Chapter 6

Location: First High School

Tatsuya and Minato were both in class, waiting for the period to start. Tatsuya was typing rapidly away whereas Minato was taking a nap with his headphones on beside him.

Erica:"Woahhhh…" stared in awe at Tatsuya who was typing away quickly.

Mizuki:"Tatsuya-kun, what are you doing?" she asked, interested in the task Tatsuya was doing currently.

Tatsuya continued typing away for a while before replying, "Reviewing the curriculum and registering for lectures."

"You're fast." came a male voice in front of him. The person turned around and looked at Tatsuya, "It's rare to see someone inputting data using only a keyboard."

Tatsuya:"This is faster when you get used to it." Tatsuya reply to the person's command.

Minato:"Furthermore, it feels more satisfying to hear the buttons click away when typing." He piped up lazily, having woken up due to the commotion beside him.

Leo:"Really? Oh, I'm Saijou Leonhart. Just call me Leo." The guy introduced, "My practical skill specialty is Convergent Systematic Reinforcement Magic."

Tatsuya:"I'm Shiba Tatsuya and the one sitting beside me is my twin older 30 seconds brother, Minato. You can call me Tatsuya." replied robotically.

Minato"Call me Minato." Requested almost lazily.

Leo:"Okay. Tatsuya, Minato. What's both of your magic specialty?"

Tatsuya:"I'm bad at practical skills, so I'm aiming to become a magic engineer."

Minato:("That's obviously a lie.") He thought in amusement. ("Your specialty is Decomposition and Regrowth.")

Leo:"That'll be easy. You seem to have the brains for it." He said, nodding his head.

Minato:"To say he has the brains for it is an understatement, Leo, as far as I know, Tatsuya is ONE of the smartest person in the world ." Stated Minato as if it is matter of fact.

Leo:"Wha- HEY!" cried out indignantly. "Anyways, what's your specialty then, Minato." He questioned.

Minato:"Mine would be Soul Magic." replied nonchantly, "It's a new form of magic recently discovered by the CAD engineer magician Velvet Orpheus.Only a select few can control it."

Leo:"That's cool."Before he could add anything else, Erika spoke up, "Tatsuya-kun, you want to do engineering?"

"Tatsuya, who's that?" Leo asked innocently, pointing at Erika with his index finger.

Erika noticeably bristled, apparently having took offence at being called "that". "Calling me "that" all of a sudden?" responded Erika, "So rude. That's why you're not popular."

Leo turned angry and stood up to face Erika. "You're the one being rude!" he replied angrily, "That's no way to speak just because you aren't the ugliest one around!"

Mizuki muttered a "um…" and was caught in a dilemma on how to resolve the verbal fight taking place in front of her. "Looks are important!" Erika retaliated.

Minato looked on the scene with amusement. It reminded of the quarrels that often took place between Junpei and Yukari when they were in SEES. He then noticed a male with a mole under his right eye looking at the trio, two of which were still arguing. Minato walked up to him and introduced himself. "Name's Minato. What's yours?" he asked politely.

The male visibly jumped in slight shock, not expecting someone to walk over to him and introduce themselves. He stared at Minato for a short while before stuttering in embarrassment, "I-I'm Yoshida Mikihiko."

"Oh? Are you perhaps from the Yoshida family that specialises in Ancient Magic?" Minato asked in curiosity.

"Y-yea…" Mikihiko murmured in response, lowering his head as if in shame.

"Nice to meet you, Mikihiko-san." Minato said, with a slight smile on his face. He stuck his right hand out towards Mikihiko. He hesitated a little before timidly shaking Minato's hand. "Let's get along with each other." Minato said with a smile.

Going back to Erika and Leo squabble, Minato walked over to them. "A filthy guy who gets mistaken for a wild animal may not understand that, though." Erika mocked, wagging her finger at Leo. Bristled by her insult, Leo loudly countered with a "What?" Seeing this, Mizuki promptly stood up trying to play the role of the mediator but failing badly. Seeing this, Minato decided to step in.

He called to them with a smile and said" Shut up and sit down at your seat,the bell went off. The teacher might be here anytime. So stop your lover squabble and get ready." Minato stated with an illusion of Thanatos,god of death behind him.

Erika and Leo:"S-SIR YES SIR!!!!." As they quickly return to their seat with a paled face.

Mizuki:"M-Minato-kun, I think that was a bit too much."sweatdropped as she looked at the two who are now scared shitless though she don't know why.

Minato"I think not." while thanking Pharos for his good work in his mind.("Good job")

Pharos"Hahahahaha...no problem"as he said while laughing mischievously.

Of course that answers gained the looks of exasperation from both Tatsuya and Mizuki.

Students bustled in the class looking for their respective seat and sat down. The door to the classroom opened, revealing a women with light brown hair, wearing turtleneck."Huh? Why's the teacher…?" a student started. She walked to the teacher's desk and stared at the class.

Minato and Tatsuya noticed the teacher staring and smiling at them. "Looks like they sent her huh?" Minato pondered, "Is something going to happen here?"

Location: First High School, Cafeteria

Mizuki:"The offence and defence exhibit was interesting, wasn't it?" she asked the group, "I want to work as a magic engineer too, so that was a useful reference for me."

Tatsuya:"Yeah. It was useful." He replied then taking a sip from his cup.

Leo:"I wonder if I could do it that easily, too." pondered, thinking a loud.

Hearing this, Erika immediately took the chance to mock him. "There's no way you could."

Leo:"What?" he shouted, slamming the table angrily. "Why are we eating together in the first place?"

Erika:"I'm just eating with Mizuki, Tatsuya and Minato!" she shot back at him.

Tatsuya looked at the both of them quarrelling and let out a sigh. "I wonder what did I do to get them as my classmates sometimes." He thought. He looked at Minato who was eating his second tray of food. Minato caught his look and shrugged, continuing on to start on his third tray.

Miyuki:"Tatsuya-niisama, Minato-niisama!" shouted as she walked towards their table.

Minato:"Miyuki!" greeted her, ("A sight to sore eyes.")He thought to himself.

Miyuki:"Can I join you?" She asked, wanting to join both her brothers for lunch.

Erika:"Miyuki, there's room here." said gesturing to the space beside her.

Miyuki:"Thank you, Erika."

Leo:"Uh, who's that?" confused at the newcomer.

Minato could not resist the temptation and slapped himself on his forehead.(This guy is as dense as Akihiko-senpai. Miyuki already added '-niisama' to the back of our names and he can't add one to one together.)

Tatsuya:"Shiba Miyuki. My little sister." .

"Huh?" was all that Leo said.

Miyuki walked to the group and greeted, "Nice to meet you." As she was about to continue, a male voice called out to her. "Shiba-san!"

A group of first course students walked up to Miyuki. Their leader was a male with light brown hair. "Let's go somewhere with more room." He said as he walked up to Miyuki.

"We shouldn't bother them." Added one of the group member.

Miyuki:"No, I'll stay here." she replied with slight hesitation.

Hearing this, the male took a step back as though in shock. "Shiba-san?" he started, "You shouldn't share a table with Weeds."

Erika:"Huh?" she proclaimed.