*Tring-Tring-Tring-...*

The alarm goes berserk, on the low table which was the only furniture inside the tiny dormitory room.

Suddenly a hand popped out from the bed mattress which was laid almost parallel to the table. The hand tried to search the alarm clock blindly over the table so he could just snooze it, and retrieve a little more sleep. But instead of snoozing it, he toppled the alarm clock on the ground, and the ruckus continued.

‘If that alarm would have just broken from that fall. I would surely kiss the clockmakers’ thought Lucifer, who continued to sleep between the pile of the bed mattress.

Lucifer Heller was around his teen, but never once enjoyed his youth.

Why do you ask?

He was a part-time toilet-cleaner, a dishwasher in a restaurant, a construction laborer, chariot-wagon polisher, etc. He always used to carry out these jobs in his free time, just to earn little more money so he could afford a lump of meat once in a week for dinner. Although the government of Abros nation provided him with rice and stale curry, that could numb anyone's tongue who might consume it all week.

The meat played the role to heal the taste buds. Lucifer could manage to sacrifice his tongue instead to work like a donkey. But he doesn't want his little siblings to suffer the same fate. He loves his little siblings the only family left, more than anything in this world.

Even tho the alarm clock that howled like a wolf, Lucifer continued to sleep like a log but not long did last his tyranny.

Suddenly, a little grade school girl jumps over the pile of bed sheets where Lucifer sandwiched himself. She hurled with her knee on his belly.

Lucifer woke up like a zombie resurrected from his grave, while cried out loudly in pain.

“AAHHHHH, Whhhhhhat the fuuu…..” after he saw this girl “fudge!“

“So you woke up at last!” That little girl was none other than his little sister, Rosetta who sat over his belly as if she was some King on a hill.

“What are you doing, Rose? That hurts!”

Rose’s eyebrows twitched with anger,

“Can’t you see! It's past 6’o clock! Wake up and make our breakfast, I don’t want to get late on my very first day at school after the vacation.”

She started to punch his belly, with frustration, ”Are you not bit worried? It’s also your opening ceremony for joining the barracks.You don't want to enrage aunt Heller, do you?”

“Alright! I got it. I am already awake. Stop it! My body is already in pain because of cleaning the toilets yesterday, so it would be kind of you not to perform such stunts and let my body heal a bit.” Lucifer grabbed rose by her shoulder, and pulls her closer to his face,

” You could have just given me a good morning kiss instead, to wake me up. “says jokingly while ready his lips to kiss and continued to pull her closer and closer.

She took the pillow that was just one-arm away, and shove it in his face with full force.

“WAKE UP, IDIOT! “, she got up and walked away, “Hurry up, I am the class representative, and I don’t want to be late on my first day!”

Rosetta Heller sounds like a mature adult but, actually was just seven years old kid. Rose was the youngest, among the orphan trio but acted more grown-up than Lucifer and his elder twin-brother, Armin. Lucifer loved to tease her and never missed a chance to unveil her childish side.

She was an academically good and a diligent student, had leadership qualities, always stern to her morals and never relied on other people for help.

“ ALRIGHT! Alright! That old pillow’s cotton has turned almost like pebbles. Can you try to be cute, sometimes?.” Lucifer stood up and pushed away, the bed sheets aside,“Open the windows, and try to wake Armin, I shall ready our breakfast.”

Rose opened the window panes which lit the tiny, crowded room. Whereas Lucifer, on the one hand, brushed his teeth and on the other hand he ransacked the shelf for ingredients for breakfast. Armin continued to doze and drool without any worry in the world.

This three orphan ruled the tiny little apartment which was allotted by the government of Abros. Their dormitory actually, was used by the servants who usually served the wealthy noble students of the famous Archangel Barracks, a world renowned-school who has the history to train mighty-legendary personages who were named as the Ruthless-Knights. Most of them were rumored to be not human and had superhuman strength and skills. A perfect killing machine that no one would like to make them their enemy. All the nation always tried to compete among themselves to add these warriors in their army.

The Archangel barracks mainly assign the White knight rank, a high and honorable post in the Imperial army of Abros nation. Only wealthy noble or academically brilliant students were able to obtain such achievement. Hopefully, Lucifer was admitted in this school only because of his foster parent, who was the commander of the White Knights, Cecelia Heller.

She adopted Lucifer and his siblings from the woods near the enemy border, long before she could be made the commander of White Knights. Later, she had to leave them under the care of Abros government, which loathed their existence. Lucifer was enrolled in prestigious middle school, which only rich-class people would afford. But he was bullied and hated by every other student, who knew that he belonged to the noble family of Warden, the royal bloodline to Stezar nation.

