Chapter 8
"Man. How I hate Tereshkov-sensei lessons." Maki moaned lying down onto her desk with her face when the bell rang and the teacher left the class. "Why do we have them so often?!"
"You should just learn the information he gives us more seriously." Aki said to his friend as he came to Maki's desk.
"He gives too much information!" Maki moaned again. "Ren!" Maki quickly turned her head to the tanned girl, "How do you remember all this information?"
"Just trying to remember it." she merely answered shrugging with her shoulders.
"I hate all this theoretical stuff!" Maki exclaimed.
"Maybe you should ask Tereshkov-sensei to give you some supportive lessons." Aki gave an idea to the girl also turning his head to Pavel likewise asking him is it a good idea or not.
"Yes, I think he will give some lessons." Pavel agreed with his friend's idea.
"By the way, how about to have a bite?" Maki decided to change the theme of their talk; she hated lessons too much and tried not to talk about them.
"Sorry Maki." Aki started, "But I have some business at student Council today, so I don't think I'll have the time for it."
"I have to visit swimming club today." Ren said to her friend, "Sorry for that."
"No." Maki lifted up her voice against, also waving with her hands "You should be sorry for that. You shouldn't worry."
Pavel put his book, copybook and other school supplies in his bag and said to his friends, "I have some plans for today too, sorry that I won't be able to accompany you Maki." and quickly left the class, not giving a chance to some of them to answer.
"Is he going to visit Andou?" Maki asked her friends.
"I think so." Aki merely responded.
"Much time has since she cried like that." Maki said. "I even don't remember when it was last time."
"Ren." Aki turned to the tanned, girl, "How do you think, will he be able to help her?"
Aki noticed that Ren tensed up, "I don't know." she referred him, and put her supplies into her bag too. "I must go too you can go with Mai if you want, she has no plans for today." Ren pointed at the white haired girl who was watching at the window with boring expression, when Ren reminded Maki about Mai; Mai became happy and quickly ran to the sitting girl.
"Hey Mai, want to eat something with me?" Maki started to fill her up the questions, with such speed that Mai wasn't able to answer in time.
'Interesting how long will you have Pavel.' Ren thought and was about to leave the class as the door was opened and a tall girl with long purple hair entered the class.
"Ito, Sato you're here." Rinko said with a relief sigh.
The boy and the girl turned their head to the girl with large bust and Aki asked her, "What is it Akiyama-san?"
"Igawa-sensei is looking for you. She said me to find you." Rinko said them.
"Has something happened?" Maki asked herself rather than her friends.
"I don't know, but by her voice it seems that it's important." Maki and Aki grabbed their bags and followed the purple haired girl, leaving Mai in the class with some of their classmates. Mai sighed with a relief and continued to watch at the window.
It didn't take much time for Pavel to catch up Oleg Semenovich as he wasn't in hurry and was walking pretty slowly. "Did you want something Pavel?" Oleg turned to his student with a questioning expression on his face.
"Well, yes." he referred him. "I wanted to talk about what happed not long ago."
"Ah you mean the accident with Andou." Oleg became frown. "Well let's go to the teacher's room." he added, turned and went to the teacher's room and Pavel went behind him not saying a single word.
After a brief period of time they came to the teacher's room, Oleg glanced the room and saw no one there. He understood that it will be much better to talk without extra eyewitnesses. Oleg sat onto the free chair and Pavel did the same, but only near to him.
"Well, this accident was quaint and in some ways interesting." Oleg Semenovich started. "We must think carefully how we could know more about her."
"Is this interest you?" Pavel was surprised from his teacher's thoughts. "She differently has some problems. To cry so is definitely abnormal for hunters, and you want to investigate her?"
"Don't be stupid I didn't say something about it." Oleg retorted, he noticed that Pavel cooled down after his retort so the Russian teacher could continue, "Sakura told me to be careful with her in fighting with you…" by his expression it was easy to say that he suddenly understood something, "So that's what she meant."
