Chapter 24

The strange test.

The day continues, where Kalego, Dali and Annabel go back to their duties again, where this tour, while Kalego is busy with the class from the young Iruma, who has filled them with homework.

But before that, he had the gray pyramid returned by the latter.

Later, in the staff room, Dali begins with the troublesome questions.

Dali: "But then in the end with the bracelets how are you? And your suitor showed up?"

He asks with a curious face, and with his fingers under his chin.

Annabel who is uncomfortable, as she cannot tell the truth:

"Well those have become material... ."

"Ooo ooo interesting! So someone showed up? Did the name appear from above?"

Her: "Eeem ... but no ... only his gifts arrived ... ."

Dali: "Oooh ... are you sure? Maybe he's spying on you somewhere on your way to school."

"No, I haven't seen anyone and I really hope not... ."

She finally responds by gesturing and hoping she is done. Then Robin also arrives, hearing it all and he too begins:

"What are you talking about? Eh? Eh? Sounds interesting?"

Dali: "No instead, it's nothing and go back to work ehehe!"

But that nothing is left there staring at them and firing more questions while Annabel feels even more uncomfortable and Dali doesn't know how to send him away.

Then comes another bad news from a member of the student council, in the form of a written sheet.

Dali: "Ouch ouch, from bad to worse ... Kalego won't like this... ."

The priestess then receives a message from her superior who then reports:

"I'm sorry but I have to go, I have an important test ... if you can tell him too."

Dali: "Another one? Interesting and don't worry, we won't come to see this tour, since we have urgent problems to solve here. Go ahead."

So with his consent, she comes out of school and with a golden pyramid, given by Kerefet, and arrives at the designated place for proof of trust in their mission and belief.

Kalego, after the lesson, goes back to the teacher's room and when Dali makes him read the news:

"Twenty professors got sick? This is an insult!"

Dali: "They are those who were in that room, you can't blame them after what they saw, not everyone reacted well. But look at the good news too, ten of them are at work as usual including Professor March ! "

"But we are still reduced to the bone! Then with the arrival of the harvest festival what the heck do we do? Where do we find valid substitutes!"

Dali: "I was thinking, that the priestess had quite a cool head... ."

Kalego: "No, I already know where you want to go, no!"

Dali: "Oh come on, isn't adding her to the recovery team a bad idea and maybe other priestesses and priests too?"

Kalego: "What is mine to hear!"

"But the idea is not entirely to be discarded, right? After all we will need it only for the first night, where there will be more wounded and withdrawn and we will find a way to disguise them! In the end they will look similar to us!"

Thinking about it, however, the colleague is not entirely wrong, even if they are not demons, they can still help them, also because it is their fault that the disease has knocked out half of the professors.

Kalego: "Okay! Let's see what the alliance says and then let the headmaster know!"

"Perfect! Yes, right, Annabel left for another important test and therefore she is absent for now."

Already the famous test, with the bird that he hates so much and is also jealous; something that arrives at the bracelet of the woman who, while she is about to start, tightens her wrist.

Kalego: "And who cares! The important thing that then brings her ass back to us!"

He responds and pretending that he doesn't care. But he also thinks that he has also anticipated it and perhaps he is putting his partner in some difficulty in some way, something that irritates him a lot!

Dali: "Aahahaha yes true!"

So they go back to work again.

But then, after other lessons, the demon has an hour of abundant break, where he spends the first ten demonic minutes to sort out other backward paperwork and then for the rest, he is changing. So he is taking off his teaching uniform in the personal locker room and putting on his normal one. Dark pants, blue turtleneck sweater and a long black top jacket.

Meanwhile Balam enters, and it is one of the few places where he can enter and while he surprises him he tells him:

" Where are you going?"

Kalego first gets scared for a few seconds, because he didn't expect it and then replies while he adjusts his jacket:

"I managed to free myself for an hour ... I'm going to run an errand."

"Mmm, and it's allowed and does the principal know?"

Then he is bumped and replies again:

"Well Balam! He is not my babysitter and in this case he is allowed!"

Then the other thinking about it:

"Oh I understand, are you going to her? You know I see everything and I know she went to make an important test."

The other then shrugs with a tremor; because he was discovered once again:

"Nobody comes to disturb me when I have a break and not even the old man will notice!"

"Oh so that's it, are you breaking the rules to go to her ?! You're worried aren't you? Are you ?!"

The excited mate replies.

"Tze! I don't break them, they just know that I'm here and I'll be back before the break is over! For my energy there is no problem, I cast a fake presence spell, so the old man will have no way of checking!"

Next he takes out the gray pyramid.

"And with that he won't even notice I've opened a portal." Sporting a little sadistic smile.

Balam: "Oh oh what too cute! But when did that priestess get you?"

While he recomposes himself, he thinks that he wants to go to her, wherever he is and after he crushes the tip, from where the gray tunnel appears.

"Make sure you keep your mouth shut and if someone asks you, I'm in the reading room and I don't want to be disturbed. Do you understand?"

"Don't worry, you know you can trust me! Good luck!"

