Three days have passed since and I’m starting to get accustomed to this school. Or, so I think.  Nothing really eventful happened, not unless you count Krystal conjuring up a massive rope made of pure diamond which she used to tie up his opponent in duire practicals. I mean, who would have thought you could do so much with jewels? I’m sure if ever she was kidnapped for ransom, the criminals would still be happy after they’ve been beaten up.

                However, the talking and whispering when I'm around, I've noticed, are still there, and it completely got me wondering. Is that supposed to last this long? Luhan was off to somewhere again just like when I first arrived. Krystal said he usually does missions for his father. It's the price for knowing too much than any regular students should have. Even if it's not my place to snoop around, I still can't help but wonder what those missions are.

                Still, if I'm going to be completely honest,  I feel somewhat relieve that he’s away.   It's not even because I don't like him. In fact, I think Luhan is a really nice person, but he makes me uncomfortable as though I have to watch my every move or he might be able to figure me out. What exactly I’m afraid to be out in the open is what I don’t know. Maybe I’m just being silly. Maybe I just don’t want him to see my clumsy self. In any case, Luhan being away let me loosen up my individuality a bit. 

               To talk about another thing,  Suho caught up with me yesterday at lunch. He asked me how everything's going, being the concerned student head he is. I said, as I usually do, that it was just okay and everything feels a little bit more comfortable now. As soon as he left me, Krystal appeared out of nowhere like she’d just learned how to teleport and bugged me into repeating everything Suho said. It was funny how hard she tried  to decode hidden meanings in simple words.

                Meanwhile, in duire practical classes, I always get miserable. I feel envious that they could do so much more and I ask myself a lot of times if my being here is not a mistake.   Kai is not helping at all. Instead of just sitting around like I do, he does bare hand fighting with the other guys. It’s amazing that his fighting skills are even better than the other duireans, but it’s not good for me since I always start to feel like I need to showcase something as good as that.

                Highly related to that insecurity of mine is the realization that what my other classmates have been gossiping about all along and so crudely at that,  is my lack of duire. This information I got to know in a hard way. It was when I stood up to grab some water from the cafeteria and this one girl just intentionally tripped me, causing me to fall face flat on the grass. Even then, I saw a ring smoke, which one of my classmates produced, popped in the exact time I fell. 

                “Look at that,” the girl who tripped me said to her friends. “She can’t even stop herself from the embarrassment.”

                I stood up and quickly ran away.

                It didn't take long for me to realize how wrong just running away from them was.  In the end, it just made me fall deeper into their trap. Apparently, as how they've devised it, tripping me is an experimental prank to see how I react. Now, they know that I don’t fight back. The news quickly spread around the place. More girls, even those from other classes, began to eye me so badly whenever I walk to the cafeteria. Krystal sensed that something’s going on but I didn’t tell her anything. After all, I don’t like to be a coward who tells on other people. So, every time the horrible ogling follows me, I just look to the ground and start wishing my duire, if it ever considers to appear, would allow me to shrink in convenience. 

               It was truly a relief  when my first Sunday in Seijira came. I know it is the perfect day alloted for Seijira students to just rest and do whatever, but I just decided not to go out of the room. It was mostly because I don't really have any business outside. It is, however, part of the reason, that I was a bit afraid of being hagged by the usual bullies when I just want to have some peace. So, even when my moves were a bit restricted, I still got a short break from the unwanted glares. 

                On that following  Monday, Luhan finally appeare