C4 - First day at school
After the Entrance Ceremony was over Lucias walked in to class and took the protagonist seat at the back next to the window.
While Lucias was taking out some of the books from his bag a familiar looking girl sat next to him. She had purple eyes with black hair that had twintails coming out of it, each resting on her on a different shoulder and a blank look on her face.
He decided to introduce himself to get the quest started with and maybe make some lasting friends.
"Lucias Tokisaki"
Lucias put his hand out for her and introduced himself to the familiar girl.
"Uomi"
Replied the girl and grabbing Lucias hand and returning the handsake while observing him from top to bottom and licking her lips.
A chill went trough his spine and Lucias quickly took his hand back.
'This feels like a predator stalking its prey, me being the prey'
He thought to himself and made a mental note to watch out for the perverted girl.
"Do you happen to know who our homeroom teacher is?"
Lucias asked her trying to diffuse the situation.
"If I'm not wrong it should be Kojima-sensei, she is pretty famous around the school"
She replied while still observing Lucias who instantly recognized the name from the anime he watched in his past life and started thinking how many fictional characters have been brought to this world.
After a some talking with Uomi the door opened revealing the teacher, who had amber eyes, dark-brown hair tied upwards with a red hairband and bangs on both side of her face.
"Alright kids, I'm your new homeroom teacher Kana Kojima, call me Kojima-sensei or just Sensei"
She said and laid her books on the table and started writing her name to the blackboard.
"We got the Demon, its all over now"
"Damn she's hot"
"Oi, are you crazy haven't you heard about her?!"
As she finished writing her name she turned around and eyed some of the male students dangerously, giving her eyes almost like a red glow which quickly shut up the whispers.
"Let's get started with class, take out your books"
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As the class came finally to an end and lunch started Lucias said goodbye to Uomi and went to meet Chihiro in the staffroom.
"Ah, you made it Lucias-kun"
Said Chihiro who noticed Lucias and started to grab something from her bag
"Yes, it was quite easy after memorizing the layout"
He said while thinking what kind of a cheat [Photographic Memory] was, just seeing something once and being able to recall the memory perfectly.
"Any luck with men in the Entrance Ceremony Sensei?"
Lucias decided to ask recalling this scene from the anime.
"There weren't any hot single men, I did exchange number with a few hot married men, though"
She replied solemnly and laid back in her chair as everyone did a spit-take hearing her reply.
"Mn, so what did you call me here for Sensei?"
He nodded and questioned, though having a good idea what it was.
"Here.."
She handed me a picture of a cute looking young girl with blonde hair and red eyes wearing a large sunhat with a blue dress.
"..she's my cousin, and she'll be staying in Sakurasou as of today. She's coming over from England, her name is Mashiro Shiina. I'll need you to go pick her up after school from the station at six o'clock"
[New Quest!]
[Quest: Meet the artist! Pick up Mashiro Shiina from the train station.
Difficulty: D
Rewards: [Headpatting Mastery], 1 Gacha Ticket
Limit: 1 day
Failure: Everyone in the dormitory will hate you]
She continued saying while drinking her coffee and doing a crossword puzzle.
"I feel like you are abusing your power as the dormitory advisor, but if you are not available I'll go pick her up as a fellow Sakurasou tenant"
Lucias unsuprised by the sudden quest quickly read it and replied to her after a while with some excitement on his voice which luckily went unnoticed by Chihiro.
"There, there, as long as you understand"
She replied with a slight smug on her face and patted Lucias head a few times.
Lucias took this as his que to leave and decided to head to the rooftop like every anime protagonist. As he was about the reach the rooftop he conjured sub-sandwich for himself while opening the door to the rooftop.
As he was assaulted by the light when he opened the door he quickly took notice of the petite girl sitting down and munching on some food, the girl had long straight blonde hair with two twintails, laced with two blue ribbons, her eyes were light blue and she had pale skin.
Lucias instantly recognized the fellow otaku as "Eriri Spencer Sawamura".
"Excuse me, mind if I sit here?"
Lucias said gesturing the space near her
"O-of course, feel free to. The name is Eriri Spencer Sawamura"
She replied a bit surprised not noticing Lucias earlier
"Lucias Tokisaki"
Lucias nodded and sat down, started eating the sandwich and decided to check the manga industry now that he had time.
'[Cooking Mastery] really doesn't help with conjured food, since I know how its supposed to taste like with the skill'
He thought to himself while eating, a bit surprised discovering that this world only has the most famous mangas like Dragon Ball, One Piece & Naruto and a few minor ones.
