Stretching my body after class, I mumbled to myself “I should start looking for Esemoniya…” as a tap on my shoulder made me turn around to see the person I was just about to go look for.

“Hee-ya-hooooo” she waved at me with a cute smile that made me wanna throw up. “Dearest! How I missed you!” I quickly took a step back to avoid her grabbing me.

“My, my, so cautious around your senior, you might just hurt my feelings!” As she lowered her head, she looked up at me with puppy eyes and continued teasing “do you hate me, Dearest?”

“Tch, isn't it obvious? Also stop calling me that you crazy witch, let’s go talk somewhere private, this hallway is way too crowded.”

I started walking towards the stairs to our left.

“Ehhhh, the roof? How cliche, is this a date now?” this crazy manipulating bitch…

“Can you drop the act already? Why did you try to set me up? If you wanna get me in jail, surely proving my past isn’t a hard task for you, right?” I asked while looking over the roof at the big lifeless yard below me as her small brown eyes and dark hair suddenly appeared in front of me.

“Dearest, this is no way to treat an old friend, especially one that cares for you oh so dearly… Did I not teach you better? What would your dearest friend Shiawasu think?”

“WATCH YOUR MOUTH BITCH! Keep Ostel’s name out of your filthy hole!” I snapped, grabbing her by the collar of her shirt.

She always gets on my nerves like that, especially that fake facade of hers…

“Hehe, Deeearest! Ohhh Dearest! my dearest of the dears! my most precious toy! Am I the one who told you to kill him?”

…

She's always like this. It feels like I’m about to drown in the guilt and anger.

“Are you angry right now? Maybe a little guilty?? Is it really because of me though?” She put 1 slender finger to her chin, keeping her irritating cutesy mask. “Ohhh how much I love my Dearest yet he’s so cold to me, what should I do?? It feels like my heart is burning…” This person needs to see a doctor, because her jokes are fucking sickening.

“You’re right, I’m not angry at you, you only fulfilled your role as my educator. I’m also absolutely angry, thanks to you.” Breathing in deeply and calming myself down I turned around to start walking away before the witch spoke up again.

Her voice took a bittersweet tone laced with… sadness?

“My Wistian name is ‘Derny Trick’ and my age is now 22, don’t you forget it, okay Dearest? That is, if you manage to make it past today.” She tried to hide it but something was clearly off.

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“You do remember that nobody can lie to me, right?” *Muwah* She kissed me on the cheek and proceeded to walk away before turning to me once more, ignoring my question entirely.

“You didn’t forget your magic words did you? You might need those soon.” it was subtle but her expression was definitely that of agony.

22… This lady is 27 if I remember correctly, I mean sure, she looks very young and pretty but, this is still making me sick.

***

Another somewhat uneventful day comes to an end… The classes in this school are so boring, the class about Seals was incredibly bare-bones and every other class was just fighting strategy which I just don’t care about.

The only thing I need in this school is learning how to fight in close quarters as I’m apparently not as good at it as I thought…

“Hey shorty, stop.” I knew taking this shortcut through the alley was a good idea today, I’m really in the mood to kill someone.

Turning around I saw a burly-looking guy at least as tall as prince Charisma, – around 180 centimeters or so – HOW EXCITING!

My heart started beating faster as he put his right hand on my shoulder before speaking.

“Give me some money or I'll show you the color of your own BLOOD little monkey!” my hands were trembling with excitement as he said the word, the magic word.

“Huh? Are you about to piss yourself shorty? Why so scare-gah l-v g….o.” his hands shot up to try and pry my right hand away from his neck.

I felt his struggling grow more and more faint as my Sy coated forefinger sank deeper into his throat and a satisfied grin formed on my face with a feeling of absolute joy…

My eyes closed for a second, I took a deep breath drinking in the sounds and smells around me.

I felt extremely calm.

I opened my eyes to see the bloodied dead body of a kid about a year older than me laying on the ground.

What am I doing? Did I kill him? HOW EXCIT-SICKENING!

My mind was going into panic mode.

”You killed him…” an unwelcome yet nostalgic voice said behind me. Did I? Really?!

“No no. NO! Ostel, listen to me, PLEASE! It isn’t like that! It was a mistake, please, he’s not de- bwahh.”

Throwing up the tomato soup I ate just an hour ago, I leaned against the wall of the dorm building next to me to help keep myself from falling due to how badly my head was spinning and pounding.

A quiet thud behind me grabbed my attention as I whipped my head to see Prince Charisma’s books on the floor and an unwelcome expression of disgust on his face.

My life here’s over.

“O-Ostel?! Lifes what the fuck are you talking about! This-this kid! You just killed him! Are you insane?!” Don’t call me insane you dog!

I started walking away while relying on the walls for support. I had to run away from there.

I have to go back to Kiyoko and ask her to help me.

My stomach apparently disagreed with my decision as I started throwing up again, probably yesterday’s pork-belly or something.

“Lifes! Stop! You need to go to jail for what you’ve done, but I won’t turn you in, I’ll help you if you help me! Come with me, quickly!” He grabbed my shoulder and pulled me back while I was trying to escape.

“Fuck… off.” I sorta mumbled while pushing his arm away.

“If you leave now, everyone will know exactly who did this, a lot of people are already talking about the rumors of you being a former assassin.” Rumors? How?! It’s only the second day of school, what the fuck!

“I won’t trust some stuck up fucking prince that thinks his morals are the only thing that matters!” A sudden punch to the stomach knocked the wind out of me as I heaved whatever was left in my body once again.

“Get over yourself! You will come around and join me soon enough, I’m sure of it, arrogant prick.” he bit his lip in desperation and walked away.

I struggled back up to my feet and went to my dorm, after packing everything as quickly as possible, I left to get my old Slayer uniform from its hiding place and leave this cursed place for good. “School isn’t so fun, Ostel, you didn’t miss much. “

I reached the cyan-colored entry gate to exit the city but there are guards all around.

I will have to use my Seal to get out of here. Luckily, the sun was just starting to set so a lot of large shadows were looming all over the area outside the gate at desirable angles.

It’s good that this city is in the middle of the continent but only has an eastern entrance.

“The journey back home will be tough.” My whisper got lost in the sound of the rising gate’s mechanism turning.

First I will need a way out of here, and I think I have just the one.