Four chapters here... So sleepy..
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On the way to Chorius's club, Bloed noticed that Aya and Prince Calisto were behaving strangely. It was as though They were about to et sothing dangerous?
Their strange behavior was so obvious that Liu Ying and Regina also noticed it. In the end, Liu Ying could not help but pull the cat girl's sleeve.
"Aya, what is wrong?"
Aya did not reply imdiately. She instead looked stealthily towards the front of the group, where Chorius was, before speaking with a soft tone that Bloed and Liu Ying barely heard.
"Actually, I know a bit about Mr. Chorius's Club."
"Is anything wrong with it?"
" I'm not sure, but I heard the people there are crazy." Aya said after a bit of hesitation.
Bloed and Liu Ying were startled.
"Crazy? What do you an?" Liu Ying asked.
"As I told you, I'm not sure," Aya shook her head. "Father gave a rundown about the most important clubs in Academy City before coming, and he ntioned [Knowledge Seekers] on it. He said that they are a group made of crazy people that pursue the truth of magic, and apparently, they make all kinds of experints, even experints in people." By the end of her speech, Aya was slightly pale.
"She is right." Prince Calisto intervened at that mont with a look of fear. "I even heard they kidnap people for their experint!"
Bloed, Liu Ying, and Regina Put on slightly weird expressions.
Instinctively, Liu Ying glanced at Bloed, aware of the fact he used living people for his experints just a few days ago.
" It can't be so bad, right?" She could not help but say.
"Of course not," Chorius replied from the front. "We are not a kind of evil cult or anything like that."
"M-Mr. Chorius!" Aya and Prince Calisto jumped in surprise, making the bird demigod (in the shape of a human) chuckle slightly.
"Why are you surprised? I'm a demigod. Obviously, I can hear your conversation."
Aya and Prince Calisto blushed in sha.
Fortunately, Chorius did not take their words seriously and just explained with a smile.
"We indeed experint in living people, but it's always with their consent. Plus, these experints are generally very safe, like testing the power or effects of a spell. As for the rumor about us kidnapping people, that is nothing more than a stupid lie. Academy City will definitively not allow sothing like that."
Aya and Prince Calisto smiled awkwardly.
However, Bloed thought that their words were a good way to know what to expect.
After all, rumors exist due to sothing. Even if it's exaggerated that they kidnap people for their experints, it's probably true that they are a bit crazy.
And Bloed was increasingly sure of his predictions when he saw the building of the club.
A big, wide, and beautiful building, with several young n and won going in and out of it each minute.
At first sight, it seed like a nice club.
Save by the fact it was completely isolated. There were at least fifty or so ters until the nearest building.
Moreover, when people walked near to the building, they hurried their steps, as though afraid of sothing coming out of it and eating them alive.
Bloed was speechless when he saw that. No matter how he looked at it, this club was not normal.
"It's my club," Chorius said with a warm smile. "Nice, right? I'm sure you will like it. It's ranked sixteen in the city, so it's definitively a top choice if you want to choose a club."
Bloed and the others were about to agree. But at that mont
*BOOM!!!*
An explosion ca from inside the building.
Bloed and the others were startled. Before they could react, a ball of flas burst out of the building followed by the screams of pain and fear of several young n.
"Hurry up! Stop the fire!"
"We need to extinguish the flas!"
"My arm! Help!"
"Vice-president! Soone fainted here!"
"We have several injured!"
Bloed and the others watched agape as a lot of young n rushed out of the building, filled with dust and injuries of varying degrees.
Most astonishingly, the people inside the club seed already used to it. In fact, the way they went about treating the injured seed as though it was not the first ti sothing like this happened.
"M-Mr. Chorius, w-what was that?" Prince Calisto asked nervously.
The middle-aged man smiled awkwardly before coughing and calling out to soone.
"Andre! Co here!"
"Huh?" A young man in the crowd lifted his face and looked in Chorius's direction. He then left whatever he was doing and ca running towards here excitedly.
"Teacher! You are here! Mm? They are?"
"Newcors. I was going to introduce the club to them."
"Newcors!" Andre's face lit up imdiately. "That is great! Many of our mbers were injured in recent experints, so we are short-handed right now! As expected, teacher knows what we need!"
Bloed and the others could not help but twitch their lips when they heard that.
For so reason, they got the feeling the young man was looking at them as materials for his experints.
"You are" Bloed could not help but ask.
"My na is Andre, nice to et you. I'm the vice-president of the club."
"I see," Bloed put on a strained smile. "By the way, are you alright?"
The young man was startled. But soon, he seed to realize sothing.
He looked at his left arm, which had been dangling powerlessly all this ti, and smiled gently. "Don't worry, things like this happen all the ti. It will be fine in a few days." He then took a suspicious vial from sowhere in his clothes and drank it.
" A potion?" Liu Ying asked curiously. "Are you an alchemist?"
"I am," Andre said proudly. "This potion was sothing I created personally. It dumbs the pain, fatigue, and sleepiness, plus improves concentration and invigorates the body. I don't want to brag, but I have not slept for one week and I still feel as new... Just a slight occasional headache."
Liu Ying's expression stiffened.
Not just her. Aya and Prince Calisto were also looking at the vice-president with slightly scared looks.
Even Bloed could not help but take a step back.
He admitted he sotis went too far with his research, but even he was not so crazy.
Perhaps feeling that Bloed and the others were going to run away at this rate, Chorius coughed and changed the topic.
"Anyway, can you explain to what happened?"
"About that We were experinting with the [Explosion] spell just now. We wanted to increase its power and reduce its area of effect at the sa ti. Unfortunately, we were unsuccessful. This ti, the spell went out of control and injured so mbers. But you don't need to worry, sothing like this is normal. They will be alright after so days."
Once more, the group cringed.
So a spell going out of control and injuring several students was normal? What was abnormal then?
Andre, however, was completely oblivious to the group's thoughts. Instead, his face suddenly lit up in anticipation.
"By the way, do you want to see the spell? Co with , I'll take you to the laboratory. You can take this opportunity to see the facilities of the club."
Bloed, Regina, Liu Ying, Aya, and Prince Calisto looked at each other with awkward expressions.
"I-I'm not feeling very well right now, maybe later?" Prince Calisto took a step back.
" I-I need to protect the prince, so I can't go right now." Aya looked away.
"There is no way I'm entering that crazy place." Liu Ying was more direct, refusing imdiately.
In the end, the vice-president directed his gaze full of anticipation to Bloed. Moreover, Chorius also looked at Bloed with a similar gaze.
Sighing, Bloed decided to risk it.
"Okay, I'm going with you. Will you co with , Regina?"
"Of course. I can't leave master alone in such a dangerous place."
Bloed thought he saw Chorius look away when Regina said that.
"It's not so dangerous, you will be fine."
Bloed was not completely sure about that.
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