Chapter 45 - Delusional Romance?

"I think… this is the place? 'Hakobune Middle School,' that's what it says…" Tosca was a bit confused looking at the sign.

It was the weekend so she didn't know why she was directed to go to the school so she tried the gate and found that it indeed was locked tightly not only by a regular lock but also a few chains.

"Ummm…" Tosca didn't know what to do, she had only barely just started and she was already hitting her first roadblock. It wasn't a good sign for what was to come. "Right! I can just climb over!"

Tosca remembering that she was stronger as an Angel but not remembering that she could fly gripped the bars and began pulling herself up.

"Hey! What are you doing!" Tosca was only halfway up the bars before a young girl's voice suddenly startled her causing her to lose her grip and fall slamming into the ground painfully.

Opening her eyes she saw a girl with an angry expression on her face standing over her. The girl was younger but probably about a year older than Tosca herself, she had long brown hair done in twin tails on either side of her head and flaming brown eyes.

"I-I wasn't doing anything!" Tosca exclaims scurrying up to her feet frantically. Suddenly her Prayer Phone rang alerting her and when she checked it the message simply said, "target found."

"E-Eh? This is the person that I'm supposed to help?"

"Hey! Listen! I don't know why you were attempting to break into my school, however you should go play at the park or something instead. Doing such things is illegal!" The girl yelled pointing at the blue eyed Angel before walking past Tosca with a bouquet of flowers in her hand.

"Ah!" Tosca followed the girl closely as she walked away. She didn't know what to say or how to introduce herself as she obviously had never done something like this before. She assumed of she just outright said the truth the brown haired girl wouldn't believe her.

After Tosca followed silently for around a minute before the brown haired girl grew irritated. "Are you lost or something! Go home!"

"U-Um… I'm not lost it's just that that I uhh…"

"Spit it out already! I have things to do!"

"I-I'm here to answer your prayer! I'm an Angel!" Tosca blurted out under the preasure.

"..." The brown haired girl was silent for a bit but turned and started walking again as if she hadn't heard Tosca.

"W-Wait! W-Wait! Wait! I'm not messing around! I was sent from Heaven to assist you with your love troubles!"

"..." The girl stops and with her flowers in hand she rests them on the ground in front of a picture of a young girl. "You don't need to worry, I already believe you."

The girl stood and said calmly as she dusted off her hands.

"Y-You do?" Tosca questions in shock.

"Yeah. I met a white haired Angel who answered my prayer last time." The girl's tone was sour and annoyed. "She threw a 'love potion' at me and claimed my problem was solved before leaving."

"..." Tosca had a pretty good idea of who the girl was talking about but decided not to say anything.

"What kind of Angel gives a rufie to someone and then leaves? Does she not even understand that I want love, not, not…" The girl clenched her fists tightly and stared at the picture of a young girl on the floor in front of her. It seemed like she was angry about more than just Cebrail's flippant nature concerning complicated feelings like love.

She had a very good moral compass that she developed after a certain event, using a love potion was no doubt immoral.

"...Are you alright?" Tosca asked sadly.

"I'm fine… it's just that… the love potion brought back bad memories." The girl took a deep breath and released it along with her grip. "My name is Kaori Murayama, second daughter of the Murayama family. I hope you aren't as… annoying as the last Angel that tried to help me."

"U-Um… Cebrail isn't that bad… she's just a little insensitive sometimes." Tosca defended Cebrail boldly though she knew Cebrail herself probaly wouldn't care all that much.

"You know the other Angel?"

"Yeah, she's my boss! My name is Tosca the Jack of Cebrail Caritas! I-It's nice to meet you!" Tosca greeted with a polite bow.

Kaori didn't really get it, but at the very least she understood that on the Angel hierarchy or whatever the girl in front of her was probably on the level of an intern or secretary. Though she could understand that her problem in the grand scheme of things was probably not worth most Angels' times, but it still upset her that they sent what seemed to be a grunt after that other annoying one. The impression she got from Cebrail was that the white haired Angel girl thought she was too good for her.

