Hello guys, I'm back for a new chapter ! :)

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Warning : N/A

Eileen was sent to the ground, yet again. Suguru started to feel bad for the foreign girl.

Shoko suggested that she teach her the basics because their frames were quite similar, but the difference in their skills was terrible.

Let's not even imagine Satoru or himself taking her on, she would barely last a second.

Eileen accepted Shoko's helping hand, getting back on her feet and getting healed at the same time through the contact.

"Don't worry, it's the first day, you'll get better the more we train !" Shoko encouraged her, but Eileen didn't seem fazed at all by getting her ass handed over, getting into position yet again.

Satoru snickered by his side, and Suguru rolled his eyes at the childish behavior.

Twak.

"Aaand she is on the ground again !" Satoru commented, his grin fixed on his face.

Eileen got back on her feet, a slight frown on her face. She heard him, and seemed a little ticked off by the blatant mockery.

Her eyes changed color, emerald turning in an intense green, and then she raised her arms, back into position. Satoru took off his sunglasses quickly, observing with intent, and Suguru focused on their new classmate.

This time… She dodged. Blocked. Dodged again.

"What the-" Shoko started to say… "Ack !" Before hitting the ground.

"Cheater !" Satoru exclaimed dramaticaly, pointing his finger to Eileen.

She threw him an amused look, her eyes losing their prismatic color to turn back to their emerald counterpart. Suguru's first impression of Eileen was… That she was nice. Not the kind of nice who gets walked over, but the kind of nice of someone who has reached peace and accepted people unconditionally.

That's it, she was so peaceful that it felt nice to be around her.

"What do you mean ?" Shoko asked, getting back on her feet.

"She used her cursed eyes !"

Shoko blinked, then looked at the other girl with open curiosity.

"Right, I was wondering why your eyes kept changing color," she said.

"Let's say I need them to communicate with you" Eileen answered vaguely. "But they also allow me to know intent, so I have to deactivate them while sparing to not cheat, as Satoru kindly pointed out"

"Right, he said you could see souls," Suguru added, his curiosity renewed. "What about cursed spirits, do they have a soul ?"

Eileen seemed hesitant to answer.

"It… depends. Some are just remnants, created by non-sorcerers emotions, but others… Well, they are born from the deceased. Some have a lot of souls. I don't really like looking at them, it's painful to watch" she explained.

Of course, non-sorcerers always made their life harder. Suguru felt the surge of ugly hatred rising in himself at the mention, clapping hands resonating in his head.

"Let's stop the fighting here, and let's get you settled in your room" Shoko proposed, stretching out. "It's your first day here, it would be better to familiarise yourself with the layout of the school instead of getting your ass handed over in the training ground"

Eileen nodded in agreement, a soft smile playing on her lips. She didn't seem embarrassed at all to have been thrown on the floor for the last hour.

"Don't follow us !" Shoko ordered when Satoru started to walk to follow. "See you at lunch."

"Geez, I knew she would keep Eileen to herself" Satoru complained, but turned on his feet to look at him. "Wanna spar ?"

Shoko observed Eileen unpacking her suitcase, her clothes neatly folded and storing them in the closet, sat on the chair in front of the desk.

"Your parents must have been pretty strict, huh ?" Shoko said, starting small talk. Not that the silence bothered her, Eileen had a soothing aura that filled the silence.

"Not really. But a clean space helps to keep a clean mind" Eileen answered softly. "My cursed technique requires control over my mind, so it became a habit to stay organised"

"How did they react when you left, by the way ?" Shoko inquired.

The parents' decision to give up such a sweet child across the globe was hard to imagine for her.

"I never knew my father, and my mother was killed by a cursed spirit when I was six", Eileen answered easily, and Shoko froze on the spot.

"I'm sorry, I-"

"Please, do not apologise Shoko-san, I am at peace with her departure" Eileen reassured her with one of her soft smiles.

Shoko stayed silent, observing the other girl finish unpacking her stuff. Eileen began to hum, her voice sounded so nice Shoko could be jealous, if it wasn't so soothing. She suspected her cursed technique at play, but honestly, it could be just a natural reaction.

"I started cleaning the city not long after", Eileen spoke, opening her bag and taking out various notebooks. "I didn't want someone else experiencing what I had. It was around this time I discovered I could deactivate my cursed eyes. And from here, I started to study my cursed technique. It was quite the journey"

"I can see that," Shoko nodded. "Your cursed technique only affects people, right ?"

"Every living thing would be more accurate. For example, I can grow plants. It went on the news. I was ten at the time, and I was just thinking 'I wonder if I could help a tree grow faster' and well… I failed" Eileen shrugged. "I actually had to study how the tree grew, and from here, I had to imagine in detail the tree growing. It took me a year, but when I succeeded… Well, a tree growing ten meters tall in a day was quite the event in Paris"

"No way !" Shoko exclaimed. "Wait… That means you could heal someone, right ?"

Eileen nodded.

"On paper, I could. But realistically, it would require extremely accurate knowledge of human anatomy, and I am simply… not smart enough, I guess. I started memorizing every bone in the human body, but the knowledge don't really stick for long, so it would take too much time, I'd rather explore what I can do before taking on this kind of challenge"

Shoko mulled over the piece of information, and shrugged.

