The Riajuu group

Classroom 2-B, back row leftmost seat.

Almost like clockwork I head to one of the few places I consider my sanctuary in this school. I then lift up my desk cover and put the arranged items from my bag into the desk.

I take my phone from my pocket and check the time, 5:30 A.M, 30 minutes before the scheduled time, since I've already upheld my end of the bargain, I climb onto the school roof, find a nice shady place to lay down on and let my consciousness drift back to sleep.

I wake up 2 hours later to the sound of the school bell, after a yawn, I decide to eat Rins bento before going back to the classroom, you can't think on an empty stomach after all.

After eating, I immediately head downstairs barely making it before the late bell. Upon entering the room, I am greeted by the sight of around 40 students, of whom I pay no mind.

I just head straight back to my chair, open the desk cover, there I find a note saying "The transaction is complete" under the note are several books; Chemistry, an Aikido guide, a Kendo guide, other various martial arts guides, Gunmaking? Target shooting? A camping and survival guide? And what is this? A Cookbook? There are 10 books in all, though, what's with these topics? Aren't some of these borderline chuuni? Oh well, having more books to read is never a bad thing.

After being satisfied with the trade, I put my head on my desk and try to go back to sleep. To everyone here, I am an invisible entity. As they are oblivious of my existence, so am I to theirs. An empty desk that is what I am to everyone here.

"Natsuki- san, were you able to do the history homework Kurono- sensei gave us the other day?"

To everyone except her, maybe...

Sighing in my mind, I answer the owner of the voice that disturbed the tranquility of my world.

"Yeah, I did Kanzashi- san"

I decide to abandon the idea of sleeping, even though I could just grandly ignore this person, I choose not to because....

"Ah that's good, though you seem tired Natsuki- san, did you get enough sleep last night?"

"Really Yuki, your concern is wasted on someone like Natsuki here, look he doesn't even put in effort to reply properly even while a goddess like you is talking to him, he's just keeping his head down while talking! As one would expect from a lazy, good-for-nothing-"

"Now, now, Yoichi isn't it a bit too early for a rant?"

"Yeah, Yoi- chan why not be more like my darling Yoshi here? Always calm and quiet as a river."

"You're all rather noisy yourselves, can't you see you're disturbing Akio- kun's sleep?"

Kanzashi Yuki: A so- called school idol, she looks younger than even Rin who is 13 years old even though she's 18 herself, because of her, as they say, adorable appearance, she' s extremely popular, I think she even has her own fan club.

Takahaki Yoichi: Some popular guy who follows Yuki around, he always seems to have choice words for me though.

Midoriba Yama: A taciturn fellow, he and Yoichi are together all the time.

Aomimi Usa: Another popular one, she's always with Yuki, so I think they're friends, contrary to Yuki she has a mature appearance with a childish personality.

Takahaki Yoshi: Usas "darling", A kindred spirit in my opinion, even if he is Yoichis twin brother.

I collectively refer to them as the Riajuu group, since they seem to be really popular.

And I honestly find dealing with them troublesome because if I ignore even one of them there's a high chance that I might incur the wrath of their legions of fans.