Like a gargoyle, Transformer returned to his statue-like demeanor during those ten minutes. That didn't mean everyone was in the clear, though. Even through those sunglasses, somehow you could feel his eyes on you at all time. Speaking of which, the students that entered in late could feel a particularly nasty glare aimed directly at them when they arrived. The hulking man watched them scamper off to find a seat, though also a little confused on how they seemed to be searching for a desk even though this was an arena floor. The only seats here were audience seats. That wasn't the important thing, though. When those ten minutes had passed, some students still hadn't arrived. "ALRIGHT THEN! IT SEEMS SOME OF OUR STUDENTS ARE LATE! I WILL PUNISH THEM LATER!" they bellowed, in their normal speaking tone. The man lowered his arms, closed his legs and stood straight. He scanned over all the students that WERE here, and then nodded... With quite a bit of ferocity.
"WE WILL CONTINUE ON WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY. I HAD INTRODUCED EVERYONE TO THE BASICS OF STANDARD DUELING LAST WEEK, EXCEPT FOR SOME OF YOU WHO FELT IT UNNECESSARY TO ATTEND." he reminded, and that last comment Shinrei felt was aimed at him. Not that he cared. "BUT! WE HAVE NOT GONE OVER TAG DUELS YET!" he shouted. "THE ART OF TEAMING UP WITH SOMEONE ELSE! HAVING YOUR TWO DECKS FACE OFF AGAINST TWO OPPONENTS!" Transformer started to explain, taking a step back. The earth shook as he did. "I WILL BEGIN WITH A BRIEF EXPLANATION, AND WILL THEN SPLIT EACH OF YOU UP IN TEAMS TO DUEL!"
"IN A TAG DUEL, EACH TEAM HAS A SHARED 8000 LP. THE FIELDS ARE ALSO SHARED, AND YOUR DUEL DISK CAN READ WHEN YOUR PARTNER PLAYS A CARD. THE TURN ORDER GOES IN A N-SHAPE, STARTING WITH THE FIRST PERSON ON ONE TEAM AND THEN GOING TO THE FIRST PERSON ON THE OTHER TEAM. THEN, THE SECOND PERSON ON THE FIRST TEAM TAKES THEIR TURN. AFTER THEM, THE SECOND PERSON ON THE OTHER TEAM DOES. THEN IT LOOPS BACK AROUND TO THE FIRST PERSON ON THE FIRST TEAM. YOU CAN ONLY ATTACK ONCE THE SECOND TURN ROLLS AROUND, LIKE A REGULAR DUEL." was transformer's 'brief' explanation.
"AS FOR THE TEAMS..." Transformer started once again. He then shouted a bunch of team names, none of which get listed here because it'd fill up way too much space the Narrator didn't want to deal with. At the end of it, Transformer finished with: "...AND SINCE SHINREI BELIEVES CLASS TO BE BENEATH HIM, HE WILL DUEL ON HIS OWN AGAINST ANY ONE TEAM. I WANT YOU ALL TO PICK OUT AN OPPOSING PARTNER TEAM AND DUEL THEM IN ANY ONE ARENA. I WILL EVALUATE HOW YOU DUEL AFTER EACH OF YOU FINISH."
Ethel decided to listen to Michelle when she explained why those cards were new, raising her eyebrow ever so slightly. People cared about 'Fun'? Even though your deck is good? How odd. She'd almost berate the other female, but decided not to. It wasn't in her place to judge others on changing styles, even if Ethel found the reason to be ungodly stupid. "I see. How odd." Ethel bluntly replied, catching a glimpse of a certain green jacket wearing student making their way to the crowds. Michelle had introduced themselves, right around the same time a smile appeared on Ethel's face. It wasn't because of her conversational partner, but you'd still get the impression. "Ah. Ethel Cilente, is my name." she replied with a short pause, obviously a little distracted. Ignia took a seat a little ways away, which hurt Ethel a bit. And here she was, actually looking forward to talking to her 'friend'...
"...It's going to start." Ethel informed the two girls, noticing the shift in Transformer's body language. And then she had to hold onto her seats, with the earth shaking from a mere step of the teacher. This guy... Really needed to exercise less. She listened with difficulty to Transformer, having to nearly cover her ears because of the volume overload. It wasn't very pleasant, but she managed to catch the rules of the tag duels somewhat vaguely and also who her partner was. Transformer wasn't done yet, but Ethel decided to give a quick glance in Ignia's direction. Surely the irony of it all wasn't lost on her as well? Either way, Transformer told them to pick out an opposing team. The 'Michelle' person next to Ethel seemed to have been paired up with someone called Joshua. "I'll let you meet up with your partner." the girl droned, the dismissal almost being rude if it wasn't for that polite monotone the girl spoke in.
Ethel stood up almost robotically, dusted off her skirt and started to walk over to where Ignia sat. "Hey." she bluntly greeted the wind girl, standing in front of their seat with arms crossed. Ethel had decided to wear her regular hoodie today, so Ignia would unfortunatly not get the best view of a lifetime for now. "Seems like we're a team." the girl repeated Transformer's announcement, jerking her chin up. "Come on, get up. We need to find an opponent." the girl suggested, right before averting her eyes. Ethel bit her tongue softly, though not visibly, as she was actually not very good at getting people to do things. She was, as you'd say, a little embarrased and shy about having to do this.
