JASMINE POV
We were all looking at Arthur, leaping in the path of the S class beast. I couldn't even help, I would just be in the way.
"Hey, where are you go- ARGH!"
I turned to the source of the voice. It turns out it was Reginald, that has been burned by a spell conjured by Lucas
"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" roared Elijah
"You think I'd risk my life to help all of you escape? Be honored that you'll be the valiant heroes that stalled the beast enough for me to escape! I'll tell everyone all about your courageous deeds!" he scoffed, turning back just to shoot me an arrogant smirk before conjuring a smokescreen.
I fired a wind bullet at him, but he was already gone. We immediately went ahead to treat Reginald's wound, as he wasn't reinforced with mana.
SAMANTHA POV
I wish I could do anything, to help Note in any way. Seeing Note blow up the elderwood guardian's hand off with just a fire magic spell has made me convinced that he does not belong to anything lower than an SS class, and he might even belong much higher than that.
A mountain of ice was suddenly conjured, effortlessly going through the elderwood guardian's body.
Purple lightning proceeded to turn the elderwood guardian into a pile of charcoal, burnt to a crisp within a second.
"Alright, let's go." said Note as he landed in front of us.
ARTHUR POV
The second phase of my beast will - Realmheart, as I called it, allowed me to gain unparalleled control and efficiency in controlling mana. What took effort before I was now able to do effortlessly, seeing the particles of mana themselves and being able to shape them to my will.
When we strolled out the dungeon, we all went to tell the guild what happened and what Lucas had done. What we didn't expect was to find him still running away from the dungeon in terror.
I appeared before him
"Hello, I certainly didn't expect to meet you here. What is such a filthy traitor doing, running around free when he committed an attempted murder." I said as I let most of my bloodlust out
Lucas's face turned pale, but he managed to stammer out
"S-so, you survived huh? How's that idiot that I shot with a fireba-" *wizz*
A sword suddenly wizzed right past him.
"Oh, I'm sorry, my sword slipped and it seems your ear was in its path."
Lucas, after touching his ear, got a horrified expression, sprinting full speed back to the adventurers guild.
After sorting everything out at the adventurers guild, and a fake trial where they supposedly kicked me out of Xyrus, we all said our goodbyes and went our separate ways.
I then made my way home along with Elijah, got a tearful greeting from my sister and parents, and went to sleep.
the next day
Ever since I obtained the beast core, I could tell there was a beast will inside. However, my sharpened senses and my gut were both screaming at me not to give it to Tessia. I wonder how she's doing (tessia NOT the ship chill)
"Sylv, catch" I said as I threw the core like a dog treat.
As soon as she had eaten the core, I could sense her power grow. It was worth it.
visiting gideon
"Greetings. Master Gideon is not—ah, hello, Master Vincent, please come in," he greeted, motioning us inside. Judging by the stern expression the butler had for a split second before realizing who we were, I'd have to guess that this Gideon person wasn't very welcoming of guests.
As we stepped inside, a foul mixture of metal, herbs, and rotting material bombarded my nose. While the exterior of the facility was hardly grandiose, the inside was even less appealing to look at. The whole place was a mess with tools scattered with no order, piles of discarded clothes and other miscellaneous items littered across the floor, and rather intriguing and unfamiliar raw materials stacked high atop shelves. There were also microscopes and other tools that appeared vaguely familiar to the ones in my old world.
"Himes! I told you not to let anyone—Oh, it's you, Vincent. I see you've come to bother me again." From the dim corner of a back room, a very short, hunched man made his way over.
The conversation with gideon is the same
First day at the academy
"My name is Tessia Eralith, and I am honored to stand here as this academy's Student Council President."
...
during the fight between two students
Elijah just sighed and started to leave but before I turned to follow him, I saw a slight smirk on the human's face as he once again imbued mana into his two blades.
That fool wasn't planning on finishing it with that. He was going for the final blow.
If I were to use a long-range technique, that'd create even more problems, but if I went there and directly interfered, everyone would know my face.
There was this way, too. Sorry, Tess.
"Is that the student council president I see coming over?" I deliberately yelled louder so that the human boy that won the duel would be startled.
"Where?" Asked Elijah
"Oops, guess I must have been mistaken."
"Are you picking a fight with me or something, brat?" It was the human that was just dueling; Nick or Nicole or whatever.
"Yeah! What the hell, man?! Getting us excited for nothing!" I saw some of the humans evidently disappointed at not being able to see their idol in person.
