Morning (Wed) Spring 3 Year 1
Hallway, Main Campus, Neocademy.
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Rhen is walking through the school corridors when he notices a ruckus emanating from one of the classrooms. Two groups are sneering and teasing one other in preparation for a fight, while other students clear the way and prepare for a probable escalation.
"I do not want to be in the same class as these mutts." A High Elf girl crosses her arms and sticks out her tongue at a Beastman with a disgruntled expression.
"Who you're calling mutt Treehugger!?" The Beastman sneered back, unsheathing his claws, ready to strike at a moment's notice.
"Let's see what you got mutt." The High Elf does the same, raising her hand with wind magic swirling around it.
It's a classic Might Vs Magic scenario.
"(Man, can they just get along?)" Rhen thought. He walks past them since it isn't his problem to deal with.
But before they can escalate, the disciplinary committee swoops in to stop the rowdy students, they consist of mostly High Elves with some Humans and Wood Elves mixed in.
In an instant, they control the situation using restraining magic such as Vines and Paralyzing spells immobilizing the troublemakers.
Rhen wonders whether or not this is a common occurrence in school, having too many races with different beliefs in one area doesn't seem to be a great idea in the first place.
He tries to call Scarlet, but all he's getting are miss calls. It seems she's busy for now.
"Any Idea where she is?" Rhen asks his brother beside him, he too is having a hard time calling his girlfriend.
Azrel shrugs his shoulders. "I don't know, I've been calling her for a while now. If I have to guess, she may be at the registrar's office or she's in class."
They decided to look for her at the registrar's office, if she isn't there, then they might as well check their enrolment status while they were there.
The two boys roam around the campus asking until they manage to find the registrar's office at the end of the busy hallways.
There, Rhen spots a group of Beastmen and Demons walking shoulder to shoulder blocking the path. They have a smug look on their face and in the middle is a 6ft 7in Human that looks like a gorilla presumably their leader.
However, unlike a Crimson Blood officer, he looks like the typical mid-boss delinquent you usually find in a school overrun by bullies.
The mid-boss isn't wearing his complete uniform, namely the lack of a blazer and leaving his inner undershirt unbuttoned like a V-neck.
His hair is black with a buzz cut. Not only his body is as big as a gorilla's, but even his nose also looks like one, he has the face only a mother gorilla could love.
"Fuck! If I can't squeeze more from the bread shuttles, the boss will get angry." The gorilla cursed with his two hands in his pocket acting tough.
Rhen doesn't know what's his name so he mentally called him Gorilla instead.
Gorilla notices him coming his way.
"Huh, Who's this guy? Why does he look like that, is he a supermodel?" These thoughts ran through his mind. Nevertheless, he thinks Rhen is a good target, someone who has money and lots of it.
He grins with full of intent, he plans to ram Rhen with his shoulder and then intimidate him like it was standard procedure like he does a hundred times.
Little did he know, this is a mistake that may cost him his life.
Gorilla is aware of his height advantage because he is taller than Rhen. He walks in front of his group and rams Rhen with all his might with his shoulder. However, when he made contact, it felt as if his shoulder had just collided with a solid wall, and Rhen continued walking past the gorilla.
The gorilla stumbles down on the floor instead of his target.
"Ahhh! FUCK! Hey, watch it pretty boy!" He yelled, rubbing his shoulder with a pained expression on his face. He didn't realize that the man he bumped into was leagues in power when compared to his own.
"(Damn, it hurts. Fuck! Who the hell is this kid, and how is he still standing after that?)"
"Hmm?" Rhen turns around and sees the gorilla on the ground.
"Scusa. (Sorry.)" He offers him a hand out of politeness, but all he got was a slap on the hand.
Annoyed by the Gorilla's rudeness, he dismissed him with a glare and walks away before things escalate further.
"Hey wait! You're just going to walk away? Pay up punk!"
