Harry was still limping around the following morning when classes started up for the week. The student body were doing a very bad job of trying to surreptitiously see which of them Harry had beaten to a pulp.
None of them thought he was simply the victim of an overly enthusiastic succubus on her first time.
Kurumu had been given a stern talking to by Moka, Yukari, Miss Kagome, Keito and Miss Nekonome. She was at least twice as strong as she was before she had bound herself to Harry and had nearly snapped Moka's hand. She was forbidden from touching Harry until she could control her strength.
Considering the succubus was mortified that she had failed to give her lover pleasure (something that even the dumbest and weakest of her kind could do) she spent her classes focused on her pencils, twirling them in her fingers and scowling when they broke.
Lunch wasn't much better. She broke the cutlery. Twice.
The first time was with her hands, the second was when Harry had tried to help her by feeding her and she had bitten through the fork.
Yukari ranted at the big breasted, older girl. She demanded to know why anyone would bite the fork. The young witch was thoroughly confused and frustrated by the succubus.
Between the last two classes of the day, Harry was attacked. Granted it was only Hedwig, but she still made a huge fuss of getting him to follow her.
He ran after his clearly distraught friend as she led him to the old abandoned school building. Rumour amongst the school was that it was the failed first attempt at the Monster Academy.
All that was left was the metal framework of the building along with piles of rubble.
This made it easy to see what had Hedwig so worked up.
Chained to a stone and metal pillar was Moka, surrounded by several older boys. So far she seemed unhurt.
"Hedwig, get the others." Harry said calmly, causing the boys to turn towards him.
"Harry, we were just about to invite you over." One of the boys smirked. He had white, close shaved hair and a large scar running from the crown of his head to his right eyebrow. He wasn't in uniform and wore shiny black trousers, a designer shirt and an open long coat that he draped over his shoulders like a cape.
He was clearly the leader.
"Release Moka and we won't deal with you like we did with Saizou." Harry warned.
"Are you this cocky in all your battles, Harry-tan?" The boy smirked. "You don't even know what we are. We outnumber you-"
"Saizou outnumbered and blindsided me. There was only one battle where I knew what the enemy was.
"Last chance."
The boy laughed as he grew larger, his clothes ripped and his body morphed, his left arm became a massive weapon, almost like and organic scythe.
The boy stumbled as an explosion occurred behind him. He turned to see a fairly angry white-haired Moka Akashiya stepping over the bodies of his friends.
He looked back at Harry in shock. The Head of the SPC was clearly pocketing the large silver rosary that locked away the S-Class monster.
"Your name is Mido, yes?" Harry asked. "You lead the monstrel gang in this school."
"You don't get to talk now, pureblood scum." Mido snarled. "You think I didn't prepare for this?" He raised his right hand and clicked a button on a small remote.
Water began pouring from pipes in the ceiling. Moka screamed in pain.
"Get out of here. I've got this." Harry called passed the smirking monstrel.
Moka steeled herself as her skin sparked. "Never! I'm still more than enough to handle this poser." Harry was about to object. "As long as I have you to fight beside me."
Harry paused as he was surprised by the affection in what was once his most annoying acquaintance. But then he nodded slowly. "I can't help you." He said pointedly.
"It is just a little pain and weakness." She smirked.
"So cocky." Mido sneered, his head turning back to Harry and dismissing Moka. "So, a vampire who doesn't mind water. It doesn't matter Harry-tan." He said patronisingly. "I'll still enjoy ripping you up and using you to show the rest of the school where the real power lies."
"You are an idiot, boy." Moka scoffed. "You challenged your enemy based on assumptions. Potter Harry is no vampire."
She rolled out of the way as Mido swung his massive limb at her.
Harry had several options available to him in a fight. The simplest involved using the training from Moka and Gin combined with his burgeoning control over his body turning to rock. He could turn his body beneath his clothes to rock and withstand substantial damage. Even Inner Moka had trouble cracking his body, and it still didn't hurt the wizard and was quickly fixed.
Harry charged at the monstrel and leapt at him, his right foot out in a flying kick that nailed Mido in the temple.
Mido went flying as Harry fell to the floor. He still hadn't perfected his landings.
There was a horrible sound of metal tearing and Harry saw Moka calmly squeezing the water pipes shut and stopping the water from the defunct sprinkler system.
