"Miss Hanabi." says a pretty boy with some of his other pretty boys, about three others behind him.
"Oh, Sasuke." Hanabi replied which easily shook me.
Holy- ****. Why is everybody's name from the next door world.?
"Miss Hanabi, Will you introduce us to your current companion?" asked Sasuke.
"Oh him? He's a new one from outside. He's come to take the entrance exam, we're just currently checking out the items displayed today."
Kurosaki Yon
"Hello, My name is Kurosaki Yon. Nice to meet you." I introduced himself and bowed a bit. For some, it is normal to shake hands when introducing oneself. But I wasn't a fan of such gestures, so I simply bowed as a show of respect.
Sasuke, the pretty boy in front of me looked surprised, he must have expected me to act differently. Unfortunately for him, one Hanabi calling me country bumpkin was enough. I don't want unnecessary trouble, I just got here.
"I am, Tokisawa Sasuke. The 1st reserve head disciple. With me are my friends, Tokisawa Killua, Son of the Elder Exorcist of the Education department, and Tokisawa Vegeta, Son of the Elder Exorcist of the Security department." Both pretty boys behind him nodded in acknowledgement for their identity.
"My apologies for not being able recognize you. As you have heard from Hanabi, I came from the outside, so I had no idea who you were. Sorry." I don't know why, but it doesn't seem to work. I already apologized, but the way they're looking at me doesn't seem forgiving at all.
'Why are you being too polite to them? You could easily defeat them, so they should be the one to give respect! Where's your pride as my wielder!??' Kuryujin started complaining inside my mind.
'Calm down, the time for that will come. But for now, I need to gather information first.' After I calmed him down, the pretty boy in front of me spoke.
"It's good that you have manners and shows respect towards us. But!"
"For you not to show the same respect to Miss Hanabi, the current head disciple.! Is punishable! I must teach you a lesson.!"
What a kid, oh right, I'm also still a kid. But still, to punish me just because I didn't recognize Hanabi's title, ain't that too ridiculous?
"Stop! It's my fault for not telling him my title. Besides, I didn't want him to treat me differently like everyone else does." Hanabi blocked the pretty boy who looked like he was a few seconds away from hitting me.
"But Miss Hanabi-" he insisted only to be cut off.
"I said stop. Or are you forgetting who the head disciple between us is?" Woah Hanabi's a fierce girl.
"No miss Hanabi, I don't mean that."
"Then end this farce, now."
"Yes, we will be on our way. We'll see you around." The pretty boys retreated!!! Hanabi wins!!!
Once the pretty boys were gone, I gave her a thumbs up and a wide grin while saying: "Good job!"
Seems effective, judging by the smile on her face. "Hahaha, you're funny. You won't change the way you were talking to me now, will you?" she asked
"Change what exactly?" Honestly why would I change?
"I will have to treat you as an apology for today. Come on!"
"But I'm supposed to do the entrance exam today."
"Oh, take it tomorrow. For now let's eat!"
And so, the Hanabi dragged me out of the gymnasium. I don't even know if it was one. She took me to another building that definitely looked like a cafeteria based on the sign but I won't let it fool me!!!
Upon entering, it was just a normal building. Honestly, I was expecting something. Well at least, I'll be spending it with a beautiful girl.
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Yon found himself reading the manual he bought today. Hanabi talked a lot, she basically spent the whole day talking and dragging Yon. So Yon was unable to take the entrance exam.
After Hanabi led him to the dorms, she left him alone to his devices. And the first thing Yon did was lock the room and put on sealing Inscriptions around.
It was one of those inscriptions from his grandfather. It basically seals the room so no spirit energy cam be felt from the outside. Afterwards, he started reading the manual for concealing spirit energy.
According to the manual, one can conceal his spirit energy by closing his Zenith. From his grandfather, he already knew that the zenith he's reading, is the same meridians that he opened up within him when he started cultivating.
But upon reading up more, according to this manual. One can only possess as many as 12 Zeniths. This confused him a bit since, yeah as a Human Warrior Realm. He did only possess 12 meridians.
Specifically, the Yin and Yang groups. The Yin meridians/zeniths of the arm are lung, heart and pericardium. The Yang Zeniths of the arm are large Intestine, small intestine and triple burner.
The Yin zeniths of the leg are spleen, kidney and liver. The Yang zeniths of the leg are stomach, bladder and gall bladder.
All of this can be closed by a simple technique based on the manual and it will suppress one's strength. Since it suppresses their strength, it is advisable to at least leave one zenith open, so one can easily defend when in danger.
Obviously sealing all your zeniths makes you unable to use your spirit energy. An exorcist's strength can be measured by how much zenith he/she has opened upon reaching the age of 8.
According to the manual, once an exorcist passed the age of 8. He/she can no longer attempt to open more.
For this part, he was glad to have chatted with Hanabi since the girl kindly gave him information about it.
According to Hanabi, if one has opened all 10 - 12 zeniths. He can be considered to have a good future ahead. 7-9 can be considered ordinary. Anything below is considered trash, the only chance one would have is to become an inscription master which was even more difficult or become a miner and mine spirit/demon stones.
Yon finished reading but he didn't immediately learn the technique. He was contemplating since he not only have 12 zeniths or meridians. But since breaking through the xiantian realm or grandmaster realm, he also opened another 8 set of meridians.
[AN: Yon doesn't know these 8 extra meridians but let's give a description for formalities sake of where I got them.
