User blog:AlexDoheny/Baphomet's Revenge - Day - 3

"It’s Friday, Fri-"

I have to slam the alarm button as hard as possible, with all my might and prejudice. Worst wake up song ever. Who in the bloody hell thought it was a good idea to make this a secret alarm song? Cheshire? I flip the alarm to see the product brand.

>WonderGadgets

Fucking faggot cats of course they are behind this, buncha good-for-nothing trolls. Also dad gotta stop buying random cheap things for me. Just because Wonderland products are cheap doesn’t mean they are good. Who knows if they use their product to spy on us.

Anyway, starting today, we are having full school day. All lectures and teaching schedule will back to normal as always. I look up the schedule on my phone:

8:35 – 9:00 | Morning assembly

9:00 – 10:45 | Compulsory subject (Fri) lecture

10:45 – 11:00| Break time

11:00 – 12:45 | Selective subject 1 lecture

12:45 – 14:00 | Lunch time

14:00 – 15:45 | Selective subject 2 lecture

15:45 – 18:00 | After school period

Usually, students are assigned to A, B, C, D, E class of respective year and students under the same class will have compulsory subject altogether. From what I know, students are assigned according to their personality, instead of academic performance. And the ratio of male and female will always be almost perfectly 50:50. Most geeky people would be assigned to class A or B, and I am in class B.

Luckily, Alicia is in Class A. So I won’t have her to torment me every morning.

Every student can pick 4 selective subjects when they enroll into the school. For me, I picked Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Theoretical magic. As much as I wanted to do practical magic subject, only 4 subjects I can pick, so I had to decide which would be useful for me and I ultimately picked Theoretical magic. Understanding is important to utilize a knowledge.

Today I am going to have Literature, Physics and Theoretical magic lecture.

After finishing my morning routine, packing my stuff into my bag, grabbing my breakfast. I am ready to head off to my school. Both physically and mentally.

Walking in the park while on my way to school, a great force pushes my back, making me to almost stumble. It’s Luna the Werewolf.

“Hey, smart boy. Or should I call you ‘onii-chan’ from now on?” She teases me with a fake little girl voice.

Almost every male counterpart in Sabbath are referred as ‘onii-chan’, their way of saying big brother. Sabbath, aside from being a local magical research institute, is actually and originally a religion of loli. And their fundamental principle is to spread the charm and indecency of tiny young girls. But in Alicia’s case? She’s spreading the trouble and annoyance of a little brat.

“Seriously, Luna. Stop it, you sound disgusting.” I stop Luna from irritating me with her fake little girl voice.

I am exhausted by the time I arrived the entrance of my school because of Luna, she won’t stop teasing me on the road.

I take the stuff I need from my locker and head to the assembly hall for the morning assembly session. Man, do I attract people’s attention, everyone is now looking at me now. I quickly grab an empty seat and settle down while ignoring the people glaring. Man it’s making me uncomfortable.

“Hey Alex, how’s it going?” Here comes Mark, doing all fine and well compare to yesterday.

“If I have to be honest, not really going well right now. But I guess I can take it on. How about you, you weren’t this well yesterday.”  I ask Mark about his wellness.

“Yeah… bad food. Really shouldn’t eat that cheese, never thought it’s expired.” Bastard, he really ate something bad yesterday, Alicia didn’t lie to me.

“And hey Alex.” He continues. “Sorry about that…”

I sighed, if a choice is made then nothing can revert that. Just like a cup of water, once poured out, you’ll never be able to retrieve the water back.

“You don’t need to, in fact, you did the right thing. Who know what would happen if you didn’t reject their proposition? They would probably kidnap you and force you to join their black mass, and possibly be their sex toy for a whole session.”  I exaggerated a bit, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if they actually do.

“Dude… what kind of deep dark fantasy is that.” Mark is questioning the stuff I just made up.

“So… uh… anyway…” I have something I need to confirm with Mark. “Were you threatened back when you met Alicia?”

“No, she just simply asked us to give away the position so that they can have fun with you.”

“And… you just accepted her proposition? Just like that? Thought we agreed to join the club committee last year.”

“To be honest, Mr. Anderson just asked us to be part of it because not many would like to join the committee. Since we have people that are more competent than us, so yeah sure why not? I am sure Mr. Anderson is happy about it.”