The Stezar Empire was the sworn enemy and envied Abros nation who rose out from a small country-town to a vast Empire and stood toe to toe, with the seven other major kingdoms. They constantly attacked Abros, but soon the attacks came to a halt after Abros signed the treaty with the seven major countries.

Lucifer gathered the ingredients to prepare for breakfast.

Ingredients:-

1>Seven bread slice, (donated by Miss Sofie, chore worker in the barracks)

2>Heap of lettuce leaves ( 2 days old, almost about to dry)

3>Two eggs, (donated by the owner of the Cafe store)

4>Olive Oil (thanks to the un-kindhearted government's ration and it's asshole ministers)

Lucifer quickly heated the pan and spurted oil.

Then placed the slice of bread, and stuffed them with eggs and lettuce.

Sadly Lucifer was left with an eggless sandwich which contained lettuce leaves, only.

“Hey get ready, today I made the famous dish ‘Fupheaccoli golden-deep simmered sandwich’ it’s a classic dish from a city of Zekar empire. So be glad to the Godly chef of cooking, Lucifer” he announced cheerfully.

He cannot afford rich dish like every other people, and he could hardly afford breakfast. He named, his dishes grandly so he could manipulate the taste, mentally. The government used to tamper with the allowance money sent by their Aunt which was meant to cover the cost of breakfast and lunch in school. Their Aunt was aware of this treatment but could not oppose the ministers of her Kingdom.

“Grow up, will you? That's an average sandwich, with the eggs which were the leftovers from your workplace. And that lettuce leaves are almost dried leaves. You need to grow up and stop naming the food items will you?”, The sharp tongue as ever, Rose.

“Aren’t you a little too, straightforward, rose? You should try to act a little feminine, now and then!”

“SHUT UP! You are an idiot yourself, so stop giving me advice.”

Rose went to approach her elder-twin brother Armin who slept like a bear in his hibernation.

She sat beside him on her knees. Then shook him by his shoulder gently,

“Wake up Armin. It’s morning and our first day of school.” with her gentle smile and cute voice, kinda like a lovely waiter from maid cafe.

But Armin continued to slumber over his bed and missed the cute greet of his little sister.

After her sweet wake-up call which was ignored, Rose grabbed Armin by his Night Pajama collar and slapped twice on both of his Cheek’s, simultaneously.

“I said WAKE UP!!”

“Hey, he shall end up dead, instead of waking up! I shall wake him up. Go ready the bath, and I shall send him there myself."

“Good luck with that!”

She pulls the bed mattress below Armin with full might, while his hibernated body rolled down on the cold floor like a dead body.

She folded all our bed sheets gracefully and pile it inside the shelf and heads towards the bathroom.

Lucifer placed a lid over the pan which helped to simmer the eggs both sides.

He tried to wake Armin himself.

“Hey Armin, It’s morning,” he lowered towards his ear and shouted with all his might “WAKE UP!”

But Armin did not even flinch with his loud scream. People passing by the dormitory were also startled by the scream that came through the room.

“I knew that was not going to succeed, guess I got no other choice.” spoke to himself.

Again brought his lips towards Armin’s ear, this time in a gentle voice, “Jessica came to pick you up for school!”

Suddenly Armin stood up and headbutted with Lucifer’s head.

*THUD*

Still half-asleep, Armin whose eyes remained shut,

“Where? Where is she??”

Whereas Lucifer grabbed the headbutted impact spot and wailed in pain,

“Could you two brats, try not to beat the shit out of me?? My soul can't last long inside this injured body of mine.”

“Ok, but where’s Jessica? I don’t see her.”

“Eh? She is not here, that was a joke. You don’t care about your big brother do you, how cruel. Love is blind, I knew that, but even if she was here, you can’t see with closed eyes, could you?”

Armin was the Elder-twin brother of Rose, who attained the same class with Rose. Unlike her sister, Armin was the polar opposite. He was lazy, gluttony, no good in studies but was kind-hearted and always put trust on other people blindly. He had a crush on his classmate, Jessica who had already turned him numerous times. But he never gave up.

Lucifer poured toothpaste to Armin’s toothbrush and dragged him to the bathroom. Rose was already inside the bathtub and already brushed her teeth. The doorbell suddenly rang, and he flung Armin inside the bath with Rose.

“Here,” and handed Half-asleep Armin his toothbrush,” Hurry up Armin, keep an eye on him, rosy. Will you pretty please? Thank you” and rushed out of the bath to answer the doorbell.

