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[1] 𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙍 8

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You and Grim gave your explanations as to what happened between you and the two beastmen you encountered as you picked chestnuts the whole time, Grim's fur was standing on edge and you couldn't tell if it was because of fear for that man or anger, or maybe even both.

Before you knew it, you all had your baskets overflowing with chestnuts. This was surely enough, right? It's not as if any of you were counting. Thus, you all started walking back to campus as you continued with your story.

Both Ace and Deuce looked at you with their mouths agape, how did you even manage to survive that. Not to mention, how close he got to you and the fact that he smelled you?

Yeah, that didn't sit right with them, especially Deuce as he urged you, "If that man ever does something again, tell me and we can report him together, [name]! It wasn't right of him to threaten you like that as well."

"Always wanting to steal the spotlight, don't you, Deuce? Make sure to tell me too! We can both lie and say we're eye witnesses." Commented a much rather smug Ace as he slung his arm around Deuce which got a glare from him.

You would need to work on their tolerance of each other but you still appreciated their efforts nonetheless, "Thank you two.. but, I doubt the Headmage would do anything about it if we went to him, and I doubt the teachers could find him since he seems to frequently skip his classes despite it being the second day. So I think my best course of action is to try and defend myself in case he tries doing anything."

This comment earned a small frown from the two males, they knew you were right, but still!

"Mryagh! I just realized, his vest color is yellow! He's from that dorm full of tough guys, they're the 'Sandyclub Dorm!' Right?"

Grim looked at you three in complete confidence, only for his smile to completely fall once Ace started laughing at him.

"Idiot! It's called the Savanaclaw Dorm, geez you really are a fur-for-brains.."

"I— I know that, Ace..!"

Before you knew it, you found yourself in the cafeteria kitchen, with Trey patiently awaiting you four, upon noticing your arrival and the baskets, Trey immediately offered to help you all carry those and neatly placed them on a nearby counter.

"Welcome back, you four. I trust the chestnut picking went smoothly? You all picked quite a bunch."

You gave a shrug, "I guess so, a few encounters here and there.."

But Grim jumped out of your arms and onto one of the counter tables, staring Trey in the eye, "You wouldn't believe who we saw in the Botanical Garden. This lion man, and he smelled [name]! Can you believe it? He's from Savanaclaw too."

Trey pushed up his glasses to get a better look as he stared off in thought, "Lion man.. In the Botanical Garden.. Hmm, probably Leona. And he's not just from Savanaclaw, he's actually their Housewarden. He's known for skipping classes, the Botanical Garden is just another one of his spots."

"Housewarden..?" You muttered. You had a vague understanding of what a Housewarden was, someone in charge of a dorm, right? Taking care of their students and such. But that was all you knew, you heard and threw around the word but never really bothered to learn more, so this was a nice chance to!

Trey saw your small face of confusion as he turned to look at you, "Housewarden's are just those in charge of one of the 7 dorms, or I suppose, 8 now. They're more respected than average students since they're known to be the most powerful of their dorm. So I guess you could say they're not a joke. They all have their own unique way of handling matters related to their dorm.