15 min before kiriko arrives at the cafeteria.
Ren's point of view:
When I got to the cafeteria, I was amazed once more, the place is really huge, it seems like a food court in a shopping center, with too much-varied food, there are from vegetarian people to soup lovers in this place, different stalls of food.
I started to walk to one of the foods that would be considered Latino in my old world, seeing the price of 15 points I could only regret passing out yesterday and losing this, since until today for the new ones the food is free.
there are free lunches even so, but according to a group of students, that food is for ordinary people,just right for people like me, the problem is that those meals don't have bacon.
since they ask for 5 points for a regular quality meal, if I'm not mistaken, for a simple job, the academy rewards you from 15 points onwards, rather a single job can give you points for your 3 meals.
Of course, there are dangerous jobs that could give you many more points, such as exploring low-level dungeons, eliminating straggling monsters from different areas, and helping community service with the great strength of an Awakened, among other things, whether outside or inside. the capital motivates students to explore the world, but that is at your own risk, in fact, every year at least 100 students die in missions and parents are well aware that they should educate them before sending them to the academy.
As I was sitting and enjoying my bacon and meat and rice, I began to think about the student ranking.
Since I still don't know if the classification will be the same as the game, I still don't know my next steps, from what I remember, even the third-year students participate in the classification, they do not force us to fight with adults, but each year has its own classification, and they will give you monthly points depending on your position.
You can climb the ranks by challenging others. If I remember correctly, first place gets 1,000 points if you're in the first year, in the second year they'll give you 2,000, in the 3rd year they'll give you 3,000, and if you're in the top 10 each year, you will be able to challenge one from a higher year and earn double points, for example, if rank 1 is given 1000 points and challenges a second year, if the second year loses that first year they will be given 2000 points from that moment on and the one who lost will be given half of what they gave him for a few months unless he asks for revenge.
The academy does that so that the competitions exist and can be improved between grades, they can challenge each other once a month so that the students can rest and are not fighting all the time.
Enjoying my food, in front of me sat a girl with white hair and a curious look, thinking about why this girl wanted to thank me so much, she was going to tell her again not to thank me until she said.
-Do you want to be my friend?
"...can I ask you why?
-because you are different.
"Are you calling me abnormal?
Aiko chuckled a little before answering.
-depends
"About what?
-Why are you alone, and you are not like the others looking for a group?
I just raised an eyebrow at the smiling Aiko.
"Because when looking for a group I would be looking for a faction and I don't have anything I can offer to join one.
- with your skills, you could enter one you know?
"I don't have great abilities as you think.
-but you beat that assassin-
"That guy wasn't a real killer.
-...How are you so sure?
with the fork in my hand, I pointed at the confused Aiko.
"You should know it too since you were there, that guy didn't have many skills, in battle he used pure brute force, and a common type of fighting style, if he was a trained assassin, he would have aimed at your head and then left or tried to poison me." instead of attacking me head on as he did.
-didn't he throw a knife at the start?
"What he did was test if one of us could fight or have combat skills, the most basic when facing someone unknown, and when he saw me receive the knife with my back, although it was lucky that he did not use poison, maybe not he had with him, what should be impossible for a trained assassin or he just didn't use it, whatever it was already done.
"In addition, since he thought I was a simple child, he underestimated me and attacked only once, or how he got distracted looking at you and letting his emotions flow and distracting himself, in simple words, that man was only a disposable pawn, he must have been a New killer in the business.
- so all humans are like that?
" you're wrong.
looking into her eyes calmly, continue my words.
"All beings are like this since we all have emotions inside and lust is one of them, the bad thing is that humans still have that sense of superiority, I still don't know why they think they are superior, maybe because of the advanced technology we have, that even so the dwarves surpass us, because they can possess any of the elements or more than 1 forgetting that although the other races even have a better affinity with only one that reduces the possibility of having another different affinity or more than 1, an element well mastered it can defeat many who have 2 elements or more in the right circumstances or maybe because of the 5 heroes 2 of them are human and maybe because the goddess that we all believe gave the sword to the human emperor.
"I don't know the truth, what I can tell you is that you should always be alert since you never know who can attack you in some way, at home maybe you could be calm because it is your comfort zone and because of your father who you would dismember anyone who tries something against you, but here you could say that we are still on the tightrope since the treaties have not been signed yet and there can always be idiot humans who can try something against you."
Without looking away from her, Aiko replied
- You are right, although only 3 days of classes have passed, I felt in many humans, deep in their eyes directed towards me, that feeling of being better than me.
she looked away from her to my hands and told me
-So you don't want to be my friend and guide to help me better understand humans?
Aiko asked quietly.
"Please don't make jokes like that, being a common human I know very little about this place and me being friends with the daughter of the demon king would put a target on my head because if they threaten me to do something to you, it would be bad for you." and for me, on the other hand, the boy who is looking at us right now and who is your true guide from what I see, he wouldn't have much to worry about, so I'm sorry.
I started lowering my head as an apology, I couldn't see her look but I could feel that she was disappointed.
"Though if you want some advice from me I could give it to you Miss Aiko.
-That might be enough for now, and please call me Aiko.
"I would prefer to call you Miss Aiko, but if you're more comfortable I'll call you that, now if you'll excuse me I have to go, see you later.
After leaving my tray and leaving, I decided to be among the first 50 students, to have enough points for my meal of the month, with that resolution I walked to the bathroom to make time until the end of lunch.