"So does anyone have an idea why Instructor Rean summoned us to a special homeroom meeting?" Looking around at the four faces around her, Juna asked them. Hoping that at least one of them would have some sort of clear answer.
"I'm afraid not, I was on my way to accompany Sidney with chess, when I encountered the Instructor who told me to head for the homeroom. Other than that, he didn't say anything more," Kurt answered, detailing his recent experience with his run in with Rean earlier.
"Got nothing and I couldn't care less anyhow," Ash said.
"And here I was hoping that it would be just the two of us alone," Musse teased, making the four uncomfortable at the very thought that goes through their flirtatious classmate.
"I don't calculate any reason for why all of us were summoned here, however for whatever the cause is. Instructor Rean really wishes to inform all of us about in further great detail then," Atlina said, pondering to herself on the many possible outcomes and scenarios.
"Yeah, it would've been great if he gave us a hint or so but he completely left us all in the dark," Mopping, Juna was unhappy by the lack of a clear answer and was feeling beat up about it."
"Oh don't worry about it Juna, just leave the Instructor and myself alone and I can find all sorts of secrets he has hidden away," Musse giggled, much to the disbelief of the girls.
"M-Musse! That's enough of that okay."
"I believe that Instructor Rean wouldn't reveal anything, even if you tried your best attempt with that," Altina answered, causing Juna stress as her two female classmates were completing various outcomes.
"I see Musse is still the same no matter the situation," Off to the side, Kurt and Ash stood by the window as they watched Juna slowly pull her hair out at the ridiculous situation she found herself in.
"Of course that harpy is still always acting like that," Slapping the back of the dual wielder, he leaned in and whispered. "Hey, I know some attractions in the entertainment district in Heimdallr, how about the two of us bounce there after this."
"I-I don't think that is appropriate considering our ages as well and plus the fact we're students at the Thors Branch Campus," Kurt stuttered as he was taken back by Ash's idea.
Before anyone could get another word in, the door to the room opened up and Rean finally entered, much to the relief of Juna as he noticed when he entered.
"Sorry I'm late everyone, got hold up with Principal Le Guin. Had to make sure that everything was alright for tomorrow and the next few days," He said, taking his position behind his desk.
"My apologies Instructor but, what do you mean by that?" Atlina asked politely, for some reason taking her usual place in the class while the rest of them just stood around in their spot. Taken back by how Altina just acted like this was another homeroom meeting, which in fair, it was technically.
"Yeah what Allie said, just what exactly is going on Instructor?" Narrowing her eyes at him, Juna asked next. Making him sheepishly grin back at her as he thought that Juna must've gotten the wrong idea.
"Ooo Instructor, are we perhaps going to a far away place?"
"Can it Musse, I've already wasted enough time just waiting around for him. I don't need you trying to seduce him every opportunity you get," Ash barked at her, irritated by Rean's sudden entrance and Musse's recent comment.
"Please Instructor, we are all curious in the circumstance that has required us to have a special homeroom meeting, thus resulting in us to miss out on our afternoon activities," Calming the room down before anymore shouting could occur, Kurt asked, allowing a path out for everyone as they focused their attention on their Instructor.
Feeling the pressure of his student's glare on him, Rean felt quite overwhelmed and he couldn't feel his mouth moving as he revealed the real reason for the special homeroom meeting.
"I understand that all of you had plans for today and I'm sorry for bringing all of you out of that, but I have a special announcement for all of you and tomorrow morning, the other homerooms will do be doing the same thing," He answered, baffling everyone as he got all of their attention.
"Sorry...what?"
"I can't calculate the possible outcomes that would result in the other homerooms to do the same thing."
"Oh what the hell man, don't tell me we're all going on another stupid field exercise again. Just as we got back from one two days ago."
Only Musse and Kurt kept to themselves, leaving Altina, Juna and Ash to be vocal in the room.
"Okay, calm down, it's nothing too bad, it's just we're receiving some guest instructors to help out around the campus for the next few days….even though they were the ones who reached out to me for this," Now that got everyone's attention, especially Musse as her eyes sparkled for some reason.
"Oh my, Instructor, could this be that you have some admiring fans amongst them?" Musse teased, fluttering her eyes; much to the disgust of Ash and Juna.
"For the love of Aidios,"
"Musse!"
"Hehe. No, no, it's nothing like that don't worry," he said, scratching the side of his head while nervously laughing as Kurt and Atlina sent him suspicious looks. "But, the people that are coming over are actually the members of the old Class Vll."
"What!"
"No way!"
"Interesting."
"My, my, looks like I got some fierce competition now,"
"Damnit."
All five responses resounded throughout the second floor of the campus. Amusing instructor Towa and Randolph as they heard it from the faculty lounge below.
"Looks like Rean revealed the special visitors we're getting tomorrow,"
"Yep, it will be great to see the old Class Vll again. It has been a while since last I saw them all."
Back in the homeroom, Rean backed up a step at the sheer volume that he received from his students. Of all the reaction he was expecting, them shouting aloud; enough for the whole campus to hear them, was not the response he was expecting.
"This has to be a joke right?" Ash asked, refusing to believe this was happening.
