Chapter X

Penis Hater

Shido and Yoshino were walking through the streets.

"Thanks for coming with me. Yoshino, what happened to Mitsuru?"

"He stayed at home. Tohka was getting very hungry. He wanted to keep a check on her."

"Yoshino, Yoshinon, we have a serious problem."

"What is it?" Yoshino walked down the stairs.

She walked into the room to see Mitsuru poking a broom at Tohka drooling over the floor, trying to eat him.

"Can you get her anything to eat? Anything at all? She'll probably eat it."

"Oh okay." She ran over to the refrigerator rummaging through the food. Raw meat, vegetables, herbs, condiments. "There's nothing for Tohka to eat, Mitsuru. I guess you're all out of luck." Yoshinon said wryly.

"Find something else! It doesn't even have to be food- get the hell away from me!"

She looked around and locked her eyes locked on with the bread pillow. She grabbed it gave Tohka a soft whack, directing all of her attention towards the pillow."

"Is there still detergent left? I don't want a giant chewed pillow ruining a perfect couch."

"I think so. How long do you think she'll be distracted for."

"I hope it's a long time."

They both shared a chuckle.

"Now I have to ask a serious question that has been bothering me for a while."

"What is it?" Yoshino said anxiously

"What's your age?"

"Ms. Reine said I was around 13-14."

"Well, "14" and I'm taller than everyone and even Shido."

"Well I don't know, can we please not talk about it?"

"Well I'm not talking about your age and appearance, well I kind of am aren't I? I'm just surprised, I remember my dad telling me once that I was probably going to be taller than everyone else since he was an American and my mom was a taller-than-average Japanese."

"Your parents seem cool. What happened to them."

"They're missing."

"Missing."

"Yeah, just-" With a snap of his fingers "-gone, like that." He seemed calm with what he just said.

"I'm so sorry. What happened"

"It's not that bad. I really don't know, it's like they just left all of a sudden without a trace. I hope they're doing good."

There was a pause as they sat on the couch.

"We forgot about Tohka." Mitsuru looked beside him. Tohka still chewed on her bread pillow. They both gave a sigh.

Suddenly, people running away. The familiar blaring of the spacialquake alarm echoed throughout the streets. Shido immediately took action. Boarding the Fraxinus, he took off towards the next Spirit, Diva.

He found himself in an empty stage. The spirit stood on the platform high above singing. Shido would be coming soon, it was in his nature to. But while Mitsuru was waiting, the song of the spirit was calming. It wasn't like his type of music, which was no music at all but it still felt quite nice to his ears. Then, an absurd idea popped up in his head. "Mitsuru. Is that you?" He turned around to find Shido, staring up at Diva. "What is he doing here? Didn't he stay at home with the rest?" Kotori spoke through the speaker in Shido's ear. "Of course I did...until the alarm started blaring. Then I went around the city looking for the spirit then found her here.

"Aren't you supposed to keep the others safe?"

A giant red spider-like monster stood over them. The monster had an insect-like mouth with an internal mouth within, a spiky body, and a crest like head. It moved on six legs and made strange screeching noises as it moved around the kitchen's house.

The spirits, not having their powers cowered in fear behind the couch.

"What's it doing?" Yuzuru asked

"Please don't hurt us. Please don't hurt us. Please don't hurt us." Yoshino chanted over again."

"Mitsuru should have told us before he left. I hope Shido I alright."

"Agree: we don't know if it is hostile or not. We must stay on high alert and not aggravate the beast."

"How do we do that, Yuzuru?"

"We show no fear and hostility to it."

She sat on the couch and turned on the TV. That caught the thing's attention. It walked closer, hung over Yuzuru. She held her stoic expression and was stiff as a rock. The creature walked away.

"I decided to come here and watch, you do your thing. I get bored really fast with those girls, so why not come with you?"

A groan escaped from Kotori's mouth. "Anyways Shido, move in closer, we'll help you out with what to say. Okay, the choices just popped up. Selections everyone."

