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Chapter 16: Cafeteria Noise
The cafeteria had always been loud.Not the good kind of loud—the kind that felt like static crawling under your skin. Cutlery scraping against trays, overlapping conversations, laughter that rose too sharp and died too fast. I usually avoided it. Grab food, leave. Simple. Efficient. Invisible.That had been my routine since my first week at Aegis.I collected my tray, ignored the glances that followed me like loose threads, and turned toward the glass doors leading outside. The garden was quieter. Less eyes. Less… everything.I almost made it.Shit.“KAIRO!”The name cracked through the cafeteria like a gunshot.Every sound died.Every fork froze mid-air. Conversations strangled themselves. Even the automated drink dispensers seemed to hesitate, as if unsure whether continuing to hum would be a mistake.I stopped walking.Slowly, I turned. My lips tight.Kira stood up from one of the long tables near the center of the room, hands cupped around her mouth, eyes blazing with purpose. Sh
Chapter 15: The Two of Us
Aegis smelled like metal and old paper and the faint, constant burn of someone testing their limits. It was a smell that settled into your clothes and your mouth until it tasted like curriculum and survival. We lived inside that smell — Lian and I — two ghosts at the bottom of a system that liked neat hierarchies.We were used to being invisible. That’s what made the beatings sting the most: not the pain itself but the audience that decided it was entertaining.“Move,” Ryo said like a verdict, and his cronies laughed as if they’d read the joke in a book and couldn’t wait to repeat it. He liked theatrical cruelty — theatrics softened the vulgarity of violence. The first time it happened, I thought maybe I’d misread the room. The fifth time, I stopped pretending surprise and started cataloguing the angles.They shoved us into the center of the courtyard, where the sun made everything too bright and the students gathered like a jury. The upper-class kids circled, their auras a kind of so
Chapter 14: First Frost
The day had started like any other Saturday, with sunlight spilling through the large glass windows of the mall, turning the polished floors into reflective ribbons of gold. My mom, always the early riser, had dragged us out for “family bonding time,” which in her mind involved walking slowly through every store, comparing price tags, and offering unsolicited fashion advice.“Honestly, Kairo,” Mom said, hands on her hips, “how do you even know what to wear? You look like a walking grey cloud.”I shrugged, hands in my pockets, a mix of boredom and mild amusement playing across my face. “Clouds are fashionable now, apparently. Unlike rainbows here.”Celeste, my little sister, rolled her eyes dramatically, tugging at the sleeve of my coat. “He’s just jealous because I actually like colors, unlike Mr. Grim Cloud here.”“Jealous?” I smirked. “Please. I’m not jealous. I just… appreciate the ingenuity of monochrome.”Mom laughed, shaking her head. “Monochrome genius, huh? Sounds like someone
Chapter 13: The Bureau’s Shadow
The Disciplinary Bureau was the kind of room meant to make men quiver. Polished floors that reflected the sharp glints of their authority, walls that seemed to lean in, and the air itself thick with expectation. I stepped in, feeling the pulse of their combined presence before I even reached the table.Professors, elite and seasoned, lined the long expanse like sentinels of judgement. The Principal sat at the head, aura humming with authority so potent a lesser man would have fallen to his knees already. I inhaled slowly. Their force alone could crush a student, a teacher, a city if they willed it.It was a terrifying experience. Just a few months back I was almost non-existent with no hope of ever meeting these people in private, and yet they were assembled before me, bodies taut with the refusal to drop their guards around me.[Endurance level dropping. Drop all resistance.]I ignored it. My pulse steadied, frost veins pulsing faintly beneath my skin. Hands slipped into my pockets,
Chapter 12: Whispers of a Monster
The morning after the siege felt wrong.Too quiet. Too normal.The broken grounds and evidence of battle was already erased with efficiency. The school itself was trying to recover, and after the A and B class elites returned safely, the school had finally released the drawn breath it had been holding inside.But there was something else that united the students of Aegis, a common aberration in the system. Even the teachers had given up on trying to get them to stay in their respective classes, division F was the center of attraction, or rather, the pale boy with the shocking silver hair.~~~Division F’s classroom smelled faintly of antiseptic and burnt ozone. The walls had been repaired overnight, but the cracks still showed: faint, like scars pretending not to exist. Outside the windows, students from other divisions crowded against the glass, whispering, peering in as if expecting to see me sprout fangs in my seat.Inside, Division F sat in complete silence. Well, almost silenc
Chapter 11: Rebirth of Apex
Hours had passed since the first screams. Since the first bodies fell. The battlefield stretched endlessly, littered with charred corpses and fractured earth, but I didn’t see it. I didn’t smell it. I only felt the weight of survival pressing into every fiber of my body. Frost coiled around my fingers, shadows danced across the jagged terrain, and my Ae surged with every slash, every strike.It was a deadly dance as beasts like smoke rained down on us from the sky.I fought as if the world depended on me. Because it did. My core throbbed with exhaustion. My vision blurred from the strain. Every move was precise, measured, detached. The system whispered, faint static cutting through my mind, giving me fragments of clarity amidst chaos.[System: Core stability critical. Life expectancy minimal. Tactical recommendation: continue combat with extreme caution.]Bodies fell. Shadows merged with frost, forming blades and spikes that ripped through enemy lines. I pushed beyond limits I didn’t
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