The German girl seemed entirely oblivious to the other robots at the moment. They were a bit too busy with the other students anyways, which was good. She had already proved herself as far as she was concerned, so she wasn't going to put in any more effort with these boring hunks of metal.

Lena had been hoping to get some reaction from the boss lady herself. That would have been fun to see, and certainly a challenge such as that couldn't go unanswered? Well, she found out soon enough and was sorely disappointed. Instead of the boss lady, that goody-two-shoes looking of a character stepped in. Some sorta teachers pet or something? She didn't know, she just knew that he had made her slightly angry.

"Lurlene. Please refrain from doing that again."

"Lena." She replied, a slight twitch forming on her left eyebrow. "My name is Lena." She took out one of her knives again, the twitch disappearing as she changed the subjects. "And why not?" She giggled as she started balancing the hilt of one of her knives on her index finger. "Does the teachers pet not want another excuse to show off?" She snickered, tossing her blade a little ways into the air. "Or are you afraid you'd screw up and she'd have to clean up your mess?~" She caught the blades hilt, still giving him a grin.

Honestly, this was probably a terrible idea, but Lena didn't care. So far, this entire thing had been completely boring. Oh sure the robots were a little entertaining, but other than that this was a disappointing experience. She could easily learn more back home studying by herself or with her brother or sister.

@Vocab@Spriggs27

After Adam protected her, the Headmistress looked to the student that attempted to attack her, when Adam told her to refrain from trying to attack her, Lurlene asked him questions on why, before Adam could have the chance to actually answer the Headmistress, she spoke for herself." Easy, because something like this could happen." The Headmistress snapped her fingers and suddenly the robots stopped, they began putting themselves back together and fixing each other before the other first years could continue to attack them, the robots walked away from the first years.

The Headmistress stared at Lurlene before putting one of their hands onto their sword. In a quick flash the Headmistress was behind of Lurlene, she had collected all of the girl's knives, and placed a light cut onto Lena's face, light and fast enough for Lena to not feel it, but deep enough to draw blood." Hopefully attending this school will give you better intelligence, I respect your bravery to try and attack me, but now you've just made your stay here harder for yourself." She told the first year before she sheathed her sword.

The Headmistress dropped Lena's knives that were on her thighs and calves onto the ground, only leaving the one that Lena were holding, suddenly the robots began going down under the courtyard."Every one, go to the teachers to write down your names for who you want to room with this year, after that take a map and find where the cafeteria is. One of the things that a good assassin must have is a sense of direction, and must get it from experience."

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Sayaka took a deep breath she knew her flamethrowers wouldn't be too effective but she put her hands together and aimed her flamethrowers at the robots, but then one of the students got in the way, the girl with the thin sword, the rapier or what ever it was called, she aimed at a robot that managed to wander away from the whole group. Sayaka jumped in front of it and blasted it with fire from both her flamethrowers, as she began using up her fuel to attempt to melt the robot.

But the machine just simply walked up to Sayaka, electricity began dancing around the sword in it's hands instead of swinging the sword, it just poked Sayaka in the belly and shocked her, the electricity directed to her stomach made her puke onto the ground, the mummy hunched over onto the ground stopping her flamethrowers and holding her stomach in pain. The robot didn't let up it poked her again in the back shocking Sayaka once again, the again, and again, the shocking continued for a while but stopped when the Headmistress ordered them to stop.

" Oh thank you !" Sayaka thanked the Headmistress as the robots began going back under the school, she slowly got to her feet but still stood hunched over panting.

@ReaptheMusic

A long moment passed as Adam turned to make eye contact with Kriss. A much longer moment passed as Kriss realized that Adam was waiting for him to continue talking. Time slowed to a crawl as Kriss found himself locking eyes with Adam, both of them waiting for the other to say something. He had at least succeeded in catching his attention, and through the mask of disinterest, Kriss could glimpse a twitch of irritation over his terrible accent. It was too late to just turn around and leave, but for the life of him Kriss couldn't think of anything further to say. He watched to his silent dismay as Adam turned back to watch the action. He followed his gaze just in time to see the class president, Adam Solis, cut a robot head in half as it hurtled towards the headmistress.

