Kapitel 293: Going Back to School

"Haaaa." The boy sighed in exasperation as he made his way down the street. He was headed to the place where he was supposed to get onto a bus to take him to his new school, except he didn't want to attend this school. It wasn't that he was rebellious and didn't want to attend school, he really did, but he had failed to get into any of the schools he had applied to, and this school was one that his father had picked up a flyer from a shady looking person. He didn't trust this kind of shady school that he couldn't find anything about over the Internet, or that no one had seemingly heard of.

"Haaaa...." He sighed again, dreading what was to come even before he saw the person who was already waiting at arranged the bus stop, a large muscular person with spiked up hair and a mean look on his face, obviously some kind of delinquent. Though he wasn't wearing the same uniform as him, the fact that he was waiting at the same place at the same time told the boy they were both waiting on the bus to take them to school. As he hesitantly approached the delinquent seemed to notice him, and sneered before saying,

"Don't tell me a worthless little pipsqueak like is waiting for the bus too?" Though he desperately wanted to avoid being around this delinquent the boy needed to go to school, so he just slowly nodded his head and kept his face down.

"Heh, better not annoy me or I'll use you as a toothpick, understand pipsqueak." The boy slowly nodded his head again, seeming to irritate the delinquent as he grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him suddenly so that they were face to face, before stating,

"Answer properly when I talk to you pipsqueak, or I'll chew you up and spit you out, understand?" As he said this red scales started spreading across the delinquents face while his eyes turned into reptilian slits, and two horns started growing from his forehead. As he released the boys shirt he fell back and stared in sheer terror of the thing he was looking at, a wet stain spreading across the front of his pants as he stuttered,

"M-m-MONSTER!!!" The boy then turned tail and ran as fast as he could, never sparing a backward glance towards the monster as he raced home. Alex snorted and canceled his draconic transformation, before he resumed waiting for the bus to arrive, which it did mere minutes afterwards.

"Where's the kid I'm supposed to pick up?" The bus driver, a creepy looking man with his eyes hidden in the shadow of his cap, asked somewhat impatiently. Alex shrugged and answered,

"I'm the only one here." The bus driver groaned before looking Alex up and down, and asking,

"And what do you need?" Alex smiled and replied,

"I need to get to the academy." When he heard his answer the bus's driver seemed to contemplate something before he nodded and said,

"Ok, go ahead and get on then." Alex's smile widened as he climbed onboard the bus, and seated himself as they finally made their way to Youkai Academy. He had actually been in this world for a few days now, but they had been spent preparing a place to stay where they could safely place a portal to Asora. With the abilities of the Devils to manipulate others, they had secured an entire mountain not far from his current location, where they built an extravagant manor with every kind of protection they could place on it. With all of their preparations complete, it was time for Alex to infiltrate Youkai Academy after scaring Tskune away.

Though he did feel a little bad about that, Alex had decided it was for the best due to the fact that Tskune had no real redeeming capabilities to be scouted like Hajime had been. Tskune was truthfully nothing but a little bitch until he had been injected with a vampire's blood but, because Alex intended to try and scout said vampire into his peerage, it was highly unlikely for history to repeat itself. Instead now Tskune will most likely like a relatively normal life, once he eventually got over the trauma Alex just induced in him, free from carrying the burdens of keeping peace between the human and monster worlds.

"So what's your business at the academy? You don't seem to be a student?" The bus driver suddenly asked, to which Alex replied,

"I'm gonna try to get a job to teach for a year, I'm in the area for right now and figured I'd get some experience and all that bull." The bus driver chuckled at what he said, before stating,

"Be careful what you ask for, Youkai Academy can be a veeeery scary place." The smile on Alex's face widened as they approached a tunnel.

***

After an interesting ride with the bus driver, Alex was let off at a sign on the other side of the tunnel while he turned around a drove back into it. Alex then turned towards the forest ahead of him and marched into it. As he walked Alex noticed it filled with various spooky aspects, such as headstones, cobwebs, and scary looking trees; but with everything he had experienced so far in his life, he found the surroundings somewhat pleasant at most, and was reminded of Halloween when he was a kid. Soon however another presence entered his domain, making Alex somewhat alert at it quickly made its way to him before a pretty girl with pink hair on a bike appeared.

"Eh?" She said, right before crashing into him and sending them both to the ground, though of course Alex let himself be knocked over.

"Owee..." The girl muttered as she tried to sit up, before realizing she had landed on the guy she had crashed into.

"Are you alright?" Alex asked as he picked his upper body off the ground, taking care not to knock her off, while the girl started acting flustered.

