Balam sat with the other teachers, only about half had arrived so far, but the party was starting up nicely. "So how did this Tuefel do?" He asked Buer with curiosity.

"Killed one big beast, but that's about it. Nearly got himself killed doing it too." The man grumbled. "At the very least I only have two maniacs rather than thirteen."

"Yes, those youngsters really are maniacs." Mr Morax gave a chuckle. "They need to slow down or they'll run themselves straight into a ditch!"

"They're not that bad." All the teachers turned to him like he was crazy, and admittedly, it did sound a bit out there. "Troublemakers for sure, but they're successful troublemakers. Most of them are Gimel(3) or higher. A far cry from how most of them were at the beginning of the year."

"Yeah, they're closer to that challenge we gave them." Dalton agreed. "Dalet(4) by their second year or lose the Royal One. Hell, Asmodeus managed to gain Hé(5) so fast." And he would take full credit for that.

"If we're talking about fast progress, then we can't ignore Midoriya, mew." Stolas cheerily reminded them all. "Started with Aleph(1) and has ranked up in almost every exam since. Never seen a single student strive so hard to rank up in such a short amount of time."

"He only got Aleph(1) because he was 'unrankable'. Instead the owl decided to be weird and gave him a ring of all things." Ms Morax brought up. "You have to wonder what it was thinking, usually they're spot on in giving people what they deserve."

"Can't be that bad, if Sullivan allowed his own Grandson to start out so low, then maybe there's something we don't understand, and we all know how much the man cares about him." The collective sigh took their mind off it. Midoriya was good but he wouldn't be able to fool every teacher on his own, hopefully he and Sullivan could do their best to make sure they don't get too suspicious.

The door opened, as everyone turned to the door. "Oh look, Kalego arrived!" Robin shouted. "Oh, and he brought a lady!" What? "Is this a new teacher, it's nice to meet you, are you friends, is she someone you met in that Eden place advertised." Robin was cut off by a hand grabbing his face hard enough for a loud crack to be heard. "OWOWOWOWOW!"

"Sorry about that, he's too naive and free minded." Naberius spoke to Ms Midoriya.

"It's alright, I've dealt with my son's rambles for nearly a decade. It's nothing I'm not used to, especially with Clara around so much now." bowed, not minding that Robin was still within Naberius's grasp. "I'm Inko Midoriya. Naberius invited me over. I could stand to get out of the house more."

"Did he now … how nice of him." Ms Morax spoke as her glass broke in their hand, ignoring the fact it was piercing their body even now. "Truly a person that cares for others." This wasn't going to end well, he could feel it.

"Midoriya huh, so you're Izuku Midoriya's mother." Stolas greeted the lady. "He's a very fine student. I've never had so much fun tending the gardens more so than this year. I never know what he's going to grow next."

"Oh I'm so happy. Back where I'm from it was very modern, not many plants could bloom freely. I guess the more space in this area really helps." Maybe she could have worded that in a manner not making her suspicious, the nether world had much untouched space.

"Would you two like to sit down, there are open seats here." Balam offered to the duo.

"Yes, we'll take them." Naberius led the lady to her set, pulling it out for him and everything like it was a date...Naberius on a date. That sounded both right and so horribly wrong at the same time. It was a paradox, completely crazy.

That's probably what made him the perfect teacher for the Misfit Class.


Kalego on a date. That was something Dalton never expected to see in his lifetime. To think that unapproachable aura would chip away so easily upon teaching the Misfit Class. He must like those kids more than he thought. "So what are you going to order?" He asked the man.

"I'll just take whatever they have." Kalego shrugged, indifferent.

"It's on the chair demon's salary."

"I'll have Daikyou Makyou and a Primente Rose." The man didn't even look at the menu yet he ordered the most expensive items without skipping a beat.

"I haven't really gone out to restaurants in … well years now in all honesty, so i'll have what he's having." nodded. She really did need to go out more if she hasn't been to a restaurant in years.

"Really, does this have to do with Midoriya's home schooling?" Morax asked. She had this restrained killer look in her eyes ever since walked in.

"Sort of. Izuku's condition was fairly well known around the area, and I didn't want him to face any more judgment from others than he needed. It was easier for me to just cook for him myself at home, when I had the time."

"Condition?" Stolas asked the mother. "What condition does he have, Mew?"

