“Are you the new student for class 9b?”

I was in the school secretariat and had registered. I was waiting for the teacher to take me to my new class. A middle-aged man came in. He looked bored when he asked me.

I nodded at his question.

“Fine, then follow me. My name is Schulte, and I will be your art teacher from now on.”

Mr. Schulte continued to look bored as he went through the corridors. He stopped in front of a classroom and raised his hand.

“Here we are.”

We could hear a loud noise coming from inside.

“Ha! Please wait here for a moment.”

He put his head to the left and then to the right to let his joints crack.

*Baam*

He slammed the door open and entered the classroom. With a scowl, he looked into the ranks of my future classmates.

“What’s going on here?”

He spoke the sentence grimly. I could hear them returning to their seats without contradiction. He turned to me with an expressionless face.

“You can come in!”

It sounded like an order.

Wow... my new class... luckily I didn’t end up in my old school...

It was only a partial success because my school and my new school shared a schoolyard, which meant that I could run into my former self again.

“Please take off your hood and introduce yourself.”

“OK!”

I did as he asked me and carefully pulled my hood off my head. My hair fell out of the hood. The expression of surprise appeared on the faces of my new classmates and Mr.Schulte. Their facial expressions unsettled me, and I got nervous.

“Hey, I’m not sure what to say... hm... well... I’m Siana von Tyrn, and I’m joining your class from today on.”

I waved my hand nervously and turned to the teacher.

“And now?”

He scratched his head and put his head slightly to one side.

“Hmmm... do you have your art materials with you?”

I looked down at my bag that I had bought new.

I have pens... but who could have expected to have art on the first day...

“Of course, I have my pens with me, but ... not a drawing pad.”

“Hmmm…”

He turned to the class.

“Can anyone borrow the new kid some papers?”

He didn’t even speak half of the sentence, as around half of the boys raised their hands. I could feel what was driving them, and I didn’t like it at all.

“If there are enough, find someone to lend you a leaf from.”

He pointed to the other classmates and sent me off. I avoided sitting next to one of the boys and chose a girl who was sitting alone at a table in the middle row.

“Hi, I’m Siana.”

I sat down next to the girl and smiled at her. She gave me a quick look but then turned her eyes to the paper in front of her.

“I-I’m Nicole.”

She answered me a bit nervous.

Nicole had rust-brown hair and wore it in a bob cut style. Her eyes were light brown, maybe even green-brown, which was not immediately recognizable. I couldn’t estimate her size while sitting, but I was sure she was taller than me. But she lacked the female curves, which made her look like the athletic type of a girl.

She immediately pulled a piece of paper out of her drawing pad.

“Here.”

She handed me the A3 paper, and I accepted it with thanks.

“Thank you. Uhm… could you tell me what’s the current art task?”

She folded back a few pages and revealed her work of art to me. It was the female protagonist of a popular anime. I saw the anime myself at that time. It was called “Sweetheart in Mecha.¹Do I need to say which Anime I refer to? Well, it should be obvious, “Darling in the Franxx.” ”

I was pleasantly surprised at how well Nicole could draw because her drawing style was different from the anime, but I could identify One Two²Zero Two -> One Two... I couldn’t find a better number-combination. right away.

“The topic is to draw your own hobby.”

“Hobbies, huh?”

I looked down at my blank sheet.

Hobbies... What are my hobbies... Ah! I know.

I thought back to a certain picture that I had drawn out of boredom. The drawing was of the slime protagonist³That time I got reincarnated as a slime. from a famous anime. It showed him how he mimicked the human figure.

If I can draw it out of my memory...

I could have drawn something from Styx worlds, but this could be counterproductive for the timelines, as Fels Gate⁴Steins Gate* - Stein is German and means stone while Fels is German and means rock. :-P showed us.

I started drawing, and Nicole started a light conversation with me. At some point in our conversation came the question I was expecting to go first.

“H-How comes that you change your school so shortly before the summer vacation and the end of the school year?”

The reason for my school change... Huh...

“It’s a bit complicated. I had to move for family reasons, and now I live alone here in Göttingen.”

“You live alone!?”

Surprised by what I said, her eyes widened, and she looked at me.

“Yes... but my dog ​​Fen is living with me.”

He’s a wolf, but... well, that doesn’t matter.

“You have a dog!?”

