Overcoming the systems

Ten years after the war for power, the world was slowly changing, and they were trying to create a social system and diminish the hatred towards the two extremes of society, but it was impossible, many people still had memories and dislike towards what had happened. The pillars of society proceeded to start a new school year, even though they knew the inconveniences they were experiencing at that time.

In one of the capital cities of the country, a common occurrence was happening due to insecurity in many areas.

One of the many boys who were preparing to enter high school was walking the streets of a city called Glosbar, known as the city of the starry sky. He was on his way to school with his bags. In which he had already been admitted and had to present himself before the end of the week. He was different from the rest, he had a system which helped him to improve some of his statistics to level up, if they reached a certain number, he could go up to level 2 like most of the students in the school, but he did nothing to improve, because he knew that the authorities persecuted people with that kind of extra help.

Luan saw a kind of map that the system gave him to get to his destination quickly. No one else could see the map, but as he walked. He saw the typical scene of a robbery, several men trying to rob a girl. He did not want to intervene, as he feared they would do something to him. It was only a boy of fourteen, a boy with white hair, dark complexion and blue eyes, as he turned back to avoid crossing those men, but he noticed that there was another boy coming behind him. He was black with crimson eyes, slim build and had two black gloves on each hand. She fell to the ground in shock and tried to apologize to him, but before she could say the first word, he went to help the young woman who was being robbed.

She saw him confronted by two armed men. One of them had a brown cap on his head, several tattoos on his arm and neck, green eyes and a round face. He approached him with a knife in his hand, but the young man did not give him time to respond and gave him a fist in the head, without him being able to react. Unfortunately, he managed to make a scratch on his arm.

The other thief, who was a thin, bald, brown-eyed man with a small beard, reacted, but tried to do the same as the previous one, but this time the young man responded quickly and knocked him out with a single blow to the chin. Meanwhile, the white-haired boy looked at the scene from afar and headed towards his destination.

[...]

Shortly after that incident, that white-haired boy took a train that left him near the high school, a few meters away you could see its structure, but it was located at the top of that area, a kind of hill, which was made up of about 20 blocks of different lengths, and a beige color that predominated in all of them.

As he approached he crossed other people who were going to the same place, they seemed to be new people like him. He walked as if nothing happened and when he entered there he passed by a small park, with little vegetation, but well cared for. All around him, new and old students in their turquoise blue uniforms, which consisted of a jacket, pants, and for the women a dark red skirt. He walked among old students, who didn't seem to care much about his presence. Until he reached the first building, which by its location appeared to be administrative.

He proceeded to enter and spoke to the receptionist, a young woman in her thirties, red-haired, blue-eyed, round-faced. He handed her the papers, verifying that he had already pre-enrolled.

-Please go to the integral welfare, to give you all the documentation," she informed him.

[...]

Luan went there. When he got there, he found hundreds of people who had also been admitted. There was an air conditioner, but it was barely enough for so many people, the place was completely full of students and some companions.

It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, and they began to show on the screen the place where they had to go for now. The almost five hundred students had not yet been assigned to a group. They were just analyzing their information.

The pressure to stay shook everyone there. No one was prepared to receive negative news at this time.

They openly posted the lists in one place of the remaining students on a kind of board below the auditorium.

Many people gathered to see if his name was there, which as the minutes passed diminished a little. There were sad and happy faces in the auditorium. Until there were only a handful of students left who did not have the courage to look at the results.

Luan was almost the last one to look at the list, at the end of that endless line of names, he found his.

"250 Luan Olivera."

He was happy, he couldn't contain the emotion, he closed his fists and stopped a little to take a breath. In his eyes you could see some tears.

"You passed, go to the dormitories," said a man who was close to him. He had dark glasses and short hair, covered with gel and a beard closed like a padlock-You have to go to the passing dormitory, and then you will be assigned a lounge and a room in the central dormitory.

"Hey, how do you know I passed?"

"You look happy, the ones that didn't make it a while ago left, and they looked sad"

"Eh...ok, bye then"

Luan felt a little embarrassed when he noticed that someone was watching him and saw that little expression of happiness, without realizing it.

[...]

The white-haired boy headed to the dorms, a place similar to a hotel, but he wouldn't be there tonight. He just had to go to a passing place with other students, which was a few meters away. It was already dark, they had the presentation time in the auditorium and in which they showed the students was a lot. He decided to stay there until the next day, since he would arrive home almost at dawn.