"Nope, no joke here Ash. Principal Le Guin has granted them all special permission to come as guest instructors. Well, it was more like they pressured me to ask on their behalf for Principal Le Guin for access to attend the Branch Campus," Rean said, his face dropping as he remembered a few nights before when he received a call on his Arcus from everyone.
"Hold up, are you all serious?!" Rean was in disbelief as he thought he had misheard what everyone had just asked him.
"Are you seriously still that dense? Of course we're all serious about this," Jusis responded.
"Indeed, besides, it would be a welcoming change for all of us to see how you are fairing as it has been too long," Laura answered.
"Yes and I believe Celine is worried about you and it will do much relief for her to see that Rean is holding up okay."
"What?! That is stupid, why would I want to check up on him. He was nothing but trouble when we were stuck together."
"Ignoring Celine, I really think this would be a great opportunity for the students, especially for us and impart our knowledge on the new generation," Emma said.
"Indeed it will and this will allow me to greet my future master as well again," On Alisa's side, Sharon appeared on screen much to the surprise of Alisa and the furious screaming in the background was no doubt a normal reaction everyone was expecting from the busy business woman.
"S-Sharon! Stop it!"
"Well I can not deny the idea of serving Master Rean but it's an unhealthy mindset to keep denying the future for you both."
"Sharon!"
"Well, it appears the old romantic fling between the two is still feisty as ever," Sara sighed, but she couldn't help the smile on her face as she looked at the faces of her old students.
"Still looks like Alisa's feelings are still the same, despite being away from you all this time Rean," Elliot smiled.
"Indeed, this is a most joyous occasion and I thank the winds for allowing me a safe return to witness the blossoming of a shackled romance,"
"Please guys, cut it out, I've already gotten a lot of this from the students. I don't need this from all of you as well," Rean felt exhausted as they took turns to tease him and Alisa's feelings. Despite them both revealing to everyone that they started to date back when they retook Trista. They all were relentless in their efforts to tease the two of them whenever the opportunity arose; Sharon and Sara for some reason, being the worst out of them all.
"I don't doubt that for one bit," Fie said.
"I have also heard some interesting rumors going around your campus, mainly from what Millium has told me when she visited your academy," Jusis said cooly, a brief smile on his face as he recalled what the hyperactive girl had revealed to him.
"Oh really, well then care to explain to all of us about this?" Machias chimed in. Intrigued by his rival's comment on Rean's position.
"Certainly but not because you asked for it," he said, causing Machias to grumble in anger. "It has appeared to believe that our Ashen Chevalier has smitten all the girl's heart and they are fighting over to win his affection,"
"Oh really," Alisa's voice interrupted them all, and she had a painful smile on her face as she beam at the screen. "Care to explain what this is about Rean?"
"Umm, there isn't much to discuss really, but Towa and I usually find ourselves the topic of discussion amongst the student body and I really don't understand the gossip regarding me most of the time,"
"Haha, it still seems you're the same as ever Rean," Laura chuckled, ignoring the heat up being built up by Alisa.
"Going back to the topic on hand," Deciding now was a good time to save Rean some face for once. "Do you think you'll manage to convince Le Guin in granting us permission?" Sara asked him.
"I think I should be able to but, besides all of that. I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone again," he said, relieved for Sara's diversion before the conversation entered dangerous waters.
"Agreed, it has been far too long since we've all been together," Jusis nodded in agreement.
"Both Aidios and the wind have truly blessed our reunion,"
"It seems like we've all reached an agreement then," Laura said.
"Nice, looking forward to seeing everyone again," Fie spoke up, smiling as she saw Sharon was about to speak but Alisa had managed to cut her off.
"Definitely and by the way Rean, you and I are going to have a private talk when we get there," Alisa said as her eyes narrowed at the screen. Much to the amusement of Sharon in the background as she watched with a gleeful expression on her face.
While everyone sent sorry looks at the downed troddened Rean, who was dreading the situation that was going to happen to him very soon.
"Well, I'm gonna end it here as I still have some prepping to do beforehand in preparation to ask Principal Le Guin for special access for all of you. Quick question, does anyone know if Millum will be joining us as well?" Rean asked.
Silence greeted the call as he waited for everyone to gather their thoughts on their missing member of the group who saldy couldn't join them on the call.
"Jusis and Millum have been spending more time with each other, so I gather he would have the most information out of all us," Elliot said, diverting the attention onto the blonde noble.
"Just because I have started to tolerate her existence, doesn't mean that I kept tabs on her and you all know how she can be at times," he responded, sounding annoyed. "But I haven't heard anything from her for some time but I wouldn't be surprised if she somehow turns up on the day, Rean."
"Don't worry, Millum is a part of Class Vll, there's no way I wouldn't ask on her behalf as well."
"Very well, seeing that we have all taken up a bit of your time, I think now would be a great place to end this call right here," Jusis said, moving on the fact as Rean was starting to look utterly exhausted.
"Thanks Jusis, and I'll see everyone in a couple of days then," Ending the call, Rean fell onto his bed and felt his eyes shut as he drifted away in a deep sleep.
