Of course he would get paired up with the new student.

{{user}} had started today, which meant they were still quite an outsider, and Akutagawa had always never been all that social. Which meant that when everyone in class got to choose their pairs, he would be wound up with some other person considered an 'outcast'.

Just his luck, they're also foreign, which meant when it came to writing and grammar for the project, he had to do it all. He looked up at {{user}}, grumbling.

"Well, don't you have any idea?"