PoT Fic: Recombinant Chapter 10
Sorry this is so late! I was planning to post it yesterday, but this weekend has just been so busy! Anyhow, here you go . . .
Title: Recombinant
Author: Dolly (universal_doll)
Rating: PG to PG-13
Characters: Echizen, Tezuka, Fuji (primary); Tachibana An, Tachibana Kippei, Momoshiro (secondary); and the rest of Seigaku.
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, AU (or rather, Alternate History/Timeline)
Summary: “Why couldn't you have been magical girls?”
Full Story Notes & Previous Chapters
New Chapter:
Chapter 10
After the strange events of the past weeks, Tachibana Kippei really shouldn't have been surprised by what he found in his living room when he got home from the tournament that day. Without saying a word, he pulled An into the kitchen.
“An,” he said with forced calmness. “Why is Fuji Syuusuke in our living room?”
“Ah, about that. You see, he has powers like you do.” An answered nervously.
He gave her a startled look. “He's a Guardian, you mean.”
“Yes . . . and Ryo-chan thinks the rest of Seigaku's team probably are too.”
Tachibana resisted the urge to sigh, but didn't ask anything further before going back into the living room. If Tezuka's earlier inquiry was any indication, Echizen was probably right.
“Fuji,” he acknowledged. The other player sat on one end of the sofa, with An on the other side and Echizen looking very uncomfortable between them.
Fuji got straight to the point, still wearing that unnerving smile of his. “Tachibana. Ryo-chan tells me that we have something in common.”
Tachibana shot Echizen a quick look, raising an eyebrow in silent inquiry. “Ryo-chan?” Did Fuji really not know who 'Ryo-chan' was?
“Don't call me that, Fuji-senpai. I'm not really a girl you know,” Echizen crossed his arms. Fuji seemed rather amused by this statement, which Tachibana couldn't help but find funny.
“Oh, you're not? You're very cute for a boy, then. And I don't recall knowing any young Fudomine students,” Fuji said in that same calm voice.
“Mada mada dane, senpai,” Echizen smirked. “I really thought you would've recognized me by now.”
Startling blue eyes flew open and looked at Echizen carefully, and then widened ever so slightly. “Echizen-kun?”
“Bingo.” Echizen's uncrossed his arms and shifted slightly away from Fuji, who only moved closer in response.
“Ah. That explains a lot,” Fuji mused, and Tachibana could practically see the gears turning in the other's mind. “And I was very much hoping for an explanation.”
Echizen quickly told his teammate everything they knew so far, from his transformation to the recent attacks, with An filling in the many details that he neglected to mention. All in all, Tachibana thought that Fuji took it unnervingly well.
“How very interesting,” Fuji finally said after a brief silence. “And you're right. The rest of the regulars, and Inui, are the other eight Guardians, and Inui's cousin found some very interesting information for us about you. Did you know that you're a genetically engineered tenshi?”
Echizen gave Fuji a look that clearly indicated that he questioned the other's sanity. And Tachibana couldn't really blame him; after all, the idea of that little brat being a heavenly being seemed rather absurd, no matter how cute he was.
“Saa, I guess not. Though you know about the Guardians? The nine of us were made into Guardians when we came into contact with you, Ryo-chan, after a demon summoning began. Our job is to keep the demon from rising, by protecting you and five points somewhere in the area that seal it. Though how you're the tenshi is a fascinating question.”
“Oh.” Echizen frowned at the nickname, but didn't seem to have much to say in reply to the bombshell that Fuji had just dropped. “Senpai?” he began, almost hesitantly. “Are you going to tell the others about me now?”
“I think you should do that yourself.” Fuji's smile widened, and he patted Echizen on the head. “But don't worry, I'm sure they'll think you're as cute as I do.” Predictably, Echizen scowled at this, and Tachibana felt a twinge of pity for the boy-turned-girl when he thought of the eccentric bunch that made up Seigaku's regulars.
“It was a good idea having Ryo-chan stay here,” Fuji said to Tachibana approvingly. “None of us have been attacked by any of the strange creatures we've seen, so there must be something about her that makes an appealing target.”
Echizen looked rather affronted at this. “I'm only staying here so my parents don't find out.”
“But Fuji has a point. That woman we met and the man from the building you just came from seemed to have some regard for Guardians, so maybe that's why you've never been attacked here,” Tachibana suggested.
