Willow Soreal was one of the few people that would actually pick on Takashi. However, he couldn’t feel any bad intent from her at all. Maybe it was just her way of being nice. Some people are just like that. His presence usually calmed everyone around him, even though he himself is not aware of it. Takashi plucked a few flowers out of his hair, mostly the pink ones, and handed them over to Willow.<br/>“Here,” he said gently thinking that Willow wanted to have them. “The children in town gave them to me.”<br/>Then the practice lesson started. They didn’t have enough targets so Takashi had to wait for his turn. He looked back at the school building. Would there still be his favourite meal left by the time they were done? He probably would not get to know that as the bell started to sound through the school grounds. Takashi had never liked the sound of that bell. Using the same sound for something normal like the time and something dangerous like an attack was very uncomfortable. He was just about to check the time when a large group of people stormed the field. There had not been any battles planned for the rest of the day, although it could have been an alarm exercise too. However, the storming group was carrying a different banner than the one from Sir Edwards Academy. It was real.<br/>As soon as Takashi realized this he didn’t hesitate for even a moment. He stepped in front of the other archers to have a free shooting sight. Before any orders came from the instructors, he had already his first arrow nocked on his bow and shot it accurately at the oncoming enemy. It hit the leg of a front row knight, who fell down. After he had shot his first arrow and while already nocking and aiming his second the other archers also realized what was going on. Takashi knew that they wouldn’t be able to fight off this attack on their own. He quickly checked the position of his dual knives in case he quickly needed to switch to close range battle. For now he could only shoot arrow after arrow to weaken the enemy force until help comes from somewhere else. He took a moment to throw a quick glance at the mage field to see if they could come to their help, but they were trying to hold their own already. One quick arrow from Takashi’s bow saved a young mage from being attacked from behind. But then he had to focus at the main force again. They were already pretty close. All of Takashi’s arrows hit their targets, enemies had to fall back because their legs and arms were pierced. Although the archery fraction wouldn’t be able to defeat this force on their own, slimming it down was also a good tactic. Takashi didn’t have time to think about tactics anymore, the enemy closed in and he had run out of arrows. Putting his bow on his back and getting his dual knives ready, he prepared for close ranged battle...