"How far are we from the school?" asked a blond Caucasian young lady with a rather fit build. She is also wearing the same uniform as the two males.
Both Ryvern and Jacob point to the said school.
"It's just right over there."
An sceptical Luxuria crosses her legs as she says;
'I don't know why but this girl is giving me bad juju...'
"Great!" She then turns to them. "Are you the two of you close friends? I didn't mean to eavesdrop of you guys, but I hear you two talking about 'boobs'?"
Jacob stopped dead on his tracks.
'Never mind.'
The girl nervously laughs afterwards.
"I mean, Ryvern barely said anything about it."
Jacob slowly turns his head to the young lady.
"Uh..." Then he turns to Ryvern.
Ryvern can only smirks as he fastens his pace.
"W-Wait! Ryvern!"
"See ya, Ryvern!" the young lady shouts as Jacob tries to catch up to Ryvern.
Catching up to Ryvern, the brunette huffs as he lightly slaps the silver haired boy's shoulder.
"What was that for?"
"I wonder..." Ryvern muttered as he looks at the sky.
"And how did she..."
As Jacob is talking, Ryvern's mind wanders to a distant memory.
Luxuria sighs.
'Here we go again.'
....
Multiple brushes rustled as a group of humans, angels, and even devils emerged with multiple wounds and bruises stretched across their entire body. They seemed to be running away from something as the forest of trees behind them swayed hard with stomps of a giant follows suit.
At the same time, a group of men in armours rushed in from the direction which the runaways fleeing towards.
"Quick! We need to engage it before it gets to the clearing!" Yelled one of them as they all unsheathed their weapons.
"Art's right! It's best if the Mare is immobilised due to the trees! Let's go!" Yelled another as lightning sparks appear in his eyes.
The runaways stopped in their tracks as they could hear grunts of pain and shouts of despair coming from the forest. However, it is not from the group of adventurers, but by the creature which they were fleeing from.
Few moments after a loud slam and minor earthquake from the forest, a man in shining armour emerged along with his 7 companion;
Ryvern; the only black haired male and a great sword wielder, along with a sword strapped to his waist, facing the back.
Lancelot; the only dual swords wielding blond who seems to have a cold expression on his face.
Galahad; the only person who does not have a fixed preference of weapon; can be seen through his vest full of random throwable weapons and the dual daggers by each of his thighs along with the short sword behind his back.
Tristan; a sword and shield wielding brunette who seems to have gone from their side and appear in front of a distraught female human while grabbing her hand; 'gentleman style'.
Gawain; a tough looking, battle axe wielding, short blond haired brute who seemed to be dragging what appeared to be a corpse of gigantic, darker than black, creature, only with his left arm as the right's still holding onto a battle axe.
And Gareth; the only brown haired archer who also was the only doctor in the group, judging by his actions as he marched down to the runaways and immediately applying his medical technique on the heavy wounded ones.
The only one with the shining golden armour is Arthur Pendragon; the Bastard of The Pendragon House and also currently a famous adventurer.
Arthur appeared to be talking to Ryvern and Lancelot; while the latter seemed to be disagreeing with him.
"We can't, my lord. We need to join the Duke if we ever truly wants to save humanity."
"Lance," Ryvern said as he nudged the blond's shoulder.
The noirette gestured to the rather depressed Arthur. The brunette shook his head in disagreement before he sighed.
"The Duke would not be so happy to have me if we ever join his army. At this moment, let's save as many as we could while the Human Party fought against the Three Factions."
"But that is suicidal of them-"
"So is joining them," said the great sword wielder.
Ryvern left the two as he walked over to the runaways. He passed by Tristan who seemed to be kindly rejected by another female as he hung his head dejectedly. Helping Gareth while he applies bandages on a wounded devil, was a female angel who seems to heal a huge wound on the devil's thigh with bright light that appeared from her palm.
As the wound almost closed completely, the angel slumped backwards but before she hit the ground, Ryvern caught her.
"Thanks," said the angel as she looked over to her saviour. "Honey."
"You're going to kill me if you keep doing 'this' you know," said Ryvern as he sighed afterwards.
The angel tiredly chuckled while Gareth covered the wound with bandages as he nod to the lady.
"It's alright, I can take it from here."
The lady got up with Ryvern's help as the two moved over to somewhere away from the runaways and Ryvern's companions.
"I'm doing 'this' because it's the right thing to do," she said as she sat down on the grass.
"If only your family share the same opinion, then I don't have to worry about your safety every time."
