(This is a joint post between
Cinia Pacifica,
Katsucha, and
BlinkXPoke.)
"How at all is that a dangerous ability? Her power helps people." Shouta thought out loud. He still remembers the melody that restored everyone's hearing and calmed him down from his enraged state. He couldn't imagine how it could be used for harm.
"No definite facts were announced, but if you're curious, ask the gossipers about the rumors surrounding Hoshimiya-san. Thankfully Middle School is known to be the maker and spreader of rumors. You may learn an interesting thing or two, albeit none are proven to be true."
What's the point, then... He wasn't interested in confirming rumors, but it still bothered him that someone like Ichigo, with that kind of an Alice, was considered 'dangerous'. Several theories came to mind, but none seemed to make much sense to him.
Then again, what here does make sense?
Shouta considered the possibility of Ichigo's Alice being used with the opposite effect somehow, but with no ideas as to how that could occur. He even considered that she may have another Alice that could be categorized as 'dangerous'. This seemed even less likely to him.
Maybe it's worth asking about another time, but that can't possibly be right... can it?
"That said, I could just tell you the truth about Hoshimiya-san. I also am - after all - a member of the Dangerous Abilities class," Amelia then expressed, with a bland and pale expression,
"Then again, they'd probably punish me for that..."
"I'll hold you to that..." Shouta said,
If I'm not out of here by tomorrow.
"P-Please tell me, exactly what happened to Ichigo!!" Aoi exclaimed, her eyes wet with tears out of worry.
Amelia coolly turned her head, peeking at Aoi's face from the corner of her eye,
"If you're really that concerned, why not ask her yourself? You are her childhood friend, right?" she then ruffled her hair that got in the way of her eye-sight, as if dismissing the matter completely.
Sakura carefully listened to the conversation, despite not understanding how the school worked; as this school has a rather alien feel to it, with it not being a mere high-class students' school. Since all that she saw and heard in this school denies the misunderstanding she had of this place. But then, she started to wonder, if this is a school for people with Alices, just what kind of Alice does she herself has? With such curiosity, she asked,
"Excuse me, I've been curious for a while now, but would you happen to know what type my Alice is, Amelia-san? I don't believe I've ever been told."
"Mn... " seemingly perplexed, Amelia thought for a while, she spoke hesitatingly; completely unsure,
"Maybe... Latent?" she placed her hand below her chim to think,
"Hm, probably not. From what I heard your suspected Alice is extremely rare. So you usually almost never see it, much less discover it," coming to a decision, Amelia stated her guess,
"It's a hunch, but it might just be the Special Type."
"I see. Well, I guess I'll be learning more later, then," Sakura said, not very satisfied with that reply.
Even as a class rep, she wasn't someone who'd know everything, she wanted Sakura to understand that small fact, but she wasn't sure if Sakura would understand. There wasn't anything that Amelia could reply with - to that bland and disappointed response from Sakura, either. Sakura indeed had a lot to learn, like how the students of the Special Alice type's class are treated like outcasts, or annoying because they're all carefree and doesn't care about the school's rules, but Amelia refrained from talking about that. It's something she'd just have to go out there and learn for herself, Amelia really likes to believe in the phrase 'seeing is believing'.
They then appeared before a building that extended quite a long distance to both left and right. The design and the visible architecture seemed rather old - like all buildings in the campus - but it was beautiful in it's own way,
"And here we are. This building is known as the Middle School Dorm. Our Dorm Mistress is uhh... " Amelia sighed,
"... Miya sensei. Who knows why, but she has this job, too. But she's really lazy, so her doll acts in her stead. It's a wonderful replacement for her, if you ask me," said Amelia, smiling with a tiny hint of relief. Other than that, she smiled purely because the doll, is a rabbit which is irresistibly cute. Shoving her imaginations of the doll aside, Amelia then entered the dormitory.
Recovered from her severely sad state, somewhat, Aoi commented,
"Our sensei is also the Dormitory Mistress too?!"
"I know, right? There's a limit to all the bad luck. But look on the bright side, we have her replacement she works in her stead 70% of the time here," Amelia explained, relieved from the bottom of her heart.
***
Upon entering with the others, there was a doll waiting for the others. It had pink skin, a pair of long ears... and a cute, round face. It was literally short and tiny, and just from the looks of it, one would only think 'so small!', or 'so cute!', but in actuality, it's strangely quite strong as a fighter.
Aoi smiled,
Ichigo probably finds this doll to be so cutest thing in this world. But what's it doing here... ?
It was unassuming to Shouta, though.
If this is what's gonna try to stop me, I may be able to just waltz out of here.
Seeing the doll of the dorm, Sakura couldn't believe how adorable it was. To think that it's actually a doll that can move and talk. How amazing. But it's cuteness made the most impact on her regardless, rather than the fact that it's alive. She could feel herself going up to it, and hugging the life of the stuffed rabbit doll, but stopped herself from doing so,
Control yourself Sakura! It'll be rude just to cuddle it like that.
"Miya-sama has informed me of the three new students. I am the rabbit Clara, who works as a replacement for Miya-sama," the apparent talking stuffed rabbit doll introduced itself, it's voice sounding sweet, squeaky, and somewhat childish, "Pleased to meet you three, Fushiki-sama, Hiiragi-sama, and Kiriya-sama. I'll be showing the way to your rooms," pointing it's tiny hand toward the corridor, it started to walk- no, hop, in a rather cute way, "Please follow me!"
"W-Woah! It spoke, and it can even move too!" Aoi exclaimed, truly surprised, her expression lost her composed smile as she pointed towards the doll.
The stuffed rabbit doll turned it's head, "Oh dear, new students sure know how to be surprised," Clara the doll seemed disappointed.
"I-I'm sorry... Clara-san, please forgive me! I'll try to be more accepting of things from now on!"
***
"Alright. Thank you very much for taking so much of your time just to speak to me," Ichigo said to the ones who had kept her surrounded for so long,
"I have something to do now. So I must make way to the faculty room. Please excuse me," she gave a light now, then ran over to Ine.
"Are you free now? Or do you have something to do, Akizuki-san?" Ichigo asked.
"Right now? Yeah I'm free" Said Ine nodding her head
"What's up?"
"I have some free time today, so I want to visit the Central Town to have something sweet!" Ichigo said, thrusting her arms up with excitement, knowing that Ine is someone who knows this feeling,
"Want to go together and have a good time, Akizuki-san?" Ichigo offered, bringing forward her hand towards Ine.
"Sure" Ine said with a happy smile
"I'm always up for something sweet!" She said taking Ichigo's offered hand.
"Alright! To the faculty office!!" Ichigo exclaimed, running off with Ine.