During her first week of teaching, Rossweisse had minor difficulties but with her determination to do her job and stay in the Underworld, she managed to blend in the environment.
She became the target of a fair population of students and she would worry whether they were actually learning the lesson instead of just gawking at her.
In terms of being the target and having rising popularity, she also noticed that the other members of her peerage are quite popular as well.
" Kyah! Good morning ,Rias onee-sama!"
" Akeno-senpai please punish us!"
"Ara, ara." The raven head had a silly smile filled with evil thoughts. Rias, on the other hand, just ignored the shouts since she was pretty much used to it.
" Are you two bothered by this?" Rossweisse asked as she walked with the girls.
" It faded over time. As long as they don't go overboard, then it's fine."
"Fufu. Rosssweisse-san, you should also get used to it."
" Look! Look! It's Rossweisse-sensei!"
The woman blushed on her position as the shouts were now directed at her.
" Sensei is so pretty!"
" Her platinum hair is amazing!"
" Man, do you think she has a boyfriend already?"
" I love you sensei!"
" Even after all this recognition, why can't I get a single lover?!" Rossweisse thought with anime tears.
*(Crash!)*
*(Boom!)*
" Get back here you perverts!"
" AH! Run, Issei!"
" Don't leave me here you assholes!"
"Issei-kun is so lively in the morning." Akeno chuckled while Rossweisse sighed at this.
"I hope Issei won't go overboard. It'll be a lot helpful if he is more behaved like Kiba." Rias said as they looked at the Blonde waving at his fans club. Koneko was beside him who was munching on some sweets.
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" And so, if you substitute this number, we will get the value of the X variable." Rossweisse wrote the equations on the board.
" Any questions?"
A hand shot up and Rossweisse entertained the question
" Sensei, why do we keep finding the value of X when we don't even know 'Y'? We should just move on and not think about our exes!" The student cried out and her friends consoled her.
" Ah- Eto.. Nakamura-san, that doesn't really relate to our lesson but yeah. I hope we move past that feeling." Rossweisse awkwardly replied
" Oh, Shit. Speaking of exes, My ex is heading this way!" A male student excitedly said as he looked outside the window.
Rias and Akeno looked behind them and their classmates headed to the windows too.
" Minna-san, please go back to your seats." Rossweisse sighed and the students complied though they were still giddy.
" Sensei, Good Afternoon."
"Kyah! It's Erin-chan!"
" She's so pretty up close!"
" Damn. I'm so lucky just by her becoming my ex!'
The Goddess had a neutral look on her face. The students were dreamily staring at her focused-slash-bored expression.
"Nozomi-sensei wanted to give this book to you."
" Ah-Thank you, Erin-san."
" Kyah! If she could just look at me with those eyes of hers!
"Whoever kisses her is so damn lucky!"
Rias and Akeno smirked in secret as they heard the comments
" Erin-san I'll gladly let you lit me on fire!"
The comment caused Erin to look at the student. The latter fanboyed on his seat at the short lived recognition given to him
" Shit! She looked his way!"
" You're so damn lucky you idiot!"
"I'm so jealous!"
"Boys, please behave yourselves." Rossweisse said in a firm tone and the commotion went down.
The Goddess made a slight bow before leaving the room and she thought about how weird the students were.
" Why do I even have to wonder? That's the room of that weird woman so it's basically surrounded by weird students."
---- Time Skip --------
Rossweisse stayed late in the academy because she had to manage some files on the faculty room. While roaming the hallways, she bumped into the Goddess who was surprised at the contact.
" Oh-I'm sorry, sensei." Erin said as she picked up the papers scattered on the floor.
" It's okay." Rossweisse replied as she collected the papers as well.
The Goddess handed over the papers to the woman who accepted it with a small thanks.
" That's a lot of documents and you're working even though class already ended?" The Goddess curiously asked
" I have no choice. The supervisor placed me in charge of the task."
"Oh okay. Let me just help you then."
The Goddess took one of the boxes and the two started walking.
" Where are we placing these?"
" In the small room opposite the Faculty."
They reached the place and they carefully set the boxes down.
" This looks like a storage room though it is only filled with school documents and other stuff."
" Hai. The other teachers leave some of their school-related belongings here as well."
*(Chink)*
" Huh?"
The Goddess was busy looking at the items that she didn't notice Rossweisse struggling with the door.
" Why won't this-
" What's wrong?" Erin asked as she approached the woman.
" The door won't open!"
" Hah?!"
Eirn tried opening the door but the handle seems frozen
" Oh my ghad- Don't tell me we got locked in here?!"
The Goddess summoned her lightning but Rossweisse was quick to stop her.
" You can't do that! You're destroying school property. Not to mention, there are a lot of important documents here."
Erin sighed and ran a hand through her hair.
" So we're just going to get stucked in here? Overnight?"
"Possibly. I hope there are others who can notice us though." Rossweisse looked at her wrist watch. " It's still 5:25 anyways."
She started banging her fists on the door and the Goddess stopped her.
" You'll destroy the door that way."
"But it's the only way we can ask for help." whined Rossweisse
"If only there are windows in here." Erin mumbled as she sat on the floor. " I could just transform into a cat or something and ask for help."
Rossweisse gave up and slumped on the floor next to the Goddess.
"I can't exactly call the other members too. There's no signal in here." Erin said in annoyance as she hid away her cellphone.
" Gah- I guess we'll just hope for someone to save us. Otherwise we'll spend the night here." The Goddess buried her face between her hands
Minutes passed and the 2 were pretty sure that the school was already closed at this point.
"Azusa and Tsubaki.. I hope they come and find me." Erin whined.
" Oh that's right. Why weren't the twins with you anyways?"
