“Who? Me?”

“Listen carefully to who this young master is;” the kid at the door was exuding a very commanding presence at the moment.

“I am---” the boy seemed to have remembered something and stopped mid sentence, he then looked at all the kids in the room who were waiting for him to say his name.

He then coughed awkwardly and put on a sweet smile on his face, and his demeanor disappeared in an instant.

“Hahaha, I am obviously no one of any importance, I just know a lot of things because I read a lot” the kid said while laughing awkwardly, he was praying that they had forgotten how confident he acted earlier.

But with the way that they were looking at him, he was sure that they were more suspicious than ever.

He then started scratching his head looking lost.

“How dare you butt into our business without knowing your own standing?” Rex said angrily, they thought that he was someone with a some great backing, turns out he was just all bark and no bite.

“The rest of them might do some chores, but you will do---” Rex continued on his tirade when he was interrupted.

“Well let me do the introduction, I am Leopold, you can just call me Leo” Leo went on to introduce not only those from his group but also Charlie’s group as well and he did it accurately even though his eyes were closed earlier during the introductions, which in itself came as a surprise to the kids.

“You know our names, but we still have no idea what you go by” Leo said with a straight face.

Rex and the others who knew how arrogant Leo was were surprised, this was proven by the fact that he refused to indulge with Sami earlier when he was accusing him of making them come to this low class school.

Yet here he was talking nicely to a new kid that has just arrived, had they not known who he was they would’ve thought he was just cowardly, but knowing who he was and how shrewd he was, they immediately came to the conclusion that this kid was the one that made him put on this act

“Uhm, My name is Sam” the kid at the door said after some slight hesitation.

Everyone in the room could tell that the name was made up at this instance, but they didn’t point it out.

“Now that we all know each other’s name, we can look after one another” said Morgan.

“Hey what about you? Don’t you have a name?” Sam asked Isaac.

He then did sign language towards Isaac, Isaac could only muster all of his self control in order to not burst out laughing.

Why would he assume that he was deaf just because he hadn’t spoken once.

Leo on seeing this immediately knew that his assumption were absolutely accurate. This kid was not ordinary.

He and Morgan looked at each other and came to the same conclusion.

“My name is Isaac” Isaac said with a smile, he did like this new kid, he was more down to earth than the rest.

“Nice name Isaac, nice to meet you all, it seems like we will be spending some time together, we might as well get along with each other” Morgan said with a fake smile.

“Walter come and share a bunk with Rex, Sam you can stay with Isaac” Morgan said to the fat kid from the other group.

He wanted nothing to do with Sam, he looks to be hiding his background for some reason, and Morgan didn’t want to risk getting into the Bulwarks regiment just because of a brat that they just met.

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The Bulwark regiment were strict, if a potential candidate was found to be getting into troubles, they would get removed from the list of potential recruits in a heartbeat.

That was why Leo steered the conversation earlier from how they were trying to bully Charlie and his group.

And Sam looks like a kid who brings trouble no matter where he goes, so he didn’t want a person in their group to even get close to Sam.

Walter stood up obediently and walked to the bunk that was piled with clothing, but Rex and the others didn’t look like they were going to move their things, so he could only seat on the small space that was left, and with him being chubby, it looked comical.

The room suddenly fell silent for everyone, since they didn’t know each other , they didn’t have a common topic to discuss, so the silence was getting all the more awkward with time.

Then the suddenly heard the gong of a bell ring out .

Since they knew the schedule of the school, this gong meant that it was time to go to bed.

It was a warning sound that within a few minutes all the lights in the dorms will be shut out.

And exactly five minutes later the lights in the rooms were turned off.

So the kids in the room immediately lied down on their beds, tomorrow they start classes.

Isaac closed his eyes to sleep too, there was nothing else to do, even though he wanted to look at his necklace, he was not stupid enough to bring it out right now, he had to wait until all the other kids were fast asleep.

After midnight, Isaac opened his eyes, if there was any illumination one could tell that he hadn’t slept a wink.

He brought out the necklace from his shirt and brought it closer to his eyes, he was using the moonlight to look at it.

But just like before there was nothing that stood out about the necklace, if not for the fact that it was in the shape of a dragon.

When he looked at it from all directions that he could possibly think of, he decided to go to sleep, it was not like the necklace was going to disappear, it would always be with him.

Soon daybreak arrived and they heard the same loud gong sound, which woke most of the kids up from sleep.

Charlie and his friends were also woken up from their sleep by the gong sound.

And they surprisingly found that Leo and his group were already up and it looked like they had already taken their baths and dressed up.

Isaac hadn’t slept a wink last night since he had the necklace on his mind.

The only person that was sleeping at this moment was Sam, he was peacefully sleeping looking like he would not wake up no matter the disturbance.

Leo and his group had decided to never get mixed up with Sam.

Charlie and his group seeing as these potential Bulwarks were keeping to themselves and staying away from Sam, they also decided to do the same.

If those with backing are keeping their distance, why shouldn’t they who didn’t have anyone behind them keep their distance also.

Only Isaac decided to wake him up to go and freshen up for classes and he immediately wish that he didn’t take it upon himself to wake Sam up.

That was because he was sleeping like a log of wood, no matter how Isaac call his name he refused to wake up, he even changed his position of sleep a number of times.

“Isn’t it too early to be waking me up, is there anything important that I would be attending to today?” Sam asked groggily in his sleep.

“Where is my breakfast?” Sam asked as he opened his eyes.

Isaac was getting more confused, does he expect to be served in bed?

“Well if you don’t wake up soon you are going to miss it” Isaac said in a defeated tone.

“What?!” Sam woke up immediately looking frightened, no meal that was the worst punishment to him in this world, he’d rather be beaten than to be starved.

They soon came out of the room, with Sam urging him to be fast so that they wouldn’t miss the meal in the dining hall.

When they arrived at the dining hall, food was no longer being served to the first year students.

Sam looked like he had suffered the worst punishment the world had to offer.

He looked down trodden, he complained nonstop at the inhumanity of the school for refusing to serve them breakfast because they were late.

The school had strict rule on serving new students, once you miss it, you can only wait for lunch.

They then made their way to their first class, which was general studies, so all the students from the first year were to attend it.

The class has already started, so they were a little late.

The teacher for the class was a middle aged bald man who was short and had bulging stomach.

“You guys are late for class, so you get to stand outside, don’t come to classes late, in this academy students have to be punctual, you should be waiting for your teachers in class not the other way around” the teacher said in a not so friendly tone, then he waved his hand at the door and it was closed shut.

It almost hit Isaac and Sam who were standing at the door.

“Who the hell does he think---” before Sam could finish shouted a hand covered his mouth, so the rest of the words came out muffled.

“Sam this is the first day, don’t get us into trouble” Isaac said in a hushed tone.

He had figured that Sam was not someone that takes being wronged lying down.

“What are you doing outside the classroom?” a voice was heard asking from behind them.