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[b]Interactions:[/b] Haruishi Mari ([@Stern Algorithm])[/center][hr]

[color=ffff00]"L-look, just turn around, ignore it, and walk inside. Boys will be... boys... Just follow the teacher, Tanifuji-sensei, was it?"[/color]

[color=04ece9]"S-senpai. H-her name is T-Tanifuji-s-s-senpai."[/color]

[u]With nothing more to say, Umi turned her back to Mari and proceeded to the hall without her.[/u] She knew that look that Mari had on her face before. It was a pitiful, shameful gaze, and there was no other target for it but Umi herself.

She was pathetic, and she knew it.

...

Inside the hall, everyone was talking a pretty big game about themselves. But not Umi. She was about the only student here who seemed to know her place. A lost cause. She couldn't handle a dip in temperature. She couldn't break up a commotion. She couldn't confront a villain. Hell, she couldn't even climb a mountain path. There must have been a thousand candidates that were better suited for a spot in Jigokuraku Academy, and here Umi was taking the place of every single one of them. It was a sorry state of affairs indeed...

[u]Umi sat as far towards the back of the hall as she was allowed to be, and curled herself into a ball in her seat.[/u] She was already starting to crumble under the pressure of expectations straight from Day 1; there was no telling if she could last any longer.