This is terrible, just terrible! So I was watching the new episode of an anime called Blue Exorcist (great anime btw), and I find out the main character's going to train with a wooden sword, just like this story! And I was watching another anime called No. 6, and they have metal bracelets too! WHY? So just to be safe, I did not copy from Blue Exorcist or No.6!
The dorm lights are on, I can tell through my eyelids. Who's going? How many are going? I wait until the person when out and I got up. I look straight, and I see the digital wall clock and calendar Katsumi bought for us. 7:58 AM, February 15th, Tuesday. I rub my eyes and get down the latter.
Katsumi and Emi are both gone. Katsumi's probably getting some fresh air, and Emi's probably practicing for her first basketball game. Honestly, we all doubt she'll get to play.
The sports are separated like this: Level 1, 3, 5 vs. Level 2, 4. There is however a small chance she will play, I heard level ones only watch the whole first year. They always divide the amount of girls and boys to play evenly. Well, it's not like I can watch, the game is right after school. I'll be stuck in Ken-Ville. I sigh.
Tomoko is still sleeping. I shook her shoulder. "Time to wake up Tomoko~ You've already gotten 3 detentions for sleeping in." She grumbled, and slowly got up.
I took my school uniform and went to the bathroom. I grabbed my mini comb and brushed my hair.
I then took my hygiene spray, and sprayed it on my mouth 2 times. The spray is great, it'll clean your teeth and your breath, the ultimate spray! Yeah, that was the advertisement I saw in the school store. I go out of the bathroom and Tomoko's right outside.
"I'll see you at our table then." I say smiling. She gives a small nod with a glare that just doesn't match. I raise my eyebrow, but I keep walking to the door. I go all the way out and I'm about to go into the eating area. I almost bump into someone, and unfortunately- it's Mana. One of scarf girl's followers from the day before school started. She's in all of my classes, which annoys me.
"Hello Sanu Shizu." she says giving a snare. You know those people who hate you for no good reason? That's Mana. She hates how Tanaka kind of favors me, and she hates street people like me. Trust me, she tries to sabotage me.
Ryuta told me to not stand out, so I try my best to avoid her- or not.
She's putting one leg out for me to trip on. I quickly stepped on her leg while looking straight ahead. "Ow! She stepped on my foot!" Mana yells in that annoying voice.
I take a deep breath and put a big gentle smile on. "I'm sorry, I was just walking, and your foot was sadly in the way. So very sorry." Wow, Ken's fake self has changed me a bit. She gave a grunt, but didn't take it any farther because people were staring at us. I go back to my regular face and keep walking. I jump into a floating chair, feeling happy. I get scrambled eggs, a small cup of strawberries, and milk. I go over to my dorm's signature table and Katsumi's there with a newspaper.
"Hello. Emi already ate?" I ask.
She gives me a smile. "Yep. She's pretty energetic today. Big game after school."
"I think we've all noticed that." I say, looking around the eating area. All the Valentine's Day banners are gone. Flyers are everywhere now about a basketball AND soccer game today, so you can pick to watch one. I heard Daiki's in soccer, another game I'll miss. "So, can I see the school paper?"
Katsumi nods her head and hands it to me. I groan, another story on that incident. "Come on! It's already been three weeks!" I complain.
Near the end of January, two level 3 students were found unconscious and pretty bloody in the MPR. They said they think they were in a trance. The principal didn't know what to believe so he just had a long talk and that was it. The information is only within the school so no one can panic. The headline is stupid: Another Exclusive Look at Last Month's Incident. Too typical.
Tomoko is now joining us to eat. The three of us talk for a bit and then Katsumi gets up.
"Well, the bell's going to ring in 4 minutes, so let's head to class." Katsumi says. I agree, but Tomoko stays behind to eat a little more.
"All right then, don't be late~" I say smiling. We walked off and towards our classroom. When we're both in of our homeroom, the bell rings. I open the door for us.
"Morning Shizu, Katsumi." Tanaka says while eating an apple. I've noticed she loves apples.
"Morning Tanaka." Katsumi and I say in sync. We both sit in the seats we've sat in on the first day of school. The second bell rang and class is now in session.
Throughout the past one month and a half, the swordsman class has never touched a bokken- which I found out was a wooden sword- yet. We're still learning about swordsman, just swordsman. Tanaka says that if we keep going at this pace, we'll get our wooden swords at the beginning of March.
Today we're learning the underhand and overhand samurai slash techniques, pretty interesting. The overhand has more strength, and the underhand has more speed.
Right now, we're learning about the samurai slash techniques, because we learned about the knight slash techniques last month. We have to learn about samurais and knights before we choose at the beginning of next year, how boring. I still don't know which one I want to be, there's so many differences.
The bell rang. Our homework is to write a two-paragraph paper on the similarities and differences of slash techniques between a samurai and a knight. I sighed and got up.
