Chapter 7: Black sabbath

Two days has happen since Kashida and Aegis joined the team and travel to Tartarus. After the demon boy obligated a group of shadows with a beam. When they returned, they didn't end up better opinion of the teenager, quite the opposite, they were even more scare of him.

No one say nothing during the trip back home. Ikutsuki analyzed the video that he got from Aigis. Call him a weirdo but he was actually excited to see the abilities of a self-proclaimed demon. While it was little, every data he got was crucial for his investigations. The Kirijo group was satisfied by that bite of information about the boy.

During the two days, he worked on the female robot. He was allowed to improve her as long she was able to control the demon boy. Ikutsuki didn't know how well this argumentation will fade but if the religious books and the horror movies that he saw during this days actually had real information, the new improvents to her arsenal could at least harm Kashida in case he rebels against them.

For starters, her ammunition change from steel to silver bullets. Silver was considerate by many religions as a holy material, something that demons and creatures of the dark couldn't touch and were extremely weak to eat.

Speaking of silver, he put something that he always want to an to the Anti-shadow weapons. A melee weapon. A sword to be more exact. All the generations were known for their multiples guns that go from machine gun to missiles. On her wrist was a compacted silver sword that had a length of 80 centimeters.

This actually made the headmaster felt a little nostalgic. When he was young, he was obsessed with robots like the gundams. His childhood room was full of model kits….well, his adult room was still full of those kits as well.

So imagine when the Kirijo group give him full freedom on Aigis. Literally, he felt like a child on a toy's store.

Aigis could be his greatest project in his entire life.

And all thanks to Kashida

"Kashida-kun, please. Keep showing me the secrets of our world."

After fighting inside the Tartarus, they still haven't talk to him that he really cares, he was fine by losing his time and listen rock. Today, he has to return to school and try to finally graduated.

How fun.

"Aigis."

"Yes?"

"Why are you inside my room?" The mechanical girl was seiza sitting before his bed. "And why are you wearing a school uniform?"

"Because from this day forward, I will assist the same school as you so that I can supervise you."

"Ok…..you still haven't answering the first question."

"I sneak into the room at 00:32 A.M."

"Why?"

"In order to be closer to you."

"…..Alright." Naoki came out of his bed.

"May I ask you something, Kashida-san?"

"Speak."

"Why are you naked?" She asked, the demi-fiend was indeed completely naked.

"This is how I sleep."

"You don't possess sleep clothing?"

"I don't." He actually didn't have clothes for sleeping, it all depends of his moods. Sometimes he sleeps with his underwear, sometimes naked. They were occasions that he sleep with the clothes that he was wearing at the moment. So, he didn't care what to wear to sleep. Then he realized that the mechanical girl was staring at one point of his body. "Why are you staring at my penis?"

"My apologizes, I haven't seen male genitals until this point."

"Good for you." He went to his wardrobe and took his clothes. "How is that you are coming to school? As far as I know, robots don't go to school."

"Ikutsuki-san take care of my paperwork and the Kirijo group gave a fake identity. For people outside our circle, I'm Aigis Lambros, exchanged student from Greece. My mother is half-Japanese and my father works in the Europe branch of the Kirijo group."

"A little complicated but mostly made sense. But what happen if one of the teachers wants to talks with your 'parents´?"

"We prepared two agents that will act as my parents when the moment requires it."

"I must admit, you people thought of everything."

"Thank you very much." She bowed respectfully.

"I will give you an advice: keep your interactions with people as minimum as you can."

"May I ask the purpose?"

"Aigis, there's a thing that you must understand. Something that took me a while to get." He turned back to see the girl, showing her his tattoos. "We are not humans. They will never understand us, so there's no point to get close to them. Friendships. Partners. Lovers. Those are thing that we will never have with them. The sooner you get it the best."

"Kashida-san." Aigis stand up from her sitting positions. "I have no intentions in engage in any kind of relationships with other people. It will just be a waste of my time. My missions is to watch and defeats the shadows. Friendship and love are meaningless to me."

