[ Ashera kusajishi: chaotic neutral ]
"you there, human? is this the overworld?" a teenager said as he was walking around with only his armored tail out and other features hidden away.
"um...excuse me?" the young girl said but then his tail swayed around and he smiled "I'm from the fairy kings forest, I was wondering is this the Devine realm aka overworld" he asked again.
but she then looked at that armored tail and ancient attire he was wearing, she gave a glance of disbelief as he didn't look like fariy or one of the mistic races.
"yes...it is" she said hesitation and he had a mischievous smirk that made her back up, but then as she did he put his hands behind his back and he leaned in acting all cutsey.
"I'm looking for someone, do you think you can direct me to Alethra?" he said but then she got even more nervous as his eyes were crimson red.
"why? who are you looking for?" she stared sweating as she felt some sorts of vile aura coming from him.
"oh, well my brother left home a long time ago and the family misses him, I'm just here to check up on him" he said with a innocent look and she signed with relief.
"it's pretty far away, about a weeks travel on foot" she said but then he looked a bit down as he heard it was far.
she then patted his sholder "I'm actually heading there tomorrow, if you want we can travel together, it's getting pretty late so if you'd like you can spend the night with me" she said being nice out of the kindness in her heart and he smiled "I'd really like that~"
"oh, what's you name if you don't mind me asking?" she asked politely.
"it's Ezekiel"
***16 hours later***
ariving at the foot of the mountain everyone got out and Milla desided to do a head count.
"Aseir, Bardeid, Haseid, Alston, Alvin, Brocc, Vinny, Jake, and Yuri" she called out all her male students.
"here" they all repeated
"Yuu, Sam, Xian, Lin, Caroline, Ella, Nyx, Roywyn, Lily, Serbrina, Rieta" she called the girls names.
here" they all repeated
but then as she closed the role call a guy pointed out "where missing Hadi and Ken?" he said and her face became that of unsteady.
but then as she was feeling down about those two, she looked over to Ashera who gazed off but then noticed her and then he gave a reassuring gesture that calmed her.
"they said they couldn't make it" she said but then the girls looked over to Ashera who was looking around at the nature of this place.
"what about the knew transfer student? and who's this 'hot'... guy" Nyx curiously asked.
"Ashera kusajishi, I sent him a invitation but I guess he couldn't come?" she said with a dissapointed expression but then she looked over and introduced him.
"and this is Ashera... ... ... ... ..." but then she came to a pause as she just realized he had the same name as her student...no he looked young, was this the Ashera in her class!?
'think of something! me'
"hello, I'm Ashera Ashen, it's nice to meet everyone" he said bowing and she sighed with relief as he wasn't one of her students.
'dumbass dumbass dumbass, Ashera Ashen, what type of surname is that, I might as well as told eveyone I'm kusajishi'
as he did that the girls looked him up and down and a wave of curiosity filled them, but then they saw him glance at their teacher who was staring at him and he smiled making her get flustered.
this got the ladies curious, meanwhile the guys already didn't like him as they saw how the girls eyed him up as soon as he was present and also how their godess of a teacher was acting right now.
but then before they knew it he clapped his hands together and said "so, lets go look for some Demon's~" he said actually excited and the guys instantly changed their opinions.
forget hateing him, he didn't even look at the girls, he's about the yōkai life! he's one of the boi's!
"Ashera come with us and we'll head into battle!" Jake said being the first one to be pumped about this.
it wasn't long before everyone started heading up the mountain.
they already rented a place to stay, it was like a spa resort and it was said to be haunted with yōkai which made it run down, but at the same time it's said it's busting with business.
Ashera already didn't like this place, he felt multiple ominous auras around here, but then again that's just what made it fun.
***
more scars than the devil's nut sac, he saw scratches all over trees and this excited mostly all the guys.
"look traces of yōkai's!" Aseir said as he ran over to the giant claw markes.
"yep this is defently the place for yōkai!" Xian was very excited, she really wanted to see a yōkai.
'or monsters, did you forget they exist too?' -Ashera
but as they all gathered around it...Ashera picked up on something, and he suddenly said.
"did anyone bring any weapons to fight?" they all turned to look at him and they were overly confused.
"why would we bring weapons Ashera, it's just a friendly outing and search for yōkai" Vinny said with his hand on his hip and Ashera's eye twitched as he heard the most stupidest thing ever.
who brings zero weapons to a place crawling with creatures wanting to kill you.
unless you where of the brawler class? they use martial arts and fight with only their fist...and legs...fick it they fight with only their body!
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'i guess I'll have to protect these fools'
"stop being so worried Ashera, nothings going to attack us" nyx said and he gave her a serious glar that made her back down.
