"What should we do?"
"Should we purposely make her fail the test? In that way, she won't be able to leave this place ever."
The professor that was Euphemia's homeroom teacher was in the discussion room together with the other high rankers, currently discussing matters regarding the young girl who will take the final exam soon.
"...That'll be harsh."
However, the reason was, that the professor disagreed with what they have come to mind. He was nurturing the girl for almost his life and came to a realization that the girl had dreamt about getting out in a prison school such as the academy. He couldn't endure so many delays for a girl's freedom, he has already grown a parental affection for her.
The professor lifted his face high and mighty against the council. Revolting about how they would hold the girl's future in their hands, he couldn't simply idle on the idea anymore.
Everyone turned over him. The unpleasantries are rising harshly, everyone was not agreeing on what he wanted for the girl. Naturally, no one has asked him about his little opinion. The glare is unbelievably deadly as it may seem. Risking his position as a single dreamer, was harder than he ever thought.
For the poor professor who is being treated most-likely not higher than a dog. He could never disobey the council's decision. He was there to obey, nothing more and nothing at a very little. Thus, this tension soon fades as the president of the council takes his opinion out.
"Why not let her graduate. What is the loss?" He amusingly speaks, "We can still monitor her outside, I've heard our people have successfully made an invention that can fully control someone. Make her wear that and—poof! She'll always be our obedient little puppy."
Confident he was. The intense atmospheric sphere soon faded. The professor's trembling legs were able to ease. He sighed, glancing at the sight of the council members. He could see the demonic gluttony of each person inside that place. They want power, power that will be able to control everything, and by that, they need to develop a loyal and obedient dog to serve them.
'Ah. What a true devil.'
***
Euphemia's perspective.
"Damn this mother-fucking good-for-nothing vending machine!" I was shouting madly at the stupid vending machine, "This is the eighth time it crams down my precious coins in a row." I kicked it a few times but it wasn't dropping any drinks. My mouth is already parched because of thirst.
"W-why is she doing that?"
Heretofore, everyone's eyes were on me. I don't give damn care unless this machine gives me the drink I want. Although, I thought I wouldn't care about other people. I still paused and gave them a stare—a sharp, dagger-like one. Some would avoid their stares out of the blue, some would totally pretend they didn't see me making a scene at all.
Going back to what I'm doing before. I resumed kicking the goddamn machine, and for Pete's sake. "Take a goddamn drink out, you greedy machine!" I hit it many times, and kick it with the much-fulfilling strength I have. But it was no use.
It only has a click sound; the sound was not even satisfying to make me halt from breaking this thing.
"...Wait."
Someone suddenly interfered, lucky for the machine. His disassembling will be delayed. A man, shorter than me, protested as he blocked my sight from the machine.
He has that dusky hair and slight ocean-like eye colour. He wears almost the same uniform I have, except his pants. But here, his height was kind of funny. If we are on the same level, poor him he wasn't blessed with a good satisfying height at all.
"Huh." I gave him slashing stares, "What do you want? I'm not in good mood so get out of my fucking way—"
It seems he wasn't paying that much attention to me. He would just turn his back and take the slot. "What beverage would you like to get?" although, wasn't prepared that he would ask me that all of a sudden.
"T-the orange one." I stuttered, "Erm." and cleared my throat. I stepped back a little and watched him how he would do it with the broken machine. Honestly, I'm expecting him to be disappointed. I would actually want to see how unfulfilling that machine is.
However, when he put the gold coin in the sensor. It went down as the machine made that noise, the noise of working out for something, "What would you like to have?" and it talked like a bitch.
"What?" I was so puzzled I moved closer this time, "This machine is a voice vending machine. You will need to tell her what you actually want." I screwed up; it wasn't even a voice vending machine yesterday.
"I want an iced latte, and one orange juice." the man responded.
I glared at him, "I know that!" My lips are on a gap, I was surprised that's all. But I can't believe that really happened to me.
"I never said you didn't know." He offered the orange juice I requested. I didn't think he would actually give me that, but I won't refuse it. I just don't understand why is he acting so cool in front of the stupid vending machine. He wasn't cool at all. Without any further ado, he left me speechless.
"I actually didn't look stupid right there." That shorty stupid air-headed. I'm going to make sure we'll meet again and I'll make you look stupid in front of everyone. I opened the juice, "Hm..."
