Chapter 10: Her Servants, Secrets

"Se...Sebastian?" Olivia asked as she saw the demon approaching her.

Immediately, Claude hopped off of her and the couch, straightened and stepped in front of the other demon. Facing him with a glare, he stood in front of Sebastian, protecting the girl behind him. He glared at the demon angrily. "Don't even dare coming near the master," Claude threatened in a sharp and dangerous voice.

The certain demon with the name Sebastian giggled as his eyes narrowed. His smirk became even more sinister and his irises became thin. The tension in the room was thick. It could be simply cut with a knife. Sebastian stepped closer to Claude. Even though Claude was taller, Sebastian didn't care. "You forget, she is also my master," hissing, Sebastian whispered. Neither one of the demon had made a move yet. The only motion came from Olivia's eyes. She watched the demons with a worried expression. Her eyes flickered in the moment when she expected an attack but nothing happened.
"But as the one who tried to hide the secret from her, you change your mind rather quickly," Sebastian smirked.

Secret? Olivia thought. She blinked before she saw Sebastian raising his hand to Claude's throat. Quickly, she jumped between the demons, stopping them from their intentions. "Stop it!" the young woman yelled, stretching out her arms protectively. "Don't fight again!'' she commanded.

Sebastian's eyes became normal and changed back into their usual color. He smiled and placed his hand on his heart. "Excuse me, my lady," he spoke softly.

"What secret are you talking about?" Olivia asked when she lowered her arms again.

Keeping his mouth shut, Sebastian smirked again. It wasn't his usual charming smile, nor his dangerous and demonic smirk. It was different, his smirk was rather cold in the same time soft. He reached out for the female's face and brushed one of her bangs behind her ear gently. "There is no sense in hiding it, my lady. I will tell you the truth... but are you really prepare to hear it?" he asked her. Hesitating but sure of it, Olivia nodded slightly which let the demon's smirk grew wider. "Very well. I already mentioned the blood-sealed contract a few times. The blood-sealed contract seals the final bond between human and demon. It's the final state. But also this state is divided into three other contracts. You already know the deal with the devil, the Faustian Contract. It binds us to you, in exchange for your soul we will fulfill all your wishes and demands," Sebastian explained, earning a sharp glare, a threat that wasn't verbal from the other demon.

Olivia kept listening carefully. She was already familiar with the first part but the curiosity to hear more about it was to great to ignore it.

"The second state is... in case of a double contract, to choose one of the demons," Sebastian explained further. "Owning two demons isn't possible, so the devils' prey has to decide. Step two of the contract binds predator and prey closer to each other. The demon has to obey without resistance, it's similar to the first part but has some special rules. The most important rule is, as I said before, going to step two of the contract and choose one of your servants," he said.

The young woman frowned. "Okay, you already told me this! That's nothing new and especially no secret!" she snapped with her hands balled into fists.

"But you still don't know the way the contract get sealed completely," Sebastian told her. He leaned his head to the right side, his eyebrows formed a worried and unsure expression. "Unfortunately it can't be changed," the demon said.

"What?" Olivia asked, raising her eyebrow. "How is it..." she didn't even dare asking anymore. The bad feeling in her stomach appeared again, giving her a hint of what would happen.

Claude stepped in front of her, standing next to Sebastian. He laid his hand on his chest in respect. "I'm sincerely to say it but there is no choice for you left."

"The second state of the contract is sealed with a kiss between human and demon," Sebastian added.

There was silence in the room. Dead, serious cold and dangerous silence.

Sebastian and Claude smiled, expecting a bad reaction from the girl. They already saw her eyebrow twitching and her hands how they formed into fists. Tight fists.

Olivia opened her mouth to say something.

"What..."

"...the hell do they think they are?" Olivia growled, hissing between her teeth. "Demons, such perverted pseudo-demons! Not even showing up today! Pah!" She stomped over the campus away from the university building angrily, her hands formed to tight fists. A huge vein popped out of her head and her eyes narrowed. All the students who came in her way, almost ran away from her. "Stupid demons!" she snapped, talking to herself. "Do they really think I would kiss one of them? But kissing both? What a nightmare! Not even in the worst dream!" breathing heavily, the young woman tried to hide her anger. Without success.
"Are they kidding me? How can they say it to me face to face! Urhg...I should stop complaining, it was my fault. Why the hell did I open that stupid book?" Olivia became angry at herself. She stopped walking and her eyes went wide. "The book... if I find it, maybe I will find a way to get out of this chaos," Olivia mumbled. Somehow...I have the feeling...that...