“Nope, he looked grim yesterday.”

“Probably he just ate something bad at that morning.”

Bruh, are you being cereal?

Suddenly, the whole crowd in the assembly hall get noisy. I wonder what’s going on? I look up the stage and found Alicia is going to give a speech. It was this moment, I have the same eerie feeling again. My eyes meet her eyes for a split second, then her eyes lock on me for a while, until she start her speech.

“Good morning everyone. Thanks for having me on the stage. I am Alicia Dominia, student representative of the year. First of all, I would like to thank our principle, Sophia Rin, for giving me this wonderful chance to giving out a speech as the student representative of the year.

Monster Girl City High School has a long history since the DOTR, and has made an amazing achievement in helping monsters integrating into this society. Changed, and improved the society into our current state. Despite the change has done, we must not forget the effort our pioneers have made.

Every of us, being a proud student of this great school, will carry on and continue their pride. As the daughter of Dominia family, I can say that I understand the importance of carrying the pride from our predecessor.

Please don’t think of it as burden. This is not our predecessor’s wishes to make us doing their errands, but to live with joy under the environment they have created. So, live free, and be happy. This, is how we rejoice, celebrate the efforts they have made in the past. Thus, carrying the pride of our predecessor.

I hope our years studying in this school will be a fruitful one, and I wish everyone a great year.

This is the end of my presentation, thank you all for listening.”

The hall is filled with clapping sound as soon as she finished her speech.

“Hey! We have seen the rumour on the internet about you are here for someone in the school, is that true?” Someone is yelling in the hall all the sudden, and the clapping just died down instantly. Everyone just goes quiet, patiently waiting, anticipating for answer.

Aw shit, I should’ve know.

The person yelling, is the well-known gossip girl in our school, also a member of school news club. And worst of all, she’s a Cheshire cat, that means she can be as shameless as that just to get the news she wants. If she has her eye on someone, that person will never be able to escape from her and will forever be haunted until she got what she wanted.

With her also being onto this drama, that means I’ll also be her target. I thought a clinging Baphomet looking for revenge would be bad enough. Now this? A freaking faggot cat? Shit, just when my life couldn’t be any tougher.

Supposedly, Alicia should leave the stage right now. Teachers would make her leave even if she won’t. Well, again, ‘supposedly’. Because she’s still in the stage now, and teachers aren’t making any move. Fucking hell, she better not-

“As for your concern. Yes, it is true. The person I am here for is a human student from class 2B – Alex Doheny.” With that statement of her, the hall become noisy again.

“The person over here, with a goofy safety glasses, a pretentious labcoat, lame-looking sweater. That’s right, the human over there, about 6 feet tall.” She even pointed out on me with her damn paw, and specify almost every single details about me.

Now everyone is looking at me, this is some kind of public execution. Normally, I don’t have a problem with that many of people looking at me; I don’t have stage fright. But this, this isn’t my stage, this is Alicia’s stage, and she’s playing me like a damn fiddle.

Mark sitting right next to me be like “Good luck bro, can’t save you from this shit.” Well I can’t really expect him to save me from a powerful demon beast.

With Alicia done with everything, everyone leave the assembly hall and go to their own classroom.

When I get back to my classroom, everyone inside welcome me like a damn hero. With hands clapping and cheering, the teacher just looked at me and giggle, telling the whole class to calm down.

This is embarrassing.

By the time the literature lecture is ended, everyone in the class just rushed to me, asking all sorts of question, stuff like:

“How did you end up being target by Alicia?”,

“What did you do to attract her attention?”,

“Tell us your secret of attracting a high tier monster.”,

Et cetera.

Somehow I receive some encouragement from my classmate. Not a bad thing I suppose.

I was hoping I could get some snack during this break, but I guess my tiny hope is shattered now. The best I could do now is answer all their question to satisfy them. If I run away now, not only I’ll look like a loser, but also attracting more attention and have more rumors spread to the whole school. And eventually, attracting that gossip-lover faggot cat to ‘confirm’ the rumors.

Oh no, it’s 10:54 now, gotta go grab the stuff I need for the next class and head to the lecture location. I kindly tell everyone that I’ll answer their questions later. Luckily, people listens and let me go. Being a nice guy might attract you some trouble, but it sure as hell make you look better.