Haas was surprised this guy even REMEMBERED his name, considering the dismissal at the stairwell a week ago. Yes he was bothered by this, quite a bit even. And the dismissal didn't end there, with the guy being a bit of an arse about his statement of Transformer probably being a professional. "Gee, thanks for the hospitality..." the kid muttered, turning away from Joshua so they wouldn't hear. "Well, still. Even if they all are, isn't it at least cool we get to be taught by a guy like that? Most don't have the time to be a teacher, so him taking the time out of his day to do this is nice. At least, I think so." the guy replied with honesty. But the moment would have to ruined when Transformer's voice rang throughout the room again.
Haas bumped his head on the audience seat behind him when they flinched, letting out a cry of "Gah!" as reaction to the sudden pain. Man, he'd NEVER get used to that volume! Apparently, everyone was going to be Tag Dueling. Now there's something new for the guy. He'd never participated in one of those before. Transformer explained the rules of a Tag Duel, and Haas nodded continuously in affirmation. It seemed like he caught on pretty quickly, and if it wasn't that, at least he pretended to. Then the teams were rattled off, and Haas was surprised to hear himself first. And with Nathan, no less! He'd talked to the guy a few times throughout his stay here, and they were also an Earth Dorm student. Well, at least it was somebody Haas knew. It'd be a pain if it wasn't.
"Well, gotta go! Bye!" Haas informed Joshua as soon as Transformer stopped speaking, literally jumping out of his seat and running off farther into the room. Haas needed a bit of time to look around and see where Nathan was located, luckily spotting him not too far away in one of the audience seats a little higher up. "Hey, Nate!" Haas shouted out from below, spotting him talking to some girl... Actually, no wait, two girls. Whoa, he seemed to be getting even more lucky than him in that department... The guy bolted up the stairs to greet his friend. "We're a team for the Tag Duels! I'll be honest, I wasn't really expecting to be paired up with someone I knew, ehehe... And who are these two?" Haas asked, referring to Megan and Camryn. He didn't really remember them at all. "Oh, and, uh, I'm Haas. For those that didn't know."
Shinrei had to let out a slight chuckle when he heard Transformer dismissing himand telling him to duel solo. Fine by him, at least this way people wouldn't slow him down. The only one that had even a remotely compatible deck with him was his sister, and honestly, he woudln't be able to bear dueling with her. Not at the moment, anyway. It might've been a bit dangerous, but Shinrei decided to reveal himself from the shadows of the stands and walk further into the room with everyone. He had spotted Leander, but was unsure if they spotted him. At least he hopes they didn't, that guy would beannoying to duel even if he was terrible at it. At least Shinrei deduced that from seeing their duel with Vincent. Sure, he'd set up protection. On the flipside, they also lost on the third turn. Nobody should lose on the third turn like that.
He wheezed and put his hands inside the pockets of the longcoat, lazily staring into the crowds. Honestly, none of these weaklings seemed interesting in the slightest. Perhaps he should just let THEM come to HIM, but then there was a good chance he wouldn't get his duel before the rest... And honestly, the guy wanted to get it over with as soon as possible. They took a few more steps further into the room, standing right in front of Transformer. "I didn't know teachers were supposed to single out students. But I guess that training second-rate duelists requires second-rate teachings." Shinrei berated the guy, whose nostrils flared up. Transformer looked down at Shinrei, who could feel the piercing gaze from even beyond the sunglasses. "Cut it out. Intimidating me requires more than that." he retorted again, before turning around and facing the rest of the class. "You heard him, didn't you? I'm on my own here. Who's willing to try their luck? Because they'll need it." he taunted the entire classroom, pulling their hands out of the pockets and crossing his arms. Ethel had taken notice of it, turning her head with a scoff. Haas didn't seem to mind and kept his focus on the group. Either way, maybe this is the duel Shinrei needed to see if anyone here was worth the effort.
Shiyu had darted off into a corner somewhere when he was out of focus, and actually remained to be for quite a while. He didn't really want to bother anyone, because they all seemed like such good friends... Transformer called out what the class would be, and the guy immediately got excited. "A-Alright!" he cried out in joy. This was awesome! A tag duel?! He hadn't gotten the chance to do one of those yet since the transferral, so this would be a nice change of pace. He listened carefully when the teams were listed, noticing himself being paired up with some girl called... Tsumino? Tsundeiko? Ah, no, Tsukiko! Right! But before he had a chance to really ask around, some showoff decided to step up into the middle and challenge anyone from the audience. Seems like this 'Shinrei' fellow had confidence, bordering into arrogance. Anyway, they must be pretty good if he was that confident he could win. So maybe avoiding them was the best option for now.
Either way, Shiyu needed to find out who this 'Tsukiko' that seemed to be his partner was. A quick glance around the room didn't reveal much to him, none of the girls particulary stood out as Japanese, or chinese, considering the name. Well, except for maybe the girl with the blue hair, but they seemed to be partnered up with someone else already. So that girl couldn't be it, right? Shiyu racked his brain a little more, trying to figure it out. But to no avail. So, instead, he followed Shinrei's lead and ran into the middle of the room. "Erm, sorry to disturb?" he apologized once arrived, trying to turn himself to the best of his ability to face everyone. "I'm partnered up with uh... A 'Tsukiko' girl. Who here uhm, is Tsukiko?" he asked in the most polite way possible, though also having a bit of an awkward posture.
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