Chapter 119 – I admit

Third Person’s POV (12 yrs. and 8 months old)

“Yes, I admit, I am one of those scheming persons, I just haven’t confessed this to everyone yet, but, here I am, you all are free to judge me any possible way you deem as.” He added, everyone’s thoughts where in disarray, as black lines slowly formed on their faces.

“Anyway unto the discussion, yes I am a scheming person, but I use my scheming and calculative skills to find ways to improve our overall performance and find ways to better protect everyone else,

Hence you guys would always find me discussing topics with the adults you guys seem to not understand, I used my analyzing skills to the point that I wouldn’t bear judgement to anything before me, but instead, use it to understand the complexity of a thing or situation,

Although I’m still not very good at our subjects.” He said, of course what Ken said was true, he was never good at their lessons and just preferred performance over lectures, it un-eases him, but knowing that he’s this type of person, came as another…

Their hearts wrenched at the shattered image they have for their friend.

“So, be careful not to associate yourselves with these types of people, oh wait, let me rephrase that, be careful not to overly associate yourselves with these types of people, they love to use others to their advantage,

Just like how I do, but know that I only use advantages to my favor if I deem them as essential for everyone’s growth.” He said, the surroundings turned silent, each and everyone of them deep in thought.

“So that is why you’ve made us do so many unreasonable things, just because you think it’s for our growth?” asked Saber, he knows that resentment against his friend would bare nothing but bad fruit, so he chose on the other part instead.

“Yes.” Ken nodded.

“Then what about you, do you think those things you did on yourself are also essential for your growth?” Saber asked again.

“In a way, yes, because I’m eager to make mistakes, and learn from them, I apologize if I’ve nearly made you all disfigured or crippled due to my stupid experiments.” His friends glared at him, remembering the experiences they faced under this person’s hands.

“Stop apologizing already.” said Lila beside her brother, rolling her eyes, seriously this person needs to stop apologizing, they already learned that he’ll always be like this and it’s clearly their fault as well as they had agreed to help Ken in his ‘experiments’,

Ken scratched the back of his neck timidly and said. “But you guys are still angry with me.” wa- how does this person always change expressions, now he’s pouting, acting like he’s cute, does he think we’re that gullible?!

Or maybe they are, as they had slowly succumbed to Ken’s charms, as the frown on their face slowly lifted, and a slight laugh could be perceived in the air, oh, this confusing person.

One day, either them or someone else will get back at him.

“Anyway.” Ken turned his gaze to that one person in the room that had their gaze casted down. “Princess Lang.” the princess abruptly raised her head towards Ken.

“I know that some of the points I have talked about had one way or another insulted you, I’m not sorry for that.” said Ken, the princess felt her gaze falter.

“But know that you may have been such a person in the past, and that I have clearly understood your type of temperament, we didn’t give up on you and gave you a chance to redeem yourself and made you discard those unpleasant behaviors you displayed in the past,

It’s because that I understood your type of characteristic -albeit on what you show on the surface- that I was able to let my friends and the other three come to understand yours.” The princess felt a lump in her throat started to form at those words.

“Everyone has problems, even you, but yours where pretty clear at that time as it manifested in your endearing behavior, and I couldn’t do much to help a child who has problems she decided to keep to herself.” Princess Lang turned red at the statement, the others chuckled, but not mockingly.

“So I would like to take this chance to tell you guys to be cautious of these type of people for they are the most unpleasant ones to mingle yourself with, you guys can always mingle with me, I won’t use my tactics to cause discomfort for anyone.” His friends chuckled again at his statement, but thought to themselves that they’ll keep in mind what Ken said.

“Anyone has questions regarding my point on the noble?” said Ken, scanning everyone before him.

“How were you able to understand this much when you’ve only encountered the memory of your parents.” surprisingly, the person who asked this, was Wilbert.

“Well, at that time when I have first learned of memory magic, I had accidentally re-lived the moment.” said Ken, his friends just stare at him in confusion.

“What do you mean yo- HUH!!!?” exclaimed profoundly by Flin, for as a spirit magic user, re-living memories where something he’d had always done since they were technically the usurper of souls of the deceased from the mortal realm to the spirit realm.

Everyone abruptly stared at Flin’s outburst, further confusing them, Ken just chuckled at their expressions.

“Yes Flin, I had re-lived the memory my parents had at that time, and to make sure that everyone understands what ‘re-living the moment’ means, I’ll use memory magic to make you guys fully understand.” said Ken.

“Memory Magic: Shared Moment.” nine globes of mist formed in front of Ken with his hand’s palm facing upwards, he gestured with one finger pointing out to the other nine people and the globes directly went into their heads.

He had clearly given an understandable meaning on the concept behind and had provided an example as well, now he just waits and watches as everyone before him slowly internalizes the information.

Once they were done, they all had glum faces.

“And so that is what I have experienced. So…” he walked towards in front of everyone and dispersed the drawing to focus on the unpleasant stick figure.

“Be sure not to use such methods on anyone alright? But, there is always a ‘but’, we can use such method if we’re to be interrogating people who do not want to give the information we need through their words.” He said, his friends absentmindedly nodded.

“Wait, why would you think of doing that?” asked Allen, because clearly Ken would be the only one who’d think of such tactics.

“Oh, I’ll be using this on nobles in order to bring them down to their knees.” said Ken, with that sickeningly sweet voice and smile, now they don’t even know if they should trust him or not.

Ken had himself bombarded with various ideas and point of views particularly circling on why would he do such a thing, and if it is related to him being a scheming person, if so, why would he do so, when clearly he wants them to do good, so he should also be good as well.

This is just so not fair to them who were pressured immensely by this friend of theirs to be a good person to one another, and now he’s actually not? This is absurd! Absolutely absurd!

Ken had a hard time coaxing his friends as they all but intimidated him as they neared Ken, close to his face, their angry expressions unwavering.

Ken may have coaxed them, and had firmly reassured them that they do not have to worry, but there’s still something that this person is not talking to them, but they didn’t push, as they know that whatever reason Ken has, it would take time for him to talk about it to them.

Then what about those times when he forcefully made them reveal their reasons behind their actions and behaviors, this is UNFAIR!!!!!!!!!

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