Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance.

A/N: Sorry for the delay though it won't be the last time. I would like to thank those of you gave suggestions for the fifth team member and for those just follows and/or favors this fic.

Kamito's Team

"So were you able to find out?" Kamito asked.

"We believe we have," Lily said, "we know who using your alias Ren Ashbell."

"So you did found out," Fianna said.

"Yeah, after such extensive investigation, we put the pieces together," Muir said.

"I see…so who is it?" Kamito asked as he narrowed his eyes.

"It's quite shocking really," Muir said, "it's the same one that in a way, freed us from the Instructional School and whose called the Calamity Queen."

Kamito and Fianna were shocked.

"Wait a minute," Kamito said, "are you saying that Rubia Elstein is the one?"

"Yes, there's no doubt," Lily said, "Rubia Elstein, the eldest daughter of the now fallen Elstein family is the one who is collaborating with the Alphas Theocracy and pretending to be Ren Ashbell."

Fianna was surprised and she remembered four years ago when she confronted Rubia after she supposedly went mad which led the trauma she suffered.

"Why is she doing this?" Kamito asked with his eyes narrowed.

"That I'm afraid we don't know," Lily said, "I'm sorry Kamito, we weren't able to find out why."

"I see…" Kamito thought about it and nodded, "you know what, that's okay. At least we know something."

"So Kamito, what do you want us to do?" Fianna asked.

"Well…" Kamito spoke.

Meanwhile, Claire, Rinslet, Carol, and Ellis were watching Kamito and the girls on his team continuing with their discussion.

"I wonder what they're talking about," Rinslet said.

"Who knows," Claire said, "I wish I knew what they're speaking of."

"It's too bad Claire," Rinslet said with a shrug.

"Huh, what is?" Claire responded glaring at Rinslet.

"That Kamito rejected teaming up with you."

Claire flinched and got upset and then she shook her head.

"I won't give up," Claire declared.

"Huh?" Rinslet spoke looking at Claire.

"I won't give up, I have to get him to team up with me."

"He already has three others with him and he doesn't look like he'll abandon them," Rinslet pointed out.

"Then I just have to be the fifth member," Claire pointed out.

"How are you going to do that when Kamito just said that he doesn't want to team up with you?" Rinslet asked raising an eyebrow.

Claire glared at Rinslet again, "You seem to be asking a lot of questions…more so than usual."

"Hmph, am I?" Rinslet replied with a shrug again.

Claire and Rinslet saw Kamito and his teammates returning. Claire narrowed her eyes and made a beeline for Kamito.

"Kamito, listen—" Claire started.

"No," Kamito said suddenly.

Claire was surprised, "Wait, you don't even know what I was going to say!"

"You were going to point out that they are only four in my team and that you were going to suggest that you be the fifth member on the team," Kamito said.

Claire flinched and frowned, "Okay you're right, but is your answer still no?"

"Correct," Kamito said with nod.

"Why though?"

"I told you why Claire. I don't want to team up with you."

"But why not?" Claire clenched her teeth in frustration, "I get it…it's all because I'm the Calamity Queen's—"

"Your sister has nothing to do with it," Kamito interjected again, "I'm not turning you down just because your sister's actions."

"Oh really?" Claire asked upset, "You're lying!"

"It's not a lie," Kamito simply said, "Anyway, let's finish this up."

"Kamito!" Claire spoke loudly.

"Claire, no matter how many times you ask or what you say, I as well as my teammates won't team with you."

"You better off just giving up," Muir said with her hand behind her head, "once Onii-sama is set on something, he never changes his mind on it."

Claire was shaking with anger and was upset while Ellis looked at Claire as she sighed and shook her head and Rinslet and Carol looked at Claire with concern. Kamito directed Claire and Rinslet as they continued to fix Kamito's roof as Fianna, Lily, Muir, Est, and Carol watched and Ellis went on her way saying that had things she needed to take care and Kamito and his teammates said their goodbyes to the Slyphid Knight Captain.

Five Hours Later

In the Areishia Dormitories, Claire was walking back to her room with frown. Fianna was following her making their way to Claire's room since it was also going to be Fianna's room as well. They arrived at the door that led to the room.

"This is it," Claire said a bit nervously.

"Okay, shall we?" Fianna asked.

"Um, s-sure," Claire responded.