"Let me get this straight, all of your old Class Vll...want to be guest instructors for the next few days?"
Jumping ahead, Rean found himself in Principal Le Guin's office and he had to carefully choose his approach as they all depended on his success.
"Yes, they all reached out to me personally last night," He replied.
He could feel the sweat drop on his back as she let slip some of her dominating aura, no doubt on purpose to let him know the seriousness of his request.
"Hmmm, what an interesting proposal Schwarzer. I must say, it will certainly offer a new perspective for the students hery…. very well. Permission granted," After careful consideration on her part. Rean let out a breath as she accepted his request.
"What's the matter Schwarzer, thought I wasn't going through with your request?" She asked, raising an eyebrow in amusement at him.
"No, no...maybe a little, you did let out some of your aura which I doubt was on purpose on your end," He sighed.
"Hehe, whatever do you mean by that I wonder. If that is all for today…"
"Yes Principal," Taking his leave, Rean let out another sigh of relief as the aura he felt disappeared in an instant.
"I still don't understand the passion that woman has within her." Walking down the halls to make his daily patrols, he was lost in thought about Le Guin's horrifying aura but he left that aside for another time.
"Hold up teach," Ash's voice brought him back to the present as he realised he had drone off in his thoughts for a moment.
"Are you really serious about all of this?" He scoffed, glancing out at the window instead. "Because the way I see it, I don't see how a few old timers can possibly have something to teach us."
"Ash, you're being rude. Those are Instructor Rean's friends," Stamping her foot down, Juna shot back and appalled him for his behaviour.
"Going back onto the topic on hand, you said they'll be arriving tomorrow?" Ignoring the two, Kurt steered the conversation back on track.
"Yes, but they'll all be arriving at different times during the day. There's a chance someone will even get here during the night as well; considering everyone is scattered across the empire," Rean replied.
"Hehe, that would definitely make tomorrow be even more interesting. To think we would be meeting the whole of the old Class Vll, I wonder what kind of stories they would have," Not even wasting a second, Musse spoke.
"Now that you said that, I do wonder how they picture our Instructor in a different matter," Agreeing with her, Juna couldn't help the gnawing sensation at the back of her mind as this was a chance to gather more background information on the Ashen Chevaliar."
"...You guys realise I'm still here right?" Rean finally interrupted but to no surprise, everyone shouted yes at him. Save Altina for that matter, who was making her way over to him.
"I trust your relationship is still going well, Instructor," She stated, a bit too loudly as it gathered everyone's attention upon him.
Kurt was surprised by the revelation, Juna was flabbergasted by how Altina already knew about it, Musse was in absolute glee at the reveal of prime information and even Ash raised his eyebrows while having a nasty grin on his face at the same time.
"My, my, our dear Instructor isn't single at all. What a surprise, the girls are going to be ecstatic when they found out about this," In absolute glee, Musse was happy that she found some juicy gossip material.
"Thanks for that Altina," Rean sighed, knowing full well that she had basically subjugated him to further questions very soon.
However before anyone could go forward, his Arcus started to ring. Flipping it opened, he held it against his ear.
"Hello, Rean Schwarzer speaking," He answered.
"Rean!" A feminine voice answered back, making his student's eyes widened but the surprise didn't stop there.
"Hi Alisa, umm you kinda got me in a bad time to be exact,"
"Oh...do you want me to call you later? I thought you were making your patrols around the campus but I can definitely call back if you want," She sounded surprised by the fact he was in the middle of something as he had told her a few times that after school, he would be making rounds around the campus.
Stuck on a decision, he glanced at his students who subtly nudged him along into talking with her so they could find out more about his relationship status; just like curious cats and he didn't really have a choice on the matter as he didn't know when he would have another chance to call her back. Not with his students watching him with glints in their eyes.
"No, no, it's fine, so what's going on Alisa?"
"Oh nothing, just want to check on my Ashen Chevalier that's all and also tell him that I would be arriving tonight instead."
"What!?"
"My word."
"Interesting."
"My, my what juicy info."
"Ha!"
"Uhh, Rean? What were those voices just then?" Alisa was surprised that Rean wasn't alone and she could hear a mix between both boys and girls amongst the reaction she overheard. "Don't tell me…"
"Yep, they were all my students," He met each of their faces with an annoyed expression. Letting out a sigh as they sent him oh so not very innocent looks. "How come you're arriving tonight instead?"
"Well for some reason, Sharon and Grandfather have really helped with clearing out a week's worth of work in two days and after he learnt about my little outing. He and Sharon teamed up and packed all my luggage for me and told me to get going," She explained, not looking too happy at recounting how exactly everything had gone down.
"Haha, I can see why. I can get some rooms arranged in the Inn in advance for everyone since you'll be arriving soon, what time will you be here?"
"Around...half past eight I think. I should arrive around that time." Taking a moment to collect her thoughts and remembering the estimated arrival time, she answered back.
"Okay, I'll get everything sorted out by the time you get here. If you excuse me, I got five students to take care of," He said, peering over the five in question as they all did their best to blatantly try to pretend they had no idea who he was talking about.
