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Eritria's POV

"So as you can see a lot of you failed the test," Ma'am Lovien announces while alongside with her is Sir. Levi. I roam around my eyes just to see some partners that are still angered about the issue yesterday. Frown, arched eyebrows, and grumpy faces are seen everywhere.

While this white head beside me just can't stop that goofy smile of his while still can't move on in the words I told him yesterday. He keeps smiling since the morning, I even saw him posting it in social media.

Well I don't regret saying it.

And then right at that moment my eyes landed on Clementine and Lucas, and just by looking from afar I assume they didn't pass the test. Clementine's back faces Lucas while still giving him the silent treatment.

What has gotten to this two that until now they haven't reconciled?

My eyes shifted again when I heard the malodorous sigh of Ma'am Lovien in her michrophone that produces uncomfortable jarring sound.

"Anyways, class I wanted to let you know that I was the one who set up those malicious things that you thought your mate did," She said that made all girls drop their jaw.

Just joking that would be so much of hyperbole.

My brain stutters for a moment while every part of me goes on pause while my thoughts catch up. 

"What the heck?" The word slipped out to my mouth. Now that explains the whole mess in that four-cornered room.

"I told you, we are innocent," Thunder said while glancing at Norman with the 'Champion look' as if they just won an argument in a court.

I scanned the whole training room, the girls just looked like they forgot how to breathe, unable to speak, totally stunned as the revelation bounces around their heads.

My eye even caught Emma while her mouth hung with lips slightly parted and her eyes were as wide as they could stretch. And their was a defeaning silence as all the girls look at Ma'am Lovien with the question in their eyes, WHY?

"Ok, no need to give me those looks women, I know your shock about why is even that idea popped out in my head. And I only have one answer to it," She said while trying to calm down the girls that are about to burst out.

"I'm gonna ask all of you, what is real love? Or do you even love your mate as much as he/she do? Ma'am Lovien asked with no hint of an irky smirk or joke in her face. Because actually right at this moment, we are the ones who should be sorry, for we disappointed are teacher and most importantly are own mates.

And all I could tell is we fall in a very heavy atmosphere with pure silence. No one able to answer her question.

"Real love, is not based in romance, candle light dinners, and walks along the beach. It is based on respect, compromise, care and most importantly....trust," Her words deeply hit us. Because she's always right in the matters of love.

"A relationship without trust is like a car without gas, you can stay in it all you want, but it won't go anywhere,"
With her words that can draw you close, that makes you stop and realize your words, actions. She lets you see your own reflection of flaws. But only to polish you more on how you can truly have a lasting love. And not only to your relationship, but also your love to yourself.

"I TRUST YOU, is a better compliment than I LOVE YOU, because you may not always trust the person you love but you can always love a person you trust," And there, she just answered questions that we never knew we crave for answers.

"So now do you get my point?" She asks while roaming her eyes that always reminds me of a field of petunia that keeps searching deep into our souls.

"Aishiteru," We all said in unison. This is the way we agree in our teachers.

"So I hope there will be no conflicts in all of you especially between your mates, and if that's clear I just wanna let you know that your last training session will be today because tomorrow will straightly head on in the Astrodome. Where the school festival will be held."

"So train hard today," Ma'am Lovien stated while tapping Sir. Levi's shoulder as if she's giving him the spotlight.

The spotlight of an upcoming tremendous training.

"Let's not waste time, let's go get some training," Sir. Levi just being himself.

Sweat, deep breaths, and exhausted sighs that's what I see and hear while watching other's get a random weapon on that small black box. I shifted my gaze to the white head that is now on the hologram room with his 2 guns. Yes, he got 2 guns in that small box that's why right now he's on the hologram firing in the moving 3d bodies made of tiny pixels.

Sweat covered his back the first few minutes of hard play.  The way it highlights the contour of muscle reminds me of what a powerhouse he is. He's been exhaustively trained at his peak, physically and mentally. While I sit here in the bench few meters away from him. But occasionally, sweat will gather to break away and trail down my back. And it soaks into the waistband of my shorts. I just finished the warm up, when Sir. Levi gave me the look. It means it's my turn to pick a random weapon.

Why do they always make our time the most productive? So if you want to enter this school, you got to be ready to work your ass out.

Without wasting a second I grab whatever thing that is in the box. And as soon as I pulled it out an unexpected weapon is already in my grip.

A bow and arrows.

In my tight grip lies a stunning bow made of wood. I lift it up carefully into the air to admire the exquisite balance and the elegant design of it.

The bow was crafted of flexible, slender yew wood and wound around the grip was dyed red rawhide. On the quiver was carved the creatures who wore branches on their skulls, stampeding the horizon, pounding it into a grimace.

Straight wooden arrows that has sharp piercing silver tip with its flawless red feathers in the other end.
In my palms it is but a twig, yet with the bow it is quite deadly.

"You may go in the hologram and of course here's a bit of instruction, in terms of arrows and a bow you won't encounter moving 3d dummies. But a moving holographic arrows that you'll have to deflect. And when I say deflect I mean deflect every moving arrow that will head in you, understood?" Sir. Levi asked while explaining the whole set up before opening the transparent doors of the hologram room that are designed to train us students with a touch of technology.

"Yes sir," I stated while glancing to the white head that just finished his training but I quickly averted my gaze when I heard the electronic sound that the opening doors made.

