Time Skip several days Asagi POV

I have been talking and playing chess with Kojou over the past several days and came to enjoy spending time with him, not only has he been the first in a long time that could challenge me in chess but I also found out that I could be completely open with him and talk with him about almost anything, even if it's just me complaining about my part time job.

However, while I'm pretty open with him I noticed that he rarely talks about his life before he came to Itogami, don't get me wrong it's not like he won't talk about it but whenever I ask him he just gives rather vague answers and generally seems to try and change the conversation to something else.

Another thing are his grades, even though he doesn't appear to be paying too much attention during class most of the time, in fact you can pretty much guess with a single look at him whether he is paying attention or just being lost in thought, his grades are pretty good, almost as good as mine actually. Even Natsuki-chan (no matter how long she is my teacher I will never bring myself to call her sensei) seems to be noticing, however every time she asks him a question he always knows the answer so after a while she just decided to give up. And there is also the smile he sometimes has during history lesson, especially that grin he gets from time to time like he is the only one that got some particular joke, he even burst out laughing when our teacher talked about French history and the personality of Napoleon Bonaparte.

As class was about to end Natsuki-chan told Kojou to wait in class, apparently something about his transfer papers that still needed to be signed. As usual, I stayed behind in class, waiting for Kojou to be finished with Natsuki-chan so we could play chess again, which has become somewhat of a routine for us.

"Asagi, could you give us a moment of privacy?" At the question, or rather order, from our teacher I looked up at her with a questioning look, but relented in the end and walked out of class, but not before telling Kojou I would wait for him on one of the tables outside of school, I still wanted to have a rematch from last time since he actually managed to beat me yesterday.

As I was walking away from class I heard the door to the classroom slid shut, which left me wondering why she seemed so insistent on privacy if it was only some papers that still needed to be filled out, deciding to just ask Kojou later about it I went on ahead.

Kojou POV

"So, what did you want to talk to me about Natsuki-chan? There shouldn't be a problem with my papers and I'm pretty sure I filled out all the necessary forms." While I seemed completely calm on the outside, I was a bit on edge about her, since she obviously seemed to know something.

"First of all don't call your teacher chan, I swear Asagi is a bad influence on you and second of all you can drop the act, why are you here and why are you hiding your identity?" At that question I tensed up, she shouldn't know, hell she can't know! Deciding to play it safe I tried to ask what she meant. "Could you please explain what you mean sensei, I'm afraid I'm not exactly sure what you are talking about"

The look she sent me just screamed "Don't play dumb" but after I just continued to stare at her, doing my best to look confused she just sighed. "I'm asking why you are hiding the fact that you are a vampire, you shouldn't have any reason to hide your identity here on this island, and I doubt you are a terrorist since if you were one you wouldn't have a reason to attend school. So either you are hiding your identity for some personal reason or you are here to observe someone."

Okay, good she doesn't know who I am just that I am a vampire. Mentally I was reprimanding myself, there was no way I could hide from the Witch of the Void, though luckily she doesn't seem to be hostile towards me, if anything she looked curious. "Sigh, well I was hoping I would be able to last longer without being detected, but I guess that's expected from someone like you" At that last statement she seemed to stiffen up a bit and glared at me. "Don't look at me like that, it's not really that big a secret of who you are, imagine my surprise when I found out you were a teacher this school, seriously what's up with this class, we have an attack mage as the teacher, the cyber empress and that brown haired boy. And before you ask, no I'm not observing someone I'm simply hiding my identity for, as you correctly guessed, personal reasons."

After that I just simply stared at her, hoping that I could convince her to keep me being a vampire a secret since I wasn't exactly in the mood to fight her so I could wipe her memory, not to mention that fighting her here at the school would without a doubt attract attention which would just end up being more work for me.

She seemed to know what I was thinking based on the look she gave me before she backed off "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone what you are since I look out after my students but know that I'm keeping my eye on you."

