"You just need to be my weapon! What's so repulsive with that?"

Ignore.

"In fact you should be thankful that I am willing to take you as my weapon."

Ignore.

"Foolish human." Aria murmured.

Aidan had been fed up with her persistent rants about him supposedly happy that she was willing to be his Meister. Like heck?! He hated her so damn much and she casually says that? Who in their right mind would entrust their safety and life to their hateful nemesis?

"Argh! Would you shut up already?!" Aidan exclaimed in a loud voice that attracted a lot of the students' attention.

Aidan looked around and clicked his tongue before he turned around and headed back to their classroom.

"Why do you hate having a Meister so much?" Aria asked that made Aidan halt on his steps.

"I.. It's none of your concern." Aidan just brushed and continued to walk away and left Aria behind.

Aria watched his back mingle and blended into the crowd. She pondered on that brief moment of hesitation to answer her question. There's definitely a reason to him not having a Meister and she's gonna find it out one way or another. She followed after him when the bells chimed and returned to their classroom.

Soon after, a man with a crazed look on his eyes who wore lab coat came in and sat on the teacher's table. He scanned the room and immediately stopped on Aria, who looked bored as hell.

"You are.. hmmm.. Devonshire." Jin murmured as he scanned the list he was given and looked back to Aria.

She had this mesmerizing aura around her that draws everyone to her. He found it peculiar and beautiful at the same time. Now, Professor Jin had this rare gift of being able to see the person's soul. He looked into Aria's soul and saw a picture of a young girl- most probably her- curled into a ball with large chains surrounding her.. as if locking her inside.

When Jin stopped "peeping" into Aria's soul, he found her staring intently at him with a dangerous glint to her cerulean orbs. Seems she knew what he did and she didn't like it.

Oho~? Now, isn't she scary?

Jin thought to himself, adjusted his glasses and cleared his throat.

"I assume everyone here has a partner already?" He inquired.

Partner?

Aria thought and scrunched her eyebrows. She didn't know that everyone had to go and find partners! No one mentioned anything to her! What was it for? And why the heck would she need to have a partner? She was beyond capable of handling things alone! She need not have one.

A chorus of 'Yes' was heard but both Aidan and Aria were the only ones who answered 'No'. They both looked at each other before Aidan just brushed her off coolly. Really. Him and his attitude problems.

"Oh? Why don't you two pair up then? You're a weapon class, right Aidan? Why don't you pair up with Aria who's a Meister class?" Jin suggested. Aria perked up at this.

"That's right, Aidan! See? Even that person is telling you to just be my weapon!" Aria beamed, rather a bit happy upon hearing Professor Jin's suggestion.

"First, don't refer to him as 'that person'. He's Prof. Jin. Next, no, thank you." Aidan answered her as brief as he could.

"Professor! He rejected my proposal!" Aria announced that shocked Aidan.

"Yo-You..!"

"Ooh? What's this? You're rejecting such a beautiful young girl, Aidan?" Jin teased and adjusted his glasses with a smirk.

"N-No.. Tha-That is.. Professor Jin! I can fight fine! I don't need a Meister at all!" Aidan reasoned.

"See? He's rejecting me!" Aria, once again, piped in.

"You! Stop saying such misleading things!" Aidan scolded.

"Well, why don't you try it then, Aidan? After all, she's throwing herself to you. Maybe it won't be too bad." Jin suggested.

"'Th-Throw herself' huh?" Aidan repeated quietly and sweat-dropped. He turned to Aria and saw her already waiting for his next action.

Aidan closed his eyes before he glowed and transformed fully into a scythe. Aria easily caught him as she wielded him oh so gracefully, swiftly and magnificently. It was a shock how she can synchronize with him so well.

"Ooh~!" Jin cheered and applauded for them, as everyone did the same. "It was just on a whim but the way you swing him around feels like you've known each other for so long!"

"Well, Aidan's surprisingly light. Somehow, wielding him feels right." Aria commented and swung Aidan's scythe some more before she let him return to his human appearance.

"How about it, Aidan? Still don't want a Meister?" Jin asked and adjusted his glasses as he narrowed his eyes, staring at Aidan's hesitant figure.

"No." he answered briefly after a short pause and a sigh.

He shoved his hands on his pocket and sat back on his chair. Aria shook her head lightly at this before she, herself, took a seat as well.

"Guess, I can't force you.. Well then everyone today we'll be talking about dissection again.." Jin announced and looked ecstatic. He loved dissection to death, after all.

All the while, Aidan was pondering on the empty feeling he got when Aria wielded him. It seemed like someone was using him yet at the same time not. It bothered him so much that he blocked out Jin's rants about dissection and stuffs.

Later that day, when everyone was heading out and the student's slowly went home one by one, Aria, who was about to head back herself, heard a soft sound down the hall. She followed the sound till it grew louder and she could make out the sound of piano playing.

The melody sounded so familiar and nostalgic that she decided to stop and listen to it. After it finished playing though, she peeked in to find someone with dark ebony locks on the piano, his back was hunched over it as he breathed calmly and was seeming to relax.

The door made a creaking sound when she unknowingly pushed it open. This caught Aidan's attention and he whipped his head to find her staring at him with wide eyes.

"What are you doing here?" He asked, as usual, with his cold voice.

"Oh." she muttered with a dejected tone before she looked down. "Uhh, nothing. I just heard you play and wanted to listen. By the way, that song? umm.."

"Oh. It's not well-known. My brother used to play it and he taught it to me." Aidan told her and a soft look adorned his face.

"Brother, huh?" Aria whispered. "It sounded so sad."

"Yeah." Aidan only answered and looked lost, as if he was lost on a memory of a long time ago. "By the way, umm, I hope you don't mind but I needed to know."

"Yes?" Aria responded when she noticed him waiting for her response.

"You.. how can you wield me when you don't even resonate with me?"