Chapter 10

The truth.

Then they arrive and find them getting ready, where they stay still in flight.

The place is very high up, on a large flying rock, perfect for their main camp:

Dali: "Oooh there they are, but I don't see their base how strange ... maybe they hide it?"

Kalego: "Of course they don't want to be discovered and it's a foregone conclusion."

Dali: "Of course."

Then they notice her as she gets ready, she and another, a reptile, where along with other priestesses they salute in front of a cat-like statue.

Dali: "Do they worship a cat then? It will be very powerful."

Kalego: "What a useless thing."

The priestesses became aware of their presence, but without alerting themselves; in the end the principal certainly warned them. They recognize the priestess Chesh who is talking to her and Dali:

"What kind of exam will it be, what do you think? And why just the two of them?"

"What do you want me to know? The important thing that they end their presence immediately makes me sick!"

While she always maintains her bearing with her arms crossed and serious gaze.

But they notice something new, they notice different priestesses.

Dali: "But are those priests? Do they really exist?"

Kalego: "Mph, we were missing these too." For him it's just another annoyance.

So after a kind of initial ritual, they see Annabel having to deal with the lizard three times taller and more athletic than her.

Dali: "But a face-to-face confrontation is a really tough exam ... doesn't it seem too one-sided to you? Then in her condition ... well ..."

Kalego does not respond to this lap and just hopes that that being will not really tear her apart.

Then they choose their weapons, the lizard takes a curved sword, a kopesh, while she takes a golden stick with a ram's head at the tip; making the two keepers a bit perplexed.

Dali: "I mean, what a singular weapon you have chosen."

Kalego: "That idiot ... does she want to die?"

After a greeting, they blindfold themselves and they.

Dali: "With your eyes closed? Things get more interesting."

Thus begins the confrontation.

The other grabs her in a violent way and Annabel parries the kopesh blows with the stick, but everyone has understood that she is in trouble and then at a certain point she gets such a strong tail that throws her against a wall made of rock!

Kalego does not flinch, but something that we can identify as jealousy anger moves inside him, in fact he hates that being, because it is hitting his precious book translator, as well as their only immune barrier against illness.

But the same cannot intervene, because it will then be considered as a break in the alliance.

Then they continue where she gets some very strong blows, filling her with bruises.

But then she does something that no one expected, suddenly she disappears and no one perceives or sees her, not even their guardians.

Dali: "What what what? Really? But I didn't expect it ... but is it magic?"

The other observes only concentrated and then, they notice the disoriented lizard, even if he is blindfolded and then out of nowhere a strong blow to the family jewels! So she reappears and they see the ram's head stuck in the lower parts of the reptile! Where all the males present felt pain for him.

Dali: "Woooow ... unexpected and ... what a pain ...."

Kalego: "Mph!" But he too twisted a little at that sight.

And to top it off, Annabel delivers another ram header under the chin, where she knocks him out completely! And so the teacher declares her the winner, where she takes off the blindfold and breathes deeply, albeit with a few bruises here and there. At this point Kalego turns and begins to fly followed by the other who tells him:

"Aren't we going to compliment her? It seems a bit rude to me, don't you think?"

Kalego: "You go if you care so much, I'm not going to the enemy camp."

"Oh well yeah right." But he still didn't answer his question.

A few hours pass, where Annabel is back, always with one arm less and covered with the dark cloak. Now they are in a room where only they are allowed to enter; they don't want the other teachers to notice her presence and create a useless procession. Dali compliments her, including those of the principal and adds:

"I wasn't expecting the last move at all ... but was it magic by any chance?"

"No, it wasn't and I don't have to explain it to you."

By now she has understood his game of 'I'm being nice so she tells me everything' therefore, the other that he has grabbed:

"Oooh ok ... but what exam was it if I may ask?"

"Confidence of the senses, he was the first, I had to do it on Inb but out of urgency they made me do it here. The other will have to repeat the year since he was also in the third degree."

"Uuuuh soon! Well it seems right."

Kalego has just heard it all while he is drinking moaning tea in a fine cup leaning against the wall, but he doesn't intervene.

Then a problem arises, the amulets are losing energy, in fact we see their light becoming dimmer, which the priestess regrets but still can not do anything.

Dali: "What the hell, in a few hours we will no longer have immunity ... what to do?"

Kalego: "What a rip off!"

Dali: "Don't say that, you know what our priestess is in and how it happened, you can't blame her."

She, mute and embarrassed and Kalego again:

"What a nuisance ... if in that incident she paid more attention to being mutilated, at this time we weren't in this precarious circumstance!"

She remains mute again, she is not wrong and cannot argue and she is one who does not know how to think of solutions for these situations and therefore, lets her guardians do it, also because other professors have noticed and communicated the same situation with telepathy.

With this Naberius, he places the cup on a table and leaves without saying another word, leaving the two perplexed.

Dali: "Don't worry, he's doing this but he's actually thinking of a solution."

She just a nod and a bad feeling, which comes in the form of a shiver down her spine.

