“Hey kid, move over,” I heard a male voice, followed by a thud. I turned my head where it had been laying on a table to see a red headed boy sitting down on the seat next to me with a scrawny kid on the floor.

He had stolen the kid’s seat so that he could talk with his friends about a hot model on a magazine his friend brought.

“Hey Tamaki,” I called out to the red haired kid, “I don’t think that seats yours.”

He turned to face me, “So what? He isn’t saying anything,” He turned to the kid with a threatening glare, “Are you?”

“N-n-no,” the kid scrambled to his feet and ran out of the room.

Seeing him run off, I sighed before laying my head back down.

“Heh,” Tamaki gave a short a short laugh before turning back to his friends.

Honestly, why does no one have any back bone these days?

I soon began to doze off. After a few minutes, I had almost fallen asleep when the classroom door was slammed open. All the chatter in the classroom stopped. Then, I heard footsteps coming my way.

Oh, boy. Here we go again.

“Get up Kira. I know you’re not sleeping yet,” A girl said.

I looked up to see a beautiful blonde haired girl standing next to my desk with her hands on her hips.

“Hey Mia. What does the high school belles want with me?”

She frowned when I said this, “You promised to meet me at the mall yesterday but you never showed up! You didn’t even pick up your phone and I ended up waiting two hours! Two!”

I put my head back down as she continued to rant on and on.

“Hey Kira, are you listening?!”

“Look, Mia, “I spoke without looking up, “I never promised you anything. You’re the one who kept telling me to meet you there while I said I’m going to be busy.”

“You always say you’re busy” Mia replied, “I asked you every single day for the past month, but you always refuse me! What is it that you don’t like about me?”

I groaned, “Mia. We’re in our junior years in high school. Shouldn’t you be busy with, you know, studying and stuff? And besides, why are you so focused on me. I think that we barely pass as friends considering that the only thing we have related is studying in the same class for the past month.”

“I’ve told you already. It’s love at first sight.”

“It’s just a temporary feeling. It’ll wear off.”

Mia continued to talking, trying to get me to promise to meet her somewhere after class, but I simply ignored her and tried to doze off again.

“Class is starting. Take your seats.”

No~. My nap time was wasted by Mia.

I slowly sat up and saw Akane sensei standing at the front of the room. As usual she had her hair tied in a ponytail and was wearing a tight black suit that accentuated her voluptuous hourglass figure. Contrary to her strict appearance, she was known to be one of the friendliest teachers on campus and was extremely popular. Especially amongst the males teacher and students.

“Next time I’ll get him to-,” I heard Mia mumble before she walked away.

I wryly shook my head as I watched her take her seat in the front of the class. I honestly couldn’t figure out why she was so attached to me after just one meeting. As far as I knew, she was rated as one of the top belle in our school and was rich to boot, and all I am is a regular high school student who was living alone while having to work to pay for my bills.

“Kira? Is Kira Takamoto here?” I snapped to reality as Akane sensei called my name.

“Here,” I raised my hand.

Akane sensei looked my way and smiled, “Good to know you’re in class. I just hope your mind can stay here to.”

There was a short laughter before she called the next person for attendance.

Bored, I stared out the window. There were already some students running laps outside. As I continued to stare outside, everything suddenly turned pitch black.

“What?!”

“Woah!”

“Huh?”

The class panicked as I heard the sound of chairs and tables scraping on the floor. After a few second, the ground heavily shook, making me lose my balance and fall to the floor.

As I dived under the table, I noticed a strange feeling.

This is. No, it can’t be. That’s impossible.

I frowned as I felt something that shouldn’t exist in this world. Something that I had thought I would never sense again after reincarnating into this world.

It’s mana. But how? . . . Is this a summoning? But who would have the power do summon from another manaless world? And why would they?

As I tried to figure out what was happening, a bright flash from outside blinded me.

When the light dimmed back down, it was still dark, but not pitch black like before. When I looked up at the windows from underneath the desk, I froze.

Outside, glowing in the night sky, were two moons, one blue and one red.

“Ellaina and Rylaia,” I whispered,

I rushed to the windows to get a good look. Outside, I was able to see the fences that bordered the school, and past that, a large clearing of dirt. In the distant, under the moonlight, I was barely able to make out a dark line that I guessed to be a forest.

I sensed several people walking towards the window.

Mana sensing. So my powers are back.

“This. Where are we?” a male student asked.

“Lyria,” I absentmindedly replied.

“But, but we were just in Tokyo. And where the hell is Lyria? In Europe?” Another student asked.

Mia shakily found her way to me and clung to my arm, “Kira, what just happened?”

I grabbed a chair and sat her down, “I’m not exactly sure. But I think we’re in another world.”

“What do you mean?” Mia looked at me with teary eyes. Several other students heard what I said and came closer to listen.

I took a moment to gather my thoughts before speaking, “Those moons out there. The blue one is called Ellaina, the red one is Rylaia.”

