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Chapter 5: 293 Letters

A silver haired girl wearing a lavender shirt and pants sat by the bus' window looking out at the early morning scenery. She carried with her a backpack and a half-filled water bottle. She sat alone as opposed to the other students who were chatting noisily.

"Excuse me, is this seat taken?" A male voice said.

The girl looked up from her phone and took her earphones out. Then she replied, "It's not, feel free to sit."

"Thanks. I'm Asta Staria by the way." The male with dirty white, almost gray, hair and green eyes held out his hand and looked expectantly at her as soon as he sat down.

"Noelle Silva, a pleasure," she greeted curtly. Her pink eyes looked at his outstretched hand sharply, before ultimately deciding to shake them.

As soon as he withdrew his hand, he attempted to start a conversation with the question: "I haven't seen you around before, are you new here?"

"No," she replied, albeit a bit rudely.

"You must be from a different section then. Or perhaps a different department altogether," the male, Asta said.

"Perhaps," she affirmed, before turning back to the window. Not wanting to continue her conversation with her new seat mate.

Asta, not catching the hint of not wanting to talk, spoke. "If you don't mind me asking, are you from the Medical Department?"

Noelle just decided to ignore him, opting instead to turn up the volume of the music playing in her ears. After all, one of her favorite songs just started playing.

Unknowingly to her, she started humming the tune of the song playing.

But unrelated things aside, today is a very special day. A field trip is being held. They were going to a museum today. Not just any museum though, it was owned by the school, and therefore private to any other guests, including the school's own students and even most of the staff. Only very few people were allowed. And before the chosen people were even permitted inside the bus, they were to sign a disclaimer that states they will never tell anyone what they will see within the museum.

Even though it is owned by the school, it is located off-campus near the mountains. It takes approximately 12 hours to travel to there by bus from the school. That is why they are all carrying some sort of luggage that contains their basic personal needs.

Noelle turned to her side as a hand was on her shoulder. It was Asta, he was using his thumb to point behind him. So she looked, and she saw her cousin, Mimosa Vermillion waving to her. Noelle waved back as a greeting, then turned back to her original position.

"So... We're going to be seat mates for the next several hours, why don't we at least talk?" Asta said beside her.

Noelle paused the music currently playing and removed her earphones. "Alright then, what do you want to talk about."

Seeing this, Asta brightened up. Perhaps the ride wouldn't be as boring as he originally thought. "Well, first of all... "

Asta and Noelle talked the whole way there.

By the end of their journey, Noelle realized that Asta wasn't an annoying pest like most people who only talk to her for her family's wealth. And Asta realized that Noelle wasn't as stuck-up and rude as he had initially thought.

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"Okay students, we have arrived. The time is currently 8:33 pm. We left the school at 7:30 am, so we have been traveling for about 13 hours. The tour will start at 9:00 am tomorrow, so for now, follow me to your temporary dormitories. Dinner will be served to your rooms in a while, so just do what you please till dinner," the school's dean, Julius Novachrono, said as he walked towards a structure that looked like an apartment building.