“The same could be said about you,

“The same could be said about you, Yukiha. Why are you talking so formally to a runt like this?”
“H-He is on a completely different level than us… Wha-Whatever the case, you have to apologize to him!”
“Heck no, I hate cocky disrespectful brats like him who everyone has to respect.”
“Just what are you saying?! You just disrespected your senior by sending him flying with your student I.D. not too long ago!”
“Oh, you’re right,” said Iuli with an expression on his face saying that she got him there.
“Haahaahaa, haa, I see. It’s pretty frustrating being done in by someone younger, huh. I now know how that senpai from earlier really feels. I’ll be sure to be more careful from now on,” said Iuli as he let a nonchalant smile show on his face. Yukiha looking like the very definition of uncomfortable in the meantime.
“Calm yourself, Kuhouin Yukiha. Do not let your voice become so unsettled,” said Io in a quiet tone.
“The chattering of simpletons does not reach my ears at all.”
“Huh, Oi who are you calling a simpleton.”
“It is true that I am a shorty. My stature is small. However it does not bother me in the slightest because height does not determine strength,” Io then went on to say.
“I will settle for one eyeball then,” Yukiha then heard him say from what sounded like above her. It wasn’t until a tenth of a second later that she realized that Io had disappeared from her sight. Her then realizing that he was on Iuli’s shoulders took another tenth of a second as well.
“This is… Warp,” The movement spell known as “Warp” was a spell that allowed one to jump through space. Though it is a subcategory of summoning magic it requires a large and complicated spell formula and is in itself an extremely high level technique that would take most normal mages ten seconds before they could activate the spell.
For Yukiha, who was the top of her academy and boasted the highest grades, she is able to perform the spell in about three seconds but it still wasn’t good enough for her to use in actual combat. What’s more, Yukiha was not even aware of the instant that Io had used it. He activated the spell in an instant and finished his movement just as quickly.
“I have never seen someone use ‘Warp’ so quietly and so quickly before,” Yukiha thought to herself. There was not one ounce of wasted movement and he moved with unparalleled accuracy. It really was as if he had teleported, history’s youngest member to join Seventh Heaven, Kagihara Io, also known as “Gorger.”
“Oh?” By the time Iuli had carelessly raised his voice Io had already finished his movement. Moving faster than lightning, he used his right hand in an attempt to gouge out Iuli’s right eye. It was just when his nail was about to touch his eye that:
“Stop that, Io-kun,” echoed a woman’s voice and Io’s movements stopped right then and there.
“Tsk, someone troublesome has showed up,” remarked Io as he clicked his tongue and descended from Iuli’s shoulders.
“Honestly, just what do you think you are doing, Io-kun? You have finally returned from your mission but instead of attending classes you are just out here wandering about,” said a woman with slightly puffed up cheeks and saying what any good teacher would say. The woman in this case was Kurouri Himitsu. She was both the headmaster of the academy as well as captain of the Gouma Knight Squad. In addition, she was a part of Seventh Heaven as well. The title she received was “Disobeyer.”
“Just what am I to learn in an academy such as this? Please just send me off to the Demon World already. That will prove to be far more educational for me.”
“That won’t do. I will have you learn common sense as well as how to cooperate with others at this academy. An exception has been made for you to join the Knight Squad but you are utterly helpless when it comes to matters outside of fighting.”
“What of it?” replied Io sounding exceedingly bored?
“What else is there besides conflict in this rotten world?” Io then went on to say giving off a frighteningly sharp look in his eyes that no one would think a boy his age could make. Himitsu, however, let it slide and then smiled.
“There is quite a bit. There is love, friendship, and various sorts of things such as that.”
“How ridiculous,” Io replied as though he were spitting the words out and then left.
“Ah, wait right there! You have to be sure to apologize to Iuli-kun!” Himitsu called after him in a panic but he had already disappeared somewhere else.
“Honestly, what a troubling boy he is. Yukiha-san, Iuli-kun, I am sorry for the trouble he has caused you.”
“Not at all,” replied Yukiha.
“For crying out loud… He is always so brash that it is hard to keep him in line.”
“You think so? From my point of view you seemed to have a good handle on him.” Seeing how she treated such a pugnacious and savage boy who had incredible fighting skills like a cheeky child made Yukiha think of Kurouri’s nickname, “People User.”
People around her referred to her as such both out of respect and out of disdain. While her fighting prowess was normal she had abilities that allowed her to be in full control of her subordinates and, along with her organizational management skills, was hired to become the captain of the Knight Squad at the age of 26.
Her being called such a thing as “People User” was a way of praising her abilities but was also meant in irony as it was tantamount to saying “that she was better at using people than magic.”
“It has been a while, hasn’t it, Iuli-kun. I believe it has been two weeks now,” said Himitsu as she called out to Iuli.
Yeah, we haven’t seen each other since we took care of my paperwork to transfer here.”
“Have you gotten used to the academy already?”
“Well, I’m getting there.”
“I am happy to hear that. However, your grades seem to be rather lacking at the moment.”
“Haahaahaa,” was Iuli’s reply as he forced himself to laugh off the whole thing. Kurouri, on the other hand, just gave him a pained smile instead.
“That being said, if you are getting along well with our honor student Yukiha then I can rest easy. Please make a point of learning a great many things from her. Now then, if you will excuse me,” added Kurouri as she nodded her head and left. Though she is the highest ranking person at the academy she was humble and, in a certain way, was the polar opposite of Io.
“You seemed to get along rather well with Captain Kurouri.”
“Aah… Yeah. It seems that she used to know my master and it was because of his connection with her that I was able to get into this academy, but what about you? She seemed to know your name and face right of the bat. Was it because of you’re being 1st in the academy here?”
“That person remembers everyone and everything related to the Knight Squad.” Upon hearing this, Iuli whistled shortly to show that he was impressed.
“By the way, Iuli, is your eye okay?”
“Hm? What’s this? You worried about me?”
“Yo-You fool! I was just-“
“I’m all right. That shorty’s hand didn’t touch my eye at all, but,” Iuli then added, “he wasted no time in trying to gouge my eye out. He’s one freaky brat. He must have a pretty big complex about his height.”
“No, don’t you think it was simply because of your bad attitude?” Granted, Io himself was the only person who knows truly why he did what he did.
“Yeah, but even so, it’s amazing how that Captain Kurouri was able to rein in that savage shorty like that,” Iuli went on to say and ended up forcing himself to laugh a little.
“This academy has a lot of weirdos in it, huh.”
“You are the absolute last person to be saying such a thing,” Yukiha retorted instantly.
In the near pitch black darkness there stood a single girl. It was the entrance to the special training area known as “Space.” Sneaking in without permission, the girl then put her pale hand to the door, closed her eyes, and it seemed as though she were searching for something. After a short while, she then opened her eyes and put her hand to the small communicator in her ear.
Professor, There is no mistaking it. There are traces that ‘Space’ had been damaged.”
“I see,” said a hoarse voice on the other end of the communicator.
“Do you think someone was testing a large-scale magic weapon inside here?”
“No, there is no possibility of that. Regardless of whatever the magic or magic weapon might be it is impossible to damage that dimension like that. More than likely it was an error on the academy’s part who was managing it.”
“It would seem that the dimension is already starting to repair itself. At this rate it will probably be back to what it was by tomorrow afternoon.”
“I see. If that is so then I suppose I will have you move on to your next assignment,” the professor’s voice then replied and the girl could not help but gulp after hearing this.
“It has been about two months since we sent you to that academy. I never would have thought a chance would come this quickly. However, if we miss it, there is no telling when we will get a second one. Do you think you can do it?” the professor went on to say.