Chapter 3: That Mistress, New Daily Life

Laura woke up and got dressed like she always does, but now that she has Sebastian, things may get a little different than before. She switched from her pajamas into a t-shirt with long sleeves and a pair of ripped jeans and sneakers, her butler had just finished preparing breakfast and her lunchbox.

"Morning, Mistress. You look nice today."

"Yeah, thank you, Sebastian."

She soon sat down for breakfast. Her butler just looked at her with a smile on his face, it appears that his Mistress was satisfied with the meal he made.

"Is this tea ?"

"Why yes, Mistress. I thought it was nice to give you a cup of tea."

I think I'm more of a coffee drinker typed person, but tea is nice too.

Laura finished with her breakfast and was ready to go to college. Suddenly, Sebastian called her.

"Mistress."

"What is it, Sebastian?"

"Is it okay if I tidy up your hair?"

Laura's eyes widened, she looked in the mirror in her bedroom.

"Wh-what's wrong with my hair?"

"It seems that your side hair and bangs are covering your beautiful face, Missy."

"Eh……?"

Sebastian grabbed a hairbrush and a hair clip, he brushed his Mistress' hair and put on some hair clips on it. Laura soon takes a look at the mirror again, she looks a lot more beautiful than before.

"Sebastian, thank you. I feel cuter now."

"My pleasure, Mistress. After all, what kind of butler will I be if I can't make my Mistress pretty."

"By the way, are you sure you will be okay if I leave you here?"

"Why?"

"Because, you're a demon and I can't let anyone know. Second, it seems weird that a young girl who lives independently in her apartment alone for a pretty long time suddenly has a butler."

"Really?"

Sebastian asked her with a sly look on his face, he raised one of his eyebrows as he wanted to know what his Mistress wanted. She just sighed and left, but before she left, she asked him again.

"By the way, Sebastian, do you have a spare key for this room?"

"You mean I could make a spare key of my own?"

"Sort of like that."

"Well, I already have my own."

Laura doesn't say anything and leaves her butler. He seemed to know what he was doing so it was useless to ask him a lot of questions.

At the university, Laura still mumbled to herself about Sebastian.

Was it okay to leave him? I've been living on my own since I started college, it's weird having him around but I felt lonely somehow. He can be an asshole sometimes, but he's good at housework as well and he is quite kind…GAH!!! WHAT IS THIS COMPLICATED FEELINGS!!! THERE'S NO WAY I HAVE A FEELINGS FOR A DEMON WHO IS GAZILLION YEARS OLDER THAN ME!!!!!!

Laura entered her class, she saw her friends were chit chatting. She soon approaches them.

"Excuse me, what are you guys talking about?"

Please don't tell me, it has something to do with that cult thing, right?

"Ah, Laura. Just in time."

"What is it?"

"There was a rumor about the alley? There was a rumor last night that there was a perverted ghost that loves teasing ladies at night."

"Yeah, last night there was a woman who almost got lewded, but it was a good thing that she is okay."

After she heard the news, she shuddered as she was afraid that she might be the ghost's next victim.

"Which alley has a pervy ghost in it?"

"Oh, it was near that bookstore."

"I guess that was it."

Wait minute, that alley is another shortcut to the bookstore that I always visit. How come it gets haunted?

"Uhh.. but we promised that we would go to that bookstore afterschool because we were going to get that limited edition art book, right? That shouldn't be a problem."

"Yeah, you're right, Laura."

"A ghost sighting, how interesting.."

"Huh? Sebastian?"

Laura could hear her butler's voice. Her friends just stared at her.

"Laura, is there something wrong?"

"Uhh…no, I think I should go to the restroom now."

She quickly left her class and arrived at the hallway.

"Where are you, Sebastian? Show yourself."

Then, a crow flew into the building from an open window. It talks to her.

"Hello, Mistress. Surprised to see me?"

Without any hesitation, Laura grabbed the crow by its beak and went inside the ladies' bathroom. After entering one of the toilet stalls, Laura began to talk with the crow.

"Did you just follow me and eavesdrop on my conversation?"

The crow who was actually Sebastian finally spoke up.

"Yes, I did. In fact, did you know that we could talk to each other telepathically?"

"Why on earth would you do that?"

"You probably know the answer, right?"

Laura grabbed Sebastian by his bird legs and opened the toilet seat.

"Mistress, you do realize that this is an act of animal cruelty if you dunk my head into the toilet."

"Dude, you're a demon. And this is a punishment for following me and reading my mind without my permission, plus I need to know how come you know my college and my conversation."

"That's because I'm your butler and a demon. I knew where you went. You should know the stronger the contract, the stronger the bond between the human and the demon, so I could know some of your thoughts and we could do telepathy and might feel each other's pain."

Laura soon closed the toilet lid and put the crow down.

"You know what, just revert back to your butler form."

