Alec and the others are in the [CLASS A-1]'s classroom. Their class have 50 students overall.
Other freshmen sections have up to 100 students or more.
Every student in [CLASS A-1] is already in the classroom, except Raven.
"Raven's still not here huh."
Blake mumbled to himself, but Alec, Adelle, Eve, and Aoi heard it. Curtis is focused on Eve so he didn't.
"Maybe he's still training?"
Adelle said.
"Yeah, there's a high chance."
Alec replied.
Raven always came in the classroom right before classes starts, he's using every time he can to train and clean himself, this is a well known fact to their group. Actually to the whole [CLASS A-1].
"Hey, I saw Raven running again in the academy again this morning."
"Yeah, I saw him enter the training grounds earlier too."
"He's back huh."
Then Alec and the others heard a group of 3 girls talking about Raven, they didn't turn their heads to their direction.
But they heighten their hearing senses instead to listen to their conversation.
"Where do you think he went to?"
"I don't know, but Miss Ruby said the reason he didn't attend classes is because he's training."
"Do you think Raven is strong?"
At the question of the girl 1, the others went silent for a while.
"I don't know, but he's using a gun so..."
Girl 2 mumbled.
"But he sometimes feel big and strong."
Then girl 3 added.
"What you just said sounded weird."
"Oh, shut up, you know what I mean."
"Hahahaha"
The 3 of them laughed for a while, bit girl 1 asked another question.
"But seriously, Raven is kinda mysterious isn't he?"
She asked, and the others nodded in response.
Thought they weren't part of the conversation, Alec, Adelle, and Aoi, also thinks that Raven is too mysterious and weird sometimes.
"Anyways, Raven's mysteriousness makes him more attractive right?"
It was then girl 3 suddenly said.
"Yeah! I get you, he isn't really that good looking but he's weirdly attractive."
Girl 1 immediately added.
"Right?! I also think so too! He feels a bit different to some of our childish classmates."
Then girl 2 followed!
"Yeah, he's more mature."
"And he's so smart."
"Also his sharp eyes, I always find myself staring at them."
"And the way he declared that Miss Keara belongs to him."
"Kyaaaa!"
The girls then continued to talk about Raven's good points while squirming and slightly blushing.
"Raven became popular because of that event huh."
Adelle muttered, she's talking about when Raven claimed Keara for himself in front of the whole class.
"Why does that shit is so popular? I'm clearly more charismatic than him."
Curtis grumbled, he's also listening to the girls.
"They said because Raven is matured, they must think you look childish compared to Raven."
Blake unconsciously said what's inside his mind; causing Alec, Adelle, Aoi, Eve, and Curtis to look at him with widened eyes.
Curtis glared at him while Alec is looking at him surprised, the same goes to Aoi.
Adelle finds the situation funny and trying her best not to laugh.
Eve is looking at Blake with a weird smile, like saying Blake did a good job.
But Blake didn't notice all the stares and just continued to speak.
"I mean, you're cringe sometimes when you're trying to be romantic, while Raven do romantic things unconsciously, and he looks cool by doing so."
Blake shrugged.
"Oh, is that so."
It was then, Blake felt chills all over his body, his head turned to the others, and there he saw Alec looking at him with worried eyes, Aoi with a shocked expression, Adelle holding her laughter back, Eve smiling widely at him.
And Curtis looking at him with a smile, though his eyes and the atmosphere around him are scary.
'Oh, shit.'
This is where Blake realized what he just did.
"Your main weapon is a shield, right, Blake?"
Curtis asked with a creepy smile.
Blake is getting scared.
"I want to have a spar with you later, I want to try sparring with a tanker once."
Curtis then added. freew(e)bnovel.(c)om
"Wha... Ah... I didn't mean that, well I mean, Raven does look cooler than you sometimes but... AHHHHH!"
Blake tried to make excuses, but his mouth is too honest. Thus it just made Curtis more mad.
"What do you guys find attractive about that guy? He's weak as fuck and he looks shit."
But while that was happening, they heard an arrogant male's voice, Alec and the others frowned and perked their ears to hear what the boy is saying.
"That Raven guy, ranked the lowest in our class, he's a low ranker, I didn't even know how he entered Lunar, I bet he used Miss Ruby's authority to pass." fre(e)webnovel.com
The boy said and smirked to the girls, who are talking about Raven.
"Who are you?"
Girl 3 asked the boy.
"I'm Harvey."
The boy then replied arrogantly and winked at the girls, the girls frowned at him.
"He's embarrassing as fuck."
Curtis mumbled with a frown.
"That's what you almost look like when flirting."
Blake blurted again unconsciously. Curtis glared at him resulting Blake to cover his mouth.