The sound the huge clockwork of the building's tower shook her out of her thoughts. It was quite late and Olivia was on her way home. Thinking about the book, she quickly ran back into the building and dashed upstairs to the hall of the last lesson. On her way she met Mai.

"Oi, Olivia-chan!" Mai waved with her hands. "I thought you wanted to go home. Hey, do you know why our professors didn't appear today?"

Olivia quickly went along the corridor together with Mai. They didn't really talk a lot for the day. But the best and most important topic was why they didn't see her two famous professors today. It was weird and strange. Another professor, who they didn't know, held the lecture today but the students weren't happy. They wanted their professor Faustus and Michaelis again. After Mai and Olivia actually wanted to go home now, a not expected word fell as they walked around the corner and someone greeted them.

"Hello..." a very annoyed and tired voice said.

Mai and Olivia turned to the side. "Hell...aaah!" Mai gasped in shock, seeing her professors in such a bad condition. Claude and Sebastian both had swollen cheeks and blue bruises on them. They looked horrible, just like after a street fight. The Japanese girl with the red hair blushed, in the same time she got nervous. "Oh my god, what happened to you?" she asked Professor Faustus and Professor Michaelis.

Sebastian turned his head to Olivia, glaring at her for a moment. His gaze wandered back to Mai and his mouth turned into a nice, charming smile. Unfortunately, it didn't distract from the injury he had. His swollen cheek let his smile look rather... dare I say it...stupid and his cheek looked even bigger. "Nothing to worry about," he replied. "But I'm sure we will find the person who did this to us and let him suffer," he said, smiling. In the same time, Olivia gulped. She stepped behind Mai, using her as human shield, without Mai noticing it. A dangerous 'I-will-get-you-glare' with a mix of a 'I-will-let-you-suffer-look' hit Olivia's eyes. In her position as human she didn't have a good chance against two angry... I correct myself... very, very, very angry and absolutely pissed demons.
"Oh yes, in the most painful ways possible," Sebastian added quickly, causing Olivia to step back further. "Ah, ladies, I hope our non presence today didn't bother you. We had important things to take care off. But I still hope you will have a nice day" the demon professor said.

Mai blushed. "Oh...wow...yes," she mumbled, dreaming about something. She almost 'danced' through the corridor, heading for her home and leaving the demons and Olivia alone.

"Miss Olivia," Claude said, turning to the young woman.

Olivia jumped back. "I've to go now! See you at home," she yelled and dashed around the corner, hiding herself there. She was trembling, her knees were shaking and she gulped deeply. Heaven help me! I don't want to know what they want to do to me... by the way...Olivia thought, peeking around the corner. Nobody was there. She sighed and sneaked the corridor and quickly rushed upstairs. The floor with the professors' offices. She heard some voices from inside the offices. To her surprise, she heard Claude in Sebastian's office, talking to him.
This is my chance... I know they are hiding something from me...but I have to see what it is, the young woman said to herself. She sneaked to the end of the floor and reached Claude's office. To her luck the door wasn't locked. She quickly opened it, slipped inside, and closed the door again. The office was literally huge with huge bookshelves on the walls. "My whole apartment would fit in this room..." Olivia mumbled as she looked around, jealously.

She searched for something special in the bookshelves, but couldn't find it. She was looking for the book with which she summoned the two demons. Unfortunately, she couldn't find it. It seemed to be... not existent. Just like it vanished or disappeared into the nowhere. Her index finger stroked the spine of the books, she read the titles of every single book in the shelves. Olivia sighed when she realized that her guess wasn't correct.

"Damn it..." she mumbled, turning around. Her eyes went wide as she noticed something with a red cover was behind Claude's desk. It was hidden behind the front board. Olivia was only able to see it through little crack which separated the desk from the ground. She turned her head from side to side, making sure that nobody was watching. The young woman rushed to the other side of the desk, shoved the armchair aside and crawled under the desk. She found something book-like with a red cover between desk and the drawers. "What do we have here?" Olivia asked herself, grabbing it. To her disappointment it was only a folder. But in her curiosity she opened it. Her eyes widened in shock and her rage reached a high level. "What the hell!?" she growled, looking at the sheets inside the folder.

