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Chapter 35: Newbie "Crap." Alexis mumbled when she saw the E-news. "It's nothing. We're not going back there anyway." I smiled at her. "Yeah...... I need to go to an interview tomorrow." she smiled back at me. "Good luck then." I smacked her on the back lightly. "Thanks." she replied. The next morning, I woke up at the sound of a muffled sceam from Lacus's room. I broke the door down to see....... "What the heck?" Alexis gasped. There was a massive pile of red hair on Lacus's bed. The scream had come from inside it! Mei Ling quickly ran into the room and tossed a part of the hair aside. "This is what you get for being too greedy." she muttered. I understood at that point. Lacus had overused the modified Sexifier and grown too much hair. Mei Ling put the pile of red hair on her back and motioned for me to help. We carried Lacus into a bathtub and let the water run for a while. When the tub was filled to the brim, I saw a small pillar of smoke rise up from Lacus and we carried her out. "Scissors." Mei Ling muttered. "Sorry...... I had no idea that would happen......" Lacus hurriedly apologized after Mei Ling gave her a haircut. Right now, her hair was at knee length. "Overdosage much?" Alexis stared at Lacus's torso. Her hips and chest were about as wide as three basketballs and her waistline was about 20 centimetres wide. Her pajamas had burst holes. "Your Dark Requirre won't fit on you." I remarked. She pouted and ran off back into her room. A few seconds later, I heard the sound of fabric being ripped. Luckily, Lopez hadn't woken up yet. "I think her clothes need some patching up." Alexis ran into Lacus's room as a wailing sound echoed throughout the house. "Maybe I can do something about her body, but I'm not sure." Mei Ling slid down the ladder to her underground lab. I had a quick breakfast and walked out to see Roy waiting impatiently in his car. I noted a roof scoop on his roof and a shiny blue spoiler on the trunk. "What kept you?" he asked as I piled into the car's back seat. "Lacus got an overdosage of the Sexifier." I replied hoarsely, slinging my quiver over my shoulder. Roy rolled his eyes. "I hope she's okay." Roy dropped me off at the school like yesterday and I hurried to the staff room. "Ah, you're here, Miss Artemis." the secretary raised his glasses as I stumbled into his office. "One of our teachers will take you on a tour of the school to get familiarized, then you shall follow him to his own class for observation purposes." he explained, motioning for me to take a seat. "You called me, Mr Aber?" a guy walked into the office. "Yes, Ikki. Mind taking her out for a little tour of the school?" the secretary pointed at me. The guy turned around and gasped. My jaw fell open. He was one of the men I had seen yesterday at the range! "Fancy that, you're a trainee teacher here." Ikki smiled as I followed him nervously. "Yeah... My name's Artemis by the way." I said. "Oh. How do you do? My name's Ikfarion, but call me Ikki. Everyone does." he shook my hand. As we walked past a class, a young hunter called out. "Yeah, boys, I'll be back in a while. Showing this lovely soon-to-be teacher around the school." Ikki grinned at him. I suddenly felt my cheeks turn hot. Am I blushing? I checked my reflection in my watch, and it turned out I really was blushing! Luckily, Ikki didn't seem to notice. Ikki showed me around the school for an hour or so. He took me to the workshop, where I noted a few crudely fashioned wooden bows and a few bowstrings. "Of course, archery isn't all we teach here. There's History, English, Tech classes for the seniors and quite a few more." he explained. "Archery lessons take up the first 3 hours of teaching time, the next 20 minutes is breaktime and then we continue on with normal classes for 2 hours." he added. When we walked into Ikki's class, there was a loud cheer and everyone ran out. "They're eager to go to the archery range. They can't go for archery unless their teacher's around, see?" we chased after the kids. They were already at a range. I noted the class name engraved on a metal plate on the ground. "Class 2 Chrono." I read. "Alpha, Beta, Chrono, Delta, Eta. Those are the class names, from best to worst. We're average." Ikki smiled as an overeager kid smacked another in the face when he drew his bowstring back. All around us, teachers were watching students shoot down the ranges. "This side of the school sports only the 500 metre ranges. The other side has 1 kilometre ranges while there's a crazily long range of 2 kilometres behind the school." Ikki explained further. I nodded, not really listening. I was looking him down. He had black, matted hair that swept over his forehead coolly, somewhat like the hair I had when I was a boy. His arms were rather muscular, and an elbow guard covered his left elbow. His Blue Arzuna suggested a level 100+ with the Golden Nisrock in his quiver providing stronger evidence to that. I noticed a red-haired young boy having trouble with his bow. He appeared to be holding it the wrong way, and his shots kept arcing into the other lanes. "Derek's having trouble again......" Ikki sighed and took a single step towards the kid, but I was already there beside him. "You should hold it like this to keep your aim straight. If you keep holding the bow like that, your shots will curve off in other directions." I smiled at him, repositioning his fingers around his War Bow. Derek looked at me, bewildered. I just kept my smile and stepped away to let him try it out. His next shot flew straight hit the target, although not the bullseye. "And I thought he'd never learn!" Ikki stared at Derek, apparently impressed. "Nice one!" Ikki put his hand around my neck. I felt my cheeks turn hot again. "Ummm......" I was at a loss of words. "Oh, sorry." Ikki removed his hand. "I still don't understand why he gets the gorgeous new teacher!" a voice blurted from the next range and I turned around. There was a man argueing with another man, and the first guy's finger was pointed at Ikki. "Got a problem with that?" he called over and the two men immediately fell silent. "Heh, that's Class 2 Delta's homeroom teacher, and also my rival...... sort of. His name's Conrad." Ikki whispered in my ear. A few hours later, Ikki and I stood at the school canteen's counter, deciding what to eat. "Ramen's good here, but I suggest fried rice." Ikki suggested. I nodded and he bought two packets of fried rice. We took seats at one of the tables allocated for teachers. When Ikki pulled out a seat and smiled, I felt my cheeks turn hot yet again. Why do I keep blushing? I sat down and picked up a plastic spoon from the packet. Ikki not only proved to be rather handsome, he was quite a joker as well. There seemed to be nothing he couldn't make a joke out of. When the bell rang, indicating the end of breaktime, I followed him quietly to his class. He sat me at an empty desk behind the class and gave me a notebook, winking at me. I felt my cheeks turn red again as I took my seat. This time, Ikki noticed, but he said nothing, but I spotted a faint smile on his face. A kid wolf-whistled. Amidst the sounds of Ikki's teaching, I found myself slipping into a dream-like state. Everywhere I turned, I saw Ikki's face. I blushed yet again, and a kid in the back row burst my bubble. He made a point of ogling my legs stretched out under the desk. I scowled and retracted my legs. Whats getting into my mind? |
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