"He … can't cast magic without the support of a tool." Oh, wow, he could see where that could cause some friction among peers. "He only just now sprouted a horn on his head."

"Oh, so that's why the Ranking Owl gave him that Ring!" Robin shouted, still unable to talk without yelling his thoughts out. "It made him just like everyone else! Guess that also explained why he joined the magical apparatus Battler too! He makes so much fun stuff it's insane!"

"Oh yeah, those guys are crazy." Dalton laughed. "It seems they always get involved in some situation one way or another. One of them managed to start a civil war in the school with nothing but screaming and dominance." That was a crazy fun time.

"Oh, I'm assuming that was Gaako." Ms. Midoriya guessed correctly. "Makes sense. I invited her and the others to show them around the kitchen, and she somehow rounded up a whole herd of cattle just for a sandwich."

"That poor kitchen … must have driven Opera insane." Kalego laughed … it was disturbing in any circumstance that didn't involve the suffering of the butler demon.

"It did. I thought they were crazy to create twelve different antitoxins for milkshakes, but it turned out to be a safe bet. Ameri should never be allowed near anything involving blades, or food for that matter." She laughed with Kalego. This disturbing day just got weirder and weirder.

"During the harvest festival she once cut a small section of the forest in half through sheer frustration and her own nails. The poor trees, Mew." Stolas frowned. "Midoriya's flower was so beautiful too, the students didn't have to make a bonfire just because it was less colorful than the first one." He disagreed, either you served a purpose, or you were an abomination. But semantics.

"So what's the next event, is it public like the Division Party?" She asked them.

"The Music Festival. Students and family can sit and watch the first years perform arts, plays, songs, anything they wish to impress three judges of various degrees. This year we're actually getting the former musician of the missing Demon King." Balam spoke out. "Keep that last part a secret from the kids though, surprise and all that."

"Will do. My baby does love a challenge, maybe a little too much, but it keeps him happy." At the very least she understood the challenge. "If you're getting a former crow though then that means Henri and Amaryllis would definitely be there. I should make plans." Kalego twitched, but said nothing. Weird, he only thought that reaction was for Opera.


Raim took another sip from the Daikyou Makyou. Kalego may have been a buzzkill, but the man knew his liquor. "Now this is a Banquet, thank you very much, Chair Demon." She thanked the man who was not there.

"Yeah, my Kaley-kun knows so much.." Wow, this stuff was strong. Morax was usually more tightlipped about her attraction to the Misfit teacher. "Not that his knowledge can expand with the whore around." Finally, women's talk! She thought this kinda stuff ended after high school!

"So I take it that seeing Midoriya's mother rubbing shoulder to shoulder with Kalego is rubbing you the wrong way?" She teased, taking a glimpse at the burgeoning couple. To think all it took for the man to open up would be the living embodiment of a cuddly deady bear.

"If it wasn't for the fact she's the daughter of the chair demon, or her son wasn't a student at Babyls, I would have tied her up and thrown her to Marbas." Morax admitted. "But too many eyes and too much desperation. Even my attempts at trying to find dirt on her just failed."

"Really, how so?"

"Balam refuses to divulge anything and everytime I talk to her son to pry inside info, I end up learning more about him than her. It's that the universe refuses to let me find reasons to hate her!"

"Maybe Midoriyas just managed to take Orias's bloodline." If the man could drink a single bottle of wine and end up stopping a revolution in a drunken rampage, the demon's luck was one with the universe.

"All I have left is seduction skills, and I only got a C average on that back in Babyls. Why was I so concerned with survival arts and biology back then?" Fair point. Few failed to realize the essential need for seduction until it was too late. "Please! You got to help me Raim! At this rate I can't compete with her cuteness!"

"Help you eh?" Raim asked with a grin. "Well at the very least I can get you some adult classes, help you bulk up in places you missed … make him squirm like putty in your hands."

"Kalego...squirming at me…" The girl's face was blushing. She was new to fantasizing these kinds of scenarios, Raim could tell. "Make him my pet...make him follow me around…Make him respect me more than he pitties that harlot!" She really doubted it was pity of all things, the teacher only pitied truly pathetic children and broken animals.

"So, are you interested?" She asked the love bird.