"What do you mean?" Pavel didn't understand what Oleg was saying about.
"While I was fighting her, I could wound her slightly in the arm." he stopped.
"Is she afraid to be wounded?" Pavel asked another question.
"I don't think so." Oleg referred, ""If she was afraid of getting hurt she would fight at all. But she fought with you and got the same damage as you got. I think it's her reaction for blood." Oleg suggested.
"So you want to say that she is afraid of blood?" Pavel didn't understand.
"Yes." Oleg Semenovich nodded in agreement, "I think so. But what was the trigger to this…" Oleg pondered again, but he was quickly taken out of his thoughts, and asked his student, "By the way, what can you tell about her?"
"Well." Pavel started to think what to say, "To be honest, I didn't talk with her before." Pavel casted his eyes down and continued, "I only noticed that she quickly leaves the class after lessons and she never appears there during breaks."
"I see." Oleg said pausing, "It seems that she is unsociable. Frankly speaking I also find her away with the fairies." he continued, "She answers pretty good but nothing more."
"Then what should we do?" Pavel didn't know what to do so he decided to ask the teacher.
"Well." the teacher started, "First of all you must talk with other students about her. I think it will give us some information. Oh and it would be better if you talk with her too."
"And you?"
"I will talk about her with other teachers; I think they must know something about her phobia of blood." he made a brief pause, but then continued, "I think we will be able to find out something."
"Well, I think it's the best what we can do right now." Pavel said, but then he turned his head to his teacher and said, "By the way, while I still remember, Tatsurou asked me to ask you could you train him?"
"What?" this time was after Oleg to be surprised.
"Um, do you remember Akiyama Rinko?" the boy saw that he remembers the tall girl with purple hair, "It's her younger brother."
"Ah!" it seemed that the teacher understood what the boy was talking about, "You mean Akiyama Tatsurou. Why did you tell him I should train him?"
"Well he fights…" the boy couldn't get the right words, but then suddenly snapped with his fingers, "Indecisively. So he asked me to know it."
"Did you tell him about our special lessons?" Oleg narrowed his eyes.
"What? No, I told nothing." Pavel started to withdrew his eyes.
"First Sakura gives me additional work, now you." Oleg sighed heavily, but then added, "Fine, if he wants, I will think something about it."
"Nice, well I'll go now then." the boy got up, and turned to the teacher, "Oh yes, I think Maki will take remedial classes. "Because she is not good at your lessons."
"Another thorn in the side." Oleg sighed again, "However it will be good for her, did she get this idea by herself?"
"Yep." the boy merely answered and left the room.
"Then not by herself."
It took several minutes to three students to reach the principal's office. When they entered the office they saw a beautiful woman who was sitting in her chair with a serious expression on her face and were hand moving over the papers which were lying on her table. The woman had long blue hair which was tied in Greek knot she had a white shirt with a black skirt and on her collar was a black bow-tie. When the door was opened she raised her head and saw the purple haired girl.
"Oh it's you Akiyama." then she quickly added, "Did you brought them?"
"Yes Igawa-sensei." Rinko nodded at Igawa Asagi's question.
"Come in then." she said to Rinko, the girl turned her head to the other students and gave them a sign to enter the office. All three of them entered the office and stood in front of her table.
"Did you call for us sensei?" Maki asked the principle, with some worrying notes in her voice, but still she tried not to show them.
"Yes I called for you." Asagi simply referred, watching at them with her emerald eyes, "I have a mission for three of you." she continued calmly.
"A mission?" Aki was a bit impressed, but didn't show that.
"Yes, as you know Yatsu-sensei left on the mission." Asagi started to explain the details of their mission, "You will be sent to aid her."
"But why we sensei?" Aki asked another question to the principle.
Asagi sighed and then continued, "The problem is that the first squad that was sent to this mission was attacked by the members of "The Third Law". And you are the ones who had already met them before."
'This organization again.' Rinko thought. "Do you know what members were detected?" Rinko decided to ask her question.
