Chapter 15 - 15

Roger stared intently into Yuno's eyes.

Silence enveloped the whole room with only them present. Yuno was still looking at Roger, while Roger was keeping his gaze on Yuno.

Then, Roger smiled which came after with his thoughts fixed on what to say. As Yuno's notion was on point, Roger didn't deny his words; he nodded.

"So, what if I am? Does that change anything? I am just studying peacefully now." Roger said, with a slight disgust in his tone.

Well, in fact, Roger just couldn't stomach how toxic people in this world were. Even though he was used to it, the difference was that Kluma was already toxic with no specific authorities to follow. However, in this world, Roger knows that people must work together to fight their common enemies.

It was the only part that Roger couldn't understand, or rather, couldn't overlook. If this peaceful world becomes chaotic, he will have no choice but to just work things out on his own.

Apparently, Roger was respecting the peaceful atmosphere this world has. That's why, even though it was just an illusion, he tends to hold onto it since he longs for it as well.

Yuno sighed after Roger answered his question. His aura also changed, as if his childish and impulsive personality disappeared. In reality, that's how Roger thought of Yuno at first glance.

"No. It's just that I think it's better for you to get the assessment. Perhaps in that way, if you ever wanted to become a civil servant, you could easily become." Yuno said.

"Civil servant? Why would I become one of them? It's not like I am a patriotic person." Roger retorted.

"Well, everyone thinks of being one since you can't become a licensed Awaken if you don't become one. Hence, you can't be a hunter if you are not a civil servant."

"But becoming a hunter is a choice, and it wasn't on my list of choices."

"Despite being that strong? Why did you even bother attending this school if you didn't want to become a hunter?"

Roger just scoffed at how Yuno seemed to be disrespected by how he replied. In fact, Yuno was annoyed at how Roger deemed being a civil servant to be nothing.

"I only wanted to survive. But don't worry, it's not like my mind won't change. Let's just say that I'll take the assessment so that you'll leave me alone." Roger said, then sighed.

Yuno didn't immediately reply and just stared at Roger after that. It was as if Yuno was trying to observe Roger's personality, but the way things were, he felt that Roger was just uninterested in things.

'I haven't heard of him having this kind of attitude. I heard that he tends to be scared by little intimidation and immediately fall down. Why...? Was it just about the rumors? Were they wrong? But I don't think that kind of degraded perception by all of the students becomes a lie. Was Roger just hiding his true self and, after having memory loss, he forgot about the play he was making?'

There were plenty of thoughts causing havoc on Yuno's composure. Even with how impulsive he was earlier because of his sister, whom he adores, he could still control himself if it was outside that topic.

Hence, Yuno was quiet and observant in reality. And as Roger was giving him a hard time to assess made him feel that he finally found someone that could match him.

Yuno smiled, then turned his back to Roger.

"That's good to hear. I will be waiting until you graduate. Let's be friends after that." Yuno said.

Roger peeked once more as Yuno left their room. When he heard the word 'friends', he smiled since he can smell something behind Yuno. It was power.

Remembering how he shouted earlier and was eventually obeyed by the students, Roger knew that Yuno had the power to control people by fear. And what makes him like that only means one thing: he could be a candidate for a possible connection.

In light of Yuno's being sincere, in Roger's eyes, he doesn't sound bad to be eyed for. And since Roger wanted to have a peaceful environment around him and his family, Yuno couldn't escape his eye.

"Well, we can be friends starting this day. Call me if you need help with the fighting. I heard that your sister was my sister's friend, so get one from her since I don't like giving my number directly to a boy." Roger said after he realized that Yuno looked like Luna.

It was only bullshit and a way to sound cool, but no one cares at this point. Roger only wanted to have a good future.

Yuno didn't reply and totally left the room. Now, Roger was the only one left, and minutes later, his classmates returned.

'Wow... I totally became the outcast again. Was I really that bullied in the past? I thought I just had a normal life.' Roger pondered as some memories came back to him.

The students just tried not to look at Roger and went straight to their chairs, while the five-membered group of Taylor didn't budge or think any more about what to do with Roger. He was out of the league for them, but they still couldn't forget the humiliation they got from him.

'I will have my time, Skinny.' Taylor thought.

Time flies fast. The sun reached the west and was turning orange as class ended at the students' side. They all fixed their tables and, in unison, went out of the school to go home.

Meanwhile, Roger was standing in a hallway, being barricaded by a few people. However, what was ironic about this was that there weren't any boys who were barricading him; all of them were girls.

There were almost ten girls standing before him, forbidding him to go further as they were trying to stop him. And at the center of the girls was a familiar junior girl for her.

'I heard her name was Luna. The disrespectful junior who was Kyla's friend. It is even good that Kyla wasn't part of this scheme.' Roger sighed.

"Ah, what are you doing?" Roger asked them with no particular expression.

But because of how he looks uninterested, they think that Roger was just acting cool in front of Luna, who was the boys' crush.

Luna looked at him bashfully and tried to move forward. However, she was too shy around Roger.

Roger just raised his eyebrow as he felt that something was bit off of her. She was acting shy in front of him? It felt familiar to Roger.

"I-I heard t-that brother tried to attack you. I-I'm sorry about it. I didn't m-mean to share it with him." Then she tried to hide her face afterward.

Roger cringed, his eyes widening.. 'What the heck is this?!' he then thought.