Kiryu didn't understand what was the point of a girl with a simple crest, but he took the mission as his gateway ticket to hell. At least, that was what he hoped this mission would end up being. If it wasn't, well, he wasn't sure what he would do. Surely that creature, whatever it was, saw how much he wanted to die. He would grant that wish, right?

Either way, he wasn't going to know if he just stood there and wailed. That wouldn't do any good. And besides, he never cried before, so why start now?

Doing his best to turn off his mind, Kiryu focused on his surroundings. He was pretty close to the ocean, and across that was a building that was a lot nicer than even the buildings of Satellite that had managed to stay intact. He actually imagined what kind of people lived there. Rich ones like those in Tops? Or just people who weren't criminals?

Probably the latter though. All the stories depicted Tops as a high class place and this building, while white, looked nothing of the sort.

After all, Kiryu didn't think that a boy dressed in something Crow would wear even step foot in a place like Tops.

But it was a person, and so Kiryu didn't pass up the opportunity to talk to him. Especially since he had absolutely no clue where he was and what he should be doing to complete that quest.

"Do you live here?" he asked the kid.

The kid laughed. His face turned a bright red in the process. "That's a good one. Me and school don't mix, that's for sure."

So this was a school? Did that mean the girl he had to find went to school here? Maybe, but that was a big building. In good shape too...he'll be lucky to find that girl that he saw earlier...if she was alive. Or maybe this was heaven? Kiryu didn't think he deserved to go to heaven, but at least if he was dead…

But was he dead? He honestly had no clue. Maybe that kid could tell him, but that kid had already made his way down the street and nearly out of Kiryu's sight. And wouldn't it be weird if he just happened to follow a kid around? In Satellite, that was fine. Security really didn't care about what you did there. If you were causing crimes there, so be it. They only cared if they were bored or if you caused an offense to them. It didn't matter what they had been doing before. And besides, you were always being watched in Satellite. So someone following you was just something you took as normal.

Yet, here? In this odd mix of the city and the possible but probably unlikely Heaven? That would definitely alert Security. Especially since that kid looked much younger than him. That would probably cause an unwanted mess to occur at some point. And Kiryu didn't want something like that.

So his best bet was to go inside of the school. But considering the steady stream of kids that exited out of the same door as that other kid, Kiryu assumed that it was empty now. Well, there was always tomorrow. Hopefully he could actually do something then.

But as for what to do now...well, he didn't have a bed and he was pretty sure he couldn't just waltz into a building like he could in Satellite, so there was a need to figure out where to stay. Turning around, he noticed a single bench overlooking the sea. It didn't seem to have the best shelter (who knows what could happen at night), but it was the best he could do. So he settled on sitting there until fatigue eventually took its toll.

The time the sun was slowly making its way to the top was when Kiryu woke up. It was the time he happened to wake up at when he was a resident of Satellite, and he was glad that being a Dark Signer didn't affect that at all. It would be a problem if he had waken up at the middle of the night - nothing would've happened then.

He also took the time he was resting to figure out something. He wasn't dead, but there was a possible chance that he wasn't alive and this just was a test to see where he ended up. Sure, he did some...questionable things throughout his life, barely any of them with completely good intentions, but then again, this all started with a well-intentioned plan that should've been taken care of by Security, so there was a chance for him to even be considered on the pool of people going to Heaven. And that probably depended heavily on how well he did here. So he had to succeed here if he wanted to go to Heaven.

And while being dead was being dead, so technically it didn't matter where he ended up, he kind of didn't want to go to Hell. Hell was where he ended up as a Dark Signer, and while he was pretty sure Yuusei defeated them already, he didn't want to go through the torture he experienced as a Dark Signer again. That would very well be worse than living.

Either way, he had to focus on the situation at hand. One quick glance to the school and it seemed like no one was in it. Granted, the sun just rose and he assumed that no one in Neo Domino had the need to wake up at the crack of dawn, but he expected there to be at least some type of activity at this time. Then again, it was probably four or five in the morning. People who didn't have a reason to wake up early probably didn't.

Though he would've figured out at least how long he had to wait before someone came here if he had just asked that first kid or any of the other kids. They went here, so they were bound to have at least a general idea of when someone came to the school, even if they had no idea. Because at least then he'd be able to at least attempt to spot the girl (if she went here) and complete the mission he had to do. But with him unable to know, his best bet was to wait for someone and ask if he could possibly go inside. They would understand if it was important, right?

Kiryu decided that he was at least going to check if the door was opened. So he got off the bench and took a short walk towards the school. His steps were quick but not rushed. Because there really was no point in running the entire way. The street was empty; void of everything but him. And to top that off, the street was short. Not something he needed to run in order to get there faster.

When he reached the end of the road, he noticed a black car out of the corner of his eye. Interested, he turned around. The wheels, Kiryu noticed, turned slower and slower with each moment, until the car finally stopped. The window rolled down, revealing a man who was older than Kiryu.