Sheets with drawings. Drawings Claude made in his art class. Bad drawings. Not that they looked horrible or Claude had no skills to draw, but they were bad in a different way. Olivia's eyelid twitched as she saw some pictures, which were showing her, half naked. "That perverted jerk!" Olivia snapped. Her hands balled into fists and she almost ripped the pages into little pieces. She found more pictures. In all kinds of ways of art. Impressionism, sketches, paintings...every picture showed her. "What...does that jer-" she was silenced as she hear the door opening. Olivia pushed herself further under the desk.

"What a trouble..." Claude said.

The demon just entered the room. He walked over to his desk and let himself all into his armchair.

Olivia's heart beat hardly inside her chest. She was in a bad situation. Avoiding to make any noises, she kept quiet and hoped that Claude would go away again. Instead, he filled in some documents. Crap..." Olivia thought in panic. There was no way out. She suppressed a scream and pressed herself further away when Claude moved closer. His legs almost reached her. A sweat drop rolled down the female's face. She peeked up to the demon.

"Miss Olivia. If you wish to talk to me, you should come out," Claude said out of the sudden.

The young woman almost screamed. In her shock she banged her head on the top of the desk, Olivia winced and yelped in pain. With tears in her eyes she peeked out from her hideout, seeing Claude looking at her rather angrily. His face was normal again, without bumps or bruises. She explain it how it happened, she only knew one explanation: he was a demon. Olivia tried to grin, she crawled out, still half of her was under the desk. Claude moved away with his chair, leaving her some space but not too much. "Hi..." Olivia said with her forced smile.

Rather angrily, Claude stared the girl in front of him. Her folded his hands and laid them on his lap. "Is there something you are looking for?" the demon asked.

Olivia shook her head, while holding her hand on her now growing bump. "No..." she replied.

The demon sighed. He bent down while still sitting in his armchair. He had his head at Olivia's level, staring at her. "Do you have an excuse for sitting under my desk?" he asked as he leaned closer. The tip of his nose almost reached Olivia's. "Do I have to force you to answer my question?" he said after a while when the woman didn't reply. Olivia gulped, she ducked as the demon moved closer.

"Professor Faustus?" someone called him.

"Yes?"

"Professor Faustus,"The voice belonged to the secretary. Olivia crawled back under desk as she heard someone knocking in the same time when Claude moved closer with his chair. The secretary entered the room, walking straight towards Professor Claude Faustus. She had no idea of the girl hiding under the desk. The woman, seemingly in her thirties placed some more documents on his desk. "We need some copies and your permissions. Please, fill them in as soon as possible," the woman said, blushing. She smiled as the demon's charming smile met her eyes.

Claude smiled as he took his glasses from his nose. "Of course," he said. "I will do my best. Thank you, you're not a secretary, you are an angel."

Olivia who was hiding herself, grimaced. Oh, my god! And I thought Sebastian was a macho. Claude is even worse... Olivia thought while shaking her head in disbelief. She silently face-palmed her forehead.

"Thank you...P-professor Faustus," the woman almost stumbled over her own feet clumsily. In her dreams, Claude carried her outside but in reality, the secretary almost banged her head on the door because of not paying attention. She danced out of the office, closing the door behind her.

Claude sat in his chair, almost forgetting about Olivia. When she wriggled herself out from her hideaway, the demon turned his head to her. He didn't even think of moving back to let Olivia get some fresh air to breathe. The girl only crawled out of the tiny hideout by placing her arms on Claude's legs and pulling herself out. It took a while until she noticed this strange position. She sat in front of a demon, rather between his legs, holding on them. Gulping, she stared at Claude, who stared back at her. "Anything else to say, Miss Olivia?" he asked her, leaning closer. Olivia couldn't find her voice to speak, the words wouldn't come out of her mouth. She kept it shut and waited. Only a single sweat drop rolled down her face.

"Well..." the young woman started.

"Doing a human's job isn't a s bad as I thought," Sebastian said, walking in without knocking on the door. He saw Claude and Olivia kneeling in front of him. His hand in which he held some documents lowered. "May I ask you what you are doing here?" the demon asked. Anger was hidden in his voice.

