Albecht knocks on the door precisely 3 times with a specific waiting pattern in between. This is a secret code between teachers that he picked up on, the code indicated a command that said:
With that, the teacher excused himself and came outside. Mr. Rockard, a well known teacher for his physic and his obsure personality. A very self sufficiant man that takes large pride in his physical appearance and his bald shining head, but his most important quality, is that extremely thick mustache that is acompanied by the clearest beard that Albecht has ever seen. His face screams confidence in himself, but Albecht's life has taught him to always not trust appearance, after all, ultimate kindness is just a facade in society. Everyone for themselves, that's his motto, the one that has kept him alive for 10 years without the presence of an adult to take care of him.
As Rockard came out, he appeared rather preplexed by what he saw, the secret code has been (descifered) by a kid, the youngest one in the university no less. A large grin crawled across his face and he said loudly, 'You're an impressive one. So what brings you here that you have to discuss with me so urgently?'
'I believe all combat teachers have gotten the word of Mr. Skyford, right?'
'Yes, well I did, I can't say for others though.'
'Perfect. This is one of the classes I chose.'
'Classes? You can only attend one combat class, no?'
'Yes, if in normal circumstances, but you see, I have missed most of my physical theories, so I shall attend a different theories class.'
'I see, alright, right now we are in the middle of a lesson, I shall send word to you to be called over to the training grounds. See you later' – And with that, Rockard went back to his lesson.
Albecht was ecstatic as he didn't think Rockard would agree so easily, but showed no emotion to the old man.
He now proceeded to head to the bottom floor on the furthest corner from the gate on the combat side.
There lies a room which everyone avoided, around it was an eerie dark feeling and the area around that room seemed a lot dimmer than the rest of the school, all pupils tend to avoid that room due to the foreboading feeling it exerted. Students had made countless stories and roumers around this room. Room C666. Even the number made this room scary. Some were convinced that whoever is in charge of this room is a member of the satanic cult (a completely made up cult that students believed in even though it doesn't exist in the world), others believed a murder occurred in that room and now no one was in charge of that room and its forever haunted.
Albecht was completely against this idea, well actually, until recently. A short while ago the school had offered him to stay after school to tutor some other struggling children and he would get paid. On one of these nights, their lesson had lasted a lot longer than it should've. As Albecht was leaving, he met him? Her? It? Albecht wasn't sure what he saw, but he knew one thing for sure, that thing was dangerous. He was standing 13 metres and around 34 cm away, yet Albecht felt in constant pain, as if he was boing killed over and over and over.
He musters up all of his courage, and heads in its direction, not by choice, but that was the only open way to Skyford which he needed to contact.
As he was walking, the thing said
'Skyford isn't here.' with the most melodic and seductive voice.
This made Albecht flinch, it was as if every word said by him was attacking his mind. His ears were begging for more but his mind was shooing all of those desires. This man is dangerous.
Albecht jumped back a few metres and assumed a southpaw stance ready to fight. Now more clear as to what he saw, he realised the thing was actually a woman. She was of average height, a tanned white tone of skin, long moderately curly hair and the most stunning features Albecht had ever seen. She had bright green eyes with noticable freckles and some very impressive hunter eyes. A Demigod… I've seen a Demigod.. His thoughts were interupted by her as she directly said
'No I am not a Demigod. I'm Scarlet Crimson.'
'Huh? What the…' Before he could even finish his sentence he saw her standing right in front of him, he could feel her breath fall on his head. Was she this tall before? Well one thing is for sure, her presence made him feel tinier than an ant.
'How did you know what I was thinking?' – Asked Albecht genuenly surprised. – 'Is it your Ather?'
'Wouldn't you like to know?'-said the mysterious woman sarcaticlly – 'Why should I tell you?'
'You're right. I apologise for my rudeness.' – without realising, Albecht found himself completely terrified, she had covered almost 10 metres of distance in a split second, what else could she do? Well, she could kill him easily that's for sure.
'Why so on guard? I'm a teacher you know.'
'Huh? You? A teacher? That's impossible, I know every teacher in this school' and it was true. Albecht knew all 479 teachers in the school.
'Well apparently not. I'm the combat teacher of room C666'
'What? Room C666 has a teacher? You mean you're the teacher of that room of damnation?'
'That's a little harsh, no? Besides its due to my training. Before there wasn't any presence leaking outside of the room, now that ive become a master of my Ather, my presence has drastically increased and it leaks.'
'Presence?' asked Albecht
'Presence is the power one exerts on the world, how far or dense it is depends on how well one can control their presence, perhaps if I put it in easier terminology I would call it 'Aura' but its not really 'Aura', that's the closest explenation though.'
'… ok… I think I understand'
'Anyway, you came here for Skyford right?'
'Yes I need to receive my pay for today.'
'Ah right he told me to pay you, how much was it again? I don't even remember. You know what, take this' she then gave Albecht 10 cime, (worth about $10,000), this amount of money is unfathomable to him but he showed no emotion and just acepted the money. He excused himself, kept a straight face from the school to the PBV – a type of bus- and all the way home.
Usually he would get paied 10 met per houer, (1 met = $10), and today he should've received 20 met, but some how he got 50 times more. As he was thinking about this exchange, he kept contemplating about the money system. 1 cime is 100 met, and he had managed to get 10 of them, this meant he had 10,000 met. He slept worried that night.
- - -
On the way to school, he was wondering how he would use this money without getting called a fraud. After all, he lived in GPA 30- other wise known as Goverment Protected Area 30, an un-offical safe zone, its impossible for him to get that amount of money so easily.
He kept worrying about this in the class, got caught lacking, got called to the office, was allowed to attend combat lessons for free, got called back to the office, went to pick his combat lessons, picked 1 and was now standing in front of the other. In front of C666.
In front of… Miss. Crimson.