I was asked to go into the principal’s office, the principal wasn’t there at all, instead he was replaced by a petite girl with white hair and pointy ears, her blue eyes piercing into me.

“Well, what are you doing here miss Athena”?

She turned the chair around and looked at me.

“They let the previous principal go due to the last incident in this school, so they were hiring and since you were here, I decided to join”.

She’s so quick damnit

“I want to mold you into someone stronger, you know that these humans are doing nothing to make you strong, they’re merely dragging you down”.

She locked her fingers and looked at me, her eyes glowing.

The school bell rang.

“Go back to class”.

Lucy was sitting down in the hallway, on the floor and bruised, she looked down, her eyes on the floor.

“Let’s go get them”.

I looked at her and gave her my hand.

She looked straight at me and squinted her eyes.

“No, I don’t want to get i trouble”.

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“Then I’ll do it myself”.

After school had concluded I walked over to Athena myself, asking for the camera footage and went after them myself.

It was three girls that were about a year older than me.

The one with the long blonde hair looked at me, she had piercings on her mouth and nose.

“What do you want punk”?

I softly gave her a smile

“Do you know where that demon girl is? I heard you beat her up regularly, I needed someone to test my powers on”.

She smiled at me, completely grinning.

“Yea, we just absolutely obliterated her a couple hours ago, you wanna join”?

Shina Kumagawa, a girl with the ability of equivalent exchange. She can exchange an object for another as long as it of the same value.

There are multiple ways to measure value in this world, by how expensive an object is using human currency or how rare it is within the universe.

Her ability doesn’t use both, instead relies on the person who made the ability’s perspective. This system of abilities is too well organized to be a coincidence, it was probably made by some higher being like a god.

I looked straight at her, into her eyes, her eyes full of life.

“I’m not afraid to hit women”.

My fist met her face as her nose started bleeding, I started pummeling her face, she started crying.

The two others could only look as she started crying and screaming.

“Ah- aaa”.

One of the girls was in horror, her face filled with fear.

“Summon Nemean Lion”.

A large Lion appeared right in my face, its golden fur shining in the orange sunset.

Its giant teeth and claws ready to completely consume me, the throat of the lion like an endless void.

“EXCHANGE THEM AWAY”!!

The lion bit my arm, blood running down my elbow.

Shina grabbed my leg with her bloody hand.

“You must be kidding me, where the hell am I”?

I was in a forest, deep within one, trees surrounded me as the beady gold eyes met mine.

Its large jaw still gnawing on my arm, completely tearing it off.