.
"A-Are you alright?"
Zero dashed pass Dio towards the girl, leaving the male noble demon dumbfounded.
This is the first time Dio saw Zero react to something other than Grandark, Duel, or Oz. He almost.. ALMOST want to call Oz to check on his creation.
Zero cradled the girl close to him and touch her neck to feel her pulse.
"It's… weak…" The olive hair man's body trembled. Again, this made Dio speechless. No one can make Zero react like this. He almost thinks that Zero is going to cry soon but then he remembered Zero is not that kind of guy. Maybe.
While Dio is still shocked of what he is seeing, Zero carried the girl and laid her on the bed. He unfastened her dress's back ribbon in a motion and almost unzipped the back zipper but stopped.
He realized how wrong his action is.
"Dio, I'm the worst…" Zero covered his masked face with both of his hands and backed away from the girl until his back hit the wall across the room.
"What the heck?" Dio looked back and forth between the two artificial demons.
Oh.
OH.
He run out of the room and shouted.
"LEY, HELP!"
Nope, he can't handle this alone.
Ley is confused.
First, her boyfriend awakened her rather roughly and drag her out of her bed to Aira's bedroom.
Second, she saw Zero sulks at the corner of Aira's bedroom while muttering some words she cannot hear.
And last, Aira's dress zipper is… half open.
She shrugged.
Ley decided to check on the girl, her condition looked pretty bad.
Aira is burning up, her breathing is shallow and she's sweating a bucket. The female demon immediately knew what she needed to do.
"You boys, stop being useless and help me fast. Go find some water and clean cloth, we have someone dying here!"
Five minutes.
After delivering whatever Ley needed, Dio and Zero split up to search for Oz.
Dio didn't get lost with Zero's pointer. He managed to find Oz's room and office, but he is nowhere to be seen.
"What is this?" He founded a stack of paper labelled 'Aira' on the top of Oz's office table.
"Dio? I found master… What are you doing?"
The red-haired demon signaled his olive haired comrade to keep quiet and pocketed the paper in his pocket. Zero made a troubled expression but decided to let him go.
Both of them went directly to Aira's room. Oz is already there, right beside Aira who looked far healthier than before. Her drenched dress was replaced thanks to Ley and her butler.
"Magic Poisoning. You need to bring her to human world as soon as possible, she can't adapt to Demon World's environment any longer." Oz said flatly as soon as he noticed Dio and Zero. He looked like he already knows this is going to happened, it makes Dio and Ley felt angry for some reason. Zero already got too used to his master attitude, he knew something was up since yesterday.
"Zero, carry her. We can't let her stay any longer in a place LIKE THIS with someone LIKE HIM." Dio pointed to Oz rudely. Noble status be damned, he doesn't want to get involved with Oz any longer. Even Sieghart is a lot better than Oz.
Her girlfriend nodded in satisfaction. She ordered Jeeves to packed Aira's stuff and voila, it's ready in five minutes. Jeeves also asked Ley whether they need to bring the mattress in Aira's room or not. Ley who knew about Aira's sleeping habit decided to bring all of them along.
Oz didn't stop them.
Zero almost scooped Aira from the bed but stopped by Dio.
"Zero, where is Grandark?"
"Oh."
And off he goes to pick the living sword, leaving Dio and Ley staring at each other in wonder.
'He forgot about Grandark?' Both of them thought.
TO BE CONTINUED
