It had been a few hours since the argument between Yujin and Lucian, currently Yujin was at his math class which unfortunately for most of the students was double period. The teacher, miss Lorelei Wagner a woman who seemed to be nearing her 30's pushed up her glasses and gave the class some math problems for the class to solve as she was readjusting her chevron bun using a few seashell-shaped bobby pins she seemed to carry around. The math questions had mostly been formatted in such a way so they'd be related to dueling, but some were simply about such things as fractions. Lazuli wasn't that great at math so she wasn't much of a help for Yujin, who luckily was decent enough at math, though he was happy that math wasn't part of the tests given out this month. Miss Wagner had said that she'd only give a math test once a three months compared to the duel related subjects.

"Okay class, were there any problems you guys ran in? Any questions you perhaps didn't understand?" Miss Wagner said looking at a few slow students who hadn't finished.
A few students has raised their hand, including Lucian.

"Hmm, let's pick one. Yes, Lucian anything you found hard?"

"No, but I was confused about question 4. The one about Megamorph, as you stated whether it halves or doubles the ATK of the equipped monster is dependent on the player's LP being higher or lower than the opponent, yet you didn't state the LP of either player."

"I didn't? Well you guys you can skip that question then, I'll just give a new one instead."

And so class went on, miss Wagner gave out questions, talked about some formula's and such and expected the students to write down their notes. Lazuli wasn't quite helping, both due to her lackluster math skills and her still being worried about Yujin's fight with Lucian. But as she was thinking whether or not she should talk about this to Yujin, miss Wagner clapped her hands together.

"Okay class, I think that's it for today, don't forget to finish your homework, which I'll expect next Friday. Furthermore if you have any other questions, problems you ran into about math or simply need a teacher to talk to you can come talk to me. I'd be happy to help my students."

Yujin stood up, but took a second to glance at Lucian who walked down to talk to miss Wagner. He scoffed and walked to the cafeteria, deciding he could go grab some food. As he walked past the library he saw a few older Ra Yellow students picking on a younger Slifer Red student. Yujin groaned remembering a few hours ago the same thing happened to Lucian, he sighed and grabbed one of the older students by the shoulder.

"How about you guys pick on somebody else okay?" Yujin said with a forced smile on his face, which didn't mask how pissed he was as he was he was grabbing the student rather hard.

"Okay, okay just let me go you're hurting my shoulders." The other students apologized, probably not meaning it and left.

Yujin walked past the Red student completely ignoring him saying: "Thank you." to him. Yujin managed to enter the cafeteria, still having enough time left to eat and go to his next class. As he grabbed a BLT sandwich he decided to grab a seat next to the window, and looked at the crystal blue sky outside as he took a few bites of his sandwich.

"Hey Yujin!" Zephyr said sitting next to him.

"Oh boy. I mean hey Zephyr."

"Ay, what's with the long face?"

"Oh nothing, just got into a bit of an argument with Lucian."

"Really, that guy? How did you anger him off?"

"Sheesh, I did nothing. He was just stressed over nothing."

"Eh, I guess stress makes people act crazy. Plus being a Red student does not do him any favors either."

"Yeah, I noticed today it seems that they're easy bully targets." Yujin took another bite of his sandwich.

"Wait, are you bullying someone?" Zephyr was kind of confused

"What?! No, that's not how I meant it. I meant I noticed a student getting picked on by some others."

"Ooooh." Zephyr said, understanding what Yujin meant.

"I swear Zeph, you can be such an airhead at times. I mean you entered my class multiple times this month thinking it was your own."

"It's kind of hard to get my old schedule out of my system you know, I totally can't remember my new one. Luckily I write them down, I think I have Synchro class in half an hour." Zephyr was looking for a skimming through his phone's agenda to look up his classes.

Yujin yawned a bit, not really caring for Zephyr as he continued to eat.

"So, how was class?" Zephyr tried to continue to conversation.

"Meh, the teachers doing the same thing as always. Students doing the same as always, but it had less Lucy talking than usual."