She was still soaking wet and sparking, but at least it wasn't running water. "Not bad, Harry." She said approvingly as she walked up to the wizard in hiding as he stood ready over the struggling to rise Mido.
"What are you?" Mido growled as he finally pulled himself off the ground.
"The Head of the School Protection Committee." Harry smirked.
That smirk really angered the monstrel. "You think you are better than me? You think you can kill me like you did Saizou?"
"We aren't going to kill you, Mido. But you will serve your punishment."
"AND YOU WILL LEARN YOUR PLACE!"
Harry barely jumped out of the way as an enraged succubus flew past him and barrelled angrily into Mido. Moka had to dive to the side.
The vampire and wizard stared, slightly dumbfounded as Kurumu rained down blows on the leader of the monstrel gang.
"She seems to be taking this personally." Moka remarked.
"Yeah… but why?" Harry was completely confused. "He attacked you and targeted me… oh, by the way, here." He handed her back the rosary he had summoned.
Moka nodded and simply dropped it in her breast pocket.
"Perhaps it is her devotion to you." She postulated.
"Maybe… but she hasn't been anymore clingy than usual. She's been a bit more careful actually… especially since-" He stopped as he turned red and Moka scowled at him.
"I am not happy that you are now sleeping with Kurumu." She then grabbed him and sunk her teeth into his neck somewhat viciously. She didn't drink for long before she pulled away, her hair changing colour as her rosary resumed its place.
Harry was disappointed to see Outer Moka also not happy with the situation. He simply pulled her to his chest and hugged her. "Kurumu, don't kill him." He called over.
The succubus didn't respond. But she did stop and sag, another one not entirely happy with him.
Mido was practically a drooling mess when he was thrown into the SPC cells. Harry had to ask Miss Nekonome to arrange for medical care.
Harry was often in deep discussions with Moka and Keito about what they had in store for the monstrel. Outer Moka was a voice of reason and intelligence and Inner Moka offered her own observations. Keito, as a member of the previous SPC and the head of the current SPC under Harry, knew how the students thought and what they would respect.
With Harry no longer a virgin and Kieto having told Moka that they weren't going to suffer because she wasn't ready, the spider woman and lamia had joined Harry and Kurumu in bed.
Five minutes later and both ladies were highly unsatisfied and Harry was extremely embarrassed. Fortunately both were more than willing to teach Harry various techniques on how to please a woman and how to last more than three minutes.
The following morning Keito had sauntered downstairs and smirked at Moka. "You are going to be very grateful to us when you eventually stop being so stubborn."
Moka wasn't sure whether to be angry or embarrassed. She certainly was conflicted when she saw the speculative looks that Mizore and Ruby were sending the wizard.
Two days after Mido had been thrown into the newly warded dungeons, Harry and Miss Nekonome were called to a meeting with the Chairman.
According to the teachers, the only reason a student got to see the Chairman was if they were leaving the school.
In a body bag.
What they found in the spacious and well appointed Chairman's Office, had Harry raising his hands in preparation for a fight.
"Chairman-sama, are you aware that at least one of these men has tried to kill me and works for Voldemort?" Harry asked, in Japanese, his eyes never leaving Lucius Malfoy and his two companions, one of whom was holding an axe, Macnair Walden and the other who looked like a wild man, almost a yōkai himself.
"I am, Potter-san." There was a smirk in the Chairman's voice as his face was concealed as usual.
"Could we speak a civilised language?" The man with the axe demanded in English.
"Can they claim any protection from you, Chairman-sama?"
"I will consider this a formal parlay, for now." The Chairman chuckled as he spoke in a perfect English accent. But then he turned his face to the three male adults. "But remember, it must be respected by both parties."
"You would do well to remember whom we represent." Lucius Malfoy sneered. "The Ministry will be quite displeased if we should come to harm."
"And you should remember that you are not in the wizarding world. Your kind are barely tolerated."
"You accepted the boy." The man with the axe grunted. "Stop fucking around. He's here. Just bind him and let's get him back to England."
"I want the pretty kitty." The third man leered at Miss Nekonome, showing long canines.
"Greyback!" Malfoy hissed.
Harry knew that name. Sirius had mentioned it in regards to Remus. He turned to his teacher. "Please ask Gin and Ruby to join us." He requested in Japanese.
