"Oh God, I hate this uniform..."

Pulling the hem of my skirt further down to cover more skin of my legs, I lightly cursed under my breath. Quick glances from horny teenager boys was the last thing that I wanted.

But in this school there was no way that you could save yourself from curious eyes, and that makes me feel so irritated the whole time.

"Hah! Calm down Selene, stop being so insecure."

Mei, a friend of mine, snickered at my behavior and shook her head. Unlike me, she felt a way more comfortable in this school uniform. Swaying her hips with such elegance while we were walking through the corridors, causing even more boys to look.

Rolling my eyes, I began to grin. "Okay miss prom Queen."

She shoved her hips against mine as a reaction of my mocking, before I did it like her and walked with more confidence. Slightly swinging my hips.

Mei laughed again and clapped before whistling after me.

But the reaction of the boys around me just made me stop very quickly again, shocked that it worked so easily.

"What the fuck...this is really horrifying. That's all it took to make them drop their books?" I frowned, looking around the corridor.

"Yeah...and I think that the boys here like it when girls have more on their hips."

With a playfully shocked look on my face, I opened my mouth and looked back to her. "Excuse mE? Did you just call me fat??"

This time it was her turn to roll her eyes. "No, dummy! You know that's not what meant you bitch."

Laughing at her insult, I simply shrugged it off and shoved my shoulder against hers.

But I did understand what she meant. The most girls that I see here are like...really skinny. Mei was average and a bit trained too, while I was slightly chubby.

My body was still defined from the 'little' training that I had at Bangs Dojo, it's now a month since he accepted me as his disciple and my progress developed rather quickly.

"Goddamn...I just love your thick thighs." I squeaked when Mei suddenly pulled me out of my thoughts with pinching the side of my thigh, causing her to laugh again. "And your new hair color...how can you even have such healthy hairs when you dye them like every month?"

Ah...this question again. Just pretending like I didn't know- I mean I don't really know it but yeah. "I just have very good genes I guess..." I inspected a purple strand of my hair between my fingers.

This time, my hair was multi-colored. Having all different colors mixed in the light brown dyed hair in strands like blue, purple, red and I don't even know what else.

"Maybe I should dye my hair too sometime?..." Questioned my friend herself.

I took a quick glance at her blonde hair. Noticing the perfect waves that reached the middle of her back. And my hair in contrast is a bit messy and spiky towards the edges, but having nearly the same hair length like hers.

"You won't do it anyway in the end." I stated what makes Mei pout. "Yeah... you're probably right. But I still want to!"

"Then just do it and stop bitching around about it."

She grumbled something that I couldn't understand while we took our seats in class.

And now I just need to get this lesson over before I can make my way to Bangs dojo.

"Are you looking at my butt?"

"Eh?! No??"

Charanko stared at me with a bright red face, feeling startled at my accusation.

"Huh? Why not...am I not attractive enough?..." A faked sad look took place upon my features, I even pouted when I stopped in my movements.

The boy beside me was even more lost than before and didn't know how to react.

Ah, and another day where I would tease him while training. It was a nice routine that we had since the last five weeks. But sadly we didn't hear anything from the former top student of Bang since then.

And it seems like my curiosity wasn't going to die down anytime soon. I wanted to meet this guy, but not knowing when or if I will ever get across him, really drives me crazy.

At the same time it boosted my motivation to keep pushing myself and getting better with each day. My fingertips were already itching to fight. And with a quick glance to Charanko, I asked myself if he would-

"Selene?...stop staring at me like that. It's scary." Charanko was also not moving anymore and looked back at me questioningly.

Slightly confused, I returned his look. "I am not staring? I was just looking at you."

He shook his head and continued the training routine just like me. "No, you were definitely staring." His cheeks still had a light tint of red.

Snickering at his somehow shy reaction, I shook my head too. "Nop, definitely not."

Since the past five weeks, I have learned a few things about Charanko. He was 3 years older than me and was literally hopeless when it comes to women.

But I didn't know more about him, surprisingly. He didn't even want to tell me why exactly he was so interested in martial arts.

Maybe another sensitive topic for him?

Well, what I definitely knew was that he despised Garou with a passion. And I can tell that it has to do with something personal too.

"Anyways...I want to learn the smash rocking fist."

Charankos confused face returned. "...you mean Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist?"

"Yeah yeah, exactly that! Do you think I can already learn it?" I asked him with sparkling eyes, but I already knew what his answer was going to be.

"I highly doubt it...you're not that good at martial arts."

From the light pout on his lips, I could tell that was a big fat lie. "Ah, sure Charanko-Kun~"

Right after that, Bang appeared out of nowhere. "You're not ready."

And this time it was my turn to pout. "Huh? Whyy-" I started to whine instantly, causing him to stare blankly at me.

"You have only been training for a month. Just because you're good, doesn't mean that you're already capable of learning it."

"That's just another excuse, old man!" I pointed my Index finger at him, but it didn't seem like I could change his mind so easily.

Bang blinked for a second when I called him like that, triggering a few memories that he didn't seem to be too happy about.

My fellow disciple quickly started to scold me because of the way I am speaking to our Sensei. "Why are you just so disrespectful you brat! Don't get too full of yourself because you're good!"

Surprised at both reactions- well less about Charankos because he always scolds me for something- but more about Bangs. Without another word, he just turned away again.

"Huh?..." It isn't like I'm not used to Bangs behavior, but these kinds of reactions were setting me off.

Looking back to Charanko, he seemed to be calmer again and returned my gaze.

3rd person━

And there was it again, the resample of Garou in his mind when he looked at Selene, fearing that history would repeat itself.

There are moments where she reminded him of his former failed disciple.

Old man.

That's what Garou called him a lot too.

So he was refraining himself from teaching her his unique technique. Only Garou mastered it so far and it was crawling on his pride at what happened. But he knew that he couldn't always make up excuses to Selene, the girl had a good nose when it came to lies.

When it wasn't only that, she was unbelievably stubborn and spirited.

There was a reason why she learned so fast and was extremely good in fighting instincts. But he was the only one that knew more about Selene than the girl herself.

━Bang just hoped that he wouldn't fail her too.