As soon as I get the stuff I need, I rush to the lecture location through the crowded hallway. I found Mr. Anderson here, doing all well. He notices me, and apologizes: “Hey Alex, sorry for suddenly disappearing yesterday. I was having a bad stomach.”

Bitch, for real? What kind of ‘miracle’ is that? Mark and Anderson are having bad stomach at the same day together.

“Sir, I thought you were having a hard time because some of us have to step away from the committee position.”

“About that, actually Alicia, Trixie, Nancy-“

“Pardon me, Mr. Anderson. Who are Trixie and Nancy?” I cut off Mr. Anderson politely to ask about the name that I don’t know.

“You don’t know who they are? I thought they already introduce themselves to you.” Mr. Anderson is surprised.

“No, not really, they never told me their name.” I can already assume they are the Witch and Familiar companion for Alicia, but which is who?

“I see. Well, Trixie the Familiar, Nancy the Witch. They both picked PR and Treasurer respectively.”

“Wait, how about secretary? Who’s gonna fill that position up?”

“Well, we will figure that out by the time of committee election. Anyway, the election will be held by next Friday. I’ll send the details in email tonight, be sure to check them.”

“Many thanks sir, I shall stop bothering you since it’s about time for lecture.”

I dismissed the conversation and go back on to my seat.

Mr. Anderson didn’t teach much for the first lecture, he introduced of what we’ll be taught for this year, giving us a basic concept of the curriculum. And the whole lecture just fall into a normal chitchat group.

As a science club in-charge teacher, he sure got the attention of many students. And as one smart ass, he diverted all question to me.

“Actually, Alex. Why don’t you come over and tell them about the ‘situation’ you’ve gotten into?”

By making me telling everything. Surely, I tell everyone about what’s going on under the pressure. How did this happen, when it all start. While explaining the situation I am in, I started wondering. Would it increase my odd against Alicia in the election if I recruit more member through me? With this optimism of mine, I quickly come up an idea.

I tell everyone to join the science club for more details and follow up. And everyone is up for it, Mr. Anderson have to print out more application form for this. I look up him and smugly giggled while he put up a face that as if he were silently cursing “Cheeky bastard” at me.

By the end of the lecture, plenty of student have joined the science club. A stack of paper is placed on lecturer’s desk. Mr. Anderson dismiss the lecture and bring the whole stack of paper out of the lecture room.

Finally, the most anticipated session of all time. Something I have been waiting since the last break session – Lunch period. Everyone get to eat at school or going outside for Lunch. The commercial area got a shopping mall and a street full of restaurant, and it’s only about 10 minutes of walk from school.

Sometime you just feel lazy and not up for a walk to get your lunch, school cafeteria got something good for a relatively cheap price. I head to the cafeteria and look for today’s special menu.

“Cheesesteak burger with fries”

“Zipangu sushi plate with small bowl of udon”

“BBC egg fried rice”

“DLA meal combo”

Something wrong is on the menu… never mind. I think I’ll grab the burger one and find a good spot to eat.

Inside the school, there’s a quite secret place where not many people would go into. About 5 minutes walking from the cafeteria, a place behind the sport court. It’s basically a place for agriculture club. There they grow some nice crops, a small animal barn and a pond. There are in total two branches in the area, one faces all the amazing view you can have while the other one face the opposite and get a sad lame wall view.

I sit down and lean on the bench, enjoy my burger while listening to the environment. A wind blows and the trees are moving, an artificial waterfall in the pond is making a calming water sound. Especially with the cool weather today, I feel extremely relax.

That is, until the same eerie feeling strikes, again. Mein gott, she is going to haunt me everywhere I go. I thought this place was safe.

“I see you are here.” A familiar voice coming out of nowhere.

“Yeah, sorry but I took the spot first.” I coldly retort.

I was expecting Alicia to leave and find the other spot to eat, oh boy was I wrong. My mom was right, Baphomet is a strong-willed monster, she decided to sit right opposite of me. Where she has the view of sad lame wall, and me. Right, she is, looking at me. Like a damn specimen in an observation cage. I wanna leave…

No, Alex. Don’t leave, stay. Pretend you don’t care and ignore this little brat. You mustn’t show fear to the demon beast or she will take advantage of it.

And so, we all sit on the opposite side with awkward silence. I pretend to look at the pond, looking away from the bench and possibly the Baphomet in front of me as far as possible. But my curiosity is acting on me, telling me to see what kind of lunch she is having.

