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Leshrac's POV

Before leaving for school one morning, I found my mother in a clearing in the forest, amongst the soft flowers and purple and red petals she was swaying her hips and dancing side to side, her satyr like body skipping slightly. My mother is very artistic, sketching, painting, and especially dancing, she loves to express herself in various ways.

"Hello dear." She smiled spinning to see my "Heading to school."

"Yes." I nodded.

"What did you think of my latest dance, I think it needs work the flowers didn't see to care for it all that much." She hummed.

"I thought it was beautiful, like always." I said.

"Of course, you did." She reached up and patted my arm "You should join me next time."

"My body is not as nimble as yours mother." I said.

"I suppose but that doesn't mean you can't dance if you want to." She giggled a little, she was young at heart in that way "I could always force you to dance with me you know."

"Please do not." I frowned.

"I'm just joking, but it would be nice to dance with you like when you were young, you should get to school, I won't hold you up, have a lovely day dear." She kissed my hand; it was a bit of a reach for her to kiss my head "Maybe spend more time near that beautiful tree, the one Iruma grew."

"That tree, I wonder where he got the idea." I said "It's visually stark but it serves no purpose, why would a plant grow like that."

"Not everything is about the purpose, sometimes things are beautiful to be beautiful." Mother told me "Yes beauty can be an indicator of danger or poison in a plant, but it can also simply be something to admire. You worry too much about how something works, not enough about how it looks, one of these days it will click and you'll see what your father and I mean."

"I'm just not like you, I don't see things that way." I said.

"I know." She smiled "That's part of what makes you beautiful, but sometimes I worry you're too rigid, now hurry off to school and don't be late."

"Yes." I waved "See you later."

Beauty…form over function, I just don't have that same inspiration as them, if only I could think up something more unique and vivid, like Iruma did.

LATER

I got to school and said the usual hellos and took my seat near the back, I was so tall if I didn't sit at the back I'd block other demon's view, especially the smaller ones like Kerori.

"Iruma-chi!" Clara yelled "We're going to the summit; you should come too!"

"Maybe some other time." He sighed laying his head on the desk.

"Is something wrong?" Asmodeus asked.

"You seem lethargic." I added.

"No, I'm fine." He said as his phone rang "Uhh I have to go."

"Where are you going?!" Clara asked "We'll come too!"

"I must accompany you." Asmodeus added.

"You two are certainly eager." I tapped my finger on my desk,

"Sorry, this is something I gotta do alone." Iruma said running off "I'll be back later!"

Iruma left quickly which only seemed to annoy Clara and depress Azz.

"What's wrong with you two?" I asked "Iruma is capable of doing other things you know."

"The last few days he's been sneaking of somewhere." Azz explained "I'm so worried I can barely sleep!"

"I wanna play with Iruma-chi!" Clara pouted so hard her cheeks puffed up.

"I like Iruma too but well he's allowed to have other hobbies aside from spending time with us." I explained.

"If you're so worried, why don't you just go find him." Sabnock said.

"CHARGE!" Clara cheered barreling out of the room.

"Why are you encouraging them." I sighed a bit as the two ran off. "Maybe I should keep an eye on them."

I stood up and stepped out of the room not far behind the duo.

"You're coming too Leshy?" Clara asked "You wanna play with Iruma-chi too, right?"

"I just want to make sure you don't make a scene somewhere." I told her.

We went into the main school building and soon found Iruma waiting outside the student Council office.

"This is a serious situation." Azz said.

"So unfair that girl is getting to talk to Iruma-chi!" Clara hissed as I held her back by her collar.

"That's the Student Council president, Ameri Azazel." I explained "I've met her before at a few functions my parents went too. She's pleasant enough, but a bit standoffish at times."

"Clearly he's attempting to gain control of the student council." Azz said.

"Right…" I paused "Or they're just being nice to each other."

"Iruma-chi is making such a sacrifice for us!" Clara nearly cried.

I don't get how these two can have such fantastical ideas, it seems so simple to me, like a normal interaction. Perhaps I don't think outside the box enough?

"Perhaps they're on a date." I joked trying to be creative with an idea.

"WHAT?!" Clara yelled "Iruma-chi no!"

"As if Iruma would ever settle for someone like that." Azz yelled.

"Okay, okay." I said nervously.

Guess that wasn't as funny as I thought, here I was thinking I was the one that was too serious.

"Give Iruma-chi back!" Clara burst into the office.

"Clara wait!"

"Apologies for the interruption." Azz and I went in to try and get her back.

"I suppose we'll leave things here for today." Ameri closed her book as Clara clung to Iruma "If you change your mind, I'll wait till we stand at similar positions."

She passed by me and nodded "Hello, nice to see you."

"Likewise." I bowed a bit as she left.

LATER

After picking up Iruma we went to the cafeteria to talk.

"You want to raise your rank?" Asmodeus said as Iruma brought it up.

"Yeah, at least to Rank 2." Iruma said "I thought you might be able to help."

"WAHHH!" the boy started crying "Thank you for having such faith in me! We can start training immediately!"

"First years are assigned a rank at the start of the school year and tested throughout with other chances to raise their rank during them." I said as we walked "We started with the flying class, the next would be…cannonball execution? You'd throw these weapons, well they used to be weapons now their balls, and you try and not get hit while hitting out opponent."

We got to a small field and there was some equipment there.

"You simply pick it up and throw!" I took a loud step and hurled the ball forward leaving a small scuff along the ground.

"I can't throw like that!" Iruma yelled.

"Umm, maybe if you practice?" I shrugged.

AN

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