The Middle: Flashback

"My name is Nami, nice to meet you."

The eyes of the entire class XI students widened staring at the new student standing before them. The student was cute but immediately all felt so wrong after receiving death glare from her for a moment.

Yeah, there's no time for fun, Nami thought. Especially if you had to infiltrate into a remote school like this, there will be no casual walk after school to freshen up after overfullness studying. And, indeed, she was not interested in making friends with them any further. Just for a moment, just finding the vampire that had been so horrendous as the report said about the schoolgirl's disappearing mysteriously, defeating him, then Nami would go again as mission complete. Her 'flight-hours' are high enough to just be friendly and deceive her classmates. After all, Nami herself was convinced she only looked like an ordinary girl without realizing that her energetic figure was the most radiant of any student-at least, to attract vampires who like to prey on the opposite sex. Actually, she was not too confident with her combat skill when it's compared to other slayers. But, it's just usual anxiety that often hit her at the beginning of the mission. After all, there are certain intelligence criteria for being a slayer to be able to outsmart the vampire's intelligence and Nami scores high for it. Once she closed to the quarry, it seemed all the work becomes very easy to complete. No more pleasantries.

And her attention was drawn to a pale-skinned student, whose eyeballs quite clear, whose eyes are wistful, and having a shiny blond hair in the class. Nami has memorized the charm of the vampires. They look different, tend to be handsome and beautiful and smarter than most humans, making them always appear to be surrounded by the opposite sex who's captivated without realizing that they are easy prey. It was said, when sucking the blood of the opposite sex, it's the same pleasure as when having sex. In the same way, the victim feels the same way without knowing that their blood will be sucked to dryness.

"Greetings, mademoiselle, my name is Sanji," the guy said. "May I call you Nami-san?"

Nami did not want to launch aggressive attacks like any other schoolgirls, she wanted to make herself different so that her prey is more interested in her and to target her than any other girls. Nevertheless, she often asked her classmate questions about Sanji to show that she was secretly interested in him.

"Oh, Sanji? He's a nice guy who likes to give me his lunch," Luffy replied. "He's also a good cook but he rarely eats, is that such full by only eating apples?"

"Sanji? Huh, he's just a narcissistic guy who seldom gets along with other guys," Usopp replied. "Like to call us idiot, ugly, greedy. Then he said he's handsome, charming, pretentious guy. Ehhh, he's indeed clever."

Hmm, Nami thought surer. Looks like those traits are quite close to vampires.

As a result, throughout all day activities, Nami also observed him carefully and found the appropriate features of the student named Sanji. During sport and exercise lesson, for example, Nami saw there are two people who have the highest score in the lesson, namely Luffy and Sanji. Luffy was very prominent in his physical endurance or stamina, if the other were tired, then Luffy stayed fit and spirited even though his whole body is sweating. Vampires are not like that. On the contrary, Sanji stood out in his speed and reflexive power, his body was very flexible, he ran like he's flying. He never looked tired but surprisingly he always refused to be played in extra rounds unlike Luffy. He also hardly ever sweats as if his body was really as icy as his skin color. Yes, vampires today are not sunburned even though originally, they cannot stand if they're dried in the middle of the field at 12 noon precisely because it would make their skin blister and smoky, like dry ice that evaporates. They also could hide their aura in the presence of slayer if they were not in a state of hunger and alertness that need to take out cover of their fangs which are longer than humans. And, of course, it wasn't easy for Nami to unmask Sanji's real identity.

And they end up staring at each other. The intensity is more frequent. Initially, Nami always looked away because she did not want to be seen watching him constantly. Sanji chuckled because Nami's attitude made her look like shyly attracted at him. And, finally Sanji approached her, asking for small talk. Nami thought he is a cold guy in accordance with his vampire predicate, forgetting that all along she had seen him so warmly mingling with the girls. Nami then returned his feeling, allowing Sanji enter her territory.

Closer.

More intimate.

Time went and they had been in a relationship for four months. No incident of schoolgirls disappeared again for unknown reason. Nami didn't intend to investigate where the vampire was hiding the victim's body because it might be the place where vampire's strength is the most powerful so she could be trapped. After all, Nami's priority was not to save the victim-it was too late-but to kill the vampire as soon as possible.

"Holiday starts tomorrow, are you going home?" Sanji asked one day.

"Emm, no, I have no family," Nami said lying. "You?"

"Same," he replied. "Mellorine, so we can spend a holiday together."

Nami believed Sanji was also lying. And that's when Nami feel the holiday was the perfect opportunity to end this charade. Then, she can disappear without a trace from the school when other students return the next semester...

End of Flashback