I walk and analyze the whole room when I heard the closed doors that followed by the sudden shut down of the lights.

"I guess this is it," I said while snatching an arrow in the quiver at my back. And as soon positioned myself the lights came back but in a more different sorrounding. I'm in a forest with gigantic trees that are so beyond to be called a normal tree. Dried leaves that made crispy, crackling sounds as I step. Chirping of wild birds echo in my ears.

With my senses in its high alert I felt a moving arrow behind me. I quickly turned back. Stretched the string and extended my right arm until the tip  of it touch my right cheek. Aim... then shoot.

I released the string along with my arrow that successfully deflected the arrow. I was only 4 when she held a bow and arrow and that was a very long time so this might actually a good training for my rusting skills in archery.

But as soon as the arrow fell down in the ground, multiple arrows with their own different projectiles come  rushing towards my direction.

And that's why I snatch 3 arrows and released them in an awesome speed deflecting and breaking the arrows into two. And as I move faster the arrows that approaching at me tripled its speed. As sweat trickle down my face I launch 3 arrows at the same time that pierced its way in the air.

I felt like every fiber of my body vibrates with anticipation. Adrenaline was coursing through my veins. The excitement wired my body like I was plugged into the mains. It felt like my brain was on fast-forward and there was no off switch. As I move and aim with my precise judgement. I breaked every arrow with wide grin.

I miss this kind of adrenaline.

When I thought it ended, the lights turned off again but this time even though its zero visibility without using my sense of sight, I felt an arrow aiming at me, piercing the wind with its unbelievable speed.

And because my sense of sight got blocked my other senses right now is in its sharpest momentum. I turned at my side as I hear the wisp of the air, I snatch an arrow, aim and released it in the darkness. And as soon as I released my last arrow the lights turned on.

It was like a slow-mo in my head the arrow didn't just break, snap or deflected it.

It pierced the whole arrow, making it split into half. And that made me heave a deep sigh of relief as I turned to look at my side, there was a huge crowd with Emma, Clementine and Cascade in the front cheering me. And of course the white head that has two thumbs up to me.

Just by looking at him, being proud of me made my heart flutter just by thinking that there is someone who is there to greet me with every accomplishment I do. Someone who will appreciate me.

I drank all the water in Thunder's tumbler that satisfied my dry throat.

"You did great back there," Thunder said while flashing his smile and dimples. My hands moved in their own will as I dry the beads of sweat in his face.

He was surprised and even I by my sudden action. I just wiped it aggresively to take me out in the awkward situation.

"E-eri!!" He mumbles while stopping my hands. He locks his eyes to mine with his so called 'angry face'

"Ok... I'm sorry so stop pouting," I surrendered to the white head that plays the victim again.

He then stopped pouting and just took his wet shirt off.

I instantly glared at him knowing were in the public. "What the shit Kingslay cover up!" I said while throwing him a clean white shirt.

He chuckles while I roam around my eyes suspecting the 3 bitches that giggles that saw his damn abs!

"Hey, are you ok Eri? Its fine I'm only yours," the white head said with his annoying grin.

I just hissed and chose not to respond in it when I heard the conversation of these two girls at my right.

"Did you see the new transferee?" The curly-haired girl asked.

"Yes, I heard she's in class-B and look at her she's gorgeous," The girl with chubby cheeks said in an envious tone while pointing towards a girl with Cascade.

A golden-haired girl, with a thousand shades of gold that made new mosaics each moment in the warm summer air. I guess from afar you could say her soft curls were the colour of rich cream, but up close it was a chorus of hues.

I started cracking my knuckles as soon as I see her shitty face.

"Being stubborn huh?" I said under my breath while I glare in them from afar.

"Thunder I need to go to the restroom just wait there," I said and head straight to Cascade.

"Cascade, can you come with me to the restroom? Let's wash up a bit," I said while giving them a small smile.

"Sure! Kaira see you tomorrow," she said with a wide smile in her face before we leave her behind.

"Hey that's the restroom," she stated while pointing the restroom that is just near in the training room.

"No, let's use the other restroom I bet that is already crowded," I said while continues to walk in the long hallways.

She kept on blabbering about things until we reached the restroom with no people in it.

"Hey, what do you think would be the school festival tomorrow?" She asks with her usual cheerful voice.

I made sure I locked the door before facing her.

Without any hesitation I hastily grabbed her arms and putted it in her back while I crash her face in the mirror.

"Eri what' wro--"

I cutted her with my glare as I look at her shitty reflection in the mirror.

"Drop the act," I said with my cold and authorative voice.

"What the he--"

"I'll send you back to hell right here, right now, don't waste my time so drop the fucking act," I said while my grey eyes grew more colder while glaring at her shitty face.

She heavs a sigh of defeat.

"Seems like I'm busted," her tone quickly changing into a playful but in an evil way. Her black hair started to change into a scorching and fiery red hair that looks burning to the touch. Orange sunset locks,capturing the light in vibrant ruby hues; flowing in gentle,warm curls of lava to her mid-back.

And as soon as my eyes glance back to her reflection her eyes became more swayed like flames fanned by the breeze, flashing their brilliant reds to the sun that seems to reflect the sunset above, the reds and oranges spilled across the darkening sky like blotted vivid inks.

Her true form...

"Chill," she said while a smirk flash in her small face.

To be continued--

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