Charles and the girls were currently in a food restaurant which appeared to be a McDonald's, and they were sitting and eating.
Susanna had ten-piece chicken nuggets with fries and a drink.
Haruka had a big mac with fries and a drink.
And lastly, Charles had the most substantial meal being a 20 piece chicken nugget with extra Fries, a mcflurry, and a drink.
While they appreciated the meal, there was no doubt that one thing was now glaringly obvious the trio are now penniless with no money to their names.
Well, Susanna had money, but her currency was not accepted when she tried to chip in for the meal.
"Okay, we need to figure out a way to obtain some cash. Thankfully we know they accept yen notes here and not some other currency." Charles says as he takes a sip from his drink.
"Yes, considering we don't know how long we'll be here, we're going to need suitable living arrangements. I don't know about you two, but I'm not living in some hovel." Haruka informs
"Well, at least there's no Grimm here." Susanna mumbles.
Charles ate some nuggets and then looked at his two companions "okay, so anyone got any ideas about how we can make some cash?"
"We could get jobs," Susanna suggested
"No, that would take too long; we need suitable living arrangements as soon as possible. Meaning we need quick cash." Charles clarifies.
"We could look around for a pawn shop or some other place and sell some stuff for money. Surely you'd be able to trace something that would catch someone's eye." Haruka says.
"Well, it couldn't hurt to attempt it. We'll take care of that once we finish eating." Charles nods and eats some more nuggets.
"So Susanna, if you don't mind, why not tell us a bit about yourself? Like there you come from, what's that place like?" Charles asks.
"Well, it's a lot different than here I... I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing yet."
"What do you mean?" Charles wonders.
"Well, there are these creatures known as Grimm where I come from, and just because I haven't seen them doesn't mean they might not exist here. I'll be on my guard either way."
"What are Grimm? If you don't mind me asking?" Haruka asks.
"Well, they vary in appearance, but the best way I could is one of them looks like a bear. It's called an Ursa, and another is a beowolf." Susanna explains.
"We also have half our moon missing, which is different here considering there's a whole moon here. But just because this place doesn't seemingly have Grimm or creatures, similarly doesn't mean they might not be here." Susanna adds.
Charles and Haruka nod
"It sounds like quite the life you lead wherever you're from; these Grimm sound dangerous, are their people who defend others from the Grimm?" Haruka inquires.
"Yes, they are called Huntsman and huntresses. I am one of the huntresses from remnant; that's where I'm from, by the way, or the place I'm from is called remnant." Susanna answers.
"How about you two? Where are you from?" Susanna asks
"Fuyuki city. It's a city in Japan which is where we are now, but this isn't Fuyuki city. It's Japan but not Fuyuki city." Charles clarifies.
"We will ask about and figure out where we are in a few moments," Charles says.
After a few more minutes, the trio had finished eating and got up to leave, but Charles made a quick stop at the cashier counter "excuse me? I have a question."
The young cashier squeaked in surprise and blushed at the handsome boy in front of her "y-yes, how may I help you?"
"Could you tell me where we are? My friends and I aren't from around here. So this place is new to us." Charles asks.
"O-oh. Well, the town you're in now is called kuoh town. It's a lovely little township not far from Kyoto." the cashier says.
Charles nods "thank you."
The trio starts walking away, and the cashier calls out for them to come again.
The trio walks for a bit until they reach a secluded area, and Charles stops for a moment "okay, now it's time to conjure up some wares for us to sell."
Charles closed his eyes and started to think of tracing a sword, which consisted of the following.
Judging the concept of creation
Hypothesizing the basic structure
Duplicating the composition material
Imitating the skill of its making
Sympathizing with the experience of its growth
Reproducing the accumulated years
Excelling every manufacturing process
"Trace on," Charles says, and suddenly, two beautifully crafted swords appear in his hands.
"Woah. So you're a weapons conjuror, so that's your capable of doing?" Susanna theorized.