"Right, well I should probably it's quite a walk from here to class, plus I wanted to drop some books I borrowed to the library, so see you later at the dorm." Zephyr stood up and waved goodbye as he left.

"Finally, some peace and silence." Yujin put his feet up and the table and finished eating his sandwich.

"We need to talk Yujin." Lazuli said, sounding rather serious.

Yujin groaned. "Oh come on, I just want to relax a bit."

"Well, I'm sorry but we really have to."

"Okay Lazuli, if you find it that important to talk about the whole Lucian ordeal." Yujin tried to keep his volume low enough that none of the other students would hear.

"Well at the least you know what I'm going to talk about. We both know what you did was wrong. Now I'm not saying what he did was any better, but as a friend of him you should show him support. Not just walk away from the problem."

"I'm sorry, but if I remember he said we weren't friends. So if he isn't my friend, why should I help him?"

"Well, for one: Just being a good person. And two: He only said you guys weren't friend because you said it to yourself you guys aren't friends. "

"Well excuse me for saying the truth."

"Oh please, you know you guys are buds. You just don't want to tell yourself you were so you don't have to feel bad when something like this happens. This is all just a bad defense mechanism you've installed on yourself."

"Aha, and what makes you a certified psychologist to say that about me?"

"I am not a certified psychologist, I'm something far better Yujin. I'm your friend, and if you go on the path you're walking now I'll be the only friend you've ever had in your life. And nobody but you can see me!"

"I'm just not a social person okay? Look, I'm sorry I seemed to have hurt him, but it was his fault for overreacting. If he couldn't deal with this, then well I don't think we should be friends. So stop picking his side Lazuli, aren't you supposed to be my friend?"

"Yes, and as a friend I'm supposed to help you when you make a mistake. And what you just did might be the biggest mistake you've ever made."

"No, I think the biggest mistake I made was not picking up any copies of Solemn Strike."

"Yujin, please. Try to be serious for once. Remember how Lucian said the other students here are stressed but act like they aren't? Don't you think you might be doing the same thing."

"Look Lazuli, I'm fine. If you think that Lucian's such a great guy that I should be besties with him, then just give him the time to cool down. Because I ain't talking to him till he gets his head out of his ass."

"I'm done, I'm going back into my deck and I'm not going to leave until you learn to be a responsible person and apologize to Lucian."

"Bu-"

"Not buts, goodbye!" Lazuli interrupted as her spirit entered Yujin's deck.

"Oh boy, I really pissed her off." Yujin put his feet off the table and sighed, realizing he only had a few minutes till his Japanese class. He decided to grab his stuff and leave.

Upon arriving in his class he sighed as he realized that Lucy was in his Japanese class too, which he had completely forgotten about. He however didn't pay much attention to her during class, nor any attention to the teacher really, he simply scribbled some stuff down on his notebook. Class went by rather fast and the teacher didn't seem to notice him slacking off, nor any of the students next to him that he was just writing random text in Japanese.

"I swear, I'm going to get cramps in my hand if I have to keep writing like this." Yujin complained as he felt someone walked behind him.

"So, is that how you spend your time in class? Doodling?" An all too familiar voice said as Yujin shuddered knowing it was Lucy.

"What now Lucy, I'm not going to have a rematch with you. I'm far too busy this week."

"Busy with what? Slacking off?" Lucy was trying to provoke Yujin it seemed.

"No, have you forgotten about the test? That sounds rather unprofessional of you to forget such a thing. We have to focus on our academic studies you know." Yujin said, in a rather bad attempt to do an impression of her.

"Oh ha-ha. And I didn't want to do a rematch this week, I was wondering if we could do it on a Monday actually. Also, I heard about the fight you had with Lucian"

"No. Also, how? Yujin put some extra emphasis on the how.

"Well, less of a I heard it and more of a I saw it happening."

"Oh for the love of god." Yujin facepalmed at himself realizing that she probably wasn't the only student who saw that.

"It seems you're in quite a predicament. How sad it must be for you, I thought he was quite a fitting companion for you."

"He is the one who should feel sad, he's the one acting like a jackass."

