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Chapter 4 - Cafeteria Visit

Damon walks down the school's corridors back to his classroom, as he is walking he put his hand into his pocket, he feels a piece of paper inside it.

He picks it out and unfolds, it reads,

"Why don't you try asking that girl out, I think she suits you the best, Reselda."

Damon says in annoyance, "She is so meddling in my life like a mother!"

Then he crumples the paper in his hand and throws it behind his back as he is walking, it falls into the pin down the side of the corridor.

As Damon gets in front of his classroom's door he can hears his classmates gossiping once again,

"Did you see how he fell on his back?" one student said that as he is laughing.

"You should have recorded it, man," another student said that.

"You are right, It would have been a hit if we uploaded it" a third student commented that.

Damon says to himself trying to build up his confidence,

"I did it once this morning, I can do it twice!"

Before his hand reaches the doorknob to open the door, his stomach rumbles.

"Oh, I missed lunchtime since I passed out," he thought to himself.

Damon puts his hand down after he was about to open the door and says to himself,

"I guess I will visit the cafeteria, then go back to my room" Avoiding going into the classroom.

As Damon walks to the cafeteria, he pumps into the teacher that he met earlier this morning when he was fighting with Rukoro.

The teacher asks him as he is surprised,

"Damon? What are you doing here at this time of day?"

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"Don't you have a class right now?"

Damon shows no interest at all and says,

"Yes, I do have a class right now."

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"But I am hungry, so I am going to visit the cafeteria, then go back to my room" Damon explains.

The teacher was speechless at Damon's attitude even before he could say anything back, Damon excused himself and continued his way to the cafeteria.

When Damon was far enough to not hear him,

The teacher says,

"l just helped him this morning"

"This ingrate, Couldn't he show me some respect",

"I wonder how does he keep up his grades when he slacks like this?!".

Then the teacher turns his back and continues walking down the corridor towards where he was going.

Damon reaches the cafeteria, which is completely quiet unlike usual since it's not launch time.

He walks towards a door at the corner then knocks three times on it.

"Damon, Is that you?" an old lady says that.

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"Go to the counter, I will be there right now" she continued.

Damon then goes to the counter and waits for her putting one forearm on the counter.

The door opens and a fat old lady shows up and walks toward the counter as she is wearing her apron.

When she arrived at the opposite side of the counter she says,

"Do you want the usual?"

Damon replies simply, "Yes."

As she is preparing food for him she says,

"Damon, Do you remember rule# 2 of our school?"

"Rule# 2; No one can ask for food in the cafeteria out of the designed hours even the educational staff themselves" he replies.

"Weren't you threatening Rokuro earlier this morning with school rules?" The old lady says making fun of Damon.

"You are breaking the rules even though you are the top student in our school's academic division" she continues.

"You are a hypocrite, aren't you?" she remarks carelessly.

Damon remembers the image of his mother as she is crying then turning her head away from him.

As he remembers that scene Damon's calm face Changes drastically 180 degrees.

Damon became quiet for some time so the old lady peeked a look at him while she was scooping out his food.

She dropped the ladle she was using to scoop out the food when she saw Damon's face.

He was glaring at her silently with anger signs in his face, his eyes were shooting lazer beams at her, that she quickly looking down on the ground to avoid his glare.

The old lady bent down to pick up the ladle and went to wash it, then she continued scooping his food without saying anything.

After she was done preparing the food, she handed the food tray over to Damon and says,

"Sorry, I didn't mean it."

Damon throws some coins on the counter and says angrily,

"I am not like her". Then he leaves without saying any other word.

Damon then walks to the tables in the cafeteria to eat his food.

The food on his tray was simple; a bowl of rice, some pickles, and a glass of water.

After he was done eating he put his empty tray on the counter then leaves quietly, he didn't leave any leftovers.

When he arrives in front of the door of his room, he puts his hand on the screen beside the door to scan his fingerprint.

The door unlocks then he went into his room and closes the door behind him, the light turns on automatically but he claps with his hand twice to turn it off.

He stands in the middle of his dim room for a while thinking about what happened earlier.

Then he takes off his uniform, as he starts unbuttoning his shirt, he remembered that he left his button in the classroom, he sighs and says,

"I guess I will pick it up tomorrow"

Just before he was about to take off his shirt, he heard his phone notification tone, so he picked up his phone to check it, he sees,

"You have received a new challenge!"

He taps on it to check who issued that challenge.

"Rank No. 56 Rukoro is challenging you to a duel" that is the notification.

He taps on the decline button right away without thinking and says to himself with a slight sign of annoyance,

"That brat, it's all his fault."

Then he throws his phone on the table, takes off his shirt, throws it on the ground, and throws himself on the bed bare top.