Miss Nekonome looked reluctant to leave her charge, but she received a minute nod from the Chairman before she bowed to him and Harry and then left.
"Take a seat, Mister Potter." The Chairman indicated the remaining seat to the left of his desk.
Harry bowed and complied.
"Excellent! Now that we are present, let us discuss why you have come here and what business you have with my student."
"Business?" The Macnair sneered. "We told you. We came to get the brat."
"Macnair!" Malfoy hissed. He gave an apologetic look to the Chairman. "As we stated earlier, I come at the behest of the British Magical Ministry. Mister Potter is a wanted fugitive."
"For what crime?" The Chairman asked curiously.
"Murder, sedition, under-aged magic. I have the appropriate documents here." He handed over a scroll.
The Chairman simply dropped it on his desk, ignoring it. "Britain has already tried, convicted and sentenced, Mister Potter.
"You exiled him from your world. It is what led him to ours. He has been granted citizenship in all realms of Japan and the Magical World."
Lucius smiled smarmily. "As you said, Britain has already exiled him from our world. He cannot be apart of the Wizarding World… in any country."
"You are expecting to dictate what Japan can and cannot do?" He asked curiously. "Regardless, he is still a citizen of Japan. If you believe you have a case, you should take it up with the government. You certainly don't come marching into a foreign school and expect to leave with a student."
"And you think you can stop us?" Greyback grinned eagerly. "You don't even let your kids carry wands. How do you think you could stop us?"
The Chairman threw back his head and laughed.
Harry couldn't help but chuckle.
The three English wizards scowled. Macnair clearly hefted his axe just as there was a knock on the door. Greyback stood quickly, his claw-like hands ready for battle. Malfoy had drawn his wand.
"Come in." The Chairman called out in Japanese as he wiped his eyes beneath his shadowed white cowl.
Miss Nekonome entered with Gin and Ruby behind her.
Gin immediately started growling. "Mongrel."
"He likes to turn children." Harry said calmly. "He waits by their homes on the night of the full moon."
Gin looked at Harry with a raised eyebrow. "And he is allowed in this school because…"
"Chairman-sama has granted them parlay."
"English! Speak English or-"
"Or what?" The Chairman demanded as he stood, his eyes were now glowing red from his shadowed face, the air became thick and heavy. "You live solely for my amusement."
He waved his hand and the wand and axe disintegrated, much to Malfoy's horror. Macnair and Greyback reached for their own wands only to find them missing.
"Did you really think I was fooled by your claims of being Ministerial Envoys? I know who you are. I know who you serve.
"You only get to leave alive to deliver a message to your master. Only death awaits him here."
Greyback turned to leap at the Chairman only to find his head smashed into the floor as he was punched through the heavy wooden desk.
Above him, Gin held him in place, his human form completely abandoned.
The other two were pinned to the wall courtesy of Ruby.
"Morioka-san, the cursed one is yours to deal with as you see fit." The Chairman calmly informed the lycan. "I will require his head though before the end of the day."
There was a horrible tearing as Greyback screamed in fear and pain.
Harry raised an arm as blood flew around the room.
The Chairman glared at Gin as blood dripped down his white, pristine robes.
Gin gave a nervous chuckle as he held out the now severed head. "Sorry?"
"Tojo-san, if you would?" The Chairman requested of Ruby.
She waved her short staff and the room was set to rights. The blood was gone. The table was fixed.
Greyback was still headless.
The Chairman turned to the two pinned wizards. "Give this message to your master: Any he sends, dies."
He nodded to Ruby and the two men dropped to the ground.
"My Lord will raze your precious school to the ground." Lucius snarled.
"Morioka-san, only one is needed to deliver the message."
Gin nodded and suddenly Lucius was missing his head. Gin was now holding two heads, he shoved them at the Macair.
"I can't kill you if I want you to deliver the message." The Chairman said dryly. "But there are more things than heads that my student can remove."
Macnair was pale and shaking as he took the two heads by their long hair. He looked ready to vomit.
"Macnair, make sure that you never return here." Harry said. "I know your reputation. I am the reason you didn't murder Buckbeak the Hippogrif."
Macnair's eyes widened, a hint of anger seeped past the fear, but it wasn't enough and he hastily backed out the door.
"Do you want me to watch him as he leaves, Chairman-sama?" Harry asked.
The Chairman chuckled. "An English wizard with no wand? Even Sendo-san could defeat him."