At this moments, he was grateful that she was a robot and acted like one, so he doesn't need to go into details about how their lives are. But on the other hand, the fact that he follows orders without hesitation and had no drive. Really, really piss him off. Maybe that was the reason why the old man was interesting on her, she could be easily be what he couldn't be: a tool.

Naoki finally dressed up and made a gesture to follow him. The girl once again obey the order.

Thankfully, he didn't have to interact with his roommates, neither had he to walk to school with them. For how little he knew them, they most likely were terrified of him after using Freikrugel on those shadows. As a matter of fact, they didn't invite him to go to the Tartarus anymore during the past two days.

Good. That place was too boring.

He hoped that this didn't break his accord with the elder Kirijo.

"My lord." He was taken back by the sudden voice of one his demon inside his head.

"Chulaiin? Odd that you speak to me by thoughts? Is something wrong?"

"Yes. I have being spoken with lady Dakini and she told me about an event that will happen tonight."

"IS about shadows?"

"No, demons."

"My name is Aigis Lambros, I'm from Greece. It's a pleasure to meet you all." Aigis presented herself to her new classroom. Everyone was shocked by her suppose beauty, the wankers were blushing heavily while the girls were angry that they have another beauty to compete in the same class.

AS he expected, she sit beside him. Thankfully, she took his advice and didn't speak to him for all the firsts' periods.

But that advice didn't protect her for the avalanche of curious people that bomber her with question.

"From which part of Greece did you come from?"

"From the capital, Atenas."

"Why did you came to Japan?"

"Because of my father's job."

"Which is?"

"He works as a researcher for the Kirijo Group."

"Wait, doesn't mean that your dad works for Kirijo-san's father?"

"I heard that people from the European branch were being translated to the Japanese branch." It was Mitsuru that come into the conversation, she was totally aware of her forged background and was doing her part of the job. "If father call yours to our branch, then he must be a really talented man. Congratulations."

She was good. She definitely was a business man's daughter. Perhaps she could become someone as Hikawa, only that she won't be a genocidal asshole. He hoped.

"I'm Kirijo Mitsuru. I'm the class representative and the student council president. If you need something, don't be afraid of ask me." She said with the most delightful smile she could fake and everyone buy it.

"Of course, thank you." Or maybe this was a plan that made the Kirijo girl look better. It could be, those families only care about appearances.

Thankfully, he didn't.

"Oi." Kashida talked, something that surprised the whole class. He merely tried to interact with people and people already labeled him as a loner. "Are you free after class?" No one expected that from him, even Kirijo and Sanada were shocked. Although, they were thinking something completely different as the other teenagers.

"I do not."

"Come with me after class. We're going to a very cool place."

"Very well." She answered, and by that he come back to his seats. Leaving everyone gossip about just happen.

"D-did Kashida just ask her out?"

"I didn't expect her to do that…"

"I'm more surprise that she actually accept."

"If it was that easy, I would have ask her out."

Meanwhile, the two persona users were dead worried. Why does she want to walk with her? They didn't say anything but they already knew what to do.

School was not stimulating nor educational for her. All the information that professors give to her was useless to her. She just stand there and let them talk. No truly paying attention of what she saying.

The only thing that she thought about was her mission. Kashida Naoki requested to join her into joining her into an activity that she was unaware of. Even so, she was aware that she had to keep her guard up. Kashida Naoki was a demon, lies and deceiving are part of his nature.

Part of her mission was to supervise him 24/7 with no exception, if he willingly wanted her to spend time with her then it was better for her mission.

"Aigis-san, can we talk in privately?" Mitsuru-san requested her companionship. She followed the redhead into the hallways. "What was that?"

"Excuse me?"

"Why did you accept Kashida's invitation?"

"I shouldn't have?"

"No! You know what that man is capable of! What if he tries to dispose of you?"

"Ikutsuki-san has made improvement to my arsenal in order to equal our levels. If the situation goes hostile, I have full permission of dispose of him."

"You believe that you are capable of doing it?"

