Enchanting Potential (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun)

Room Meant to be A Secret

Asmodeus shot up in his seat excitedly. "We can't just sit here! Let's go!" 

"Yeah."

"Let's go, let's go." Clara cheered. 

"Alright.." Kuro also stood up as well and left the cafeteria. 

***

At their Battler's station, Iruma was watching the other Battler getting hyped up by their leader, who also give them words of encouragement and then threatened them if they messed up. "Wow..." He strutted back. "I can feel their passion all the way over here."

"I don't expect anything less with them or any of the other Battlers. Everyone wants to reach that number 1 prize more than anything." Hayami watched other students talking and hyping themselves too.

"Iruma-sama, Hayami-sama." Asmodeus and Kuro called out and they looked over with a smile. "The preliminary preparations for the firework launchpad are finished." 

"Very good, you two." Hayami knelt down by them and the two beamed with pride. "Everything is going according to plan."

"Sorry. I coudn't help out in the end." Iruma told them. 

"Please don't worry yourself! Handling fire is both our specialties and you've been working so hard with everything else." After a momentary pause, Kuro also added. "So you should have a little break. This was no problem for us. Helping you with any small problems like this is no issue."

Her smile grew bigger while he tells him. "Y-You think so?" 

"Doot do do doo!" Clara held up two dolls she made. "Now we just need to make it all devi and sparkly." Asmodeus's Gorgon snake bit onto her shirt and pulled her back from doing anything. "Oh, no!"

This causes the two to sweat drop. "We almost didn't make it, but now—" Two students giggled, and that got their attention. 

"What's that supposed to be? A chimney?" A girl mocked. "They're probably going to burn some garbage. I mean, they're a garbage Battler." He said and the girl laughed. "You're probably right." All of them glared at the two students—as if daring for them to continue their mock. This made them flinch, but they shuddered back more when Hayami stepped in front of them. "I'm sorry, we don't have time to listen to trash talk from students who are trying to bring us down. Please leave or else this garbage Battler would turn you into something than just garbage." 

"Now, just because you're a prodigy doesn't mean anything in this worthless Battler." The male said. She giggled softly then made some hand gestures between them and clenched her fists tight so that they can hear the abnormal cracking sound. What got them very scared was just not the action but her eyes were blank—void of any sort of emotions. They looked empty and seemed she won't hesitate to do what she had demonstrated through hand gestures. "Say something again. I dare you." She whispered the last words in a sickly sweet voice.

The two quickly scurried away before they were caught in the mess. "L-Let's go." She said. 

"Splendid Hayami-sama!" Asmodeus said. "I can just imagine their shock faces," he smirked. 

"It'll be all kablooey!" Clara said. 

Kuro nodded. "They won't talk down to our Battler ever again." She boasted. 

Iruma was just happy that they were gone without Hayami having to cause any scene that alert everyone else's attention.  She knew better than to bring attention. After all, she knows that he still did not want to stand too much and everyone needs to concentrate on their own tasks. He answered. "Yeah! Let's be sure to surprise them!" He glanced at him. "By the way... where's Kiriwo-senpai?"