The outskirts of Ikebukuro.
"Hurgh— Hurgh—"
Lacus was retching on the side. Luke couldn't bear to watch and patted his back.
"A Vampire getting carsick? Stop retching. You haven't eaten anything but blood all day; it'd be a miracle if you actually threw up."
Lacus waved his hand, looking like he hadn't yet recovered from the shock.
"You... you're terrifying. If you're the one driving on the way back, I'd rather walk!"
The other Vampires gathered around, nodding in agreement.
Mika also stood on the opposite side of Luke.
"If he's still driving on the way back, I'll help you hold him down. René, you hijack the car."
Lacus patted Mika on the shoulder.
"Mika, from today on, you're my friend!"
Watching the Vampires gradually bond over their collective condemnation of him, Luke argued sophistically.
"Five hundred kilometers, and I got here in three hours. It's not even noon yet! Didn't I do this so everyone could start having fun earlier?"
Lacus spread his hands.
"Sure, I was full of excitement before getting in your car, but now I'm in no mood to play."
Luke stopped arguing. He signaled Mika with his eyes to follow him and started walking in one direction, calling back to the other Vampires without turning around.
"Go have fun yourselves. Mika and I have business. Just be careful not to clash head-on with the Imperial Demon Army."
Lacus asked curiously,
"Where are you guys going?"
"To the Imperial Demon Army headquarters, Shibuya."
Lacus scratched his head.
"Eh? You've got guts. Fine then, it's been a long time since I've been out. Let me have some fun!"
Luke ran along the road with Mika. Since Mika wasn't yet fully proficient in controlling his body, their speed wasn't particularly fast.
"Hey, Luke, what's Lacus and the others' mission? I didn't see you give them any instructions."
"Just playing around. Causing some trouble in the city, drinking some blood, that sort of thing."
"Eh?!"
"Mika, you're a Vampire now. There are some things you have to learn to accept."
Mika remained silent.
Luke sighed. He now felt he should have faked the deaths of the children from the Hyakuya Orphanage four years ago. The current gentle Mika's heart wasn't with the Vampires.
Suddenly, Luke thought of something.
The Hiiragi Family's Seraph Experiment! If he let Mika learn about the inhumane things the Hiiragi Family did to the test subjects in that experiment, he would surely become disillusioned with humans.
After all, Mika had become a Vampire and was in a transitional state from emotional to rational. Luke only needed to accelerate this process, and it was only a matter of time before he became the Mika who only cared for his family.
A few minutes later, the two arrived in Shibuya.
"Let's first see if the Hyakuya Orphanage is still there."
Mika nodded, his eyes filled with an expectation he couldn't hide... Shibuya First High School.
Saotome Yuichi looked at Yuichiro's bruised face and asked with concern,
"Yu, what happened to your face?"
Yuichiro kept walking forward, preoccupied.
"I ran into a telephone pole."
Yoichi hurriedly caught up with Yuichiro's pace.
"A... a telephone pole?"
"That's right, a telephone pole. And a telephone pole with a super fierce look in its eyes!"
Yoichi understood; Yuichiro must have gotten into another fight. He said with a smile,
"Hahaha, what even is that?"
As the two passed a pillar, a complaining female voice rang out.
"You guys are so slow!"
The two turned to look and saw Shinoa Hiragi and Byakuya Akane standing by the pillar. The one who had called out to them was Shinoa.
"Oh, it's just Shinoa and Akane."
Shinoa Hiragi and Byakuya Akane stood side by side. The two beautiful girls caught the eyes of many high school boys.
Shinoa Hiragi was now about 1.5 meters tall. Every movement of hers carried a sense of playfulness, and she looked petite and cute in her school uniform.
Beside her, Byakuya Akane was a bit over 1.6 meters tall, with a bright smile always on her face. She was full of youthful vitality.
Byakuya Akane was surprised to see Yuichiro's face.
"Yu, your face..."
Shinoa Hiragi, on the other hand, looked like she had found something amusing and giggled behind her hand.
"Haha, looks like someone needs to reflect again~"
Yuichiro quickly denied it. Reflection was the most annoying thing—it was boring and didn't increase his strength.
"I wasn't fighting!"
Shinoa Hiragi didn't believe a single punctuation mark of that sentence, but she didn't want to dwell on it too much and changed the subject.
"Sigh, whatever. Anyway, it finally starts today!"
Yoichi realized what Shinoa was talking about.
"That's right! Today we join the training class established for entering the Moon Demon Company!"
Byakuya Akane came to Yuichiro's side and said with a smile,
"I heard Mr. Guren will be our homeroom teacher!"
Yuichiro said quite dismissively,
"I don't want training. That idiot Guren should just let me get into actual combat already!"
Shinoa Hiragi looked indifferent, as if she were used to Yuichiro's idiotic remarks.
"Fine! Then Private Hyakuya, please head to the battlefield without weapons or a uniform!"
