*Do re-read The Metallum Blade Part 1(Chapter 155), to refresh.
Part 2: Expectations to My Rupture
"You have a gift son. How are the Ordinate or the Krialin going to ever accept you with marks like these?" Mr Parnell slapped his son's report card on the table.
"Your sister's already ending her internship at the Ordinate. You're seventeen going on eighteen Okod, it's time to put some effort into these things," his mother told.
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"D'you hear? Melanie apparently got accepted into Reneka's University for girls—up in Galuvit Town. Shame; she was really cute," Zach told offhandedly into the wind as it brushed past his hair.
The dirty-blonde had grown much taller—a bit of awkward facial hair over his face, alongside fading scars of acne. His toned arms of lean muscle shifted back and forth, throwing and catching a paper aeroplane over and over.