Overcoming the systems

Second day

They all went to their dormitories after lunch, except for one who walked through the corridors, and was followed by Lucia, she wanted to thank him for what he had done.

She asked in the boys' room for her roommate.

-Hello, is Alison here?

-No, he hasn't arrived. Why do you ask, aren't you the one...?

-No, me and Alison since we entered this school we are close friends, I'm just worried about his safety, those sophomores, they can beat him up. And you know we have to avoid trouble.

-Okay, if he comes in I'll tell him then.

-Okay, thank you.

Lucius walked down the corridors and from there, he saw a flashlight through the darkness. He wanted to know what it was, but he preferred not to go. He didn't want to get into more trouble, however, he saw something that caught his attention, crimson eyes, just like Alison's.

He wondered internally if it was him, and decided to go see him, he thought he was in trouble, because of what had happened.

I walked over there, and didn't see anyone. So he tried to turn back, but he heard two voices.

-And how about that bet, are you losing it or what?

-Luan has improved, maybe he will win it, but the school must pass to the second phase of the nationals and with that he was free of those old creeps.

-Before that, he could die. He's not used to that, your training is very intense, besides he doesn't feel pain, that's dangerous.

-I know, but I'm not going to lose my freedom, I'm willing to do anything. I don't care if this ends badly for him, he's just one more hindrance to society. If he is crippled after this, it's better, nobody will care, he's just a mediocre student with no future.

Lucia, upon hearing this, became angry and disillusioned with Alison, and tried to leave slowly without anyone noticing.

The two people noticed faint sounds on the floor and the black-haired boy went to see what had happened.

Lucia, seeing what was happening, ran to avoid being caught and hid in the cafeteria. She was afraid to see the true personality of her partner. She tried to get out, but Alison surprised her from behind and covered her mouth.

- Please, don't think badly, I have no intention of doing anything bad to Luan, I will let go of my hand, but don't make noise.

When Lucia sighed and grabbed him by the shirt, she whipped him on the floor and shouted at him

- You're a bastard! He trusts you, and you don't care what happens to him, Adrian is right, you're not normal, you're a sociopath who loves to hurt people!

Those words touched the bottom of the boy's conscience, in addition to the blow to his head. He tried to sit down and explain everything to her.

-Lucia, Luan knows about the bet, I know his condition and I'm trying to prevent him from suffering further damage to his body, that's all.

- And you think I'm going to believe? You sounded so sure and so confident. As if he was a scumbag.

Lucia let him go and walked away a little.

-The guy you heard is one of the people who was there the day I made the bet, I fought with Adrian and many people got hurt, besides the material damages, which are a million dollars. An important person got hurt, and he was a relative of the school's corporative. He saw so much potential in me that he paid for everything. He gave me one condition, which was to take the school to state this year, but when I came in they attached something else to me, which I didn't want to do, but I signed a contract under pressure. Luan was not going to be accepted at the school, they had him on the rejection list, it was the only option I could think of. I bet with those old guys that he would pass the national test and I would pass the state test, they accepted, since they thought it was fun to see how I try to make Luan improve.

- Well, get that kid out of your problems! -Lucia commented.

-I can't cancel a bet, because even among themselves they bet their stuff. And he could be sent to a correctional institution if they file a lawsuit again.

- Are they blackmailing you? Who are they?

-Businessmen and people with power, they are the corporate people who run the school. It's like the obligation they have with the country to invest in different institutions, even so, they make money here, it's a school of this magnitude for a reason.

Lucia slowly began to give in and calmed down.

-It's okay, I won't say anything. If he breaks an arm or something like that, I'll tell everyone in the classroom, so that everyone can see what a repulsive person you are, just like Adrian did. You are playing with the life of a boy, who might not be able to stand all that.

-Wait Lucia, I'll go with you, you can't go there alone, there are guards at this hour, and if they see you, they'll think you were doing something improper.

-I don't do anything indecent," she said, blushing a little.

-It's almost eleven o'clock at night, you know, what would they think if they saw you alone?

-What they wouldn't think if they saw you.

-Just let me come with you.

Lucia thought about her partner's words and answered.

-All right, let's go.

They both headed to the dormitory and in the middle of the solitude of the corridors, she met a watchman.

-Hey guys, what are you doing at this hour?

-We just left the place and we're a little late, that's all.

-Teens.... It's okay, I'm not going to say anything, just do your stuff somewhere else not here.

Lucia understood what the man meant, and kept quiet, since, he was doing her a favor.

As they headed to the bedroom she spoke.

-Alison, you will pay for this embarrassment.

-It was either this, or get a scolding from a teacher.

Lucia was still very upset and went to her room. However, Alison was feeling a little sick and decided to check her system. There she saw a warning of a health problem in her head. She started looking at the physical statistics of her body and she had a slight blood loss.

The black-haired boy did not believe it, he thought it was impossible for something like that to happen to him, he only felt a slight pain in his head. He did not believe what was happening to him, so he put his hand on his head and felt that he had a liquid there.

He looked at his hands and there was blood on them. At that moment he knew how dangerous Lucia was. He understood a little bit what his partner Liz told him, so he decided to make a harem with all the girls that were interested in him. He no longer cared what anyone would think, or what they would say to him.

He had to take advantage of some of his strange item to accomplish his goal. Since they could be in trouble if that situation continued like this. The black-haired girl was dangerous for him.

In his system he saw the strange item he was running away from so much. The system showed him each of the women he was interested in. He was surprised to see how many women were there, but he didn't see Liz or Lucia.

He didn't understand how the red-haired girl had no interest in him despite the strange item that manifested itself in the other women.

[...]

The next day all the school groups were up for various training sessions. Luan felt very guarded by everyone and could not see his system. He didn't even know what mission he had to do now.

