A little late, sorry you guys.
*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*
The sound of the alarm in his phone rings up, and Kuro rubs his eyes after his senses reactivate. He then reaches his hand to the bed drawer, picks up the phone and turns off the alarm. "It's six already?" He asks himself while scratching his hair with his free hand. He then sits up…
"Myun…"
'Tries to' is the correct term. He immediately turns to his right to see the source of the sound, to see Kurumi, naked, having her arms wrapping around his torso. He is also in the similar state.
He sighs at the girl's affection to him. Unlike his other wives and girlfriends, she and her mother are the clingiest to him, given by the former's original character and the latter's gratefulness to him for what he has done for her. And… it doesn't help much when his wife's mother fully approves of it, the marriage and the 'clingy' part.
Gently pinching her cheek, Kuro coos: "Kurumi, it is morning already. Wake up."
"Five more minutes, father…" Kurumi's arms squeeze around him tighter, not wanting him to get out of bed.
Kuro chuckles, and starts slipping out of her arms. Despite her weak protest, Kuro gets out of bed and stands up, heads to the bathroom. "I will make breakfast later. You should wake up then."
"Hai-hai…" Kurumi sleepily responds, as she cuddles back into the blanket.
Chuckling, Kuro walks into the bathroom and starts fixing himself up with morning routines. After that, he walks into the kitchen and starts making food for the two… or four, when he notices that two more clones of his daughter are already ready at the dining table, with the real one in the bathroom if the sound of water running inside indicates it.
"This would be every morning, huh?" Kuro jokingly says.
One of the clones replies: "That's for being 'rough' with me last night."
"Hey, in my defense, you told me to do so." Checking the ingredients, Kuro replies back.
The other clone slumbers on the table while saying lazily: "He has a point." That causes the first clone to knock her on the head. She then changes the subject: "About our class…"
"Good, so far. Gonna have to fix a lot in some words that they can't speak." Kuro says, turning the heat of the oven up.
After the date that's in the last episodes of season 1, minus the whole 'Origami trying to kill Kotori' parts, Kuro has applied himself to be the English teacher in Raizen High School, and Emerald has also stopped working in the bookstore and applied to be Biology teacher due to her natural experiences with said subject. Some have questioned their capabilities due to how young they look, but after they have proved to be more than enough, their 'disguises' are able to get through.
And it has been one month from it, which is…
"Are you planning to call some of our friends to go with?" The real Kurumi joins in the table, fully clothed, and asks Kuro.
"Me calling them, or them teleporting right above my head?" Kuro speaks out the obvious event going to happen, him allowing it or not.
"True enough." All Kurumi chuckle.
Kuro then starts bringing the meal to the table. "Let's eat up. We have a day of work in front of us."
Time skip
"Say again?" Kuro laughs, as he opens the Pepsi bottle he has in his hands. "Oh god Shidou, you need to be more careful about her. But it's seriously hilarious."
"Don't, Kuro." The boy sighs while narrowing his eyes in annoyance. "You have no ideas how much effort we had to pull off to calm her down."
"I can imagine. Tohka running around with Sandalphon while Origami carries you away to avoid getting cut in half." Another laugh, Kuro pauses to drink a large gulp before continuing: "At least you aren't killed. But hey, you heal fast, right?"
"Don't…"
"That aside…" Kuro changes the subject while emptying the bottle. "How's the preparation so far? The trip, I mean."
"Smoother after that, for sure."
The bell then rings up, signaling another period is starting soon. Throwing the empty bottle into the trash can, Kuro says: "You better head to your class now. I have another one to attend now."
"Two Spirits, no, three existing co-operatively right in one school?" Isaac Ray Pelham Westcott asks with full interest, as he holds on the file his secretary just gave him. "Two being students, and one being a teacher of all things?"
"They didn't even bother to hide at all." Ellen Mira Mathers responds. "Especially 'Nightmare' and 'Goddess'. However, we have another concern." The secretary then changes the profile to a certain character. "This man is seen helping Ratatoskr 'helping' the Spirits. The two I just mentioned are also very close to him. We have no real records on him, and what we found… are all fakes."
"Really?" Isaac grins. "It's getting interesting… Ellen, do you think he's also a Spirit as well?"
The secretary shakes her head. "We have taken several scans during the month. He emitted no power at all."
"Then, can you explain how he got two Spirits following him despite just recently popping up?" Isaac asks, a little playing tone filling his voice.
"… Maybe he's just a playboy."
"Maybe… well then, let's handle this our way…"
The first day of the trip
Location: the airplane
Ellen watches the event going, as Tohka's shouting at Origami for stealing the 'best position on the plane', with Shidou sitting at the middle while sighing at his misfortune. She then turns to the trio teachers, which are Kuro, Reine and Emerald. The first one is reading something on his phone, the second is savoring her food, and the last one is reading a manga… nothing too unusual so far. Looking back at the further rows of seats, Ellen detects Kurumi watching the sky from the window with mild bored expression.
