So so so so sorry! I know it's been more than a month since the last chapter, but what can I do? I'm a lazy person who is passing through some creative difficulties. Plus, I had some tests, but now I'm on summer holidays. Yey! And there is also the world cup. Go Brasil-or-what-is-the-country-that-you-are-cheering-for! So that's it, enjoy the chapter. ( By the way, on 29th of June, my brother born. Now there is a cute baby in my house *0* )
[Rin's POV]
"Let's Take a vote on what our class will be doing at the school festival! It's been decided that 1-D will be in charge of light meal. Please write down on the paper what light meal you'd like to make"
"Really?". Today morning, when I was with Konekomaru and Shima in their dorm, I knew about the school festival. It's a big event, which happens every year, and is also open for the public. Me and Yukio had already come here for the festival with father when we were little, but I never imagined that one day I would participate this way in the festival. Now it's my turn!
"Light meal... How about things like Tonjiru and Onigiri? Famous chain stores set up stalls at our school festival too, so it'd be best if we take a pick from the usual choices, right?"
"Are you serious!?", Godaiin trembles as I yell.
"To-tonjiru is overdoing it, I guess!?", Godaiin quickly said.
"How!?", I guess he misunderstood what I meant. "Tonjiru is a specialty of mine, and I can even make Onigiri into triangles ...Let me write that down too! ( Araju is all right too )"
"Oh, really? That's surprising". I was pleased to have my skills recognized, though I don't understand what he meant with 'surprising'.
"Wow, I didn't expect you to cook". I look back and see Mitsuko.
"Why you guys are always surprised by knowing that?". Both of them start laughing, and I am starting to get mad. "What's funny? I didn't get it". But they just laugh even more.
"Come ooon!"
After class, I was leaving with Godaiin when I remembered something. "Hey, Mitsuko", she was guarding her notebooks, and turned to face me as I called her, "Do you want to come with us?". She seemed a bit surprised, but then just smiled and said:
"Thanks, but I had promised Sumiko to go with her to the library and search for a book"
"Ok, so... See you in the cram school?"
"Yeah... Later"
• • •
[Mitsuko's POV]
"Hey, are you listening?". I look up to face Sumiko, who just snapped her fingers, which caught my attention.
"Sorry, I was... I was spacing out..."
"Yeah, for the thousandth time this week. What's happening?"
Well, it's been a week since the last mystery, when Mephisto found out about me. At first, I thought he was going to kill me, but then he just seemed to be amused. Worst, he was amused with the fact that he hadn't suspected of my existence, not even after this whole time... Does he understand that he is technically hiding three children of Satan? I wonder which demon Mephisto really is, to be in Assiah God knows for how long and have none apparently problem neither with demons nor with exorcists.
"Nothing special". She rolls her eyes.
"Fine. I will just pretend that nothing is happening", and with this, she turns and continues to search for the book.
• • •
As I entered the class, Rin, followed by Shima, runs in my direction and almost yelling at me he asks:
"Do you want to go with me!?". I blink twice and tilt a bit my head, absorbing the information.
"Oh, you mean the the musical festival... Hahaha!". He stares at me, astonishment in his face. "Sorry, I won't"
"See, Okumura-kun, you don't know how to invite a girl, you still have much to learn. But, on the other hand, she won't refuse my invitation, will you?, Shima said with a carefree smile while sending me kisses.
"Actually, I will"
"What? Whyyy"
"I think you should stop using the same charms with all the girls", Izumu said with a cold voice, without even looking at him.
"You're so mean, Izumo-chan!"
I take a seat and think about how weird would be going to an musical festival with your brother, while the two of them just wail till Yukio arrives.
"Today you will be doing an writing activity". He picks some papers and distributes to us, while explaining, "It's just some questions, but this would take the whole class. Though there's no problem if you don't finish". But when he was to give me the paper, he didn't. "Everyone will do the activity, except Mitsuko"
"Why!?". I suddenly got desperate. What if it has something to do with Mephisto?
"Well, once you entered the school some months late, you will be having a kind of test, to help us to have a better idea of your individuals skills. Follow me", and then he turned to the rest of the students: "I will be back 5 minutes before the end of the class. You better do the activity, it's a good way to study for the tests, which are after the festival. So, don't just pretend doing it, got it, nii-san?"
"Why are you saying it just for me, Yukio!?"
"I will be back soon", he said, completely ignoring Rin.
I followed Yukio through the hallway for what seemed an eternity, but then we entered a class and he hands me a paper. "First, you will have a writing test. You have 20 minutes, after that, I will receive your test and take you for the second part, which I will explain later", he looks at his watch, "Well, you may start it now"
The test was pretty simple, I had already learned all those things with Asako. In fact, most of the questions were about basic things, so I just took 10 minutes to finish.