"No, I'm capable of much more than just that, but this is one of my primary and probably most valuable abilities. Because I essentially have unlimited swords at my disposal with my tracing ability." Charles explains.
"I think those will get us at least some money," Haruka observes the swords. The sword in Charles's left hand had a black handle with a tiny spot of silver at the hilt of the blade. The blade itself was silver with a small Diamond shape at the bottom of the edge.
The second sword had a bronze-type handle with ornamental varnish on it, and the blade was silver and, like the handle, had decorative markings going up about half of the edge. Overall the two swords gave off a costly look and feel, which would surely catch a high price to the right buyer.
"Now we go find somewhere where we can offload these for some cash," Charles says.
The trio walks around for a bit until finally, they came across a pawnshop "well, it can't hurt to try here." Charles and the girls enter.
The trio enters and sees the owner, a man wearing glasses and was a portly fellow with thinning hair. He wore a white shirt with sleeves rolled up about a quarter of the way with suspenders and Khakis.
The man greeted them with a nod "you here to buy or sell?" he asks.
"Sell." Charles answers and places the two blades on the counter.
The man looks up at the trio in front of him and back at the swords. He eyes them suspiciously "you three didn't steal these, did you?"
"No, of course not. These are my blades." Charles assures.
The man nods. "I will take your word for it. I hope this doesn't come back to bite me now. How much are you looking to get for these two swords here?"
"109,614.00 yen each," Charles says.
The man nods and starts looking over the blades and carefully inspecting them and being very meticulous about it; if it were worth that much, of course, the man would take it, but only if both the swords were worth that much.
The man's inspection took about 20 minutes, but at the end of the ordeal, the man finally clapped his hands together "okay then, after a careful and extensive inspection, these swords are the real deal. So I'll pay you the 219,228.00 yen for the swords."
"Okay, deal." Charles shakes the man's hand, and the man went to a back room and, after a moment, came back with two stacks of bills.
"And because you've done me a solid, I even threw in an extra 32,884.20 yen." the man says.
"A solid?" Haruka questions.
"Well, yes, these swords are the real deal, easily worth thousands to the right buyer. You sell it to me here; I buy it for reasonable prices. I get it and resell it for 3X what I paid for it." the man explains.
"So you're ripping people off?" Susanna says.
"Hey, I resent that! It's not ripping people off; I have to make a profit somehow. If I bought and sold things for the same price I paid, I wouldn't make a profit at all!" The man defended himself.
Haruka agreed with Susanna, but she couldn't deny the man's logic even if he ripped people.
Charles counted the money and saw it was all there, even the extra money the man spoke of, and he nods "okay, everything checks out, thanks for the money." Charles says and proceeds to leave with the girls following him.
Charles and the girls walked for a bit and came across apartments for rent. They had called ahead after answering an advertisement. "this seems like a good place. I'll talk with miss shion, who owns the building, and see what we can work out." Charles says.
Charles walks in and finds the sole apartment at the end of the hallway and knocked on the door, and soon enough, a woman came and answered she was an obese woman who wore incredibly excessive amounts of makeup and was wearing a robe.
Charles immediately regretted coming up here alone and immediately tried to leave "actually, I think this might be the wrong place."
"No, you're the ones who called, right? My name is shion Kanamori. I own this building. I never expected such a handsome young man to be inquiring about the apartment I have for rent. But you said there were three of you?" shion inquires.
"Y-yes, I decided to handle this on my own. Well, miss, I can put a deposit down, and I can pay at least the first month's rent upfront." Charles says.
"Hmm, a young man who takes the initiative, I like that. But how do you plan on paying rent? I'm taking quite the chance you don't seem to be any older than 17 18 at the most senior." shion points out.
"Well, listen, miss, my friends and I are in a bit of a situation. We need a place to stay for the time being. I promise you we aren't criminals or anything. We need a place to stay, please." Charles bows.
