"I am sorry for worrying you. Thank you for your help. I was lost in thought and didn't pay attention." Zavier could only apologize since the old man seemed to be out of breath. It looked like he had run towards him from a distance to stop him from falling off.
"Young people nowadays are worse than even us old fools. What is so difficult about looking ahead while walking? Can't you even do THAT right?"
The old man shook his head as if in disappointment and walked away with a hunched back as if bearing the weight of the whole world.
Zavier gave a slight smile watching the old man walk away and went on his way back to the student dormitories where the contestants had been staying all this while.
All the participants of the Merion high school had been admitted into Caesar University without a doubt since they were the strongest of all the teams who had participated in the entrance examination and had the most surviving members in the second group.
