Izura said nothing more, smiling smugly at his classmates as they began to stand up, but Ms. Nekonome slammed her hand down on the desk she stood next to. It cracked under the force of her hand hitting it and the students jumped at the action and sat back down. At the end of class, Izura seemed to hold a stink over him. His classmates began spreading rumors about him being at least half human. They speculated anything from a wizard/warlock to a monstrel with one human parent. None of them even considered anything ghoulish, though they would have thought about a human with vampire blood running rampant through them. A child with a ghoul parent and a human parent would be absurd.
The white haired teen didn't seem phased about the situation at all. In fact, he went back to his antisocial routine. Of course, he wasn't completely antisocial. He had new friends to hang out with on occasions. The rumours reached the ears of a certain blue haired girl. She was nearly ecstatic about the news. Then she remembered how easily he resisted her charm and shuddered. If he was human, he had endured something far worse than she thought. Even if he wasn't human, he had to have been undoubtedly traumatized to have resisted as EASILY as he did.
"Is there anything I could do? Oh! I could bake him some cookies! That might improve our relationship!" she thought.
"The way to a man's bed is through his stomach!~" Kurumu giggled, briskly walking towards the Cooking club room. No body thought it was weird, but no one cared to question her anyway. She was the school's most popular girl, rivaled only by the vampire Moka Akashiya, and even she wasn't focused popularity enough to care about who was viewed as hotter.
"Maybe I should ask Moka what he likes to eat. Come to think of it, he doesn't eat anything in the cafeteria. does he hate school food that much? All I've seen him do is drink a sip of coffee that day and say it was pretty bad. Hmm... Maybe I'll just make some chocolate chip cookies. It should be enough." she mumbled, her pace slowing with a slight sadness. The look in his eyes when he first directed them to Kurumu had so many emotions, most notably fear and anger. He needed help, not cookies. That was becoming clear to her. Though Moka was helping some, it did seem that time had healed his wounds for the most part, though there was still a long way for him to go.
Being a succubus, she could see the many different emotions men had (given that she played with them every day). She didn't want to fuck up her presentation of herself. Especially not for him. She was wondering why she didn't want to screw up in front of him when's he heard his voice.
"Hey..." Izura said, the empty silence of the room being both terrifying and awkward. It was a strange silence that neither of them knew how to combat, until Izura spoke once more.
"Look, I'm sorry for scarring you five weeks ago. You just had this predatory smirk on your face and it brought up bad memories of someone I met a long time ago." he said, Kurumu smiling and putting a hand on her classmate's shothough.Though she had already forgiven him, it was good to hear him apologize for it though.
"Just don't forget, I intend to make you mine someday!~ Oh, and before you go, what kind of food-" Kurumu began when she began getting the feeling that she was suddenly walking on thin ice. He turned away to hide the change in expression, and that in itself told her the topic of food was sensitive. The nature of his reaction was what really got her curious. It was like he missed eating. Which didn't make sense because if he didn't eat, he wouldn't be able to live and if he missed eating, then it was probably a change in diet that caused the longing look in his eyes.
So what was the change? She knew he was half human at least. Maybe he was something that couldn't eat anything that fell under the most universally accepted definition of food by humans and monsters. That left one option that she could think of.
"Could he be one of those ghouls always in the news? The reason for the Commission of Counter Ghoul?" she thought, before shaking her head. The likelihood of a Human/Ghoul relationship creating a half ghoul was nearly impossible. Besides, even half ghouls can eat human food. They just have to eat human flesh every once in a while to get ALL the sustenance they need.
Disappearing while Kurumu was deep in thought, trying to process the information and put all the pieces together, Izura slipped out of the room and back down the hall. It felt kind of cold, something he noted was strange. Just a few minuets ago, in the same hall, it wasn't nearly as cold as it was and the temperature drop was far too sudden and great to be caused by any malfunction of the school's boiler room. Someone was following him, someone with the ability to control temperature in terms of how cold it was. Recalling his knowledge on Japanese folklore, a yuki-onna, or snow woman, was said to be able to conjure up blizzards and snow storms when they felt like it.
Who ever it was that was following him was probably one of these monsters, or if it was a guy, as yuki-onna can only be female, probably some other ice-based monster. All he had to do was play oblivious. He would be able to make the stalker bolder and hide less while still keeping themselves silent as to try and not be noticed...