"If you say so Yujin, but is it he who deserves all the blame or do you have some blood on your hands too?" Lucy had a rather crooked smile as she left leaving Yujin even more frustrated.

"Ugh, what does she know anyway." Yujin sighed as he realized he still had one more class to go: Duel Philosophy, which unfortunately for him he shares with Lucian.

Yujin entered the classroom and sat down, trying to get as least attention as possible. Yujin noticed Lucian entered the class a few second after he took a seat and took one at the opposite reaction with the other Slifer Red students. The teacher himself didn't show up until a solid 15 minutes had passed, apparently he got tied up in a conversation with a student who had some problems and wanted to address some bullies about what they did. He told the students to open up their textbook and started off by telling some quotes from famous philosophers such as Plato and making use of them in modern society, and how they'd work in an environment such as dueling. It was actually rather entertaining as these quotes did start to make Yujin think, but no quote stood out to him more than:

"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." His teacher said to the class, which was apparently a quote from Aristotle.

"See, this quote here is quite important. For we all know how easy it is to get angered when playing this game, or afterwards, or even when just pulling open a pack. And often or not, we're angry at the other duelist. Yet I have to ask you, were you angry for the right reasons?" The teacher, a tall skinny man in his mid 40's questioned his class. Mister Frederick Locke, as the teacher was called sat on top of his desk and stared at the class and waited for someone to answer.

Yujin was still pondering about the quote, and was in a bit of a dream-like daze. He wasn't quite sure to respond, the fact the quote got mentioned was just a coincidence for him, so why should he give it much thought?

"Well seeing from the awkward silence I created it seems you guys rather want to hide the truth then to admit your mistakes, but this is all of the experience as growing. Not just as a duelist, but as a human being. And that's why I love giving this class, for I can see the growth it brings to others as they take in these words and explore not only their own psyche, but also of those around them."

Mister Locke looked at his watch and realized he had talked for 45 minutes already.

"Oh it seems time is up, class is dismissed, however Lucian I want to talk with you after class."

Yujin glanced at Lucian as he stood up from his seat and walked over to the teacher. The two seemed to talk about something, but Yujin was too far away them and whatever word he could pick up didn't give him any context. Yujin didn't want to attract any attention to himself so he grabbed his stuff and decided to go and drop by the library, he could use the free time left to study and finish his homework.

The library was rather crowded at this time, seeing that classes were over so most people decided to take their free time on studying or reading whatever book they could find, ranging from graphic novels to sappy romance stories. Yujin recognized a few people in the library: He could see Gabriel sitting with some other students as they were studying, Zephyr was talking with a female Obelisk Blue student about something and saw Lucy dropping off some books she had read. Yujin decided to avoid all three of them, rather not wanting to strike a conversation with them, especially not Gabriel seeing he was Lucian's older brother. It took him a while, but he managed to find an unoccupied table and took a seat. He decided to start off with his math homework first, thinking to himself that whether or not Lazuli's around it wouldn't help him at all with this particular subject anyway. It wasn't that much really, so it only took him about 15 minutes or so. He then briefly worked on his other homework assignments, though it took him a while longer then he first expected, when he looked at his phone he realized he had spend over an hour on it. He didn't have much interest to really continue now so he stood up and packed his belongings.

As he tried to find his way out of the library he ended up noticing a book on the ground, the book itself wasn't about anything in particular, though the cover seemed to depict a crescent moon. What interested him was what he found inside of the book, a Mokey Mokey card. The card itself was inside of a black card sleeve which looked to be a bit bigger than the actual card itself. As Yujin grabbed the card he noticed a small folded piece of paper falling out of the sleeve, he then grabbed the piece and unfolded it. He scanned the paper, but realized it was written in an entirely different language. He didn't understand any of the words, and none of the letters seemed to be from the English or Japanese alphabet. He was rather curious, so he decided he could just look it up online and realized the library did have some computers he could perhaps use if nobody else was occupying them.

