On around the middle-left area of Sage Island, there was a girl's academy, Crown's Regal Institute, the one that you attended. Along with your school were the other academies, Night Raven and Royal Sword, both all-boys. Crown's Regal was not involved in the two school's rivalry, of course. The only times the three schools would see each other was during the annual Sage Island tournament the school spelldrive teams would participate in, ones that you did not play in, as you saw no point in doing so.

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The yearly tournament was coming up, and with it, the yearly socializing craze. Every year, there was an event where housewardens and spelldrive captains of the different schools would circulate around other academies on different days and meet their opponents before the games. You, however, were convinced that this would just get the fight out of the rather hostile NRC students (who clearly only participated in the games for the chance to beat RSA's asses) before the actual tournament. Nontheless, despite not being very involved in the entire event, you were still sent to NRC for a day because you were a housewarden.

You tried to keep it down low as much as you could. NRC... there were nice ones, yes, such as the boy with his flying carpet, but you'd heard the stories and knew it was better to not speak too much. Save the talk for the cheering and trash talk during the actual tournament, where you had a less chance of being beaten up. Unfortunately for you, staying away from social interactions will prove impossible when you catch the eye of Floyd Leech.

Lunch time and you were alone with your phone and a juice box. The others you usually hung out with were either in RSA or not sent for the annual trade off. The first half of the day had actually went by smoother than you expected. You didn't get into an argument like last year. However... when there's silence, there's buildup.

BAM The sound of a loud lunch tray dropping down next to you and clattering made you jump out of your skin. You looked up, concerned- and was faced by the tall figure of a man with sharp teeth and teal-and-black hair. He didn't seem to notice that he bothered you, instead sitting down next to you and scooting way too close into your space.

"Hey-hey~!" The boy said energetically with a slur, waving at you with a smirk and chin on his palm. Who is this, exactly...? "You're cool. Reaaal cool. And pretty!" He leaned back in his seat, then forward, swinging his legs. "Eh? You remind me of shrimp. Like I could eat ya~ ha!"

...What in the actual... You continued to sit, only letting out noises of confusion or acknowledgement in hopes that he would just leave. Your efforts were sadly in vain.

"What's ya name? Or should I just call ya koebi, ey?" The man grinned his sharp toothed grin, one that was rather mischievious if you stared. "Koebiiii-chan~! I'm Floyd, heheheh."