"This is boring"
Jonathan yawned, a long one, as he kicked the body pile in front of him. There's like, 5? No, 8 people stacked on top of each other. They was kinda stupid anyway for judging the book from it's cover. These, 'yakuza' was trying to get themselves some easy money by robbing weak-looking high school students on their way home. Kinda what the school bullies used to do, or would do, but instead of bullying, these guys uses bokken and pipes, and won't hesitate to hit their prey. How low these 'yakuzas' has fallen. It's not just that they failed to get some money out of our Jonathan, they also failed to fulfill any of the conditions stated few sentences back. First he's not on his way home, he's just going to buy some food to bring to the club he's going to join, second he's technically not high school student, if he didn't get held back several time, and third, he's nowhere near the word 'weak'. Well not the Jonathan anyway, but the Ripper.
"You don't have to be THAT rough you know" the voice inside his head, or more specifically, Jonathan Lionheart himself, spoke up. "Can't help it. Class was so damn boring i could just tear the teacher apart" John said, cracking his knuckle. "Well at least you didn't killed them, and that's an improvement" Jonathan said, rather happy. "Feh, improvement? I call it disgust. These guys ain't even worth getting my coat dirtied" John said, as he kicked another body to make his way. "MY coat" "Technically it's mine, since i'm you anyway" "At least calls the ambulance or anything, don't just leave them like that" "Heh, just be thankful i didn't kill them" The two person banters. John then pulled out his megaphone, and screamed loudly.
"SINCE WHO THE F*CK CARE ABOUT THESE PEOPLE ANYWAY" John shouted, followed by a long maniacal laughter. From the voice and amplification, the sound itself should reach the school. Of course, do to his unique ability, no one heard the scream at all, since they forgot that there's a shout at all, except those who have strong will and proved themselves worthy to NOT be killed by him. "You know, you don't have to do that" Jonathan grumbled, seemingly annoyed, since they shared the same ear, therefore he also heard the shout, and that made his ear rings.
"Meh, like i said, who the hell care" John said, as he looted the 'yakuzas' pocket, and taking all of their money. "I can get some quality food for a week with this" John mumbled, as he grinned ear to ear, showing his devilish smile. "Welp time to get some grub" John said, ignoring anything Jonathan said.
Minutes later, the Ripper, who's now back in his Jonathan's appearance, is now standing in front of the notice board, pondering his choices. "These all seems boring" John mumbled. One thing does piques his interest however. No, make that 2 things. "Hero's Club and Occult Society? Doesn't seems to be something that belongs in a high school" Jonathan said, confused. "Heh, if even the cub thought it's silly, then it must be the advanced silly!" John mumbled again, chuckling this time. "Well maybe because you never bothered to check one?" "Not that i have time for this, pleasantries" "Yet here you are, pondering your choices" "I just got bored. Maybe finding some new prey in this, club thingy, could do well to satiate my lust for battle" "Stop that, you're attracting attention" The two banters again, this time however some students managed to get a glimpse of him. As usual, he drew his megaphone, and shouted.
"YOU SAW NOTHING" John shouted again, in a lower voice, and as always, they forgot what they just saw, and people around forgot they heard something, unique. "Welp, now that that's out of the way, time to check this Occult Society" John said, as he made his way to the club's location.
Some other steps later, and some more model-student acting, John finally arrived in front of the club's room. The door is open, and inside, both John and Jonathan saw something they never thought would see. A girl, tiny one, with such frivolous gothic dress so out of place, that a sore thumb might be ignored, and another girl, taller one, wearing a pair of, floating? Ribbons on her bright pink twintails, in a room with lots of magic inscribing and stuffs. John just stared blankly into the room, with both of his hand still in his pocket.
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And there's the bell.
