Morning Speech…
‘Hmph, they think that would hurt me?! Those arrows are just for shows, it didn’t even leave a scratch on my skin.’
Another offender ran towards me with his hands on the side and his body slightly bowing. It made me remember some ninja anime running style. Why do they really have to run like that? In mere 3 seconds, he closed the 100 meter distance between us and kicked the ground. I knew what he was going to do and swiftly evade his flying kick by bending my body backwards. I should really wear some black glasses while I’m at it.
Still not giving up, the offender readied his stance and starts throwing punches. This is still easy for me, I parried his punches with one hand while the other hand rested comfily in my pocket. The next punch was a left hook and I immediately get close to him. Close enough that my face was a few centimetre to his face. Before his left hook could connect, I hold his body tight. This way the left hook could only connect to my body, which was still not that strong.
‘Wait, why am I hugging this guy?!’ Slam! His body shocked as it hit the ground.
I threw him backwards, the style that the wrestler always used to K.O their opponents. The offender slowly stood up with his hand on the head, probably trying to detect if there was any bleeding. Still, that throw was quite strong but that wasn’t enough to take him down. I am probably underestimating this guy too much. While I was deep in thought to try finding a way to one-hit K.O him, he started to inhale deeply. Even when I thought that was the maximum amount of air he could breath in, he still keeps on inhaling until his stomach starts to swell up. I had a bad feeling about this, so I readied my stance as I await of the next move to come. Then he stopped. . . .
“BRINGGggGgGgGGGgggg!!!!!!!!!” What the heck?! How could he make such sounds. Isn’t this ringing sound?! My mind was fading away and light starts to pour into my eyes.
“RiiiiIIIingggggg!!!” I woke up from my slumber. Still half asleep, I tried to sit up. “…that was a nice fight” I mumbled.
“What fight? Are still half-asleep? Your alarm has been ringing for a few minutes now, and you just didn’t wake up. Come on, dismiss those alarm, its noisy.” I unconsciously follow what the voice says.
Fully regained my consciousness, I look up, “Good morning Mom…” wearing a t-shirt with a jean, she looks as mearily as ever.
“Hurry and get up already. You’re going to be late for school.” The same as usual, morning speech by Mom.
I stood up, took my towel and wrap it around my neck as if it was a scarf. “Hey! Make your bed before you go,” shouted Mom.
“I’ll make the bed after my shower. I might need it again, if I’m still sleepy.” I replied as I walk to the door.
“What, you’re going to sleep again after the shower? Fix that bad habit of yours!” Her morning speech today is quite long, and loud too…
“Anyway, what are you doing in my room?” I asked as I opened the door.
“What you ask?! How would I not! You’re shouting so loudly in your sleep that I could hear it from the kitchen!” she looked at me crossing her arms.
“….ehhh, seriously? What was I even dreaming about…well whatever.” I muttered embarrassingly
And so both of us went out of the room together. I went directly to the bathroom while Mom went to the kitchen. As I locked the bathroom door, I sat on the toilet, naked. Pondering, why mom hang a door sign saying bathroom when there is no bath tub in here…lol. Anyway, I need to take shower soon. As I turn the pipe, water sprays out of the shower head. The water was freezing cold! Of course it is, its 5.30 in the morning, I turn on the heater and switch the temperature gauge to the max. The water gets warmer and warmer until it was slightly stinging my skin. It’s the perfect temperature for me. This feeling, it’s heavenly. The calming effect of warm water is superb, it was as if I am going to sleep again. I closed my eyes, slowly my consciousness swept away. At some point, I felt the water droplets slowly dripping down from my body, I felt every single water droplets, as if it was a part of me. Still half conscious, I open my eyes slowly, there I saw, the water droplets weren't falling. The water droplets was floating, no it’s actually rising up slowly, as if defying gravity. I put my hands up, to the height of my head. The water droplets suddenly moves around my hand, making a constant swirl, those swirl remind me of the twisting of the Deoxyribonucleic acid. Swiftly, the water swirls, twirls, and twists in a helix chain majestically…
“Harry!!! How long are you going to shower!! The time is almost 6 o’clock already!!” with that shout ,I regained my consciousness. Curses, what was I doing in the bathroom for that long, I guessed I nod off in there. Maybe the water was so warm that I felt sleepy, I should remember to use cold water next time.
