"Hello, Margaret!! How's my marshmallow doing today?," was the greeting Dante gave to the receptionist at the Pardour Academy Information Center, where records of admitted students are stored.
"For the last time, Sir Dante, I'm not a marshmallow! And also, this is a workplace , not a tavern!!," was her displeasing reply.
Dante laughed it off and said, "It was just a tease!! Relax!"
He then became serious and asked, "Anyway, what I'm here for is really important. Is it possible to gain some information on the students of this year's batch?"
The receptionist then replied, "I'm sorry, sir. We don't give any information about our students out to any person without the permission of the Academy."
Dante, still being persistent, said, "It's really urgent!! It's a matter of life and death!! Come on, just help me out this once!!"
Margaret then tilted her glasses at Dante, readjusted them, sighed and said, "Fine. But only if you get me some El Tamakis!!," before secretly handing him a file of Jason and his soon-to-be teammates, and all the other students of the Academy, with all the necessary details on their abilities and what-not.
Dante then replied, "Thanks love!! You're a doll!!," while blowing a kiss to the receptionist as he grabbed the record book from her.
"What a pain," she sighed and shrugged it off as she got back to work.
—— / —————— //——— —————//
Let's see what we have here," Dante said as he returned home and started going through the records of the kids at the Academy that year.
"These kids are impressive, I'll say!! We have some future Imperial Knights in the making here."
As he got to the middle page, he then noticed three individuals that caught his eye.
*Name:Jason Howler.
*Age: 8 years old.
*Class: Human.
*Mana Type: Unknown.
*Experience Level: Stage 0.
He sighed, "Yeah this kid isn't really that good."
"But I don't know. Something tells me he has something the rest of the kids don't have. I'll keep an eye on him."
He then moved onto the next person.
*Name: Maki Sumeto.
*Age: 10 years.
*Class: Human.
*Mana Type: Earth.
*Experience Level: Stage 2.
"Impressive I'll say!! She might be the one of the best five Level 2 individuals out of all the rest and says here that she has a leadership mentality."
*Name: Vincent Von Stein
*Age: 12 years.
*Class: Vampire
*Mana Type: Unknown
*Experience Level: Stage 3
"Not surprised about the level of the son of Count Maximus, the Ruler of the Undead."
—— / —————— //——— —————//
Hours had passed and it was late in the evening.
He looked at all the pictures of the children and he decided to do a target game with them.
He placed them all on the wall and he blindfolded himself.
Before that, he went back by a considerable distance, took three daggers and placed them in his sheath.
He took one dagger out and tossed them while blindfolded. And another. And the last one.
After this, he removed his blindfold and looked on the wall to see where the daggers landed.
They all landed each on the pictures of Vincent, Jason and Maki.
He then clapsed his hands and said, "It's decided then. These three shall be my students from now on!!"