"My chances of killing him are of 62%, Mitsuru-san."

"Those…doesn't seem very high."

"Fear not. I possess protocols if he surpass my strength."

"What are you girls doing?" Kashida Naoki was standing beside them. It surprised her that she wasn't able to detect him until now.

"It's a private conversation, Kashida."

"Didn't take you for the one who has girl talks."

"And you for going out with people." She returned. "What are you planning?"

"Just a little boding between partners. We non humans should stand together." His statement had some truth. She was an android and he a demon, so his statement was truth. Although, she was wondering why he needed such an alliance. "You ready?"

"We can leave."

"Good."

"Where are you taking here?"

"Jealous?" Mitsuru-san glared at him, showing her offense of his transgression. "Don't worry, I will kept her safe." She put his arms on her back, pushing her away from the Kirijo heiress.

"I do concur with Mitsuru-san. Where are going exactly?"

"To a party."

"Then why the other can't join us."

"It's a private event and I can only take one person with me."

"Why choosing me?

"You follow me everywhere I go. So it's better to take you as my plus one rather than you trying to get in."

"I see. Then thank you for inviting me."

"Whatever. Just don't do anything stupid."

Aigis travel with him inside the train. They went far away from their normal stations. For what she deduced, this party was far from the center of Tatsumi port, almost reaching its limits.

And it was obvious that they were far from the center. IT merely has people walking on the street and the ones who were, they were on a line. Aigis observed the people on the line, they all were waiting to get inside a storage facility and for what she could see and heard, there was a party happening inside.

All those persons looked like young adults, as a matter of fact, they were the only ones wearing school uniforms. How that is the organizers allowed minors to enter the party? They weren't children and Kashida Naoki was eighteen years old but the point still stands.

She saw the sky while waiting, the dawn was already started.

"Hey."

"Yes?"

"Can know the hour without seeing a watch?"

"I possess an intern clock inside my cpu."

"Then tell me when is almost midnight."

"Don't worry, we'll be out before the dark hour starts."

"Good to know." They both reached the entrance when two big men were guarded. "Good evening."

"Password."

"Black Sabbath." Both guards let them in.

The place was amazingly big and crowded. Neon lights were all over the roof, and music was unhealthy loud. She didn't recognize the genre, but it didn't have a true rhythm. It was a constant rumble that was truly obnoxious.

But what disturbed the most was the amount of indecency inside the building. People low on clothes, poll dancers, people having coitus and sexual practices in front of everyone. Not only that, she could also see the consuming of illegal substances.

"Naoki-san, didn't you say that this was a party?"

"It is a party."

"This in an illegal party."

"And?"

"We shouldn't be here, this could get us into trouble."

"Not really. Plenty of cops are aware of this party, they just look to another way."

"You reveal to me the corruption of authorities."

"Yes. But what you gonna do? Is not your problem to solve, you said, you came to watch over me and defeats shadows. Unless this affects the group, there's no reason to you to get involved."

"The fact that we are here can be considerate illegal."

"That's funny. As far as I know, forging documents about someone identity is also a crime. And I'm pretty sure that the S.E.E.S activities can be seen as child neglect."

"That is not truth. All the members of the shadows operatives do their duties willingly."

"That what she said."

"Who?"

"….You are going to be a great partner, Aigis." One of the worst parts of Kashida Naoki is that she wasn't able to tell whenever he was lying or not. "Finally, an empty seat." They both find a red cushion seat before a small table. "Are you going to seat or what?" Aigis sit at his side. The seat was really small, they were really close to each other. "I need to know something really important: if you take any kind of liquids in general, does that affects you or something?"

"I do not. My internal and external systems are water proof."

"Great- *Snap* Waitress!" He snapped his fingers and a waitress dressed as a bunny came. "Bring me a bottle of Vodka and….what you want?"

"Should I ask for something?"

"Hmmm, bring her a big glass of Brezza. Thank you."

"What is a Brezza?"

"It doesn't matter, just drink a sip and leave it."

