When All Else Fails [Destroy It All] (Mephisto/OC)

Chapter 3: Attention, Captured

Chapter 3: Attention, Captured

The class of exwires was really overall silent as they waited for class to start. In the back sat the trio from the temple, one girl sat alone to the side, two unsociable guys sat in the far back, and Satan’s son sat in the front with the timid human girl he and his brother had helped some time ago. They weren’t n entirely united class, just like how Yukio had mentioned, only together with the one’s they were friends with; but there was no hostility between them from what could be seen. 

Most of their attentions snapped to the door when it opened and showed their current and newest teachers. Yukio walked to the front desk and introduced the pale-haired woman by his side. “Class, this is your newest teacher.”

She was usually tall for a woman, just nearly the height of the young teacher beside her. She obviously avoided the True Cross Order uniform, opting to wear instead jeans and loose, low-cut simple blouse with a soft leather jacket and knee-high boots. The clothes hid from their view her curvy and fit figure. The only indication of her affiliation to the Order was the pin attached to the front of her jacket. Her white hair was pulled back from her face in a bun, showing off her pointed ears.

Perhaps some would be unnerved by the sharp golden eyes that watched them back, if not for the fur-tufted tail that lethargically swung behind her.

She was a demon, whether half or full was the question; if full, how strong was she really to contain a human body?

“Good evening, everyone,” she greeted the class with a smooth, almost haughty voice. “I am Bell Swartz, Upper First Class Exorcist. Your curriculum, it seems to me, has been rather lacking in Demonology. To fix this, I’ve come to help. After all, who else but a demon to teach it, not to mention a high ranking one?” she said with a flourish of her hand towards herself. “I’m not criticizing your former instructor’s knowledge, but truly, how can you see knowing more, a human or a demon?” she finished with a simple shrug, a smug look on her face.

“Why come now?” asked one of the male students, half-masked distrust heard in his voice.

Her golden gaze shifted from the general class to the specific student. “Hmm?” she briefly glanced at Yukio, silently asking for the student’s name, before returning her stare at the blond-streaked male. “Mr. Suguro, yes? I’ve been moving through branches as of late,” she began to explain, “Mephisto requested for my help in the cram school, so I obliged.” Some of the class caught her wording, noticing that she didn’t bother calling the Cram School President formally.

With a light smile, she added, “Anything else before we start?”

“What’s your real name then? Whose kin are you, especially if you’re ‘high-ranking’ like you said?” Izumo questioned her with a glare.

The older demon looked from Bon to the purple-haired girl, tilting her head before smugly smirking. “Now why would I do something as boring as simply answering that? I’m here to teach you demonology, so let’s see how long it’ll take for you to identify me with some few hints along the way.” She looked over the class one more, pausing a little longer on Satan’s son, gold locking with blue.

Rin blinked before shock lit up his face. Her face, so familiar looking, finally clicked in his mind. He shot up from his seat, one hand flat against the desk in front of him as he used the other to point at her. “Wait a minute! Didn’t you use to visit the church?”

Surprise broke her smug expression when he asked her this as she didn’t expect him to remember her from more than a decade ago. She paused for a moment, a heavy sigh sounding from Yukio behind her, before a genuine smile spread across her face. “Yup. I was a friend of your father’s, but we’ll talk about that later, okay?” Rin grinned, nodding in agreement. She wasn’t sure if he fully remembered her, but she knew she’d find out eventually.

Turning back to the younger of the Okumura twins, she lazily waved him away. “It’s good. Don’t worry about, not like I’m gonna eat the kids or anything,” she joked with a smirk. “I’ll see ya after classes are done, m’kay?” Despite her words, he gave her an unconvinced look before leaving the class to her.

Once the door was shut, she immediately started to teach. “Now, let’s begin with a simple review of you should know. Now, there’s eight of you, but some don’t seem all that sociable,” she said eyeing the two guys in the very back. “So, most of you, please give me each one of the Baal, or the eight Demon Kings.”

She started by picking the student who had first spoke to her. “Mr. Suguro, if you may start for us.”

“There’s Iblis, the King of Fire.”

She nodded, and then chose the next students, asking their names beforehand.

“Beelzebub, the King of Insects.” “Azazel, the King of Spirits.” “Astaroth, the King of Rot.” “Egyn, the King of Water.” She had to ask one of them to ask a second name, not even bothering with the two in the back. She then turned to Rin and the blonde girl that sat next to him. Smiling at the timid girl, she asked for her name.

“M-Moriyama Shiemi, a-and that’s, um, Amaimon, the King of Earth.”

Most noticed a thinly veiled look of contempt appear on their teacher’s face before she returned to her smile. “Yes, that’s correct. Thank you, Miss Shiemi.” She then looked at Rin, an eyebrow raised expectantly at the boy. “Rin? Could you give me another Demon King?”

He gave her a nervous smile, rubbing the back of his head. “Uhh, I’m not really sure…?”

She heaved a sigh similarly to how Yukio had done minutes ago, rubbing the bridge of her nose before walking to his desk. She snatched his textbook of the desk, opening to the page containing information on the topic they were discussing. Placing the open book in front of him for him to look over, she gazed back to her class. “As Mr Okumura looks for the last Demon King, might I have someone give me the second last?”

Bon rose from his seat once more. “Samael, the King of Time.”

“Thank you, Mr. Suguro. I’m quite pleased to know I have such a brilliant student. Now, Rin, could you give us the last one?” she asked as she turned around and stepped towards the blackboard.

“Uhh,” he scrambled with the book in front of him, reading directly from it, “‘Lucifer, the King of Light.’”

“Excellent.” The white-haired demon nodded one more, this time becoming a bit more serious. As she picked up a piece of chalk, she continued, “Glad to know that most of you are aware of that basic information. Now then,” she started with a smirk, beginning to write a name on the blackboard, “I’ll be teaching you about the second tier of demons, the Princes.”

Underlining the name, she said, “We’ll start with the first one, Belial.”