The girls then laughed and calmly walked to get food talking about their respective experiences. The only people left were the three who needed to feel better. Eram was the first to walk quickly, followed by Michael and Ryker. They walked to the food stand and grabbed noticeably less food.
Eram wasn't feeling too hungry after he saw Cedric fearing the old man rather than being relieved. He was terrified at the fact that at the wave of his hand, he could most likely kill all 40 thousand students in a handful of seconds. Stopping time, making clones of himself, and what seemed to be creating matter out of nothing simply made sense. He felt his ability and effort would amount to nothing in the face of someone like that.
Ryker was feeling depressed because he couldn't even fight back against Shiela. He thought his abilities were the best and he would be invincible however she broke his jaw before his laser breath or whatever it was, and not only that he couldn't even land a hit with a simple punch. Ryker tried with all of his might to not die and in the end, it didn't even matter he couldn't protect anyone let alone himself.
The person who had it the worst though was Michael. The damage to his soul was beyond what his words could even describe and he didn't even know how to tell Eram what happened. The pain still lingered in his mind, feeling like there was molten metal being poured down his throat. He wanted to cry as he had never had to fight before in his life other than pretend fights with his brothers and sister.
Eram grabbed a little food and followed the group to a table on the far side of the cafeteria with the group. After fiddling with the food he decided it was about time to eat so he picked up one of the pieces of chicken and then stared at it like that was him being eaten. " Well, shit." He looked at the group of 9 kids around him and continued. "I'm not too hungry but I know I have to eat."
Alexander looked at him like he just spoke the devil's language " Are you insane how are you not hungry!"
" well to be honest with you guys… I don't know maybe I'll talk about it later." Eram said while still staring at the dead piece of meat.
Yuki shot in " Whatever is on your mind you can speak up."
"It's more complicated than that," Michael said staring at his meat in the same way.
"Well just know where here for you." Yuki stared at her food and decided to open up "My family wasn't exactly good so I know what sad people look like. So don't think you can bottle it up."
Ryker was starting to lose his edge with every word and decided he should yell " Can it or I'm going to kill everyone here!"
Everyone looked at Ryker and shut up seeing the desperate look on his face like a cornered animal. Ryker couldn't stop thinking about how he couldn't escape trouble it just seemed to follow him around. 'Fuck I yelled oh shit fuck damn-it I just need to breath take a second and calm down.' he took a breath and said " Sorry I'm just a little overstimulated I need to take a step outside." He walked out of the cafeteria leaving everyone there startled.
Liola said to everyone there " He had a rough past we lived in a dirty shithole that was a home for all of the drunkards and criminals. We have lived our whole lives in a survival of the fittest thinking the next day would be our last. He spent the last two years protecting me and Ren from the local thugs. " she looked sad " though I've never seen him this scared."
Kalla looked at him and said, " He is a good person though right?" After seeing Liola and Ren smile and slightly nod and continue " I don't want to wake up one day being abused by him."
"Don't worry too much." Liola looked at Kalla and then gave a huge toothy smile and a thumbs up "I'll protect you. Us women have to look after one another."
The group continued eating and talking. Eram and Michael ate more than they thought they would while Ryker was still nowhere to be seen. After they were done eating they were about to get up and leave until Ryker showed back up and said something interesting. "I ate some food Don't worry guys." He looked at Liola and Ren "Cedric is coming back to tell us what we will be doing and give us Class schedules. Before you ask I was going to step out into the hall and there was a paper plastered to the door that said so." He hissed out Cedric's name.
Right as Ryker finished talking Cedric appeared standing at the front of the cafeteria. At the wave of his hand around 25000 pieces of paper appeared out of nowhere and floated towards each of the students with pinpoint accuracy. " Tomorrow classes will start and you will go to a few of them as a group. When you get your paper compare it to those in your party and see when you all will meet up. For those that are in 3rd and 4rth year, thank you for coming back and passing. For the 3rd year, you will go to Mino, an island that is isolated and always protected for training purposes. For the 4th year, you will head to an island I named Bell, it will be harder to live in than last year it is in the 4th ring so it will have a higher pho density so be prepared."
Eram heard a new word and tried to figure out what it was ' Pho what is that, I've never heard anything by that name.' he would have continued thinking about it but needed to pay attention to the monster standing up there.
"With that, I am going back to my office to prepare for later things. Thank you all for listening to what I had to say." And like a ghost, Cedric vanished
No one else noticed what Eram had noticed but they were all excited for their schedule. Once Eram got his schedule, he looked at it in depth. His first class was Pho theory, followed by Spell casting basics, Core theory, Guardian Specialty, Lunch, Team Practice, Combat training, and lastly spearman basics. Eram showed his group and had the first three periods as the same lunch, and team practice as the same classes. Though Ryker and his team had no matching classes with Erams' group.
"Damn, I wanted to have some of the same classes as you Liola," Lila said with dejection.
"I know right this stinks. At least we live in the same dorm." Liola said back.
Alexander and Ren were happy that they would have less time to plot beating and hurting them. Michael and Gunther were talking together about the similarities between their abilities in gravity manipulation surprised at how close they were to being the same. Kalla was getting along well with Yuki, they were talking about some of the famous boy bands from where they lived. The only people who seemed to be empty-headed were Ryker, Eram, and Michael thinking about their next move.
After a while, the groups decided it was time to go back to their rooms to either get some shut-eye or practice their abilities. Eram looked out one of the many windows staring outside and could only think one thing 'I miss my family.'