"Isn't that all you've been calling him all day?" Cy rolled his eyes again. "I don't even know his name because all you do is fawn over him."

"You are soooo gay, Benjamin," Ukeru snorted, clasping the other on the back. "Good night!"

With that, he disappeared through a red portal.

"He's been trying to prove that since I met him and he fawned over me like he does you." Cy explained to Arashi.

"With a name like Ukeru, I'd imagine he's gay," Arashi informed, before he blushed. "Not that there's anything wrong with being gay-! There are plenty of nice gay people at my school... some of them are a little scary, but the rest are nice..."

"You're trying to hard, I'm not gay and therefore can't be offended." Cy sighed. "The only thing that bothers me are stupid people...which I must be since I'm on an MMO and have that pet-peeve."

"Are there a lot of stupid people in M-" Arashi started to say before someone ran by, cutting him off as they yelled.

"WHERE'S A GM!? I CAN'T OPEN MY INVENTORY!! SOMEONE HELP ME!"

"...Don't you just-" Arashi motioned to the bag on his hip with a frown.

"...Is there another damned glitch?" Cy blinked and checked his own pack.

"A glitch?" Arashi asked as Cy's inventory opened fine - proving the guy was either an idiot, or trying to get attention. "There are glitches?"

"Only on occasion and normally due to stupid people, as the a fore mentioned." Cyprian replied.

"I hope they take careful care of that," Arashi hummed. "A glitch in a system that links up to your mind could cause serious brain damage."

"You're talking to one of the beta-testers." Cy informed. "I know."

Arashi's eyes went wide. "I thought you guys were the Alpha testers... but, wait... wasn't there a 6th one?"

Cyprian fell silent his expression darkened.

"...It's late, don't you have school or something?" He asked.

"Oh! I have a test in five hours!" Arashi squeaked. "I'll talk to you later, thanks again for the help!"

With that, he logged from sight.

Cyprian sighed again and shook his head before held his forehead and tried to distract himself.

--Scene Change--

The students groaned as their professor handed out the test - a packet of at least ten papers stapled together, along with his provided number two pencils... and no sharpeners. He had a nasty habit of saying if you couldn't provide your own, you failed the test.

It was the first test of the first semester of the school year. A fresh new intake of exchange students had the school buzzing, but today no one in the room was feeling it. Everyone looked exhausted from late night cramming and Arashi Haru was no exception... although cramming had not been what he was up all night doing.

He supposed it could be worse... although staring at the paper through his glasses, he didn't see how. At least it was all material he knew and the only things he had to worry about were trying to get his left hand to properly function and ignoring the half-snores of the person falling asleep beside him.