Soldier Boy and Angel Girls: Sulfurite Terror
Hoshino P.O.V
Damn it! this isn't good. The Helmet Gangsters are back at it again, my precious kouhais... are afraid, as I also am. We were always kicking those thugs away, but now... we're all out of bullets.
Shiroko-chan has a single missile on her drone and 2 magazines, Serika-chan has 3, Nonomi is the only one not lacking any bullets, and I... have a few shells.
Ratatatatat!
We ducked down, taking cover from the thugs fire as shards of broken glass showered us from above.
"Darn them Helmet Gangsters!" Serika-chan yelled out in frustration, gritting her teeth as she peeks up and shoots back.
"Serika-chan, use semi auto." I said as I barely kept my eyes open, my late night patrols catching up to me.
"Nn. We would've already obliterated them!" Yeah, the Helmet Gangsters are usually push overs but...
"Conserve your bullets." Serika-chan and Shiroko-chan frowned as they switched their guns to semi auto. "Nonomi, head down the first floor and rev up your mini gun."
"Right!" She nodded her head as she carried her mini gun with her.
Now, I need to-
"Hey, guys! Someone- no, something's coming!" Ayane-chan yelled out in a panic, her laptop beeping a lot. As I squint my eyes on her laptop screen, I see... something rapidly approaching our school.
Could it be... no. Damn it! It's a missile! It has to-!
"Get down!" I yelled to my kouhais as I brought myself down, arms around my head as-
Boom!
An explosion! No, something landed really hard and really fast! The ground shaking from the force as sand and debris are scattered even in through the broken window.
Then, I heard screams of terror and gunfire. Something's attacking the helmet thugs, they scream and whimper and fear as they empty their magazines on... something.
I hear the sounds of beating, of things breaking, of someone's scream getting further as they were somehow thrown away, a sickening squelching combined with panicked gunfire.
Then... nothing. Just silence.
"Gods damned sand!" I heard a male voice shouting out in irritation. "Abydos Highschool, is this it?!" Huh?
I hear Ayane-chan gasping out as she rushed to look out the window, then she lets out a bright smile... which then turned down to one of fear and revulsion as she backs away covering her mouth.
"What is it, Ayane?! Don't tell me it's something worse than those thugs?!" Serika-chan asked out, expressing fear at whatever Ayane-chan saw.
"But it helped us, right?" Shiroko-chan asked, standing up and taking a look for herself. "Huh?! It's... it's the Sensei of Schale!" That guy?! I told Ayane-chan not to-
"He's hurt!" Ayane-chan shouted as she rummaged through a medical emergency bag, grabbing bandages, disinfectants, and whatever else.
"Why, what's the-" Serika-chan asks as she took a peek, followed by her lurching as she hunched down and covered her mouth.
Taking a look for myself, I see... it's him alright, the supposed Sensei appointed by the GSC President herself in a position of power in a whim.
Levi Jordan, or just Levi after his publicly available information was edited. Dark purplish hair, his left cheek is blue for some reason, he's frowning and glaring up at me.
Wearing a white buttoned shirt that... that's stained red all over, bullet holes and sand all iver him. Ayane-chan then rushes out of the building entrance, towards the Sensei in a panic as she tries to have him remove his clothes.
He then sighs, a... a light purple aura appearing out of nowhere and... closing his wounds, stopping any more blood from leaking... what... the hell?
An hour later and we're once again seating around a table, this time with Levi as he introduced himself seating beside me.
He has his arms crossed and a frown still on his face, but... he seems to be listening. He's been listening the moment Ayane-chan slipped up and talked about the debt.
Shiroko-chan seems very much interested in him, wanting to know more about that supposed magic spell and Serika-chan's eyeing him with suspicion, Nonomi and Ayane-chan with sympathy.
But... I don't trust him. I've seen those videos before they were purged from the internet, of him trying, intentionally, to kill!
"Say, Levi-Sensei, is it a fashion where you're from?" Nonomi asked with a curious smile, leaning towards Levi a she observed his face.
"What is?" He asked with a raised brow, impatience on his expression as he awaits Nonomi's explanation.
"Painting your face blue?" Nonomi clarified, to which Levi... his eyes widened, then his eyebrows furrowed as he gritted his teeth. Pain and resentment, that's all on his face as Nonomi backs away with an apologetic look.
"What do you mean?" He growled out as he fished something out of his person, a tablet, which he then looked at... and froze. One hand holding the tablet as the other trails on the blue on his face. "You bastard... tsk."
Shiroko-chan then... sniffs him on the side, replacing his rage with confusion and an expression of embarrassment.
"H-hey! I know! I haven't taken a bath yet!" Levi said aloud, his cheeks... somehow now, he's blushing shyly.
"Huh?! Why haven't you?! You work for the GSC President, you need to keep up appearances and stuff!" Serika-chan scolded, much to his irritation and my amusement. She's always like that.
"If I stopped to take a bath then you wouldn't even be here." He... I can't understand Levi. He's not a good person, that much I can tell with his attempted killing, but he... he can somehow care about our plights enough that he immediately answered Ayane-chan's request.
"Ah, yes. Levi-Sensei, you may take a bath here if you want to." Ayane-chan said with a smile, which then turned to a worried look. "It's not much, but... thank you for coming." She added with a bow.
Levi... just stares, almost as if surprised and shocked at Ayane-chan's gesture. Eyes widened as his jaws went down.
"N-no problem, Ayane, was it?" Levi said with an uncertain look, scratching the back of his head as his foot fidgeted awkwardly. "We need to look out for eachother anyways."
"We?" I asked for Ayane as she brought her head back up.
"Us kids, orphans. You never know what we'll get dragged into." I see... so the adults, his adults, can be blamed. But who or whatever those adults are and what they did, he obviously took it as lessons.
Not that I can exactly judge him for that, but what he did yesterday in the battle was unnecessary. I can feel that he cares about my kouhais but I still can't trust him, I feel something terrible coming from him.