I nodded.

“Yeah.”

“Do you have photos?”

I thought for a moment.

“Unfortunately not... I have a new smartphone and haven’t had the chance to take any pictures yet.”

Nicole and I talked until the end of the art class. When I had already drawn outlines of Limuru Storm ⁵Rimuru Tempest, she recognized what I was drawing, and she started to speak to me about it, which directed our conversation towards animes and mangas for the rest of the lesson.

*Ding* *Dong*

The lessons ended with the ringing, and the first break began, but for me, it was just the start. The boys from the class avoided talking to me, but Nicole’s friends came up to us and spoke to me.

“Nicole, can you introduce us?”

The first of three girls first turned to Nicole.

“Oh, sure. Siana, that’s Michelle, Tanya, and Yasemin.”

“Hi.”

I waved towards these three girls.

Michelle had shoulder-length dark blonde hair, and her eye color was blue. In my opinion, she was the same size as me and had a moderate breast size just like me.

Tanya was the smallest of these three, about half a head shorter than Michelle, and looked even more childlike. If she hadn’t been in our class, I would have estimated it to be just thirteen or fourteen years old. She had light brown hair that she had tied up in a braid. Her eyes were dark brown.

Yasemin had a darker skin type, which came as no surprise to me. Based on her name, her family roots were in Turkey. She had almost pitch black hair with a light brown sheen. Her hair was shoulder-length, and she wore them open. Her eyes were dark brown. She was a little taller than Michelle, but also a bit stockier, but I wouldn’t call her fat, but somewhat healthy curves.

“Hey, Siana, may I ask you something personal?”

Tanya spoke to me when we were about to leave the classroom due to the break.⁶ “leave the classroom” - Well, why would I need a footnote on something like this... I’m not sure how it is in your countries, but in Germany, you need to leave your classroom in breaks because of insurance reasons.

“Sure, what is it?”

“Is that your real hair? No matter how I look at your hair, it looks like a wig.”

I stopped for a moment and looked down at her, but I couldn’t suppress a laugh.

“Hahahaha! ...Ha...Yes, that’s my real hair and even my natural hair color.”

The others were now looking at me in surprise.

“What’s going on?”

I asked them.

“Wait! You say this is your original hair color!”

“Natural... hair color!”

“Awesome!”

Every girl reacted a little differently, but everyone was fascinated by my hair.

Is my red hair so impressive !? 0_0

As a reflex of these reactions, I pulled the hood back over my head again.

""""Oh!""""

All four reacted immediately to my reaction and were disappointed.

“Why are you hiding your beautiful hair?”

Michelle protested to me.

“I... I don’t want to attract too much attention...”

“Why? Just why!?”

Nicole looked a little disappointed.

“Circumstance.”

“Oh!”

She turned her gaze downwards.

“YO, come on, I want breakfast!”

Yasemin got hold of herself first and started pushing the others.

We left the school building and sat down on a bench with a table in the schoolyard. Yasemin was the only one eating while everyone else was satisfied with some drinks.

“Say... (chomp) Siana... (chomp) what are your hobbies?”

Yasemin asked me across the table with a half-full mouth.

“Ah… I don’t really have hobbies… except for Gaming, a while ago I participated in a tournament and placed first.”

“Gaming, huh...? I don’t play video games.”

Tanya said.

“I only play on my smartphone.”

Yasemin replied.

“I only play Otome Games on the Vidento console⁷Vidento -> Nintendo :D.”

Nicole added.

“Wait, don’t you have a dog... Fen, right?”

I nodded at Nicole’s comment.

“Do you have photos?”

Tanya reacted first.

“Not yet. I don’t have any on my new smartphone.”

I answered Tanya the same as Nicole before.

“Oh!”

She looked visibly disappointed.

Nicole leaned over and whispered in my ear.

“Tanya comes from a family of veterinarians. She has three cats at home, two dogs, and I’m not sure about how many small pets like hamsters, rabbits, and so on they have. In addition to her parents, her big brother is a veterinarian too. Also, her older sister is currently studying to become a veterinarian.”

Wow... four vets in the family...

I was lost in thought when a strong wind blew my hood off my head.

HEY!

I reached back for my hood to cover my hair again when a familiar voice behind my back said my name.

“Siana!?”

I turned around and looked into a known face.

“...Desmond.”