Claire opened the door and she and Fianna entered the room. When they went in, Fianna was shocked and saw that the place was messy.

"Um Claire?" Fianna spoke, "Didn't say that you cleaned up the place two days ago."

"Uh, well yeah," Claire said shifting her eyes.

"And yet it's a mess again?" Fianna asked confused.

"I um, got a bit distracted and next thing I know…" Claire shrugged.

Fianna sighed and spoke quietly, "Maybe it's the result of being by yourself, still though…"

"Did you say something?" Claire asked as she glanced over to Fianna.

"Nothing important," Fianna said.

Fianna started walking around a bit and then she accidently knocked down a pile of books which made her look over to the books.

"What's this?" Fianna said as she went to pick up the books she knocked down.

Claire just saw and suddenly panicked as she rushed and snatched the books before Fianna could even see them and Fianna looked at Claire confused. Claire just took the books and went to her side while Fianna just looked on and sighed and went to her luggage and started unpacking. Claire was staring at Fianna who was putting her things in order. Fianna stopped for a moment and sighed.

"You've been staring at me for a while," Fianna said, surprising Claire, "Do you want to ask me something? Or is there something you need?"

Fianna turned and glanced at Claire who was still surprised that Fianna noticed.

"D-Did you…?" Claire asked.

"Yes, I noticed," Fianna responded.

Claire sleeplessly looked away, "It's nothing really…"

Fianna just stared at Claire and Fianna had already known but decided not to press on it for now.

"Okay, if you say so," Fianna said as she went back to her things.

"Nothing that I want from you anyway," Claire said in her head and then she went back and glanced at Fianna again and then she gradually looked at Fianna's chest and it got her irritated, "I bet that's the reason Kamito teamed up with her…he refuses to team up with but he has no problem teaming up with someone with those huge lumps of fat. Kamito, that pervert."

"Will you stop staring at my chest?" Fianna asked annoyed.

"Huh?" Claire spoke.

Claire was out of her train of thought and saw that Fianna was covering her chest and glaring at Claire.

"U-Uh…" Claire spoke as she berated herself for not realizing that she was staring.

"Why are you staring at my chest like that?" Fianna asked, "You pervert."

Claire was stunned and couldn't was shaking at what she was just called.

"D-Did you call me a pervert?" Claire asked.

"You heard me," Fianna replied, "what possible reason for you to stare at my chest like that? At least don't be so obvious about it."

"I'm not a pervert!" Claire said defensively, "If anything, Kamito is the pervert."

"Excuse me?" Fianna responded, "Why are you bringing up Kamito and why are you referring to him as a pervert?"

"That's because he is," Claire responded with a bit of a huff, "the only reason he's teaming up with you is because of your huge chest melons," Claire pointed at Fianna's chest, "He refuses to team up with me but he has no problem teaming up with you," Claire huffed as she folded her arms, "it's clear why. Kamito is a pervert that likes big boobs and quite frankly, I shouldn't be surprised…after all, Kamito is a typical male and all males are the same, they're perverts that fawn over the bodies of females and Kamito is just a rude heartless guy who just doesn't understand how I feel and takes too much pleasure in upsetting me."

"Shut the hell up," Fianna said.

"What?" Claire responded surprised.

"I said, shut the hell up," Fianna said angrily, "you don't know a damn thing about Kamito. I'm not going to just stand by and let you get away with badmouthing my precious Kamito and all because your pride took a hit and you can't get what you want."

"Y-You…" Claire responded.

"It's that kind of idiocy of yours and your arrogance that always get you in trouble," Fianna continued, "you just go and say whatever and do whatever you want and you don't bother to think about the consequences of your actions. It's really little wonder why Kamito wants nothing to do with you and you actually are foolish enough to believe that you and Kamito alone can win the Blade Dance?" Fianna shook her head, "Kamito is strong and very skilled, no doubt about it but he never lets it go to his head and he knows that are things he can't do alone," Fianna pointed at Claire with a glare, "you Claire Rouge delude yourself in thinking that you're strong but you have been proven time and time again that you're not as good as you think you are. You're always looking for some sort of shortcut to gain more power instead of concentrating on making yourself and your contracted spirit get stronger and better," Fianna scoffed as she was disgusted with Claire, "and to think you had the audacity to try to force Kamito to be your…contracted spirit. You tried to force Kamito to be your contacted spirit for your stupid and petty reasons."

