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Chapter 6: So It Begins. And The Chase Is On!
It was now currently 5 o'clock in the morning. A time where most people would still be asleep. However, for Tatsumi Nakamura, it was a time of preparing for the day. Already, the bespectacled young man had just finished his shower, and was getting dressed into his student uniform.
A few minutes later, he went downstairs and had a breakfast of rice, veggies, little bit of meat, and a cup of tea. Because unlike a certain golden eyed friend of his, he can actually cook and didn't have to rely on Ramen and toast most of the time.
Once he was done with his meal, he saw that he still had about 3 hours before school started.
"…I suppose I might as well get to it now."
Earlier, while he making his breakfast, he noticed that he was running low on ingredients. That being said, he made a list of things he needed with his phone, and headed out.
Normally he'd take some time to study during this time, but he figured he might as well go the grocery store and wait for it to open in a couple of hours. Nothing wrong with buying a small amount of things in the morning, and he'll head over there again after school to buy a few more things.
Later
The walk to the grocery store was about 20 minutes away from his house, and as expected, there wasn't really anybody there except for a middle aged couple.
"Good morning sir, ma'am." He greeted politely and the two just nodded. He stood outside the store with them, waiting for it to open and he took out his phone, "Let's see, what should I buy for now?"
Whoosh~
The wind blew, he kept his eyes on the phone for a moment until, he started getting a bad feeling. As displayed before, Tatsumi Nakamura was in no way incompetent in a fight, he had been trained. And that is why, he can tell when there's danger. Not completely detect it, but he can still pick up on the feeling.
"Hm?"
He pushed his glasses up. He looked around the area, there wasn't anyone there.
"I'm sorry, did you both see anyone?"
He turned and asked the middle aged couple but they shook their heads, indicating that he didn't. He calmed down, but kept his guard up. He now paid full attention to his surroundings. An hour and a half of waiting later, the store opened and the Tatsumi, along with the middle aged couple went inside to buy their respective things.
Unbeknownst to them however, a dangerous eight legged monster was watching them the whole time. More specifically, it was watching Tatsumi. Today was the day she'll get her bait. She just needed to wait for the right time.
Later That Day
"…What?"
"C'mon dude! I know we're not that close yet, but you gotta tell us!"
"Yeah bro, don't keep it to yourself!"
"Please share your information with us!"
It was now currently lunch period. Yoichi was sitting at his desk as usual, and in front of his desk were Issei, baldy, and four eyes. After further information, the baldy's name is Matsuda, and four eyes was Motohama.
Anyway, Yoichi was just trying to get some shut-eye as usual, but then these three came in and started asking him about the his club, the ORC or more specifically, the girls in the club.
"What do you idiots wanna even know about 'em?" Yoichi raised an eyebrow.
"You're in the club with several of the most popular girls in school! Give us the juicy details!" Matsuda yelled.
"Do they have erotic yuri action all the time in there?! We gotta know!" Motohama yelled.
"And if they do can you try to describe it to us in detail?!" Issei yelled.
The three of them stared at him, they were obviously not going to let this go.
Yoichi deadpanned, "…You guys are pathetic."
There was then a moment of silence. All three members of the perverted trio had their heads down, preventing Yoichi from seeing their faces. This went on for a few more seconds until,
[We know that!]
All three of them yelled. They were crying rivers, it was actually kind of a sad sight. Painful as well.
"Even we have dreams of doing erotic things, bro!" Matsuda wailed.
"But sadly, people like us are destined to be alone forever!" Motohama wailed as well.
"This really sucks! Now I'm depressed!" as did Issei.
Yoichi sweat dropped at the three's antiques. Was THAT kind of stuff the only thing on their minds ninety percent of the time?
"You three! Lower your voices! People are trying to have lunch in peace!"
Yoichi and the three perverts suddenly heard a voice shout as it came to the classroom. To Yoichi, it was a very familiar voice.
Rushing into the classroom was Tatsumi, and he immediately yelled at the trio. To his surprise, the trio glared at Tatsumi while still crying.
"Well if it isn't the damn bishounen with the stick up his ass!" Matsuda yelled while pointing a finger at Tatsumi.
