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Chapter Thirty One: Monica
The Hanging House received them like they had won a war.Ezekiel had reorganized the common room, he seemed to be in a lovely mood, although he tried to deny it. There was food on the table and the multi-colored lights were running and when Jett and Red walked through the door everyone in the house was already there, which was not a coincidence.Jett and Red walked in to people smiling at them and offering them treats. Itt found Jett in the middle of it and looked at him for a moment before nodding once with a pleased smile."Good," she said, and went back to whatever she had been doing.It was the best welcome he had received since he died the first time.---Idao called them to his office the next morning.He was sitting behind his desk when they arrived, the scar on his cheek catching the light."Sit," he said.They sat."The school administration is watching you both," he said. "Not as a punishment. As a precaution." He folded his hands on the desk. "The information recovered from
Chapter Thirty: The Art of Forging
Sleep didn't come for Jett, he turned on the bed several times, unable to close his eyes even for a few seconds. He lay on the medical bay bed and watched the shadows on the ceiling and listened to the sound of Red breathing steadily on the other side of the room. Every time something moved in the corridor outside, every time a door opened somewhere in the building, his eyes would fling open..Zach knew he was alive. Zach knew he was at the school. And Zach had already tried twice. He hadn't been able to avenge the greatest betrayal done to him, instead, Zach had killed him again.He sat up at last."*You are not sleeping?*" Heron said. “*Guess there is really no sleep for the wicked.*”"Shut up," Jett retorted.“*Oooh, someone laid on the wrong side of the bed, what's the matter, are you feeling useless?*”“Oh, for the sake of the gods, leave me alone.” "*Instead of whining like a baby, get up and do something useful.*"Jett sighed and decided to take Heron’s advice. He reached int
Chapter Twenty Nine: Confirmed Dead
The road back to school was quiet. They didn't talk much. Red's pace was steady and slow, he seemed to have a lot on his mind. Jett also followed in the same manner.The school gates came into view mid-morning.When they cleared the final bend in the road the full picture of the school assembled itself. The entire student body was assembled in the main courtyard, seven hundred people at least, arranged in loose rows facing a line of instructors. The assembly was interrupted as the guards opened the gate to let the two in. The two guards were rather surprised to see the two of them and one of them had to march them in, gazing at them cautiously.When they reached the grounds, everyone turned their head towards them.The silence that followed was deafening. It was Orz that approached them first.He came across the courtyard with an unhurried stride. He stopped in front of them and looked at them both for a long moment. His expression was unreadable."You were confirmed dead," he said
Chapter Twenty Eight: What We Are
Jett got to his feet slowly, testing each part of himself as it came online. His chest felt wrong, a deep structural wrongness where the blade had gone in, but when he pressed his hand against it there was no wound. Not even a scar, but he still felt it mentally.“Heron?” He checked for the system, having seen her as an humanoid entity, she carried more weight to him now.“*We just talked a few minutes ago, can't you go a full hour without pestering me?*” She replied.Jett smiled and didn't say a word. He sat down and sat by the fire.Red held out a stick without asking. A rough cut piece of meat was skewered on the end, blackened at the edges from the fire."Rat?" Jett asked."Big one," Red said. "Was already dead when I found it. I think something else killed it first." He glanced toward the dark beyond the fire where a large shape was just visible on the ground. "I was not going to waste it."Jett took the stick and ate. It tasted like bland but his body received it gratefully.The
Chapter Twenty Seven: Limbo
Jett opened his eyes and he was in an empty void. The void had no walls but it felt enclosed. It had no light source but everything in it was visible. It had no floor but he was standing on something. It moved and stayed still simultaneously, shifting at the edges like something breathing, but the center of it, where he stood, was perfectly motionless.Jett looked at his hands. They were there. He didn't know why that surprised him.A girl was sitting in front of him.Black hair, straight and simply kept. A slim frame. A long white dress that touched the non-floor beneath her and spread slightly, the hem dissolving at the edges into the shimmering of the void itself. She was looking at him with a patient expression."You are dead," she said.Jett looked around at the void. "Again," he said."Again," she agreed."Where am I?""Limbo." She said it simply. The same word the screen had shown him the first time, in what felt like another life, which he supposed it was.He sat down across
Chapter Twenty Six: That Level Again
Zach crouched in front of him with a smile on his face. He had a small dagger dangling from his belt and Jett could see an almost maniacal demeanor to his facial expression."You know," he said, "when Monica pulled that trigger I watched your head explode. I watched it. And then somehow you show up here, alive, walking around like nothing happened." He tilted his head. "That is not human, Jett.”He stood and looked at the masked figures around him. "This is Jettai Ghalkan. He was a talentless floor worker. No class, no rank, no ability. Monica, my ex, shot him in the head at close range and he died on our bedroom floor." He looked back down at Jett. "And yet.""Zach." Jett's voice came out lower than he intended. "You are making a mistake.""Am I?" Zach crouched again. "You show up at the school of talents as an Artificer. You take down five upperclassmen on your third day. You survived the wasteland, and now you are on your way as the leader of a crew." He smiled. "I just want to kno
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