/
Serika-chan's would be kidnappers lay sinking down the sand groaning, whimpering and holding themselves, their vehicles scattered, destroyed and deformed, on fire after Sensei's assault.
I had to... I had to ask for his help, otherwise... I don't even want to think about what would've happened to her had I not asked Levi-Sensei for help.
Serika-chan's in our car, being comforted by Ayane-chan and Nonomi, Shiroko-chan's looting what she can. I would've stopped her as usual but-
My thoughts pause at the cries of a thug, their leader as far as I can tell, carried up from the ground by a hand on her neck. She whimpers, pitifully trying to pry Levi-Sensei's hand off of her neck.
"Where are the rest?" He asked without any regard for... just about everything he's currently doing. The rest? Will he also come after them? Shouldn't he be asking who sent them? "I'll rip your throat out." Even I could feel a shiver hearing that.
The thug cries and wheezes, her legs dangling, desperately trying to kick at Levi-Sensei, to get his hand off of her, to get herself away from the menace.
"S-sorry! I'm sorry!" The thug managed to cry out, now wailing as she tried kicking Levi some more. "K-kai... kais-!"
"Levi-Sensei, that's enough!" I said as I rushed to his side, bringing a hand up to his shoulder and pulling it aside to have him face me.
"Enough? Hoshino, they would've killed Serika!" He growled out with anger in his eyes, the thug he's carrying by the neck twitching as he tightened his hold. Killed? That's... no.
"You don't know that!" This is how things are wherever he's from, this is how they do things. I can't let him do it here, to bring about someones death... does he think Kivotos will allow it? "Please, they're... just misguided."
Levi doesn't reply immediately, only keeping his glare at me but his hold did soften, even if it was only a little.
"Tell us what you know." He said, sighing out as he reluctantly let go of the thugs throat dropping her on the sand.
The thug held and gently rubbed her neck, she sniffles and sobs as she keeps her eyes down. Through her helmets glasses, I could even see the fear in her wide eyes.
"K-Kaiser! The PMC!" She yelled out, bringing her head up to look at us but then looking back down with a yelp as she caught a glimpse of Levi. "J-just told us to n-nab the cat girl, that's it!" Huh? They... they're already causing us so much pain bir this...
Why? Why would they... we're paying off the debt, we can't do that if... why? Why would those bastards-!
Levi bends down to her level, a hand on her shoulder eliciting a wince and a yelp as she slowly looks up to him, his eyes... somehow more softer.
"Tell the bastard who hired you that I will kill him." What?! That's it, something's seriously wrong with him, no one... not one normal person can say that with a straight face!
"H-huh?! Y-yes! Just... please-"
"Fuck off then." Levi said with a shove to the thug, who then rushes to her comrades, waking them up and making their leave.
I have to... I have to talk to him, to hopefully convince him to be more soft. I can feel that he somewhat cares, but the hate he exudes... the hate that's radiating off of him, it's drowning that out.
Even if I can understand, even if it's for Serika-chan's sake, I can't let him keep on going as he is. He can be better, he can... no, I can't know for sure, but hopefully, he can be.
/
"Alright, what did you want to talk about?" Levi-Sensei asked with a hint of impatience, arms crossed over eachother as he leans back on the roofs railings.
This night it's only us. Shiroko-chan, Serika-chan, Ayane-chan, and Nonomi have already gone home and are probably asleep.
"About earlier..." I trail off as the memories of my first year came back to me, memories of a time when I myself was filled with rage. "That's not right, you can do better. Take it from an old man like me." I said with a smile and a yawn.
"They abducted Serika, I treated them as they deserved." He scowled out. I can't even argue with that, but-
"Even so, an eye for an eye makes the world blind. That was still too much." He may have done all of that for Serika-chan, all of that to help us, but I still can't let him get off easy. "And killing? That's unacceptable!"
"So what, you're just letting the asshole who tried to take Serika do it again?!" That's-?!
"Of course not! What I mean is-!"
"You don't actually want to do anything about it!" He shouted out accusingly as he walked towards me with rage. What does he... is he saying that... I don't care about- "I can see it in how you act, you're always opposing them, always telling them they can't do this or that, even now you want to side against them with Serika's abductors!" You-?!
"How dare you!" I've been here ever since they first enrolled, hell, long before even that. He's only been here for a few days yet he's already acting like he knows me, like he knows them?! "As their senpai, it's my duty to lead them to a better path, to lead them away from being crooks like those thugs!"
"And as a teacher, that's your responsibility as well!" I shouted back at him.
"Exactly. I don't want them to suffer as I did, I won't let them." So he says. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, that proverb was a mystery to me and still is to some extent but Levi... I see now. "Once those Kaiser merchants are gone, you girls will be free to do as you please, bringing Abydos to its past glory." This is the solution he has, a solution from an archaic and barbaric past.
Exactly why I can't let him do what he wants.
"Yes, we can make them go away, Levi-Sensei. You can't-"
"No you can't, Hoshino." Levi interrupted me, anger morphing his expression as he gritted his teeth. "They never went away, they never stopped! They'll keep sending people to attack, and I'm not waiting for the time they overwhelm you girls!" They? He means Kaiser and... someone else.
"The only time those bastards couldn't touch us, hurt us, was when they finally died!" I see. So he means to say that whoever sent the thugs to attack, and whoever keeps sending them... they'll never stop.
"Even so, we can't grow up to be just like those bad people!" That's right, Levi has good reasons to be angry but if he doesn't move on from that he-
"That's what I also thought." My thoughts came to a halt as I heard those words. "That's what I thought when Mama died, that's what I thought when we were beaten at the Orphanage." ... What? Levi-Sensei... he's crying, he sniffles and sobs as his eyes became hazy.
"That's what I thought when that woman..." He trails off with a delirious smile on his face as he looks down on his hands. "She was good to me, she was kind, and..."
