Soba arrives at the kingdom's capital, Seinaru City.
Soba: "Just have to find him and then we can join the Dragon Fangs together, everything can go like we planned. White hair, white hair…..there!"
Soba runs up to a white haired boy and grabs him by the shoulder.
Soba: "Karito!"
Karito turns to face Soba and once he sees him, his face turns to disgust. Soba reaches towards him and Karito slaps his hand away.
Karito: "What are you doing here, Soba? You're not supposed to be here."
Soba: "What do you mean? We're supposed to join the Dragon Fangs together! I even got a sword now."
Soba smiles and holds up Chikara.
Karito: "You think that's all you need? Luke himself rejected you. You're marked by the fairies. You shouldn't even have that sword."
Karito reaches for Chikara, but Soba grabs his hand before he could touch her. They stare at each other before both jumping back and pulling out our swords.
Soba: "What's wrong with you Karito? We're supposed to be brothers!"
Karito: "Don't think for a second that I still consider you my brother. How can you call yourself the son of Kase and be a puppet for the fairies!"
Soba gets an intense feeling of rage course through him and he rushes at Karito, but before he can hit him two men come between them and stop them. One man with short orange hair was smiling at Soba while holding his wrist, and the other with long white hair and closed eyes, was holding Karito by the shoulder.
Soba: "Arthur…"
Karito: "Merlin…"
Soba and Karito: "Dragon!?"
They both were starstruck.
Merlin: "Karito, you're going to be joining the Dragon Fangs, so don't go getting into pointless fights."
Merlin spoke first. His voice was calming to a scary degree. Karito swallowed.
Karito: "Yes Captain Merlin."
Then Arthur spoke.
Arthur: "You'll be coming with me, Soba. Try to control YOUR guild Merlin."
Soba could smell the spite. He had heard that the Dragon Brothers had a falling out but he didn't know Arthur left the guild.
Soba: "Y-yeah, OK."
Soba felt embarrassed that he stuttered in front of Arthur Dragon. Arthur walks away with his arm around Soba's shoulder. Soba looks back and sees Karito walking with Merlin. Arthur walks him back to a group of four other people. Three girls, two older than Soba but only slightly and one his age. There was also a boy who looked the same age as the oldest girl. Soba felt down seeing that they were all taller than him. The girl his age had long blonde hair, she was wearing the academy clothes so Soba assumed that she was fresh out of training. The oldest looking girl was actually the shortest, her hair was slightly shorter than the blonde girl and it was black. She was wearing a mostly black outfit with a white shirt underneath her jacket. There was a name tag on her jacket "Meiji. C". The third girl was the oddest. She had shoulder length teal hair, but the odd part was that she had a bow and quiver full of arrows. Then there was the boy. He had short black hair that was mostly sticking upwards but what was odd about him was that he was wearing the same outfit as Meiji but the colors were inverted. He had a name tag too "Bakku. Vc".
Arthur: "Six should be enough, especially considering who we are."
Arthur nodded at Meiji. She perked up like she was waiting for his order to speak.
Meiji: "OK, my name is Meiji Pikushī, the leader of the White Petals. I'm happy to welcome you all to my guild!"
She ended with a smile and looked at Bakku.
Bakku: "Right, I'm Bakku Fenikkusu, Vice Captain of the White Petals. Welcome!"
He then looked at Arthur.
Arthur: "As you may know, I am Arthur Dragon the new Ace of the White Petals."
The other three looked like they were trying to avoid laughing.
???: "Did you three rehearse this or are you all messing with us."
The teal hair girl spoke up. Arthur looked dumbfounded.
Bakku: "I told you they wouldn't like that."
Arthur: "I thought kids would like introductions like that."
Bakku: "How can a 23 year old man be out of touch with the youth?"
Meiji just smiled.
Meiji: "Be nice Bakku, Arthur tried!"
Bakku: "And failed."
Arthur starts looking depressed.
Meiji: "Anyways, this is the White Petals. We were struggling to even call ourselves a real guild until Arthur came to us a month ago."
Arthur then perked up.
Arthur: "Yeah, I thought this guild had potential but was just lacking the power to become top tier. So I found three people outside myself that had the potential to be great. Ite."
He pointed at the girl with the bow.
Arthur: "You were a part of the Blood Knights last year and even faced off against Lady Robin herself. You were a must. Seiteki."
He pointed at the blonde girl.
Arthur: "You've got a four fanged blade and exceptional skill. There's also that secret of yours. Don't worry I'll let you tell them."
She looked distraught and looked away. He then pointed at Soba.
Arthur: "Soba. You're the one I was hoping to get the most but I doubted you'd get a sword. I'm happy you did. If you want the truth, Miyamoto and Luke asked me to look over you, and recruiting you is the best way to do that."
Soba started to feel his blood boil after hearing his name. Luke. Then Seiteki spoke for the first time which brought his mind off of it.
Seiteki "So you picked us because we had potential and him because…."
Her sentence faded off. Soba glared at her. He wasn't mad but thought that her not mentioning it just brought more attention to the situation.
Soba: "Because I´m the Marked Boy."
Soba grabs his left hand and pulls his glove farther up.
Ite: "Because what?"
Soba wasn't mad. It wasn't as if she was trying to make him uncomfortable. She just didn't understand. He took his glove off and showed her his left hand.
Soba: "Ever since I was a baby this mark was on my hand but it doesn't mean anything. It's just a birthmark."
Ite looked surprised.
Ite: "I heard that there was a boy born with the marking of the fairies in the Sword Kingdom. You must've been through a lot."
Soba: "I don't need your pity."
Ite: "I'm not pitying you, just recognizing."
There was an awkward silence after that. Meiji was the one to speak up.
Meiji: "So who wants to go get their uniforms!?"