Mairimashita! Iruma-kun One-shots

Cheating

Kalego x reader 

As a teacher at Babyls, you had to go through and experience many things. Demon-eating plants on the loose, potion labs blowing up, and the many, many events that Babyls put on and almost always had something go wrong before you, the teachers, had to fix it. In the few years you had been there, you thought you had gone through it all, until now.

For the first time ever, you had caught a student cheating.

"Do you know why I've asked you to stay behind?"

A smile stayed on your face as you stared directly into the eyes of the student before you. As a human, you had long mastered the look of a hard stare while still appearing to be friendly. When the student, a fourth year by the name of Muzuki, had first come up to you after class, they had been cocky, confident. The absolute picture of unwarranted hubris if there ever was one. And so you sat comfortably in your chair, a nice soft leather from some poor Netherworld beast that Kalego had kindly bought for you, quietly waiting for Muzuki to answer your question as you continued staring at them. The longer you stared, the less comfortable they became.  

A shake of the head, purple braids swinging with the force of it. An eyebrow raised as the silence continued. "Really? None at all?" Your own head tilted to the side slightly, a smile still set on your face as you waited. Another more hesitant head shake followed. A disappointed sigh left you, and your body shifted forward so that you could reach a small stack of papers just off to the side and slid into their view. Their eyebrows scrunched together in confusion as they quickly glanced over the top laying paper, before freezing up a little. "Perhaps this gives you a hint?" 

They tried to subtly shake themselves loose and continue to hold up that faked confidence. Lower jaw set stubbornly, but you could see that fear was in their eyes. And that was all you needed to pounce.

"Tell me Muzuki, do you think I'm stupid?" They visibly startled at the question, body jerking slightly in surprise at they looked back you again. You could see their mind racing as they quickly thought up an answer.

"No professor," they settled on. You hummed in response.

"Then do you think you're exceptionally deceptive? I'll admit it's an admirable trait to have in the Netherworld. To con others into giving you what you want is a way to ensure survival after all. Until of course," you paused smiling slipping off your face and eyes narrowing at them, "you try to con the wrong person." You watched as their body froze up; terror evident on their face before they mentally shook themselves and stood taller.

It was evident to you that they couldn't understand why they feared you so much at that moment. After all, even if you were related to the great Sullivan, you were just some no-ranker. Supposedly not even worthy enough to receive an alef badge much less heranking like the student before you. What a shame that the demon culture never understood that sometimes, a rank meant nothing in the face of what someone could do.

While you hated making a student fear you, you also understood that this message really needed to sink in. You couldn't let students think you could be taken advantage of, not if you wanted to remain a good teacher. And you also couldn't let them think they could get away with everything, there were so many beings out there who would do far worse things to them if they had been deceived.

"Con, professor?" they asked, trying to keep a smirk on their face but you could see the slight tremors moving through their body that belied how they really felt.

"Yes Muzuki. Con. In this case, defined as trying to trick someone into believing something that is not true. Such as you writing this essay." Muzuki started to open their mouth, but you held up your hand to pause them. "Don't even bother. I'm well aware that you didn't write this. The tone and style are far too different from your usual works, and at least three of the supposed sources you gave me do not exist. At all. And believe me I looked. I even contacted different clans to see if they had heard of the books because I wanted to believe that you wouldn't cheat. And yet here we are." You gestured between the two of you, a look of fear creeping on their face and a disappointed one on yours.