Just as always, the cafeteria is a big and prominent place that is populated with the Commanders and Valkyrie who are always here chatting it up and eating. Mason looks for an empty table while Mihara and Cheshire go get some food. After he finds a good spot to rest he looks around to see if he would catch Camellia here after all she said this is where she saw him. The best strategy would be to sit and wait for her to come up to him instead— he didn't want to draw any attention toward himself anyway so he decided to sit and wait.
Ten minutes have gone by and still no sign of her, Mihara and Cheshire just finished getting their food, they both sat down at the table next to Mason and began eating their breakfast. Mason kept looking around but not making it obvious to other Commanders and Valkyrie sitting around them, Mihara took notice of this and asked him a question.
"Commander are you waiting for someone?"
"You could say that." replied Mason.
"Is it Mash?" asked Mihara.
"No. Someone named Camellia. Do you know her by any chance?"
"I know of her, She is from Classroom E, I believe her race are known as Succubus's, they have some pretty strong abilities such as life steal and charms to control an opponent." explained Mihara.
"She asked to join me yesterday, I wan to recruit her to our team." said Mason.
"That is impressive Commander! Most of her kind usually don't join Commander squads and instead just mess around and have fun with men." Mihara just thought for a moment and realized something. "Wait d-did she do f-funny stuff with you C-C-Commander?"
Cheshire had stuffed her cheeks with a bunch of food listening their conversation. "Meowy stuff?"
"No." replied Mason.
"Oh thank goodness, I was worried. N-Not that it matters what you or other women do of c-course!" said Mihara.
"In the meantime could you tell more about this ghost guy and The Invasion?"
"Yes Commander! Ehem. Long ago, before we settled in the Hera Galaxy— A man by the name of The Ghost out of nowhere— attacked the Gods, humans and Valkyrie and no one knows the reason why. The Ghost also had other names he went by The Black Dragon and The Dragon King, he led his Dragon Army across the universe wiping out all life. The remaining Goddesses, humans, alongside trillions of Valkyrie found this galaxy uninhabited by life, so we colonized it. 500 years later he found us, he brought millions and millions of Dragons and Valkyrie to fight us. The war lasted for 400 years until he was finally killed."
"Wait you said 400? And you have been fighting this guy even before this? Wouldn't that make this guy like 1000 years old or something?" asked Mason.
"That is correct Commander, his lifespan was infinite but he was still human at the end of the day, so he was killable, his motives were a mystery but his bloodshed he left in history will always be remembered by us. It is something we can never forget and not to let it ever happen again."
"Nice story but it is a lie."
Mason, Mihara and Cheshire turn around and see it is Camellia walking over to them, she managed to get close to them without making much noise even with heels on. He noticed when she walked towards him in the library he could hear her footsteps but now they were quiet, almost as if she wanted him to hear her back then.
"What do y-you mean— this story has been passed down to us by our predecessors." said Mihara.
"I am saying they lied to us fox girl." said Camellia.
"What do you know Camellia." asked Mason.
"I know a lot, like for example— This Ghost doesn't exist he wasn't even called Ghost it was just The Black Dragon or Dragon King, he also did not lead an army of Valkyrie it was an army of human men and millions of dragons, I bet the history books didn't tell you that did they?" said Camellia.
"How is that possible?" Mihara asked surprised and shocked. "How do you know this?"
"I know this because my mother was there, she was the one who told me, they were hiding the truth from us. Could you imagine the uproar there would be if Valkyrie found out their precious humans were the cause for this mass genocide. The reason the human population died off so quickly was because in this war— they were also killing each other." explained Camellia.
"That doesn't explain why male children die when they are born, did the humans also cause this?" asked Mihara.
"No. At least I don't think so, it wouldn't make sense to kill off your own forces for no reason, something else must have happened during the war." said Camellia.
She sits down next to Mason smiling at him.
"Hey Camellia." say Mason.
"Yes Darling?" replied Camellia.
"Dar-? Um would you become my Valkyrie?"
"Of course Darling that is what I wanted all along." said Camellia.
Just like that, Camellia now joined Mason's squad and he was looking at her stats, Mihara was right she was part of the succubus race and a Berserker Class. That sounds like a very high damage type of class which would prove useful for the team.
"Alright we got a squad now." said Mason.
"Not really." said Camellia. "We don't have a proper healer or tank in our team it would make the battles incredibly difficult to win, and our Commander has no Mana so abilities or powers are out of the team fights. I won't be able to tank many hits, and our support here can't heal us, we are quite handicapped in that sense wouldn't you agree Darling?"
"You are right camellia I am sorry for being so useless." said Mason.
"Oh Darling I didn't mean it like that." Camellia hugs Mason. "I told you before I can protect you."
Mihara blushes at what she is witnessing. "Wh-What are you doing! That is highly inappropriate behavior from a Valkyrie!" exclaimed Mihara.
"Cheshire wants to hug Meowster too!" Cheshire jumps onto Mason, hugging him, the weight of both of them brings all 3 of them to the floor.
"Hey would you girls be willing to come to my house today after school?" asked Mason.
"Huh?" said Mihara.
"Meow?" said Cheshire.
"You naughty boy." said Camellia.
"There are things I would like to confirm and I want you girls there to hear it— so after school please come with me." said Mason.
"We understand Commander." said Mihara.