'BAM'
'BAM'
'BAM'
"Uhh..."
A group of bullies ganged up on a boy and were hitting him continuously.
The boy rarely even resisted. He had his specs on which were snatched and crushed to pieces.
His face was already swollen while he was covered with bruises.
His nose was also pretty badly hurt and he was bleeding.
He barely even opened his eyes due to fear and just kept on lying while the 4 bullies were bullying him by either stamping him with their legs or by slapping him or punching him.
"Haha! That was refreshing!", said a tall boy with a muscular body.
He had yellowish-blonde hair with a hairband on it. His ears were pierced with earrings.
He looked like a typical bully with fierce eyes.
The others who were standing beside him weren't as muscular and tall as him.
They were just like the hyenas that ate the leftover of a lion or wolf.
Just because of some number and power, they thought that they were strong and thus continued to bully the boy.
'Ding Dong... Ding Dong...'
The school bell rang and as soon as the bullies heard this, they thought about returning to the class.
Although they never once took the bell seriously, it was rather a miracle for them to do so this time probably because it was the P.E. class.
*cough cough*
The boy coughed some amount of blood and then forcefully tried to stand up.
He looked like a worm before and even after standing up, he looked the same way.
That was probably because he was quite short. He could hardly be seen in a crowd of many people and that showed how shrimp of a boy he was.
Even his mass wasn't much and he looked basically like a stick that would fly off just by the blow of a simple wind.
'It hurts...', he thought in his mind when he tried to touch his ribs.
He then bent his body a bit and was about to pick up the glasses which he was wearing when suddenly another hand appeared right in front of him which picked the glasses up.
"Huh...?", he was shocked to see someone else on the rooftop even after the bell rang and probably thought that it was the bullies who had returned.
But when he took a look at the person after lifting his gazes, he found that a sweet girl was standing right in front of him.
"R... Ria?", he said with a rather surprised tone when he looked at her.
"Here...", she passed on the broken glass to him.
The boy takes the glass and then wears it even though the lens of one side was completely shattered while the other side had a crack on it.
"Rin... shouldn't you at least try to fight back?", she asked.
"...", Rin had no answer to this and he just tried to walk away towards the class.
However, Ria held his wrist as he was trying to escape and asked again, "Why do you just turn a blind eye to this? Just let me help once! I'll tell father and he will..."
"Shut up..."
"Eh...? Rin...?"
"I said shut up! Just leave me alone!", Rin said with a raised voice with his gaze lowered.
"...", this hurt Ria and she also lowered her head.
She was about to cry when she controlled herself and just walked away while saying, "Fine... do what you want!"
"...", Rin was now the only person who was standing on the rooftop.
Ria, who had deep black hair and a charming look, was Rin's childhood friend.
She was the daughter of the chairman of a huge business corporation that donated a lump sum amount of money to the school that they were attending.
Rin had been bullied since the start and Ria always protected him, but now that he was 16 years old and was a bit mature, he felt bad to be protected by a girl.
That's why he asked her to stay out of his way because he didn't want to show his pathetic side to her.
"Ya, this is for the better...", he said and then slowly walked downstairs while taking support and instead of going back to class, he ended up in the infirmary.
"Miss...", that was all he said the moment he entered the infirmary when the doctor named Reena rushed to his aid right away.
"Rin?", she asked and then gave him support and helped him to walk to the bed.
"Not again...", she right away brought the first aid kit and then treated him.
It did sting him a bit but he showed no sign of resisting it probably because the minute pain from the antiseptic was too less when compared to the bullying which he suffered.
"Your glasses are broken again!", she said while slowly placing his specs on the table.
"Ya...", Rin didn't say anything else and just had his head lowered.
She was slowly wiping all the dust that was on Rin's face.
Moreover, she did it quite gently as if she cared about him a lot.
"Rin...", she couldn't say anything else and just looked at him with eyes that were filled with pity.
"Sigh, just rest here, I'll inform the teacher that you won't be coming to the class."
Right after saying that she stood up and walked towards his classroom to tell the teacher while Rin just slept on the bed that was provided.
He covered his eyes with his left arm while crying and facing the ceiling.
'How...'
"Why...? Why did I end up in such a state?", he asked himself while sobbing.
All he could do was clench his fist and grit his teeth.
He kept crying and lying on the bed for a while and due to tiredness, he ended up sleeping on the bed.
"..."
"Huff huff..."
"Run!", man people were running away as far as they could while shouting and screaming at the top of their voice.
"Monster!!!"
"The monster is back!"
"..."
"No! Please... don't kill me..."
'Slash'
'Drip Drip'
'Crunch'
"Aooooo!"
