chapter 13

LETICIA FERNANDES' POV

now i am standing in front of the gate of the school i will be attending from today, and i must admit i am quite excited and nervous, because this is the first time i have attended a school and i will be able to meet so many people my age, and maybe I even manage to make some friends at school.

"Miss Leticia, you forgot your backpack." I turned and looked in the direction of the voice.

when I turned around I looked towards the voice that called me, I saw the exorcist Martha Lorenz getting out of the car that brought me here the car was a silver Ford Ka model, Martha was holding my backpack that had my school supplies in her hand direct. when I saw Martha with my backpack I remembered that I had left my backpack in the car.

"I can't believe that on my first day of school I almost walked into school without my school supplies." I thought as I was embarrassed for almost forgetting the backpack.

"thank you so much Martha you saved me." I thanked Martha.

"No need to thank Miss Leticia I just did my duty." Martha responded politely.

two days ago it was decided that Martha would be my escort and guardian while I am living in Clarisse Aizawa's town. there are three reasons why Martha was chosen as my escort.

the first reason is that Martha is one of the few people other than the Vatican Council who know of my existence.

the second reason is Martha is strong. even being a level 2 exorcist Martha is able to fight high class beings without much disadvantage as she is a human who doesn't have a Sacred Gear.

Of course if we're just talking about being strong then there were several candidates to be my guardian, the decisive fact for Martha being the only viable candidate was her personality.

the third reason Martha was chosen was because she did not have a discriminatory attitude towards other races in the supernatural world. most exorcists were taught that the other races of the supernatural world were evil and that they needed to be destroyed, the only race they don't hate are the angels who are the servants of God. Martha is among the few exorcists she has who doesn't think so, Martha considers someone evil not because of their race but because of their actions and motivations. because of that way she was chosen as an escort here in Japan.

"Miss Leticia have a good first day at school, I will finish moving to our new residence." Martha spoke to me.

"thanks Martha, have a nice day." I said to Martha.

after we parted i entered the school, while walking in the school i met with one of the teachers of the school, this teacher is called Tamae Okamine, after a brief conversation i found out that i am going to study in teacher okamine's class, the teacher took me first to the principal's office so I could receive some brief orientation about the school, after leaving the principal's office of the school I went up the stairs to the second floor and then I continued walking down the hall and arrived in front of the room where I will study with my classmates.

"Excuse me sensei, can I enter the room now?" I asked from outside the room.

"no need to worry Fernandes-san, please enter the room." I heard teacher Okamine so I decided to enter the classroom.

when I entered the room all the students watched me in silence for a few seconds, seeing that the situation would not change if I waited I decided to start introducing myself.

"hello... it's a pleasure to meet you my name is Letícia Fernandes, I think you may already know that I recently moved from Italy to Japan, but I hope we can all get along." I introduced myself while giving a small friendly smile.

after a few seconds the students still continued to stare at me in silence.

"what do i do? what do i do?" I said in my thoughts. as the seconds passed I got more and more nervous and embarrassed not knowing how to change this situation, but then I heard a voice.

"No need to worry Miss Leticia, you may find things a little strange at first due to cultural differences but once you get used to it you see that Japan is really nice, I speak from experience." one of the boys in the room spoke to me.

when i looked at the boy i was surprised because i know who this boy is.

two days ago when I woke up Cardinal Vasco explained to me some things, about what happened to me and that I will need to live in Japan for some time until the internal affairs of the church are resolved, as well as that he healed me. Allan Graysen the person who cured me of that poison, Cardinal Vasco had shown me a picture of him as well as told me some things about him such as him being Clarisse Aizawa's nephew and also about him being one of the rare magic users of cure.

Cardinal Vasco spoke about him in a very positive way, which means that Mr. Allan must be a good person.

thanks to what Mr Allan said to me I calmed down a bit.

" and if you have any questions you can always ask me." Mr Allan spoke to me.

"Really? Thank you so much sir Allan." I thanked Mr Allan.

"You're welcome. And you don't have to call me sir, just Allan if you prefer." Mr Allan... no... Allan said to me.

"I understand in this case call me Leticia since we don't need formalities." I told Allan.

"Very well, Graysen-kun considering that you came from abroad several years ago, can I ask you to help Fernandes-san until she gets used to Japan?" Professor Okamine asked Allan.

"okay I'll help you in any way I can." Allan replied to Professor Okamine.

knowing that Allan will help me get used to Japan makes me feel relieved.

"Okay Fernandes-san you can sit in that chair next to Graysen-kun, if you have any questions you can ask him." Professor Okamine said as she pointed her finger at an empty chair that was next to Allan's.

"Okay teacher Okamine... I mean Okamine-sensei." I told teacher Okamine but then I corrected myself to call her sensei, since that's what students in Japan call their teachers.

"don't worry Fernandes-san feel free to call me whatever you want as long as you refer to me as a teacher." teacher Okamine spoke with a small gentle smile, after seeing that smile I calmed down a bit.

"I understand teacher Okamine." I told the teacher.

I started to walk until I sat in the chair next to Allan, when I sat down I leaned a little to Allan's side and spoke softly in his ear so that only he could hear.

"Allan thank you so much for what you did two weeks ago and I hope we can be good friends." I thanked Allan as I gave him a small smile.

when I looked at Allan's face I saw that he was a little red, is he sick?

"yes I hope we can be friends Leticia and also..." Allan spoke.

"Welcome to Japan Leticia." Alan spoke to me.

"Thanks." I said to Allan.

I'm about to see what my school life will be like here in Japan.