Chapter 43

It was a busy day in the city as it was a start of a new week, but today it was even busier as groups and groups of teenagers were walking towards the Four Leaves Academy signifying the start of a new term. Sean was currently walking towards the Academy hall where the orientation for new students were held. This was the place where the classes are set for the students. Sean saw the entire hall gradually being filled by students sitting in their seats waiting for the teachers to start the orientation and approached to sit near the extreme left of the hall near a window.

It didn't take long before the entire hall being filled with students and it was followed by the arrival of the teachers who were responsible for guiding the first year students. The teachers made a roll call on the students to check the attendance. Apart from a student called Albert who seemed to be running late or at least that's what the teachers thought, and an extremely pale looking emancipated kid whom the students kept a distance with all students were present and were seated with excited expression eager to start a new phase of their life. Once the roll call was completed the teachers went on to explain the training the students are about to receive this year on various subjects and the teachers who are responsible for the subjects went forward to introduce themselves. The subjects were well compiled for first year students. It was composed of military strategies and combat tactics, sword arts, sparring sessions, Geography, studies on knights and magicians.

Soon the orientation was completed in a lacklustre manner and the teachers categorised students in various grades based on their ranking in the tests. Sean was placed on B grade as he did not do well in the first test because of lack of bloodline ability. The A grade was filled with students from middle to large families or students having bloodline. The B grade were also filled with students having good potential in terms of talent or combat or had a comparatively low level bloodline ability. Sean caught the attention of the students around him as he was the winner of the combat test and his performance especially in the knock out stage made everyone to be on guard especially the other students who were qualified for the knock out stage. Sean suddenly turned to look at the the A grade class as he felt a fierce glare on his back and saw Melinda, the opponent he faced in the finals staring daggers at him. 'Geez, this girl has still not forgotten about it' thought Sean as he proceeded to ignore the glare and look at the teachers waiting for their next instructions.

The class placement was soon completed and the teachers led the students to different classes, each class categorised as per grades. The first year and the second year students were placed together in a building and the entire first year occupied the second floor of the building. The classes were big enough to hold 70 students in each of them. In class B there were around 35 students and some sat sparsely while others in cluster. Sean sat alone in the last bench and quietly observed the kids around him. The kids in this world were more mature in many aspects compared to the kids on Earth. This was because of the environment they live in. On earth people in general live in a peaceful era and are bound by laws. This was the world which respects strong, there was violence everywhere and by now most of these kids have seen death either by killing someone or by watching someone die at close range. Violence is at the core of this world which could not be avoided by anyone, even a normal civilian would be used to violence.

"Excuse me, can I sit here?" asked a boy with brown shoulder length hair. Sean looked at the boy and nodded his head and said "Yeah go ahead" while adjusting himself to make space between him and the boy and continued to look around without having any intention to start a conversation. "You don't remember me, do you?" asked the kid next to him taking the initiative to start the conversation.

That sentence got Sean's attention as he looked at the kid more closely and suddenly remembered his second round opponent in the combat exam and said "You are that guy I faced in the second round". "So you remembered, by the way I am Danny, nice to meet you" said the boy as he extended his hand towards Sean.

"Sean Walker and the pleasure is mine" said as Sean shook his hand. Danny sat next to Sean and started looking around. The class did not have a teacher currently and the students were free and were getting rowdy inside the class creating a commotion. Suddenly there was a more violent noise at the front of the class and the students who were rowdy till a moment before started to quiet down. Four boys were surrounding two boys who were sitting on the first bench and a boy who was clearly a lackey in the four boys group came towards one of those two boys and smacked on his head while saying "Get your pouch out and buy us the breakfast from the cafeteria. Don't forget to buy it from the VIP area on the second floor. Remember to buy meat and not some crappy food".

"Yes, Young Master" said the boy while bowing towards a guy who stood at the back of the group of four. The boy who was seated next to the bullied boy, clearly a friend of the other boy pretended to not see he was happening and tried to sneak to the back of the class to escape from suffering the same treatment but before he could take a single step he was grabbed by the collar of his robe and yanked backwards. Though the bully and the bullied were essentially of the same strength, the person behind the boy who bullied was from a medium level clan and even boys from small clans did not dare to retaliate much less these boys who were from civilian family.

"Where do you think you are running?" asked the boy from the bullying gang as he held the boy who tried to run away and dragged him in front of the class. The boy who planned to escape knew that he could not get away from this and quickly changed his expression to that of flattery and asked "How may I be of help Young Master?" asked the boy while still being held by his robe.

"Don't try to act smart kid, go and get us the lunch along with your buddy over there. If you both come late or get the orders wrong, I will beat you up. Now go" said the bully as he pushed the boy toward his buddy and watched as both scurry out of class and laughed at it. The young Master who was behind these three lackeys was also laughing clearly enjoying this scene. Sean just watched this entire scene from the back bench and thought 'Scratch what I thought before, some things don't change no matter in which world they are. Juveniles!!'. Danny who was seated beside Sean also looked at the scene and said "The person who is leading the gang is Young Master Randy Alexander. He is from the Alexander family which is in the capital and his lackeys are from small families as well".

"Alexander? Is he related to Rutherford Alexander from the student council?" asked Sean for high Danny said "Oh, so you know Rutherford. He is one of the top contenders to become the head of Alexander family. This Randy is the half brother of Rutherford and has a good relationship with him because Randy's blood brother is one of the major supporter for Rutherford's faction within Alexander family".

Sean was shocked that Danny could know so much inside information and asked "How the hell did you know?" for which Danny made a smug face while saying "I am good in collecting information. I usually do it by making small talks with various Young Master's and mistress's lackeys. If you want to know more detailed information you would have to pay through Qi stones". Sean was tempted to pay him inorder to hear more information but decided against it as this was neither the time nor the place to get these information and said "I'll think about it. Why don't we have our lunch together. We can have a more detailed discussion".