Introductions

After walking for a few minutes the group of students finally saw their classroom. It was located in the building at the center of the campus. The building was a gothic style building, with a lot of arches which made it look a bit magical in the eyes of some of the students. Sigmund, on the other hand, found such an archaic-looking building was not really ideal in case of an attack. The large open windows and the stained glass wasn't helping the building defenses.

As the group of students entered their classroom some of them were expecting, something different. So upon entering some of them were excited to see something weird, but what they saw made them sigh in disappointment. The classroom was just like any normal classroom, with some seats, and a whiteboard.

"Take your seats, for now, you can sit anywhere you like. Also here each one of you should grab one of this." The teacher showed the students a small tablet and started to pass it around. Once everyone had their tablets and sat down, the teacher stood at the front and spoke.

"Okay, first of all, I'm going to introduce myself and I'm going to do it once so you all better listen up. I'm Frederick Kruise the adviser of Class 1-A, you can call me Kruise-sensei. I as your adviser have only one mission and that's to weed out the weaklings and make them quit. Being a part of this class means that you're the best of the best among the new blood. So you better show me that none of you will drop out."

After that Frederick emitted a great amount of bloodlust. Some of the students started holding onto their weapons, others were about ready to activate their abilities. Others emitted an equal amount of killing intent which was directed at Frederick. But some weren't bothered at all and took it all in like it was nothing.

'Hoh,' with that one move Frederick could guess what level the students were at. What interested him the most were the two students that had practically no reaction to that level of bloodlust.

'Sigmund Resteti, and Aki Grimes. The son of a hero and the other the disciple of a legend. Well, this year is going to be a bit more hectic than usual.'

Frederick stopped emitting his bloodlust and looked at each student. The moment the heavy bloodlust was gone the students that tensed up felt like their lungs were about to explode. They then started to breathe heavily. Frederick didn't even bother looking at the students gasping for air.

"Alright then, before we get to your introductions, let me explain this item first. This is called your 'battle pad' to activate it you need to point the front camera at your face." All the students did as they were told.

'Sigmund Resteti' Words then came out of the battle pad and it turned on. It then displayed a number of things. This battle pad was basically a smartphone.

"Using the battle pad you can check your current ranking in the year. This can be used to summon the referee Amanda if you need to start a battle. It also keeps track of your battle history for every fight you had. It also has a calendar that has all the important events marked. There are a lot of other uses for the battle pad, but the ones that I said are the important ones. Oh right, to start a battle you need to point the camera of your battle pad to the opponent you wish to challenge. Then you need to announce that you are challenging him or her to battle."

The students excitedly checked the functions of the battle pad. The first thing they did was check on their rankings. They did this since even though Ria already knew her rank because she was informed beforehand, the others had no clue. The question that they were asking awhile ago will finally be answered. Who was the one that got a better score than Ria in the practical exam? Since the students present were as Frederick said the best among the freshmen.

So they had their pride and they wanted to know who among them was a match for the witch of Elyria.

Sigmund the same as the others checked his ranking, but the reason he did so was different from his classmates.

'Rank# 3' After seeing his rank Sigmund checked his entrance exam scores. He got the highest score in the written exam alongside Ria. He got the lowest score in ability testing, and he was the highest scorer in the practical exam.

While Sigmund was checking some of the other functions of the battle pad, Frederick started speaking again.

"You guys have a lot of time to play with your battle pad later since the first day is a half-day for freshmen. So, for now, let's start with the introductions. Just say your name and what type of user you are, a magic-user, a hybrid, etc. Let's start with you and the next one would be the one behind you."

...

After a few students introduced themselves it was finally Sigmund's turn to introduce himself. Sigmund stood up from his chair and with a clear voice introduced himself.

"I'm Sigmund Resteti, an unchanged."

The moment the students heard what Sigmund said they were all surprised. The students didn't know which one was more surprising the fact that Sigmund was a Resteti or that he was an unchanged.

Some of them were now looking at Sigmund with contempt. Others were looking at him as if he was a zoo animal. While others were even sending killing intent his way, but Sigmund remained unfazed.

"He's an unchanged? How did he pass the entrance exam, and even get into Class A?"

"It's obvious, his family is close with the Samaritas so he entered here with underhanded means. I'm guessing the twins are with him because they're his bodyguards or something."

"I thought that this school was supposed to only allow the best in the district. They even pride themselves in never allowing students that rely on their family background to enter. Guess that's all a lie."

"The shame of the Resteti family."

"Someone should challenge him and make him rank down to the next class. He doesn't belong here."

"Who's going to do that? You can only challenge someone higher than you. Surely he's at the bottom of the barrel."

The students of Class 1-A started to whisper to one another. The only ones who weren't interested in Sigmund being a unchanged were Ria, the twins, and Aki.

'Oh, so that's who he was... This is getting interesting.' A boy sitting at the back of the class was smiling slyly while writing down something in his notepad as everyone was busy gossiping.

"Quiet down! I can already guess what you guys are thinking. There was no mistake made, and you'll find that out later. But for now, we continue our introductions."

The class quieted down but were still unconvinced by Sigmund's legitimacy in being in this school.

...

"Good day everyone I'm Riku Ferer, a magic-user." The boy with the notepad smiled at his classmates and bowed.

A short while later almost all twenty of the students have introduced themselves save for one. The last student sat at the corner of the room near the open window. This student was a boyish-looking girl with black hair and dark black eyes that look sharp as swords. Her whole demeanor was like a sheathed blade waiting to be drawn.

"Aki Grimes, unchanged." Hearing her introduction the whole classroom was in an uproar once again.