NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 64: "Hello, everyone. My name is Kurumi Tokisaki."
(A/N: Prepare for a lot of character introductions and appearance descriptions... You should know that I don't like flowery descriptive bullshit so I'll try to keep each one brief. There are... quite a lot though, so... sorry... kinda.
After Chapter Edit: I'm apologizing to myself now. David will never be switching classes because introducing everyone takes way more mental power than I thought, what with having to try to go into character as them and whatnot... Ugh, I'm gonna be pissed if any of these students leave in the middle of the school year and waste my efforts... Tch... Readers could just search for the characters to see what they look like, no reason for me to deal with arthritis when I'm out of Advil...)
[Oi, stop your bitching and get on with it already!]
(...Sorry... Ahem, enjoy the miniature character book--I mean, the chapter, everyone. <3)
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Mafuyu led her class through the front entrance of Ichinose High School's main building and continued walking until she reached a set of stairs.
She looked back to make sure the students were still following her before she ascended the stairs.
Like a mother duck leading her ducklings, Mafuyu continued walking through the long hallways until they reached a large classroom that had a sign which read '1-A' above the door.
Inside the classroom was a teacher's desk in the front corner furthest from the door, an electronic whiteboard at the front of the class, shelves and cleaning closets lining the back of the classroom, wide windows looking out over the Ichinose High School's outdoor track, and an 8x5 grid of desks which allowed for 40 students to sit.
Mafuyu walked up to the electronic whiteboard and turned it on, displaying a seating chart for the students.
"Check the seating arrangements and find your seats, then we will begin the introductions," she said.
(A/N: Seating chart for class 1-A will be in the chapter comments in case anyone understands better with a visual. Looking ahead of time is a spoiler, but it's fine I suppose.)
David found his name and made his way to seat A5, the cliched protagonist seat in the far back corner by the window.
Seeing the stacks of books on every desk, David remembered he had forgotten his school bag in his room--something he should have remembered when he saw Marin, Shouko, and Haruna carrying their school bags.
David quickly spread his Sakai out until it reached of radius of 15km and found Roselia Heights.
Passing through the multiple barriers surrounding the high-rise, he focused on his bedroom and found his bag laying on the bed next to the clothes he was wearing this morning.
He also saw Komoe, Tomoe, Mio, Sofia, the newly-arrived Toa, and Yoruichi laying on his bed as they took a morning nap.
Chuckling to himself and shaking his head, David cast a simple teleportation spell and brought his bag in front of him without being seen by anyone. They were too busy looking for their names on the seating chart to notice.
Altogether, it only took a few seconds to accomplish the 'School Bag Self-Heist' as he was walking to his desk in the back.
He pulled out his chair and took a seat, looking out the window as he admired the beautiful scenery of the campus.
Very quickly, the students had all taken their seats and were looking at Mafuyu at the front of the room. Well, except for David who was in complete dumbass mode today and found the outside campus more interesting than the classroom...
"Let me formally introduce myself to you all. My name is Mafuyu Kirisu, but you may refer to me as either Kirisu-sensei or just Sensei. I will be your homeroom teacher as well as your world history teacher. Before we start the orientation, we will go down the rows and have you all introduce yourselves."
Mafuyu looked at the girl sitting in seat A1 and said, "Let's start you with, please."
A 165 cm tall girl with long blonde hair, hazel eyes, slightly tanned skin, and a red ribbon in her hair stood up from her seat nervously. She was wearing the cardigan uniform with the cardigan unbuttoned and the top and bottom few buttons of her white dress shirt unbuttoned, revealing her navel and a barely perceptible view of her C-cup cleavage.
She also had a pink scrunchie with a bow around her right wrist and a band-aid on her right thigh for aesthetic.
"Y-Yes! H-Hello, my name is Riku Tamanaha, it's a pleasure to meet you!" Riku said with a shaky voice, bowing to Mafuyu and forgetting to look at the other students.
The students all clapped for a few seconds before Riku sat back down with her fists clenched around her skirt.
"Thank you, Tamanaha-chan. Next, you."
A 183 cm tall girl with short orange hair, red eyes, and the cardigan uniform stood up slowly as she fidgeted with her hands, clearly just as nervous as Riku.
"Hello. My name is M-Mitsuki Oshiro. Nice to meet everyone," Mitsuki said, taking a bow as she, too, faced Mafuyu.
The students clapped once more before Mitsuki sat down.
