rakuen | An arrival [Open]

Characters: Mai Tokiha, whoever
Format: Action or prose as desired~
This log is: open
Location: Courtyard, just inside from the Entrance
Summary: Mai, a new weapon, has arrived just in time for Round -1...
Warnings: ...none so far?

...This is all rather confusing.

Mai stopped herself just outside of the Entrance, where she is now resting at a bench as she tries to piece together what exactly is going on. She's still wearing her Fuuka Academy uniform, idly looking down at the leather bag on her lap.

Between the videos she saw and the dream from the tram, this place seems even weirder than the last school she transferred to. For one, Mai doesn't remember anything about transferring here. It's all so fuzzy, her memory, between Fuuka Academy and this place. Did her parents transfer her here? And why? Sure, if they had been worried about her being a HiME...but she hadn't told them, had she? And what about T-.....her brother? He wasn't coming here with her, was he? Was he back in Fuuka or did he return to Tokyo to take care of his heart?

And all her friends, and fellow HiME... Don't they need her there? She doesn't remember saying goodbye. She doesn't remember anything after...after what happened to Nao.

But one thing bothers Mai the most: Why can't she remember her brother's name? He's her only brother...

That woman in the video did say something about regaining memories...but they can't just be stolen like that, can they?

"What is going on here!?" she demands of no one, sighing to herself.

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Reiko was on her way out of the main building toward her dorm when she saw the other girl. She sighed; another new kid confused about this whole situation? Well, that was to be expected.

"No one really knows," she replied, trying her best to be helpful.

Oh great, someone happened to be nearby.

Mai tries to look unconcerned with a smile, no need to worry this girl. Only her face doesn't quite make it all the way there. Her lips contort ineffectively before settling into a rather neutral expression. Still, her voice manages to take on a somewhat upbeat tone as she addresses the girl. "I-Is that so? Have you been going to school here for long?"

Reiko suppressed a sardonic laugh at that. "You could say that. Although this version of the school is a little different from the one I know. I'm familiar with Exaclan, though."

"Exaclan...that's the battle system that woman talked about, isn't it?" Mai asks, looking at the girl curiously. "What do you mean by different though? You went to a school like this before?"

"I went to this same school." Reiko sighed, sitting down on the bench beside the other girl. "Or, it was called Utopia Academy. It had the same uniform. And the students... weren't made to fight, but they did it on their own. The boys did, anyway."

"Another Utopia Academy almost identical to this? Just how many of these schools are there?" Mai asks, frowning slightly. "Is this someone's sick idea of a joke? Making us fight each other?" Not that the idea is exactly new to her...

"I thought there was only one." She shrugs. "Back home, it was because the company that owned the school wanted to put girls in their place by making them inferior to boys. But here, girls can be owners and boys can be weapons, so I don't get it..."

Mai stares briefly before sighing. "...Put girls in their place?! Just what kind of company was running this?!"

It's mostly a rhetorical question though, as she quickly changes her tone to be friendly again. "Sorry...I'm Mai by the way. Mai Tokiha." Still lacking a smile though.

"Iwahijiri. They own banks, corporations, those sorts of things..."

She shrugs. "I'm Reiko Date. It's nice to meet you." Not much of a smile here. Reiko would rather people didn't have to come here.

"And likewise," the redhead replies in a fairly amicable tone.

"A zaibatsu, huh? But they're not the people running this school? Do you know who is?"

"I don't know for sure they're not, but if they are it doesn't make a whole lot of sense." Reiko sighs. "Aside from that, I don't know anything more than you do. These people just grabbed me and my friends" (and Tougyu) "out of our Utopia Academy and stuck us on that tram, the same as you..."

"Well, they've got to have some reason for it," Mai replies discontentedly. A school's organizers having something in mind is nothing new for her at all. "But I guess they won't give us much choice, will they?"

"Nope." She looked up at the sky in thought. "So all we have to do is..."

Wait, what was it they had to do? There was something, wasn't there...? But she couldn't think of what it was, so her voice trailed off.

...That was an unexpected stop. Mai looks to her expectantly, "...All we have to do is what?"

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