"Well, we don't need two healers in our team anyway," she said with a grin, Eileen smiling back and nodding in agreement. "What are those ?" she asked, eyeing the notebooks neatly stacked on the desk.

"My partitions. I don't really need them to use my cursed technique, but writing songs and rehearsing them helps me focus on the effects rather than on the melody"

"It sounds like a lot of work to use your cursed technique the right way" Shoko mused, and Eileen agreed.

"No pain, no gain" she simply said with a small smile, her prismatic green eyes boring in Shoko's.

"Damn right ! If you're done unpacking, want to tour around the school ?"

It took a while to tour the school. The school grounds were huge. There even was a race track ! Eileen couldn't wait to explore the forest, she had always loved nature, but Paris was a big city, always bustling with activity, and there was not so much peace, even in parks.

It was lunch time when they went to the cafeteria, and Eileen was really hungry. Their classmates were waiting for them in front of the entrance, Satoru waving at them.

"Tsk, he is such a clown" Shoko murmured without real heat, more exasperated than anything.

"How was the tour ? I would have been a better guide, honestly" Satoru said, Shoko rolling her eyes in response.

"It was nice. Shoko was an excellent guide" Eileen said, observing Satoru's fluctuating emotions.

He didn't really care, but was amused by her answer.

"I broke Suguru's arm, by the way", Satoru said happily, and Shoko sighed heavily, putting her hand on Suguru's shoulder briefly.

"Thank you", Suguru thanked her, rolling his shoulder and nodding when he didn't feel any pain.

"Let's eat !" Satoru said, going into the cafeteria, and they followed in his track. "Have you ever eaten Japanese food, Eileen-san ?"

"Sushis… Not much else. I am open to recommendations"

She didn't eat Japanese food often, since it was not something affordable at low cost. The price of foreign food tended to be higher than it actually was. Especially in the capital, everything was expensive.

Her classmates all added something on her tray, each recommending their favorites.

"Let's eat yakisoba in town this weekend," Shoko suggested. "I know a really good place."

"Sure", Suguru accepted.

Satoru hummed his own accord, his mouth full.

"I look forward to it", Eileen gave her own accord.

"Great. How is it by the way, do you like it ?"

Eileen was finishing the miso soup Suguru had put on her tray as a starter, and the rather bland taste of the tofu was pretty nice with it. Suguru had chosen the start, Shoko the main course, and Satoru the dessert. She started to suspect he had a sweet tooth, half of his tray covered by various desserts.

"I really like it," Eileen agreed. "That was a really good suggestion" she then said to Suguru with a small smile.

The corners of Suguru's mouth lifted up in answer, satisfied by her declaration.

"Hey, wait until you try the dorayaki !" Satoru intervened.

The dessert in question looked like two really fluffy pancakes stuffed with some type of filling. Eileen threw an amused glance toward her classmate, who was eating the same thing instead of a main course.

Once lunch was over, Eileen felt a little drowsy, the jet lag coming to her. There was an eight hour difference between France and Japan, meaning it was supposed to be around seven pm, time at which she usually took a nap before going out to play music in the city to clear negative energy accumulated during the day.

Yaga-san joined them in the classroom in the afternoon, Eileen being taught basic Japanese by her new classmates.

"Alright guys, pack up, we have a mission !" Yaga declared, his intimidating stature taking up all the door's entrance space.

"Sweet !" was Satoru's answer, jumping to his feet. "I was starting to get bored !"

"Why thank you, Satoru-san" Eileen said, amused by his lack of decorum, but keeping a straight face.

Satoru threw her an amused glance, but she noticed the wavering colors of his soul, and smirked, reassuring him that no, he didn't offend her.

It was over before it even began. In the first place, Satoru et Suguru working together meant an extremely fast conclusion in their missions, but with the addition of Eileen, it was almost ridiculous.

They had reached an isolated building in the outskirts of Tokyo where a Second Grade cursed spirit had been identified, and Eileen had taken out the flute she had played the first time he met her, to his greatest joy.

The soothing notes escaping it rose on a wave of her golden cursed energy, and soon the cursed spirit was coming to them, his long body having twenty human's legs, and as many eyes on his torso.

That was one really ugly dude, but most of the cursed spirits were disgusting to begin with, so it wasn't surprising.

It stopped in its tracks, coming closer only meant getting destroyed faster, and he could see the accumulation of negative energy that composed it dissolving at a rapid pace, turning the same golden colour as Eileen's cursed energy, his body disintegrating into particles and floating away before dissolving completely.

If only it took longer to die, Satoru mused when Eileen stopped playing soon after, and he could see Suguru observing intently their new classmate. Ah, so it wasn't only him.

"Ah. I'm sorry Geto-san. Did you want it ?" Eileen asked, remembering too late of Suguru's cursed technique, and making Satoru snort.

"It's okay Eileen-san. It was weak anyway" Suguru reassured her with a small smile.

That's it for today, I hope you enjoyed !

Next chapter, they'll be eating out in town, and we'll get more Satoru/Eileen interactions. I'm still unsure of the way I'll organize the chapters, if I keep multiple pov or focus more on Eileen... Opened for suggestions :)