[SDU] [Chapter 9 –
Registration Day]
It took 180 hours of
training inside The Training Ball. We literally trained inside a ball for 7.5
days. One must be wondering how we survived through all of those. Well, some of
my classmates including our lecturer came in prepared. They brought out some of
the necessities required for us to stay inside The Training Ball for the whole
week. We kind of bonded through this long week but in actuality, we have only
left the real world for three hours. Honestly, this Training Ball was amazing. I
don’t know how much I’ve improved ever since I fought against those monsters
back then. But I think it was a pretty crunchy experience.
Not to mention, I was
also able to train Zenith to become better in combat. I even teach her some
strategies while we’re resting. Occasionally, we would make ourselves comfy and
start a 2 on 2 match. The matches were kind of a mess because of how difficult it
was to work with someone you haven’t known much. But for a few others, the
match either ends quickly or being long and intense when a Magic Duel
entrant put their boots on. I thought I was the only one who entered the Magic
Duel but I guess this kind of thing kind of exist on every high school. The
matches only became long and intense because of some of the Magic Duel entrants
had some experience on fighting in a group or a pair in this case.
“I’m full…” I said
that as I finished my lunch. “What about you, Zen?”
Zenith smiled at me
and nodded.
Even after all of the
training we got, Zenith was still being distant to me. I don’t really get it.
Is this one of the things that The Snow Phoenix did to her? If it is then I
better find a way to save her, fast. If only I can enter a world where all the
forbidden books can be read. But that is only possible in with some sort of forbidden magic.
“Come on, Zen. Let’s
pay up.” We got up from our table and paid the lunch.
After buying some
light beverage, we left The Pen and made our way back to our dorm. Along the
way, trouble begins to loom in once again. I saw Yumiko was eyeing on me from
afar. She was on the roof by the way. I don’t know why would she do that but
that’s just attracting other people.
Zenith then moved in
front of me and shielded me.
“That girl is looking
at you, Master.”
“She’s just looking at
me. It’s not like she’s doing anything bad.”
“No, she has bad
intention. I can sense it.”
“Is that so? Then
let’s talk it out.”
“What do you mean,
Mas…”
Before she was even
able to finish her words, I grabbed her by her waist and used my ability, Blink
and ‘blinked’ myself and Zenith behind Yumiko. What was Blink, again? It’s
basically a type of Space Manipulation. Blink basically teleports anything I
wish to wherever I please. But there is a limit to what I can do with this
ability. For now, I can only Blink for as long as about 500 metre. But I’m not
going to Blink as far as that because that will deplete a lot of my energy.
“My, my…I didn’t call
you here but yet here you are teleporting behind me without any warning.”
Yumiko talked while still looking down over the roof.
“Yumiko…” I made a
quiet grumble as I said that.
“You know, White…it
reminds me of the time when we first met a month ago. That goes the same to the
little one over there.”
-
I remember alright. I
remember that day. After I was done putting up my stuff in my room, my parent
gave me some money and left. I decided to go and get some lunch until suddenly;
a blond girl seems to be lost. She was looking all over the place while holding
onto a map. I tried to avoid her, of course. I’m not the type to be helping out
someone that I don’t know. But even as tried to do so…
“Excuse me! Can you
uh…help me?” The blond girl called me. “I need some help on where to go…”
I sighed and turned to
her and said, “I don’t really know the place around here. I’m a first year and
I just got here.” And then I turned myself back away from her.
“Hmm…you could at
least say sorry…stupid.” The girl was getting riled up.
In my own defence, I
was not in the mood to talk to anyone. Hence, I was a bit rude to her. I wasn’t
like that usually. But I just happened to be rude to this one specific girl.
“I’m…uh…sorry about
that, miss.” I answered to her quickly
hoping that it doesn’t get worse.
But that was not
exactly what happened, of course. The girl immediately dropped one of her
luggage to the floor.
“You… Got to be
kidding me. What kind of ‘sorry’ was that, huh?” she looked at me with sharp
eyes.
