Gateways to Casselonia Vol1( Light Novel )

Chapter 1

It was late afternoon in the Adachi Ward Public Highschool, and club activities were coming to an end. Still, many students remained on campus hanging out. On the fourth floor of the school building outside of his classroom near the windows that looked out onto the baseball field was Sorata Honda, a senior of the Adachi Ward Public HIghschool. He was mingling around on his smartphone as his three friends to his right were hyped up about tomorrow's senior-class field trip. It's not that he wasn't excited about the field trip to a wooded area in neighboring Saitama prefecture, but his friends were talking non-stop about how they were going to have fun with each of their girlfriends at the trip, and Sorata, because he was the only single guy in his group of friends, couldn't really join in on the conversation.

Sorata just pretended he was doing something important on his phone when he was actually waiting for his friends to call it a day. "Hey Sorata let's go home now!" Sorata's childhood friend Takeru called out to him as the talk about tomorrow's field trip died down for the moment.Takeru had a "cool guy" vibe to him, he wore his uniform mostly unbuttoned, he had black hair that almost covered his eyes, and the frames on his glasses matched perfectly with his black hair. "Got it!" Sorata said and nodded his head. He proceeded to slip his phone in his pocket and grabbed his school bag and followed his friends down the stairs. "Hey, I hear we're going to have a barbecue as soon as we get there" " Really? I think we should have it as soon as we're done hiking to build up an appetite".

Sorata's friends continued talking about the trip, but now it wasn't about girlfriends or kissing, or going over to the other groups to meet up with their girlfriends behind the teacher's backs. Sorata felt more like he was part of the group now and smiled on as they walked down the stairs together.

On the first floor of the school building near the entrance, the sun's orange rays peeked in through the glass doors and casted shadows upon colliding with the shoe lockers where students would change into their school shoes and vice-versa when going home. There was an open hallway there too where the arriving students used as a means to go either to the West building or the East building of the school, depending on their grade level. In that same hallway was a group of four girls walking over to the East Building. There was a girl with long, black, shiny hair walking with her three friends behind her. The group seemed more of an entourage than a group of friends because the other girls walked in sync with the long, black haired girl. Nonetheless, they were also gossiping about the school trip that would be held the next day."Hey Mizuki" The girl with long black hair turned her head upon hearing her name being called, " We were thinking, like, we should totally sit in the back of the bus tomorrow so the teacher won't see us talking while he's giving his boring speech about safety before the trip".

Mizuki, the girl with the long black hair, smiled raising her left hand up to shoulder length with the palm of her hand facing upwards "As much as I'd like to sit in the back, we unfortunately have a seating arrangement for the trip tomorrow" She said with a high and mighty tone in her voice. Upon hearing this new revelation, the enthusiastic expressions on the girls' faces turned to frowns accompanied by sighs and groans of discontent. "Can't you do anything about it?" Yeah! you're the vice-president of the student council anyway!" The three girls looked at Mizuki anxiously, hoping that the fact that they were friends with the vice-president of the student council, they could convince her to use her authority in their favor. "Sorry girls but like you just said, I am the vice-president. Ultimately the decision comes down to the entire student council and the president." The harsh reality was hard to accept for Mizuki's friends as they rolled their eyes at her.

Mizuki continued her speech after a short pause " But don't fret girls, because this year is our last year attending Adachi Ward Public Highschool, I will take into great consideration your requests regarding our last school festival!" Mizuki flipped her hair majestically with her right hand as she finished speaking. She knew that promising her friends the best school festival experience for their senior year would completely change her image from " dreamcrusher" to "savior" in the eyes of her friends. Needless to say, it worked like a charm.