"According with the report." Asagi took one of her papers and started to glance through it quickly with her eyes. "One of them was the Polish psychiatric Wojciechowski and the second one was Mystic."
"The man with a cloak?" Rinko decided to ask again Asagi nodded at her question. 'If I remember right Tereshkov-sensei had told that he is quite strong, even stronger than that freak.'
"There also was a strange person in the mask and orange suit." Asagi continued her explanations, "He was using flame abilities."
"By the way, sensei." Aki decided to interrupt the principle, "What was the mission Yatsu-sensei was gone?"
Asagi sighed put her hands in lock, her face became frowner, but she decided to tell to the students the details of the mission she is going to send them, "I think that you heard about recent kidnappings in Sapporo." the only one who gave a sign of knowledge was Rinko, so Asagi decided to explain this to other two. "Recently, there started to disappear people who are over seventeen and twenty two years old. The police couldn't find any clue to find who is standing behind these kidnappings, so the government ordered it to us." she stopped to catch her breath, but then continued, "Recently; we found out that all these people were brought to some place that are called 'slave camps'."
"Slave camps?" Maki was shocked with such information.
"Yes, but we still don't know what this camp was for." this information made all off students pondered and in some ways astonished. "We sent a group of hunters, to investigate it, but two of them were captured. These two were Naoki Moritani and Atsuko Igarasi."
"No way!" Maki exclaimed in surprise, "They are the ones of powerful hunter among the students. Were they defeated?" it seems that she couldn't believe in what she heard. It was also noticeable that Aki and Rinko became gloomy too.
"Still it's so." Asagi answered, "So I think that now you understand what is needed from you." Asagi said to the trio. "But still if you want to reject it you can do it now."
"I don't know about Aki and Rinko." Maki turned her head to two other persons who were standing near with her, "But I agree for this mission."
"Well if Maki is in, it will be reckless to leave her alone." Aki referred, "Igawa-sensei, I'm in too."
Asagi looked at Rinko, and then Rinko referred, "If both of them are agree, then I go too." Asagi smiled, and said them.
"All the details will be told to you on the place by Yatsu-sensei." Asagi said to them but then added; "By the way Maki." she turned her head to the brown haired girl. "I heard that you have some problems with the subject of Tereshkov-sensei, is it true?"
"Um, I… well…" Maki started to think what to say, to the principle, "I would call it problems… just some moments of his subject are pretty difficult to understand."
"Is that really so?" Asagi raised her brow making a questioning expression.
"I thought to take some supportive lessons by his subjects." Maki answered suddenly all of them heard like Aki made a slight snigger. Maki hit him at his arm.
Asagi decided to make a view that she saw nothing and just said to the student, "Don't worry Maki just make some efforts and everything will be fine."
"Yes sensei!" Maki straightened up and exclaimed.
"You can go now." Asagi said with the smile.
"By the way sensei." Rinko turned to the principle, "When we must depart?"
"Oh sorry, forgot to say you this. You will depart tomorrow in the morning." she made a pause and then added, "So if you need the time to prepare yourself I think you can miss your remaining lessons.
"Really?!" Maki exclaimed rejoiced, but then added, "What a pity."
"Now you can go just tell the teachers that I allowed you to miss the lessons."
The students nodded and left the office. "I hope that everything will be fine with all of you." Asagi said quietly as the door was closed and the students couldn't hear her words.
While Igawa Asagi was giving the mission to three students, she called. Pavel was wandering by the corridors of the Gosha Academy. He tried to find something, but according with his face he had totally went astray. He started to think carefully, but nothing came to his mind. Suddenly he saw another student the direction.
"Sorry, could you tell we a thing?" the student nodded at Pavel's question, "Where I can find a sick-room?"
"Oh, you've made a mistake." the student started, "It's on two floors above us." the student said, "Look use this upstairs when you get the floor, go to the right till the end of the corridor you'll find it." the student explained the direction to the Russian student.
