Yu had to admit, class was just as dull as ever… if not even worse courtesy of his time at Yasogami high… at least there there were teachers with personality, even if some of them were horrible.
Like Morooka and his obsession with preaching in a way that made everyone want to go against what he was saying, or Kashiwagi who always looked like she was trying to seduce every boy in the class.
Well, it wasn't that she looked like she was trying to seduce every boy in class… it was that she was trying to seduce every boy in the class.
Honestly if it wasn't for that and her degrading way of talking about other women, then she probably would've been a rather popular teacher, she certainly was attractive enough after all.
But when she is so aggressively forward and outright mean at the same time… well she put everyonein class off her incredibly quickly.
Well, all except Hanako but then again, Hanako had a similar reputation… but without the good looks to back it up.
Still, at least lunch break was here and he had to admit that he was looking forward to getting his home cooked meal, the only question was where to eat it?
The cafeteria seemed like the typical choice, sure Yasogami didn't have one but then again, that was a very different type of school to the large city ones like the one he was in now.
He could also stay in class and socialise with his peers, sure they certainly wouldn't do anything concerning his social links since he had already maxed all the possible arcana he had found in Inaba and gained the world arcana, but it would be nice to make new acquaintances.
But what he really wanted to do was eat his food on the roof.
It wasn't because it would be fresh air up there, he was in the middle of one of the largest cities in the world.
It wasn't because it would have a good view, like before, it was in one of the largest cities in the world so all he'd really get outside of skyscrapers would be whatever was on campus.
He wanted to do it because that was where the team always met during school hours back in Inaba.
It didn't matter to him how he was living in the past, it was a very recent past after all and he was sure that despite how much it hurt right now he would eventually get used to it.
Plus it wasn't like they were never going to see each other again.
The fact that they all still had each other's mobile phone numbers meant they could easily keep in touch whenever they wanted.
It was just hard to go from meeting with them practically every day, to not seeing them at all.
What he didn't expect was to open the door to the roof to the particular sight he was greeted by.
The teenage boy was perfectly normal. The seriously dark haired brunette with hair framing her face courtesy of a pair of white bands wasn't particularly strange either. Nor was the younger brunette with two pink hair bands.
No, what was strange was the blonde girl that was clearly European and was currently latched onto the boy like a limpet while trying to feed him with a much too innocent expression.
The fact that the boy was obviously uncomfortable with her attention and the other two were currently glaring at them made the scene complete.
"Kusanagi-san! Please! Do not give in to that woman!" the dark haired girl pleaded, though Yu noted that she didn't sound even remotely heartbroken, so it was unlikely the boy had been double dating… so that probably meant there was some history between her and the blonde that made her want to protect the boy from her.
"Onii-chan…" the younger of the girls however growled out something completely different, indicating to him that she was probably the boy's younger sister and didn't like the way he and the blonde interacting.
What he couldn't understand was why she sound so angry at him when it was obviously the blonde that was being a shameless flirt.
Shaking his head, he tore his eyes from the ridiculous scene and looked for somewhere to sit. Thankfully, since the school was so big, it had far more room on the roof than Yasogami did, which meant he had no trouble finding somewhere to sit.
What did catch his attention though was when the dark haired girl turned her head away from the blonde and the boy… not because she moved, but because of her expression when her eyes met his.
Fear.
It was not what he felt, all he felt was confusion at seeing such an expression appear on a girls face simply because she looked at him.
It didn't make sense.
He couldn't recall ever meeting this girl before and even if he had, he wasn't the sort to hurt people so she shouldn't be scared of him.
So why was she?
Did he remind her of someone she knew? If so, what sort of horror had this person done to her to make her look at him in horror.
"Hey? Mariya-san? Are you alright?" he heard the boy call out, snapping the girl out of her catatonic state as she averted her gaze from his.
"Y-yes, Kusanagi-san," she responded weakly before continuing, "he just reminded me of someone I once met."
"Anyone in particular?" the blonde asked in a tone that sounded flippant but Yu could hear the underlying seriousness of the statement. Apparently whatever the brunette had been reminded of was a serious matter.
"Sasha Dejanstahl Voban," while he may have finally sat down, the red haired teen hadn't taken his eyes off the people that had originally drawn his attention, even as he opened his bento to get at the homemade meal within.
Thus he didn't miss how both the boy and the blonde tensed and gained grim expressions, however the fact that the girl with the pink hair bands seemed completely lost about what the other three were talking about told him everything he needed to know.
They were in on a secret she wasn't and were trying to keep it that way.
Eating his meal, the newly transferred third year now knew one thing.
This year may not be so dull after all.