A few days later I'm walking around the school when I see Kokoa just standing in the middle of the path. I sneak up behind her to see what she's looking at and I see Moka sucking Tsukune's blood.
As we stand there stalking them Tsukune shouts, "Owwww, you're drinking too much for today, Moka!"
Moka simply replies with, "Your blood is so good though." Tsukune tries to get away, but Moka just chases after him.
When I look back over at Kokoa she seems to be pondering something, probably plotting something.
Suddenly Kurumu shouts, "Hey Moka!" Without any other warning she slaps Moka into the air and the succubus shouts, "You've been drinking Tsukune's blood again, haven't you! How many times do I have to tell you? He isn't your personal meal!"
Kokoa's face when Moka hit the ground was priceless. The little redhead was so shocked that a lower class monster was able to do such a thing to her older sister. As Moka starts to get back up she seems to be expecting her to destroy Kurumu, but as they start to slap fight one another, the little vampire's face switches right back to disappointment.
Moka and Kurumu suddenly get hit with ice kunai and fall to the ground. Unsurprisingly, it was Mizore and as she walks over to them, she tells to Tsukune, "They never change, Tsukune. These two idiots are brain dead."
Kurumu jumps up and stabs Mizore in the head with one of the frozen kunai and growls, "How about you join us, then..."
Moka also makes it to her feet and while cracking her knuckles as she asks, "Who are you calling an idiot?"
Kokoa seems to get her hopes up once more, but they are quickly destroyed when they start to slap fight again.
The furious redhead shouts out, "Not that again! Fight to the death already!"
I laugh at her and tell the little vampire, "You expect those three to be serious about something? You must be an idiot then."
Kokoa turns to see that I've been standing here the entire time and as her eyes widen, she panics and shouts, "H-how long have you been standing there?"
"A good while. Why, you didn't sense me with your 'superior vampire blood?'", I reply mockingly as i give her a sly grin.
The others finally notice us and Moka asks, "Kokoa? Reiji? What are you two doing together?", causing Kokoa to panic even further.
Seeing her cover's been blown, Kokoa runs off shouting, "I'm not with that creep! You're a dope, Big Sis!"
As Kokoa runs off Tsukune asks Moka, "What? You haven't made up with Kokoa yet? Shouldn't you be getting along now that you're finally together again?"
I sigh and reply with, "Tsukune, you're the real dope here."
Tsukune looks at me as if he doesn't know what that means and that just further confirms that he's an idiot. Moka then says, "We should be, but...", but before she can finish Kurumu says, "Leave 'em alone Tsukune. Butting into their sibling rivalry won't help anyone." As Kurumu says this, the afternoon bell rings and we all then head to the new Newspaper Club room.
I'm surprised at first that they gave us our own room, but once I get inside and see that it's basically the size of a storage room I understand why they let us have it, at least it has a window. Nekonome seems more than pleased with it though as she sees us in the doorway and gleefully exclaims, "Hey everyone, check it out! The school finally recognized our club last year and gave us our own room!"
"Maybe it had something to do with us destroying the Security Committee and exposing all of its corruption.", I suggest with a slight chuckle as we walk into the room.
"How we got it doesn't matter. Let's just do our very best from our new headquarters!", Nekonome says before sitting in a desk off to the side and passing out. She must've used up too much energy on that 'motivational speech' she just gave.
Once Nekonome passes out Tsukune and the others take their seats at the long table at the center of the room and begin to fall asleep as well. What is this, nap time?
With everyone asleep, I'm left on my own for only a second before I hear someone trying to sneak around outside our door and grumble, "Company already?"
I go to open the door, but before I can touch the handle, we all hear Kokoa's loud voice as she shouts, "Here I come!" The young vampire slides the door open and jumps past me, ready to fight, but stops in complete bafflement as she sees everyone except for me is half asleep.
Tsukune completely ignores her and says, "Now that we have a club room we can take it easy."
Kokoa is furious with everyone ignoring her and shouts, "Do something already!"
Kurumu sighs and says, "Not you again, Kokoa. I don't know what you're doing in here, but don't cause any trouble or we'll kick you out."
Kokoa gets in the succubus' face and asks, "Kick me out eh? Says who?"
Kurumu gets even closer to her and growls back, "Says me, that's who."
