Right now, I was currently in my old home. The scene seemed as if it had been by Hollywood back in the old days to depict what hell looked like. Currently around me, all the furniture was either broken or was burning, even both in some cases. Ash was flying all throughout the room from the draft of wind coming flowing in from the broken roof. On the ground, there were bodies of humans and yokais alike sprawled out, with eyes still opened in shock from the suddenness of their deaths. In front of me, was a large skeleton with crooked eyes that were grabbing onto a small girl. Becoming infuriated at the sight, I charge at the skeleton to retrieve the small girl.
“LET GO OF MY SISTER YOU DAMN SKELETON!! GOD SLAYING FORM TWO, THE LIGHTNING GOD’S STRIKE!!”
Calling out the name of the skill due to the repetition of calling it out when I practiced to memorize it, I suddenly lower my body toward the ground, becoming parallel to it and exploding forward at the skeleton. If someone saw the scene, they would rub their eyes just to make sure what they saw was real as I was moving at too quick of a speed for a human, not to mention for a small five year old. Finally getting into striking distance, I attack. Using the momentum from unsheathing the katana, I release a slash as quick as a flash of lightning toward the skeleton’s wrist. The attack, however, bounced off the bones as it didn’t have enough strength it with a *Clang* sound. Receiving the rebounding force, I fly backwards ten meters. The skeleton then begins to disappear into the ground, taking along my sister. Looking at me, my sister with tears falling down from her eyes, smiles at me and says quietly.
“Oppa, stay healthy and live okay?”
With those final words, she disappears with the skeleton into the ground.
“HYO JOO AH!!!!”
Crying out loudly to the figure that had already disappeared, I fall to the ground and stretch my hand toward where she had just been. Slowly, yokais started appearing and forming a circle around me…. Feeling fury coursing throughout my body, I charge at them with abandon.
“HAA!!”
Quickly, I raised the upper portion of my body off the bed. The room was still covered in darkness, the sun still some time away from rising for the day. Panting, with sweat dripping down my body, I regain my senses and remind myself that I’m not in Korea but here at Olympus Academy in London.
“Haa…haa… it was that nightmare again huh? I hadn’t dreamt that nightmare in such a long time… It must be because of the frequent mention of the Apocalypse group and them potentially holding Hyo Joo….”
Saying that, I catch my breath and quickly put on some sport clothes to go out on a run to clear my head. While out on the run, I recall the conversation that transpired with Elizabeth Tudor yesterday evening…
“You know about the anti-Niflheim faction, right CPT Lee?”
“…please stop calling me CPT. I am currently not in the military… but to answer your question yes I do”
“Okay~~~ truthfully it felt really weird calling someone younger than me CPT anyways…”
“…”
Then why did you call me CPT?!?! I retort in my head. While saying that in my head, I take a closer look at Elizabeth. She was truly a beauty in her own right. She had long curly blonde hair that reached her shoulders. Her face was slim that went along with her brown eyes had a mischievous air to it, as if she was planning a prank at all times. Her height was about 5’8 with a long pair of slim legs that naturally invited everyone’s gaze. She had a decent sized bosom, probably around the B-C range and her butt stood out, showing a lovely shape in her uniform skirt. While studying her, Elizabeth brings me back to the present with a tease.
“Is my body that attractive to you, Jung Woo? If you want….”
“…. Please don’t tease me and try to make me panic…”
“Hoo, you are quite calm and collected. If it was any other person, they would have flustered and panicked”
“…Anyways please continue”
“Okay~ so what do you know about the anti-Niflheim faction?”
“The anti-Niflheim faction was created by the old hardliners in the military who lost their high ranking positions due to the rise of Niflheims. After leaving the military, they joined up together and attempted to move society’s view of Niflheims toward a negative view saying that the current government gave Niflheims too much favoritism which lead to the regular civilians being in a worse condition. Currently, their headquarters are based somewhere in Portugal, if I’m not mistaken. They send their members to different locations throughout the world to hold rallies and being uprisings. They, however, did not stop it at that but began conducting terrorist activities to collect funds for their movements. My unit was in charge of neutralizing some of their members in an incident where they attempted to raid a government building a month or so…”
“As expected of you, Jung Woo. What you said is correct. The information that I received was that the anti-Niflheim faction is attempting to infiltrate Olympus Academy during our Tournament to choose the representatives for the 5 Star Pentagram Battle”
“?!?! So why are you telling me this? Shouldn’t you give this information to the headmistress instead?”
“I already did~ she’s the one who recommended to me to ask you for assistance”
Tha…That damn old hag!!!!
“….Haaa… That damn old hag has always left the troublesome stuff to me…”
“Ho ho ho~ so it is true that you’re the disciple of the Dusk Witch huh~”
“Please don’t bring it up… I do not wish to recall such horrendous memoriers….”
Right now, feeling a headache coming, I began rubbing my forehead. During our travel for my training, whenever a troublesome situation occurred, she would always disappear and I had to deal with the repercussions. There was one time when a guy had tried hitting on her in Rio de Janeiro to only receive a punch that blew him away as a reward. He had been knocked out on impact. Later that day, the same guy had brought along his whole gang to teach her a lesson. As they were forming up in a circle around us, I turned around to ask her what the plan was.
“So teacher, what are we going to do?”
What received my view, however, was nothing as my teacher had disappeared. The gang, seeing this, attempted to ask me where she went and when I answered I didn’t know, eve n attempted to kidnap me. Left with no choice, I left them where they were on the ground unconscious. After finishing up, I went around the city for about 15 minutes before finally finding her in a bar. Replying to my question of why she had left, she responded with a carefree tone with “It’s too much of a hassle to deal with~”. Throughout my year with training with her, unfortunately many instances such as this occurred.
