The next classroom that Akko walked into did not smell nearly as sweet as she was first greeted with the smell of old experiments long since embedded into the walls and the harshness of the ones that had failed.
Most of the past experiments were faint hints to the air that had never been removed from the walls around her while the others caught upon the air with a strong sense of near taboo as Akko stared around.
It only grew more nauseating once the teacher in the classroom began to whip up a new concoction as green smoke began to slowly move around the room, bringing the wretched smell with it.
The great thing about the scent shifting through the room however was the fact that it drowned out personal scents which Akko was thankful for as those scents had overwhelmed her before.
It did however clean to their clothes and mask their scent much farther than purely the room that it was in.
The next class was spoken in monotones though Akko could once again smell the scent of roses and lemons as she inched closer and closer to sleep though while the scent still overwhelmed her, it felt almost like a relic of home while dimmed with the smell of the previous classroom.
She couldn't quite fall asleep however despite her early morning as the scents of the Alphas especially around her had her heart beating fast though she'd been trying to learn to sleep a little better with an unrelated Alpha in her dorm.
The night before had been full of chatter and lack of sleep until exhausted Akko had fallen asleep though now she couldn't even take a nap.
She wondered truly why the girl with the enchanting scent in front of her knew so much already, almost to the point where she didn't need to take these classes unlike Akko.
The class passed dreadfully slow as Akko tried to either fall asleep like her body craved for or listen to the lesson before her in order to become a better witch and get a passing grade.
The food on the other hand smelled delicious as lunch rolled around, and Akko sat down with her two best friends thus far.
Her grumblings about boring classes went relatively ignored until she brought up Shiny Chariot, "I can hardly believe this is the same school that Shiny Chariot learned magic at."
"You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who respects Shiny Chariot's magic here." A voice spoke up that managed to carry that hint of rose perfume along with it as Akko finally looked up and saw the beautiful blond student from before.
"You're the one that stood out." Akko bit back her own tongue in order to avoid stating that she'd had a really pretty scent as well; Betas didn't tend to compliment Alpha's scents after all.
"Diana Cavendish. You're the new student, Atsuko Kagari, correct?" Diana spoke up; her tone of voice carried the weight of an Alpha's as Akko bit her lip to avoid the temptation of just submitting to her word if she were to give a command.
"You can call me Akko." She murmured as she tried to ignore the small flutter of butterflies in her stomach at the thought of the other girl speaking her shortened name.
"In any case, you will not find anyone in the magic world who holds Shiny Chariot's magic in high regard, not since we learned that she was an Omega anyway." Diana shrugged as she watched Akko.
"Th-that can't be true." Akko's stomach twisted at the thought as she stared ahead, imagining the strongest woman that she'd ever gotten to see as an Omega rather than the Alpha that Akko had always thought she was.
"Almost ten years as passed since she disappeared and probably settled down with an Alpha somewhere. No one cares to look for her now." Diana finished up before walking away, leaving Akko alone to her thoughts.
"Did you know?" It was half-muttered as Akko stared at a spot far away and wondered if that would become her fate too; would she be discarded as useless if anyone were to figure out her class and left behind by the ever changing world?
Tears filled her eyes; it was odd to imagine her hero, the one that inspired her as someone less powerful, less valuable than the majority of students that have attended the school in all of its history.
"N-Not really." Lotte muttered as she stared away from Akko, awkwardly trying to raise her Beta scent in a comforting matter that no one other than Alpha's seemed to perfect entirely.
"Yes." Was all Sucy said as she looked away from Akko finally as if to let the news sink into the young girl training to be a witch.
"B-But you never told me." Atsuko stared out and away from the lunch table, appetite long forgotten as she longed to just disappear for even a moment; perhaps she was destined to be a forgotten fragment like Shiny Chariot had become.