Chapter 9: Against Asimov

She had lost conscience, she wasn't able to reboot her systems. She was shut down. But she was aware of it. How? Her eyes were slowly opening, she wasn't in that nightmarish party anymore. She was inside an elevator that was going upwards, on it was an elder man behind a desk. His eyes were enormous and his nose as well.

"Welcome to the Velvet Room." He spoke. "Ooooh, a very interesting guest. One we were looking forward to meet."

"Where…I am?"

"Don't be alarm, your physical body is safe. The Demi-fiend is currently taking care of you, no one better to rely on, if I may say."

"Who are you…?"

"OH, forgive my manners! My name is Igor and this is my assistant, Elizabeth." He pointed to a young lady at his side, she was wearing a blue attendance dress.

"Pleased to meet you."

"This place exits between dreams and reality. A place where that exits for those who forged a contract."

She tried to understand what was going on. Was this a dream? That's impossible, she wasn't able to produce such things. She will need a brain to do so, something that she lacked.

"Do you believe in…"

*RUMBLE!*

Suddenly the elevator started to shake violently. Neither of those two residents seem alarmed.

"This is curious. He is forcing you to wake up, no one has ever managed to do anything like this. As expected of the Demi-fiend."

"Demi-Fiend? You mean Kashida Naoki?"

*RUMBLE*

"Our time is cutting short, young guest. We'll be meet again, until then."

"WAKE UP, FUCKING TOASTER!" She wake up by the sight of Kashida Naoki yelling at her. "I'm being trying to wake you for half an hour. I even tried to charge your batteries."

"Kashida Naoki."

"The same. And that you're awake."

*THUD*

She didn't realize that she was being carrying until he left her drop to the ground. "I don't have to carry you anymore".

"W-what happen to me?"

"You pass out after killing that demon." She remember that she was being destroyed by that-monster. Then she heard a voice calling for her and a light that consume her. She touched her body, she was unharmed. How was this possible? Her body was in critical state, she was for a lack of a better term junk. Now her body was in a perfect state. "Now, can you walk?"

"Yes."

"Then stop wasting my time and go." Aigis decided to ignore his words and try to stand. She looked around, they weren't inside that place anymore but on an abandoned street. Aigis tried to recall what happen there…

And then she remember all those people.

"Naoki-San! What happen-?!"

"If you wonder if someone survive, let me tell you that we and some runaway demons are the only survivors."

"You-You let all those people die?"

"They were dead the moment they went inside that building. If they weren't kill by a demon they will definitely turn into one. Don't make a fuzz about it. It was always happen in a Sabbath." Something inside her body made her move her body towards him, she wanted to eliminate him for what he just said. Before she could do something, he grabbed her wrist. "If this is how you're going to behave, I will ask Ikutsuki to reboot you."

"Grrr..," She grunted, whatever he was doing to her was…doing something to her and she didn't know what she was experiencing. "Let go of me!" She pushed him away, for both surprised he was threw very far from her.

"What the fuck?" He said with his eyes wide open, he didn't expected that either.

But his surprised wasn't compare to hers. When she put her hand on his chest, she wasn't just aware of her action. She….feel it. She feel his chest on her fingers. It was…It was….what it was? Aigis walked towards him, he looked angry at her and ready to attack her.

Yet, she didn't want to do such a thing. She wanted to touch him and prove it. Her fingers hesitate, he was staring at her confused. Shakenly, she approached his skin. For the first time, she took her time to observe his body. It was demonic, the tattoos weren't just paint, and they were fused with his skin as he always had it.

And so, her finger tips touched his chest. It was….it was something. And that shocked her to the core.

*SLAP!*

Her cheek was red, something that never happen before. Where he slap her it feel hot, unbearable hot.

And then

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Aigis screamed like….actually, this was the first time she ever screamed. What was this feeling?

"You feel that…" He got closer to her and grabbed her arms. "This? Do you feel it?"

"Y-yes….why did you hit me?"

"What else are you feeling? Do you want to eat or to kill a human?"

"What are you speaking of?"

"Answer me!"

"Release me!" Aigis break free from his grab, her strength was outside her known parameters. "What… what did you do to me?"

"Nothing."

"I wasn't able to toss you with these ease….I shouldn't be able to-to…." She went silent for a couple of seconds, then she realized something. "The drinks….I was able to taste them, I shouldn't be able to do so. I don't have sense of taste."

"Those 15 drinks makes me believe otherwise." She pointed her fingers to his face. "Really? Hadn't you learn anything?"

"You let all those people die."

"Is not that we could do something to help them. They're dead, deal with it."

*BRRRRR*

Without warning, she fire at him. She managed to push him back a little but her bullets while stronger than before it wasn't enough to truly hurt him

"Sleep" He casted a spell, thankfully she didn't have-

"Good morning, toaster." For some reason, they weren't on the street anymore but inside the student dorms, his room to be exactly. How? "It's early so you have time to prepare, your uniform is on the desk."