They say curiosity can kill a cat, mine can do more than that.

I unironically peek at Alicia, wondering what kind of lunch she’s having – It’s a home-made sandwich box. I don’t know what am I expecting to see. I thought a high-tier monster like her would prefer something luxurious and fancy. Does she make it herself? Or someone made it for her? Guess I will never know; I am afraid to ask.

“You looked.” Alicia noticed my glance. “Why?”

Damn, she never leave her eye sight on me, of course she would notice me.

“Can’t really not look at you when you are right in front of me, taking about 20 degrees of my POV.” I bullshit my way to cover up the fact that I actually looked at her.

“You know, I can always use the truth serum on you.” She show me a test tube hiding in her pocket, which according to her, contain truth serum in it. As much as I don’t want to believe the stuff she’s holding is truth serum, she being in a Sabbath is making it believable. “Like I said, I can always beat you by force, although I couldn’t gain any pleasure from it… That is, unless, you asked for it.”

Judging by her words, she seems to be suspecting I was lying to her. Hell, she look like she deadass sure I was lying to her. Was I really that bad at lying? I am sure my face was dead pan straight. Or does the Baphomet have some stupidly overpowered magic that can do detect my lie or something?

“Right right right. I was wondering what kind of lunch you are having, that’s it. Here, the truth you wanted.” I tell her my exact thought.

For some reason, she looks… disappointed?

“I was hoping you could continue your lies so I can use this truth serum on you… too bad. You sure are unexpected.”

Huh, that’s why.

“Regarding to your question, it’s grilled chicken with cheese sandwich.” She tell me right away, without any suspicion.

“Why are you telling me that? I thought you hate me or something?” It confuses me, to be honest I even thought she’s here to murder me. So I ask her why she tell me about it.

“Me? Hating you? No, I am only here because you beat me in my game, I am here to beat you in your game.” She explain her reason.

“Your game?”

“I am surprised that you don’t know about it. SSMTI is organized by Dominia Sabbath.”

“I didn’t notice, I only joined the competition because I wanted to show off my innovation. Then why are you doing all this thing as if you were hating me?”

“Isn’t there a saying from human about ‘Keep your friends close and your enemies closer’? I am simply doing that so that I can understand you, and defeat you with it.”

After that, everything just fall into another eternal silence.

I seriously don’t understand the little girl right in front of me. All the stuff she did to me isn’t something normal to do EVEN in the standard of a monster, and I have interact enough monster to understand what a normal monster would do. But then again, it’s Baphomet that I am talking to, a high-tier monster, something entirely different.

Throughout the whole conversation, she was staring at me the whole time. To the point where it gets really uncomfortable for me.

“Now if you excuse me, I gotta go.” As soon as I finished my last piece of fries, I GTFO. The eerie feeling doesn’t go off until I get pass the sport court corner, completely vanish from Alicia’s view. I bet she’s still staring at me until the very last moment.

With the lunch period about to end, I head to my own locker and grab the notes for the next lecture.

By the time I enter the lecture theater, I notice Alicia and her witch are here already… How can she come over here faster than me? Teleportation spell? Where the GM at? Please nerf her.

Luckily they haven’t notice me, and I don’t have that eerie feeling. Great, I guess I can just-“ Find my own seat quietly. It seems to be too much for me to ask however.

“What are you doing here, Alex Doheny~?” A Familiar voice (pun intended) spoken out from my back. Her voice is so loud and clear, the whole theater can hear her voice. Luckily tho there’s no echo, otherwise, the voice of her calling me out would stay in my memory and haunt me until I forget it.

Trixie’s voice attracted everyone in the theater, looking at the source of sound a.k.a. me and Trixie.

“Were you sneaking around~? Never thought you were a stalker type.” Here she going to taunt me.

“Right, riddle me this then, little girl. How can a 6 feet tall dude, hide behind a 3 feet chair?” I ask her rhetorically.

She doesn’t respond, she just look at me with a smug smile. Like a damn Cheshire cat.

“E-hm” The Owl Mage teacher clear her voice, implying the lecture is about to begin.

Right, I stopped having a staring contest with that dumb Familiar. Gotta go find a seat and – Damn it! Almost every seats are occupied, except… oh no… the seat next to Alicia… wait, there’s one at the very back – Shit, that damn Familiar already took it.

