"Class F huh?"

A woman in her mid-40s let out a long sigh of relief after hearing what class her nephew got into.

"No one ever graduates from Class F."

Nico nodded slightly to acknowledge this while looking like he is contemplating something. Aunt Mel, as he calls her, pulls a brown paper bag out of the fridge and hands it to Nico.

"You know that even if you went against my will that I will still support you, right?"

Nico shakes his head up and down to show that he gladly accepts this support and gets up from the bar stool he had been sitting on. As he goes to leave the house his eyebrows begin to furrow as he feels as if something was forgotten.

"Oh."

He turns around and can sense Aunt Mel staring at him angerly. He goes back into the kitchen and gives her a hug goodbye and finally leaves the house behind. Nico gets about 20 feet down the road and puts in some earbuds and starts a long playlist of songs on his phone. He begins to go down a mental checklist in his head to make sure he didn't forget anything.

'Notebook, check. Writing utensils, check. Lunch, check. Gym clothes, check-.'

As he went through the many things on his list, something begins to make extreme haste towards Nico from behind. Nico senses this and easily steps to the side, dodging the high-speed moving object right before it runs over him.

Nico is able to sense that this was, in fact, a human but someone who seemed to be in a big hurry. Nico just shakes his head side to side in a disappointed way and continues to walk down the street. The warmth of the sun seeps into Nico's body as he begins to feel rejuvenated by it even though his black school uniform is soaking in a little too much heat.

Nico begins to play with the gold buttons on his school uniform and manages to get his outer shirt jacket undone, leaving his white dress shirt out for the whole world to see. He loosens up his tie a bit and he begins to feel the breeze of the wind better and less restraint on his neck.

After 5 minutes of walking, Nico finally makes it to Kakashi College of Heroes and mentally prepares for his first day. Class F-1 is in the far back of the Right Wing of the school and the walk seems to take forever. The smell of perfume and deodorant permeates throughout the hallways and people are sizing each other up even on the first day of school. The Nature's Bane is the most competitive of all the courses so it is not uncommon for people to scout the competition this early. It all comes down to the Exams at the end, and knowing information about your opponents is the key to winning.

If you pass the Exams then you will enter your second year of The Nature's Bane course unless if you have the potential to go straight into combat. After your second year and your second Exams, you will finally either be hired into Nature's Bane or rejected and thrown back into the monster that is society.

Finally reaching his classroom, Nico opens the door to a fairly quiet classroom almost filled to the brim with people. Everyone in the room looks at Nico as he opens the door and they all give him judgemental stares. He simply shrugs it off and manages to find a seat in the front-middle of the room. He sits down and puts his backpack under his chair while waiting for the teacher to arrive. Something taps his shoulder and Nico takes out his earbuds. 

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"Hello! My name is Ika! Nice to meet you!"

The girl puts her hand out as she introduces herself to Nico. He continues to point his head in her direction for a few seconds and gives her a nod and turns back around. She lets out a surprised and worried "Wait what" as Nico turns around. She is slightly aggravated as her eyebrows seem to be twitching but he continues to ignore her. She runs around Nico's desk and makes it so her face is near inches from his.

"That's rude you know!" Ika says with a loud voice.

"Yeah, well it's also rude to use your magic to find out my abilities like that." Nico says.

"W-W-W-What do you mean?!" Ika says while repeatedly stuttering.

"I can detect magic and figure out what most spells are fairly easily. Yours is so simple that it took me a mere second to deduce you are using a soul magic where if contact is accepted, you receive information about the person. That includes magic abilities, strengths, weaknesses, and even favourite foods."

The girl named Ika stands there in shock as she had her powers figured out within the first hour of school. Not only did one person figure it out but now everyone in the classroom knows about it! Everyone she had shaken hands with are giving her dirty looks as her secret is revealed. Everyone else in the room sits there in amazement as Nico was able to deduce someone's magic without even opening his eyes.

Nico continues to sit there with his eyes closed and it seems that if he had his eyes open then he would be staring blankly into nothingness as he hardly moves a muscle from his position. By this point Ika, who had been defeated, sat back in her seat gloomily.

"Name's Nico by the way. Just so you know."

Ika perked up a bit as at least she got the mysterious boy's name. Everyone was truly surprised when a tall and slender boy walked into the room with his eyes closed and easily navigated throughout the room. Some people thought he had insane hearing and used echolocation and some assumed he was just so tired that he was already asleep but now they are slightly worried. They didn't know what to think about him now.

A woman in her late twenties walks into the room and puts down a pile of papers on the teacher's desk. She pushes her glasses up the bridge of her nose as she is sizing up the newest Class F with a sharp eye. Her eyes drift around the room and she gives herself a confident nod. She believes that this will be the Class that has someone who will be a part of The Nature's Bane. If not she loses her job so she has no other choice than to be confident. 

"Good morning students, my name is Julia Steffe but you will call me Ms. Steffe, and I will be your teacher until you pass or fail this class!"

As she writes her name on the board, her eyes target a specific student in the front row. He seems to be asleep already as he has not moved a muscle and it highly irritates Julia as she has high hopes for everyone in this class. Deciding that he needs to wake up, she takes the chalk she had just written her name with and throws it at him with blistering speed. The chalk should hit the student hard enough to make the chalk explode and almost give him a concussion but when it almost reaches his face his hand catches it out of nowhere.

Julia is completely speechless as after Nico caught the chalk he smashed it with his fist. The powder of the chalk falls out his hand and onto the floor. His eyes were still closed but to Julia, it seemed like he was staring right at her. With her pride hurt and being embarrassed in front of the whole class, Julia decides to use her powers to punish the young man.

"To the principal's office with you!"

Nico lets out a long sigh and shakes his head. Not even knowing where the principal's office is, Nico still leaves the room and begins to wander down the hallway he had just walked up minutes before.

'Already? God damnit.'