"It's bishounens like YOU that people like us will never get girlfriends!" Motohama yelled while Issei just nodded in agreement.
"THAT again?" Tatsumi sighed at this before adjusting his glasses. "Listen, I really don't understand what you mean when you say that." He then gave them a thumbs up. "And besides, don't be discouraged! I'm confident that you three will find someone out there!"
Despite his nice words, the perverted trio were still gritting their teeth in annoyance at Tatsumi. Because here's the thing, unlike his best friend, Tatsumi is actually quite popular with the females of Kuoh Academy. Yes, his strict attitude is quite a turn off at times, but all in all, he still caught the attention of plenty of females.
And the trio weren't happy about that one bit. Not that Tatsumi realized his popular status.
"Damn, bishounen…"
"He makes it too hard to even hate him…"
"This really isn't fair…"
The trio muttered through their gritted teeth.
"You're seriously an idiot, you know that?"
Tatsumi turned and saw Yoichi had gotten up from his seat and was now standing next to him. "Ah, Yoichi, I didn't notice you."
Tatsumi then looked to the perverted trio then back to Yoichi. He pushed up his glasses, "Yoichi, please don't tell me you're spending time with them."
"Yeah, what about it?" Yoichi raised an eyebrow.
"Listen, it's good that you're socializing, and I'm not saying they're bad people." Tatsumi raised his hands in surrender. "But they're not exactly the best influence either."
Yoichi couldn't help but agree with that, "Trust me, I'm aware. But they're okay. Not like they're hurting anyone by being perverted."
Tatsumi sighed, but he had a smile on his face, "I should have expected that kind of answer from you. You don't really care who you socialize with." He then adjusted his glasses, "Just don't let their lustful nature rub off on you."
Yoichi waved his warning off, "I got it, don't worry."
Tatsumi nodded, satisfied with the answer before turning and walking to the door, "I've still got some work to do. Farewell."
"Later." Yoichi replied. He then turned to the perverted trio who were still weeping silently. Sighing, he started leaving the class as well. 'Forget this, I'll skip class and take a nap.'
Later, After School
TAP
"Your move Yoichi-kun."
"Yeah, gimme a second."
Now currently at the club were Yoichi, Kiba, and Koneko. Rias and Akeno haven't arrived yet for some reason, so to pass the time, Yoichi and Kiba decided to play some chess while Koneko watched at the side while munching on a snack.
Unsurprisingly, the blonde pretty boy was pretty good at this game. Yoichi on the other hand only knew how to play, he's never actually tried to play before. Thinking it over for a few seconds, Yoichi made his move.
TAP
"Alright, your move blondie."
Kiba sweat dropped at the nickname, but didn't say anything and proceeded with his move.
TAP
"Checkmate."
Yoichi stood still in shock for a moment. He looked at the board and blinked once, twice, thrice… then sighed and leaned back into the couch.
"Guess chess just isn't one of my strong points." Yoichi said neutrally.
"You didn't do too bad." Kiba said with a smile before asking, "Is this your first time playing?"
Yoichi nodded, "Yup."
"Then don't worry about it. Chess isn't exactly easy, you'll get better as you go along." Kiba encouraged.
Yoichi waved it off, "Nah, I don't think I'll ever be cut out for this game. I'm no good with strategies."
Kiba seemed surprised at this, "But, you seem to able to think up things quite well in a fight."
"Yeah, thinking up ways to one-up my opponent, I can't think just fine if it's for myself. It's making strategies for others that's the problem." Yoichi replied.
"I don't quite follow." Kiba said.
"Ok, here's the thing. In chess, you have to decide where your pieces go so it's like making a strategy for a group and you're the leader." Yoichi explained. "What I'm tryin' to say here's that I'm not cut out for the leadership role. I can only think for myself."
"Ah, I see." Kiba nodded in understanding.
There was then silence. A very, very, awkward silence.
Deciding to break it, Yoichi asked, "So Kiba, about those sacred gears. You got one?"
At his question, Kiba nodded, "Yes, I do. It's called "Sword Birth" in case you were wondering."
"Can you tell me about it?" Yoichi asked.
