6 When It Rains, It pours (3)

Shortly after Kei had left the school a large van hauling 7 men and one tall woman dressed in priest clothes arrived. The woman looked at the smoldering fire that had all but consumed the library. Her face held no emotion but her eyes, her eyes were furious beyond belief. Behind her tottered the school's headmaster. He had come as quickly as he could, however, he could tell that it was not quick enough. The higher-ups were already here before he arrived, and they had already seen his screw-up. He was definitely going to be demoted because of this. The woman looked at him from the corner of her eye and he immediately dropped to his knees.

"I-I'm sorry, m-my l-l-lord! I-It was m-my fault for not p-p-putting a stronger b-barrier a-around the b-b-boy!"

The woman clicked her tongue, clearly annoyed with the situation, however when she turned around her face was smiling brightly.

"Oh~? That's ok~! Everybody makes mistakes once in a while~!" she walked to the groveling headmaster. The rain had soaked the dirt causing the ground to be dark and muddy. As the tall woman stepped closer and closer to the headmaster it was unclear whether the brown on his pants were from the mud or from the fact that he had soiled himself.

"It's not like we have a deadline to meet~," she continued as she bent down to be face to face with the pathetic man in front of her. She looked at him and then sighed.

"Maybe you're overworked, hmm? You have to run the school AND keep the order of god… That may be a little too difficult for someone like you to do. Maybe we should give you a vacation, hmm~?"

The headmaster looked up in surprise. He had thought for sure that he would be completely let go. A vacation sounded very nice. As he opened his mouth to thank the tall woman, he felt a sharp pain in his chest. Looking down, the poor headmaster could see that the tall lady had stabbed through his heart with her hand.

"Oops, it slipped, teehee~" she chuckled.

With that, she retracted her hand and watched the man before her go limp. Immediately the fake smile on her face disappeared without a trace.

"Another f*cking waste, eh? I thought he would be more useful, but to f*ck up so bad, hee." The woman brought her bloodied hand to her mouth and licked it before quickly spitting it out.

'Seems this man preyed upon some of the students here too, hehe. A sinner's blood is sooo gross.' She thought as she looked down at the body. She snapped her fingers and two of the seven men picked the corpse up and held open its mouth. The woman leaned her lips towards his lifeless ones and whispered soundless words into them. Like magic, the body that had lost its soul gained a darker one.

"Keep watch over the school and continue to recruit these high-grade brats, kay?"

"Yes, my liege." The new* headmaster replied.

With that, the lady and her seven men gathered back into the vehicle and sped off.

Inside, the woman gave orders to search for the Awakened. They were to find him before the night was over or else they too would lose their bodies. All seven nodded and vanished from the moving van.

When the only one left was the woman and her driver, she sighed and massaged her head. This mission was a b*tch, but this is what the god wanted. The only problem was that that f*cking traitor had escaped. He had probably gotten to the Awakened before she did. If god heard about her inability to capture the target then she too would probably be 'demoted', like that fat*ss at the school.