His ears perked up as the student barked a response back at Adam (the class president, that is), who had reprimanded her for hurling something at the head of the academy. Her voice had a sharp German edge to it. Almost in response, the robot test ended. Kriss people were beginning to move away. He cleared his throat, deciding to risk starting a conversation anyway.

"A German first-year? It's been a while..." he muttered, turning back to face his classmate. "So how have things been? You were productive over the break, I'm sure."

The swordsgirl, despite her initial apprehension, was actually very good. They did well, Claudia suppressing her foes and watching her back whilst she went toe to toe with the bots. As a fencer herself, Claudia could appreciate the manoeuvres the girl was pulling off better than most others - not perfect, but certainly good enough. It helped that the sword naturally had a flair to it that Claudia enjoyed watching.

"Ay, uh, Belladonna!You wouldn't mind bending over a little further, would you? You're leaving too much to my imagination!" a boy behind her shouted. Claudia rolled her eyes, grinned and bent over a little further than was necessary whilst aiming. Hey, he asked for it! And he spoke Italian, it seemed. Belladonna... she liked it. It suited her. Bloody Valentine was good, but Belladonna sounded like a proper assassin title. She'd have to "reward" that boy later.

When all was said and done, the girl returned and spoke to her "Clever thinking."
She waved it off "It was obvious. Besides, I only really wanted to make sure you didn't get yourself killed." Claudia laughed politely "I'm pleasantly surprised. You'd make a decent enforcer for the family, if this business doesn't work out for you. You got a name, sweetheart?"

A snap of the Head's fingers and the bots halted. Aww. She was having fun. They were told that they were to pick someone to room with, then find the cafe themselves. No problem, thought Claudia. But who did she want as a room-mate? Ashes? Rapier Chick? The other Italian?
"Hey, could you wait a sec? It looks like a friend of mine got iced. Or... buzzed." she told Colette, as she approached the panting Sayaka. She patted her back
"Get roughed up? Don't worry about it, we all have our days. Come on, we should go grab something to eat before everything gets taken."

@FantasyChic@Spriggs27

Well Lena honestly couldn't say she wasn't expecting some form of retaliation. Having all of her knives taken from her though...that suddenly made the girl feel very, very, defenseless. She stumbled, taking a few steps away from the headmistress. Her eyes were wide, as she tried to make her brain work. She hadn't been disarmed quite so easily...ever. She brought a nervous hand up to the side of her face, rubbing her cheek with her free hand, feeling the cut the headmistress had left her with.

Her usual smile faltered for a moment as she felt her own blood on her fingers. She brought her hand before her eyes, observing the blood staining her fingers. Her eyebrow twitched as her emotions soon turned towards anger and annoyance. She ran a finger down the blade of the knife in her hand, gripping it hard enough to turn her knuckles white.

She liked this woman.

"Hey, Boss lady." She said, releasing her grip on the knife, sheathing it. "I welcome the challenge, and no harm done. Just thought I'd have a little fun, heh." She looked at her knives that littered the ground. Well, she might as well get to collecting them. She wouldn't want to spend all knight making more. She wasn't sure she even had the proper tools to do that here. She first picked up the diamond edged knife her parents gave her. The throwing ones were expendable. These, however, weren't. She wasn't going to be losing them for nothing.

"Hehe, if ya ever need anything...you know, taken care of." She said as she picked up a few more of her knives. "I might be willing to help ya." She of course, didn't think she'd take her up on that offer like...ever, but hell, she threw it out there anyways. So for now, she focused on picking up her knives. She wasn't leaving them here.

