Today is the beginning of my high school life's second year. The spring is in the air, the sakura is flying along the wind, the sun is showering its warm light on Earth... So, why didn't my alarm clock work!? I'm late I'm late I'm late!
Hello everyone, running up the hill is your everyday lovely young miko, Reimu Hakurei. I've always been called a loser, but it isn't true. I'm trying my best on everything, it's just luck that never loves me. What can be worse for the first day than being late? That Marisa will laugh at me again. I hope I'm not in the same class as her, even though she's my only "friend", she always treats me like a junior just because she works slightly harder and gets better marks. I mean, marks aren't everything right?
"Excuse me, I'm in a hurry please give way!"
I'm running pass a girl on the street who wears the same uniform as me. Is it another student? Why is she walking so calmly she's gonna be late! Wait, a blondie?
Oh, who cares Marisa is a blondie too. It's not uncommon for them to appear in this city.
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"YOU ARE LAAAAAAAAAAAATE! WHERE WERE YOU, INDIA?" - shouts the most loved teacher in the school, also my homeroom teacher: Ms.Kamishirasawa. "SAY NOTHING AND GO TO YOUR SEAT BEFORE I GROW SOME HORN AND YOUR BOTTOM WILL WISH IT'D NEVER BEEN BORN!"
"Certainly madam!" I quickly rush to my seat in the corner. Luckily the class hasn't started yet, so I can at least say hello to the girl next... to... me...
"Hello." says the blond girl I met on the street.
"What? But you... how..."
"MISS HAKUREI, I SHALL NOT REPEAT MYSELF!"
"Yes madam, right away!"
I almost jump at the table. She is sitting right behind me, cute and super elegant. She somehow managed to arrive before me and doesn't even sweat a drop? Or may be I was mistaken...? No, perfect face, deep blue eyes, that's her.
"Very well, ladies. Like you already knew, we are a perfect all-girl high school with perfect record within this stupid corrupted country. So I'd like you all to organise your god damn schedule better and avoid at any cost to hit your alarm clock with your head. Now, I have a transfer student to introduce, if you please, Ms.Margatroid."
Brilliant, it's the first day and my teacher already made sure everyone knows that I'm a bad girl. The blond girl behind me stands up as requested.
"Hi everyone, my name is Alice Margatroid. I don't have any interest in ordinary people. If anyone here is an alien, time traveler, slider, or esper, please, come see me! That is all."
She then proudly smiles, as if waiting for some of those to stand up and shake her hand. But no, me, and the rest of the class just look at her confusingly.
"...Good, that's clear. Now Reimu, you'll help her around the school. Let's start the lesson."
Alice looks around and realises nobody was an alien or esper, so she sits down disappointedly. Man, and I'm assigned to guide this freak...
That is a history class. And Ms.Kamishirasawa specially presses that lesbian love will be rightfully accepted in the future and needs more consideration right now. Although I don't have any idea about how it connects to the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the First World War, but it sounds bad in a school full of girls.
Anyway, break time. I turn to my tourist-to-be, miss Alice:
"So, what was all that about?"
"Sorry?"
"Your introduction."
"Ah..." she kinda blushes. "I watched an anime yesterday and found the line rather interesting... it is a popular anime, so I thought I could make friends..."
Thank gods, so she wasn't just a freak, she is an otaku too.
"You know, there are things that you shouldn't follow in any circumstances. Anyway, I'm Reimu, Reimu Hakurei, a normal person."
"Yes!" she straightens herself "I'm Alice Margatroid, nice to meet you!"
A shy type, eh? Well let's go around the school and get this over with. I think it'd be fast so show her where the toilets are and how to go to the infirmary without being noticed. However, my luck runs out, we bump into the hottest, bestest, noisiest duckface in the school.
"Oh oh oh, who am I seeing now? Isn't it Miss-Slow-Sophomore Reimu Slowurei who won the competition of the Slowest-Girl-Of-The-Year before the year even started?"
"Sod off, Marisa."
"Well I must say Reimu, you never failed to impress me but I'd like you to find another type of impression since we're friends."