Finally, my mouth got this refreshing drink. In actuality, I am skipping classes. I've heard from my classmates that we're having a mock exam today. Mock exam regarding the Schatten again.
"Schatten."
There are also rankings when it comes to those demonic beasts. There are four types of levels of it. The first one was the SS rank.
The SS rank Schatten's ability is, that they can have their own form. Like if they wish to have a human form, they can actually do it without problems. They also have brains, that's what've I heard before but I haven't encountered them yet.
The S rank was actually what they call ghosts or spirits in some ways. They can absolutely control you, or possess the body that you have if you are a sick-minded retard. In my case, I wasn't even in the slight of it so I'm actually safe from them.
The A-rank can infiltrate your dreams. Let's not make it complicated, they are nightmares.
And lastly, the B-E rank is those black dust-like particles. I don't see them though, who cares about those things, they can't even be seen anyway. But I've heard those particles can start your negativity, like what happened now.
Schatten feeds on negativity after all.
The Chasseur Magia is basically a school for the Chasseurs. Chasseur stands for hunters; the hunters are us who have been trained for almost our lifetime. Lifetime might be extravagant but let's not argue about that.
When I graduate here, I'm free to pick what course of life I would want to be. I want a peaceful life, forgetting everything regarding the pain of my past. That's why, the Gold Identification is what I need, I want to live like a Princess anyway.
The Schatten will be in our final exam, that's for sure. I don't care, I'm going to slay it and, "Fucking leave this place!"
I shouted until I nearly lost my lungs.
However, someone has caught my eye. Young kiddo who was staring at me abruptly laughed. He was on the other side of the deck. He has pure white hair, just like the colour of white porcelain. I can see through here his eye's colour; they are vividly flashing in sapphire. His skin colour was paler than any normal skin I have seen, it matched his clothes.
"I also have white hair... when I activate my Artes. That is." Right now, my hair colour was black. Since Eis was my Artes, some people actually call me the Ice Queen. But that is just disgusting, and it was very common.
"Err, who cares about me?" I even go against myself, "But why the heck is that kid laughing at me? Did he find me funny?"
As I observed the kid. The kid was actually approached by higher ranks. They bowed to him and even guided him to the room where only important people could go. And for the last time, the kid made a glance at me, of course, his annoying smile will still be there before he proceeds inside.
"What a weird little guy."
The white-haired young master made his way to the room exclusively only for the VIP Personnel. He is the very same person who laughed and had a friendly manner towards Euphemia before.He is the top, a very important person, and the owner of the exclusive companies built inside the empire. Seemingly, he was one of the emperor's trusted people who managed everything smoothly. No one can dare to defy him; he more or less got the level of emperor for himself.The appearance he possessed is more than just a porcelain white aspect, his rarity is beyond rare. That's why people also consider him an ancient person. Ancient people are actually what they've called Raksha's before.Raksha is once the guardian maintaining the balance of the world, however; up to these days, no one has ever seen them again. They became a myth, and mostly can only be found in some sort of children's book. Although the Raksha has vanished from the world, magic or commonly now called Magia still exists.The empire ma
Euphemia's perspective.The white person, I should call him that since he is all white. I never know his name, he wouldn't tell me, though, he seems familiar with me.That person approached me earlier, although I don't know what he wants. He asked me if I wanted to have tea with him. I rejected the offer since my limitation doesn't allow me to have a friendly start with anyone.As I said before, "That kid has been covered in a mysterious atmosphere himself." He was surrounded by the executives like they were all his slaves. I noticed how troubled they are, sweating most of them. Perhaps that kid has a powerful position in this place.I'm currently sitting on an unoccupied bench. Following the sight of the students who were with their friends."What would you like to have?""A parfait?""Alrighty! Hehe..."The two girls are acting like asses in front of me, it pisses me off."Why are they even asking each other like a motherfucking pussy...?...just get your asses out of here!" my burn
"Young Master Stale."Stale and the other important staff are now in the observation area, this area was certainly made for the VIPs, specially made to watch the students. The final exam will commence today, so everything is lively both for the supervisors and the students.That very same room is made of toughed tempered glass, it was made to shield the people inside from the Schattens, and students who are expecting will lose their insanity. The battle against the Schatten won't be going to be easy, now that Stale has decided to put the highest rank of Schatten in the examination.He is expecting that most of the students will die. Only the strongest will remain, and so does his pet."Everything is now well prepared, young Master." a female staff informed Stale, "We are only waiting for your signal.""Then, begin the examination.""As you wish, young Master."When the female staff received permission from Stale. She stepped out, informing the other staff about the signal that was giv