@Spriggs27

As she began catching her breath, after getting the equivalent of being jabbed with a stun rod several and puking up what she ate earlier, Sayaka was approached by the girl from earlier that was flaunting her goods to everyone, she patted her back and tried to comfort Sayaka saying everyone has their days. The Mummy girl coughed twice she looked up to Claudia's breast and stood up straight, she had her eyes planted straight on the Italian girl's chest, when the Italian girl mentioned getting food Sayaka pointed to the teachers before saying.

" Don't we need to write down our names for who we are gonna room with ? Also my name is Sayaka ." Sayaka informed the girl, she soon noticed another girl that was bending over showing her butt towards both Claudia and her, she seemed to be picking things up off the ground. Sayaka was hypnotized to approach the girl in her distracted state and knew she had to; Sayaka opened one of her hands and quickly grabbed the knife nut girl's bottom, even if it ment getting a knife to the skull from the same girl, when she pulled her hand away she felt that the risk was now just bigger than the reward for groping the girl." Oh not that curvy or any chubby-ness to it ? You should probably eat more and get that booty nice and plump." She told the girl before looking at her empty palm.

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By the time the German-American student looked back, Adam was already gone. Despite his sheer size, the german giant moved swiftly and quietly enough. He was far ahead of Paolo and Kriss, and heading toward the table to write down that he wanted his own room this year. It wasn't that he didn't like Paolo, in fact he was going to sign up his best friend to be in the room beside him himself, it's just that he liked the quiet more. The seven-foot tall third year came into the view of the flame thrower assassin and the girl Paolo had called 'Belladona' earlier, passing by them closely and thus overhearing them.

"Oh not that curvy or any chubby-ness to it ? You should probably eat more and get that booty nice and plump." As he passed, he caught Sayaka's eyes. It was pretty obvious he'd heard exactly what she'd said, and though he maintained eye contact for a moment after, he didn't seem to have a response. Wait, no, it did seem the corner of his lips pulled up into a smile just before he turned away. Coming up behind the bent over girl, he set his large luggage down directly beside her before kneeling down just on one knee. A pale hand with long fingers reached out to help the knife-thrower... Lurlene, pick up the rest of her knives. He stacked them neatly in his free hand and offered them back to the spunky girl, two hands cupped in offering her weapons back. His amber eyes were calm as he watched her.

". . ."

Kriss sighed, pushing smoothly through the crowd to reach the teachers. Things were off to a rough start. He berated himself silently for the open show of skill he'd made. A proper assassin doesn't show all of their cards at once. They keep something up their sleeve in case they need it later, and he'd revealed both the gun and the Impact Cannon just to try and put someone in their place. It wasn't a total loss, though. He hadn't revealed his strength in hand-to-hand combat, and no one had seen him draw and sheath the knife. There were a lot of cocky first-years with pointy weapons this time. Maybe it would be better if they assumed he relied entirely on his gun. He made a mental note to take an advanced CQC course this time. Maybe Krav Maga if they offered it this year.

He wanted to snag a room to himself again if he could (he had shared a room the first year and it had not been particularly pleasant). Talking to Adam, or anyone for that matter, could wait. Reaching the line-up, Kriss flipped quickly through the lists, writing his name in block capital letters on the nearest unoccupied room. Breathing a sigh of relief, he headed for the cafeteria. No rush this time. It was a warm day with clear skies, and he needed to relax, and reload, while he had time.

Kriss cracked a smile. Next time someone needed to be roughed up, he'd let Adam Solis handle it.

@Vocab

~Lena Fleischer~

Lena had collected most of her knives. She get them all back where they properly belonged for easy access later. For now, she simply gathered them, and stored most of them where she could in her jacket. A little sloppy and would be much more difficult to use them fluidly in a fight, but she was pretty sure she wasn't going to be getting into any.

At least, until she felt a hand rather roughly grope her butt.

Lena immediately stood up straight, turning around on her heel, lashing out with her knife, the edge barely just missing the mummy girls throat. She had to visibly restrain herself from killing the girl on the spot.

