After surviving the comotion of his True Name, he headed out to the first class, Wilderness Survival,
The Wilderness Survival classroom was spacious, tastefully decorated… and completely empty. Hayakawa even thought that he was mistaken, but then spotted a gloomy instructor sitting behind a wide wooden desk. Noticing him, the instructor perked up.
"Come on in, enter, young man!"
He was a lively old man with messy grey hair, absentminded eyes and a pair of bushy eyebrows that seemed to jump around on their own.
He began introducting himself as soon as Hayakawa entered the classroom.
"I am Awakened Julius, or, if you prefer, you can call me Teacher Julius!"
Sitting down in one of the tables obendiently, the man suddenly started questiong Hayakawa.
"What's your name, young man?"
"It's Hayakawa"
Julius raised an eyebrow.
"What a weird name, but that is good! After all, we all have to deal with weird things, you remember me of a student I had a log time ago, not that i remember his face now, but that is not what we're here to talk about."
Hayakawa looked awkarly around, seeing no Sleepers in-sight.
"Um.. Julius? Sorry, did I came too early?"
"Oh! No.. You came right in time."
"So.. there are no other students?"
The teacher grunted at looked away.
"These brutes are only interested in swiging their weapons and fists around! Very few are smart like you and really know the power of knowledge.."
'So.. it is that unpopular, huh?'
He thought to himself, inwardly hoping that this class would not be a waste, but, he did had to attend to Combat training soon, so, he just didn't say anything.
"Say, young man, why did you chose this class, of all things?.."
Hayakawa knee that there was no use in hiding the truth, so, he speaked right away.
"Because of my First Nightmare, I did not like the ambientation around me slowly killing me, instead of the monsters and all that."
"Very well! Harshness is the teacher of most things! But, coming back to tour curriculum. What other classes did you chose?"
Hayakawa stopped for a while, remembering his courses.
"Uh.. Combat Traning."
"Very well! A wise man shall know how to diverse things, so, let's begin the Class, shall we, young man?"
Hayakawa said nothing, paying attention to the Instructor.
***
Hayakawa was now heading towards his Combat Training course, after already finishing his time on the Wilderness Survival, Julius made him study hundreds of things, these being, study of runes, several desd languages of the Dream Realm and all sorts of things.
Also something that he learned, was that the rune 'Hell' also meant 'Underworld', and 'Hero' also meant something like 'Slayer' or 'Justice', so, his True Name could also be read as 'Slayer of the Underworld', which was pretty Ominous!
But he had to put thise thoughts aside, because he was already at at large dojo, with dozens of Sleepers already listening to a lecture, almost all of them turned their heads towards him.
'I get it, I am such a genius!'
The Instructor then, resumed his lecture after noticing him.
"Today, we will commence evaluating your general competency and abilities, after that, you all are going to be evaluated into three groups based on your levels, such as, novice, intermediate and expert. As well as your weapons of choice"
At the mention of a weapon, Hayakawa pondered himself, he had his chainsaws, right? But Hayakawa knew that they wasted lots of blood, and could even kill him if he overused it.
So, it was better to use a weapon of his choice and just stick with it, and, on the Dream Realm, if his situation was not good, he would unleash his chainsaws.
After the Instructor finished his lecturing, he placed a machine on the ground, which Sleepers would be taking turns at, and the machine would measure the strength of the Sleeper.
"Hayakawa, you first."
'Fuck.'
He did not had any training, he did not had any experience fighting without his chainsaws, and even more, he had no idea how to throw a punch!
Feeling defeated, he slowly walked to the machine, standing right infront of it.
He took a deep breath, and prepared his punch, which probably was just an awkward try of a punch.
The machine took a hit, Hayakawa's eyes were fixated onto the small screen, the numbers kept raising, until, it stopped at fifteen.
'I was expecting lower'
Then, he suddenly remembered that he had the [Vessel] Attribute, which he assumed that improved his body.
'Ah.. I love being the Vessel of a Devil..'
He slowly got back to his place. The Sleepers kept going, the average was eleven to twelve, those who had Aspects that improved their strength hit fourteen to sixteen.
'So i did pretty good, huh?'
Now, was time to pick their weapons and spar.