hi again minna! thanks for waiting a short bit. I'll try to post as often as I can, but expect the next chapter on Thursday. Also, I have a quick question if anyone would please answer: how do you bold or italicize words? The buttons won't work when I try clicking them. Sorry I have to ask hehe..
Anyway! Enjoy the update!
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The reps led us down a long spiraling hallway. Yes, I said hallway. It literally spiraled so we somehow ended up walking on what looked like the ceiling. This school is so strange now that I think about it. At the end, we were met with a large, rustic door with gold handles and a control panel for entering. A code was punched in and we entered what seems to be the simulation control room, of which was adjoined to a massive white room in which our assessment will take place. The simulation room was surrounded by countless reflective panels to display any given effect. I admire the technology used to build this, I bet it wasn't easy.
Not watching, I almost bumped into Kashiwagi-san. She stopped and turned to us.
"Monitoring from here, we will assess your given talents. If you are aware of them, use them. If you have yet to discover them, I suggest you realize them quickly. Not for just your own safety, but for others as well."
This IS a simulation right? That means it's supposed to be safe. What does she mean?
"You will be assessed in pairs and also, you have the options to either present your talents through a simulation of your choice, or be given a seemingly dangerous situation to give you some incentive. You are to either cooperate or battle each other. That is all. Your partners have been already chosen through draw. Takahashi and Maeda. Itano and Matsui. And Yokoyama and Shimazaki. I'll give you girls a moment to prepare yourselves." She finished and left us to discuss what we'll do next.
While everyone started getting with their partners, I went over to talk to Acchan. I still don't fully understand what we're doing here so maybe she can shed some light.
"Hey Acchan, what are we going to do in there?"
"Honestly, I'm not sure. I haven't a clue of my powers." She admitted.
We're screwed.
"Oh great okay. Wait, um.. If you don't know your power, how did you know about the school?"
"My parents told me stories of this place when I was young. I never dreamt it could all be so real until they told me after my birthday."
"Ah I see. Then, since we don't know what's going to go on, let's watch the others and then give it our best shot." I lightly smile. She gives a nod. Guess we'll be ready as we'll ever be.
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Yuihan and Paruru are the first up. They whisper to the reps their idea for the simulation which immediately begins to unfold.
The room becomes dark and the only thing I can see is lit mirrors everywhere formed like a maze, like the ones you see in a carnival. The lights flicker off but on soon after. Yui's image is reflected off each mirror, each reflection doing something completely different. How? An announcement comes on that Paruru is to find the real Yui. That's impossible! I can't even tell the reflections apart, let alone search that maze. Is Yuihan supposed to do anything? She shouldn't just be hiding somewhere until Paruru finds her, I’m curious to see what she can do.
Paruru looks otherwise calm and unaffected by her surroundings. She takes a deep breath and begins walking around. That's it? No smashing mirrors, no calling out, no crying out of fear of getting lost? Oh-- that's what I’d do. I don't like feeling lost, I need friends by my side so if it were me I would prefer to find her as soon as possible.
Through the poorly lit maze of mirrors, Paruru easily finds her way around, confidently choosing her path to follow when at crossroads. I'm not really following but I still don't understand what either of them can do. I watch as Paruru finds her way out of the maze, leaving the mirrors behind. I'm confused. She's heading up over towards us. All of us turns to her looking baffled when she enters the room. She walks behind us and stands in front of a closet door. She gives a small smile and softly speaks, "Yui" and opens the door to reveal the said figure.
What the heck just happened?
Yuihan enlightens us by having us turn our attention back to the now lighted simulation room. We gasp in surprise, jaws dropping and all, as more than 30 Yuihans step out from the mirrors and wave to us. The mirrors weren't mirrors as we were led to believe, but were just simply empty spaces the duplicates filled in.
The Yui that went in the simulation with Paruru was also a duplicate, while the real one was in the closet the whole time. So as we obviously can see, she has the power to clone herself. Interesting.
"What about you Paruru? How did you find her?" Acchan asks.
Yeah, seriously I’d like to know too.
She simply shrugs and doesn't reply.
Thank you so much, we now see that you shouldn't be here.