"You got a problem with my looks, bacon?" She said. "Or you just jealous because your a shriveled up useless sack of flesh?" Her knife was held right at the other girls throat. She wanted so badly to take her head a souvenir, but she also didn't want to get in trouble at the moment, at least not any more than she already was.

So with a great deal of effort, she pulled her knife away from the other girls throat, just now noticing the guy who was handing her knives to her.

"Ehh? The heck is your problem?" She said, turning away from the other girl to this guy. Still...he was handing her knives to her...so she couldn't be entirely mean to this guy. "Well...whatever, thanks." She said taking the knives. "But I can do it myself, so next time mind your own goddamn business." With that, she walked away towards where the teachers were so she could write down her name. After that, she left for the cafeteria. She didn't want to linger with the idiots.

@Spriggs27@ReaptheMusic

After all the robot went down it was time to pick roommate, pick a roommate hm? easy enough, now I need to pick one Kellee look around to pick roommate for her.

She look at Sayaka, Sayaka Himura hmmm very skill with her flamethrower but um little bit weird , Kellee turn and see Lena Lena Fleischer, a very very good knives skills person I mean she can kill everyone in a blink of a eye but she could kill me if I talk to her, Kellee look at Claudia Claudia Valentina can shoot everyone in her way with her tommy gun and if they try to run she can shoot in mile away even if she can do very well...sexuality.

Kellee turn and finally see Colette Colette Bellamy what could I say about her, she's Graceful with her rapier and dagger, she can even slash targets left and right! kellee think long hard to well be her roommate, finally she make up her mind.

Kellee walk toward Colette to greet her Ok Kellee if you want to survive this academy full with perverted , cold hearted , insane students you need a friend I mean first impressions doesn't hurt...right? Kellee stand right next to Colette and there were Silence between them "...Um hi my name Kellee nice to meet."
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Colette Bellamy

After the robots were all but trashed, Colette looked over at the group that fought them back. She was more or less impressed by the lot of them. She also was a little jealous of the amount of skill displayed. She didn't feel like she did much in the way of assassin work, but apparently the girl she was working with liked what she did. Before Colette could talk with her however, she had to go take care of her friend.

Colette was standing alone while the others seemed to pair off with each other. That was fine, she wasn't here to make any friends. She was here to train and improve her skills and prove to herself and her family what she can accomplish.

However, before she could walk off to choose her classes, a girl walked up to her "...Um hi my name Kellee nice to meet." Colette was a little bewildered that she was talked to by anyone. She gave the girl a warm smile, "Hello, my name is Colette. Nice to meet you." She offered her hand for a handshake.

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Rox was sorta left dumbfounded having been left a house all to herself. Especially since she was pretty sure she would be staying at the academy, but regardless she couldn't deny that it wasn't a bad thing have in case something went horribly wrong. Lucky, the house was vacant and the water and electricity had already been shut off. After a small rest through the night, Roxanne boarded the ferry to her new future. The ride itself was very relaxing and quite pleasant; a smile on her face with a breeze through her hair. There was too many people to actually find someone outlandishly specific in the crowd, so she just sat in the back, parasol open and saving her pale completion from the sun's rays.

On Arrival, she continued to be just part of the crowd, not sure on how exactly she was chosen for a place like this. She never once had a murderous thought cross her mind, but looking back, her grandfather had definatly taught her some oddly specific, and in this place useful, skills. She almost wondered if her grandfather was more than he ever let on. Even her parents suspected nothing like this from him. Spacing out on the topic, she was quite startled to find it to be her turn to murder a dummy? There was all kinds of annihilated parts in the area, so she just sorta went with that. She walked forward to the dummy, parasol open, and gave a brief pause as what to do next. The head was always a vulnerable area and there was no way she wanted to drag out that old piece of war tech in her case, so she set it down at her feet and buried her head next to the dummy's, hiding under the parasol as the heat seemingly rose 10 or 20 degrees. She did remember the hidden knife, and quickly went for a decapitation, not wanting to have any more eyes on her any longer. After the kill, she quickly picked up her brief case and skedaddled off the scene 10 feet past the crowd before realizing she still had the dummy head. She quickly tossed it aside and sat on the ground under her parasol, not making eye contact with anyone else.

