『What do you see...? Death.... or maybe Freedom...? Noo... What you see is revenge, what you want is revenge but... you...Youu refuse it, refuse the one thing that drives you... Why?』

It seems to be a day like any other, people going to work, kids going home from school, a man stealing from the poor... another man is shot, drug dealers waiting around every corner, shady business inside large companies... harpies standing on rooftops... soldiers coming back from a war they had nothing to do with and of course the First Despot finally back.

|9:30 AM | Tufts University | Gaia City | Supervised by the 10 Despots |

The class was about to start, everyone was pretty happy, it was the first day inside a university, all the studying and all the efforts were not in vain, right in front of the class was Akari, everyone knows her, the daughter of the biggest Mafia leaders around.

On the other side of the room was Max he came from a rich family, whether he entered or not he still had a safe future.

In the back were Adrian, Paul and Michael they are childhood friends and worked very hard to be able to reach here.

The noise in the class and the happiness of the students were beautiful things to see, there are many kinds of people, those who hate learning and prefer to leave it as it is, and those who work hard and are happy to push their limits.

"Alright everyone, please calm down, I know it's the first day and I can see everyone is happy, but let's try to be calm for the moment. From what you know this university is special in its own ways, we accept students with uh... complicated situations."

The teacher was staring right at Akari for a bit.

"In any case, later today there will be the opening ceremony where the Rektor will keep a speech for all of you, until then please take a look around and check all the facilities.... Oh yes before I go, I have to check if everyone is here, the attendance is not obligatory but if you wish to pass to the next years you have to be here at least sometimes, he he."

As the teacher was checking the list of students the door opens, a tall man around 2 meters, quite muscular with spiky long hair and mutton chops came in.

"Here I am, uh... why is everyone staring at me..?"

"Isn't this class S-6?"

"Yes this is it, and you are.... oh here the only one missing, your name is Lyall right?"

"Yep, the one and only."

"Alright then take a seat somewhere until we finish with the attendance."

"Okay!"

Lyall starts to walk towards Akari as everyone kept staring at him like he was some kind of monster. After he reaches Akari he takes the seat right next to her and keeps quiet. As soon as the teacher finishes with the attendance he opens his eyes and looks at the girl.

"You..."

Akari starts to look at him with a flustered look, wondering what is he about to say, everyone was listening, for some reason they all were curious. As everyone was just staring at this moment, Akari started to talk.

"What is it?"

"You look cute."

Everyone seemed surprised and disappointed at the same time, they all began to think that he will beat her or insult her, none of them, not for a single moment believed he was going to tell her she was cute, but Akari seems pleased with that affirmation, then again after she realized what were the circumstances the only thing she could say was not as pleasant.

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"What is with the random compliment, do you expect gaining something from being friendly with the daughter of The Black Alligators leader?"

"Who...?"

Akari seemed to believe him for a second, but she was not sure if that was the truth.

"You mean you never heard of the Black Alligators... yeah right."

"As much as you ask me, i have no idea who they are but then again if it's just a small group of some sort I don't really care."

"Why you..."

"Back to what I was saying, you are cute, can't change my mind, you also have a nice bosom."

"What the actual... are you literary out of your mind?"

"Nope... I'm perfectly sane, just telling the truth here."

"Ah leave me be you jackass!"

Akari then leaves fast as Lyall was watching without understanding the reason she was mad.Everyone in the class was looking at him, and they were all nearly going to explode in laughter after that show, but they took a quick look at him and prrefered not to, it would have been quite a big mistake then again that was what they thought, Lyall wouldn't understand why everyone laughed and would simply be there wondering why everyone is laughing.

The only one that wasn't laughing was Max which walked to him to chat.

"So you like Akari?"

"How did you know?"

"Uh... you made it pretty obvious when you told her she is cute."

"Really?... Damn I thought I made it pretty subtle..."

Max realized then that Lyall wasn't the smartest man, either that or he was playing dumb but the truth was that she was indeed a beautiful girl.

Akari is the youngest member of the Black Alligators, she looks like a fragile girl with white long hair, but everyone got their own demons, she won't trust people easily because they usually seek something.

"My name is Max, nice to meet you."

"Heh I like ya mate, you seemed a bit cocky to be honest but it seems you are a nice guy."

Max was a bit angry at his remark and asked him why is that.

"So tell me what made you think that I'm so cocky?"

"Eh no hard feelings but most of the rich people I know are cocky bastards, I misjudged you."

Max felt good when he heard that, it was like Lyall was the first person to apologize for real, not because he was threatened or forced by other circumstances, it was a pure apology from a dumb man.

"It's alright, I don't mind but let me tell you, that approach is not so good with Akari she is the daughter of a local mafia leader, usually when someone approaches her is because they want something."

"Oh but I simply wanted to say she is cute, even her soul is so... bright."

"What do you mean her soul?"

"Uh... don't mind that I was just mumbling to myself."

Max was a bit intrigued about that remark, but he decided it was not worth the effort, he might have just said something to look cool.

"Well whatever, let's go and check out what they have around, I heard they have pretty interesting technology here, there is a facility that trains you in building robots, isn't that awesome?"

"Sure..."

Max saw that Lyall wasn't paying attention, who knows what was he thinking.

"Hey Max go ahead i gotta do something."

There was a serious look in his eyes.

"Suit yourself then."

And so Lyall left the class and started wandering.

"Finnaly... a normal life, welp time to get to work, normality ain't my thing anyway."