The old man was wearing a brown coat, with a white shirt. In his back, a drawing of a silver sword was show on the back of its coat. He walks behind the desk, and takes a seat in the comfortable chair.
“My name is Tirrius Wise. I am the 28 director of this Highsword Academy, Special Advisor of the Earth union, and a descendant of that old lady. I am also the last known welder of the Hero Sword, or like you called a long time ago, the Goddess Sword. Please take a sit, we got a lot to talk” The director invites Edwin to one of the remaining chairs.
As Edwin sits, he also started to talk. “I know that the tablet was not a huge coincidence of the destiny” He was looking directly to Tirrius eyes. But his glance wasn´t showing any emotion.
“From the bracelet in my arm, I can say that you know who I am.
So I got two question for you.
The first one, do you extract the information from the remnants of VI, or maybe you already know when I was going to appear, or you know because a DNA test or something like that?
And for the second one, what are your objectives, are you an ally or my enemy?”
The voice from Edwin was calm and emotionless, no trace from the previous tears remained. But Tirrius didn´t flinch at all, to the calm voice.
“Huh. That was an excellent demonstration of the “Serene Mind”, a trait only known to the greatest pilots of the Meac.
..”
Quickly Edwin interrupts him. “Before you continue, Can you explain what a Meac is?” with a dubious face
Tirrius Chuckled “I am sorry, I forgot that I speak with someone from another epoch. Meac, stands for Mechanized Exoskeleton for Armed Combat. They are giant anthropomorphic robots, created specifically for combat. In your time, only existed one of them. The one that you drive”
“Are you referring to VI, perhaps?” Edwin replies.
“Correct, now they are a norm in any organized army, as thousands of them exist. These robots are a subtype of the “Multipurpose Mechanized Exoskeleton” or MME to abbreviate. If you want more information, I was able to compile an introductory document to this era”.
He pointed to the device, in Edwin’s arm “I will link it to your Techband, so you don’t have to worry” He cross his arms, and his face was serious.
“Now I got a serious question to ask, one that can define our relationship” An anger expression was forming in his face.
Edwin starts to tighten his muscles, he calm his breathing and expand his senses.
“I am sure about the answer, but I need to ask anyway. Your answer will determine your life in this academy, and your future. It's a shame, that your answer will determine our future relationship” His face was showing disgust and anger.
Edwin knows that the director was showing his true face, as he knows the director will ask him to work under his orders.
“For your reactions, I will say that my suspicious are correct. You aren’t wining anything by choosing sides like that”
The only thought that run in his mind was “Shit, the first person I know is an enemy, I hope that the windows are not blinded”
“Like in any democracy, we can only acknowledge someone guilty, is they truly did commit the crime. This will hurt me a lot Edwin, but I am sure that you’re going to repent that decision for the rest of your life”
Edwin starts to feel the cold sweat in his back, as his body was starting to get ready for the fight.
“I don’t need to extend anymore this matter. The question I want to ask. That it will decide your life on is...”
After Tiriuss asks the question, he watches as the window breaks because an almighty punch from Edwin leaves a hole in its place. He jumps through it, and falls into the campus.
His body was damaged by the broken glass, but that doesn´t stops him from running. In the campus, every student watches him with surprises face, as two of them converts in giants mutant robots.
These approximate Edwin with trying to catch him, but he doesn´t stop running. And in the moment most unexpected, in front of his eyes, appears his dead big brother with a grim face.
The brother that died in the battlefield thanks to the blade of the Ragnii, asks him “Edwin, are you still going to lose time in this dream, you need to get back to the fight. Show them your drill”
Edwin stops, as his body was transformed into a red robot and scream against his enemy “My drill, is the drill that will pierce through the heavens WAAA!!”
He breaks them with a sphere of spinning energy that surrounds his arm. And his brother continue.
“You need to come back to reality, our comrades are waiting for you. GO!”
And the reality that surrounds him breaks, and the dream concludes. Edwin with his friends forms a giant robot bigger than galaxies to destroy the fusion queen Ragnii.
