Chapter 13

Infernal bond.

Kalego: "Don't treat me like a dying idiot! In front of you there is always Kalego Naberius, eighth rank demon and teacher of the prestigious Babylus school!"

Annabel: "Look, I know very well."

Kalego: "So what the hell are you doing then? Who gave you permission to touch me?"

He says he as he is watching her move the hair from his face.

"You can't see well and these tufts are another hindrance."

But he doesn't have the strength to get upset and so he makes her do it but still saying:

"You ... you ... you ..." And then nothing else comes out.

She ends up putting them a little behind the ears and a little backwards.

"Now it's better right?"

"Shut up damn!"

And then:

"But how on earth did you dress? What happened to your stupid cloak with those disgusting clothes you were wearing underneath?"

"I just adapted to your world, that's all."

And he just a grimace.

Balam, who is seeing and hearing everything, laughs heartily and afterwards the priestess asks him:

"Do you want some water? You are certainly thirsty."

"Enough! I don't need your pity!"

"It's not compassion and you were taking a really big risk with that horse fever! Do you want it or not?"

He first grinds and then.

"There is a bottle in the kitchen as soon as you enter on the left with a glass ..."

In reality he is very thirsty; in fact he feels his tongue dry and his mouth dry and he hasn't counted the days in which he was left without him and his pride in him is stronger than any other need, but now he has to give in a little. So, without a word she takes it and then pours it into the glass and with great care, puts it in her hand where she drinks not just one, but five glasses and she thinks:

"No, you weren't absolutely thirsty ... but who are you kidding?"

Approached, he takes it back and places it on the table e

Kalego: "Don't brag about this situation because you won't get favors from me!"

Annabel: "Don't worry, I didn't do it for this." And he just a:

"Tz!"

And then:

Kalego: "Don't you have any questions for me?" Referring to what he saw on his back and beyond.

"Why didn't you tell me when I cured you of the disease? If you told me, I could also cure those ... it takes longer, but I can do it in more sessions."

He looks at her in dismay, because instead of saying: 'poor thing when I'm sorry!'

Instead, she has found the solution to keep him from suffering again and responds alone.

"You ... are just a fool!"

"Yes, it's true, but if you ask me one day, I won't back down and I'll give you a proper recovery."

"Tze ... what the hell are you up to?"

"Besides, I don't care if I've seen you in this state, for me appearances are superficial, the most important thing is that you're okay now." And he just turns his head to the side with his eyes closed, followed by a: "Tz!"

He had never known someone like that, usually in that world and especially in the upper ranks, the outward appearance as well as the behavior are very important, pain, gossip aimed at destroying the reputation with malice and therefore, to bring down the rank, the theirs is a truly merciless world. So he feels helpless against those words.

Balam who has heard everything instead and she who has totally forgotten about this; he thinks they are a really nice couple and so he laughs once again.

After the silence she feels useless, also because she has to wait for his to recover his sight and she notices the pajama buttons that have not been buttoned properly, so she begins to adjust them one by one.

Kalego: "Hey, really! Didn't you hear me before by chance ?!"

"Mmmm they're in bad shape, they sure are bothering you."

"You ... you ... hell!"

And Balam: "Let her do that she just wants to help you."

Kalego: "But where the hell are you talking from? And then, stop being a voyeur it's rude!"

"What? In what sense?"

"He didn't tell you and it seems logical to me ... it's his ability, he can see anyone, anywhere, what he's doing and very clearly."

Annabel thinks about it for a second, where she makes a local mind that he has seen everything, even when she has embraced being here and not only, she has just remembered that she has also heard all the previous speech and therefore :

"By the gods ... what a shame ..."

Kalego: "Mph! So try to stop!"

Balam: "I will not apologize, seeing and considering that you were with a sick person and you could maybe take advantage of the situation, after all you belong to an enemy race."

Annabel: "Yes but ... it means that you didn't trust before, and it's bad ..."

