We are all unfortunate

Chapter 14 (I think)

______________________________________________________
Notes: This should cover anemones enslavement section. As well as more interactions between Kai and Yuu. Yuu will start to suspect what Kai's UM is, though not many people offically know about it, so there is very little he can do to get confirmation.

Sorry for not posting often, something was going on, to make it up: around 8.5k words!

Also, I just found the juxtaposition of the photo really funny.
______________________________________________________

I'd not been expecting to be directly involved with the magicless prefect so early on. Yes, there were slight glimpses that would suggest when and where I could meet them; what might lead to that choice. Though I hadn't thought that they would be perceptive enough to pick up something that was off about their cat from my note. Sometimes even someone who can see the future cannot see every outcome.

Though if there was one thing I knew, the outcome would still be the same. Even with Grim getting on to the board by a hair's breadth. The reason? Ace Trappola and Deuce Spade.

They took the contract and when Yuu offered to study together by Yuu they hadn't taken it. If they had, the future might have changed further. Yuu was quite close with them considering what they all had gone through together, not to mention they would make a big deal about it in front of everyone. Meaning peer pressure from all who would take the contract. I felt bad for Yuu, it's why I tried to warn them.

The next overblot, Azul-kun's, was only about a week away. Give or take a few days. I needed to ensure that we were able to get that stone before Grim could. Afterall, we wouldn't be able to get to the next stone. I was heading back home for the holidays and although potentially Arlan could grab it, he didn't know when and how it would be best to get the stone. With the future continuously changing, a slight change at a wrong time could result in Grim potentially getting the stone or worse, Arlan or others could die. Expressing this, we decided to let that one go. Hopefully it wouldn't affect Grim too much...

Exams for me weren't that bad. History was easy considering it was like storytelling, if you spun it right you could make stories about it that followed the correct lines in history. It also helped that Lydle had taught me in first year that listening to music quietly while the lecture was going would help set the mood and help focus. Though we had to clear this with the professors in first year, as long as we only had one ear with music and it wasn't audible to humans it was fine. The humans were specific because beastmen and fae folk had enhanced hearing, so catering to their hearing was often impossible. Therefore the teachers requested us to limit the music we listened to, to ones without words. This way it wouldn't conflict with what others would hear.

Sighing, I clicked my pen into rest mode. Resting my hand, as I scanned the paper I'd just finished for the exam; not for the first time wishing me and Lydle had been placed in the same classes so that I would have an easier time trying to figure out what was wrong with him. Or me... if it was a problem I needed to solve on my side.

Placing the paper, Professor Trein fed it into a scanner which would grade it and send it to the ranking boards. Where upon reaching the board it would be updated live. I was not the first person to finish nor the last person, somewhere around the 11th person to finish within the history class. It was the last class of the day that would matter regarding rankings for me. Still had runes.

'Wonder how Viridis is doing on his exams... he had said he wasn't worried about it. Hopefully that doesn't mean he is one of the people who fell for Azul's schemes. Though, he didn't seem like the type that would cut corners like that. For now I should think about the latest project that serves as our exam...'