"Can I sit next to you?" Akira asked Liz during lunch.
"Sure." She sat with Patty, Maka, Soul, Tsubaki and BlackStar.
"Are you really gonna eat all that?" BackStar asked, marveling at the two cups of ramen, bowl of fruit salad, tuna sandwich, and plate of sushi that were piled on Akira's tray.
"Yes." They said defensively.
"Did you forget to eat breakfast?" Tsubaki asked, concerned.
"No." Akira mumbled, popping a sushi roll into their mouth.
"So, are you liking your first day in the E.A.T. class?" Maka asked, sipping her tea.
"Yeah, we have Battle Arts next, right?"
"Mhm. Are you sure you'll be able to participate? Normally we combat each other in that class, you might get hurt by yourself without a meister."
"I'm sure I'll be fine."
"So what weapons can you turn into?" BlackStar asked excitedly.
"Well, I use Chain Whip most often, but I can also be a scythe pretty easily. I can also be a pair of gauntlets, and a laser pointer."
"A laser pointer?" Maka, Soul, Liz and BlackStar all asked in unison.
"It can be advantageous to seer out the enemies eyes during battle if you can get them to hold still, or if you need information." They remarked casually as they opened the first tub of ramen, having finished the sushi.
Everyone stared at them, wide eyed.
"What?"
"In what situation have you been in where that kind of thing was necessary?" Liz asked.
"A particularly nasty person broke out of their jail and I had to find out where they went from one of the individuals who helped them escape."
The sandwich was now gone.
"Was that before you came here?"
"Mhhm. They were going to be executed anyway, it's not like they were in agony all that long."
"What kind of place did you come from?" Soul asked in shock.
"A large city." they replied vaguely.
"So is that how you got put into the E.A.T. class or something then?"
"Lord Death knew my dad or something, I don't know much about the connection."
"Huh. What's his name? Maybe he was a Death Scythe." Maka said thoughtfully.
"I don't know."
"You don't know your own father's name?"
"I lived in an orphanage for a while until he claimed me and sent me here."
The fruit salad had been consumed.
"Why would he do something like that?" Asked Patty, who had, until now, been assembling her lunch into a picture of a giraffe, which she now destroyed and had begun to eat.
"Hell if I know." Akira had begun the second package of Ramen.
"Maybe you can ask about him." she suggested.
"Maybe."
The bell signaling the end of lunch period rang, and everyone cleaned up to get to Battle Arts out in the courtyard.
"Looking forward to watching how you fight Akira," BlackStar said, batting them on the shoulder as he walked past.
"Well I hope I don't disappoint then."