Kalego: "We are demons, what did you expect? And then ... why the fuck are you holding your pajama collar? Spring!"

"Because I want to tell you how I feel once and for all!"

He just squeezes his eyes but without saying a word, the other just listens and she still:

"You spit out a lot of that perfidy before ... but it's been like that since we first met."

The other still does not know what she is talking about, since he also remembers that part:

"I want to ask you, not as a priestess or an Anubian, but as a living being, does Kalego Naberius really hate me so much, even after I've helped you more than once? I want an honest answer. Have you changed? So prove it to me!"

While she tightens the collar of her pajamas and he, after a few seconds, replies:

Kalego: "Balam cuts off visual and auditory communication."

Balam: "Eh? But...."

Kalego: "Nothing but! Do as I told you!" So he executes and removes the communicator from his ear, after all he is always the head of the teachers and he has to comply with his requests.

Kalego: "So you want the truth ... and that's okay ...." While he closes his eyes and she is attentive impatient:

"If you go back to reading the forbidden books, I'll tell you." Where then he reopens them looking at her intently and she:

"Huh?"

"Until then, you will keep the doubt."

"What? But that's not an answer!"

"Mph is all!"

He where he then moves her hands away with a gesture of the left arm, then she then angrily replies:

"Okay! Then I'm off!"

So she uses the pyramid that she has recharged, returning to school from where she left, and then having the flap delivered by Balam who tells her:

"I don't know what she told you, but .. .."

"I don't want to know anything ... I'm going back to the base!"

She replies dryly, making him stay and so in the external porch of the school, with the white pyramid, she goes straight to her house, and then swallows her toad once again.

Kalego, on the other hand, regained his usual sight of him by saying to himself:

"Mph ... no I don't hate you ... I feel instead something opposite ... that worries me ..."

After he finally takes his cell phone and calls Balam who answers him:

"Marry her! Marry her! Marry her now!"

"What the hell are you talking about? What are you crazy by chance ?!"

"She must become your wife Kalego! Where do you find another who can stand you?"

"In fact, I don't want anyone and don't talk bullshit!"

"She did not run away seeing you in that state and with all the insults received; as she did not do it the other times as you told me! Don't let her escape!"

"So it was all your plan to test her?"

"Beeeh yes and no ... I didn't want to become a piece of wood again ..."

"Mmmmm ... you did it on purpose so you damn it!"

"Oh come on don't get mad and that she is a benevolent priestess are details! You can always force her to live here in this world with you!"

"What ?! You're rambling Balam please, you don't know what you're saying...."

"Oh yes I know! Let's talk about it better tomorrow!"

With that, she closes the call and he stays there.

"What the hell ... I don't believe it."

After he drops the cell phone on the disturbed table and starts cleaning and fixing the mess he made through magic and within a few minutes with hand gestures here and there, like an orchestra conductor, everything is back as before. And he also changed the sheets on the bed, indeed he made his little black servants do it.

Kalego: "Marry her .... Tze!"

Then he took a shower, he accumulated a lot of sweat and tiredness and it will certainly do him a lot of good.

In the meantime he has put a nice thought in her head that she will have to think about a lot and if it works, she will come back to him with the desire to know the answer to her question, in exchange for the reading, but obviously he will make her suffer first and then who knows.

He knows what an obsessive thought can do, he has seen it on many demons, there are even entire families who practice mental obsession on other demons to get what they want and he obviously has also studied them.