"Thank you, Oshiro-chan. Next, you," Mafuyu said once more, continuing on down the line.
A 152 cm tall girl with long orange hair, pale greyish-purple eyes, and large black glasses stood up next.
"Um... My name is Futaba Sakura. Nice to meet you," she said sheepishly, quickly taking her seat right after.
The students clapped again, though many were wondering just how many shy or nervous classmates they had this year.
When Mafuyu called the next student, a 160 cm tall, bright and smiley girl with ghostlike white skin, white hair, red eyes, the blazer uniform, and black silk gloves stood up and immediately directed her gaze at David, giving him an oddly affectionate and happy smile.
David was confused and wondered if he knew this girl or not, but quickly tossed that thought out of his head because even if he had a bad memory, which he definitely doesn't, he would surely never forget a girl who radiated as much joy as this girl does.
"Hello, everyone! My name is Shiro! I hope you all like this school and David as much as I do, heheh!" Shiro said as she continued staring at David for a few seconds before the girl to her right pulled her back down into her seat.
When David heard Shiro's name, he felt a slight pain in his brain, but it went away just as soon as it appeared.
The students hesitated for a moment, but then clapped, a bit more slowly and awkwardly this time.
It must be said that Shiro is incredibly cute and could make a puppy drowning seem like a joyous occasion. Therefore, most of the boys in the class were filled with envy.
Only most of the boys though since there are only 8 boys in the class not counting David and 4 of them couldn't be bothered to think about girls, almost like they're teenage boys in shounen manga...
"Thank you, Shiro-chan, but I don't think you needed to mention Star-kun, did you?"
Shiro kicked her legs giddily, her pure white legs looking mesmerizing, as she giggled and said, "Of course I did! I want everyone to like him!"
Mafuyu just shook her head and dropped the topic, not wanting to delay the day's tasks by scolding a cheerful girl like Shiro on the first day.
"Alright, let's continue," she said, looking pointedly at the girl who pulled Shiro back to her seat earlier.
A 157 cm tall girl with long brown hair tied in twin braids that fell in front of her shoulders, amber eyes, a gentle smile on her face, and the blazer uniform stood up and cast her gaze around the room before stopping on David, just like Shiro.
She was also smiling at David, but her eyes looked like a dark abyss despite being amber in color. David couldn't describe what she looked like, but if he had to try, he'd say she looked like someone who was finally able to meet the person they've been stalking for their entire lives, which would be spot-on.
Her gentle smile gave the same feeling, but strangely enough, David didn't hate it at all. On the contrary, he rather liked it quite a bit.
"Hello, everyone. My name is Sawa Yamauchi. I hope we all get along well in the future," Sawa said, bowing to everyone slightly and sitting down once the students stopped clapping.
Once again, David felt a pain in his head that disappeared instantly.
When Mafuyu called the next student to stand, someone David didn't expect to see appeared.
A 154 cm tall girl with long pink hair with a deerskin hair clasp on the back, reddish-pink eyes, a calm expression, and the blazer uniform stood and turned to face the class, her eyes sweeping the students before pausing slightly longer on David than the others.
"Good morning. My name is Tsukasa Tsukuyomi. It's a pleasure to meet you all and I hope we get along well in the future," Tsukasa said with an elegant bow, taking her seat after the applause.
⟪ I was surprised by the first few girls, but why is Tsukasa here? Although nobody knows that she's actually around 1,400+ years old, she's supposed to publicly be 16, not 15... ⟫
David was trying not to use his inner voice until the introductions were over, but Tsukasa showing up genuinely surprised him. After all, in the series 'Tonikaku Kawaii,' Tsukasa just stayed in her own zone and read manga, watched anime, or played games before she married the protagonist.
Most of the girls in the class reflexively looked over at Tsukasa, including Mafuyu, before getting ahold of themselves.
Mafuyu cleared her throat and asked the next person to go.
The last two students in the first row were just mob characters so they need not be mentioned nor remembered.
Starting from seat A2, the same scene repeated--two mob characters nobody cares about.
After the mob characters, it was the girl in seat C2's turn.
A 162 cm tall girl with long black hair, brown eyes, and a facial expression that was hard to discern between angry and frustrated stood up.
"My name is Yui Kotegawa. I won't tolerate any shameless or indecent acts so you better behave yourself, Star-kun," Yui said, pointing at David as she finished her... 'introduction.'
David raised an eyebrow, pointed to himself, and tilted his head.
