"STAND AT EASE...ATTENNNTION!"
The instructor's whistle was blaring into my skull. "Are you sure you want to hire yourself as a scout? It's super difficult to get into the Regime, you know?"
"Don't speak so greatly of it. I know what I can do." I said to the man named Akira. He hissed under his breath, probably cursing at me. Well, the joke's on him isn't it? Haha!
"Whatever it is, don't tell anyone I'm referring you to the Regime. I could lose my job!" Akira whispered and hissed at me. I lifted an eyebrow, staring at him from head to toe.
"I won't." I gave him assurance.
"Oh shoot. Captain Janet is here. Oh my god, Oh my god!" Akira was lowkey panicking. I wouldn't even do that if I were a demon, down in hell which...is not the same anymore.
"You have two minutes." Out of nowhere, Janet the Human Captain faced me and asked. She was towering over me, a decent height compared to my human form. I knew what I had to do to get points and get hired immediately.
Akira watched in faint horror when I pulled the katana from my back. Captain Janet remained unfazed. There was a dummy to my right. Eyeing my target, I sprinted calculatedly and sliced the thorax off clean!
"Whoa..." the training ground was struck with lightning, which was me. My spectators looked at me incredulously. They were blown away!
"Quite the show. But we don't work close range with Shifters unless necessary."
"But how many close range fighters you've got?" I asked, my back still facing her. I could see she turned her attention to me - it was over her said time, 2 minutes. I won the wordless bet.
"Including me, quite few." Captain Janet asked. I hummed, a tone that suggested her answer wasn't satisfactory.
"You're afraid of losing your fame as a close-range fighter." I stated, the room filled with gasps. However, Captain Janet took amusement in my taunting.
She chuckled, her silky sonorous sound could make any demon flat for her, "I like how you accuse me."
'This is bad, yo. She's gonna receive a lifetime worth of punishments!'
'Lifetime is an underestimate. She's gonna have to be reborn to fill her lot.'
The humans behind me interacted. It didn't faze me one bit. I saw it as healthy competition with a higher rank, that's it.
"You think you're going to make me run for my money?" Captain Janet stood in my face, I smirked at her.
"Maybe."
The silence that followed was deafening for the humans. But I was having so much fun having a staring competition with Captain Janet.
"Six-o-hour from tomorrow. Don't be late. And run the grounds until twenty-o-hours. Dismissed." As she turned her back to me, I jumped my eyebrows and gave it to her - she has an attitude that I like. That was adorable.
As soon as she walked out, the training ground turned chaotic with people running towards me, screaming!
"Do you even know who she is!?"
"You just challenged the best fighter in the Regime! She's THE Janet Chen, genius!"
"HOLY MOLY THAT WAS CRAZY COOL! YO!"
"May Jesus give you the strength to face her and an ounce of common sense." And the human made the mistake of crossing his chest and kissing the sky...in front of me.
Well, that wasn't enough to offend me. I walked away from the crowd, ignoring everyone. Akira was too stunned to ever speak or move.
"Close your mouth. We live a forest infested with bugs."
"I don't care for some extra protein— BUT WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?"
"That's called making an impression, Akira. You wouldn't get it." I clapped his shoulders.
"I'm hitting the new bar in Model Town. Wanna go down with me? And you're paying. I'm THE NEW SCOUT, after all." I declared casually. No adult ever said NO to alcohol. Speaking out of experience, that thing. Since the stone age, alcohol has always been a bonding delicacy amongst people.