Siyeon followed Ara and Kato like a lifeless doll, her steps rather slow and weak. "Maybe it would be the best for her to go back to the dorm right now and get some rest," Kato whispered to Ara who vaguely nodded. "She can't go though, even if Mr. Zhang allows it, there is still the possibility that she might get challenged from other students, who are strolling around. You know that the most of them don't even care about the rules." That was true, sadly, and Ara rubbed her temples. "Well, seems like she has to stick through this now." As much as Ara wanted to help her, mostly because she pitied Siyeon, she couldn't

There was nothing she could do for Siyeon.

The only thing she could hope for was that the practical lesson would help Siyeon to distract her a bit, even though Ara had no clue what was actually bugging Siyeon. "Hey!" Siyeon flinched at the sudden call and as she looked up, she saw how annoyed Ara was. "Whatever Mr. Zhang told you, get yourself together. I wouldn't have expected from you to be such a sulk-face. Man, really." Even though Ara's words were like a slap in the face, they actually helped Ara a bit to sort out her messed up mind.

Ara was right though, it wouldn't help her right now to keep thinking about it for too much. She still had to go through this whole evening and she would be an easy target for everyone, if she would show any weakness now. Still, she couldn't get her thoughts right. "Thanks a lot," she whispered though and Ara smiled, though Siyeon couldn't see it. "Siyeon, say, have you ever fought against someone?" The question came out of the blue, and Kato shot Siyeon a sorry smile. "I haven't been in an actual fight, actually, but I do hapkido for several years now and already have the black belt."

She wouldn't call herself an outstanding fighter, since Siyeon had wanted to learn it to be able to defend herself, but she was quite decent. “Black belt, not bad,” Ara admitted, since she did Taekwando, where she had the black belt as well. “Then you must be pretty good.” Kato chuckled a bit, his expression still soft. “Well..., maybe?” Siyeon answered unsure. Something told her that the next lesson wouldn't contain only the practical use of magic. She already had seen how they actually fought but at the same time she believed that that was not the way they usually fought.

The next classroom seemed more like a smaller hall, the walls revetted with blue foam. There were burns and cracks in both the walls and the ground, so as if someone had had a heavy fight in the room, but Siyeon was sure that it didn't had been just one fight.

There was already someone waiting for them in the classroom. A smile curled Mr. Zhang's lips as he shook hands with the other guy, who was a bit shorter than him, but way more muscly. “I thought you would skip and I would have to teach them myself, Jonghyun,” he said to the other man, who grinned cheekily. “No way I let you teach my students, Yixing.” Mr Zhang turned around, still that smirk on his face. “This will be your teacher for practical magic. His name is Kim Jonghyun but you call him Mr. Kim.”

Mr. Kim really wasn't that tall, still taller than Siyeon, but compared to the rest he still was very short. His hair was dark brown and spiky, his expression cheeky, nearly cunning. “Since Mr. Zhang already told you my name, there is actually not much more for me to tell you. Since it is the first day, I won't teach you much. To be exact, I haven't planned anything, but I know that there are a lot talented fighters among you guys. Why don't we see a mach?”

A whisper went through the small class, exciting and anticipating. It seemed like the rest truly wanted to see that fight, whoever would fight against each other. It actually sparked some interest inside Siyeon. The fight before, Ara against that other student, had been pretty amazing, even though Siyeon could only remember quite blurry what actuall