I was almost the same when I was younger, so hateful of how unfair the world was, so hateful of all adults as I thought of them all evil. Back then, I thankfully had Yume-senpai... as he did that woman he's talking about. Yume-senpai-
"And look at where that got her." He suddenly scowled out, hands shaking as a he shows a mix of pain and hatred. Was... was that- did something happen to that woman?
Yume-senpai... she was always thinking about me, always so optimistic and positive even with how hard things were, always so trusting and naive.
She deserved everything, she deserved much more than...
"I understand, but... do you think that woman would allow what you're saying?" Yume-senpai taught me to be better, she taught me about real honest work, she did... just about everything for me.
"Of course not!" Levi denied vehemently. "She was kind, she took care of me, she protected me!" This woman... even if Levi-Sensei doesn't remember her name, her kindness seems to have left a mark on him.
"And for that, those bastards punished her." He said, the smile from describing the woman disappeared, replaced by a pained delirious expression. "That's why... I won't let it happen again, I won't let my weakness, my cowardice, let good people suffer because I wanted to be better."
"Then I will stop you!" I said, declared, as I took a steps back and brought my hands up. My CQC instincts coming back to me after years of disuse. "That woman wanted you to be better, we want you to be better, I won't let you throw away that chance!"
My heart pounded, pulse running as I awaited his response, awaited the release of his inhumane strength to bear down on me.
"Of course you won't!" He shouted with an amused expression, a smirk on his face as he looked down on me. Somehow, his words and demeanor are getting to me. "You don't want your friends to stop struggling." Huh?
"So much you could do to ease their hardship, so easily could you stop the attacks from coming, yet you do nothing about it." Bastard!
"Me? Doing nothing about it?! I'm the one cleaning up in the night! I'm the one fighting off thugs in the night so they won't have to in the morning!"
"Yet they still keep on coming." Damn it, he's really hitting my nerves! "Everything you've done amounts to nothing. They're still being attacked, still struggling, slaving themselves away for a debt that isn't theirs, and now Serika could've disappeared. How amazing you are at leading them!" He laughed out.
"They're... I..." Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! There's... I can't say anything... he's right. I'm... I'm not a good senpai, I'm... I'm just doing my best yet-!
"Nothing. You're letting them suffer for nothing." That's not... that's not...
My thoughts pause as I felt myself sob and sniffle, hot tears distorting my vision as they leaked out of my eyes wetting my cheeks.
Levi-Sensei then dashed towards me, his hands winding back ready to strike before I could even react. I instinctually took a step back, but it won't matter as I left myself too open.
I brace myself for a-
Huh?
His hands... around my head, his arms around me, pulling me into a warm embrace.
"Don't worry, Hoshino. I'm here now. I won't let you suffer anymore, I won't let them torment you and your kouhais anymore." Levi-Sensei said in a soothing voice, his hand... behind my hand...
Gently...
Caressing...
I can't pull away, I can't bring myself to push myself away from the hug. It's warm, comforting, and his words... I don't want to, but... it's like I'm getting drunk on it.
Saying things like that... I will no longer have to struggle, to suffer, my kouhais will never have to slave away anymore, that he's here now...
"The debt, the thugs, Kaiser, you don't have to think about them anymore. I'll deal with them."
No, I can't let this... I can't... for his sake... for ours. What Levi wants to do... yes, it could make all of our problems go away but... he'll regret it. Maybe not now, maybe now tomorrow, but I can feel that he eventually will at some point.
I need to tell him, I should stop him but... I can't.
I can't pull away, I... don't want to... I sunk in to his embrace, burying my tear soaked face down his shoulder. I shouldn't do this, shouldn't allow this, but... I can't say no, I don't want my kouhais struggling anymore, I... I don't want to struggle anymore.
/
Levi P.O.V
A.R.O.N.A in my hands shows a map of the place, a line connected between where I a. and where I'm headed to, to the group sharing a name with the Kaisee of Bremen, to the group tormenting my students in Abydos, to Kaiser PMC.
[Levi-Sensei, you have reached your destination, Kaiser PMC headquarters.] A.R.O.N.A reported, voicing the words it's showing through a vaguely girlish artificial machine like sword.
Looking up from A.R.O.N.A, I see a huge building reaching as high up to the sky, numerous machine people with dark green and brown patterned paint jobs stand ready with their guns, armored vehicles, and even a tank waiting for me.
"Sensei of Schale, I received your message." Their leader far back I'm assuming spoke up, the mechanical fatass is wearing a fancy black suit with orange accents. He's smoking a fancy looking cig. "I don't know if you're insane or just joking, but it will be preferable for you if you turn away."
Fuck no. Tucking A.R.O.N.A into my clothes, I unslung my rifle from my back and turned the safety off. I hear the machine soldiers doing the same with their weapons, the machineguns on their armored cars, their tank and its turret turning towards me.
"Director, you didn't say anything about a most esteemed guest." Someone else spoke up, this persons tone sounding a little too much like the feathery clown bastard.
"Guest?! He threatened murder!" The Director guy spat out in irritation as he turned to face... a man of otherworldly black in a suit, the white glowing cracks on his face serving as his mouth and eye. "I don't know why you are so interested in this psychopath, Black Suit, you've seen the videos!" Hehe... hahaha.
"I know, I know, but we never know." Black Suit as the Director dude called him says in a somewhat reassuring tone, fixing his tie as he walks towards me and stopping at the blockade.
"Good evening, Sensei of Schale, Levi Jordan." My grip on my gun tightened with it's body creaking, my teeth gnashing as the urge to chop him apart came. This guy's already pissing me off. "I would've prepared accomodations had I known you were coming."
[Persuasion]
"I'm not here to talk."
[Intimidation] [Killing Intent]
"Stop whatever you're doing in Abydos, otherwise I will kill you." I said, pulling my bayonet out and attaching it to my rifle.
