The guy who came through the door was a handsome guy tall young man with a well-built physique, which makes him appear strong yet agile, being a bit taller compared to me, he wore a stern expression on his face, he was wearing a plain school uniform as he entered the room and began looking around the room .
The first to greet the guy to come in, no it would be more accurate to say acknowledge instead of greeting the guy who came to the classroom was none other than Isuragi Gen, he acknowledged the guy that came to be his older brother, Isuragi Jin .
The second the moment his name was called, a bunch of girls with heart shaped eyes began to cheer for him while asking him all different kinds of things, the stern look he had was able to deter many of them but still not enough to deter all of them, he was soon swarmed by a huge amount of girls, all seemed to be trying to get a hang on piece of him, the guys were glancing at him with envy, but i was more looking at him with pity, if those girls used a bit more force, they might really be able to dismember him between themselves .
Stop it already, all of you .
His voice carried a commanding tone that was too heavy for those girls to handle, so they stopped the pulling and tugging and they retreat a bit, but they were still surrounding him .
I was amazed about the fact that his clothes were still appearing to be quite fine, even though i expected him to come out of the girls storm with them at least a bit damaged, or even without his clothes at all, i was surprised when they seem to be quite fine and still tidy as before, was his special or was the material used to make those uniform were really that sturdy .
After that episode ended, he nodded a bit stiffly at his little brother Isuragi Gen, then once again proceed to ask about me, his little brother together with other of my classmates turned to stare at me in unison, him being quick-witted was able to understand that i was the one who he came here looking for, i was stiffly watching all of this unfolding, but currently was not able to make much sense of it, due to being hit by one shock after another .
The guy came to stand in front of my desk and began to size me up then he told me that he was sent by the principal to fetch me out and whether was i currently busy with something or not, seeing this as someway out for myself, i raised my hand a bit awkwardly and waved at the guys waiting by the doors, as if to tell them to just go ahead without me .
Urushibara Shizuno looked at me piercingly with her green eyes and do some reason i felt as if sweat were beginning to form on my forehead, but she then just nodded her head and left with the other two, Moroha simply nodded in understanding and i was waived at by Satsuki as she pulled Moroha excitedy .
After they left and closed the door, i felt that my legs were going to collapse all of a sudden, but luckily the man in front of me, seemed to be a complete contrast compared to his bully of little brother, this guy was much more reliable, he hurriedly helped me to regain my balance, i first thanked him then just sighed deeply .
We went out of the classroom, then he introduced myself to me as third year Savior Isuragi Jin and the current leader of the Strikers, then began to talk about what the Strikers were, but i just absentmindedly kept nodding, but he seemed to have notice that as well, he suddenly stopped and said :
What ?! .
I was listening to his words half-heartedly which wasn't to his liking so he asked me to tell him what was wrong was me .
I was lost of what to think about the words said by Urushibara Shizuno, so instead of telling him everything about the matter, i instead said :
" Isuragi-senpai, if you suddenly become aware that you have a sister that you knew nothing about before, what will your reaction be .
I thought he would be a bit taken aback by the sudden question, but his expression was still normal and said :
So Urushibara approached you, huh .
" You, you knew ? .
He nodded and continued to say :
It isn't a widespread piece of information around the school, but if you would have listened to what i was saying, you would have understood why i was able to access such a piece of information .
I felt a bit ashamed of neglecting his words before so i first hurriedly bowed to him and apologized for my rude actions, but then asked him, the question that was gnawing at my heart and mind, i said :
" Is it true then, that she's really my sister .
From what i have noticed and told, your mothers are different, but no doubt about you being linked through being the children of the same father .
I felt a bit conflicated about knowing this, i was neither sad nor happy about hearing about this, but it was more accurate to say that i was at loss of what to do with this new and sudden piece of information .
I.... Don't want to intrude much, but i to some extent understood the problem with your two guys family and i can already tell that you are distressed about this whole thing, so want to hear my advice .
I thought he would just not give it anymore mind and leave it at that, so i was a bit surprised when he asked for my permission to give me an advice, i guess his stern expression fooled me into thinking that he was heartless, i nodded heavily in response as if telling him to please do .
There are some irreversible damage that happened between both of your parents, due to interval of a third-party, but my advice to you will be to not hold grudge against other people for just existing, you asked me before what would be my reaction if i found out that i had a little sister .
My answer might not be able to satisfy you, but i will say it either way, i would try my best to be a good older brother, hope that helps you even a little .
He said and continued to walk forward leaving me contemplating on the piece of advice and the rest of the words he gave me, i understood what he was trying to tell me, he was telling me not to hold her responsible for things she had no hand in, the sentence about trying to become a good older brother was what pierced directly through my heart .
But i felt my distressed state eased a little bit, after i deal with whatever the principal had for me, i will go to look around for her to see if she wanted to talk about it, maybe even ask her who was the oldest between us too as well .
We continued to walk in silent for another two minutes before Isuragi-senpai broke the silence by asking me something i have no answer of, a question that i wasn't even able to understand not to mention answering, he asked :
So, are you a Shirogane or Kuroma ?.
P.s ( I love the Japanese names for light saviors and dark saviors, but the choice is yours ) .
I stopped in tracks and said," Huh " ? .
Huh, what do you mean huh, i'm asking what kind of Savior are you and what kind of Ancestral Arts did you inherit from your past life, that what determined what kind of Savior you are, didn't that Tanaka tell you about any of this .