She was feeling a….comfortable sensation on her body. Now she realized that she was using his bed.

"What did you do to me?"

"I put you to sleep and carry you home."

"How?"

"Well, I summon Garuda and we fly-"

"That's not what I want to know. How did you put me to sleep? I'm physically incapable of sleeping."

"Really? My bed says other thing."

"I remember what we were talking, Kashida Naoki. You let all those people die."

"I'm starting to worry that you CPU is broken, because you can't stop talking about the same thing."

"I will inform Ikutsuki-san and Mitsuru-san about this."

"No, you won't."

"I had to report your movements to my superiors."

"That actually will be worst move you can't make."

"Doubtful."

"No, you see if you tell someone about the Sabbath, they are going to get ballistic. And if they learn what a Sabbath can do….believe me, I know those kind of people. Which is the same reason why you won't tell them about your 'feelings'"

"I must tell them."

"The moment they learn about it, they will open you like a frog and investigate the origin of your changes. And when they do it, I will kill them." Aigis wined her eyes. "Why are you surprise? I told Kirijo that if he cross me or do something fuck up, I will murder him."

"You know what happen to me. Answer."

"…..I have theory. But in order to check it, I need that you open your mouth."

"For what purpose?"

"Just open it." Aigis didn't hesitate and open her mouth. Without warning, he put his forehand inside her mouth down to her throat. It was a horrible sensation, disgusting. Suddenly she felt that something inside of her was being pull. Kashida Naoki pull his arm off and extracted a worm like creature from her insides. "...I was fucking right. Shit."

Aigis observe the living creature that she wasn't aware that she had inside her. According to her data, that creature was named.

"This is a magatama."

"How—How did it got inside me?"

"Honestly, I have no idea. Your guess is as good as mine."

"Does…Does that mean that I'm a demon."

"No. And that the most curious part. At first I thought that you were a Demi-fiend like me but then after spend some time with you, the feeling I have is not the same as me."

"I'm not a demon?"

"At all, neither a Demi-fiend. I have no fucking clue what you are right now."

"When did you suspect that I have a Magatama?"

"Since the moment we met."

"…What?"

"The moment I see you, I feel a Magatama inside you. Of course, it was on its larva state. So when one of my demons told me that there was going to be a Sabbath in town was the perfect chance to gather magatsuhi for your bug."

The revelation impacted deeply. Now, she was feeling like she did before yesterday. Cold and empty.

"You…You let all those people die just to make me….?"

"For the third fucking time, those people were dead the moment they get inside. Even if we managed to warn all those guys and ruin the party, the host could just wait and do another in another part of the town. You think what you saw was a massacre? That's just a Friday night for me." Naoki eyes went completely empty as her. She started at his yellow turning eyes, the sensation she got from them was like if someone was dismantling her body while conscious. "You know that Japan is one of the countries with the highest amount of deaths and disappearance? Over ten thousands per year, 98% of those numbers are caused by demons and evil spirtis. And we're just talking about Japan, imagine the number we could get if we fuse together all the people who died by the same causes. It will be larger than the deaths by car accidents."

"Right now, there a dozen of Sabbath happening in Japan without us noticing. That Sabbath was going to happen with or without us. The sooner you get it, the better for us. Now, put on your fucking uniform and go to school. And don't dare to tell anyone about this conversation, if you do….you know the answer." He turned his back to his door and throw the bug back to her. "By the way, if you suddenly have the urge of eat something, try strawberries. It will kill your hunger immediately."

Outside the human realm, on an empty dimension. Were two men sitting on a tea table.

"I'm still worrying if you went too far with our beloved guest, Lord Lucifer."

"You worry for the wrong reasons, Master Philemon. This isn't a normal situation, even for the Velvet Room standards. I give the young miss a gift, whenever she use it or not is her choice to make. I just present her with an option, is all what I'm going to do with her."

"I trust your judgment, Lord Lucifer. But that protégée of yours is another can of worms."

"Young Naoki while be a Demon he is still a child. His lack of compassion, while useful in battle, is a double edge sword. I'm quite disappointing of his reckless decision of taking her to a Sabbath, it could have ended in a tragedy if her Magatama didn't hatch back then."

"Will he be a nuisance to her?"

"I'm pulling a page of your book and trust that they could improve each, as ironic it sounds coming from my mouth."

"He did returned the world to its previous state."

"But that was his choice, he went against my plans and crave his own reason. Something that I found more interesting and respectful that what happen in the Amala labyrinth. Although, just to be safe, I went to hire a…peculiar assistance."

"Peculiar assistance? Who?"

"The only man who can put Kashida Naoki on check."

The day was still feeling unreal to her. Never in her existence has she ever felt….well, she had never feel. The moment she went downstairs it was an overwhelming experience.

Feeling with her body wasn't the only thing she was able to do know. She could smell the recent made coffee and feel the warm temperature of the room. Sounds and views were different, she obviously heard and see before this with no problems. Everything was the same but yet it was different.