He seemed to be in luck once more as there were quite a number of pc's left for him to use, hell there might be enough pc's here for 30 or so people. Yujin opened up Wikipedia and looked up some random alphabets. At first he didn't think he'd be able to find what it said, but with some luck he found out it was Greek. Well, he should've seen that coming seeing how the day went. It took him a while figuring how he'd copy the message on Google Translate, but after he did that he got a rough translation:

" Space duel came exactly 22. We want to discuss with you . We come alone, there are guards often , so that it can slip unnoticed through security ."

"Well… It's Google Translate, what did I expect?" He said to himself.

Deciding he spend enough time in the library and the fact the piece of paper he found meant nothing he understandable he decided it'd be for the best to just go. Yujin put the piece of paper back inside of the sleeve and put the card inside of his deck box, luckily for him his sleeves were of a different color so he could differentiate the Mokey Mokey from his regular set of cards. He tapped his deck a bit to see if Lazuli might react, normally if she's angry at him (which doesn't happen that often.) she does return back to her deck to cool down, but by now she would normally be back and say she's sorry for overreacting. Doesn't seem she's going to be apologizing soon, or maybe he should be the one to say he's sorry now?

"Oh well, I ain't gonna say I'm sorry." Yujin saw it was around 17:45 and decided he might as well go back to dorm cafeteria, dinner was supposed to start at 18:00 and he'd rather be early then late. It took him a bit longer then he expected to arrive, but he was still rather early. There weren't as many people there as he expected, though most students don't show up until at the least a half hour later. Yujin didn't see any students he recognized, not even Zephyr which surprised him since he's normally the first guy at the cafeteria.

"I guess he must still be at the library then." He thought to himself as he grabbed a plate.

They weren't serving anything in particular, but there seemed to be a lot of different meats served. Yujin grabbed a bit of everything he thought he'd like and took a seat to eat. As he was nearly finished with his meal he saw more students arrive, including Zephyr who seemed to wave goodbye to someone, though the person was too far away for Yujin to see. Once he was done with his meal he decided to stand up and leave.

"Oh hey Yujin, already done eating? Well, see you at the dorms!" Zephyr said as he saw Yujin walking past him. Yujin simply nodded and left.

He really didn't do much in his room either, he mostly spend his time playing Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and watching television. He looked at the clock on his wall and saw that it was 21:30. Surprisingly Zephyr still hadn't entered the room, what was that guy doing anyway? Yujin laid down on his bed and grabbed the sleeved card from his deck and glanced wondering what the message meant, but when he looked at the clock seeing it was now 21:35 he realized what it meant:

"Come exactly at the duel arena at 22 o'clock. We have something to discuss with you, so come alone. There are guards often there, so you can't slip that easy through the security."

It did make sense, there was a curfew at that time so most students would be send back to their rooms, especially the duel arena which a lot of students have trespassed to over the few weeks he was there. But who is this we? And for who was this written? And for what reason? It didn't take that long for Yujin to figure that out as he stood up.

Seeing how the day went, it was likely written for Lucian, by those Obelisk Blue bullies and they likely wanted to do something awful with him. Plus they know that Yujin wouldn't be there to help him now as they got in an argument.

"Well it's his own fault if he shows up there, plus there's no way he - Oh, who am I kidding it's obvious he'll show up. Well, it's his own fault still if he gets in trouble. I mean, why would I need him? I've got myself, if I want a sparring partner I'll just visit the duel arena on a daily basis. And duel, with nobody else to talk to every day, going through the same boring routine… alone. " Yujin sat down on his bed and sighed.

"God freaking damnit. I get it, I was being way too overly dramatic. Damn my heart for making me feel bad! … God I'm such a dork at times." He was now just rambling to himself, but decided it'd be best to slip out and go to the Duel Arena now, it was around 21:30 and if he runs he'd make it in a few minutes.

While sneaking past the guards was surprisingly easy, due to that it took him longer than expected to enter Duel Arena, it was now 21:45, meaning he still had a solid 15 minutes to wait. So he took his time opening some booster packs.

"Nope, nothing good here. Damn, nothing here has a value of even five dollar or more."

Yujin didn't however notice a few people walking past him to one of the few Duel Arena rooms right next to where he was, as the lights were out already. He did however start to hear some mumbling which made him curious.