Gorilla stops Rhen dead in his tracks. He looks over his shoulder together with his hand in his pocket. Rhen glares at him with his piercing hazel-brown eyes.
Rhen's dangerous and mysterious look made everyone behind him swoon including the Gorilla.
"(Damn! He really is a pretty boy.)" The gorilla felt dejected and inferior. However, this didn't stop him, it only irked him that he isn't blessed with good looks.
"Look punk! pay up or I'll beat you to the ground." Gorilla punches his fist's together intimidatingly with an arrogant grin in his mouth. He is determined to make Rhen a bread shuttle whether he likes it or not.
"Ohh no! Someone do something, please not his face."
The girls start to panic but with the disciplinary committee busy with another commotion, Rhen is forced to fend for himself.
Most of the boys however are happy to see a pretty boy get beaten up since there will be less competition for them.
"Man, he's going to get it now. That's Gori the gorilla from the Dragon clan, I heard he's a C-rank hunter already.
Rhen is not familiar with the rankings of the guild since he uses a different system, one which does not record any ranks. Because of this, He and his brother never got the chance to be tested since they deemed it unnecessary.
Still, Rhen points and inspect him.
"Ispezionare (Inspect.)"
[Boss: Gori the gorilla - Hunter Rank: C]
The information presented to him is barebones compared to his Character sheet, but the Inspect spell does its job well to provide him with how strong the target is.
Gori walks in front of Rhen and bends over to look him in the eyes.
"Hey you pretty boy, are you new here? Why don't you pay up midget!"
Gori was able to utter the forbidden word. Rhen's eyes squint upon hearing it causing his blood pressure to rise, as if in sync with the mounting fury within him. The very air crackled with potent magical energy as his wrath grew.
His magic swirls around him like a vortex causing the air around him to progressively heat up like a sauna.
"Hey is it getting hot in here?" Gori fans his shirt before poking Rhen's chest in an insulting manner.
Rhen avoided Gori's gaze for he deemed him unworthy. Rhen is not much of a taunter when in rage, but he makes up for it with sheer violence.
"Look, midget. I will make sure you pa-" Before Gori could poke another one, Rhen seized Gori's carotid arteries with three fingers and slammed him to the ground.
"URRRRHHKK!!!"
"Uhhhh… just don't kill him, brother." Cautioned Azrel.
However, his warnings fell on deaf ears as Rhen squeeze the life out of Gori, glaring at him with his deadbeat eyes. Gori's eyes start to roll back into his head.
"Can…t…b..rr..ea..thee." Despite Gori's pleas for air, his blood cannot reach his brain due to Rhen's firm grip. Gori's consciousness soon fades and blacks out.
"È qui che i nostri occhi dovrebbero sempre incontrarsi. (This is where our eyes should always meet.)" Rhen addresses the half-dead man. He has no sympathy for the man and regards him as nothing more than an insect.
"Hey! Stop that you're killing him!" Gori's friends attempted to intervene and threw fists, but Azrel stepped in and took all of the knocks from the kids.
[Mobs: Delinquent - Hunter Rank: D]
*Boink!* 3x
Their fists bounce off Azrel's body, their weak punches cannot simply match up a man with his defenses maxed out.
"Aw! damn it, what is this guy made off!?" Just like Gori, they felt as if their punches are being thrown back at them.
"Can we just all calm down?" Azrel said softly. He tries to ease the tensions between Rhen and them.
Azrel held Rhen's hand which is choking the life out of the poor man and calmly said.
"Rhen, he's going to die at this rate." Azrel's tone is solemn, and he looks his brother in the eyes.
"Tsk!" Rhen clicks his tongue, knowing Azrel is right. He hurls his miserable sod like a bowling ball through the corridors and into his companions.
"Ahhhh!"
The delinquents crashed into each other defeated, with all of them incapacitated, Rhen walks away as if nothing happened.
Befuddled looks spread among the students. The majority of them are stunned when one of the class bosses is defeated in an instant.