Or that could have happen, in a parallel universe, if only the question of Tirrius were different to “Coffee or Tea? Make your choice Edwin” and the earlier emotionless face, was transformed into a blank face.
His body fell like a wrecking ball, to the chair, and with a low voice he says “Tea please, coffee right will feel like a stone”
Tirrius smiles, and exclaims with a really happy face “I am really glad that we share tastes. I could not share a civilized talk with someone who likes a coffee in the afternoon. The true people enjoys tea in the tea time” He puts a hand under his desktop, his face was holding back the laughter “Amira could you brings us two Deras Tea, and some snacks for my student. The infirmary food is too bland in taste, and I hope that the doctor don´t torture him with her food”
Edwin didn’t know what to say. The person in front of him was enigmatic.
“What...” Tirrius interrupts him quickly “The serene Mind trait is a powerful weapon, it prepares the pilot for any kind of threat from the enemy. It is one of the most effective weapon that a pilot have” He relaxes his face, and keep explaining
“But it is powerless to kid tricks like these, as you experimented. The journal of Natalia mentioned it, you are the first one that developed these kind of trait”
Edwin relaxes his body, and his face starts to show expression of interest to that diary. As he knows that the trick will not serve him anymore. Tirrius keep talking.
“Also the journal mentioned how you developed the counterpart of the trait.
Something we can call as the “Frenzied mind.
A special state of mind, that enhance the will of the pilot to the point that he can do anything in the battlefield.
The pilots that could actually get to use these traits are counted by the hand”
“If you and me already know it. Why did you mention?” Edwin asks, acknowledging Tirrius as a person impossible to read.
“Because I need you to be conscious of the fact that I am not your enemy and I want to help you” The director puts a reassuring face, like a grandpa to his grandson.
“That will be until I choose to not follow your orders anymore. What will happen in the moment that I tire of you?” Edwin smiled, as he tries to guess the true intentions of Tirrius.
“I am sure that our objectives won’t collides, because I have none in relation to your persona, boy” Those words hit like bat the face of Edwin.
As both of them fall in silence, one of them without words to express to those words, and the other was awaiting for an answer.
After a couple of seconds, they were interrupted by a woman with an office uniform. Edwin saw her earlier, before entering the room. Amira was holding a circular tray in her hands.
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She puts in the desk, two white cups with a reddish smoking liquid, a white kettle and several plates with snacks. They varies from cookies likes Oreos with a covering of white chocolate, small sweet sandwiches with fruit filling, salty croissants of multiple colors, and a big plate with multiple small pastries.
The feast was displayed in front of Edwin eyes. As a hunger that he hadn’t noticed, was rising inside his stomach.
Tirrius breaks the silence “Thanks for bringing theses, Amira. You are lovely as usual. Please, Edwin don’t contain, attack the food to your own discretion” His face exhibit a smile from the devil.
“If you says, please excuse me” Edwin said it with no guilty, and started to attack the feast. Tirrius don’t fall back, and he starts to eat too.
Amira only nodded and left the room, leaving the two men enjoying the feast.
The tea was sweet, but not too much. In contrast with its color, it wasn´t red tea. Sweet like honey, it was simply delicious. Edwin drinks a little and delighted on his taste. He never tasted a tea like this.
Tirrius noticed the joyful expression of Edwin and started to talk “This tea, as the name indicates, it comes from the Deras plant.
A plant founded from the planet R77-876, one of habitable worlds of the Andromeda galaxy.
The inhabitants of the planet, toast the leaves with autochthonous fruit from that planet, in a strange delicacy.
An audacious person, or an idiot, risked his life to make an infusion of this plant, gifting the humanity with one of the best tea ever created.
There is a really funny history about that moment. But it doesn’t come to the moment”
They continue to eat in silence, or rather, their mouths were enjoying the tea and delicacies.
After tasting every kind of sweet, Edwin breaks the silence with a serious face. “The food is great and I am grateful for that. But is time for you to answer my questions.
How do you know how I am, and what you want me to do? Because I know that you aren´t doing this for pure goodness out of your heart”
Tirrius smiled “Before I answer your questions, I need to tell you a little history of the past.