8 extraordinary meridians
1. Conception Vessel
2. Governing Vessel
3. Penetrating Vessel
4. Girdle Vessel
5. Yin linking Vessel
6. Yang linking Vessel
7. Yin heel Vessel
8. Yang heel Vessel
..... Ciaosu.!!! ]
back to story
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Yon can pinpoint their location through his body, he just doesn't know exactly what their called.
Leaving it at the back of his head, Yon switch off his Space Concealment. Since arriving at his current strength, space Concealment can be turned on indefinitely. Only space Movement left left him able to use it within 5 hours tops.
Yon then began closing his zeniths according to the manual. Slowly his spirit energy and strength lowered. To him it feels as if his current strength has 20 levels, since he obviously does have 20 zeniths open. With every zenith closed starting from the 8 extraordinary zeniths, his power also became suppressed.
A few moments later only one zenith remained open. His strength was suppressed until the peak of 1st order human warrior realm or in Hanabi's words, Level 1 Student Exorcist.
With his cultivation suppressed, Yon took off the inscriptions seals in the room. Lucky for him the dorms let's them occupy one room per person. In modern era, a room accommodates at least 4 person. Also, he was able to get one thanks to Hanabi, since technically, he still didn't take the entrance exam.
Remembering Hanabi's words regarding the entrance exam, he knows a little on how it will go.
One simply needs to showcase how much zenith they have opened up. This can be done by placing their hand on a stone tablet with inscription on it.
This stone tablet has precisely 12 crystals which lits up according to how much zenith an exorcist has opened up in their body. Since that was the case, then he can't really hide his talents, also what will happen since he has 20 of them?
'Whatever! Let tomorrow's problem become tomorrow's problem!' Yon thought for a moment and started sleeping.
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The next day
The problem has come, literally!
Sasuke and his pretty boys were waiting for him outside of the dorm.
"You! Country bumpkin! Like I said, I will teach you a lesson! How dare you waste miss Hanabi's time yesterday. Today, I challenge you to duel between exorcists!" Sasuke immediately boasted which Yon gave him a warm yawn.
"It's so early in the morning and you already have a lot of energy. Can't you let me eat first?"
"You're just trying to run away! Have a duel with me and I will even treat you to a meal, if you win that is."
"Really? I might save some stones if you do treat me, then sign me up, let's duel.! Wait, this isn't a life and death duel right?" Yon immediately asked, as he remembers in his past life, duels in a cultivation world were mostly life and death.
"Hahahahaha" 3x.
The pretty boys laughed at him upon hearing his question.
One of Sasuke's pretty boys said. "You really are a country bumpkin. There's no such things as Life and death duel, moron."
"Hey! I simply didn't know. That doesn't make me a moron. You calling me one makes you a moron since you clearly have no idea of it's meaning." That earned him a glare from the pretty boy.
"Enough, let's take this to the dueling stage." Sasuke said.
"And how will I know you'll do as you said and treat me food for today.?"
"You have my word. So trust me when I say it."
"Sorry but I didn't grow up based on words. I need more than that."
"Fine, here!" Sasuke gave Yon a bag.
"This has 500 spirit stones in it. That is enough to serve you a meal for more than a week."
"Thanks! That's very generous of you. So where's the dueling stage?"
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The dueling stage was surprisingly in the gymnasium building. It wasn't that far from where Yon and Hanabi bought some items. And since it's there, a lot of people were attracted to know why a head disciple candidate was there.
It wasn't anything that Yon has not seen before. Just like any typical dueling stage, it has a lot of tiles. It almost look the same as Cell's stage in Dragon Ball Z.
There was still a fight going on so they had to wait. It was a battle between weapon specialist. Since both exorcist seems to be holding weapons. A spear vs a halberd.
When Yon paid attention to how they fight, he was disappointed. Both fighters simply shot long range attacks. Some kind of flamethrower were generated by the spear user and a hydro pump by the halberd user. Basically fire vs water.
Of course it'll result in producing vapor or mist once both attacks in large scale connected. Using his sense, he could see that both were standing still. Both were vigilant for any sudden attack but didn't even move from their position. Meaning, they don't have an ability to see through the mist nor do they have ability to sense like he does.
It was a few seconds later when the mist finally cleared up. And that was when both fighters decided to engage in a melee fight. A stab by the spear and flames were still being produced. A swipe from the halberd and a pressurised water threatened to cut the opponent in half.
Slowly but surely, they were getting slower and their elemental attack were getting dimmer.
An hour passed and both of them were breathing heavily. They were using their weapons as support just to remain standing.
Then out of nowhere, their spiritual energy spiked up. 'huh?' Yon tilted his head in confusion. Only now did he realized that both of them hid their level of strength.
When he arrived earlier, both were at level 1 strength. But now, both are in the 3rd level. And it's confusing, cause according to the audience both are senior students. So shouldn't they be, you know, stonger?
"Woah! Both of them are already level 3!!! Such strength!!" a bystander commented, clearly amazed.
"Yeah, barely anybody from the seniors can reach such power. And both of them are starting as seniors this year." That brought shocks from those who heard it.
"That's just how hard it is to grow. That's why it'll take years before we can get past the Novice rank. But these two, both have 12 zeniths open in talent, clearly they have a bright future ahead."
'The more I hear them, the more I am convinced that you won't benefit in these academy. They're all so weak!!!' Kuryujin's voice resounded in Yon's head.
'I could somewhat agree. But, this is still substantial. I need to know everything. And if they indeed are weak, then I don't think I need to stay here for 3 long years. I need to reach the 3rd order before the Canon starts.' Yon answered.
The duel ended with both the fighters unconscious. And the audience were hyped up from this development. Only one person was wearing a bored expression on the crowd.
End of Chapter 2
Volume 3: Academy Arc