After entering the classroom, the group of 5 immediately drew the attention of the rest of their classmates inside the class.
"Oh, it's you guys that Chabashira-sensei mentioned earlier." A student with blonde hair and brown eyes called out to us, seemingly just remembering us being mentioned by Chabashira-sensei.
"Yeah, we got into a very unfortunate situation, so we got late." Explaining a bit of truth, I smilingly said to the rest of our classmates to answer their unsaid curiosity.
Taking each of our individual seats, the group settled down, and the introductions of each of our classmates started while some of the students looked at us with curiosity.
Seated just in front of both Ayanokoji-kun and Horikita-san, I chose an empty seat next to the windows, and beside me a beauty with pink twin pigtails andazure eyes wearing pink glasses sat next to me silently, also surveying our groups.
"My name is Hirata Yosuke; I play soccer and planned to join the club. Nice to meet you all, and please take care of me." Seated on the second row, the one who first called out to the 5 of us introduced himself with a smile, garnering some of the girl's attention.
"My name is Karuizawa Kei." A blonde-haired girl with her hair tied in a ponytail, wearing a light blue long-sleeved uniform and a red school blazer tied to her waist, with an amethyst pair of eyes that seemed to fluctuate from hollowness to brightness, looked at her phone while introducing herself.
'She seems like someone who's been through something traumatic.' Looking at her glowing amethyst eyes that seem to dim from time to time, as someone who's also been through hardships before acquiring the strength enough to stand for myself, I silently sympathise with her current situation.
Removing her sight from her phone for a moment, Karuizawa Kei looked at the direction that she felt a gaze. Looking at the 4th row, she gazed at the sapphire eyes of the group who arrived last in their room.
Seemingly entranced by the deep sapphire eyes of the white-haired boy, she looked at his face and felt like her whole being was being seen through by him.
"Karuizawa-san, please take your seat, as the person next to you is about to introduce herself." Taken aback by Karuizawa-san's absentmindedness, Hirata Yosuke called out to her.
Coming out of her daze, Karuizawa Kei sat on her seat; with her hands shaking a bit, she nervously thought, 'Does he know me from my middle school?''
"My name is Kushida Kikyo, and I wish to befriend everyone in this school!" Kushida-san, with her bubbly demeanour, introduced herself, bouncing a bit, taking the guys' attention towards her direction.
"Kushida-san, are you single?"
"What are your 3 sizes?"
The girls, seeing the boys' ungentlemanly questions and perverted faces, couldn't help but look in their direction with disgusted expressions.
After the small episode of the boys ogling and giggling at Kushida-san's direction, the introductions continued.
"Koenji Rokusuke." Sweeping strands of his blonde hair upwards, Konji-san introduced himself, looking arrogant to our classmates, disregarding the attention and questions of others towards his direction.
The introduction continued, and my turn finally came. "My name is Yuuki Aki. I am here to learn, as I heard about the advanced curriculums of this academy. Please to meet you all, and take care of me." Smiling gently towards my classmates, I introduced myself.
"Wow, you look handsome!"
"Are you a model?"
"Wait, I think I've seen you before. Are you part of some movies or TV shows?"
Hearing the enthusiastic questions coming from the girls from our class heading in my direction, I could not help but have a bit of sweat trail down my neck at the last question.
Smiling gently at them with a bit of strain, I replied, "I am not a model, and I am not an actor. Thank you for the compliments." Ending with a genuine smile from being appreciated by the girls, I looked at their directions.
Blushing from the sparkling smile heading their way, the girls squealed like harlots and started bombarding me with questions again.
Standing up with a bit of darkness in her eyes, Kushida-san smilingly called out to the girls, "Please stop, girls. Aki-kun is being made uncomfortable by your questions. Let's continue with the introduction."
Looking discontent at Kushida-san's direction, the girls redirected their gaze to me; seeing my face looking a bit uncomfortable, the girls stopped pestering me with questions, and the introductions continued.
"Explode, Riajuu!" yelleda short young man with brown hair and brown eyes named Ike Kanji.
Followinghis example, Yamauchi Haruki also yelled, seemingly finding his brothers in arms at the time of war.
Hearing their cries, I couldn't help but laugh at their antics, gaining more admiration and heart-filled gazes from the girls entranced at the pleasing sound of my laughter.
Understanding my good-natured laugh towards their cries, the boys gritted their teeth, seeing that their antics gave more attention from girls towards their now white-haired nemesis.
Hearing a voice behind me, I heard Horikita-san muttering, "Idiots, they don't even know who they're trying to mess with."
Glancing at Ayanokoji-san, I saw him also look in my direction and simply shake his head, looking like he doesn't want to join the weird atmosphere made by our classmates.
As luck also seemed to be on my side, Ayanokoji-san's turn to introduce himselfalso arrived; smirking in his direction, I couldn't help but enjoy redirecting the class's attention towards him.
Raising an eyebrow in my direction, understanding that I am having fun at his expense, he thought, 'I really want to have a bit of fun in this school; I should at least make a bit of an impact by introducing myself to have friends.'
"My name is Ayanokoji Kiyotaka. Ah ah." Saying it in a bland tone, he tried to add more to his introduction, but seemingly realising he didn't have anything more noteworthy to add to his introduction, he fumbled his words.
Hearing him stumble over his words, my smirk couldn't help but grow wider into an upward arc, looking devilishly handsome.
"Kyahhhhh! He really is so cool!"
Looking like she got sidelined and got forgotten, Ayanokoji-san gazed in my direction with a bit of a twitch on her eyebrow, muttering, "Bastard."
Finally ending Ayanokoji-san's turn, Horikita-san next to him also introduced herself, "Horikita Suzune." Sweeping her side bang to the side with her hand, she introduced herself shortly and concisely, giving a bit of impact due to her beauty.
"My name is Sakura Airi." Introducing herself, the timid pink-haired beauty said, looking uncomfortable at the attention she was having.
"The name's Sudo Ken; you should remember the incoming basketball star and be proud of being my classmates." With a bit of a slam at his desk, the red-haired boy arrogantly introduced himself.
Ending at Sudo-san, the introduction in class finally ended. Now acquainted with one another, our classmates started talking with their seatmates or with the people they were interested in befriending.
Immediately groups formed consisting of girls, boys, and some with mixed genders, erupting into loud chatter, and some yelling.
"Hey, what will you do with your points? After class I'll go to the gadgets section and buy the PS5! We really hit the jackpot when we got admitted to this school." Excited, Ike-san talked to Yamauchi-san about his plans with his points.
"I'll buy some of the most expensive makeup kits after. God, if my mother could only be so generous like the school," one of the girls said with a pout and discontent on her face.
Similar discussions can be heard in the classroom, seemingly uninterested in the true reason why they got the points and the underlying consequences of wasting their monthly points.
Looking at the scene of the excited chatters of my classmates disregarding the notion of why they are there and why this is a prestigious academy, with a cold smile I muttered, "Truly the worst, and the lowest... class d."