This leave me no choice; I have to sit right next to Alicia.

“…”

“…”

We both sit in silence, even the witch goes quiet. No argument, no taunt, nothing. Just sitting there and have our mouth shut.

While our teacher is giving out the curriculum introduction and some basic concept of different systems of magic, I open up my notebook and jotting it all down. Last year we were learning the in-depth of how mana work in this word.

Our teacher is going through some of the introduction of Archaeomancy, the mother of all magic. The very basic of self-defense magic we all learned, mana shot, is part of it. Archaeomancy is the most common, widely used magic system in the world.

Almost everyone in this modern world know how to use mana shot, and how well you can cast the spell can determine how well you will do in performing magic casting. It’s like cooking in the kitchen, stir-frying egg is the easily cuisine to learn, but hard to master. Although, some type of people might not be able to cast mana shot that well, they do have certain mana that’s allocated into something else, such as physical ability. My friend Luna, despite being a dumbo in magic theory, her body contain vast amount of mana and is very active. That way, her physical ability is way superior than most monster in the school.

On the other hand, there are monster that can be really physically and magically powerful. Mostly high-tier monster, like the Baphomet sitting right next to me.

Speaking of Baphomet. Alicia, sitting right next to me, is jotting notes as well. Someone like her, being smart and all, jotting notes. I am surprised to see how she could still write with those paws of her. I peek at her notes, her handwriting is surprisingly beautiful, the way she jots notes is fast and precise.

For a brief moment, I think the look of her working hard is… beautiful and gorgeous…

Hold up. Get a grip of yourself, Alex. Stop thinking about her.

And then the bell rings, the teacher dismissed the lecture and everyone is packing stuff, ready to leave.

I wasted my time thinking about her. Hope she didn’t notice. I quickly pack up my stuff and leave the lecture theater, the sooner the better, so that I don’t have to deal with the Alicia gang.

Mom promised me to give me some basic martial training after school, I put everything else other than my notebook back in my locker and rush back to home, hopefully I can get more time to train.

“Mom! I am home!” I open door and yell into it, making sure everything inside my house know that I have come back from school.

“Hey sweetie, come to the yard when you are ready.”  Mom has prepared everything already in the yard.

Can’t wait for the training session. I just leave my bag to the couch and go straight into the yard.

Here in the yard, I see my mom fully armored. This is probably my first time seeing her in action. My dad is right, it’s amazing. I only saw her in armor in some of those memorial album.

“Right, sweetie. Grab this shield and this stick. I’ll teach you the basic stance of shield and sword.” Mom pass her shield onto my hand, and I grab the stick laying around the ground.

This whole afternoon time was spent to do the correct stance. It’s much harder than I thought it would be. A right stance in corresponding with different angle of attack can divert out most of the force. I learn that hard from a well-trained former knight of Lescatie, monster power is no joke. My muscle is still twitching from the intense training. My mom sure know how to train people.

“Alright you two, it’s dinner time. I bought take-out.” Dad shout from the living room.

It’s the PizzaHawt, dad sure know what to get for after an intense training.

“Thanks honey~ Also sweetie that’ll be all for today, take your time to rest.” Mom wants to stop the training.

“I can still keep going, mom.” I insisted.

“Not with that shaking hand, trust me you need it.” Mom see my hand shaking while trying to grab some pizza.

“You go too hard on him.” Dad telling mom.

“I just go as hard as the day I met you, honey~ In which by the way, I’m going to do the same to you tonight.” Sounds like dad is going to have a dark knight roleplay session tonight.

“Alright mom, dad. I’ll excuse myself, you two have fun.” I grab all the pizza I need and go back to my room, trying to avoid the situation where I have to listen to my parents talking about their kinks. Dad is really into this kind of stuff.

I boot up the computer as usual, checking out BaphyNet and WonderBoard as usual. Nothing bad really happen. Except that faggot cat found out my page on BaphyNet and DM’ing me for the information. You know what? That’s exactly what I am looking for. I tell her to meet me on next Monday after school period in General Laboratory, also, join the Science club to see more about it.

Hope that’ll help boosting the member count for the club.

Right, it’s about time. I take a shower, get dried and head to the bed. The muscle fatigue from training help me sleep a lot faster…