"Yes, you! I saw you and that girl kissing on the bus earlier, it was shameless!"
⟪ I'm not sure if I should say it's entertaining to see Yui acting the same as her character in To LOVE-Ru or not... ⟫
David just smiled and said, "I'll make sure to hide my shameless and indecent acts in front of you, Yui-chan."
Yui's face turned red as she heard a boy call her by name for the first time and said, "T-That's n-not what I m-meant! D-Don't do them, period!"
Yui huffed and sat back down in her seat as she crossed her arms and looked up at Mafuyu.
The students were very delayed in their clapping and a few of the girls were chuckling at the little interaction between David and Yui, ultimately hoping to see more of it in the future.
"Thank you for your wise warning, Kotegawa-chan. Everyone should be mindful about their actions in public and focus on your education when you're in school. Now, you may go next."
Haruna stood at 160 cm tall and nervously yet politely bowed to the class. "Hello, my name is Haruna Sairenji. I hope to get along well with everyone in the future."
Nice and simple, just like Mafuyu likes it.
The next person to stand up was a young man that David was hoping to become friends with in the future.
He was 197 cm tall, had shaggy brown hair that covered his left eye, brown eyes, tanned skin, and was wearing the standard male uniform just like David, though this young man was 6 cm taller than him.
"My name is Yasutora Sado, nice to meet you all," Yasutora Sado, or 'Chad,' said.
He gave a polite bow and sat back down in his seat, not shocking anyone by his size given how big David already is.
⟪ Chad is a good dude, definitely gotta be friends with him. ⟫
After the students were done clapping, the next student stood up without Mafuyu prompting him to.
He stood at 174 cm tall, had short and spiky orange hair, brown eyes, and a slightly irritated expression on his face. He was wearing the male's uniform with the jacket unbuttoned.
"Yo. Ichigo Kurosaki. Nice to meet you," Ichigo said, casually sitting back down without waiting for anything else.
⟪ There he is, the protagonist of Bleach. I'll definitely be making his life easier, haha. ⟫
The next student also surprised David, though he made sure to stop himself from looking around at the other unintroduced students. He didn't want to spoil the surprise later after all.
The girl, or rather woman, who stood up was 162 cm tall, had long black hair tied in a long braid that ran down her back, thin red glasses, a newly seen sailor uniform with the same color scheme as the rest, and a stoic expression on her face.
"Lisa Yadomaru," was all she said said before sitting down.
⟪ Guys, really...? Lisa may look young, but there's no way she passes for a first-year... ⟫
It was certainly a brief introduction, but it was an introduction nonetheless.
The next girl to stand up was 155 cm tall, had short and spiky black hair, dark brown eyes, and a fiery expression on her face.
"Yo! My name's Tatsuki Arisawa, nice to meet ya!" Tatsuki said with a thumbs up.
After Tatsuki sat down, it was time to move on to the third row.
However, four out of eight seats were empty while the rest were filled with mob characters.
...So basically all empty...
Next, it was finally time for the person in front of David to start her introduction.
Marin stood up and energetically waved at everyone with a bright smile on her face.
"Hello, everyone~! My name is Marin Kitagawa and it's a pleasure to meet you all, heheh~!"
The applause was a bit louder this time as Marin's beauty really motivated the students.
Before sitting back down, she looked over at Yui and smiled mischievously before saying, "And Yui-chan, I apologize for kissing my husband in public so I'll also make sure to hide it from you, heheh~."
The boys in the class were shocked to hear Marin call David her husband, but the girls already knew so there was no big reaction.
Well, aside from Yui of course.
"Shameless! Completely shameless!" she shouted, blushing furiously over a simple kiss.
Marin just covered her mouth and giggled before taking her seat.
"Thank you, Kitagawa-san, but please don't tease Kotegawa-san. Next, please," Mafuyu said plainly.
Shouko trembled in her seat for a few seconds as all eyes were on her, some curious while most were admiring her beauty.
She quickly shot up from her seat and held her hands in front of her.
Marin, knowing Shouko a lot more after they've communicated all morning, gently placed a hand over Shouko's hands.
"Want my help, Shouko?" Marin asked with a reassuring smile.
Shouko, with her face as beautiful and cold as ever, slightly nodded her head.
"Heheh~, sure thing!" Marin said as she stood back up and hugged Shouko from the side.