And with his usual attitude, he crosses it.

On the other hand, it is located in the vicinity of a forest that it knows well and in fact comments:

"The forest of delirium? Why here?"

And now he really starts to worry, because it is a place where not even the high-ranking ones set foot, so much so that it is dangerous; then, flying on this one, he looks for it from above, not finding her.

"Tz ... but where the hell is she? And I can't believe the test taking place here is madness! What's that stupid bird in his head ?!"

Later, flying for another five minutes, he decides to land in front of the forest, also because he doesn't want any of the priests to see him, so he has no other choice. If he wants to see what happened to his partner with him; he has to enter and so afterwards he does it without delay, where he takes a dark path that leads him to a gathering covered by many bramble trees, which almost completely cover the little light of that place.

"Now where do I start? It's not easy, here I feel nothing, no presence and no energy... ."

But then out of nowhere, a sticky stuff grabs his right arm! He where he notices best and recognizes as a long cobweb and exclaims:

"Ugh .. disgusting!" Where he tries to free himself but knows very well that it will be difficult and then always out of nowhere a female voice that tells him:

"Gnuuum Gnuuun finally a delicious morsel!" And he, remaining cold and impassive, thinks: "A demon who uses cobwebs to capture other demons? Here and then in this forest? Why?"

Then he notices from a bramble tree, two red eyes and when she walks and comes under the light he can see her.

It is a spider, indeed a half spider and also a female, where the torso is that of a woman and on the sides of the mouth it has two claws and also has short hair and the underside is that of a spider and he is always impassive and while he raises an eyebrow:

"A pseudo demon?"

The spider: "Oh what a bad name ... my name is Arakna and I am the queen of this forest and you my dear high ranking demon ..." Where she sniffs the air and then she continues:

"A Cheth! What a delight! You will become my main meal and then I will evolve again ahahhaha!"

He always cold:

"So you are a magical beast that has eaten demons and absorbed their energy?"

Her: "Uuuh exactly and I have no intention of stopping hahaha!"

He cannot deny that he is fascinated but at the same time he is even more disgusted and had never seen such a creature, but in that world anything can happen.

"You ... you are just an abomination!"

Her: "Think what you want!" As she throws more cobwebs at him where she almost pinches him against a tree:

"But now I'll eat you hahaha!" And he tells him again, while she sports a wicked face! Too bad that Kalego knows how to crush insects that are too large, as long as he summons the Cerberion and his will have nothing left! She can use all the magic and cobwebs she wants.

Kalego in thought: "She has certainly devoured only small fish, against me she can do nothing! Pathetic!"

So while the other is preparing for the banquet, he is about to evoke his familiar with his mind. But at some point, a kind of blue ray comes, which melts the cobwebs and frees him and she:

"Aaaaah nooo! My work of art!"

And where they turn and can see where it came from! From the darkness, walk towards them and then under the light, a creature with the head of a golden eagle and left arm outstretched and from where the ray came out, there is a golden snake with its mouth wide open and it is wrapped around. to this. Kalego notices her well and is dressed like the priestess, perhaps with a few more elements than her and beside her, there is a young woman, a small demon clinging to her clothes and she is terrified.

The agitated spider: "Dah! Again you cursed alien creature!"

The mask opens, and she appears, his demo partner more determined than ever, replying:

"Go away you lousy spider! Wasn't the same one enough for you? Do you want more ?!"

Then this visibly shake, first hisses and then quickly moves away climbing into the brambles cursing:

"I hate females! I hate them!"

Kalego remained from this and still thinks: "That being devoured only male demons and this explains why in the stories told only some female was saved ... inconceivable ... ."

So he pulls himself together and brushes off the dust and residues of the spider web with his hands and Annabel:

"Kalego? All right? But isn't this working time? And besides ... you didn't have any problems to fix? So why are you here?"

Kalego: "How many troublesome questions! I just went out to take a breath of fresh air!"

Her: "And do you get it in this cold and dark forest?"

Kalego: "Mph! I'm going wherever I want! And for the record, I didn't need your help!"

Annabel then replies angrily: "Ok, then I continue with my test and you ... take all the air you want .. and I'm sorry if I intervened and ... see you."

With this she overtakes him making him be stunned by her behavior and therefore:

Him: "Hey!"

She: "What?"

Him: "Do you think the way to answer?"

Referring to the fact that he is si of rank eight but he is also her partner.

She still: "Look I have my left arm that hurts me because in the end Kerefet has changed object symbiote, which is now a gun snake apopki and is even more unbearable and two, I have the infernal bracelet that is killing me too, so if not Are you sorry I would like to get out of here as soon as possible and take this frightened creature out and free myself from torture and if you want to help me, please stop being jealous! "

With this he straightens up with a grimace and makes the face of someone who has just received a blow and she starts walking again.

Kalego softly: "But what? What the hell? Tz!"

And then he too follows her mute.

For a long time they do not speak to each other, however, the demon must on the one hand implement his spite and on the other respect her. And a little understand it, with all the hassles, anyone can lose patience, especially if it is a very important test and concentration is essential, especially in that forest. So, he walks behind her just observing her, but the idea of ​​her sneaky just about her doesn't come to him and is as if blocked and therefore, he opts for a few questions:

"That mask from before?"

