The next day at the academy.
Two classes had already ended, and it was a 5-minute break.
Ana was on her way to the washroom. Suddenly, she looked back and glanced around.
'Maybe it was my imagination,' she had a feeling as if someone was watching her but brushed it off as her imagination.
After returning from the washroom, she found it strange that no one was in the hallway. Usually, 4 to 6 students always wandered around the hallway during the small breaks. But right now, no one was there. She certainly found it strange but didn't seem to be bothered by it.
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Five minutes earlier, when Ana was using the washroom.
Luka was scribbling on his desk, and suddenly the classroom door opened with a loud bang.
"Hands up!"
In the doorway, there were some armed men with masks on their faces and guns in their hands.
"What is this? Who are you? And how did you get in here?!"
The first to speak was the male teacher who was teaching in the class.
"Shut the hell up! And everyone! Hands up!"
'Are they idiots? They are breaking into an exorcist school and then threatening us?' Luka was amazed by their stupidity.
No one reacted, even though the men were pointing a gun at them.
'Everyone here has their personal sword, you know?'
"Do as they say," said the teacher.
'Huh? Teacher... is he saying to play dumb here?' All the students present in the class thought the same and raised their hands.
"Good," the man glanced around in the room and said, "Hey you! Check the other classrooms and bring everyone in this room!"
Four out of ten men left the room, and soon after, they came with a group of students and teachers.
'Ana is not here! Did she go to the washroom?' Luka wondered.
"What about other classes?" the man asked.
"They are all empty," another man replied.
"What?! What type of shitty school is this? There aren't even 100 students here!"
"Umm… the second and third years are on their school trip now," one of the students from the group said.
'Training camp, not a school trip.'
"Hah?! Who the hell asked you?" The man pointed his gun at the student and yelled, "Open your mouth again, and I will shoot right in your head!"
"What do we do now, boss?" one of the men asked.
'So this guy is the boss?' Luka had already guessed that, but he wasn't sure about it.
"No problem, I doubt this will work. But even 100 lives is useful." the man groaned/
"What do you want?" one of the female teachers asked.
"Listen here. We want the government to release our boss, who was caught a month ago."
"You mean the terrorists who killed thousands of people?"
"Haha, so you know of our achievement. We will trade your lives for our boss."
"This is wrong. You won't get away with this," Liz walked out of the group.
"Hey, hey. Don't think I will hold back just because you are a girl!" the man yelled.
"You guys are a bunch of terrorists who killed thousands of people!" Liz was just like Luka. She wanted to help people, and that was one of the reasons why she admired Luka.
"I said shut your mouth!" The guy kicked Liz in the stomach, and she fell in front of Luka while coughing blood.
'I will fucking kill you! I will kill you! I will kill you!' Luka was about to burst into rage.
At the same time, the classroom door opened.
It was Ana. She walked in without knowing the situation.
"Where is everyone? I came back from the bathroom, and no one was in the room. Just what is—"
Before she could speak more, the guy acting as a boss shot Ana.
The bullet scratched her cheek, and blood trailed from her cheek.
"Tch!" he clicked his tongue and said, "I missed. I aimed at her head."
As soon as he said that, someone stabbed a sword at him from behind.
It was Luka.
Luka dashed and slashed two more men standing near the door. He then jumped and decapitated the necks of three more men.
The remaining men started firing at him, but he swiftly dodged them all and cleaved three more men.
"I am faster than your guns."
Luka was dodging their attacks as though it was his everyday thing and as if he was used to it.
He killed the last man standing and walked to the man who shot Ana.
"Wha… who are you…!" the man stammered in fear.
Luka grabbed the man's leg and started striking his sword on it as the man screamed in pain and begged me to let him go.
He wasn't even aware of why he was so angry. Was it because he kicked Liz or because he shot Ana?
In any case, Luka didn't seem to care about it. He just wanted that man dead. And with the last strike, he slashed the man's neck as the blood gushed out of his severed body.
Luka looked at the sword and uttered, "What a disgusting sword."
Luka threw the sword at the ground and looked at Ana, who was still shocked by the bullet fired at her.
When she came back to her senses, she saw Luka covered in blood. And the men who were standing were now lying on the ground, each of them missing their body parts.
"Ana?" Luka turned to Ana and called her name with a concerned look on his face.
"..." Ana was still frozen in fear.
"Are you okay?" Luka asked in a calm and gentle voice.
Before she could reply, she collapsed on the ground. But Luka caught her before she hit the ground and took her in his arms.
Luka looked at the corpses and said, "Dispose of everything!"
"Liz. Come with me. And Miss Amane, can you come to the infirmary after five minutes, please?"
"Okay."