Saisho No Kasai

Julian walks through the hallways of a traditional Japanese house. He walks slowly, but with strong steps that echo between the walls. He then reaches the exit and leaves, and the place is warm. This is Julian's first day at high school. The young man is serious and calm.

[In this entire universe, the education system is based on the following: children enter schools from the age of 10, going up to 17. After that, from 17 to 20, they attend high school. It is not a review of what they learned previously, but a vocational education. They only learn things that are related to their future career. Merchants study commerce, warriors study martial arts, magicians study magic, and so on.]

Before Julian can pass through the walls of his house, he is intercepted by Joana, who puts her hand on his shoulder, out of breath as she had run to catch up with him before he left.

(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFRUx8bVgLJddH7aENeLSSmSyckyiRam/view?usp=drivesdk) ;

Joana is 21 years old and 1.60m tall. [Joana has the elemtal brand activated in the drawing]

Julian: what's wrong?

Joana: {gasps} my goodness, could you wait a bit? {takes her hand off Julian's shoulder}

Julian: I'm sorry, by the way, looking at you properly, I'm already in high school and you still look younger than me

Joana: that's obvious! I dominated a familiar three years ago, you know that dominating a familiar makes you stay 50 million years without a single change in appearance

Julian: I know, I was just joking

Joana: can you be funny again? That's good to hear

Julian: now you can tell me once and for all why you stopped me

Joana: Oh! That's right! Here! {holds out Julian's snack}

Julian: thanks...

Joana: now you can go {gives Julian a friendly pat on the back} see you later!

Julian: see you! {waves the floor}

Julian starts walking down the streets. Since it was summer, the sun was high in the sky, but there were still slightly strong winds. The young man walked without any worries, observing other students along the way. The place he was in was once again Earth. He had returned to this planet a little over 2 months ago. The scenery was filled with houses and fences made of wood and stone, with trees along the way. Then Julian came to a bridge. Under the bridge he walked across a lake that surrounded the entire school. He approached the entrance, handed his student card to the guard, and entered the school. Walking through the marble corridors, he reached a classroom. He opened the door and went to his seat. He saw other students arriving little by little, until the teacher, Olivia, came in.

Olivia: Okay, everyone! Be quiet! {slightly stern tone, claps her hands} Listen to me! Yesterday was the school presentation for new students, but if anyone still has questions, they can ask me or ask a staff member.

With the message communicated, she stretches and grabs a piece of chalk, starting to write on the board.

Olivia: Everyone here wants to be a warrior, right? With me, you will learn combat with weapons, with Professor Nikolas you will learn hand-to-hand combat, it's quite simple, isn't it?! As I said yesterday, there are two classes a day, five days a week!

Olivia then begins to explain more about the system and how everything will happen, after half an hour, everyone is taken to the training field, then Nikolas appears there too, along with Belinda.

(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DAQ-m3XnqStVjbkV_cymdRxYIlQKDwIA/view?usp=drivesdk) ;

Belinda is 35 years old and 1.70m tall.

Olivia: These classes are tiring.

Nikolas: How long have we been doing this?

Belinda: You complain too much, that doesn't help at all, you know?

Olivia: It's just that you can't help it, and you come and say, you're tired too

Belinda: Obviously, this sucks, but what can you do, sometimes there are some funny things that happen

Nikolas: That's right {sighs and walks over to the group of students under his tutelage}

Belinda: See you later {waves to the ground}

Olivia: See you {waves back}

[These three adults are tired, because they have already gotten used to teaching classes last year to third-year high school students. Three groups of students are in their first year, they will have the same three teachers who will advance with them throughout this period]

Belinda: Today we will start with the basics. Obviously, you should know about the elements. Each person has a predominant element. A few have the ability to master more than one element, but only one of them will be easier to evolve. In short, the elements are awakened at almost the same age as the unique techniques, around 8 to 10 years old. However, in many cases, the element awakens before this age. The techniques used by the elements are very similar, merely changing the look and effect. For example, a fireball burns things, an ice ball freezes things, a water ball repels things, a wind ball cuts things, and so on. Do you understand?

Belinda observes her magic students for a moment, then she explains again, drawing a system on the board.