"You don't understand anything and how could you possibly know what's going on," Claire reacted angrily.

"Kamito tells me everything that goes on with the letters he sends me," Fianna said, "you are quite disgusting trying to objectify Kamito, another human being. Yet, you have the nerve to act upset that Kamito won't team up with you," Fianna crossed her arms, "quite frankly, I'm glad Kamito turned you down. The last thing we need is spoiled selfish brat dragging the team down."

"That's enough!" Claire demanded angrily, "Don't say anymore Lost Queen!" Claire formed a flame on her hand, "Unless you want me to burn you into cinders!"

"Typical," Fianna scoffed as she was unfazed by Claire's threat, "using violence to solve your problems, just like Kamito says you do. If you really want to fight me then I have no problems taking you on. However, I won't be goaded in fighting you here within the campus. I'm willing to fight you in the Astral Zone. But I want you to know this Claire, Kamito helped me get stronger so you would be wise not to underestimate me like you did with Kamito."

Claire clenched her teeth in frustration as she was reminded her lost to Kamito in the Astral Zone and she deactivated her flame.

"Forget it," Claire declared, "there's no point. I'm going to sleep but you," Claire pointed at Fianna angrily, "don't even talk to me anymore!"

"Hmph gladly," Fianna replied, "you make sure you do the same and don't bother me. In fact, don't bother Kamito and don't bother Lily and Muir as well. You just stay out of our way because no matter what, Kamito won't change his mind to let you join our team. You're too much of a liability anyway."

"L-Liability?" Claire responded shocked and insulted.

"Hmph," Fianna responded as she went to the other side of the room.

Claire was fuming and felt red as she clenched her teeth and her fists. Meanwhile elsewhere in the dormitory, Lily and Muir were shown to their new room by Ellis.

"This is where you two will stay," Ellis said

Lily and Muir frowned because both of them wanted to stay at a certain place with a certain someone.

"Why can't we stay with Onii-sama?" Muir asked.

"Yes, why can't we stay with Kamito?" Lily asked.

Ellis sighed, "It's the headmistress's orders, that's why."

"You know what this is," Muir said as she was annoyed, "this is that stupid witch interfering."

"S-Stupid witch?" Ellis spoke as she was offended what Muir referred to Greyworth and she glared at Kamito's sister, "Listen, just because you're upset at the arraignments doesn't mean you can just insult Headmistress Greyworth."

"Hmph, I don't care," Muir responded, "I want to stay with Onii-sama," Muir turned to Lily, "You feel the same, don't you Lily?"

"Correct," Lily said with a nod.

"See?" Muir said turning to Ellis.

Ellis placed her hand on her forehead and was annoyed.

Kamito's Residence

Kamito was on his bed looking up at the roof that was finally fixed.

"I have Fianna, Muir, and Lily," Kamito said, "there's four of us which means that we need one more person," Kamito started thinking about Restia and wondered about her, "Restia, I wonder what you're doing now."

Flashback: Greyworth's Office

"Yes and you will enter and that's because only you who can beat the strongest Blade Dancer," Greyworth explained.

"What?" Kamito responded and then he began to realize and couldn't believe it, "Wait a minute, you can't mean..."

"That's right, she has announced her intent to participate, the strongest Blade Dancer, Ren Ashbell…also she's bringing a dark female spirit."

Kamito's eyes widened at the mention at that name.

Another Flashback

"It's quite shocking really," Muir said, "it's the same one that in a way, freed us from the Instructional School and whose called the Calamity Queen."

Kamito and Fianna were shocked.

"Wait a minute," Kamito said, "are you saying that Rubia Elstein is the one?"

"Yes, there's no doubt," Lily said, "Rubia Elstein, the eldest daughter of the now fallen Elstein family is the one who is collaborating with the Alphas Theocracy and pretending to be Ren Ashbell."

"Why is she doing this?" Kamito asked with his eyes narrowed.

"That I'm afraid we don't know," Lily said, "I'm sorry Kamito, we weren't able to find out why."

Flashback End

"If all the connections are correct, then the question is why?" Kamito asked himself, "Why is Restia working with Rubia Elstein who is pretending to be Ren Ashbell?" Kamito sighed as he was frustrated, "Damn, I don't know what the hell is going on. Restia, just what is it you're trying to do?"

