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Nicolas quickly finished eating and walked out the room right after Yulma. For some odd reason he truly found it pleasing to just annoy her. Maybe it was it devilish side kicking in, although demons had become much more civilized over the centuries. "Are you disappointed that I didn't kiss you?" he teased her as he managed somehow to catch up to her. He did have long legs due to his height so he could reach longer distances in less time.

Teachers and students that happened to be around looked at them both wondering what sort of relationship they had since they always seemed to be talking or somehow ended up being together. Nicolas paid no attention to it since it was rather irrelevant to address any sort of comments or rumors about them. Why address something that isn't, right? Anyways, the guy smirked as he asked that to Yulma and placed one hand on his pocket as he walked along side her. "I bet you'd like that, wouldn't you? Heh." he teased some more. Of course he had no intention of kissing her but he was, once again, merely teasing her. Teasing and flirting were natural things for him as a demon. His classroom and the library were on the same side of the school so both of them heading the same way was technically no surprise.

Yulma's remark only made Nicolas chuckle more. "Oh, you break my heart Ms. Dante. But I shall not give up!" he teased some more, giving her a small teasing glare as he turned left on the hall to head to his classroom. Some of the students who had heard them were already whispering about them too.

Once in his classroom, Nicolas took out one of his demon books and began reading some of the information. It was in his demon language so no one would be able to understand it. As he read from it, he took notes on a piece of papers and highlight the important things. The paper had things written on it that some would recognize, like some teacher's names. Nicolas had jotted down some of the possible candidates that were guilty for all the souls going into hell. So far, Nicolas has had no luck finding who the real culprit it. It was truly getting on his nerves seeing how the prince of hell was getting a little anxious with it. Nicolas was working his best on the case but so far there was no luck. He still knew too little about the rest of the teachers to make any sort of assumption. There were some who were a little too strange, but nothing more. In all honesty, it was getting Nicolas a little frustrated as well that this case was taking longer than he had initially had desired or expected.

Soon he had to place his things away since students were arriving for class. The rest of the day went smoothly, until the last minute of class of the day when one of the students, one of the more direct students, asked out of nowhere, "Mr. Curteanu, are you and Miss Dante dating? We saw you earlier..." the student teased. Nicolas chuckled sarcastically at his student's comment, not taking him too seriously, but then he realized that the rest of the class was looking at him with a serious and confused face. "Oh, you were serious? I'm afraid you are mistaken. We are not a couple nor do I intend to date her. Now, instead of meddling in my life, why don't you worry more about studying for tomorrow's quiz?" he said as he looked up to see the class. Everyone sighed and then groaned not sure what to take by his answer since clearly it had seemed very different earlier when they had seen Nicolas and Yulma talking... Either way, the bell soon rang and the students were dismissed for the day. Nicolas just sighed and packed his things away on his bag. He had wanted to leave in such a hurry that he forgot to pack away his paper with the teacher's names and the gibberish he wrote in demon language. He also forgot to lock the door to his classroom and even left it half open on his way out.

Nicolas had already been on his way out of school when suddenly by the school's entrance a demon had appeared. He appeared to have been waiting for Nicolas to be precise. "Azazel,... Ce?" Nicolas asked as he stopped walking to look at the other demon. The other demon smirked and and narrowed his eyes at him. His eyes were golden and there was no humanity in them... "De ce crezi? A fost de trei săptămâni și nu ați fost în stare să raporteze orice." replied the guy with a harsh voice now. His eyes fixing on Nicolas. Nicolas frowned and raised his voice as well, he was not going to let the Prince's personal assistant intimidate him. "Atât de disperată este prințul? Chiar pretind a avea încredere în mine. Nu sunt multe indicii pentru a cine este responsabil ..." he replied.

"Apoi grăbiți pentru că dacă nu, voi avea grijă. Bai pula bleaga." he said as he took a step forward towards Nicolas and glared at him in a challenging way. It was clear, even to those who didn't know them, that they didn't get along. Never had they gotten along, but it was for another personal matter that happened a couple of years ago. Anyways, as soon as he was done saying and doing that, the demon, Azazel, snapped his fingers and vanished. As soon as he left, there was a strong smell of sulfur and ashes in the hall. Nicolas frowned more and sighed, rushing his hands through his hair and standing in silence for a moment before he opened the door and exited the school. The guy had just come to annoy him, Nicolas was sure of that. If the prince had a problem with the time then Nicolas was sure that he would've told him something personally. Nicolas was so bothered by Azazel's presence that he had forgotten to verify if anyone had been around hearing their conversation or seeing what had just happened.





[Translation:
Nicolas: "Azazel,.... What?"
Azazel: "Why do you think? Three weeks have already passed and you still haven't reported anything."
Nicolas: "So desperate is the prince? At least pretend to have faith in me. There aren't many clues as to who is responsible..."
Azazel: "Then hurry up or else I'll take charge of it. (The last word is a profanity but I don't know how to translate it.)"]

