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[u]With one big gulp, Umi took a look around and surveyed the student body that had arrived. Some of the students, she partially recognized from the exam that she took to get into Jigokuraku Academy that day; others she could've sworn she never saw in her entire lifetime.[/u] She only knew two that she could truly consider acquaintances, and neither of them looked to have turned up just yet. However, there was one student in particular that stood out: a tall, dark-skinned girl who looked very familiar in appearance somehow. She wasn't quite as tall as Tanifuji, perhaps five or so inches shorter. But she still towered over Umi effortlessly, if memory served the latter correctly.

Umi was mesmerized by the sight of a strange, unexplainable familiarity when suddenly...

[color=8493ca]"Hey, do you know where we're supposed to go?"[/color]

Try as she might to muffle her scream with the clasp of her own hands around her mouth, Umi was caught too far off-guard to react in time. And who more plausible to have managed such a feat than a complete stranger coming from her left side? Red with flustered embarrassment, Umi clutched her heart, only to be met with a scowl from the strange boy. She knew that type of scowl all to well.

[color=04ece9]"Er... a-actually, y-you're as c-close to the h-hall as you c-can get,"[/color] [u]Umi eventually answered the boy, if only whilst under immense pressure[/u], [color=04ece9]"W-We've still got ab-bout five minutes b-before it'll open, so... I-I-I'm really sorry,"[/color]

[u]With a half-assed couple of bows, Umi took off in a hurry.[/u] She didn't know which direction she was going; she just wanted to find someone that was just a little more familiar so she could stop the dread of vulnerability. This is turn lead her to the group of students that were there that day, who'd all conveniently bundled up in one big group. That at least made it a little easier.

[u]Umi reached out to tap the dark-skinned girl on the shoulder and then, as if she received an electric shock from such contact, sharply recoiled her way back a few steps.[/u] She really needed to handle the whole social thing better; now she was just coming across as weird.

[color=04ece9]"I... I-I don't m-mean to pry, but... m-m-may I ask h-how your leg is?"[/color] she eventually managed to spit out, [color=04ece9]"I-I noticed you h-hurt it badly b-back at the e-exam when I... I-I br-brought my first d-d-d-dummy in..."[/color]

She could only hope that the dark-skinned girl didn't take too much pride in herself, and want to kick Umi in the face just to prove her leg was A-OK...