Upon entering the school grounds, the flood of students got to its peak and the hallways were crowded with students. Marco quickly made way to his classroom, class 3-B. On getting inside, everyone within the class turned to stare at him, but in the next second, they turned their faces back towards the teacher standing in front of them.
Gossip sounds can be heard as he walked to his seat that was positioned at the southwest corner of the class. Way behind the rest of the seats. The male teacher didn't even spare him a glance, almost like he was just a gust of wind passing by.
The class was arranged like a normal class, with desks arranged in rows and columns. Marco sat down at his usual lonely corner and listened to the teacher speaking.
"As you have heard, we are expecting a new student to join us this section."
Apparently, the male teacher was talking about how a new student will be joining them this section. Marco figured the gossip earlier was about that as well but he didn't really care.
"Okay, you can come in now." The male teacher said as he turned towards the door. Moments later, a female student stepped inside the classroom.
She was a beautiful young girl of average height with pale complexion and a slim figure. She has shoulder-length silvery white hair that has a longer portion of her hair put into a braid on the left side of her face tied into a single braid, as well as a single long strang of hair and yellow eyes.
Everyone had an excited look on their faces upon looking the beauty before them especially the boys. The girl sensing the mood, decided to introduce herself.
"Hello everyone, I'm Yuki Naruse. I hope we get along, please take care of me." Since they would inquire about it anyway, she made a self-deriding introduction. The atmosphere became really welcoming and Yuki made a sigh of relief.
Then it was time for questions and with the silly questions and answers repeating numerous times, the chime tolled the end of the homeroom soon enough. The male teacher clapped his hands together.
"Okay, that's it for now. Save the rest for after the opening ceremony. Naruse, your desk is the empty one over there. Yuhiko, you're the class rep, so look after Naruse,"
"Yes" a beautiful girl with long black hair tied in a long ponytail and violet eyes stood up and nodded short. Apparently she was the class representative.
"Well then, everyone line up in the hallway. We're going to the gym." Upon hearing the male teacher words, everyone started to stand up from their seats.
Marco who was seated far back, slowly began to stand up as students pouring out of the classroom. He started walking out the classroom while staring at the new student.
"is it just me or does this girl look somewhat familiar for some reason." Marco thought but decided to shove that thought at the back of his mind. There is no way he would forget someone like her if he met her. Marco was in the world of his thoughts as he followed the group of students.
After twenty minutes had gone by, the opening ceremony ended and it was lunch break after a couple of classes.
A happy lunch-time atmosphere spread over the school. Marco sat bored and alone at his own seat in the classroom. Inadvertently he mumbled.
"What a drag" This was beyond his expectations. He thought that things would change since this is the start of his second year but reality is often disappointing. What was he expecting in the fight place, it wasn't like a he was a very social person to begin with.
"Guess I should get going…"
There was no point in staying here. As he didn't have a lunch box with him, his choices were limited to either the cafeteria or the school store. And when he stood up from his seat and left the classroom, Marco was suddenly called out to.
"Yo, why is our Bronze Tiger looking so depressed." When he turned around, there stood a boy with dirty blonde hair, showing a friendly smile. His best friend.
"Why do you keep calling me that, Jack"
"Do I have to remind you, you're quite popular after all" Jack said with a smirk on his face.
"Yeah but i wish it was for a different reason " Marco replied with a look of disappointment on his face
During his first year at Faith high, he got into a fight with a group of third years. He ended up beating them up with ease without receiving a single blow. Two days after, he was approached by another group of third years to avenge their companions. But the fight ended with the same results with Marco coming out with no injuries whatsoever. He kept getting approached by the third years but each fight ended with him beating them up. After that, they stopped messing with him and students started calling him the Bronze Tiger of the West. This is the reason people stopped approaching him because they were scared he would beat them up.
Seeing Marco's mood, jack started to cheer him up
"Look on the bright side, those bastards won't be messing with you for long time now."
"I guess you are right"
"Let's grab a bite together, You didn't have lunch yet, right?" Marco added
""Kay. So Mark, cafeteria or school store?"
"Let's see… The school store today, I guess."
He didn't like crowds, so he decided to buy something at random and eat it at an isolated place.
"Then we better hurry. If we don't, there won't be anything decent left."
Saying so, Jack started walking. When mark caught up next to him,
"Did you hear about the new girl"
Hearing Marco's question, Jack smiled.
"Of course I did, it was a hot topic before you showed up"
"Don't tell me you're interested" Jack asked in shock
"Something like that" Marco shortly replied
"It's about time, I even thought you were gay" Jack said with a smirk on his face.
"w-wait what?" Marco asked in shock
"haha just kidding, apparently that are rumors that she came from Japan"
"oh is that so" Marco wondered why she would leave Japan and come to this city to study but it wasn't his business so he decided not to pry into her business.
"Aw, we're too late after all."
When they arrived at the school store, there was already a long line before the food.
Along with Jack, whose expression had turned bitter, Marco lined up at the end of the line, where jack suddenly said
"If you decide to shoot your shot with Princess Yuki, I advise you to do it in an isolated area."
"What, they are already calling her princess." Marco said with a shocked expression.
Mark didn't think that she will become so popular on her first day here so he was surprised.
"It appears that she has quite the passionate fans, things are about to get lively around here." Jack said while looking at the beginning of the line.
Then jack suddenly showed a nasty smile.
"So Mark, when are you going to ask her out"
"Its not like that" Marco replied to his best friend ridiculous question.
Jack sighed upon hearing Marco's words
"At this rate, you will never get a girlfriend"
"You say that but you don't have a girlfriend yourself." Marco replied with a straight face.
Jack who was taken aback by his best friend ruthless attack, couldn't come up with a counter. He mumbled "shut up" as he moved forward.
Seeing his friend cute reaction, he decided to attack him again.
"So when are you going to ask Yuhiko out, if you don't do anything another guy is going steal her you know." Mark said with a smirk on his face.
Jack had a crush on the class rep as long he could remember. so he decided to use that fact to finish him off.
"s-shut up" jack mumbled as he received the full force of Marco's second attack.
"Haha" Marco laughed seeing jack reaction. It was rare seeing jack ask this way since he usually the one always doing the teasing not the other way around.
---After school.
Marco can be seen walking on the streets to his house with his hands in his pocket. His house wasn't that far from his school so it would take around him around twenty minutes to get there.
Befitting the season, the sun was still up high and there were a lot of students making way to their homes. Walking forward, Marco shifted his gaze to his right and saw a group of kids playing without care in the world.
Marco smiled as he looked upon the group of kids. They reminded him of himself when he was younger. When he used to play with friends. when he was carefree and cheerful.
Marco's expression suddenly turned bitter when he recalled some unpleasant memories he was trying to forget.
As he kept moving forward, he suddenly stopped. He sensed something was wrong, no something was definitely wrong. It suddenly turned quiet. He could not hear or see cars moving, the people who were walking on the streets were no where to be found. The whole place was quiet as a graveyard.
As the dawn of realization hit him, he quickly fixed his gaze on his right and saw the group of kids who where playing, was no there anymore.
Seeing this, Marco cursed under his breath. There was only one thing that could cause such a phenomena to occur. A race of unearthly beings who almost purged the world into darkness, a race that dwell in the world of darkness.
"DEVILS"