Chapter 26 Life And Death (1)

'' With the emergence of mana, many changes took place within Earth, I'm sure all of you know the first three changes, portals started appearing, humans became superpowered, the arrival of the great angels and the devious devils... the fourth change is not known by any of you because of how rare it is, when mana first emerged all humans were affected by it, but not only humans... animals too were affected by mana, not all of them could survive the change though and some species went extinct but the ones that did survive learned how to utilize mana and became much stronger than before, not only did they grow physically but they also grew mentally, they became self-conscious. they learned how to mimic human language and some have even helped us in our fight against the demons.''

' Tringgggg'

Miss Gina stops speaking just before the bell rings,

Miss Gina was our history teacher.

'' Well, for today that will be all then, goodbye students.'', saying this she leaves the classroom.

Finally......

It's been a month since the my high school started and I have to say it went exactly as I predicted, boring. Today was Thursday and tomorrow it would finally be Friday, the students at Unity could go home every week. There were some that did go every week but I wasn't included in that list.

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But the coming weekend was special, Patrick had arranged a meeting with me at Looters, this could mean only one thing.

The artifact to awaken Lecia had been found. I was too excited to concentrate on class because of this.

I also had to meet Diane and Ken as well, there was something I had to discuss with them.

Lecia's going to be so surprised, a lot has changed hasn't it ?

I got a name, took control of the hero association and in a way, killed my adoptive parents.

Of course, I wouldn't say all of this to Lecia.

But still I'm allowed to feel nostalgic right ?

I have a lot to tell her.... I can't wait.

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It was currently lunch break.

The cafeteria was far busier at lunch break than at dinner due to the fact that students from the other courses also were present. I take my food, but can't find a seat as the cafeteria was it was way too crowded.

Hmmm.

Where should I go?

If I'm remembering correctly then the students who didn't get space in the cafeteria usually eat at the rooftop which was very spacious.

I start walking towards the rooftop.

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This school should really install some elevators or something.

I had to climb seven flights of stairs.

The only reason, I wasn't sweating buckets was because of my rank.

This wasn't even the actual school !

They had entire building dedicated for food, multiple kitchens, the huge cafeteria and then on top of this the wide and spacious rooftop.

I finally reach the door to the rooftop.

I open it and sure enough there were some students as well, but unlike the cafeteria, there was still some space left. I walk into the rooftop and find a nice little spot for myself near the edge of the rooftop.

Seeing the railing on the rooftop reminded me of my death a little, some might think that I would be afraid and angry, but I look at my death quite fondly.

I mean, it gave me this second chance, didn't it?

Just as I was thinking this, a commotion begins on the other side of the rooftop.

A crowd had gathered, so I had to force myself through them to actually see what the commotion was about.

A girl was glaring at two boys who stood in front of her, and behind her stood a group of students who I knew was her friends.

The frown on Emilia Brielle's face seemed to have infected her friends as well since Max, Katherine, and Eric also had a similar frown plastered over their faces

Or Eric might have infected them since him frowning at everything in existence wasn't something new.

'' Stop bullying students, we came here to be heroes not bullies.''

Emilia's voice rings throughout the entire rooftop and all the students were focused on the fight happening before them.

'' We just sent him to get us our lunch, what's the big deal ?''

Jeremy's voice sounds annoyed.

Standing beside him, Stephan was glaring at the people in front of him.

Behind them was the boy they made fun of in the changing room, last time. he seemed scared.

'' You hit just now as well, didn't you ?'', says Emilia, her face was slowly turning red from anger.

'' Well that's because he got us the wrong food.'', a smirk appears on Jeremy's face as he says this.

'' You bas-'', Emilia couldn't finish what she was saying as Max stops her.

'' These fuckers aren't worth it, Emilia, let's just go.'', Max says in an annoyed tone.

'' But the-'', Emilia stops speaking when she sees the look on Max's face.

They had become close over two months and she knew his personality quite well, right now, his eyes were the eyes of someone with a plan.

She lets out a sigh and nods her head, the four of them go back to their spot where they were having lunch.

But while they were walking back, Stephan shouts at them,

'' You little fucker, do you think we're a joke ?, Jeremy is within the top ten as well-''

But before he can complete what he was saying, Max turns around and releases the pressure of his rank, making everybody other than his friends to kneel down.