She was prepared for the next test, however. Upon the summoning of the robots, she went for the Dragunov; assembling, loading, and aiming, waiting for a sign that the text had indeed begun. She spent about a mag and a half, shooting from underneath her parasol and effectively killing four of the mechanical beasts and shooting out the legs of another seven. Then it was over. All that was left was to pick a roommate.... ha. She knew zero of the people here, and her assumingly horrible display of a decapitation probably didn't score her any peer points. Too bad too because looking out at the crowd, some of the people were rather cute. She slowly packed up her rifle and gathered her things before heading into the bulk of the remaining students, hoping to score some sort of decent roommate by chance.

Sayaka was... well, rather forward. Claudia knew that she was a good looking girl, but Sayaka was playing it up big time. She didn't see her gaze anywhere other than her tits for the duration that she was talking to her.

"Don't we need to write down our names for who we are gonna room with? Also my name is Sayaka"
"Claudia Valentina. Pleasure to meet you." she didn't bother offering a shake - there was no way in hell this girl was going to extend her hand unless it was to cop a feel.

The question was now - who to room with? Sayaka seemed nice and all, but Claudia didn't exactly feel like getting Mollied in the middle of the night. She would give herself a week at best living in that dorm before things got too steamy for her.
What about the sword chick? Their styles complimented the other well, but when she looked around some ginger chick was chatting away to her. Presumably those two would be shacking up.
What about the Italian bloke? She looked around at him. He looked a lot older, and presumably co-ed dorms weren't allowed. It wasn't worth it.

Sayaka it was.

"So does this mean we're- Oh, for Christ's sake..."
Saya, it seemed, had deemed it appropriate to start feeling up the knife-throwing girl. That was one sure-fire way to end up sleeping with the fishes, Claudia thought to herself, as she went over to the girl.

The girl spun around and lashed out, barely missing Saya. Claudia couldn't tell whether she intended to miss or if she really went for Ashes, but she chose not to for whatever reason. Taunting her was better. Claudia agreed with her actions, but she felt like she had to back up her potential friend at least somewhat.

"Sayaka, I'm all for showmanship, but come on, show the lady some respect!" she chided, then spoke to Lurlene "Sorry bout her, she's a little frisky. I'd take it as a compliment if I were you, but, you know, each to their own..."
The girl had veins pulsing on her head, she was trying so damn hard not to slaughter Saya. Claudia could take her, most likely, she knew it. But she wasn't hanging around to to take the hit.

At that point some giant lad rocked up, for which she was thankful. Let Knifey take it out on him. She could hear his footsteps, but presumed he was going to pass by. When he didn't, he gave Sayaka a sour yet simultaneously emotionless look. You could just sort of feel him judging her. He then quietly dropped to his knees and started picking up the knives Lurlene had dropped.
"Again, sorry." Claudia muttered to the due, before grabbing Sayaka's arm and dragging her away.

"Come on," she told her newly decided partner. May as well hook up with her, she didn't know anyone else. "We should go hand our names into the Boss."

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@FantasyChic
Kellee smile back and shake her hand All right first impression is going good so far...now what else to talk about Kellee look at Colette Rapier.

"So um..." Kellee was trying think what to say "you did great on the training test."

