Mio and Reku, with a gleeful Destiny humming while sitting on Reku's shoulders, walked through the halls of Lumilight Acadamy. Mio twiddled her fingers together as she tried to figure out why the song Destiny was humming sounded so familiar.
"Is something wrong?" Reku asked as he placed a hand on Mio's shoulder. Mio freaked out at the sensation of Reku's hand and jumped back from him. Reku retracted his hand back and to his side.
"S-sorry..." Mio mumbled. Reku awkwardly chuckled and rubbed the back of his head with his other hand.
"Don't worry about it, I forgot about your... situation.". Reku continued to console and reassure Mio she doesn't need to apologise as the trio turned around a corner.
"Ho-ho, if it isn't my lifelong rivals- ouch" a girly voice managed to say before Reku abruptly tripped over something and landed with a loud thud. Destiny was completely unharmed as she sat on Reku's back; she looked behind her and spotted the person Reku had tripped over. She was a short, roughly the height inbetween Reku(tall) and Destiny(super short), slightly fair-skinned teen, with long-bright-blonde hair styled in the shape of lightning bolts that ends glowed.
The girl snapped out of her dazed state and quickly crawled out from under Reku's legs. She sporadically stood up and crossed her arms while putting on a forced smug expression.
"Ho-oh ow..., it seems I win this confrontation this time, Reku." the girl said as her super pale yellow feathery wings and bright blonde cat ears frantically twitched. The angel cat girl was about to say something else before she was struck on the head by a white-gloved hand.
"Why is the first thing you do apon arriving at the academy is to harass young Reku, Tanya?". Tanya covered her head with her hands and looked up at the guy (who looked like a tall male version of her apart from him having short spiky hair) with her bright cyan eyes.
"Why'd you hit me Kinko!?" a bewildered Tanya yelled while trying not to cry. Kinko noticed that Mio was staring at him.
"Ahh, you must be young Mio, my sister speaks highly of you and Reku; you may refer to me as Mercury Voltium" Mercury stated while regally bowing. Mio blushed and embarrassingly/dismissively waved her hands. Mercury let out a single restrained chuckle as Reku stood back up and pinched his nose. Reku turned revealing he had multiple lines of blood running from his nose while Destiny was trying to wipe the blood away with a small magic bubble. Tanya instantly jumped onto her knees and slammed her head on the ground.
"I'm so sorry!" Tanya passionately yelled. Tanya continued to plead for Reku's forgiveness.
"It's fine, just don't stand around corners in the future.". Tanya relievedly stood up and demanded Mercury heal Reku.
"That won't be necessary," Reku remarked as his wings and the white parts of his hair colour-shifted to black for a few seconds before reverting back to white. Reku unpinched his nose and wiped the remaining blood off his face.
"Well if you say so... wait a second.". Tanya's eyes met with Destiny, causing Destiny to tilt her head in a confused manner as she sat back on Reku's shoulders. Tanya abruptly pointed her finger at Reku's face, making him move his head backwards slightly.
"Why is the princess using you like a jungle gym, and why is she wrapping her legs around your neck like a neck warmer?". Mercury looked over at Destiny, who was at eye level with him before she smiled at him.
"It strange how I didn't notice her, and Tanya shouldn't you be more concerned that the princess is in front of you over what she's doing?".
"Huh, why?" Tanya asked. Mercury disappointedly and dismissively shook his head at his sister's Reku-focused tunnel vision.
"Nevermind, just make sure you're not late for the assembly." Mercury requested before he started to walk off.
"Where are you going?" a confused Tanya asked.
"As the student council president, it's my responsibility to inform the faculty that the princess is here, and don't be late for the assembly, capeesh.".
"Capeesh..." Tanya sadly repeated with Destiny comforting her by patting her on the head.
Later on, Mio, Destiny, Reku and Tanya, along with thousands of other students, sat inside the indoor stadium-looking auditorium. Some of the students could be heard whispering to each other as a sleeping Destiny, with a smug look on her face rested her head against Reku's chest while sitting on his lap.
"For a child, she doesn't seem to have much energy," Tanya remarked as she lightly poked Destiny's cheek, causing Destiny to make funny noises as Tanya moved her finger up and down. Mio looked away from Destiny and looked down at her hands. Mio slowly lifted her hand in an attempt to poke Destiny's face but she suddenly stopped herself when she heard footsteps reverberate from the auditorium stage.
All of the students stopped murmuring and looked down at the stage. Mercury, now wearing a white haori and carrying a katana in a white sheath, walked to the centre of the stage before turning to face the student body and slamming the tip of the sheath into the stage, silencing the few students that were still talking.
"Greetings and salutations fellow students of Lumilight Academy, especially to the first years amongst us. Although the majority of you know who I am, I still feel it's appropriate for me to properly introduce myself, for the benefit of the first-years and any other newcomers; that being said; I am Mercury Voltium, student council president and the number one ranked student in the country.". The students quietly whispered amongst themselves until Mercury started to speak again.
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"As many of you have noticed, the other members of the school council are currently not here today. That is because they are currently filing students' files for the upcoming event, well more accurately new academic program, but I think it would be better if I let our guest, who I'm sure you all know very well, explain it.".