"See what I mean, Black Suit?!" The Director spat out once again, his legs letting out a small tremble along with some of his soldiers flinching.
"Let. Me. Speak." Black Suit said as he turned to face the machine business man, who I can see shuddering and backing away. "Now, Jord-"
[Gun Proficiency] [Marksmanship]
Bang!
I fired, the flash from my rifles muzzle shooting to and through Black Suit's shoulder as he jerks away, that part of his suit torn with a hole through his shoulder which he holds close with his trembling hand.
Weird, he didn't yell out in pain.
"Advance! Subdue and take him to custody!" The machine businessman shouted out with a wave of his arm in a panic as he dropped his cigarette.
[Bob And Weave] [Fast Stance]
Brrrrrrrrt!
I dashed aside as thousands of tracer rounds from their machineguns sprayed to my left side, the foot soldiers advancing out of their cover in a steady pace with their guns trained at me.
Aiming at one of the armored vehicles machineguns, I-
Bang!
Pulled the trigger, my bullets shooting towards the machinegun, hitting and breaking it apart as its own bullets shot through its own body.
Ratatatatat!
Their foot soldiers fired, hitting me repeatedly in the stomach, torso, and forearms as I dashed away to cover behind a building.
I hear the familiar chaotic orchestra of gunfire and bullets hitting and chipping away at my cover with the occasional orange flash passing the cover and travelling afar.
I can feel the bullets sizzling my flesh and blood before cooling off and falling out of my wounds along with a slight gushing of blood pooling under my feet, wetting the boots President gave me.
[Blood Golem]
The skinless hand of the flesh golem shoots out of my blood puddle, followed by the head and the other hand as it pulled its whole body out of the ground.
Mentally, I gave the golem its order, to charge in and cause mayhem so I can flank them. And so, without hesitation like the puppet it was, it turned around and charged in catching their full attention.
Turning to the other side, I start running around the building all while hearing their gunfire tearing through the golems flesh with squelches and splats. I hear one of the machine soldiers screaming followed by the sound of metal deforming, of something slamming down the concrete ground.
As I reached the turn, I saw the more open side of their blockade, their officer with a wooden assault rifle looks around turning his head left and right.
[La Dance Macabre]
As I slowly walked out of cover, I tapped and skipped on my feet in a rhythmic dance. They stopped firing, probably because they just killed the Blood Golem.
"Find the Sensei!" Their officer shouted in caution, his accent that of a Voroniyan. "Reinforcements are 2 minutes aw-"
Their officer paused as he caught a glimpse of me, I could see the panic in him even if he was without a human face.
[Black Orb]
/
Tainting Of Paradise
The dark orb of destruction, enhanced by the mystical nature of Kivotos, was unleashed by the one scorched by Sulfur.
As the sphere of death shot towards the young Sensei's enemies, the very air and sound displaced by the Black Orbs power, the automatons of Kaiser PMC, along with their vehicles, the buildings around, and the very earth they stood on were annihilated.
The bodies, now mechanical carcasses, of many machine mercenaries were scattered about and obliterated by the force of destruction.
Mechanical limbs scattered, their oil, their blood, what would be their internal organs, launched up the sky before raining back down on whichever few remaining that would live for they would be bathing in their comrades, their brothers minced insides.
The earth underneath where everything stood upon shattered and compressed as the power of the death magic forced it to sink doen on itself, concrete and asphalt breaking apart as if they were glass creating a storm of lethal debris.
With a yanking motion of his hand, Levi Jordan redirects the Black Orbs trajectory to where Kaiser reinforcements would be coming from, through the Kaiser PMC main building.
As the orb shattered earth, it also shot through the building of steel and glass, the former bending, deforming, and eventually breaking apart whilst the latter shattered and scattered everywhere raining glass shards down below.
The dim light of the stars and the crescent moon reflects all across the many hundreds of thousands of broken glass as they rained down, the building broken in half tips... and falls down on the PMC Director.
The building impacts down on the shattered earth, a cacophony of earth, steel, and whatever pieces of glass remaining shattering echoed through the mostly empty night district. With each floor of the building breaking, ash and dust were scattered more and more obscuring the sight for any and all observers.
The Kaiser reinforcements only had mere seconds to process what had transpired as they rushed to their comrades in arms. Everything from the black sphere, their machine brethrens corpses, their headquarters destroyed, the dark sphere of death about to hammer down on them.
All in mere seconds, all before most could of them could even perceive the Black Orb shooting towards them at supersonic speeds.
In the imperceivable split second it would take the orb to destroy the oncoming Kaiser forces, the black-red haired girl among their ranks rushed left and right, throwing her comrades, her friends, and their machine officer away from the spell of destructions path.
The many automatons left in the way of destruction suffered the same fate as their comrades, torn apart, crushed, ruptured from the inside out, butchered along with everything else such as buildings and the armored vehicles they had.
Just a few seconds, with a wave of his arm, a headache, and blood leaking out of his nose and eyes, was all the menacing Sensei of Schale needed to utterly destroy those opposing him, those in his way.
The realization has him smirking, chuckling as the dust settled. He's no longer powerless, he will no longer be used and abused by adults, he has the power to ensure no other children will suffer as he did anymore, he's finally achieving something truly great.
Levi lays his eyes on two figures on the ground breathing what would be their last breaths, Black Suit with white spiderweb like cracks around his body and his suit torn and dirtied, his hand still holding where he was shot as he struggles to pull himself up whilst staring at Levi.
The PMC Director wasn't any better, a part of the building he once called his office pins him down as he looks up to see the approaching demon in human form.
"Sen... sei of Schale... this... is a short... sighted decision on your part." The man of otherworldly black huffs out as he looks up at the young teacher looking down on him.
"Tell me why I shouldn't kill you." Not that Levi had any intention of not doing so.
