3rd Pov
Months passed, and finally the first day of school of Dawn had arrived.
Staring at himself through a mirror, he woke early in the morning and prepared himself...a white scholar uniform on.
He now just thought about all the things that happened since he reincarnated...he had never really sat down and looked at himself.
This new appearance, this new life...now that he could breathe a little, he realized how much he had changed.
Smiling, he turned away...grabbed his bag and left.
Dawn Pov
After giving my goodbye to my mother, I left in the carriage...6 years of class without only a few holidays to come back.
You could say I was leaving the mansion for good at this point...
I sighed, 12 years in this world...time sure flies fast.
Dawn : Now I wonder what the future has reserved for me.
Pushing my chin onto my hand, I stared at the horizon...my thought shifted toward this girl Luna an instant.
I quickly shook it away and looked at my hand, the academy shouldn't be much of a problem.
Tensura human world was acting in a medieval knowledge era before the arrival of otherworlder...meaning, the modern knowledge stocked in my brain is much more advanced than anything you can find here beside Magic and Skill.
Dawn : I also gave my resignation letter to the traveler group...their reaction was really...particular.
The employee that took charge of my mission almost cried, losing her most active tool...because yes, the environment there was toxic.
If you don't benefit, then you'll be treated like trash...anyway, they aren't my business anymore, in the end their group was meant to do good.
Just once they noticed how much money they could make from this, greed took over and that's why Yuuki's system later was easily implemented.
Because most of the travelers will one realize how toxic this is and would rebel for changes.
Finally opening my eyes, the carriage stopped...I sighed once again and got out.
The academy in my field of vision, I tightly grabbed my bag and walked forward.
Dawn : 6 years, I have those years to become the strongest in this kingdom.
3rd Pov
An hour later, Dawn was sitting in a classroom...his first ever academy class was about to start.
He was one of the first people here and waited watching the students entering one by one...some had already formed a group of friends...
Dawn : (It seems friend groups are made per social class, also judging by the clothes of all...there are no commoners here.)
His eyes scanning, he had no intention of approaching any of them as every single one of the people present were clothed in a very arrogant manner.
Showcasing their jewelry and gold, trying to catch other attention and give themself some importance.
???: May I sit here ?
His body freezing, Dawn slowly turned toward his left...the same voice he had heard a few months ago...the same face and blue eyes...
Dawn : Yes...does as you please.
He muttered slowly as the girl sat down, her hair trailed down the chair...she had let them grow a little during the last few months.
Her name is Luna Zickard...the adopted daughter of the viscount Zickard and a former commoner who possessed more magicule than any noble.
Dawn : (This girl...I was too shocked to analyze her back then, but now...she is a beast.)
Keeping a straight face, he eyed her from time to time as he used his unique skill : Reader, through the years it had evolved or rather Dawn understood and discovered more of its true nature.
He could now read the magicule count and power level of some people...and this Luna was ever more magicule than him.
Luna : You already know my name so what's yours ?
Suddenly initiating the conversation, Dawn fully turned his head toward her...it was clear now that she still remembered him from that day when they first crossed stare.
Dawn : You could remember from so far before ? Well, I am Dawn...nice to meet you.
Luna : I have a good memory.
Her voice was ice cold yet she wasn't acting cold toward Dawn, in fact she even tried to open up herself to him.
This made Dawn wonder if she actually felt the same feeling he had, a sort of comfort yet uncomfortable feeling when they first laid eyes on each other.
Dawn : I guess it's work of fate for us to be seated in the same class.
Luna : Fate ? No, I just asked to be here with you.
Dawn : With me ? Shouldn't you be more careful of someone who knows your true origin ?
It was true, if Dawn wanted he could expose her...commoners aren't well seen and the viscount Zickard isn't on good terms with Dawn's father's family.
At any moment, Dawn went on and destroyed the reputation of the viscount...and Luna was surely aware of that.
Luna : My blessed ability...it tells me you are a good person.
