My body felt cold, yet comfortable. All my fatigue slowly faded away. It felt like I'm underwater.
"It's the same feeling I had when I was reincarnated... Wait, reincarnated?!"
Reincarnated? Who am I going to be this time? Haaah. I wanted to die so badly though. Oh well, I'll just bear with it.
I slowly opened my eyes, my body felt sore. My wounds are stinging, I looked up the ceiling and my surroundings. It was at the dormitory my school has. And I was reincarnated in my past self, Kurtz Feier. And from my gut feeling, it was 3 years before the demons invaded.
"Tch, tough luck. Just when I was about to forget about this life."
I was the weakest person in the magic academy named Alvarlegt. One of the top schools I attended. I was on brink of quitting school due to bullying. And since I have the lowest mana. I was hopeless back then. I will only cry and whimper.
Well, whatever. I was hopeless in mana but now I have a solution. I have to be careful of not being found out about what I did though. This method will shock everyone and those pesky nobles will pester me or even force me to reveal what I did.
"fuuh"
I started my meditation.
First, treat mana like oxygen. Going through my pharynx, oesophagus and into my heart, pumping it to my lungs and back again to pump it throughout my body. This way, each beat I will gather mana passively. And the more my heart rate increases the more mana I get. Meaning I gather mana while strengthening my body.
I decided to push my luck by increasing the amount of mana I gather and condensing it.
I then started meditating and gathering mana manually. Because I gather more mana this way than passively doing it.
"Fuuuuh"
I took a deep breath and exhaled. I gathered mana in my solar plexus, picturing my mana core pulsating and spreading through the channels of the body like our teacher taught us. I modified my meditation and spread it among my pressure points. Increasing the pulse rate of my mana core, it beat faster and faster.
-Five hours later-
The amount of my mana is now higher than an average adult. I decided to go further and increased both my heart rate and my mana core.
-Ten hours later-
My mana is now on par with the top student in my class. My body is warm and sweating. I increased the amount of mana I gather by breathing even deeper.
-Nine hours later-
It's been a day of the continuous gathering of mana. The amount is on par with the top student in school. If this were my past self then I would've thought that it's no use having a large amount of mana when I don't even know a single spell. But that's the past. Now, I have knowledge both from the future and the other world. I smirked.
"Ah, I forgot I skipped school. Oh well, there's tomorrow anyway. Let's just sleep." I shut off my eyes and went to sleep soundly.
-Next day-
"mm-gh" I groaned, still sleepy with my head nodding off, I sat upright. I checked my mana amount again and it's higher than the top student in our school.
"I should probably hide this or it will cause shock to everyone. Plus, it's more fun when I catch them off guard." I grinned wickedly.
"Ah! I'm late for school! Gotta hurry!" I rushed to the shower.
-At the school entrance-
The front gate was filled with students and I can already feel the gazes and chuckles of the students who bullied me and talked behind my back.
"Tsk" I clicked my tongue, holding back every bit of my anger.
Why did I have to be reincarnated in my dark times? Why not earlier? Talk about bad luck.
I decided to keep up my gloomy act and endured everything. Besides, I'd only be seen crazy in front of these people if I acted like the Chris Rutherford I was in my past life. And I'd only be targeted more, I don't want that. What I want is targeting them one by one and get the revenge I want.
"Oi oi oi! It's Kurtz! Why didn't you attend school yesterday? You lazy loser! Let me teach you a lesson!" A man with red hair, athletic build, and an unforgettable disgusting face of his. It was Reid, one of the people who bullied me.
Veins were popping in my face, holding back my grudge. I was one push away from breaking his arm, just one.
"Huh?! Why do I feel like this bastard is acting cocky?" He smacked my head.
I stood still, with my head tilted by his slap.
"Haaah. I was one push away." I growled; I strengthened myself with high-density mana. I increased the weight to 5 kilograms weight, enough to knock over a person like Reidd.
"Aaah? What's this- Bugh!"
I punched his face with full force, catching him off guard and causing him to trip over. I didn't wait for him to fight back and immediately stepped on his chest and kicked his face down with full force, Slamming his head to the ground.
"Ugh- You bastard- Bugh!"
I stomped on his solar plexus, causing him to cough up. The students' jaws were dropped. And their eyes are locked onto me. I didn't pay attention to them and continued venting off my anger.
"Oi. Don't mess with me again 'kay? And also, tell everyone that they didn't notice this, or else... I will do you much worse later!" I whispered into his ear, like a demon threatening to swallow up his soul.
I kicked his face aside and continued with my day, overflowing with pleasure. I could've done much worse to him by using my own created magic but that's too hasty.
It's only the first day of my restarted life.
-At the classroom-
The gazes were the same as usual, some were keeping silent and some didn't know about what happened earlier. That's good, I want to shock everyone.
"Class is starting, go to your seats and sit quietly." The teacher announced.
