Thorald, looking at the map in the hallway being pleasantly surprised by how simple it looked and how well labelled it was. "1-A's on the second floor at the end, huh? Makes sense — fewer people walking by to distract the class"
Just as he was about to make his way to class he heard footsteps behind him followed by a voice "It's not my fault there was a noodle shop there, I just had to get some, like c'mon they were begging me to eat there (They weren't)."
"Su's going to give me that weird smile he gives when I tell him why I'm late on my first day here."
Unintentionally eavesdropping on that Thorald now realised 'This boy must be the other new student the gate guard was talking about.'
Turning towards the boy Thorald briefly notices his messy white hair and blue eyes and in turn he notices Thorald as well.
Coming face to face he starts "uhhm, hello there, can you tell me where class 1-A is as I'm running a bit late." Finishing with putting his phone aways he reaches out his hand "Names Kevin by the way."
Thorald in turn responds with the handshake stating "Thorald."
The boy now known as Kevin again asks "So do you know the way to 1-A?"
"Sure, its my class as well." Thorald says.
"Cool, your a student here as well, but your not wearing the uniform" From Kevin's observation Thorald doesn't look like a student.
"Yep, I'm new here and they haven't given me mine yet."
"Oh, really, your new as well, anyway we better get on out way as we're already late as is." Kevin reminds Thorald of their lateness.
"Yeah, lets go."
Making their way to the class they talk on the way about their hobbies and interests, with Thorald trying to find out a bit more about the world he's in until Kevin mentions the Honkai.
'Honkai, what the hell is a Honkai.' Thorald tries to think of what a Honkai could be.
"Wait… what exactly is a 'Honkai'?" Thorald asked, furrowing his brow.
"huh, dude, how do you not know what the Honkai is, have you been living under a rock all this time. The Honkai are these weird alien beings that came to Earth and are here for some reason to well destroy us I think? Well that's what were told."
Thorald internally thinks 'Honkai are alien invaders bent on destruction? That shouldn't be possible—not if a fifth-dimensional entity oversees this world. Unless... they're the on-'
Before he could finish that thought Kevin interrupts him.
"Thorald, you good there, we're here" He points at the 1-A sign above the door.
"I'm fine just thinking." Stewing out of his thoughts he replies to Kevin "Also just call me Thor for short its easier that way"
"Alright, Thor" Kevin knocks on the door
*Knock*
*Knock*
Hear some shuffling followed by some footsteps the door opens to reveal a middle-aged women who asks "Are you the 2 new transfer students?" She leans back into the classroom taking note of the time and then turns back to the 2 new students. "Your late, Sigh, wait here for a minute before I call you in." Following that she closes the door and after a few seconds of muffled speech they hear a "You can come in now."
Opening the door and stepping in both Kevin and Thorald notice the amount of stares they received, followed by chatter about either how attractive either are and some 'stupid Raijuu'.
"Alright you two why don't you introduce yourselves a little."
Thorald goes first "I'm Thorald Arawnsson, nice to meet you, I enjoy studying old languages and exercising."
Followed by Kevin "I'm Kevin Kaslana, also nice to meet you all, I enjoy sports and came here in hopes of getting a scholarship for sports"
"With that out of the way you two can go and sit in those two vacant seats, and then we can get back to Class." The teacher points towards the 2 back seats closest to the door (Sadly no protagonist window seat).
After they both sat down the teacher goes back to whatever boring subject she was talking about, while Thorald glanced around the classroom and noticed a girl with long purple hair reading a book on what looked like physics and a silver haired boy in a similar position, just with a medical textbook instead, but other than that no one else seems to stick out regardless of the different hair colours vivid enough to form a full rainbow.
'I should cast a "Sense" and "Locate" around this place to see if I can find any of these 'Honkai', but that seems unlikely from what Kevin told me.' He quietly casts both of these runes that cover the whole school grounds and then some.
Receiving the information with that he finally gets a grasp of the energy in the atmosphere. 'So this is that weird energy, I doubt that humans can use this as it seems taking a lot of this in would kill a normal human, so I'll throw this up to the 'Honkais' influence. I need to get access to their version of the internet and research these Honkai as they call them.'
"Psst, Thor" Kevin whispers.
"hmm, yeah?" Thorald Responds.
Kevin nods his head towards the teacher "She called your name."
Thorald looking up at the teacher responds with "Sorry I was lost in thought, did you need something?"
"I called your name for attendance." She bluntly replied
"Oh, then 'Here'" He responds acting as if he was just called for attendance rather than the current situation.
The middle-aged women now grumbling about 'kids have no respect these days' and other such stray thoughts continues on with registration.
As time passes with Kevin at times talking with Thorald and then the bell finally rings.
"Hey Kevin."
"Yeah?" Kevin Replied.
"Can I borrow your phone for a few minutes so I can search something real quick?" Thorald Asked.
"Sure" He reaches into his pocket and pulls his phone out, unlocks it and hands it Thorald "Do you not have your own one?" He inquired.
"Thanks to the first part and nope I never got one to the second." He takes the phone and looks for an icon for the internet and finds it as its literally labelled internet, clear as day.
Opening it he taps the search bar and types in 'H-O-N-K-A-I' and taps search to be greeted with many results and articles recording how the 2 past 'Honkai Eruptions' have devastated a city in both America and Europe.
Reading the titles of such articles Thorald Furrows his brow.
Based on the map with both respectively named the first Eruption in America that based on the article was caused by a sudden increase in energy causing animals and pets to mutate becoming larger and increasingly more rabid with even pets turning on their owners and attacking them. What Thorald saw as some of the worst parts of this was that this energy aptly named 'Honkai' was like radiation to normal humans when in large concentration causing conditions similar to nuclear radiation poisoning with there only being 'no known cure at this time' and reports stating that this energy can turn humans into an equivalent form of Zombies just a 'Honkai' variant.
It also tells that in the midst of this panic a being that is known as a 'Herrscher' (Rule or Lawmaker in German) and this 'Herrscher' had the ability to create almost anything out of thin air. Thorald reading this thought 'Minor reality manipulation maybe? That is concerning but it seems there must be limits if in the end this Herrscher too fell regardless of their abilities. Maybe something to do with their understanding of creation maybe as it seems they only replicated known objects and materials. Further they were identified as a 30 year old homeless man, which makes sense for their poor use of their ability so I'll work on that idea for now.'
Scrolling down to the next article concerning the 2nd Herrscher he found that this one seemed to have the ability of what some scientists deduced as Space-Time manipulation. 'Ridiculous that it includes time, space I can understand but time would only make sense if its limited in regards to their energy limit. A 4th Dimensional ability controlled by a 3rd Dimensional being, that makes this quiet a bit easier.
Thorald Looks back at the end of the Article that talks of a UN funded organisation known as 'Fire Moth'. 'Seems to be a group dedicated to fighting the Honkai, I assume they are responsible for taking down the 2 Herrschers. I should pay them a visit in future and see what I can learn from them.
'Honkai, Herrschers, Zombies, Mutants, Honkai energy poisoning and Honkai Beasts.'
"Just like home huh."
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A/N: Mandatory Info Dump at the end to introduce the Honkai to Thorald and a glimps at some of thier abilities while also showing him some of the clear drawbacks of such.
Also he met Kebin and while I'm still trying to remember how young Kevin acts compared to the later cold Kevin we know.
Next chapter will be a bit of Thorald meeting Su, some more Honkai knowledge for Thorald and maybe meeting Mei or just having the start of Kevins simp arc for Mei IDK.
P.S: Also chapters will be between 1-1.5K words and may increase in future or decrease depending on the schedule.
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