"Gin, Ruby, follow him discreetly please. Make sure he doesn't stop to do anything. Scare him as much as you want, just make sure he can get back to England with his luggage."
The two slightly older teens looked to the Chairman who gave a slight nod. So they left.
"Sit, Nekonome-san, Potter-san. It has been a long time since I have dealt with an English wizard." The Chairman mused.
"Other than me?" Harry smirked.
There was scoff from the shadowed face. "I consider neither you nor Sendo-san to be witches or wizards. You attend my school and it is a school for monsters.
"Still, today was… annoying. I am old, Potter-san. I have dealt with true leaders, beings of great power. But to have those… insects think they could come here and dictate my actions? It almost makes me consider going to England and teaching that fool wizard some respect."
"But…?"
White teeth sparkled in the shadowed cowl as the Chairman grinned. "Why waste my energies on travel when my enemy will come to me."
Harry frowned slightly. "Do you want to deal with him yourself, if he does come?"
"Meh. Should he anger me before he finds you personally, I may see to his education myself. But do not feel the need to spare him for my sake." He shrugged.
"Chairman-sama, how long do you think it will be before they come for Harry-san?" Miss Nekonome asked with concern.
"That depends on how much of a coward this Riddle Tom is."
"You know his name?" Harry asked.
"Ragnok is a close friend of mine. He shared with me everything you told him when he asked that I allow you to enrol here."
Harry nodded in acceptance. He had eventually gotten the name of the goblin who had returned Hedwig to him.
"Nekonome-san, I believe this Riddle to be a coward. He has already been rebuffed by the vampire clans and lycan packs.
"I heard that he was still struggling to woo the giants.
"He knows the true power of the monster world which is why he sent his lackeys. I believe he will try several more indirect approaches before he finds the courage to come here."
"Arrangements will need to be made when school breaks up." Miss Nekonome spoke with worry. "I live near humans. If the wizards find us then they could risk exposing us."
"I will leave those in your hands, Nekonome-san. Potter-san has plenty of resources to call upon."
Harry and Miss Nekonome made their way back to the SPC building. They met up with Gin and Ruby who informed them that they had made sure Macnair expedited his exit.
They scared the ever-loving shit out of him.
They even secured the help of the bus driver to get him back to Britain, he didn't have his wand anymore, after all.
They found Moka waiting for them in the lobby.
"Moka, I might need you to use your contacts to send a m-urk!"
Harry doubled over as Moka calmly slid a dagger into his stomach. Blood trickled from his mouth.
Gin reacted instinctively and backhanded the vampire across the room as Ruby and Miss Nekonome gently laid the dying wizard on the ground.
"Get Yukari." Ruby ordered the teacher. "I need her help." She then turned her attention to the gaping wound in her lover's stomach.
"Harry!"
"Help me deal with Moka." Gin ordered the clearly distraught succubus that had just arrived. "Ruby will deal with Harry."
"Oh no! What on earth happened here?" A new female voice asked in shock.
A blonde haired woman in a long dress approached and knelt opposite Ruby. Her attire resembled that of a nurse during World War I.
"Who are you?" Ruby grunted as she focused her magic.
"I'm the nurse who was called in to treat Mido. That's a nasty looking wound. He'll be dead in a few seconds."
"I will not allow it!" Ruby was breathing heavily.
The nurse giggled. "You won't have a choice."
Ruby's eyes snapped to the woman. She knew, just from the malicious look of satisfaction, that this woman was behind their current situation.
Especially as she now had long needle like fingers that were pointed at her.
"And what will you do now?" She taunted. "Continue your futile attempt to save this pathetic boy, leaving me free to inject you with my mind-control serum? Or will you stop and let him die, just so you can fail at defending yourself?"
Ruby sighed in relief as the woman went flying.
Kagome Ririko was enraged as her tail whipped back and forth. Keito was dangling from the ceiling, spraying her strong web at the dazed nurse.
As soon as Keito had the woman fully trapped, Kagome engulfed her head with her tail.
"What the hell happened?" Gin demanded, he had Moka held tightly in his arms from behind, her arms pinned to her side. "Keito, help me out here."
"You tell us!" Kurumu scowled as Keito began webbing up Moka. "You are the ones who came in, Harry bleeding, Moka trying to kill us."