An, who had been silent until now, spoke up in agreement. “Aniki's right! You're a monster magnet, so you should stay near him.”
“Or one of us,” Fuji said, a slight edge to his tone. “It's settled then. Ryo-chan, be sure not to go off alone when you're like this, all right?”
Echizen was clearly Not Happy with the arrangement, but was at least smart enough not to argue with the tensai. “Fine.”
“Now about that book you have . . .”
At Fuji's request, Echizen fished the thick tome out of his bag and dropped it into the other's waiting hands. Tachibana moved over to peer at it over Fuji's shoulder, only to find that it was completely unreadable.
“Echizen . . .”
“You've read this?” Fuji asked slowly.
“Not all of it. You you can borrow it if you want though, I think it has descriptions of your powers. You should look at it,” Echizen said off-handedly.
“We can't seem to read this, so it looks like you'll have to help us,” Fuji said slowly.
“Eh?” Echizen looked at them questioningly.
“Tachibana, is your house good for meeting to practice, or should we use mine?”
Tachibana quickly agreed that his house was fine, not wanting to find out what Fuji's family was like. And after a few minutes of a strange mix of pleading and threatening, Fuji somehow managed to get Echizen to agree to come to practice with them, and possibly even use his own powers as well.
Thankfully, the rest of the Seigaku team did not seem to figure into Fuji's plans - yet. But given the circumstances, Tachibana figured that it was probably only a matter of time before they'd all be sitting in his living room.
~*~*~
“You wanted to talk to me, buchou?” Ryoma looked up at Tezuka, who had been waiting for him in the club meeting room after telling Echizen after practice that day that he wanted to talk to him. This time, Ryoma had simply agreed, rather than thinking up an excuse.
“Mmm.” Tezuka motioned him into a chair, but Ryoma just leaned on it. “Echizen, have you noticed anything . . . strange lately?” he began awkwardly, and Ryoma resisted the urge to grin. After talking to Fuji, he already knew what Tezuka wanted to tell him. But it was weird seeing his buchou looking so uncomfortable, so he decided to make things quick.
“Strange? Not really. Unless you mean all those demon creatures I've been seeing around,” he said off-handedly.
Tezuka looked at him sharply, surprise briefly evident on his features. “How much do you know?”
“Enough. I talked to Fuji-senpai after he saw me use my powers.” He supposed that was true enough, though he'd let Tezuka take it to mean what he would.
“Ah,” Tezuka managed.
“You know, we were going to practice using our powers today with Tachibana. He's got them too. Do you want to come?” Ryoma asked straight out. There was no way he was telling anyone else that he was the 'girl' they were looking for, at least not until he was forced to change again anyway and wouldn't be pestered into proving it. But the others may as well start getting used to their powers and each other, anyway.
Tezuka seemed to take a moment to compose himself before replying in his usual level tone, “Yes. It would be a good idea if we all practiced together, though I believe that most of the others have left already.”
So Tezuka walked beside him as he headed out the door and towards the main gate to leave. “One moment,” Tezuka told him, and Ryoma waited as he made a stop into the club's locker room. A moment later, he emerged with Oishi not far behind him. After a brief explanation of how he had been finishing cleaning up, the fukubuchou joined them as they started towards An's house.
~*~
“. . . five minutes.” A pause, as Echizen waited for a reply from whoever it was he was on his phone with; probably Tachibana. Seeing their youngest member on the phone with Fudomine's buchou struck Tezuka as somewhat surreal, reminding him further of the strangeness of the whole situation.
“No-- I'll tell them later . . . Yes, I will. And tell Fuji-senpai too, okay?” A few more words were exchanged, and then the conversation ended as Echizen tucked his phone away.
Echizen must have noticed him and Oishi watching him, and explained, “I had to tell them you were coming.”
“Of course,” Oishi said understandingly. “I hope we're not imposing.” Echizen just shrugged.
When they arrived at Tachibana's house, the door was answered by a bright-eyed looking redhead, who Echizen briefly introduced as Tachibana's sister An.
“My brother and Fuji are out back,” she told them, ushering them outside.
“Tezuka, Oishi,” Tachibana greeted them in a neutral tone. Fuji, who stood beside him, smiled and gave them a small wave. Tachibana gave a little nod towards Echizen, who promptly went over to the other buchou and sat on the ground nearby. After a moment of rummaging in his bag, he pulled out a hefty looking old book.