Destiny instantly opened her eyes, startling Mio which in turn startled Reku and Tanya, and sat up straight with a large childish and goofy grin on her face as she intently stared at the auditorium stage.
"Geez you scared me, I thought you were asleep," Tanya remarked.
"I was saving my energy since father mentioned that Magistrate Zulcrestus was going to be here." Destiny gleefully explained while keeping her eyes fixed on the stage. Mio, Reku and especially Tanya, along with some of the students that heard Destiny, were shocked at hearing that Magistrate Zulcrestus might be the guest Mercury had mentioned.
Heavy footsteps echoed throughout the auditorium as Zulcrestus, in his altered templar/paladin armour with a sheathed Novathane floating behind his back and carrying a long katana in a white sheath in his right hand by its sageo, walked over to Mercury.
The assembly of students struggled to contain their excitement, cheering Zulcrestus' name, but instantly became silent when Zulcrestus turned towards the student. Mio felt an overwhelming wave of intimidation rush through her body which became accentuated when Zulcrestus glanced in her general direction. However, she subconsciously knew he was probably looking at Destiny. Mio glanced over at Destiny who was gleefully waving. Mio relievedly sighed and wiped her forehead.
"Given that I'm a busy and pragmatic person, I'll make this brief. As your student council president illuded to, under direct orders from his excellency Emperor King Providence Luminous, it has been deemed that there needs to be a change to the way academic practices are carried out." Zucrestus callously explained. The assembly of students looked at each other whilst murmuring.
"Although I don't know the complete ins and outs of all the changes, I was informed that standardized tests are going to be abolished for more in-depth and personalised tests," Zulcrestus added. The students erupted into even louder cheers and applauding, with Destiny confusedly looking around before mimicking what everyone was doing. Mio covered her ears as the applauding continued.
After the assembly, Mio rubbed her ears as she and other students walked through the academy halls. She looked down at the green holographic A5-sized panel, along with a yellow high-tech touch screen watch, that she received as she was leaving the auditorium. Mio inspected her panel and meekly sighed. The panel stated the following;
[Mio Maouhideo][First-Year]
[Student Number: 02876]
[Rank: 00053]
[Class: S-1(Special/Year-One)]
[Student Credit: 6,549]
"Are you disappointed with your placement?" Reku asked while struggling to put on his white and blue gradient touch screen watch, with Destiny intently looking at her own panel while sitting on Reku's shoulders. Mio slowly shook her head.
"N-no it's... I'm fine with it." Mio stuttered as she showed her student panel to Reku.
"What a coincidence," Reku remarked. Mio raised an eyebrow and looked at Reku's panel as he presented it to her. A tint of happiness filled Mio's eyes as she read Reku's student panel.
[Reku Highcrest][First-Year]
[Student Number: 07676]
[Rank: 00021]
[Class: S-1(Special/Year-One)]
[Student Credit: 5,918]
"As expected of my rivals, just like I, we are all in the same class." Tanya smugly remarked as she flew ahead of Mio, Reku and Destiny. Reku sighed and looked up at Tanya.
"So- why is your watch in your hair?" Reku asked as he noticed Tanya was using her pale cyan touch screen watch as a hair tie to tie all the lightning bolt-shaped hair on the right side of her head into a single large lightning bolt.
"Well, Kinko told me my azure ability would mess with the watch if I have skin contact with it so he told me to do this," Tanya explained while presenting her student panel.
[Tanya Voltium][First-Year]
[Student Number: 00792]
[Rank: 00020]
[Class: S-1(Special/Year-One)]
[Student Credit: 28,083]
"... why do you have so much student credit?" Reku asked. Tanya's face cringed as she instantly recalled the reason.
"Kinko made me participate in every event during the college's open day last month..." Tanya exhaustedly replied. Both Mio and Reku looked at each other.
"Guess that explains why we didn't see you then," Reku added. Tanya nodded her head as she stored her student panel in her watch. Reku and Mio copied Tanya and stored away their student panels as well.
"Is having a high student credit bad?" Destiny asked as she leaned over Reku's head and in front of his face. Destiny pressed the rainbow-coloured gem on her silver tiara and pulled her student panel out.
"Of course not why do you-?". Reku abruptly paused and choked as he read Destiny's student panel. Mio and Tanya glanced at the panel and both simultaneously tilted their heads.
[Destiny von Luminous][First-Year]
[Student Number: 02072]
[Rank: 00006]
[Class: S-1(Special/Year-One)]
[Student Credit: 2,865,367]
Destiny nervously looked at the trio as they inspected her student panel.
"And I thought my student credit was high, imagine what she could buy at the school shop," Tanya remarked as she took Destiny's student panel and stored it back into Destiny's tiara. Mio, Reku and Destiny looked at Tanya with a confused expression, which made Tanya nervously chuckle.
"Oh, so it's money?" Destiny asked as her worried and confused expression faded away.
"Phew, I thought I did something weird, yeah student credit is sort of like money. Basically, Kinko mentioned that student credit can be used in stores that are working with the academy, or it can be exchanged into Valts but not the other way around. Weren't you listening to him during the assembly?" Tanya stated.
The trio along with the other students who were listening shook their heads in unison. Tanya looked dumbfounded and disappointedly shook her head.
"Now I know how Kinko feels whenever he lectures me," Tanya remarked to herself.