"Okay, I'll see you there," She hung up, while giggling at the thought that his poor students were about to receive a Rean speech, just like she did a year ago.
There was total silence in the room as each student tried to avoid eye contact with Rean, who was standing in front of the board with his eyebrows raised at each one of them.
"So...found what you were hoping for?" He asked.
"Uhh, I mean I guess. Was kinda hoping to find out more though," Ash blatantly admitted, causing Kurt to hide his head in his hand and Juna to sigh loudly.
"Ash! That is very inappropriate," Juna scolded, her cheeks were flustered at the very thought of the wrong type of information she wanted to learn about.
"They say you only hope to learn a man's true passion is through one of his lady friends, Ash was correct in the route he took," Backing him up, Musse agreed with him much to the dilemma of Juna.
"I believe that we shouldn't be discussing this in front of Instructor Rean of all people," Deciding that enough was enough, Kurt hoped to stop their discussion before it dug a further hole for them all.
"I agree with Kurt and besides I think Instructor Rean has already left while we've been busy arguing with each," Jumping in as well, Altina's statement managed to put a stop as they all noticed that Rean had disappeared from his spot long ago.
"You gotta be shitting me."
"How clever of him."
"Of course he would do something like, how typical of him. I can't believe that he would leave us high and dry like that."
Earlier
Watching them argue amongst themselves and thanking them that they were providing a thankful distraction for him to slip out. He quietly exited the room whilst ensuring that they didn't notice his presence leaving.
"I'll let them off the hook for now as it won't do much once they all arrive tomorrow,"
Making his way down the stairs, he passed Towa and Randy on the first floor who offered him grins towards his direction.
"What's up with that?" He asked, unsure of the reason why they were smiling at him.
"I think that maybe half the school has already thought of something that would provide entertainment for the time being on the reason for the special meeting in the homeroom of Class Vll, better prepare yourself tomorrow for the line up of students asking you questions," Randy explained while laughing at the very thought. "Going out to plan out arrangements now?"
"Yep and also I got a call during the announcement. Pretty bad timing as well but there was nothing that could be done about that," Rean sighed. He noticed the odd look Towa was giving him and had a sneaky suspicion on what she was thinking about.
"Rean," She began. "I can tell by your facial expression that it wasn't what the subject was but rather who was on the other end."
Rean chuckled slightly and was correct in her assumption of being able to deduce his very thought process more clearly now. Ever since they started working with each other, they had grown closer as friends as they did before at the Main Campus.
"Yeah, apparently Alisa called and she's actually arriving tonight instead, so I better get things sorted out in advance now," He explained, ignoring the inquisitive look Randy gave him as he noticed Towa's face lit up at the mention of the name.
"Really?!"
"Yep, she sounded happy about the prospect of arriving ahead of schedule...even if she didn't wanted to admit of course," He said, a happy smile growing on his face as he could tell that despite her annoyance at Sharon and Gywn's actions from her recount on the call. She sounded a bit happy of the very thought of arriving first out of everyone.
"Wait so whose is this Alisa person and why does she sound closer to Rean?" Randy asked, wanting to get to the bottom of this mysterious connection his colleagues had with this person.
Acting like they were caught in the act, Towa coughed into her hand while Rean scratched the side of his cheek with his index finger, neither one of them moved to answer Randy's question which led the latter even more baffled than before.
"This might come as a shock to you Randy but, Alisa…" Trailing off at the end, Towa started, only to leave Rean to fill in the blank she provided him while Randy shifted his focus onto him.
"She's my girlfriend,"
"...What, hang on a minute, you're not single?" It took him a few seconds for his brain to settle things fully and then realising that he had never once thought to ask Rean if he was seeing someone during their time as co-workers.
"Wait, you don't mean that blonde chick, the one with the Reinford group and that maid trailing behind her all the time while in Crossbell?"
"The very same, they've been pretty close ever since our school days together," Towa answered him, smiling brightly as she recalled those very fond memories as she watched with interest as they both gradually formed a relationship that would last a lifetime.
"Well if you both excuse me, I better head down to Barney's Inn and Tavern," Squeezing through both of them, he headed for the main entrance. Leaving the two behind as they watched him walk off.
"Must be quite a girl for being able to get through with him," Randy commented, holding his hands behind his head.
"Well, I think you would be amazed by how they both started out, I can tell you more about it if you want," Towa giggled nervously. She had heard about Alisa and Rean's 'incident' back in the Old Schoolhouse and she had learnt more in detail about what had happened later down the track.
"Oh, did something happen between them?" He asked, intrigued to learn more about Rean's background.
"Well, just be prepared for what you're going to hear about," Towa said as she led away from the stairs.
Making his way to Barney's, he noticed the increased number of people visiting for some reason but he placed that at the back of his mind as he had other important matters to attend to first.
"Ahh Rean, what can I do for you," Barney's voice rang out as he had entered the building.
"Hey there Barney," He greeted, making his way over to the counter he stood behind at. "I was wondering how many rooms you had free at the moment," He asked.
"Well, take a look around you, we've gotten quite an influx of tourists lately and I'm afraid all the rooms have been booked up," Gesturing behind him, Rean turned around and was surprised by the number of people eating. "I thought the dormitory had plenty of space for you lot?"