Instead, he closed himself in a room with many very old magic books and with many symbols on the walls and on the floor to protect against unauthorized snoopers, where he placed one of these on the lectern and leafing through it, he arrives at the desired page saying:

"Mmm it can work." With this he closes it, certain that he will remember all the words and is also aware, that afterwards he will have to find another way to convince her to read him the forbidden books.

Then again as he meets Annabel alone:

"Come with me, I have to talk to you in private."

She is suspicious but still follows him and takes her into a large room lit only by huge candles, where they walk up to the center of it and then she tells her:

"Stop there."

"Why here? What do you want to talk about? How can I help you?"

"You ask too many questions!"

And after her raising her right hand, he begins to recite a spell and so she finally understood seeing symbols on the floor light up in purple. She has no doubts, he is using demonic magic! But what can she do since she is now not immune, and she has also understood that he has discovered it, even if she does not know how she is. And now she is scared, in these illuminated circles and with the demon in front of her while her aura is lit up with the same color, like his eyes in a horror movie atmosphere!

At this point, she can only close her eyes and pray to the gods. Her caretaker lied to her and now he is doing who knows what curse to submit her to his will!

After more than thirty minutes, which for her have been an eternity with her heart in her throat, Kalego says the last words to conclude and then, everything shuts down and returns to semi-darkness as before and he:

" I finished."

She opens her eyes again, looks at him with fear, where he has noticed this thing and then; she runs away as fast as she can! Leaving the other one of stone and while she says:

"Stop you, you peasant!" And then he also adds: "Stupid and reckless...."

The woman runs through the corridors, until she collides with the other caretaker, who seeing her altered asks:

"Annabel, what have you got?" Thinking in the meantime, maybe her colleague did something to her.

With him there is also prof. March and Blushenko, where they too are worrying, but they don't show it by their calm faces.

"No-nothing, I'm fine...." She doesn't want to attract other attention or curses and thus make others discover that she doesn't have her protection against their magic!

Blushenko: "It's nice to meet again priestess but in your condition you shouldn't get upset, so how about taking a deep breath and telling us what happened to you?"

In the end, her false calm did not convince them. Then a sharp pain in her chest and she feels her left arm hot, then she finds himself touching herself and then only a blaze of green fire and where her full arm appears below! She finally regenerated himself completely to the amazement of all present!

Blushenko: "Me-wonderful!" He comments astonished and with eyes that shine like a child's, even March was amazed that without saying anything, he covers his lips with the book he was holding.

From there; instead happy and with the fingers under the chin:

"Wooooooow it was time! So we can be calm right? Your energy is back, right?"

But Annabel answers them by taking the golden pyramid, opening a hole and crossing it, under the stunned eyes of those present.

Kalego returns looking for her and in the corridor, he finds the three who tell him everything and he is disturbed:

"That idiot! What does she think she's doing ?!"

Dali: "Mmm by pure chance that I ask you ... did you do something to her? She seemed very whipped and agitated."

She obviously replies lying to him:

"Eeeeeh ?! What are you implying? It was you who saw her last!"

Dali shaken: "A ... but no, I'm not insinuating anything, I asked for security hahaha!"

She tells him with a nervous laugh and March that she is shaking and thinking:

"How scared ... let's hope she doesn't take it out on me as well ... gulp."

Blushenko, on the other hand, only a drop of sweat and does not open his mouth, after all they are only of rank 6 and 5 and therefore going against him will not lead to anything good, even if the latter is older than Naberius.

Dali: "Anyway ... now what do we do? We need the same."

Kalego: "Tz, let's wait twenty demonic minutes and if she doesn't show up, we'll go and dig into that hole she went to take refuge in!"

And everyone agrees, so speech is closed and they go back to their work even if they are still worried.

Later, he meets with prof. Orias who has news on the examination of the bracelet, done with his 'lucky and happy' ability, where he worked on this using a particular pendulum, to get some answers and the ones of him are always 100% certain:

Orias: "Inside there is a living being and it feeds only on the wearer."

"Mmm? A parasite?"

"More I believe a symbiote, so I can say, thanks to my luck, that the priestesses make this kind of pact where they receive the necessary nutrients in return, we don't know what they ask for."

Kalego: "Interesting."

"Yeah, and who knows what they're still hiding from us."

Orias is an expert in objects of all kinds and mysterious, so he hasn't disappointed him at all.

So he rings the bell of the lessons, so he takes the object and then goes to the next class. But unfortunately for him he is summoned by Iruma on behalf of Clara Valac just for fun and then, barking at him and lecturing him, ends up staying in that form, but not only that, Clara throws him I don't know what potion that makes him appear in commercial city center, in the midst of a crowd of women raving about fafluous and soft beings!

With this Kalego can only fly as fast as he can, before being caught, caressed and scrambled by hands eager for his soft fur to death! An unworthy end for someone like him! He certainly cannot kill or harm civilians who have no faults, justice is there too and it works very well!

So he manages to quickly turn the corner of a building, avoiding them, and then hit someone where he looks at him well and recognizes her as Annabel, the priestess who ran away from Babylus.

