After he obtained emotionless skill, Prajwal was able to blend with others on his will without them even realizing it. But there was a limitation due to lack of proper social activities on his part, some people who were sharp enough in social gathering and activities were able to trace his involvement. But currently the case was different. The group he had blended with had almost no thinking capacity, they had their brain overworked due to the fear of death. Walking among them Prajwal appeared unassuming, almost simple-minded with a vacant look in his eyes. He had become a master in concealment.
All the students and working staff had gathered at the spot dedicated to them. The mood was solemn, only some of them were free of fear compared to the vast mass. Prajwal went and sat on the corner at the back to observe everyone and every happening. He got the space all to himself as most of the people were afraid to stay at last. It did draw attention towards him but due to his expression, everyone thought of him as an idiot who had his head fried. Prajwal sat on the ground not on the chair and started shivering little. Was it a fear or the effect of temperature? Nobody could differentiate. But nobody had thought of it facade. Prajwal was successful in his mission along with not drawing attention to him.
"Hello, As you all already know that the current situation is not favourable. Many of you might be at the end of your wits but let me assure you that we have been able to come of with effective solution." Listening to the speech of the dean, many of them became hopeful. Everyone was in search of last straw to grab, to save their asses and the hope was that straw. But there were people who thought enough and became hopeless once again. Their mind was filled with questions,
'What can the university even do? They couldn't student activities even during normal days. They couldn't prevent the suicide of students. Those things were easy to control that what they have to control now and yet they were unsuccessful in it. What can I expect.' Those type of students were only in small number, only the rational students could think so far. Most of them just graved the last hope given to them. At least, they could act normal for some time. Lucky for them. Same as in the past real world, the unknown were happy as they lacked fear like the saying of newborn kitten isn't afraid of tiger. The half-known were in constant danger and the fully known controlled the world behind the scene. What an irony! Humans always stay the same.
The dean continued the speech as he saw most of the students being motivated through his speech. "Students and all the staffs as you already know, there was a tutorial organized by the supernatural existence who invaded the earth. We sent some of our members to participate in the that and got a good result. We are sad that one of them died, but don't worry as it is not that dangerous as most of them survived. They just met one man inside the trial and no one else. If all the countries work together, we can defeat one person even if he is stronger than us humans. We have nuclear weapons." Hearing this even those who had lost confidence in the doings of university became hopeful. "We have prepared dinner for everyone. Have the dinner and open up a little, talk with friends of yours and free yourself from the pressure. These 2 days must have been hard for you, so we apologize for not bringing the information timely but you have to understand the it took more than a day for the members to come out of tutorial. Let's make today's dinner as a grand one. Rest after the dinner and we will inform of our future path tomorrow."
There was a loud cheer after the speech. But there were people who showed no reaction or people who looked scared even now. Prajwal took a notice of them while cheering himself with others. They were the people who had had an encounter with the monster. Scared people might be the one who had survived by narrow margin after their encounter. They were so scared that, they couldn't even speak openly about their encounter to others. Prajwal's focus was on the people with zero reaction. They were hidden power who would strike when time was right. Some of them may have bad motive but couldn't work on it due to lack of power but they are sure to do it.
Prajwal was done with, what he came to do. He took the food and wrapped it in a plastic bag. After he had packed enough food, he slowly moved away from the sight of others. His focus was on the 20 people with intuition capability. When he found all of them, not looking his way, he sprinted as fast he could and reached his dorm room. He closed the door and started eating everything on his table. He had bought the serving of 15 people of which he ate 7. He had bought extra for future purpose as this might as well be his last proper cooked food for a long time. The food was simple with white rice, chicken curry and salad, but it was delicious. After he was done with his dinner, he slept on the bed and picked up his mobile. He scrolled through the contact and found his mothers contact information. He tried calling it but the call didn't went through. Prajwal had expected it but he didn't wanted it to happen. None of the network related instruments were working. One could only use devices which just ran on energy like oven, torch light, AC etc. All the connectivity related things had stopped working.
Prajwal switched off his mobile and threw it away. He had the feeling that now he could never use it to contact others. He had to return to his home fast to meet his family. If his roommates were to be in room right now, they would have creeped out. There were tear drops falling from Prajwal's eyes without change in his expression. He didn't have the face that was crying, just tear drops falling. He fell asleep reminiscing his memories as a child.
Same time at other place:
There was a man sleeping on the bed. He was covered in wounds but they weren't much deep. He was sound asleep. Beside him two people were standing and conversing. The room was not well lit so, their face was not visible. One could just make out audible sound.
"Sir what should we do to him? He might release the information."
"Just,kill him. His use has already been completed."
"But, that's..um...murde.."
"Enough, it's for greater good so do it. He won't be surviving in that condition anyways. So, you are relieving him from his pain by killing him, just make sure to take care of his family later if possible."
"Don't worry sir. I will sure take care of his wife." One could see white teeth shining in the dark. The man saying that was giving a smirk.
"He also has a child. Anyways, take care of him"
The man went out of the room and left the other person to do his job. After only two of them were left, the man slowly took out a knife and neared the sleeping man. "Hey Aditya, you have such a beautiful wife. I had my eyes on her since she came here as a teacher but you married her and took her away from me. Don't blame me I'm just taking back what was mine. I will try my best to raise your kid and give him your name, I am not inhumane enough to kill a child. So, you have to die. You were fated to die ever since you decided to participate in tutorial. Good Bye" He moved his blade and slit Aditya's throat, blood sprayed all over him.
*You killed level 0 human. You have been awarded 0 experience point. Since the target is stronger than you, you have been awarded 10 bonus exp.*
"HaHaHa..Now Riya is all mine to take"
What he didn't notice was that, there was someone else in the room. Looking at the feature of the shadow, the person was female. She was carrying something in her hand which was clear due to the light shone by the lens of the camera. She just stayed there in silence and recorded everything that happened. Only when the murderer walked away and she couldn't hear sound of his footstep did she came out of the wardrobe she was hiding in. She slowly got out of the building and ran towards a certain area. As the moonlight reflected on her, one could see she was dressed as a nurse which explained why she was in the room.