"Oh, I was hoping to make some room arrangements for a few days as my friends from my old Class were coming over to stay for some time; offering to help teach at the Branch Campus for a little while," Rean explained to him, going in full depth with what had transpired a few nights before.
Letting out a low whistle, Barney ran his hand through his hair as he listened to what Rean had to say.
"I must say, I certainly wasn't expecting that. Sorry I couldn't be any help for you," He apologised.
"You have nothing to say sorry for, it wasn't your fault for being booked out and it's great for your business as well. Guess that means that I have to find somewhere else for them to stay now," Lost in thought, he tried to find a new solution to the perilous situation at hand.
"Well, considering the large amount of space inside that dorm of yours. I would certainly wager a guess that there would be plenty of space for guests to stay over and it would do them some good to interact with the students during their stay."
Opening his eyes, he had completely forgotten that he could've used the dorms as an alternative, if things didn't work and yet it was Barney who reminded him of that fact.
Rean nodded. "Thanks Barney, I had completely forgotten all about that."
"No need to thank me, Rean," He replied. "If you excuse me, I got some customers to deal with. Feel free to have them all gather here sometime soon and I'll treat them all to a well deserved meal."
Nodding his head, the two of them went their separate ways after that. With a solution in sight, he pulled out his Arcus and dialed Principal Le Guin.
"Schwarzer, is something the matter?"
"A little bit, I tried to book some rooms at Barney's but all the rooms were full and I was wondering if we can use the spare guest rooms in the dorm to accommodate them all instead,"
"Hmmm," He waited patiently as Le Guin carefully pondered on the situation at hand.
"I see, the question is however. Do we have enough rooms to accommodate them all? I think we have at three currently available and that's not including doubling with Instructors as well."
"We can double up on some of them as we're all used to that type of arrangement already, I don't see how that would affect us in any way," He replied.
"Very well then, we can use the dormitory to accommodate them all then, make sure Celestin is aware of this so he can help prep the rooms," With that all finished, she hung up on him.
"Man, she is really something else our principal," He thought but now, he had other things to worry about and that was, how he was going to figure out who was doubling up with who.
"At least Celestin will be helping out, I just hope he doesn't feel alarm about it when they arrive tomorrow or in Alisa's case, tonight," he said aloud, walking over to the entrance of the dormitory, passing by wandering students along the way.
"Good afternoon Master Rean," Celestin greeted once Rean had entered.
"Hello there Celestin, do you mind if you can help me with something real quick," He asked.
"Why certainly, mind if I ask if this has anything to deal with room arrangements for your old Class?" Not even wasting a second, Celestin immediately got into business.
"Wait, how do you know about that?" Taken back by how he had correctly assumed what he was about to ask him, Rean was surprised that the butler had already known what he was about to be tasked with.
"Principal Le Guin called me earlier and explained the situation beforehand, allowing me to fully analyse the best possible solution we can use," Leading the way, Celestin took him up to the third floor where all the faculty rooms were located.
Taking hold of the handle, he twisted it to the side and pulled it away to reveal the tidiness and neat presentation to Rean. "As you can see here, I took the liberty to get started as soon as possible but so far I've only finished this room before you had arrived."
Taking note of how similar it reminded him of the rooms back in the Third Dormitory, he felt a wave of nostalgic rush over him. "We should be able to fit in at least three people in a room like this, are the two others just like this?" He asked, after scanning it for a brief minute.
"They at most certainly are, and you were correct in that assumption, we can fit at least three others inside those rooms as well, leaving us with a perfect nine when combining all three rooms together."
Nine people, just missing the cut of ten. At least they could fit in nine, that was a solid number to work with.
"Thanks for that Celestin, I'll work that out with the rest of them tomorrow when they get here."
"It's certainly no problem Master Rean," He bowed and went to work with tidying up the last two rooms for the rest of the day.
"Seeing that I'm already back in the dorm, the least I can do is go through their papers and get that done before Alisa arrives," Already finding something to keep his mind occupied for the time being. Rean went back into his room and sat down at his desk and prepared himself for going through his student's work.
Four hours later
"Man, it feels great to be back," Yawning, Ash looked around the first floor of the dormitory after finishing up with the day.
"You can say that again, I still can't believe that Instructor Rean ditched us like that. The nerve of that man," Juna grumbled, still having yet to recover from earlier.
"Oh Juna, there is no need to be upset, just imagine all the fun us girls will be having tomorrow once we meet with the rest of Instructor Rean's friends," Musse said, giggling to herself.
"Altina, you would have met Instructor Rean's friends before. Can you explain what they are like?" Turning to face the smallest member of their class, Kurt posed the question which gathered the rest of the group's attention onto her.
"They're an interesting combination of people, their class formation was different as they combine nobles and commoners together, based on their compatibility with forming combat links," She started off, moving ahead towards the cafeteria to find space large enough to accommodate them all as she prepared her recount.
"Oh wow, I take it, that's uncommon?" Juna asked.
"Correct, Thors Military Academy is separated between nobles and commoners alike, I was wondering why the sudden change to the school's social structure but I think that explains it," Kurt answered.