She looks at him curiously, wears the hood so as not to attract attention and therefore staring at that strange little but cute little flying creature, with eyes that seem angry she says:

"But ... are you by chance Kalego Naberius?"

The upset one! He can't believe his ears she was the only one who recognized him with those features too!

"Eh ?! W-how can you tell? I mean, who tells you I'm him?" He fooled herself because he talked, but it's too late.

She observes him better, taking off her hood where she still sees a bit of fear on her face and replies:

"Well first of all you have his own tuft of him and then, the same voice as his and ... you have the same scent of incense, the same that I perceived in his house and I remember it very well. "

He can't believe it again! In fact it is so, he uses a particular perfume when he is in the shower which then extends inside the house and he likes this so much because it relaxes him a lot. But he didn't think this one she would notice.

Kalego: "Tz ... it's the sad truth, it's me." She says so ashamed.

Annabel: "Oh ... so you're a shape-shifter?"

"If I was, I wouldn't turn into this hateful and reduced thing!"

"Yes that's right, you're absolutely right, I'm sorry! So why?"

And the other even more embarrassed:

"It's a long story ... which I don't intend to explain to you!"

"Yes yes of course, okay, as you want ..."

Notice another thing, he has not yet touched, caressed and scrambled him like anyone who sees him for the first time.

"Hey! Why don't you caress me, do I disgust you by any chance?"

"Absolutely not, but knowing you, what little I've seen, you don't like that kind of attention, so if I do it is disrespectful towards you...."

And for the first time someone finally respects him properly, even in that funny form and above all respects his will, something that seems to him almost heaven for him. But after her, where Annabel sits on the ground and he lands instead of her, he tells her very calmly, so as not to make her run away again, since she is still shaken:

" Why did you run away?"

"How why? You used demonic magic against me ... you found out I was vulnerable and you lied to me and trapped me, what should I do? Take another attack?"

She says this by hugging her cloak almost trembling.

"You're a fool and you came to a hasty conclusion and you didn't even give me time to explain that, that was a spell to get you back your lost energy!"

"Eh ?! W-what?"

She replies in disbelief and he continues:

"As you have seen your arm has grown back but it is not thanks to your stupid priestess body, you certainly had an energy shot that accelerated the regeneration ... energy that I took away from my body!"

"Ah! What? Are you telling me that you simply sacrificed your strength to give it to me?"

"Simply mph, good word! As you have seen, it took me more than thirty minutes to complete it, what do you think? Not many people know how to throw it!"

"But then why didn't you propose it to me earlier? Do you think I'm so stupid that you don't understand?"

"No! I already knew about your vulnerability, but doing as you told me, would you have the same following me in that room?"

Thinking about it, he is not completely wrong, she would have run away anyway and admits that this tour has really taken a crab, since in addition to getting her arm back she had no side effects, all while sacrificing a part of her physical strength, something that does not he really expected from a demon and therefore:

"I ... I wouldn't have followed you and ... I humbly apologize."

Kalego realizes that he really is and then adds:

"I didn't do it for you, but for Babylus and for the demonic world, but I accept them anyway."

With this, speech closed and Annabel, while she has calmed down and gets up and he again in flight:

"Well then next time please no more lies, trust first of all."

Kalego: "A yes? We want to talk about the note that I left you full of magic where you told me you read it instead of him talking to you? Don't tell me about trust!"

Thinking about it she is not wrong again and embarrassed she replies again:

"Aaa ... again sorry ... but I felt so unprotected and I was afraid ...."

The demon has understood something, he knows how to admit her mistakes and therefore does not want to rage again and only says to her:

"Come on now let's go back to school."

But then out of nowhere, a strange light envelops them, where without being able to react, catapults them to another place, always made of blinding light, where Annabel astonished says:

"But what ... where are we?" And while she covers her eyes with one hand.

She then she turns to the side of the little demon, she sees him on the ground crumbling and stammering:

"My energies ... mmm I can't move ...."

And then realizing that the place is too positive for him and that she is vampirizing him and therefore fast, she takes off her cloak and turns it, so that the outside is now inside, then she wraps Kalego around us saying:

"W-how are you? Now you should get them back!" Worried.

The other that is actually working and she thinks that she knows how to find creative and quick solutions:

"Mmmm now it's better, but I want to get out of here right away...."

"Yes, right, let's look for it, always if there is one."

That said, she takes it and holds it in her arms like a cocooned doll and hers:

"Hey hey wait! What are you doing ?!"

"Better not walk or fly, that way you'll spare them and the place won't vamp you up."

Well, in fact she is not wrong, so for this tour she lets her do it, also because there is no one there who can see and judge them, so this is another thing that will remain secret.

"Okay ... but don't get used to it though ...."

With this, she starts walking.

The place seems to be made entirely of light, even the floor and they walk for a while but find nothing.

Kalego: "What's a joke? A joke? What a fucking crappy place is it?"

The demon in this place has lost his perception of danger, too much positivity, not to mention the nausea that has now diminished thanks to the cloak, so he's pretty nervous.