"Everyone, this is Shouko Komi. She's shy and has trouble talking to people, but she isn't being rude, I promise! She's a total sweetheart and wants to make a lot of friends so I hope you all can be patient with her in the future!"
Marin pushed her head forward and looked at the 2 cm shorter Shouko. "How was that~?"
Shouko paused for a moment before she nodded her head almost imperceptibly once more.
"Woohoo~! There you have it everyone~!"
Marin sat back down, followed by Shouko, before everyone started clapping. A few of the girls planned on getting to know Shouko when they were free to do so, finding her to be a sweet girl already.
Once again, before Mafuyu could say anything, a girl that could best be described as 'playful' stood up.
She was 153 cm tall, had short, bright green hair, brown eyes, the blazer uniform with an extra orange ascot tied around her neck, and an out-of-place pair of silver-rimmed, blue-lensed goggles on the top of her head.
"Good morning, everyone~! My name is Mashiro Kuna and I like to play games and eat snacks! Nice to meet you guys!" Mashiro said, plopping down in her chair with a satisfied smile.
Many of the students laughed at Mashiro's childish introduction, but they weren't mocking her--they actually found it rather entertaining and wanted to get to know her more as well.
After the obligatory applause, the next girl stood up.
⟪ I'm done, whoever is behind the admissions is fucking blind. This little stick of dynamite would barely pass as a middle-schooler, let alone a high-schooler. Seeing three Visored girls, I'm certain Urahara has some dumbass plan up his sleeves... ⟫
The girls were all interested in what David had to say, so nobody spoke and the twintailed blonde girl that just stood up was rooted in place, trembling in anger.
She had talked directly to Yoruichi yesterday over the DenCom and, after learning they could all hear David's inner voice, they were informed about the rules concerning it.
Thus, the blonde girl could only tremble in anger and not randomly lash out at the man she was supposed to get close to.
It was cute seeing her angry though, but more like a little kid getting angry.
After all, she was only 133 cm tall, had blonde hair that was tied in twin tails to the sides by red bands, brown eyes, a constantly angry and/or irritated expression on her face, and an extremely childlike body.
David didn't know what Urahara was planning by sending her to where he was, but if he had planned some type of honey trap, then Urahara would be sorely mistaken if he thought that David would go for a brat like her.
"Hiyori... Sarugaki...," Hiyori said through gritted teeth, sitting back down in her chair with a vein bulging on her forehead.
The boys in the class had no idea why Hiyori was so upset, but they didn't want to even question it.
Everyone clapped a little bit quieter so as not to make the little demon even angrier and then Mafuyu called for the next person.
Jinta stood up from his desk--looking less like a delinquent in his proper school uniform--and said, "Jinta Hanakari, let's get along," before sitting back down.
⟪ Why the fuck is Jinta grown already? That's not supposed to happen until after Aizen is defeated... Does that mean that Ururu is also grown up? Nooo! I wanted to spoil her like a little sister! She was so cute! ⟫
Moving on, the next student stood up.
He was 171 cm tall, had medium-length black hair with his bangs split to either side of his face, blue eyes, a stern expression, and thin, squared silver glasses.
"My name is Uryu Ishida. Nice to meet all of you," Uryu said politely.
He stood until the end of the applause before taking his seat once more with perfect posture.
The next girl slowly stood and, just like many other girls David had seen so far, had a kuudere expression on her face.
She was 160 cm tall, had short silver hair, grey eyes, was incredibly beautiful, and her uniform's blazer looked like it could barely contain her F-cup breasts she was poorly hiding underneath.
"My name is Akiho Kosaka. It's nice to meet you. I hope we get along well in the future," Akiho said with a nearly-monotone voice. She gave a polite bow and glanced over at David before sitting back down.
⟪ Did admissions make another mistake or is Akiho no longer 17 in this world? ⟫
At this point, too many things were surprising David to the point where he didn't even care if he distracted the girls from their introductions or not...
After the applause, another nervous girl stood up.
She was 154 cm tall, had shoulder-length red hair tied in short twintails on either side of her head, turquoise-colored eyes, and a nervous expression plastered on her cute face. She was wearing the cardigan uniform.
"Um, Ruby is Ruby Kurosawa. Hello... Um, please take care of me!" Ruby said, hurriedly giving a deep bow with her eyes tightly shut for a few seconds before sitting back in her seat, taking a deep breath to calm herself down.