"Oh, seems they're here already." He thought to himself as he threw the wrapper the cards were in on the ground and put the pulled cards in a separate deckbox.

Yujin slowly walked to the other room, not different from the other Duel Arena and turned on the lights.

"Okay, so what's going on here?!" He said trying to sound a bit more intimidating. What he saw however was far from what he expected. He was expecting some random bullies who dragged Lucian here, instead he saw: Lucian, Gabriel and... the chancellor?

There was a bit of an awkward silence till Yujin scrapped his throat.

"No really, what's going on. I'm genuinely confused."

"Did you invite him that scrub here?" Gabriel asked to his brother.

"Uhh no… But what are you doing here Yujin?" Lucian asked, incredibly confused.

"I would like to know the answer to that question too." The chancellor replied.

"Well, uh. I found this letter I expected to be adressed to Lucian inside of a sleeved Mokey Mokey. And I expected to be in trouble, and well… I got concerned for him." He was muttering the last few words.

"I beg your pardon?" The chancellor said.

"I was concerned for his wellbeing. Look Lucian, I know we got into a fight… but I'm sorry. When I thought you were trouble it started bothering me, and I just had to check if you were okay."

"You're sorry? Dude, I should be the one to apologize. I was the one who overreacted."

"No man, I've been a bad fr-friend." Yujin couldn't quite get the last word out of his mouth, then looked at Lucian with a sheepish smile.

"No man, I was the bad friend." Lucian said shaking his head.

"JUST ADMIT YOU WERE BOTH BAD FRIENDS." Gabriel shouted groaning loudly enough that people outside of the arena could hear it.

"You forgive me Lucian?"

"Of course buddy." Lucian walked over to Yujin and hugged him, lifting him off the ground.

"This is incredibly awkward, please put me down on the ground."

"Aw, how cute. And slightly gay." Gabriel said.

"Thanks for ruining this beautifully emotionally comment with your sass, ass." Yujin said.

"So…" Lucian and Yujin said at the same time.

"I guess I should explain what's going on right?"

"Yes, I think that'd be the best way to clear this mess up." The chancellor said nodding in agreement.

"Well, as you know the letter called me here. But, you didn't know why. See I'm here, because…" Lucian was a bit too ashamed to continue.

"I'm tutoring my little brother in dueling." Gabriel stated proudly.

"You're… tutoring him? I thought you disliked him." Yujin was somewhat confused.

"Hey, he might be a crappy duelist, but he's still my lil bro. Plus, if I mold him into a good duelist I'm sure our parents would be proud of both of us."

"Never knew you had a heart."

"Oh shut up." Gabriel stared at Yujin.

"So, why's the chancellor here?"

"He had the spare keys to the arena so that we could practice after the curfew, since due to my tight schedule I don't have much time except for now. So due to my number 3 status in the academy he was willing to pull a few strings to give us access to the arena while he'd oversee the duels."

"Well that all makes sense, I'll be going to bed, you know fresh start and all of that." Yujin tried to sneak away again.

"Halt, come back here this instant mister Shojiki." the chancellor said, surprisingly pronouncing Yujin's surname correct.

"Yes sir." Yujin gulped.

"For trespassing, and breaking the curfew I should punish you normally. However, since it was for the sake of concern over a friend I'll let it pass for now. Next time, warn the teacher instead of pulling of such dangerous stunts. Or I might have to expel you. Do try to not get expelled, as an Obelisk Blue I expect you to have a lot of potential. Now go, before I change my mind."

"Yes sir." Yujin left.

"Hah, you got your ass owned dude." a giggling voice said.

"Oh shut up Lazuli. Wait, Lazuli? H-how long were you here."

"Dude, I saw the whole thing. Haven't laughed like that in a long time."

"Oh shut up."

"Aw, are you blushing? How cute."

"Seriously, shut up."

"Okay, okay. Only if you admit I was right."

"Fine, you were right. Now let's go to bed."

If a person could see Lazuli's mouth right now you'd probably see the widest grin imaginable as she chuckled at her partner's misfortune as they left to go back to the dorms.