"Ah!" he said, surprised. His eyes rested to where Kiryu was, making his smile even brighter. "I got rather worried when you called saying you might not be able to make it, but you did!" Kiryu really didn't know what the man was talking about, but if it got him into the school…

"Hang on - let me park my car," the man said, still smiling. "Then I'll open the door and make some coffee for the both of us."

Kiryu watched as the car moved towards the back. He didn't follow, assuming this guy meant for him to stay there until he came back. Probably without a car. But he didn't mind. He was getting into the school after all - and that was what he wanted.

Five minutes later the man came back. He extended his hand, which Kiryu took. It was a greeting, and he should take it instead of leaving it like that. The man said a name that Kiryu would barely remember and then followed suit, giving out his full name.

"Oh, so the sub couldn't come then. Well, it was rather nice of him to send in someone else instead of making me go nuts."

Kiryu was completely unsure of what the man meant by practically everything he just said. The terms were all something that he never even thought of using in that way...and to be honest, it really did confused him. Schools taught people things, right? So why would they need a sub?

"Did he tell you watch subject you were covering for?" the man asked as they walked through the doors, snapping Kiryu out of his thoughts. So he was apparently teaching, and he wasn't exactly sure if that was something he was qualified to do.

Just to be safe though, Kiryu shook his head. And while doing so, he prayed it was something that he could handle. He only learned the basics in Satellite - everything else you either learned by yourself or just didn't know at all. And math just so happened to be one of those subjects were he had only learned the basics - what was necessary to play Duel Monsters. He doubt he could actually teach that.

"Gym."

That wasn't one of the subjects he heard of. A kid in Satellite had found out about school from some other guy, and they always were described as boring. They mentioned some of the things that you apparently learned, which, at the time, sounded like a bore to both him and everyone else with him. And while he remembered some subjects, gym was not one on the list of those he could recall.

They walked into a room that was marked differently from the rest (this one didn't has a combination of a number and letter) and it was there the man handed him a sheet. It was then Kiryu realized how much older this man was compared to him. But he mentally shoved that away. It wasn't important - the sheet was - and any observations like that could wait.

"Those are the classes you'll be teaching," the man said as Kiryu looked over the paper. "They're all nearly at the same place so you can do the same thing with each class. The breaks in schedule are your frees. You can get lunch then if you feel so inclined."

He kept on going on and Kiryu had to wonder if it really was complicated. He wouldn't have thought so just by looking at the paper - what he bothered to listen to what the man said was what he could already assume from the paper. Everything else sounded useless and just plain unnecessary. With the exception of he was supposed to be doing with the classes. Because it seemed like this subject wasn't a subject that the kid in Satellite had describe. It was a fun one; one that Kiryu was sure he could handle. Which made him smile. He was pretty sure he wasn't going to keep the title of teacher for long - probably not even an entire day - but at least he could try his best to have fun.

"Well, I guess you understand that now, right?" Kiryu nodded. "Well then, how do you like your coffee?"

"I don't drink coffee."

The morning went by as a blur. Numerous of adults walked into the room, each carrying plans and laughing about one thing or another. Some got coffee while others ignored its existence. Some people also busied themselves with whatever papers they had in their hand.

Throughout the whole thing, Kiryu wished that people would just ignore him. He knew that was hard for them to do - his hair color was the most unusual out of the bunch, it being easily identified as blue as opposed to the blueish-silver he knew it was - but he had just wished that they figured he was busy like some of the others. After all, he was staring at that schedule intensely - that should've notified someone he was busy. But it didn't, and it really interrupted his thoughts about figuring out whether or not that girl he had to find was in any of his classes. Mainly because he was sure he probably wasn't going to get the chance to do this tomorrow, assuming that by the end of it he was sure the person who mistook him for someone else would tell he was done. Or he'd just get fed up with the pre-class thing that he didn't even want to attempt this any more.

Class itself was rather interesting. Kiryu had managed to find himself a whistle which was what he used to rally the students up. And whenever he talked to them, he treated them like new recruits for Team Satisfaction. And while he was pretty sure he wasn't going to add anyone new to that team - Team Satisfaction was something he started with Jack, Crow, and Yuusei. And he was sure he wouldn't get the same level of satisfaction from these kids as he did from his three best friends, it at least enabled him to do his job. A job he kind of didn't want to do but had to anyways.

Of course, there happened to be this one class that had just affected him more than the other. For a start, it was the one class where he felt a headache when he got everyone in front of him. Kiryu didn't know why, but he assumed because at the front of it was a girl very similar to the girl he saw before in that greyish world. And when she was out of his sight, it calmed down, despite being extremely strong just moments before. He figured that ignoring he was good, but if she happened to be part of his mission, then he'd have to see her, right?

He could just pull her aside later. He only needed to meet her, right? Or did he actually have to bring her back? The latter might be a problem, but if he could stage it properly...

I'll just ask for her after class.

But when class was over, he didn't get that opportunity. She, along with two others (who he vaguely recognized) rushed towards the stairs.

Kiryu didn't know why they did it, but he needed the girl. And so he would follow her.