Quickly I wore my school uniform and took my bag. I had to swallow my breakfast whole. “So, who’s going drop me to school? I don’t see Dad around, is he still sleeping? And I saw brother is still sleeping in his room” I asked as I tied my shoes.
“Your Dad just came back from travelling last night, of course he would still be asleep. Your brother…*sigh*…is probably too lazy to drive. In the end, it’s me who will be the driver that will have to send the family’s prince to school” mom lets out another sigh.
“…ehhh, I didn’t realize Dad went for a business trip. Hmm, did you just call me prince? Am I that troublesome?! T^T” I said sulkingly
“I wish you could just walk to school in the morning, you didn’t have any problem walking back from school, what is so hard about walking to school in the morning?” mom asked me grumpily as she wears her coat.
I looked at mom and explained “The fact that I’m always late is the reason I don’t want to walk to school in the morning. I walk back home because there will be no arriving late problem”
“*sigh* fine…I’ll get the car key, hurry up and finish your breakfast.”
Lazy Class Rep
*pant*pant* wow, I never thought Mom would drop me off three blocks away after seeing the long car jam in front of the school drop off zone. At least I make it in time with a few minutes to spare.
I went to the school canteen and bought a mineral water, I chugged half of the mineral water to get rid the dry feeling in my trout. My class will be on the 2nd floor of the opposing block, the Mesipian block.
As I started climbing the stairs, a familiar voice called out to me “Harry, it’s a rare occasion to see you coming to school early, you even went to the canteen to hang around. Rare occasion indeed,” the person nodding affirmly with his own narration was my friend, Maru.
I hate to admit it but he was one of the famous guy in school because of his good looks. There was once, the principal decided to put up a voting for the ‘The Handsome Prince Ranking’ of all year 5 students where only the female teachers and the students from the neighbouring all-girls school were allowed to vote. Maru was ranked 3rd and also one of my classmate, Isaac, was ranked 4th. I was quite confident with myself at that time but only get ranked 24th out of 240 students.
“Shut up! What are you doing here, aren’t you the school prefect, you’re supposed to be taking the name of the late comers at the school gate,” I said as I stare at him.
“Well, there is that one guy in front of me.”
“I’m early today you dic*head, do your job properly!”
“Ha ha ha, I don’t want to hear that from you Harry. I’m just following the footstep of a certain class representative, ditching the task that have been given is his specialty. I’m just mimicking him.” he snorted. I know for the fact that he was referring to me.
“@:$”@:%>” veins start popping on my forehead as I shout some random cursing words.
“Harry, under the school rules, section 8, paragraph 3, cursing the school prefects will be given 10 demerits with 2 spanking on the buttock or 4 caning on the palm.” Maru opened his small pocket-sized notebook, ready to write down my name.
“Maru, it seems my fate to meet the disciplinary teacher is a given, I found it amazing to see a prefect supposedly stationed at the school gate is standing here, I guess I should also conclude the place where you caught me cursing you…” I snorted, trying to threaten him back.
“Harry, since you’re my friend, I will give you a warning for your first violation of the rules. You should thank me for my generous heart. Hahahahaa!!” he said and patted my back. This guy just always finds a way to piss me off.
