Scale of Reality

Advanced Trainees: Part 4

Sky POV

My name is Sky Annabel.

I'm a commoner, b-but I'm also the daughter of a noble.

A-And Yesterday I made my first friend!

His name is Muji Akuma.

He's a commoner too.

"Hey Muji! How about you fight me for today's practice?"

"Jax for the last time, I can't choose you as a partner because it's random."

"Do you want to get beat up that badly Jax?"

Even though we're friends...he's all the way over there while I'm sitting here staring.

N-Not in a weird way!!

I want to go over and sit with him, but Jax is scary. Mya seems nice but the princess and her friend are over there, and that scares me.

"S-Should I try to go over there? Muji is a commoner and they're nice to him...so maybe if I do they'll be nice to me too."

I stood up but quickly sit down, putting my head in my arms.

"I-I can't do it..."

"Hey Kiddos!"

Ms Shimon walked down onto the first floor, everyone greeting her.

"Today we're doing something fun. Has anyone here ever played hide and seek?"

It was a game I played with my mother often when I was young. I wanted to raise my hand but I was scared of the attention.

Muji, Mya, Mari, and Vas raised their hands. All the nobles seemed a bit confused, and I don't know if Jax is a noble or not but he was also confused.

I assumed he wasn't though, he seemed to hate most nobles.

"Hmm. Well majority of you haven't, so I'll explain. In hide and seek one person looks for everyone else. Simple right?"

Ms Shinmon smiled widely.

"But we're going to be doing it differently. Like usual, one person will have to look for everyone else. But when you're caught you have to be hit by an attack in order to officially be caught. When you're caught you join the person looking, and this will go on for 8 hours. Those who aren't found will receive a special gift from yours truly, so do your best not to be found!"

Everyone began to talk amongst themselves, the main topic being what the special gift would be. I honestly didn't care.

"I-I just hope I'm not it..."

"The playing field will be the entirety of Boken! The person it will be...Sky!"

I blinked twice and lifted my head up, tears forming in my eyes.

"M-Me?"

"Yup. Everyone, you've got 10 minutes to go and hide!"

Everyone dashed out the door as Ms Shinmon stood there whistling.

"Good luck."

Ms Shinmon vanished.

"W-Wait she's participating too?! How am I supposed to catch her?!"

"You've got this Sky."

I looked up and seen Muji walking out the door.

"See ya."

Muji vanished as well as I choked on a sob.

"W-Why...does it have to be me?"

I wiped my tears and sniffled.