⟪ Ruby seems familiar, but I can't recall... She's definitely a cute girl though. ⟫
"Fweh?" Ruby stopped breathing for a moment and started blushing at David's compliment, refusing to look over at him for fear of embarrassing herself or even worse, making eye contact.
Everyone clapped and most people smiled at how cute Ruby just was, putting her on the "must protect" list.
Once everyone stopped clapping, Mafuyu looked at David and sighed inwardly.
"Star-kun, your turn."
David nodded with a smile and stood up, looking over all of his classmates that had already introduced themselves.
It has already been said, but let's briefly reiterate in case anybody forgot the slight changes...
David stood at 191 cm tall, had medium-length black hair that was styled in a wolf cut (once again, think Seongji Yuk from Lookism) with crimson red and silver streaks--courtesy of the Web Daddy talent's mutation. His left eye was an emerald green with eight red lines coming out of his pupil like spider legs. His right eye was a metallic gold with various runes floating in the iris while the pupil looked as if it held the cosmos within it.
His muscles were perfectly sculpted and he could rip his uniform if he flexed all of his muscles.
"Good morning, everyone. My name is David Star and I'm very much looking forward to this school year. If you have any issues that you'd like help with in the future, feel free to let me know and I'll do my best to help you. Please treat me well," he said with a slight bow.
He took a peek at the back row as he was sitting down and was immediately attracted to a girl with a clearly visible crimson red right eye.
In the brief moment he looked at her before he sat down, David felt his heart start beating rapidly.
⟪ Whoa... Who the hell was she...? ⟫
David wanted to skip everyone else's introduction and go straight to hers, but he calmed himself down and reprimanded himself for being selfish and rude.
Once he sat down, the classroom erupted into a loud applause, coming mainly from Marin, Shiro, Sawa, Mashiro, three people that had yet to introduce themselves, and--surprisingly--Chad.
Once the applause died down, Mafuyu called for the next girl to go.
David looked over and after getting more than a brief glance, smiled warmly as he saw who it was.
"... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..., ... ... ... ... ...," she said.
Everyone stared at her, but the girl didn't falter.
She stood at 137 cm tall, had long silver hair, blue eyes, a kuudere expression not unlike Akiho's, and she was wearing the cardigan uniform with full-length black stockings.
Despite being only a few centimeters taller than Hiyori, she clearly looked her age. She was just much, much cuter and her gentle--nearly nonexistent--voice made her even more so.
"I'm sorry, could you please repeat that?" Mafuyu asked.
The girl nodded subtly and repeated exactly what she said earlier.
Mafuyu could see her mouth moving slightly, but couldn't hear her.
"Haha, Reina-chan, would you like me to tell them for you? It seems the others don't have very keen hearing~," David teased as he rested his head on his hand and looked at his seatmate with a gentle smile.
The silver-haired girl, Reina Aharen, looked over and said, "..., ....," or, "Yes, please."
David nodded and stood up, pointing to Reina.
"She said, 'My name is Reina Aharen. Nice to meet everyone, please take care of me.' Right?" David asked, looking down at Reina.
Reina's face remained impassive, but her cheeks turned slightly red as she nodded her head in affirmation.
"And that's her!" David said, sitting back down.
The class applauded and added Reina to the 'must protect' list as well.
Mafuyu had even removed a few of the negative points that David had gathered in her heart already, happy to see him helping out a classmate.
David leaned in next to Reina and whispered in her ear, "If you ever need help, just let me know. We're seatmates now so I'll look out for you in the future. By the way, nice to meet you, Reina-chan."
Reina jumped slightly at first when she felt David's warm breath on her ear, but she eventually blushed and nodded her head that had imaginary steam rising out of it.
She put her hands on the table and started twiddling her thumbs as she tried to cope with being seatmates with the handsome boy she has been listening to and wanting to talk to for a week.
As soon as David finished whispering in Reina's ear, the applause died down and the next girl stood up for her introduction.
"Good morning, everyone~! My name is Orihime Inoue and just like Mashiro-chan, I really enjoy snacks! I'm quite proud of some of the snacks I've made so if you ever want me to share, just let me know!"
Orihime was very energetic and, for some reason, she really wanted to share her snacks.
Before the class could applaud, Mashiro turned around in her seat and looked at Orihime with an excited expression before raising her hand and saying, "I wanna try your snacks!"
Orihime smiled and nodded, "Okay!"
The two girls were both excited to share snacks, but only one of them would be severely disappointed later...