"I am... not alone. I keep... a leash on them." Black Suit said with a cough as he covered where his mouth would be. "Without me, Beatrice... she will... be without restraint. Maestro and... Decalcomanie... will have no choice... but to follow." He added, mentioning names as proof of his partners existence.
"Then I will kill them as well."
"Even so, cooperation with us, with Gematria, would be... preferable. You... can benefit from us..." Black Suit coughed out, the cracks on his body seemingly spreading.
"And let you keep attacking Abydos?" Levi sneered out as he worked his rifles mechanism, ejecting a spent casing loading in a fresh one.
"We did... are not attacking Abydos. We tried... to help."
"Some help you've given, huh? Why do you want Abydos so much anyways?" Black Suit looked away from Levi, huffing and puffing as he held his chest thinking about his words.
"Horus, the strongest mystic." Levi raises an eyebrow, recognizing the name on Hoshino's shield. "Research... about mystics." The Sensei of Schale has heard enough, so he aims his rifle at the otherworldly mans head.
"It's not... too late, Sensei... of Schale. Walk away... and-"
Bang!
One shot through the man of otherworldly black, the orange flash of the bullet going through his head as it cracked and broke. Black Suit's upper head is no longer, white cracks along the edges of whatever remained of his head as it limped down.
Twisting and pulling the bolt of his rifle, Levi ejects the spent round that had Black Suit's name on it then pushing it back in along with a new bullet bearing the Kaiser PMC Director's name into the chamber.
"You... Y-you can't do this!" The PMC Director screamed out, his only free arm thrashing on the ground and the sizable piece of rubble crushing his body. "They won't allow it! Kivotos won't-"
Levi dashed towards the Director on deaths door, pulling his bayonet out of his rifle as he gently set the gun on the ground beside him.
"What were you planning on doing to Serika?" Levi asked as he traced the sharp edges on his bayonet on the machine businessman's metallic jaw.
"That... Black Suit..." Frozen by fear both in mind and body, the PMC Director could only stutter and stammer as he felt the bayonet tip dragging across his face. "Plea-!"
Not wanting to hear the metallic swine speak one more word, the ruthless boy soldier plunged the bayonet down through the Director's neck. His free hand on the other side of the mechanoids head as he twisted both the knife and his head.
The sound of metal being forcefully stretched, the sparks of electricity from his wiring, the oil and fluids leaking out like blood, the scattering of said fluids with bits and pieces of metal as Levi tore the Director's head by the neck.
"That was easy." Levi chuckled to himself, dropping the Director's head down.
Grabbing the tablet that was A.R.O.N.A within his clothes, Levi activates it seeing its sky blue background with the Schale logo in the middle.
"A.R.O.N.A, can you erase the Abydos debt or something." Levi asked as he faced the Director's headless remains, it's still sparking and leaking mechanical fluids.
[Done, Levi-Sensei. May I also erase any and all records of what has transpired?] A.R.O.N.A asked in her usual monotone artificial voice. [I urgently ask for your permission to do so.]
"Do what you need to, A.R.O.N.A." The Sensei of Schale did not care for why his artificial secretary asked nor for what, he's simply happy knowing what he's done is to protect his dear students.
[Affirmative, Levi-Sensei.]
With that, Levi turned around and began walking back to-
Hearing the sound of a pair of mechanical footsteps, he pauses with a look of caution as he awaits the lone straggler of what was once a formidable mercenary army to act.
The straggler, the other officer of Kaiser PMC, drops his M16 and raises his arms in a gesture of surrender. His head turning to look between the man of otherworldly black without a head, his employers severed head, and finally back on the teacher.
Levi ignores the automaton after confirming his surrender, turning his gaze back at A.R.O.N.A as he continues walking.
The the young Sensei's attention on his mystical tablet, he didn't care enough to take notice of more foot steps coming.
"Eugene-san, everyone..." A black-red haired girl with a sword trails off as she observes the ruined surroundings. "Everyone's gone..." She said, staring at the dismembered and pulverized automaton limbs around her.
"No, no, he wouldn't die so easily." The straggler, now only the sole surviving automaton of his brigade shook his head in denial.
"My God..." A girl armed with a sword and SMG muttered out, staring in horror at the sight of automaton limbs, blood, and even heads scattered in pieces. "Why... we... we can't let this be!" She shouted, pulling out two muskets from her gear and pulling the hammers back.
"That's right!" A white-haired girl shouted out in Levi's way, prompting him to look up from the Shittim Chest as she aimed her grenade launcher. "Murderer! We won't let you go!"
"You want to keep tormenting Abydos?" Levi said using the speech skills, the persuasive skills, of his Termina victims as his own. "Am I supposed to let you keep doing that?" He added, such calm in his voice as if he didn't just commit the most heinous crime in Kivotos history, fueling the rage within the grenadier.
With a roar, she charges-
Suddenly, faster than the blink of an eye; another person, moving so fast she appeared as a blur restrained the Grenadier. The white-haired girl had her arms restrained behind her back by black-green haired girl.
The black-red haired girl gasped, rushing to check her pockets. She turned back to her two friends after feeling her empty pockets, one restraining the other in front of a demon.
"Huh?! Empress, let me go! We can't-"
"He will kill you." The black-green girl holding the sword girl down said in a low voice, warning her of what would come.
"I don-"
Before the enraged grenadier could let another word out, a black-green haired girl gags her with a free hand.
What... was that? Levi asked himself, eyes wide at the dark haired girl who appeared seemingly from thin air.
The blonde loaded an arrow to her bow and aimed as she pulled the string back, yet the black-red haired girl stopped her from firing. She was afraid.
"Sensei of Schale... please let us live." Levi would've thought more about the device this girl held, how she moved so fast. but alas-
"Keep your friend in a leash, will you." He sighed out as he walked past the two, the white-haired girl squirming, screaming through her friends hand, and struggling as she glared Levi passing her.
