Disentangling herself from the available bust, Akira swiftly brushed herself down and slipped through the gathering crowd to pick up her case and cane. The first was locked--apparently by key, in reality by an electric system where the codes to open it were only present back with Angeltech and inside her mind--but it would arouse suspicion if someone picked it up and found out just how heavy it was. Squeezing more ammunition into the case than it could normally hold did little for its weight. With her goods retrieved, the hat bobbed its way back to the front of the group.

"I'll join!" she said, raising her hand to make sure that she got noticed; not that it was all that hard: she was the only student here [i]not[/i] in uniform, which was rather a poor idea on its own simply for the sake of blending in but also due to how fancily the robot girl was dressed. It gave her the benefit of a few more inches of height and clothing that wouldn't promptly get destroyed if some of the [INSERT NAME HERE] showed up and had to be fought off.

A school uniform might be hard-wearing, but it wasn't [i]that[/i] durable.