I chose whatever seat I can have. I sat beside a girl and she tried her best not to touch or come in contact with me. Their whispers that degrade me are pissing me off.
"What? Why him? Ew."
"I know right?"
I bit my lips and gave them a death stare, bombarding them with bloodlust. Sending shivers down their spine.
"H-hah? Who are yo-" The woman beside her retaliated to my anger, but I interrupted her by releasing more bloodlust, specifically for them.
The veins in my face started popping. I stared even more intensely and scared her to the point where she chokes in fear.
"I-I'm sorry."
"Y-yeah. So relax okay?"
"You better be quiet." I intimidated them while trying to keep my voice down. They nodded quietly and went back to listening to the lecture while trying to not make my blood boil. My bloodlust didn't spread throughout the room since I targeted them specifically.
-One hour later-
It was lunch and I went to eat like normal. The girls didn't speak with me or badmouth me any further so that was less stress for me to handle.
While walking around looking for a place to eat I heard a scream in the alley of my school.
"Kyaah!" "Eek!" It was a girl. The voice was familiar, it was the girls who I threatened earlier.
I went and took a look and saw three people. One blonde girl, one short-haired and one guy.
"What do you mean he changed?! I asked what happened you whore!" The blond girl kicked their faces.
"Where is he? Go catch him! That loser! Tsk! I was low on money today, ugh. He just ruined my day." The short hair banged her fist on the wall.
"Whatever, he can only threaten girls. I'll go catch him instead. I bet he'll piss his pants haha!" The boy bragged.
"Scared? Me? Heh. I'll go there myself, wait for me!" I smiled.
"Oh! He's here! Good timing you bastard, I heard you threatened our friend earlier what was that about? You acting cocky now?" The guy closed up to me. Looking at my face attempting to scare me.
"Yeah, it's me. What are you going to do?" I smirked.
"Oh? This gu- ?!"
I grabbed his face and started walking to his group.
"A-ah, umm did someone call me here?" I put up a low self-esteem act.
"Yeah! C'me- Wha?! Jean?! Hey, let go of him!" The short-haired lashed.
"Oh, this?" I smirked.
I slammed their friend's head into the concrete, creating a crack. His body flopped to the ground.
"you bastard!"
{Water Magic - Water Bullet}
{Earth Magic - Bind}
They launched an attack at me. I dodged them by stepping on the walls and landing behind them. Before they could react, I slammed their faces down. They looked at me with shock and confusion, with a hint of fear.
{Barrier Magic - Silence} {Illusion Magic}
I conjured a spell isolating the sounds. No matter how they scream nobody would hear it. And illusion magic that will fool people that nothing is happening.
"Now, how should I deal with you lot?" I smiled.
"H-hey, what do you think you're doing? You'll pay for this- ?!" The blonde girl asked with anger. I kicked and stomped on her face repeatedly before she could speak anymore.
"Now, listen to me before you piss me off. What do you want with me you three?"
"W-we were asked to bring you he- kyah!" One of the errand girls spoke up; I kicked her face which silenced her.
"Did I ask you? I'm asking them, right? Stay silent brat." I threatened her. "I'll ask again, what do you want with me?"
"We're short on money so we targeted you, but, why are you going overboard? You did us good enough right?!" The blond girl whined.
I smirked, "Overboard? How? In what way? If we were to switch positions, I would've said the same things right?"
"I-I'm sorry, we're sorry! We'll be your underlings! How about that?! Just please let us go!" The short girl begged.
"Heh. I won't ask you to become my underlings, but, you better stay silent or I will do you worse okay?" I touched both of them.
{Electrecute}
"Augh! Agh! Gh! Aaaaagh!"
"Kyaaaa! I-it hurts... it hurts... augh."
They screeched in pain. The pain they're feeling, it was satisfying! A wave of pleasure coming from torturing these kinds of people just feels great!
I want to do more but the break was about to end. They would have bruises showing up too. I should heal their wounds quickly so I won't be suspicious.
{Healing Magic - Heal Bruises - Heal Wounds - Heal Injuries}
"Ah- It's over... haah... haah... Thank you for letting us go."
"Yes, we won't do it again."
"Now, remember what I said okay? Don't tell anyone about what happened. Because if I do..." I leaned closer and smiled "I'll torture you and heal you again so that there's no evidence. And I will then cast contract magic with you, that if you tell anyone, you would choke. Got that?"
"Eek! Yes, yes, yes!"
"Yeah! We won't bother you again."
The two bullies escaped staggering and whimpering along with their friend who was knocked unconscious.
The two girls who were looking at me in shock. Their faces were showing obvious signs of relief that they felt like they survived hell. Just like what I wanted, I smiled with satisfaction.
"Don't just whimper there you pigs, come with me and make it look like I was bullied. You better act correctly got it?"
"Yes!" They spoke at the same time.
I went back to class and kept up my gloomy act as usual. Though I was in a bad mood because of them, at least I got to beat them up; I felt fluffy.