#sa open

♡To say she was scared was quite an understatement. Asahi was honestly terrified. Despite how she has restrictions and requirements for friends, she can't bare to be alone. And she never felt this lonely in a long time.

♡She imagines Koyuki with her now, dragging her hand to every accessible place possible within the school grounds, desperate to explore. It made the red haired girl less tensed. The thought of her best friend for years calmed her down by quite a bit. She sighed and picked up her small sling bag. Maybe it was time to rethink her morals.

♡She stood outside the building on the west, glancing around, before walking up to the nearest person with a smile.

To be at an institution such as this, was truly different from anything he had experienced before. At least, it felt that way. He couldn’t say if his memories were lying to him.

Whatever the case, it felt…good. Good to get away, start anew.

He was to be a professor now, teaching swordsmanship. He had applied for the position out of comfort—swordsmanship was something familiar, a piece of his life he felt had been with him since he was young.

That wasn’t his only source of comfort, however—Constantine was able to come with him. The little white dog is sitting faithfully as his feet, looking excited as ever.

“If I know no one else here, at least I’ll know you, Constantine,” he muses. The pup barks back in agreement, coaxing a smile out of the former knight.

Following the map in his hands, he makes his way towards where he’ll be teaching, lightly tugging on the purple-and-black Labyrinthia patterned scarf around his neck.

He almost misses his armor, until he remembers how hot it was on a day-to-day basis.

It could be worse, Phoenix thought to himself. He could be stuck on an island in the middle of nowhere with only a coconut to keep him company, but he wasn't. He was at Seeker's Academy, a somewhat pretentious-looking educational facility that tended to all the needs of students across universes.

He still couldn't fully grasp the concept of multiple universes coming to one place and existing in unity, but it worked so he had no reason to question it. Maybe when a fight broke out, he'd bring that thought back into his head.

Now he was on an adventure, exploring his surroundings and walking through the halls. Phoenix was supposed to be organizing schedules, but his knowledge of the school would be better for everyone, right? Phoenix Wright, ace guidance counselor, everyone.

As he walked through the hallways, he looked around...a bit too much. He bumped into another person and stumbled back a bit. 

Trees had been an extreme rarity where he'd come from, and even though he'd heard they could grow to towering heights, he hadn't truly believed it until he'd seen the aged oak on school grounds. It was a gorgeous structure, providing a good hundred feet of shade beneath its branches. Out of fear he might harm it, he wouldn't have considered climbing it, but with an infected branch a good ways up, the tree was better off having it removed to ensure the bacteria didn't spread.

Yama mentally patted himself on the back for managing to make it up to the branch. He was a pretty decent climber if he did say so himself. All those ropes and safety gear would have just gotten in the way.

Shears in his hands, he leaned out from his seat on one of the sturdier branches to cut clean through the offending one. All seemed to be going well until his brain realized he'd managed to slip from his perch. A string of curses left him as he tumbled through the branches, scrambling to grab hold of one while keeping a tight grasp on his shears. Luck was just barely on his side, as his gut connected solidly with one of the lowest branches, still a good dozen feet from the ground.

As he hung across with one arm keeping him glued in place, his eye met with a person just below his dangling feet. His face began to burn. "H-hey there..." he called down at length. "Sorry I...almost fell on you."

Matching her badge to the ones marked in the handbook, Ayano found herself categorized as a college student. "E-eh? College..." She had never considered going to college, perhaps once upon a time. Her grades were never stellar and the family only had her father paying the bills. As the eldest in the family, Ayano had plans to start working as soon as she left high school.

"They did say part-time jobs were fine... but how do I send money back home?"

Seated at the North end of the academy was a girl in a black Japanese school uniform, skirt past her knees in the library where they offered a wide range of knowledge for the students attending higher education. An end of her red scarf that hid the length of her hair pooled on the table as she leaned face first down onto her possessions scattered on the table, the blank schedule and handbook. 

Ayano hadn't been able to do anything while staying in her room, as she could only lay on the bed pointlessly, staining her pillow case while her half lidded eyes stared at the blank ceiling.

A quite groan continuously emanated from the girl's general direction in the library, slightly muffled, almost as if she was in pain or a spirit was haunting this area of the library.

'No, no. I can't do this!' Ayano reprimanded herself.

With renewed energy the girl pushed herself sharply up so she was seated properly with a dumb smile on her face.

Yes.

I play chess.

Yes.

I enjoy it!

Been playing since I was 3 or 4?