Here's chapter 2.
The rest of the day went as originally planned by Nadia, with her marking coursework for the majority of the day in her office and then proceeding to her assigned class for the last period. World History.
In her class were as follows: The perverted duo, namely Matsuda and Motohama; the two from the kendo club, namely Murayama and Katase; followed by the Church trio of Xenovia, Irina and Asia as well as some others such as Sona and Rias. But she didn't specifically know and/or care about the grade or year they were in, as her World History class was an elective and this was purely voluntary for her students to take.
"Alright, class." Nadia began. "This is a tricky lesson for me as it's about where I was born. My homeland flat out ceased to exist. Here's how and why. This lesson is the fall of Yugoslavia."
This prompted Irina and Sona to raise their hands, in which Nadia let Irina ask her question first.
"What is it called now?" Irina asked.
"Today, it's Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia." Nadia replied. "I was specifically born in the city of Sarajevo, which is today part of Bosnia & Herzegovina. My birth certificate says SR Bosnia and Herzegovina."
Sona then asked her question. "Why this?"
"Good question, Sona. This is a tale of idiocy, errors, poor judgement and the rise of hate that turned ordinary people into monsters." Nadia replied.
"At the start of the period of collapse, it's 1989. Our dear president for life, Tito had died in 1980. Yugoslavia at the time was socialist and fiercely so. But we were not as oppressive as say, Albania or the USSR. People came and went freely, life was pleasant. But after Tito died, a man by the name of Slobodan Milosevic began to spread a virulent message of Serbian nationalism." Nadia began. She then turned to the board and wrote on it.
"1989 was a year of change. In Eastern Europe, democracy came. Berlin tore down the wall, Poland turfed the communists, Czechoslovakia tassled their keys and ousted their old guard, Bulgaria just kind of stopped without major issues. The exceptions to the peace were the USSR, who just faded away later; Yugoslavia, who fell at around the same time; Albania, which went slightly zany later and lost a third of the cash to scams and pyramid schemes; and Romania, where the revolution got very violent." Nadia continued, as the class listened and took down their notes. "1989 was a good year, the last good year for Yugoslavia. Sure, our economy was teetering but surely things wouldn't go bad… they did."
Asia raised her hand. "Miss Kranjic, what happened to your family?"
She looked at Asia and sighed. "Just you wait and see. Speaking of, can any of you tell me what I've written on the board?"
The class looked. She had written '14th (Extraordinary) Congress LCY' on the board. Some of them could read it, but only Nadia knew what it meant. This is how her homeland died.
"This is what killed my homeland. The 14th Congress. It was held in January of 1990 in Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia. This was no ordinary meeting of the Party. Serbian nationalists took almost firm control of the Serbian, Montenegrin, Vojvodinan and Kosovar proposal put forward not by them was rejected. Nobody wanted the nation to fall, but this is the catalyst. The Slovene delegation wanted a more federal arrangement, the Serbs rejected it. The Serbs wanted a 'one man, one vote' rule that the Slovenes objected to. Slovenia walked out, and Croatia threatened to walk if Serbia restarted proceedings. Serbia did, and thus Croatia walked, followed by Bosnia and Macedonia. Thus, independence began to take fold as the only viable future. Communist one-party rule died in SFR Yugoslavia on a Monday at 10:45pm."
Nadia continued on with the lesson, sparing no detail until the time was up. She had only gotten to the beginning of the Siege of Sarajevo when the class ended for the day. And it was kind of a relief, too. She didn't want to have to explain it all to her class about what happened to her. After class, Sona stayed back to ask her a question as she had heard about the incident that morning with her, Zeoticus and Riser.
"Miss Kranjic, I know what happened earlier." Sona said, moving to stand in front of the Bosniak teacher.
"Can anyone hear us? Good. Yeah, so I went in there and was nearly ready to beat up the prick. So what? I figured he'd choose his family over his word and so I went off." Nadia replied, nonchalantly.
"The Phenex family is very powerful, one of the 72 pillars." Sona countered. "What you did was wrong, even if you meant well."
"What I wanted to do was use cheap scissors and holy water to cut off Riser's special riser." Nadia proclaimed. "Blame Rias for him still having it. But he deeply irritated me by saying the purity spiel. I've heard that before, and never again. Purity of class, or social order means nothing to me. I don't care what class you are… do the work, get the reward."
Sona nodded. She and Nadia had similar views on that, so she looked forward to any future interactions with Nadia.