“No one gives a fuck what those moons are called,” Tamaki suddenly screamed at me, “All we want to know is WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE?!”

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I glared at him, “We’re on the planet Lyria. Whether it’s in the same universe, a parallel universe, or another world altogether, I don’t know.”

“This has to be a prank right?” A shaky male voice said.

I turned to see the scrawny kid from earlier, “As far as I know, no.  But we should be safe; this planet isn’t anywhere close to the war zone. Well, when I was here, it wasn’t.”

“War?” This time Akane sensei spoke with a trembling voice,” Kira, what do you mean war? And how do you know this? Did you do this?”

“No. I have no idea who or what did this. And by war, I mean an intergalactic war,” I pointed up towards the sky, “In this world there are three races: the Eldra, the Raia, and the Vara.  The Eldra are the same as humans. The Raia are . . . I guess I would call them the elves of this world? They look human but they’re stronger, smarter, more beautiful, and have a far longer life span than us. We usually tell them apart from us using their tattoos. Keep in mind to never piss a Raia off. It will definitely not end well for you.”

A female student raised her hand, so I pointed at her, “What about the Vara.”

“The Vara,” I frowned, “Sometimes they look like overgrown bugs. Sometimes like dragons or big wolves. They can shape shift freely to adapt to the situation. They are highly intelligent, but extremely dangerous. They view anything other than themselves as lesser than them, and will not hesitate to kill to take what they want. There is no reasoning with them, and they are near impossible to kill.”

The female student raised her hand again, “So the reason why you are in this galactic war is to fight off the Vara?”

“Correct. Not that hard to figure out right?”

The whole class grew quiet. Then Tamaki out of nowhere pulls out a knife and points it at me, causing nearby students to scream and jump away, “This is bullshit. There’s no way that this is all real. First you’re telling me we got teleported to another world, now you’re saying that you know all about this world and about a war and some shit? Don’t fuck with me.”

I narrowed me eyes. I had figured this guy was all talk and no walk, but to pull out a knife. I was seriously starting to get pissed off at him.

Faster than anyone could blink, I grabbed his arm that was holding the knife and squeezed. A few seconds later, Tamaki was rolling on the floor screaming with a broken arm.

I knelt down beside him and grabbed his face so that he was forced to look at me, “Look here. This is my world now. And in this world, there is only one rule. The strong makes the rule. There are no teachers who will step in to protect you. There are no consequences for the strong who step on the weak here. And here’s the fact. You are weak. You are nothing. Even if I killed you now, no one would say anything. So if you don’t want to end up as Vera food, I’d suggest you keep your mouth shut while I explain what I can. Got it?”

He did not reply, but looking at the fear in his eyes, he probably learned his lesson.

When I stood back up, most of the students were a bit further back than I remembered except for Mia. She was looking at me like she was looking at an idol. I was honestly wondering if there was something wrong with the way her brain worked at this point.

“Alright. Next is magic.” Some of the student’s eyes lit up.

I held up a hand and several symbols appeared, interlacing with each other.

“In this world, you are able to manipulate mana into spells. Depending on the symbol you use and how to put them together, they create different effects. One example is the physical boost I just used to break Tamaki’s arm,” several of them unconsciously glanced down at the still shivering boy on the floor, “Anyone is able to use mana, but it takes a lot of work to even be able to start manipulating mana.”

“Can you teach us?” A student asked.

I shook my head and replied, “Not way. It takes years to be able to even begin manipulating mana. Usually you would need to learn how to do so at an academy.”

“Then what about her?” The student asked, pointing at my side.

I turned my head and was frozen in place.

Mia turned to meet my gaze and smiled innocently as a glowing blue mist twirled like a mini tornado between her hands.

Yeah. There is definitely something wrong with the way her brain works. There’s no way that she was able to figure out how to manipulate mana by herself in just a few moments when even geniuses take weeks under guidance.

I face palmed as I tried to figure what to make of this strange girl that I met a month ago.

“Hey guys?” The scrawny student called out to us, “Something’s coming. And there are a lot of them.”

Everyone, except for Tamaki who was whimpering on the floor, and Mia who was engrossed in her mini mana tornado, all rushed towards the window.

Out in the horizon, I was able to make out several hundred large shapes making their way towards us with search lights.

I activated a small spell that enhanced my vision. My vision then magnified.

There were several flying objects that looked similar to large fighter jets rapidly closing in our position. On the sides of the planes, I was able to make out images of a Two semi overlapping circles within a larger circle. The symbols stood for the two moons and Lyria. Seeing this image, I was unable to stop a grin from surfacing on my face.

“Follow me,” I called out to everyone and quickly ran outside. On the way, I saw students from other classes already on the field.

After I made my way to the front gate, I raised an arm up in the sky, and activated a spell. A large symbol appeared above my head, an image of a crescent moon surrounded by stars.

