First Lesson!

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Sona: "DAMN YOU ANOS VOLDIGOAD!"

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(3rd Person Pov)

It had been a day since Tamayo had come and visited the student council members. And right now Tamayo was sitting inside the student council room with both Co-Owners of Kuoh and their respective peerage members inside the room gazing upon Tamayo. One with curiosity, and one with annoyance and frustration. Rias was the first to break the silence as she spoke.

Rias: "This is the "Demon" from another world you told us about Sona? "

Tamayo nodded her head as she spoke.

Tamayo: "A pleasure to make your acquaintance Miss Gremory. My name is Tamayo, nice to meet all of you."

Rias: "Sona informed me yesterday that you are related to the owner of the castle is that right?"

Tamayo nodded her head as Rias continued.

Rias: "She also told me that this Anos Voldigoad is backed by both Dragon God's is that right?"

Tamayo said nothing as she summoned forth one of Ophis's Snake's causing them all to shudder at the oppressive power it contained before it disappeared. Rias, Sona, and the others all recovered as Rias gave Sona a glance full of pity and amusement for having met with Tamayo first. She coughed into her fist to get the attention back on the conversation as Rias spoke.

Rias: "Miss Tamayo, I heard you claimed that you are immortal correct?"

Tamayo: "Indeed I am."

Rias's eyes narrowed dangerously as she spoke.

Rias: "Miss Tamayo, are you absolutely certain that you aren't somehow related to the Phoenix Household?"

Tamayo: "I am not related to the house of phoenix. I would have ripped my head off as proof, but I don't feel like potentially traumatising anyone here."

Tamayo's words surprised everyone slightly, as Rias's queen Akeno spoke up.

Akeno: "Excuse me Rias, may I have permission to ask miss Tamayo a question?"

Rias looked at Akeno slightly, before she nodded her head giving her queen permission to speak.

Akeno: "Miss Tamayo, do you really want to teach the students of this school without having any ulterior motives? You have the backing of someone who is also connected to the two Dragon God's. If you wanted to, you could even kill all of us, and the residence of the Underworld would not be able to do anything about our deaths."

Akeno's words caused everyone to tense up and prepare for such a possible situation. Tamayo shook her head slightly and spoke.

Tamayo: "While it is true that I have an extremely powerful backers to my name, as I've said before. I only wish to experience teaching children, and watching them grow up."

Everyone became slightly less tense than before at Tamayo's words, before Sona spoke up.

Sona: "Very well then, if there's nothing else any of you would like to say, then we should head to the auditorium to introduce Miss Tamayo."

Suddenly all eyes were drawn to Rias's Knight Kiba who had raised his hand to ask Tamayo a question. Sona nodded her head as he spoke.

Kiba: "I'm quite curious miss Tamayo, what's your relationship with this Anos Voldigoad, and did he give you any specific conditions for when you want to do anything?"

Kiba's question caused everyone to look at Tamayo, curious what her answer will be.

Tamayo: "You could say Anos Voldigoad is my benefactor. He's a rather chaotic person, but beneath his chaotic personality he is rather kind. Though, the one thing he doesn't like is when someone dares to question his strength. And as for the second half of your question, he has left me to my own self. He's given me information on how to use magic, how to fight in close coarter combat, and of various modern subjects to make it simple for me to live my life."

This time it was Rias's Rook Koneko who asked a question.

Koneko: "We were told that you made a magical contract with Sona-Sama. That they weren't allowed to disclose your connection to Anos Voldigoad to them."

Tamayo: "That is indeed true. Anos said that he doesn't want to be dragged into the pointless politics of this world, and that he doesn't feel like being annoyed by the Maous. And trust me when I say getting on his bad side is a danger you don't want happening. Anything else?"

They all thought long and hard about Tamayo's words as Rias decided to ask a risky question.

Rias: "Miss Tamayo. If its alright with you, could you share what kind of magic he's taught you exactly?"

Tamayo: "I am sorry, but I cannot disclose that information. It's mostly as a caution for my own safety. The last thing I'd want is to be hunted for others to study afterall."