**"I know Yui. I don't have to see her to know where she is or if she was the person in front of me. What kind of friend would I be if I couldn't recognize her?"**
What? What?? Where's her voice coming from? I see Paruru in front of me, but I don't see her talking.
**"I am talking to all of you girls. And if you haven't figured it out, I found Yui-chan through telepathy."**
Ehhhh?? That's it? Uso! I mean— that's a helpful ability, I honestly enjoyed watching all this, but I was kinda hoping for more action… I guess everyone's power is unique to them in their own way. I shouldn't expect too much from anyone.
Paruru shrugged as if answering my question. Can she read my mind too??
**"I know what you're thinking. Your expressions are easy to read. But no, I can't read minds but I can allow others to talk to me telepathically to hear their responses. And they are usually aware of it when we connect."**
Ah I see. I nod turning to the others who have thoughtful looks about them. I guess they know too now.
Sayaka claps her hands together and announces that Jurina and Tomochin will be next. She asks what they would like to do.
Jurina looks at her sheepishly and admits, "Eto.. I don't know my power so I’m not sure what to do." She looks to Tomochin for guidance.
"Mmmm why don't we just see..when we're in there?" She smirks for just a quick second but I noticed it before it vanished and was replaced by a playful smile.
"Oh! Sure! I don't mind, we'll just go with whatever then?" A bit enthusiastic huh. I wonder what Tomochin has got planned.
They go into the simulation room which quickly transforms into a jungle.
"Sugoi! This looks so real! Ne ne, Tomochin what are we doing here?"
Seemingly out of thin air, Tomochin produces an iPad. Talk about rich. She pulls out a stylus from her pocket and begins designing furiously on what looks like a long winter coat. Okayyy, does she not feel the weather? They are in a jungle.
Jurina moves closer to her curiously, wondering what she's doing. Tomochin adds finishing touches to the coat and lightly taps it, wisps of magic floating through the air. Suddenly, the coat moves an inch. Oh yeah, scary. Not noticing it, Jurina reaches out to it so she can give it to Tomochin since she put it on the ground. The coat quickly takes it upon itself to wrap itself comfortably around Jurina's body.
"Whaa-t. T-Tomochin. I c-can’t move. It's restricting me. H-help." She croaks.
"Ah Jurina. How's helping you going to help you?"
I thought we were all friends! What is she doing?
Jurina looks pained and tries to struggle to break free, but like me before with the vines, she couldn't.
Tomochin wanders around the jungle picking up flowers, mainly orange, and then also found black berries. She carried them back to Jurina where she spread them all out and then started sorting them to create a picture. Using the orange petals, she formed them to a familiar figure and then smudged the berries across it.
Taking her stylus once again, she taps it, making her creation glow. A bright light soon flashed, leaving in its wake a beautiful tiger.
She pets it on the head, and points to where Jurina stood immobilized. The tiger begins to stalk towards its prey, lowering itself on its haunches as if it's about to pounce. Jurina realizes the true danger she is in and struggles even more, terrified of the tiger. Jurina attempts to hop away, but ends up losing her balance and fell. She maneuvers her body away from the approaching tiger like an inchworm. Tomochin watches entertained and lounges against a smooth tree, with holographic monkeys fanning her with leaves.
She is definitely a student here.
Leaning over the glass to watch what happens next, everyone can't take their eyes away from the scene. That tiger looks real enough to me. They should really be doing something about this!
The tiger further creeps towards Jurina who doesn't seem to be getting anywhere in her state. Licking its lips, the tiger pounces upon its prey, roaring in her face. Jurina looks as if she's about to shit herself, but somehow recovers because the coat burst into flames in turn burning the tiger who runs scared. With the coat and tiger gone, Jurina stands up and smiles mischievously towards Tomochin who is now in her own little world. With the realization of her new power, she conjures a ball of fire in her hands and throws it at Tomochin who barely dodges it by a hair.
"You burned my hair! You brat! I'm gonna ki— *gasps* oh you did not."
Jurina grins at Tomochin as she holds flaming whips which just snapped at Tomochin's designer brand shoes.
"I dare you. Do it again." She tries to look intimidating but Jurina's smile does not falter.