Euphemia's perspective.Everyone is on their feet, waiting for the fiends to come. We were locked in the huge dome, a place where will the examination takes its set. The atmosphere here is way more suffocating than breathing a miasma. The girls who are part of this examination are already crying because no one wants to team up with them. While the group made by most men were preparing for the worst.There are five sections of seniors who are taking examinations today. That includes our section, in fact, my classmates are here but no one really went to team up with me. It's not like I'm expecting one, I'm actually waiting for five people at least. But those stupid people think I'll be a hindrance."Don't worry. You actually got one." I told myself that, lurking a stare at this child who was looking at the others. His body is shaking, "So this is what you call 'Prodigy'? He looks like someone who'll pee here and now."I can't believe I have to babysit.I get back to observing people. Mo
Euphemia's perspective.The dust.***"Good luck, may God protect each of you." The proctor stated.Silence engulfed the whole area. Here we are, inside of this huge dome made of glass, as we witness how the light was slowly being tucked away by a small-scale black pixel. My mind envelops a common question in my head."Why?"It wasn't like this in the previous examination I had, everything is just not familiar as it was before. I can hear everyone's voiceless worries. It's deafening and fretting."Sister." the child goes sideways. I barely see how he is looking at me, he was stiff and seemed to be uncomfortable. However, I can't just let him be like that. I poked him, trying the best I could to cheer him up."Scardy cats usually end up dead.""E-ekk? I don't want to die!""Wait, did I scare him instead of making him calm? Ugh. This is why I don't babysit." I murmured to myself.A huge snap after, the next thing we saw was the dome was completely shut, there was no speck of light that
A young petite boy who possessed a massive red bush surrounding two wide green eyes was staring out the window on the second floor of his room. Silently, he was observing the people, including his family and his beloved older brother who soon will be taken away. The people who were dressed in military uniforms are sent by the Chasseur magia academy, to collect his brother, like he was a thing that pays off the debt of their family.It was given on their rules that every oldest son and daughter of a noble family would be designated for the empire. However, this family has twins. By means of twins, they were gifted with identical appearances that one can barely see the difference. In the way, their parents only picked the most reliable one, leaving the weak on the corner alone."Tch." This child can't measure his affection for his brother, they were born on the same day, grew up together, and are now because of the law. They are going to be separated for good."I wish they would take me
"Watch out!"We're in the second phase of the examination. The Ghost can easily possess the one who has negativity. Half of the examiners had already surrendered their minds to the sinister darkness."S-sister!" and we're being attacked by our own kind. Naturally, this will be nothing if I don't have someone who needs to protect.Creating multiple types of weapons at once is taking my vigour, and even pushing me to my limit. But I have no choice. While shielding this child from harm, the guy who helped me before is ruthlessly taking the life of the mindless students. The pattern of red dots unfurled across my vision by then. The dots hung there for a while, burying a sword in one's face doesn't seem to be a problem to him at all."A monster."Only a monster could do that. The students are begging for their lives, yet his ears were shut. He doesn't mind or probably he doesn't care at all.Although I'm not in the right position to judge him, he has done nothing but protect us so far. Ho
The drowsy atmosphere in this place was hounded both by fear and consternation. As the last opponent, we are facing will surely have the highest level so far. My eyes and the rest were staring at the entrance door where the Schatten would enter."Our final opponent will be a mimic.""H-how did you know that?"Surprisingly, the guy beside me can tell what we will be facing this time. I'm kind of doubtful of him."Why does he know? Did anyone tell him about it before? He doesn't seem like the guy who will have a long conversation with anyone." I snorted out of my thoughts.The steam from a newly opened door was released, and there was a momentary silence for all of us. Footsteps, we overhear a footstep that most likely was from the mimic. From the darkness, someone stepped in. The heavy sensation is, here again, what I can only do is stand firmly to my ground.A rough crackling laugh was the first thing we heard from the mimic, "Wahaha—!...The President told me that if I can kill each