"Monster...""Monster...""Monster...""No...""Monster...""Monster...""No! I'm not a monster!"*Huff huff*All of a sudden Rin opened his eyes while shouting at the top of his voice.The doctor who was back from the class was sitting and looking at some books when she heard him shout due to which she immediately rushed towards him."Rin!!?", she thought that something major might have happened.Though nothing of that sort occurred, she could see that Rin was sweating profusely.He was panting hard too and his breathing was too heavy.Also, it was evident that he was troubled by something because a weird sort of mixed expression of fear and confusion was seen in his eyes.Furthermore, it seemed as if Rin was zoned out and wasn't even able to hear what Reena was trying to say."Rin...? Hey Rin...", she slowly touched his arms and then shook him a bit right after which he regaine
For some reason, Rin was feeling the place to be familiar which was quite weird because he had no memory of visiting this place earlier.The thought of that was more than enough to make him shocked.The area around the old museum was also creepy enough to scare anyone who dared to even walk around it.That was the same for Rin too. He too was scared right now but his legs forbade him from running away from here.Instead, it felt as if he was attracted to the mansion.He subconsciously ended up entering the museum that was right in front of him after slowly opening the gate.Then he walked towards the door of the museum and opened it right after which he ended up entering the mansion.Just when he placed his foot inside the mansion, it started to thunder outside.Suddenly it got too dark as if it was going to rain."Huh...? What just..."Rin regained his senses after hearing the sound of the thundering and the ligh
"Tsk, maybe everything is rusted..."That was the only thing he could say. Of course, he wasn't wrong, everything in the place did seem to have rust on it.That was probably because it had been too long since it was left and there was probably no one to look after the place.Because of that most of the things had ended up in a bad condition."Sigh, I guess I need to find some other way to break the glass..."When he took a look at the glass, he could clearly see that the glass was quite thick.Without a doubt, it could withstand a large impact too with ease.Probably it was strong enough to block even bullets or missiles.However, Rin didn't care about those reasons, he just lifted whatever he found in the vicinity and started to throw them towards the glass.'Bang''Bang'The things kept hitting the glass but not even a single crack was produced. Of course, it was only after 50 minutes he realized that the
*Blink Blink*'Wh-where am I?', Rin opened his eyes while asking himself this question.He had an unfamiliar ceiling on top of him. It was quite dark, but despite that, everything was clear to him."Wasn't I in my room?", he asked.He was completely confused because the place in which he was right now was none other than the same museum from which he had departed earlier."Just what the heck is going on?", he was getting chills and goosebumps was a common occurrence right now for him.Clearly, very clearly something was fishy and he definitely felt that.He tried to stand up but unfortunately, his body didn't have even an ounce of strength.He was feeling feverish earlier and the same feeling was present even now. His body was definitely quite warmer than normal and he wasn't in his best condition either.'Tap Tap'And while he was in such a state, he suddenly heard the sound of someone's footsteps.At firs
Rin was forced to get the Grimoire but he had no idea why the man himself didn't do it.Although he was told that the book would choose the one who was worthy enough to it, he felt as if this was some random joke.'Tsk, I guess I have to trust him for the time being...', Rin was still suspecting him after all he was just a stranger."..."But he let go of all those thoughts and concentrated on what stood in front of him.'The cage... or perhaps barrier...''How do I break it?', that was the biggest question.He did hit earlier with all of his strength due to which a crack did appear, but he had no idea if he had to do the same again.He took a look at the spot where the small crack was present.'Hmm, I guess I should try hitting this spot with some sturdy material...', he decided and then looked around.The man was confused as to what he was doing. He wanted to see how Rin would break the barrier since he believed
The man was indeed astonished and failed to think anything more.His mind was blank just when he heard the shattering sound of the barrier.He wanted to deny the fact that such a barrier was broken by a brat such as Rin, but no matter what he would do, he couldn't change the truth."Yes! Finally!", he was quite happy about the fact that the barrier broke.But more than that, he was happy because he wouldn't be required to bang his hand again and again on it.It had already started to bleed but despite that, he continued to punch it.Probably each time he punched he thought - 'In the next punch it will definitely break!'That was good thinking which would lessen the pain and thanks to that he could keep punching till the end.Now Rin wiped the little amount of blood in his own shirt and then walked slowly towards the book that waited for him ahead.*gulp*'Our entire fate is in your hands...''If you can rea
Although Rin tried to tell himself that this was nothing more than a dream, he failed to wake up or come out of it.It was as if he was trapped. Indeed, he tried pinching himself and even slapped himself once or twice, but no, in the end, he was still surrounded by the dark mist and the darkness itself.All he could hear was someone's voice which he wasn't familiar with."Now accept it already, you have come here with greed to get your hands on the Legendary Grimoire of my master!", the voice said."..."This was bugging Rin even more. No matter how many times he denied it, the voice would just try to prove otherwise. It was saying the same thing again and again which was quite frustrating indeed."Sigh, just how many times should I repeat myself?""I didn't come here willingly!""I was just trying to get the book which the person asked for in return of which he would tell me about my parents and my missing brother!", Rin made
