Having heard the boy, the first thing Erix did was to check his level.

His prior worries evolved into fear when he realized the boy was a level 4.

The boy had blonde hair that fell past his collarbone. His blue eyes looked completely void with terrible black bags under them. 

He had a pair of headphones hung around his neck. 

"Hi, there? Why were you standing out there for so long?...... Anyway, I'm Ronin Shin, but you can call me Rin, and nice to meet you." Rin said as he pulled out his hand for a shake. Erix quickly accepted the handshake. He didn't want to make a bad first impression. 

Who knows, the boy might bully him more if he does.

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry, please enter." Rin apologized as soon as he realized his wrongdoing. 

He quickly stepped aside to let Erix in.

For the second time that day, Erix was shocked beyond measure. 

He had a mixed reaction. One was surprised and the other was amused.

'What the f**k is wrong with the high levels here? First was Shota and now is Rin. I guess it's a new trick to make the low levels fall prey, fast. Too bad, I won't be among their losers.' Erix made a decisive mental remark.

"Hi, my name's Erix Miller. I was lost in thought when I got to the door, sorry about that." Erix finally responded with a slight bow before stepping inside the room.

"No, it's alright, I didn't mean it that way. You've done nothing wrong to be apologizing." Rin quickly made his words understandable.

However, Erix isn't succumbing to his words.

Rin grabbed the doorknob about to shut it close after Erix entered, but all of a sudden, someone grabbed the doorknob from outside.

"Huh?" Rin muttered in bafflement. 

He pulled the door with more vigor, but it didn't budge, instead, it swayed open to the other side, even under his clutch.

The door opened up to reveal a purple-haired boy standing outside.

When Erix heard the loud pivoting sound of the door, he turned back.

"W-Wait, Shota? Is that you?" He asked in puzzlement. He said that because Shota was the only purple-haired person he knew in the school. 

Their room was situated in the blind spot of the hallway so only a faint portrayal of the person was visible. 

His face was dark, gloomy, and filled with rage but none of the boys noticed it due to the insufficient light there.

With his messy hair and rumpled cloth, he looked like he just got out of a fight. His glowing red eyes added more terror to his outlook.

In all, he was fuming in anger. 

Why?

Nobody knew. 

"Why asking? Yeah, It's me, Shota. You found the room quicker than I expected, that's good," Shota said, quickly taking a 180° turn in expression before stepping inside the room.

He bothered not batting an eye at Rin.

"The rooms were all arranged accordingly so it didn't take too long," Erix replied, surprised to see him. The two boys continued to discuss.

Rin, on the other hand, wasn't himself after Shota entered. 

The moment Rin saw Shota, he felt all the hairs on his body rise.

Not only that. An inexplicable fear began brewing inside his mind.

'T….This feeling. I know this feeling. I had it once when I was being questioned by the clan leader,' Rin thought. 'Who the hell is this boy to make me feel the same way?' Rin thought, finding it hard to believe.

'I must find out who this boy is. For now, I will make sure to never get on his bad side, and if I can do that, I must be polite and respectful.'

Having quickly made up his mind, he said,

"Hello, you can call me Rin, and I'm very glad to meet you." He pulled out his hand for a shake.

"Shota Grill. Nice to meet you too," Shota simply replied, accepting Rin's hand for a shake. 

When he shook with Shota, he managed to have a glimpse of his wristwatch. 

'What? Level 6?' Rin wasn't satisfied with what he saw. He was expecting a level above 6. 

The feeling he had moments ago wasn't something a typical level 6 could put on him unless perhaps, the boy was holding back.

'Wait, is he hiding his strength? Ha, that makes the investigation even more fun.' Rin reckoned.

"Looks like you two are my missing dorm mates." Rin finally said before withdrawing his hand from the shake.

"Yep. Actually, we should have been here before now if we hadn't gone out to take a look at the beautiful city outside the school, right Erix?" Shota asked with a smile that was in pretty much contrast to the expression he wore earlier.

'Is this guy some doppelganger or something? I think I will have a real hard time finding out the real him,' Rin thought in concern.

For Erix, he didn't notice anything weird in Shota.

"Yeah," Erix finally answered.

"Alright, hope you guys had a pretty good journey while coming here?" Rin said, before locking down the door and walking back to his bed.