Olivia jumped to her feet. "Nothing! It's not what it looks like!" she yelled while waving with her hands in panic. Accidentally, she stumbled and fell in Claude's lap. And immediately she shot up again, bringing some space between her and the demon. "Really! I was only looking for something!" she explained, when she turned to Sebastian.

The demon chuckled. He tipped his index finger on his chin. "Aha, under his desk?" he asked, mockingly.

Olivia face-palmed her head. Her cheeks became bright red in embarrassment. "No! It's not what you're thinking!" she screamed.

"But honestly, a nice idea," Claude added, turning around in his armchair.

"What the..." Olivia snapped. She slapped the demon's head from behind, making him yelp for a second. "Bad demon! Bad, bad demon! Stop thinking such things!" she commanded in a harsh and angry voice.

Sebastian chuckled at Claude, he couldn't resist. Seeing his demonic rival getting slapped or beat was really the best form of entertainment. After teasing Olivia and making her blush in shame. "But the imagination was quite real. I mean, you in his room, master," Sebastian said.

Olivia rolled her eyes in annoyance. "I told you. I didn't do anything!" she said. "Especially not the things you were thinking of!"

"But it was a good chance for you to kiss him," Sebastian said.

"Kiss?"

"Didn't you talk about the kiss? The contracting kiss?" Sebastian asked, shrugging with his shoulders. "That's what we were talking about, wasn't it?"

Olivia sighed. She couldn't help but sighing. The demons really annoyed the cr** out of her. "Oh, you really thought about that stupid kiss? No! I thought you were thinking about... something else," she mumbled. "Anyways, I didn't want to kiss anyone! Especially you two!" the woman snapped. "Forget about it! But when it's only the kiss you were talking ab-"

"I understand," Sebastian interrupted meanly. His grin grew on his lips and turned darker, at the same time in a mocking way. He made a few steps towards Olivia and leaned down to her level. He was way taller than her and always showed it to her. Only to mock her, it was at least a nice entertainment for the demon. His demonic powers and his height helped him to earn some respect from Olivia. Sebastian smirked. "What a naughty girl. Imagining such bad things, ts, ts, ts," the demon said. "People in your age only seem to think about this one thing," he added.

The girl's mouth dropped open. "What! No!" she jumped away from the demon. "I- I- I didn't think... that's disgusting! I would never...ah, forget about it!" Olivia snapped. She was sick of explaining and apologizing and trying to argue. It was no use. She was defenseless against the demons' arguments. She placed her hand on her hip. She slightly turned her head around, glancing at the window and looking outside. "Oh, my demon...guys, look!" Olivia said. She quickly went to the window and stared outside, seeing white flakes falling from the sky.

It was snowing. The snowflakes fell from the sky like feathers. They fell lightly and seemed to be soft like cotton. A thin layer of the flakes covered the ground and the streets. Everything around was hidden in a thin silk-like snow blanket.

It was only beautiful.

Olivia's smile grew wider in joy. "That's amazing," she said. Forgetting about the cold, she watched how Tokyo got covered by small icy crystals. The winter had just begun.

The demons stepped next to Olivia, looking out of the window. In their minds, both secretly compared the white snow with Olivia's souls. Pure, untouched...innocent. It was only a matter of time until they would taint this pure soul. And time sometimes passes quite fast. But there was one thing before they would get her soul. It was much more important for the demons now. Especially in their duties as university professors.

"Miss Olivia," Sebastian said, leaning over Olivia's shoulder. "You will still have to feel the consequences of skipping your lesson. You will have to study for it twice as hard as normal, and repeat your exercises ten times. One mistake means another ten times. You should start with it now if you want to get finished before Christmas," he whispered.

Olivia's smile disappeared within a wink of an eye. "No!" she screamed.

Somehow I had the feeling that the demons knew more secrets than I thought. They were hiding something from me. But honestly, I didn't really care. I became used to have two demons as flatmates and teachers. It wasn't so bad. Even when they try to eat your soul all the time, try to tease and mock you, get on your nerves all the time and all the other things they threaten to do with you... but anyways, the secrets weren't so important for me in this time. But deep inside, I felt that this book would appear again soon.
Only time could tell...

Okay, chapter done.
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