Rias sighed dejectedly, atleast she had tried to get some insight on the types of magic Tamayo may be able to use.

Tamayo: "Miss Rias, I'd appreciate it if you and your peerage also accepted this contract."

Rias: "And why should myself and my peerage accept this contract?"

Tamayo: "It's simply to make Anos's stay less of a nuisance. He will eventually meet up with the Maou's to talk, but till that day appears he'd prefer not to be bothered. And seeing as how you all were ordered to report to the Maou's should Anos or anyone with a connection to him appears, I'd appreciate it if you accept the contract. If the Maou's ask for any information, your free to inform them of the contract you've all accepted. Afterall, upholding contracts are a devil's pride am I right?"

Rias: "... What if I wish to alter the contents of the contract?"

Tamayo: "That is possible, but you would have to have something worth altering the contract. So miss Rias Gremory, what exactly would you like to change within the content of the contract for you to accept?"

Rias: "One of the most important things I want for the silence of myself and my peerage is that this Anos Voldigoad will owe me and Sona a favour eac-"

Tamayo cut her off as she spoke.

Tamayo: "Don't bother with such a foolish want. Anos is a very powerful individual. You maybe the heiress of the Gremory household, but you aren't worth his time. Just look at yourself, your blessed with power and talent. Yet, you do not desire to grow stronger? You are searching for powerful individuals to join your peerage, but why so? Couldn't you have just trained hard alongside your peerage so that you wouldn't have to go desperately trying to find someone who can help you with your engagement? From what I'm seeing, almost all your peerage members have some kind of personal trauma that you have done nothing but hope that time will heal their scars. You dare call yourself a king when you avoid helping your subjects?"

Everything that Tamayo said brought shock to everyone present especially Rias and her peerage members.

Rias: "... H-How do you know all that?! "

Tamayo: {Liknos} Otherwise known as {Thought Domain} is a spell that allows the caster to read the memories of people within a certain range. It is possible to block the spell with anti-magic if there is no significant difference in magic power between the caster and their targets. Tell me, what does this mean for all of you?"

Everyone fell silent at Tamayo's words as Sona spoke.

Sona: "That Miss Tamayo's magical powers is stronger than everyone here."

Everyone: "...."

Tamayo: "And here's a little fun fact, I just started learning magic as well. So explain how I an absolute begginer managed to get access to all of your minds?"

Rias got flustered as she spoke.

Rias: "We... We just let our guards down thats all!"

Tamayo's eyes became fierce as they locked upon Rias who flinched as she spoke.

Tamayo: "Then that's even more disappointing. For you to use the excuse that you let your guard down infront of an unknown individual without having a proper grasp of their strength and weaknesses would have spelt the possible death of every one in this room. Do not think that just because you are heiress to two prominent household in the Underworld, and the little sisters of two of the Maou that you are untouchable. Tell me, if lady Ophis decided to kill everyone in Kuoh for no reason other than boredom, can the devil faction do anything but mourn your deaths? Or do you honestly believe that your siblings can actually bring harm to the Dragon God?"

Tamayo's words struck at the pride of everyone present as they couldn't even refute her words. Tamayo glanced at Rias's peerage as she spoke.

Tamayo: "The child of a powerful human and a Fallen Angel who refuses to use the power of her fallen Angel heritage because of the despair she felt when her father failed to be there to save her and her mother, a rare youkai Nekoshou who believes that her sister went berserk with power and refuses to use the Youkai side of her power that is Senjutsu, and the only survivor of the Holy Sword Project who's heart is full of sadness, despair, and hatred for the Holy Swords, The ones who experimented on himself and his friends, and a deep hatred for himself being the only survivor. Tell me Rias, has it never crossed your mind that their problems are yours as well? As their king you've done nothing to help them, and one day all these issues will come around to bite you bac-"

Tamayo's words were silenced as Kiba in a fit of anger at Tamayo's words and action created a normal blade using his sacred gear Sword Birth and sliced her head off in an instant causing blood to gush out of the wound and a petrified Sona.