"She just stabbed him. Didn't say a damned word." Gin growled. Tensions were high and the wrong people were becoming the targets for anger.
"This bitch is responsible." Keito growled as she walked up to Kagome and the nurse. "She was supposed to be here to fix Mido. Ririko and I heard her taunting Ruby as she tried to save Harry. She said something about mind control. Her fingers were like needles."
"How's the kid?" Gin asked as he turned his attention to Harry as the maths teacher continued to hold the nurse under her tail.
"Bad. I think the blade was poisoned." Ruby grunted through her continued efforts. Both her and Yukari were working glowing bright red lights over Harry.
Gin looked around but couldn't see the knife. He knelt down next Yukari and released his wolf form. He then sniffed the wound.
"There was something on the blade. The blade might have been enchanted too." He nodded as he retook human form.
"Ruby…" Yukari's voice was tired, scared and defeated. "I can't keep up."
"Does anyone know of something that will cure the poison?" Kurumu asked. "Would that make closing the wound easier?"
"Can't we just use a bandage?"
Everyone not busy looked at the quiet spoken Mizore.
"We are so stupid." Ruby cursed to herself as she stopped her current spell and conjured bandages around Harry's torso.
"But it won't heal him." Yukari pointed out as she finally relaxed.
"It will free us to recover and figure out alternatives, Yukari." Ruby assured her. She then turned to the others. "The only things I can think of are a bezoar or the tears of a phoenix."
"Where do we get those?" Keito asked.
"I can ask my parents to send us some." Yukari offered.
"I will ask the Chairman to let me go and speak with your parents in person." Ruby nodded. "We can't afford to wait for Hedwig to travel."
"I know of one place where we can get phoenix tears." Miss Nekonome spoke up hesitantly. "Albus Dumbledore has a phoenix."
"Take Ruby and Yukari and speak to the Chairman." Ririko ordered as she finished with the nurse. Her tail was swishing back and forth and she was clearly very angry. "It will be at least an hour before my new thrall awakens. But she will tell us everything when she does."
Miss Nekonome nodded and gestured for the two witches to follow her.
"That just leaves Moka." Kurumu sighed. "She would never hurt Harry so she was probably dosed with that woman's mind-control."
The pink-haired vampire was currently unconscious and hanging from Keito's webs on the opposite wall to the nurse.
"Keito, you'll need to watch Moka. Just make sure your webs are holding if she wakes up and isn't herself." Gin instructed.
"Wait- if that's the nurse who was healing Mido… what happened to Mido?" Mizore asked.
There was a rush as Kurumu and Mizore followed Gin down to the dungeons.
Harry woke up feeling extremely groggy. He vaguely remembered Moka stabbing him in the stomach. She probably didn't mean to or at least regretted it as she was snuggled into his left side in his bed.
Still better than waking up in the Hogwarts infirmary.
"She'll probably still spend all day apologising, but she was under mind control."
Harry looked to his right to see Kurumu standing there in a negligée. Considering how shear it was… it probably wasn't worth wearing.
Unless you took into account that she looked extremely sexy in it. So… worth it.
"How long- How long out?" He asked raspily.
"Two days." Kurumu said as she handed him a glass of water. "The nurse sent to heal Mido was another monstrel. Part of some group called 'anti-thesis'.
"They want all purebloods dead. She was sent to finish you off after Mido failed. She used her ability to control Moka and kill Mido.
"Ririko enslaved her and took everything she knew." She then smirked evilly. "She's been tending your wound whilst we found an antidote. Yukari's parents managed to acquire some bezoars."
"No one else was injured?"
"There was another monstrel. He was actually sent to watch the nurse, her name's Yakumaru Mako. The watcher called himself Yoshii Kiria. He tried to get me to give him Moka." Kurumu smiled evilly. "He underestimated me. The power boost you give me meant that I was too strong for him.
"Be careful though. He is nearly as fast as Gin and did manage to escape."
Harry nodded. "See if we can get a picture of him."
The door opened and a young blonde woman in a nurse's uniform entered.
Well… a parody of a nurse's uniform. It was one piece in white with a zip on the front from top to bottom. The zip was currently at hip level and showed she was not wearing a bra.
Or panties.
Harry was worried as the bottom of the dress was almost as high as the girls' school uniforms. There was no way she could do anything without flashing everything.
