"I'm back!" Nathan opened the door, finding Selena teaching Serafina.
"Oh!" Selena turned to Nathan. "Are you done with your matter?"
"Yep! Look. I have a souvenir for you." Nathan showed a bag.
"Souvenir?" Selena raised her eyebrows. She grabbed the bag while asking, "What did you buy?"
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When she opened the bag, she was startled to see several mature class cores.
"I got them from the new principal. You should use those cores to get stronger, Selena. With your absorption rate, you should get more than 10,000 Ena from four mature class cores, right?"
"Y-Yeah." Selena nodded.
"That's great."
"Are you sure about this? You need cores more than me."
"Don't worry. I have gotten my share. Besides, this vacation is my idea, so I'm responsible for the time we spend here, which can be spent on a mission."
Selena looked at the bag for a moment before nodding her head. "Alright. I will take this then. Thanks."
"No problem. My teacher will come soon, so I'm planning to swallow the cores at that time so that she will know if something goes wrong."
"Alright." Selena agreed with the schedule.
"Do I get a souvenir as well?" Sera raised her hand, asking.
Nathan looked at Sera and said, "Do your best first. Maybe you will get it next time."
Sera pouted. "Come on! I have been doing my best," or so she thought, until two days later.
"Considering you are a genius, and Nathan is also one of a kind. I guess 7-8 Ena?"
"Not even close." Selena shook her head. "He gets 1-2 Ena from a single core."
"What?!" Sera widened her eyes in shock. "I'm not as talented as you, but I still get 9 Ena from one core. He..."
"Yes. He only gets that amount. And soon, he will be categorized as the less talented. He needs 5-10x times the amount of cores we need.
"Yet he is able to keep up with us. Why? It's because he has been working hard this whole time... much harder than any of us."
Sera suddenly looked down, thinking about it.
Selena continued, "Although it makes me physically sick by saying this, I just want you to know about the resource and work distribution. I'm planning to give most of the resources to him. And make sure that he doesn't need to do as many things as possible.
"Right now, my vampire is the one cooking for us and I'm dealing with all the administration problems as a part of the student council. If you want to join the group, I hope you can help with the work as well.
"Anyway, that's the last thing I want to say about you joining the group." Selena stood up. "I'm done."
...
While Nathan was doing his best to get stronger, there was a high-level meeting held in a storehouse.
The storehouse looked like it had been abandoned for a while. There was dust and boxes scattered around.
A person walked into the storehouse, his footsteps breaking the eerie silence with their echo.
He grabbed one of the boxes, which hid a secret entrance to the basement. Inside was like a different world. Wooden floor and wall, warm orange light, and tidy room.
A lot of people had been seated according to their respective ranks as the person who had just come walked to a grand throne located at the edge of the rectangular table.
The atmosphere soon became tense as his body was naturally emitting a huge amount of Ena.
With his head resting on his hand, he asked, "So, what actually happened in the past thirty days? How did three of our people get caught?"