A few minutes after his call with Yoshino, Life left the man's restroom while whistling.
As he calmly made his way through the school's corridor to class '1-1', Life's thoughts wandered to the solutions he had come up with to solve the problem of...lack of one.
More specifically, the a sore lack of threats for Nozomi and the future magical girls to deal with. Thanks to his talk with Judai, he now had a way to. If he's following my orders correctly, any future darkspawn that enters the confines of this city should be instantly spotted by at least one of the billions of bugs under Judai's influence.
Although Judai couldn't outright take control of all those insects simultaneously, he was still capable of watching through the eyes of every one of them.
Life smiled a little as he remembered the next thing he had found a solution for, giving Yoshino a means to reliably defend herself to a point where she wouldn't be a complete liability. Sure...giving her access to those gloves was PROBABLY something that I was not allowed to do, but surely, Technology won't mind it, right? And I mean...I've given her the cheapest, weakest, baby's first WMD version of it so she shouldn't be blowing up entire universes with it anytime soon. Add that to her limited human lifespan, even if she trained her whole life she would only scratch an insignificant fraction of the average amount of time necessary to master it.
Life smirked. Something that she shouldn't honestly need. From what I've seen, everything in this universe should be weak enough that if Yoshino manages to be by the end of her journey, at the very least, grasp enough about the basics of the potential these gloves have, she should be...reliable enough to stand alongside Nozomi and the other magical girls while also not being too strong where she overshadows everyone. And even then, that's only in the best-case scenario where she dedicates herself wholeheartedly to it.
As Life finished that thought, he realized something that made him frown. Although...I still need to think of HOW to teach her since, if what Tec said is right, each one controls their Over-metal in slightly different and unique ways. Similar enough for it to be almost indistinguishable from one way to the other...but still different to the point where, in the end, she will need to discover her own, unique way to use it, which may prove to be one of the few challenging obstacles she will have to figure out on her own.
After Life gave it some thought, an idea came to him. Wait...would that even work? Hmm, I certainly can't ask Tec, he would surely be upset if I told him why I needed his help...Maybe I could ask Science? He probably would help me if I provided him with the results of it.
When Life was about to turn a corner, he just barely managed to avoid bumping into Yvy by reflexively sidestepping to the side. What the-, where did she come from?! Life thought, genuinely surprised.
By all accounts, Life shouldn't have been caught by surprise. Ever since he bumped into Nozomi on his first day in this world, he had made sure to not only properly pay attention to where he was going most of the time, but also to always sense the life force of anyone at least a few meters away from him just in case.
So the fact that Yvy, someone who was seemingly, almost, your average exchange student from Brazil, not only came near Life but nearly bumped into him could only mean one thing. She isn't alive!
Yvy, none the wiser for the surprise she just caused Life, smiled at him before bowing."Oh, Shigoto-sensei, nice to meet you."
Quick to recover, Life bowed back."Nice to meet you, too, for the first time, Hagurama-san."
The whole exchange, from Yvy's perspective, looked like a brief greeting between a student and a teacher, which soon ended with both going their separate ways. But for Life, it was an improvised analysis of what WAS the student in front of him who called themselves 'Yvy'.
After a split-second of analysis through his glasses, he got his answer. Oh oh~, now what do we have here...
It was with this revelation that Life realized he never went out of his way to know the exact date when this story occurred.
The calendar on his Over-Armor displayed the date of his home instead of this world.
From everything he had seen, it looked like just your typical modern-day world, but now, after this revelation of what Yvy was, he might need to reevaluate his previous assumption. Well, she doesn't seem to be looking to cause harm to any of the students, or at least, the ones that have nothing to do with the story. So I guess I can just let them be for now...
Stopping right in front of the door that led to his class, Life took a deep breath before he felt ready to slide the door open and step inside, but not before he heard a commotion from Hagurama's direction, which Life chose to ignore as teaching his current class concerned him more at the moment.
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"Hoi! What are you doing?! This is against the rules!"
Nozomi heard, while in the middle of turning a corner, Yoshino by her side, both on their way to class.
When both girls turned the corner, Nozomi's unspoken question of what was going on was answered in an instant as she laid eyes on her three new classmates and what they were each doing.
Rea had a lit cigarette in her mouth, her expression one of annoyance, as she was being scolded by Yvy, who was pointing a finger at the cigarette. Jean, meanwhile, was nervously trying to de-escalate the situation so it wouldn't escalate into a full-on fight.
Rea briefly stared at Yvy in silence before momentarily taking the cigarette out of her mouth and puffing out smoke on Yvy's face. Strangely, Yvy didn't seem bothered at all by the smoke. "Piss. Off." She ordered before resuming smoking.
Yvy's expression grew appalled at Rei's attitude."Piss-, who do you think you are?"
"P-please don't fight." Jean pleaded nervously as she raised both of her lengthy arms in an attempt to appease them.
Or at least, Nozomi guessed that was Jean's intention, since to Nozomi it looked like Jean was trying to scare them.
Rea groaned."Urgh, give me a fuckin break..." Rea muttered under her breath while rolling her eyes at Yvy and Jean.
"Can't you all just mind your own, damn, business? It's already a drag having to come here to this dump that calls itself a school, the last thing I need is someone like you bothering me!" Rea exclaimed in frustration, but not at Yvy or Jean, as Rea's piercing glare was seemingly targeting no one in particular. It made her look like a crazy person to everyone watching.
"People like-, what is that supposed to mean?!" Yvy's expression grew into a scowl at the insinuation, clenching her hands into a fist, as if about to throw a punch. But Yvy attempts to grab the cigarette from Rei's mouth instead.
Rea intercepted Yvy by grabbing her arm just as the latter was about to make contact with the cigarette. The two stared each other down, silently daring each other to make the first move for the fight to start.
Nozomi was about to consider whether she should join in to stop it or call a teacher to solve the situation when...
"Now what is going on here?!" Yelled Manabu behind Nozomi, as she turned the corner and saw all the commotion unfolding in front of her.
"Ah, shit." Rei cursed under her breath as she swiftly snatched the cigarette from Yvy's hand and put it out as if accustomed to it.
Jean took the initiative and tried to explain the situation."W-well, you see..."
Jean tried to come up with the right words for it, but Manabu was having none of it."You know what? I'm too tired today to care. Class. Everyone. Now!" She ordered, leaving no room for argument.
Everyone else obeyed and went to class after that without another word. It was scary for Nozomi to see her teacher angry like that, but at least she had some solace in knowing they weren't mad at her.