Mina continued her walk to the cafeteria. She had found the boy interesting, but he had to fight off the rest of his class by himself if he wanted to survive this world.

“Maybe we can be friends if he survives.” She thought but discarded it, no one survives the opening test of resilience.

Mina was born into a family of Rakes, man-eating monsters whose body stretched and worked in unnatural ways. She was lucky she was born with only a stretched mouth and not a mutilated body like her little brother did. She continued her way until finding the cafeteria. It was empty like usual, no one ate lunch at the school but she personally liked the food better than what everyone else would call food. Arriving at the counter, she asked the lunch lady for her usual.

“Coming right up.” The kind hearted siren behind the counter wheeled away to get her the food.

“Do you need any help?” Mina asked.

“No no no, It’s alright darling I got it-” the lunch lady said from somewhere in the kitchen. Mina patiently waited, most people got frustrated by how slow she was but Mina knew that trying to work in a wheelchair was frustrating. The lunch lady got the food to her a minute later.

“Enjoy!” The siren smiled with all her pointed teeth, she was genuinely grateful for Mina visiting her everyday.

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“I will.” Mina smiled as she took her plate to a table near the back of the cafeteria. She ate her meal for a total of three seconds before an entire class burst through the door following the guy from earlier. Mina realized the situation and was about to step in when the boy flipped around suddenly and took the head off a zombie girl and started using it as a weapon. She was impressed and when a vampire tried to get him from behind he kicked her across the cafeteria. Mina was amazed as he slowly but surely took at every single one of his classmates and the only one left standing was her and him.

“I never got to tell you my name.” He said.

She smiled. “Maybe I judged you wrong.”

He smiled back “Saken Kenji is a man who defies expectations!”

Mina laughed. “Alright mister corny, you came from another world right?”

Saken’s demeanor changed. “How did you know?”

“Word travels fast.” Mina replied, “You’ve been the talk of school for a while now.”

Saken looked worried, “Maybe sleeping outside was a good idea after all.”

Mina laughed, “Good luck with that.” She got up and left the cafeteria.

A few hours later, Mina was cleaning up after her last club activity and just happened to look out the window. She was not happy to see smoke rising from the wooded area behind the school. She quickly finished what she was doing and rushed outside. What Mina found didn’t surprise her. Saken was trying to light a fire and nearly set the woods behind the school on fire. She sighed and helped Saken put out the fire.

Mina looked at Saken and asked, “Would you rather just stay with me?”

Saken lowered his head, hiding his face. “If you would be so kind.”

Mina rolled her eyes, “Alright c’mon firestarter, let’s get you home.”