Shion looks to be thinking it over after what seems like an eternity; she finally speaks, "okay, I'll allow you and your friends to stay here. Just give me whatever you have in your pocket, and we'll say that's the deposit and first month's rent. But if you're going to live here, you either need to get a job or school. Those are my only conditions." shion says and holds out her hand.
Charles thinks it over for a moment and nods, "deal!" He shakes her hand. "Do you know of any schools in the local area we can look into?" Charles asks.
"I know of a school; it's a very prestigious Academy, kuoh academy is the name, I know one of the administrators I'll make some calls, as for the apartment, it's already furnished, but it might be a bit cramped for three people just a fair warning. Oh, and you never said your name over the phone. Who exactly am I calling the administration on behalf of?" shion asks.
"Okino Akane, Soga Aimi, Koyanagi Kazuhiko." Charles answers.
"Okay then, here's the keys to the place, and I'll come and contact you when I have word from administration." shion smiles and closes the door.
Charles nods with a small smile and walks back outside to where Susanna and Haruka are and greets them.
"So what happened? How did it go?" Susanna asks
"Yeah, don't keep us in the dark," Haruka says.
"Well, couple of things we are going by assumed aliases for the time being. Susanna, you're alias is Okino Akane, Haruka. You're soga aimi, and I'm Koyanagi Kazuhiko. Secondly, prepare yourselves. We will most likely be attending the local academy, at least for now."
The girls nodded, albeit Susanna did so begrudgingly as she didn't like being ordered around or told what to do, but she didn't have a choice here. It was for the best to blend in, and even she knew that.
"I got the keys to the apartment. Come on, let's go check it out ." Charles says.
The trio head up to their new base of operations, and Charles opens the door and sees it tiny and cramped its clear it was only a one-person apartment, and three people were pushing it, but they would have to make the best of it.
The trio sigh and look around the room "it's a little cramped, but something is better than nothing. And at least there's air conditioning." Haruka sighs as she flops onto the floor, and Charles and Susanna follow her lead.
The trio knew they had to rest because sooner or later, the three of them would be attending school here for the time being, at least.
(scene change)
Eventually, after a few days, shion had got back to the trio, and she met Kazuhiko's roommates. She was surprised they were young women, but after her initial shock, she teased him about starting a harem. The three took an entrance exam, and Charles and Haruka scored amazingly while Susanna barely passed but got just enough to make a passing grade.
But that was then, and this is now, now the trio was standing in front of kuoh academy and getting ready to enter to retrieve their uniforms and schedules.
"You guys ready for this?" Charles asks.
"As ready as I'm going to be." Haruka answers.
"Let's do this," Susanna replies.
The trio walks through the gates entering kuoh academy, and the trio is immediately gazed upon by others "who are they?" one girl whispers.
"Ooh, the guy is so handsome!" another girl whispers.
"That girl is so beautiful. You think she's single?" a guy whispered, referring to Haruka.
"Keep dreaming a girl like that would never give guys like us the time of day." another boy shot down his friend's machinations.
"That girl with them is so cute!" a boy whispered, looking at Susanna.
The whispers kept coming as they walked through the school and eventually made it to the student council office. Charles knocked on the door.
"Come in." a feminine voice answers from the other side.
The trio enters and sees three people one of them is a bespectacled young woman with a slim figure, black hair styled in a short bob cut, and violet eyes.
Another is a bespectacled young woman with long straight black hair that extends down to her knees, with split bangs and heterochromatic eyes, with a violet left eye and a light brown right eye.
And finally a young man with short blond hair and grey eyes. He wears the Kuoh Academy boys' school uniform, albeit without the blazer, and his sleeves roll up above his elbows.
These three were sona shitori, Tsubaki Shinra, and genshirou Saji, members of the student council.
"Ah, you three must be our new students, hmmm Koyanagi Kazuhiko, soga aimi, and Okino Akane, correct?" sona questions.
"Yes. It's a pleasure to meet you, miss?" Charles asks.
