Devalis' room was kept tidy, especially since he didn't have to share with a roommate. It could've easily been the most tidy of all in the boys' dorms, knowing their reputation for keeping things somewhat of a mess. Having been in the academy for quite some time, specifically about 2 years, he had customized it with a lot of extra items as well, but nothing too extravagant, and just some of his electronic possessions, which mostly laid on the desk half of the time until he chose to use them on his bed or otherwise instead, as almost all of them were portable.
"Oh, you've never showed me your room before," Irielle walked over to his bed and jumped on it, then knelt down afterwards, looking at him as he sat down on the bed.
"I didn't have to, honestly." Devalis sighed, taking a peek at the clock that was at the top on the wall of his room.
3:00 PM.
"I was wondering if you could... help me train for the exam on Monday, pretty please?" She held both her paws together to beg.
"No." His response was almost as fast as a lightning strike.
"But wh-"
"You're not the first to ask me this... and you may not even be the last... either way, my decision remains final." He stated coldly, then shifted himself to lay down sideways on the bed, the size of it being big enough to do so.
"You haven't even told me a good enough reason yet..." Irielle looked down at him from where she was, "But we're friends, and it'd really help if you'd train me so that I could at least place 7th..."
Devalis rolled his eyes.
"I never said we were friends, hell, we aren't close to begin with other than you randomly stalking me at times, and secondly, you're not going to succeed if you have that much low expectations to consider yourself being 7th."
"H-"
"And from what I've seen from your exam fights, you don't even try hard enough, which makes 12th seem like the perfect ranking for you, really," Devalis cut her off by continuing, "plus, if I were to train you, 7th would be a fucking joke, thank you very much."
She leaned over and stared deeply into his red eyes, which resembled the abyss.
"Then train me, so that you can prove that what you say isn't just a lie..."
"No thanks," He replied, closing his eyes and putting his paws behind his head, "I'll stick to my decision, like I always do."
"...Come on, pleaaaaaaase?"
"No."
Irielle took a deep breath in.
"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeee-"
Devalis opened his eyes and put his left paw on her mouth.
Irielle moved the paw afterwards, "Fine, but I really hope you reconsider... honestly."
"I won't."
"Well, you better anyway..." She then got up and began to walk to the door, but stopped and turned around to look at Devalis once more.
"By the way, which colors do you like more, yellow and purple, or green and red? Just a random question."
"The first one, because green and red together would be just a mess."
"Yeah, I totally agree!" She smiled, right before the bell rang, signalling the end of the classes that were going on.
"Fuck, it can't be 3:30 already..." Irielle groaned, taking a look at the clock above, "Arceus, I should've planned this better."
"You shouldn't have planned it at all," Devalis raised himself up from the bed and remained in a sitting position at the left side of it, "it seemed kinda pointless to me."
"Whatever, it was still fun anyway... but uh, reconsider the training thing, and bye!" She said right before closing the door behind her and rushing off to the girl dorms.
Devalis stood up and rested himself on the bed properly with the pillows.
"Good thing time flies fast when you're being annoyed..." He whispered to himself before turning to the right and closing his eyes once more, ready to drift off to sleep.
The air grew colder, and the winds outside grew stronger...
For whatever came with these winds would surely lead to disaster.
And so they blew.