"I-I'm so sorry! I didn't see you, and I even landed on you! I-I-" At that point she started trailing off somewhat as an amazingly fragrant scent assaulted her nose. Her gaze then automatically zeroed in on the source, which was Alex's cut lip from when they fell(self inflicted of course). As she stared at his lips Alex licked them unconsciously before he asked,

"Is there a problem-" His sentence was suddenly cut off as the girl rushed forward and sank her fangs into his neck, painlessly thankfully, but it was still a bit sudden, and would've caught Alex off guard if he hadn't planned on it to begin with. As she was still sitting on his lap, Alex grabbed the girls waist and held her steady even as she grabbed onto his head with both her hands, as if to help angle him better. The seconds slowly ticked by as she remained latched onto him, until even a minute had passed since she first sank her fangs into him, and she still didn't seem intending to let go. Alex didn't try to dislodge her either, as he patiently waited for her to finish drinking while using Regeneration magic to restore the blood she was drinking just as quickly as she was drinking it, a trick he had picked up from Yue and Elmenhilde always drinking his blood.

It wasn't until the minute stretched to two, then three that she finally drew back her fangs, though Alex could feel her tongue still lightly licking the spot where she had punctured him for a few seconds. She then drew away from his neck and, with her face merely a few inches away from his, Alex could see that she was seemingly blood-drunk from his blood, which was more potent and powerful than almost any other blood there was. It took a few more seconds, but focus slowly came back into her eyes so that she could finally see the position they were in; with her hands clenching either his neck or head, her legs spread on either side of his waist as she now straddled his lap, the fact that their faces were mere inches apart, and that, despite vampires typically never leaving a trace when they fed, he now had a hickey on his neck from how long and intensely she had been sucking his blood.

"Are you full yet?" Alex asked, as her face turned Crimson instantly and pulled her hands away as she cried out,

"I-I'm sorry! I don't know what happened to me, but your blood just smelled so delicious, and was actually so tasty..." As she panicked slightly while not getting up, Alex started chuckling at her behavior before saying,

"Don't worry about it, you're not the first vampire I've met that enjoyed my blood, but you are the first to jump me the moment we met." The girl blushed again before quickly getting to her feet, and trying to compose herself before saying,

"I am Moka Akashiya, a vampire as you know." Alex laughed again before rising to his feet as well, and saying,

"I'm Alex, a type of monkey youkai." As he spoke Alex revealed his monkey's tail that he had been keeping wrapped up, though Moka wanted to pet it when she saw it. He quickly hid it once more since there were rules regarding revealing your true form at Youkai Academy, and continued,

"By the way as I was saying, I know a few vampires and how good my blood tastes to them, so if you feel a craving don't be afraid to let me know." Once he said that Moka let out a sigh of relief and some of the tension she had been feeling faded away, as she had been worried about how 'intense' their first meeting was, and she had been wondering about how to ask for more of his blood in the future. She put on a big genuine smile and said,

"Thank you." Alex nodded as if to say it was nothing, and then helped her pick up her bike as they stared walking towards the school together. As they started talking about this and that regarding the school, Moka eventually asked,

"So where's your uniform Alex, or are you a student?" Alex laughed lightly in response before saying,

"Thanks for thinking I'm that young, but I came to apply for a teaching position. I'm in the general area for about a year and thought I'd try my hand at it." Though she looked shocked when Alex said he was intending to become a teacher, when she heard that he was only gonna be there for a year she looked somewhat sad, and said,

"Oh, I see..."

"What's wrong?" Alex asked her, to which Moka quickly said,

"Nothing! It's just that I don't have any friends, and I was hoping you'd be my friend while I was at school." Alex shrugged and said,

"There's no reason teachers and students can't be friends(if I'll even become one), and besides by the time I leave I'm sure you'll be friends with even more people." Moka smiled again at what he said as the two continued on their way, but once they stepped into the schoolyard,

"Hey babe, wanna come hang with a real monster?" A voice called out, getting both Moka and Alex's attention as they turned and saw someone who truly did look like a delinquent, with his hair greased back and piercings under his lips. Alex cocked an eyebrow as this guy felt somewhat familiar, though he couldn't immediately place him, but then Moka grabbed his arm and declared,

"No thanks, I'm walking around with Alex now!" Not just the guy who called out, but every other guy around them looked stupefied as they stared at Alex, wondering who he was since he wasn't wearing a uniform, and was with the cutest girl any of them had ever seen. The delinquent sneered and strode over, before poking Alex's chest provocatively and saying,

"This punk? I bet he's nothing but an oversized pussy, aren't you?" Alex looked to his left, then to his right questioningly, before asking,

"Me?" The delinquent laughed and shouted,

"Yes you! I mean not only are you a pussy, but apparently you're dumb as shit too!" When he heard that Alex shook his head slightly, while directing an increasingly angry Moka to get behind him before putting his hands in his pockets. He then asked the guy,

"I'm not dumb, but I can't help but wonder why you would think that I'm weak or, as you put it, a pussy? Are you just that arrogant that you think you're the top shit? Or are you just too stupid to tell when you're out of your depth?" Though the delinquent got pissed and was about to say something else, he froze, as a look of increasing abject horror appeared on his face. Everyone watched with growing confusion as the guy who started the fight, and seemed the most likely to throw the first punch, started quivering as he was quickly covered in a cold sweat. Alex smirked and leaned in closer to him, his hands never leaving his pockets, and whispered into the guys ear so no one else heard,

