"You can't skip class again!" Nanami shouted after a rapidly retreating back. "Sword!"

It seemed like this morning was going to be the same as every other one since her neighbours had been replaced by two supernatural battle junkies. She had been waiting by the gate to walk with them to school, and probably help Ios to persuade Sword to attend school against his will, when the aforementioned devil suddenly decided that school was beneath him and that he was better off doing other things with his time. He had managed to get half a block away from their usual route when Nanami noticed him and demanded an explanation.

Not that she really expected to get one that was at all satisfactory, but it was still comforting to see how the devil cringed at the anger in her voice.

"What are you going to do about Souma's test today? You promised to take it!"

"Shut up!" Sword turned to face her with a snarl. "Why should I take that stupid history test when the answers are all wrong?"

Nanami stared at him. "You can't just..."She waved her hands helplessly. "...make up answers and expect the teacher to accept them! Saying 'the great Devil Sword says it's right, so it's right' won't change the fact that they're the wrong answers!"

He snorted and cast a hate-filled gaze in the direction of the school. "I am right, so what's the problem with with pointing it out? Besides, I've got better things to worry about than some stupid test."

Having made his point, Sword turned to distance himself from the route to school. Nanami could feel the situation spiralling out of her control. It was up to her to make sure that Souma's grades wouldn't suffer because of a certain devil that was so blasé about human responsibilities but it wasn't easy to stop him on her own. So with no other alternative, she turned to the only person that she knew would back her up and, more importantly, stand up to Sword.

"Ios, say something!" She grabbed the blonde's arm and glared at Sword's back. "You've got to stop him!"

"Actually, I agree with him" was the calm reply from Ios, but spoken in a rougher voice than she was used to hearing from the angel. "We're better off preparing for an attack from Hell than taking a test that Sword will certainly fail."

"What are you s--..." Nanami stared at the spiked blonde hair and narrowed red eyes in horrified recognition. "Kanna! When did you... no, more importantly, what did you do to Ios?!"

The human smirked and left her side to join Sword. "He's fine, but we're not going to keep wasting time at school."

Sword stared at Kanna in blank amazement before comprehension dawned and a toothy grin spread across the devil's face. "Hey... you're that human! This is great! Let's go before Ios wakes up and spoils everything."

"Hey! Stop!" Nanami shouted after them helplessly, knowing that any chance of getting Sword to obey had vanished with the appearance of Souma's rebellious twin.