Flashback

"Me?" Restia asked, "I'm just trying to bring out the real you."

"The real me?" Kamito responded confused.

"That's right," Restia said.

Flashback End

"The real me, huh?" Kamito said, "It should be obvious to me what Restia is referring to," Kamito frowned, "but still though…"

"Kamito," Est spoke as she placed her hand on Kamito's check.

Kamito looked over and saw his current contracted spirit.

"Est…" Kamito said.

Kamito rubbed Kamito's cheek, "You have a lot going on in your mind. I want to do what I can to help you relax."

"Est," Kamito said and then he smiled and gently placed his hand over Est's hand, "thank you Est. You just being by my side right now does help me relax."

Est responded by hugging Kamito and Kamito was happy with the gesture and hugged back and the two felt the warmness of each other.

Flashback: Four years ago

Fianna was facing Rubia as the flames surrounded the both of them at the shrine. Fianna had just summoned her contracted spirit, Georgios and ordered her spirit to charge towards Rubia. Rubia however countered with a single sword strike and eliminated Georgios. It shocked Fianna as her spirit seal shattered which led her to be traumatized. Fianna fell on the floor and looked on horrified as Rubia looked back at Fianna with cold eyes.

"Why?" Fianna asked as she was shaking, "Why are you doing this? I don't understand, how can you do this?"

"Of course you don't understand," Rubia replied, "and even if I was to tell you, you still wouldn't understand," Rubia raised the sword in the air, "therefore I see no reason to waste my breath any further with you."

Flashback End

Fianna gasped as she opened her eyes and she panted. She looked up seeing the roof and remembered her surroundings. Fianna sat up from her bed and placed her hand on her face.

"That same dream again," Fianna said frustrated, "thinking about the past," Fianna frowned and had cold and vengeful eyes as she thought about what happened four years ago, "Rubia Elstein, I'll make you pay for what you did to me. One way or the other, I will find the reason for your actions and it looks I'll get my chance at the Blade Dance. We have to enter and win"

Fianna looked over and saw Claire sleeping in her bed with her contracted spirit, Scarlet sleeping besides her. Fianna looked out of the window and saw that the sun was rising and then quietly got out of her bed.

"I'll just pay a visit," Fianna said quietly, "I'm sure Kamito will be happy."

Fianna quietly chuckled as she blushed and she was being quiet moving around the room.

Academy Town

Restia is sitting on the roof of one of the building and looking up the sky and taking in the fresh air.

"Bright relaxing day," Restia said happily, "I wonder if Kamito is taking in the same relaxing air right now."

"You seem to too relax," A female voice said.

Restia just looked straight and knew exactly who it was.

"I didn't expect to actually come here Cardinal," Restia said, "you're quite bold," Restia sported a Cheshire-like smile, "or maybe I say…Calamity Queen."

Restia turned around and standing behind her was someone wearing her cloak with a hood covering her head. The person took her hood off and revealed herself to be a young woman with red long hair and red eyes. It was Rubia Elstein, the one known as the Calamity Queen who was also Claire's older sister.

"We need to talk Dark Spirit," Rubia said, "now."

"Yes I know we do," Restia said with a serious expression, "after all, it seems that Muir and Lily were able to get to Kamito. They've probably already informed Kamito about you."

"Well that's not really a concern for me," Rubia said, "however…"

"Yes?" Restia said.

"Not here," Rubia said, "let's go somewhere more private. We need to discuss the next phase," Rubia paused a bit, "we can't afford any mistake because…" Rubia looked up in the sky, "everything we're doing for the sake of the world," Rubia then looked at Restia, "and we need Kamito Kazehaya for the sake of our goal."

Restia was silent a bit then gave her replied.

"Yes…I know," Restia said.

Areishia Spirit Academy

Claire was in her dorm room just waking up along with Scarlet. Claire looked and saw that Fianna was not in the room.

"So she's not here," Claire said.

Claire frowned as she remembered what had happened last night and she shook her head. There was a sudden knock on the door.

"Claire Rouge, are you up?" The voice of Ellis said from the other side of the door, "It's time for you to begin."

Claire groaned in annoyance as it was the first day of what she considered to be hell.

"Claire Rouge, answer!" Ellis said as she continued to knock on the door.

"Grr, alright, alright!" Claire said, "I'm up. Come in."