*****
I’m finally in the class, and the class feels empty as always. The reason to that is because three quarter of the class is the school prefect. At this time of the morning, the prefects are busy with their duty, ‘hunting down’ late comers and problem makers. Although some of them were my friends but still, It’s my natural enemy because I always arrived late. As I greet the remaining classmate I sat down on my chair. A pile of papers was stacked up on my table, and a note was stapled on one of the paper. ‘Pass these form to your classmate, I want all of the form to be filled in and hand in today. You will be collecting all of it and hand in to me. I won’t be in the class during homeroom, so get the class’s attendance for me. –Ms.Alen. p.s don’t you dare give all work to assistant class rep.’
I thought I would relax a bit during homeroom, now a pile of work was in front of me. Well, even if I want to let the assistant class rep do the work, he isn’t around though, probably absent. I breathed in and sighed heavily.
“What’s with the heavy sigh so early in the morning? Looks like a pile of work have descended upon you. Hehehehe.” That voice was so soothing I nearly thought it was an angle.
“Ari~ I’m so happy to hear your voice in the morning!” I said happily raising my hands. Maybe because of the pile of paper, I didn’t notice Ari was putting his head down on the table next to me. Since the class seating was in pair, Ari sits a pair with me. My seat was the genuine anime MC’s seat, which was the furthest seat next to the window.
“Hehehe, glad you’re happy. Vice Inchou isn’t around so I can I’ll help you with that.” Ari said as he winked at me. Well I know he called the assistant class representative as vice Inchou and he sometimes called me Inchou which means class representative.
“gyahhh!! You’re always so kind to me Ari~, can we go on a date someday” I said as I lend my hand to him.
“..ehhh, w-what are you talking about! I just want to help okay!” Ari flustered as I teased him. No matter how you see him, he doesn’t look like a guy, I would say he looked more feminine than any girl that I have met. His black hair was long enough that he would sometime tie it like a pony tail exposing his bare smooth neck. He have a fine face that does not resemble a guy, his round upturned eye was beautified with light brown pupil and long curled eye lashes, his check was soft and flushed with light pink colour, his mouth was small and her lips was moist-cherry coloured. Definitely everyone's type of girl. Even his voice sounded very soft and feminine. Although he always acted to look very masculine but he always ended up looking like a cute little girl. This was the definite law of the ‘anime traps’.
In this all-boys school, this is my only chance to tease such a cute creature like this, so I hold his hand “Ari~, so you really don’t want to go out with me. Am I not good enough?! Is this the so called rejection of life?! I’m saddened to no end!! Why have I been given such despair!!!” I said which I copied from some drama that I watched yesterday.
Ari was surprised and flustered “..b-b-but its different, I don’t mind hanging out with y-y-you, but it’s d-d-different you know, it’s not a d-date, it’s just normal outing right?!” his cheek was bright red as he didn’t know what to do. My heart suddenly jumped as I look at him panicking. ‘Curses! If only this cute creature was a girl!!’
“Hahahaha, calm down Ari, I’m just joking. You looked cute when you’re panicking.” I said as I calmed him down.
“Hmph! I hate it when you’re teasing me like that. I changed my mind on helping you later, do it yourself.” Sulking Ari also looks cute, it was still a reward for me.
“Sorry about that Ari, but I can’t do this thing alone. Help me please!”
“ I don’t think you’re apologising honestly though.” he paused and continued “*sigh* I’ll help, but you will be teaching me maths after school.”
“…ehhhh!! Why do we have to study after school?! I’ll treat you to lunch instead.” I said lazily.
“No, I brought food from home. The exam is just around the corner, I really need you to teach me the differentiation and integration. Seriously, just how did you get second placing in the last test ranking. You even get full marks for maths doing nothing while I’m struggling to understand the formula.”
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“*sigh* fine I’ll teach you. Just for your information, I finished all the homework given okay, so I’m not doing nothing, I’m doing something at least.” The class suddenly starts to become noisy. It seems like the prefects have finished their duty. With everyone here, it’s time to start homeroom. I stood and went to the teachers table. “Attention Everyone!"