The girl Sayaka revealed her name to, revealed her name to Sayaka being Claudia, before she went to grope the bent over girl. When the hooded girl reacted to the mummy's groping, Sayaka jumped back and into Claudia's chest; the mummy turned to Claudia before standing onto her own two feet and looking to the hooded girl with the knives; she noticed that the girl had a knife only centimeters away from her, Sayaka held her hands up saying." Well you had optical illusion like bottom, I thought it was bigger than it was and wanted a feel. But I can see up close that it was just as flat as a table." Sayaka told the hooded girl.

When Claudia began speaking for her and said she should take it as a compliment, Sayaka actually felt like she should say something and did." No,no,no, if someone got a tiny booty then they shouldn't take it as a compliment, they should do something about it, have it at least chubby or muscular to make it appealing to the eye." Sayaka said to them sounding like a true pervert at heart. Suddenly one of the taller guys began walking up to the group, Sayaka felt like the guy was gonna start berating them or something; but oddly the guy just bent over to help the knife nut pick up her sharp objects she threw at people, she she began getting that feeling again of wanting to grope someone, this time she wanted to grope the big guy and her hand was reaching out for him.

Out of nowhere Sayaka felt her other arm being pulled on by something, she looked over to see Claudia gripping her arm and pulling her pass the two; the mummy girl began pulling the other way towards the two picking up knives, as Claudia said for them to hand their names into the teachers, at least that's what she got when she said bosses, Sayaka's arm began slipping from the mobster's hand. When she was free, Sayaka didn't notice that she was off balance, she fell right on her back hard enough to send one of Lene's knives on the ground into the air; kinda as karmic punishment the knife fell blade first into Sayaka's head.

The first thing Sayaka did was just simply get up and look around, as the simple throwing knife jutted out of her head, the mummy soon patted her chest and stomach, while looking down at the rest of her body." Where did the knife fall ?" She asked Claudia. The moment she began feeling her forehead she began feeling the knife and felt the handle of it before yelling." What do I do ? What do I do ?" She put a hand on the handle and thought twice about pulling it out." Do I take it out or do I leave it in ? " She asked not directly to anyone as she got to her feet feeling somewhat scared.

@Rune_Alchemist@Brithwyr

The girl actually did it! She actually bent over more and it was everything he had ever dreamed of. She was a catch and a half and Paolo had to give it to her, she knew that very well. She would be worth keeping an eye on. Get too close and she might settle down, this was a fight that should be be extended as long as possible. He clapped a few times and watched as she readied to take out robots before the headmistress did her thing. Some poor fool threw a head at her, which of course Adam blocked. It was amazing how he could even see with his head completely inside the headmistress' ass, usually it was just his nose but that was just incredible. He needed to take it down a peg, the only work he'd get with that attitude is a teaching job.

And now came his favorite time of year, picking a room. He especially enjoyed how Adam could take care of it for him, allowing him to sit longer. Paolo watched his friend leave the dumbfounded other third year and walk away to go pick up that girl's knives. What a strange guy he was, but he was getting some attention and knowing Adam, he would waste the opportunity. "Adam, sign me up again?" he called to his gargantuan friend. He stayed sitting on his own luggage, not feeling to motivation to stand up. That was until he saw others leaving, one heading for the mess hall. Apparently he could wander the campus as he pleased at this point and he had a bench he needed to find and sit on, it was near the auditorium and covered by the only shade-providing tree in this part of Russia.

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Alexander hopped off the boat, ready for his second year a little... later than the others. He had a mishap with one of his pets. A few wasps had escaped and stung a boy, who then proceeded to kick the shit out of him. Some third year who specialized in hand to hand, no weapon combat. Amazing he didn't die to the boy, being a whole year more advanced than he. It made him take a bit of time while on the ship's crew patched him up. The doctors and nurses working for the school were really top notch. They had to be, really.

By the time he got out of the boat, everyone was already done with the tests and the port was in chaos as first years rushed to pair up, but Alexander was fine not knowing who his roommate might be. He made his way easily through the crowd as he carried Bomb on his arm. Many a story were told about the boy and his snake, on being that he could control it with his mind. Very untrue, the only thing he could control were his insects with the pheromones he had on his belt. But nonetheless, a crowd was nothing less than easy to wade through and he wrote his name into an empty room and would happily remain single in his room, or have a random roommate.