Ryvern stood by her side before being pulled down and sat beside her. She pinched his nose softly as both of them shared a smile.
"I'm still an Archangel, remember?"
Her remarks made the black haired male shook his head as he sighed.
"I know... It's just-" Ryvern stopped while his face frowns.
He then grabbed the Archangel's hand and gripped it tights.
"I don't know what I will do if I ever lose you, Lokael."
She smiled lightly and kissed Ryvern's cheek.
"Then I'll make sure that day will never happen."
...
Present Day, Recess time...
"Are you sure he would...?" asked Aika worriedly to two boys around her age as they nod to her enthusiastically.
The brunette inhales deeply before her face turns determined. She nods to the two boys and walks away from them. As she leaves the two, they grin to each other before giggling like two little girls.
"Ryndelle!" shouted Aika from a distance as she hurriedly walks over to him.
"Yeah?" said Ryvern who appears to munch on a burger.
"C-can I talk to you for a moment?"
Ryvern hold up one finger as he munches on the burger again before finishing it.
"Shoot."
She looks down for a moment whilst fidgeting her fingers.
"Let's go somewhere private..."
'This will be interesting...' said Luxuria as Ryvern felt two presence near them that bothers him.
Under the shade of a tree, Oliver King and Donniel Thompson, are laughing their asses off silently. Ryvern has no idea why the two of them are around the area, but he is sure that they have something to do with Aika confronting him.
"Wait..." a sudden suspicion grows inside of him.
Aika suddenly tenses up as Ryvern moves his face closer to her. The brunette tries to back away, embarrassed, while still has her feet stuck in place.
"Hmm..." muttered Ryvern with squinted eyes.
"Natural dark brown hair, yellow eyes that almost similar to a precious gold. Oh yeah, slim figure, and also the spectacles that adds the 'smarty' looks. Yes, you are attractive." said Ryvern as Luxuria can be heard by him, booing him as she appears in front of him, as small as a certain tinker fairy from a 'land' that seems to be 'not always'.
'Demi! You are so boring!'
Aika seems to unable see Luxuria as her eyes blinks multiple times before yelping out of joy.
"YES!" she yelled and gained the attention of other students.
Aika suddenly hugs Ryvern which the silver haired teen did not expect at all as the fairy grins playfully.
Ryvern then clears his throat which made the brunette realises what she were doing. She thanked him again before walking away in joy.
However, little did he know, this incident is something that Ryvern will regret in the future. But before we move on said future, Ryvern has something to ask the 'pseudo monarch' and the '50's mafia favourite gun'.
The flustered Ryndelle shakes his head in disbelief before walking towards where Oliver and Donniel are at.
"So...what did you do?"
Ryvern cracks his knuckle as dark aura seemingly formed behind him. Both of them stopped laughing but before they can speak, a hyperventilating Jacob is running towards them, with a ton of girls from the Bladeswomen Club behind him. He bumps into the the three of them as the girls surrounds the boys.
Afraid of 'losing' his life, Jacob points his finger to the man who have nothing to do with him.
"It- it was Ryvern's idea!"
Then, the girls' attention turn to the silver haired boy, with the face of disgust on their face.
"What happened here?"
The voice of the President of Student Council rings out in the school field and all of them turn their attention to him.
With the rest of the Student Council's member behind him, he walks up to the crowd and demands an explanation. Apparently, Jacob was peeking them in their dressing room. However, because Jacob blamed Ryvern for 'giving' the idea of doing it, he somehow got involved too.
Then, without a second thought, Jacob, Oliver, and Donniel sprints as fast as they could from the scene, and leaving Ryvern to face the music as a certain bob haired tsundere walks up to them.
"What happened here?"
The Gregory Siblings notices Sona Bruvelle as Nolan nods to Julia. Miss Takahashi walks over to Sona and whispers to her which made the black haired girl flustered. She then walks over to Ryvern and drags the poor boy with her as they leaves the scene.
"I'll punish him myself!"
...
The school's rooftop...
"I didn't know you were one of 'them' too, Ryvern," she said as she tried to be as sternly as she could.
Ryvern gives no respond as he just stood there, scratching his head while Luxuria flies around him, mocking the silver haired boy.
'Hahaha! Look how the mighty Demon has fallen. Or should I say, the 'Perverted Demon'!"
She continues to laugh as Sona seems to unable to notice the small Luxuria too.
"God damn it..." he mutters to himself.
Sona sighs and says, "I dragged you here not because I want to berate you."
