Alvin was sitting comfortably in his seat as the S rank student appeared along with the rankings and cards, he didn't think much of the strange occurrences, he was never a very perceptive person. Opening up the envelope he read the card, holding it and looking on both sides...A D rank? He thought to himself, giving a short burst of laughter aloud he muttered quietly. "Guess I'm not that gifted after all." There was certainly a mistake, that wasn't arrogance it was a simple fact, Al had always been a solid B student, C was the minimum and even then it was rare for him. That meant one of two things: either the other students were much smarter than he was, enough so to push him down two grades or (most likely) he had been placed in the wrong category. Either way, he was going to be putting himself forward for a shuffle match very soon, he wasn't quite sure what it would involve but if it was the quickest way to rank up and it meant he could avoid a three month wait then he was going to at least give it a try. He tucked the card away into his pocket and leant back in the seat and spoke aloud, trying to be optimistic about his disappointing grade. "Ah well, at least Academia's closest to the academy." 

Looking around he noticed most people had begun having conversations, deciding it would be odd and rude to butt in Al headed up to the deck, maybe there would be some good views. As he headed up the staircase he heard quite the commotion accompanying someone shouting in...German? So he wasn't the only foreigner attending, that was comforting, what wasn't comforting was the violent squawking and fluttering of wings he heard as he neared the deck. Just as he reached the doorway he herd something heavy collide with something else, through the crowd of birds he saw a chair and then a person and then an opening door and then just a wall of whiteness attacking the shut door. It was then that some began going for Al, the started hammering the glass part of the door he was watching from, the most making it even harder to see things. He retreated back down the stairs to the conference room and started yelling, at first in English but upon remembering where he was he switched to Japanese. "Hey! Shut the windows! There's a swarm of angry birds trying to get in! I think they've trapped someone on the other side of the ship!" Shutting the door behind him as he entered the room he tried his best to not come across as panicked, more just urgent and he hoped the others would take him seriously. "C'mon this isn't a joke!"