I really hate this
kind of people, the kind to get angry over the littlest thing. But for some
reason, I can tell that she’s not really genuinely angry. I don’t understand
what was she trying to do. At the same time another girl appeared and tried to
stop the fight,
“Master…Get away from
her…” the girl that I met a few hours earlier followed me from afar.
“What? What are you
doing here? Were you following me?” I turned to the silver haired girl.
“Hey!” the blondie got
crankier, “Don’t ignore me you scum. Who do you think you are to be
disrespectful to me? Don’t you know who am I?”
I turned back to her
and said, “Do I look I care…I said I don’t know the place and that’s my final
answer for today. Can’t you just move on and find someone else to ask for
location?”
I turned back to the
silver haired girl but then the little girl expression changed from being
cautious to panic. She ran toward me. I didn’t know what happened at first but
once she gets near to me, she went around me and shielded my back. And then…I
heard a gunshot.
Yes. This was the
first murder of Zenith by yours truly, Yumiko. The Fallen Trinity. She was
trying to shoot at me but instead, Zenith was the one who sacrificed her life.
I didn’t know her back then but all I know was that someone just killed a person
and that was absolutely wrong.
I looked down as blood
started to drop to the ground next to the little girl body. I grit my teeth and
tightly closed my hands. Without thinking much, I brought out my dagger and
flew my way toward Yumiko with the help of my Wind Manipulation. I tried to
hurt her but she blocked my dagger with her flintlock.
She then spoke to me,
“You can do better than that, ‘Master’”
“What? You too?”
“Huh? Me? Of course
not. You’re not my master or anything. I was just calling you the same way as
that little girl called you. Isn’t that how you preferred to be called,
‘Master’?”
She then brought out
another flintlock on her other hand and pulled its trigger. I managed to jump
away in the nick of time before any of her bullets hit my flesh.
“Huh. I guess you’re
not going to go all out against yours truly. But I’m warning you. I’m not going to give
you an easy fight.”
She pulled the trigger on one of her flintlock. The bullet missed me but it was intentional as the
bullet she made turned into a particle that absorbs anything it touches. It was a
mini black hole. I tried to hold on to my position but then Yumiko pulled
another trigger and this time the bullet exploded as it intentionally missed me
and went next to me. My focus was away and I was sucked off by the mini black
hole.
I threw my dagger as
strong as I could and it stuck on a tree nearby. I actually already made a rope
out of wind and it was tied to my dagger. So, I tried to pull myself away out
of the mini black hole. But then Yumiko cuts down the rope with her bullet she
calls, Cut Bullet where it can used to cut anything it passes through.
Almost all of my body
were inside the black hole as Yumiko begins to wickedly smile. It was at that
moment where I had enough of this and decided to pull my own ‘trigger’. Even
so, I struggled it all but in the end…the black hole sucked me. Leaving nothing
behind that belongs to my body.
“What a
disappointment.” Yumiko puts down her gun. “Isn’t he the one who ate the
crystal of The King of Dragons? This was his limits? I’m disappointed in you,
Master. You fear of this boy? I just killed him. I can’t believe you were so
afraid of such an idiot like that boy, Master. Aren’t you supposed to be the
fourth Champions of Chaos, Master Kitsuneki?”
Then suddenly, the black
hole returned and two hands appeared out of it. Ripping apart and nullifying
the black hole. I got out of the black hole just in time. Yumiko shoots out a
barrage of live bullets but as it about to reach my face, it stopped. Stopped
because of my time stopping ability. I paused all of her bullets from moving.
Yumiko then shoots out an explosive bullet to me. The bullet exploded but its
impact was paused right before it was able to hit me at all. Yumiko begins to
break a sweat.
I ‘Blinked’ to her
back and slowly but surely raised my hand. Yumiko begins to feel fear when
suddenly a loud smacking sound was heard across the area. I slapped her face
and dropped both of her flintlocks to the floor. The battle was over…for now at
least…
-
“It must be satisfying
to slap me in the face and see me being forced to become your Watcher. I’ll
tell you one thing though. This time, I won’t hesitate.”
As she finishes her
sentences, a violet, humanoid looking aura appeared next to her. It slowly
takes form and turned into a…human…
“What seems to be the
problem over here, my dearest sister?”
TO BE CONTINUED
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