"I'll be off to room 5, good luck in room 6." Katsumi says smiling. I nod and groan. My general teacher- Kanezawa- is one of the toughest. I gather my stuff, put it away, give Tanaka a small wave, and head out to general 1. I go in room 6, and I see Kanezawa on his chair, drinking tea. I go to my ARRANGED seat, on the 3rd row. Fortunately, I happen to sit next to Daiki and his dorm mate, Genji, who's a summoner like Daiki himself. He always smiles and he's quite cheerful- like Daiki without the self-admiration.
"Hey there star swordsman.", Genji says. He must've heard Tanaka had a liking to me, well I think a lot have heard.
"Hey there."I say, dragging the 'hey'. I give him my math homework last night. "Go ahead, if you must."
"Thanks! Daiki might need it too, and here he comes." Genji replied. I looked ahead, and there he was, looking a bit nervous.
"Hi, I already did my homework, so it's alright." Daiki says sitting down quietly.
"What's wrong man?" I asked.
"I'll tell you. Mister nervous right here is worrying about the soccer game. That's really, kind of stupid.", Genji says.
"It's not stupid. I should be nervous." Daiki replied to his conversation with me.
"Two things to say bro. One, it's the first game. Two, you're probably not going to play." Genji says.
"But I'm pretty good!" Daiki argued. There goes the conceited side. The final bell rang.
"Tell me how it goes." I say as Kanezawa got up from his desk.
"Alright, calm yourselves. Lesson starts now." Kanezawa says. Another weird lab coat he's wearing today.
Through the past school year, we've been learning the subject math. For 2 months we learn each subject, with 4 subjects. After 8 months past, we start mixing in all the subjects and get ready for the finals. The finals can grant you points, so I'm going to try real hard.
Speaking of points, I've gotten some good amount. The first ten can serve for a day- 6 hours for 5 points. So each weekend you can get up to ten points.
At first, I was too slow to be part of the first ten. Then, I made a schedule to wake up at the right time. Emi always comes with me, and she wakes me up. Sometimes we make it, sometimes we don't. If we both don't have spots, we both don't go too. All you have to do is polish floors or sweep bathrooms. The school is so big that they need 10 people.
So far, I've been the 10 people 8 times. That means I've made 40 points. Of course, I had to spend a lot. I needed supplies and I needed to pay Katsumi back. So now, I have 3 points. I think I've used them mostly on school supplies. Especially this class, 4 folders, line paper, graph paper, pencils, sharpeners, and erasers! So stupid.
I knife came my way. I quickly- and barely- dodged it even though I knew it wouldn't have hit me. My eyes widen. The knife is now stuck to the desk above mine. (The desks get higher and higher like stairs.) Everyone is staring at me. I give a nervous smile.
"Pay more attention in class, Shizu." Kanezawa says. Others laugh nervously. He's way too strict and scary. He wears a lab coat because he puts knives in there. Stinkin' ninja. I sigh.
"Yes, sir." I say. Then we all go back to class time. In math, we're learning percents, decimals, and fractions. I say it's simple, but others disagree. Just wait until language arts, I'm terrible at that. We have tests once a month and they are decent enough. You know, multiple choice is always the best.
For homework today, we have 300 problems. 100 for each: dividing percent, fractions, and decimals. Not as bad as last week.
The bell rang. Everyone in my class is heading to PE now. I wait for Tomoko and we kind of walk together. It's really crowded right now
Finally, we reach the PE girl lockers. We both go over to our lockers, Emi and Katsumi already there. All 4 of us quickly change. Thank goodness our lockers aren't that close. On second thought, thank goodness we only have 27 girls in this class. I wonder how the boys fit… I quickly dismissed this thought. Soon we were all changed. All the girls went outside after 5 more minutes of sitting on the benches.
Today, we went out to the grass field. Four laps equal a mile. We've been running since the month of February. January was just our height, weight, and etc. Now, this month, everyday we have to run 12 laps- 3 miles. Our time is 40 minutes. We have to somehow pace ourselves. I'm also 4 or 5 minutes away from failing. Oh, and out of the 4 of us, we split into 2 groups and run together. The fast ones run together, Emi and Katsumi. The not-so-fast-yet-not-slow ones run together, Tomoko and I. It's fun, although Tomoko rarely talks.
After running, everyone goes back in and change. I stretch after I'm done changing back.
"That was a nice run!" Emi exclaims.
"I agreed, got the classroom feeling away from me. Of course, there's lunch next too." Katsumi says.
"Now that, I'm looking forward to." I say. Tomoko nods. The bell rings and we all head to the eating area. I went on the floating chair and for lunch I got mac n' cheese with small broccolis mixed in. I also got a brownie, probably left over from Val Day yesterday. We all sat down on our table. We talked about classes for a bit, and then we talked about the basketball and soccer game. Then we came to an interesting topic.
