"Oh, yeah, I heard he had another fight against a calamity class the other day!"
One of the boys from Kevin's friend group suddenly spoke up loudly as he came closer to Arit and Mark's table, and Arit forced her smile to stay in place as the boy continued talking without caring that he was not even invited.
"He ended that fight even faster than the previous ones! Just how strong are you, Mark!? I'm sure you're stronger than Taylor and Frostknight from the Artemis guild, right!?"
Frostknight was another A-rank from the Artemis guild. His power centered mainly around his ability to create and utilize ice swords in battle, so the internet started calling him Frostknight as a moniker.
Mark was still eating silently as he completely ignored the boy who came up to them, but Arit was not as cold as Mark. She felt like it would be rude if she didn't at least give him some attention or answer some of their questions, so Arit took it upon herself to start answering some of the questions that they were asking Mark.
"I-I'm not sure how much stronger he is than –"
Another person cut her off before she could get her words out.
"I'm sure he's stronger than them. He's GHOST, after all. Even his fighting style is better than theirs, he uses nothing but his fists but those others all use other weapons or elements in their fights."
This time it was a girl who spoke up as she walked close to the group, and Arit started to feel very uncomfortable as the rest of Kevin's friend group started to congregate around their table and continued asking more questions. Arit didn't mind answering their questions, but she was worried that Mark would be irritated since he was not the sort of person that liked being in a group like this.
Arit started to answer questions with short, clipped answers to try and get this over with as quickly as possible.
"No, I don't know who his patron god is, you should ask him yourself." your m,vle mpyr source
"What do you mean how big is he? Don't ask something so stupid."
"He doesn't use any weapons. He only uses his fists."
"Who is Taylor? Is he also a superhuman? But, no, I don't know if he is stronger than Taylor."
Doon!
The students all seemed to automatically shut up and gaze up at Mark reverently as he towered over everyone in the room. Those who were standing in front of his desk took steps back as his height overshadowed them and made them feel very small.
Mark scratched the back of his head with a dull sigh.
"I'm not interested in going anywhere with anyone, Kent, so stop asking. And I hate crowds, so don't let something like this repeat itself again. Keep your distance."
Kevin's brow furrowed as he noticed Mark was staring at him while talking.
"Kent? My name isn't – "
Mark raised a brow as he dared Kevin to complete that sentence and Kevin swallowed in fear. Mark didn't even release any pressure at all, but just that small movement from him was enough to make Kevin rethink his words. Kevin just decided that it didn't matter what Mark called him after all.
"Y-Yeah, sure. I understand."
"Good. I'll be back soon, Arit, gotta go to the toilet. Move, NPC Kent."
Mark started to walk and everyone there just parted like water for him. Once Mark was gone, Arit smiled shyly as she put his flask back in her bag. She was glad that he liked the food. This was the first time that she was trying out one of her mother's recipes for spicy food and she thought that it would be too spicy for Mark, but she was glad that he didn't even complain once.
She would make another spicy meal for him tomorrow.
A shadow suddenly fell over Arit and she looked up from her food at the person standing in front of her desk. Esmeralda had a blank look on her face as she looked down at Arit with an arrogant expression on her face. Her hand was on her waist and she huffed as she slammed the other hand on Arit's table while leaning down.
Arit blinked in shock as Esmeralda came down until their noses were almost touching. Esmeralda wasn't even from this class, so Arit was wondering what she wanted! Does she also want to know more about Mark? Arit's brow furrowed as this thought crossed her mind!
Arit was a woman and she can sense when other women are interested in her man. Arit knows that Esmeralda had some sort of crush on Mark, but Arit also knows that Esmeralda looked down on Mark because she thought that he was too poor and low class for someone like her, so Esmeralda never acted on her feelings.