"It's simple Kokoa, you cause any trouble then we just throw you out. If we have to we'll use the window.", I say as I walk over to the window and open it to let some air in. As I do that, I hear sirens going off and ask, "What the fuck's going on over there?" Everyone suddenly looks over to me in confusion and rushes over to me, surrounding the windows to see the flashing lights of a police car and the yellow police tape near the side of the school.
Suddenly Yukari bursts into the room shouting, "Emergency! There's been a terrible incident!"
"Yukari? Are you talking about those lights outside?", Tsukune asks as we all turn to her.
The witch nods her head and says, "It was a phantom assailant. The culprit is on the run and they can't identify him." Yukari follows this up by pulling a map out of her hat and putting it up on the blackboard with some magnets. Pointing to the four Xs on the map, Yukari says, "It looks like he randomly attacks and injures students when they pass by these locations on campus. So far we only know there are twelve people injured and three missing along with all of the crimes being committed being done with a bladed weapon."
"What a horrible thing to happen so early in the new semester.", Moka says with a shocked look on her face.
"Isn't it a bit early in the semester to go crazy and stab other students?", I ask sarcastically, but I'm the only one who seems to get a chuckle out of it.
"Three missing people you say? The criminal is kidnapping students? Is it possible they're being killed somewhere?", Kokoa asks as she looks at the map.
"Possibly. This guy does use a knife so maybe he likes cutting people into tiny pieces and eating them.", I say trying to scare her, but she doesn't seem to be phased.
Kokoa begins to stare intensely at the map and I take a closer look at the map too. If the Xs are all the places where this guy lurks then where does he go after? All of these spots link up to the ruins to the North East, seems like a reasonable place to take victims. Most of the other students and faculty are too chicken shit to go down there. I put my right arm on Kokoa's head like an armrest and ask her, "You see it too, don't you?"
The little vampire shoves my arm off and says, "Of course I see it! But what is this place in the corner of the map?"
"That's the dungeon ruins. It used to be a prison, but it hasn't been used in a long time. People say you can still hear the voices of the wicked monsters who died there so nobody goes there.", I explain, trying to be serious for a moment.
"We can't just let him get away.", Kokoa growls as her eyes seem to focus on the ruins in the corner of the map.
"Um, that's not the Newspaper Club's job though.", Moka says as she stares at the map for a second like Kokoa did. Did she figure it out too?
"What? You're suggesting that the criminal is hiding there and that we should go catch him? Who'd be dumb enough to follow up on such a thing?", Kurumu mocks the little vampire, but Kokoa doesn't seem too hurt by her.
Kokoa gets a smug look on her face and says, "Ohh? You're scared? I get it. If someone as weak-looking as you got caught by the culprit he'd just take you out too.", before giggling to herself. With a confident smile on her face, Kokoa looks over to Moka and suggests, "How about this, Big sis and I will crack the case ourselves while you scaredy cats sit here and wait for us?"
I just sigh and say, "That is the dumbest idea I've heard all semester."
"What did you just say?", Kokoa growls as she turns to me with a glare.
"Oh, I'm sorry, please do go try to fight a knife wielding psychopath we have no data on with your little bat demon and Moka's 'paper bag' strength. Let's see how well that turns out.", I mock her as I wave my hands around dramatically.
"You dare mock us vampires!?", she shouts back at me like it means something.
I laugh and reply with, "I give everyone shit. Doesn't matter if you're the weakest little orc or the strongest vampire on the face of the Earth. I'll still call out your stupidity."
She just growls at this before grabbing Moka's arm and dragging her sister out of the room without saying another word. "That might have been a bit much Reiji.", Yukari notes as she looks to me with a slightly worried look on her face.
"Not my fault she's an ignorant Freshman. Are we gonna make sure those two don't die or are we actually going to just sit here and wait.", I ask as I stand in the doorway.
"I feel like we need more information before we go down there.", Yukari suggests, but I'm not staying here doing nothing.
"Fine. I'll go talk to the Headmaster. He probably knows something he isn't telling us yet.", I reply before heading to the Headmaster's office.
As I make my way through the halls to his office I think about what the culprit might want these students for. Does he plan on torturing them or is he going to use them as hostages for some sort of ransom demand? The Headmaster will probably clear things up enough for me to figure it out.
I reach the door to his office and go to knock, but stop when I hear a voice call out to me.
"It's open Mister Oni.", I hear the old man say from behind the door.
