Alisa slammed her hand on the table, the sound echoing.

"Exactly! That’s the most horrendous crime humanity could ever commit." She said with utter seriousness.

"Obviously, it is," Seras replied, her voice dripping with sarcasm as she shot Alisa a sideways glance.

Marcus glanced at Emily and mumbled with a smug look, "I’m still waking up, give me some time to wake up completely."

"Hey! I was a kid!" Emily retorted with a pissed tone almost instantly.

"Well let’s continue the intro," Seras said. "Alisa is proficient with dark affinity, and she also likes to learn a lot of spells. She's quite the opposite of me when it comes to learning," Seras explained with a neutral tone.

"And about your other idiot seniors, since they decided that exploring dungeons and forging weapons is cooler, let's just skip them," Alisa said with a pissed look.

"Oh, I love it when you're like this," Seras said playfully, punching Alisa.

"Nah, they deserve it. Maybe not Erik, since exploring dungeons is a necessity for him, but Braun definitely does. I bet he's thinking he'll just meet the first years tomorrow like it's nothing..." Alisa paused, then turned to Seras with a raised eyebrow. "Wait, have you even told him?"

"The night is rather nice tonight, isn’t it?" Seras added, running a hand through her pink hair, trying to calm herself as a look of anxiety crossed her face.

"Idiot Seras. Well, whatever, you’re not responsible for them, so it's not entirely your fault I guess," Alisa said with an exaggerated tone.

Seras nodded, "Yes exactly, I knew you would understand." She then turned her attention to the first years and noticed Emily trying to stifle a yawn.

"Are you all tired?" Seras asked, looking at Arnos, Emily, and Marcus. "Today must have been a long day. You could all move into your rooms and rest," she suggested, looking at them.

"That would be nice," Emily said. "It was really tiring, the whole first-day thing."

"Agreed. It was like that for me too," Alisa added with a tired look. "It’s bad, like really bad, well about the rooms though, you all could take any of the 3 rooms from the four rooms on the right side of the stairs," Alisa said.

"But wouldn’t we have to ask the dorm instructor about room allotment?" Marcus asked, looking slightly confused.

"Hmm, that would be the right way, but Miss Margrave, who is our dorm instructor by the way, is kind of lenient about these things," Alisa said, giving a nonchalant look.

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Seras nodded at Alisa's comment.

"And, see, we have sixteen rooms for seven students right now. In other dorms, it’s essential for the dorm instructor to allot rooms to keep, you know, people with similar background together and all," Seras added.

"She sure is lenient," Arnos mumbled, thinking about the events from the headmaster’s speech.

"What was that?" Seras asked, looking at Arnos.

"Oh, it was nothing, Miss…"

"First of all," Seras interrupted, pointing at Arnos and the others, "just drop the 'Miss' part already. I prefer just Seras. 'Miss Seras' makes me sound like an old hag or something, you know," she said with a stern voice.

"And what were you saying? Now I’m curious—tell me," Seras persuaded Arnos.

"I second that. It seems like something interesting," Alisa said as she leaned back on the sofa.

Marcus and Emily looked at Arnos as well, both curious about what he meant.

"You won’t tell anyone else about this, right?" Arnos asked, slightly cautious.

"No, I obviously won’t, idiot," Seras replied.

Arnos nodded and began to speak.

"So basically, Mabel and I were late for the inauguration ceremony and were waiting outside the door because, well... we were terrified and all. And Miss Margrave kind of startled us by putting her hand on our shoulders, possibly to ask or scold us."

But she didn’t expose us. Instead, she told a small lie that we were helping her to save us from the headmaster’s scolding.

"You should have enough civic sense to not be late for the inauguration ceremony at the very least," Emily said in a slightly irritated tone.

"Yeah, that’s completely on me," Arnos admitted in an apologetic tone.

"Well, I told you all she’s good, didn’t I? So, Emily, Arnos, and Marcus, you can just take any of those four rooms—they’re practically identical. I think I’ll be awake late tonight, so I’ll make sure to inform Miss Margrave about the rooms you’re staying in for today, okay?

As for me and Alisa, we’ll be in the rooms on the left side—the first two rooms on the left as you turn. So, if you have any problems, you can come and ask us," Seras explained.

Alisa looked at Arnos and the others.

"About your outfits and other essentials, I take it you’ll all bring them tomorrow?" Alisa questioned.

Emily and Marcus nodded.

"I’ve already told my butler to bring my stuff and Marcus’s by tomorrow, so that’ll probably be the case," Emily replied.

"I’ll have to buy some nice clothes for myself," Arnos thought to himself. He hadn’t brought any of his older clothes with him and had no intention of doing so. He had saved up some money from odd jobs to buy a few pairs of modest outfits.

"You’ll all probably get your uniforms fitted by tomorrow," Seras added. She glanced at Emily and noticed her sleepy eyes yet again.

"And I think we could give you all a basic tour of the dorm tomorrow. Get some rest, kay?" she said with a smile.

With a small nod, Emily, Marcus, and Arnos stood from their seats. Emily and Marcus moved towards the right side of the hall, heading to the rooms assigned to them. Arnos was the last to move. As he stood, he glanced at Seras and Alisa.

"Good night," he said with a small bow before moving away. Emily and Marcus were standing outside the rooms, talking.

"I should let them choose which room they want to take," Arnos thought and stopped a few steps away from them.

"Emily," Marcus whispered in her ear, glancing at Arnos.

"If you want to apologize to him, you’d better do it now. He’s quite awkward around us, unable to talk, thinking you hate him or something."

Emily looked at the ground, not saying anything.

"Understood," she finally said as she moved towards Arnos.

Arnos noticed Emily approaching him and became slightly alert.

"Did I do something new to piss her off?" he thought to himself.