Inverse High School

Three days later.They had learned two things:
1. Stealing was not a good idea.

2. Sleeping in a park in summer in Japan was worse than in the forest.


Luckily, they had met Professor Hayato.
A man in his fifties, round glasses, wrinkled suit. He found them rummaging through a konbini’s trash, and instead of calling the police, he asked a simple question:
— You’re not from here, are you?
They denied it. He smiled. Then he said a strange sentence:
— You come from elsewhere. And this isn’t the first time this has happened.


Professor Hayato took them to an old Japanese house. Tatami mats, sliding doors, a small garden.He gave them food, ordinary clothes, and a roof over their heads.
Then, he proposed the unthinkable:— You’re going to have to go to school. To blend in with the population. This high school accepts… special cases.
Akaru refused at first.But Lyana said yes.Mira shrugged. Theo followed.


Monday morning.
In front of Shinseina High School, they wore the uniform. White shirts, navy blue jackets.But their attitude betrayed everything.
Akaru couldn’t stop staring at the cars.Mira was already pouting.Theo tried to figure out how the automatic gates worked.And Lyana… kept her hand on her hip as if she could still draw her sword.
— Okay, she said. We don’t understand anything, but we stick together. We observe. No magic. No noise. No disaster.
One minute later, disaster struck.

In class, the teacher asked Akaru to introduce himself.
— Name?
— Akaru... of the Lórendal lineage, son of—
— Just your last name.
— …I don’t have one?
Laughter in the classroom.
A few rows away, a girl was taking notes while glancing at them from the corner of her eye. A boy with a strange gaze was staring at them. Something was off about this school.
At the break, Mira whispered:
— Don’t you feel… some kind of energy in the walls?
Theo nodded.
— There’s a presence here. Something not… natural.
And Akaru saw reflections in the windows that weren’t his own.


Magic was not dead.
It was hiding.In the looks.In the walls.In the shadows.
And this world might not be as “normal” as it seemed.