Once all signed up he saw a group of first years doing their thing, and trying to find roommates. he brushed them off, later he would interact with him for now he had to... "Wow you're tall. Like. I have a snake back home who's as big as you, but like, he never stands up this is incredible." he said, staring at Adam. He looked around and saw the girls around him. Hopefully the snake around his arm wasn't too freaky, but at least he didn't have any of his spiders or flies out, they were in his backpack that was emitting a light buzz.

@Rune_Alchemist@Experiment 249@Spriggs27@Brithwyr

As the small knife girl took her knives back, Adam dropped his hands, his expression remaining soft and neutral.

"Ehh? The heck is your problem? Well...whatever, thanks. But I can do it myself, so next time mind your own goddamn business."

Adam's eyebrows slowly rose in mild surprise as she walked away. They dropped just as slowly as he took note of one of the girls, the flamethrower, reaching for him. Briefly, he looked over at her curiously before she was dragged away by a beautiful blonde girl, an American going by the accent. He watched them go a moment later before he heard a familiar voice beside him.

"Wow you're tall. Like. I have a snake back home who's as big as you, but like, he never stands up this is incredible."

Adam looked over at the smaller man beside him. A kid he recognized from last year, actually. Had this guy never noticed Adam before? Even he knew he was hard to miss, much to his shyness's distress. The only thing Adam noticed other than he'd seen this guy before---Alexander, that was his name---was the 5 foot long snake draped around his shoulders. The silent assassin's hair stood on end and he took a step away from Alexander. In Germany he'd heard many folktales of children being swallowed whole by snakes and turning into men who would rape the village women after convincing them to get warm in their beds¹. In any case, regardless if those tales were true, he'd just prefer not to be around snakes. With a slightly off-putting smile, he waved at Alexander and moved away, thinking he'd talk to the boy later. He made his way to the table and signed himself and Paolo up for two separate rooms. Ah, Privacy. The best part of being a third year. He sighed contently and leaned back, looking around the school. Sure he was a little hungry, but there was something he'd been missing about this school since he left for the break. Heading in a different direction from everyone else, Adam left the other students behind.

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Adam set his large rolling luggage down as he entered the Academy's lavish music room. It was quiet and dark with only the light of the windows beaming through to shed light on the rows of chairs, music sheet stands and high tech smartboard up at the front. He smiled as he took leisurely long strides to his centerpiece. Sitting right below the widows, which had been opened and allowed for a slight breeze to blow the luxurious white curtains in a gentle billowing motion, was a large grand piano that had its top propped open with the hilt. He approached the piano, slowly stroking over the keys like they were a loved one that hadn't been seen in a long time. A smile crept onto his face.

He moved the chair back and sat down with an audible creak coming from the chair, his large frame hunched over the keys. Hesitantly, he plucked at a key, then a few more. He paused, stretching his fingers and moving his shoulders back so he could sit up straight, his hands resting on top of the ivory colored keyboard. His piano back home was of much lesser quality, and desperately needed repairs. It had been an inheritance though, and he used it all the time simply to please his family on the bearance of its sentimental value. However, this piano, this instrument was his favorite. The elegance, the new wood, the perfect on key sounds... Yes, he loved this piano. The song he had been working on was something he'd been wanting to play on this piano all summer. With a deep breath, he looked down at the piano and began to play, his fingers moving rapidly.

