The teachers listened to the students explanation, they looked at Shiro before looking around to see the extent of the damage.
"Sigh- I guess it can't be helped, such a mess. Restrain the boy, we still have to investigate this God Stigma thing and find out who gave it to him."
A man who seemed to have more authority than the other teachers spoke, he looked at the closest teachers signaling them to take Shiro's body away.
"Your classes for today will still hold, it's just that you guys will have to make due with learning outside till we repair your classroom, okay?"
The man then left with the majority of the teachers leaving behind a young lady who looked to be in her early twenties. This woman was called Yukina and she was the person in charge of the class.
"Okay settle down everyone, we will now move downstairs for our classes, please move in an orderly fashion"
Yukina said before leading them outside the classroom, they moved slowly to an open stretch of land before settling down and arranging them.
The students all sat in a lotus position as they watched their teacher call out their attendance, each of them answered when their names were called before listening to their teachers lecture for the day.
*
"Hmm, this is getting serious, he still hasn't woken up?"
The man asked as he looked at Shiro's unconscious body, he had been waiting for half a day for Shiro to wake up so that they could examine him but the guy just stayed there.
"Hmm..."
The man looked at Shiro for a moment before walking up to him and... kicking him, Shiro's body flew across the room and landed on the floor with a thud.
"Ugh..."
"See! He's awake"
The man said before going over to meet Shiro.
"Hey kid, do you know where you are right now?"
"If I said I did, would you believe me?"
Shiro asked back, he then used his martial awareness to scan the surroundings, he was in some kind of lab and the equipment he saw there looked like they were used for bio-experiments, he scanned a little more but his martial awareness didn't have a long range.
"Where is this?"
Shiro asked the man, he wasn't sure why he was brought here, the last thing he remembered was greeting into an argument with his classmates.
"I am called Ichiro"
"That wasn't the question"
Shiro was beginning to lose patience with this man, his calm and indifferent demeanor was filled with murderous intents as he stared at Ichiro. Ichiro smiled, he wasn't the least bit affected by Shiro's murderous intentions, he in fact found it funny.
"Young kids these days lack patience, they don't just listen when their elders are talking, but I guess the God Stigma is still active"
Ichiro then walked towards Shiro. He stretched out his hand and grabbed Shiro's throat, his cultivation soared as he lifted Shiro off the ground with little stress.
"Gughk-"
Shiro coughed out a mouth full of blood as he was trapped in Ichiro's choke hold, he didn't have any footing to perform any sword techniques so he could only stay there dangling from Ichiro's hands.
"Now, let us begin"
"...Where did you get this mark?"
"Mind you, the faster you answer my questions the faster you can be released"
He then slammed Shiro's figure into a wall before letting him fall from his grasps. Shiro fell on the floor and began coughing while he held his throat, he was held by someone whose cultivation he couldn't even sense with his martial awareness so it was expected for him to be badly hurt.
"I don't know, but if I were to guess then it would be during the exams, I can't think of any other incidents which could have caused this"
As Shiro spoke, the mark on his neck spread throughout his neck completely healing all the damage inflicted by Ichiro.
"Huh? It can even heal?"
Ichiro asked with an amused look on his face, he had the look of someone who didn't even care if the world destroyed right then.
"Do you know what else it can do?"
He asked Shiro, but before Shiro could even answer he began coming up with his own theories.
"No, I don't think he would know much about its capabilities, going by his answers, he shouldn't even know what its name is..."
Ichiro murmured some more before turning to face Shiro again.
"Your free to go now"
Ichiro didn't bother waiting for Shiro to answer, he immediately took of leaving Shiro in the lab with no visible way of getting out.
Shiro looked around, the area around him was extremely dark and would be hard for anyone to see in, luckily for him, he was blind, he didn't even realize that there was no light coming from the area.
Shiro began to wonder around while looking for an exit, he wasn't sure how much time it would take but he was determined to get out of there.
*
*Boom!*
An explosion occurred tearing through the ground, dust clouds rose and settled and in its place was a large whole. Shiro crawled out from that hole, his clothes had turned to rags and his body looked to be in poor shape.
It had been three days since he began looking for a way out of the lab, he found a tunnel which took him on an extremely long journey which led to him escaping the lab. Shiro took a deep breath, he was just happy to have returned to the surface.
Shiro scanned the area to find out where he was, he recognized the area as somewhere which was close to the lecture halls, following his mental map, Shiro went straight to the hall.
The teacher Yukina and the rest of the students stared at Shiro with wide eyes, they had been looking for him for nearly three days now, especially Yukina since Ichiro told her that he had released Shiro from the lab.
Yukina knew that Ichiro could be especially playful and carefree but she never expected him to take his jokes to these extents, he never even told her that he left Shiro in the lab.
Looking at Shiro's beat up conditions, Yukina felt like going over to where Ichiro was and giving him a piece of her mind, but for now she was just glad that he had returned safely.
Shiro scanned the classroom to check if there was anybody he could recognize, he saw Naomi who was smiling at him and waved, he also saw Kenji who hid his face the second he made eye contact with Shiro. He was just about to head back to his apartment when his martial awareness picked up something whose form remained unclear.
"You came back earlier than expected, where are Eris and the rest?"
Shiro asked, the thing with unclear form which his martial awareness had picked up was in fact Shin.