Some supported Rhen, but others saw him as just another delinquent gaining territory.
"Oi!, were not done yet!" Some of the delinquents get up and call for reinforcements
"Now you've done it, it's time to face the wrath of the Dragon clan."
Reinforcements come out of neighboring classrooms, most of them armed with brass knuckles and metal bats.
Azrel sighed and shook his head, pressing his face against his palms.
"Not again." He said with a disheartened tone.
"I don't know about you brother, but I think this is a good warm-up," Rhen smirks with half visible teeth.
He cracks his fingers and then proceeds to greet the latecomers at the party with his fists.
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Inside the principal's office, Scarlet is seen talking to a purple-haired woman.
Iris Cromwell is the woman in question; she is sitting behind her desk with her delicate legs crossed, while Scarlet is on the other side. Iris's attire has the same look as the night of the attack.
A white and red military uniform with a crop whip attached to her belt.
Iris is sporting a rainbow-colored butterfly hair clip that affixes her naturally growing bangs to the side.
Her beauty is akin to Scarlet's, albeit she has a somewhat more Eastern appearance as opposed to Scarlet's Western beauty.
Iris, on the other hand, is wearing purple eye shadow and lipstick. Despite being only 22 years old, she appears more mature than her actual age due to her make-up.
Iris spins her pen while she reads the recommendation letter in front of her.
"Your boyfriend's entrance exams are indeed noteworthy and they are certainly a fine addition to the school, however as for this man." As she said, Iris immediately taps Rhen's file with her pen, drawing Scarlet's attention towards it.
"This man is extremely unremarkable, he has a normal family, normal parents, a normal school background, and his high school grades are even average."
Iris paused for a brief moment before stating her point.
"And yet, he has a recommendation letter from the Kadwein Republic itself telling me to let his application go through without a hitch!? Not only that, he passed the entrance exams with flying colors. In fact, he even changed the questionnaire because he thinks it was wrong and outdated. He's quite a cheeky bastard by the looks of it" Her tone is interrogative, yet alluring at the same time.
Scarlet's uneasy smile raises Iris' eyebrows, and cold sweat pours from her brow as she attempts to keep it together.
Iris then crumples Rhen's recommendation letter and discards it. She looks Scarlet in the eyes and says.
"What do you know about him, Honor student?" With a quizzical expression on her face, she tilted her head in curiosity.
"Ahahaha. Well..." Scarlet laughs nervously, her eyes darting around the room and her hands fidgetting. "I-Is he not qualified Headmistress?"
Scarlet knows she is under NDA, and cannot talk about any confidential information to anyone. However, even if she isn't under one, she has the moral obligation to protect Rhen's identity.
"He's qualified Scarlet, honestly he's "Overqualified". However, when they sent me a test of his hunter rank and mana sample, I made sure to double-check it. Lo and behold, it belonged to a retired hunter. Rhen quite a mysterious man Scarlet, very very mysterious indeed."
Scarlet presses her lips together, the pressure Iris is exerting simply by looking at her is too much for Scarlet.
It was only when Iris's secretary barged in, Scarlet was able to breather.
"Your Highness! There's a fight between the transferees and the students, it seems like someone called him a midget."
The secretary's hair is brown, and she's wearing the usual office secretary look with round glasses with braided hair.
Scarlet's eyes widen, she knows Rhen does not want to be called a midget, she fears for the lives of the students and stands up frantically.
Iris is also startled at her actions
"Where are you going miss Flamesong? We still have a lot to talk about why not take a seat." Iris points to the chair with an open hand.
"Sorry Your Highness, I have to go!"
Despite Iris's orders, Scarlet runs towards the commotion as fast as possible.
"...." Iris didn't say anything. Instead, she calls for her secretary.
"Emma, from now on, I want you to watch that student's every move."
Emma kneels in front of Iris, her attitude immediately changed from a meek and secretary-like demeanor to a sharp and deadly shinobi.
"As you wish Your Highness."