All Chapters of The Bully’s Reincarnation : Chapter 61
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Chapter 61: Broken Chains
The academy always hushed at night, but tonight the silence felt staged—like every shadow leaned closer, waiting for him to move.Kai slipped out from the barracks without a word. No footsteps followed, no whispers stirred. Lina was asleep, or at least pretending. He hoped she stayed that way.This wasn’t a path anyone could walk with him.The Fifth Sigil still burned faintly on his skin, an ember refusing to die down. It pointed him like a compass, not outward, but downward—into the belly of Arcadia.The tunnels beneath the academy were older than the stones above. Ancient, damp, carved with sigils even the professors never mentioned. Kai passed through corridors that smelled of rust and grave soil, each step echoing like a question he couldn’t yet answer.He didn’t need a map. The Mark guided him.At last, he reached the door.A slab of black stone embedded in the wall, bound with iron chains that looked too thick for human hands. They weren’t real chains anymore—not entirely. So
Chapter 62: The War Room
The shrine’s shadows clung to Kai long after he left them behind.He didn’t sleep. Couldn’t. The moment he shut his eyes, he saw the chains again—shattered, laughing, whispering welcome home.By dawn, his hands still trembled faintly. He wrapped them in bandages to hide the shaking. If Lina noticed, she didn’t ask. She only watched him with those sharp eyes of hers, and that was worse than any question.Arcadia buzzed with unease that morning. Rumors of the Circle’s “purge list” had already leaked through the dorms, spreading like fire through dry grass. Names were whispered. Friends avoided eye contact. Everyone wondered who would turn on whom first.But Kai didn’t hear the rumors. He didn’t need to.He already knew whose name was first on that list.Lina.That was enough.The abandoned lecture hall they’d chosen still smelled of dust and chalk. The windows were barred, the door warped from disuse. It wasn’t much of a war room, but it was theirs.Kai stood at the front, arms crossed
Chapter 63: The Forbidden Pact
The rain hadn’t stopped for three days.Kai leaned against the stone railing of the dormitory tower, letting the cold drops run down his face. Arcadia always smelled sharper in the rain, the faint trace of burning wards in the air. But beneath it all was something sour, like rot under a polished floor. The Circle was pushing harder. Every student could feel it.Behind him, the door creaked. Lina stepped out, clutching a thick, black-bound book to her chest. The grimoire. Its surface pulsed faintly, as if it had veins beneath the leather.“You’re not sleeping,” she said softly.“Neither are you.”She came to stand beside him, her hair damp from the mist. For a moment they just stood, side by side, the silence heavy. Then she held the grimoire out.“It showed me something,” she whispered. “Not just spells. Not just runes. A… name.”Kai turned. “Whose?”“Not Rafe’s,” she said quickly. “Someone else. A rival. Trapped in a crystal. Sealed away under this academy.”Her fingers tightened on
Chapter 64: Circle’s Counterattack
The academy burned.Not with fire, not yet—but with screams and shattering wards.Kai was in the middle of the training grounds when the sky cracked. A red flare burst over Arcadia, its magic spreading like ink across the clouds. Students froze, heads tilting back, watching as the signal writhed overhead.“It’s not one of ours,” Cyrus muttered, his hand instinctively reaching for the bandages still wrapped around his ribs. He hadn’t fully healed, but he refused to stay in bed. “That’s them.”The Circle.Kai didn’t wait. He raised his voice, cutting through the confusion. “Everyone—inside! Lock the wards!”Some obeyed immediately. Others hesitated, fear rooting them in place. Then the first explosion hit.The east wall of the training field crumbled as black fire tore through the stone, showering sparks across the students. Panic broke loose. Screams scattered like birds.From the smoke, masked figures emerged. Six. Then ten. Then more. Each bore the Circle’s sigil carved into their ar
Chapter 65: The Girl In The Mirror
The first time it happened, Lina thought she was dreaming.Her dorm was dark, the other girls asleep, their breathing rising and falling like waves. Moonlight slipped through the high window, silvering the old mirror above her desk. She had turned it face-down weeks ago…….too many late nights catching her own reflection when she was half-awake. But now, as if something unseen had flipped it upright, the glass caught her eye.She froze.Not her. Not exactly.The girl staring back wore the same face, the same tired eyes, but something clung to her light, golden, soft as flame. It coiled around her wrists, circled her throat like a crown of dawn. She looked older, stronger. She stood taller.And she was leading.Lina’s breath caught in her throat. Behind that other self, blurred shapes dozens, no, hundreds stood in shadow. Students, mages, people she didn’t recognize. All of them facing the golden lit version of her. Waiting. Following.Lina blinked. The image fractured like water rippli