"Thank you." Pavel referred and turned going to the ladder and started to climb by it. 'Well if Masami didn't attend the lesson, I think she must be only there.' Pavel started to think, 'Man I even don't know what I should talk with her about.' he started to become a bit nervous. 'I haven't even prepared what I should tell her.' he started to think what to talk with her about at least; honestly, nothing constructional didn't come in his mind. He didn't notice how he reached the sick-room, he stopped in front of the door, still deliberating about enter the room or not. But after a short period of time he finally decided to enter the room, he slightly knocked at the door, and opened it also thrusting his head through the door asking at the same time. "May I come in?" however there was no answer, so he decided to enter it. First thing he saw was the white room with many cabinets, with medicines, syringe and other stuff; he also noticed that there were four bunk beds. 'Well this one is differs from what I've seen before." he put his hand on his chest, remembering how the dinosaur demon hit him with his tail and after the mission Aki brought him to the strange nurse. Suddenly, he noticed that one place was closed with white curtains. He decided to come up to the curtains and to open on of them, and then he saw a girl with brown curly hair, she was wearing the same uniform she had during their battle with Oleg Semenovich. The Russian boy admitted that there was no weapon she was using, as he remembers she fought with the spear. The boy wanted to say something to the girl, but he quickly found out that she was sleeping. Her breast was up and down peacefully. 'So she is resting huh?' the boy thought looking at the girl who was crying not long ago. He sat onto the chair which was near with the bunk bed and started to look at her. 'She is cute.' Pavel thought looking at her. He moved aside the strand which was on her face. When he did it she slightly screwed up her face. Her eyes started to quiver. And suddenly she opened them.
"Where am I?" she asked rather herself them someone else, as she quickly got up.
"Hey, not so quickly!" Pavel said her getting up from the chair.
"What?" it seems that she didn't understood what was said to her and turned her head to her left, and then she saw the Russian boy who was her partner not long ago.
"Ah, it's you Potapov-san." she said when she saw the face of her classmate.
"There's no need to be formal with me." Pavel said her, "You can call me just Pavel." he added with a smile.
"As you wish, Potapov… Pavel." she decided to do as the boy said her.
"You're Andou Masami, right?" the boy decided to ask her name and surname, because he didn't want to make any mistake in them.
"Yes." she slightly nodded with her head.
"Are you alright?" Pavel asked her again.
"Yes, I am." she tried to get up, but it turned out with difficult.
"Hey, wait." Pavel said her, "Don't do such quick moves."
"I said there's nothing to worry about." she hissed through her teeth.
"Maybe, you should wait for a nurse? I think she must come soon enough." he looked at the door, but it wasn't going to open.
The girl sat onto the bunk bed and said, "She knows that I can go myself." and tried to get up, but didn't do it because of the effect of somnifacient.
Pavel put his hands onto her shoulders and said anxiously, "Please Masami, don't do such reckless moves. What if something bad and unpredictable will happen with you?"
She didn't listen to him and tried to get up again, this time was successful Pavel noticed that she her legs were trembling, he thought that the girl was about to fall down, and quickly grabbed her arm and tried to help her to stand still.
"Please let go of me." the girl mumbled quietly.
"I can't do this!" Pavel exclaimed, "At least let wait for the nurse, and let her to check you."
The girl didn't want to be in the sick-room, and especially didn't want to show her weakness, but she agreed to wait the nurse. She sat onto the bunk bed again and lowered her head looking onto the floor.
"By the way." Pavel started the talk again, "How do you feel yourself?"
"What do you mean?" the girl didn't understand.
"Well, I mean…" the boy became confused, "During our training battle. You started to cry all of a sudden."
"It's none of your business!" she shouted.
"What?" Pavel startled from her answer.
"Do you want to mock over me?!" she shouted again.
"What do you mean?" this time the boy didn't understand what the girl was talking about, "Ijust wanted to ask, nothing more."
"You're just like other think, that I'm weak and useless." she continued to shout but know Pavel noticed that tears started to form into her eyes.
'What the hell is going on?' Pavel thought and started to panic a little, he didn't know what was happening with the girl and it made him puzzled.