“Good. You brought the book,” Tachibana said approvingly. Tezuka gave him an inquiring look at this, and Tachibana briefly explained about the book Echizen had. Tezuka nodded, though he couldn't help but wonder how Echizen had come to have such a book.
“Aren't you going to practice with us?” Oishi asked Echizen curiously when the freshman showed no signs of getting up to join them.
“No.”
“Echizen's going to read to us from the book,” Fuji informed them cheerfully. “Apparently, it has some useful instructions.”
After several spectacular displays and many more mishaps between the four of them, Tezuka began to better grasp the nature of their powers as Guardians. He, Oishi, and Tachibana all seemed to have the ability to generate pulses of energy and to create invisible barriers; neither of which Fuji had been able to do.
“Try doing what you did before, Fuji-senpai,” Echizen suggested, and Fuji seemed to know what he was talking about.
“Ah, you mean like this?” A streak of blue fire exploded from Fuji's hand, chilling Tezuka as it went past. The blast impacted with a nearby bush, which promptly turned pale and disintegrated. “Oops.”
“You should be careful with that thing, senpai.” Echizen smirked. The freshman puzzled for a moment over the fact that their powers didn't vary much, muttering something about there being another type. But that was something they could only find out if they practiced with the others as well, he supposed.
Tezuka frowned slightly. “Echizen, you should practice as well,” he reprimanded, noticing with interest that his words did not have their usual effect on the freshman, who didn't budge. “We need everyone together on this.” But then, could it be possible that Echizen didn't have any powers to practice with? If Tachibana was indeed a Guardian as well as Echizen, that would make ten, not nine.
Oishi nodded in agreement. “We should definitely all meet to talk about this and practice together. We might have to battle a real demon eventually, after all. And we still have to find that girl; she's got to be the tenshi that Inui told us about.”
“Have either of you seen her?” Tezuka inquired.
“The girl you mentioned at the tournament? I haven't had any luck,” Tachibana answered with a shrug. Echizen just shook his head, though Tezuka thought he looked rather uncomfortable.
“Its too bad she keeps running away from us. I had no idea I was so frightening,” Fuji said lightly, an unusually playful smile on his face.
“You're not scary, Fuji-senpai.” Echizen scowled, looking put out.
“I don't know,” Tachibana said in an overly doubtful sounding voice. “He might be to an innocent young girl.”
The glare Echizen sent the other buchou did not go unnoticed by Tezuka, though it seemed rather uncalled for. “I'm sure you'll have better luck next time you see her,” Echizen huffed. “She's probably . . . ” Echizen trailed off, his attention diverted to a nearby tree.
“What is it, Echizen?” Fuji asked, following Echizen's gaze. Tezuka also turned to look, but saw nothing out of the ordinary.
“There's a bird,” he said distractedly, his eyes never leaving the tree.
“I don't see anything,” Tachibana said, craning his neck.
“It was probably nothing.” Echizen and tore his eyes away from the tree, looking uneasy.
But as Tezuka looked away he could have sworn he saw a flash of grey feathers . . . and he had the distinct feeling that there was more than one thing he had missed just then.
~*~
A slender bronzed arm stretched out, providing a perch for the sleek, feathered creature that alighted on it.
“And what do you have for me?” the blonde woman crooned, stroking its smooth silvery feathers. Its eyes glowed in response to her query, and she let her fingers rest lightly on its head as she listened to it. “So they're finally getting things together,” she murmured. “It's about time.”
The tenshi and the Guardians had been almost laughable up to this point, and even Adriel had seen no reason not to toy with them a little. Though now that they were actually figuring out their roles, the Guardians were no longer a threat that they could so easily dismiss. But Mara was far from worried; the Guardians, after all, were mere children, and untrained ones at that. All in all it was a wonderful combination, making them powerful enough to be interesting, but not so much that they were a real threat to their plans.
Her lips curved upwards as she thought of how delighted Orias would be when Adriel finally let him have his much-anticipated 'turn' taking down the next point. She almost, just almost, felt the slightest bit sorry for that little tenshi.
But not sorry enough to stop sending summonings after her, of course.
~*~
Chapter 10 Notes:
Regarding pronouns: Even when Fuji finds out that Ryoma is the tenshi, he still refers to him aloud by the female name and pronoun. Because Fuji is evil like that. ;)
Next up, in Chapter 11 -- a secret is revealed!
