If the mc feels different, it's because this is how he normally is.
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In the train, I had my bag sitting on my lap as I was looking out the window, seeing the trees pass by and buildings come into existence as the train flew out of the forest and into the beginning of the entrance into Tokyo.
I was wearing a simple black jacket and dark blue pants. I had the hoodie on, my ears in the special pocket so as to not squish them, especially with how sensitive they are. I could feel the sight of a child looking at me with interest, more specifically at my ears.
Feeling like I had an imaginary sweat drop coming down from my head, I turned to look at the kid, who was quite literally sitting beside me. The mother of the kid was holding them on their shoulders as the kid continuously tried to grab my swinging tail.
I looked at the kid, he stared back.
I stared, he stared
I stared, he stared….. And tried to grab my tail again.
"If you really want to grab my tail that badly, you can just don't pull it." The kid looked at me, their eyes lighting up with joy.
I swung my tail over to the kid, which he lightly grabbed. I let the kid brush it while I looked out the window again. The city was now in full view, I could see people walking around, kids with their parents, teenagers handing out and adults looking tired with life.
It didn't take long for the train to reach my stop, getting off, I walked around looking for a map to find an exit. This place was an absolute maze and the sound of the people around me was killing my ears.
Feeling a buzz in my pocket, I took out a blue covered device. Looking at the once black screen, I saw the name of my old trainer calling me.
"She said to press the green button when she calls me." I muttered to myself, I didn't fully understand how to use this thing, this 'cell phone', but I pressed on the green button before putting the device closer to my face.
"Hello?" I said out loud, wondering how she was supposed to hear me using this thing.
"Are you at the station?" I heard the sound of my trainer's voice coming from the device.
'What kind of witchcraft is this?!' I thought to myself, almost saying it out loud but that would have been a social death. "Yes." I said calmly.
"Alright, follow my instructions, I'll help you get out."
I nodded my head before remembering she couldn't see me. "Alright." My voice stayed the same but holding the blush that wanted to appear was rather hard.
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It took a while, I ran for 2 hours before I was able to find Central Tracen Academy. The map on this thing was rather hard to understand, physical maps were far easier for me to read.
Walking to the entrance, I saw a woman who wore an almost entirely green outfit, she had the whole shebang, green hat, green pencil skirt, green overshirt(I think). The only other colors I could see on her were her black stockings and her white dress shirt with yellow tie, the hat had a brown cloth at its base.
She seemed to notice me rather quickly despite me being somewhat far still, I wasn't going to question it, right now. I quickly jogged over as she gave me a quick professional smile.
"Hello, you are Mister Hayate North, correct?" she spoke, her voice a calm professional tone, the smile on her face was natural, in an unnatural way.
"Yes."
"That's great. Please follow me." She turned around before starting to walk inside. I was about to question if she needed any way to confirm it was me but I just followed, silently sighing to myself.
It took about 2 hours for the tour to end. She showed me around the entire campus, showing me the dorms and the class building mainly. She was able to easily help me with understanding where things were and the rules. During the tour, I had also learned that her name was Tazuna Hayakawa.
After the tour had more or less ended, she had brought me to the dorms. I waved her goodbye before entering the building. Inside, I saw a uma that was sitting in a chair spinning around.
"Hello."
"AH"
I watched as the uma crashed into the ground with the chair following behind them. Looking over the desk, I could see that she was completely laying on the floor with the chair on top of her.
As I was about to ask if she was okay, she quickly got up before looking directly at me.
"Heeeellooooo, how can I help you?"
"I…wha?" I looked at her, confused with her ability to just continue on despite what just happened. "I am a new student here." I was barely able to keep a straight face.
"Okay, and?" She said while looking at me as if she was confused about what that had to do with anything, her eyes looking at me as if I was the stupid one.
'Is she f##king stupid?' The thought silently entered my head before I just let out a sigh. "I need to know my dorm room."
"Oh! You've started with that!" She struck a smile before turning around and grabbing a key from behind her.
"Where..is…it.Aha, here it is. Here." Turning around, she dropped the keys into the desk, a smile on her face as puffed out her chest.
"….thanks…" I grabbed the key and left as quickly as I could.