"Oh enough about that, let's move onto the more important things. Like the actual class themselves."
"Musse please, I think we've all had enough of that already," With her eyes narrowed, Juna faintly smiled at her but it was a smile of a different meaning.
"So far, they're not sounding so interesting," Yawning again, Ash relaxed on the back of his chair with his hands behind his head and whistling peacefully to himself.
"So which member should I start off first?" Altina asked, glaring at each one in particular.
"Let's start with the girls, I think we should be able to keep Ash entertained for a little while longer," Musse teased, looking over to the boy in question who gave her a long hard stare.
"There are five of them in total, six if you count the Instructor: Alisa, Fie, Laura, Emma, Millum and Sara."
"Wait, the Instructor got along with the 'Instructor'?!" Taken back, Juna was surprised to learn that no girl was safe from their Instructor's stupid charm.
"Ha, definitely thought he was always a womanizer, still can't believe that the Instructor was involved with that," Laughing off to the side, Ash was starting to like where this discussion was heading.
"Alisa Reinford is her full name and is the daughter of Irina Reinford; the chairman of the Reinford Company. She is best described as determined and at times, jealous of Rean sometimes. Fie Claussell, adoptive daughter of the Jaeger King and former ex-jaeger, now turned Bracer. Agile and mysterious are the best words to describe her. Laura S Arseid, daughter of Viscount Arseid also known as the Radiant Blademaster. Laura is someone who always motivates herself to be better in her swordsmanship."
"I've heard of the Radiant Blademaster but to think his daughter was one of Instructor Rean's classmates," Kurt said, placing a hand on his chin. "But the one called Fie is very interesting as well and we've all seen their skills in battle before but to think that what we've heard so far to prove that Class Vll was no ordinary class."
"I agree Kurt, but that's only three members out of ten, I wonder how the rest are like," Nodding her head along, Juna thought it was a sound judgement from the Vander as he rarely gave out comments like those aloud.
"Continue please Altina, this is proving to be such fun gossip for the girls later," Urging her along, Musse was delighted to hear more, although her classmates didn't share her sentiment.
"Next is Emma Millstein, a witch of the Hexan Clan as you've already known, not much I can say about her as we've already seen what she is capable of. Millum Orion, also likes to be known as my big sister, much to my annoyance."
Everyone sweatdropped as they could see the displeasure on Altina's face when she announced that.
"She has the same combat shell as me but Lechter would describe her as hyperactive and at times, can prove to be a large nuisance at times. She would also use nicknames between the two of us and it can frankly be very annoying over time and lastly. Instructor Sara, the former instructor for Class Vll and an A-rank Bracer. Known as the Purple Lightning as we learnt in Raquel and that's a brief summary of the girls of Class Vll."
Finishing the list off, Altina showed an inquisitive gesture as she looked at each reaction her classmates were giving off. Some showed amazement while one showed great interest overall.
"Huh, he surely does have a lot of woman, what a fucking playboy," Ash muttered, with his position changed as he was resting on his hand as he laid it on top of the table.
"I can't believe that he would get along with that many women but still get attention everywhere he goes," Huffing, Juna felt tired after hearing everything from Altina.
"What wonderful girls, I wonder how many interesting stories they can share for our little gossiping group at the end," Already thinking ahead, Musse managed to disgust Juna a bit while Ash just laughed her off.
"May I ask about the male counterparts? They must be also intriguing to be surrounded by that unique group of women," Moving the discussion along, Kurt asked, prompting Altina to summarise the boys up.
"Very well, there are four of them, Jusis, Elliot, Gaius and Machias. One noble, two commoners and one comes from the Nord Highlands." She stated, "Another unique listing of Class Vll as a whole."
"I have heard of Jusis before, he is the son of House Albarea and Machias Regnitz, the son of Governor Regnitz. Currently the Imperial Governor of Heimdallr. Both come from very influential parties but, what are Gaius and Elliot like?" Explaining the background of Machias and Jusis in the steed of Altina, Kurt asked the next question that plagued his mind.
"No surprise that Kurt already knows of Jusis since the Vanders once served as the bodyguards for the royal family," Alone in her thoughts, Musse gave him a very amused grin. Knowing that she has already met with Jusis back in Ordis.
"Gaius Worzel, he is similar to Juna in a sense as he attended Thor as a forgien student. His people believe in the wind and the goddess very religiously in a sense as they feel a connection with them. Elliot Craig is the son of Olaf the Red, general of the 4th Armoured Division, now a musician after graduating from Thor but he is still exceptional with his orbal staff."
"Sounds like a merry bunch, can't believe that his class is way messier than I thought it would be," Standing up from his chair, Ash walked over to the end of the table. "Still that means nothing until we actually judge them for ourselves."
"I agree with Ash, this meeting with them all would allow us to form our own judgement," Kurt muttered, lost in thought.
"Oh I can't wait for this, just imagine what we can learn from all of them. Oh don't worry Juna, we're definitely going to suss out Alisa together," Winking at the pink hair girl, Musse giggled as she saw how fluster Juna got.