The world around become something new to her.

The trip to school was another new thing. She could feel the breathing of dozens of men at her neck. It didn't feel nice, it was as bad when Kashida Naoki put his fist to his throat. Well, she opined that it was worst when she had to swallow the magatama he pull off.

She didn't want to that again.

For the first time, she wasn't able to focus on class. During her time at the research facility, she heard and remember everything that the scientists tell to her. Her attention was perfect. But today, nothing of what the teacher said stay in her head.

All her thoughts were directed to last night. She analyzed what occurred back then and analyze her action. Aigis tried to learn about their….

What could have she done to prevent it? It was statistic impossible that they weren't able to save at least one person. Should she inform her superiors? IT was her task to report every week about his movements. Kashida Naoki was considerate dangerous for the Kirijo group, is the whole reason why she was assigned to him.

He was powerful, more powerful that he let see at the Tartarus. Her calculations told her that even if they were to fight in the dark hour, her chances of losing are 99.6%.

She remembered what he told her in his room. For how he behave recently, he will keep his words.

"Aigis-san~~~!" All of the sudden, a group of her classmates surround her. She didn't know them. "How was your date with Kashida-san?"

"Excuse me?"

"Where did he take you last night?"

"Did you two kiss?"

All the girls where dying to know what happen….she mustn't tell them about what the Sabbath, not only they will not believe him but that could compromise their entire operations.

But they were expecting answers. Her mechanicals eyes catch that Kirijo Mitsuru was observing her with curiosity. All the members of S.E.E.S didn't know what happen yesterday, so they wanted to know what they did last night.

His word come back to her head. If she tell them anything, they will die.

If something happen to them it was going to be her fault.

So she recapitulate all the events that transpired and decided to tell something.

"We went to a party outside the city."

"OOOhh, I heard some people of the track team that people were talking about a party outside the city. But unfortunately , they didn't have a way to go."

"I heard that too. They say that there's a lot of drugs and alcohol. Is that true?"

Perhaps, she had find a middle ground. "Yes."

"WHAT?!" To everyone's surprise, it was Kirijo Mitusuru the one who reacted the worst. "Did he made you take anything?!"

"Only alcohol."

"You two are minors."

"I didn't force her to do anything, Kirijo." Kashida Naoki step in. "While I invited her the first drink, she asked for more by her own choice. Didn't do anything to her."

"What you want from her?"

"That's not of your business, Kirijo."

"It is, if it concerns one of the school students. Even more, when she is the daughter of one of my father's employees."

"So if she wasn't any of those you wouldn't even bother?" Kirijo Mitsuru clinched her teeth. "I never like people like you. Who acts so high and righteous but they never do nothing else outside their comfort zone."

"And who the hell you think you are?!"

"You can't talk to the president like that!"

"Aigis-san, do you really into this kind of guy?"

She honestly didn't understand why those girls were so upset about. Kirijo Mitsuru was understandable. Which reminds her that she hasn't told her about last night.

"Mitusuru, do you need help?" Now Sanada Akihiko step in. "I heard something about drugs, what's going on?"

"Kashida here took Lambros to illegal party outside the city."

"That's where you take it?! What's wrong with you?!"

"Nothing. You guys like to get into other people lives."

"It's a matter that concern us. You can't just bring her to such dangerous place and come back so late."

"Why not? Is not like I hurt him or anything." He turned his eyes towards her. "Isn't that right, Aigis?"

"Lambros, did he do something to you last night?" Her directives order her to respond at every demand that the Kirijo group bestow upon her. Obviously, she wouldn't reveal the whole truth, it will just bring problems to the shadow operatives.

Then her sensor detected a nearby energy rising. Its source was no other than the demon who was standing before her. No one notice it but he was casting some kind of spell on his hand. He was going to keep his word if she speak.

But she had too. It was a direct request of one of her superiors. She must obey all their orders. She must protect their integrity at all cost.

DISOBEDIENCE IS FORBIDDEN.

Her lips moved by their own. "He didn't do anything to me, Kirijo-san. As a matter of fact, he was quite nice and patience with me." What was she saying? "Although, he did start a fight and we had to leave." Why was she saying all those words without thinking? Has he done something to her?

No, the reading suddenly stopped the moment she start talking. He didn't charm her, she was doing this naturedly.

How? Her programing will stop her of doing such acts.

"Alright class! Everyone to their seats, we're starting chapter 3!" Their professor entered the classroom and all the students went to their seats.

As before, she wasn't able to focus on what the teacher was saying because her mind was elsewhere. How was she able to lie and disobey Kirijo Mitsuru? Was this another thing that he do to her body? She knew that lying was the best option to preserve their lives but in order to do so she had to go against her program. It was a logical problem to her systems.

But she lie to her.

She disobey her.

Inside her chest, something exhilarating was happening. She couldn't find the right words to describe it. Whatever it was….it feel….it feel…

Good.