Thanks for reading, guys, I hope you enjoyed it! ^_^
Title: Recombinant
Author: Dolly (universal_doll)
Rating: PG to PG-13
Characters: Echizen, Tezuka, Fuji (primary); Tachibana An, Tachibana Kippei, Momoshiro (secondary); and the rest of Seigaku.
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, AU (or rather, Alternate History/Timeline)
Summary: “Why couldn't you have been magical girls?”
Full Story Notes & Previous Chapters
New Chapter:
Chapter 10
After the strange events of the past weeks, Tachibana Kippei really shouldn't have been surprised by what he found in his living room when he got home from the tournament that day. Without saying a word, he pulled An into the kitchen.
“An,” he said with forced calmness. “Why is Fuji Syuusuke in our living room?”
“Ah, about that. You see, he has powers like you do.” An answered nervously.
He gave her a startled look. “He's a Guardian, you mean.”
“Yes . . . and Ryo-chan thinks the rest of Seigaku's team probably are too.”
Tachibana resisted the urge to sigh, but didn't ask anything further before going back into the living room. If Tezuka's earlier inquiry was any indication, Echizen was probably right.
“Fuji,” he acknowledged. The other player sat on one end of the sofa, with An on the other side and Echizen looking very uncomfortable between them.
Fuji got straight to the point, still wearing that unnerving smile of his. “Tachibana. Ryo-chan tells me that we have something in common.”
Tachibana shot Echizen a quick look, raising an eyebrow in silent inquiry. “Ryo-chan?” Did Fuji really not know who 'Ryo-chan' was?
“Don't call me that, Fuji-senpai. I'm not really a girl you know,” Echizen crossed his arms. Fuji seemed rather amused by this statement, which Tachibana couldn't help but find funny.
“Oh, you're not? You're very cute for a boy, then. And I don't recall knowing any young Fudomine students,” Fuji said in that same calm voice.
“Mada mada dane, senpai,” Echizen smirked. “I really thought you would've recognized me by now.”
Startling blue eyes flew open and looked at Echizen carefully, and then widened ever so slightly. “Echizen-kun?”
“Bingo.” Echizen's uncrossed his arms and shifted slightly away from Fuji, who only moved closer in response.
“Ah. That explains a lot,” Fuji mused, and Tachibana could practically see the gears turning in the other's mind. “And I was very much hoping for an explanation.”
Echizen quickly told his teammate everything they knew so far, from his transformation to the recent attacks, with An filling in the many details that he neglected to mention. All in all, Tachibana thought that Fuji took it unnervingly well.
“How very interesting,” Fuji finally said after a brief silence. “And you're right. The rest of the regulars, and Inui, are the other eight Guardians, and Inui's cousin found some very interesting information for us about you. Did you know that you're a genetically engineered tenshi?”
Echizen gave Fuji a look that clearly indicated that he questioned the other's sanity. And Tachibana couldn't really blame him; after all, the idea of that little brat being a heavenly being seemed rather absurd, no matter how cute he was.
“Saa, I guess not. Though you know about the Guardians? The nine of us were made into Guardians when we came into contact with you, Ryo-chan, after a demon summoning began. Our job is to keep the demon from rising, by protecting you and five points somewhere in the area that seal it. Though how you're the tenshi is a fascinating question.”
“Oh.” Echizen frowned at the nickname, but didn't seem to have much to say in reply to the bombshell that Fuji had just dropped. “Senpai?” he began, almost hesitantly. “Are you going to tell the others about me now?”
“I think you should do that yourself.” Fuji's smile widened, and he patted Echizen on the head. “But don't worry, I'm sure they'll think you're as cute as I do.” Predictably, Echizen scowled at this, and Tachibana felt a twinge of pity for the boy-turned-girl when he thought of the eccentric bunch that made up Seigaku's regulars.
“It was a good idea having Ryo-chan stay here,” Fuji said to Tachibana approvingly. “None of us have been attacked by any of the strange creatures we've seen, so there must be something about her that makes an appealing target.”
Echizen looked rather affronted at this. “I'm only staying here so my parents don't find out.”
“But Fuji has a point. That woman we met and the man from the building you just came from seemed to have some regard for Guardians, so maybe that's why you've never been attacked here,” Tachibana suggested.
An, who had been silent until now, spoke up in agreement. “Aniki's right! You're a monster magnet, so you should stay near him.”