"Yes! I don't care what I need to do! Change me, roast me, anything to get my Kaley-kuns attention back!" Desperation, she worked best when given that.

"NO WAY!" A shout came out as old man Morax rushed to them. "My baby girl will keep her innocence!"

"I'm an adult!" The woman shouted indignantly.

"You'll never be an adult as long as I breathe!" Ugh, working with family had to be the worst. This would probably be Midoriya's future if he didn't become Demon King. Sullivan dotted the boy enough as a student … then again Ms Midoriya did seem like the type of woman who wanted some grandbabies.


Kalego tapped his finger as Inko interacted with the group. She was a recent enigma of his private time, his thoughts clouded somehow. He didn't quite understand why, but he let it go and focused on the students, and his job as a teacher of Babyls.

Now here he was inviting her to a teachers outing, something he'd never go to in a down class place like this. Then again Sullivan was buying and wasting even a dent of that money felt pleasurable.

Though that seemed to be small compared to the small warmth he felt seeing Inko smile. He cringed whenever Izuku spouted that nonsense to the class, chalking it up to that idiot chair demon divulging private information about the human world to his grandson. It explained the 'plus ultra', the concept of 'friendship', and the fact he based his costume on that All Might fellow … either that or he really was a love bunny.

But seeing the mother smile just...felt right. He only expressed joy when idiots were in despair or failing miserably at their half-hearted goals, such as his time as a student at Bablys, but this was the first time he met someone who he actively wanted to keep...well happy, if you didn't count Shichirou.

"So how come the dad didn't show up?" And Robin had to ruin the whole thing. "I know you said Ms Midoriya, so is he dead, a ghost, a guy you met in a tavern? Was the haven thing real cause I saw you and Amaryllis hanging out-" And that felt like a good time to cut off the moron.

"You really shouldn't ask a personal question like that to someone you just met Robin. You walked right into it." Even Shichirou agreed.

"Balse, you moron, I ought to.." Kalego didn't get the chance to finish his threat as the room suddenly fell dark, due to a murderous and powerful aura, one he could only draw comparison to Cerberus or one of the Magical Beasts, emanating from Inko, who was stretching out her arms, freezing the idiot in place.

"Oh, it's fine, just a curious man is all." She spoke to Shichirou, who flinched at the tone of her voice. "You see, Hisashi, my ex husband, was a man who married me in college, of what I thought was love. Turns out as soon as we married it was for the money." Well that made sense, her father was Sullivan after all. "So then my son Izuku is born, who's magicless, and the man comes home less and less." Robin began to float. "Then he starts working overseas to make more money, even though the two of us work to survive on both our salieres alone, it felt like cheating to rely on Papa's money after all. So after ten years of not being home, when I was fired for someone more qualified for my position, what do you think he did?" She asked the now wide eyed group.

"Did he A) Be the supportive husband and father he should've been, B) Come back home to at least show some comfort, C) Do something to fix our problems by going into crime? Nope, the answer is D), he tried to sell us to a FUCKING DEMON!" She shouted in rage. "I don't care what contract he made with Papa, when I see him again I will manipulate his testicals and squish them like grapes!"

No one was saying anything. No one could say anything. Even Morax, with her unjustified dislike of Inko, looked at the women with fear and slight sorrow.

"I'm … sorry I said anything." Robin was the only one brave enough to speak, mostly because he was the one being held in place, which snapped her out of her trance at the very least.

"Oh, so sorry about that, must've been the liquor. I haven't drank in a while." She switched back to her normal sweet and innocent voice, gently tossing the fool on the ground. "Nice to release a little stress around such kind and understanding people."

Kalego barely registered what she was saying, because his heart was beating loud and fast like a drum.

BA-DUMP...BA-DUMP….BA-DUMP….BADUMP

That contained violence in such a dainty form … of devi please don't let him think what he thinks this is. "He probably wouldn't even care, after all these years I've let myself go…"

"Don't start talking nonsense Inko, there isn't a demon alive who'd deny your adorable beauty." DID HE JUST SAY ADORABLE!? AND DIDN'T REGRET IT?! Now everyone was staring at him in confusion.

"The world really has gone mad … better work on that bucket list." SHICHIROU DON'T JOKE ABOUT THIS!

"Thank you Kalego, it means a lot that someone can still like me." She smiled brightly at him again.

