Alter Tactics

Chapter I

Rrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiing!!!!!

I turned the alarm off and looked at the time—it's already 6:15AM. I'm not really a morning person, but at the very least I wanted to attend our school's opening ceremony at the right time, so I've set the alarm earlier than usual.

I looked around, and sighed. Sadly, I didn't have a younger sister who would wake me up everyday, nor an older sister who would wake me to the scent of breakfast. Come to think of it, I only had this alarm clock that my old man gave me to rely on. I set that thought aside and went to the bathroom to clean myself up. Then I changed to my school uniform, grabbed my bag and headed out into the dorm hallway.

Luckily, the dorm where I am staying at is really close to my school, though I still had to walk a few more meters, starting from my room here at the farthest side of the dorm's second floor, up to the school gates.

As I made my way through the hallway, the room door next to mine opened...

"—?!"

Wait, I knew this person—Nodachi Satou. She was one of the three most talked freshman in the school last year.

A stunning beauty.

Her personality, however, was a bit on the down side—she doesn't talk much to people; in fact, most of the other freshmen say that she's very hard to approach.

So, what's the ultra popular Satou-san doing here? For someone that looked like a daughter of a rich and perhaps a prominent family, I didn't know she's a fellow resident in this dorm.

She took a glance of me for a moment, then continued walking towards the stairs. I better get moving too.  

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"Hmm?"

There seemed to be someone inside the reception room here at the first floor. Curious, I looked inside and saw a girl sitting on a chair.