"Why are you here,Gumn?" asked Tomoe to the lady standing in front of the door.
"I literally just told you not to call me that!"
"Master,who is this?" asked Butei.
"Oh yeah. I told you guys about the group I'm part of,right?"
"You said they were called the Celestials,right? Though you refused to tell us more than that."
"You didn't tell them about me,Towm?" asked Gumn.
"Towm?" asked Butei.
"That's my nickname in the other world. Though not many people call me it. Anyway,this woman is Gumn,my best-friend. She's practically my opposite."
"Master's opposite?"
"Hey Towm,why is an adult calling you Master? I thought you were teaching children?"
"The adult's age is different than where we came from."
"Oh really. So why is he calling you Master? You're not into that thing,are you?"
"He started it by himself. So,why are you here?"
"Tetsu told me to go see your class and send back a report. You haven't mailed us in a while."
"It's hard to mail when I don't have a messenger."
"Oh,yeah. We completely forgot."
"You can rest at my place."
"Yeah! By the way,I thought we agreed to call each other by nicknames..." Gumn and Tomoe were about to leave when Butei shouted.
"So Master! Can I be your disciple?"
"Sure. Though it'll be in name-only."
"I don't mind!"
"See you at school tomorrow." Tomoe and Gumn left. Tomoe also forgot to actually have a one-on-one talk with his parents and had to go back later to talk with them.
<At School>
Tomoe and Gust -Gumn refused to be called Gumn so they changed to that.- walked to school together. When they both got to class it was completely empty.
"You'd expect more students in a school,wouldn't you?"
"I always get here early."
"To sleep?" Tomoe was faking to sleep. "You really never change. Though,why aren't you wearing the ring anymore?"
"I can't wear a ring and my gloves at the same time."
As we've mentioned before,Tomoe wears gloves,and so does Gust! She wears a white cloak and has a utility belt and backpack. Though,the cloak has strings to tie each end together so it won't fly off.
"Can I not take these off?"
"You wanna create a paradox?"
"...What is 'wanna'?"
"Oh yeah,we don't use those. The people of this time shorten words so 'do not' becomes 'don't' and 'want to' becomes wanna'" Although Tomoe said this,please don't use 'wanna' in your essays.
"Oh,in that case,no I...don't wanna create a paradox."
"Stop acting like it's a different language."
"The names are different!"
"That's because of time."
A few people walked into the class. "Shuichiro Tanaka -The class-rep with an interest in engineering, Kurogame Akane -A faux psycopath with a secretly nice heart, Butei and the Monzu's -A bunch of gangster who run the school to protect themselves, Maria Masako -A bailaora and all-around dance enthusiast-, Bisen Mas, -A wrestler who's pecs make up about 50% of his total body, Aki Lin -A karate enthusiast who prefers weapons and only learned karate to get better at using weapons that need CQC."
"Thanks for the description of everyone,Towm."
"Hey Tomo,who's this stunning female?" asked Kurogame trying to sound cool.
"Don't try to sound smart. It doesn't fit you." Kurogame tried to punch Tomoe but Gust used the side of her rifle and flung him across the room.
"Look,Towm! The wall did not break!"
"That's how advanced their technology is. Almost no windows are made of glass either."
"What about the ones in this classroom?"
"Fling something at it and it won't go through without a certain amount of force."
"Woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!"
"I thought you got your weapons from this time?"
"What year is it?"
"2247."
"Ah. I grabbed them about 2 centuries back then."
"Oh,cool. I'll tell you about it when everyone else arrives,okay Kurogame?"
"Can we get like a shield for protection on the school uniforms,Shui?"
"We can't do it without the Headmaster's permission and even then he'd need the permission of the government."
"Ugh..."
Once everyone got into the class Tomoe woke up. "Good afternoon everyone,this is Gust. She's part of the Celestials group that I talked about before."
Everyone thought, 'It's morning though...' but Futaba asked, "What actually is Celestials?"
"Hey,Towm. May I answer?" asked Gust.
"Sure,go ahead."
"Celestials is a group of '7' that works individually from the government. We will sometimes accept jobs from the government and other countries but most of them we turn down because of our goal."
"What's your goal and why the 7 in air quotes?"
"The 2 things correlate. 2 of the people had merged and 1 of them died. So most of the time it's just 4 of us since Tomoe never comes to the meetings."
"The land out front has the perfect breeze for a nap!" said Tomoe not sounding too convicted. Yuuki's trio realized that the rooftop of their apartment also has a nice breeze.
"You don't sound like your heart's in it,Tomo." said Kurogame
"I just woke up."
Futaba ignored Tomoe and Kurogame's conversation and asked,"So are you looking for 2 more members then?"
"Just 1 actually. Everyone is counted by their title. The 2 who merged,although having 1 body is counted as 2 separate people."
"In that case,what are your titles?"
"Titles are supposed to be the first form of everything. Before anything else is made,we have the materials to make something out of nothing.There's me,Gust,the Celestial of Space.
Tomoe,the Celestial of Time.
Dite,the Celestial of Love
Yotsuen,the Celestial of Elements
And our leader,Tetsu,the Celestial of Light and Darkness."
"What's the difference between Elements and the others? And what is the missing Celestial?"
"Elements refer to the things that make up Earth,or what we call,Muellis. Ground,Fire,Water,Electricity and Air."
"Ohhhh..."
"The missing Celestial is Beast. Before this was actually Morality but,we found it too vague and were unable to find anyone suitable so we settled on Beast but then,we had the opposite problem."
"Too many options?"
"Yes. So we created this option. Have a competition in which our students fight each other in a tournament and the last 6 fight us. The ones who are able to beat us will then fight each other and the last one standing will become the Celestial of Beasts."
"I see..."
"So," Otome raised up his hand. "What will you do after that?"
"...Towm?"
"Keep it vague."
"Then,we'll risk our lives in the most dangerous battle any person can fight in."
The class was ecstatic at how blatant Tomoe and Gust were trying to hide a secret.
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