1. You are so beautiful, I can't take my eyes off of you. 4 votes.

2. Your _ is so beautiful. 2 votes.

3. The view from below was the best! 1 vote.

Shido made his way up the stage, ready to greet the spirit. When he stepped into the light though, something clearly had gone wrong. Aboard the Fraxinus, all gauges of Diva's mood quickly plummeted. "Wait, what?

He didn't even get to talk yet. What's going on?" The Fraxinus crew went into a panic.

Then an ear piercing scream escaped her mouth, sending Shido over the edge of the stage. Luckily, Shido managed to hold onto the ledge before he fell plummeted off.

"Shido? Are you alright? I'm coming up there!"

"Well, this is rather unexpected. Why haven't you fallen down yet? Why aren't you dead?" Her tone was now very different. Very...angry. "Disappear from this stage, this world, and this confluence of time and space. Do it as soon a possible, you wretched plebeian."

Footsteps slowly came from behind. Out of the dark, appeared the young boy. "Can you hold for a little, Shido? Yeah?"

"Another plebeian shows his hideous face."

"Shut up. We know God doesn't love you, but you don't have to be an asshole."

"Mitsuru, that was going a little too far. Please, we don't have to fight."

"Shut up you-."

She was cut off

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. I'm not here to fight, but I an not a sponge for this brat's insults."

"Who are you calling a brat? You trash."

"You, trash."

"But that isn't equal, Mitsuru."

"Of course it is, her annoying voice, face, attitude, everything about her balances out the insults."

"This isn't science class. Now can you help me up?"

"Oh, I'm sorry."

Mitsuru started walking over when a loud explosion blasted off the roof of the stage.

"The Anti-Spirit Team. What's your obsession with scientifically unexplainable girls." He noticed that some of the soldiers wore different suits, possibly a special division.

Looking up, Diva was delighted.

"Oh wow. Cool. Their armor is très chic. Talk about perfect. It was just the audience I was looking for." The spirit and the AST danced around in the sky like fireworks. Their attacks were harmless towards the spirit.

"Here, grab on. I'll pull you up."

Mitsuru pulled Shido back onto the stage.

The area around started to glow as they were engulfed in a golden light.

Then, they both found themselves a lab-like area, but not before Mitsuru left behind another pet of his. This time it was a person, in blue robes and a beak mask.

"Is that another spirit?" The AST was surprised at the robed person's appearance. The person put out his hand a giant glyph appeared in front of him. Coming out of the golden glyph, a giant long phantasm dragon.

"Can you explain to me where we are, Shido?" Mitsuru looked around.

"I forgot, you've never been here before. We're inside the Ratatoskr. They must have brought us back here."

"Wait, the giant airship? Up in the sky?"

"Uhhhh, yeah," Shido said.

"Well, that's nice. Futuristic technology, humans with magical superpowers, weird girls flying around everywhere. Any sci-fi fan's fantasy."

They walked around for a bit until they found themselves in the main room. Up above was Kotori, and Kanazuki while the rest of the crew lined the edges of the room. "Well look who's here," Kotori smugly replied

"How could you have failed so bad, and Mitsuru, why didn't you stay back?"

"It was boring. Don't you know how they act? It drives me crazy staying there."

"Well Shido, explain to us how you messed up so badly."

"I don't know Kotori. One second she also calm and nice, and the next, she hates my guts."

"Probably has an extreme case of misandry."

"Misandry?" Kotori and Shido asked.

"Hate towards males."

"How do you know?"

"I mean, she was instantly angered when she saw him and called him a pleb, without any prior knowledge about him, which probably means that she dislikes a certain group that Shido is related to, men."

"Well, if that's the case. How do I get her to like me."

"We don't know just yet, but if that's the case, we're going to have to deviate from the normal tactics."

"Okay then. It's getting late." He looked at Shido's phone.

"Hey! How'd you get that? Give it back!" Shido struggled to get his phone back.

"What time is it?" Kotori asked.

"9:47 P.M."

"OH NO! I'm late for my bath."

"Well then, we have to get home."

When both Shido and Mitsuru walked out, Shido asked, "So Mitsuru, can you explain to me. Who was that guy?"

"What guy?"

"You know, Mitsuru. The guy in the blue robes, and also the dragons, what about them." Shido turned serious, staring at Mitsuru

Mitsuru thought about it for a while.

