Ring. Ding. Bing. Ching.

The sound of the school bell was heard over the intercom meaning it was the break between classes. While he would have to return to the same classroom in about ten minutes, he wanted to use the restroom. As he gathered his belongings, not liking to keep his backpack behind as he doesn't trust anyone to not dig through his things, his desk was approached and a shadow overtook the desk.

"Excuse me. Shido was it?"

Shido looked up and there she was, the twin tailed black haired female.

"Uh… Yes… but how do you know my name…?" Shido asked.

"Roll call silly."

"There was roll call…?" Shido asked, a bit surprised.

"Yes, you were too busy enamored in your reading to notice."

"Then how did you know my name?"

"The teacher pointed you out of course, after noticing you. It seems she knows you." The female said, saving herself.

"Ah I see. So… What do you want?"

"I just transferred here, so I don't really know my way around the school that well I'm afraid. Would you be so kind to show me around? I'll make it worth your while."

"I guess…" Shido said, scratching his head a bit. He has never been asked for a favor last year, as he was in his second year.

"That's wonderful. Thank you so much."

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[[Attention! This is not a drill! There have been signs of an impending spacial quake in this vicinity! Please make your way to the nearest designated shelters! I repeat! This is not a drill! There have been signs of an impending spacial quake!]]

Shido stood up quickly as the siren went off, almost knocking over the female as he bumped his desk. He apologized to her but there were drills like this all the time so he knew to move quickly. Spacial quakes were no joke. They were massively destructive phenomenon that destroyed everything in their path. There was no stopping the mass destruction.

To his left, the white haired female who claimed she knew him moved out of her seat and quickly began to leave the room. She also turned right, which was not the way to the shelter.

'Where is she going?'

"Shido, where are we going? I'm scared." The female who asked him for his assistance asked. Shido turned to her and noticed the scared look on her face. Well it was more of a worried look but close enough.

"Don't worry. Just follow me." Shido said, grabbing her hand and taking her out of the room and to the left.

A few minutes later, Shido and the girl found themselves in the hallway which led to the shelter. It was a bit crowded so they were waiting for a bit to let the crowd thin so they could move safely. Shido took out his phone and dialed a number.

'Please be safe… please don't try and still meet me… you wouldn't right? Kotori, please be smart…'

"I'm sure you are fine Kotori… you just have bad reception in the shelter…" Shido said softly to himself. He clicked the map on his phone and his eyes went wide.

Shido quickly turned and began to run.

"Shido?" The girl asked, confused.

Shido left the building and began to sprint down the streets, heading towards the diner that they were at earlier in the morning.

'Damnit Kotori! Why couldn't you just take shelter! Why the hell are you not taking shelter from impending disaster?! Is this promise so important to you?!'

Shido turned the corner that would lead straight to the diner when it happened. A black and blue object appeared and the sky and got bigger and bigger fast. A spacial Quake. It entered the horizon and it began to eat the buildings that it touched, completely eradicating everything in its patch. Shido's eyes turned wide as the quake got closer and closer, only to stop a few feet from him, sending him flying in the blast. Shido's back hit a buildings wall, sending the air out of his lungs and stunning him as his vision went black for a moment.

When he finally got the air back into his body and he was finally able to move, there was a large crater. The diner was on the other side of the humongous crater, still intact. The crater was the size of a football field in length. As Shido stood at the edge of the crater, he was able to see everything. The mass destruction. The complete obliteration of everything. Yet at the crater… was something. A figure.

'It's… a girl? What… What is she doing? What is she wearing?'

It was then the female drew something from what looks like a slab of stone. It was a sword! A humongous sword! She then swung the sword in his direction, sending a massive wave of energy towards him, missing him by an inch and striking the building behind him, destroying it. He had closed his eyes, expecting to be destroyed but when he opened his eyes, he was still alive… though there was the female with a sword pointing right at him… a mere foot between his chest and the large sword. The female in question had long dark-purple hair, dark-blue eyes on the top half and a pink and pale yellow mixture on the bottom half.

"So… It's true… you came here to kill me to." The female asked.

Shido gasped a bit, scared for his life as he fell back onto his hindquarters and placed his hands behind him, holding him steady.

"DO not try denying that you are here to kill me. I must deal with you before the others arrive."