The room was very spacious. Inside it, there were three consecutive beds, three cupboards that were beside each bed, and three tables meant for studying. 

Even with all the stuff in the room, there was still reasonable space left. 

The military constructed the rooms in such a way that students would have enough space to practice when they don't feel like doing it outside.

"Pretty tiring, to be honest?" Shota answered.

"Same with me." Erix seconded.

"By the way, your names are pretty," Rin smiled. 

Everyone nodded awkwardly in agreement with Rin's remark even though they found them pretty stupid. 

After that, the three boys then decided to have a 'male bonding session' to get to know each other better and deepen their bonds.

They discussed many things about their lives and their plans for the future. 

As Erix already knew, Shota was from an Original noble family, but he chose not to mention his family's ancestral ability.

Original noble families were known to have a common ancestral ability they learn within themselves and didn't share with the public. 

He said he was once a stuck-up bully back in elementary school but an incident happened that made him change his perspective. 

He didn't go too in-depth into the story and wanted nobody to pry any further to respect his privacy. 

He also said his dream was to change society for the better no matter the cost.

'But this doesn't explain the feeling I had earlier about him. As a matter of fact, I have come across many nobles and not a single one of them made me react the way he did. The name Grill seems foreign to me which is weird. Anyway, I will inquire about that later. I highly doubt he was completely genuine with his explanations earlier.' Rin thought. 

Rin was like an entire encyclopedia, so if anyone should have recent records on the Original nobles it should be him but surprisingly, he didn't know about the Grills.

Erix admired Shota's dreams and ideas. But, he still doesn't trust him yet.

He thought it was too good to be true that a high level befriended a low level without any ulterior motive.

He will have to observe him for a while before making his final judgment about him. 

If what Shota said about his dream was true, then he can see them becoming good friends in the future.

Rin was the child genius, and unlike Shota, he wasn't from a rich family, though from a powerful clan. 

While explaining, he said, 'My family is not rich. I only managed to get this far because of my high IQ and ability.' 

Rin's ability enhances his brain strength, allowing him to do anything that requires mental strength much faster than others. 

His ability also allows him to control gravity, although it wasn't that strong.

In school, Rin was never interested in making friends because he was always busy learning and experimenting new things. 

His family was poor, and after struggling for many years, managed to get him a level 4 gravity ability orb.

With the big dreams he had as a young lad, he didn't want to be limited because of his background, so he studied hard to be successful.

However, that was when he uncovered his suppressed potential which was the reason he had a very high IQ compared to his peers. 

His newfound potential widened his brain cells, making him reason more than an average human could.

After he discovered his hidden ability at the age of 11, he became the human encyclopedia in his class. An inventor of many things too.

However, from being the most brilliant kid in his class, he became so prominent around their clan that their clan leader recognized him.

For obvious reasons, he was selected to be among those that will be sent off to earth to be trained under the military.

At the age of 13, he knew almost everything that he ever wanted.

But at some point, he got bored and wanted to make friends. But due to his not talking to people in his early days in school, he never learned how to socialize well or make friends, so he was alone. 

Because of boredom, he grew to love VR games, since that was the only thing that kept him busy.

When he found out he would be sharing dorms with 2 other people, he was ecstatic because it was a great chance to finally make friends. He currently had no other plans in life. 

Also, most of the time he spends his time spying and investigating strange people.

All Rin said sounded completely genuine. But even still, Erix didn't completely trust his words at face value. He will wait to evaluate him based on his actions.

Rin has not tried to get stronger or smarter since after 13 years old. This means he was a level 4 at only the age of 13. 

If he actually tried again, who knows how much smarter he would have gotten.

Finally, it was Erix's turn to talk about himself. He decided to tell them the truth as it really would not matter if they know it or not. 

Of course, he kept out the system part.

At the end of Erix's story, Rin's face was almost teary.

"That's terrible. How can people do such things?" Rin said while sniffing. 

Rin never encountered bullying in his whole life, so he was touched when he heard Erix's story. 

Shota, on the other hand, showed no reaction at all. 

Either he didn't care about Erix's story or he was just too used to the topic since he was once an object of bullying.

"Tell me who's doing it to you, and I promise, I will beat the shit out of them," Rin said, with a ball of fists.