All Chapters of The Bully’s Reincarnation : Chapter 51
- Chapter 60
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Chapter 51: Aiden’s Offer
The academy had gone silent.Even the wind that usually rattled through the stone corridors seemed to have vanished, leaving Arcadia draped in a suffocating stillness. Kai stood alone on the northern rampart, the weight of the night pressing into his shoulders.Below, the training courtyards were dark, the torches extinguished after the chaos. Hours had passed since Lina had collapsed, the poisoned blade’s mark burning across her skin. The healers had stabilized her, but “stable” felt like a fragile word. She was still pale when he’d last seen her, still fighting whatever toxin the Circle had buried into the steel.Kai’s fists tightened against the cold stone. His mark throbbed under those bandages, around his forearm. Veins stood out too dark, way darker than normal. The thing living inside him, it fed on blood. On violence. On temptation. Tonight, it got every bit of what it hungered for.He had nearly killed that assassin. He had wanted to.If not for Lina’s voice… Kai shut his
Chapter 52: Shadows Over Arcadia
The iron gates at Arcadia slammed shut. The sound hit like thunder. It bounced around the courtyard for what felt like forever. Magic sparks hissed along the black steel bars. They twisted into web of wards. Students were huddled up in groups. Their whispers floated on the breeze. No one dared to speak too loudly—because no one knew who was listening.Arcadia was locked down tight.Kai hung back near the edge of the courtyard. Arms folded across his chest. His face stayed blank, like it always did. But, inside he felt this squeeze in his chest. Like a vice gripping hard. He had seen wars begin with quieter measures than this.Cyrus whistled low beside him. “Well. That’s comforting. Nothing screams ‘you’re perfectly safe’ like being locked in with your enemies.”“Shut up,” Kai muttered.Lina pressed closer, her expression drawn. She looked more shaken than either of them, though she tried to hide it. Her hands wouldn’t stop trembling. “The Circle. They’re inside, aren’t they?”Kai
Chapter 53: The Bond Awakens
The infirmary went quiet hours back, but Kai couldn't get to sleep. Moonlight slipped in through those tall windows. It cut silver lines right across the cold stone floor. Lina was stretched out pale on her cot. Her breaths came shallow, but they held steady now. Her lashes twitched a little against fever dreams she had going. Cyrus had pretty much passed out in that corner chair. His head tipped back, snoring softly. Kai stayed up though. He kept watch like some of shadow stuck right by her side.The Mark burned on his arm again.Not the faint hum it carried most days. This was a pulse. A heartbeat.And it matched hers.Kai froze, staring at the faint tremor of her fingers against the blanket. Each time her breath hitched, the black sigil carved into his skin responded—throbbing as if it wanted to reach her.“Stop,” he muttered under his breath, gripping his forearm until his nails dug crescent cuts. “You don’t get to decide. Not now.”The Mark pulsed anyway, heat flaring up his
Chapter 54: The Confession
The infirmary was quiet. Too quiet. Kai was there in that stiff chair next to Lina's bed. His elbows dug into his knees. Fingers twisted together so hard that his knuckles went white. Candle flickered around the room. Shadows stretched long on the walls, like old scars.Lina’s breathing had evened out, but each breath out still sounded breakable. Like glass about to shatter. She lay buried under blankets. Hair tangled dark across the pillow. Her hand sat pale on the sheets, right near his.Kai had been staring at that hand for hours.The Mark on his forearm still burned faintly from earlier. When her fingers had brushed against his skin, it had reacted as though it knew her better than he did. Worse—like it remembered her before he did.And it left him shaken.The vision still replayed behind his eyes: Rafe’s hands raised to strike, then faltering… Lina’s face, not as he knew it now but from lifetimes ago, staring up at him in terror. A choice made. A life spared.A bond that should
Chapter 55: The Fifth Sigil
The night bled into silence. Kai was sitting all by himself in the practice hall. Candles were flickering low, barely holding on. Shadows stretched out across the stone floor. The grimoire sat open right in front of him. Its pages kept shifting a little, even without him touching them. It was like breathing, matching the rise and fall of his own chest, steady and slow. The ink on the pages shimmered faintly in the dim light. He had unlocked four sigils already. Each one felt like a burden, heavy on him. And each one served as nagging reminder of the chains Rafe had left behind, the ones that wouldn't let go. But tonight… tonight the fifth mark revealed itself.It glowed faintly at the edge of a page, half-erased, half-burned. As if someone had tried to erase it from existence.His hand trembled when he reached for it.The Fifth Sigil.A voice inside him—low, cold, maddeningly familiar—whispered:Rafe never dared. But you are stronger. Take it. Claim it.Kai clenched his jaw. He wa