Then, she does her 'job' by taking pictures of the Spirits and the suspected targets… and then gets herself into shenanigans by being constantly harassed by the 'annoying trio' of the class.
Well, that's enough to say that she's spying everyone from the inside.
…
After Shidou's class reaches the ground
Location: Up on the sky
"Are you sure they're Spirits?" James A. Paddington asks Ellen, as he watches the cameras focusing on the said people. "They all look like little girls to me…"
"Don't let your guard down. We all have confirmed that they are Spirits." Ellen replies through the earpiece from the ground. "That's good enough to be on Level 1 alert."
"Well, if it comes from you, then I will take it to heart." He then orders the camera to focus on a teacher. "How about this guy? I heard that he's close to the Spirits."
"Yes. But we have no confirmations on however he's related to them."
"Really? That's unexpected…" Then he notices Princess running away from the group, with a boy following her quickly. "Hey, one of them is running away with a boy. What to do now?"
"Please track and monitor her movements. The boy is only an acquaintance, like the teacher. Also, activate Ashcroft Beta according to plan, and cut off the island from outside communication." Ellen orders… and then she gets pulled away by the 'annoying trio' again.
"Miss Implementation Manager has it rough, huh?" James comments at Ellen's unfortunate. "Though, she's just a little girl. The Bandersnatch Units will capture her easily."
"Captain, look!" One of the operators calls out for James as he points at the camera. "The teacher has noticed Princess walking away."
"Hm… let us observe. What could he really do…" All of the sudden, all of the cameras turn static, catching everyone off guard. "What the hell? Report!"
"Sir! Just before the cameras went down, the weather of the area starts changing!"
"That… is impossible." James declares. "No winds could just blind us that easily! Find out what the disturbance is immediately!"
…
"Tohka! Shidou!" After deactivating all cameras, Kuro checks if anyone's noticing him, before teleporting right behind the two. "Why are you two out here? We have to return back now!"
"I'm sorry, Kuro-sensei…" On instinct, Tohka apologizes after being scolded.
Just at that moment, the wind kicks up, causing everyone to raise their arms up to defend themselves. Then Shidou grabs Tohka's hand while shouting: "We have to run to the sideway!"
Kuro immediately follows, as the three walks out of the main way to stop being hit by the direct wind. Then, the teacher notices many objects being flown directly at his group, so he moves himself right before the students and starts punching and kicking things out of the harm way.
"Thank you Kuro!" Shidou gratefully speaks, before noticing a strange sound above the sky. He looks up to see two unusual lightning forces colliding constantly. "A Spirit? AST? In this area?"
Then, with one last collision, it sends a powerful force right down to the group, nearly blowing them away if Kuro didn't raise a barrier in time to save them. Thanks to Kuro's help, Shidou could be able to fully observe what happened… and then he sees two Spirits landing down on the main road, facing each other, just in time for the wind to die down as well.
"That's… unexpected." Kuro comments. "One way to ruin a fun trip, for sure."
Shidou's earpiece then picks up Reine's call. "I finally got through. Shin, are you okay?"
He immediately replies: "Yeah, we're okay. Thanks to Kuro."
"That's good. Where are you right now?"
"That…" The trio then watches the Spirits starting to throw some… conversation? Argument?
"Shidou…" He turns to Tohka. "Are they… Spirits as well?"
"…I think so…"
Then, their powers kick up the wind again, causing Tohka and Shidou to raise their arms in defense against the wind. And they throw another punch at each other… only during midway, Kuro teleports himself right in between and holds their heads on place with his hands. And he also grabs them hard, causing the two to immediately drop their attacks and start whining in pain while trying to pry his hands out. "Girls, your fighting is not my concern. But you're endangering my students' life with your contest, so I have to stop you two right now."
Once they're not trying to fight anymore, Kuro retracts his hands, and the Spirits rub their sore spots while glaring at Kuro. One of the Spirits shouts at his face after recovering: "What's the big deal? Don't you know how to handle a lady properly?"
"What? You want me to grab your chest?" Kuro sends her a completely straight look, causing her to back away a bit while covering her chest in embarrassment. "Now you answer it for yourself."
"Question." He turns to the other. "How could you stop both of our attacks? Suspicion. You are not human."
"Could be. Could be not." Kuro shrugs, clearly not going to give out the straight answer.
"You're lucky that you're not hurt by our attacks! Why are you out here anyway?" The more outspoken Spirit demands answer from him.
He points his thumb towards Shidou and Tohka. "I was looking for them before you attacked just right at where they are."
"Oh…" At least the Spirits could be easily talked with.
"We should return back now." Shidou walks to the main road, with Tohka following behind him, and says to Kuro. "Everyone's probably worried of us now."
"Yeah." Kuro nods, then waves to the Spirits. "We're leaving you two for your own advices. Check your surrounding before…"
"Wait." Kuro stops and turns back to the Spirits. "Since you interrupted our fight, shouldn't you give us some compensations?"