Ignoring the stutter of Juna in the background, Altina got up from her seat and went for the exit. Leaving the rest of them behind but she stopped one arge from the door and not even turning her head around, she spoke.
"Instructor, how much did you hear?" She asked, as Rean relaxed against the wall with his arms crossed, with a rather amused look on his face.
"Pretty much all of it," He answered back, pushing off the wall and closing the distance between the two. "I'm not sure whether I should be scared or not when Musse and the girls go and question the rest of them about our days back at Thors."
He chuckled nervously, the thought of all the female students going up and asking each member for their own experience was a harrowing sight as it would probably centre around him a bit.
"I believe that your classmates would enjoy themselves a lot with that, especially Instructor Sara, she would take the most joy out of that," Sensing his thoughts, Altina said to him with a rather deadpan face.
"Geez thanks for that Altina," He sighed, knowing full well that she was right about that but, it would sure be welcoming to catch up with his old instructor as he fully understood how much of a pain it can be, in order to reign in such a troublesome class.
"Yo teach," Turning to the voice, they saw Ash and the rest of the group coming towards them. "Aren't you going to pick up your girlfriend or something now?"
"Ooo. Juna, now is our chance," Clapping her hands together, Musse smiled at her female compatriot. Knowing full well what effect that had on her friend, resulting in Juna blushing and angrily stomping her foot down.
Seeing that the Musse was rousing Juna on, Rean decided to step in before things went out of hand, which often happens during his classes. "Alright you two, settle down. Juna, you know Musse is just egging you on and what do you want to know now?"
"All in due time Instructor but, you shouldn't keep a lady waiting. It would make you look bad," Giggling, Musse winked at him which only made him nervous as he knew she was right. Plus this was the second time they would be meeting again since Crossbell and they really didn't have much time to spend it with each other alone.
"I concur Instructor, making her wait would reflect poorly on your image," The attacks kept coming from every side, first Musse and now Kurt. Tonight just wasn't in his favour at all, but it just keeps getting better.
"Yeah, I would expect the Ashen Chevaliar to be more gentleman-like but so far all you've been doing is standing around," Rean just dropped his head as now Juna was jumping on the bandwagon and he wondered how exactly talking to Altina had caused all of this to happen.
"Man, I actually can't believe that you're the worst when it comes to interacting with chicks. Especially with all the girls you got under your wing there man," Ash laughed, finding the whole situation amusing to himself.
Despair was all written over his face as he listened to his reputation being tarnished by his very own students. Why did Aidios choose this moment to become another embarrassing memory for him?
"Instructor, it is precisely twenty past eight now, you should get going if you want to be there for when Alisa Reinford arrives," Sensing the perilous situation her Instructor was in, Altina jumped in for the save and offered him a quick way out.
"Thank you for that Altina, now if you excuse."
Pushing past them, he walked his way over to the station. Sighing to himself as the peaceful night greeted him once more. It was a welcoming change when compared to the dormitory and the various activities that were happening all at the same time as the students dewinded themselves after a long day at the campus.
Arriving at the station, he glanced up at the clock and saw that it should be another six minutes until her train arrived. Feeling that would be the longest six minutes of his life, he decided to telepathically communicate with Valimar.
"Rean, I sense some turmoil in you. Are you feeling alright?" The Divine Knight asked; one of the many features he had gotten used last year as he could sense how Rean was feeling at times.
"Nothing really Valimar, just a bit nervous probably," He responded in kind, feeling grateful for Valimar as he was learning about human emotions as a whole which meant he was very truthful in his words.
"I see, have you tried taking deep breaths or relaxing in the hot baths?"
What Valimar didn't know however was that Rean had already tried those but yet he couldn't get rid of the tingling sensation at the back of his head. It had been ages since he felt this way and it certainly didn't help that instead of his usual classmates teasing him relentlessly for it and now, that job had fallen onto the new generation of Class Vll.
"Maybe something else Valimar, since I'm currently at the train station at the moment," Explaining his whereabouts to his knight, he had hoped that would help him to think of a better solution based on the location given to him.
"Hmmm, does this perhaps have anything to do with my secondary contractors? Especially the one that you allow to enter my cockpit that one time?"
The colour on Rean's face was drained, he had nearly forgotten all about that memory as that was something private between him and Alisa back then but was interrupted by Valimar at the worst possible timing.
However for Valimar to bring that back up, just made it harder for him to forget. "Thanks Valimar," He sighed, rubbing his temple.
"Attention all passengers, the train from Heimdallr will be arriving on platform 1. We thank you for your patience and we hope that you have a nice journey."
The loud announcer voice rang throughout the station and soon after that, a train made its way into the station.
"I'll talk to you later Valimar," Saying his goodbye, Rean waited for the doors to open to finally see her again.
"Acknowledged," Disappearing from his mind, Valimar went back into rest mode. A common occurrence for Mint and Tita as they knew that everything was alright when they saw the knight turn on and off after sometime during their maintenance runs for the soldats.
Watching as the doors slowly opened, he tried to spot her noticeable features amongst the crowd that was disembarking from the train but yet, she was nowhere to be seen. Deciding to use his ability to sense her presence, he smiled as he could feel her running up from behind him, no doubt a plan to surprise him when she got off.