"Shitori, shitori sona, and the other two are my vice president Shinra Tsubaki and Saji genshirou He's in charge of general affairs." sona introduced herself and the other two.
"Hello." Tsubaki greets.
"Hey, good to meet you all." Saji greets as well.
"Likewise." Haruka bows.
"Well, we heard about your arrival, and we already have your uniforms. They've been dry cleaned and pressed. Try not to destroy them; here are your schedules, and lastly, we usually have one of our members of the student council give newly arriving students a tour of the grounds. But unfortunately, our other members are indisposed at the moment, and those of us here have a lot of paperwork to take care of." sona sighs and rubs her temple.
"Well, I can make a suggestion; why not ask reyes-Kun to help us out and give them the tour," Tsubaki suggests.
"That's not a bad idea, Kaichou; I'm sure Akiyama wouldn't mind." saji agrees.
Sona nods "if it were during class time, I would disagree, but since everyone is on break now, it is a perfect time; go find him and bring him here quickly, Saji."
Saji nods and leaves with haste to find the one by the name of Akiyama.
(scene change)
A boy around the age of fifteen is sitting under a shaded tree, eating a sandwich and reading a book, when suddenly he hears someone call out to him, and he looks up and sees Saji.
"Saji, good to see you. Something you need?"
"I've been looking for you everywhere, Akiyama. You're a tricky guy to pin down; you know that?" Saji heaved heavy breaths as he says this.
"Well, if I had known you were looking for me, I would have made myself easier to find; now I take it you need something?"
"Yes, the student council were up to our eyeballs in paperwork, and we have some newly arriving students, and usually we give a tour of the facility, but unfortunately again, we're up to our eyeballs in paperwork, so Kaichou was wondering if..."
"If I could give the new students the tour around the facility?" Akiyama guesses.
"Right." saji nods.
Akiyama finishes the last of his sandwich and closes his book "lead the way." he says as Saji starts walking and he follows him.
(scene change)
Saji and Akiyama finally returned. "I found him, Kaichou!" Saji announced
Akiyama bowed as He greeted sona, "hello, sona-Kaichou."
Sona nods "hello, Akiyama-Kun."
"You need a tour guide?"
"Yes, I'm sorry for the last minute. I wouldn't ask if it weren't a serious matter." sona says.
"It's okay, Kaichou, and I told you to call me Seiji Akiyama-san doesn't sound right to me. But it's no problem, Kaichou. I'll be happy to give the new students a tour around the school." Seiji looks and sees the new students.
"Their names are Koyanagi Kazuhiko, Okano Akane, and soga aimi." sona informs.
Seiji nods and smiles. "Hello, my name is Akiyama Seiji, but please call me Seiji. I'll be your tour guide this afternoon." he sticks his hand out.
The trio looks at the boy in front of them, and the three of them wondered if he was a high schooler because he certainly didn't look like one. He looked like a middle schooler at oldest. He was around 5'2" with spiky silver hair and innocent blue eyes. He wore the standard school uniform, but he wore a school sweater instead of a blazer. It also didn't convince them, considering he had boyish looks.
Charles shook his hand "thanks for taking the time to give us the tour."
The girls also shake his hand "well, let's get moving; we've got a lot of ground to cover, and I mean a lot of ground." he starts walking, and they follow him.
As they walk, Charles looks at the boy beside them and senses something about the boy like there is more to him than meets the eye, but he can't quite put his finger on it.
The teens walk for a long while, and Seiji was surprisingly a good tour guide as he managed to keep them engaged for the entire duration of the long tour.
(scene change)
Eventually, the teens made it to the final stop on their tour. It was an old school building. "I don't know if Kaichou wanted me to include this place in the tour, but I figured it couldn't hurt. Welcome to the old building. It is home to the ORC," Seiji says.
"ORC?" Susanna asks.
"Yes! The occult research club. I hear they have some pretty exciting stuff that happens in this club, but they are very selective about who joins." Seiji explains.
