Chapter 9.

Domestic partnership.

Finished the lessons, Naberius walks towards the road that leads him to his quarters.

He has had to explain to his colleagues, especially Dali and the Headmaster that the priestess has camped in the vicinity of the spirit forest and that this is her penance until she regrows her arm.

At first some protested, he saved one of them by breaking the rules of their temple, an unfair punishment; but he replied that it is not their business; the headmaster also said the same, basically they are two different races with their doing even more different and that intruding on them never leads to anything good. So everyone is silent, even if they are worried all the same. Then he also faced the harassment of Robin the rookie who now knows everything; where he first cried all day, whimpering like a little girl and then insisted on seeing her. An idea that Kalego gave him a long lecture, of how he foolishly took off his amulet with protection just when he needed it and got screwed while he was going to school for lessons, putting his colleagues and all Babylus in trouble!

So in the end he too mute, but he gives him, insisting again, something to bring to the priestess to thank her.

Then he went to the prof. Orias where he showed him the found bracelet and asked him to examine it, which he will gladly do, so they have more information about their counterpart. So if he wants him back, he'll find an excuse that will shut his mouth.

And now, snorting, with a burden in one hand and his folder in the other, he has finally arrived at his destination.

From the outside it seems all right, then with a nod opens the door, where the usual calm reigns inside. The objects are in place, the bedroom intact; and now he's wondering if she is still alive.

And he finds her where he left her, on the ground, in that corner while sitting with her eyes closed. Where realizing that perhaps it is a kind of silent concentration, he lets her do it, noticing that she has read his note, because she sees it open; in fact it is called speaking because it is usually written with magic and therefore speaks with a voice through this, so she has read it and now Naberius is thinking with surprise:

"Wait, she opened it and read it, does that mean her immunity against occultism has weakened? Very interesting ... I left it purposely drenched in weak magic, to see what would happen ... and it is a beginner's mistake on her part to fall into this futile trap! But could it be that she did it on purpose? "

After all, he had promised himself not to underestimate her anymore, so he is indifferent and remains cautious.

After that, he goes to his bedroom, puts down the objects and changes.

After that, he returns to the living room, always in silence and respecting those who have respected the place where he lives; so he sits down and waits for her to finish drinking some wine.

In the meantime, he thinks that among all the women who have entered his life, but not his quarters, she is the only one who is not intrusive and noisy; instead he expected the opposite. Maybe he expected to surprise her while she rummaged in his drawers or in the bedroom, while she made a noise; but no, she is there where he left her. How strange, she found one of her, which perhaps he likes, however, on the other side of the trench. Good, since she will have to stay there for a few days.

Naberius is seriously re-evaluating that priestess who at first bothered him.

After he sees her open her eyes and finally she has noticed him presence and tells him:

"Welcome back to your house. I have read the note and thank you for letting me sleep ... it was really necessary."

Kalego thinks : "Did you read it? But please ... he purposely omitted that it opened with a spell. But I'll pass over and see what happens."

After he looks at it carefully, where he notices that she has regained color and the fins are gold again, excellent and then says to her:

"Mph now stop guzzling, you have books to read to me!"

Gliding over the fact that she didn't touch anything.

"Sure. But first... ."

Here now the demon begins to disturb:

"Can I take a shower? Please?"

His nerves are shaking and he replies:

"How dare you ask me such a thing?"

"If you let me do it ... I'll read you one more book." With a sly face, but the other has already understood, he wants to get into his graces for favors, something that he has always considered useless and hateful; but in the end he is fine with him, one more book craves him and therefore:

"Okay ... I'll give you five minutes, starting now!"

With this he snaps his fingers and brings up an hourglass, where some sand is coming down and she:

"Ah .. yes ok ok!"

With this and the haste, she takes what she needs as best she can and escapes to the bathroom which is located to her left, at the end of a long and dark corridor and Kalego:

"Tz, so he eventually poked around somewhere."

But he gives it to her, everyone needs the bathroom sooner or later and then looking at the hourglass, he waits.

As she does so, he notices on the dark table near her camp, three cacti in some makeshift jars, not him, so new and approaching he observes them and then:

"That stupid one... ."

The five minutes have passed, where the hourglass vibrates to indicate it and the demon can see her almost breathless and always wearing pajamas and always with one less arm.

"Anf anf just in time... ." Even if that time was short and she is thinking that pissed off is a real bastard; but it is always his home so he rules.

Kalego pointing to the three small cacti on the coffee table:

"Where did you get them? And you put them here without my permission!"

"Yeah ... right ... I'm sorry ... I found them."

Hoping that the one there is not offended and the hunt with kicks.

"But are you picking up stuff like a tramp? What the hell!"

She says it closing her eyes and she:

"I liked everyone here... ."

The demon cannot reproach her, since he too does this; when he sees one of these he goes out of him way to take them home and then goes on to say:

"First of all, these pots are not suitable, they are too small and then ... this red has poisonous quills."

"Eh! What? S-seriously?"