After leaving the school, Nicolas headed straight to his apartment. He had forgotten to feed Lily, his pet cat whom he cared for very much. Unlike his dark appearance, Lily was a white cat who was actually very friendly. Upon opening the door to his apartment, Lily was already by the entrance waiting for him. She purred a little and then walked outside all down the hall.

"Lily! Come back here! I got your food!" he called as he raised a bag with cat food in cans. He had made a stop by a store around the corner to buy Lily the food she liked. "Lily..." he said sighing some more. Nicolas placed the bag down and began trying to get Lily to come to him. He even began meowing at her in hopes that it would work. The cat only ran around purring more. She apparently was enjoying the long hallway of the apartment. Some of the people who passed by chuckled and giggled at the sight. Some knew what it meant to have pets and how it could be a hassle at times.

Nicolas rubbed the back of his head wondering where his cat really could've have gone. Lily was fast and loved hiding so that wasn't helping at all. "Why would she run away...? She'll be back the moment she gets hungry." he thought with a sigh. He decided to keep the door to his apartment open in case Lily decided to come back.

He went straight into the kitchen and began preparing some food for himself as well. He was used to living alone so he knew how to cook. Sure, he wasn't some sort of culinary genius, but he knew his way around the kitchen which was good enough at least for him. Never had he had to take care of anyone else so he figured that as long as he was fine with his way of living and his cooking abilities, then he was good to go. The guy prepared some fetuccine Alfredo for lunch seeing how those were the only ingredients he had at home for now. He was pretty sure that since he left the door open, Lily would walk into the apartment after smelling the food. "Meow!" Lily purred as she quickly began running to Nicolas's apartment. Since the door was open she had no problem getting in.

Nicolas heard the little footsteps rushing into the kitchen, so right away he knew it was Lily. "There you are little traitor. Why you leave the place? And here I got you your favorite food. Tcht." he said with a friendly smirk as he got down on his knees and petted gently his animal friend, Lily. It was surprising to see how attached Nicolas had gotten to a stray cat he found a couple of years ago. The guy really treated Lily with respect and care. "There you go. Now, I need to get you a bell for your collar for next time you decide to run off." he sighed while placing the plate with food for Lily on the floor, next to the water for her as well.

Nicolas made sure to close the door of his apartment once Lily was inside. After eating, it seemed like Lily wanted to take a nap on top of Nicolas's bed... like always. Nicolas never complaint about that. He let the cat do whatever she wanted unless it was destroying some sort of furniture, papers, or anything relatively important. Anyways, while Lily slept, Nicolas walked out of his apartment and headed towards the big window down the corridor. He could see that it had started raining really hard today. He sighed and admired the rain falling.

He just started to think about all the things that he had to turn in to hell soon. The guy had to report his progress, but... there was no progress. What was he supposed to report? If what Azazel happened to be true, which Nicolas highly doubted, then he knew it wouldn't be easy to just pop back into hell. The Prince would demand answers. It was just a little frustrating...

Yulma's voice snapped Nicolas out of his thoughts and made him focus back on reality. He turned around and looked at Yulma, a snicker sneaking out of him. It was almost like a reflex every time he saw her. "And if I get sick then you'll come visit me and take care of me because you'll miss me?" he teased her as he got out of the rain. I didn't even realize I was getting wet. Nicolas thought as he felt the little water droplets falling from his hair. Sighing, he returned to go back to his apartment to change clothes. Lily was still sleeping peacefully on his bed, which made Nicolas just smiled and walked outside again, but this time taking an umbrella.

Maybe I can get Yulma to speak up about the teachers. She's been here longer than I have. Maybe she knows about strange things happening around one of them. It was all part of getting clues so he figured it wouldn't hurt to get a little help. It's not like she would know why he was doing it or anything else. The tricky part about this was doing it without her getting suspicious of anything. Sighing, the guy quickly hurried down the street trying to see if he could find Yulma anywhere, but he couldn't. Giving up, he decided that he might as well go one of the stores nearby and just buy some dark chocolate for himself and maybe just look around. He had nothing better to do for the rest of the day anyways until tomorrow.

Nicolas looked around the store quite absent minded. He did, however, carry some dark chocolate and chocolate turtles on his basket. The guy was a sucker for those things. He even figured he should buy a treat for Lily and perhaps something for Yulma as well, but only to let her know that all his teasing and annoying habits he does them just for fun and not to actually be in bad terms with her. Plus, if he wanted to get her help, he would need to be in actual good terms with her. "What do women actually like...?" he actually said that out loud as he looked around even more thinking of what he should get for Yulma. It was good thing he didn't say out loud for whom he was trying to get the small gift, otherwise Yulma might've heard seeing they were at the same store, just that neither of them had realized it yet.