“Or one of us,” Fuji said, a slight edge to his tone. “It's settled then. Ryo-chan, be sure not to go off alone when you're like this, all right?”
Echizen was clearly Not Happy with the arrangement, but was at least smart enough not to argue with the tensai. “Fine.”
“Now about that book you have . . .”
At Fuji's request, Echizen fished the thick tome out of his bag and dropped it into the other's waiting hands. Tachibana moved over to peer at it over Fuji's shoulder, only to find that it was completely unreadable.
“Echizen . . .”
“You've read this?” Fuji asked slowly.
“Not all of it. You you can borrow it if you want though, I think it has descriptions of your powers. You should look at it,” Echizen said off-handedly.
“We can't seem to read this, so it looks like you'll have to help us,” Fuji said slowly.
“Eh?” Echizen looked at them questioningly.
“Tachibana, is your house good for meeting to practice, or should we use mine?”
Tachibana quickly agreed that his house was fine, not wanting to find out what Fuji's family was like. And after a few minutes of a strange mix of pleading and threatening, Fuji somehow managed to get Echizen to agree to come to practice with them, and possibly even use his own powers as well.
Thankfully, the rest of the Seigaku team did not seem to figure into Fuji's plans - yet. But given the circumstances, Tachibana figured that it was probably only a matter of time before they'd all be sitting in his living room.
~*~*~
“You wanted to talk to me, buchou?” Ryoma looked up at Tezuka, who had been waiting for him in the club meeting room after telling Echizen after practice that day that he wanted to talk to him. This time, Ryoma had simply agreed, rather than thinking up an excuse.
“Mmm.” Tezuka motioned him into a chair, but Ryoma just leaned on it. “Echizen, have you noticed anything . . . strange lately?” he began awkwardly, and Ryoma resisted the urge to grin. After talking to Fuji, he already knew what Tezuka wanted to tell him. But it was weird seeing his buchou looking so uncomfortable, so he decided to make things quick.
“Strange? Not really. Unless you mean all those demon creatures I've been seeing around,” he said off-handedly.
Tezuka looked at him sharply, surprise briefly evident on his features. “How much do you know?”
“Enough. I talked to Fuji-senpai after he saw me use my powers.” He supposed that was true enough, though he'd let Tezuka take it to mean what he would.
“Ah,” Tezuka managed.
“You know, we were going to practice using our powers today with Tachibana. He's got them too. Do you want to come?” Ryoma asked straight out. There was no way he was telling anyone else that he was the 'girl' they were looking for, at least not until he was forced to change again anyway and wouldn't be pestered into proving it. But the others may as well start getting used to their powers and each other, anyway.
Tezuka seemed to take a moment to compose himself before replying in his usual level tone, “Yes. It would be a good idea if we all practiced together, though I believe that most of the others have left already.”
So Tezuka walked beside him as he headed out the door and towards the main gate to leave. “One moment,” Tezuka told him, and Ryoma waited as he made a stop into the club's locker room. A moment later, he emerged with Oishi not far behind him. After a brief explanation of how he had been finishing cleaning up, the fukubuchou joined them as they started towards An's house.
~*~
“. . . five minutes.” A pause, as Echizen waited for a reply from whoever it was he was on his phone with; probably Tachibana. Seeing their youngest member on the phone with Fudomine's buchou struck Tezuka as somewhat surreal, reminding him further of the strangeness of the whole situation.
“No-- I'll tell them later . . . Yes, I will. And tell Fuji-senpai too, okay?” A few more words were exchanged, and then the conversation ended as Echizen tucked his phone away.
Echizen must have noticed him and Oishi watching him, and explained, “I had to tell them you were coming.”
“Of course,” Oishi said understandingly. “I hope we're not imposing.” Echizen just shrugged.
When they arrived at Tachibana's house, the door was answered by a bright-eyed looking redhead, who Echizen briefly introduced as Tachibana's sister An.
“My brother and Fuji are out back,” she told them, ushering them outside.
“Tezuka, Oishi,” Tachibana greeted them in a neutral tone. Fuji, who stood beside him, smiled and gave them a small wave. Tachibana gave a little nod towards Echizen, who promptly went over to the other buchou and sat on the ground nearby. After a moment of rummaging in his bag, he pulled out a hefty looking old book.
