The King enters the Dining hall with her wife and daughter behind him. And behind the two woman, there are four knights with spears in their hands.

'The knights Are seriously weird. They don't make any besides when walking and no slids in helmets to see out. What the fuck are they actually. It's kinda weird.'

The king sits down at the end the table onto his chair with her wife sitting on the right and his daughter on the left side of him.

He clears his throat and starts talking"I'm glad to see that all of you have joined me to this feast. Soon you will start your training and in three months you will go out in the field to fight for humans. But for tonight WE FEAST!"

He says and raises his chalice. A loud cheer is let out by the students and Echo just sighs while leaning back on the chair.

'Yea. We can to war where at least half of us will die brutally or bleed to death in some shithole. Yai.'

The happy attitude that the classmates have, seriously pisses him of. As someone who has seen by first hand what war will do, he just feels pissed about how lightly they take it.

'Just because you have magic doesn't mean you are safe. Enemy has magic too.'

"Are you okay? You seem bothered. It's hard to tell."asks Evelyn next Echo.

"Its fine. Its fine. At least for me."he says to her and takes a bite out of the food, that has been laid out onto his plate.

"What do you mean "at least for me."?"she asks him and he replies"They are too happy. That's what bothers me."

"Why would their happiness bother you?"she asks.

He finishes chewing his food and after swallowing it, he looks at her and says"To put it simply, at least half of them are celebrating their upcoming death. Everyone won't survive. Thats for certain."

"Why would you speak like that?"she asks him with a puzzled look.

"I know the battlefield too well."he continues"But lets not ruin the mood with my fucking shitty past. Celebrate."

He took complete 180° turn.

He takes a sip of the drink and keeps eating.

While everyone is talking and eating, the queen asks"Could each of you say something about yourself, so we could get to know better."

'Oh great. Bonding time.'

And so they"I'm Chris and I like sport.", "Jack and like to train." "My name is Mari and I like shopping." And it goes on until its Evelyns turn"Im Evelyn and I am their teacher."

Now that it was Echos turn, he said"Echo. Nothing else" and it goes on until all twenty four people have said something about them.

"Well I hope we all get along from now on."says the queen.

'I guess I have to sit through this pain, so I wouldn't look like an even bigger ass. I will need a lot of alcohol for that shit.'

He says and finishes his chalice full of alcohol.

'Fucking hell that was light. It's basically like American bear-water. I need stronger stuff.'

"Karena."he calls for his maid who is standing behind his chair.

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"Yes Master."she says and he tells her."Bring the strongest alcohol you can."

"Understood Master."she replies and walks away to fulfill her Masters request.

"You shouldn't be drinking. It's not good for a young man."

"No need to worry about me. Not the first time I try to get wasted."he says without caring what she would respond"Your life. Your choices. Just don't regret it."she says. She isn't her mother, so she shouldn't take care of him. She technically isn't even his teacher. So she lets him do what he wants do.

Soon Karena returns with a black bottle and says"Shall I refill?"

"Yes."he answers and so she refills his chalice. He looks at the red liquid in the chalice and he could smell sweet smells.

He looks at it before taking a sip.

'Damn this stuff is strong. Fucking hell. That'll get me through.'

He takes an another sip and... everything goes to blank.

Next morning the sun is shining in the clear blue sky and the birds are singing.

In Echos room, Echo is slowly waking up and manages to get out of the bed. With heavy steps he walks towards the bathroom door and enters. He takes a piss on the toilet and then walks towards the mirror that is in the corner of the room. He looks at it and sees his reflection.

He sees his above average face with long ashen blond hair and gray eyes. He has thin eyebrows and the right brow has a small gap between the brow because of the small scar. His skin is still tanned even though he hasn't been in his birth country for about seven years. The tan has still stayed. Body itself is in great shape with a low bodyfat precedent. The body is also covered with scars. Bullet wounds on his right arm, left side of his stomach, his left shoulder, right thigh and a scratch from a bullet on his neck. As for the cut wounds, they are all over his body. Dozens of small scars from cuts and a few bigger ones on his back and the inner left leg. On his left wrist, he has a tattoo"E-7."

He looks around the bathroom and finds a bathtub there, which he fills with water. After the tub is full he gets in and relaxes his hands on the edge and he has his head leaned back.

'I have a hangover.... Haven't had that for a long time. I also seem to have blanked out and so I don't remember shit.

He relaxes in the bath for ten minutes until he decides to get out. He dries his body mostly and wraps the white towel around his waist. He walks out of his rooms and stares at the person on his bed. She stares him back. Both of them are quiet, until Echo says"Oh for fuck sake."

"Why is this the first thing you say!"yells Evelyn at him

"Why are you even here? Did you take advantage of your student. Cougar!"he says.

"I'm only twenty six. Don't make sound so old."

"I'm only eighteen. My innocence is gone...Hahaha."he couldn't hold up the act anymore of some kind of tsundere.

"Why are you laughing? This is serious!"she says with a serious tone.

"I just couldn't hold onto my act anymore."he replies and continues with a now serious tone"But you did fuck a younger man and to be more precise: your student."

"It was alcohol."she replies. She also had drank some alcohol at the feast and this is where she ended up.

"Well whatever."he just says and walks over the closet and opens it, to see change of clothes in it.

"Why do you act like its nothing. Is it usual for you?"she asks him and he replies"No. I simply don't care about anything nor anyone. Not anymore."

She doesn't know what to say. It's impossible to understand him. He doesn't talk about his past and has isolated from others. His body is covered with scars and gun shit wounds. That wasn't no secret. Everyone knew about it already in school.

But when she actually saw his scars, she was shocked. There were simply too many scars on him. And the worst were the gunshot wounds. How did he get them?

She didn't know what to say and just stared at her, while covering her body with the blanket. She looked down onto the floor, to see her clothes scattered around the floor. Because he was currently facing her with his back, she quickly got up from the bed and got dressed quickly. In two minutes he was out and Echo stopped pretending dressing.

Currently he was wearing dark brown leather boots, brown pants and a plane white t-shirt.

'These clothes are probably meant for training'

He walked over the bed and sat down on it, while saying"She forgot something."

He opens his hands and sees the pair of black panties which belonged to her. His hand slips under the blanket and there he feels slightly different spot. He quickly takes the blanket of and sees bloodstains.

"This is gonna be interesting."

As for Evelyn she had reached back to his room with a completely red face. She immediately crawled under the blanket.

'I had sex with my student. I lost my virginity to my student. I lost it because of alcohol. I was taught to keep it for a special person, but not it's lost to roguish brat with attitude. Dammit. I'm never drinking with other people again.'

As she was under the blanket she felt that something was missing. Her panties.

'Fuuuuck. I left it there. Oh my god. He probably will see the bloodstain too. Oh my god. If he were to show it to other students, I couldn't face any of them for the rest of my life. I just need to hope that he is decent enough not to show others and will give them back later. I'm a failure as a teacher.'