138 You have demons on your fast dial!? (1/2)

Before Linri could explain anything else Leslie grabbed him by the collar and punched him in the face. Today there was a lot of punching going around. Weird.

\”What the fuck did you just say?\” Leslie was fuming with anger. Her face was contorted. Right, she had a trauma about demon summonings. Six got ready to lunge at Leslie but Linri signalled him to stop.

\”I deserved that, I definitely deserved. But can you let me go first? I was talking about a different kind. An astral projection to be exact. I am sure that Baal must have given him an incantation to summon his image in here when Tory is done with his mission. We are going to use that so not a summoning in the literal sense, am I right Tory?\”

Of course, this was totally Linri's own speculations from reading lots of myths and most importantly light novels. In the club, Tory never killed Brie as Diego didn't want to do it and especially make Spark angry. Still, that didn't mean that he was going to take any chances. Linri wanted to nip the bud and destroy his killing intent in the first place. Well, worst comes to worst he can still kill him in The Game event so it wouldn't even matter if he failed.

Tory was still laughing unaware of the question he was just asked. Linri had managed to break his will. Too bad he didn't try to commit suicide like Zero.

Jaime stabbed him in the shoulder when he didn't answer.

\”Do. You. Know. Of. A. Way.To. Summon. Baal's. Shadow\” said Jaime while twisting her katana. Woah, things went dark pretty quick.

Tory woke up from his crazed state and started to scream in pain.

\”Yes, Yes I do. So get the sword out of me please!\” Tory begged Jaime. She pulled out her sword and blood splattered everywhere. Damn, it was going to be hard to clean it off from the carpet.

\”Wait, wait. Don't start just yet. I know I was the one to come up with the plan but it is too dangerous to just trust him\”

\”What do you suggest then?\” Luke asked.

\”Let me make a phone call and talk invite the old pervert Richard here. He is a dark mage so he should be more experienced when it-\”

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

Linri was creeped out by the coincidence. WTF! Don't tell me that just calling his name summoned Richard here? After all, TBB was known to pop out with his characters when their names were mentioned.

Linri slowly walked towards the door and opened to see... nothing? He looked left and right but there was no one in the hallway.

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

Holy Jesus Christ Mary and Josef! Where in the bloody hell is this knocking coming from?

\”Boss I think it was the window\” said Lance and went to open it.

Richard pulled himself up from the ledge and crawled inside the room. He dusted his clothes before speaking.

\”What's up? I heard someone mentioning my name- Oh dang, are you guys thinking about murdering this poor little soul?\” said Richard after noticing Tory in the chair with a bloody wound on his shoulder.

\”Look, kid. I know your mom and I are tight but I can't just cover up a murder just because we are fellow gentleman\” Linri just rolled his eyes to Richard's remark.

\”Nope, no murder going on here even though I thought about it. Before giving me a look for admitting it I have to remind you where the other half of my blood is coming from. Anyway, what the hell was that? Are you like freaking Bloody Mary? Appearing out of nowhere just because I mentioned your name?\”

\”Come on don't be like that! She is a good kid. Here, how about I arrange a meeting with her? I think you can be great friends! You haven't heard it from me but she is kinda lonely and needs friends. She still hasn't adapted to the school life in here\”

A pocket mirror materialised in Richard's hand.

\”Bloody Mary. Bloody Mary. Bloody Mary\”

...

Nothing happened which disappointed him. Also, why didn't he remember a character designed after her? Was she also one of the characters that were just created and forgotten afterwards?

A claw jumped out of the mirror in Richard's hand! Richard dropped the mirror onto the ground and Mary slowly crawled through the mirror. Her face was covered by her long black hair and she was wearing a white long dress.

\”You called for me principal?\” said Mary before inspecting the room.

\”Do you want me to toss the body into the glass dimension?\” she said after pointing towards the Tory who was about to pass out. He never imagined that his day would turn out like this. Just what kind of a crazy-ass place was this? They were summoning demons left and right. If Tory was scared for his life before now he was scared for his soul. Yes, they were going to torture him for eternity. He shouldn't have come here.

Tory passed out in the chair and foam started to come from his mouth.

*Smack* *Smack*

\”Hey. Hey! Wake up!\” Linri slapped him awake.