The door opened and Ellis came in the room.

"It's time Claire Rouge," Ellis said.

"Are you up Claire Rouge?" Rinslet said as she appeared behind Ellis.

"I'm up Rinslet Laurenfrost," Claire replied.

"Hurry and get dressed," Ellis said, "We have quite a busy day."

Claire clenched her fist.

"If only I didn't lose to Kamito…if only he would team up with me…" Claire spoke in her head, "I won't give up. I have to get in his team…even if it means…"

Astral Zero

In the realm of spirits, Kamito, Est, Lily, Muir, and Fianna gathered and were preparing themselves.

"We have a week until the Team Rank Battle begins here," Kamito said, "one of the issues we have is that we still don't have a fifth member yet."

"Hmm, is it really necessary?" Muir asked folding her arms, "the four of us are plenty strong as well. Are you sure we can't make get them to make an exception with us?"

"It is certain that we can't," Lily said, "I doubt that they'll just let it pass. It would be best to get a fifth member."

"Hmm, but still who should we get?" Muir asked, "The only one who may seem useful is that knight that Onii-sama teamed up before."

"Yes, Ellis Farhrengart," Fianna said.

"Well, I wouldn't mind having Ellis but she's already in a team with Reisha and Rakka and it wouldn't be right to ask her to leave them," Kamito said.

"Yes, you're correct Kamito," Lily said with a nod.

"I suppose," Muir said with a shrug, "I bet it just make things interesting for all of us if we were able to have her."

Fianna giggled a bit.

"Anyway, let's go ahead and get started," Kamito said, "first let's start with some sparring."

"In that case," Fianna said, "Kamito, would you mind sparring with me?"

Kamito just looked at Fianna and nodded with a smile.

"Sure, I'd be glad to," Kamito responded.

"I guess the two of us will sit back and watch," Lily said.

"Okay then," Muir said.

Muir and Lily watched on as Kamito and Fianna faced each other. Fianna brought out her right hand and her spirit seal glowed.

"By the contract of the old blood, become the sword that protects me, come forth and do my bidding!" Fianna chanted.

Fianna's Elemental Waffe appeared in her hand and it took the form of finely crafted rapier and it added for Fianna to wear a tiara and a veil to wear as well. Kamito looked on and was pleased with what he saw.

"To think that the incident with Rubia Elstein caused Fianna to suffer mental scarring," Kamito said in his head smiling, "it's good that she was able to gradually overcome it. I'm so glad I was able to help to her," Kamito then looked over to Est, "Est, we shall begin."

"Ready anytime you are Kamito," Est responded with a nod.

Kamito smiled and brought out his right hand and his spirit seal glowed.

"Solemn queen of steel, holy sword that destroys demons, become my iron blade and give me power!" Kamito chanted.

Est transformed to the Demon Slaying Sword and Kamito held her in his right hand.

"Ready Fianna?" Kamito asked.

"Whenever you are Kamito," Fianna replied.

Muir and Lily watched as Kamito and Fianna charged towards each other and clashed their blades.

Areishia Spirit Academy

In the room that was occupied by the Slyphid Knights, Claire and Rinslet were standing with such disdain as they faced the other knights with Ellis standing next to them. Ellis was explaining to the rest of the knights that Claire and Rinslet would be working with them for the time being. Claire and Rinslet were not the only ones not happy with the arraignment, most of the other knights were not happy about it as well as they were annoyed about having the two known serious troublemakers around them even if the fact that their captain along with Reisha and Rakka were going to keep them close so that they don't start trouble. Rinslet sighed as she felt it was going to be a long day while Claire glared at every single knight with hatred and muttered cinders under her breath. Ellis glanced over to Claire and Rinslet and figured that she was going to do whatever it takes to keep them from acting like troublemakers. Later on, Claire and Rinslet were assisting the Slyphid Knights in their normal tasks with Ellis accompanying them. Various tasks that Claire and Rinslet were doing and there had been instances that some of the other students mocked Claire and Rinslet about how they were forced to work with the knights considering the trouble they were always caused, however those students were admonished by Ellis not because for the sake of Claire and Rinslet but because Ellis considered that behavior unacceptable and unbecoming of daughters of aristocracy and knew they were intentionally provoking them and trying to get them to lose their tempers and Ellis was not going just allow that to happen.

