8 chapter 8

Castiel's P.O.V.

I spent most of the classes doing two things, ignoring the familiars from the devils and the gossip of 'that blondie want to get Sona-sama and Rias-sama' that some girls are gossiping all about. First thing I will do when I get home is upping the security in the apartment and on the surroundings just to make sure this kind of shit doesn't happen again.

That meeting was awful. Now the devils know that I probably (and I most certainly am) am a powerful individual. And they even figured that Emily is probably capable as well.

I can already see our future. Rias pressing her breasts at me all the time to try (and fail, I do not lack woman by my side thank you very much) and make me accept give MY SOUL to her in exchange of a peek. I am not Issei.

Emily will probably be pestered by Kiba, not that he has a chance but it will happen. The Gremory seems to think we all are perverts at heart or something.

And to be the cherry of this fucking cake Okuyasu is right now sleeping beside me on his chair proving that if he wants he can sleep quietly. If I knew that he must sleep sitting for him not to roar while sleeping, I'd put him on a chair… or throw one at him last night.

Now I just have to wait for lunch and them my 'fight' with Kiba. The one good thing I can see from today is that I will get paid in the end.

Lunchtime

Emily P.O.V.

I am such an IDIOT. Why did I think it was a good idea to steal those tickets from Cas yesterday? Now I must deal with HER. Last time I did that I needed to run and hide for a week just for survive as she just did not stop appearing and hunting me down.

At least it is lunchtime now. I can relax and forget my imminent death in a few days.

"Emily-san, do you have a moment?"

*sigh* Why me? I just wanted to enjoy one of my last peaceful meal, but NNNOOOOOO Akeno must get in the way.

"…fine. Let's go to one of the empty rooms on the upper floors, where we can talk more in private."

"Lead the way." Akeno said accompanying me.

After we got there I just looked to somewhere to sit. My priority is my food after all.

Ah, Castiel you are so good to me sometimes. This meat is great and there is so much, he even made some tempura that he knows is my favorite. If he just didn't decide to end me using her I could even kiss him… thinking again it is better not.

"Your lunch seems delicious. Was it you that made it?" Akeno asked.

"No, it was not. I am terrible at cooking, Castiel is the one that made it for me."

"Oh, you two were living together after all so it makes sense." Akeno said nodding her head. "Are you two dating or something?"

"No, we are not." I said simply. I entertained the idea sometimes, but after that time when we were kids and Yuno almost killed me for kissing him, I think it is better to keep a distance… at the very least for now.

"Oh, so he is single." Akeno said with a mischievous and, in my honest opinion dangerous, smile on her face.

"He is not for a long shot. Also, I'd advise you AND Rias not to try and seduce him if you don't actually want to be with him."

With a smirk on her face, she asked: "Why, are you going to attack us if we do that."

"No, all I will do is run far away. There is more than one girl with him and when, and not if, she found out that someone tried to seduce him for their own gains or without any real feeling behind it, well… she can be creative in how to extract her revenge." I said as if it was the most normal thing in the word.

"… I will take your advice as so." She said without confirming if she will listen or not to my warning. "Anyway, I wanted to ask you something."

"Ask always."

"Are you related to fallen angels?" she turned incredible serious now.

Oh, so she did notice. Took her long enough, she must suck at sense to take this log to realize. In fact, I think they are all beginner level on most things not directly combat related.

"How did you figured out?"

"After we realized that both of you are related to the supernatural I focused on identifying what race you belong. Just a few minutes ago did I managed to identify what you are, you filth." She said with scorn like I am her natural enemy or something.

Oh, she is funny. She thinks I am filthy because of what I am, huh.

She is the type of person that annoys me the most.

"That is funny coming from one that is worst in every way. What gave you the guts to say this sort of thing." I asked starting to get pissed.

"Isn't it obvious. All fallen are liars, they don't care about anyone else. They never do." She said full of anger but with a trace of sadness. "If you try anything against Rias I will…"

"You will what?" I rebuked her before she even managed to finish her statement. "You don't know shit about me. You don't know shit about what I am capable of and if you keep talking in this self-righteous tone like you know it all you will not be capable of talking again."

"I am the priestess of thunder." She got up and started acting haughty "I am the queen of the princes of ruin, Rias Gremory herself and I will not be looked down by some filthy fallen."

"Big words coming from someone like you." I rebuked. I took a step forward "I am half fallen by my father side, just like you." At that, she took a step back. "I never looked down on myself or denied it just because my father IS scum, in my honest opinion, but I do not let him determine what I think of the race as a whole. You, that ran away from everything, in the end, to never look back. You that abandoned your father, that cared for you, unlike my own. You that denied what you ARE and got to the point of selling your soul to the devil just to be something you were not. You are the one that got no right to talk to me like that.

You are weak, not just in fighting power but on the mind as well. Especially on the mind."

I turned around and left the room. It seemed like she wanted to keep talking but I just ignored it all. At least now I can have my lunch in pea… I forgot my lunchbox there.

