The next day comes when Kyran is able to return to his regular school life of being a secretive hardworking student. He has his usual breakfast of toasted bread, eggs, bacon and tea then gets dropped off by his mother at the school gate freshly prepared wearing his uniform. Most students don't bother too much about his return due to the assumption given that he was feeling under the weather and has simply just recovered.
He heads over to his seat then takes a slight breath of relief just before he receives a light punch to his shoulder.
"You missed out on a lot while you were sick." he turns to see Michael looking cheerful as ever with a bright smile "There were like 3 fights, the teachers weren't taking their lessons for a full day and free food in the cafeteria for limited time."
"So basically," Kyran replies "what you're saying is that the world decided to dish out all the good stuff while I was gone."
"That's a great summary." Michael chuckled.
"Don't forget all the notes you have to write," Natalie informed as she dropped a pile of books on his desk " and I would barely call those fights if they couldn't last more than 2 minutes."
"The notes don't seem that much." Kyran said.
"There are two more subjects, and these are the least of them." she said with a smirk.
"Oh." he replied as he could feel the stress that will come in the future.
The siren rings and all the students take their seats as Ms. Travers enters the classroom for her lessons. She has chosen to wear a dark blue dress and black pimps but still seems as if she has not gotten enough sleep.
"Morning class," she says "I hope you're all doing well, you too Kyran. Let's start with the lessons now."
The lessons go as they usually do with the students having to wake Ms. Travers up when they notice her dozing off as Kyran is lost in his thoughts about the situation he was put in. He suddenly thinks about using his new ability and decides to look around his classroom for anyone who he knows has a focus ability. He notices one of his male classmates who he knows has the focus ability of an executioner's water manipulation as he decides to quietly call the system which responds. He concentrates his attention towards the boy's head as he prepares to use the ability.
"Copy." he quietly says.
[ Activated: Reaper's Copy]
The system replies as he is shocked that his first attempt worked.
[ Specifications: Failed]
[ Reaper's Copy: Failed]
The boxes disappear as he's confused by the system's response as the student looks confused by what just happened while holding his head.
"Specifications failed," Kyran says out loud "what's that supposed to mean?"
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"Is there a something you don't understand Kyran?" Ms. Travers asks after hearing him.
"No, no it's okay," he quickly answers "I understand now."
"That's good now as I was saying..." she continues with her lesson.
Kyran notices a pop-up notification in his vision which answers his question.
[ Specifications were unable to be met. Reaper's Copy has failed. Catalyst can successfully use Permanent Focus when the specific state of mind has been reached. No further aid will be given] it disappears once he finishes reading.
"So, you mean to tell me" Kyran complains internally " that this so-called System gave me a great focus ability, which it won't even tell me how to use."
[ Hint: Find out]
"Great," he says sarcastically "so helpful." He notices that he missed a lot throughout the lesson, so he stops trying and turns his attention back to the lesson which he listens to attentively.
Halfway through the fourth lesson Kyran begins to write down the names of the people in his class who he knows have a focus ability. He comes down with only 5 names as he begins to try and use his focus on the ones he knows but keeps receiving the same results over and over again.
[ Specifications: Failed]
[ Reaper's Copy: Failed]
He gets irritated by these and presumes the focus to be useless if he can't even use it and the System won't tell him how to. He looks up and notices Ms. Travers about to fall asleep during her lesson again and decides to try and use it on her.
"Copy." he says as he anxiously waits for the system's response with his fingers crossed for the result.
[ Activated: Reaper's Copy]
[ Specifications: Successful (Vulnerability)]
[ Reaper's Copy has commenced]
[ Progress: 14%]
He celebrates internally and waits to see what happens, but suddenly grows worried when he takes a good look at Ms. Travers and notices something has gone wrong.
"Uhm Ms. Travers." a student says as she notices it.
"Oh, sorry I'm very tired today." Ms. Travers says as she coughs into a handkerchief.
"Miss, your nose!" a student informs.
"What do you--," she says as she looks at her reflection from the window and gets shocked by what is dripping from her nose then looks at the handkerchief and sees the same thing. Blood.
[ Progress: 52%]
She begins to cough heavily as more blood acme out causing her to scream in intense pain. The students panic as some rush out to get help from staff members while others tried to help Ms. Travers. She holds her head and complains profusely about a headache as her eyes got red.
[ Progress: 88%]
Kyran panics internally, desperately trying to stop the process by whispering anything he thinks will do so.
"Close; Cancel; Stop." were the commands he desperately whispered but none of them work as Ms. Travers gives off one last scream just before she passes out while crying tears of blood.
[ Progress: 100%]
[ Reaper's Copy: Successful]
A system box titled [ Focus/Aptitudes] appears in Kyran's vision with the sub-title written [ Reaper's Copy], with 5 vertically rectangular card like slots below it. The first slot on the far left gets filled with information titled [ Psychokinesis] with the symbol of a light blue brain below it. He notices a darkish grey circle below it with the text [ Tier] under it which he can't fully understand. The box disappears as soon as he is done reading it just as the medical assistance team finally arrives for Ms. Travers.
"She's alive but barely." a nurse says after checking her pulse "Bring the stretcher quickly!" the nurse shouts as the rest of the team set up a stretcher, put her on it and rush out of the class with her. They reach out of the building and put Ms. Travers in the back of the ambulance on the stretcher as it then drives off to the nearest hospital. Kyran rushes out of the class looking as if he had seen a ghost, towards the male's toilet room without a word to anyone.
"Kyran, where are you--," Michael tries calling him but is halted by Natalie.
"Michael take a look at this." she shows him a notification on Ms. Travers's black smart phone.
"Really, now of all times." Michael complains "Guess there's nothing I can do about that. Damn it." he punches a desk.
"We have to go." Natalie says.
"Fine," Michael says as he grabs his bag "Let's go."