On the way to school Frank didn't find Harumi and Erika but ended meeting them when he walked inside of the school building itself, it seemed the girls had woken up earlier today, for
some reason.
"We were waiting for you at the station, but you never showed up, Frank," said Erika, pushing him around. "Did you wake up late?"
"Late? I woke up pretty early today, what do you mean?" Frank was confused. "Well,
whatever, there wasn't any homework today, so you don't have to ask me for that anymore."
"Yeah, I mean sure, we weren't going to do that..." Harumi looked elsewhere.
"Yeah, right."
As the trio walked inside the school, the atmosphere got very noisy as hundreds of students talking, screaming, laughing, and running around echoed everywhere.
This was something he had lived every day, but for some reason felt so nostalgic to Frank every time.
"Hey, look who's here."
Frank got immediately happy when he saw Matsuo sitting on his seat, he seemed to be half- asleep though, his eyes looking exhausted.
"Hey Frank, hit me up with your magic, I'm dead tired man."
"What happened? You didn't sleep or something?"
"I mean I did but a little bit... like... three or two hours."
"What?! What are you even doing?"
"Ah, I got too excited about growing stronger, so I ended cultivating for several hours in a row and when I realized it was too late, it was already like five in the morning, dammit."
"Damn, tone it down a bit man, it's not like you have to hurry up so much."
"I have to, I don't want to fall behind, after you've received the blessing of Orochi you've become way too strong Frank, but I guess you didn't realize yet."
"Eh? Really?"
"Yeah really."
Matsuo crossed his arms, sighing.
"Well it's not like that's the reason though," he said. "I've dedicated most of my life to become stronger and serve the clan, it's... kind of my whole reason to be. So feeling weak or thrown to the side feels like shit to me, you know."
"Hm, I guess I get it," Frank nodded. "But still, don't push yourself too much to the point you'll end up ruining your entire life though. Take care of yourself even if a little bit."
Frank used Gift of Life to heal Matsuo's exhaustion, patting his shoulders as a small golden light was imbued into his friend's body.
"Phew, thanks..." Matsuo stretched his arms while feeling like new. "This always helps a lot! You're an amazing healer."
"Anyways try to take it easy."
The classes started after a couple of minutes, and after Frank sat down, the teacher quickly decided to introduce yet another two new students.
They weren't exchange students like the other girls though, but they were also rather extravagant looking, very handsome, and held more of an American appearance rather than Japanese.
"Attention students," said the teacher, as she patted the shoulders of the two new students. "These are the new students that have joined us for this year. They're apparently siblings! Eleanora and Dante, please treat them well."
They were siblings, the girl Eleanora was of a rather small stature despite her age, she had long, glossy silvery-white hair, with red eyes, and a princess-like appearance. With pale as snow skin and a beautiful, fair face.
Meanwhile, her brother was also rather handsome, much taller, with a slender body and short red hair and big purple eyes, he smiled while his sister was always looking rather serious.
"It's nice to meet you all," said Eleanora.
"Yeah! Let's get along, little humans," giggled Dante.
"Hey." Eleanora hit Dante's stomach with her elbow.
"I mean, friends!" Date said desperately.
The students looked at one another and then greeted him, nodding mostly, although the majority didn't really react all that much aside from finding it weird Dante called them "little humans" for some strange reason.
"You can go sit down for now," the teacher said. "I heard your parents were also working on this school, right?"
"Yeah, mom and dad are teachers too, of Math and History," said Eleanora.
"You'll see them later, teacher," Dante smiled.
As the two sat down, the classes continued as usual, Frank couldn't help but find these two rather strange for some reason though, similarly to Elfina's group or Kireina's group.
However, he had never seen them in any of his dreams, so it wasn't like he felt they were close or something. They were total strangers.
Nonetheless, it was pretty obvious why Dante accidentally called the students "little humans".
As they were having lunch in the cafeteria, Harumi revealed the truth.
"They're Vampires." Harumi instantly recognized their scent and auras, which they were suppressing a lot despite that.
"Wait, really?!" Erika gasped. "They smelled like humans to me? Actually, their scent was also kind of weird... Wait, did they deceive me with some magic?!"
"Maybe," said Harumi. "But I can always recognize a Vampire when I see them..."
"So are they from your family?" asked Matsuo. "If so, it's no big deal."
"No, that's not the case, that's why I'm worried," Harumi said. "They belong to another Vampire family, not mine. They came from somewhere else, infiltrated our territory easily, and now are acting as students, when they're likely much older than us."
"Why would they do that?" Frank asked. "Are they planning something bad?"
"Who knows, but they seem to hold no hostility at all though, which only made things weird..." said Harumi. "I hope they're just freaks that want to interact with humans for no reason other than pleasure or fun, but we don't know yet. Pure-blooded Vampires like them tend to have big mood swings, so they're unpredictable."
"Huh, didn't the teacher say their parents were also teachers?" asked Frank.
"We'll have to see if they're related..." Harumi said.
"Hm... I might as well report this to the clan," Matsuo said, quickly making an origami of a
bird with a magic scroll and sending it flying across the window.
As the students finished their lunch and went back to the History Classes, they met their new
teacher.
A gorgeous, handsome man, with a tall and slightly muscular frame, long, silvery-white hair and sharp red eyes that stared into a person's very soul.
He looked both youthful and mature, a deadly combination of seriousness and elegance, his aura alone made every girl in the class shiver and blush.
He was wearing a loose white shirt, black pants and shoes, and also had black glasses, giving him an intellectual appearance.
"Greetings students, my name is Noah, I am your new History Teacher," he smiled gently,
melting the hearts of most female students as he took out his glasses to greet them all
properly. "I will teach you Overseas History today, mostly things about Europe, the renaissance, and so on. I hope we can get along. I don't consider myself a strict teacher, but if
I find someone slacking off in class, expect to get scolded."
"Kyaaaah! Yes teacher!"
The girls all cried in unison as they seemed to be completely in love.
It was utter madness!
And Harumi suddenly froze.
No, she wasn't in love or something.
But her eyes widened as she saw Noah's aura, and his tremendous presence.
It was as if she was staring at an endless ocean of blood, and at the same time, at an all-
consuming void.
"W-What is this...?!" she gasped, almost feeling like she was being asphyxiated. "Who... who is
this monster?!"
Not only Frank noticed Harumi acting strange, even Kireina in the distance, was squinting her
eyes, gritting her teeth as she saw Noah.
Just what was happening right now?!
"I have been looking forward to our meeting," Noah suddenly said. "Let's get along,
everyone."