Yukikaze

Chapter 1- Class Reader

After the kendo class, Mrs Fujisaki told Shiori to follow Masao. Shiori nodded and walked slowly behind the boy. "Shio- I mean Ojou! Do you mind if I call you Ojou? Or Shiori?" Masao asked in a calming manner. "O-Ojou." the whisper made Masao giggle, which ruffled Shiori's hair to be a mess. Afterwards, the boy held onto Shiori's hand and walked back to his mother's bed chambers. "Relax! I know I'm a guy but I promise you that I wouldn't hurt you! How about I wear a kimono tomorrow? I have the face of my old woman so you wouldn't even know I'm a guy!" Shiori envisioned the boy in a kimono, which resulted in shocking her and becoming stoned for a while. "That's so weird... I wouldn't want to see that..." Shiori spoke out of her mind and made Masao surprised but holding his laughter. "Wow... Ojou, you are one sharp tongue!Pftthahahaha!" upon seeing the boy's laughter, Shiori also burst out laughing softly.

After 10 minutes, Mrs Aoi came back to the room and saw that Masao was taking good care of Shiori. He was showing her some manga that he brought from home. Shiori's eyes were sparkling with joy as she was reading the manga. Suddenly, she jumped out of the bed and made a move from a scene of Bleach. "D-dance! Sode no Shirayuki. Tsugi no Mai, Hakuren~! I-is this the one you wanted to see?" Shiori asked Masao, who clapped at Shiori's replica move. "For one moment, I thought Rukia was you!"

At that moment, Mrs Aoi was confirmed. The young lady here has a photographic memory. "Maybe her class is that...." the secretary wondered and beckoned to Shiori to come over.

"Come, I have a room prepared for you to have the test. Masao, you come too." Shiori hastened her steps to catch up to Mrs Aoi, feeling nervous but excited. When they got to the room, she saw a table with a box on it.

"That's a class detector, Shiori." Mrs Aoi explained to the girl as she put some stickers on Shiori's hand. "Put this on. It will protect you in case the reader gets out of hand. Some rumours stated that the reader acts up from time to time. We do not want you to get injured, even if it's just a rumour." Shiori gulped and simply nodded, taking the glove and wearing it over her hand.

When Mrs Aoi switched on the reader, Shiori clenched her fist. The tight feeling in her heart made her realise once more that the situation she was in was indeed tense and at the same time, exciting. After a huge breath, Shiori put her hand into the reader and looked as the reader's analysis progress rose from 20% to 30% stealthily. Just as it was reaching 100%, the reader started shouting " Danger. Danger." Mrs Aoi quickly yanked Shiori's hand out of the reader and simply afterwards, electric sparks flew out of the reader and it shut down. However, there was a class floating above the reader, stating " Whisperers". Shiori looked at the result floating on top of the reader. What are Whisperers? How could a class that's not stated in the books be popping up? Shiori looked at Mrs Aoi in fear. Is this indicating that she has a class not even the Books of Magic dared to explore? Was Whisperers a class even the Demons are scared of? Is the class going to devour her soul or something? At that moment, Shiori was brought back to reality by the rapid flipping of papers. She looked back up to see Mrs Aoi and the Kyuji quickly looking into two different books that were as thick as half of the height of a 1.5-Litre Bottle.

"I found it! Look, they said Whisperers is a rare class assigned to people who have a good sense of reading, even better than the Alchea Readers. It seems that Alcea Readers started as normal humans and were able to attain the power to read magic letters under the guidance of the Whisperers. The class Whisperers can attain the power of those they look at and even duplicate the magic that they see. In short, this class are for people who have an exceptionally good photographic memory. They stated that only magic teachers, and those who hold this power, are allowed to know the existence of such a Class. Once it's in the wrong hands, the world is as good as over. The reason why a whole book was created for this class is because of their power, which is to create new classes. In recent research on this class, it seems that the Burea of Magic History said here that in the past, Whisperers were the creators of all the Classes. Since some wars and riots were never-ending and even a pandemic that killed lots of lives in the past, the Whisperers decided to grant normal humans the power to have the magic meant for all kinds of purposes. The magic was used to make oceans that were polluted become clean again, growing back trees and forests rapidly, and getting rid of all the wars and riots by giving terrorists and evil dictators the awakened power of Demons. Since this power awakens the Demon itself, the humans got devoured and all of them died. Afterwards, the Whisperers granted the Created Classes to those whose attributes are close to that class. One final thing about the Whisperers is that they can sense the feelings and attributes of each person that they look at. Oh! But it seems that Shiori can give classes to people with no magic only. She can't take the powers away from people like us who have magic powers already, nor is she able to change our classes. " Masao explained step by step, at last closing the book before sighing.

Everyone in the room was speechless. It was a lot of information to take in, especially for Shiori who was feeling conflicted. She was not feeling excited, as she felt that she was yet again made to uphold an image to be something she is not. Ayane, who was summoned back to the room, looked at her younger sister worriedly. After thinking about it herself, Shiori sighed and looked at the secretary. "Thank you, Mrs Aoi. My Class is somewhat of a surprise but I feel that it's telling me that I will have a new beginning thanks to this class, so I generally feel happy now! Besides, being a 'hero' is somewhat better than being forced to be killed, hehe!" Mrs Aoi chuckled worriedly and smiled, afterwards starting her lessons with Shiori.