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Chapter 14
Days went past for Manami without her getting any progress aside almost completing the list of students and their capabilities, an assignment given by the Chairman which is due the day. Her week is full of take home assignments courtesy of the Octopus and patrolling assignment from the hound. She feels like they are keeping her busy in purpose.
A yawn escaped from her as she made her way to her school early morning after her patrol duties, even Kurumi is obviously exhausted from their daily morning patrols and from keeping up late at night from the homework. At least she's getting some sleep during the days, thought Manami.
She let her mind wander to her previous conversation with Gakushuu.
"She was an actress; she still is but is on Hiatus. Two years ago she was involved in a huge road accident but she miraculously survived. There were witnesses claiming she came out from the scene unscathed, I tried tracking and asking them but they can't seem to remember anything about the accident. I also checked the CCTV footage from the area but even that looks like it was tampered. I did however have something that you might want to see." Gakushuu says as he handed her a very thin file.
"Her real name is Akari Yukimura, she became friends with a boy named Nagisa Shiota but the boy died years before her accident along with his mother. Their house was burned down to the ground, some says it was an accident, some says it was murder and arson but due to lack of evidence and relatives to proceed with the investigation, the case was classified as closed."
"I was able to gather pictures of the boy and his mother, as well as Yukimura and her sister who died during the road accident. All tagged dead but Akari Yukimura, there's also a CCTV footage that I found not tampered. You can see it for yourself; it's on the last page."
She flipped the pages from the bio with a definitely Kayano Kaede with black long hair picture to the bio of Nagisa Shiota and his mother and the reports from the accident and the last picture of the accident. The picture shown when the actual accident took place, it was there, a boy with red hair and a hooded figure beside him with the supposedly dead girl beside him looking at the accident.
Then another figure drawn her attention, in the middle of the accident, there is…
A weight from her shoulders suddenly startled her from her thoughts; she looked up to see the owner of the arm carelessly dangling from her shoulders. Manami mentally grimaced in seeing the red head grinning at her greeting her good morning, she wanted to retort but for some reason but held back at the last second.
"A-ano... Good morning, is there anything I can help you with, Karma?" Being polite to the same person she wanted to strangle is really taking a lot from her.
Karma grinned at her and tightens his hold to the girl practically hugging her to his chest. Her first week in school always involved Karma bugging her all the time and as much as she wanted to retaliate and tell him to back off, it always ends up with her submitting to his whims until Kayano or sometimes Kanzaki or on more rare occasions, Nagisa and Sugino decided to help her out. As if on cue, Kayano came in flying between them hugging her protectively.
"I told you to get your paws away from her" Kayano pouted, the more expression she gave off, the more she is turning into her actress self Haruna Mase in Manami's mind.
It hurts her head thinking about it so she pushed everything to the back of her mind suggesting for them to move forward else they will be late for the first period. She wondered why the two suddenly stiffen.
An all too familiar blonde foreigner stood in front of the class with her chest popping out of her white vest and her skirt too short. Manami sweat dropped at the as she realized why the class are jumpy all of a sudden.
Even Terasaka the Berserker cannot look directly in front. The only few that can actually stand the sight of their communications teacher aside from her is the half incubus Maehara and his full blood cousin Isogai.
Irina's eyes zeroed out on her and she gave a seductive smile. "Well it looks like a new brat joins the fray." Her voice oozing with charm as she leaned on the table showing her chest more which makes the class cringe more, Maehara is still smiling through and through. Okajima the perverted troll looks like he's about to melt with all the redness in his face.
"I can't say new for me though, I thought I will be able to escape from-" Irina's statement got suddenly cut off with a bonk to her head courtesy of the demon commander Karasuma. "You son of a-", She whimpered at the sight of him.
Karasuma gave another deathly glare which made Irina shiver with delight. Jumping back on her feet, she instantly leaned her body against Karasuma's broad figure batting her eyelashes in the process. The hound simply waved off her advances and stepped back making the blonde fall face first to the ground.
