Chiaki Nanami

Chiaki blinked and titled her head at the stranger, hearing his accent and getting the gears turning in her head. She looked like a curious kitten at this point, watching the small boy in front of her stammer to look for the next word. She took the opportunity to give him a small smile. 

“It’s okay,” she said, before the sudden sound of her losing her fight echoed from her hand. She looked at the offending character briefly before saving and turning off her handheld. “I’m Nanami Chiaki, the Ultimate Gamer. Nice to meet you.”

Stopping on trying to recall the word he looked to her once hearing the reasurrance, only to pause and look to the console in her hand when the sound of the losing music played before she put it away.

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Right, right, right, A, B, down. 

Chiaki Nanami wandered the hallowed halls of Hope’s Peak Academy, her Game Grl Color in her hands as she played her favorite old school fighting game – one of the first fighting games to use the link cable system. She actually brought a spare Game Grl with her today, along with her old link cable. She hoped her class would have fun playing with her. 

Punch, punch, sweeping kick, trip, combo times three, four, five, six, special attack, dodg–

Chiaki abruptly ran into someone – a familiar feeling, considering this is how she met someone else she was close to, but different due to the fact that she didn’t faceplant into anyone’s chest. She looked up, blinking away her game-focused tunnel vision to see a young man standing in front of her, looking nervous. 

But at the same time…. He was kind of glad he was chosen to enroll in the school… even if it wasn’t in the beginning of the school year. It was nice to finally be away from his parents and not need to be scared on going to his residence.

His parents still didn’t think highly of him though…. they thought it was a mistake and he’d be sent back soon….

Despite that once there it was a bit hard to get use to the students that were already there going to see him since he was a new face… What more was he still needed to get use to learning a second language and it was really hard to-