"...a teacher at your high school."

"I've no doubt you heard about it," said Sae. "On that day, were you still an ordinary student?"

I was silent.

"Let me change the question," said Sae. "You transferred to Shujin Academy, correct? An ordinary prep school that could be found in any city. That's what it should have been. What happened around that time? Tell me everything, truthfully."

--

We made our way towards Shujin. The blonde led the way while I followed him through the alleyway.

Where Shujin Academy should have been, we ended up finding ourselves at a medieval castle complete with a drawbridge, large brick walls and towers rising high into the sky.

It still has "Shujin" written on the gate.

I was hoping nothing weird would happen on my first day of school.

"We didn't come the wrong way?" asked the blonde.

Did this guy seriously believe any of this was normal? I can't believe I'm stuck with him.

"Yeah, this should be right. What's going on here? I guess we'll just have to go and ask."

We stepped inside the castle to find a large spacious room filled with chandeliers, black and white follows decked with red carpets, a large stairway that went up to the upper floors and massive portrait of the guy who picked up that blonde girl, except he was wearing a golden suit of armour.

"That's weird," said the blonde. "Where's the school?"

"Did we make a wrong turn?" I asked.

"No! This has to be it! I mean it should be."

He pulled his phone out.

"Out of service?"

I checked my own phone and got the same result.

"I got a bad feeling about this." I muttered.

"Where'd we end up?" asked the blonde. "The sign was for the school, right?"

"Yeah." I said.

"Right!? You saw it too!"

It was then that we heard the sounds of metallic footsteps approach us. We turned to see what looked like a man in a suit of armour approach us with a large sword and shield. I was apprehensive at the sight but the blonde didn't seem all that bothered.

"Geez, you freaked me out. Who're you? You a student? Man, you're costume's impressive. Is that armour real?" asked the oblivious teen as he approached the knight, growing impatient with the remained silence. "C'mon, don't just stand there. Say something."

"I don't think it's a good idea to agitate the guy in a full suit of armour wielding a sword that is bigger than you are." I hissed as I heard more footsteps approaching.

Another knight approached us.

"Hey, what's going on?" asked the blonde.

"Is he school staff?" I asked.

"Dude, I don't know! This shit's real. Calm down! Time out, man! We gotta run!"

"Got it."

"Stop standing around and run!"

We rushed towards the exit but were blocked by two more knights that entered from the gate.

"Ugh, what's with these guys!?" asked the blonde.

One of them hit him with his shield, knocking him to the floor.

"Shit!" I cried.

"Ow, you're gonna break my bones, dammit!" yelled the blonde. "The hell you think you're-!"

"Take them away!" said one of the knights.