"Of course, Sensei."
Whatever this girl's ability and capabilities were are currently none of his concerns. His mission was to eliminate Kaiser PMC, nothing more and nothing less, and now his objective is to return to Abydos as he has accomplished just that.
Whatever interest he has for the device Qing Huang Hou held, it is at the very lowest of his list of priorities. For now, he shall celebrate his victory and rejoice for the end of Abydos' torment.
"You wannabe empress, why?!" The white-haired girl asked in frustration as her dark haired friend ungagged her. "He's a monster!"
"A monster that would've killed you." Qing spoke through gritted teeth as she let her comrade go. "We can't fight him, Karen."
"So what?! We should've-"
Karen paused as she heard the cries of their automaton officer and their friend's, Qing turning to face where the sound came from as did Blanca and Lucy.
They rushed to the sound of the cry, avoiding debris such as glass, concrete, steel, and... the slaughtered body parts of their automaton comrades. With each passing sight of metallic body parts and such, the group of four girls urge to vomit and cry grew larger and larger.
Until they halted, staring, frozen at the sight they've found.
"M-Mikhail oji-san..." Their usually happy younger friend on her knees, tears running down her face as she holds their brigade commanders arm... at least what remained of it that was still somewhat whole.
While his second in command, Eugene, holds the lifeless cracked head of his best friend and superior. His hands trembled, emotions ranging from anger and sorrow radiating from Eugene even with his cold machine constitution.
"Eugene-san..." Lucy trailed off as she walked towards the mourning automaton, as she and her friends are also doing. "What... what now?" She asked, unable to think of what should be done.
"... None of your concerns." Eugene the automaton sobbed out as he stood up, grabbing along his deceased friends AK-47. "Now... it's just me. You girls shouldn't-"
"We're coming with you!" Karen shouted out, frustration in her voice as she thinks of the Sensei getting off scot free after everything.
"You'll die! Besides-"
"We can't- we won't let a murderer walk around, unpunished for his crimes!" Blanca cried out with a sniffle, images of the near unrecognizable remains of her automaton comrades flashing in her mind.
Lucy... isn't sure of what to say, of what to do as she herself wants to see justice, yet-
"But we'll die." Qing said as she looked at her friends and machine officer. "That... that monster showed us mercy. If we actes against him, then..." She whispered out with an uncharacteristic look of fear.
"Don't follow me." Eugene said. "Mikhail... he and I have been planning... something. Something that you girls shouldn't be a part of." He added as he slung his friends gun around himself.
"But Eugene-san-!"
"Enough! Mikhail wouldn't want you girls fighting for your life!" The now lone automaton shouted out in frustration, tears may not roll down his cheeks but his despair can be felt. "At least respect his-"
He paused as he felt something, someone bump him from behind. Turning around, he sa Laura sobbing and crying, her arms holding his friends arm tightly.
"I can't... ji-san didn't deserve this..." Laura sniffled, snot running down her nose and tears from her eyes. "The S-Sensei... he has... he has to pay!" She was always the one talking back to the now dead automaton, yet now she's crying so much for him.
Eugene stares, frozen as he processes Laura's words, as did her friends.
"... Follow me." Eugene reluctantly said as he started walking, with the mercenary girls following after him, towards the Millennium Ruins.
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Traces
Levi happily hums to the beat of a song playing from the tablet that is A.R.O.N.A, tilting his head left and right as he kicked handfuls of sands away with every skip and step he took.
He's celebrating to himself, celebrating the fact that for once in his worthless life he has achieved a worthwhile victory, so easily too. He takes pride and joy knowing that he can and will stop any and all adults who wishes harm upon his students, that he's made sure his students would never have to suffer as much as he did.
With a smile on his lips, he takes a breath in as he halts his steps sighing out as he looked up at the night sky, taking in the sight of the stars and the crescent moon, the latter's dim light reflecting in the clouds.
"Fuck you, Rher." Levi said, remembering what happened to the mechanic lady who cared for him briefly, why such a kind person had to suffer when there were plenty of scum who deserved it more.
Levi puts on a frown knowing that no matter how much he wanted even reaching the Trickster Moon God would be impossible, let alone killing the primordial deity.
The boy teacher sighs out as he starts walking once again back to Abydos, imagining the joy they would express knowing their debt, their suffering would be no more.
[Sensei, halt!] A.R.O.N.A shouted, the distress in her voice can be felt even if it was artificial. [Danger detected! Please, flee immediately!]
A.R.O.N.A warned as she showed a map in her screen, indicators showing where the Sensei of Schale is and where the apparent threat is, the latter of which is speeding towards the formers location rapidly.
Immediately, Levi tucked A.R.O.N.A in his clothes as he scrambled to aim his rifle at the direction this threat was coming.
[20 seconds until contact!] A.R.O.N.A shouted as Levi took cover behind a building, peeking from his cover he awaits whatever is coming.
[7 seconds until contact!] Levi's artificial secretary warned once again, this time with a most human like desperation. [Levi-Sensei, please flee immediately!]
The boy teacher does not heed his assistants warnings, simply keeping his eyes and aim in the general direction of the incoming enemy. After all, he obliterated an entire brigade by himself just minutes earlier, why should he-
[Contact!] A.R.O.N.A declared, much to Levi's confusion as there's nothing in his sights. [Sensei, please flee immediately!]
He begins to relax, little by little his shoulders lost tension and he brought his gun down. Leaving his cover, he scans the area left and right looking for whatever A.R.O.N.A warned him of.
"You... you're Levi, right?" Asked a woman's voice. In an instant, Levi turned to face the voice and... froze, eyes widening at the sight of a haloless woman with her head down, her hair covering her eyes.
The woman wears a pink shirt and skirt, short brown hair, and... she wears what is an unmistakably recognizable red shoes to the boy teacher. Levi recognizes the woman, the woman he saw in the first dream on the train to Prehevil.