"It's sort of a bold assumption, but I have some good and not so good evidence that I do. The things I summon could be dead."

"What's the evidence for that?"

"I met Emperor Hirohito."

"Emperor Hirohito? The same Emperor Hirohito during World War Two?"

"Mhm, he didn't talk though, so that was a bummer."

"How'd you find him?"

"I don't really know. The room around just turns pitch black and I'm forced to wander around aimlessly meeting some, I assume, once alive people on the way in the form of spooky ghosts."

"So are you telling me, the giant dragons you summoned, were once real."

"Probably, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever, but probably, but they could also have come from a different universe."

"WHAT?" Shido almost tripped from the absurdity of the answer.

"Yeah, I know, seem very, very, very far fetched, but trust me, the things you see I there probably come from a different universe. Any other questions?"

"Actually yeah?" He said scratching his head, with an anxious tone."

"Okay? Ask away."

"How'd you attend high school?"

"Grade skipping."

"But how did you even enroll in school. I mean, normally Reine, Fraxinus's Head Analyst, would help deal with that, but you got into the school without any help at all."

"Oh, yeah I kind of lied."

"What do you mean?"

"So the disembodied voice told me to enroll Raizen High School to meet you, and to do that he told me, to use my power to fake having parents."

"You can't just do that!"

"I asked him if there was another option, but he said no. So, welp."

He gave an exaggerated shrug.

Mitsuru was sitting at his desk, reading a strange autobiography (It was Mein Kampf by the way.) before again, his world around him turned pitch black.

"Mitsuru dinner is-, Mitsuru." Tohka and Yoshino opened the door.

He was nowhere to be seen

"Are you purposefully bringing me back here, or is this random?"

"OH! Hey there. What'd you say?"

"Is this random, or are you bringing me here on purpose? And I don't remember you talking like that, at all."

"Remember what? This is like the second time we talked."

"Second time? More like the 50th. We've been talking back and forth for like 2 years."

"Okay, I have no idea what you're saying. I'm pretty sure this is our second time."

"Okay, clearly you aren't him. Who are you?"

"Him? What him? Wait, does he tell you to not 'lose yourself'?"

"How do you know that?"

"This isn't good. Be careful who you trust."

Mitsuru opened his eyes. He was back at his desk. 3:26 A.M.

"Why are we here today? It's Saturday."

Shido tiredly explained, "Well for the Ten-oh Festival, we're performing, so we have to do rehearsals today."

Then from the door walked in a group of students, in blue fancy school girls dresses.

"In walks the perfect angel," Kano said sarcastically.

"Good morning everyone. Thank you very much for coming today."

The screen showed Diva, standing on the stage, singing to a crowd.

Kannazuki said, "This is footage, a friend of mine managed to get from one of her secret performances."

"Never heard of her," Mitsuru said.

"Well duh, when she appeared you were rolling in your grave." Kotori sucked on her lollipop.

"So she is Diva."

"Diva?"

"Diva is a codename used to identify Miku, like Princess of Tohka, and Hermit of Yoshino," Shido said.

"Let me guess I have one too?"

"Actually, we really don't have a good one yet, there's just too much that we still don't know about you, like if you can even be classified as a spirit."

"Who is she?"

"I've heard her name before, let me see. A pop artist, that debuted half a year ago, having some of her songs on TV. Her voice has been dubbed, drugs for the ears."

"I am not going to lie, her song wasn't half bad."

"You like that stuff?" Shido asked.

"Not really, most of the songs I like are kind of offensive, not pop."

Kannazuki spoke up, "According to the internet, she dislikes men and makes her concerts available only for women."

"What did I tell you? Misandrist."

"Rumors even say that she even took some fans home, if you catch my drift." One of the crew members spoke up.

"So she's..."

"A lesbian, or kidnapper, I'm taking what that guy said literally," Mitsuru asked.

"Well, how do I deal with her?!"

"Remember that plan?"

The following characters

- Lunatic Cultist

-Destroyah Juvenile Form

Belong to Re-logic's Terraria and Toho's Godzilla vs. Destroyah(great movie by the way, totally recommend.)