"Practical combat training will begin after lunch. Make sure to eat well and perform well in your communications practice today. You will need that in our combat training later." He announced loud and clear. Seeing that all students understood, he made his way out the door but not before giving Irina another hard stare "And you! Learn when to shut your mouth of yours." And with that, he's gone.
"Ne, Bitch-sensei. Aren't you tired of chasing over him? You're powerful right? You can go wherever you want, get all the guys and powers you like. Why him?" The other blonde from her class questioned, obviously worried about the hard blow she dealt not less than five minutes ago.
The blonde teacher simply smiled at them with a dreamy look on her eyes, two hands holding her face while leaning on the desk for support, "I don't even know that answer to that. I can overpower him yes but I won't. My mind and body wanted to, wanting to be free of him and his bounds but there's something binding me to him. Something stronger, that my heart just won't allow me to defy him. You'll know when you finally meet the other end of your red strings." The class started seeing her on a different level until she swooned, "But look! He left me a golden apple, isn't that sweet?" And she's back to being Bitch-sensei again.
Karma sets off as soon as the lunch bell rings to get his strawberry milk from the vending machine, this is not just a simple juice dispenser mind you, the vending machine supplies food and drinks for the gods directly from above. The goods mainly help for them to keep existing on earth without exerting much power; it is strictly for divine consumption though as direct intake by mere mortals may cause death.
If only I could absorb powers from someone else again. He let out an uncharacteristic sigh and walked back to their usual spot during lunch when he noticed a certain raven haired girl missing. He looked back at the school building trying to search for her when he felt a disgustingly familiar aura nearby. The hell are they doing here? He decided to shrug it off instead, grinning as he made his way to Nagisa.
It was combat training when he saw Manami again in her battle uniform which consists of a simple black hoodie vest on top of her white shirt and shorts with tights under much to his chagrin and delight because unlike other girls, she is wearing something decent and very casual.
Kanzaki is adorning a traditional Miko outfit while Kayano is wearing a black dress with red scarf as if she wanted to be found out, this stupid girl. He looked around and saw Hazama in her traditional witch outfit, Hayami on her full huntress armor, Takaoka with her mermaid scales covering body from her chest down to her mid thighs and is that Rio in her fairy clothes. Karma snickered at his class slowly turning into a circus. He looked back to the only person that appealed to him.
The hound entered the fields with some of his pack following behind but what's unusual is the squad following closely. He can hear whispers from the other students as they are not in good terms with the Guardians due to some disputes some time ago, it is the first time though that they went with a five man squad instead of their usual 4 man team.
The familiar strawberry blonde haired boy is now leading the squad to the side of Karasuma's pack. What he noticed is that the Guardian's odd formation, the usual diamond formation is now resembles the 2-1-2 Zone defense formation in Basketball which is not that unusual if the leader is not more on the outside of the zone just a little behind his first two line of defense instead being on the center or back part.
Karasuma scanned his students to make sure that all of them are present despite the slight discomfort from today's visitor. "Today, we will have an actual combat practice with the Guardians. I expect full attention during combats. One person per squad will match with someone from the Guardians, the whole school ground is your battlefield and you can use whatever tactics you wanted to use. Squads are allowed to send instructions, tactics, guidelines but direct interference will not be allowed. All weapons and magic are allowed. Winner will not be declared until the other party surrenders, falls down in defeat or when I say otherwise." He barked out the mechanics of the training.
"We have medics on standby in case the combat get rough and facilitator to ensure there will be no cheating and to stop those who will go beyond the limits" When most students nod their head in acknowledgement, he scanned the area again until his gaze falls to Manami. "You will be joining the fifth squad; I believe you are already well acquainted with them. I will choose who will battle it out, I will give you twenty minutes to think of your tactics and prepare for the combat. Use your time wisely." And with that, students' scrambles and started brainstorming but fifth squad as their leader can be seen observing his bespectacled classmate and the appearance of the Guardian's leader.
Battle scenes for next chapter
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