"Erm… Kurumu?" He asked nervously.
"This is Mako." The succubus smirked. "Ririko decided that as she was pretending to be a nurse when she had Moka attack you, she would be your nurse."
"Do you feel well, Master? May I serve you?" The 'nurse' bowed very low. So low that Harry could see straight down her dress, through her cleavage and past her thighs.
"Please stand." Harry croaked.
The woman stood up sharply and Harry was worried about the structural integrity of her dress as her breasts bounced causing the zip to lower more. And it wasn't like her breasts were as big as Moka's.
"I'm fine. I'll be out soon." Harry said quickly. "Erm… can you let the others know, please?"
"Of course Master. I will alert Mistress now." She bowed again and backed out.
"Why was she dressed like that?" Harry asked.
"Ririko insisted." Kurumu shrugged. "Would you like me to dress up for you, Harry?" She asked as she slid onto the bed and pressed herself against his side.
"Kurumu."
The succubus sighed as Moka revealed she was now awake.
"You are not having sex with Harry whilst I am here."
"Morning Moka." Harry said with a chuckle. "Is this going to be a more frequent thing?"
Moka blushed, she pulled the covers up to her chest, which didn't really make a difference as she was dressed in a set of silk pink pyjamas. "Maybe sleeping. Not sex."
"As long as you don't get in the way of the rest of us having sex with Harry." Kurumu scowled. "I'll ask Ruby to enlarge the bed some more."
That blush intensified.
"Ririko, can you get information from your thralls?" Harry asked his maths teacher/lover.
"Of course. Not through the same method I control them, but they will do anything I say." She smirked proudly as she sat with Harry in the lounge.
"We need to know about these monstrels. They seem to be part of a group. Can you find out from Mako what they are called, who might be involved and where they are based?"
"Of course darling. MAKO!"
Harry winced at the yell. But Mako was soon standing there in her new uniform.
"You summoned me mistress?" She bowed low.
Harry turned to Ririko, he was about to ask her to make her thrall wear more clothes. But the superior smirk told him it wasn't worth his time. "Make sure she is dressed more when she is in public… please?"
"We'll see."
Harry sighed in resignation. "Mako, what can you tell me about this group of monstrels? Anti-thesis?"
Mako stood up straight. "They seek to destroy all pure blood monsters. They work in secret but have many spies. Some are in the academy."
"The ones in the academy, are they here to cause trouble?" Harry asked.
"Yes Master. They are to cause chaos, unrest. Their task is to have the school turn on itself. They call themselves the Anti-Schoolers."
"Why are they so insistent that they kill me?"
"Because you humiliated several monstrels. You killed them."
"They tried to kill me first." Harry pointed out.
Mako bowed even lower. "Forgive me Master, I do not know. I was told that you were an enemy and that I was to eliminate both yourself and Mido. Mido was a failure and a disgrace."
"Ok… tell me, what would these Anti-thesis people think if they knew I was far less than a pure blood? Nothing but a wizard?"
Mako's head shot up and Harry winced at the ripping noise as the last bit of zipper lost its impossible battle. She was now standing there baring all… but seemingly not caring.
"Truthfully, Master?" She asked in awe. "I- I do not know." She was completely flummoxed.
"Please fix your dress." Harry grimaced. He was used to female nudity, Ririko and Kurumu were notorious for walking around the personal areas in barely nothing.
Gin was not allowed there.
He'd tried it once and Ruby had had to fix the window.
She didn't regret throwing the perverted monster through it.
Mako was struggling with the bottom of her zipper. Not because she was embarrassed at her nudity, she would do anything for her mistress and master.
She was shocked by the admission that her master was considered less than a monstrel. Barely a step above humans.
She finally got the zipper to catch and accidentally pulled it to her naval. She didn't notice the displeasure from her mistress though.
"Master… I- I honestly don't know what to say." She tried to think. "I do not know what Anti-thesis' policy is on wizards."
Harry had a feeling it wouldn't matter. If he wasn't a monstrel and working with them, he'd be considered their enemy.
Harry called a meeting in what was once Kuyou's office.
It was the place where they had both died.
He tried to ignore that part.
"Alright, these monstrels are going to be a long term problem." Harry began as they sat on chairs conjured by he and Yukari. "Aside from being a threat to the school and students, we should also see if we can send warnings to your parents."