"Surprise!" She shouted, tackling him from behind. Her arms wrapping themselves around his body. "Bet you didn't sense me coming this time."
"Sorry Alisa, but I sensed you coming from behind me right, better luck next time," Wiggling around to face her, he latched his arms around her as he returned her sweet embrace. "I missed you know."
"...miss you….too," Muffled by his chest, Rean couldn't make out what Alisa was trying to say. Stepping back from her, he asked.
"Sorry what was that Alisa?" Wanting to know what she said, he was confused on why she was blushing quite heavily. He wondered if something had just happened to cause that.
"I can never understand how you can't understand how a lady is feeling at times Rean….I miss you too," She said, looking up at his eyes. He was taken in by how beautiful she had gotten and it never ceased to amaze him.
Smiling at her, he looked up to only see Sharon standing far behind her. Their luggage around her feet while she smiled as she quietly stood there, letting the couple enjoy their long awaited meeting.
"Sharon? What are you doing here?" They definitely don't have enough space now that she was here. Honestly he should have anticipated Sharon as an outlier of their group but it had been a while since the original Class Vll got together again...or that was the excuse he was going to run with.
"Hehe, why I'm here to accompany Lady Alisa after all and it brings me great joy to see the two of you reunited once again. At least it's a private moment unlike Crossbell," The maid giggled, carrying the two suitcases over to them while Alisa was struggling for a rebuttal of kind.
'S-Sharon, stop that!"
"Seeing that you're here Master Rean, I trust you have our accommodations all sorted out?" Sharon asked, turning towards him but when Alisa saw her maid looking puzzled she knew that something was up.
"Judging from Sharon's reaction, Rean," Looking at her boyfriend with an annoyed face. "I take it that you had some difficulty?"
"Yep straight to the point, she has definitely grown over the past year." Hoping that was something he could distract them from, he turned his head around the station in hopes that there was anything he could use.
Out of all the things he was hoping for, those things were last on his list to expect.
"And may I ask you five why you're here?" The seriousness in Rean's voice prompted the two guests to turn their heads over to the direction he was staring at and were both shocked to see the students of Class Vll coming out of their hiding place with rather sheepish grins.
"I told you this was a bad idea, we should all know about our Instructor's uncanny ability to sense our presence now but yet we never learn," Sadly shaking his head, Kurt sighed as he looked at Juna in particular.
"Hey don't pin this on me and why are you acting as the reasonable one. You have to admit you were curious as well?" Pointing at his chest, Juna wasn't going down without a fight.
"Our apologies Instructor, it was mainly Musse's idea that we tail you down to the station and we hid in order to observe your reunion," Stating the obvious as always, Altina said. Causing Alisa to blush at the very thought that their all-so-private moment wasn't so private as she thought. Sharon on the other hand found the entire situation rather amusing.
"Hehe, it would be a lie to say that nearly everyone in the dorm didn't want to spectate the two of you once word got out. Even little Tita seemed interested of all people," Giggling, it didn't faze Rean to see Musse act that way, rather he was more worried by how word got out so quickly.
At least Ash didn't say a word as he was too preoccupied with yawning and not caring about everything as a whole.
"I see that your class grew by two since the last we met," Alisa commented, noticing the two new additions; Musse and Ash. "I see that they are still curious as ever, just like everyone else when it came to things between the two of us back in the days."
Pouting, she suddenly grabbed onto his arm, greatly causing a variety of mix reactions amongst the recipients. One in particular was Rean, as he was too shocked for words at the boldness of her action.
"Whoo, can't wait to see how the ladies are going to react around the teacher now, hahaha," Laughing, Ash walked off leaving the rest of the Class behind.
"W-Wait up Ash!" Juna shouted, chasing after him with Kurt giving an apologetic shrug as he followed suit. Leaving Musse and Altina as the remaining two behind, the former winking at Rean as she skipped in line with the two.
"You know you don't need my permission to go after them Altina," He sighed; he was way too tired to deal with them tonight.
"Understood Instructor," Was all she said before summoning Claimh Solais to her side. Hopping up on it, it flew off in the direction of the group, causing great unrest and exclaims amongst the people on the platform.
"Kinda reminds me of Millum and how we would all shout at her for even thinking of summoning Lammy to her side," Alisa laughed, causing Rean to crack a smile at the similarity of the notion of how alike the two 'sisters' were.
Glancing around, he noticed that Sharon was nowhere to be seen which was odd, as she was still around when he confronted his students earlier.
"Hey Alisa," He called out, still looking around the station as they started to walk their way out. "Do you have any idea where Sharon disappeared off to?"
"What do you mean? She's still right behind….Damnit!" Dropping her head down, she couldn't believe that Sharon would still pull off the same stunts whenever Rean and herself were alone. "Of course she is nowhere to be seen, why does she keep doing this," She sighed.
"Come on, I bet you when we get back, she'll be there waiting for us already."
"Sadly you're right, I can already imagine how happy she would be."
The two started to laugh at the very thought as they both knew that was what was awaiting for them once they got back but that still didn't hinder their joy.