"Wait… Just wait please! I… I'm not here to kill you! That's not why I came here!"

"What?"

"I could never kill anybody… or anything… Is that what you're here for?"

The female gasped a bit, her eyes widening a bit, taken aback by the question. It was then she turned her head towards the sky and missiles came raining down towards them.

Shido's eyes went wide in fear as the missiles approached. He began to yell in fear, but the female just raised a hand and all the missiles were neutralized, stopping by what looked like a shield. The girl sighed.

"Why do they not realize the futility of their attacks?" The girl said before roaring and leaping into the air, striking a wave of energy towards the next wave of missiles.

Shido began to watch the ensuing battle, only to spot her face as she looked back at him. Shido's eyes narrowed a bit, going back to normal.

'This ain't any normal girl… If she is this strong… then why does she look so sad?'

Shido watched as the girl fought off the incoming attacks and actually struck down an attacker, though only by destroying the wings on the suit. Both of the figures went back down into the crater, only for the one who was struck down to land behind Shido. Shido looked up and was shocked. It was the white haired female.

"Uh…" Shido could only say, blinking. The girl looked down at him, no emotion on her face.

"Shido… It's you." She said, her voice sounding shocked. She seemed to have a poker face.

It was then a wave of energy wave sent right at the girl behind him, though she was a bit over to the right. Shido quickly leapt away from the blast as the female leapt towards the one with purple drawing out a sword of light. They then began to have a battle of sword skills, neither coming out on top. However, when the leapt into the air together and slammed their blades together, a massive energy ball formed around them and exploded, sending light and energy outwards, striking Shido in the process. He was quickly knocked out.

Unknown how long he was out, Shido began to awaken, hearing voices in the background. Only one sentence caught his attention.

"Princess was lost."

As Shido's eyes began to open, there was a bright light in his eyes so he quickly sent his hand up and moved the object away. What he touched in the process was a hand. He sat up quickly, taking several deep breaths. He looked around and noticed he wasn't alone.

"It appears you are awake now." Said a female voice.

"What gave you your first clue…? Where am I? Wait… Who are you? I don't know you."

"My name is Reine Murasume. Just call me Reine. I'm the head analysis here. There is no reason for you to freak out. First aid is not out of my league."

"And that's supposed to be reassuring… she still didn't answer my question about where I am…"

"Again… Where am I?"

"You are resting in Fraxinus's sick bay. You were unconscious so it was decided that this was the best course of action."

"Oh right… the chick fight… wait… Kotori! I need to find my sister! She was standing in front of the diner during the attack! I have to find my sister! She could be…"

"Calm down. Your sister is fine."

"What?! She is?!"

"I'm guessing you are wanting some sort of explanation now. My apologies but I don't work in that field."

'… This chick is going to drive my bananas isn't she?'

"You should ask the vice commander for more details."

A few minutes later and Shido found himself entering into a large room. It looked like one of those command centers you see on sci-fi movies with spaceships and stuff.

"I brought him with me." Reine said. There was a long haired blonde man standing in front of him, his back to the pair. However he turned.

"Ah I see that. It's very nice to meet you. My name is Kyouhei Kannazuki. Welcome to Ratatoskr." The man said, only to point towards a large seat. Shido gasped in shock.

Sitting in a large commander's chair was Kotori, sucking on a lollipop.

"Kotori…?" Shido asked a bit confused.

"Welcome bro. As the moron said, welcome to Ratatoskr."

Shido narrowed his eyes, a bad feeling running down his spine.

'My life is about to get completely destroyed isn't it? Please tell me I'm just dreaming…'

"So, this female here is known as a spirit. We call her princess."

"Wait, what's a spirit?"

"Shut up will ya? Don't be rude. The commander is taking the time to personally explain things to you. You should be on your knees bowing in gratitude." Kotori said. Shido was looking at her as if she had gone crazy. This was NOT the little sister he knew. "If you want, I certainly wouldn't mind letting you lick my boots while you are down there."

"What? Really I can?!" Kyouhei said in happiness. Kotori responded with a sharp jab to his solar plexus, sending him to the ground. "AHHH! Thank you Commander!" It seemed the fool enjoyed this kind of thing.

'… Please tell me this is a dream… Please please pleaseeeee.'