"'Dragged'."
She clears her throat as she herself is flustered before grasping her hands and slowly fidgets with her index finger.
"I have something I want to tell you."
'Ohoo.'
Luxuria grins.
"D-do you remember you..."
Ryvern; who does not like the vibe he gets from the current situation, backs away as he puts his hands up.
"Uhh...I don't like where this is going..." said Ryvern.
Sona tries to speak as she opens her mouth, however, she could not do so as her lungs feels as if it is being crushed. She yelps in pain as she crouches down.
Ryvern moves closer to Sona and put both his hands on her shoulders.
"Hey, what's wrong?" He asked.
Sona sobs before she finally says something, "I...don't know..."
As his hands still on her shoulders, he can feel Sona's energy getting weaker by the very second that it passes.
The weakened Sona then tries to grab Ryvern body, and accidentally hugged him. The Glasses Girl then blushed in red before she finally fainted from the energy exhaustion while her glasses falls down to the floor of the rooftop. Ryvern grabs her waist before she hit the ground and noticed the pink-ish aura from his hands are glowing.
He shakes his head before carefully lifting Sona bridal style while his eyes sparks with lightning. Ryvern turns into a blur of black and white as his figure, along with Sona's disappear from the rooftop.
Ryvern arrives in the school's infirmary and lays Sona on the patient cot. He then turns to Luxuria who looks at Sona with concerned look on her face.
"Lust," said Ryvern with a grim expression.
"W-What?" Luxuria replied, feigning ignorance.
Sona continued to sleep as Ryvern turn to her again and put her glasses back on for her. He looks around and notices a pen and a paper on the side desk and wrote something. Then, he placed the paper on desk and left the room.
'Meet me on the school rooftop after school.
-Ryvern.'
...
The bell had already rang and the students said their goodbye to teachers and their friends. Ryvern went to the same rooftop and put down his bag. He walks towards the guard rail of the rooftop and stares at the sky as the rooftop's door was opened.
Sona reveals herself as she takes a step towards him.
"How are you doing?"
"I'm fine. Just a bit tired." Sona clears her throat as she reached his side. "So, what I was about to ask you-"
"I'm sorry for that."
Sona turns her head to him while Ryvern is looking at a hill in the distance.
"What do you mean?"
Ryvern turns around and put his back to the rail.
"I unconsciously 'stole' your energy back then."
"How?"
Ryvern points at his right hand as pink-ish aura glows around it.
"This is the Soul of Luxuria."
Sona suddenly feels concerned.
"Luxuria...as in the Lust, one of the Seven Deadly Sins?
"Exactly. If there's the Four Horsemen who protects the 'Created' from the Abyss, then there's the Seven Deadly Sins who protects The Overworld from the Sealed Ones."
Sona eyes widened as she realised that one of the Artefacts of Sins is in the Overworld.
"If you have the artefacts then, is the barrier-"
"What barrier? If anything that's holding the "Sealed Demons" in Hell from coming to the Overworld, it's not the barrier; but the Seven Deadly Sins...at least those that's still alive."
Sona silently thinks to herself before speaking;
"Are you the 'Wielder of Luxuria'?"
Ryvern shakes his head in disagreement.
"No. A wielder can only use a portion of the artefact, and their task is to provide 'time' for the Sins before they return back to Hell. I, however, was entrusted to use this power in the upcoming 'event' that is about to happen."
Sona backs away for a moment.
"Then, what Onee-sama said is true, the 'Night' is planning to invade the Overworld..."
Ryvern slowly nods.
"Yes. I'm afraid so." Ryvern turns his head towards her and speaks, "I assume the thing want to ask me was about the 'demons'?"
Sona frantically shakes her head as she runs towards to door.
"I need to warn the others about this. I- I'll talk to you again next time!"
"Hey-" Ryvern called out to her but his Class Monitor has already left the rooftop, "...wait."
Ryvern turns back to the guard rail and places his arms on it.
"'Night'... so that what they called her nowadays..."
As Ryvern stares the street underneath from the rooftop, he sees Jacob Wilson and Zelle, the young lady with blond hair from before, talking by the gate of the school. Jacob has a look of shocked while the lady has a tint of embarrassment of her face.
Ryvern tries to heightened his hearing senses and was shocked to what Jacob says;
"I'm free this Saturday! A-and we can go on a date at the amusement park!"
Ryvern mouth gaped as he could not believe that pervert got a girlfriend.
"What the...fuck..."