"And I don't care what you are…" Nadia continued. "You can be the most powerful of our kind and it doesn't matter to me. If you're awful to me then you'll get my wrath. Treat me well, you get treated well."
Sona blushed heavily and looked down at the ground, mumbling something.
"What was that?" asked Nadia.
"The most powerful... that… would be my older sister." Sona replied, leaving the room quickly out of embarrassment.
Once she'd packed her stuff up to head home, Nadia was stopped right outside her classroom by one Yuuto Kiba. Kiba was what Nadia called a 'Decorative Student' as yes, he was good in academia, arts and sports, he really relished in the fact he was considered pretty and charming, which Nadia saw but didn't particularly care for.
"Please follow me to the Occult Research club. Rias is expecting you." Kiba said.
"I want to go home. She knows where I am." Nadia replied, dismissing him with a wave.
"She wants to talk about earlier." Kiba responded.
Intrigued, Nadia walked with him towards the club. He's nice and all, but why does he look like he'd be a butler?
"Kiba, about Sona… what's the deal with her sister? Do I need to ask Rias who Sona's sister is?" asked Nadia.
"I think Rias would be best to explain."
"You're very polite, you know that Kiba? Whoever lands you will have a good time, I guarantee it." Nadia replied, causing Kiba to blush slightly and nod.
"I owe everything to Rias, I really do." Kiba replied.
"Ditto, what piece?"
"Knight." Kiba replied as they walked into the club room and into what best could be described as chaos.
In the short time that had been between the end of classes and the present, Akeno, Rias's Queen had affixed a laser pointer to the top of a box, inside which was a very confused Gasper Vladi who was running around the room trying to avoid getting caught by Koneko Toujou. Rias was in the shower, as Nadia heard it running and then ending. Akeno, meanwhile, was sitting on the couch with a cup of tea and a shit-eating grin. Kiba and Nadia noticed the issue and pounced. Kiba went to the box and turned off the laser pointer, whilst Nadia went behind Koneko, before pulling out a voucher for a fried chicken restaurant and hitting Koneko on the head with it. No sooner had both of them done that, came Rias, who then figured out what had transpired.
"Honestly… I go for a shower, and you all do THIS?!" Rias said, angrily.
"What is or was Koneko? And what's the deal with the box?" Nadia asked, as Koneko looked angrily at the person who hit her but calmed down when it was Nadia and took the voucher for the fried chicken place with a slight smile.
"Koneko was a nekoshou. Inside the box is my Bishop, Gasper. He's a cutie." Rias responded.
"If this is about me telling Sona what I intended to do to Riser, I'm sorry but it's true and I'm not sorry. If this is about me not listening, again, sorry not sorry. I have one question, though… what's the deal with Sona's sister?"
For the next half hour, Rias told Nadia exactly everything about Serafall Leviathan. From her position, which Nadia was impressed by, to her intense strength and power, which Nadia didn't want to face in a fight at all. What Rias purposefully didn't mention was two facts. Firstly, that Serafall was currently visiting Kuoh Town. Secondly, Serafall's rather… bubbly personality. She was smart and very energetic and didn't care so much on who knew or not. If she knew that you were a devil, she would be herself around you. And they were to meet Serafall the next morning, 9am sharp.
"I see, so she's powerful and high status. Whatever, I'm going out for the night as it's Friday and my week's gone from good to bad to painful to threatening to castrate a Phenex to this. If you need me for anything, call me tomorrow, or just show up in my apartment." Nadia said, before leaving. She didn't know that she'd meet Serafall much sooner than anticipated.
Night fell upon Kuoh Town as Nadia reached the place she wanted to relax at for the night. This was a new karaoke place, but there was a catch. There were no solo rooms left available, so she waited for someone else who was alone to join her.
In the room came a bubbly and slightly shorter girl who looked to be in her late teens or early 20s. This girl, she was wearing a rather garish and bright magical girl outfit and wore her jet-black hair in two long ponytails. Once she saw the girl was alone, the attendant led the pair to the private room. No introduction was given, but really – was it needed beforehand?
"Alright, so. I'm Nadia, nice to meet you. If you want, you pick the songs and I'll order drinks." Nadia said, sitting down with the girl. Honestly? She liked her energy and style. Nadia was gay and liked that kind, one she could deal with in terms of energy.
"Yes yes, Nadi-tan." Serafall said. "Call me Levia-tan~"
"Okay. Levia-tan, what do you want to drink? Before I order, are you over 20? If so, I can just get us some cocktails." Nadia replied as Serafall picked the songs for them both, none the wiser as to the fact that this was actually Serafall.