Astral Zero

A five headed dragon was swooping down on Kamito and Kamito was dodging the fast attacks. The five headed dragon was Tiamat, the contracted spirit of Muir who giving her spirit directions. While that was happening, Lily was using her own contracted spirit, Titania which was the form of a Demon Tree, and had it lunge its branches at Fianna who was deflecting them with her rapier. Lily was smiling at she was impressed.

"You certainly got better Fianna," Lily commented.

"Thanks for the compliment," Fianna said with a smile.

"Yes, but I have no intention of losing," Lily said, "do it Titania."

Titania planted its branches on the ground and Fianna was wide eyed as she realized what was going to happen and quickly dodged the branches that sprung up from the ground near her. Meanwhile one of the five heads of Tiamat shot a fiery blast at Kamito and Kamito dodged it by jumping up in the air. Kamito looked and realized that Muir was not in sight.

"Hang on," Kamito said, "where is she?"

Muir was suddenly right behind Kamito in the air and had a dark red double sword in hand. Kamito quickly turned around and blocked the strong attack from his sister and grinning.

"Impressive Muir," Kamito said happily, "you certainly don't miss a beat."

"Thank you Onii-sama," Muir said happily, "let's keep going. I want you to remind me how strong you are."

"That goes for you as well," Kamito replied, "Give it your best shot!"

"Of course," Muir said with excitement, "anything you want, I'll provide!"

"I appreciate it," Kamito replied smiling.

Meanwhile, Fianna was on her knee and was panting but was feeling very good and pleased with how things were going.

"If we do just that during our team rank battles, we're sure to come up at top," Fianna said.

"Yes indeed," Lily said as she held out her hand and formed a short sword.

Lily charged with speed towards Fianna and Fianna smiled as she was able to block the sword attack with her rapier and the two of them clashed their blades.

Areishia Spirit Academy

Greyworth was in her office looking out of her window. The headmistress herself was pleased knowing that Kamito was preparing himself for the Blade Dance and was also pleased that Kamito had his own team already.

"Everything is going as planned," Greyworth said.

There was knock on her door and Greyworth looked behind her.

"Come in," Greyworth said.

The door opened and in came Claire.

"Headmistress Greyworth," Claire said.

"Claire, well this is quite a surprise," Greyworth said as she turned around, "it's quite rare that you would come and see me."

"Um, yes I suppose," Claire said.

"I wonder though, is it alright for you right now?" Greyworth asked, "I know you're supposed to be assisting the Slyphid Knights right now."

Claire flinched and had a groaning expression, "You know about that?"

"Yes, just as I know about some of the things you've been doing recently Claire…trying to form a spirit contract with the Demon Slayer, trying to make Kamito Kazehaya your contracted spirit…"

Claire flinched and looked away.

"Destroying Kamito's roof in your fight with your childhood friend which resulted to a dual between the two of you against Kamito and Ellis, which you lost and resulted in you having to help fix Kamito's roof and now assisting the Sylphid Knights, the very group you have such disdain for. I keep myself informed of what's going on."

"You know what's been happening," Claire said.

"Yes," Greyworth said with a nod.

"Guess I should have known," Claire said, "to answer your first question, I got permission from Ellis to come see you because I wanted to talk to you about something."

"I see," Greyworth said and then she nodded and sat in her desk, "okay, what do you want to talk about?"

"Headmistress, you were Kamito's teacher and employer for some time, right?" Claire spoke.

"That's right," Greyworth said, "those were good times…well, more for me than for Kamito as far as him being my worker."

Greyworth recalled a memory when she had Kamito dressed as a maid and how Kamito was embarrassed and Greyworth thought how cute he was.

"Right…um anyway Headmistress, it's about Kamito," Claire said.

"Oh, what about our male Elementalist?" Greyworth then grinned, "Are you falling for him?"

Claire was shocked and shook her head strongly.

"Absolutely not!" Claire said strongly, "Who would fall for that annoying rude jerk?!"

"Oh, did you come here to complain about him?" Greyworth asked.

"Headmistress," Claire said with her head down, "you spoke to Kamito about my past and my actual name, didn't you?"

Greyworth just looked at Claire and leaned in her seat.

"Yes, yes I did," Greyworth answered.

Claire looked at the headmistress upset, "Why did you do that?"

"Kamito had already looked at you and you reminded him of your sister," Greyworth explained, "he would have figured it out of his own regardless."