"Okay, Harvey whatever, can't you just leave us alone? We're talking among ourselves."
Girl 1 said to Harvey. Harvey frowned, but then smirked again.
"You're gonna talk about that Raven guy? Come on, I'm way more better than him."
The girls and Alec and the others cringed at his words.
"At what aspect?"
"You're nothing compared to him."
"Yeah, you're cringe as fuck."
The girls said blantly to Harvey.
"Aren't you just jealous of Raven?"
Girl 2 added. Harvey frowned again and opened his mouth.
"Me? No way I'll be jealous of him, I'm way richer than him."
Harvey said as hr closed his both eyes.
"And more attractive."
He declared.
"Ew."
"Disgusting."
"This is what I mean when I said Raven is nothing like anybody in our classmates."
The girls didn't hide their disgust toward him, which made Harvey angry.
"Just you see, I'll prove it to you girls!"
He exclaimed.
By this time, everyone in the room already heard him and already knows what's happening.
"How will you prove it?"
A different girl inside the room asked, she does not belong to the girls Harvey was talking to.
Harvey looked at her and smiled.
"I'll confront him as soon as he entered the room! And prove that there's nothing great about him!"
Harvey exclaimed.
'Isn't he just an Idiot?'
Everyone in the classroom thought so, some of them already know that Raven isn't just some ordinary guy, especially the guys that recieved Raven's pressure first hand.
So they're just scoffing at Harvey.
The girls are also just looking at him like he's some kind of shit on the road.
"I bet he's blackmailing Miss Keara to be his lover, but don't worry guys! I'll free Miss Keara from Raven's hand, well don't be sad even if Miss Keara falls in love with me, especially you girls, I'll still welcome you."
Harvey continued talking shit about Raven, not caring about the atmosphere around him.
His last words made Alec and the others frowned, even Eve and Aoi. Even Curtis.
"He's assuming things himself."
"He's delusional."
"Yeah, he's disgusting."
"I may hate Raven but I'm not as crazy as him."
Whisperings like that are happening in the room everywhere.
"Hey weirdo! Raven's coming!"
Then one of the boys exclaimed when he saw Raven coming, he was looking at the hallway through the windows.
His words caught everyone's attention.
And then they became curious.
'What will happen?'
They all thought in unison.
"Finally! I'll free you now Miss Keara!"
Harvey exclaimed and went near the room's door, where Raven always enter as it's close to his seat.
Then...
Bam!
The sliding door opened aggressively, making a loud sound.
Then Raven entered.
As soon as he entered, Harvey opened his mouth.
"Raven! I demand you to free Miss Keara from your grasp!"
He exclaimed from the top of his lungs!
'He said it!'
Everyone thought, then their gazes went to Raven.
Raven's steps halted, then he looked at Harvey.
Raven is already annoyed even before entering the room, so he's already frowning.
'Scary!'
Everyone in the room, except Harvey, thought when they saw Raven's expression, his demeanor is kinda intimidating too!
Harvey have his eyes closed and just continued to talk.
"I will free Miss Keara from you, and soon will take even Miss Ruby from you, I don't know why she have a relationship with someone like you but now that I think about it! Maybe Miss Ruby just goes with everyone!"
He exclaimed with a confident voice and face.
"Is he crazy?!"
"Is he not scared at what he's saying?!"
Harvey smiled deeper when he heard the reaction of his classmates.
"Me? Scared? Never in my life that I have been scared!"
Harvey turned his back to Raven and faced his classmates and proudly proclaimed that.
Alec and Blake stood up and were about to confront Harvey.
But Harvey talked again before they can utter a word.
"Now Raven! Free them from yo–"
"Shut up."
Fwoo-
The atmosphere of the whole room bacame scary as Raven cut Harvey's words with an annoyed voice.
Then everyone in the classroom bacame tense and quiet.
"Keuk.."
Harvey's chest tightened, making his breathing unstable, he frowned and looked at Raven's face.
Then Harvey flinched when he saw Raven's cold expression.
Tap.
Raven took one step forward, the sound of his step echoed throughout the room, sending goosebumps to everyone.
'What's this? The aura he's emitting is a lot more stronger!'
Alec and the others thought, they're breathing just fine and the same goes to everyone in the room, well except from Harvey, as the pressure is just directed to him. But everyone can't help but hold their breaths from time to time while in Raven's presence.
Tap.
Raven then took another step, he's now facing Harvey, he's slightly looking up as Harvey is taller than him.
"My neck hurts..."
Raven mumbled, though his voice is weak, everyone heard it because of the silence.
"You..."
Raven pointed at Harvey.
"Kneel."
Fwoosh–
At Raven's command, his presence became more majestic resulting Harvey's knees to become sluggish and his head to lower.