Byakuya Akane also added with a playful smile at Yuichiro's expense,
"Yu wouldn't want to face Vampires and the Four Horsemen of John with just his fists, would he?"
Yuichiro made a face like 'how could you?'
"Isn't that the same as going to the battlefield naked?"
Shinoa Hiragi shook her head at Yuichiro.
"The army wouldn't be that cruel. If you go to the battlefield, you'd at least have to carry explosives. If you're going to die, you can at least blow up the enemy!"
Yuichiro found it hard to believe.
"You're lying!"
Shinoa Hiragi stuck out her tongue, grabbed Byakuya Akane's arm, and ran.
"If you don't do the training, it might not be a lie. Saotome-kun, hurry up!"
"Coming! Let's go, Yu."
Yuichiro was pulled along by Yoichi against his will.
"Nothing is going right today. This is so annoying!"
After a while, the four arrived at the training classroom.
"Excuse us!"
Shinoa Hiragi took the lead in pushing open the door. She saw a classroom full of students and Guren sitting on the teacher's chair with his legs on the desk, sleeping.
Shinoa Hiragi said to Guren, knowing he wasn't really asleep and could hear her,
"I've brought them, Lieutenant Colonel Guren."
Guren didn't respond, maintaining his sleeping posture.
Shinoa was speechless. 'Go ahead, keep pretending.'
Helpless, she could only call out again.
"Lieutenant Colonel!"
Only then did Guren open his eyes. His gaze was sharp, without a hint of drowsiness from having just woken up. He stood up energetically and spoke to the high schoolers in the classroom.
"Alright, everyone's here. Listen up. The reason I, as your homeroom teacher, am appearing in the classroom so rarely today is because there are transfer students..."
Shinoa Hiragi really couldn't listen anymore and quipped,
"By the way, usually, a homeroom teacher should appear in the classroom every day."
Guren wasn't embarrassed by the remark at all. He glanced at Shinoa and commanded,
"You, shut up."
Then he looked back at the students in the classroom as if nothing had happened.
"Anyway, it's these few: Hyakuya Yuichiro, Saotome Yuichi, and Byakuya Akane. To summarize simply, they are 'The Idiot, The Coward, and The Sports Freak'."
Yuichiro immediately felt annoyed.
"Who are you calling an idiot?"
Guren responded seriously and calmly,
"It's a fact. Now, introduce yourselves."
"No need!"
Yuichiro flatly refused Guren's request and then began his "Declaration of Freedom," stating he didn't need friends and wouldn't get along with anyone.
Byakuya Akane and Shinoa Hiragi exchanged a glance, both shaking their heads and inwardly calling Yuichiro an idiot.
Yoichi was worried that Yuichiro would be an outcast, but he was too embarrassed to go up and stop him.
"Wait... Yu..."
As a result, Yuichiro naturally received Guren's merciless iron fist, making him grimace in pain.
"Go sit in your seat, idiot! Over there."
Yuichiro ultimately succumbed to Guren's strength, complaining in his heart,
"Damn it, Guren hits really hard."
Just as he reached his seat, he saw the student behind him covering his face with a book, with his long legs resting on the desk, extending into Yuichiro's space.
"What's the meaning of this, you? This is my seat now. Move your feet."
The person moved the book and looked at Yuichiro.
"So noisy! Is it morning already?"
Both were stunned upon seeing each other.
"You're the telephone pole from this morning! Why are you here?!"
Shitjiro Kimizuki, who looked a lot like Saiki Kusuo, stood up and walked over to Yuichiro.
"Are you kidding me? I should be the one asking that! Also, what's with the 'telephone pole' thing?"
Guren, on the podium, looked at these two socially challenged individuals with some confusion.
"What's the situation with these two? Kimizuki, I remember I kicked you to the General Course last month to make friends, under your supervision."
Shinoa Hiragi had at some point stood next to Guren; the view of the two fighting was clearer from here.
"Yes."
Shinoa was watching with great interest.
"And the result?"
"As you can see."
Guren looked at the two fighting in the classroom and sighed helplessly.
"Do your job properly."
Shinoa Hiragi added,
"They had a fight this morning."
"Did you mediate?"
"I was secretly watching the fun from the side."
Shinoa smiled happily.
But Guren had a headache; such a subordinate was hard to manage.
"So annoying!"
Guren walked up to the two who were fighting joyfully, wound up his leg, and with a roundhouse kick, sent Yuichiro flying into Shitjiro Kimizuki.
And so, Yuichiro slammed into the door while holding his opponent.
Guren paid no more attention to the two who had disrupted the classroom discipline.
"Well then, let's begin the long-awaited teaching portion."
Meanwhile...
After Luke and Mika secretly climbed over the high wall to enter Shibuya, they arrived at the Hyakuya Orphanage, only to find it guarded by the Imperial Demon Army.
Left with no choice, Luke decided to take Mika for a walk around Shibuya First High School.
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