"Then it makes even more confused. If you are really that powerful, then why do you even need soone like , who isn't even a proper human?" She asked as she stared into my eyes with all seriousness as she didn't even blink as she kept observing .
"We all have our secrets, don't we?" I smiled as I stood up before walking away from there continuing,"I will be eting you more often now. Let's talk about making you more powerful when the ti cos and you can think about the deal till we et next."
Slowly, I moved away from there as I sensed Lilith sitting there motionless, processing everything. She must be thinking about the deal I proposed and I wonder what decision she would make.
'For now, let's eat sothing for real. All this aroma of food is making hungry,' I thought as I left the restaurant and looked around for another dining place nearby.
After a few minutes of looking around, I found another restaurant where I decided to go. But before going to that restaurant, I stopped at a nearby currency exchange station where I exchanged so Monster Cores for Arcadia Coins.
From that point, ti passed really fast and by the ti I realised it was already evening. Bernette, Eliza, etc. Everyone else passed well with flying colours. anwhile, I was taking a leisurely stroll, as I passed my ti, simply looking around, enjoying the quiet ti I had to myself.
I went to various eateries, a bunch of entertainnt areas and watched a few magic tricks which weren't really that hard to see through. After I was done with everything, I bought an ice cream and then decided to advance towards the area where the final results of the Unorthodox division would be displayed.
Though before I could do so, a black-haired girl, who was probably running away from soone, suddenly ca in front of , almost crashing against , though I swiftly stepped aside and let her fall.
-Bam!
She falls to the ground after hitting a few more people and hurriedly stands up as she looks around with a panicked face. I moved closer to her while trying to see whom she was running away from, but I did not find any face in particular.
"Want so ice cream?" I spoke without really caring about the situation and she looked at , a bit taken aback as she looked in the direction where she ca running from before looking at .
I observe the urgency on her face before speaking,"doesn't look like whoever you are running away from is coming here. Why not catch your breath and have sothing to cool you down? This flavour is nice. One of my favourites among the ones I tried here."
Hearing my words, I see her calm down a bit before she looks around and apologises to those around her and then looks at before speaking,"thank you, but I should be leaving now."
Then I saw her moving in the sa direction where I was going and I chuckled a little, soon mixing in with the crowd before hiding my presence and moving towards the place where my ranking would be shown.
After another 30 minutes, I reach the location and find the sa girl there as well, looking at the board with a dumbfounded expression. She seed like she couldn't believe what she was watching.
'Judging by the smile that is masked by that stupefaction, I guess she made it into the Academy as well,' I thought before moving towards her and asking,"did you make it?"
"Aah!" A bit shocked, she turns around before she catches her breath and glares at as she speaks,"you? Look. I am not interested in you and I don't have ti for this. Can you please not follow around?"
The other people present there turned to , with a look of slight disgust, before one of them ca forward and spoke,"Excuse , miss. Let handle this."
That man was around 20 years old and by the looks of it, he too had co here for an Unorthodox test and that confidence… he probably made it as well.
'He doesn't seem like a bad guy… just a bit immature for his age, I suppose,' I thought as I observed him before speaking,"I-
Though before I could even speak, another man spoke from behind,"scum like you are the reason why girls can't walk around safely in the streets these days. One day you are following, another day you are stalking them before you prey on them. People like you should be beaten down to the point that you won't even look at girls."
'An escalation? Is he soone who failed to enter the Unorthodox group and now is trying to take out his anger at ? Hmmm… looking around, everyone else is almost the sa as they are agreeing with him,' I thought as I turned at that girl who looked like she had nothing to do with this.
However, the first guy realised that it is going too far than what it should be… Hmmm, I wonder what he will do now?
The crowd started riling up against and I just stood there eating another one of my ice cream, enjoying its flavour. It was really tasty, maybe I should try to get the recipe for it.
'Maybe if I could add a bit of strawberry, it will beco even better,' I thought as I saw one of those guys touching my shoulder before proceeding to pull , but before he could do so…
"WHAT THE F*CK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!!!" a voice ca from a distance and everyone turned to the source of the voice to find a blonde-haired girl looking at the crowd with fury in her eyes.
Lucy… and Lucas too, huh? There was also Dalton standing there observing eating the ice cream. Everyone here knew who Lucas was, and I stood there wondering what they were doing here.
"Calm down, Lucy. Do you really think he would need your help with this?" Lucas spoke as he looked at with an apathetic and cold gaze. The crowd took a few steps back before I sighed and moved forward towards Lucy.
She wasn't looking at but glaring at the crowd who were literally scared of Lucy's mana surge. I simply patted her and said,"it's alright. Calm down, will ya? Getting angry for a stranger like isn't really normal, you know?" She, hearing my words, cald down in a mont before looking at and speaking,"you aren't a stranger. You are the only friend I have right now, as my brother won't allow anyone near ."
"I am pretty sure he won't allow as well," I said as I observed the narrowed gaze of Lucas at before Lucy spoke,"well, he can't do anything about you, so it doesn't matter. Plus, he knows that you won't harm anyway, so he doesn't really mind you being around … or he does mind, but not as much as others."
'How does he know that I won't harm you?' I wanted to ask but let it go before turning around to see the sa girl who caused all the commotion to move forward with a shy face as she moved towards Lucas and spoke,
"Sir Lucas… I am Rita Cleve, I am the daughter of-"
Though Lucas cut her off as he spoke,"I saw the whole commotion. You made my sister angry, I don't think I have anything to talk about with you."
Dalton, who was observing the situation, moved forward towards and said,"My na is Dalton. May I know your na?"
I nodded at him before answering,"Aidan Williamson."
Hearing my na, everyone except Lucas and Lucy beca dumbfounded before turning to look at the rankings of the Unorthodox division.
[Rank 1: Aidan Williamson. Score: 234,425
Rank 2: Sabrina Carter. Score: 56,234
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Rank 10: Rita Cleve. Score: 48,340]
Even Dalton kept staring at the scoreboard before finally paying attention to as he asked,"is that… you?" His eyes seed really shaken and he couldn't believe he was really looking at the score he was looking at.
'I think the highest anyone ever scored was 102,567 made by one of the fourth years, four years ago. His Unorthodox ability was to create artefacts with simple objects. The artefacts can't increase combat ability, but anything else was possible,' I thought before turning at Lucy as I ask,
"What brings you here, though?"
Lucy then realises what they ca here for before Lucas speaks,"we were here to bring the Unorthodox ones to the facility. Since their test was already done, they can imdiately shift. Though I didn't think…"
Lucas trails off in the end before I smiled at him as I thought,'you did not think that I would be in the Unorthodox rankings?'
And then Dalton gulped a little before he started calling all the nas before all 10 of the Unorthodox began walking towards the inner circle of Arcadia Academy, where we would be allowed to watch the final selection before we would be assigned our dorm rooms.
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