Sebastian turns back into his human butler form, he just sits on the toilet and smirks at his mistress.

"You are pretty much a stubborn little girl, you remind me of my old master."

"That's because you lived and served a girl in the 21st century, not someone in the 19th century, 'kay? And exposing you to the others is pretty risky, like proving the BigFoot and Yetis are real, Sebastian. Who knows what happens if your true nature as a demon gets discovered?"

Sebastian remained silent, he knew that if anyone knew that he was a demon, he would get shunned, thrown out into an exile or worse, he would get hunted and possibly killed. And he didn't want his mistress to be afraid of him considering her ability to see spirits.

"Alright, if that's what my Mistress wishes for."

"What are you going to do now?"

"Like you said, it will be bad for me to expose my demonic nature. So, I will just watch over you somewhere."

Laura was extremely confused.

"Huh?"

"You need to know that demons like me can shapeshift into anything. And you told me to be careful, so I'll just turn myself into an animal and watch you over carefully."

"Alright, just don't turn yourself into a cockroach, I hate that insect."

"Yes, My Lady."

Sebastian soon transformed himself into a small rat with red eyes and black fur. He just stared at his mistress and left her as he understood what Laura wanted. She just sighed and left the toilet

In the afternoon, after college, Laura and her friends went to the said bookstore and searched for the book they wanted to buy. Suddenly, they were followed by three, ghostly and hideous looking men behind them, it appears that they went to the haunted alley. Laura flinched all of a sudden.

"What's wrong, Laura?"

"I felt something….unearthly here?"

"Unearthly? What do you mean unearthly?"

Suddenly, her friends felt something grab their chest and leg. Laura saw two ghostly, ugly faced men and the third man who was wearing a spectacle was behind her, but she quickly punched him with her backhand and quickly grabbed an empty can to throw at the ghost.

"LOWER YOUR HEAD!!!!"

Her friend did what she said and Laura threw the can to the ghost, his friend watched him and the other ghost fainted.

"You guys go, I'll catch up to you guys later."

Laura was left alone after she told her friends to run, the three ghostly men surrounded her.

"You got some nerves beating us like that."

"Nah, it was just self defense and also I can see you guys."

"Oh ho ho, you quite amuse us, little girl."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, cutie. What are you going to do? Kick our butt?"

Laura just sighed as the three ghostly men laughed at her. She knew that they wanted to do something bad to her, so she rolled her left sleeve which revealed her bandaged arm.

"You know what, I should just introduce you three to someone else."

She released the ribbon on her bandage, uncovering the contract mark.

"Sebastian, I want you to come to me, please."

"Who are you talking too, cutie?"

Suddenly, a black figure trampled the ugly guy with glasses. It was just in time that Sebastian came for his mistress.

"You called me? Missy?"

"HEY!!!!!! YOU!!!!! THE GUY IN BLACK SUIT!!!!! WHAT DID YOU DO TO OUR FRIEND?"

"Oh pardon me, I do believe that you were the ghosts that Missy was talking about."

"Crap, how did you know?"

"Well, what kind of butler will be if I can't protect my Mistress from perverted ghosts like you three."

"GRRRR….GET HIM AND THE GIRL!!!!!"

The three ghosts were about to attack both Sebastian and Laura. Without any hesitation, Laura giving her order to Sebastian

"Sebastian, I am giving an order to stop these ghosts."

"Yes, My Mistress."

Sebastian beat up the three ghosts and tied up them, he was as fast as a hare.

"How could you beat us so fast."

"Yes…yes, you are just butler."

The butler just answered with a smile.

"You see, I'm simply one hell of a butler."

Laura just smiled, she soon took out her phone and texted her friends.

"Mistress, what are you doing?"

"I need to info my friends, that I am okay."

"Hmm…I see."

All of sudden, the two of them heard a footsteps coming.

"Finally, I've been searching for these ghosts all day and night."

A baritone voiced echoed near them, both Laura and Sebastian thought someone was coming and they were right. A figure of a young man appeared, he was wearing a yukata with black and red color, along with with a red obi tied into it, there was an embroidery picture of a cherry plant on the back, the man has short hair much like Sebastian, but he has a stoic, grumpy looking face, in contrast of her butler's cheery facade. He also wore a dark blue cap on his head and he wore a pair of sandals.

"You must be Laura, right?"

"Yes, and who are you supposed to be?"

"Ah, I almost forgot to introduce myself."

The man opened his cap, he was an oni. He has slanted black eyes with red eyeshadows around them and short eyebrow, a single horn on his forehead and two pointy ears.

"My name is Hoozuki, I'm a Chief Assistant of Enma Daiou. Pleasure to meet you, Laura-san and you too, Michaelis."

(To Be Continued…)


Author's note:

This fic was meant to be a crossover self insert fic, by the way, there will be more characters come in, also the story took place somewhere in Japan and Laura's friends don't have names since they don't have any roles in the story.