59 Mysterious Truths or Lies

Dean looked in disdain as he listened to the utter nonsense Christian sprouted.

"This is the most beautiful scene I can ever imagine, you falling from grace."

Chuckling at the misfortune, Christian further fanned the flames.

"Pssh, you don't even know the standard 13 stages of cultivation. I bet you don't even know about Lost Worlds or Higher Worlds do you?"

"Of course I know all about the imaginations in your mind. There's probably pixies and dragons that you fight on the daily."

Sarcasm filled the sentences but Christian had enough of the satire.

"Do you honestly think you've won?"

The sudden seriousness in Christian's voice caused Dean to pause as he slowly uttered a question.

"What do you mean?"

"This fight at best will just cause another suspension and that's it. However for you... it's too late."

Trying to intrigue Dean's curiosity he obviously knew that Christian was trying to get at something by purposely teasing him

"What?"

Christian suddenly burst into laughter realizing that Dean had yet to realize what he had already done.

"I assume the reason I got that two week suspension was caused by you as well as that incident during that campaign for a spirit fruit. You were the reason behind it."

Dean was taken aback as he never revealed his existence to Christian anytime within the time he had enrolled into school.

Thinking back, Rose should've told Christian at this point.

But the most bothersome part was how did Christian know he was behind the sabotage of the spirit fruit that he desired?

Leonard would very unlikely tell a single lie unless...

"What did you do?"

Christian chuckled at the sudden seriousness of Dean

"You've just realized? I knew you would've attempted to do something reckless while i'm in the most pitiful time of my life. Even if you didn't this would've been a good bait."

Dean's guess was not off the mark however Christian had first researched on both of them before making any sudden moves.

Losing his patience, Dean grabbed a nearby stick and poked it against Christian's skin. Blood crawled down the wood.

"Spill it!"

The act of desperation and the shivering voice of worry couldn't escape Christian's ears.

"Not just him, your entire family as well. Leonard will have... let's call it an accident while your family. Hmm, I don't know how to phrase it. All died by immolation for the sake of me."

Dean paused at the realization and suddenly laughed.

Leonard was within school grounds and shouldn't possibly die while his 'family' had already broken connections with each other.

They were nothing more than strangers.

Christian was about to ask what was so funny however Dean abruptly dropped to his knees and fell on his back onto the muddy ground.

'Did he die yet?'

Christian saw an unusual bone sticking out of Dean's torso and from the location guessed it was a rib bone. As long as he drew the fight long enough he should've passed out.

Everything felt dark as his conscious was coming back and forth bringing him from reality to illusions, Christian tried to stand up but continuously fell.

Realizing it was no use, he grabbed the stick Dean once held and immediately stabbed him but there was no effect.

'Is this how it really ends?'

Saddened by the failure of his capabilities, Christian reluctantly hoped that he could eventually get his revenge to settle these shenanigans.

Using whatever strength remained, he crawled desperately for the ice shard and grabbed hold of it. Christian could feel the sharpness as his hand started to bleed just by holding the ice and made sure to embed it into his palm to allow the pain to make him awake.

Taking a deep breath, Christian had finally calmed himself and make sure that Dean was once and for all dead.

'If only Rose didn't interrupt back then'

Christian regretted someone's sympathy to get in his way. Just once, he let kindness give way yet once again it might've ended up killing him.

The fight was like a brawl between dogs, any dignity Christian held was immediately thrown away as he stabbed down with the ice shard into Dean's body.

However he was far too late, a subtle fluctuation of Mana grabbed hold of Christian that stopped him from his act any further.

"Hold it, under...."

Any words the man had said after those few went into one ear and left the other due to Christian passing out from pain, blood loss and stress.

...

"So? What happened?"

Dean had just woken up from a deep sleep as he realized he was now in a white clean room, surrounded by Anne, Ayesha and Pierre.

From what he remembered this was most likely the infirmary.

Pierre didn't say anything as Anne had started to take charge.

"After you passed out, Ayesha brought a group of teachers who started to record what they could see from their peripheral vision. Apparently the battle you fought was messy from when they found you."

Dean sent a thankful look to Ayesha as he knew that if Christian was given enough time, he would surely be dead.

Ayesha turned her head away before walking out of the infirmary and slamming the door.

It was difficult to access what she was currently feeling but Dean hoped he could resolve the problem.

Anne had a cold glare when she looked at the interaction between the two and kept note.

"Both of you were then brought to infirmary and given medical aid. Our group was a success when we called for teachers."

Dean paid attention to how effective his trap was when he listened to Anne. If it was not believable enough then there might be an unknown repercussion that could follow.

Pierre saw how attentive Dean was and couldn't help but be riddled with guilt.

From the minor details Anne was including in the story allowed Dean to feel a sense of security/

All those little details the teacher finds will make the scene become more realistic.