That morning, Kiara was sitting at her desk staring out her window. The teacher's voice fading into the background as she though about the night before.

Kiara's mind wasn't on the results or how she did on the exam, no, instead it was on the exam itself. She had talked to Mephisto about what had happened— apparently to the exorcists watching, she had just froze where she stood, when she was suddenly transported into the void— Mephisto wrote it off as a response to the fear from the sudden ghoul attack. Some believed it while others were skeptical. He told Kiara to be careful when talking to the professors. Their conversation led to Kiara reporting on what exactly happened to her— when she mentioned the name of the man Mephisto had visibly tensed up. There was something about that man, he was so similar to Kiara.

He can't be my dad, right? Last I heard he was beaten by exorcists and sealed away in Gehenna with all his strength stripped away. There's no way that he could make any contact with anyone in Assiah. She thought. She had bugged Mephisto about him when she was twelve. He ended up telling her about both her parents— not a lot, but enough to satisfy her twelve year old self.

She knew her dad was a complete demon, Mephisto hadn't gone into details about him specifically he just said that he was a powerful demon feared in both Gehenna and Assiah. And her mother was the only person that could get close to him.

"-iara, Kiara!" A voice called, snapping the girl out of her thoughts. She blinked and looked up, seeing Bon standing over her desk, the two of them, along with Konekomaru and Shima were in the same class in the academy so most days after school they walked to the cram school together.

"Sorry. Got lost in thought." She said, shoving her notebook into the bag. "Time to head out?"

"Yeah, and we'd better hurry, they're giving us our exam result back." Konekomaru said.

***

Not too long after she got to her cram classroom, Kiara found herself standing in front of Mephisto.

"Eins, Zwie, Drei!" He exclaimed, starting off with his usual catchphrase. "Congratulations to you all for being promoted to Exwires!"

"All Right!" Bon cheered.

Kiara looked around to see everyone celebrating, even she was celebrating a bit. It was nice to know that everyone had passed— Though how Yamada and Takara passed was going to be a mystery to her.

"Now then, to celebrate your promotion," He started again and Kiara looked at him, knowing exactly what he was going to say next. "I shall treat you to a fest of monja!"

Kiara fought a rising groan, listening as her classmates complained.

"Only monja, huh?" Bon asked.

"At least make it a barbecue!" Rin complained.

"You're asking a guy who eats ramen two meals a day for something fancier?" Kiara scoffed, "Honestly, lower your expectations."

"You're talkin' as if you knew this was coming." Rin said, looking at Kiara.

"I did know. It's not that hard when you've know the guy as well as I do."

"You what?" Rin freaked, looking at Kiara with wide eyes.

"You mean to tell me you personally know the director?" Shima asked, looking at Kiara with a horrified look on his face.

"Unfortunately yes."

Mephisto grinned, "Now kiddies! Let's all have a feast!"

Later that evening, Kiara was sitting around a small barbecue, the smell of monja making it's way to her nose. Her stomach growled and she realized that she hadn't really eaten anything today other than an apple at lunch. She was growing kind of impatient with waiting for it too cook, and she watched as both both Mephisto and Yukio had broke off from the group and to exchange a few words. After Yukio returned, Kiara looked to see that Mephisto was talking on his phone, his back towards the group. It didn't take long after Yukio got back that the Monja was cooked.

"It looks like it's done!" Bon said, reaching for some monja to put on his place

"Let's dig in!" Rin exclaimed.

"Three, two-" Kiara started looking towards Mephisto and watching as he turned towards them, a panicked look on his face.

"Hold it kiddies! Don't start without me!"

***

After a while, everyone had eaten their fill and were chatting with each other. Kiara was watching Mephisto freak because Rin Took one of his top three monjas.

"I don't care if you're the director of the academy, when it comes to eating it's first come first serve!" Rin proclaimed, biting into the monja as tears rolled down Mephisto's cheeks at the loss of one of his favorite monjas.

"You're so pathetic." Kiara said, getting the attention of the clown.

"Don't be like that!" Mephisto said, "You know how much I love that type of monja!" He motioned towards Rin, who had just finished the last bite.

Kiara looked him dead in the eye and took a bite of the monja that was still in her bowl— one she knew to be his top favorite. "Yeah, and?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

"You truly are cruel." Mephisto said.

"And you truly are an annoyance! Glad to see we're on similar pages!" She said, unaware of the looks she was getting from Bon, Shima, and Konekomaru.

***

Later that night, Kiara found herself walking back from the supply shop, apparently Mephisto didn't appreciate her stunt of eating his favorite monja earlier and right after everyone left, he sent her to the supply shop to run an errand he was too lazy to do himself.

She stood in front of the doors to his office briefly before opening them and seeing that he was sitting at his desk, a pile of paperwork laying in front of him. It was obvious to Kiara that he was not happy. When she stepped inside he looked up at her, a look of relief appearing on his face

"Kiara dear! What do I owe this visit?" Mephisto asked, seeming to sparkle slightly.

"You were the one who sent me to the supplies shop." Kiara grumbled, walking towards his desk and placing the bag of supplies on his desk. "Now, can I go back to my dorm now?"

"Ah, not yet, I have one more thing."

"Don't tell me you need me to go to the grocery store to get you more ramen." Kiara said, looking at the man with annoyance. "You couldn't of gone through that thirty pack in just two days-"

"No, no, it's nothing like that! I reviewed your file and noticed that you were going to try to become a Knight as well as a Tamer."

"Well, yeah. There's no meister for punching demons in the face. So a Knight is the next best thing. Besides, I don't want my familiar to do all the fighting for me." She shrugged.

"If you're going to be a Knight, that staff I gave you won't cut it." He said.

"What do you mean?" She asked. And in a poof a smoke something appeared in Mephisto's hand, a long package tied up with white string. Kiara looked at it dangling with slight confusion.

Mephisto smiled, "Congratulations on passing." He said.

Kiara took the package, looking from it to Mephisto, who just gave her a smirk. She started ripping the paper off, her eyes widening in shock when she saw what he had just given her.

In her hands was a sword, the blade curved slightly near the tip and was a dark ebony color with thin lines of gold wrapping and criss crossing through the length of the blade. The hilt of the sword was thin, and near the middle there was scripture written in golden lettering. Above the lettering there was a circle of gold just large enough for someone to place their thumb in the middle. Bouncing it in her hand, Kiara noticed that the overall feel of the blade was pretty light.

"No thanks is needed, It's the least I could do for you to celebrate your passing of the exam." He said, waving his hand dismissively. "Oh, I suggest you place your thumb in that little circle on the hilt for a surprise."

Kiara looked at the hilt and placed her thumb in the middle and the sword glowed before starting to shrink, leaving a necklace siting in the palm of her hand. The blade had turned into a ebony snake charm, about the same length of her pinkie. On the head of a snake there was a small golden circle with a dot in the middle. She hesitated for a second before putting it on.

"That weapon comes from a very strong exorcist. She has no use for it anymore so I have decided to pass it on to you, where it can be used to it's full potential." Mephisto said. "I trust you to take care of it."

Kiara nodded, "Of course." And with that, she walked out of the office.