"Kashida-san, may I remind you the effects that alcohol had on your body?"

"Do you want to know more data about my nature?"

"Yes."

"Here's something for your bosses: Alcohol had no effects on me. As a matter of fact, it is good for me."

"…..Truly?"

"Yeah. Demons can't get drunk with humans' beverages. You see when someone drinks alcohol is bad for their body? Is the opposite with me, the more a drink the better I get."

"In what way?"

"….Think like I'm drinking energy drinks or a Gatorade."

"I don't know what a 'Gatorade' is."

"An Isotonic drink."

"I see…"

The waitress came with their orders. A 3 lit. bottle of Vodka and a glass that contain a red drink with ice and a slice of orange. "For the couple."

"We-"

"Thank you, darling." He give the waitress a 5000 yen bill. "Good." He grabbed the bottle and open up. "Cheers." He drink the bottle.

Aigis grabbed her drink and stared at it. She was analyzed the chemicals components of the drinks, in order to see if it was adulterated somehow. But besides alcohol and multiple fruit juices, it was a normal alcoholic drink.

Yet there was a question that was present inside her processor: Why was he doing this? What could he get with bringing here and made her drink alcohol?

Rethinking all she saw and his current behaviors, analyzing where they were, the hour and the drinks. Looking inside her data about human behavior and taking the fact that he was a human at one point, she came to one conclusion.

"Kashida-san?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you trying to seduce me?"

"….HUH?" He looked amazingly disgusts, angry and disgusted. "How the fuck did you think that?"

"For starters, you ask me to come to a party the two of us. While you told me that you could only bring one person, you choose me among all the other members who will be more comfortable in this situation. Second, we are on a dark and indecent place, I have count over fifty sexual encounters since I enter the party. Third, we are currently sitting very closely and you bring me alcohol, a normal tactic that men uses to partake in intercourse with women."

"All I hear was: 'Kill me, Demi-fiend.' 'Kill me.'"

"I don't understand how you interpreted killing intentions with what I say."

"You make me wish that I could get drunk." He took another sip on the bottle. "And I'm not trying to seduce you, I don't even attract to you."

"You don't?"

"You're a fucking robot. Is like being attracted to a car."

"Aren't demons perverse beings who participates on sinful activities?"

"Have you ever heard or read about a demon having sex with a machine?"

"No."

"There's your answer. Now be a good toaster and drink your drink."

"How?"

"….You put the glass on your lips, you let it get inside your mouth and swallow it."

She grabbed the glass with delicacy, Aigis started at the alcoholic drink for a couple of seconds. There was no point of getting alarmed, thanks to her compositions she couldn't get any of the neuropathic damages, neural problems and addiction that alcohol caused on humans.

So, she give a sip and….

"¡!"

What happen next was the hardest experience to explain. When that liquid came into contact she was able to taste it. TO TASTE IT! How was that physical possible?! Taste come from the papillae of the tongue that contain the taste buds that possess thousands of microvilli which they emitted neural signals to the brain that informed it if what they were tasting was sweet, sour, salt or bitter.

Right now, she was having something like that without having any of those organs.

Her internal processor was burning with information that wasn't able to comprehend on numbers. Was it sweet? Sour? She couldn't tell because she has never taste…anything before.

Right now, her whole world was being expanded to horizons that she couldn't gasped before.

Without hesitation, she swallow her drink in one shot.

"Didn't expect that."

"What did you do to me?"

"What you mean?"

"I-I shouldn't be able to taste anything."

"Ok? And?"

"Did you do alternated the drink somehow?"

"No….Let me smell it." He grabbed her glass and put it close to his nose. "I don't smell nothing unusual. Is just a normal drink."

"How? I wouldn't be able to taste it, something is wrong."

"Maybe Ikutsuki made some modification on your tongue."

"why?"

"Hell should I know." He drink his bottle that was almost finish. "Let's do this: I'm going to ask you to bring another cup and prove if you can actually taste it."

"What if someone actually alter my drink."

"If someone does it then I will beat them."