Yes, this is the girl I was talking about earlier, Marisa Kirisame. She has the look, popular in the second year and has very good grades. The only problem is her personality. We met each others in the elementary school. Marisa was once bullying me but after I accidentally fell over and shoved a hammer in her face, she started to cling on me. We have quarrels everytime we meet, but at least she listens to me as a human being. You know, sometimes I'm grateful that she's there, but if she can be a bit more modest...
"And what have we here? You didn't tell me you had a girlfriend?"
Marisa glares at Alice, god I knew this will happen...
"This is the transferred student in my class, I'm guiding her around the school."
"Nice to meet you, my name is Alice Margatroid. A sophomore in class A. My hobby is reading books. Alice is spelt with 3 katakana. When speak to me, please call me Alice-chan."
What is it? Another quote from some random anime?
"Oh, nice to meet you, my name is Marisa Kirisame. A sophomore in class C. My hobby is teasing Reimu. Marisa is spelt with 3 kanji. When speak to me, please call me Marisa-sama."
How can you play along so well? What's with this "teasing Reimu" part? And why are you insisting the new comer to address you as "sama"?
"I understand, it's a pleasure to know you, Marisa-sama."
You don't have to listen to her, oy!
"So that's settled. I'd like to help but I have something to do. I see you two are already good friends. See ya!"
Damn, why we even wasted time with her? But Alice seems happy, maybe because someone actually respond to her strange greetings. Anyway, I need to finish this quickly. So I show her around the cafeteria, the toilets, the play ground and the clubs. Alice asks me if I'm in any club myself, but... I'm always too lazy to be in any of those. Activities, tournaments, so pointless. And some of the clubs are not even good to consider to join. Like for instance the Karate club, they're all delinquents that enjoy bullying people just because they know how to punch. I detest those kinds, especially when they're all girls. Masculine girls.
Having said that, I'm too weak to be there, and I'm scared too.
I'll finish after showing her where not to go in the school: the backyard. This is where those bad girls gather. Of course I don't dare to draw close, just pointing at the valley and tell Alice "don't ever go there".
"Well well well, what've we here?"
But you know, my luck really sucks.
"It seems like a pair of chicken has arrived. Hey, we're a bit short of cash, can you lend us some money to buy this wonderful cheese cake?"
Dammit, the Karate club. Now how can we escape? The students are all weaklings, they won't call the teachers. In this school, when you bump into this club you either lose all your money or get beaten up. And I don't have any money...
"Are you the bullies that rob others' money? I saw it from many anime but never encountered one!"
What the hell are you excited for? Stop talking and help me out of here!
"Quite an airhead one, I see. And beautiful too. I really hate those air-headed beauty you know, they're cute and popular with the boys. Because of the likes of you I can't get any boyfriend!"
Well I'd be damn surprised if you can get a boyfriend in an all-girl school, retard. Not to mention she looks like an orangutan with all-body shaved except for her face. You, a boyfriend? Fat chance.
"Damn you're irritating me, now hand all of your money to compensate such injury in my heart!"
Ok here it is...
"No."
What? That blond girl Alice is still smiling like there is nothing fearful about the 2 meters gorilla with 4 sisters behind her. She just refused it.
"I think it's bad, you should be taught that never do such a thing to your friends right? We're in the same school and should get along."
Right, now thanks to miss Thickhead, I can quietly walk away and hide in a corner. The moment I do that, that gorilla punches Alice right in the face. But... she misses and falls to the ground.
"You're being too violent."
I don't think luck can come again when the four furious girls jump on Alice, but to my awe, she walks out unscratched, and I swear I saw the glimpse that she gently pushed them away. The girls don't understand what happened, but don't keep attacking either. They glare at Alice with burning eyes and... go away.
What?
"That was amazing Alice, how did you do that?"
"Ah? Sorry, did I do something wrong?" Alice seems in trouble, but why? She was absolute badass I want to marry her.
The bell chimes. On the way back Alice told me she practiced martial arts. Although it was brief, but it changed my whole view about this world. She is the same age as me, even looks more fragile and could handle 5 delinquents! Now to think about it she is very beautiful too. If I was a normal girl, I'd stick with her for the rest of my life. But sadly in my heart I want to be like her, kicking asses and stop everyone from looking down on me. And because of that, later that day I asks Alice to bring me to the dojo.
Now to think about it. That day was the day my whole life changed...
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