The teens see three boys sitting near the stairs of the building entrance, and one appears to be rubbing his head "so you didn't see any nip?" a bespectacled young man questions.
"No, I didn't see any nip! I was too busy getting the crap kicked out of me to pay any attention." a brown-haired boy snaps.
The boy breaks from his rant when he looks up and locks eyes with probably the most beautiful girl he had ever laid his eyes upon; the girl's red locks flow gently in the wind, and her beautiful blue eyes are like limping pools of desire. The boy was in a trance.
Seiji looks and sees the girl as well, but he was far less affected by her beauty "oh, there's the president of the occult research club, right now!"
Seiji waves, "hello!" he greets.
The redhead smiles at the young boy and waves before going back to what she was doing before.
The brown-haired boy and his friends were jealous and envious of the young first-year; how could he do it so easily talk to one of the great onee-sama's of kuoh Academy so effortlessly, like they had been lifelong pals or something?
"Well, that's the last stop of the tour!" Seiji announces as he starts walking with the others following him but not before Charles, Haruka, and Susanna share one last look at the building and the boys by the stairs.
(scene change)
The redhead and a raven-haired girl are playing chess, and the redhead has the upper hand. The redhead sits on the sofa in front of the chessboard and crosses her arms under her sizable bust.
"Who were those boys?"
"Hmm, what, boys?" the raven-haired asks.
"The boy who was outside sitting by the stairs in the middle and the silver-haired boy." the redhead specifies.
"If I remember correctly, his name is hyoudou issei, and he's in class 2-B. As for the silver-haired boy, he's hard to remember, but I believe his name is Akiyama Seiji, and I think he is in class 1-A; why what makes you ask about them?" The raven-haired girl answers.
"Oh, no reason. I just wondered if you knew who they were. That's all." the redhead explains and moves a chess piece, "checkmate." the redhead says and gets up and starts undressing.
"Awww," the raven-haired girl groans.
"Your trap was straightforward to see through." the redhead informs.
"I'm sorry I tried my best to make it harder on you."
"It's okay; I look forward to next year time." the girl, finally fully naked, steps into a shower and lets the water run over her body, but as she lifts her head, tears are streaming down her face, but the endless torrent of water disguised it.
(scene change)
Later that night, Charles, Susanna, and Haruka laid down in preparation for bed as they started school the next day.
"So that was a pretty interesting tour, don't you guys think? Seiji managed to keep us engaged the whole time, which I didn't think would be possible." Charles chuckles.
"Yeah, but it's hard to believe he's a first-year in high school. He looks like a middle schooler." Haruka points out.
"The little runt seems to have a cheerful streak in him." Susanna says.
"Well, I didn't think he was terrible. I thought he was rather pleasant to be around. But..." Charles went back to when they were walking down the school hallway, and he couldn't shake this feeling about the boy.
"But what?" Haruka asks.
"Huh? Oh nothing, well it's getting late we better head to bed." Charles says.
"Uh-huh, I think you're just trying to dodge the question, but I won't argue with you there. It's been a long day. Let's hit the sheets." Susanna yawned.
"Goodnight, " the trio say to each other, and then the light in their apartment flicked off as they all drifted into slumber but little did they, as well as Seiji, know a new adventure was about to begin.
To be continued!
I hope you all enjoyed this chapter!
A quick note of the aliases that Charles, Haruka, and Susanna assume all have something to do with their character.
Like for example, Haruka her alias is soga aimi which could be spelled one of two ways. Beauty or love. Which makes sense since Haruka is quite beautiful.
Susanna's name refers to her red hair, with her name being Okino Akane which translates to brilliant red.
And then finally, Charles name Koyanagi Kazuhiko translates to harmonious prince, which since he's technically the son of saber Artoria Pendragon a.k.a. King Arthur that technically would make him a prince.
Anyway that's all for now see you all next chapter!