'' E R-rank'', Stephan seems shocked.

I pretend to kneel down as well.

Man, seeing the scenes that you wrote become real was exciting.

What happened now, was taken right out from the novel. The first arc had just started. You could call it the first major event inside the novel.

Conflicts arise between, the justice loving Emilia and Jeremy leading to an all out war between the first years. Not all the first years, just the one's in the top 10's in the rankings in our class.

Max crushes them all. Obviously.

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After the commotion was over, the students on the rooftop went back to eating their lunch.

I too started eating my lunch.

It was fried chicken with a side of fries today.

As I was concentrating on my food, I didn't notice Emilia approaching me.

'' Excuse me ?''

I raise my head up and see her standing in front of me.

I feel confused, what does she want from me?

'' I saw that you were eating alone, would you like to join us ?''

Hmmmm.

Interesting.

'' Okay, thank you for including me as well !'', I say in an overly enthusiastic tone.

She smiles brightly at me.

Emilia is... too good for this messed up world.

She's so trusting and kind that even I was baffled a little at her behavior and I created her.

The both of us walk over to the place they were eating at.

Max had smile on his face while talking with Katherine.

He's changed a lot hasn't he ?

He's realized that if he becomes obsessed with revenge than he would never be happy and his parents wouldn't want that. Revenge was a secondary goal to him now.

I mean, that's way too much character development in a single month but what can I do about it now ?

Katherine spits the juice she was drinking from a juicebox on Max's face as she sees me coming with Emilia and I swear that I saw Eric's frown deepen.

'' What's he doing here ?''

As always, her reaction was way too extreme, but I ignore it.

'' I saw him eating alone and thought it would be nice to ask him to sit with us.''

'' Oh g-great.'', she stutters back.

Max wipes the juice on his face and glares at Katherine, after which he stands up and extends his hand towards me with a smile on his face,

'' I'm Max Reynolds, nice to meet you.''

I take his hand and say my name as well, seeing that Katherine and Eric weren't saying anything Max says,

'' This is Katherine Colleen.'', he points toward Katherine while saying this.

Kathrine forces out a smile and shakes my hand.

'' This is Eric Grey.'', he says while pointing at Eric who had gone back to eating his food.

'' I know, we're roommates.'', I say.

'' You're roommates !'', all three of them looked shocked.

'' It's not like we're friends or anything though.'', Eric says with his mouth filled with food.

Ouch.

I deserve that.

An awkward silence comes next, but that's broken when I ask Max,

'' By any chance were your parents, Rolling Thunder and Blood Queen ?''

Max looks shocked., '' You know my parents ?!''

'' Know them ?, they're the reason I decided to become a hero.. they were so brave and cool, it was such a shame they di-'' I suddenly stop myself and bow my head towards Max.

'' What am I even saying ?, I'm sorry... I can be thoughtless sometimes.''

'' That's alright.'', Max has a proud expression on his face.

Well he likes me, so that's that.

I felt proud that my years of kissing my editor's ass had finally been put to use.

We spend the rest of time talking about various stuff, Max also tells Emilia that they would complain to the management about Jeremy.

It was fun, except for the glares I got from Eric.

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The next day, I woke up refreshed at 4:00 am and started training.

This had almost become a habit since I've been doing this for a month now.

I could hear, Eric training in his training room as well.

I train till 5:30 and then decide to go take a suspiciously long bath...

I finish the bath at 6:30 and change into my uniform and spend the next half hour reading my history textbook.

There was a quiz today.

I may be the author, but history had a lot of stuff I don't know as well.

But the worst thing about history class is the fact that you have to learn the date of everything and anything.

I study the part for the quiz thoroughly and leave for class when it becomes 7:00 am.

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The class was crowded when I arrived.... way too crowded. I could see second years and third years mixed in the crowd as well.

I became confused as the second years and third years don't really interact with the students in first year, at least not now.

I push past the crowd and see what exactly they all were looking at.

It was Jeremy.

I could see multiple stab wounds on his body.

Yup.

He was a hundred percent dead.

I'm shocked....not because he's dead but because of the fact that this doesn't happen in the novel.

The plot was changing... and I'm pretty sure there's a killer among us.

I'm fucked aren't I ?

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