As I open the door, I ask the cloaked figure, "How'd you know it was me Headmaster?" When I walk inside, I see Ruby is already here, did he call her to deal with this?
"I may be old, but I can still sense monster energy better than most other monsters. Like the thieves that have taken up refuge in the ruins to the North East. They've been kidnapping our students for some reason.", the Headmaster replies while getting up from his chair.
"Did you say 'they?' There are multiple of them?", I ask the old man, a bit worried about Kokoa and Moka.
"Correct, there are five all together. Two are more humanoid than the others, while the other three lack human forms.", the Headmaster continues to explain.
"Would you like me to deal with them Headmaster?", Ruby asks, being the willing servant as usual.
"I think you and Mister Oni here should go do something about those ruffians, but I would like to talk to them though. Do I make myself perfectly clear, Mister Oni?", the old man says as his glowing eyes focus on me.
I let out an irritated sigh and reply with, "Yeah, they get to live, but if they hurt my friends, all bets are off.", as I make my way to the door, swinging it open when I reach it so I can leave.
"It will be done as you asked, Headmaster.", I hear Ruby reply as she chases after me.
As I make my way to the North exit of the building, I hear Ruby running to catch up to me. As soon as she catches up, the taller witch asks me, "So what's the plan Reiji?"
Without looking at her I quickly reply with, "It's simple we hit 'em and we hit 'em hard. If they dodge we just widen the range of our attacks and if they tank our hits we just add more force. Got it?"
"So the plan is just to kick their asses?", Ruby asks, confused by my logic.
"It hasn't failed me yet. Now, are you ready or am I heading out before you?", I ask as I put my hand on the door to the exit.
"I have to make sure that the students are all inside and secured. You go on ahead and I'll catch up when I'm done here.", the girl replies as she walks off.
I start making my way to the ruins and when I get there I see Kurumu and Mizore heading inside. "Those idiots better not be getting themselves killed.", I say to myself before making my way to the entrance.
As soon as I get inside it's pitch black and I can't see a thing. I grab onto the wall and follow it down into the ruins. As I go I hear a familiar voice, Kokoa, but it sounds like she's been crying. With a quick sniff of the air, I catch the scent of blood, this can't be good. I rush down the stairs to see Kurumu and Mizore standing between a giant Minator and Kokoa, who seems to be a bit beaten up.
I make my way over to Kokoa and tell her, "You guys better not fuck this up."
Kokoa looks up to me and asks, "Why are you here too?" The Minator draws his sword and Kokoa shouts, "Fall back! You'll get killed! You two are too weak to beat him!"
I just gently pat her on the head and tell her, "Watch and learn kiddo.", as they deflect the blade and knock the Minator unconscious with just one hit.
Kokoa is left in shock while I'm just sitting there with a grin on my face.
"Who's weak now? We tried hard not to let anyone see this. It was supposed to be for stopping your big sister some day.", Kurumu says as she dusts off her shirt.
"We underwent secret anti-Inner-Moka combat training. It was pretty fun actually.", Mizore adds as she removes her ice claws.
"Vampires aren't the only strong ones you know?", Kurumu confidently tells the little vampire as she smiles down at Kokoa.
Kokoa manages to sit up and I ask, "You okay kid? You look like you took quite a beating."
She quickly stands up and growls, "I'm fine, it'll take more than that to take down a S class super monster like myself."
"Good, but stay back for now. There should be four more of these guys.", I tell her as I take the lead.
"Four more? So we know how many of them there are?", Mizore asks as she raises an eyebrow at what I just said.
"Yeah, the Headmaster was able to sense their numbers, but he couldn't give me a description of them. Only that two were able to change into human forms while the rest couldn't.", I reply as I pry the sword away from the Minator.
"What are you doing that for?", Kokoa growls as she glares over at me.
"It's better to not take a risk with these guys. Even a strong hit like that might not keep him down for long and I'd rather fight him hand to hand than let him keep his giant ass sword.", I reply as I swing the sword around. "Man, this thing is huge. It's like a great sword. I can use this, for now.", I say as I put the sword on my shoulder with the blade facing up, don't want to cut myself now.
"Do you really need something like that?", Kurumu asks, slightly cautious about the giant weapon on my shoulder.
"No, but I can at least throw it at someone and have it make a good distraction.", I say as I make my way deeper into the tunnel.
"Hey, wait for us!", Kurumu shouts as they run towards me so we don't get separated.