“What is that?” I turned my head to see that Mia was standing behind me out of breath.

“A sigil. It’s kind of like a flag identifying which faction you belong to. When I lived in this world, this was mine.”

“So you know these people,” the scrawny kid had finally caught up.

“Yeah. They’re from the Edrain nation. One of the largest nations that spans the world. There must have been a military outpost nearby considering how many there are and how fast they got here. They must have picked up our life readings and made their way here to check things out.”

“Those aircrafts seem pretty high tech for a magical world,” Mia commented.

“Just because we use magic doesn’t mean we don’t have technology. In fact, magic probably helped our technology grow even faster.”

By then, the air crafts had already reached us and some were beginning to decent while other silently hovered in the air.

From the ships that landed, hundreds of soldiers in full body black gear wielding futuristic guns rushed out and surrounded the school gate where most of the school had gathered.

One of the black geared soldiers walked half way towards us and lifted his visors showing a middle aged man with a scar running across one eye.

[“What is the identification code for the royal magister’s sigil?]” He spoke in a language only Kira was able to understand.

I stepped forward, “[Moonlight and Stars.]

 “[Withdraw weapons. The IC was correct.] The scar faced soldier had a strange expression when he checked a monitor on his wrist while the other soldiers were whispering to each other.

“[The IC states that code belongs to the royal magister himself],” The man had a confused look on his face, “[But you look nothing like the royal magister. And it was even rumored that he had died several years ago.]

“[What? You don’t like my new look captain bloodwater?]” I smiled as I held out a hand.

When he heard me say that he froze before he took a huge step and gave me a bear hug, “[It’s been seven years comrade! And it’s general now Virk.]”

He held me out at arm’s length and sized me up, “[And hell. You look like such a scrawny kid. What happened to you? Did you undergo a DNA modifier to get a new younger look?]”

“[Hell no. Those surgeries take decades from your lifespan. It’s just that a bunch of things happened and I ended up in this weird situation.]”

“[General Craz. What does this kid mean by captain bloodwater?]” One of the soldiers had crept close and was listening to our conversation.

Craz looked away slightly embarrassed while I simply laughed, “[Do they still have the old barrack system used in 13XXX?]” I asked.

The soldier nodded.

I grinned, [“Then have you seen what happens to a naïve man when they first join the military?]”

The soldier thought for a moment before he froze and busted out laughing. He ran off while yelling for his fellow soldiers, “[Hey guys! Hear this out.]”

Craz was putting me in a choke hold when several of my classmates walked forward, “Hey Kira,” Mia tugged my sleeve, “So what’s going on.”

“Just met an old friend,” I smiled at her before turning back to Craz.

“[I need you to transport all of these people back to the city and put them under surveillance until I figure out what to do with them.]”

Craz crossed his arms together, “[That’s a lot of paper work. And who are these guys? Most of them are pretty young and from their mana readings that we got, all of them are F-rank. They wouldn’t even qualify for a worker class license.]”

“[Classified. But can you do this for me?]” I pleaded.

“[If this was a normal situation, I would say no. But since it’s a royal magister’s request, why the hell not.]” He then held his hand next to his ear and ordered out a string of commands. The soldiers who had been laughing and joking around instantly snapped to attention and moved to direct the students and teachers into the planes.

In order to avoid misunderstandings with the language barrier between the two sides, I borrowed a speaker from Craz and announced to the students that they would be taken somewhere safe for the time being so they should follow the soldiers.

The soldiers moved quickly and efficiently, and it took only half an hour to load up everyone from my school.

Soon, the only one left on the ground was me, Craz, and Mia. For some reason, Mia refused to separate from me.

Seeing that everyone else from my school had left, I turned to Craz, “[Can you drop me off at my headquarters? I haven’t been able to go back home in years.”]

Craz awkwardly scratched his head, “[Actually, can you first come to see the emperor? He was always worried sick when you suddenly disappeared. He even started growing gray hair. And Rina. Oh god Rina. ]” A shiver ran through his body, “[Definitely meet with her. You can’t imagine the hell we went through when she heard that you went missing.]”

Hearing Rina’s name, I frowned. I had always worried about how she would react when she found out that I disappeared, but hearing Craz, it might have been a lot worse than I thought.

“[Alright I’ll go meet with them right now. And for her-]” I looked at Mia and as though she could sense what I was talking about, she clung to my arm, “[I guess I’ll need to take her with me.]”

“[. . . Rina’s going to kill you.]” Craz sighed.

“[I’ll be fine. There’s nothing going on between me and this girl and me and Rina. I told her this hundreds of times.]” I shrugged.

“[She still says otherwise.]”

We then boarded the last aircraft that was waiting for us. The inside was spacious with seats lined up along the side.

Finding an empty seat next to a random soldier and closed my eyes as I thought about to the hectic day I had. Before I dozed off, I had one simple thought in my head.

I’m home.