"I don't see why not. Very well, so–"
Click
Before Kiba could say anything, the door opened and in came Rias and Akeno.
"Sorry for being late, I had some business to handle." Rias said before putting a few documents on her desk. "Anyway, let's begin the club activities. You first Yoichi."
"Yup." Yoichi said as he stood up.
"You'll be going to get a contract again." Rias said and he nodded.
"Ok."
Then followed the usual process. Akeno readied up the teleportation circle and he stepped onto it. He closed his eyes and felt the usual feeling of being teleported.
When the teleportation was done, Yoichi opened up his eyes to take in his surrounding as usual. The place was an apartment again. From the looks of it, the place looked fairly normal. The only thing that really stood out were a few posters of stuffed animals and a girl in a magical girl uniform.
'Ok, I'm guessing it's a girl.' Yoichi thought to himself.
"Oh, you must be the devil-san nyo~."
He suddenly heard a deep, manly voice. He turned and saw…something that would scar him for the rest of his life. In front of him, was a huge bodybuilder…in a magical girl costume, the same one that was on the posters…did I mention the costume was really skimpy?
And Yoichi wasn't one to rag on people's looks, but the guy's face was NOT making the image of this…this…NIGHTMARE FUEL, ANY better! If anything, it was making it even worse. The sight was just truly, disgusting.
"…That's right. So, what can I help you with besides calling a psychologist to help fix…this?" Yoichi said calmly but the sweat at the side of his face indicated his uneasiness.
The dude put his hands together and took a step closer, "Look here Tiny Tim, Mil-tan wants you to turn her into a magical girl nyo~!" even his name…AND DID IT JUST CALL ITSELF A "HER"!?
"…ok seriously, want a psychologist? 'cause you've got some issues." Yoichi replied. He was having a hard time handling this. As cool headed as he is, even he has his limits.
"Please give me fabulous powers!" Mil-tan begged. "I'll let you lick my lollipop."
A vein popped on Yoichi's head, as he said with an irritated smile, "Say that again, and I WILL punch you."
And then…it started crying, "Whaaa! I just wanted to be a fabulous magical girl!"
Yoichi's irritated smile twitched in even more annoyance before he sighed, "Look, I really can't give you any powers. I can't even use magic myself." Mil-tan then cried even louder. "BUT, how about we just talk this over for a bit? That cool?"
It stopped crying, "Perfect! And while we talk, we can paint our nails and gossip!"
"Yeah! And why don't we watch your favorite magical anime while we're at it?!" Yoichi said in a cheerful voice that was dripping with sarcasm.
"Yeah! Let's do it! I've got a copy of magical milky girl!" But apparently Mil-tan didn't get it. It was a long and torturous night that Yoichi probably would've had nightmares about…if not for the things that were about to unfold that night.
While that was going on with Yoichi, Tatsumi had his own business to take care of. After talking it over with Sona, she was reasonable enough to let him go early due to the fact that he really needed to go the store because of the shortage of food supply at home. Of course, he would have to do a little bit of extra work the next day.
Anyway, it was around seven o'clock and he had just finished up his shopping and was now walking home with grocery bags in both his hands. The town was dark, and there was no one around at all, just completely empty streets.
Most people would be afraid to go out this time of night, but Tatsumi's fear to this kind of thing was completely nonexistent. Besides, the stores weren't crowded around this time so bonus.
As he was walking there was absolutely no sound besides his footsteps, the wind, and the occasional shake of the grocery bag.
BANG!
Then he heard a loud crashing sound of metal. He turned and saw that a nearby garbage bin had been knocked over. He would've assumed a cat had knocked it over but he didn't see a cat, nor did he hear any cat shriek.
"–!"
Deciding to just shrug it off, he turned and was about to keep on walking, only to jump in surprise when he saw the figure of a woman up ahead in the shadows. But then he calmed down.
"I'm sorry ma'am. You startled me." He said loudly so the woman could hear him.
There was no response.
Tatsumi took a few steps forward, but the woman was staying absolutely still, "Hello? Ma'am, are you alright?"
Slowly, as he got closer, the woman sight of the woman became clearer…and when he saw the woman more clearly, it horrified him.