Dawn : Huh ? (Blessed ability ? Does she mean unique skill ? I wonder what her skill...with this much magicule, she must truly be blessed.)
Luna : Tell me, do you believe in reincarnation ?
Dawn : !!!
His body shook heavily at her question, was she a reincarnated like himself and Sola ? Analyzing her expression.
Dawn wasn't able to properly read her...it was a genuine question but why that now ?
Dawn : Why ask that ?
Luna : I mean, I had read a book about a hero who gets reincarnated in another world...do you think this actually exists ?
Dawn : I mean...(What should i answer...) yes i believe in that.
Luna : I see, I do too.
This was really strange, they barely started to interact but they were already some kind of friend.
The people around who saw them had multiple reactions...a few of them recognized the two, one being the daughter of the viscount Zickard and the other, the youngest son of the viscount Lavane.
Two enemy families who discussed like they were friends...this was shocking for them to say the least.
Noble : Are they serious...how can they be so casual...
Noble : Isn't the youngest Lavane called trash ?
Noble : I heard lady Zickard was a genius, so why is she with this brat ?
Jealousy to simple insults, mutter filled the room...Dawn noticed them but didn't care enough to actually confront them.
Only a few students actually caught Dawn's attention, not because of their strength but rather the way they looked at him.
It wasn't malice but rather they looked at him with interest...surely they were smarter than those npc nobles.
Dawn : (Those kids probably noticed that I wasn't like the rumors said I was...)
He knew about the false rumors and words his father had said to him, a worthless trash who can't fight, is dumb and had no future.
But now that he was here in person, people should be able to understand the situation, unfortunately nobility had rotten too many minds.
Finally the teacher entered and the lesson started...
Dawn Pov
This class is boring, the basics are important but what I'm watching right now isn't even the proper basis.
Well at least, I can use these two hours of teaching to analyze this class.
Dawn ; (So what do you think, Snowie?)
Snowie : (Master was right, no one present teacher included has the capacity to defeat you.)
It's normal, the students are just normal kids with maybe slightly advantageous potential but then as a reincarnator, I will always be superior.
As for the teacher, they aren't experienced in fighting...they surely had never seen a monster and just graduated with practice and knowledge.
They can't hold a candle against any of the superior travelers...i'm not saying i am way stronger than them...my magicule count and skill might exceed them.
And with my extra skill, i can control magic as well as them...but in the end i'm still a 12 years old boy.
I can compensate for the physical gap by enhancing my body with magicule, but this will just lead to my doom if I fall on an opponent who knows how to manage his magicule.
He would just have to wait until I fell from exhaustion and ended me.
Dawn : (What about Luna?)
Snowie : (This girl has an immense potential...if we talk about raw power, then she is by far the strongest individual here.)
Dawn : (You are not counting yourself in, right?)
Snowie : (Naturally, this girl won't hand a candle to me.)
Heh, why does she sound smug as if she was proving an important point ? Wait, this feeling...the soul corridor between me and Snowie...
Is that...jealousy ? Envy ? I can't understand it fully...oh ? It's gone.
Snowie : (Master doesn't need to know.)
Dawn : ...
Did she turn off my perception of our soul corridor, why do I feel I got a Ciel like Rimuru...
Anyway, Luna is that strong, huh...she seems calm and collected too, her potential far exceeds Sola's...
Dawn : Impressive.
I muttered under my breath, still Luna sat beside me for an instant...she managed to hear me ?
Her senses are sharp too, but I should be more careful. I still don't know her true nature and the fact that we are part of an enemy family.
Make the possibility of her being my enemy possible...we are tied by fate, but it's also possible that we are each other's biggest enemy.
Anyway, aside from her...there are 5 other students who caught my attention...
I don't have their name but it's clear from their clothes and attitude that they are part of the high nobility.
There are also the twin princes and princesses...Leo and Ria Muth, the two direct heirs to the throne.
They don't matter much to me, what really stood out was rather a boy isolated from all.