Cracking the whips, she snaps them again at her shoes, this time scoring a mark across one. Quickly whipping the ground at her feet, she forces Tomochin to dance in fear for her shoes. Laughing, Jurina dies the flames from her whips and uses them to tie Tomochin to a tree, ending their assessment.
When she gets loose, Tomochin punches Jurina's shoulder saying, "You did good out there. Glad you could do it, but you may have gone a bit too far."
"Psh, speak for yourself, I almost got eaten." Jurina remarks.
Sae pushes in between them, bouncing up and down.
"Yay! New student for block K!"
Sayaka pushes her aside.
"Glad to have you with us."
Block K is pretty welcoming, they know how to be friendly and make students feel good about joining them.
In the back, I notice Rena-san giving Jurina a bitter smile. Her eyes look longingly at the figure who is bouncing around excitedly to be in block K. Hm? I feel that there is something going on. Maybe I’ll ask about their relationship later.
It looks like Tomochin is gonna be in block B with Paruru. They look happy about it as I watch them hug.
Her ability was so interesting. It seemed she could make practically anything come to life, as long as there was an accurate figure or form of it. No wonder she collected the flowers and berries. That's really cool. And her iPad is actually her tool to design clothes and other material, but with her stylus she can also fully create it and make it come alive. Points for creativity.
The moment I dreaded finally came. It was our turn. Since we didn't know what kind of simulation to have, we asked Rena-san who was at the controls, to surprise us.
In the simulation room, Acchan and I stood in the center. A moment later, the room changed to that of a prison, and we were behind bars. Are you kidding me? How are we supposed to figure our powers here? A wall in our cell blasted open to bits. Questions answered. What appeared to be robot inmates made their way into our cell and stood across from of us. We backed towards the bars. One robot took a step towards us and tilted its head. You could say it almost looked cute. Almost. If it weren’t so ugly. Its eyes blinked red and made way to try to grab us. Acchan screamed and turned to run. Where to? I watched her expecting her to crash into the bars face first, but she exceeded my expectations, actually running through the bars but stopped to gaze in amazement of herself. It took a moment only to realize she was only halfway through and her body was stuck, bars right through her. She doesn't know how to control it.
"Ahhhhhh! Get me out of here! What do I do? Takamina!" She looks to me desperately as our violent inmates get closer.
I do what I can only do which is to stand in front of her. Lame, I know, but I'll shield her to protect her smile which has constantly pushed me to get this far.
Believe me, I’m scared and my stature isn't gonna help us either. I put up a front to look brave for the sake of Acchan and my self-confidence.
The robots charge their way towards us, finding waiting and creeping pointless. I put my arms up as a shield figuring what's gonna happen next. I shut my eyes prepared for the worst. What seems like an eternity passes by, but nothing comes. I open them and glance around the room to find they were floating upon the ceiling. I look behind me to see Acchan still in the bars, one hand facing the robots, another hand holding onto me. Surprised, I take a look at the ground below me to realize I was barely floating above it.
The simulation suddenly ends, the robots disappear, Acchan's no longer being held by bars, and I’m on the ground again. I look to her shocked because of the realization that not only she saved us, but she has two freaking powers! Wtf, I couldn't do anything! Let alone I still don't know what I can do! Controlling gravity and moving through objects, psh what a show off. Dang it!
Acchan giggles at me, flashing her bright smile.
"Thanks Takamina, for what you did."
"What are you saying? I didn't do anything." I pouted.
"You tried to protect me, rather than run away from those machines. I appreciate that." She leaned over and pecked my cheek. Then laughed as I turned a deep shade of red.
W-why did she do that?? I mean, not that I didn't like it, it was nice—I mean that doesn't mean I like her—not that I hate her or anything—eto argh!! What am I thinking?! She's just trying to make me feel better for being useless.
While I beat myself up, the others come out to greet us as well as discuss the turn out.
"Looks like Acchan and Yui will be in block A, Jurina in K, and Paruru and Tomochin in B." Everyone then glances at me.
"Eto.. Where do I go..? And wasn't I supposed to get my power?" Why couldn't I? I was starting to look forward to it..
Yuki looks down on me sympathetically saying, "Not everyone gets it immediately. Some people are just late bloomers. Just be patient and give it some time. We'll discuss later where you'll go for class."
