First Arc
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"Well, well, well! How many new students are here! So many new faces. They all look appetizing." The man of perpetually closed eyes passed his tongue by his lips.
He was wearing a rainbow colored suit today, complete with rainbow colored tie.
He had his hands behind him as he admired the sight of the students coming into the school grounds.
"If you hurt them, I'll-" The head nurse appeared beside him.
The woman with white hair was wearing a long one piece dress that covered both of her arms and her whole legs, and then a cape with a long neck that covered most of her head, tied firmly with a knot in front of her neck.
"What, you are going to kill me? It doesn't suit you, Rolly, to be saying unsightly things like those. You'll ruin that perfect face of yours that you've preserved for so many centuries."
A vein popped in the forehead of Rollanda, before she turned her gaze to the ground.
"I swear to God... if I could, I'd kill you and be done with it." She then shakes her head. "And I meant to say that if you hurt them, it'll make more work for me so try not to do that."
"Oh, but I don't hurt them, Rolly. I just watch."
"But you could do something. Yet you don't. Inaction is heavy a sin as it is hurting them yourself."
"Too much philosophy for me." Director A lifts his hand and stops Rollanda.
Charlotte & Lin Hua
It was the opening day for the new students of Liseranna.
They would be arriving en masse now to the campus and were told to wait in the middle of the garden grounds where the cherry blossom trees were.
The campus was extremely big, as much expected, but there was a thing that was out of place....
It was the middle of summer, yet the cherry blossoms were in full bloom.
Of course, the fact that the island found itself between France and Britain made it all much stranger.
As all of the people walked into the school grounds, there were some of them that were already in the sights of some of the groups at work in the shadows of the school.
A group that was allowed to survive because every time freshmen came in, they would wreck havoc, and the headmaster loves that. Perhaps to eliminate competition for becoming the best mage, perhaps because they simply enjoyed seeing the defeat in the mages they managed to scare out of Liseranna, or perhaps out of a sick and twisted sense of preservation of the school's reputation.
They do not have a name, not officially anyway, but the students call them 'The Erasers'. They are famous enough for rumors to spread even outside the school, in noble houses and other schools alike.
They erase anyone who might seem like competition. They erase anyone who gets on their nerves. They erase anyone they don't deem skilled enough to stay in Liseranna.
There were two fallen angels, both skillful in magic. A half elf. Noble men and women. A demon here ot there. Guys with plenty interesting magic. A Phoenix looking for a master, even.
Perhaps this time, most erasals will be to keep the competition out.
The teachers too, both new and returning, seemed to be showing some promise.
A particular Chinese magician, wearing a red vest, a pair of fingerless black gloves, a pair of black pants and red with white short faulds, seemed to be particularly lax.
He had his hands behind his head and every stride he gave was increasingly exaggerated, not to mention the loud whistling that got on the nerves of more than one student. It was like he was screaming, "Come and erase me if you dare."
Nothing really did happen, though, and he clicked his tongue. He had heard before of the erasers and was looking forward to a fight with them.
"And here I thought that I could get some action right off the bat. Goes to show that they at least know how to pick their fights. In any case, where has Shikio gone off to now?"
Lin Hua started scratching the back of his head as he looked for his familiar. Despite their contract, Lin Hua would often wander about before the girl had a chance to keep up with his unusual habit of being light on his feet for everything he does, and then he complained that he couldn't find her anywhere.
Moving on from the self centered young noble, we find ourselves with Charlotte.
The small girl with tanned skin was wearing her usual one piece dress and walked about as she looked at the map she had gotten from some teacher or other.
She had two bracelets on her thin arm, a hairpin on her hair and a dress reaching just above her knees. She looked like such a simpleton that anywhere in the city they'd think her a good target to kidnap.
"Hm... This place is really big, isn't it Belly?"
The spirit did not respond, however. It was too busy keeping an eye out for anyone trying to be a smartass and pull a fast one on Charlotte.
"Che," The girl puffed her cheeks. "You are sleeping again? How can you sleep so much?"
"Good afternoon, good girls and boys!" And just as Charlotte went to the place where she was told to wait, the voice of Director A echoed through the whole school grounds.
Charlotte, however, could hear it as if the man was just centimeters away and talking with her.
Lin, who had decided to go check out the cafeteria instead of waiting for the Director's announcement, felt the voice of the man scratching the insides of his skull. Every word was painful as it went through one ear and out the other.
It seemed that if you were within the expected area of students for Director A's speech, you'd hear it as a soft voice whispering in your ear, but if you were far away it would sound as if someone was scratching a blackboard with their nails right beside your ear, augmented 10 times.
The headmaster liked to punish rule-breakers like that.
An small smirk appeared in his face before he started, "Firstly, I thank you for being here as students of Liseranna. Whether you've been here already or are a newbie in this school, it is a pleasure all the same. I, Director A, hope to make your stay enjoyable."
He bowed down. He seemed pretty gentle, at least to the ones in attendance to his announcement. He was nice enough to reduce the sound in their ears after all. They did not know that he was doing the opposite on the ones that decided to explore some before his speech.
"In any case, I like to be able to talk to my students and surprise them with the occasional magic trick. If you'd please check in your pockets, everyone." He said with a smile.
Charlotte quickly checked her pocket to see what it was.
It was her dorm arrengements, but only hers.
It'd be the same for everyone else, even the familiars, since some of them were of the opposite sex, and even for those with residence inside the island. The headmaster just wanted to f*ck with them like that.
1st Female Dorm Arrengement
- Kurosawa Emi
- Charlotte Roh Viskey
- Livia Fiore
2nd Female Dorm Arrengement
- Iravis Ustrina
- Shikio Wahlaal
- Lyssa Tonguetwister (yep, that's what the paper said)
1st Male Dorm Arrengement
- Edgar Quantus
- Richard Dowel
2nd Male Dorm Arrengement
- Gall
- Alucard
Teacher Arrengements
- Ezeras Ekkenhart (another one with tonguetwister name)
- Arthur Wick
- Alistair Kuruz
Only Mixed Dorm Arrengement
- Xiao Long Lin Hua
- Vera Meadow
At the end of the paper Lin Hua and Vera had in their pockets, it could be read in extremely bubbly and girly writing;
"Good for the two of you! You will either end up humping each other or beating the other one with the stick each got up their respective asses! Have fun!
Oh, and if you wanna ask why some of the arrengements are triple and others double, well, because it seemed more fun this way."
Some were surprised by their dorm arrengements. Lin, for one, simply clicked his tongue.
Another trick of his family to find him a consort? Well, it wasn't gonna work, even if they got this peculiar headmaster roped in.
He made a ball out of the paper and threw it into the trash bin.
Charlotte was excited, though, to meet her new roommates. Pretty sure they called them 'roomies'.
"I hope everyone is satisfied with these outcomes. And if you are not, well, boo hoo, but there's nothing we can do any longer." The man smiled. "Well then, get to know each other and see you soon at the Magus games. Try not to get erased before then!"
The man throws a single handkerchief to his side, taking the attention of all the students in the area, who find themselves attracted to it for some reason or other. *cough* magic *cough*
When they look back, Director A is no longer there.
Well, all they could do now was get to their dorms and see who their roommates would be.