As a matter of fact, It is just now that Raven activated <Monarch's Presence> ever since entering the classroom.
"W-what?"
Alec can't help but mutter in shock as he felt Raven's stronger presence. The others are also surprised and can't help but feel slight goosebumps.
Harvey is struggling to stand up while being subjected to such presence, he tried resisting the pressure and looked at Raven to confront him.
"Ah..."
But when his eyes then met Raven's cold starry black eyes, his knees gave out, making him kneel on his both knees.
Harvey kept his head lowered, not wanting to look at Raven.
"Much better."
Raven whispered, looking down at Harvey.
'W-what's happening?! Why can't I look up to him?'
Harvey thought while sweating uncontrollably.
"You must be thinking why you can't look at me directly, right?"
Raven then casually said like he can read Harvey's mind, which made Harvey flinch.
"It's easy."
Raven put his hands on Harvey's shoulders.
Then he slouched down and whispered to Harvey's ear.
"It's because you're scared."
Raven said in a calm and cold voice.
Harvey can't help but tremble in front of Raven even though he knows that he will be humiliated in front of everyone, he can't control his body.
He doesn't even know if Raven is stronger than him in combat.
But nevertheless, he can't act up and his self confidence is slowly shattering away.
'I'm scared.'
Harvey thought as the corner of his eyes became teary.
This is the first time Harvey felt scared, he always got spoiled by his parents and the people around him, he also think of himself as the protagonist of the world!
He always thought that there's nothing he need to be scared about, even death itself.
But that kind of thinking disappeared in an instant in front of Raven.
"Oh, and I'll tell you one thing."
At Raven's words, Harvey finally looked up at Raven.
"Khhhg..."
Raven is smiling, but his eyes aren't.
"Ruby isn't that kind of woman."
Raven said, everyone in the classroom heard that, it's intentional as Raven wants everyone to know.
"If I heard you talk about Ruby, or anyone else close to me like that again..."
It was then Raven's smile disappeared.
"I'll destroy you."
His cold declaration sent chills to everyone as they felt the messages were for them too.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Raven then walked passed Harvey, looking straight ahead.
Soon the heavy pressure engulfing the room disappeared.
Harvey didn't move in his place even an inch, no, he couldn't move.
Harvey didn't feel humiliated, but instead relieved, because Raven left without doing anything more to him.
"Why does he looks more annoyed than usual?"
Meanwhile, Alec asked as he saw Raven still frowning walking in their direction.
"Maybe he's just tired?"
Blake guessed.
"Or he had a nightmare!"
Adelle exclaimed, Blake nodded as he thinks it's possible too.
"Isn't he just the same? He's still frowning as usual."
Curtis said like suggesting that Alec, Adelle, and Blake are weird.
"Well, he looks annoyed ever since he entered the room."
Aoi mumbled.
"I don't care, but it's nice seeing that Harvey guy being destroyed."
Eve said with a calm face.
"Yeah, seeing him being crushed was so satisfying."
Adelle added as she nods her head.l
'What a sadist, both of them.'
Alec and Blake thought after hearing Eve's and Adelle's words.
But they nodded their heads as they also think that Harvey deserves it. Curtis doesn't really care, but because Eve said it, he also agreed.
This event made Raven more popular, though Raven still doesn't know.
***
[Raven's POV]
'Annoying things keeps happening ever since I acquired a new skill.'
I thought.
Maybe I used all my luck in making that skill!
I grumbled internally as just now, I confronted a guy with a vast and annoying imagination.
I don't know who he was and I don't care, I don't remember him so he's nothing special.
I'm annoyed even before entering the room because of the training I need to do for the [Body Reconstruction].
Then as soon as I entered the room, a weird dude started to talk shit about me and Ruby, so I let out my anger to him.
Though I didn't feel bad even for a bit, because he acts like a total jackass.
"These are goddamn heavy."
I annoyingly mumbled as I walk.
I have weight bracelets on my legs and arms.
All of them are weighting 75 kilos each limbs.
I looked at the transparent window in front of me that only me can see.
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-Lift 75 Kilograms, 20,000 times.(153/20,000)
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With these weights, every time I lift my legs to walk or raised my hand, the counter goes up.
But looking at the progress made me frown, so I closed the window.
'I need to add more time on my training schedule.'
I plan to finish the training number 1-4 of the [Body Reconstruction] in 10 days. But I don't know how long it will take for me to finish the training number 5.
"Let's just hope I finish it all before the assessment."
(Ever since this day, Raven will continue running for 2000 meters a day and do 500 sit-ups, push-ups, and squats a day, for the next 10 days.)
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[Drei05]: I fell asleep hours ago while revising this chap, I just finished it now after waking up lol.
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