Belinda: There are a total of 14 registered elements. An element will always have an advantage and a disadvantage against some other element. For example, water has an advantage over fire, but has a disadvantage against ice. Now, going back to the elements, I will say them in order: first, the primary elements, which are water, which defeats flames, which defeats ice, which defeats nature, which defeats earth, which defeats air, which defeats fire, which defeats crystal, which defeats thunder or electricity, which defeats water. In addition, there is the new gear element that has a 200% advantage over all these elements, by the way! I forgot to mention that the elements gain a 100% advantage over another inferior element, and finally, the secondary elements are the love element and the dark matter element, both of which gain a 100% increase in attributes over each other, the same occurs with the tertiary elements, darkness and light.

Belinda claps her hands once more to attract the students' attention, then she raises and clicks a button on the wall, and several targets appear in one place.

Belinda: We'll start with the basics, the elemental balls, create a ball with your central element and hit the target-

An explosion occurs, the ground shakes, Belinda signals for everyone to calm down while she goes to the location.

Belinda: What the hell happened?!

She comes across a bunch of warrior students fallen on the ground, while Olivia fought Julian in an apparently friendly training.

Belinda: Oh my... These two

Nikolas: She started her training and no one lasted "very" long, until Julian arrived, of course he's fighting her on equal terms

Belinda: It was to be expected {sighs} I'm going back to my area, good luck there

Nikolas: See you {crosses arms}

Julian's katana spits fire as it cuts through everything around it, the walls of the training area completely scratched. Olivia was on the defensive as she looked for the perfect opportunity to retaliate. Julian knew this and was insistently trying to break her barrier before that. In the end, Olivia finds the chance she wanted and lands a perfect thrust on Julian, repelling him and stunning him long enough to bring her blade closer to his neck, ending the fight.

Olivia: Congratulations, a little more and I would be like you

Julian: Thank you {wipes his face}

Olivia: Come here {holds out his hand} Now I'll take it easy on the others

Julian: {shakes Olivia's hand and stands up} I understand, I'll wait

Olivia's thoughts: This kid is already twice as strong as Jonathan was at his age, or even more so, if he's already giving me trouble at just 17 years old... And I have no doubt that in the near future I won't be able to fight him anymore

Olivia: Hmmm, I could wake up tomorrow with him already beating me

Olivia stretches and starts teaching some moves for the students to perform, that first day was very peaceful for everyone, in the end, Julian walks with Olivia to his house.

Olivia: What did you think of this first day?

Julian: Normal, should I have some unusual opinion?

Olivia: Not exactly that, but rather, some more complete comment, you know?

Julian: I would say that... Only you, Nikolas and Belinda can give me a challenge, although... Belinda maybe not, but I saw strong people in our class, like Natalie and Millie, they are very skilled in their fields

Olivia: really? I noticed that too, try to talk to them more, okay? Maybe you will learn something

Julian: okay

The next day...

Julian says goodbye to Joana and walks to school once again, when he arrives, he looks around and notices Natalie walking with a triumphant smile, he also finds Millie who was walking with a slender expression, he decides not to approach her for now, he goes to his class and sits down.

(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D7qdRzhIJaK9HLG0Gqk0HpewGyiNxhLV/view?usp=drivesdk) ;

Millie is 17 years old and 1.68 tall

(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D7nbm_B_eGjwiUOzQUU-jWdrc-UNkNfQ/view?usp=drivesdk) ;

Natalie is 17 years old and 1.65 tall

Julian's thoughts: how should I start a conversation with them? It's been so long since I've spoken to anyone other than Joana and the teachers that I forgot for sure, something like the atmosphere wouldn't work

Julian: {crosses his arms and looks thoughtful, with his eyes closed} I know...

The theoretical class goes by and then they go to the training area, there the teacher asks them to form groups of three people, Julian already expecting this, soon approaches the two.

Julian: Excuse me, can I join you?

Natalie: Of course! Why not, right? You're strong! Let's do arm wrestling?!

Natalie approaches Julian excitedly, while Millie watches the interaction without much interest on her face. The two approach a table and do the arm wrestling, at first quite tied, but are stopped by Olivia.

Olivia: Hey! That's not the intention now! Stop it!

Natalie: Ah... Ruining the fun, teacher? {snorts and leaves the place}

Millie: What do we have to do, teacher?

Olivia: Come up with a quick strategy, where you help the group with your own skills

Millie: Understood

Olivia steps away and goes to a chair where they sit and waits for one of the groups formed to show their strategy, she would be like a great enemy that the group must defeat with strategy.