The next day.
I wake up in my bed, that I haven't slept in for a month. A thought runs through my head, that makes me smile.
"It's weird to wake up as a normal schoolboy, when you are a faction leader in the Dea world." I smile wryly.
I feel like some sort of eminence in the shadow, that no one knows about. Truth be told, almost no one really knows me as Artoria either. But even though no one knows of me, there is no doubt that I control the purple faction.
There is also a crazy rumour flying around about me. Kind of like the tale of the boogeyman. I found out about this from a temporary friend.
When I kind of mentioned I'm Lucifer, she lost her shit and started babbling nonsense. There is actually a bunch of rumours flying around about the name Lucifer. But most of them are ridiculously exaggerated.
More importantly, recently I have started feeling a strange sensation. It's like my heart is getting tight. It's actually freaking me out, like the time I had my period for the first time. Man, that was not something you'd want to experience.
Anyway I supress my worries and complete my morning routine and prepare for school. All my actions take a bit more time than usual, as I'm recalibrating to my male form.
Once I'm done, I get in the car and drive to school. The school is only 15 minutes walk away from my house, but who has got time to walk when you're rich.
I arrive withing minutes, park my car and enter the school. I make my way to the class of 3-B and enter. I get quite a bit of attention, since my classmates haven't seen me for over a month. But aside from a few conversations and greeting, no one really pesters me.
What's interesting is that Christopher doesn't seem to be attending school today. I'm more certain of it once the classes start.
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The classes proceed and soon it is lunch time.
As usual, I head to the cafeteria to eat. Once I get there, I spot Nemesis chatting with a few of her friends, so I get food and head to join their table.
Back before I awakened as a Dea, I was quite naive and didn't see Nemesis's attraction towards me. When I turned into a Dea and started interacting with hordes of women, that's when I learned how they tic.
As soon as I figured out Nemesis is into me, I started playing with her little heart like a madman.
I leveraged everything I learned about women and started to manipulate her. I wanted to get her more attracted to me. I wanted to get her obsessed with me, hopelessly in love with me.
I don't even remember anymore why I wanted her to be obsessed with me. What was the point in all this? All I know is that I didn't just want her to be mine, I wanted her to be crazy about me.
So I teased her, gave her sweet experiences, then disappeared for some time and so on. I also knew I had to be careful, since I also learned that females are irrational creatures.
My biggest fear was that she's going to fuck some other guy, since I'm setting her emotions on fire and then disappearing. I've seen that happen to a guy after all.
Luckily that hasn't happened so far, but I feel this coming sense of crisis, that I have to hurry. I can't string her along any longer, or she's gonna go kaboom.
I tap Nemesis on the shouder and sit down without announcing myself. The whole table goes quiet for a second.
"Kel?" Nemesis says my name is suprise.
I glance at her, then focus on my food and start eating. The whole table is still quiet as there seems to be a mysterious tension in the air.
Nemesis blatantly stares at me, as I casually eat like nothing is wrong. I glance at her from time to time, to see what her expression is. She looks like she wants to say something, but can't think of anything good.
By the looks of it, she's just about at the breaking point. Either I go all the way with her, or break her heart and lose her forever.
A small part of me wonders how amusing it would be to see her with a broken heart. But I quickly dispel that thought.
I stop eating for a second and tell her. "Finish eating. Then we'll talk." Then go back to eating.
She heeds my words and starts finally eating.
Once she's done eating, I pull her with me and walk out of the cafeteria. We walk in silence all the way. Nemesis is following me like a cute docile cat. Totally opposite to how she normally is.
Soon we reach an isolated spot, that is free of people. I stop and turn around. She looks at me with a vulnerable look, which is very cute. I smile at her and take a step closer.
Then I start saying something, but the only word I get out is "I".
I stop speaking as soon as I hear a faint explosion and my danger sense starts going off.
I look into the direction warily. Nemesis also notices my change in demenour and thinks that something weird is going on.
Even though I don't have any superpowers in my male form, my senses still seem to be much sharper than a normal humans. And right now my senses are telling me the situation is fucked.
-Meanwhile, in front of the school.-
A black van pulls up in front of the school. From the back emerge 4 women with weapons, wearing different style masks. They walk towards the school gate.
When the guard spots them, it's already too late for him. The woman with a monkey mask takes out a pistol, with a supressor and shoots 3 bullets into the guard. Killing him.
Then the 4 women jump over the 3 meter tall school gate, without much effort. Showcasing their supernatural strength.
"Alright you know the plan. Split up, snatch the targets and bring them to the middle." The woman with a hockey mask says.
"Yeah." The three women respond and disperse.
4 women, with assault rifles, start to prowl Saint Florence academy, in search for their targets to kidnap. They mercilessly kill anyone that gets in their way and move fast, like shadows.
-Back at Kel-
After I hear the explosion, I react fast and pull out a Glock, loading it. Nemesis looks at me in suprise, when she sees me pulling out a gun, but I haven't got time to explain.
Since I have no powers in my male form, I carry around weapons. Usually I will atleast have a pistol and a knife on me at all times.
I grab Nemesis and put her behind me, whilest taking cover in the crease of the wall. I peek out from behind the ledge, carefully. I hear a lot of gunshots in the distance. But the thing I see in front of me makes me curse my luck.
I see a shadow passing throught the corridor at insane speeds. My brain instantly deduces that it could be only one thing. A Dea. Which means Deas are attacking the school. Which also means that my Glock is completely useless.
"Tch." I click my tongue and put my pistol away. My pistol is actually a hindrance, as it will make them want to kill me instantly.
When I turn back to look in the hallway, I see a woman wearing a panda mask, carrying an assault rifle, in front of me.
"Oh? How handsome." That is the last thing I hear, before my lights go out.
(Kel PoV end.)
After the woman with the panda mask knocked Kel out. Kel fell to the floor like a ragdoll.
"Kel!" Nemesis screams his name. She is feeling really scared and chaotic right now. Even though she acts tough usually, she is still a pampered princess after all.
"Oh? Worried about your boyfriend? Don't worry, I'll take good care of him." The woman says and injects Nemesis with sedatives.
Nemesis passes out withing seconds, right on top of Kel's body. The woman then picks up Nemesis and puts her on her shoulder, like a sack of patatoes.
"Target aquired." She speaks into her earpiece.
Before she leaves, she looks back at Kel and seems to be having trouble deciding something.
"One more shouldn't pose a problem right?" She says to herself and grabs Kel as well. She injects Kel with a sedative as well, just to be safe. Then she starts running to the centre of the school, which is their meetup point.
All of the intruders meet up at the centre of the school. The time it took for them to infiltrate the school, find the targets and meet up at the centre is just under 10 minutes.
Along the way they encountered some resistance in the form of other Deas. These Deas were either schoolgirls or staff, who were hiding their powers, but with the threat of intruders, decided to step up. This of course resulted in them all dying, as the intruding Deas aren't any run in the mill ones.
"Why do you have 2 people." One of the intruders questions the panda masked woman.
"We have room right." Is her noncommital response.
Before they can say anything else, they are shot at from the outside of the building. The police have arrived and with them, the AD units.
Obviously someone has managed to report this incident to the police. The responce was very quick once they knew the terrorists were Deas.
During the recent months more and more Dea attacks are happening. Bringing more awareness to them. This is because some Deas get cocky with their newfound power and think they can do whatever they want.
The police force also has a special unit to battle Deas, called AD, aka Anti-Dea. This unit ironically is comprised of Deas.
Outside the police have set up a perimiter and the AD unit is infiltrating the compound.