There was nothing new in the fights, everything was boring, before they started we all knew who would win, because they were only matches without any importance.

When the fights were over. We were all free to walk around town for a few hours, and tomorrow we would have a whole day off.

Luan went with Lucia and Liz for a walk.

They started walking around town and ran into Alison. He was the only one not in uniform.

- Why did you leave? - Lucia asked.

-It's tedious to be the center of attention, so if a few laps.

Liz walked over to him and put her shoulder to him.

-That doesn't matter, have fun with us for now, take advantage of the fact that no one is bothering you.

The girl pointed with her hand to a park and they all looked over there. The group of young people started to walk there. Liz started taking pictures of us, as a souvenir. And she kept taking pictures like crazy for a long time, with everything she saw, while she was doing that. Lucia was trying to get her to react and stop her madness.

Alison looked at her and couldn't understand why the item wasn't working for her. She got a little annoyed and started to think about what to do from now on. While Luan distracted himself a bit and tried to be a normal boy.

The black-haired boy felt an alarm from his system, so he tried to disguise that he was looking at it and just started to handle it with words.

-Open system," he said quietly.

There he began to see what the warning was.

There were people with system near here, so he had to take certain precautions and avoid them because if there was someone with an alarm like the one he had. There would probably be some incident.

[...]

The next day groups of eight people were randomly assigned. All to generate conversation and integration among the rest of the groups. Since no one wanted to talk to another school.

Luan was assigned to group number 16, I went to see who I was with and most of them were women, only 3 men including him.

They went to the next town to the east, which was a little bigger.

They took one of the buses that were there for the movement of students everywhere. There were dozens of buses of all sizes. The ride was not that long. So they arrived in less than half an hour. Once in the other town they decided that the leader would be one of the girls of the group since they were the majority.

It was around noon and they went to eat at a restaurant.

The breakfast was bread and scrambled eggs with chocolate, the problem for everyone was the cold-dry weather in that place, it was something as they walked around the place. Since the food on both days had been the same and had a rather annoying taste, Luan did not feel the temperature of the food.

Luan did not feel the temperature of the food and ended up burning my throat. I realized a while later that he wanted to talk, but could not. He hadn't even finished eating when the rest of his companions wanted to get up and go around the place. So he had to leave the food and get up to follow them, even if he didn't want to.

He followed them with some distance, although several of them were taking pictures everywhere, which Luan did not like very much. From one moment to the next he saw a danger alarm nearby. So he thought about leaving that town. It was the first time the boy saw something like that and he got scared. While everyone was walking he saw several groups of students like them and unknowingly we reached the adult area of that town.

Making it also made it clear that they were not to say anything about this place and suddenly they came across Alison's group. There were six men and two women. One of them talked to the leader for Luan's group, seeing that they were just as uneven as they were. After a while they went back to their respective groups and explained the situation.

-Well, we decided to change members, the girls to a group and the boys, we will meet before 9 o'clock, and we will take the first bus that will take us back to the city, because at this hour by the different trips of the groups it would be difficult to return.

With that clarification the groups were formed as previously discussed. Luan and Alison began to follow them, but with a lot of distrust, since the area was for adults, there were bars and places forbidden for minors.

-Don't be scared, we are just going to watch," said the leader of this group.

They were in front of the cabaret. Some of them looked nervous

-I'm not going in, excuse me, but I prefer to avoid problems, if we get caught by the police we will go to a town hall," said Alison.

-If you don't want to go in, then don't, and go," replied the leader of the group.

Alison turned around and headed towards the restaurants. Luan followed him, he was not someone who liked to be with a lot of people and he had never been in a place like that, he was very shy.

The rest of the guys looked at them as they were leaving and without hesitation they entered that place.

[...]

Alison and Luan were in a restaurant away from the adult area. Having a milkshake.

- Don't you regret following me? -Alison asked.

-Of course not, from the first moment I heard about the change I assumed this would happen," she replied.

In the city of Glosbar, minors were allowed to be on the streets until 8 o'clock at night for security reasons, although those over 16 years old were exempted from this rule, for unknown purposes, since sometimes some of them disappeared and were never heard from again, for this reason the group of kids they were with didn't miss this opportunity.

The waiter approached them with some concern.

- Are you lost?

-No, we are just waiting for our companions to return to the town where we are staying.

- They went to the adult area, didn't they?

-Yes.

-The children should not be there, some adults are bothered by it, sometimes they drink too much and do things they shouldn't do.

-Okay, don't worry, we will try to solve this problem," answered Alison.

-Shouldn't we go to help them, Luan asked.

-They won't listen to us, the best thing to do is to wait for them with the rest of the group.

Luan took his cell phone and started to check the time, it was only twenty minutes before nine o'clock at night.

[...]

Time passed quickly and the group of girls arrived at the place they had agreed upon. Alison and Luan tried to explain the situation to them.

-The other boys went to a cabaret. We left them there, and we preferred to avoid problems.

The girls were surprised to hear that, they were a little upset and grabbed their heads, it was already past nine o'clock and it was obvious that they would not arrive now. They all knew the trouble they would earn if they arrived later than ten o'clock at night. So they started to walk to the place where the buses were to return to town.

When they all got there, they noticed that there were only two buses and they were the only ones still in this place, so they all boarded only one so that if the rest of their comparison showed up they could leave on it.

Inside the bus they were all very worried, they knew that what happened would hurt them all. Only Alison and Luan were calm, the danger alarm they had was gradually lowering the intensity of danger.

The white-haired boy took the opportunity and looked at some things that caught his attention in his system. He had raised his strength and agility stats a bit in the time he had been at the school. He wanted to look at other sections of the menu, but it puzzled him a bit to do that. There were dungeons and training areas. Which were apparently still locked.