Chapter 207 207 Starting school life
[El's POV: ]
"We will be training together twice a week, and the rest of the days, you all will be training in the things that I have just taught you. The rule book is here so you know what you have to do and what you must never even attempt or else, well, the consequences that are written there will take place regardless of place, time, or world you are in.
Be careful of what you do in this special training place, act like proper beings instead of animals. You will be punished if something happens here and I have to work because of you all.
Alright…"
They had many questions regarding many of the things however, they kept them to themselves.
They knew one person wasn't a person here and even though they carried little about this whole team thing, they were curious about things that they couldn't understand at the moment.
'All of this was unique for them. They were unique people, most of them at least, and they understood a little about the situation they were in and what the things they all could gain from this were.
They knew there was profit if they followed my orders and since they had signed a special Mana contract already, they knew there was no way out of this mess.'
They were part of this thing now, so, all they could do now was to follow what they were told, see what would happen, and then, start working on the cute plans that they had cooked in their minds.
"Work hard~."
I waved at them, and they gave their response to my goodbye in different ways, and then, Lucy and I vanished from this large white room, leaving the 'twelve' of them alone.
-Oooooooooooong!
"Huuuuu. The first day of school is finally upon us darling."
Anna was a genius.
Like, the same kind of genius as me.
Her knowledge about space and time was so great that it surprised even me when she transformed the simple summoning room of this dorm floor into something practically out of this world.
'She made it into a separate space-time wrap junction and connected many of the other special rooms as well as some other places we have already been to that place so that we can travel to and from those places without needing a large amount of Mana.'
Thanks to her, we now had a special access key that could take us to any of the rooms on this floor that we wanted, or the countries and the places we have been to, or come back to any of these places from anywhere in this world.
She was impeccable with her spell creation, her ability to weave the threads of Mana together and affect the reality, the fabrics of the Worldline, or the set truths of a world.
"Go get dressed or we will be late. I think Nes is already waiting for us in the lobby downstairs."
"Yessss~. Oh! Right! Come with me!"
"Haaaaaa…"
I dragged him with me to the garden where some fresh flowers were growing today, and, pushed him down on the flower bed in the middle of these new flowers.
"We don't have time for this, you know?"
He was acting pretty well but he obviously knew something was up with me.
He knew I was cooking something secret, and the feelings that I tried my best to hide from him, didn't stay hidden completely because of our link.
Even though I have learned to control some of the things, it was still a double-edged sword for both of us.
"You know I am doing something, don't you?"
The sun was slowly rising on the horizon, the winds carrying the freshness of this garden were cool, there were sounds of morning all around us in this open garden transitioning sky, and, today was the first day of school for us.
"I know… but since you want to keep it a secret, I won't ask."
Of course, you want to ask, but that doesn't mean you will try to find out what I am planning yourself. You are a bastard who loves peeling off the skin of a strand of hair.
"You do not have to worry about whatever I am doing. it is for us."
"Of course I know that. But, it involves a bastard like Nick. There's no way I can stop worrying about it."
We lay on this soft flower-covered bed in the middle of the flower field, looked up at the sky that was slowly turning blue, held each other's hand, and looked each other in the eye with heavy breathing.
"He's just a piece."
"He is also a card in the bigger game now though."
"He's replaceable."
"But what if he doesn't want to be replaced? You know what happened that one time he went on a renal rampage and actually destroyed half of the school, right?"
"That was an exception. I know that is a possibility that's why I planted that thing inside him when we were saving his life yesterday."
"Yes, I understand that now, but, you know… he will be a different person when he wakes up later. How are you going to deal with him?"
Things that were going on were certainly complicated to explain in simple terms since there were many things that we kept to ourselves, but, in simple terms, there was this one thing that we needed to do, and to do that we needed this one team with these specific people and with them in a certain order, by doing some things, we will be able to get the first thing that will be the stepping stone to our ticket out of this world.
The numbers of Clubs were going to be important for that and however bastard Nick was, he was a good card that we couldn't just leave in that place.
Keeping him here would be better, and since we will give him things to do that he will love doing, he will be an obedient little puppy here.
'That's what we thought about at first at least but then I thought of another way of using this bastard, and if we can use him and do some specific things, we might just be able to able to get a better number nine than him. One that is not a loose cannon like him.'
but if I tell Lucy my plans, it will become impossible to actually carry out. He had guessed that much already by now. But, to figure out all that I was going after, he would have to first understand everything that was not in front of him.
"Haaaa… how about we leave these things for later darling?"
It has been three days since the entrance exam and now, after a short break, it was finally the day for the first day of our school life.
'We were going to be in the same classroom as Nes and the other protagonists since we all were high achievers in the entrance exam the last time, and, since today was the first day, it was going to be fun.'
We have been looking forward to this day again for a while now and, I know just how excited Lucy is to get there as soon as possible, see the things that we had experienced only in the games, meet the teachers that had already taught us everything they had to teach on them, and, to see if the things will go similar to how they had been during our game runs.
'He was excited before, but, after that suspicion of me… his mood is completely different now.'
He is focused on finding out what I was hiding… but he can do that after we leave the dorms and meet up with my Nessy. I haven't seen her since yesterday, she would have been worried as well.
"El, promise me one thing."
"Hmmm? What is it?"
"You won't do things by yourself, we will do it all together. Promise me that and I will leave you and this thing alone."
He grabbed both my hands and looked at me with a worried, and serious look.
He wanted the answer to this question, a true answer that was satisfying enough to force his natural instincts to stop what he was up to.
He needed sincerity from me, and, I had no choice but to give him my honest answer.
"I… promise. We will do it together. But, promise me whenever I tell you to do something that is part of my plan, you will do it without questioning it. Promise me that and, we can be done with this together."
Following my orders without question wasn't something he would agree to even if
I used a few of our wishes, he feared the unfathomable consequences of agreeing to something even close to that, however, he was in a situation where he had to make a decision that he would otherwise not even think thrice about.
"You are playing dirty El… you know I wouldn't give you an answer to this kind of promise right away."
Well, of course you wouldn't. That's why I asked for such an absurd thing, you know?
"Then, let's go for now. Answer me when you have a good enough answer~. Until then~, I will continue what I am doing!" I pulled him off the bed and dragged him away after kissing him for a minute.
Today is the first day, my Nessy is waiting for us, and, she isn't the only one.
'All of my child-like protagonists are also looking forward to seeing me again, hehe. I know they will have unique reactions when they meet us again.'
We are in the same class, and, since the students can have six personal classes of their own choice, all the classes we are taking would have the six of them in at least one of those classes.
And, since all those classes would be pretty unique ones, this academic life of ours was going to be funnnnnnn~!
'Like, really really fun, lol. Things are going to be pretty enjoyable~. But, well, before those personal classes, we will have the homeroom class where we will meet our homeroom teacher for the first time.'
And, since he's also a fun one, I'm also looking forward to seeing all of them, and their cute familiars now~!
"Alright~! Let's gooooo~!"
"Stop you dummy. Come here. Your hair is a mess again. Haaaa…"
'He still cared about my already pretty hair even though he was in a moral crisis. My cute little bastard, hehe.'
He's the best…
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