“Good. You brought the book,” Tachibana said approvingly. Tezuka gave him an inquiring look at this, and Tachibana briefly explained about the book Echizen had. Tezuka nodded, though he couldn't help but wonder how Echizen had come to have such a book.
“Aren't you going to practice with us?” Oishi asked Echizen curiously when the freshman showed no signs of getting up to join them.
“No.”
“Echizen's going to read to us from the book,” Fuji informed them cheerfully. “Apparently, it has some useful instructions.”
After several spectacular displays and many more mishaps between the four of them, Tezuka began to better grasp the nature of their powers as Guardians. He, Oishi, and Tachibana all seemed to have the ability to generate pulses of energy and to create invisible barriers; neither of which Fuji had been able to do.
“Try doing what you did before, Fuji-senpai,” Echizen suggested, and Fuji seemed to know what he was talking about.
“Ah, you mean like this?” A streak of blue fire exploded from Fuji's hand, chilling Tezuka as it went past. The blast impacted with a nearby bush, which promptly turned pale and disintegrated. “Oops.”
“You should be careful with that thing, senpai.” Echizen smirked. The freshman puzzled for a moment over the fact that their powers didn't vary much, muttering something about there being another type. But that was something they could only find out if they practiced with the others as well, he supposed.
Tezuka frowned slightly. “Echizen, you should practice as well,” he reprimanded, noticing with interest that his words did not have their usual effect on the freshman, who didn't budge. “We need everyone together on this.” But then, could it be possible that Echizen didn't have any powers to practice with? If Tachibana was indeed a Guardian as well as Echizen, that would make ten, not nine.
Oishi nodded in agreement. “We should definitely all meet to talk about this and practice together. We might have to battle a real demon eventually, after all. And we still have to find that girl; she's got to be the tenshi that Inui told us about.”
“Have either of you seen her?” Tezuka inquired.
“The girl you mentioned at the tournament? I haven't had any luck,” Tachibana answered with a shrug. Echizen just shook his head, though Tezuka thought he looked rather uncomfortable.
“Its too bad she keeps running away from us. I had no idea I was so frightening,” Fuji said lightly, an unusually playful smile on his face.
“You're not scary, Fuji-senpai.” Echizen scowled, looking put out.
“I don't know,” Tachibana said in an overly doubtful sounding voice. “He might be to an innocent young girl.”
The glare Echizen sent the other buchou did not go unnoticed by Tezuka, though it seemed rather uncalled for. “I'm sure you'll have better luck next time you see her,” Echizen huffed. “She's probably . . . ” Echizen trailed off, his attention diverted to a nearby tree.
“What is it, Echizen?” Fuji asked, following Echizen's gaze. Tezuka also turned to look, but saw nothing out of the ordinary.
“There's a bird,” he said distractedly, his eyes never leaving the tree.
“I don't see anything,” Tachibana said, craning his neck.
“It was probably nothing.” Echizen and tore his eyes away from the tree, looking uneasy.
But as Tezuka looked away he could have sworn he saw a flash of grey feathers . . . and he had the distinct feeling that there was more than one thing he had missed just then.
~*~
A slender bronzed arm stretched out, providing a perch for the sleek, feathered creature that alighted on it.
“And what do you have for me?” the blonde woman crooned, stroking its smooth silvery feathers. Its eyes glowed in response to her query, and she let her fingers rest lightly on its head as she listened to it. “So they're finally getting things together,” she murmured. “It's about time.”
The tenshi and the Guardians had been almost laughable up to this point, and even Adriel had seen no reason not to toy with them a little. Though now that they were actually figuring out their roles, the Guardians were no longer a threat that they could so easily dismiss. But Mara was far from worried; the Guardians, after all, were mere children, and untrained ones at that. All in all it was a wonderful combination, making them powerful enough to be interesting, but not so much that they were a real threat to their plans.
Her lips curved upwards as she thought of how delighted Orias would be when Adriel finally let him have his much-anticipated 'turn' taking down the next point. She almost, just almost, felt the slightest bit sorry for that little tenshi.
But not sorry enough to stop sending summonings after her, of course.
~*~
Chapter 10 Notes:
Regarding pronouns: Even when Fuji finds out that Ryoma is the tenshi, he still refers to him aloud by the female name and pronoun. Because Fuji is evil like that. ;)
Next up, in Chapter 11 -- a secret is revealed!
Thanks for reading, guys, I hope you enjoyed it! ^_^