Black Pawn's Promotion.

Times Without Boundaries, The Edge Of Days

"Saji."

"Saji!"

"Saji, wake up already!"

At the final shout, Saji groggily rose from his desk, eyes half-lidded.

"Huh?... Momo, what's going on?"

He slowly asked the girl, who had an annoyed glare.

"I should ask you, after the test, did you literally collapse on the desk unconscious?"

Because he was only half awake, his reaction to his friend's scream was lackluster.

"Oh that," he yawns and rises from his seat.

"I didn't do anything special; I simply stayed up a little late."

Momo's twitching eye indicated her displeasure with the information.

"How long did you sleep?"

He gathered his bags and headed to the door, where he responded with his back turned, still inattentive to Momo's questions.

"Around two hours," he says, ever so oblivious to Momo's rising anger.

The girl with the white hair immediately followed him out of the classroom, her mood getting worse.

"What the hell, Saji?!"

Her screams still washed over him again, as they had before.

"Even if we're devils, we're still teenagers!"

"Okie dokey."

Before she could yell any louder at him for his casual response, she paused, exhaled, and began pinching his cheek, which eventually drew the young man's attention.

"Ow Ow Ow! What the heck was that for? "

I'm trying to wake you up, you moron! Now you're supposed to tell me why you slept at-"

Saji watched as his friend's eyes grew as large as dinner plates, her face flushed, and she clutched her palms over her mouth, confused about why she had gone quiet. He slowly turned to face her, looking puzzled.

He was almost born for the label "pretty boy." Smooth blonde hair, opposed to Saji's bed hair, pretty blue eyes, and a stunning simile that sparkles to boot, with all the girls yelling at the top of their lungs as he passed, it could only be the prince Kouh Kiba Yuuto.

Who had his pretty boy butt coming right at the two devils?

Momo let out a small eep in response to this knowledge, which drew Saji's attention, and he wasn't sure what to make of his reaction when he saw her. The white-haired girl was feverishly fixing her hair and clothes before turning to face the pawn with an exceptionally serious expression.

"Saji! "How do I look?"

These remarks prompt the young man to closely examine his companion by looking up and down.

"Amazing," was all he said, with the biggest thumbs up.

To be frank, the boy couldn't tell the difference, but as someone often said to him, if a girl wants to be complimented, who are you to stop her?

After pumping her fist after just those words, she turned to meet her crush. It should be noted that she was still wearing a shade of bright crimson.

"G-happy evening! Kiba...

"It's barely afternoon, Momo," Saji thought as he stared blankly at his friend's weird introduction.

Despite the strange welcome, he smiled, as he always does.