I start connecting the dots of Falmuth history...this boy is the exact image of Edmaris, the king of Falmuth during Rimuru's era.
There must be a swap through time and this boy is the ancestor of Edmaris...I can read him like a book, his magicule count is minable but the ill intent he emanated was potent.
I need to keep an eye on him, unfortunately i can't kill him just for the reason that he is needed for Rimuru's evolution as in the near future he will take down the royalty of Muth and create Falmuth.
Anyway I should somehow pay attention to this boring class now...lifting my pen I started taking meaningless notes...
Luna Pov
Born in misery and raised to nobility...I was always conscious of my innate talent for magic.
I was well taught from my youngest age before I became an orphan...I had two loving parents, they were small merchants but still managed to give me the right education.
I was naive, I learned the basics of magic and even learned some economics and management skills...
It was the good old time before...both of my father and mother were taken in an ambush and killed.
These bandit's faces are still clear in mind...I remember every single detail, how they thrust their sword in my father's chest, how they decapitated him and made his face unrecognizable without remorse or pity.
How they broke my mother physically and mentally, they did the worst things humanity imagined and then left her dead.
Their laugh...their facial expression...just thinking about them filled me with anger.
But this was just the start of my nightmare, after getting caught by them I was sold as a slave...being 6 back then, my current family the Zickard viscount adopted me after finding out of my natural talent for magic.
For years, the anger I felt lit down...feeling just cold, i wondered what did i do to deserve this ? Why am I just seen as a weapon for this new family...my new father, my new mother, my new siblings...
They just saw me as an object and slowly I just started to lose hope and will to do anything.
I just live on obeying whatever father wanted me to do, at the end i just become what they wanted, a living object.
I thought that all hope for me was gone...until that one day where I followed my father to my future school.
I had seen this boy, around the same age as me...his gray eyes pierced my back the moment we walked past him.
My body felt as if it got struck by lightning...turning to him, a simple staring contest started...it might not be much but for me...
It was like a revelation...I was known for my ability, a power blessed by heaven.
The unique skill: Observer...for as long as i can remember i could see people under form of colors...humans were always greedy and appeared with darker colors...
My true parents had bright ones...but none of them compared to the color I had seen in Dawn...i couldn't understand it.
It was neither bright or dark, it was just there...a color that was calling me.
Since then months passed as I wondered what that feeling was...fortunately I was given the opportunity to find out as Dawn was in the same class as me.
Entering the classroom, I didn't recognize him at first but then the color hit me again...a room filled with dark colors and his shining among all.
I subconsciously stepped forward and sat beside him...close the colors he released were more potent...and my mind directly reacted to it.
It was the light of hope I had abandoned years ago...
3rd Pov
Hours passed and it was now lunch time, Dawn was sitting in a nearby park...in his hand were handmade food brought in the stand beside.
It wasn't expensive but the price was still here...sat beside him was Sola who munched on her food while grunting.
Sola : Nee Dawn-kun~we said we would eat together...
Dawn : Well we are eating together ? Or was it not at lunch ?
Sola : No ! I mean why is she here ! And first who the hell is she !
Pointing her finger to the other side of Dawn, Sola glared at the girl who incrusted herself here.
Luna : Am I bothering you ?
Tilting her head cutely, Luna asked while Sola was taken aback by her attitude.
Sola : N-no, i mean...
Dawn : First, Luna had followed me without my intervention and second she can sit wherever she wanted.
Sola : Ugh...fine.
Sitting down, Sola pouted and continued to munch on her food.
Luna did the same, she nodded and returned to her sandwich...Dawn was left awkward between those two.
Dawn : (What did i do to deserve this...also i'm getting glared at by the male population...bitch, one is a girl i just met and the other is my half sister!)
Sola : (Stupdi Dawn ! Why are you going to make friends that easily when in years I wasn't even able to make one!)
Luna : 'munch' 'munch' 'munch'.
Luna was the only one not paying attention to her surroundings and had no particular thought.
She just ate her food like a hamster.
A rather good first day.