Kuoh Acadamy looked like more than the average average high school in Kuoh, Japan. It was a three to four story building with large brick walls leading to a big metal gate in front of it. Not much is known about Kuoh Academy, other than the fact that it was originally an all-girls private school, but after the development of the new school building it became co-ed. The school was separated through several divisions such as the primary division, high school division and college division.
Despite the classes being in session, there was a person that sat outside, sitting against the building next to the entrance. The person was a male, about 6'2 and 245 lbs. On his upper body he wears three layers of clothes: a button-up white shirt kept partially buttoned, a plain gray hoodie, and a black leather jacket with a red tribal design on the back. On his lower body he wears plain blue jeans and black sneakers. He was silent. His head leaning against the building as the white wire of earbuds appeared visible. The man's breathing was slow and steady, a sign that he was sleeping.
The bell rang across the building, the final bell for the day. Students began to pile out of the school with quick speed, ready to get home so that they can enjoy their remainder of the day. The male students wore uniforms that consists of a black blazer with white accents over a white, long-sleeved button-down shirt with vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, matching black pants, and brown dress shoes. The female students wore uniform consists of a white long-sleeved, button-down shirt with vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, a black shoulder cape and matching button-down corset, and a magenta skirt with white accents.
The girls looked to the sleeping male next to the door and blushed or giggled lightly, quickly scurrying away. They guys looked at him with glares of pure hatred. Underneath the hood was a young man, about 17 years of age. His skin was slightly tan with messy black curly hair, his eyes being a bright ocean blue. His features were hidden by the hood, leaving only a shadow.
A young bespectacled woman with a slim figure, black hair styled in a short bob cut and violet eyes walked out of the building with books in hand before she glanced down to the young man who was in slumber. "Mr. Mercer, You can not be sleeping out here." The woman had a strict tone as she knelt down and gently shook him, watching as Mercer's eyes slowly opened before he looked around slowly.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Shitori-senpai, I just needed a place to rest." He said with barely understandable Japanese, too tired to realize that she spoke to him in English, just saying those words with hope that he did it right.
Souna shitori shook her head at his actions, watching as he removed his earbuds and stood up tiredly. "I understand that you cannot wear the uniform, but can you please at least go to your classes? You missed the first day." The president of the school council asked as he removed his hood and shook his head slightly, getting his messy hair out his face.
"Alright, I'll go speak with them now to get the work that I missed." He said as he put both hands in his jacket pockets and walked inside of the school, going towards his class.
Souna watched as he left as two more girls walked up to her, one of them with long crimson hair. "Souna, who is that?" The woman asked curiously as Mercer appeared to be a giant in the crowd of students.
"James Mercer. A newcomer from America, no family members besides an adopted sister. He was in the viral outbreak a few years ago in New York."
The President said as she turned towards the woman. "You can't be considering claiming him, Rias. He doesn't appear to have anything."
The woman crossed her arms under her large bust, watching James through the crowds. "We'll see.." she said curiously.
A short while after, James walked out of the building with his hood back up, wearing a small black bookbag on his back. He looked to the left and to the right before he began to jog away from the building, watching the sun set slowly. The young man began to walk down the sidewalk and down the street towards a large apartment building.
Inside of a small two bedroom apartment, a woman was sat at a desk typing away at a laptop. She was surrounded by papers and she had a map of Manhattan new york on the wall next to her. She had short, brown, spiked hair, while her eyes are silver blue. She wears a grey hoodie with a grey and black striped shirt underneath. She also wears a short denim skirt with a pair of black tights and a pair of red sneakers.
James walked inside of the apartment, taking off the book bag and dragging it along the floor. He slowly stepped down the small hallway, passing by the kitchen to his left and the dining room table on his right that had different bags of food. He peeked in and could see fries and wrapped up burgers. "They have a white castle in japan…?! This won't be so bad after all.." James grabbed one of the bags and walked down the hall more, passing the bathroom on the left to the two bedrooms that were across from each other. He peeked inside the room to the right, seeing the woman typing at the laptop.
He slowly walked inside of the room, smiling softly as he snuck up behind the woman as she sat in the rolling chair and leaned his body against her, making the woman lean forward and smile softly. "Hey, asshole, I'm not your bed." The woman said with a chuckle.
"Yeah, yeah, Dana. How's it going?" He asked with a small smile, hugging his surrogate older sister. Dana turned and hugged him back, standing up.
"Good, school doing good for you? You haven't already got a girl, do you?" She asked teasingly before letting out a soft laugh as James sighed heavily and removed his hood.
"No, Dana and yes, school is going well so far. Where's the straw? I know you took it." He said while looking around slowly, turning his head to the left and to the right as he examined her desk.
"How else am I going to get you to come inside the room and speak to me? If I didn't take it, you would have walked inside your room and I wouldn't know you came in until I heard you snoring." She said jokingly before turning and reaching under her laptop and pulling out a straw, giving it to him.
James took the straw with a smile, putting his backpack on before he nodded his head. "Alright, I see you got set up." He said as he looked around.
Dana nodded somewhat excitedly, stepping to the side and showing the list of people that requests a private investigator. James whistled slightly before nodding his head. "With such a compact city, there's gonna be a lot of people who want dirt on each other." Dana said with a soft smile, chuckling softly as James turned and walked towards the door.
"Yeah, Yeah, just don't get into any fights, I don't have the bail money." He said as he waved his left hand that held his food, opening the door.
James walked back to the kitchen and grabbed a fountain drink cup that was also resting on the table, picking it up and walking to his bedroom. He opened the door and turned the light on, looking to the right and seeing a oak wood desk with a small monitor resting on it. An Xbox One and PS4 rested to the right and left of the monitor with the controllers sitting propped up in front of the monitor. He looked in front of him and could see a king size bed was resting on the floor, the large black comforter messily sprawled on the bed.
James placed his food on the desk, removing his multiple layers of clothing and leaving him in a black t-shirt and his blue jeans. He kicked off his sneakers, grabbing his food and sitting down on the bed before starting to eat.