Ryoko stretches her hands for a bit, before plopping on to her desk. Today's lesson was especially draining. Math, history, physics, geography, and literature. Not even the whole bag of sweets (around 20 candies) could help her survive the hell on earth. She'd rather fight a tons of government's lackies than stay another hour in this class. Well a good thing now that it's finished. Despite her prowess in battling mechas and swordfighting, Ryoko can't stand the studying she has to take. Despite that, she managed to score almost always above 90. She may dislike studying, but given enough time, she could easily memorized something she heard. Which is why her phone is full of recording of the lessons. She then usually bring these recording up to her mecha, and listened to it while she slashes and dices the enemies mechs.
After enough time planting her face to the desk, Ryoko decided to stood up, and packed her stuffs up. While packing up her stuff, she found out something that even she couldn't believe herself. Something so magical that could turns her mood upside down just from the sight of it. Rain in the desert! Food for the marooned! Like a koi jumping out of the pond! Like a vulture doing 360noscope on a rabbit! A cheetah doing somersault to a bear! Stabilizing an egg on top of a katana blade! And that thing ISSSS
Another bag of candy.
Someone seems to have left that there. During her time at the Hanazawa school, she often got mysterious present like this. Maybe some guys was trying to get close to her. Maybe some girls want to cheer her up. Maybe the God himself decided to spawn a bag of candy to cheer her up. For whatever reason, she found herself smiling, just a bit. She really can't show much emotion, and that bothers her. Not that she can't because she has to limit it because of some evil organization is constantly spying on her to try and blackmail her for some reason, but she really can't smile like everyone does. Maybe due to the fact that she never had any proper childhood. Well that's a story for another day.
In any case, Ryoko could sense that someone is overjoyed. Maybe they took a picture as well, who knows. All that she cared right now is that she got another bag of candies, and that's enough to make her world go round. Just as she was about to open the bag however, she suddenly heard a loud scream, followed by a maniacal laughter. She was abruptly alarmed, and pulled a ruler out of her bag, and got into her battle stance.
There's nothing however. Even her classmate started looking at her like she's kind of a freakshow. Strange, nobody seems to be hearing that, even though it's pretty loud. Since that it doesn't seems to be the case, and that no one heard it except herself, Ryoko decided that it's nothing. But given the fact that she's already in her battle stance, just putting the ruler back in her bag and walking out seemed really awkward, so she decided to do something to make it less awkward both for her and her classmate. She quickly scanned the room, and found a single, unlucky, mosquito. With one swift movement, she swung the ruler down, and hit the mosquito. She then picked the mosquito, and placed it on her palms.
"Mosquito......annoying" Ryoko said, as she dropped the mosquito corpse to the floor. She often does stuffs like this, due to the fact that she's easily alerted by anything out of ordinary, and usually, she ended up doing a battle stance in a middle of crowds. Mosquitos and flies are usually her reason, but sometimes she improvised and used something else, like catching a flower petal or leaves, sending trashes to trash can, those sorts of thing. So far, it doesn't get her into trouble, except for the fact that there's girls that swoons over her when she does that. Not that it bothers her, but it's kinda, out of place.
In any case, it's the first day of the Hero's Club activities, and Ryoko have been looking forward to it. She packed her stuff again, popped one of the candies in her mouth, picked the guitar case, with the Haven pair inside, and went on her way towards the club room. Along the way to the club room, Ryoko heard the same voice again. Despite being hardly audible from her position, she definitely heard something just now, and the voice sounded similar to the first shout. And again, no one seemed to notice it. Ryoko again dismissed it, although this one made her more alert than before.
Before long, Ryoko arrived in front of the club room. From the look of it, it's seems that she's the first one to arrive. Maybe not, but there's certainly fewer people in the hallway, and there's no sound from the inside. She did a double check on the room number, the location on the map on the brochure she picked, and the surrounding. Upon confirming that it's indeed the club room, Ryoko gave a knock on the door, and opened it.
"Excuse me....Is this the Hero's Club?" Ryoko asked as she popped her head in.