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Akemi and Tatsuya make it to the 'Lower' class, while Rin and Madoka head off to the 'Higher' class.

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Class is now in session.
Higher
The class is taken by the man most of the boys who were in before the weekend as Mr. Okumura, the boys' dorm monitor. To everyone else, he's just a stern-looking guy in glasses, with short black hair and a long grey coat.

His name's on the whiteboard behind him, along with a fairly complicated problem involving binomial expansion.
"Good morning. I am Mr. Okumura, your Maths teacher. I am also the boys' dorm monitor, and anyone taking a Chemistry class later this afternoon will have me.

As a starter, I would like you all to provide a satisfactory answer to that question. You have three minutes. Visually-impaired students, your tablets should dictate to you what the problem is on demand. Go."
Rin and Madoka sink into it right away.

Lower
Meanwhile, the lower maths class is taken by a fairly petite woman, with teal hair in a ponytail behind her head, a small laptop bag on her side and a cream sweater. To most of the girls who were in before this weekend, she's Ms. Kikuchi, the girls' dorm monitor.

Her name is also on the board behind her. There are three questions, all around the algebraic expanding and solving of equations.
"Good morning, everyone. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Ms. Kikuchi. I'm also the dorm monitor for the girls, and most of you who have taken Physics will see me later this afternoon.

Now, you have five minutes to solve the questions on the board- anyone who cannot see them, your tablet will dictate them to you. Good luck!"
Tatsuya works on it, while Akemi stares at the board in horror.

((MARIA/RYU
THE SHIP WILL NOT BE DENIED
HRJRURUURUE
also class will start in an RL hour or so))

"You play the guitar?"
((Okay, now I'm going to bed.))

He stares at it for a second, before leaving it undisturbed, hoping to ask her about it.

Tohru, meanwhile, just sits there with tears in her eyes, resolutely making sure not to cry.

She was tired of the arguing. Why couldn't everyone just get along? This wasn't right. Not right at all.

And she hated it.

She hated everything about it.

She hated that she couldn't- didn't- do anything about it, either. She'd let it happen.

Just as powerless as she was before, it seemed.

He walks over to examine it.

Maria gives him a somewhat dark look.
"So you say. But if only you knew what Kyousuke and I went through before you got here, you'd know that price is nothing..."
She walks out without explaining. It seems Karma touched a nerve or something.

Karma would realise Tohru's eyes are welling with tears- tears which she's hastily wiping away with her shawl.