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Bern:
Lily
"Please don't tease them so much sensei...." Lily walked in and bowed before the class with a spellbinding grace. Her movements was like a performance right out of a movie, nah even that wasn't quite enough to explain how she moved. It was the perfect harmony between all parts, so fluent it was, that she appeared to have moved halfway across the classroom in a single step. Then she bowed to the class while making sure to hold her skirt so it didn't slide up anymore. "Most people can't really handle the presence of Succubi royalty their first time, especially not a bunch of virgins..."
She grinned a waved to them. "Hi.... My name is Lily, I'm the daughter of Overlord Elizabeth and second in line to the throne. Pleased to meet you all! I hope we can all have a pleasant time together, but first I'd like to set down some ground rules..." Her smile didn't change at all, but the tone of her voice dropped a bit. If this was meant to be threatening it kinda failed though, as she went from sounding like a cheerful young school girl, to a sultry mature woman who was begging to get laid.
"I know my presence is a bit overwhelming, so it's okay for y'all to look at me as much as you want, but if you feel like groping me.... Then ask me first, I'm not always in the mood..." The redhead made it sound like she was gonna beat them all up for it, only to subvert it in the end and green lit it all.
Kotomine_Rin:
Lawrence
Oh? What a fascinating response. A wave of murmurs, embarrassed glances, and flustered faces soon washed over the classroom. And who could blame them? Being in the presence of such a high-rank demon would make anyone swoon, let alone royalty.
But Elizabeth's second herself? Even Lawrence had to express some surprise at the boldness.
"Ahem."
At least, until he realized Phenex staring wide-eyed behind him, with an expression that pretty much mirrored every student. A glare was all it took to get the elemental to stop, and it twirled into a wave of flame before vanishing. And with a dramatic thud of his cane, Lawrence spoke up once more.
"As you're aware, diplomatic tensions can be shakey at times. However, I will not ask you to treat our new student with royal authority. What I expect is for each of you to be decent, and include her in our group as one of our own. After all, no matter your background or origin, these halls view all as equals. We all share the same desire to learn."
And so they shall. So they shall.
With a reptilian smile, Lawrence snapped his fingers and conjured his Grail king from the depths of his coat. Pulling along the various tomes and bags he carried along, he lifted them up to his main desk. Strange clockwork devices, spherical arcaneums, tomes of old, and other scholarly apparel were laid bare before all.
"Please, take a seat Lily. Wherever you like. Our class shall begin posthaste. Welcome, to Campus Town's Life Force Mysticalities 101."
Really? Couldn't you come up with a better name?
Oh hush you.
Bern:
Lily
"Alrighty-"
The redhead strutted over to the front row, shamelessly showing off her legs and her hips to the whole class. And when she finally claimed a seat and sat down, her panties were flashed for just a moment. They were quite indecent, and not something you'd expect anyone to wear to class, but not that strange considering what she was. The school dress code sure was designed by perverts though, she didn't mind though, not when she could feed freely on this much latent lust.
"Excuse me Sensei, but is puling out a bunch of junk actually necessary? I can't detect a hint of mana in any of those, are you actually a conman?"
Kotomine_Rin:
Lawrence
"Absolutely." He nodded wryly as he finished neatly putting everything on his table. Indeed, it was as she said - a fact which only made the other students more confused. For no one could sense the tiniest sliver of magic or mana from these strange items.
Some shot worried looks at Lily. Talking about their teacher like that... that was bound to get them in trouble... right?
They never saw him smile like this. Gloomy as he was, it almost looked wrong.
"These may look like mere baubles and trinkets, but they will be essential for today's lesson." With a deliberate wave of his cane, he dragged the attention to each and every one. "There are many ways to manipulate life. I do believe necromancy is a popular facet of this science... but there are untapped surfaces begging to be touched and explored. That is why I'm here."
He took a few steps down his podium, and ominously walked down the rows of desks. His eye wasn't shimmering whatsoever, it was almost sucking the very tension into this room.
"But first, I'd like to ask you all a question. What does it mean to be alive?" He turned his sharp gaze to one of the male students, who was inadvertedly staring at the newcomer more eagerly than most.
"You."
The student
He nearly jolted, and had to shake his way back into focus. "Wuh uh uhhh..." Right, um, life classes. That's where they were. It was kind of obvious, he didn't really think they'd start with something so obvious.
"Uhhh, well your heart's still beating and you're here. Right? I mean, it's obvious if someone's alive or not."
The air grew a little tenser at the answer, the teacher was almost deliberately quiet. Was he trying to make the answer squirm out of him?
Just before it got unbearable, he spoke. Or rather, someone.
The burning bird cackled and circled the classroom, like a wild carrion.
"Duuuuuh. Of course that'd make you alive - most of the time anyway. But there's plenty of gizmos that don't have an actual body or that don't follow conventional rules like that. What if you had a golem and pumped it with lotsa juice from a battery? Would that make it alive?"
Lawrence smiled. "Under normal circumstances, you'd be correct. But this world isn't so conventional. To truly manipulate life, you must understand it intimately. Now then, what is the difference between the dead and the living?"
Bern:
Lily
The redhead answered the question quickly with an almost bored inflection to her voice, this was pretty rudimentary stuff and not even more than the absolute core of this subject matter, or rather it was just pure philosophy. Despite her bored looking demeanor she was actually feeling quite invigorated though as she had quite the supply of lustful atmosphere to siphon off from here.
"The difference is self awareness sir. I think therefore I am, and the truly dead don't think. That is why the "undead" are technically part of the living and not the dead. Just because something moves doesn't mean it's alive either though, a golem may be animated but if it lacks any higher functions then it's just an extension of the caster's will and therefore not alive." she paused just long enough for everyone to keep up. She hadn't been an instructor herself for nothing, and talking for too long uninterrupted was a great way to ensure that your students didn't catch it all.
"On the other hand, someone's soul may been stuffed inside an inanimate object like a doll, in which case that doll is now alive."
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