When my ancestor, Natalia Wise, discovered what happened in the aftermath of the battle, and find about the Chrono-Tachyon particle and informed to her husband and the second wielder of the goddess sword.
They started, considering your wishes, a cleanup operation of your persona. Where they deleted almost any picture of you, every recording where you appear, your medical exams, everything.
Your existence was almost deleted, and the theory that you will be back in some point was considered a child fantasy. The only thing left of you, is a vial of blood sealed and locked in a vault of maximum security in my family house
Regarding to society, you are the savior who impede the total annihilation of life in the universe. And the truth of the incident is only known by the bearers of the goddess sword.
Thanks to that decision, I am the only one who knows it at the present.
Before your crash, a very old scanner was activate. The purpose of this machine was to detect the Chrono-Tachyons that will announce your coming.
For a moment I believed that the machine broke, it was almost 400 hundred years old. But the scanners from earth detected a huge flaming sphere with flashes of green light.
But you weren’t shot down because your landing was in the outside of the academy. So I gave the order to ignore you, saying it was a gift from one of my old enemies.
Almost everyone brought it, and the ones who don’t, they didn’t matter. I wasn’t sure if you were the original. Only the tablet give me the truth, and assure me of your identity.
Any question at this point?” He drinks the leftover of tea in his cup, and waits for Edwin to talk.
“How can you give orders like that to the defenses of earth, what is your rank in the army? And what are your plans for me”
Tirrius chuckled “As one that carries the Wise surname, and also the last known bearer of the hero sword, I got the rank of an admiral.
Retired Admiral, to be more specific, but I still can pull a few levers in the army. A while ago, a lot of my rivals enjoyed to drop projectiles in the academy, testing our defenses. For the people in the military they think this was another of these pranks.
And for my plans for you, are none. I doesn’t have any specific scheme for you”
“That´s unexpected, and I don’t believe you. I can’t think of someone, who isn’t going to use for his own convenience. You didn’t take such pains to save me and hide my identity to the world. So be honest with me, I am really tired of these jokes. What do you want with me!?” he raises from the chair, and give a furious face to Tirrius.
He starts to laugh in front of his face, and after a few seconds stop.
“I am really sorry to laugh in your face, hehe, but my predecessor say the same thing from me when he asked what I will do when I got you in front of me. I am not joking, I got the same thoughts of my ancestor. You deserve a normal high school life, you already gift us a great present “
“I don´t understand, you could win a lot of political power if you discover my identity to the world. Or maybe left me as a weapon for war. You could be very creative” He stomps his fist against the desk. “Now be honest, what do you want with me?”
“You look like my wife, asking me why I am not more ambitious in the politics.
Thanks to my curriculum in war, and my surname. I could be running for president of the alliance, and win by a large majority.
If I really have any plan like that, your presence will be annoying, since my title as the bearer of the Hero Sword will be destroyed.
And for war, I only will grab my old weapons in case the earth were in danger. The military always are scheming with one or another, and they don´t permit me to go to the front lines. I enjoy more my actual position, here in the academy. So as you can hear, I don´t have any interest in you, rather I am at your orders” He smiles as he finish his words.
“My orders? w-wwwhat do you mean by that?”
“In your actual situation, two paths lies ahead for you, each one is different like two sides of a coin. The first one will be the one announcing your existence to the world. I will reveal everything and you will receive fame and wealth and other things. It will be a pain in the butt, but I would gladly do that kind of work”
“And the second one? Edwin ask with a dubious face.
“I will revealed to you as the son, of a couple of investigator that died in a horrible accident with hyperdrive engines. Of course these couple is inexistent in reality. But exist in papers. You will lead a peaceful life here in the school, and I hope a happy life.
…Now choose boy. Do you wealth and fame or do you want calm and silence.
“...” Edwin thinks for a couple of second and answer....
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I am back from the grave!!
It`s been a really long time since my last chapter. A combination of RL, writers block and a very bad hardware, impeded me to keep writing something . I hope you enjoy this chapter. Please comment, criticize and rate. I vow to bring the next chapter in two weeks. It will be my secret quest.