"Almost everyone in this Academy think that I'm useless and hopeless! Even teachers started to think so! And the problem that I can do nothing with this…!" she was about to add something, but couldn't as Pavel hugged her. The girl stumbled for a second, but then her eyes started to tremble stronger and she started to cry harder.
While the girl was crying Pavel didn't release her, he thought that it would be a bad thing to leave her alone right now. Pavel thought a lot while she was crying, he didn't understand what his classmate meant by useless, Pavel decided to figure this out. He didn't know how, but he was sure that he will help the girl, he didn't know how but he was sure that he will do it. A little by little the girl started to stop her crying and started to fall to into the dream again. The boy put the girl down onto the bed and decided to leave the sick-room. "Sweet dreams." he opened the door and was about to leave, when he suddenly saw the nurse.
"Did you want something?" she asked the Russian boy.
"Ah, no there's absolutely nothing about it." Pavel shook with his hands and head.
The woman noticed that the curtain of Masami's bunk-bed was opened.
"May I go?" Pavel asked the woman as she was standing in the doorway.
"Oh, yes sorry." she let him pass and then closed the door. "Interesting why did he came?" the nurse asked herself and then sat at her table.
When Igarasi opened her eyes a bright light hit her eyes she immediately closed her eyes, and started to open the little by little, getting used to it. When she finally opened her eyes she found herself in a white room. She tried to move, but couldn't as she found herself tied to something. She looked and at her hands and saw that they were tied on leather belts. She tried to free them, but they were tied well.
'Damn, where I am?' Igarasi thought feeling a strong headache, she tried again to pull her hands out of the belts, but the try was useless again, then she decided to glance over the room she was in. She noticed nothing special there, just several tables with something on them a chair in the right corner of the rooms. The room was lit well. Then she started to remember what happened with her. The things she remembered were fighting on the roof with the man in the black costume and the man in orange uniform, she remembered that the man in the black suit was the Polish psychiatric; he hardened memories, and only could remember that he grabbed her hand and then she lost her consequence. 'I hope that Mori is fine.' she thought and then the door suddenly opened. She saw how elegant woman in blue dress which was clinging her body, entered the room. To say that the woman was beautiful is to say nothing. She had black hair which was twisted in a bob. Her right leg was exposed because of cutting her dress also had several places, which exposed her stomach, and arms. On her face she had insidious smile. The woman came closer to the huntress and said.
"It seems you are finally awaken." she started to talk saving her smile, "I thought that you must be awakened."
"Who the hell are you?" the girl asked the woman.
"Oh dear, you shouldn't worry about my name." the woman chuckled, "You must understand one thing." the put her hand onto the girl's cheek. "You have a good skin I must admit."
"Stop joking around!" the girl shouted at the woman. "Who the hell are you?! And what did you do with Moritani?!"
"Dear, I'll repeat again you're not in the position to demand something from me." then she licked her lips and said, "But if you're worry about that boy, then there's nothing to be worry about."
"What did you do to him?" she hissed through her teeth.
"Right now, he is safe and sound." she continued with her predator smile, "But everything depends on you."
"Huh?!" the young huntress didn't understand what the woman mentioned.
"Well I think you're here to investigate those mysterious kidnappings, don't you?" the woman saw a glance full of anger and she quickly realized, that the girl won't answer this question, "There's no need to hide it, it's not a secret for me."
"So you're the one who stands behind them." Igarasi said aggressively.
"Not exactly." she chuckled, "I'm the one who gave an order to do it."
"Then why did you come here?" the girl said and then grinned, "Don't you afraid if I'm able to escape and kill you?"
"There's a strong presumption against it." she get closer to her, it seems that the woman in the blue dress wanted to examine the young huntress's face, "The problem hides in these belts." she pointed at one of them, she noticed that the girl turned her head to the belt the woman pointed, "I think you could escape easily, because of you super strength." Igarasi frowned.