"How did it occur to you to pick it up without informing yourself!"

With this, he raises a finger and casting a spell, disintegrates it; making the priestess feel bad and he adds:

"If I took him out, someone would end up badly!"

"Yes ... I understand and how do I behave with them? That is, how can I make sure they are well?"

And here these words remind us of her main thought, treating the cacti and making sure they stay healthy and so taken by the moment he says to her:

"First you have to change the vase, second they need light, this is not good, third you have to clean them eee...."

And now he has just noticed that he is ramping up his main hobby with the other one watching him fascinated and listening very carefully. This is not good at all, distance first of all and then grinding he tells her:

"Enough now! You have some books to read to me!"

And he walks away and goes to sit with her who remained, because it was all interesting and she thinks:

"Tuft pissed off ... we have the same hobby by chance? Why are you ashamed? Maybe because you are a severe demon?"

But she doesn't have the courage to ask; then he sits down and the other makes books appear to her saying:

"Start with the first."

He takes it and reads the title:

"Twenty thousand leagues under the sea ... nice."

So she begins the reading where she immerses him with Captain Nemo's Nautilus, making him enjoy this human who has screwed his fellows with a machine that goes underwater.

Then it is the turn of two others, where the theme is the animals of the human world, which he always considers magical beasts and therefore he read them all in almost four hours and without stopping. Obviously with one more. Kalego is impressed by the woman's resistance, anyone would have given up immediately stunned by their voice, but she, on the other hand, did not.

After he starts to hear a strange noise coming from that one, which she says:

"Oops ... it's my stomach, I'm very hungry."

He raises his eyebrow and she still:

"Do you mind if I eat something?"

He just makes a gesture to tell her it's okay, but in the end he too is hungry and so without saying a word, he gets up and goes to the kitchen where he prepares something she can't see.

By now she has understood, if she talks to him with polite ways, pissed off, he stays calm and allows almost anything, in short, he is a guy who hates to death the rude!

And while he eats what looks like cucumbers, she is wondering what demons eat, indeed what Kalego Naberius eats, who sees him as someone who has a stink under his nose.

Then peeking, she walks over to the kitchen, which is in front of her and in front of him gothic, medium-sized, demonic-style chair, she doesn't know if they have appliances like humans, or have something magical that makes it appear. the food. You see only an inlaid wooden table, a similar chair and sideboards in the same style, you can perhaps also see the stove.

Therefore she looks out to her and sees him take something from what looks like a fridge.

It looks like a purple sandwich from which insect legs come out, a bit disgusting for her, then she sees him sit down, put the plate on the table and start eating composed like a prince; which amuses her so much, also because she is using the fork and knife to cut it and he at this point, who has noticed him unwelcome presence of her, him wand saying:

"Watching someone eat is rude! And then ... what the fuck are you laughing at ?!"

"Eeeem forgive me ... I was curious to see what you eat in this world. That's all, I didn't mean to offend you."

But with annoyance and with a quick wave of his hand, he closes the kitchen door in the face of the woman who is left there again thinking:

"Oooook ... he didn't take it at all well, but I'm still here at the end and what strange things they have for food, but he cares about the diet apparently, to eat only that ... the same is too much curious haha. "

And she goes to sit in her bed again and eat more cucumbers, which are actually some kind of energy bars.

It is strange for Kalego to have someone in the house, who even if with little good manners he can bear it, so he also overlooks the fact that he has seen him eat.

Not even his colleagues have seen him do it in the canteen, this is because he is too reserved a type.

Not to mention that strangely his priestess energy has become accustomed to their world. In short, he no longer emanates that beneficial stench that he carried with him, and it is a really strange thing but he is fine, he does not want to feel bad in his house, but it is not something to be taken lightly anyway.

Well-rewarded sacrifices.

Annabel, on the other hand, she knows she is vulnerable to witchcraft and therefore, until she realizes this she can be calm in the end. Not knowing instead that the demon already knows everything.

When finished, he returns to the living room with Robin's package who literally throws him to the ground saying:

"That rookie Robin has been whimpering and pissing all day and giving me this for you ... I won't accept a refusal."

So he stands and puts his arms folded as usual.

She is surprised, she did not expect something to thank her, she did not even know if it is used in that world, but she accepts it and opening it, she discovers that they are books about one on familiars and the other on the local fauna. She already knows how to read demonic well as well as speak it. Which did not strike the other.

"Interesting ... even if it wasn't supposed to."

"Mph ... that idiot ... Professor Blushenko instead sends you his curses as a cure, as do the others ..."

He didn't have to, but out of respect for his colleagues he was obliged, since in private one at a time they came forward saying theirs.

"Curses? Ah yes ... thanks him too."

Recalling that by curse in reality translated are the 'wishes for healing', a bit the opposite in essence, it is not a bad thing at all, quite the contrary.

All these thanks to Kalego make him sick, but he also understands that it's his way of respecting them and finally:

"For the whole period of your convalescence you will not set foot in school, because in any case you cannot help us, you are completely useless...."