When he headed to the place of passage. He was about to take that place, he met that young man with crimson eyes, and they exchanged glances for a second. He stopped and spoke to her.

"You dropped this high school card," said the black-haired boy.

"Thank you, I didn't think I lost it"

"Well, if we're in the same homeroom-my name is Alison"

"I think you already know... my name is Luan," he said, hesitating over the words he was about to say.

He didn't understand at what point he had dropped something like that, but he was calm and decided to say goodbye with a hand signal.

[...]

The next day, Luan woke up in a room full of cabins, there was no one there at the time. He had woken up late at that boarding school, and no one cared to help him, as they did not know him.

He immediately went to the showers to take a shower, there was no one else there at that time, so he had to hurry a little, and just showered, he left the place almost running and got dressed as fast as he could, with a blue shirt and black pants. He grabbed his suitcase and headed for the auditorium.

It was maybe 20 minutes after he left for the auditorium, he was a little worried about how he had started his first day at this boarding school. It showed in his cheeks and facial expression. He was walking through the halls and noticed that it was full of upperclassmen, he realized that everyone was watching him, and knew he was one of the new students. Everyone's attitude towards him was different from yesterday, because he was out of uniform and so young. In the middle of his walk through the corridors, he met a familiar face, his cousin Hana, a girl of medium height, yellow eyes, brown hair, somewhat voluptuous and with a round face. She called out to him when she saw him.

"Hello," said Hana in a friendly manner.

"Hello"

"Hi Luan, are you looking for the auditorium?"

"Yes, I got up late and didn't reach the group"

"It doesn't matter, I'll take you there, remember I'm the vice president of the school"

The girl had brown hair, yellow eyes, an expressive look, and she came with her classmates, they accompanied him to the auditorium, without thinking about it.

[...]

Luan was left at the doors of the auditorium. There they gave me some kind of food packed in a box.

He entered the place and sat next to his classmates, who didn't pay much attention to him. There were new students, the representatives of each upper class and the student president.

The new entrants were with clothes and their suitcases.

The student president and the principal were talking about the school and showing some facts about it. The first of them was named Snaider, he had dark brown hair and green eyes, and he had a serious look. They were in charge of giving an introduction to the students.

Luan fell asleep several times while he was talking, since the meeting was quite long and he didn't listen to anything.

All of a sudden, they surprised everyone and made the decision to form the groups at once. They showed the results on a screen in the first room, each of those who appeared on the list were grouped, and then the second one appeared, there was Luan. He became a little tense. When he saw himself on the list, he turned pale, got up from his seat and grouped himself with those who would be his classmates. They were all his age, and somewhat intimidating. Among all those young people he met the boy he had seen some time ago, and they exchanged glances for a moment.

The meeting continued, so they had to wait until all the groups were complete to send them all to their respective dormitories. In the meantime, murmurs could be heard coming from everywhere.

[...]

When the meeting was over, each teacher took his students to their formal dormitories. The man leading this class was bald, with a brown beard and green eyes, he was also somewhat well groomed and wore a suit. He didn't stop for a minute until he got them to their destination. He seemed to be in a hurry, and didn't want to stop.

Group two headed towards block forty where the dormitories were, first they took the women to their dormitories, and then they went to the men's dormitories, in the course there were seventeen men and eight women.

Luan was distracted for a few minutes when he saw the boys in another hall near him. They were group one, they all looked a little eccentric in the way they dressed. And one of them was staring at him, almost trying to intimidate him. When he looked back at his group, he noticed he was last in the assignment, luckily there was someone else without a partner. Apparently he had left and was returning from somewhere. It was that boy with crimson eyes, and black hair, but apparently it was just the two of them.

The teacher who was guiding them gave them the keys to their room and wrote them down on a list.

They both entered the room and noticed that there were three beds, he went to the first bed and the other to the corner. The room was quite spacious, beige, with a closet, and two windows, one of them with a kind of balcony, and it also had an air conditioner.

The two remained silent and neither of them spoke. They did not feel like going out, the food was in boxes that had been delivered to them a few hours ago, and their faces showed the discomfort of walking around all day and spending hours listening to a lecture about the school.