"Huh?", Rin was preoccupied with the light so much that he had forgotten about the riddle but it seemed like the voice decided to move on. 'Sigh looks like I couldn't answer the first question...', Rin was a bit sad. 'Hmm, but indeed, that was something to think about...', however, he was a bit happy that such a question was asked to him. "If you are told that tomorrow is the end of the world and if you are given with a choice to save only one among your mother, your best friend, and a stranger, whom will you save first?", that was the second question which the voice asked. The question was quite tough for Rin. He didn't know what exactly he had to answer with. Of course, while saving someone, one would give priority to the ones which are the most closely related so obviously, the answer for that should be a mother. But then again, he could save his best friend too because that person would also be close to him. No one would gi
But the shock did not last for long as letting out a long breath, ron forced himself to calm down. He had been trained for incomprehensible situations such as these, and thus he knew best that he had to remain coolheaded.Losing his mind at the moment would not benefit him in the slightest.And so, lifting his head and staring at Ren right in the eyes, he coldly muttered."I don't know how you are alive...but it doesn't matter."Turning his head and staring at the building in the distance, calmness returned to his face."You think you'll be fine if you do anything to me? You forget who is inside of that building?"The edges of his lips curled upward. Confidence rose in his voice, as he realized that Ren couldn't do anything to him.The situation was strange. For Ren to have been able to get some people to lead him here, he definitely must've asked for a few favours, but that didn't He knew just how valuable his life was, and his death would only lead to his eventual death.Ron clicked
Excellent!"Joyously shouted Roseal as he stared at a small monitor before him. Extending from the monitor were multiple wires that attached themselves to an individual. Subject 996"Who would've thought that patient that I had put the least hopes on would end up being the one that I have the most hope for."He was truly delighted.Out of all the promising patients he had, 996 seemed to be the ones displaying the most obvious signs of success.At the moment, subject 996 was going through a virtual simulation. Inside the virtual simulation, then he was put under multiple different trials. The trails although different were all things that would cause any sane man to feel fluctuations in their emotions. From killing civilians to committing terrorist acts, or dying in multiple different ways.At the moment, both the MRI machine and Holter monitor were currently showing no unusual fluctuations. This meant that subject 996was currently in the exact state Roseal was trying to achieve.A sta
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As his emotions returned, Ren's face repeatedly changed as he felt his shoulder twitch uncontrollably. === -Clank! -Clank! -Clank! Surrounded by three black-clothed individuals, Reynold swiftly moved around his apartment hacking at them with his sword whenever he saw an opening. -Clank! "khhh…" Parrying his sword, one of the black-clad individuals signalled to the other two people to attack at the same time. Noticing their sign, Reynold forcefully twisted his body and defended against two attacks coming from his left and right side. -Clank! -Clank! "khhh…" Barely blocking the attacks, he took a few steps back as beads of sweat dripped from his forehead. Looking at the three black-clad individuals before him, Reynold couldn't help but curse. "Damm it" Whoever the trio was, they knew about his attack pattern and the sword art he used. From the way he attacked and his habits, they knew them all. It seemed that whoever they were, they had done their research on him and had c
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Slowly, cuts started appearing all over his body. For the next minute or so, Reynold was slowly but surely being driven towards a corner. To the spectators, it looked as though he was about to lose.But."Tsk."He suddenly clicked his tongue. Almost instantaneously, a tremendous hue wrapped around his daggers.Taking a step forward, his body suddenly melted into the darkness.SHIIIIING!Appearing right in front of them, Reynold thrust his daggers forward as he performed an odd combo. His first strike was a powerful strike that shot up like lightning, followed by consecutive strikes that could seemingly sever rivers.With each strike, the dagger's pattern became more and more eccentric. At one point, one of the daggers followed a path that was similar to that of a snake. Almost impossible to predict.Under the barrage of attacks, Aerin and Nicholas both cooperated and tried their best to defend themselves against Reynold's weird attacks.However, they knew that they were once again at
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His body twitched with annoyance as the white reaper felt his other's emotions run down his body. The Duke's resistance irritated him. "It's funny how you think you can do something to me now that we're both in the same ranks again. You couldn't do anything when we were of the same rank before, yet you think a small power-up would make a difference?" his fingers pressed against Duke Azenoch's arm as he squeezed his hand. The Duke's face changed, but his hand continued to squeeze before it compressed it completely and he was able to close his hand into a fist. White reaper could feel the bones of the demons crush inside the palm of his hands. "Don't annoy me any further." Pulling his hand back, the hand tore off of the Duke's body and blood began to slowly spill out. his other self glanced at the torn-up hand for a brief moment before throwing it behind him, only to see it stop mid-air and fall at the same pace time was moving at. The same could be said for the blood as it rema
But that wasn't what concerned Lightning Dragon. His concern was that the White Reaper on stage wasn't the one he had fought. 'His mana control, it's completely different from when we fought. In addition, he moves a lot more efficiently than in the past. Every one of his movements seems to be perfectly calculated, and...hm?' His thoughts paused for a second. Leaning his body closer, his eyes opened widely as he pressed his hand on the window to get a better look at the fight. 'Wait…' His eyes slowly started to enlarge. "That…" Opening and closing his mouth, his face paled as he came to a sudden realization. 'He's standing where he was at the beginning of the fight.' No, rather, he was only one step ahead of where he previously stood. This… Who in the world was this? Was he the White Reaper he had once fought? 'Impossible.' Lightning Dragon shook his head. The undeniable reality in front of him shook him to the core. It was at that moment. "Enough!" He was jolted out