“So how is the anti-Niflheim faction going to attack? From what I understand security is supposed to be very strong here, especially during the time of events such as this. They shouldn’t have the resources to infiltrate and attack us through the security….”
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“You are correct, Jung Woo. Supposedly they are receiving the assistance of a group called “Apocalypse”….”
“?!?!?!.....Did you just say Apocalypse…?”
“Um…yes? Do you happen to know them??”
“We might have some history… anyways so what you’re saying is that they will be involved in this also?”
“….Your whole demeanor has changed once I mentioned Apocalypse… just what kind of…”
“Don’t ask. I will take care of this personally. Just give me all the information you have and I’ll deal with them before the day of the tournament”
“Um….sure…”
With that, Elizabeth Tudor had sent me everything she had over in a mail to my phone. Making sure that I had gotten it, I had left the Student Council office and gone back to my room.
While thinking over all of this on my run, I finally had returned to the entrance of the school after going in a full circle around the campus, which is 10 km. Finally done, I take out my phone and place a call.
“…Captain!! What is this craziness about you being taken out of the military for a special mission for three years at Olympus Academy?!?!”
“… Just how did you find out about that LT Drakon?”
“I dug the information out from Mikael!”
“….Even though there are many things I want to complain about with that… there are more important things to discuss. LT Drakon, how long would it take for all the PLs to come here to London?”
“….?!?! If we rushed, it would take us three weeks sir. We are currently spread out for missions”
“Ok, that’s perfect actually. Get all the PLs together and meet me in London. Will there be any issues with you guys getting away?”
“Sir, we all owe our lives to you for the numerous times you have saved all of us. Even the Grim Reaper himself couldn’t stop us from rushing to your side when you call for us”
“Hu hu hu… I don’t know if I would call that saving your lives, but I do appreciate all of you guy’s opinion of me. Anyways, once you guys get together and reach London let me know.”
“Roger sir!! Oh also sir, how is Mikael doing? It makes me nervous that I’m not nearby that little troublemaker to keep him straight….”
“You miss him, don’t you LT?”
“Yes sir…It’s the first time we been living so far from each other…It makes my motherly instincts come out…”
“He’s doing great LT. He’s made a lot of friends and become really popular with the girls, you know? Haha I’ll make sure he doesn’t do anything stupid and he stays safe for you”
“Thank you sir! With you looking over him, that takes a huge weight off my shoulders. Also if there’s any girls hanging out around him, please dispose of them!!”
“….That’s a little extreme, don’t you think LT?”
“..hehe was it Sir? It must be the mother mode coming out~”
“….Haa always so overprotective of him huh? Anyways don’t worry and I’ll see you all in three weeks”
“Roger, sir!”
With that, I disconnect and put my phone back into my pocket while heading back to my room to take a shower before going to the Cafeteria to eat breakfast. While I was eating an omelet, Mikael came and sat by me to eat.
“Hey sir, you’re here early”
“Ah Mikael, perfect timing. We have a mission we need to do…”
Hearing mission, Mikael immediately becomes alert. As I tell him about the situation and what we were going to do, he doesn’t let any emotions come to his face. Hearing that I had called all the PLs here for the mission, however, broke that as his eyes became wide in surprise.
“Sir... is the mission that difficult that we need to call in the PLs from Leviathan CO?”
“I need to make sure there are no mistakes in this. We need to catch the guy from “Apocalypse” who comes with the anti-Niflheim faction alive. I have a lot of things I need to question him about…”
“Understood sir”
“Oh yeah, I talked to LT Drakon this morning”
“My mother?! How is she sir?”
“Haha she is well. She asked me how you were doing. She also told me to dispose of any girls that get too close to you”
“Yo…You wouldn’t really do that, right sir?”
“Would I?”
Saying that with a mischievous grin, Mikael face becomes pale. Seeing that, I can’t hold it back and laugh. I continued to tease him until we had completed our breakfast and went to class. Class, like always was pretty boring as I already knew all the information. Enduring painfully, I last to the end of the day and call for a meeting with the team members.
Inside my room currently were Mikael and Isabel, patiently waiting for me begin.
“Alright guys, so this is the formation that I think will be most effective. Isabel, I want you to be in charge of fifteen Soldiers and be the vanguard. You are strong enough to hold it down, especially for this freshmen tournament. Make sure that no one can pass through your defense. Mikael, you will also receive fifteen Soldiers. I want you to provide her support and place your Soldiers in location you believe the enemy will come from to attack. I’m going to be in charge of the flanking unit with five Soldiers. We will be moving left or right of the enemy to attack them from the side, flanking them. Do either of you guys have a problem with this?”
At my questions, both of them shake their head, acknowledging they understood. Nodding in approval I then go on.
“Alright, so this is what we are going to do from now….”
With that, I begin going over the different ways we will be set up. Even though the formation might change a little through all the plans, the purpose for each of our units never changed. After showing them these, we begin to practicing to make sure we drilled in all of our heads all of them. We practiced each formation so many times that all three of us could execute each of them with our eyes closed.
And thus, we trained like this for three weeks, making sure that everything was set. After our last rehearsal at the Training Facility two days before the actual Tournament, I was walking out of the facility and back to my room when I suddenly got a call on my phone. Looking at who it was, I inwardly smile. Finally they had all arrived.
“Sir, we have all arrived in London. We await your orders”
“One hour from now, meet me up on the roof of the Olympus Academy’s Freshmen Building. Inform your son to come as well”
“Roger sir, will see you then”
Disconnecting the phone, the edges of my lips go upwards. Finally it was time to conduct the operation. Good… I have many questions to ask that guy from “Apocalypse….” While thinking of questioning him, I head towards my room and prepare for tonight.