'So she knows about my powers.' the young hunter thought, and tried to pull her hand out of the belt again.
"But these belts are made from a special demon, which allows suppressing hunters' powers." she chuckled and added, "That's why you won't escape from here, without my special permission." she touched the place between her breasts with her finger and slid her finger till her stomach. "Well you know." she suddenly said, "You're an attractive girl."
"Are you flirting with me?" the girl asked the woman, "Sorry, but I'm not into girls."
"Well how about an offer?" the woman suddenly asked the girl, "I'll give you an opportunity to leave this place save and sound."
"Ha, likewise I believe you, bitch!" Igarasi exclaimed.
"No, really I give my word to you." the woman said, to Igarasi trying to show that the woman is not lying, "Soon I'm going to hold a tournament, I'll give an opportunity to you to take part in it." She licked her lips and then added, "Win the match that you'll have, and I free you and your boyfriend."
"Do you really think that I believe you?" the girl wasn't going to believe to the woman.
"Well if you don't want to take part in the tournament, then I should ask your boyfriend, maybe he will be more accommodating." she looked at the girl and noticed that the last phrase, made her to ponder about something. The woman turned away from the girl and was about to leave the room.
Igarasi bit her lip and mumbled, "What should I do if I agree?"
"What?" the woman asked playfully making fashion that she didn't hear girl's words.
"You heard me! What should I do if I agree to take part in your fucking tournament?!" Igarasi raised her voice.
The woman smiled like a predator that caught his victim, and turned to the girl, "You're going to fight my opponent on the tournament, the main rule is not to use your abilities, but you'll have no opportunity to use them in any case." Igarasi made her face frown when she heard that she will fight without her Taimanin abilities, but said nothing, as she didn't want to put her comrade in such bad state. "The opponent can be absolutely different it can be a female or a male as I want."
"What about the rules?" the girl asked the woman in the blue dress. This question made the woman laugh.
"Dear, there're no rules on my arena." the woman get closer to the girl, and get closer to her face, Igarasi wasn't tied too high, so the woman could see her eyes. "You must try to fight as hard as you can in order to win."
"And if I lose?" Igarasi didn't want but still asked the question which started to whirl in her head.
"Dear I think you that you already know what will happen with you then." the woman stopped but then added, "You shouldn't worry, I'll do everything fair, you'll rest and also will have an opportunity to train, but of course without your abilities." the woman turned away from the girl and headed to the door, "Oh while I still remember, you'll fight without your weapon, just the good old hand to hand combat." and then closed the door of the room.
"Damn it!" the girl said with risen voice, "It seems that I have no choice, but to agree for this shit."
The woman left the room and saw the man in the cloak and the hood.
"Why didn't you interrogate her about your slave camp?" he asked the woman.
"Trust me we have plenty of time to do so." she said stopping near with him, "And we still have another prisoner we can interrogate." she turned her face to his said licking her lips, "Or maybe you would like to seclude yourself with me?"
"I'd like to, but the first part of our work isn't done yet." he made a pause, but then continued putting his hand on her face, "We still have to get Yatsu Kuro."
"Well if you want so." the woman said disappointed and turned away from the man, making fashion that she was miffed.
"And, I also soon will be transmitted to Tokyo again." the man said to the woman who was about to leave the corridor they were in.
"Do the duties of your organization call you?" she turned her head to him, the man nodded and then added.
"Yes, but I'll try to find a replacement on my place." he ensured her.
"And whom do you want to send here?" she asked him crossing her hands under her breast.
"Well, to be honest I'd like to send Etienne here; he is a good interrogator after all." then the man added chuckling, "But of course only if you won't kill him."
"Well do as you wish." the woman turned away from the man and was about to go further, how she suddenly saw him in front of him. "You know that I don't like when you do…" she could finish her sentence because the man put his finger onto her lips and whispered rather than said,
"Don't worry 'Mistress'." he said getting his face closer to her, "When this Taimanin is found the second part of our arrangement will fulfilled." he close her face with his hood likewise kissing her.