Hearing that, I visibly relaxed before excusing myself and heading to where I knew Asagi was waiting for me, I was finally able to beat her and I'm planning on expanding my winning streak.

I was coming out of the school building when I noticed Asagi sitting at a table typing something on her phone. Making my way over to her and sitting down across from her she looked up to me and briefly gave me a small smile.

"So what did Natsuki-chan want from you?"

Deciding to go with a quick lie I replied "Just some problem with my living quarters, since I forgot to register my new home I was still officially living in Europe." Seeing her nod and setting up a chessboard I was glad that she seemed to accept my answer since I completely forgot to think of a good excuse.

As we were playing we had our usual smalltalk, until she seemed to remember something "Oh yeah, did you hear the news, apparently there is some murderer on the loose that is specifically targeting vampires, just today they reported another 2 victims though one of them was a therianthrope, probably just some unlucky passerby. The police haven't found any evidence apart from the corpses and the obvious destruction of the surrounding."

"Hoo, so someone is specifically targeting vampires, that's quite dangerous so I find it hard to believe that it's just some random murderer, vampires aren't by any means weak, even young ones could still give a small squad of soldiers trouble and since you said that there was collateral damage at the crime scene it wasn't a sneak attack meaning that our murderer was fighting his victims head on. People that have the skill to do that usually don't kill vampires simply for doing it, and considering that apart from the corpses and destruction there isn't any evidence as to who is responsible I would say that its more likely the work of a professional if not a small group of people" Though what would one accomplish by doing that? I doubt it's just for the sake of killing vampires. Maybe someone just wants to show to the world that they are strong enough to take down every vampire on this island, well he is welcome to try anyways, it's been getting somewhat boring lately even with Asagi around so I would welcome a small challenge.

"You seem to know a lot about things like that." At Asagis accusing glance I simply shrugged before replying "Not really, it's just a matter of looking at the situation from a logical perspective, that and I have been watching some crime series to alleviate my boredom ever since I came to this Island."

"I see, so you are saying that I'm boring you and you prefer your movies over me" At that I just glared at her before replying "Don't get me wrong, I quite enjoy spending time with you, it's simply the rest of the day that's boring"

Asagi smiled at me again "Then how about you accompany me shopping tomorrow?"

I raised an eyebrow and smirked "Are you asking me on a date or do you simply need a pack mule?"

She stuttered for a second and you could see a small tint of red on her cheeks before she composed herself and glared at me "You know exactly what I mean."

I was about to tease her further by saying that it's a date but decided to spare her and accepted her offer since I didn't really have anything to do and I never visited the mall before anyways.

As Kojou was walking down the street at night he suddenly heard an explosion followed by screams in the distance. Having nothing better to do he decided to investigate. Turning into a golden mist he disappeared and reappeared on top of a tower looking down on the scene below him.

Below you could see a vampire with his familiar fighting two silhouettes that were obscured by the fire the familiar in the form of a phoenix caused.

Suddenly the flames focused on a single point and Kojou could see a small girl with blue hair and eyes who had a single transparent white arm growing out of her back, said arm was currently absorbing the flames.

"What the fuck, why does that girl have a familiar? She isn't a vampire that familiar should kill her." Taking a look at the second figure he noticed that pieces of armor that showed through his black cloak, he also had a monocle covering one of his eyes. "Wait! That weapon, why is a combat deacon from Lotharingia here? However, that would explain the little girl, she is probably a homunculus with a familiar transplanted into her, that way she would at least survive a few months."

His eyes focused back on the actual fight when he noticed that the homunculus girl now completely absorbed all the phoenixes energy making it disappear. "What a dangerous familiar, I will have to look out for that if I ever get into a fight with them" Seeing the fight nearing its end Kojou decided to leave before he gets detected, though not before shooting the combat deacon a last glance.

And that's it for this chapter.

Sorry that I didn't get much done but I was busy in real life.

Till next time