Her: "Inbarian technology and it is activated automatically when there is something in the air that is toxic."

He alone silence where he understood and then:

"The forest of delirium, where the senses are lost like the road that you will never find again and where you will die of hunger or madness or you will end up eaten ... because Kerefet is making you test in this so dangerous place, even for a demon of high rank come to me? "

Then she stops, turns around with an astonished face and says to him:

"I don't know ... if it's really as you say, then why are you here?"

She still:

"Are you worried about me?"

Him: "Tz! Not the guard!"

In fact, from the brambles, long needles arrive at full speed! Where Kalego readily parries with the purple and black-veined barrier and when he turns to the priestess's side, he sees a kind of transparent tortoise shell on her back, parrying her blows and she says:

"As I have already told you, I know how to defend myself very well and it will not be a strange forest to stop me. I will finish the test and everyone will know that I am still a priestess not corrupted by your race!"

He then amazed at this then tells her again:

"Your third symbiote? But I didn't see it when you didn't have your clothes on."

Her: "Well .. because he shows up when he wants ... in fact it is called fear and it is a situation on the lumbar area."

Kalego face shocked, because if there is, it means that he hid well from her sight and her

addressed to the little demon:

"Walk in front of me and don't be afraid, we'll be out very soon."

The other nods encouraged and then they take the road again and with the demon, with a face still amazed and he says again:

"I'm respecting one of the rules, complicity. That's why I'm here."

She stares at him and then with a smile:

"I understand and thank you."

He alone: ​​"Mph!"

They walk for a while longer, where he looks at his watch and notices that he still has time and then looking around, he sees that the forest is more and more closed, more and more threatening.

Where then she gets everything! Demonic insects where she shoots them with the snake gun! Monstrous trees that want to devour her and she defends herself very well by getting rid of her! And other obstacles from beasts, plants, where even here the priestess shows off her strength and therefore manages to get by wonderfully! Kalego, he gets rid of all this easily with little spells and didn't expect all that ardor in defense, she seemed to him an expert warrior, which he appreciates a lot but he doesn't show it; in fact he remains impassive as usual.

Near the big brambles they parry themselves as an obstacle and these also move threateningly on her side and she raises her hand for a moment and the demon can see that she is about to summon her green blood of hers! But at the most beautiful, she lowers it and looks away with embarrassment and he:

"Why did you stop?"

She changes and he still:

"Are you still repressed? Really?"

Then she stretches out her arm and with the snake gun opens a huge gap and so she starts walking again and making the demon understand that discrimination is really strong so as not to make her use that hallucinating power, something he will have to work on.

Then Annabel stops and touches the part, where it is evident that the more she uses that strange bracelet the more she will give her a hard time, where she suffers and then, she takes the gray pyramid and hands it to her side to the amazement of the woman and he says:

"This place will not give you respite, with this we will go out first. I know well that you can also do it with one of your symbionts, but with this there is no risk that they will perceive us."

"Are you kidding? It is equivalent to cheating!"

"You speak of a cheater, when the first to do so is your superior who first anticipates the test, then changes your symbiote weapon and lets you enter here, where it seems to me that it was made on purpose to make you collapse completely and then to say that you are no longer worthy to be part of their gang! So priestess, what's the problem? "

She just looks at him and

: "I'll get out of here with my strength, if you want to use it to get out ... ."

"Tzè hard headed! How long do you think you will wander around empty? You will never be able to find the exit like me when I entered!"

And he who knows why he remembers himself so much; stubborn as a demonic mule!

The frightened little demon clings to the priestess's waist where she caresses her with her hand but then, she just stammers something, then the golden wings suddenly turn gray and then faints, with the little demon who is more terrified and he:

"You stop whining which is not the case! She's fine she's just passed out!"

And she mutes, because with her tone of voice and stern look, she silences even the stones.

"Stupid stubborn... .tz!"

But she can't leave her there and he also decides not to take revenge on her anymore, but to just save her.

It is not an act of pity or desire to make her fail, but simply cares too much about her and her safety. So he used the gray pyramid to open a portal, which takes them out of that place and away from the priests. In short, they reappeared in a well-lit cave and awaits her awakening. That when it happens and she notices that I am no longer in the forest:

"What? Are we out? Why did you do it? What do I do now?" She says in a desperate voice and Kalego:

"Too many questions! We'll just pretend we're out of the forest by introducing you to Kerefet with the brat!"

He replies coldly and she:

"But they will never believe me!"

"Are you sure? Try it and see what happens. That bracelet is destroying you is that what you want?"

Annabel thinks about it for a moment and then:

"You will use the portal again near the exit of the forest and then you will introduce yourself to him, reason and the only way to pass it!"

And she thought about her later and has to admit that her partner is getting along better in difficult conditions:

" Ok, I'm in.. ."

Him: "Very good."

So he opens the portal where he first cast a spell on the little demon who will remember something else and then they go through it.