"One thing… You are Kotori… right?"

"Of course. Have you forgotten what my face looks like? Shido."

"What? No bro?!"

"I knew your memory was bad. Not Alzheimer's bad. I guess it's off to home for you soon…"

"So… What the hell is going on… where are we?"

"Quit freaking Shido. Jeez."

Shido responded with a pinch to the bridge of his nose. This was really getting on his nerves. He did not like the disrespect his LITTLE SISTER was giving him.

"I'll explain the specifics to you later, but there are three things you need to know now. First. The girl you saw earlier today was a spirit. They do not belong here on this planet and when they show up, they cause spacial quakes."

"Spacial Quakes are caused by Spirits?"

"There ya go. You're learning! Good boy!" Kotori said to Shido like she would a dog.

'Kotori… When we are done here, you are so dead.'

"Ready for two? These people here are part of the Anti Spirit Team… or the AST for short. Their job is to kill the Spirits."

"What? Kill them?!"

Shido then remembered what the girl said to him earlier… about him being there to kill her.

"And now for three… there is another way to deal with the spirits without having to kill them. That is why you are here and where your expertise will come in handy."

"Me? Help how?"

"I will have you training tomorrow. I will have the rest of the details explained to you tomorrow with the one running the training."

"Wait. Will you slow down?! Training?! What could I possible do?"

"No one is asking your opinion. You are here to just obey." Kotori said.

Shido narrowed his eyes again.

"Now I have a question. What were you doing down there? Were you trying to get yourself killed?"

"No stupid, I was looking for you! Remember you said you would be at the diner even if there was a quake!"

"I said that… but how was I supposed to know you would follow through with that."

"Look you moron! Your phones locator said you were right at the diner!"

"Oh did it? Huh…" Kotori pressed a button and the floor became transparent and Shido found himself looking down upon his city. "I guess we are floating above the diner then."

Shido's right eye twitched visibly seeing this chaos. Unfortunately for him, he later found out that this was NOT a dream… and this was real…

It was the next day of school and Shido's left eye was twitching this time as a new substitute teacher stood in front of the class. Apparently Reine is now a teacher!

At the end of the day, Shido found himself in the Physics preparation room… apparently this room was NOT used by the school for anything but storage… who knew that Physics was useless.

"… How the hell did you get to be one of my teachers…? Seriously… What is going on? Please Ms. Murasume."

"You can just call me Reine, okay Shin?"

"Shin? My name is Shido…"

"Is that right? My bad. Sorry Shin."

"Are you kidding me?! You aren't even trying!"

"It's easier for me to be close to you if I am a member of the schools teaching staff."

"Yea, that one you should have figured on your own. Stop being so stupid." Kotori said. Oh yea, Kotori was here… in sandals with socks on.

Shido took in a deep breath, closed his eyes and breathing out through his nose slowly. This was going to be fun wasn't it?

"Speaking of… Why are you even here? Don't you have school?"

"I have permission to visit."

Shido did the same breathing exercise again, really not wanting to deal with this nonsense.

"Whatever… Are you finally going to tell me why I am here or what? What is this training?"

"It will make more sense to you when you start using the training program." Kotori said. With that, Reine hit a button on the computer and Shido and Kotori went to the computer screen. What came up was a dating sim… Fall in love: My little Shido. This got Shido's eyes to narrow in suspicion.

"This is a dating sim…"

"Yes, this is the training software… designed to train you of course, hence the name."

Shido stood up from the desk, turning around and walked away. "Nope." Was all he said.

"Shido! Where do you think you are going?!" Kotori demanded.

"Nope. Nuh uh. No way."

"Shido… Do you want them to all die?"

This got Shido to stop but he didn't turn around.

"Do you want them to die?"

"… No."

"Then you have to go through with this… this is the only way. I know it is a bit… weird that I would ask this of you… but this is the only way."

Shido groaned in annoyance and turned to her.

"Tell me one thing… What is… what am I doing exactly to save the spirits?"

"Why date them of course."

"Me… Date them? I am pretty sure you know I have no experience in the dating world."

"Of course I know that, but you have the hidden talent for it."

"So, only I can do this eh?"

"Yes. So will you or are you going to let them all die?"

"Kotori… I will do this… but when we get home… I will kill you