The moment I opened my eyes I saw a man clad in black, his face is more beautiful than any woman I have seen since birth.
He gave me a warm and kind smile as a welcome, before him stood a gate so tall and wide that I can't see the ends.
"So, I really would be sent to the afterlife huh."
"Welcome back! Everyone is waiting."
Teivel opened the gate and the scenery changed from the pitch darkness to a beautiful garden in an instant.
In there I saw Orion chatting happily with another two people I don't know, both of them seem to be of our age, a man and a woman.
"Um, Teivel, aren't I supposed to go to the underworld or afterlife after I died? Where is this?"
"Pfft, you never change you know? Do you really not know this place?"
A sudden pain tears my head. I crouched and roared out of pain.
Memories started to flood to my head. It is my memories of the past, my real memory.
My eyes widened as I look at Teivel once again, I tremble in fear of his being.
My body started disintegrating into fragments of shadow and is slowly being absorbed by him.
"Welcome back, me."
***
I woke up in my bed in the hospital, it is already morning, I must have slept for long.
My stomach growls loudly, I am too exhausted yesterday to even care about eating after all. Incidentally, it is also the time for the patients' breakfast so I can eat my fill.
"Oh, Arnold, it seems that you're awake now. You did something flashy yesterday after all."
Stood there is my best friend and the one I trust the most, Orion Stofford.
Even though we are born with low-ranking abilities and have both been failures of the Stofford family since birth, we struggled together and finally graduated as B-rank battle-ability users yesterday.
But at the ball, after the graduation, a group of terrorists attacked and killed all the members of Albert family who hosted the event.
I tried to mitigate an explosion from a bomb with my pyrokinesis but its strength is too much for me, at the very least I lessened the effect so that there will be no one to die in the audience but there are still some that I can't save.
Among them are two of our previous classmates, Lena Grace and Lindon Wilkins.
I am really weak.
I can't do anything on my own.
By the thought of that I cried and to stop me, Orion shed my tears with a handkerchief.
He really is not good at dealing with emotional people but he is trying to be give more consideration to me for we are the only one ally of each other.
"Don't cry so much, it's not like you are the one who killed them."
I know that he is trying to be considerate but no matter how I see it, the deaths happened because I lacked in power.
*Bang!
The door opened loudly, and from there entered a man that feels familiar but I definitely haven't seen before.
Because if I have seen him before, I definitely would not have been this awestricken the beauty and elegance that explodes from him.
"So this is the room of our young hero, so small."
He suddenly barged in and insulted the room. Forget what I said before, he is beautiful but is definitely not elegant at all.
"You two, from now on, are my lackeys!"
He said that with a wide grin on his face, his eyes also shone red just like the amaryllis flower that is in the vase near the window of my room.
"Bastard!!!"
Orion throw a dagger made of ice to him but he catches it, no, before it lands to his hand it has already evaporated into steam.
"Lucky, I get two powerful lackeys in one go. They really have guts, no? Eric, Emma, they are just like you when you got assigned to my squad, it is really fun."
I did not realize before but behind him is a blond guy and the only survivor of the Albert family, Emma Albert.
Emma is a schoolmate of us but I don't know anything about the other guy.
I feel like I saw him before too but I don't really remember.
"Don't toy with the newcomers, commander, they might quit again."
"Well, well, Emma. If they would quit with just this, the special squad of the of the SDC, does not need them in the battlefield.
After all I came here to see the people that might save the lives of people from our country.
I have no need for boring quitters."
His tone became serious all of a sudden.
"Wait− I don't really get what's happening anymore, just who are you people?"
The black-haired man removed his hand and bow like a nobleman, so he could really act elegant if he wants to, huh.
"Sorry for late introduction, I am the commander of Crimson Night Corps of SDC, your one and only superior, Teivel Carmine Ellis."
"You… you are our superior!"
Orion is taken aback by the lady's, no, commander Ellis' words.
Commander Ellis then appear in front of Orion in an instant and gently touched Orion's beet red face.
"Are you that unsatisfied with me?"
Is it just me or does it feel like he is suggesting something erotic?
The two soldiers that accompanied the commander can only sigh,
Orion is beet red and can't speak at the moment, and I…
I have awakened.
"It seems you are not dissatisfied, no? Now my two new slaves would not quit."
Damn, he really knows how to use his face.
Not even someone like Orion who is practically numb of the word 'love' can defy him.
But wait a moment,
our first assignments is being soldiers directly under this guy but we are going to be his slaves.
When did he downgraded us from being lackeys anyway?
"Now then, let us depart. The destination is…
Crimson Night Corps Headquarters!!!"