CH:296: Transfer students.

( Yuuki's POV )

After receiving those unexpected news from Hajime, I walked around the castle looking for Yuri, and when I saw her, she was sad, and with her head down, I approached her and got her attention by energetically placing my hands on her shoulders.

Yuuki: Yuri, please take care of my brother.

Yuri: Uh, w-what?

Yuri jumped in surprise and was somewhat confused with what I was saying but I continued talking with a smile on my face.

Yuuki: You like Hajime, right? I support you 100%, if you need help with anything, just say it.

Yuri: ...um, t-thanks.

Yuri turned bright red when I told her I knew about her feelings for Hajime, she was too nervous to talk, but that was okay, she received my message and left a little more cheerful than before, but at that moment, I felt a threatening aura behind me.

Cecilia: Yuuki~ what's going on here?

Turning around quickly, I saw Cecilia and Charlotte looking at me with a smile that didn't reach their eyes, it seemed like they misunderstood the situation, so I quickly explained what happened.

The girls' mood quickly changed and with that misunderstanding avoided I spent the rest of the day with the two of them, and before the day ended I told them about the IS I was going to create for them and they made me some requests for their units, although that delayed their construction a little that was not a problem.

This was a very rewarding trip in many ways, but now we had to return to school, now that we could create our own IS and their cores, there was no need to go back, but the girls and I decided that we would at least finish our first year.

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World WE4, IS Academy.

Maya: Attention everyone~ today, we will have some new exchange students, please welcome them.

On the next day of classes, which was technically the day after my date with Cecilia, Professor Maya gave the news that we were going to have some exchange students, and after that two silver-haired girls entered the room.

One of them was a stranger, but the other was someone I recognized immediately, she was my young devil student, Momo.

Momo: I'm Hanakai Momo, nice to meet you.

During her introduction, Momo kept looking at me and I thought this was Matsu's work.

???: I'm Laura Bodewig, that's all.

The girl, Laura, was small in size, with silver hair down to her waist, and she had an eye patch over her eye, when she made her short introduction, she walked to the front seat and slapped Ichika, and he just stood there and took it.

Laura: Orimura Ichika, I don't approve of you.

Yuuki: You're supposed to dodge Ichika.

The room was filled with tension, and I tried to fix things, but when I spoke, the girl focused on me, It seemed like she wanted to intimidate me, but I just smiled and waved my hand.

Laura and Momo took two seats behind me, and Laura spent the classes looking between Ichika and me, that reminded me of what Cecilia did the first days of school.

I was a little curious about that girl, but I had to attend to my daily training, I was training Origami, but I felt like she was looking at me strangely, but it was kind of hard to tell when she had her expressionless face.

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After another day of hard training, I was walking back to the dorms, Origami left before me, so I was walking under the moonlight alone, but I stopped when I felt something out of place.

Yuuki: watching someone from behind a tree it's kind of weird, you know?

I spoke into the void when I felt a presence, and for a moment, I thought I was overreacting, but then the new girl, Laura, came out from behind a tree, her aura felt different than during class, somewhat dangerous, but I was still not intimidated.

Laura: .... Kurokawa B. Yuuki, who are you?

Yuuki: I ask you the same, Laura Bodewig, I feel a lot of hostility from you, but we have never met before.

Laura: You and Ichika are my targets.

Yuuki: Targets? Is that because we are both men? I can't think of anything else that makes me similar to Ichika.

Laura: That's irrelevant, it's because you're here that Teacher Chifuyu is wasting her talents here.

Yuuki: I didn't expect this to be about Chifuyu, but what are you going to do about it, I'm not going to sit back and take punishment like Ichika, you know.

I walked slowly, keeping calm but releasing a little of my power to see how she would react, but she did nothing, and when she was behind me, I let out a sigh, and a familiar voice reached my ears.

Momo: You are popular as always sensei.

Yuuki: I don't think that applies here, what are you doing here?

Momo: I was waiting for you but you were taking your time.

Yuuki: waiting for me?

I didn't understand what she was saying, and when I asked her about it, she turned red and scratched her cheek shyly.

Momo: The others said I could share a room with you today so I was waiting.

I don't know how girls get to that kind of arrangement, but seeing that cute reaction of hers, I could only laugh a little nervously, I walked with Momo to my room, and at the same time, I messaged Matsu and asked her to send me all the information she could find on Laura Bodewig.

I kept thinking about the strange transfer girl but at one point Momo grabbed my hand and I turned to look at her, she was still red and with her head down, that reaction was too cute so I squeezed her hand tightly and kissed the top of her head, we started walking slower and when Momo was more comfortable she rested her head on my shoulder.

That was a nice way to end the night after my strange encounter with Laura.