"It's not the end of the world, yet."Black Gate's response to Evil Eye's tirade seemed to bore her. Perhaps she was disappointed that the mask still hadn't come off.
Or is there really nothing beneath? she wondered.
Perhaps the mask is all that remains. Perhaps that truly is the key to the next stage. She looked around the room at the rest of the Club, her attempt to unify it against Black Gate amounting to very little. Tsubomi seemed to have decided that what happened to her had been a good thing after all, and that meant Suki was probably fine with this as well. She seemed to be considering the optics, at the very least, of going after Black Gate while a giga miseria rampaged outside, until the very moment the Club's ceiling was crashing down upon her. The floor then buckled and fell, too, and Evil Eye disappeared below while the fight began in earnest above her.
Through the ringing in her ears, she could vaguely hear a voice reminiscent of a mascot character.
Why is everything this girl summons always so lame? she thought idly as she lay in the rubble.
If I'm going to die, at least let me go in a blaze of glory. She only allowed a small part of her brain to entertain such feelings, however. The rest was contemplating strategy against their patchwork adversary, in spite of the fresh dose of apathy Black Gate had gifted to her heart. She pondered for as long as she was able, until Black Gate ordered her "friend" to flatten the cafeteria.
"Hmph. So you'll destroy the school after all. I wonder, if this is the first time... Perhaps she's really a demon?" she wondered aloud to herself as she floated down the halls. That gave her an idea.
"Hahh... And if thy right eye offend thee..." She exhaled, and recited the mantra. The eye came out of her, along with all its blackness, and morphed its shape into that of a demon. At first glance, he appeared as a well-dressed gentleman, if the insides of his cape and coattails had not clearly been insect wings upon closer inspection. Bald, with grey skin sallow and sunken, his face looked nearly like a skull, if not for the single red eye peering back, mismatched with an entirely black one.
"Madam Kuroki," he acknowledged with a graceful bow.
"How may I be of service?""Get that goat-horned bitch out of this town," Evil Eye replied shortly.
"Ah... Do you intend indeed to cast out this devil by the power of Beelzebub?" There was a dangerous glint in his eye as he wrung his hairy and shriveled hands, producing something like a low chirping sound.
"Abaddon." She corrected him impatiently.
"Put that wit to better use than giving me lip." Her remaining eye glanced sidelong at him as she turned toward the cafeteria.
He smiled, or at least something of the sort, showing his mandibles.
"I haven't any lips, my dear, but I am ever at your service." With that, he flew out of the newly-formed hole in the roof to join the battle in the sky above.
"Ladies," Abaddon greeted them with a graceful bow and a flourish of his magician's baton as he emerged from the rubble of the school.
"Be not afraid! Your Grand Armée has arrived." As he flicked his baton upward, a massive swarm of locusts with eerily human-like faces poured forth from the hole in the roof. They came at the patchwork monkey from all directions, seeking to devour the most vulnerable-looking stitches, where its limbs connected to the main body.
His arrival was well and good—probably—but where had Evil Eye gone?
She instinctively checked her pocket, only to remember that she was wearing her sleeping clothes and didn't have her phone on her.
"If Rei manages to sleep through this one, the town's doomed," she remarked with a sigh. Evil Eye had no interest in being swatted out of the air like a fly, lacking all of the advantages an actual insect would have at dodging attacks. Rather than flying out of the school, she remained below, running through some miseria as they spawned with her Gladius. Black tears fell from her eye, becoming additional locusts, fueling the swarm above.
Sparing my power for the battle with Ashbringer hardly matters now, anyway. That just leaves... this. She floated into the cafeteria, observing her surroundings. A large pile of sleeping students remained there. "Care" was an emotion that hardly belonged in the heart of a dark magical girl, she thought—but even if she looked at them from that perspective, the humans were juicy little bags of misery that served as the fuel to their fire. If they were Black Gate's target...
"I guess that makes this my problem after all," she decided, activating the fire suppression system. She hoped the shock of water would wake the humans quickly.
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