"Oh sorry, I didn't introduce myself yet. My name is Akari Chiaki"
"My name is Hikaru Kawamaki, nice to meet you."
He smiles and starts going back to his room.
"Wait," the girl says and grabs his arm
"I wanted to talk to you." she says while Hikaru feels her friendly aura.
They both sit down at a table while trying to not be noticed.
"You may know that we have to make teams so we can do missions." she says while looking very excited.
"What? We need teams? I didn't hear anything like that." Hikaru answers while being confused.
"Oh, it's probably because no one told you. It's the same every year. Tomorrow the teachers will announce that we have to form teams with other students, but everyone will already know what team they are in." she answers.
"Then why are you telling me this?" Hikaru answers still being confused.
"I want to be in a Team with you, Hikaru."
"But why me? I have the weakest rank and can't even use any Seln forms." Hikaru looks down to the ground feeling ashamed.
"You think you are the weakest? You pushed your whole class onto the ground by just using a simple 'Burst'." she answers.
"That was an accident I don't even know how to control that power!"
"If I'm honest I also can't find a team myself." she answers with a slight blush on her face.
"Wait, wouldn't anyone want you in their team, because if I remember right you had a high rank and I don't see a reason why one of the boy's group wouldn't want you in their group if you know what I mean."
"It's kinda the same situation as for you. Everyone hates me just because I look different. My white hair and red eyes are signs of the devil for them. Everyone in my family has the same hair and eyes and most of the people say we are 'cursed' or 'devils'."
"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't want to hurt your feelings." Hikaru says.
"I mean, isn't it the same for you? I remember my father always used to say: 'Your family shall not determine who you are. Prove those wrong who think that way.', that's what I keep saying to myself."
This sentence resonated in Hikaru's brain, it's as he heard it before.
"Hikaru??" Akari asks.
"Oh sorry I was just daydreaming." he answers.
"So? What do you think?" Akari asks.
"If it's that way I would be happy to join your team."
"Yay. But we still need two more team members." she says.
Hikaru notices someone sitting alone at a table.
"What about him?" he says and points at the boy.
"Sure, let's ask him." Akari answers.
They go to his table.
He directly looks away from them.
"Hey, we wanted to ask..."
He interrupts Hikaru.
"You want to have my money right?"
"No, we wanted to ask you if you wanted to join our team." Akari says.
"So you don't know that I am the weakest person here? I had to redo the 1st year at this school because I am so weak. The only thing I can do is throw pearls that explode." he answers.
"That doesn't make you the weakest. My father used to say that: 'Basic power shall not determine those who have a high potential, only those who give up on their dreams are the foolish ones.'" Akari says to him.
Another time the sentence that Akari said resonated in his head.
"If you want me to join. Then I will join your team, but I wanna make clear that I won't be much of a help." he answers.
"Yay, then we only need one more team member." Akari says and looks over to Hikaru who is staring into nothingness.
"Hikaru?" she asks.
He comes back to his mind.
"Oh, I'm sorry I was daydreaming again."
"You really need to stop daydreaming." she says and chuckles
"Oh, we didn't introduce ourselves yet. My name is Akari Chiaki and this is Hikaru Kawamaki."
She points at Hikaru.
"My name is Haruki Hino. Nice to meet you."
"So we just need one more team member. This is going way better than I expected." Akari says, as she looks around for any other potential team members.
Suddenly they notice a dark aura, that feels like a Devil or something similar. All of them look in the direction of the aura and see a girl with short black hair.
They hear people whispering.
"How is she even in this school"
"I don't think she is even human."
Akari starts walking towards her. Hikaru holds her hand after Akari.
"Hey Akari wait."
Akari now stands in front of the girl.
"Hey, you wanna join our team?" while tilting her head and smiling.
Her evil aura starts to lessen as she says...
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