She walked towards the shower, steaming the room the moment she turned on the shower. She stepped in as the water poured down. Sighing on the hot relaxing water, she bathed her skin lightly, taking careful note on touching her back. A long jagged, strange shaped scar snaked down starting from her top back and went until her left lower side. The scar was laid in an unusual color, an odd mixture of bright white and light pink. She lightly traced down the jagged line with the tips of her fingers while closing her eyes. Another sigh escaped from her pink lips. She hung her head under the shower and tried to think other things, anything but her insignia. Her mind faded into dullness and it made a trip to this afternoon event.

***

"Run!" the girl with blue hair repeated her order while dragging Yurika toward the opposite direction where a boy was starting to shout curses and chant a spell breaker.

"You are crazy, Wen!! Seriously!" the blue haired girl complained while still dragging Yurika, "I can't believe I actually agreed on doing this."

Yurika who was letting herself being drag away tilted her head in confusion, "Who are you talking to and where are you taking me?"

The blue-haired girl turned her head toward her, "to my crazy sister! She is running next to you now."

Yurika widened her eyes in confusion because she saw no one beside her and the blue-haired girl in front of her.

"What do you mean?" asked Yurika, as she pulled her hand away from her kidnapper. She stopped and stared at the blue-haired as if she was crazy.

"Oh my gosh, we don't have time for this. The king will break that spell soon and if he finds out that we are the one who just stole his prey...," the blue-haired girl face looked terrified, "Wen!! Come on!! This girl thinks I am crazy now talking to an invisible sister."

A giggle came from Yurika's left. It almost made her jump in fright when a girl with purple hair suddenly appeared next to her.

"What? Where? How?" Yurika exclaimed. The purple-haired girl laughed to see her expression.

"Hi, there!" She smirked cheekily.

"We have no time to waste," the blue-haired girl glanced at the direction where Jace standing, "follow me and fast!"

Wen pushed Yurika, "let's go before he sees us!"

Even though she didn't know the girls, Yurika decided to follow them. They took her to one of the school building's roof.

"Oh my gosh, Rii! I can't believe we actually pull that stunt and get away successfully!" Wen's laughter exploded the moment they arrived.

"Don't be so sure," the blue-haired girl that apparently called 'Rii' pouted with a concerning look, "we are lucky he was alone if he was with one of his lackeys---"

"Ohh shush, you worried so much! Just enjoy the bliss of giving a slap at that snob guy's face for once!"

Rii glared at her sister for a short period before finally her serious face distorted into a grin and then she giggled along, "yeah, totally felt good!"

The two girls laughed together, while Yurika was watching them. It appeared that they had forgotten her presence.

"Err... excuse me?" Yurika quipped. The girls stopped chuckling and finally turned their attention to her.

"Oh dear, we kind of forgot that you are with us," Rii gasped, "hi I am Riddele Alstairs, nice to meet you. You can just call me Rii"

Riddele offered her hand for a shake, Yurika accepted her hand and shook it.

"... and I am Wenona Alstairs, nice to meet you, Yurika!" Wen tapped Yurika's shoulder and grinned.

"How did you know my name?" Yurika asked; confused.

"I am at the same class as you," Wenona responded and pointed at her sister, "Rii is a year older than me, so she is in a different class."

"I see...," Yurika smiled, "thank you for saving me back there. I seriously don't want to cause any trouble, especially not on my first day at school."

"No problem, I hate that guy anyway. He is so full of himself," Wen clenched her hand and punched the air, "I wish I could just smack some senses into him."

"Careful, he is still the son of this academy owner. Without that scholarship, we both won't be here," warned Riddele.

"Urgh... yeah I guess," Wen grumbled.

"So, you guys scholarship students?" asked Yurika curiously, "I didn't know that this academy offered scholarship too."

"Yeah, Wen is the genius one. I must  study really hard to get it every semester, but this one...," Riddele put her hand on top of Wen's head and messed up her hair, "her brain just works in another level." 

"Hey, you are messing my hair!" protested Wen while pushing her sister hand away, "Don't believe everything she said, I am not that smart. Besides, without her amazing skill in making potions, we won't be able to save you just now. She is the one who made that invisible potion. Without it, I won't even dare to cast magic onto that snob king, he would have seen me  before I even started."

"Oh, that was a potion. I was wondering what kind of magic  that can make someone invisible." 

"There's one I am sure, we just not on that level of skill... yet," Wen winked, "Anyway, how about you, Yuu? Can I just call you 'Yuu'? It's simple and easier to say. It's super rare to see someone transfers here, especially in the middle of the second term. Not just rare to be honest, more of never ever happened in the history of this academy."

Yurika twirled her hair nervously, her gaze adverted randomly toward empty space behind the girls, "uhm, I am a special case."

"Special case? How special?" Riddele poked in curiously.

'... killing someone special case.' 

"Let's just say I got a special grace from the academy," Yurika cleared her throat uncomfortably, "Anyway, I think I should go back to class now. I don't want to mess up my 'grace'. Not on the first day at least."

 Yurika stood up and bowed down, "thank you again for the help."

The sisters looked at her with obvious curiosity, but they didn't pursue it. Riddele then tilted her head toward her sister. 

"You probably should go back too, Wen? Before the king realized it was you who attacked him with wind magic," suggested Riddele

"I guess so," Wen fixing her hair with an annoyed look, "see you later at the dorm Rii."

"See you! Study hard! Remember that"

"Urghh yeah, yeah," Wen dragged herself lazily to their class.

***

A soft smile lingered on Yurika as a she looked herself in the bathroom mirror. Her hand slowly brushed on the foggy mirror.

"Alstairs sisters...," she paused and chuckled a bit, "they are interesting."

She finished her shower and slumped into her bed. Laying there with her roseate eyes staring at the ceiling with an empty look. It took her almost an hour before she finally fell asleep.