Chapter 56: Lina Rises
The air still reeked of burnt magic and blood.The courtyard, once a place of study and laughter, had become a makeshift battlefield. Broken stone, shattered wards, and the groans of wounded students filled the night.Kai stood in the center of it all, shoulders heaving, the Fifth Sigil still smoldering faintly on his arm. He looked like a man barely chained to himself, but all eyes turned elsewhere—toward Lina.Her steps faltered as she crossed the broken ground, exhaustion dragging at her body. She hadn’t slept since the ambush, hadn’t stopped moving, hadn’t stopped trying. Every injured cry was a chain around her heart, pulling her forward.“Over here! Her leg—she’s losing too much blood!” a boy from Class D shouted.Lina dropped to her knees, hands already glowing. Her healing magic poured over the girl’s shredded skin, knitting muscle. She ignored the dizziness, ignored the sting in her own veins where remnants of the poison still lingered.The girl’s breathing steadied. Lina l
Chapter 57: Memory Duel
Kai hadn’t slept in days.Every time his eyes shut, the Fifth Sigil burned beneath his skin, dragging him toward something vast and wrong. Tonight, it didn’t give him a choice.The world around him cracked like glass, and he was pulled under.When his vision cleared, he wasn’t in his bed in Class E’s barracks. He stood in a broken arena of fire and ash. Black stone stretched out in rings, each carved with sigils pulsing like veins of molten gold. The air was heavy with smoke. Suffocating, carrying the copper tang of blood.And there—across the ring—waited Rafe.Not the blurred memory Kai sometimes glimpsed, not the fading shadow in his nightmares. This was him. Whole and alive. The figure who'd once knocked kingdoms flat on their backs. His dark coat sagged under chains, and his hand just sat there on the sword hilt, like he'd been hanging around for Kai the whole time."You wear my mark," Rafe said. His voice came out deep and steady, bouncing around the empty arena. "But you hav
Chapter 58: The Great Purge
Morning broke strangely quiet. No birdsong carried through the high arches of Arcadia, no footsteps echoed the usual scramble of students heading toward lessons. Instead, silence hung there, tight as a pulled rope. Kai felt it right away, something off in the air. He stepped into the main courtyard, Lina right there beside him. The students, they weren't just walking around like usual. Faces all pale, and those whispers cutting sharp, like knives. And, in the very center, tacked up on the announcement board, there was this sheet of parchment. It pulsed a little with magic, faint but real. Cyrus stood in front of it. His fists trembled at his sides. He didn’t look up when Kai approached.“Read it,” Cyrus said hoarsely.Kai did. And his blood ran cold.The ListNames.Dozens of them.Written in clean, sharp script that carried its own kind of cruelty.Students. Instructors. Council members.Each line carved into the page like a death sentence.At the very top—Lina.The parchment
Chapter 59: Night Of The Betrayer
The academy never truly slept. But tonight that silence felt heavy, like it was pressing down on everything. Torches along the outer walkways in Arcadia burned low, flames flickering hard against the wind that wouldnt quit. Kai had picked up on that bad quiet over time. The sort that hangs before things just snap.He lingered at the courtyard edge, hidden in the archways shadow. His eyes stayed fixed on those uneasy figures from Class E, all huddled out under the wide open sky. They were meant to be asleep hours ago, but no one had found peace since the list was leaked. The Circle had named their prey, and Lina’s name sat at the top like a curse.She sat beside Cyrus now, her hands folded in her lap, feigning calm she didn’t feel. Her eyes flicked to Kai once, searching, steadying. He gave her the smallest nod. It was enough.“Can’t believe they put my name on that damn list,” Cyrus muttered, a sharp grin breaking across his face like glass. “Guess that means I’m worth something to
Chapter 60: A Line In The Sand
The bells of Arcadia tolled at dawn. Their deep, metallic clang rolled across the academy like a funeral dirge, shaking windows, echoing through the halls. No one slept after the stabbing. Whispers had carried through the night, sharpening into rumors, then hardening into fear. Students huddled in corridors, speaking in hushed tones, watching shadows as though every classmate might be a traitor. Now the summons came. Every student, every instructor, every Councilor was ordered to the Grand Forum. The Circle wanted blood. And Arcadia, already cracking under suspicion, was about to break. Kai walked through the courtyard with Lina at his side. Cyrus was gone, carried to the infirmary under the watch of three healers who worked in shifts. His condition was stable—for now. But the message was still etched in Kai’s mind, as clearly as the blood that had marked the walls. This is only the beginning. The Mark along his arm pulsed once, almost like agreement. Kai ignored it, h