The shopping area of the academy is rather more crowded today, due to the New Year celebration event. Instead of decreasing, the crowd is increasing even more as ti passes. So people are shopping alone, so are with friends and so are couples shopping for the New year.
The atmosphere seems to be a bit romantic today. You can see several couples, all around the area. Enjoying their date, while so are still waiting for their partners to co.
The small artificial pond has beco the famous waiting and eting place for those who are waiting for their partners to co, here. This area is also a bit crowded but not as much as the shopping area.
Among all those who are waiting, there one such fellow with black hair and black eyes. He is also waiting for soone to co; his face is as expressionless as ever. He is sitting on a desk, near the small pond.
The scenery today is really peaceful, if it was on Earth, this peace could have been maintained for a rather long ti but such things are not true for this chaotic world, where powerful people are present everywhere.
Putting the depressing things away for now, the weather is also very good today. A clear Blue sky, a warm sunshine and slow-refreshing breeze of air, which is making the trees rustle every once in a while. A perfect day for love-birds to have their way around.
A luxury car arrived at the entrance with several black cars following behind it. Soone important has co here. But this has beco a common sight now. During this ti of year several big figures like to visit the academy.
The cars stopped and a team of bodyguards in black suits, rushed down from those black cars. They cleared the road and one of them walked towards the luxury car to open the door.
The door opened and a beautiful girl in a breathtaking dress ca in sight. She started to walk towards the artificial pond, heading towards a particular desk. The extravagant clothes and the amazing entry of a beauty certainly caused a commotion.
The looked at the guards and as if they understood her, the guards imdiately cleared the way and after their work was done, they bowed towards her respectfully and left without further delay. Seeing this the girl had a satisfied look on her face, she started to head towards the desk on which a particular boy was sitting.
"Such extravagant entrance, are you trying to make trouble for , by making
the target of others envy?" (Rio)
A little blush appeared on the girls face after hearing his playful tone. She glared at this idiot, muscle-head rather fiercely but that expression made her even more cute, several random guys around the area are already going crazy. She sat down on the desk while still glaring at Rio:
"Hmph! Who cares, I just wanted to re-reach the place faster s-so, I took the car. I-its no-nothing else." (Lia)
"Well anyway, you look rather good today." (Rio)
Seeing the grin on Rio's face, she had the urge to punch this idiot on his face but she decided to just intimidate him with a death glare. Even though, the glare didn't really work on him at all, maybe due to his thick skin or shaless personality.
Just as they both were busy talking to each other, it was impossible for Rio to not get envious stares, so people even seed to be talking bad things but Rio ignored them for the ti being. He knew from the mont Lia arrived, that it was impossible that such a situation would not happen. After a small talk, both of them got up and walked towards the shopping area.
Unknown what gave the people such courage, a youngster tried to approach them. Rio noticed that the guy had drool dripping from his mouth and even his eyes was staring at Lia with a rather bad intention.
Rio felt an insuppressible anger coming from the bottom of his heart he stared at the approaching youngster and used a little amount of his aura on the guy. The guy's perverted look was instantly replaced with a face filled with horror. His legs gave away and he collapsed down, his whole body drenched in sweat.
Seeing this Rio just shook his head and ignored the guy, he nonchalantly followed along Lia as if nothing happened at all. Without Rio's knowledge, he has beco really protective over Lia, maybe this is the side-effect of being alone for two lives or maybe its sothing else, which he himself is unaware of yet.
After Rio and Lia both left the area, the place remained silent for a while before a commotion started:
"Oh! Who was she, she's so beautiful?"
"Maybe she is a student of the academy."
"Heh, what do you know she is the daughter of an S-ranker, her na is Lia, I saw her on tv, with her father during an interview."
"Amazing! She must be really talented then."
"Yeah! It is said that she has the talent to be an S rank in the future."
"But who was that boy with her? Do you know him too?"
"Nope, I don't know."
Nobody knew much about Rio who was accompanying Lia. Rumors started to spread around rather fast. Afterall this was the first ti Lia appeared in the public. Before this she was only seen on tv.
The guards who were still monitoring the situation around also found it strange. They had assud that Lia would have co here to just buy sothing or for a walk maybe. They were all confused when they found that Lia was accompanying an unknown boy.
They imdiately took photo and a thorough investigation started on the unknown boy's background. One photo was even sent to Lia's father as a report and asking for his further guidance. This ti Rio really have triggered a big event.
Unaware of the coming disasters, the two continued their way towards the shopping area. While Lia was blushing from all the attention she was catching, Rio was rather indifferent and had the sa expressionless face.
But Unknown to Lia several young n had already collapsed along the way due to soone's dangerous aura being released on them. The two beca the cause of talk for people. Yet, both of them still maintained their pace.
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Sowhere near an S-rank dungeon. A burly man was standing there looking at the portal in front of him. He was totally unfazed by the dungeon's mana and was lighting a cigar in peace. He had a huge broadsword hanging behind his back. And he was wearing light armor.
The man seed to be in his forties. He had a rather rough and barbaric appearance. A huge scar was on his face making him even more intimidating to look at.
Suddenly a man in a butler's outfit ca running towards him and respectfully bowed towards him. The person seed to be in hurry to report sothing. Seeing the butler in such a strange state the burly man was surprised.
"What happened, why are you so out of breath?"
"Master, see this photo. It has been taken about a few hours ago."
The burly man looked at the photo with a confused look. But after he saw the photo his confusion was suddenly replaced by a surprised look. He looked towards the butler:
"Is this even real?"
"Yes, Master"
The burly man was even more dumbfounded by this. The photo had a girl and a boy in it. They seed to be a good couple in a glance. But the most surprising thing was that the girl in the photo was smiling. Yeah, she was smiling.
As if understanding his puzzlent, the butler replied:
"Young Lady seems to be rather happy in the photo"
"Yeah…"
The burly man put the photo in his pocket and he started to stare at the horizon with calm eyes. Several old mories resurfaced in his mind but he suppressed those unpleasant mories.
He knew that ever since his wife has died, he and his daughter beca very distant but he couldn't do much about it. When she was young, his daughter had a pleasant smile on her face every ti but after her mother's death, his daughter has lost her smile and happiness.
He is happy that his daughter can smile once again and is recovering from her depressed self but as a father he need to make sure that his daughter is not being deceived by soone.
As if he had already decided he ordered the butler:
"Did you investigate the boy's background?"
"Yeah, he is an orphan and seem to be one of the top 100 rank students."
"Top 100 rank, that ans that he has the potential to be an A rank or above in the future. Anything else?"
"Uh, Well, there's not much extraordinary about him, but his past seems rather depressing…He is a survivor of the drift city massacre"
Hearing about the event, the burly man suddenly recalled so old mories. He rembered the day when he was in that city…suddenly he shook, his head and stopped recalling that horrible mory. He doesn't want to rember that event, afterall his wife had died around that ti too.
The butler spoke again:
"And well it seems he have saved our young lady's life once during that S-rank dungeon event. They must have grown familiar around that ti, I think."
"Oh, why don't I know that my daughter was in a life-threatening situation?"
"Well, uh, i-its be-because she w-was rescued safely, later, s-so…" (Butler)
"So, what's the na of that boy?"
"Uh, his na is Rio, Rio Flash"
Suddenly the burly man faced towards the butler and looked in his eyes, he had a serious look:
"What na did you say?"
"I-Its Rio Flash" (Butler, while a little panicked)
The burly man again looked in the distance blankly, he was lost in his thoughts again.
"It brings back old mories hearing that surna..."
A na suddenly leaked out of his mouth unconsciously:
"Kevin Flash, the 'Soul splitter'...."
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