"Where'd my angel go?" Kurtz Webber moaned as Kaname Chidori went off on her tirade about boring rich kids.
Cramped in his AS cockpit, the rather downward directed mercenary was too busy sighing over the loss of his perfect image of Kaname to notice the ballastic path his computers were tracing away from the school. A solid thunk radiating downward through the vehicle was his first clue that something had been on a direct path to land on him.
"What the heck was that?" Kurtz snapped, sitting up and scanning the area outside the cockpit.
Similarly, Ranma landed lightly on a roof-top across the street, looking back toward the clump of trees she had just jumped off of. A scowl crawled over her face as she tried to puzzle out why the tree branch she had just bounced off of sounded metallic.
Originally, she had been aiming for the street and hadn't even seen a branch. The surprising contact with a hard surface caught her unprepared and she'd landed with an embarrassingly solid impact and hadn't managed to get more than a short hop out of it.
Looking back, however, all she could see were trees and, further onward the school she'd just left her children at. There was nothing that she could see there, and no spirits she could feel in the area.
Reluctantly and very slowly she turned away from the empty street and continued back to the warehouse she'd purchased. There was still some work to be done to make it livable, and secure.
Meanwhile Kurtz glanced down to the view screen for his external camera and blinked. Quickly, his eyes lifted from the screen, to the actual building outside of the cockpit, but there was no sign of the woman he thought he'd glimpsed in the camera.
By the time he looked down, she'd already leaped away.
After a moment, he shook his head clear of the whole thing and looked for a source of caffeine.
****
Meanwhile, Kagurazaka-Sensei was staring at the unusual selection of books in front of her. She couldn't even recognize some of the languages on some of them.
The owner of the books, which looked a lot like some sort of spellbook or fantasy game, was currently exchanging words with some other students, her brother and sister if the teacher remembered correctly. What exactly they were saying, she couldn't understand, but others passing through did.
None of them were speaking Japanese at the moment.
"I told you not to bring the books," Naiki snapped irritably,
"But we might need -" Eija started.
"Nothing's going to happen here," Deimosu assured her brightly. "This is the modern world, not another backwater with a bunch of mumbo-jumbo."
Sousuke listened to the Greek conversation and noted it down in his memory, making some basic deductions.
The three other new students were foreign-educated and raised, like him. Judging by several similarities, he assumed them to be siblings. They appeared to have had past difficulties, probably with some sort of cult or another, based on their choice of reading material. It was also apparent that they believed in such superstitions, but the boy did not apparently have much respect for it.
If their difficulties followed, then his objective might be complicated, but it did not appear that they ahd anything directly to do with his mission. He shrugged and started to make an attempt to use this as a distraction to get past the teachers inspecting backpacks.
"Hey!" a voice cried out as Kagurazaka-sensei hurriedly rushed past the three Satomi's to intercept him. "Young man! These kind of toys are not acceptable in any way shape or form."
Sousuke blinked in moderate surprise, trying to figure out just how this civilian had managed to detect his weapons so easily, and then to mistake them for toys.
"Ma'am, I assure you," he said seriously. "That is no toy, and you really shouldn't be handling it that way."
All eyes were on him as he continued to argue with the teacher about the nature of the item in her hand. It was also confusing that he had not yet been taken into a more severe form of custody. Given the surprising skill of this security staff in detecting weapons, he would have thought there'd be much more severe reprecussions for being caught.
"Great, another military maniac," Kaname said, then her eyes wandered to the other three new students as a pentagram marked book was slipped back into a backpack. "And a creepy, goth kid. Just what we need."
"Hey," Kyouko said cheerfully. "At least one of them is cute."
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(Posted Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:51)
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