2 Hours later.

Time pass by and so the drinks. On their table were 3 bottles of vodka, 4 empty beer cans, one bottle of wine and 2 bottles of Ron. And that was from the demi-fiend, on Aigis' side were at least 14 empty glasses, not counting the one that was on her hand.

Brezza

Martini Roso, Dry and bianco

Gintonic

Cosmopolitan

Bloody mary

Sex on the beach

Long island

Daiquiri

Side car

Ron with coke

Mimosa

Margarita

Black and white Russian

Clericot

That was the list of beverages she had during this night. None of them seen any different from when you order them on any other bar.

"You drink like a drunken trucker."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be, I was just making an observation." On his hand was a bottle of bourbon. "Hey…where all that liquids go? As far I know you don't have the organs to leak all that stuff, unless you have a secret vagina that I don't know."

"Liquids often get boiled inside my body and I expulsed via steam."

"So, you sweat it out?"

"Essentially, yes."

"I see."

"What about you?"

"What about me?"

"Do you secrete your substances?"

"My body works like any other: I eat, digest, I piss and shit. I will go to the bathroom when we get to the dorms."

"Wouldn't be better to go now?"

"Have you seen a bathroom here?" As a matter of fact, she hadn't seen a bathroom inside this place. Or an emergency exit. "Are you going to drink that?"

Aigis looked at her glass, she order a Manhattan this time. Honestly, she didn't expected to spend her night drinking and tasting in an illegal party. It was a wordless experience.

"Well, hello there." Two men approach her, they were wearing baggy clothes and they were reeking of alcohol. One of them had white powder on his leg. "Never expected to see a school girl here." They were fixated on her and were too close to her. "What don't you come to party with us?"

"You don't mind, pal? Can you share her with us?" Kashida Naoki didn't seem to acknowledge their existence, he keep drinking his bottle. "I will take that as a yes."

"Excuse me but I haven't accept your invitation."

"C'mon, you're gonna like it. Is better than be here and do nothing."

"I refuse to come with you."

"Don't be an ass."

"Please go."

"Hey, I get what I want." He grabbed her wrist and tried to pull her. But for his surprise, she couldn't move her an inch. "Jesus, how strong you are?"

This was a bad situation. These two men were intoxicated and they didn't care about her opinion. Their behavior was the same as sexual predators uses with women whenever they rejected them. Should she engage in battle? Aigis knew the correct amount of strength to use to incapacity people for moving but she didn't know if getting in a fight will be acceptable in the current context.

Maybe if she stay still like she was doing right now they will give up? But what if they do it with another girl? It was hypocrite to talk about norms and morals when she was in an illegal party and drinking alcohol.

What could she do?

"Sleep."

The two men feel to the ground immediately, completely out of conscience. She turned her head to see her companion who was still ignoring the two.

"What?"

"What did you do to them?"

"I put them to sleep with a spell."

"You can do that?"

"Yeah. And is not very hard to do." He took another sip. "I'm out of booze." His turned his eyes on her. "What time is it?"

"23:48 P.M"

"I told you to tell me when is almost midnight."

"I'm sorry, I got myself lose with the…"

"Don't worry. At least you were doing what you want."

"Eh?"

"I'm just saying that I like that you decide to do something by your own decision rather than an order."

"Didn't you suggest me to order more drinks?"

"Yes, but you choose which one and decided to drink them entirely. I never force you keep doing it or to start it. You choose it yourself."

He…was somehow right. He did suggest but it was her that choose to drink. Her mission was to always watch him but the rest was on her behalf.

"How good is your aim?"

"I have a 98.7% of accuracy."

"A very good number, almost perfect."

"Kashida-san?"

"Tell me."

"The reason why you want to know when is almost midnight is because you're going to use the dark hour to get away without paying?"

"Do you really think that I'm capable of such a thing?" He received silent as an answer. "Thank you for your trust. And no, I'm not planning that."

"Then why you want to know when is almost midnight?"

"Because at midnight is when the party is truly going to start."

"What you mean by that?"