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It had taken a while but I finally got to my dorm.There was quite a bit of stairs. Putting in the key, I turned the knob to hear the sound of something falling into the ground.
"WAIT A MINUTE!" I heard someone shout from inside.
"No."
Entering the room, I would see an effeminate male uma hugging a plushy of another uma while they were dressed up as a female. He was on the floor after falling off his bed. I could see his tail was standing straight up while his ears were continually twitching.
He was a grey haired Uma, his ears a brown tip and his tail completely grey. He was wearing the female students uniform, if not for the fact that this was a male dorm, I might have assumed he was a woman due to how feminine he looked.
"Ah…"
"WHAT THE HELL WRONG WITH YOU!"
"I regret my decision."
"OH REALLY NOW!!"
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"Soooooooo, are you one of those cosplayers?" I said after I reentering the room once he was done changing.
"Is that how you greet people.." The Uma said, their face deadpan. His eyes were glaring at me as if I killed his mother.
"Not something I would regularly do."
"I already hate you."
"I try my best." I saw as he sighed, dragging his hands across his face.
"The name is Araki Katsuo, nice to make your acquaintance." They said before getting onto their bed. "Now leave me be."
"K" I said before hearing the sound of snoring coming from them. 'They sure fell asleep quickly.'
"I don't have much with me, I'll try to not make that much noise." I said, muttering as I pull out my clothing from my bag.
Looking around, I saw 2 closets and desks. I opened one of the closets to find that it was already filled with feminine clothing, "He really likes cosplaying huh.", I closed it as I didn't want to invade his privacy any longer.
I quickly moved my clothes into the empty closet, using the extra space for my shoes, 'Can they really be called shoes?' I thought to myself as I looked at how they were roughed up. I didn't do anything with the desk as I didn't really have anything that I would use on it.
Thinking about desk, I looked over to the desk of my roommate to see it filled with little trinkets and plushies of the same umamusume. I quickly looked away from the shri-- I mean the desk.
'He just has this out...'
After packing everything up, I looked out the window of the room to see that it was still 5 hours before it started to get dark. Might as well walk around to get use to the place, was my thought process.
I quickly left the dorm, as I didn't want to be in the room that much, making sure to take the key with me.
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It was the next day since I arrived here, I woke up to the sound of sleep talking coming from my roommate but I ignored it. His sleep talking was rather prevalent when I came back from the walk yesterday.
I had a morning run to do, something I have been doing since I was about 10, so I put on my running shoes and clothing before leaving the room. I was using the running shoes and clothes that the school had provided for us, which was rather nice as my old ones were getting torn.
Outside, I was running at the training area that I had seen from the tour. It was rather early, about 6, and I could see that there was a good amount of Uma's that were training currently. Seeing this, I was kinda happy.
They weren't like the other Umas I have seen since before coming to this school.
I ran for a good bit but had to stop as I had to go to my class soon. I had worked up a sweat so I quickly ran, in the quietest way I could, to reach my dorm and took a quick bath. After a change of clothes, I ran to where the school building was and made my way to my class. I made it with 13 minutes spare.
I looked around and saw quite a few students that have already arrived, some were reading and some talking with each other. I looked around before finding a seat that was interesting, it was near the window but not to close as to get the sun into my eyes randomly. I sat patiently.
And patiently.
and patiently.
'i am alone.'
I sat at my desk, not talking with anyone until the teacher came as the bell rang. My first class of this school.
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I hated every second in there.
I was forced to move with everyone watching me, I sat at another student's desk by accident, and then was told to introduce myself to the class, not my greatest moment. When I said that I was from Kasamatsu, someone had spoken up, saying, 'oh like Oguri Cap!', I didn't like being bunched up with that thing.
I was already out of my class, the teacher had spoken with me, talking about there was going to be a run for trainers to watch which was something I would need to participate in as that was the only way I can currently get trained as the teams aren't looking currently.
I signed up for it, the day being tomorrow, so that was something to look at.
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Sorry for taking a bit, I had to move the trainer meeting for the next chapter as I was starting to run out of steam while making this chapter.
If you're interested in having a specific Uma become close(friends wise, not good with romance) with the mc, tell me, not promising anything.
Hoped you enjoyed reading this, criticism is helpful, and point out if I misspelled something, enjoy life.