The woman…she was dead, there was no light in her eyes, and her body was covered with spider webs that attached to the ground, keeping her dead body standing up. Tatsumi couldn't move when he saw this, he just froze. He was starting to feel a bit of fear.
"Looks like you fell for it~"
"AGH!"
That deep and demonic voice was all he heard before a pair of fangs dug into his shoulder. The venom flowed into his body and after a few seconds, he passed out.
Looking down at his unconscious body was a woman in a white dress, and sun hat that covered up her face that had two giants fangs sticking out of her mouth. And with the sun hat, and the fact her hat was down, no one who even passed by her would be able to see the eight eyes she had, with one of the sockets empty.
Stray devil Vermilia was a proud being. So having to use this pathetic human form just to catch this lowly insect annoyed her. But, she needed to save her strength for the fight that was about to come.
'He's quite delicious. Ha~, if only I could devour him now.' She thought to herself before shaking her head.'No, no, let's get to work.'
Around 9 O'clock At Night
'Damn, that was terrible.' Yoichi thought to himself as he walked back to the club.
He had just gone through an entire DVD of a magical girl anime with that…thing! And needless to say, he wanted to kill himself the whole time. Anyway, he would've gone back using the teleportation circle, but he needed some fresh air at that very moment.
As expected, the roads were completely void of life, and silent. He expected it to be like this the whole way, but,
Bzzz!
His phone started vibrating. He took it out of his pocket to see that he had gotten a message. It was from Tatsumi. He opened up his device and read the message, it said,
Come to the park. It's important.
This made Yoichi confused. One of the reasons was because it was a text. Tatsumi very rarely sends texts, he would usually just call. Not just that, that's not how Tatsumi would write a message. Yoichi's known the guy long enough to know that. He would've written it down in a more lengthen way to sound sophisticated, this one was straight to the point.
With these facts, Yoichi decided to call him. The phone rang for a few minutes before,
[Sorry, the person you are calling, is not answering.]
"What?" It had went to voice mail. Ok, now Yoichi was 100% suspicious. First he texted him and now he wasn't answering? That wasn't right. If it was anyone else, Yoichi would've thought this was just a dumb prank. But this was Tatsumi, he had known the guy for YEARS! And he was NOT the type to do pranks.
Shoving his phone into his pocket, he muttered to himself, "Alright Tatsumi, let's see what's going on."
And so he ran, he didn't know why, but he suddenly felt that he needed to get there ASAP. And luckily for him, the park wasn't too far. It only took about five minutes of running before he made it. When he was at the entrance, he didn't ANY sign of people.
Regardless of this, he ran inside and started looking in all directions. He couldn't see Tatsumi anywhere, and it's not like the park was THAT big. He should be able to see him if we was here.
And then right at the fountain, he saw it. He gulped a lump in his throat. He was hoping with all his heart that he was wrong. He got closer and sure enough, he wasn't. Right on the floor in front of the fountain,
Was Tatsumi's phone…
He knew because it was a flip phone. Tatsumi's the only guy he knows that uses that. He bent down and picked it up. He needed to open it, but he didn't want to. Yoichi knew, he knew that what he was going to see when he opened it was not a pretty going to be pleasant.
Swallowing nervously, he slowly opened the phone, to see a text. It said,
You have four hours to find me before I devour him.
Those words already sent chills down his spine. Yoichi clicked a button, and a picture popped up. His eyes widen.
It was a picture of Tatsumi. His entire body except for his head, was completely wrapped in spider webs. And his mouth was gagged. Several thoughts flooded Yoichi's mind at that moment. Thoughts of what was going to happen to his friend if he didn't find him on time.
"Tch!"
He flipped the phone shut in irritation. He knew exactly who it is. The spider webs told it all. It was Vermilia, the bastard had already decided to make her move again.
And just like that, let the game begin.
Chapter End
And there you go. I got nothing to say except for I apologize for any spelling or grammar errors. I didn't bother to beta read this. Anyone up for being my beta reader O_O Anyway, I guess that's all. PLEASE REVIEW!
I'm gonna go now. See ya.