The class laughed at Orihime and Mashiro's antics before they clapped and moved on to the next girl.
Ururu stood up from her seat timidly with her hands folded in front of her.
"My name is Ururu Tsumugiya, it's a pleasure to meet everyone. Please take care of me in the future," Ururu said with a bow.
She was wearing the blazer uniform and she wore it well.
⟪ Wait, Ururu is older than Jinta. Why is she a first-year? What the hell did Urahara do? And dammit, Ururu is still super cute even when she's grown up! ⟫
Everyone clapped politely for Ururu.
The next two seats were empty which only left the last two.
The first of the two was a girl that stood at 157 cm tall, had light brown hair that went just past her shoulders with a single side ponytail tied up on the right side of her head with a small yellow ribbon. She had blue eyes, a cheerful expression, and was wearing the blazer uniform.
"Hello! My name is Honoka Kosaka. I previously went to an all-girls middle school so this is a new experience for me, but I'm very excited! It's very nice to meet you all and please take care of me!" Honoka said with a bright smile and a bow before sitting down.
The class burst out into applause, obviously affected by Honoka's positive energy.
⟪ Love Live! Honoka and Ruby both are from Love Live! Wait, why'd they leave their all-girls schools? I hope I can hear them sing, I always enjoyed listening to all of the Love Live! groups, though I didn't watch most of the anime. I wonder if Kotori Minami is somewhere in this school? She was always super cute... Wait, Kotori is supposed to be a second-year, too--nah, forget it. I'm tired of thinking about stupid things like people being younger than I expected. I'll just pretend it was always like that and move on... ⟫
The last girl waited for a few seconds for David to finish his thoughts before she stood up, allowing David a full view of her.
She was 157 cm tall, had long black hair tied into two ponytails that fell over her shoulders, a crimson red right eye, and a bangs-covered left eye. She was wearing the blazer uniform with full-length black stockings which made her look more seductive than anyone else that was wearing them--at least to David.
She didn't look at anybody else and just stared straight into David's soul, offering him a smile that held too many emotions to name.
"Hello, everyone. My name is Kurumi Tokisaki."
David felt like he could hear his heart beating in his ears.
"Just like Shiro said, I only wish for everyone to get along well with my darling~," Kurumi said, her gaze growing more obsessed the longer she looked at David.
Being this close to the one person she has devoted the past 48 years to, Kurumi was struggling to keep her composure, but she promised herself and the others that they would all get a chance alone with him.
The young man in question had no idea what Kurumi, Sawa, and Shiro had planned, prepared, and executed over the past 48 years. He could only think of a single question.
⟪ Why do I feel so complicated when I look at her? ⟫
Kurumi wrapped up her 'introduction' by saying, "I'm looking forward to getting to know most of you, please take care of my darling and I in the future~."
She sat back down, reluctantly tearing her gaze away from David as he did the same.
The class was silent for a few moments before Marin, Orihime, and a few other girls started clapping rapidly, prompting the others to join in, albeit less enthusiastically.
David couldn't stop contemplating the emotions he was feeling.
Logically, he shouldn't feel anything for Kurumi except some resentment and irritation for keeping secrets from him and maybe even a little gratitude for mysteriously bringing him to this world.
However, he didn't feel any of those emotions.
He felt relief, longing, happiness, excitement, sadness, grief, loss... but most of all, he felt an overwhelming amount of love for this strange girl he had never met before.
Marin could feel the emotional chaos David was feeling due to the Sovereign's Seal, but when she thought about turning around to try and secretly comfort him, Chaos-chan popped into her head.
[Don't say anything to him, okay? Kurumi had to change her plans and introduce herself earlier due to Mika's incident, so she chose to do it in a public place where he would subconsciously disconnect his consciousness in order to not lose control of his powers again, just to be on the safe side.]
The information from Chaos-chan was received and processed immediately, allowing Marin to know why she shouldn't talk with David right now and just focus on being a normal student.
Mafuyu went over all of the textbooks and handed out schedules, though David's body was operating on autopilot with a blank expression on his face as his mind was working to sort out and calm down all of his emotions.
It was 10:30 AM by the time David had got himself under control.
Like Kurumi had planned, David's guilt over having caused the previous disaster made him subconsciously separate his consciousness from his body to allow him to stay stable.
Despite various reports assuring faction leaders that David wouldn't lose control over his powers again, that was just something that Kurumi, Shiro, and Sawa spread around to calm the more reasonable factions.