"Yeah." He whispered out in shock, wondering how the dream woman even reached Kivotos. "Why are you-"
The woman in pink raises her head, showing eyes filled with absolute hate and disdain towards Levi as she bared her teeth.
"Huh?" Levi freezes at the woman's face, not because of how much hate the woman was showing but for how much she resembled her wheelchair bound twin. "Olivia?"
Suddenly, a red thunderbolt shot down from the heavens intended to scorch the boy into ashes, only for the magical crimson lightning to hammer into A.R.O.N.A's mystical shield.
As traces of the red lightning lingered on as statics, Levi's pulse and heart rate shot up with adrenaline as he rushed to aim his rifle at the woman.
"Bastard!" The woman shouted as she summoned countless swarms of blue moths brightening the dark night. "You killed her!" With a furious gesture of her arm, she summons more lightning to rain down on the Sensei.
Instincts both of Levi's or of the souls he's absorbed took over, dashing left and right, jumping from and dodging the red lightning bolts shooting down from the skies and glassing the sand beneath his feet.
With a brief halt of magical attacks, Levi aims and-
Bang!
Shoots at the rage filled mage woman, the bullet shooting through her face as blood started leaking. Yet the woman doesn't fall, her face restructuring itself with glowing blue wires under her flesh as she glares at Levi.
She then sends her countless blue moths to swarm the Sensei, each individual moth screeching as she launched themselves at Levi, hungering for his flesh and blood.
Stretching his arm out, Levi grits through the headache as he casts-
Boom!
Combustion in the middle of the swarm, the sudden and powerful burst of flame scattering many dead moths as their many remains burned to ashes.
Waving his arm aside, Levi directs the flames towards more of the swarm as the flames felled the moths by the thousands as their burning sizzling remains hovered down.
Levi redirects his attention and caution back at the woman as the dust, ashes, and moths settled. The wheelchair bound woman's twin looks at the Sensei with pure contempt, her hand outstretched and pointed at him with an orb of darkness at the tip of her finger.
Levi only had a split second to recognize the orb of destruction, the very same he used to annihilate the Kaiser brigade. Quickly, he brings his arms up as he dashed away in a futile attempt to avoid the spell.
The traces of Logic let the orb loose, the force of the orb crashing through buildings as sand and debris were thrown around and up the air along with the boy teacher. Sand and debris rained down for the second time this night.
Levi lays on the ground, bleeding with wounds all around his body, his clothes torn and stained red, his left arm broken and bent in what should be an impossible angle, his right arm limp and paralyzed as it leaked blood.
"Why?" He hears the woman ask as she slowly walks towards him, looking down on him with fury as more of her moths spawned. "Why... what did Olivia do to you?!" She spat out with tears leaking down her eyes.
Levi widens his eyes in shock at the woman's words, her near perfect resemblance to the sweet woman he took in bed leading him to the realization. "You're... Olivia's twin." He concluded.
The woman doesn't answer immediately, sobbing out silently as she cried for her sister, the urge to tear the man who murdered her beloved twin the only thing in her mind.
"You... you lied to Olivia, lured her, took advantage of her, and..." The woman's fingers twitched, clenching in and out as she came closer to Levi and bent down to his crippled form. "You have no idea... of what you've done." She growled out as she brought her fingers on his throat, her thumbs crushing his throat as the rest wrapped around the neck.
"You didn't just... just kill her." She cried out as she kept on shaking in rage, making sure that the boy teacher suffers a slow and most painful death. "You've doomed us all. Because of you... Logic..." The woman trailed off as she took in Levi's pained expression, struggling and desperately trying to breath.
"Because of you... the world will keep on suffering." The Sensei of Schale takes in the woman's words, then immediately disregarding it as nonsense. After all, he was but a lone struggling boy, he was insignificant, he wouldn't be capable of making the world burn.
Even if he wanted to, even with how much he's wanted to ever since he lost his mother, ever since he became an orphan, ever since he became a soldier, when he was burning in Sulfur-
Squelch!
The tight hold on his neck suddenly softened, letting the teacher breath in and regain his senses. He looks up at the woman staring in horror, a spear resembling scorched flesh spawned from the blood pouring from his right hand, the blade of which is through the woman's chest, blood leaking down from the wound along with traces of a blue mist.
Longinus, the spear which killed Alll-Mer, now lays its blade deep within the stillborn Ascended God.
Instinctively, Levi swipes his limp and bloodied right arm with all of his will and might. The first swing tears down through the woman's ribs, pelvis, and one of her femurs as blood, organs, and more of the blue mist that was the woman's otherworldly life blood gushing out of her body.
With one last move from his near crippled right arm, Levi stabs the Longinus into fledgling God's face. The Avatar of Logic could do nothing as the spear of Sulfur tore through her skull and brain, her blood and eyes thrown aside as Levi yanked the blade away.
The stillborn Ascended God's remains limp down, cracking and dissipating into blue mists... and then nothing.
As the spear of hatred demanifested in Levi's hand, he prayed and called upon the Goddess of Love's healing light, which then stitched his flesh back together, bent his broken left arm back into its proper place, and replaced bits of flesh and lost blood leaving him good as new.
[Levi-Sensei, the threat has been eliminated. All signs of life from the threat has ceased.]
"That's good I suppose. Now... how do I explain this?" The boy teacher asked no one in particular as he looked down on his clothes, torn and stained with his own blood.
He sighs out in frustration as he started once again walking back to Abydos.
/
Hoshino P.O.V
"What... what in the world?" Ayane-chan asked with disbelief in her expression, probably finding that- "The debt... it's gone..." I knew it.
"Huh?! What do you mean?!" Serika-chan asked out, rushing to Ayane-chan's side and looking over her shoulder. "What the... it is."
"Nn. Sensei must've dealt with it." Shiroko-chan isn't wrong but... how Levi-Sensei dealt with it, he can't find out, they can't find out.