"This is just a fraction of the killing intent of a person who's killed tens of thousands feels like. Tell me, do you really think I'm a pussy now?" Without even answering, the delinquent immediately started trying to back away before tripping backwards, and then full on sprinting to get away from the thing in front of him. Alex sneered and shook his head, somewhat disappointed that he ran after feeling just a little bit of his killing intent, as Moka approached and hesitantly asked,

"What did you do?" Alex shrugged, and replied,

"I've been in a few fights before, and simply let him experience what it felt like to face someone who knew what he was doing." Moka sighed, but then smiled and said,

"Well I'm happy you're ok, that was really scary but I didn't like the way he was talking to you." Before Alex could reply, a new voice spoke up,

"Excuse me! I don't know who you are, but you are trespassing and terrorizing our students, and you need to leave!" Alex turned and saw a beautiful mature woman approaching them with an angry look on her face, as she waited for him to either leave or explain himself. Alex smiled bitterly at the situation, and explained,

"I came to apply for a temporary teaching position, maybe in the physical education department or something." The teachers glare intensified as she demanded,

"Even if that were true, just why did you pick a fight with one of our students? With that being said, why should we trust you with our students if you intend to fight them?" Alex's brow twitched slightly when he heard the teachers accusations, as he recognized her by sight, if not by name. This teacher in particular was a sadistic lamia, who would use her powers to brainwash and control the students in order to feel as if she had even more authority than that of a teacher. Biting back any snappy remarks he had, Alex explained,

"I was on my way here when I accidentally ran into miss Akashiya, we proceeded to walk the rest of the way to the school together, but when we arrived that student tried to pick a fight over miss Akashiya before I scared him away. You could check with the surrounding students, my hands never even left their pockets." After hearing the details from him, the teacher looked at Moka to see that she was nodding in agreement; and as she glanced around so were the other students, though the majority wanted to say otherwise due to how close Alex and Moka seemed, but none of them wanted to get on his or her bad side. The teacher sighed and said,

"Ok then, considering who the student was I don't doubt your story. His name is Saizou, and he was forcefully sent here because whe kept causing trouble in the human world, specifically were women were involved. If you'll follow me I'll take you to the chairman's office, though I doubt he'll give you a job." After telling the surrounding students, including Moka, to get ready for the opening ceremony, the teacher started leading Alex to the chairman's office while also thinking of inviting that troublesome student to her office later for some "private lessons". After a minute she said,

"I'm the math teacher, Kagome Ririko." (A.n. KAGOOOOOOOMEEEEEEEE!) Alex smiled as he tried to act professionally, and replied,

"My names Alex, I guess you could consider me something of a drifter." Ririko snorted lightly at his introduction, seemingly convinced that there was no way he'd get the job he was after, especially since they weren't actually hiring.

Only a few short minutes later they arrived at the chairman's office right as the door opened and another duo left, a crimson haired boy that was dressed in the schools uniform despite looking as if he was few years too early to apply, and a beautiful silver haired woman who could only be presumed to be his mother. As they walked by they didn't say anything to each other, but Alex smirked as he reached back and grabbed a handful of her ass, causing the woman to turned and glare at him, mentally promising a scolding later. As Ririko led him through the already opened door the chairman, a sinister looking man with his face mostly covered by a hood, looked up and asked,

"And what is this? Oh?" After asking his question he stared intently at Alex, seemingly trying to peer through him, before Ririko quickly said,

"This man is looking to apply for a position at the school, now if you'll excuse me I need to attend the opening ceremony." As she left Alex and the chairman alone together an slightly audible sigh was heard escaping her lips, but neither of them noticed it as the two stared at each other. Finally the chairman pointed at a chair and said,

"Please, have a seat." Alex quickly took his seat and introduced himself,

"I'm Alex, a wanderer who's looking for employment while I'm in the area for the next year, and forgive me but do you prefer to simply go by the 'chairman', or would you rather Mikogami of the three Dark Lords?" Though you couldn't see the majority of his face, Mikogami's mouth twitched as the ends curled up slightly in amusement from the use of his true name.

***

While the two were talking the open ceremony was proceeding as the student council president and a few of the teachers spoke to the students. Meanwhile a certain pink haired girl was sitting in the crowd, and a second consciousness was stirring within her due to the monstrous amounts of energy she had recently taken in, and intense killing intent she had detected earlier.

'Interesting...' The voice said, making the pink haired girl looked around from surprise, before asking out loud,

"Who was that?" Several people turned to look at her curiously as they only thought she was talking to herself, making Moka blush slightly as she stopped looking for the mystery speaker. She couldn't help but think that the voice was familiar in some way, but she couldn't put her finger on it. Sadly the voice didn't speak again, and quietly went back to its slumber.