Be it his status as the youngest president of the Arch VIST company or the top student of the science branch. His charming characteristic remained bothersome.
Ed disliked the crowd but he was always crowded whenever someone recognizes him within the college or outside the premise.
A 21 years old senior student of the Onlon university. He was the student the college was proud of but whenever he went to college, he will take an empty class to self-study or work rather than taking the professor classes which will become crowded once students sees him.
After relieving himself, he wore his spectacle and hoodie as a measure to keep a low status and hid himself.
He and the twins needed to submit a project, so they specially attended today and took an empty class in the second building to discuss other things after submitting the files.
He was walking side by side to the walls when at the left turning a girl bumped into him and her hand roughly smacked his cheeks as she stumbled back and fell down.
It wasn't intentional. It was a coincident that Cynthia hand slapped his cheeks as she flailed before failing.
"Tsk… it hurts!" she rubbed her butt and threw a grimaced look at the man who stood silently while looking down.
She just took a bath and walked out after taking a leave with the previous bullying as an excuse and amazingly she got it due to her kind hearted maths professor.
She needed a day off to get her delayed work done and it was the perfect time to leave with an excuse.
Though as a student like her who have not taken classes for years, there was no way she could get a leave but her classmate made it possible because of their foolishness.
And now she bumped into a very weird man yet she stood up and apologized realizing that his cheeks were red.
She found him familiar but didn't remember where she has seen him since he was covering his face partly when they first met.
"Excuse me? Are you alright?" she can't help but ask this motionless man while outstretching her hand toward him.
And at that moment he stepped back while sneering at her but didn't spoke a word.
He is crazy – Cynthia frowned feeling crazily annoyed over his shitty personality and left without any more word whereas Ed squatted hugging himself and leaning on the wall.
Though his disease didn't act up, he looked afraid of just thinking about what will happen next.
There was not a single time he didn't went mad after coming in contact with others skin and he was sure that it will be similar this time, too. And this obscure thought scared him more when he was alone without his friends on whom he relies on.
It took him fifteen minutes to finally notice that there was no reaction in his bodies after having rough skin contact with a girl.
Later in the class room where the twins were having a match in the latest game, he walked inside looking all pale, stumbling, darkness hovering over his face.
Both the twins gasped.
They had no idea what happened to their boss or brother, whatever but from the look of it their brother appeared terrified and the only thing that could scare him in this world is skin contact with others.
Wayne rushed over but kept distance since it could stimulate the panic attack more and threw a look behind at Eric, "Quickly, bring the sedative!".
"No, don't!" Ed sat on the nearest desk beside the wall and leaned over it, "I am… okay".
But his words were not matching his pale face. The twins can't stop worrying over it.
"How long has it been?" Wayne asked, his brows furrowed and lips pursed while waiting for Ed reply.
He was stunned as he saw Ed hesitating expression and when the man finally said, "More than fifteen minutes". Wayne was shocked.
The disease or allergy toward others skin was so deep that he become nauseous and show sign of madness just after one minute and now fifteen minutes has passed.
Unbelievable!
"Was it a… coincidence?" Wayne become serious whereas Eric become excited.
"Bro Ed, you should tell me what that person looks like, so that I can tie that one down for you. Muhahaha… finally you can understand the pleasure of skin ship," Eric laughed crazily while exhaling hard in excitement.
He was dead sure on capturing that person until…
"I felt a bit dizzy out of fear and so I couldn't see her face clearly but she smelt like…".
"Smelt like?" the twins swallowed waiting for his reply impatiently.
Ed scratched his back and averted his gaze. From how he accepted Eric words, surely, he was thinking of tying the person who can have skin ship with him by any means but the topic how she smelt was kind of embarrassing.
"… she smelt like a stinking fish. I almost felt dizzy after smelling it," he said it with a low voice.
"…"
The twins were dumbfounded!
They would have reacted more positively if Ed had said - he rather than she… but a girl that smell like fish was unacceptable.
Eric wiped his sweats feeling awkward about going back on his words.
It was him who offered to find that person be it a man or a woman but how in the world can he find a person with stinking smell for his brother. He would be more guilty if he did that.
"Hmm, hmm!" Wayne caught their attention from their reverie and said, "I guess we should try finding that girl. It might be a coincidence or a …umm… we will see it after finding her out".