Chapter 16: Recounting what happened
Joyce scowled at me as soon as I asked who made her look so old. The guard nearby opened the top of his baton. Two small needle-like things shot out from it and headed straight for me, but Max blocked the shot. Electricity then flowed through the wires and Max seemed like he's enjoying the electricity flowing through the wires. The guard then shouted, “I told you that you would get hurt if you disrespect the Saintess again." Joyce waved her hand for the guard to stand down and then said to me, “I’m not the one that’s old. You’re the one that’s young!” She followed up with, “It has been 20 years since we last met. What happened to you?" Oh! So, that’s why Joyce looked older. I then started to tell her what happened ever since I resurrected.
Joyce laughed at all my other stories but she was surprised when I told her I cut the dragoon in half. Even the guard looked at me weird when I said it. They then leered at me and said that you need to be at least a Rank-3 Pinnacle Warrior-Class to be able to cut through the metal of the dragoon the way I did. They also asked me if I had a rare case of body-transformation awakening. They said that maybe that’s what enabled me to slice the dragoon in half. I said that I didn’t and instead, I had the same type of awakening as Son, a type where I just gained otherworldly knowledge. I kept the library as a secret since I didn’t know how to classify it and all.
Joyce then talked to the guard for a bit and the both of us got off the hook since I technically did not enter the forbidden ground. Joyce also explained that the school is now like a museum, kept pristine and open to visitors because it is where the one chosen by the world was awakened. I asked, "Who is the chosen world-awakener?” She said that she'll explain everything to me later. Right now, we have to head to the hospital to give treatment to Stephanie, her daughter who was with me in the prison. Joyce told me that if I would have been alive, Stephanie would be my goddaughter. Stephaine flatly refused it since I was barely older than her. She also insisted that she could already protect herself and that there's no more need to have someone as her godparent. Joyce then disagreed because of Stephanie’s condition.
After the papers were completed, I thought we were leaving already but I got pulled to the side to pick up a complete set of clothing since my clothes offer little to no protection. I was then directed to the prison’s reformation center and into the graduation hall. There was an AI system here that instructed me to choose what clothes I wanted to wear. I then imagined what I wanted to look like, and the AI prepared the clothing using nanobots. It was built from scratch in a matter of seconds. Wearing the clothes felt comforting. It turns out that the materials used to make it is Savage Spiderbeast silk, thickly infused with mana and augmented with comfort and protection magical runes. I looked into the mirror located on the side of the graduation hall and saw a young man in his early 20s with a fauxhawk. Since I cultivated the Heavenly Body, I could grow, shrink, and style my hair using my own mind. I'm wearing a black T-shirt under a white and blue green long-sleeve open flannel shirt. For my pants, I chose jogging pants with two streaks of white lines on the side since I feel that’s the comfiest and as for my shoes, I chose white and blue-green Vans that match my shirt. I’m around 5’7 in height. Looking pretty sharp.
When Joyce saw me, she laughed and said that it feels so nostalgic to be wearing this kind of clothes. We then proceeded to the hospital and headed straight for the intensive operation room. I asked if I could watch the operation. With a bit of pushing, Joyce eventually agreed with a condition that I would stay quiet since the operation is a secret.