FUCK.

Oh well, let's go see Castiel. He probably has some lunch left.

After class

Castiel P.O.V.

I am in a bad mood right now.

Not only has Okuyasu woken up just as lunch started he made me help him on copying my notes about class AND took some of my lunch. Not only that, Emily came in with a dark face sit beside me and started eating the rest. I ended up with nothing at all. Well, at least I got my secret stash of cookies hidden away, I will eat them after the 'fight'.

Not being enough Issei started a sermon in the corridor in front of my class about the magnificence of breasts and not before long one of the bans of my existence came along. Aika Kiryuu, a girl with long brown hair tied in two braids with blue ribbons and hazel colored hair. She uses a circle-rimmed glasses and is, for the lack of better worlds, a female version of Issei. I mean she is not quite as a pervert in the open but loves to look at guys' privates and groping girls' breasts.

Honestly how Sona can be such a prude about some rules but ignore what needed to be truly addressed is beyond me. Last time I saw her she started looking at me funny with a predatorily smile, I know this smile, it is the smile Yuno had last time she saw me getting out of the bath. It is the 'I want what I see and your opinion is irrelevant' smile.

At least after a stressful day, I will get some money for ice cream to relieve my stress. All I need is to beast my stress relieve- I mean Kiba.

I mean it is not like I see him not as a sparring partner but just as a wallet that if I hit hard enough give me cash and relieve my stress. Not like that at all.

As I approach the meeting place I notice that they are all here. Rias is looking interested just as Sona is. Sona's peerage seems to be interested in the show. Issei is glaring at me, maybe the reason could be because I revealed his last peeping spot and he still has marks that show what the girls think of it. Akeno seems to be glaring just the same but with more intensity and not at me but at Emily. Kiba is acting haughty like this is already over and Koneko is only munching in a bag of…

"Koneko those are mine. I left them in my locket." So that is why I could not find my snacks. Damn it, and those are my favorite chocolate chips cookies.

"… mine now." She just turned around and keep eating them like it was obvious, worst part I could see that they are basically over already.

I hate her so much right now. Well, at least I got a stress reliever to deal with all my hate.

"Hey, got the cash or not," I ask, the more important if they are going to waste my time is the cash.

"I still can't believe you. Shouldn't a knight care for honor above all else?" I just nod at it, growing up with Saber made me understand what a knight is all about. "If so how can you make it a necessity for me to pay you just for a challenge. This is not something a knight should do." He then raises his hand and creates a sword on it. Sword birth, a sacred gear capable of generating demonic swords. Powerful in the right hands, in the right hands. "I will show you what I am capable of and you will stop looking down on me. If you are a knight accept my challenge." He says full of confidence and ready to fight with everything he got.

SMIRK

"Oh, I get what you are saying. Unfortunately, I am no knight" I then open a space and draw my sword from it. Magic is so convenient. "I am a KING."

The instant I draw my sword an imposing air surrounds me. All the onlookers had the impression that I am the ruler and king of this space. An unstoppable momentum so to say.

"Wha-What is this sword?" Kiba asks with a shocked look on his face.

"This is the sword of Kupriotes, one of my father creations made just for me." I was exuding confidence. This is one of the few weapons my dad made after checking what swords on his Unlimited Blade Works could work with me. I have very few but I love all of them (even if one is a pain in the ass to use).

This one here was used by Iskandar the king of conquerors. Its hilt is decorated with the likeness of a lion and the body of the sword is simple but elegant, not overly decorated or suited to a court or noble things it is a weapon of war pure and simple. It is strong and light-weight with a cutting edge that can cut through most metals like they don't even exist and even though it is not a noble phantasm it gives the user a certain immunity to thunder and gives a C-rank charisma to whoever can truly wield it.

"B-But I heard the weapons your father made just disappeared after some time. How can you still have one if he is long dead?" Rias asked after getting up and looked shocked. So she did make a basic investigation of who my father was.

"You are quite correct. The weapons my father made with magic all disappear in under a month of being made. The ones using magic that is."

"What does that mean exactly Castiel-kun?" Sona asked with rapid interest. Not only her but most everyone is looking at me intensely… except for Tsubaki that after looking at me for a few seconds lowered her head and started moving her mouth so fast that I wouldn't be surprised if she learned Caster-san spellcasting technique.

"I mean exactly what I said. My father usually made all weapons he needs using just his magic power that makes things much easier for him as he does not need to worry about losing his weapon or anything of the sort. But that did not stop him to actually make some weapons himself using the materials he received for his missions. There was a whole research team back then to help my father make all sorts of weapons and he made sure to make the best he possibly could to help me."

"That does not matter." Oh, Kiba is getting impatient. "Are we going to fight or not? As a knight, I must show my worth."

"Fine by me. As one that has the disposition of a king, I must show you the reason why no matter how great a knight is he is still below a king."