As soon as words left Grembard's mouth, almost every boy or girl present at that moment in the auditorium erupted with excitement.
Why ?!!
Because it was their chance to lead a better life and become something significant in their life.
A hope to go out of this orphanage and see the outside world.
An opportunity to make a name for themselves.
These were the thought in their mind and upto certain degree they were right.
Afterall their parents are either dead or have abondoned them so they didn't have much choice.
Most of them knew they weren't special and could guess how their life would be.
So they wanted more and more. And this thing was the seed of forming dark emotions which they kept deep inside them.
They didn't understand what they were keeping but could feel the heaviness in those emotions.
At last , they were feeling _
Greed.
Jealousy.
Anger.
Thirst for power.
And many more.
It was wrong to say every child enclosed these emotions inside them .
But the number was more than half which was quite large considering their age.
Now one question must arise at this topic and that is_
How could this children harbour such negetive emotions?
The answer was simple_ because they had faced extreme hardship from the beginning.
Some were able to cope with that while some were not.
And that leads to cause this situation.
What they were hoping was not just a butler's postion but it was a place of shadow.
The chosen child will always be with his master and would also have the privilege to many things.
Like _
Education.
Training.
Artifacts etc..
But all these will be given on the cost of their outmost loyalty.
Indirectly means their life.
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Eon was sitting on his luxurious seat while resting his chin on top of his palm.
He looked neutral to others but on observing him a little ,one could find that he was bored.
He just sat there and listened the word's of Grembard without any interest.
After announcement of his butler, he saw the faces of children which were laden with lot of excitement for upcoming event.
But it was just on outside, inside they harboured many negative feelings in their heart and Eon could sense it.
Why?!!
Because he was talented.
There was no doubt about it.
It was a fact.
Literally.....
He could see every children present there with ease and could guess that all of them had nearly similar mindset which didn't differ much.
With boredom he moved his head from his palm then glanced at the children to locate anything special between them.
Just as his gaze travelled to the right side of the seating arrangement, he frowned a little.
His gaze landed on a duo who were seated at the end of the row.
He found something different about them.
Same as him they also appeared to be bored and uninterested about this event.
Both looked like wanting to get over with it quickly.
One of the duo was a girl with silky pink hair and small pink eyes adorning a doll like face which highlighted her cuteness even more.
'She's pretty cute...ahem..'
He shook his head a little then cast his gaze on the boy beside her.
The boy was handsome... no more than handsome with Dark blue hair and Grey hazel eyes but other than that he seemed Normal .
That should have been the case but unfortunately it was not.
"....!"
There was something different about that person which was giving Eon negetive Vibes.
Eon's senses were telling him to not make any contact with this person.
Eon's senses were pretty strong that's why he could feel any danger from afar.
And that senses were warning him about this person.
The boy didn't look strong and yet there was something about him that made his body tingle in dreed.That feeling.....he was feeling was somewhat resembled to what he felt back in a certain incident.
Up until now he hadn't feel that emotion again, so it was strange to him.
But on deeply observing this feeling he realised that they were alike but at the same time also not.
New and familiar simultaneously.
And he couldn't even describe it completely.
But why would he feel that?!!
Is there anything special about that person?
Or is it just an error on his end?
He was confused ,he was unable to come to a conclusion.
While he was pondering about it , the said person turned his head toward him and suddenly their gazes met and immediately a sudden chill ran down his spine.
Everything faded around him except that boy, it looked pure dark void.
Time got slower.... extremely slower.
Staring into that grey hazel eyes that bear depth of abyss , he found himself almost lost into them.
Colour of the surrounding he was in, had already faded leaving only murkiness.
Inside this black void were two grey eyes gazing straight into his soul.
Those menacing eyes which were peering into his very soul looked terrifying.
It was penetrating deep inside his soul.
Sweat began to form on his forehead due to the terror he was feeling.
The frightness of those eyes were unbelievable and the extent of Abyss behind those eyes was unimaginable.
He wanted speak..
"..."
But voice couldn't escape his mouth.
Then suddenly,
He felt a dark hand on his throat which was gripping it tightly and trying to choke him.
His eyes trembled due to horror.
His heart began to rise wildly.
With trembling eyes he moved his pupils downward then gawked at the hand.
It was unexpected to him.
That hand came out of nothing.
It was made of pure dark energy with several scales like structure on its surface.
Swirl....swirl.....
Snake like thing was moving on the surface of that hand carrying terrifying outer appearance.
There was much to describe about it.
But he couldn't....he had lost his ability to think properly.
That hand was tightning it's grip on his throat steadily ,trying to make him feel the real horrer.
His eyes widened at this .
He tried to move his hand to remove the grip on his throat but his hands refused to act .
He felt like he would die at any moment if he didn't do anything.
Soon his body paled and the very next moment it frozed... completely .
Then he lost his hope.
There wasn't any way to get out of this situation for him.
He felt hopeless.
His eyes began to close gradually...
And just as he was about to lose consciousness
Everything came back to normal.
It was a sudden change but deep inside his heart he was grateful for it.
His surrounding changed to what it was before.
He calmed downed a little then lifting his gaze he again froze in his movement.
Because the piercing eyes of that person still lingered on him.
It was making him uncomfortable and at that moment he realised somethings.
He didn't feel any fatigue after that choking on his throat which should not be the case if that wasn't any illusion.
He was sure that it was real so why didn't he feel any pain on his neck.
And most importantly his body, it was normal.
It was very weird considering the situation.
But it wasn't the end .
Now_
Hah...pufff...hufff.....
His breathing was getting a little heavier just by staring at that person.
His heartbeat again quickened like before increasing second by second but before it got any worse he removed his gaze from that boy and closed his eyes .
What was that?!!
Was it an another illusion?
No, it was too real to be any illusion.
He started pondering about that person , he couldn't understand the black thick aura that boy was concealing behind that cute,handsome or whatever face ,but he was sure that__it was ominous and overwhelmingly strong.
He could feel it.
After collecting his thoughts.
He slowly opened his eyes .
With brave mind he again moved his gaze to that person's direction.
Sweat was tickling on his forehead.
"..."
And what he saw left him speechless.