"Wait, did Kamito know my sister beforehand?" Claire asked.

"Well…he saw her once," Greyworth said, "four years ago. He doesn't know her personally though."

"Where did he see her back then?" Claire asked.

"Sorry, I can't tell you that," Greyworth said, "if you really want to know, you'll have to ask him yourself."

"I see…" Claire said.

"Tell me Claire, are you determined to team up with Kamito?" Greyworth asked.

Claire flinched and looked at Greyworth surprised.

"You know about that too?" Claire asked.

"Yes I do," Greyworth replied smiling.

"Is there any way you can convince him to team up with me?" Claire asked.

"You know that I can't do that," Greyworth said, "it's not my place."

Claire sighed, "It was worth a shot."

One week later

At the patio of a café, Restia was sitting in a table and staring at the view of the city. She was sitting and waiting for a certain someone to arrive as they were things that she needed to discuss with the individual.

"Sorry to keep you waiting Dark Spirit," A male voice said.

Restia looked over and saw the person she was waiting and it was the dark-skinned red haired boy who observed Kamito a week ago. Restia smiled and motioned the boy to have a seat.

"Jio Inzagi," Restia said, "thank you for coming."

"Right," The boy named Jio replied, "I understand what you require of me is to get the secret information documents regarding the sealed war-class military spirit."

"That's right," Restia said, "the seal in the mining town is surprisingly a difficult problem. It has layers of top-class seals placed on it. It will take months to awaken using the unbinding ceremony alone."

"And what?" Jio responded with a smile, "You can't just take the sealed documents from the academy's library yourself? Hmph, well to be honest, I could care less about what you're trying to accomplish," Jio placed his arms behind his head, "all I care is to prove one thing…and that is that I am the true successor of the Demon King."

Restia just looked at Jio and had her thoughts as she believed that it was amusing, "What a fool…he still deludes himself in thinking that."

Astral Zone

Kamito's team was facing a team of five female students and in between them was Freya was who was going to oversee the battle that was going to take place.

"We'll be starting the team battles," Freya said, "as you are all aware, the result of this team battle will be reflected in your school rankings. Only the top three teams will be able to participate in the Blade Dance two months from now," Freya sighed, "now then, there is something that I'm wondering about," Freya turned to her left, "just what do you think you are doing?"

Kamito and his team and the opposing team looked over to where Freya was looking and they saw Claire who were standing next to a pillar and Freya glaring at the red head.

"Claire Rouge," Freya said, "why are you here?"

"I'm not here to cause trouble if that what you're concern about," Claire said with a confident smile, "I just wanted to see how long they will last," Claire pointed at Kamito and his team, "seeing that they're one person short," Claire waved her finger, "and the fact that a certain male is too stubborn to—"

"Enough," Kamito interrupted, "you're wasting your breath Claire. I already gave you my answer."

"Hey—" Claire reacted to Kamito.

"Listen," Freya interjected, "this whole thing is annoying and right now you Claire, you're being a nuisance," Freya looked over to Kamito and sighed, "Whatever issue you two may have, do it on your own time."

"Why was she looking at me?" Kamito asked in his head annoyed.

"It seems Claire insist on being a nuisance," Lily said glaring at Claire.

"Can I kill her?" Muir asked nonchalantly, "Just so she wouldn't be a nuisance to Onii-sama?"

The other girls were shocked at Muir's question and Kamito reminded his sister not to go that route as it would just be bad for them. Muir willfully gave in to Kamito's demand but gave a warning glare to Claire. Lily glared at Claire as well and Fianna also glared at Claire. Claire herself didn't like the looks she was getting and she was certain that looks that Lily and Muir were giving her were looks of murderous intent as Claire was reminded of the look that Kamito gave back when he first entered the class.

"Well whatever," Freya said and then looked over to Claire, "Claire Rouge, if you want to witness the battle, you can but don't even think of doing anything else. You just stand by and watch, that is all, do you understand?"

"Yes, I understand Freya-sensei," Claire replied.

"Good," Freya said as she pushed up her glasses and turned to the two teams, "the rest of you, it's time for you to begin."

That's it for this chapter. Next chapter: The Team Rank Battles commences and then Kamito is confronted by Jio Inzagi who infiltrates the academy and a fight ensues between the two boys.