Filling in the Form
After the bell rang, everyone went to their respective seats except for Maru who was standing in the middle of the class. Ari also went up to the teachers table as I gave him portion of the form and we started distributing it.
“Okay everyone please fill in the form and hand in to me as soon as you’re done.” I shouted to them as they were chit-chatting amongst themselves. I went and sit down on the teachers seat since its a lot more comfy than my own chair.
“Hey Inchou, don’t you think you should go through this form together?” Gerome raised his hand and asked.
“What is it four-eye? Do you really need me to write down your names in the form too?” I replied to him sarcastically as I find no reason to go through this form together.
Maru then stood in front of me and shoved my form to my face, “Lazy Inchou, I think you should go through this together because there is some fields that I don’t know how to fill. Don’t tell me you haven’t even read it yet?”
I pushed his hand aside and stare at him, “What do you mean some fields you don’t know Maru? Did you forgot your father’s name?” I snorted back at him.
As I looked at the form, it wasn’t just a single paper form but a thin booklet that looks like a piece of paper. I hate to admit it but this form was definitely odd. The first page was filled with fields that resembles those character creation in RPG games and the rest of the pages was filled with small fonts which says terms and condition. The terms and condition was so long and small that if you look from afar it would look like a page filled with lines. Just who the heck thinks that all these 17-year-old boys would read this whole thing. There was also a space to write a signature at the end of the terms and conditions. The paper for the form itself looked old with the colour slightly brownish and the texture was rough. Looking at the front page of the form was quite simple;
*Name:____________________
*Race:_____________________
*Profession:_________________(eg, Knight, Hunter, Cleric)
*Special Skill(s):
* _______________
* _______________
* _______________
(eg; forgery, equipment enchantment)
*Party members:
* _____________
* _____________
* _____________
* _____________
* _____________
*Guild:_______________
Aside from the fields in the form, there were also some kind of crest or emblem on every page of the form. It also looks so much like in RPG games with circular shape with bows shield sword and a staff in the middle of the crest or should I say emblem.
I guessed there was a need to go through this form, “Well I guess our great Maru here is right. Maybe I should go through this form together with you guys. For the…”
“Woahh! Our Lazy Inchou is doing his job once in a while!” someone started yelling,
“Woohooo!!” and another one continues… “This is a rare occasion! Lets partyyy!!” and another one, which I think is Maru… “OHH YEAHH!!” ““Let’s get this PARTY GOINGGGG!!!*opens shirt*”
“*animals sound*” “*Twerk*Twerk*” “Marry me Ari!” “wahahaha-WAHAHAHAHA!!!” “Wha- no! Why should I?!” “woot-woot!!” “*flips table*” “*bang chairs*” “*climbs wall*”
Before I could finish my sentences my started to have some kind of a hysteria and I can even hear Ari’s voice being flustered. I sat down and started filling in the form with most of my classmate doing some crazy things. This is one of the reason why I rarely do my job as the class rep properly…
*****
As I waited for my classmate to finish their daily hysteria attacks, I have completed my form while leaving some parts. Before I knew it, Ari was already sitting next to me. He probably was running away from those hysterical classmates to fill in the form. He occasionally looked at my paper to see how I filled the fields.
*Name: Harry Mills
*Race: Demon Human
*Profession: Necromancer Ninja (eg, Knight, Hunter, Cleric)
*Special Skill(s):
* Chantless Incantation
* Mana Manipulation
* Eye of Calamity
(eg; forgery, equipment enchantment)
*Party members:
* _____________
* _____________
* _____________
* _____________
* _____________
*Guild:_______________
The class finally started to calm down and everyone was already seated. “Are you all done? Can you fill all the things that you can fill first before we go through some of the fields together.” I stood up and asked.
Maru was still standing up and replied, “We have already filled the necessary parts, I think everyone only left the Party and Guild part empty.”