“Hey! I am the youngest among you two! “ said Rose in an angry tone, “Why do I have to babysit my older brothers, boys are useless, tch.”

Lucifer opened the door, to his surprise, an old lady in her bathrobe stood in-front of him with a cigar in her left hand. She had messed up hair and She puffed her smoke breath on Lucifer's face while he waved his hand to clear out the smoke,

“Good morning, Mrs. Urchin. So what brings you here? Oh, how foolish of me, come inside, will you? The breakfast is almost ready, but sadly we could not share it. I could serve you a glass of water instead.” Lucifer said in a cheerful, manner.

“Oh, It’s alright! You could keep the breakfast yourself. I don’t wanna catch a Diarrhea and shit my ass out till I die.” she tapped her cigar and dropped some of the ash to the floor.

“Could you guys keep it down? Just stopped the people who were about to break in, after hearing the scream. They thought someone was getting raped.”

Astonished Lucifer had no idea. He took a long pause.

“..........Seriously?”

“Well anyway, Just be careful from now on. I need to get some sleep, had pulled an all-nighter, yesterday. “

Lucifer had a grim smile, “Ah! That explains the weird noises in the night.”

“Huh? Did you say something.”

“Thanks for the helping out, and sorry again Landlady, I shall try to remember. Oh, Have a good sleep, Mrs. Urchin, hope you have a good day as your night.”

“Huh? Anyway, I need to get a move on, by the way, do you smell something burning?”

“Of course, your Cigar!”

“It’s not from the Cigar.”

After he remembered about the sandwich,

“Oh crap, bye aunt. That’s mosquito repellant I just burned. Good day”

“Good da…..” He slammed the door on her face without even letting her complete “..day. Teens nowadays are reckless, indeed. Oh, I m out of my cigar, ” and she walks away, with her cigar that just went out of fumes. She is the landlady, the owner of the dormitory. She is in her 30's and still not married. She wasn't bothered by the three orphans who were the heir to the Stezar empire unless she gets her money.

“Crap the Breakfast, is almost toast.”

Thanks to the Lettuce leaf, the omelet was saved as well as the upper half portion of the sandwich.

The dishes were placed at the table and Armin, and Rose changed into their uniform. In free time Lucifer managed to take a shower while Rose and Armin groomed nicely on their school uniform.

Armin and Rose were enrolled in an ordinary school. Their school was situated outside the town Campbell, inside the city of Rublor.

The breakfast was served. In last-second Lucifer swapped the burned bottom-side bread of Armin and Rose with his top-side bread which was saved from getting burnt as well as the extra slice was left out.

Lucifer also had to drop Armin and Rose to their school inside the city, as well as return back to his opening ceremony speech given by their Aunt, Cecelia Heller.

“Hey, whoever would be the last to eat their sandwich, will be the Dumbest donkey” announced cheerfully, so that he could speed things up.

Rose and Armin raced for the first place and started to swallow the sandwich instead. The race ended as Armin came first. When it comes to sleeping and eating, Armin could easily rank first in the country.

After Rose lost the competition with her brother,

“We should never eat hastily, you could get choked, and that is very dangerous. I am a perfect lady, so you boys don’t know a thing about being mature. Geez, how stupid kids are! ”

Lucifer could not eat his sandwich, which was only dried up lettuce leaves within two charred bread. Rose caught a glance of Lucifer who tried to hide the fact that the sandwich was burnt.

Her mood changed drastically,

“Hey! Big brother still need to finish his own, sandwich! So, I am not the last, person. THAT MEANS you are the dumbest DONKEY! Well I knew that all along, but this confirmation is very delightful.” she stood happily and started to whine, almost in a singing manner

“How Does it feel to fall on your own, joke? REAP WHAT YOU SOW. Boo-hoo, DONKEY DONKEY DONKEY! Brother Lucifer is a DONKEY.”

Lucifer continued to hide the charred sandwich with a grim and irritated smile,

‘Damn, wasn’t she talking about being a perfect matured lady, just a minute ago??’

He just gulped the lettuce leaf from his sandwich and grabbed Armin and Rose in his arm and rushed towards their school.

It’s almost 7 am, and Lucifer need to drop them at the school, which was situated approximately 6 miles away and travel back again to the academy by 7:30 am.

Their Aunt Cecelia Heller, also the commander of White Knights army as well as the Administrator of Archangel stronghold, going to give a speech to the new students.

Lucifer dashed at full speed, towards the grade school.

‘Crap, I won’t be able to reach on time, that old hag gonna sure be mad. But seriously? Aunt giving a speech? I can't miss this shit!’