Chapter 66: The Disbanding Of Class E
The decree went up at dawn.Pinned crooked on the academy gates, ink still wet enough that the words bled through the parchment.Class E is hereby dissolved. Students will be reassigned according to potential. Those deemed unstable will be monitored.No signatures. No crest. Just the Council’s cold black seal stamped across the bottom like a bruise.By breakfast, the whole academy knew.“Figures,” someone muttered in the dining hall. “Dead weight finally got cut.”“Should’ve happened months ago.”“About time Arcadia stopped playing babysitter.”The words slithered through the air, all sharp edges, no one bothering to lower their voices. Lina walked past them with her tray, every step heavier than the last. No one met her eyes for long. Pity was worse than insults.The classroom was gone before they even reached it.Chairs stripped out. Chalkboard wiped until only faint white ghosts of letters clung to the black surface. The smell of dust instead of ink.It didn’t look like a place f
Chapter 67: Death Match
The hall sat empty except for those two. Dust stuck to the broken banners up above, their colors had faded a lot. This used to be a training wing in Arcadia. They condemned it a while back. You could still see faint burn marks from old duels. Faint echoes of lives spent there. Magic wasted.Kai stood at one end of the chamber. His hand hung loose by his side. Every muscle in him was wound up tight. His eyes locked on the figure across the way. For a second he didn't see the man Aiden had turned into. He saw the boy he remembered instead.That boy was gone.Aiden leaned back against a toppled column. Like this wasn't the kind of challenge that would set the whole academy on fire. His smile cut sharp, but his gaze carried more weight than Kai recalled, the kind of weight that comes from too many choices already made.“You came,” Aiden said softly. His voice cut through the silence. Even that little sound seemed to shake the air a bit. “I wondered if you'd just hide behind your little re
Chapter 68: The High Council Falls
The Council chamber of Arcadia Academy had never been so crowded. Students filled the balconies, faculty stood shoulder to shoulder near the lower benches, and the grand circular floor was ringed by wardens whose hands were on their blades. Seven High Council members sat right in the center. They were up on those raised seats. Their robes had gold trim and were ink-black. The light from the chandeliers caught on them.Rumors had been going around for weeks. The Circle's hand went deeper into Arcadia than anyone wanted to say. Trust had broken, suspicion spread like rot. They called this public session to show they had control.Silence hung there. It stretched out. No one could shake the sense that something lurked underneath.Kai stood with the other students. His back pressed against the marble wall. He kept his eyes on the room. Not the Council but the shadows, the entrances. Lina was next to him. Her fingers balled into fists under her robes. Cyrus leaned on the railing a few ste
Chapter 69: Lina’s Awakening
Lina………a darkness that pressed against her ribs like a hand keeping her under.Lina floated inside it, her thoughts scattered, her body weightless. For a moment she believed this was death—-simple, endless, merciful.Then the light came.Not from outside. From her.It pulsed with her heartbeat, faint and golden, like a thread pulling her toward something above.When her eyes opened, the world wasn’t the infirmary. It was a plain of broken stone under a dead sky. No sound. No wind.And in the center stood a mirror.Its surface rippled like water, jagged at the edges, wrong.Her reflection stared back—except it wasn’t her. This Lina was taller, cloaked in sunlight, armor of light stitched to her skin. She held no weapon, but people—students, strangers, faces blurred—knelt behind her.The golden reflection lifted its chin, lips moving without sound.She stepped closer. The words slipped through the surface:You are more than you believe.Your blood remembers.Your mother’s line was not b
Chapter 70: The Spy Among Us
The scratching noise from the quill on that parchment, it was beating out his heartbeat. Or maybe his heart was the louder one. The boy’s hand trembled a bit, messing up the ink so the letters came out all blurry instead of crisp and straight. He'd been going over that code for weeks, muttering it under his breath in the dorm after lights out, when everyone were asleep. Those words, they just didn't fit right coming from him. Movements. Hideout. Kai. Lina.His gut twisted up as he went to dip the quill once more. If they catch me——He just couldn't get the rest of that idea out. He pressed harder, forcing the words on the page before courage slipped through his fingers.The Circle wouldn’t wait. They demanded detail, precision. When does Kai train alone? Who protects Lina when he isn’t around? How many gather in Class E at night?He answered. All of it.But every word felt like a theft.He had watched Kai stand between them and death when the Circle’s assassin cut through the prac