Forbidden Love
Ep. VI
"Activate armor," Mikoto said in a calming tone, knowing full well that was going beyond her limit but she can't just let an innocent person get killed. At her command, a piece of onyx breastplate materialized itself on her torso, but it was yet in a complete state (or will ever be) when the beam made contact piercing the armor causing it to disappeared as quickly as it materialized and hit into the flesh creating unbelievable pain to its target. Blood quickly spread and stained the front of Mikoto's shirt as she leaned forward to balance herself while spitting out fresh blood, Mikoto was slowly losing her senses as well as her vision.
"Damn fox," Nao cursed at the creature yet again as extended her fingers outward shooting her thin and undetectably fine wires from her fingers. Focusing all of her energy, she carefully manipulated all the strings to make sure that each of them was placed tightly around a part of the demon. Grabbing her hands into fists, she took a leap into the night sky pulling the demon up in the air with her. Nao then releasing her energy as she once again extended her fingers outward, she twirled in the air faster as faster like a small tornado picking up its pace to become a bigger tornado ripping the thing from limp to limp.
Simultaneously, Mikoto swayed and fell backward to the unexpected and yet still freaked out Tohkiha Mai. "Ahh… sensei…" Mai panicked as she caught her teacher. She felt something warm in her hands, being that she knew the basic of magic Mai isn't good enough to use it to create a emanate light to see what's wrong with her teacher. At wit's end and desperate to help out her teacher, Mai focused what she had learned and miraculously she somehow created a glowing orb the emanate light bright like the full moon letting her see the state of her savior (which isn't so good mind-you).
"Yuuki-sensei, you're getting a bit sloppy…" a calming yet familiar voice rung out and got everyone's attention, though Mikoto was having a hard time paying attention. All of the body parts from the demons were absorbed into a bell in Yukino's hand; the young Vice Principle dresses in casual clothing consist of slacks, shirt and vest. Her movements were one with grace as she landed in front of Mai along with Nao beside her. Together they took Mikoto back to Mai's room since it would be the nearest place to move the wounded teacher without causing anymore lost of blood.
Delicately, Yukino cut her finger with a glass shard, and magically all the broken glass on the floor float upward and patched itself up making it looked like nothing happened to the room. Once the windows were fixed, Yukino turned her attention to a shallow breathing Mikoto on the floor. She had instructed the other two to leave the feral girl on the floor instead of moving her to bed, since she's technically still bleeding and that would stained the bed badly.
The shy woman reached out and about to unbutton Mikoto's shirt when one of her hands was caught by a half-dead Mikoto. "D-don't… touch me…" her voice was shallow and hoarse but there's something in it that made Yukino shuddered involuntarily. It might be the claws on her gauntlets or it might be the gauntlets itself, "Alright, but expect to hear Haruka lecturing you two tomorrow for your carelessness." Yukino finally turned her attention to Mai as Nao wiped the blood from Mikoto's mouth.
"Tohkiha-kun, you are still a novice in magi but I'm surprise that you can manage to call forth such incredible light orb. Coming from a long line of Magnus, you are naturally to become the next one to inherit such title in your family. Though being a half-bake will not get you there, I suggest that you should seriously train yourself. Of course, we will have to set you up with someone that will suit to be your teacher." Yukino said as she took a sip of the tea that Mai prepared right after they got back to her room, luckily the rest of the others somehow weren't stirred by all that commotion a while ago. "Don't worry, when demons appear the sleeping spell takes affect and everyone would experience nothing but a peaceful sleep. Only those with magic power within them to withstand such spell," Yukino explained seeming to know exactly what Mai was thinking.
Mikoto stayed at Mai's room, but before she teen got up for school the teacher was already gone without a trace. Mikoto bandaged her own wound up, washed herself and put on new clothes and readied for the shouting that she was doomed to hear from Haruka today. Even with the amount of nanonite in her body, it couldn't heal her up completely. After all, the beam did pierced her heart, Mikoto was lucky that it didn't went through her heart otherwise she would be dead for real. Thanks to the advancement in technologies that she's able to walk around right now, the nanonite temporarily restored the muscles of the heart and repair it rather quickly but it still took time to be completely healed with the help of nanonite (a few years without it).
"Yuuki Nao, do not think that just because of your title that you won't get fire from your job as a teacher!" Mikoto could already hear Haruka's voice even though she was still nearly a dozen of yards from the gauken-cho's office. Time to face the music, Mikoto sighed raising her hand up to knock on the door.
"Sensei, I didn't noticed that you left so early," Mai said jolting Mikoto right out of her blank thoughts. "What are you doing here?" Mikoto asked narrowing at eyes at the ever smiling student. "Kikukawa-sensei sent for me, didn't you remember her words from last night?" Mai asked smiling still because she's thrilled to be able to talk to her crush this early in the morning and there's no one around but them. "…" Mikoto just shrugged in reply and knocked the door lightly. Once again, she thought the door to the office would be ripped off when she saw Haruka was the one that opened the door, the blonde woman glared at Mikoto but soften her gaze just a tiny bit when she looked at Mai.
"Well, I'm please to say that Kuga came back from her trip a bit early, which means that she will be back to work today." Haruka said after everyone settled down. Mikoto was inwardly happy as she really doesn't felt suit to teach, the lab suit her way better. But this also meant that Natsuki really done something stupid enough that Shizuru would call off the honeymoon after being there just for one day, Mikoto shuddered at the thought of coming home to an unpleasant atmosphere.
"Tohkiha-kun, now that things have gone back to normal. We will now also take this opportunity to assign you to your new teacher, who will train you in becoming an upright Magnus of course." Yukino said after Haruka's announcement. "Eh?" Mai wasn't prepared for such a quick decision this early. "It's only natural that one Magnus should teach another in the art of magic," Nao interrupted. "Unfortunately, the only Magnus around here is you, Yukino." Nao finished pointing at the shy woman behind the red oak desk. "True, but I am not suit to have a pupil you see," Yukino said while adjusting her glasses. "And to be clear, only Seer can take on pupil and I am still but far from achieving such grand title." Yukino explained. "From this day on, Minagi-sensei will be the one to teach you about the principle of magic." Yukino announced.
Silence reign the office, Haruka got no saying in this matter because she herself isn't a Magnus but a very normal human and so is Shiho. Nao herself isn't any better, since she's just a Portal Keeper, and one such as herself doesn't know anything about magic. Mikoto was neither a Magnus nor a Portal Keeper, since she bare neither title it was kind of strange when Yukino appointed her as Mai's teacher. Mai was stunned, upset because her crush will not be teaching anymore and happy when told that she will be her student again, completely confused about everyone's identity in this office.
"I object," Mikoto finally said. "Overruled," Yukino replied flatly and calmly. "Give me a good reason why then?" Mikoto asked crossing her arms in front of her chest. "Even though you're neither a Magnus nor a Portal Keeper, but your knowledge about both classes was beyond even the Grand Seer. You are the granddaughter of the great…" "Enough," Mikoto cut Yukino off suddenly. "Tohkiha, we will start class this Friday after school so be prepare," Mikoto said with a stern gaze before turning her heels and left the office without saying anything more. "Yes sensei!" Mai called after the feral girl with high enthuse.