"Why are you saving me then?" Asahi wondered. Earlier he saved him and following that he wanted him to die?
"This and that are two different things. I'm just doing my job." Narukami explained as he approached Asahi who was thinking about the problem at hand.
After a brief moment. He looked at Narukami with eyes burning with determination.
"I want to live!" He exclaimed as he clenched his fist.
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Narukami went back to his classroom as he slid the door to the side. Taking a step in, gazes focused on his figure and Narukami didn't pay much attention.
He observed his surroundings, curious why the gaze was sharper than usual.
Some students looked at him in surprise, some scowled.
This was because he didn't apologize or try to as he was coming late.
"Narukami, sit down." The temporary teacher ordered. He wasn't in the mood to lecture him nor did he have the time.
Narukami nodded as he closed the door. Sit down and pay attention to the two people that were standing on the teacher's podium.
"Starting today, your class will have a new homeroom teacher and a transfer student. Please, introduce yourselves." The temporary teacher said with a smile.
The new teacher surveyed each student attentively. His gaze was peering into each student without them knowing it.
Strange, however, when his gaze fell on Narukami.
He was rather surprised and didn't respond to what the other party was saying.
Noticing this, the other party, which was the temporary teacher, called out to him gently.
"Sensei…"
"Ah, yes. I'm sorry. My name is Nagasaki Yu. I will be your homeroom teacher from point on."
Later, it was the new student's turn. Others might not notice this but once in a while, she looked at Kuroda Aya with a fierce gaze.
Narukami shifted his line of sight to Kuroda who was looking outside the window. It was clear she had no interest in the introduction of two new people.
Yup, the cold beauty was in his class. Coincidence sure was scary and relating being looked at, Nagasaki, his new teacher, his eyes were filled with rage and hatred to Narukami.
The latter felt uncomfortable yet he was composed. Receiving such a gaze had no effects on him.
After all, he once lived in five different worlds and fought with many enemies that had the same eyes as his new teacher.
"Nice to meet you all. My name is Nanahara Satou," she introduced herself with a warm smile.
That smile caused the boys' hearts to melt. Not all the boys though, Ryu's expression was the same as Narukami, calm.
After the introduction, the class started for a few hours. Then, the bell rang as a sign for students and teachers to take a break.
Some decided to stay in class, some went to the canteen, some exited it. For the kind of person like Narukami.
He stayed in class and Ryu approached him.
"Narukami, did you kill the teacher's family or something?"
It seemed that Ryu noticed it too. Narukami simply shrugged his shoulders.
"Beats me. I don't remember slaughtering a family."
'Except in my past lives,' he mumbled but his words were a bit louder than he anticipated.
"Huh?"
"Nothing."
"...speaking of which, how's the victim?"
"Still alive, he's lucky honestly."
"Lucky?"
Narukami told Ryu about the prey marm that lasted on A's body for a day.
"Are you serious?" He was shocked.
Narukami nodded.
"Could it be he's a chosen one or something? That always happens in a story." Ryu added.
"I already met one, similar to it at least, and don't have any plans to meet another one. But still, he is anything but an interesting fellow."
When an Anomaly foul was injected into your body, something interesting will happen.
Ryu scratched the back of his head when he heard the first sentence.
"Looks like something interesting will happen to this city sooner rather than later." Narukami smiled.
Later.
"Narukami, thanks for what you did back then," he suddenly said and Narukami replied with a sway of his right hand.
"Don't mind it."
Ryu was referring to the event when he encountered his first Anomaly.
"What's going to happen to him, then? From your words. He seems more than meets the eye."
"Once an Anomaly foul enters your body, it will corrupt your life energy. Making you want to die, at the same time, the negative emotions within you intensifies.
As you keep thinking that. The foul will reach the limit, resulting in Anomaly coming to you and eating you." Narukami explained.
"That guy, I can't detect his life energy being corrupted. It's still the same as ordinary people."
He was controlled by the Anomaly to commit suicide and make him fight Narukami, still, he broke through the control effortlessly.
Ordinary people here applied to those who haven't received an Anomaly foul in their body. Pure body and filled with pure life energy.
The fact A or rather Asahi managed to achieve this feat showed that he was no ordinary high school student…
"So you're saying he's special?" Ryu asked.
"If we're talking about being special, we Anomaly sorcerers are special compared to ordinary people. He's different from average, that's what I'm trying to say."
Ryu then said with a low tone, "different from average... You're a vampire so that includes you too, right?"
Narukami replied as he whispered, "that applies to you too, dragon boy."
They both looked at each other in silence then laughed.
Thereafter, Ryu asked. "So, what is your decision?"
When an Anomaly sorcerer met a human with an Anomaly foul in their body. Either bring them to the branch or kill them.
The latter wasn't recommended as when the human became an Anomaly, its strength would be two times stronger than a normal one.
Let the human free? The consequences were a bit high if compared to the two.
Some people were intrigued with Anomaly phenomena and possibly doing some experiments.
The organization had to avoid the possibility of an experiment going wrong.
For humans, Anomalies were still a strange topic.
Anywho, humans who die at the hands of a sorcerer frequently become Anomaly. As such, a sorcerer must be careful when taking action.
In short, die by becoming energy for an Anomaly or to become one.
Therefore, each option has risks.
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. End of chapter .
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