Arghhh! Is that true or do they plan on kicking me out for being plain? I don't want to leave though, I wanted to spend more time with Acchan. There’s something about her that makes me want to get to know her more.
"Let's call it a day, girls. We'll show you to the dorm where you'll get your room assignments."
Sae quickly motions to follow her.
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In a smaller building behind the center school, we were guided to the dorms and met the dorm head. She's also a student, her name is Kasai Tomomi and she can control darkness and shadows, so it's better to not get into any trouble with her.
She guides us to our own rooms where I find that we're all separated. Standing in front of the door to my room, I cautiously open the door, only to be quickly pulled in, the door slamming shut behind me. A girl who is only slightly taller than me, stares at me intently with a dimpled smile that I found cute.
"I'm Oshima Yuko! Just call me Yuko though, and drop the honorifics since we’ll be roommates, Takamina!" She bounces excitedly at me.
"How do you know my name?"
"Oh I get around." She grins. "You know, you're short."
"Speak for yourself, you're almost as short as me!"
"Ah. Ah. Ah. Almost." She winks.
I move to hit her for being so annoying but she immediately disappears. I spun around, looking for her. Where'd she go? I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned to see Yuko waving at me. I try to hit her again but apparently, she teleports to the other side of our room. Ugh. I run over to catch her but she does it again so I keep trying to chase her everywhere she goes until I give up.
"Ugh. You're annoying you know that."
She lightly smiles, teleports over to me and pushes me over so I lose my balance.
Being overwhelmed by todays events and energy I used chasing that squirrel, I black out.
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Yuko's POV (several minutes ago)
I bounce around the room, jumping excitedly. "I'm getting a roommate, yatta!" I've been kind of lonely here, so it'll be good to have someone around. From the dorm head, I heard her name is Takamina. I teleport to my bed. "I wonder what's her power." I teleport to the bathroom. "I wonder if she's pretty." I teleport to my closet. "I wonder if she has big oppai!" I can feel myself grinning maniacally. Hehehe. I can't wait to meet her! *Click* I pause as I see the door open. I quickly teleport over to the door to pull her in and make her feel welcome. Well, more or less.
Glancing down, I see an almost flat-chested midget. What a letdown. She's so small though, it’s cute.
I decide to tease her, messing with her height. I bet she has a soft spot for it and I was right! She got riled up so easily, she tried to hit me. No one can hit the great Oshima Yuko! I constantly use my power to keep away from her. Why doesn't she use hers? This isn't fun. Oh! I decide to push her around more to get her really irritated. Come on Takamina, you're no match for me. Do something! You're too slow for just trying to run after me. This feels too one-sided.
"Ugh. You're annoying you know that."
Hehehe so I've been told. She looks kind of wobbly now. Might as well give her a push hehe.
I teleport over to her and push her causing her to fall. I quickly move away just in case she decides to get up and play some more.
When I looked to the floor where Takamina was, I noticed she wasn't there anymore. Huh? I quickly move around our room to find her. Maybe she ran out the door, but how could I not notice? I scratch my head and sit on the floor. As I stare at the floor, trying to figure out where she could be, I notice a bug crawling around. EW! I'm about to swat it when I hear a strange buzzing noise. It's coming from the bug. Hesitantly, I lean closer to it to discover that what I hear is actually "Wait!" What?? I grab my magnifying glass to take a closer look, only to be met with the desperate eyes of Takamina. I can't take this. I start cracking up. Oh my god, wow I knew she was small, but that's just terrible. Kamisama, what are you thinking? I shed a tear. Ahhh~
I decide to watch her, fascinated with her power because it seems practically useless to me. Seems like it’s only good for hiding and sneaking. Oh wait. That might not be so bad. If she wanted, she could go spy on the other girls and take some photographs for me. Hehehe.
I notice she doesn't like how I've been laughing at her. She looks really pissed. I watch her tiny self as she stomps up to my foot and starts hitting it. Kawaii! I chuckle to myself. I love how she thinks she can hurt me like that.
All of a sudden I can feel myself being lifted up from the floor. Wtf. Apparently, tiny Takamina decides to hurl me across our room, smashing my perfect face against the wall. I stretch my widest grin across my face.
We're gonna have a lot of fun.
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