“Hey there, Calvin.”“…”Calvin could only stare in shock at the bright smile of the familiar young woman in front of him, who glanced at his arm coated in darkness and added, “Never knew you were an elementalist too.”At that, Calvin silently withdrew his energy, the darkness covering his arms fading away without a sound. He exhaled softly, then looked up at the teenager before him, taking in her appearance.She had a slender build with a curvaceous frame and average height, along with brown skin, golden eyes, and black waist-length hair tied in a ponytail, with chin-length bangs framing the sides of her face.She wasn’t unfamiliar to him, as Calvin Carter had known her. She was from a different class in Calvin’s grade in school. Her name was…“Ashley…”“?”The young woman raised an eyebrow at her name being called, and at this, Calvin glanced in the direction she had come running from and asked,“What are you doing here?”“What am I doing here? Well, pretty much what everyone who co

For a moment, the intersection was filled with the screech of brakes as nearby vehicles came to abrupt stops, while some drivers immediately threw their cars into reverse, backing away in fear of explosions or fire.Pedestrians cried out in shock, with one who had been dangerously close to the traffic barrier the van crashed into, dropping to their knees in fear at their near-death experience.But before the shock of the sudden accident could even fade, a loud, unmistakably inhuman roar echoed across the road.It was immediately followed by a violent impact against the trailer's remaining door, sending it flying off its hinges, and rushing out from the now-open trailer were lions with spikes covering their bodies.“M-monsters!!!”“RUN!”“Help!!”People instantly scattered in all directions as the elemental beasts roared and charged outward, pouncing toward the nearest people they could find.

The police sergeant at the head of the group immediately scanned the area, ordering the other officers to establish a perimeter around the wreckage.The EMA agents also scanned the area with their elemental senses, and just as they did, they all flinched.At that moment, Ashley’s driver stepped out of the car and calmly walked over, his presence surprising the D-Rank EMA agents who all instantly understood that the man was several Ranks above them in power, putting him amongst the highest-rank elementalists currently within Dand City.The driver said nothing, simply stepping behind Ashley and standing there, making his position obvious.The presence of an elementalist of at least B-Rank made all of them, both the police officers and the EMA agents, hesitate to approach the two teens to question them.“Six minutes,” Ashley suddenly said, drawing all eyes to her.She crossed her arms in front of her chest, tapping her foot ag

“Wow! Isn’t this Calvin? The hell are you doing here? You’ve got the guts to walk into a branded store when you don’t even have enough money to feed yourself?”Calvin paused, turning his eyes toward the speaker and staring at him in silence until he remembered who he was.‘Right, this guy was one of Calvin’s bullies, wasn’t he? What was his name again? Tom?’Unlike Isaac and Florence, who were in different classes, Tom was in Calvin’s class, and because of that, he was an even bigger annoyance than those two.He was always hurling insults at Calvin, throwing garbage into his desk, and even ruining his textbooks.Calvin Carter had never really understood why Tom hated him so much, and the current Calvin didn't care enough to find out either.He glanced to Tom's side and noticed another guy standing beside him, though Calvin didn't recognise him.'Probably from a different clas

‘The Simon family is far more powerful than I expected. At least, in this part of the country.’That was Calvin’s line of thought as he recalled the squad of B-Rank elementalists in suits who had shown up at the police station at Ashley’s command and, within a few minutes, taken the police captain and several other officers into the interrogation room.He’d wanted to talk to Ashley about the matter of getting into the illegal fighting ring, but she had gone straight to her car and conked out within seconds, sleeping soundly for close to an hour before being woken by a knock on the door from the driver, who had come to inform her that the guards were done interrogating the police captain.The end result of that interrogation, which left the buff-looking police captain shivering in the corner of the interrogation room, was that the man was indeed connected to the organisation.Calvin took one glance at the men and women in suit