I woke up today, feeling brand new. I remember that I have school today, although I almost never go to it, like on Monday! But, I feel as though if I don't become social, then eventually that will bite me in the back someday.

When I got up, I put my clothes on and went downstairs. Ashley was waiting by the door for me. I wonder why she was...

"Toniko, do you want me to walk you to school?"

"Why, do I got a new school? Remember, for the past week, we've been going to the same school."

"I know, but... we're a group and groups should stick together."

I looked to the side and then nodded my head. Ashley's a good friend, so I held onto her hand, and we discussed our future while we walked to school. I love walking with Ashley, but I swear, me and Ashley are nothing but friends.

When we got in the school, I headed to my homeroom, 4-E. It's a swell class, but unfortunately Ashley's not in my classroom, which really makes school suck. The teacher was talking about the recent rocket launched 2 days ago, which was really strange, because this was math. She then started to talk about more natural things.

"Toniko, it's your turn to answer a question, I'll give you an easy one: What do you get when you times the radius of a circle by 2?"

I was pretty tired today, but eager to solve this question. "That's easy, you get the radius," I explained. When I answered that question, everyone seemed surprised at the result, and I felt something inside me grow.

{Toniko's charm has increased}

As class grew on, I noticed the strange faces in the class, which seemed pretty happy. There was this one guy who immediately struck my eye, and after class, I was going to find out who he was, because after I thought about that, the bell rung.

He began walking closer to me, and smiled. "Hi there, what's your name?"

"My name is Toniko..." I replied with an attempt of a smile. "Do you want to, hang out or something?"

He nodded. "I know this great diner down by the alley, it's called Mors, and it serves the best food."

I felt nervous about the name, but agreed nonetheless. We started walking shortly after school, and we exchanged conversation along the way. I even got his name, Ryan Karoshi. He was just so nice to me. Anyways, we got to the restaurant and he made my order for me:

"Hey, owner, two bowls of rice, with some ramen on the side."

The owner worked rather fast, and in less than a minute, our food was on the counter, so we decided to take a seat in the stools. Ryan began speaking.

"So, do you ever feel like there's something that no one else knows?"

I gulped, but answered while eating my rice. "Well Ryan, do you know anything about coffins appearing at night?"

He laughed. "Of course, I see everyone turn into a coffin while the sky turns green, is that so weird?"

I felt nervous. "That's interesting; what's your favorite gun?"

"The Makarov PM or Single Actions Army, why?" he said non-nervously. I felt as though even Ryan knew more than me. That's it, I have to end it for today and talk with him tomorrow.

"Thanks for the information, but I have to go."

He frowned. "But you haven't even ate your ramen yet!"

I kept backing away, not answering his question, I felt something in my heart grow one size, which was strange, because I was fairly certain I wasn't some stupid Christmas character that some guy using a pen name made.

{The mysterious classmate social has reached level 1}

"Argh! My soul!" some man said. I quickly ran over to the man, hoping not to lose any hope. I realized I was close to the same liquor shop I bought all that rice wine from. "Help! I really think I'm fading!"

There was a shadow biting over the man. It was a minor form of Anger, realistically eating the person alive. "Hey, what the hell are you looking at!?" the shadow replied. I attempted to shoot it off with my glock, but that didn't seem to do much. "Listen you perplexed prick, I'm trying to take this guys soul, and you shooting me isn't making it better.

I attempted to cheer the man up. "What's wrong?"

The man tried answering with a smile. "Well, my wife left me and took my kids with her, and now I'm depressed."

"Listen man, things get rough, but in the end, it can only get harder if you keep worrying about the past."

The shadow started to become brighter. "Jesus Christ man, you're really pissing me off."

The man ignored the shadow. "Yeah, but, I will never get my wife and kids back, and I'm 27," I started to move a bit closer to him as he said that.

"But, you got a great job and a great life ahead of you."

The man smiled some more, and tilted his head to his side. "You know, you're right, dwelling on the past won't help life in any way, and having this demon is surely not going to be helpful for me," he said as he pushed the shadow off of him and knocked it out.

I picked up the minor anger and sliced it's head off. It's body turned to ashes and so did its head. It's a mystery as to why these creatures exist here and live off of grief.

I walked outside the building and turned on my transceiver and talked through it. "This is Toniko, I encountered another shadow."

I heard David speak through it. "Which one was it?"

"It was a minor shadow: Anger."

"Did you meet anyone before that?" said a worried Ashley.

I nodded my head, even though they couldn't see me. "Some student named Ryan Karoshi."

I heard something drop in the background. Soon after the lines went to static and I thought why they might be worried about me meeting that guy.

I went back to the dorm and we gathered in the lobby. We've talked about Yomi yesterday and they were expressing their need to go there. I instantly agreed, because of my insomniac nature. I can never get tired. So during the final part of today, we trained in Yomi.