Kriss strolled into the cafeteria to the sight of only a handful of students, most of which were second- or third-years. "Guess the rooks are taking their time this year," he mumbled, snagging a tray and filling it with the healthiest food he could identify. He was a little out of shape from the summer, and he needed to get back into a tougher workout routine and diet. Topping it off with a cup of water, he sat at a table against the left wall, facing the door. Combat 101: don't sit with your back to people. Sit against a wall so no one can get behind you. He glanced around, noting that several of the second-year and all of the third-year students were doing the same thing: sitting at a table near a wall, facing the door. The first-year students who had already arrived were near the center, chatting. They would learn. Already bored, he returned a hand to the Bible in his pocket, placing it beside his tray on the table. He flipped idly through the pages again, occasionally stopping to skim one to see if it was interesting. He picked one nearer the middle this time. Glancing through the verses, he noticed something peculiar.

Handwriting. In blue ink.

For a moment, Kriss was angry. He hadn't made a single mark in it, so it must have been another student. But he had kept it by his side the entire ride, so it couldn't have been anyone on the barge. It wasn't from his mother, because she wrote in cursive and this was in block capitals. His father...? Suddenly very interested in the book, he sat up straight and read the verse. A section of it had been circled, and a note had been added on the side.

Luke 15:24
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
T2B4V14

"Wh...what the..." Kriss stammered, staring at the page. It was his father's handwriting. 'My son was dead?' Did that mean him? How could he have missed this? He clenched a fist in silent frustration. Two years! Two whole years he had been carrying around a hand-written note and he never knew it. The whole time, he had only been one page away from a private message. At least the message itself wasn't immediately clear. T2B4V14. A password? He drummed his fingers on the desk, trying to recall where he could try it as a password. Unless it was an abbreviaved code, in which case he'd need a key. He paused, then glanced down at the Bible again.

"T...estament 2, book 4, verse 14? New Testament, Book-"

He grabbed the PHILE and opened a Notepad tab, tapping the words and code into a clean document, then dove back into the Bible, hunting the next clue. The food had completely left his mind, and he silently prayed that no one would bother him.

As the commotion outside started ending, and the Headmistress showed her skill, to one of the more unintelligent students, and Adam pretty much defended her. As the Headmistress told the others to sign up with who they wanted to room with; Izumi walked outside and looked to the younger and older students; she then noticed one of the newer students that have fallen and didn't pay the mummy girl no mind at first, but when she saw a knife fall into her head, and noticed the girl starting to panic about the knife being in her head.

Izumi calmly walked over to the girl and answered her." You remain calm." She told the mummy girl, Sayaka slowly calmed down and looked at Izumi's breast. As Sayaka stood still and calm, Izumi grabbed the knife, and attempted to pull it out of the side of her forehead; Izumi attempted to pull the knife out with accidentally killing the pyromanic mummy. But after a couple good attempts of trying to take the knife out, Izumi gave up and let go of it.

" I can't take it out without killing you, either your skull is very strong, or the knife is in a part of your brain you don't usually use. Do not fall on your head, because it could go deeper into your brain and kill you." Izumi told the girl before walking away from her and passing Adam as she walked back into the school, she had duties she needed to do and standing around gawking at everyone wasn't going to help finish any of her daily task.

Jesus wept...

Why was it wherever Claudia went, things went real far south real quickly?
So first her 'friend' feels up a total lunatic, barely avoiding a Chicago Overcoat while doing so. Then when Claudia tries to make amends, she throws it right back in her face. Then she slips on a goddamn knife and ends up with a six inch blade jutting out her skull. What a day.

"Kay, Sayaka, try to relax. I've seen this a thousand times before." That was a blatant lie. "The best thing to do is leave the knife where it is. You pull it out, you risk taking a chunk of yer brain with it. Leave it alone, you hear?"

Comfort wasn't Claudia's thing, but she felt the message got through. Of course, some tall, dark-haired chick decided to reiterate what she just said, earning her a scowl from the mobster. Nice work, Echo, I think we established to leave it in back in the Prohibition, thank you very much.

There were eyes on them. Claudia wouldn't mimd if she wasn't hungry, but her belly was empty and she couldn't entertain for long.
"Come on, you loon. Let's get something to eat already, I'm starved!"

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