“Wait you’re done? You guys were going all crazy just now, how did you-” since I thought thinking those kind of thing is pointless, I let out a sigh and continued, “Nevermind, lets just continue then…”
For the party part, since there were only allowed for 5 members per party so we can have 7 party in this class. Since assistant class rep was absent there will be total of 35 students in the class and a full 7 party. So I ordered the class to form a party among themselves. I also reminded them to bear in mind the balance of profession in their party.
And so, the party creation was successful without anyone going crazy again;
My Party: 1) Me [Necromancer Ninja]
* Maru [Magic Swordsman]
* Ari [Cleric]
* Rudy [Sentinel Knight]
* Shai [Spear Master]
The other party such as Gerome(High Wizard) was quite balanced with Isaac as a Paladin and Joe as an assassin. The only party was quite inbalance was Darren’s party with most of them are of supporting roles. Even one of them set their profession as engineer. Well it wasn’t wrong too since engineer is also a real role in rpg games.
After everyone was done filling in the form for the party members. I decided to went out of the class to meet with the classroom teacher, Ms. Allen, to ask about the last field when suddenly someone opened and slammed the door.
“Who was the idiot who made such a ruckus in this class!” Ms. Alen barged in and shouted.
The prestigious 5 A(nimal) Class
For some reason, I was standing on a chair at the corner. After Ms. Alen barged in, she babbled about something. I didn’t really heard what she said because I was too focused on enjoying the view of Ms. Alen flushed angry face. She was sweating a lot though. Maybe because she ran all the way here from the staffroom, but she does not look like she was out of breath.
Her shirt was wet due to sweat and starts to stick to her skin. Her body shape was showing as her shirt clings more the skin. The white shirt also starts to become translucent due to the sweat, enabling me to see some parts. Especially some plump looking bulge wrapped in a white bra. When she noticed my gaze, her face became as red as blood. That was how, I got my punishment.
She went back to the washroom to change her clothes and went back to the class after the first period bell rang. Why am I the only one getting punished? I’m sure my other classmates saw it too. First period was supposed to be Math, but the math’s teacher was on a field trip to some other school. So Ms. Alen took the opportunity to take the first period and let us finish filling in the form. Since I still looked like I’m sneering, I wasn’t allowed to leave from my position. Does she hate my face that much? She was also scolding for so loud that the other classes complained to her.
There was still that weird form though, so I asked her about it. “Shishou, what was that other form, the one with the weird emblem. Is it for some game survey?”
“I don’t know. The principal suddenly gave it to me. Looks like only our class got this form.” she said.
That was really weird. I still thought that it was some game survey though. I usually called Ms. Alen shishou(Master). For some reason, the other classmate started to call her shishou too.
Then she mumbled, “…but why did I get that form too? I really don’t understand.”
Her voice were tiny but I could still make it out. “…ehhh, you have that form too? Let me see. What’s your profession,” I took her form and saw ‘berserk healer’. This made me remembered some anime with a girl using an estoc.
“Hey! Don’t read it you idiot!! Go back and stand on the chair!!” she fiercely glared at me.
I went back to stand on the chair and asked “Did you fill in your party and guild? The rest of the class have already finished it. Only the guild part was left blank. It’s just a survey for a game right? So I think we don’t really have to fill in all of it in since it’s not important.”
“Hmmm… what party? There’s no party in my form. About the guild…I remembered the principal said to create one with you guys and he also said this form takes top priority.”
“ehhh?! Seriously?! Don’t you think it’s just the principal weird way of doing things?” I asked.
Then Maru suddenly join in the conversation “…here’s the form shishou. So we’re creating the guild huhh… then shall we start naming it?”
“””Yeah let’s do that””” the whole class agreed with Maru’s suggestion.
“The ‘A’nimal should be good, since our class are called by that name” suggest Maru.