BA-DUMP … BA-DUMP

… He supposed the smile was nice….no...NO it was happening!

It couldn't be possible! He couldn't be in love!


"B4!" Inko added another number to her bingo sheet. She was two away, and from the glance next to her, Kalego was just one away. It was interesting to see all of the teachers just relax, even if the man who brought her looked annoyed at all the commotion. It was still nice of him to invite her with these lovely people.

"Wow, you're pretty good at this, Inko." Raim squeezed into the seat next to her. The atmosphere was casual enough so she decided to forgo formalities, though Morax still only referred to her as . "You sure your bloodline isn't good luck? I'd believe it with how many times Midoriya survives all his crazy schemes."

"Nope, all I can do is make small objects float." She gestured to the stamp she was using to play. "D7!" Another number, but not a space that would help her in the long run.

"Oh really?" Dalton spoke from behind. "I know what you said about it earlier, but I haven't seen Midoriya use that aspect of his bloodline during school, at least not in any way I could notice."

"Magicless, remember, he likely doesn't have the bloodline, Mew." Stolas said. "Then again , with his ring and ingenuity he still pulled through, he's still a true student in the making."

"That's the first time I've ever heard a single teacher praise my son at all." Inko almost felt like crying.

"Oh, was he not as good at his old school?" Morax spoke up, looking curious. "Did something happen to impede learning?"

"No, he's always been at the top of his class back home, second to only one little bastard of a brat." She would never forgive Katsuki, he was second on her kill list. "None of his old teachers acknowledged his progress. They told me to my face he wasn't as important as the rest of the class."

"H …" The number was silent, curious she turned to see that old man Morax was just looking at her silently, same for the other teachers. In all honesty she felt kinda cornered. "They … said … what?"

With a little hesitation she continued. "...They said he'd only get in the way of their 'better prospects'. That he was a rock in the road of progress, a..a Deku." Everyone's eyes looked particularly stunned at that last bit.

"Did they now, Mew." Stolas lost the happy chirp in her tone. "You don't happen to say … remember the name of the school in question?"

She did, but she couldn't say anything to them about it, and Papa likely blew up Aldera by now anyways. "No, I made sure to pull Izuku out the moment I realized how horrible it was. That's mostly why he fell behind so much when he started Bablys."

"You don't say." She thought Balam knew about the human past, why was he acting so angry right now. "Dalton, would you happen to say the motto?"

"Of course." The man jumped out from behind her and onto the table, a savage grin sending her survival instincts into overdrive. "The young students of Babyls, are the new Impetus of the Underworld. Every student is a precious treasure to the Netherworld. And we are their guardians. There is only one way to define this relationship." Even Robin seemed particularly floored with this new shift in attitude. "We pledge on our lives, to protect our dear students above all, from the dreadful enemies that aim for the treasure. So, to "Education"-" She needed to run, she needed to….

"CHEERS!" And the mood was gone, now replaced with smiling faces.

"Is this what it's like for everyone when I use the voice?" The closest that came to scaring her was Barbatos, yet she'd bet good money the pink loli would be shivering in terror from this. "I don't know if I should keep using it now."

"No need to worry about it, Inko. That's just how it is for teachers." She turned to Kalego, looking at his glass. "The education of our students, of all varieties, is president above all else. Their safety is required for that, and thus our lives are forfeit to theirs."

She felt her eyes swell, but she refused to let the tears drop, not wanting to ruin the fun of so many good people. "I, I have to admit, I'm probably just as sheltered about the world as my son, maybe even more so."

"Don't worry Ms Midoriya." Robin spoke, giving her a hug. "We'll teach you just as good as our students, you have my wor-" A fist was planted in his face, launching through three walls.

"Don't make promises you aren't prepared to keep, you fool. Silence." Kalego quickly turned to her again. "I'd be honored to help you in any way I can, Inko."

"And I'll be there to help as well." Weird, with all the stink eye you'd think Morax would want to be away from her.

"I'm already helping your son, helping you would be great too … no matter how much Naberius would like to be alone with you." What was that?

"Thank you...oh devi, thank you." She used her quirk and pulled the three of them into a hug. "I see why Izuku loves being at Bablys so much. He gets to spend everyday being around such amazing people." They were more than just his teachers, weren't they?

They were his heroes too.