"You guys all know the user tournaments right?" Katsumi asked.
"Yeah, that competition you can sign up for to get 100 points!" Emi says, somewhat pumped up. I don't know why though.
Here's how it goes: level fives have four tournaments each year, level fours have three tournaments each year, level threes have two tournaments each year, level twos have one tournament each year, and level ones (us) have no tournaments each year. That's just the way it is.
"What about it?" Tomoko asked. Yay, she talked.
"Well, my art teacher, Himura, says the level five tournament was next week!" Katsumi says smiling.
"Really? I wish we could watch!" Emi says. Unfortunately, you are only allowed to watch your level in tournaments. But we can still find out who the winner is.
"Why did your teacher tell you? I mean, it's usually only between the level class." I say.
"Well, Himura's very, how do I say this? Oh, talkative." Katsumi says.
The bell rang. We all split up and wished Emi good luck because we won't talk to her until after the game. Library time. I walk to the library and Hano was sitting at her desk as usual. I went over to my signature table; all the way at the back.
If Mana ever bothers me, I can give her comebacks without Hano ever knowing. And I doubt Ken will ever come to me; he doesn't have a clue who I am. Plus, he hates street people like me and he wants to hide it. The last bell rang.
Everyday, I just do my homework. There's a computer room in the back, if we need to type something. If I finish my homework, I find books about users and how to be a better one. If I don't finish, after Ken's place, I go back to my dorm room and do my homework on my bed. Sometime my dorm mates are there, and sometimes they're not.
Today, I finished my math homework, but not my swordsman homework. We need to write two paragraphs, and I only wrote one, then the bell rang.
I quickly went out of the library and into a nearby restroom. I went restroom first, and then put on my mask. This time, my hair was dark blue and in pigtails. As usual, I took out my teleport card, taped it thrice, and was right in front of Ken's room. I took a deep breath, and opened the door. Ken was of course, slouched on his couch with casual clothes on.
"Oh? Here already. That's the service I like, Mask Maid." Ken says grinning evilly.
"How may I serve you?" I say, ignoring his words. He gave a more seriously look, than shook it off.
"Well, yesterday, I made you sort out the chocolates I got from my lovely, and easy fans. I then made you make a list of all the names that sent me the chocolates. Today, I want you to make a letter, using my computer at the corner. Make a thank you note to all the poor girls that gave their hearts to me. Send the same exact letter, except the names. You can go now." Ken says. I gave a mental face palm. What a loser.
Ken proceeded to playing with his yo-yo and eating the chocolates. I typed up an absolutely sweet thank you note. After 10 minutes, I gave Ken the rough draft.
"Hmmm, nice, nice. Doesn't say much, but still sweet. It's almost as if a piece of shit didn't write it. But unfortunately, you did write it." Ken says mockingly. Always the shit word eh? I quickly went back to the real world.
"Anything to do now?" I ask.
"Here, have a chocolate. Maybe it'll make you fat." Ken says, tossing me a chocolate. I was pissed now. Not because he wanted me fat, but because he would give me something a girl made with love. Well, unless it was Mana's chocolate, but it isn't.
I tossed the chocolate back on the coffee table. "I think you should eat them. Girls made them with love." I say that very emotionlessly even though I shouldn't have.
Ken looked at me, a bit surprisingly, but then shook it off. "Hahaha! Hahaha! You think I would care about that? They made it, yes with love, but now it's mine. I can do whatever I want with it! Even this!" Ken shouted as he threw one chocolate box on the ground and stepped on it. I stood there, bewildered, but you couldn't tell through my mask. Ken stopped stepping on the chocolate and made a seriously face.
"Mask Maid, don't go against my orders. If I tell you to do something, you better damn do it! Especially since I gave you something to gain. Not like street people are you? The ones that just go around and beg. Now, go clean up the chocolate, print out the typed pages. Make sure every letter has the right name. Then you are dismissed." Ken says with a creepy smile.
I quickly went to work and finally, I got 56 letters printed out. I checked the time on Ken's computer, 3:35. I wonder how the basketball and soccer game's going. I think I might make it at this rate. I wonder why Ken didn't go, maybe an order from his dad. I put the letters on the coffee table and left his dorm. I'm guessing Ken will just pass them out tomorrow.
When I went out the dorm I sighed. I then saw the weirdest thing. A shadow moved outside the academy. (There's a window on the left of the outside of Ken's room.)
I swear it was right next to the window. I quickly forgot about it and walked to the MPR to watch the basketball game. Too bad the soccer game is out on the field. They are too far apart. I looked at my surroundings, took off my mask, and went in the MPR.
How was it? Make a review if you have something to say. I'm actually done with the whole level 1 'book', but I'm doing some major editing!