"Ooh, cocktails~ Mmm… something sweet and fun. I like sweet and fun things." Serafall replied as Nadia ordered two tequila sunrise bowls.
"Tequila sunrise. It's sweet, a little sour and you'll get plastered before you know it." Nadia replied. The songs she started off with were your typical J-pop ones, which Nadia enjoyed watching Levia-tan as she called herself perform and clapped after the end of each one.
The cocktails had not taken that long to arrive and Nadia smiled as she popped one of them down in front of a smiling and giddy Serafall. After taking a large gulp of her own drink, Nadia looked at Serafall and grabbed the other microphone.
"Upbeat, serious or just plain fun?" Nadia asked, finding some she knew from growing up.
"Upbeat and fun, please. I like this drink, Nadi-tan, it's really sweet." Serafall replied.
"Got it. Here's one, it's called Rock Me. I remember this from growing up. It's fun and upbeat." Nadia said, beginning the song. Rock Me, the song, was an upbeat number, which when combined with Nadia's rather average vocals and enthusiastic yet awful dancing as she sang it, made Serafall really happy.
After a few more songs and a lot more drinking and chatting, they just decided to chat about their life and all that. Serafall was trying carefully not to say she was a devil to Nadia, who was too drunk to care at this point and really just wanted to get to know Levia-tan.
"I had a shit day, Levia-tan… I just, I mean… I woke up with one of my students in my bed with me and it's shit because we didn't do anything." Nadia said, drunkenly.
"Aw don't feel bad, Nadi-tan~ You'll find the right man, I'll see to it~" Serafall said, getting a bit flirty but still energetic.
"Not possible. Levia-tan. When it comes to men I decline every single one. I like girls, especially cute ones like you. Makes me feel better about how shit my life is." Nadia replied, coming out once more.
"So what if you're a lesbian? Hey, let's go to your place. I'll show you my magical girl powers~" Serafall said. "I'm real magic~"
"Yeah and I'm a devil. Ditto, amor fati." Nadia let slip, causing Serafall to pipe up a bit.
"Who did you wake up with this morning, mou…" Serafall pouted, sitting on Nadia's lap right after the pair finished their bowls.
"My student, Rias… apparently she's my master or some shit but I don't remember the whips and gags and I don't drink in the week so I must be mad…" Nadia said, as Serafall teleported them both back to inside Nadia's apartment.
"Oh so you're the one So-tan told me about, hey~ I love my sister, she's the cutest. Pity you're Rias's pawns, you're great and I'd trade for you no questions asked~" Serafall said.
Normally, if she was sober, the fact that Levia-tan knew about this should have set alarm bells ringing. But she was not told much of Serafall's personality and so the disconnect was there. The whole 'don't ask, don't tell' thing with angels, fallen angels and devils hadn't exactly set in stone either, so the keeping it to those in the know had fallen to the wayside. But now she was at home with a sexy devil on her bed, she couldn't help herself and so kissed Serafall deeply on the lips, embracing her passionately.
As the two kissed, Nadia received a text on her phone and let it sit there. It was from Rias, so she let it be for now. Right now, her focus was on her Levia-tan and making her VERY happy.
That's odd. Rias pondered. She hasn't read my texts saying we have to go meet Serafall this morning. Where is Serafall anyway? Sora told me she oesn't know where Serafall is either. It doesn't matter, Nadia's at home, I'll go drag her here.
Rias at that point summoned herself into Nadia's apartment, much like how she left yesterday. Hearing feminine moans that came from Nadia, Rias turned to her right and stared at Nadia, who had clearly picked up someone last night. Rias's face was very irritated by this.
Nadia had at this point noticed that Rias had turned up and looked first at her before looking under the sheets at Serafall, who was not only playing with Nadia's breasts but was indeed grinding her needy vagina on Nadia's left leg and hip whilst also fingering her.
"Shit, Rias!" Nadia yelled before lifting the blanket. "Fun's over for now, babe. You stay here and I'll deal with this, okay my love?"
After she said this, Serafall poked her head out from underneath the mattress and looked at Rias before Kissing Nadia on the neck again. Rias, after seeing Serafall of all people pop up from underneath the blanket went through the following facial expressions. First, anger, then surprise, realization, brief disgust, back to surprise and finally to pure shock.
"NADIA, WHAT THE FUCK?! YOU HAD SEX WITH SERAFALL LEVIATHAN?!"
Not quite a full lemon this time, but I suppose it's better this way.