263 Friend?
Kael, who had originally been sleeping, immediately sat upright and stared at the orange hair youth with annoyance.
Even Zoey, who hadn't been paying attention to the drama before, turned her gaze toward Seraphin, completely irritated. Just as Seraphin was about to shout at Hamonic once again, he suddenly paused as he felt the gaze of everyone in the hall on him.
Even Atticus and Lila were looking at him!
And what's worse, they were all looking at him with dangerous glints in their eyes, as though they were begging him to speak!
But of all the gazes, it was the two massive figures of Aislan and Eldric beside him that he was most scared of! The primary upload of this chapter happened on B1nN0vel.
One wore beast skin and had black large tattoos all over his body, and the other was tanned with metal looking muscles; each of them was twice his size!
Seraphin audibly cleared his throat and sat back down on his seat, 'They must be on their periods or something, sheesh,' he thought.
Seeing Seraphin had no intention of speaking again, each of the students turned their gazes back toward Atticus and Lila, determined not to miss a thing.
Seraphin's booming voice had interrupted the exchange and diffused the tension somewhat, but Atticus had no intention of ending it here.
He inched closer to her, locking eyes with her. He lowered his voice as he spoke, "Listen, I might be wrong here, but on the slightest chance that I'm right, my patience for bullshit is as real as a square circle."
Atticus's voice became colder as he continued, "I will not care why you did it. I will not care what gender you are. You're free to do whatever you want, but I promise you one thing: I will make you regret it."
Lila's form froze, unable to say anything.
Meeting Atticus's gaze was like having cold icy water poured on her body. She couldn't even speak or formulate any response as Atticus started walking away from her.
'Just like back then...' Lila clenched her fist and gritted her teeth. Back then, at the arcade incident, the same thing had happened when she met his gaze. It was a feeling she hated to her core.
Kael nodded once more in response.
'Am I actually making a friend?' Atticus still found everything that was happening hard to believe.
But instead of thinking too much about it, Atticus simply decided to go with the flow. It wasn't like he would be taking any risks.
"Sure, but do you even know where to hang out?" Atticus asked.
This was the first time they were each in the academy's main campus, and neither of them knew anywhere. And Atticus could bet all his fortune that Kael was far from being a social person.
Kael's face finally showed a change in expression as he slightly frowned. He looked away to the side, putting a hand on his chin, seemingly entering a deep state of contemplation.
Atticus was almost tempted to laugh seeing this but he held it in.
Atticus decided to bail him out. "Let's just tour around the campus; I'm sure we'll find something to do," Atticus suggested.
Kael came out of his contemplation, turning to face Atticus again, and responded with a simple, "Okay." Without waiting for a response, he turned his gaze away from Atticus and faced his front.
Atticus couldn't help but smile wryly. He kind of liked his character. It reminded him a lot about a certain aloof white haired girl. 'I wonder how she's doing,'
Seeing as there were no more distractions, Atticus also faced forward, completely forgetting the red haired girl who was still standing with her hands clenched.
After a few seconds, Lila finally sat down on her seat, completely lost in her thoughts.
The whole class went silent after that, with only some silent chatters sounding from some of the students in the room.
And then, after waiting for a few minutes, the entrance door to the hall suddenly slid open, and a brown haired woman in a well fitted black suit strolled in with a smoothie in her hands.