And here he is to discourage her again and then he adds again:

"But you will still be updated and you will be able to stay here, eat and rest, as I have already said, so avoid letting the fact that I host you and also in your damn relationships be leaked, clear?"

"Yes, sure ... I'm fine. Thanks."

And again disgusted he replies:

"Mph!"

Annabel: "Did you by any chance find a smoky gray bracelet by chance?"

And he who remembers very well what he entrusted to Orias and replies:

"No. If I get any news about it, I'll let you know."

After all, he's always a demon and lying is also in his nature, even if he has questions about what happened in that room with the rookie, but in his condition, he wants to avoid, he just misses her having a bout of depression.

She just gives a sad nod and after her he leaves her alone again.

The days go by, where the infection and the sick are stable, Annabel still lives in her home, still reads the forbidden books and has not presented herself to school as mentioned and updates the other sisters and her relationships, hiding the truth.

She is where she occasionally meets with Zeret, the only one who has not pushed her away after the accident and provides her with what she needs: water, food, clothes, various objects and even gossip.

The other teachers, for now, do not ask for her and for now no new and worrying case has broken out, everyone's lives flow normally.

Kalego got used to the presence of the priestess and she the same, let's say they tolerate each other.

She always sees him taking care of her cacti, but he no longer bothers him, on the contrary, he takes the opportunity to teach her to take care of them properly with her, wandering her every now and then with her severe ways, which does not scare the woman. The two can't stand too much noise, noise and crowds, so they get along on that too. When at first the demon was determined to stay away from her even with his pastimes; but now he has changed and opened up in some way, something that had never happened to him with his exes, indeed, he almost never got along with them especially when he was a little younger and now he prefers to be alone.

She never tried to browse in her bedroom or kitchen, she limited herself to the living room and the bathroom, a curious thing she noticed is that every so many Naberius watches some kind of TV, embedded in the wall that looked more like a painting. His favorite shows are the flora and fauna documentaries and the intellect programs, especially those with headaches. Another thing is that for domestic cleaning he brings up a team of little black creatures with wings and aprons included, where they clean the house from top to bottom, obvious for someone like him. She also noticed him sitting in the living room with a small table and many sheets of paper in front of him and while he marks with his pen, perhaps his students' homework and lessons for the whole week, and then also writes in a small diary with a black cover. Then nothing else. In everything she has never disturbed him without his consent. In the meantime, she rested and read the books given away, she gained a bit of culture, but always remaining in her corner.

In short, she has seen him in a part of his daily life, reserved, restricted, severe and silent, he has never seen him go out with anyone, not even with a female demon, and he has understood that he is not a guy who gets along very well with. those of his kind. Then there are times when when he comes home and slams the door loudly, he realizes that it's a symptom that they pissed him off more than normal at school and so he doesn't want to be disturbed or kills on sight, and that's another thing. that he has learned, because he closes himself in the bedroom, besides not saying a word and giving off a strange and sinister aura! In the end, he too saw her a little in her daily life and also in her temporary accommodation.

The arm is slowly growing back, but it is still not enough, which makes him happy because in the meantime he has read him twenty other books. Where the priestess wondered where she gets them from.

He criticizes her harshly every now and then for his rude ways, which does not strike her at all, she has made us callus by now, so things are going well and a certain feeling is emerging between them, at least that's what Kalego thinks, but always silently. She wonders if she too has noticed the situation over there.

But he must still maintain her rigor, he is shadow, she is light, they are enemies and publicly they are incompatible, but in the private sector can you give an exception to the rule? One thing that really makes him think, as he watches her take care of her cacti that have grown in the meantime and she has finally put on something decent, leaving her stupid pajamas with her owls alone for the night.

Also thinking that she needs a new wardrobe. Basically he is already seeing her as her new demo companion.

Then, on a specific day.

Annabel: "Today I have an important exam ...."

She says it while she has already prepared as she can and where the other is ready to go to school.

Kalego: "Mph ... you know what matters to me."

She doesn't notice, she wasn't expecting a wish, so she leaves the house after that.

Kalego: "Just make sure you don't lose any more pieces, which then becomes really useless."

Annabel: "I'll do my best."

She felt more like a 'be careful' than she takes with a smile.

Instead he has to care, because he contacts the principal and when he shows up in the principal demo room:

"So my dear guardian teachers, I want you to go to the base of the priestesses to observe this exam well, in practice you will have to be Annabel's witnesses without making any videos though!"

Kalego in thought: "W-what? Another brilliant idea of ​​the old man!"

Dali: "Well, in fact, we haven't met her for quite a while ... and then I'm really curious to see him; after all, it's a way like any other to get more information."

Sullivan: "Well said! Come on now go and bring this map, it will guide you since it is a place that few people know, just to ward off suspicious looks and old grudges ohohoho!"

Naberius instead sees it every day, something that the colleague doesn't know and he doesn't like to go there at all, but the same has no other choice and therefore he has to obey.

End of chapter 9