Sona: "KIBA! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'VE JUST DONE?! SHE'S ONE OF ANOS VOLDIGOAD'S PEOPLE! YOU HEARD WHAT THE SATAN'S HAD TO SAY ABOUT HIS POWER ATLEAST RIVALING THAT OF THE DRAGON GOD'S AND YOU STILL KILLED HER?!!!"

At Sona's words, Kiba broke out of his angered state of mind as he started trembling at what he did. Because anger clouded his judgement, he had killed someone who's also being backed by three individuals stronger than even the 4 Satan's combined.

Pure pandemonium erupted within the Student Council room as everyone began panicking. That was until they saw Tamayo's headless body move to pick up her decapitated head which just stared at them all with disappointment as she spoke.

Tamayo: "Tell me Heiress of the Gremory household, do you know what would have happened had I not been immortal? And now do you see just how useless a king you are to your subordinates?"

Silence permiated the entire student council room as they saw Tamayo reattach her head as they trembled.

Everyone: "Y-You're Alive?!"

Tamayo: "I did say I was immortal did I not? Now then, let this be your first lesson Rias, the actions of your servant could have caused you the downfall of either your own household, your Knight, your peerage, yourself, or even all of you to be dealing with the potential manner my death could have brought. So, anything you'd like to say miss Rias Gremory?"

Rias bit her lips before she sighed as she bowed her head to Tamayo making Kiba look away in guilt as she spoke.

Rias: "I-... I apologise for my servant's action's. As his king I have failed him, if there is anything you'd like to request from the Gremory household, I will try accomplishing it so long as your request isn't too unacceptable."

Tamayo: "Then my only request is for you to accept this contract."

Rias: "That's it?"

Tamayo: "That's it."

Rias: "Understood. I accept your contract."

Tamayo: "Lovely. {Zecht}"

A blue magic circle appeared infront of them as Tamayo spoke.

Tamayo: "Miss Rias, I'd appreciate it if yourself and your peerage members raised their hands to the contract."

Rias and everyone else nodded their heads and raised their hands to the magic circle as it glowed orange and dissappear when all the members of Rias's peerage felt an invisible shackle on their very life.

Tamayo: "Now then, if there's nothing else, we should head to the auditorium for my introduction."

Tamayo then used basic water and wind magic to clean up the blood stains on her Kimono before leaving the student council room as Sona slumped in her chair dejectedly as she spoke.

Sona: "I must admit, Miss Tamayo is alot more cunning that we had anticipated."

Sona's words caught the attention of everyone else who looked at her in confusion as she explained.

Sona: "She knew that it would be hard for Rias to simply accept the contract, so she allowed us to question her and lower our guards."

Akeno's eyes widened in understanding as she continued.

Akeno: "Then when our guards were lowered she used a magic unknown to us to gain access to all our memories, and she used our painful memories so that one of us would possibly attack her."

And finally Rias finished with a look of anger, sadness, humiliation, bitterness, and resignation.

Rias: "And when we did bring harm to her it could be seen as us not caring for the fact that she has the two Dragon God's supporting her, and this Anos Voldigoad whom was stated to be as strong as the Dragon God's. So unless we wanted a possible political war between the Underworld against Anos Voldigoad and the Dragon God's, I would apologise and allow her anything she might want even if I must request it directly from the Gremory household as an apology. And she only asked for us to accept the contract of silence which semmed like an extremely good deal. I can't believe we fell for such a trick."

Rias's Knight Kiba prostrated himself before Rias as he apologised.

Kiba: "Buchou. I sincerely apologise for my actions. Because of me we played right into Tamayo's hands."

Rias sighed as she spoke.

Rias: "It's alright Kiba. I understand that you were mad. In fact, I myself had almost attacked her out of anger for her words. But it seems like in the end she ended up doing all that to force us to accept the contract on her own terms. And we're supposed to be the devil's here. It feels like Miss Tamayo is more devilish than we are."

Sona: "*Sigh* Well, we don't have all day. Let's get going."

[An: "I swear, I say I'll write a 1.5k word chapter everytime, yet majority of the time it's always beyond 1.5k! But oh well, no use crying over spilt milk.]

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