4 Chapter 4

I returned to class but it was too late, the bell for the end of classes rang so I moved to go out of school. Everyone was talking animatedly about one thing or another but there were so much gossip and stupid things mixed in (I do NOT care about what 'Kiba-sama's' smell was like today or who got that 'special' smile from the guy) that I just put up earphones and while putting up sun-glasses in my face.

No, I was not doing that for fashion, it was just a little training of mine. The glasses were made by Da Vinci to completely cut-off all light coming to my eyes and the earphones were also made by Da Vinci to cut off any sound except for the voices of magic users if directed towards me. I do that to cut out two of my main senses and try to move through the crowd without touching others, only using instinct and basic magic perception like a radar.

I do that to hone my spatial awareness even in a place like this and to improve myself. I know that there are enemies who like using invisibility or other such means to have the drop on their enemies, possibly assassinating them before they can react, as such preparing for this is of imperative necessity.

But, truth be told, only someone who has the Asmodeus clan trait is truly able to do this.

The Asmodeus clan centers on Desire, this is a trait that allowed a devil who had less than half of the total energy of the other Satans at the time and he was still able to take that position and be unshakable on it based on his mastery of this trait. Luckily amongst my family's treasury, there were many tomes of magic and even a copy of a training manual written by the original the original Asmodeus, and, while he might have had been a dick to everyone and was certainly someone who, after getting strong, could only think with his dick, he still was once a genius and his findings and training methods regarding his House Trait are not to be underestimated. He separated his house trait in three forms.

The first is Detection of Desire. The most common usage of this form allows the user to sense the presence of others.

Asmodeus states that to fully master this ability would allow the user to see others even if they are concealed from view or too far to see naturally. When viewed this way, the user can't actually see the person with any physical characteristics, but rather recognizes the target(s) by their "aura" which forms as a light silhouette on a dark background. This form of Desire is useful in finding "powerful auras" as such helpful in finding who is the strongest in any place regardless of how they try and hide it. This type of Desire form allows the user to see another person through the aura, be it behind buildings, strategically hidden, or camouflaged by magic or otherwise.

This type of Desire detection can also allow the user to sense and empathize with the emotions and nature of others. For example, the first Asmodeus once managed to detect the discontent of a married couple from the comfort of his castle and took the wife for himself in a matter of days from that point, or so he boasts in his book anyway.

The user can also use this Desire detection to predict an opponent's moves shortly before they make them, thereby making the attack much easier to evade with enough skill. This prediction appears to the user as an image or brief "premonition" of what the opponent will do in the user's mind's eye, and the damage the user will take if the attack actually "hits". The more killing intent or invested the enemy is regarding a movement, the easier they are to predict, although the first Asmodeus did mention that once one trains this form well enough he can detect even the future if there is no interference from the user and thus lets the user always be one step ahead of the enemy.

The form to train this is quite simple, continuous practice. I continuously try and predict the desired movements and locations of all around me, it spends little on the way of magic energy so I continue practicing it as much as possible. The other two types are not quite suitable for me, I never really liked them. Amplification is one that I only use to stimulate enemies to make mistakes and try to avoid as to not be like the first Asmodeus who took pleasure in turning others into sex slaves by stimulating their sexual desires towards him to absurd levels and repressing them towards all others (using it on sex to make it better up to a point I can accept, but I don't want to rely on this too much as I do not want to end up like that piece of trash). The last one is Enforce, the ability to force a desire or thought on another, an ability I try and only use it during combat to make the enemy subconsciously desire to lower their magic defenses, leaving them vulnerable to attacks.

Anyway, I move to the outside of the campus as I try and find out where the fallen angels who entered the town are at.

I investigated it quietly as I walk around, I manage to avoid the pedestrians and only ended up hitting something on the way once or twice, an improvement no doubt compared to before but a sign I still have more to work towards. As I walk I notice that one of them is moving to some other place but there are three more somewhere else and, before long, I finally realized where it is.

I took out the glasses and earphones as I look at the location and smirk to myself.

To think they chose this place, they really have good taste at least.

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Raynare's P.O.V.

I just finished talking with the pervert about a date with him tomorrow. Just the thought of spending my time with him tomorrow is enough to make my skin crawl but it is a necessary sacrifice if that is what the higher up want from me. Anything for Azazel-sama. Anything.