Elvis sat on a chair across the table from a younger woman with straight golden hair and baby blue eyes. She listened carefully to the words he said. Out of everything he said, only one shook her.
"What do you mean death?" She asked him. Elvis had explained what he felt when he placed his arm on the chests of the twins trying to feed his curiosity about the glow that emitted from their chests. He got an ominous feeling of bodies with no true life. They felt like a vessel for whatever was in their chests.
"I don't really understand what I felt, but those two are barely alive. Whatever is inside them is the only reason they are able to live, but it has the most tendency to kill them at any time." Elvis replied.
The lady paused to think. "Could this be why he asked me to look after them?" She wondered. "It makes more sense now."
"I want to know if they and the other students are unharmed."
"I have done my best, as well as Janet - the school's healer - But, they are all still unconscious. Their bodies are still recovering. The twins on the other hand, I didn't do anything to them and I didn't let Janet try either. I didn't want to try something and put their lives at risk. The one thing I did was remove the excess mana their bodies automatically absorbed and returned to those it got stolen from."
"Very well done," the lady praised. "This incident will be reported but not in detail of course and..."
"Sorry to cut you off Professor Rose, but there is a problem," Elvis said after realizing the one important thing he forgot to mention."
"I hope it's not a big one."
"Some of the students whose mana got absorbed no longer have the affinity for magic. No matter how hard I tried, their bodies just wouldn't accept it."
Rose had her eyes widened in shock. She was now worried. "What do you mean? They can no longer produce magic?" She asked hoping she misheard him the first time.
Elvis only nodded.
"This can not be happening. How do I solve this?" She placed her head in her hands in thought.
"I don't think anything can be done. Since they no longer can use magic, they have no use in this academy."
Rose felt a little bad for the children. "It has barely been two weeks and a problem of this kind occurs. How one earth do i explain something like this? I can't even ask you to tell a full out lie, it could cost you your stay here as this would be the last draw for you." She took her head off her hands and looked at him. "Professor, what do you advice I do?" She asked almost pleadingly.
"You really weren't prepared for this, now were you?" He said.
"It's not like I expected something of this magnitude."
"I am sorry, but I don't know what solution to give." He said in a low tone.
"Professor, since the twins were the ones who, even though not intentionally, took their mana away, it should work if they themselves were to give it back, right?" She asked having a glint of hope in her eyes.
"You and I know that in the deeper knowledge of magic, you and Chadwick are the best, I am just a man of combat, so I wouldn't know." He responded.
"It, it should work. It's the only thing I can think of." She said.
"But expelling that amount of mana from their bodies, wouldn't it be dangerous?" Elvis asked.
"They aren't giving out a large mana pool. They are simply activating the cells that they killed by returning and reversing the damage that they did." She explained.
"Basically, those children will start from scratch trying to harness it," said Elvis.
"With the way things turned out, they will definitely have to repeat the year unless they grow fast which I doubt will happen," Rose said with a sigh.
"Well then, we've found a solution to that problem. The only thing left is the reason for their current state." Elvis reminded her they had to report to the principal the reason for the number of students getting treatment.
"Leave that to me, Professor," Rose said with a smile.
"Alright then. I will take me leave now," Elvis stood to leave.
"Thank you, Professor for agreeing to help me with those two," Rose smiled genuinely.
"Professor Rose, you know I would always do anything you ask of me, as long as you don't ask for my head of course," he said and left.
Meanwhile, in his office was a disturbed teacher not yet on the professor level. He tapped his fingers on his desk repeatedly while in thought.
"It's already well into the evening. Why are they not here? Did they forget or they chose to ignore me?" Chadwick wondered. He had waited the whole day for the three of them, but not one of them showed up.
He waited a bit more but then decided to leave it and just return to the teacher's chambers. While leaving, he caught sight of a certain old man leaving an office he should normally have no business being in.
"Professor Elvis? What were you doing in Rose's office?" He questioned.
"I don't see how that's a greeting." Elvis said and walked off.
Chadwick looked at him walk away and looked back at the door he just emerged from. Slowly, the door opened to reveal a slender lady in her cloak that had a silver golden emblem, matching her golden hair.
"Professor Rose."
"Teacher Chadwick," She replied with a smile.
"I will be a professor very soon," he replied.
"Yes, yes soon."
"I don't get to see much of you lately."
"You've seen me now. I have something important to attend to. So, if you'll excuse me.." Rose wanted to leave.
"You are always busy," he said.
"Oh, before I forget, some of your students will not be in class tomorrow due to an accident." She informed him.
"An Elvis accident?" Chadwick asked.
"This one has nothing to do with him. I will inform you more about it later, for now, I need to speak to the principal." With that she left.
"Is that the reason, those three did not show up?" He wondered.
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In their dormitory, Lecter, and Wallace looked at the empty beds and wondered where their roommates were.
"Perhaps they are just wondering around like they always do," said Wallace.
"No, that wouldn't be the case. They didn't even show up for dinner. They never miss food." Said Lecter. He then thought to ask Jarett if he had come across the twins, Rodney and Damien. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Jarett and Cross walking past. "Good timing."
"You need something?" Jarett asked looking at his friend's stare.
"Has either of you seen the twins, Rodney or Damien?" He asked.
"No, we haven't seen them," he replied. "They're not here?" He asked.
"After leaving for the first class, they never returned," Lecter said.
"Come to think of it, Simon's in their class, I haven't seen him either," said Cross.
"We could ask Enoe," Jarett suggested. "He is in their homeroom class as well."
"Speak of the devil." Cross said seeing the one named Enoe walking towards them. His brown shaggy hair and buff stature was very familiar to Lecter.
"Hey, Enoe," Jarett called out.
"What do you want?" He asked annoyed.
"Did you happen to see Simon today?" Cross asked.
"Simon? Oh, he's in the school's sick bay."
"Wh-why? What happened?"
"Those two freakish Snow-whites happened." He replied referring to the twins. "It was just a simple mana build link lesson and they just had to almost get everyone killed. If they are that unstable, they really shouldn't be here," He said and was about leaving.
"Wait, are they in the sickbay as well?"
"They are. Nearly half of us were moved there," he answered. "They're friends of yours right? Perhaps you should get suppression chains and tie around their throats. They really need it." Enoe said and left.
"Damien and Rodney must be there as well," said Cross.
"Why did he look so familiar?" Lecter wondered.