“NO!! Why do you even liked to be called by that. Since I will also be in the guild, you should reconsider on your naming sense. I think House of Tulip should be good,”
“Objection!! Why does it have to be Tulip of all the other flowers?! Shishou, the guild is made up of 36 male, a masculine name should be used instead.” Maru was backed by the classmate as he forced his opinion on shishou. At some point, they started to take this naming session seriously. I have no idea how things end up this way. I am sure it was just Maru trying to liven things up but it was really becoming very noisy. Surely, the other classes will start to complaint again.
When I saw shishou was trying hard to make the class accept her opinion, I decided to just go with the flow. I sat on the chair I was standing just now and looked at my form. The race column was weird though. I wanted to write demon hybrid on it but, for some reason I cancel both of it and wrote human. Was it supposed to be that way? I’m sure the others wrote some weird race like elf or angel. So I asked “What did you all write for the race column?”
Maru snorted and exclaimed “Hmph, human of course. Are you not a human? Then you must be a sloth?! Hahahahaha!”
This guy really knows how to get on my nerves. “How about you shishou? What did you write?”
“Human of course, I wanted to write fairies but for some reason I feel like it was wrong. So I changed it.”
Even after I asked them those question they still continued to quarrel on about the name for the guild. With the noise in the background I just sat and think hard on a good name.
An idea suddenly popped out of my head, “Then how about this, ‘Enigmas of the Human’ for our guild? Enigmas mean something that is puzzling, a mystery and cannot be fully understood. I think it suits us since we are the 5’A’nimal. Our weird way of doing things, and unique personality but yet we still grasp the best achievement. For the human, I think it’s just that to say all of us are humans though. The suitable guild leader would be the home room teacher. How about it, shishou?”
“…ehhh, sure. I can be the guild leader but I want tulip, I think it’s better.”
“Shishou, I have no idea why you are so obsessed with tulip. I think it just shows how immature you are. Basically it means you’re a virgin.”
“….e-ehhh!! B-but how did you?!...wait, forget what I say!!” the bean have been spilt, it’s official that Shishou was single. She looked just like Ari when she was panicking, well they are siblings though.
“So what do you guys think?”
“Well-well, you can give quite a good name sometimes. So I agree with that name!!” shouted Maru.
“Yeah!! I knew you can do it Inchou!!”
“Woo-hooo!!”
“Just marry him already Ari~!! There’s no need to wait”
“T-t-this has nothing to do with m-marriage!!”
“Inchou!! You can help me name my pet!!”
“Lazy Inchou Is going to graduate into Cool Inchou now!!!”
“Let’s get this PARTY GOINGGGG!!!*opens shirt*”
“*animals sound*” “*Twerk*Twerk*” “wahahaha-WAHAHAHAHA!!!” “woot-woot!!” “*flips table*” “*bang the chair*”.
Again, I sit silently, and watch wild animals in their natural habitat. As for Shishou, she has already gotten used to this and she just sat down to take the attendance.
Date at the Library?
After everyone was done with their ritual, I collected the forms and hand it to shishou. Later I helped shishou to carry the forms to the principal.
School finished as usual, at 2 o’clock. After I put all my books and utensils in the bag, Ari tugged my sleeve “Hey, you’re not going home right? You promised to teach me maths later.”
“Yeah, I’m going to teach you but we need to have lunch first.” I replied.
“ohhh, I said I brought lunch this morning. I have lots so you can have you’re share.”
“Wahhh!! I’m so happy that such a cute creature would share their cooking to me!!”
“Shhhh! You’re too loud! By the way, my sister cooked this for me.”
“Really!! Then it’s even better, to eat food cooked by such a beautiful teacher. It’s just what I’ve been dreaming for!!”
“…eehhh. I see..” suddenly Ari starts to pout. Then she continued, “Anyway, I’m going to be eating a lot today so you can only have a small portion. Hmph!”
I can feel that he was acting cold towards me now. We went to the school’s sitting area near the canteen and eat lunch there. He really meant what he said. He really did gave me a small portion.