Yukio was leaning against the door frame. He was noticeably spacing out, so I called him and he walked over to me. He took my test and had a quick look on it while I stood and guarded my stuff.
"Alright, looks like you made it well. Let's go, now you'll have the second part, which is a practice test", we leave the room and once more have a really long walk, while Yukio was explaining me the test. "You're going to fight against some demons. We will analyse your moves and strategies, and according to your progress, we will put demons with an determinate difficulty of beating. Of course we will only put low class demons, and you will have to fight against in the max five demons"
"Right..."
Some minutes later, we stop in front of a huge door made of metal. Yukio looks at his watch and, with an angry face, takes his phone and dials a number.
"Shura, you're late. Again". "Hurry up, we have to apply a test, and I don't have much time, I got to go to the class". He ends the call and takes a bunch of keys. Seriously, there were a BUNCH of keys. Then, with the most indifferent face that I have ever seen, he just takes one key extremely similar to the others and puts it in the lock of the door, which opens with a noise. Then he makes sign for me to enter, just before he looks at me and changes his expression as notices that I'm staring at him with astonishment.
"Even if", I say pointing him,"I used this room every day I wouldn't pick the right key in the first attempt". Then I walk into the room before he thinks I'm mad ( it wouldn't be a promising start, like 'hey, I'm your sister' 'no, you're mad' ). The room had no windows nor furniture, except for a desk. It seems like an special room for this kind of test, or...
"Is this some kind of interrogation room?"
"Yes"
"Do you use it every day?", I say with an eyebrow raised and pointing the key.
He rolls his eyes and then replies "No. Different from most of the keys, which are like yours that leads to the cram school, this one is just a regular key that I took today specially for the test"
"Ok". Right, I might be pretty paranoid today, but whatever.
Some minutes later, a quite drunk Shura enters the room saying "What's up?" as she closed the door.
"You're working, you shouldn't be drinking"
"Yeah, whatever, scared four-eyes. I thought you were in a hurry, but if you want to chat instead, alright". Yukio clenches his fists with anger, but a sec later he exhales and with a calm voice tell us to begin.
"Alright. Mitsuko", I look at Shura, "has he already explained you the test?", I nod, "So let's start". She cuts her finger and start drawing a magic circle, "Well, this is not my speciality, but it is enough for low class demons". With the circle finished, she chants a spell and a rock appears from the circle.
"Seriously? How am I supposed to exorcise a baryon?"
"That's why it's called 'test'. Figure it out", I raise an eyebrow.
"Fine". I take my sword and walk toward the demon, but when I was one meter of it, it levitated. "Oh, so it's a 'hard' one?". I nail my katana on the ground and a circle appears there, without anyone noticing. The bayron aims me, but I step aside, and it cracks the ground. There, I put an other circle. It attacks me again and I shift. It continuous like this till I have five circles, and the demon be right between them. I look around and see that both Shura and Yukio are bored, not realising my trap.
I activate the trap, exploding the demon, and smile as their faces turns into astonishment. I guess they didn't thought I could manage to put those magical circles.
"One dead, four to go. Oh, and bring something a bit harder for the next one"
The first one to snap out was Shura, saying "Well, looks like you know some tricks. But don't be proud of yourself already, let's see how you handle with the others". I didn't really paid attention to what she said, actually I was a bit worried with the way Yukio was staring at me in a mix of astonishment, nervousness and confusion, but whatever. The next demons remained quite easy to beat, and different from the baryon, I didn't use any magical circle or stuff, just my katana, once the weren't made of stone.
"Ok, you can go back to your class now, tomorrow I will tell you the result"
"Ok, bye". I pass through her and exit the room. It's been almost twenty minutes since Yukio had left, which means that this class is over. At least the next subject isn't outside, I don't want to fight against any other demon...
• • •
[Yukio's POV]
"I gotta go now"
"Fine, as I can see, I will be the one to give her a grade", says Shura, already bored again, but in a different way than before. When Mitsuko was fighting against the baryon, we thought that she didn't know much about real combat, but after we realising her trap, I understood that she's way better than what we imagined. Now that she is using her katana, the battles became so easy that is almost like she is playing with the demons. Mitsuko is fighting against the third demon now, but without any other look, I leave the room, thinking.
She is very approachable and friendly, as I noticed, despite that doesn't talk very much. But today... I don't know, the way she acted was almost like nii-san would, especially with that stupid concern about the keys. Well, the only difference is just that she is noticeably smarter than him, but still... Not only her personality, but I think that there is something strange about her, not sure exactly but I think she might be hiding something.
But whatever this could be, is just one more thing to worry me. I already have many things to concern about, some even worse than this one, like what happened that night when I was fighting against Toudou. Thinking about it, I already decided to go and talk to Mephisto tomorrow, maybe it's my best shot to get some answers.