Lucias was a bit furious not finding some of his favorites like the Fate Series, Demon Slayer or any Isekai manga.
'This world is completely missing Isekai, what the hell is this?!'
Lucias thought to himself his mind becoming determined to fix this mistake and show the world the glory of Isekai genre.
While Lucias was on his phone Eriri suddenly noticed Lucias change in demeanor and decided to take a peek at what he was doing on his phone, which surprised her, not thinking a possible otaku and a possible artist could be so close to her.
"Are you planning on drawing?"
Asked Eriri a bit meekly taking note of Lucias determined eyes that landed on her own after she asked the question
"Sorry I didn't mean to intrude, I just happened to notice what you were doing"
She quickly continued, shaking her hand trying not to come of as rude.
"Yes, I have some ideas I wish to try out. I have to buy some equipment after school though"
Lucias replied with a small smile on his face which sent Eriri to a temporary daze.
"What about you?"
He asked knowing she did, but was a bit secretive about it.
"Uhm, um.. no, yes, illustrate"
She blushed not knowing what to say and her mind short circuiting.
Lucias smile widened noticing the hesitation in her voice.
"Don't worry about it, I'll keep quiet. Though I do admire you already being an illustrator at young age"
He said trying to get her to open up.
"Uhm, thank you.. my pen name is "Eri Kashiwagi" though my work is quite.. revealing"
She said blushing and thinking to herself why she revealed her pen name.
"Mn, I'll have to check it out once I have time"
Lucias said and nodded, surprising Eriri which brought a smile to her face and she decided to open up to to her fellow otaku more.
As they continued to chat lunch break came to an end and they headed to their respective classes, but not before exchanging numbers.
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As school came to an end Lucias wished Uomi goodbye and heading outside as he got out of the school grounds he was greeted by a transparent window.
[Quest Completed!]
[Quest: Make some friends! Head to school and make 2 new friends among your classmates
Rewards: 2 Gacha Tickets]
Lucias quickly ignored the window and made a mental note to open the tickets once Mashiro is settled in Sakurasou and he is alone. After a bit mulling over the Gacha Tickets Lucias decided to head to the store Chihiro was talking about earlier this morning to get his equipment.
As Lucias was walking towards the store he started thinking what kind of items should he make with [Arc Of Embodiment] next and suddenly came to the realization anyone could most likely sense more magic power from him than any normal human should have due to Avalon.
He quickly went to a alleyway and started imaging simple silver ring which hosts a small round light blue gem in the middle, the ring will give its wielder the ability to hide the holders mana and hides the holder from divinations.
As he was creating the ring in his mind he opened his hand and beautiful silver ring started forming on top of his hand, after the ring was fully formed the round shaped light blue gem shined brightly like a moon at night, before the glow stopped and it dropped on Lucias hand.
[Item Created!]
[The Clouded Moon
Effects: Hides holders mana and blocks holder from being seen in divinations]
(A/N: I would write a description but I'm very bad at it)
Lucias admired the ring for a bit before placing it in his middle finger, as he put it on he noticed a very thin, almost transparent barrier spreading from the ring around his body before disappearing and becoming completely transparent.
After the ring making was done he quickly headed towards the store he was told about by Chihiro.
As Lucias reached the store he quickly went inside not to be late to pick up Mashiro, he bought himself some basic equipment to get started, that ended up being surprisingly expensive but still decided to buy it for the greater good, as it would bring isekai manga to the market.
After Lucias got out of the store he took a look at his phone which showed time as 17:57 (5:57pm), he quickly started making his way towards the train station.
As he reached the train station he sat down breathing a sigh of relief making it in time, and started waiting for Mashiro to show up while checking the entertainment industry.
After sometime waiting Lucias got a bit excited meeting Mashiro and took out the photo of her giving it a glance before noticing an older indetical looking girl to the picture sitting down a cross from Lucias.
Lucias stood up but quickly stopped noticing how beautiful the scene in front of him was, a pale looking girl with an expressionless face, ruby like red eyes, pale blonde hair reaching her waist as wind blew trough her hair gently, wearing an dark blue blue long-sleeve with a white shirt and a red tie.
He was completely stunned for a few seconds and decided to take note of every single detail store it in his memory.
After getting his wits together Lucias walked up to the girl and asked her.
"Are you Mashiro Shiina?"