Since I was still hungry, I went to the canteen and bought some more food. As I was walking back to Ari, I saw some guys standing near him. Then one guy lend Ari some piece of paper while bowing down. Ari looked at it with wide eyes and he shocked his head. The guy lending the paper looked depressed while the other guys laugh. So I ran towards them.
“Oi…Do we have problems here!” I said in a menacing way. I have never seen their faces before. They must have been the 1st year student. They panicked as they saw me coming.
“S-shit, it’s him. We’re going home now, I’ll meet you at the gate buddy.” One of the guy pat his friends shoulder and left with the others. The guy who was lending Ari the piece of paper was still in front of me. “S-s-sorry. I didn’t mean to disturb your friend.” He stumbled a bit and ran toward his friends.
“So what happened?” I asked Ari as I sat next to him.
“As usual. He wanted to give me a letter, but I refused. It was probably a love letter. Juniors these days are really brave huh.”
“Hehhh, its hard being famous huh. I really hope I will get a love letter someday.”
“Well, I hope you don’t..” Ari said while giving a straight face.
“Wait, why?”
“Why are you so dense?” he muttered sillently
“What are saying suddenly?”
“Hmph…nothing!!.” he started to pout again. Well, Ari sure was famous. He gets many confessions and most of it was from males. All I could say was, they really fallen for a trap. No matter how you look at him, Ari definitely looks like a girl. He resembles her sister(the Shishou) a lot, only that he does not have the bust. Even the way he eats and talks right now was very feminine. I really understand their reasons for falling for this trap.
“Harry, you really scared him just now.” “It’s just the usual me okay. He’s just afraid of me because of the rumour.”
“…but the rumour is true, isn’t it?”
“*sigh* I know, but it’s a long time ago.” Well it was not that long, it was just last year. That time, Ari was not very close to me. Like usual, he was asked to meet someone behind the school. He thought that it was just some guy wanted to confessed to him. I heard rumours as I walk around with Maru that the seniors wanted to see if Ari was really a guy. They really wanted to know, even if they have to strip his cloth off. At first, I did not feel like helping him. Since it sounds like a bully case, so the prefects should be handling it. However, realising that I used to be in the same situation, I ran to the back of the school.
There, I saw Ari was shouting for help. The seniors were trying to forcefully rip his cloth off. I knew I needed to do something but the seniors outnumbered me six to one. Maru suddenly came up to me and saw the scene. He was not skilled at fighting, so my best hope was for him to search for the teachers while I try to hold off the seniors. However, he was determined to fight off the seniors with me.
With that, both of us charged towards the seniors. They already noticed us and mocked us for acting like a hero. I shrugged off those mockery and readied my stance. Since I practised martial arts before and have lots of combat experience, I decided to take on four of them and leave the rest to Maru. I never intended to go easy on them, so the seniors were injured badly with broken nose and bruises all over their bodies. However, it was still 4 to 1, so I sustained quite an injury. Maru on the other hand, was quite formidable as he beat of two seniors even without any experience and knowledge of martial arts or self defence. Even so, his injury was comparison to mine and he was barely able to stand up properly. Ari was surprised at first but thanked both of us later.
Since then, Ari have always been hanging around with me and Maru. The result of us beating the seniors was two weeks suspension. However, the principal did not think that the punishment was enough, so he forced us to join the prefect board. Maru accepted it without complain. On the other hand, I objected this idea so much that I decided to skip some classes. Shishou begged the principal to be lenient on my punishment but the principal’s final decision was he gave me an option to become the class rep or to be expelled. In the end, I had no choice but to become class rep.
As I was deep in thought, Ari called out to me “Hurry up and finish your food. I want to start studying as soon as possible.” He packed up his lunch and stood up. Then he swiftly bite off my burger on my hand “*munch*munch* I’ll take a bite off your burger for every two seconds. So hurry up.” Seeing that, I chomped the burger whole and swallowed it after chewing it a few time. “…w-what?! Did you just swallow that burger whole?!” Ari was surprised as he did not expected it. I have done this quite a lot since I was always late and I did chewed it a few time, so there was no worry of me getting chocked. I did not answer him and throw away the wrapping in the dustbin and took my bag
“Hurry up, didn’t you want to start studying as soon as possible. I’ll leave you behind if you’re still dazing off.”