Hell, I even wish that I didn't of know how he went about dealing with them. Last night, he... I can't believe I listened to him... but I did and here we are.
What would Yume-senpai say?
Nonomi widens her eyes as she reads something in her phone, snapping up from her seat as she grabbed her mini gun and rushed to the rooms exit.
"Huh? Nonomi, where are you going?" Serika-chan asked as she looked at Nonomi in confusion, Shiroko and Ayane-chan doing the same as I also looked at her with worry.
"It's something urgent from my family." Nonomi explained with an uncertain tone. "I don't know why they're so worked up, but it's nothing to worry about." She added as her usual smile returned.
How I hope it's really nothing important.
"Right, be careful now, Nonomi." We did Nonomi goodbye for the day, and her doing the same as she gently slid the door close.
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Haruka P.O.V
Aru-sama couldn't find any contracts we can work with and earn some living with, at least not yet. She's the greatest after all! It would only take a matter of time until we became the most feared group in Kivotos under Aru-sama!
But for now, I can only tend to my g-garden. Hehehe, my personal garden. Levi-Sensei... Kayoko, and even Mutsuki told me to stay away from him, but he's actually really nice!
He's the only one who's seen my weeds, the only one who's called- no, the only one who would see my pots of weed as pretty!
Not even Aru-sama... not even Aru-sama would do such a thing... at least I don't think. Even so, Aru-sama doesn't need to see what she and most others would consider as an invasive vermin.
Levi-Sensei not only calls them pretty, but also uses them to... what did he call it again? Oh, that's right, smoking weed.
He looked so happy and relaxed after smoking my weed with a pipe of some kind, he was so talkative and stuff.
I want to be like that... maybe I can ask him for instructions when he comes to visit again.
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Rin P.O.V
Here in president 's office, I watch a little interested as Levi-Sensei grumbles and pouts in his seat infront of the president who's smiling as always, giggling at Levi-Sensei.
It feels... strange to say the least calling a boy that's basically our age by that title, but -sama's orders I suppose.
"So you're saying that Miss Hinomiya barged in your office and assaulted you?" President asked in an amused teasing tone, giggling to herself as she covered her mouth.
"It's not an assault but she's been doing it everyday." Levi-Sensei grumbled out with his arms crossed, the pout on his face is... kind of cute. "I can't exactly do the paperwork you're giving me with her around." Normally-
"Usually, people would be thrilled to escape such mundane work you know, Levi-kun?" President said, still intent on teasing the boy who's practically radiating anger.
"Oh, I would be... so long as I'm not being touched all over." Levi-Sensei said as he scratched the back of his head and... is that a blush on his cheeks? Well, just one side as the other is... now that I have a closer look, the blue on his face... looks burnt. "Is there something on my face, Rinny?"
"N-nothing, Levi-Sensei. I'm simply wondering about the blue on your face." I managed to speak out without stuttering all the way with his menacing gaze. "And just so you know, only President may call me Rinny!" I heard president laughing at me.
"A-anyways, we have not had proper introductions as of yet." I said, clearing my throat. "I am Nanagami Rin. You may call me Rin, during work hours you must however refer to me as Vice President or Nanagami-san."
"Nice to meet you, Rinn- Vice President. I'm Levi, just Levi." He said with a somewhat nervous look, appearing a little... shy I would even say. Hmm, I wonder why he hates his surname so much.
"As for my face... I don't actually know." It's not my place to pry into his secrets I suppose.
"If you allowed Miss Hinomiya to examine it, perhaps she could find out." President ... she's really shipping them a lot, isn't she?
"I don't want to and I don't need to." He said as he looked away, crossing his arms over eachother once again.
's smile widens just a little, her head tilting sideways in that oh so familiar way I always see everytime she pulls of something stupid.
"Well, Levi-kun, if you allow Miss Hinomiya to examine it... I will teach you the secret to keep her away." Yeah, no. She won't be doing that, I've fallen for her traps way more than I'd like to admit.
"Alright, fine." Should I tell him? Or should I not? There are many more medical professionals and hospitals that would be more qualified than the Prefect Teams field medic, but... I sense that Levi-Sensei needs this.
The teasing, the bonding, just... everything that I've suffered with president . He will hate the teasing and unnecessary attention as I once did and somewhat still do, but he will come to yearn for it... as I do sometimes but that's beside the point.
Hopefully, he will grow up and out of whatever horrible things he's grown accustomed to wherever he came from. Hopefully, he will learn not to repeat what he did in his first day, what he almost did to those delinquents in the tank.
As Levi-Sensei made his way out of the room, I couldn't help but smile at how is teasing him as she does to me almost daily.
"Hmm? My, my, Rinny-chan have you also fallen for Levi-kun?"
"N-no! Of course not! That would be wholly unprofessional!" I said, probably for the ten thousandth time I've done so with 's shenanigans. "And what are you giggling for now?"
"Levi-kun doesn't know what a date is, Rinny-chan!" She laughed out. "I told him it's a way to keep Miss Hinomiya away!" Because of course she did.
I could do nothing but sigh at president and her nonsense. Alright, back to business, we still have a long day of work ahead of us.
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A/N: Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday happy birthday, get traumatized a lot.(wrote this back in November 14)
I thought a lot that I was kind of pushing too much by having Levi, both normal Levi and Sulfur Levi, be more talkative than he would be in Termina canon but it's actually ok in this fic since he would also inherit the speech skills/charisma of the souls he's absorbed... or something.
I can't exactly share spaghetti, cake, or whatever with you guys so I hope this will be enough.
Let me know what you guys think of the Sulfurite Terror timeline, because I'm so far loving writing depression archive. Hell, I can't wait to start rewriting the Chinatsu grape/blackmail seggs scene along with the events leading up to it in Sulfur Levi's pov. As well as the attack on Hina, poor Hina's getting the Fear and Hunger treatment.