She scrutinized Tosca with squinted eyes. The girl looked timid and weak but based on how she greeted Kaori the girl was polite and likely didn't view herself as something above humans.

"Well, it's nice to meet you too then. Follow me to my house so we can talk more about what I need."

"Right!" Tosca responded diligently and followed the brown haired girl quickly her blue eyes filled with determination.

"So the girl's name is Yuri Kurokawa and she's definitely a succubus that needs to be stopped immediately!" Kaori yelled as the two girls sat in her room. It was a rather normal room besides the shinai resting against a wall by the desk.

"Umm… are you sure that it's a succubus? Succubus aren't like people normally think of them, you know. Some Devils may have a bit of succubus blood but they aren't actually succubus. Succubus are familiars primarily."

"I have no idea what you're talking about but look I have proof!" Kaori stood up from her seat at her desk and began rummaging through her closet. "Look! Look!"

From her closet the brown haired girl pulled out an entire board with various pictures and lines connecting them.

"Uhhh…" Tosca was a bit weirded out by the pictures as from he angles they were taken one could very easily tell the person in question had no idea all.

"Recently, men have been found shriveled up in alleyways with their di*ks wrung dry! What else could it be but a succubus!"

"S-Succubus usually use dreams to gather lust actually…" Tosca said clearly taken aback by Kaori's passion.

"It's a succubus! SUCC-U-BUSSSS!" Kaori hit the large board as if to emphasize her words or will them into reality.

"R-Right… and why do you think your classmate is one?"

"Because of the way she's constantly clinging to him and how two faced she is! Plus her movements perfectly align with they r*pe victims!"

(I think I understand now… there definitely is something supernatural going on around town however Kaori is probably just jealous of this other girl being around the guy she likes.) Tosca deduced with… questionable accuracy.

Putting a hand to her chin she now had to figure out how exactly she was going to fix this problem. She hasn't ever been in love though she was pretty close when it came to Izaiya she felt but it was probably more of a crush since she didn't feel anything towards him anymore.

Izaiya…

She hadn't actually thought of him ever since she became an Angel, she had been rather busy day in and day out with training and helping the maids in Gabriel's mansion take care of chores. She wanted to gain the right to be Cebrail's personal maid so she could be more useful, but perhaps she wanted to keep her mind off of things as well.

She suspected that he might be dead even though he got to run away. But she didn't want to think about that possibility so shaking her head she focused on the task at hand.

"Listen Tosca! Yuri and Koga are going to be going on a date tomorrow afternoon so let's follow them and catch that sl*t in the act!" Yelled with burning passionate eyes.

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"Do you really think it'll be okay to give Tosca a solo mission so early?" Reginleif questioned Cebrail as the two began walking through Kuoh town.

"It's no problem. The prayer is nearby so if push comes to shove I'll just go save her." Cebrail looks behind her at Reginleif from the corner of her eye with a slightly piercing look, though it didn't faze Reginleif at all who had grown used to it. "Focus on your training for now."

"Alright." Reginleif agreed simply. If Cebrail thought that it was completely fine then it was probably fine. Plus Reginleif had put several runes of protection on the girl just in case. At the very least nothing currently in Kuoh should be able to kill her in one hit. "So what are we doing Cebrail-"

Reginleif in the middle of her words watched as Cebrail vanished from her previous position and appeared in the middle of the street in front of a child about to be run over by a truck.

A barrier enveloped the boy and the truck and the two switched places causing the truck to just continue on like nothing happened.

"Thanks Miss!" The child smiles at her happily but finds himself surprised as Cebrail picks him up by the collar and tosses him onto the sidewalk.

"OW!" The kid yells in pain, but Cebrail ignores him.

"Let's go Reginleif."

"Uh… yeah…"

"You still have your spells on right?" Cerebral questions as the two walk away from the child without much care.

"Yes."

"Alright. I'll be going through my daily routine then and you just have to follow me."

"That sounds easy enough-"

Cebrail disappears once again leaving behind only a few white feathers.

This time when Reginleif looked around she couldn't find Cebrail at all.

"Huh? Huh? Huhhh???" Reginleif only had one clue to go by, a trail of white feathers leading away.