Once the dust had settled, Kan took a step back and waited for the result of the attack.
Suspended in the air were his spikes, a few inches away from piercing Tenji.
His white aura had been replaced with a green belonging to Tenji.
Tenji held his chest in pain and coughed out to ease his stuffy chest.
"You were trying to kill me," he chuckled, "count yourself lucky that this was caused because you were trying to do your best in your job description."
Clenching his fist, the spikes have tiny cracks outlining their bodies until they burst into tiny dust particles.
"We wouldn't want that to be you in my grasp, right?" Tenji glared at him, uneasy about how his time would be up if he doesn't get in soon.
Gulp!
Kan froze on the spot and stared at the metal particles on the floor and tried to comprehend his stance.
'Twelve minutes, what the fuck?! I don't want to tear down the gates!' Tenji let out a sigh and shook his head.
The confrontation was the least of his problems and he wished Kan had gotten the memo on who he was with that little trick.
Stumbling back in shock, Kan had his mouth gaped open, he could remember seeing a similar feat performed by the professor while he gave a preview of his spell to the curious students outside the academy gates.
Dropping to his knees, he gave a bow of an apology, "I had made a huge mistake for the mixup, please do forgive this stupid guard."
Crrk!
The gate's lock was pushed back to unlock it and was pushed open by Kan's command.
Tenji shook his head, not pleased he could only prove his credibility by using an ability.
Walking through the gate, he paused and looked back at the guard. "You aren't stupid, you're sure to stop other rogue sorcerers if you don't make your attack so obvious. Work on your speed too, three seconds faster might have just caught me."
Tenji couldn't hold back the subtle laugh after explaining.
'That wasn't fast enough?!' Kan thought in a panic and couldn't hold the disbelief in his eyes at Tenji's advice.
Tenji had wanted to continue with his journey to the front door of the academy when he stopped again, looking over his shoulder, "ah! Lest I forget, keep up the good work."
Kan raised his head and a faint smile graced his lips as he got to his feet.
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In class 4 - Foreign research,
Tenji pushed a door in with the bell signifying his presence.
Ding!
Ding!
The murmurs and commotion seized in an instant as the students all dashed to get to their seats.
Tenji pulled his thoughts together and had his eyes focused on the students.
Standing in front of the interactive whiteboard covered by masking magic done by one of the students, a loud gasp from the students was a little suspicious to spark his curiosity.
"Welcome professor Tenji!" They all chorused at the top of their lungs in hopes of distracting him from the board.
'Something is off.' Tenji couldn't shake off the feeling of missing something with their anxious expression.
"How have you all been?" Tenji said with a smile, wiping the sweat off his face from the strain he had taken to his body.
All students shared a knowing look and merely nodded their heads to his question and some sweat dropped.
Only when a male student had his gaze fixated on the board.
'That's it!' Tenji snapped his fingers after figuring it out.
Immediately, he looked behind him, he could see the incomplete masking spell on the board in the form of ripples.
'What were you all trying to hide?' He thought as he forcefully ripped the masking spell from the board and his eyes widened at what was hidden underneath.
He stared at a side view drawing of a naked man with an erection and had his exaggerated biceps flexed.
On a closer look, he noticed that the length of the hair and body structure apart from the weird-looking biceps had a striking resemblance to him.
When he took a step back, it was more than obvious that a large heart shape had surrounded the drawing.
'Are you all trying to test my patience?!' Cross-popping veins made their way to his forehead and his fist clenched at the art in front of him.
Minimizing the drawing so he doesn't end up destroying it alongside the screen, he commanded the board to delete the lewd scribble.
Beep!
Beep!
Ding!
There was a new clean interface, ready for his teaching.
The silence that followed was deafening as they saw their professor still having his back toward them and probably contemplating some punishment.
In the absence of Tenji after the last professor had left, the mischievous student in class 4 had defied the protest of the others and drew the professor as a way of getting the attention of Tenji if he could still make it to class.
Students had been told to steer clear of the board as it only listens to the command of the professor in charge of the class at the time.
With no way of erasing what had been done on the board without the help of the professor, students had abided by the rule.
Tenji turned around and had a disturbing smile on his face, "well, that was unexpected."
The students masked their nervousness with a light chuckle.
"We're getting a demerit!" A side remark was made by a paranoid student in the front row, adjusting her glasses on her nose.
'I do wish to give it, but that was weirdly a great art excluding that–' Tenji shook the thought out of his head and made a mental note to think of a solution.
"I had worked my way here to get to teach you all, yet it looked more like someone had a wild imagination and used the whiteboard as a canvas." Tenji still made sure he put on the ruse smile which made most of the students unsettled.
"..."
There was another silence as they waited for his verdict.
"Surely I can't waste all my efforts by abandoning the class." Tenji nodded his head almost as though he was speaking to himself.
"I just have one request," he raised his index finger.
"Who is the artist of the wild art?" He questioned as his eyes scanned the classroom.
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A/N
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¶ Do you think the students would reveal the culprit?
¶ Any idea of the gender of the culprit?