The next morning, he is getting ready as usual, so he is already wearing his school uniform and is in front of the bathroom mirror, where he then opens the cabinet, takes a bottle of very expensive but also very refined perfume and puts it on a bit on the neck and wrists, and then sprinkle it a little on the dress as well, in such a way as to leave a pleasant trail. He had never done this before; he had bought it for very special occasions, and now he wears it to start his courtship (a rare thing for him, he did it only when he was young then over time, he lost hope thinking that wooing is a useless and expensive thing, not to mention that the demonesses he met were all too noisy and materially insatiable, because they were of great class.) In fact during the night he finally rethinking the words of his companion and in fact he is not entirely wrong, he really found one that he bears it and is completely different from the others. In his ways he considers her crude, but he can also turn a blind eye to this. So he's already great at the base but with the plus, he becomes fabulous! Then he covers the dark circles with foundation, he can't go to work with a zombie face, so the cover is served. He pays extreme attention to his hair, arranges his eyebrows and finally, checks his breath, everything is as it should be. After he moves in front of a full-length mirror and there he checks again for the last time where he is satisfied with the flawless result. He puts some water on his beloved cacti and then takes the teacher's folder, but then he stops, looks to his right and approaches the living room bookcase and opening it, takes two books and also the famous bracelet that had placed it temporarily there. Finally he exits his quarters, closing the door and raising the barrier.

As he walks, he thinks of Balam, the only one who can enter but only in the bedroom of his accommodation, but never in the other rooms, it is true that he never lets anyone in, but he has found a compromise for him. After all, stress does not come out and always and he is perfect to give him a hand, also because he knows how to keep his mouth shut and he too is the only one with whom he has a relationship based on extreme confidence and trust, so he gives it to him.

But the part where he also involved that there, he didn't quite like it, something he will have to make clear, even if it was very effective against his stress of him.

So, in the teachers' room, there are some colleagues and as usual they greet him and express their happiness for his early return, more healing and he the same but he does not thank them, he simply mentions, always maintaining his rigor and everyone is noticed the small but notable changes, more the Professor Momonoki, who if before she adored him, now with the scent that sends her into ecstasy now drool for him literally; it's a pity that Kalego is not at all interested in her attentions, something that does not escape the others and therefore among the gossip.

March: "I'm wrong but does Kalego have something different today?"

Dali: "Mmmmm yes in fact, he has put on perfume and has ... more charm than usual, maybe he wants to impress some beautiful demon woman? Maybe he works here at school?"

The two look at Momonoki who is drooling and is red in her face.

March: "Eeeeh? You say?"

Dali: "But who knows, maybe it's the right time."

But later they see him avoid the poor teacher as usual and then they look at each other and answer together: "Naaaaaa!"

Dali: "In my opinion he is just taking more stance and wants to intimidate the faculty even more."

March: "Yes ... it seems quite truthful to me."

And with that they go back to their work.

Naberius: "What is the priestess is she late again?"

Dali: "No, actually we weren't expecting your early return, so like yesterday I told her to go around cheering up the other teachers. Since I didn't even know what to make her do. I gave her a map, then. you'll find it around. "

Kalego: "I understand."

And without saying another word, he leaves the room and starts looking for her, where in the corridors everyone has noticed that he is more showy than usual and the students, especially the female students, talk about him when he passes by. But he doesn't care, all this only increases his fame and therefore suits him. The lessons, at least his, start in a few hours and then he has all the time he needs.

How to find someone without magic, since it can block it? Simple, with a little spy demon, where he sends them around and in fact they find her in companion Balam's room. Where he comes too, but before opening the door, he feels something that interests him.

Annabel: "Balam I understand that you are more familiar with Kalego, so I ask you, why does he have those scars on his back?"

Balam: "Mmm why didn't you ask him? And they didn't impress you?"

"Because he's not the one concerned and I don't want him to remember that terrible experience. Then why didn't he use a healing ritual? And it's something you've already seen, so don't make fun of me."

"Ahaha you were careful and good and actually he tried more than once, but they were done with an object imbued with a huge spell."

"An evil one? It's really terrible!"

"Yes indeed, we live in a ruthless world, where each demon must be attentive to the others and then that is difficult to remove and I only know that they were inflicted by...."

At this point the door opens and it is Kalego who speaks saying:

"Balam keep that mouth shut once and for all!"

Balam: "Ops...."

