"S-Sairaorg!? What are you doing wearing that ridiculous costume!?" Sona demanded, a burning anger simmering due to the man's actions.
He should know better!
"Ah...well I was advertising the sale of apples for my clan, which would hopefully pave the way for the creation of a new branch in Kuoh Town." Sairaorg claimed, looking somewhat sheepish under the apple.
The Sitri heiress looked entirely unconvinced by his words, turning to Rias for confirmation of his words.
"Unfortunately, the Bael clan does indeed have a thriving apple industry. Though the merits of trying to advertise apples with that costume is...'off' to put it lightly." Rias stated dryly, clearly unimpressed with the Bael heir's efforts.
The muscular man just laughed. "Ah! Critical as always Rias! I'd like to think that spreading the word one way or another could increase sales, especially when playing my role as the 'Bapple'!"
Akeno looked on in curiosity. "Bapple? What's a bapple?"
Sairaorg turned to Akeno, grinning despite the fact that she couldn't see his grin. "If you put Bael and apple together...you get...?"
No one responded, nothing needed to be said about the name that wasn't already obvious.
The apple was about to say something else, but instead he turned around and glanced towards the sky.
"Apologies, but my duel with Gama-tan is still underway. He's truly a worthy opponent! I haven't felt this alive in a long time! We will see each other again, Rias!" Sairaorg bellowed, as he bent his knees to jump into the air with his incredible strength.
Sona, alarmed, stretched her arm towards him. "No, wait! Your fight is destroying the-!"
The apple jumped out of the ORC club room, ascending to the sky in order to clash with the frog again.
The three girls raced towards the hole in the ceiling, watching as the apple smashed against another figure that was heading towards them. Changing their course in mid-air and sending them crashing into the nearby forest.
"...Was that a frog?" the Sitri heiress asked calmly, regarding the two figures falling to the earth before they completely fell out of her line of sight.
"I think so." the queen of the Gremory group maintained, looking slightly amused if anything.
Up until she personally gets affected by these events, she would be able to breeze past them with relative ease. She was simply that kind of person.
Both black-haired girls stopped watching the sky after they both saw Rias collapse in their peripheral vision however.
"Rias? Are you ok?" Sona asked urgently, leaning close to make sure that her physical well-being was alright.
The red-head didn't say anything for a moment, only staring blankly at the floor under her.
"...My shuriken..." she whispered brokenly.
Ah...right...those things were on top of her desk, weren't they?
"...Why? It was so beautiful...how could something so terrible happen to priceless artifacts? Is it my fault? Is the world taking out it's frustration against me by destroying old weapons of the past? It happened so fast..." Rias muttered out loud, eyes clouded in grief.
Sona felt a sweat-drop forming, she was taking this rather hard...
"Ara ara...she seems to have formed a bond with the shuriken, hm?" Akeno stated with interest, watching her king fall into depression with a literal storm cloud forming over her head.
How cute.
Right at that moment, the front door slammed open with several teens pouring inside.
"We came as fast as we could! Is everyone alright?" Issei said as he entered the club room, alarmed at the damage done to the building.
"Mostly, we aren't physically harmed, but Rias is somewhat...upset at the loss of her favorite toys." Sona explained, a deadpanned expression prevalent on her face.
As the pawn entered the room, Mio quickly rushed past him and knelt to Rias' eye-level. "She seems shell-shocked..."
"I think that's an apt description." Akeno agreed, chuckling slightly.
"More importantly!" Maria shouted as she entered the room as well. "Where's the...uh...'toad' and the apple? We were just in the forest, so we couldn't really see where they ran off to."
Sona blinked. "I'm pretty sure that's a frog..."
"Yeah, I thought so too. But it calls itself; 'Gama-tan'." Issei remembered, scratching his chin lightly.
Mio glanced at the others warily, were they really unaware that 'Gama-tan' was actually Naruto? Was everyone really that stupid? It was pretty obvious, even if the blond didn't tell anyone...
Ah well, maybe it was best to leave that information out for now.
"By the way, that 'apple' you keep referring to is actually Sairaorg of the Bael clan." Sona explained quickly, glancing back up to the hole in the ceiling.
Issei frowned, turning to look at the silverette behind him.
She just shrugged.
He then glanced back to the student council president. "...Who's that?"
The Sitri heiress' eyebrow just twitched in annoyance, did Rias not explain this already?
"Ah...we made it." stated Yuuto as he carried Asia on his back, finally catching up with the rest of the group.
"Is Gama-tan here? I was hoping to see him, maybe I can talk him down?" Asia wondered while on the knight's back, glancing around the club room.
Before anyone could answer, Mio finally stood back up and glared at everyone present. "Hello!?"
Everyone except the still shell-shocked Gremory turned to the half-devil in confusion.
"I'm sure everyone wants to relay what's happened to them recently, but don't we still have a frog and an apple to deal with!? Can we please focus?" Mio cried out, annoyed.
Sona coughed, a pink tint to her cheeks. "Of course...yes. Let's all go and forcefully break the two up. I suppose we should-"
"SAIRAORG!"
Everyone jumped slightly, eyes growing wide as they regarded the suddenly energetic Rias stand up and bellow the Bael heir's name.
"I can take a bit of extra work...I can take the vandalism of my school...I can take the ravaging of my club room...! But you do NOT screw with my hobby!" Rias shouted, teeth grinding and eyes flaring with red-black miasma as it eventually enveloped her body.
"Oh dear...it seems that Rias is taking this seriously..." Akeno mused, getting so much amusement out of this that she forgot to refer to her friend with proper terms.
Rias glared towards the sky. "Both Sairaorg and Gama-tan won't get away with this! They will feel the pain that they caused me when they killed my shuriken!"
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