"yeah she's right, we all brought holy talismans before coming here so the creatures of this place won't do anything to us" Milla said but it was clearly not working as he wasn't sensing anything from that paper tag on her chest.
"what talisman?" Alvin said and then he looked to tall the girls who had little talismans on their chest and it made all the guys gulp...not just because they all glared at them tities, but they they all had no immunity to the yōkai.
but then suddenly Ashera walked over to the guys and wrapped his arms around two of their necks and made all the guys huddle up... so the girls couldn't hear them.
he started whispering to them and after a few minutes of the girls getting super curious, they suddenly geered and he was actually surprised by there resolution, well half of them atleast, the strong willed ones impressed him...the others, so-so.
"hey ladies, I have a request for you" Ashera sold looking over to them.
"partner up with one of these guys so their not eaten okay~" he said and they frowned as this wasn't somthing they wanted, like eww why the hell would we partner up with any of those foolish and childish boys.
"also since there's an uneven amount of ladies with talismans, the other three can group up or join any other group" he said but they we're still against it.
"no, why should we partner up with those perverts, were only-"
"looking for yōkai!" Alston said overjoyed and Caroline sighed
"yeah looking for yōkai, it's not like their dangerous, there only yōkai" Caroline's words irritated him, she underestimated Demon's but she'll see soon enough.
the other girls agreed with her 'your all stupid' giving her a stupid look he looked over to the guys who had solemn expressions and then they looked over to him and nodded their heads and he nodded in agreement.
them 'there so going to die first'
him 'yep'
"Milla you mind partnering up with me" he said as she was the only one who didn't sound stupid today, well it was a half as she actually believed the talismans worked without having it appraised.
"sure thing~" she said and then they started hiking up the mountain but since they all wore low-grade spatial bags, they needed to take a few brakes.
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Random info
spatial gear -you've heard spatial rings, yeah its commonly used but so very expensive to own...but have you ever heard about the other spatial tools.
the spatial bag and pouch, well there just like the ring but there very diffrent.
the spatial bag stores anything that can fit in it and stores it in a sort of storage/inventory, but there's a weight limit,
spatial bags goes by grades:
low - 10kg/22 pounds
intermediate - 25kg/55 pounds
advance - 45kg/100 pounds
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earth - 100kg/220 pounds
sky - 250kg/551 pounds
and so on
the drawback to useing spatial bags is also that you carry the total weight, so you could say if you were so use a sky-grade spatial bag it's going to be one hell of a leg day.
spatial pouches are all kinda the same, but it's used for coins/money or trinkets and little items.
the spatial rings are very expensive and they don't have any drawbacks besides the fact that you manually have to use mana to use them, and the others siphon the mana from you.
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traveling up the mountain with everyone he saw signs of wild beasts and halfway up the mountain it was as if he was ingulfed in darkness as his sense of smell was basically blocked and he couldn't use his nose to recognize anything, more or less the scent of another Demon.
lucky for him, he bring two intermediate-geade daggers with him....but he wasn't as prepared as eveyone else seeing as thats all he brought with him, just the dangers, himself and a jacket/Hoodia because it gets colder the higher you go up, plus the more they traveled north the colder it got.
as they were traveling up in pairs, Milla the teacher told them that Ashera didn't know about yōkai since he asked what they were last week and then the boys started explaining to him the wonders of yōkai.
which was very fucking ironic considering he himself was a Demon or so called "yōkai?", but he listened to them and contined to look around since he got paranoid his a few of his senses were jammed.
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they were being followed.
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after hours of walking and listening to them complain, they finally got to the resort they were going to be staying in, apparently for the next two weeks.
as they got to the entrance, the doors opened and they were met with 2 girls in kimonos who seemed to be expecting all of us, the others found it fascinating but Ashera stayed cautious.
they all checked into 4 rooms, one for all the girls, one for all the guys, Milla or rather Ms.Amastacia got a small room to herself.
Ashera also got a room to himself but it wasn't for free, he was supposed to be in the room with the boys, but he used his natural charm to get a room...but, he had to help out around there, so it's like working for his own privacy.
no offense to the others, but he likes his privacy.
the others started getting settled in and we're just relaxing before they went to look for yōkai tommow, meanwhile Ashera just started helping around there immediately, he didn't like the looks the others gave him so he desided to help in the kitchen and cook.
***next day***
"Ezekiel, who's that?" the girl said as someone in a black cloak followed behind Ezekiel.
"them? don't worry about it~" he said but then a mischievous smile came on his face.
'dear brother, where coming for you'