Then he walks towards them and then stopping and looking at the priestess from top to bottom he replies:

"And you, mind your own business and for sure your life will be longer and less painful!"

"I just want to help you...."

"Help me? Do it with yourself first!"

So he takes the two books out of the folder where he extends them to her side and she who is left says:

"What should I do with these?"

"What you usually do with books, read them foolish you are nothing else! And see not to lose them!"

She then takes them, not understanding this strange interest in her where he then also puts the bracelet on the table saying:

"Your stupid bracelet was in the lost and found."

And her that her eyes shine:

"Oh yes, thanks a lot at last!" She where she takes it and slips it on her wrist in her sand-colored hanging bag.

Kalego: "Tz!" Omitting that he had it examined.

Then he goes away to look at what her partner has written on the blackboard and Balam in a whisper and turns to her:

"Those books are gifts for helping him, and that's a very, very rare thing!"

And she: "Oh yeah? He hasn't done it with anyone until now?"

Balam: "As long as I've known him, no. She keeps them worse than a precious treasure."

Her: "Ah ... ok." And she thinks:

"What else does he have in mind? I don't trust."

Kalego: "Read the first one very carefully and don't forget the practical contents, right?"

He says to her as he glances at her and she:

"Okay, okay."

Then Balam joins him and they talk to each other, while she, on the other hand, reads the titles also looking at the covers.

Annabel: "The Basics of Black Magic ... Volume 1 and Complete Guide to Cactus Care with Various Species." She stays there and then tells herself:

"Cute ... really. But what is it, do you want me to go to the dark side by chance?" She then she takes them anyway and puts them in the hanging bag and then reaches the two demons who are talking about a strange theory that the feathered companion wrote.

All interesting, but she did not understand anything then, she just listens and below.

Kalego: "Is it possible to know why you are still here? Go do your duty!"

Annabel: "Eeem, yeah sure ... okay."

So she leaves the room and Balam:

"Did you put on perfume for her by any chance?"

"Tz enough of this story!" But in fact she is right but he will deny it to the death!

"Mmmm? It's a pity that she didn't make a turn, if I'm not mistaken it is very expensive and then serves to attract females right?"

"Gulp!"

And she thinks: "Yeah ... damn everyone hears it because you don't? What is it takes me for a ride! When I was a familiar you smelled the other fragrance, damn priestess, may you be damned!"

Balam: "But why don't you treat her a little better, maybe with more kindness?"

Kalego: "Eeeeh ?!"

Balam: "Giving her those books was a good first step, bravo! You really like her so much!"

Kalego: "Silence!" Closing his eyes and putting his arms crossed visibly nervous.

"If you want, I can lend you some books on courtship, just to review the topic."

"Again ?! Let's talk about the fact that you made her intervene in your place! A really unacceptable thing!"

"But in the end she didn't go wrong."

And he alone who stands up and replies:

"Balam in short!"

Balam: "Who knows where I put that book plus that of sex."

"Ah! Stop it!"

"I remind you that she also hugged you."

"I said stop!"

"She And she was very brave to approach you to face you and also conspiratorial about your scars."

"But did you hear what I said? Enough!"

"Of course I have heard, and I insist that you must use at least a little kindness with her and you will see that she will fall at your feet!"

And he just grunted without answering it.

But her partner teases him a little more, because he hasn't denied that he has started courting her, so he enjoyed it; instead Kalego no.

Next, always with a really annoyed air, he wanders around the corridors and sees her near a window and while she is leafing through the first book, so he approaches and who knows is the right time that she notices his physical improvements and more.

She who looks up and asks him:

"Why this? I'll never go over to your side and you know it, your temptations won't work with me."

Unfortunately no, she didn't notice anything, but he answers her like that.

Kalego: "Open your ears, you fool that you are nothing else! The magic was originally neutral, it did not belong to good or even to evil, it therefore depends on how you use it and for what purposes, it is logical that it is aimed at us, but the bases are the same for both sides. "