Chapter 168: Talkalot Chaos

[Do you guys see this? Seems like the rumour about a beast taming class were real! Somebody borrow me 100k!]

[Just how lucky is this Kiro? I mean, world announcements have quieten, but still why does every good thing fall on his lap?]

[Why indeed! Didn't he assault a girl at his academy?]

[Truly, bad news travel faster. You've heard about that, but not the fact that the girl was a lying sack of sh*t?]

[He's probably a young master of some rich family and paid for that girls silence lol]

[I'm a second year at Eden academy and I can attest that's not true. I saw him and his friend on their first arrival here, people gossiped about how poor they were.]

[So just a slum rat then.]

[People always focus on the wrong aspect of this. Whether he's a slum rat, he's getting your 100k if you're crap at this game.]

That last comment in particular got a lot of likes and replies. Kiro was scrolling through, this was new territory for him. He didn't quite know reading comments was a bittersweet experience.

Seeing the Ursa incident brought up again, he was angry all over again. It brought up emotions he thought were dealt with. It seemed like his character would be questioned wherever he went, he was forever stained he thought.

"Wow, you're quite popular." Hiro said peeking through his arm, fixated on the screen.

Kiro almost karate chopped him on the head, "dude, don't scare me like that, and why are you so close!?"

"Yeah, your insecurity isn't unfounded, you do stink." He shrugged being honest.

"Shut up!" Kiro said running out of the cafeteria to the showers. "I'll see you on the cricket ground."

Kiro thought it was a waste of time to shower when he was going for practice anyway, and after that he'd be sweaty again. But he didn't want to seem as a pig, especially not in front of Isla.

He had just turned the water off when he heard two people enter the boys locker room.

"Why not get them healed?" Hiro asked dumbly. He knew there was nothing their technology couldn't heal, well except for death.

"I didn't know you cared what people thought." Kiro mumbled which made Felix smile, for the first time they'd known him.

"I don't really have money to waste like that but even if I did, these scars are important to me. I don't wish to erase them." He said simply.

Why were they important was anybody's guess and since he didn't explain further they didn't pry. That's all they got out of him, Felix never spoke again about that.

"By the way," Kiro said while they were walking closer to their coach. "You don't have to be stuck in the mine forever. Come out if you want."

He nodded.

"Which subclass did you both get?" Hiro inquired.

"Shadow King." Nikolai quickly replied as if embarrassed to say the words in real life.

"Butcher." Felix said nonchalantly walking forwards.

Everyone stopped, "huh??"

Felix turned and gave them a very naughty smile. As if to tell them he knows exactly what they were thinking.

Before they could say anything else, the coach called for them to come closer. He introduced himself.

"I don't take crap from greenhorns like you. Right now you're still dirty and unpolished but when I'm done with you. You'll be as good as new."

The first year's team was pretty timid, most of them had never played sports before. But this wasn't a big problem as evolved humans adapted pretty quick, especially when something was physical.

Coach Smith asked if anyone volunteered to play a certain positions, Kiro and Hiro volunteered to be bowlers. Felix wanted to be the wicketkeeper. Others who had never played were picked by the coach.

There were 18 players in total. So playing a game with each other was how they would practice, even though that number wouldn't be enough to break them into two teams they'd have to make due. In 3 months time, the coach would announce his first string.

Luckily Isaac stayed out of their way and didn't cause them any problems. Glares were all he could manage.