In a relatively big office, 5 people were standing in front of an old man with silver hair.
The old man was writing something on a piece of paper.
The old man gave off a suffocating pressure as he wrote.
"Principal, what would you like to do with these boys?" Mr Reverie said with a serious look on his face.
"Sigh" The principal let out a long and tired smile.
The principal redirected his attention from the paper he was writing on to the 4 boys in front of him.
The principal's gaze seemed to penetrate through the 4 boys.
"Mind telling me what happened?" The principal asked, even though he was fully aware of what they did.
The 4 boys stayed quiet.
"Sigh" The principal sighed.
"I did nothing wrong," Lucian said
This caused the principal and the rest to raise an eyebrow.
Truly, Lucian did nothing wrong.
Lucian was attending a village festival. While trying to take a group photo, he accidentally stumbles and knocked over a series of carefully arranged domino-like decorations.
The decorations trigger a chain reaction, causing a commotion and disrupting various festival activities.
Misunderstanding Lucian as a reckless troublemaker, Lucian found himself being chased by the villagers who are upset over the unintended chaos he inadvertently caused during the festive event.
While running away from the villagers, Lucian found Adbeel and the others on the way.
The villagers mistakenly assumed them to be part of the chaos.
And so, Lucian found himself in this situation.
"…" Everyone was silent once Lucian explained what happened.
How could anyone be that unlucky? That is what they all thought.
"Puhahahahahahaha" Adrian couldn't take it any longer and burst out laughing.
"Ahaha, I'm sorry it's just..puahahahahahaha" Adrian tried to speak but couldn't because of the pure stupidity of the situation.
"Sigh" the principal gave out another long sigh.
"Well, since this was just your luck's work, I can't blame you. But how did you set several buildings on fire?" The principal asked
"You set buildings on fire? Puhahahahahahaha" Adrian laughed.
"Shut up, it's not funny!" Lucian responded.
***
"Haha, I still can't believe how bad your luck is," Adrian said while walking beside Lucian and the others.
"Yeah, at least you were only given detention," Gabriel said still surprised how the principal let them just go.
"Sigh, I don't want to talk about it anymore." Lucian said with a tired look.
He was truly tired; he was given a long lecture by Mr Reverie after they left the principal's office.
"Mhm? What's wrong, Bell? Why are you so quiet?" Adrian asked.
Once Adrian asked this, everyone's attention was turned to Adbeel.
"Yeah, you've been quiet the whole time. What happened?" Gabriel asked.
"…" Adbeel said nothing and only looked at them with dissatisfaction.
"Ohhhh, I get it, you're in that quiet kid faze huh?" Adrian said.
"What?! No! I'm just wondering how the hell the situation escalated so much" Adbeel tried to explained.
"No no, we get it~ don't feel ashamed Bell, we all have our dark pasts," Adrian said while patting his head.
A vein made its way towards Adbeel's face as he kept his anger in.
"Anyways, what class do we have right now?" Gabriel asked.
"Mhm? Let me check" Adrian said while pulling out his phone from his pocket.
"Oh, it's potion class," Adrian said.
Lucian got a sudden shudder once Adrian said that.
'Weird, why do I have a ominous feeling about this?' Lucian thought.
"Let's go then," Gabriel said while taking the lead and navigating through the big and beautiful hallways of Nova Academy.
*
"This must be it," Gabriel said.
"Let's head in," Lucian said while pulling the old wooden door of the potion classroom.
Entering the potion class, they caught the smell of enchanting herbs and a mix of earthy and mystical scents, sparking their curiosity about the class they were about to have and also somehow calming them down.
The class itself adopted a more traditional and old style with no windows. It had wooden tables and chairs. They even had a chalkboard! Which was a bit strange for some students. But it was also calming in some way.
Chalkboards haven't been used for over 100 years, so it was understandable how some students found them weird.
Lucian and the others took their seats at the back of the class.
While they were waiting for the class to start, they were approached by some students here and there.
But Adbeel made sure that their conversations with them was short. His cold personality to others made it easy.
It took a while for the class to start since the teacher for the class seemed to have been late.
After some time the teacher finally walked into the classroom.
The teacher had light brown hair and a skinny build. His eyes were matching his hair colour
"O..Okay everyone, let's start the lesson"
"I'm g..going to be your potion teacher for this year"
"I'm sure we'll have a great time together" The teacher smiled, showing his vampire-like teeth.
The teacher's eyes also glowed with a red hue once he said that.
'Was his eyes red before?' Lucian asked himself while squinting and rubbing his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing wrong
Meanwhile Adrian thought that the teacher was pretty nice.
'Wow, what a nice teacher' Adrian thought
*
"Ah sh*t!" Lucian exclaimed.
"BOOM!" A loud explosion could be heard after Lucian's exclamation.
Smoke covered Lucian's seat and the seats near him.
"Cough, cough" Lucian came out of the smoke coughing.
"Ahh!! My ingredients!" A student near Lucian screamed.
"Cough, sorry, cough, didn't mean for it to happen" Lucian apologized while coughing between his words.
"YOU!!!!" The potion teacher screamed at Lucian.
"THIS IS THE 3RD TIME YOU'VE DONE THIS!!!" The potion teacher yelled.
"Uhh, sorry?"
"…" The potion teacher said nothing and just went up to Lucian.
Lucian felt a bit nervous since the teacher was dead quiet. He couldn't see his eyes because it was covered by his hair.
Once the teacher was in front of Lucian, he grabbed Lucian by the collar and threw him to the door.
Lucian soared through the air, propelled by the forceful throw of his teacher, until he collided with a wooden door, shattering it upon impact.
A low, guttural groan escaped from Lucian's lips as he felt the ache from the impact reverberate through his body.
Lucian held back tears as he tried to stand up.
"Offf That gotta hurt," Adrian said while spectating the situation.
"Ding!" A robot made its way to Adrian. The robot carried a bowl full of popcorn.
"Thanks" Adrian thanked the robot while taking the bowl away from it.
Lucian looked through the broken door to see his teacher sprinting towards him with a face full of anger.
Lucian's eyes widened as he dashed towards the side to avoid the collision between them.
"Boom!" A boom was heard once the teacher collided with the wall next to Lucian.
Cracks echoed through the air as the wall began to give way, followed by the ominous sound of splintering and crumbling, signalling its imminent destruction.
"Sh*t" Lucian cursed as he ran for his life.
"Roar!!!!" His teacher roared.
"Roar?!!!! Did that guy just roar?!!" Lucian asked himself while looking back
Lucian's eyes widened as he saw that his teacher had doubled in size and gained a terrifying amount of muscle in just a couple of seconds.
"F*ck" Lucian cursed