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The question hung silently on the air for several seconds before the headmistress stopped to answer it. A worried look hung upon her face. "Truth be told... Yes. Unfortunately." She stopped outside of the garden, and told the new teacher of the unfortunate events that had happened last year. She ended by saying: "Even teachers didnt seem imune to whatever this mysterious murder incident has unfolded. The last 2 casualties last year were both teachers, and yesterday, on thefirst day of school, there was a rather brutal murder in a restroom. Worse still, it seems to be that the ither headmasters and I are the primary suspects." She turned to face the teacher, and placed a tanned hand upon their shoulder. If he was capable of feeling, the icy touch should be taken into mental note. She was colder than the snow to the touch!"I must request of you as i have most of the teachers. Protect the students. They are the heart of the academy, and we cannot survive without them." After which, she put on a big smile and opened the doors to the academy. The smile was more for the student who may be overlooking on their way to breakfeast than it was the professor.
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[i]Wow.[/i] Alphonse thought. [i]This school seems to have a problem.[/i]

He'd heard previously that the school had an unreasonably high death toll compared to even military schools. Apparently it had been that way since the schools founding, but if a headmaster was saying it was a problem, then the death toll must [b]really[/b] be becoming a problem. There was also the fact that the headmasters were the most likely suspects for the increase in the death toll. He'd have to look into that later.

Death tolls aside, the second headmaster's skin was also unnaturally cold. It was the coldest hand he'd ever felt, he'd even felt some frozen corpses a while back when he had been stuck in the Arctic and those bodies weren't as cold as she was. The smile she had given, however, was surprisingly warm for her character. Even though he knew it was probably not for him, and more for the sake of the students that would've been looking onwards, he still thought it looked rather nice to see the second headmaster smiling.

It reminded him of a few times in the past. Some time ago, he wasn't sure how much time ago, he had once had friends in a place he no longer remembered. However, some way or another they had all died leaving him and someone else he'd forgotten alone. He wasn't told at the time, that his friends had died. He was told by the person he'd forgotten that they had to leave, and go to somewhere else. But he had found out somehow, that they had died. The smile the second headmaster was putting on for the students, reminded him of that person he'd forgotten. He was sure they were somewhat closer than friends, but he wasn't sure how close they were. He remembered it being similar to a parent-child relationship, but it was so long ago that he really couldn't remember it any more.

That aside, he could smell food,and delicious food at that.

[i]Ah,[/i] he thought. [i]Breakfast.[/i]

He didn't really need to eat, he was made entirely of moving energy really and didn't need any extra energy. But he could still taste, and breakfast was always usually delicious. Also, he was actually capable of digesting food but the energy he got from it always turned into excess light energy and leaked out of him. The phenomenon made him glow slightly, every time he ate.

Whenever he ate breakfast, he made sure to always eat bacon whenever he got the chance. It was probably the most delicious thing he'd ever eaten. Bacon was always good, in any place he'd been.

He headed to the dining hall, thoughts of a large pile of bacon dominating his mind.