He snapped off his surprised face then hurriedly ran up to me and pulled out two cans of soda. “Here…my treat for agreeing to teach me.” He gave me one of the soda to me
“…ehhh, we haven’t started studying yet and you’re still giving me this. Anyway, thanks.”
There were not many students in the library as we entered. I saw some of my classmates studying but I did not want to greet them since they might cause a ruckus seeing me and Ari together. I would not want them to go crazy in the library like how they did in the class. So we silently walked pass them. Luckily they did not noticed us as they were focusing on their books.
Both of us went to the furthest part of the library where there was a nice woolly carpet for students to lay down. I lay down on the carpet after I took out my history book. Since there were three bean-chairs here, Ari sat on one because he was not used to studying while laying down. He started to do some maths question with the book on his lap. It felt so nice laying down on the woolly carpet that I feel too lazy to study.
“Ari, I’m going to rest my eyes for a bit. If you have any question you can’t answer just wake me up okay.” He replied by nodding his head. That was quite cute. With the history book open, I put it on my face to cover the bright fluorescent light above for a nice nap. Slowly my consciousness travel towards the dreamland.
‘I, Ember Agarictree, fairies of the night luminated with fireflies and starry skies, have received your contract’
What is this?
‘Your desire of powerful dark ability..’
am I dreaming
‘..shall be granted by me.’
Wait who are you
‘thank your luck human..’
this voice sounds like a girl
‘..you have been blessed with my service’
what are you talking about
‘with my gift…’
are you even listening to me?
‘your dream will be an easy task to accomplish’
is this what they call dream control? Because It felt like I’m still conscious in the dream
‘the only wall separating us will be the blood oath’
hmm…where have I heard that before?
‘I shall be in touch with you again tonight’
what do you mean by ton……
The dream starts to fade away as I was woken by something shaking me “hey, wake up already!” Ari’s voice made me rise up hastily. The book on my face fall down with a thud as I try to sit up. It took some time for my eye to focus and I saw Ari’s face was so close to mine. He quickly backed away with blushing face. “…ahhh, sorry I startled you. How long have I been sleeping?” I asked as I rubbed my wet eyes.
“I-its fine, you’ve been sleeping for about an hour now. Here, I have lots of question I don’t understand. Please teach me how to answer it.”
“Wow I’m surprised you didn’t asked any question for the whole hour. I thought you would ask me a few minutes after I dozed off.”
“You looked like you were sleeping soundly so I didn’t want to wake you up. I finished all the questions I understand, and leave all the hard questions. So now I wake you up because it’s time for you to teach me.”
“That’s very kind of you Ari. Okay let’s see the question.” As we cover through the question together I forgot about the dream. After another hour, we finished all the questions. There are still some question he don’t fully understand, so I wrote all the working and formulas. I told him to try follow the working at home and if he still cannot understand then he can ask me again tomorrow. The library will be closing soon, so we packed our stuff and went out.
On our way out, we stumbled with our classmate and like I predicted, they became crazy again. The librarian did not mind it and only laughed since we were the only students left. Then I walked with Ari to the staff’s carpark and met with Shishou. She looked quite exhausted today so we did not chat long until I see them off.
So I walked back alone. Using the usual route, I walked on the pathway as if it was second nature as I tried to remember something important in the library. The first thing I remembered was the scene where Ari’s and my face were so close that I could actually felt his breathing. I shaked my head off as I tried to remember again and the thing that came in mind was my dream. It was vogue and unclear, I know there was something about that dream that I need to remember. However, I came out empty even until I reached my house.