"I thought I saw her. Once again, my bad." I used my hand to peel his hand off my shoulder, giving him a wink.
"Yeah, your bad." He snatched his hand away before he walked off, spitting on the ground in front of my feet.
"You know, a good piece of advice if you want to graduate. I don't think killing that dwarf boy would've done you any good." I stood still as Sylvie spat directly at the back of his neck.
"Pfft." Oops, I shouldn't laugh in this situation. I took a quick glance back and saw that Elijah was just shaking his head, knowing it was too late.
"You dare—?" The thirteen-year-old boy with swords too large for his immature body dashed towards me in a manner I found clumsy, preparing to cross-chop with his two blades, his face bright red in anger.
I raised an eyebrow as I lifted one hand up to stop the blow. Why make myself look foolish?
Just as I prepared to shatter his two swords, and his dignity, a voice stopped him straight in his tracks. It was the voice that all of the new students heard not too long ago, and the voice probably every male had fallen in love with. It was also the voice of my childhood friend.
"Do you dare?"
"What is going on, Arthur?" Jarrod is the one that spoke up, making everyone in the crowd raise an eyebrow in surprise.
"No, nothing much happened, although you should go take a look at that dwarf student lying over there—Boznean, I think that was his name." I pointed over to the tree where the dwarf was still groaning while clutching his stomach.
"Still, this student was about to attack you when a duel wasn't even issued. This is a serious offense." Lilia stepped up, her gaze a bit sterner as she pulled out a small notebook and jotted something down.
"You. I believed I asked you a question. Do you dare?" She took a step forward, her eyes boring down on the second-year student.
"N-No. Of course I would never dare break the rules like that. I simply wanted to scare the boy—I had planned to stop before my weapon would hit him. But seeing that I was still acting rashly, I apologize," he said, shooting me a threatening glare as he bowed to Tess.
"Leave." Her eyes continued to look down at him as he shuffled a good distance away before he turned around and ran out of sight.
"And you! Why are you starting a fight with a senior on the first day of school? You should know your place! No matter how rowdy he may have been, he is still your senior and he didn't break the rules when dueling with the other student. Furthermore, he is a battle mage student while you are a scholar mage student. Did you not pay attention to my speech about discrimination between the two sects of students here? Yet, you still chose to interfere, making these types of problems apparent on the first day!"
"What?" My gaze narrowed as I asked, unsure if I heard her correctly.
I took a step forward this time, and I could see Elijah's eyes widen in horror as he realized I was going to go past the point of no return.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me like you're lecturing me based on a presumption you drew from the last five seconds of stumbling upon this situation. Are you really lecturing me, right now?" I took another step forward and I could see Tess's once haughty face beginning to crumble.
"He was about to seriously injure or even kill that dwarf lying there right now, after the duel system broke. If I hadn't stopped that arrogant brat, you would've had to deal with a murder case, not an unregulated fight between two students," I continued, my voice coming out louder than I had wanted to.
"I apologize for the trouble I've caused, Student Council President," I said icily, stunning everyone, including Tess.
Elijah followed closely behind as I kept walking, my pride keeping me from turning back around.
What a lovely reunion.
"Hold it, first year." Clive Graves ran towards me, grabbing me by the arm as he tried to spin me back around. "Were you raised in a cave? Are these the manners your mother taught you growing up? Do you even know who she is?"
Holding firm, I stopped and looked at him over my shoulder.
I knew from first glance that I would've never gotten along with him, but his words somehow had the power to irk me more than most fools. Was I raised in a cave? Was he seriously deprecating my mother?
"Let go." The malice dripping in my voice startled even Elijah as he instinctively took a step back. Clive immediately released my arm, jumping away as he guarded himself with mana.
I took a quick glance at Tess and realized she'd fallen down, more from surprise than out of fear. There was a brief moment where I asked myself if I should help her back up, but as a crowd quickly formed around her to make sure she was okay, I simply let out a sigh and continued my way towards the dorm.
"President Tessia, please get back up! Are you okay?"
"Who the hell was that? I think Treasurer Jarrod called him Arthur, right?"
"Oh man, he is so screwed. He just told off the student council president of the academy."
Elijah took a few hurried steps to catch up to me, eventually walking by my side. "You know what you just did, right? Man, you sure love attracting trouble, don't you? First the dungeon and now this?"
Author's note: I try to keep these situations concise, but it was pretty important. so I apologize for the ctrl c and ctrl v.