I feeling a bit embarrassed at being this clueless only shook my head and said that i had no clue about what was he even talking about .
He clutched his head in frustration, but soon he calmed down and began explaining the terms he just used patiently .
Shirogane was the Warrior-Class Saviors, who differ from the more magic suited Mage-Class Saviors, Kuroma, whereas the magic users make use of paranormal forces to cast spells, a Shirogane can manipulate their Prana, a mysterious power drawn from opening the Seven Gates inside a person's body said to communicate with the divine, allowing them to perform an assortment of superhuman feats, the Prana is a finite power that doesn't last long, even if a person has an immense amount of it, so the person needs to manage how much is used for an attack, defense, and speed .
The Shirogane in combat use Light Techniques, those were their Ancestral Arts and the reason to why they were called light saviors, Isuragi senpai was a Shirogane .
The Kuroma was the Mage-class Saviors, who differ much from Shirogane, whereas the warrior could use their prana to strengthen themselves to superhuman levels, the Dark Savior makes use of paranormal powers to cast powerful spells against Metaphysicals .
In terms of strength, these Dark Saviors are considered to be about as strong as normal people, without the same strength or stamina as Light Saviors .
However, in combat, instead of Prana, Kuroma uses Mana, a power where one absorbs and manipulates the natural power in the world in order to cast their Dark Arts .
Kuroma casts complex "spells" via writing glyphs in the air using their fingers, most of them are able to proportion the effect of their Dark Arts, limiting its area of effect and such, those Dark Arts are the Ancestral Arts inherited by Kuroma, due to their Mana being black they were called the Dark Saviors .
After he finished explaining all this, he once again asked me the same question, was i a Shirogane or Kuroma, but even after he explained everything to me clearly, i still didn't know under what category was i .
The glyphs he mentioned i was very familiar with, but i didn't write them with my fingers, they appeared to swirl in my eyes back in the vision i had at the hospital, so am i a Kuroma, but that can't be right, i fought with a sword and i'm not completely certain but i seem to be able to wield a sword without feeling any discomfort, something the Magic like saviour class shouldn't be able to do, at least from the scornful tone of Isuragi-senpai, it appears clearly to me that they were lacking quite much in the physical part .
Prana, Mana, Light Arts, Dark Arts, Shirogane, Kuroma, those were all kinds of different terms and powers, everything about whether i was a Shirogane or Kuroma should have been clear to me by now, but no things may have gotten a lot more complicated for me to understand what i was .
From the troubled look on your face, i can tell that you still have no clue about whether you are a Shirogane or Kuroma, but don't fret much about it, everything will become clear to you when the time is right .
Seeing me still bewildered, he said those words in try of comforting me a bit, but since he was some sort of an expert and the only one currently that i could be able to ask, i asked him about if he had seen the video of me fighting a Metaphysical and he nodded his head, i was about to ask him about something, but he told me that we had arrived, forcing me to swallow my question for now .
We were standing in front of the principal office, the captain of the Strikers went ahead and knocked on the door lightly for a few times, the soft voice i still have a little bit of memories of sounded from inside the room, giving us the permission to enter .
I entered the room after Isuragi Jin and was greeted by the welcoming face of the beautiful school principal Shimon Mari, who was smiling at us and motioning to come forward .
We bowed in greeting and the moment i stepped into the room, i felt an intense gaze on my back, i turned around a bit abruptly to see who was there and saw that the stare came from a little girl sitting on the sofa behind the door .
The girl was a young girl with long, flowing blonde hair and teal colored-eyes, she often wore a blue dress, a little above knee length, a red tie, and a white corset, she was also wearing a blue ribbon on top of her head to style her hair, seeing me suddenly staring at her, she lowered her petite head to the floor and began fiddling with her hands as if she was feeling frustrated a bit from being found out, i thought it was quite funny, but due to the seriousness in the room i held back my laughter .
The principal kept looking at me in silent for a few minutes, i thought that she was thinking back about what happened in the morning, so i once again bowed and apologized for my abrupt actions, but i had no intention to offend her .
She waved her hand at me as if dismissing my need to apologize and said :
Don't worry about, amusement and a little bit of surprises in such an occasions are very much needed and endorsed here as long no one got hurt of course, so don't worry much about it, i was looking for you today for an entire different thing .
I sighed a bit in relief, not wanting to get scolded on my first day at my new school and just as i was about to ask what was that she summoned me her for, she continued to say without waiting for me to ask or say anything :
We are here today to talk about your future, Ryuu-kun, can i call you as such ? .
I nodded my head and she continued to say :
Asyouhave probably have been told it, we are a school for special people .
" Saviors " .
Exactly, the future i'm talking about here is related to your future as a Savior .
Seeing where this conversation was going, i decided to take a shortcut to the heart of this conversation, saying :
" This is related to me being a C Rank Savior, right " .
Correct again, normally all the Saviors in their first year would be given the Rank D, the D is a shortcut for their current state as disciples, still short of means to allow them to fight the Metaphysicals, or maybe they had the means, but still learning how use them, all in all they aren't ready to be deployed to the battlefield .
But the C Rank Saviors are different, this promotion meant that they are eligible to join the order and are able to be deployed to the front lines fighting against Metaphysicals, normally no new student was to be given the promotion this fast, but due to some unique circumstances that i told that you were aware of, their was an exception and you were promoted to C Rank, but that in itself is a problematic for you .
So that what he meant by the opportunity he fought to grant me, quite problematic indeed .