"How long until midnight?"

"9 minutes."

"In 9 minutes you will see why."

"What are you planning?"

"Me? Nothing. The ones who made all this shit? A big ass Sabbat."

A Sabbat also known as Akelarre is what the Basque called the day when witches reunited in order to realize pagan rituals. They often sacrifices people to a goat statue that symbolize the devil so they could get his dark powers.

Right now, this place was crowded. And it didn't have any exits.

"We need to help these people."

"We can't."

"Yes, we can."

"I'm not trying to be a crazy asshole but we REALLY can't. There's no exit."

"The entrance."

"That's an entrance not an exit."

"But it can be uses as an exit."

"It doesn't work like that. Not in here." He looked directly to her eyes. "This…is not a building. It's a domain. A demon's domain."

"What?"

"Once you enter the domain, you can't get out unless its maker let you or kill him."

"Then we kill the demon and let everyone out."

"Is not that easy. The demon won't appear until midnight or the domain is complete." For the first time they sit, he stood up from his seat. "All this people are either going to die or become a demon." He started to take off his upper clothing. "We can't save no one inside, they all be death by midnight. There's nothing we can't do."

"Then why you bring me here?"

"Because you're the only one of those idiots who can actually survive what's coming." He remove his clothes and now was completely shirtless. "Pixie. Jack Frost. Chulaiin."

"Here." A white armored man was summon, he had long black hair and was wielding a long spear.

"Hee-hoo." A…..tiny cartoon snow man was summoned as well. She actually remember seeing this creature before on some keychains that the other girls of the school put on their bags.

"Can you for once call me that is not fighting, Nao?" The last one was the only one that she had information about. Her data said that her name was Pixie and like her name indicated she was indeed a fairy. "Wait. You were in a Sabbat and didn't invite me?!" Then she realized that Aigis was here. "ANOTHER WOMAN?! YOU CHEAT ON ME?! HOW COULD YOU?!"

"Quiet, I have enough with the bad music drilling my ears." He said with annoyance. "Guys, this is Aigis. She is a rookie with demon stuff, so assist her during the sabbat."

"No problem."

"I refuse!" Pixie crossed her arms. "Why should I help her?! You were slowly drunken her like an incubus so that-ouch!"

"Shut up." His tattoos appeared on his body. "How long until midnight?"

"3 minutes."

"Then get ready, toaster." He started to strench his arms. "What you guys think?"

"For the type of party, I will say that some kind of sexual demon is involve."

"Succubus or incubus-hoo?"

"Maybe both."

"And whatever this idiots will turn on." Naoki snapped his fingers and his body was surrounded by energy. "Jack, buff Aigis a little."

"Right now-hoo!" The snow creature came close to Aigis and raise its hand. Suddenly, all her systems were over 200% of functionality. "I increase all her attributes."

"Good. Pixie, as always you take care of the healing."

"Sure. Want me to wear a tight white dress and garter straps as well?"

"I will treat you after the fight."

"You better be, I don't work for free."

"I'm ready people." The man said, already on a fighting stance.

"Aigis."

"One minute!"

"Remember this: whatever happen to this people, is not your fault nor your responsibility. They choose to come to a party made by someone who they don't know."

Inside her, the clock was still going.

23:59:38

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00:00:00

Midnight came.

00:00:01

But not the dark hour.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She heard a woman scream, she search from where it come. And the she saw a person who upper body was eaten by a giant mouth.

She immediately raise her hands but screams came from everywhere. In a second, dozens upon dozens of people lay death on the ground. Their blood and organs painted the place in red.

Monster came out of anywhere. Giants snake creatures, blobs of flesh, unspeakable chimeras. They all were killing, eating and raping all the humans that they grab.

It was…It was …It was…

"Hellish, isn't it?" She felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked at the demi-fiend standing at her side. "Advice: try to not do anything stupid like dying."

This chapter is based on the first chapter of Devilman: Crybaby, almost copying it. At this point, I'm going all berserk on this shit.

Be ready for the next chapter, people!