" I had to stay late in class because I have an errand to do with Nozomi-sensei." Erin fished out some biscuits in her bag. " Want some, sensei?"
" Oh-Ah. Sure. Thank you." rambled Rossweisse as she accepted the snack.
" And you don't have to call me sensei."
" I don't think calling you Rossweisse would sit well in class." Erin uttered in confusion making the woman lightly blush
" I-I mean, you don't have to call me sensei right now."
" But were still in school though." Erin replied and took another bite of the snack. " So I basically have to call you sensei."
"But classes already ended and..." Rossweisse grew awkward.
" You just have to tell me if you want me to call you Rossweisse, you know?" Erin teased making the other blush. " And you can call me Erin. I don't really mind the honorifics that much."
" Eh?"
" But of course, only when we're at the house or when we are alone." the Goddess shrugged.
Rossweisse mumbled incoherent things while blushing and the Goddess grew confused on her behavior
" What is she blushing about?"
They ate their food in silence and Rossweisse eventually started a conversation about the 'popular' students.
" I noticed. You and the others are quite popular."
" Oh, that. It's nothing serious." Erin replied with a shrug though Rossweisse continued staring at her.
" You're one of those star students. You do well in class and not to mention, your good manners and good looks. That's why you're quite popular."
" Wow. Am I getting praised by a teacher?" Erin sheepishly said as she grew embarrased.
" If that's the case, you're a star teacher as well, sensei- I mean Rossweisse."
The woman blushed once again as the Goddess continued rambling.
" You're beautiful, smart, responsible, have a shiny hair, and you dress good. I'm sure your lover is lucky to have you."
Hearing this, Rossweisse sulked and the Goddess was surprised at her discovery.
" Wait. You don't have a lover or anything?"
Rossweisse cried in anime tears and the Goddess' eyes widened.
" What?! Even after all those recognition, why can't you get a single lover?"
" That's what I've been thinking too! Wahh!"
Erin sighed at this while the woman continued crying.
" There. There." She hugged the crying woman and the latter sobbed harder on her shoulders.
" It's alright. If you can't get a lover in the next 100 years, then I'll just be your lover." Erin bluffed and she didn't think that her joke was taken seriously by Rossweisse.
" R-Really?"
" Ah- Well. Yeah haha. I mean if you can't. I'm sure you'll eventually end up with someone so I wasn't really- "
" Thank you, Erin!"
" Wah-
*(Boogsh!)*
Rossweisse suddenly leaped and hugged the Goddess with force causing some of the nearby boxes to fall on them.
" Aw-that hurt. Are you okay?" Erin asked the woman who fell on top of her.
" I'm fine.. *gasp* "
" We seriously need to get out of here." Erin mumbled and when she leaned up, their faces got closer.
" Ano- sensei? W-What are you doing?"
Rossweisse stopped in mid-air and quickly scrambled away from the girl.
"G-Gomen! I wasn't thinking!" Rossweisse muttered and the Goddess just stared at her in worry.
" Wow. She's so... how do I say this, gullible? And happy just at the thought of getting a lover?"
*(Knocks!)*
" Erin, are you in there?"
The two looked to the door as they heard Rias' voice.
" Rias! Thank Goodness. We got stucked in here."
" So Tsubaki was right." Rias sighed.
" He said that he noticed your scent here same as Azusa."
" We'll get some tools to fix the handle, Lady Erin."
" Okay. We'll be waiting."
" Is Rossweisse there with you?"
" Hai. I'm here, Rias-san."
After a few minutes, the 2 got out of the room and they were met by the ORC members looking at them with relief.
" We found it strange that we didn't see you so we went back here on campus."
" It was Issei's theory that you 2 got locked or something." Kiba sheepishly said. " I didn't imagine that he was right. "
" Oy Kiba!"
" Fufu. Thanks to the twins, we managed to find your location because they tracked your scent."
"Hai!" Tsubaki cheerfully uttered as he sniffed the air around the Goddess
" Master, you smell like Rossweisse-san."
Erin and Rossweisse lightly flinched and the others looked at them suspiciously
" What do you mean by that, Tsubaki?"
" Nothing. It's just that Rossweisse-san's scent rubbed off on Master and vice-versa."
"That doesn't mean anything?!" Erin said in slight panic as she noticed the creepy smiles of the 2 onee-samas.
" Come to think of it.." Issei rubbed his hands in mischief. " Why are you 2 looking sweaty?"
Rossweisse immediately wiped her forehead while the Goddess glared at Issei.
"Idiot. Don't lump me with your perverted thoughts!"
" Heh. Then what other reasons is there for you to look swe- AW!
"The room is cramped. That's why." replied Erin with a fake smile after she kicked Issei's shin with force
" So what did Tsubaki meant by-
" My ghad, Issei. We fell. That's it! It's not like I'm going to start a student-teacher affair with Rossweisse!"
" .............................................."
"W-What?"
" Erin...." Rossweisse shakily said which made the Goddess look at her.
" I thought you said that you'll be my lover?"
" Hah?!"
*(Dark Aura intensifies)*
" Erin........." Rias said with her head low and the Goddess flinched on her spot.
"What are you saying to Rossweisse?"
" T-That was just a joke! I didn't think that Rossweisse would-
" So I'm just a joke after all. Waahh! I'm just an unattractive Valkyrie whose age equals the number of years I've been alone!"
" R-Rossweisse wait!"
Rossweisse ran off crying and the other members observed her retreating figure in shock.
" Ara... Erin.... first name basis already?" Akeno said with a creepy smile as lightning sparks surrounded her hand.
"I'm in trouble.. ain't I?" Erin whimpered as she felt the glaring auras.
"Prepare for a hundred spankings at home." declared Rias with an evil smile and the Goddess resigned to her fate
- End of Chapter -