"These fools would be no match for my father." Inner Moka scoffed. She was present for this as she was the more tactical of the two Moka's. Usually.
"That is hubris, Moka-san." Miss Nekonome admonished. "We all know what Harry is and he has been injured numerous times."
"Harry is young and inexperienced." Moka shook her head. Despite her usual haughty demeanour, she was clearly not being insulting. "My father is centuries old. I would stand no chance of actually attacking him.
"The Chairman, powerful as he is, would still find him a challenge."
"Then consider it an olive branch." Ririko shrugged. "We saw the animosity he held for Harry. Tell him we are simply warning him so he can ensure he doesn't rumple his best shirt."
Moka had a soft smirk as she tried not to laugh. "I believe I can relay your meaning appropriately."
"What about the monstrels on campus?" Gin asked. "You've survived several assassination attempts already, but it only takes one to succeed and you are dead."
Harry frowned. He was supposed to be the 'law enforcement' for the school. The precise terms being 'School Protection Committee'.
The key term being 'protection'.
"We'll have to interview them." Harry said unhappily. "We can't lock them up just because they are monstrels."
"But we can do so because they were identified as a group that has set themselves as enemies of the school." Ririko reasoned.
"Sure, but only after they've confessed. We make it clear that they are being held for their conspiracy and attacks."
"There is no reason to mention they are monstrels." Miss Nekonome pointed out. "Monster identities are secret after all."
"Which leads us back into a circle of not knowing who the monstrels are." Harry sighed.
Harry decided that instead of taking a pro-active approach, he would have Keito assign her underlings to watch the monstrels. When they started something then he and the gang would deal with it.
At the moment he was sitting in an empty room on the ground floor that looked out into a disused garden. He had a notepad on his lap and a pencil in his hand.
"Harry? Are you ok?" Harry looked up and smiled at Yukari who was watching him with concern.
"Just thinking. Planning."
"Planning? For the monstrels?" She asked as she sat down on the floor next to him, hugging her knees to her chest.
"Nah. I figure I'm the head of the SPC because of my power. I'll leave the brain stuff to people like you and Nekonome-sensei."
Yukari frowned. They had all come to understand Harry's nature of avoiding any sort of claim on responsibility. He was happy to do things, he had just learnt that to avoid attention.
Still, Miss Nekonome had warned the girls off trying to push Harry in this area.
"So what are you planning?" She asked.
"A bath." He grinned at her.
She giggled. "Is bathing really that complicated for you, Harry-kun?"
"A bath for you girls, and Moka and Mizore."
"I thought Moka and I were off limits to you?" She grumbled.
"I am thinking of trying to build a sento." He finally clarified.
"Oh. That sounds nice." She admitted. "But why?"
"Well, it started with Moka. She can't bathe because water is harmful to vampires. It's why we planted all those herbs around the small lake.
"I am trying to figure out how to make one sento that can have a sealed off portion for Moka's 'special' water without actually making a physical barrier."
"It's not really a big deal." Yukari shrugged. "Her herbs are quite nice and we always rinse off after a bath.
"What is special about Mizore?"
The snow-woman was often quiet and mysterious. She was always mischievous. She would find her way into vents and under floors.
Every now and then a shriek would sound throughout the building as she managed to scare someone with her sneaking.
Gin was still being thoroughly mocked.
"Mizore can't be in the heat. Snow woman, remember?"
"Oh…but couldn't she bathe after we have? The water will have cooled by then."
"But that would exclude her." Harry pointed out. "Not to mention it seems rude to have her use others left over water."
Yukari grimaced in disgust at the thought.
"I think I'll start building it anyway." Harry decided. "I'll put up a partition for one section for now and then I'll see what I can do for Mizore."
"Aw… that's so sweet."
Yukari squeaked as Mizore's voice sounded above them.
Yukari had been shocked when Harry started work on the sento. She thought he would use magic to conjure or transfigure.
She'd forgotten his newly discovered nature.
The ground literally opened up. Water travelled from the nearby ocean through underground tunnels. Lava seeped up to several meters beneath the ground.
And that was what Harry did in the first five minutes.
He spent the next few days trying to find a way to get some decent rock formations and plant life for a more natural hot-spring feel.
As it was, he still found everyone but Moka and Mizore sitting in the unfinished bath whilst the aforementioned two sat on the benches in towels.