And just when he said that... A familiar voice reached his ear... "Well well well,look who we have here, if it isn't the famed Lucas Grimstone...I'm gonna make you pay for what you did to me the last time, you little ...!!"
"... It's as though I were in some movie franchise as some protagonist with a calamity magnet hanging on my head... As expected of me, the protagonist..well let's look on the bright side... The person I was planning on paying a visit to has showed up before me".Finishing with his muse, Lucas turned to the front of the door of the gym. Standing before the door was Cruz Fanoma, the fat guy whose jewels Lucas crushed a day ago.
Standing behind Cruz Fanoma were three buff dudes with malevolent smirks laced on their faces.
"I need to make this quick or this dude will let those guys beat me up. It could be that these guys are professional hunters from his guild he brought into the academy to screw me over. I cannot take any chances, they may probably be C class hunters or above" Lucas quickly mused to himself in a span of a few seconds.
Cruz was expecting Lucas to cringe in fear and beg him...Cruz, to have mercy on him.
However the opposite happened. Lucas who was just a few walks away from Cruz a few seconds ago,with the speed of an E class hunter , now had his right palm on Cruz's fat face. With great force, he slammed Cruz's head into the tiled floor, causing trickles of blood to exonerate Cruz's mouth,painting his lips and chin red.
The three buffed up men glanced at Lucas in shock.
"This guy actually dared... "
"Wait,look at his face, isn't that guy kind of familiar... "
"Yeah, he looks like the guy from the picture on the World Hunter's Association website, that first in history late bloomer who awakened at the age of fifteen as E rank"
"But that guy is more skinny than this guy... And his face is all scrunched up... This dude is looking more healthy... Are you sure it's the same person?
"Yeah, I am sure it's him... Don't forget that he's now an awakened, he probably got some money by running some few hunter errands to buy a body enhancening drug to improve his looks"
"Damn it's really him? ...!!.. We are screwed... An E class.. ?"
"Didn't the young master tell us that this guy was an F+ class hunter, it turns out that he was actually an E hunter..."
"If he were practically an F+ class hunter we could have taken him on, but someone of the E class is not someone we can mess with. We are too weak for him"
"But we cannot go back to the guild without young master... We will be screwed over there or worse if something like that happens. "
"Are you kidding me, the young master can die for all I care... This guy will roast us.. "... The three buffed up guys quickly fled the scene in fear after a short scubble with each other, leaving Cruz Fanoma on his own.
"So those guys were practically weaker than me, I guess I overestimated them... But it doesn't hurt to be careful... What I do not get is how quick they were to abandon their young master due to their fear of getting toppled by me" Lucas shook his head as he lifted Cruz's head from the ground, making Cruz face him eye to eye.
The empty gym resounded with Lucas' chuckle that held a strong texture of strong amazement. "To think you would not learn your lesson after what I did to you the last time. Just how arrogant can someone be just because he is from a rich background... What is with you arrogant young masters?... I used to think those scenes in movies and novels about arrogant young masters and Jade beauties were exaggerated.... That was until my parents died and I begun to have a taste of your uncouth attitudes...(sigh)... "
Lucas glanced at the blood painted, caved in lips of Cruz ,then turned to look into the arrogant young master's eyes ..There were tears?
"You are crying?... Do you think the world revolves around you?... Did you ever think of the pain I would have felt if your plan to humiliate me at the cafeteria had succeeded, did you know the humiliation I have had to endure at the hands of bullies, the ridiculing looks of many students who looked at me as though I were some piece of disposable that did not have any worth? ...on top of that.. You wanted to bully me?...and when I let you off freely with just your jewels crushed... you went to get it healed, didn't learn a lesson from what I did to you, then you came back with some bouncers to bully me again?... I would have used you as a hostage by placing a threat on your life If those bouncers you came with made any move towards me, but it turns out it was not even necessary to do that..
It turns out they did not even value you enough as their young master...in the face of someone stronger than them... This time, I'm gonna kick your reward up a notch ...but before that, let's get you to hand over your credits... Here is what you are gonna do, your face might be scrunched up, but your hands aren't... Send all your student credits to this account number... Then... Maybe... I will spare you.. "
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A few seconds later...
"Very good... As expected of a rich young master... 9000 student credits... I am sure you got your lackeys to do some underhanded stuff to get credits for you err..." Lucas glanced at Cruz, who now sat on the tiled gym floor with snot and tears evident in his already bloodied face..
Lucas paid his crocodile tears no attention, knowing that if this guy got another opportunity, he would try to mess with him again...
He had to subdue Cruz Fanoma here and now... Lucas mused to himself as he thought of how to utterly teach Cruz Fanoma a long term lesson.
He might not be able to eliminate Cruz in the academy, well, there was the life and death battle, but what non awakened would agree to that..to be led to a slaughterhouse?
Under no circumstance would someone non awakened like Cruz agree to such absurdity...not even if his life were to be threatened.. That is how far people valued their life...Lucas ,therefore decided he would have to use a psychological approach
Finally, Lucas knew what to do to Cruz... It clicked in his mind.
"Here is what you are gonna do..... "