In truth, there was a high likelihood that he would lose control again until he met Kurumi and untangled the web of emotions that was buried deep in his soul.
He doesn't have the memories associated with those emotions yet, but soon, he won't have to worry about anyone's safety once he finally gets them.
"Now that the basic orientation is finished, we can begin our tour of the campus. If you have already taken the tour when you came for the entrance exams, please follow along anyway as you may have missed something important," Mafuyu said.
David felt a weight in his lap and looked down to see his school bag filled with all sorts of textbooks and reading materials, as well his schedule for classes laying right on top.
Looking at his class schedule, he thought that things would be fairly interesting, though he wanted to know why he had everything in his lap already.
He was confused until his body sent memories of everything he missed, something he felt was rather convenient for an ability he didn't know he had.
David shook himself out of his earlier thoughts and put on a warm smile once more before looking over to his right.
"Reina-chan, do you need help carrying your bag?" David asked.
Reina looked over and up at David as she thought for a moment.
"..."
After a brief moment of hesitation, she used both hands to exaggeratedly push her bag toward David.
"Haha, good!" David said with a laugh.
Just as he was about to reach for Reina's bag, the world froze.
The students that were mid-motion halted where they were, the birds outside froze in midair, and the dust floating around in the room stopped.
Not knowing what was going on, David immediately pulled out Zangetsu and readied himself for a sneak attack.
Unfortunately, he was too slow to even see the attack coming...
"Oof!" David felt the wind getting knocked out of his lungs as he lost his grip on Zangetsu, tumbling to the ground face-first as he got tackled from behind.
David was about to throw off the person he felt on his back, but he suddenly realized that there was no hostility in that attack.
Before he could try to turn his body to see who it was...
"Shiro! We agreed that I would be first!" Kurumi shouted as she ran up to pull Shiro off of David's back.
"No! I saw how you kissed him on the forehead when he was unconscious and that's not fair! We said we would all be together and I could be the first one to kiss him!" Shiro shouted, gripping David tighter as she rubbed her face against his back with an angry and indignant expression.
⟪ What the hell is going on here...? ⟫
"Shiro's attachment is what's going on here! I won't tell you again, Shiro! This is my time with darling!"
David was startled when he heard Kurumi respond to his inner voice.
He pushed himself off the ground and stood up with Shiro still clinging to his back tightly, still rubbing her face against him, and still making an angry pouting face at Kurumi.
"Alright, I'm assuming one of you stopped time, but I'd like to ask why? And Sawa, Shiro, who are you two? I only know about Kurumi, though my knowledge is very fragmented since she seems to like keeping secrets. Am I right in assuming that you're the others that brought me to this world and promised Chaos-chan to keep your secrets?"
Kurumi moved her bangs behind her ear to start talking, but when David saw her golden eye with the clock face in it, he quickly ran up to her.
He crouched down and got close enough to Kurumi to where they could feel each other's breath, causing Kurumi's face to turn red and a perverted smile to appear on her lips.
David gently grabbed her face and stared into her golden eye.
Kurumi felt like her fantasies were coming true. Although it was admittedly rather abrupt, she didn't care. She just wanted to kiss her darling on the lips!
Unfortunately for her, David wasn't thinking with his lower head at the moment.
"This eye... I saw you when the first seal broke. You were watching my memories with me," David said matter-of-factly in a calm and quiet voice.
Kurumi understood she wasn't going to get a kiss and felt a little deflated, but she nodded her head anyway, sliding her cheeks up and down in David's hands.
"Explain that first," David ordered.
Sawa suppressed a chuckle as she saw Kurumi get cockblocked by the cock she was aiming for, but when David brought up his memories, the mood of all three women shifted suddenly.
Shiro's hug was no longer from a girl that didn't want to be abandoned, but from a woman that wanted to offer comfort to the man she loved the most.
Kurumi reached up and gently held David's hands as she smiled sadly at him and lowered his hands, keeping her hold on his left hand while letting Sawa hold his right hand.
David was confused, but a part of him wanted to just break down and cry--something that confused him even further.
"I'll tell you everything, okay, darling?" Kurumi said softly.
David just nodded his head, trying to prepare himself for whatever the hell he was about to be told.
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(A/N 2: Not sure if I mentioned it before or not, but there will be a lot of things that are different from their original works, such as the age of some girls. It's to make things more convenient for me, more convenient for David, and just because I like changing random shit to see what would happen.)