"Like?" Kuro plans to play dumb. "I just stopped you a little bit, nothing too serious."
"Suspicion. You could have shouted at us instead of stopping us by yourself."
"Chances for you to manage to hear me were quite low."
"Come to think of it…" The mono-tone Spirit turns to the others. "We have fought a lot, with 25 wins for each of us and 49 ties. However, there's one thing that we haven't competed yet…"
"So that's the situation." Kuro rubs his eyes in annoyance as he stops his explanation.
"That's… unfortunate. At least it's not you."
"Yeah, Emerald. And sorry Shidou…" Kuro bows lightly to the boy apologetically.
After they returned to the hotel, Kuro immediately pulled anyone acknowledged of Spirits in the group into one room, while explaining (lying) to Tamae-sensei that the new Spirits are transferred students. Once everything's covered, Kuro explained the problem to everyone.
"It's my job anyway…" Shidou replies, while uncomfortably shifting in his seat as the new Spirits, Kaguya and Yuzuru, try to 'lure' him to one of them. "But, why are you dueling?"
"… Ah right, we didn't tell you." Kaguya remembers.
"Memory lapse. We forgot to tell you. As the arbitrator, you have the right to know." Yuzuru starts the explanation. "We were once a single Spirit."
"The Spirit's name was Yamai. One day, we need to go back to being one single Spirit. However, both personalities can't coexist at the same time."
"Explanation. For that reason, we have fought for many years to determine who that will be. Fistfight, footrace, kendama, eating contest, and many more ways."
"Sounds like a peaceful Console War so far." Kuro chuckles, earning looks of confusion from the ones who don't know about CW.
"But then, what will happen to the other personality?" Emerald asks.
"It will disappear, of course." Kaguya answers nonchalantly.
"…So." Kurumi stands on Kuro's right and leans herself on him, and whispers in his ear. "What plans do you have to stop them from killing each other?"
"A few." Her father whispers back. He then asks Reine: "Have you managed to call Fraxinus?"
"Negative. No communications up until now. The reason is unclear." The physics teacher responds.
"Well then, we're sitting ducks here. Shidou, I will leave this matter to you."
"Actually, Kuro. I'm going to take those two with me for a while." Reine then puts her tablet aside and pulls Kaguya and Yuzuru out of Shidou. "Shin is a harder nut to crack than he appears, so I will teach you how to deal with him."
"You don't have to say that out loud." Shidou shivers, but he feels thankful that he has a small moment to breath.
When Reine and the two Yamai spirits leave, Tohka then speaks: "Shidou! How about we join with the rest of our class now? I heard that there's going to be a big event going on!"
Seeing this as the opportunity to vent off his 'mental breakdown', Shidou nods and walks with her out of the room…
"About that paparazzi…" Emerald says, once the group consists of only Kurumi, Kuro, Origami and her. "I have noticed that her full attention is on us. And true to Tohka's words, we felt something watching us the moment we touched the ground. What's going on?"
"Well… do you REALLY think our activities could go unnoticed?" Kuro shakes his head. "Isaac has found us. However, as long as we're staying with the others, they won't dare to pull anything drastically."
"And, when Emerald helped me observing her, I felt a familiar feeling towards her. I took a picture of her and tried to send it to Mana to have some searches, but like miss Reine earlier, I couldn't call her."
"Jamming devices. DEM is watching over us." Kuro explains. "However, I'm also jamming their cameras at the moment. The only way they could know what's happening on the ground is through her."
"Should we silent her?"
"No, Kurumi. That would make them send troops right over us the moment they notice it."
"So we can't do anything now?" Origami questions.
"Hm… I think it is, for now. Origami, try to not be obvious while following the woman. Immediately stop tailing if you feel danger. Kurumi, watch Tohka and Shidou from the inside. Emerald and I will take shifts of protection."
"Sounds like a second Kyoto again, huh?" Emerald notes.
"Similar, yes."
…
After the 'event' in the bathhouse
"I'm grateful that it's you and not me." Kuro chuckles, as he throws a dry towel and a bathrobe towards Shidou, who grabs it and immediately gets himself dried and covered up.
"Why can't you deal with them? I mean, you clearly had more experiences than me…" Shidou asks, finding quite strange that the older man didn't take it.
"First, Kurumi is not fond of the idea. Yes, she knows me, doesn't mean she likes the idea of seeing me going lovey-dovey with someone else. Second, you have the power to seal the Spirits. I could do that, but it might bring conflicts as I have said before."
"… You do have good reasons, but…"
"And third… never mind." Kuro stops there, not wanting to tell Shidou about DEM yet. After the student has stopped shivering, he orders: "You should return to your room and dress up. You can keep the bathrobe."
"Thank you Kuro." Shidou bows, before leaving the room.
"*Chuckle* So chu dang duoc huong thu thi cu huong thu cho da di." Kuro says to himself, before tapping into his laptop. "Hyperion, get ready. We have works to do."
Chapter 7 end!
A prologue before the storm. See you in the next chapter, which will be soon!