A Painful Meeting

"Holy smokes!" I cursed out loud.

After I busted the door open using my foot, it flew a couple of meters inside the room. There I saw Arthur being pinned down by one of the heroine, Lumine.

Staring at them for a couple of seconds, I calmly walked inside and took the broken door with me. Using my dark magic, I glued it back together on the doorway.

I made sure that everything else is fixed. Then, taking out an artifact I bought from the shop yesterday, I took a picture of them.

Letting out a fake cough, I slowly closed the door while saying, "You can continue."

With that, I fixed my clothes properly, as the door I fixed earlier once again flew at the same time I decided to ran at my full speed.

"Athan, that's not what it looks like!" Screaming on top of his lungs, Arthur chased me throughout the hallway.

I don't know how he got my name but I knew for the fact that asking him about that isn't currently my top priority right now.

The people who saw me being chased began whispering to each other, trying to figure out why those two were chasing me in the first place.

"I promise that I won't tell that to anybody. So, stop chasing me already!" I said, speeding up my pace.

Hearing this, Lumine, who was currently in his back running, began to spoke.

"I don't know who the fuck you are, but if you believed us then delete that photo already, God damn it!"

Running forward to the window, I jumped out to not let myself get caught before answering, "Sorry, but I'm sure this photo will be useful." with a smile.

*

A couple of minutes later, I got caught and beaten up by Lumine.

If it weren't for the dark magic that I had been using to reduce the pain and the damage she was doing to my body, I could say that I would have died painfully... Very, very painfully.

𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘩... 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯... I thought to myself, trying to keep myself awake.

Thanks to what happened today, I've learned a very valuable lesson...

'Never walk into a room without knocking.'

𝘐𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦... 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵. I regrettably thought, placing the ice cube Arthur gave me to where my injuries are.

The camera artifact from earlier was now broken after Lumine continuously stepped on it with an angered-more scary than an ogre's expression.

𝘏𝘦𝘺! 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦 5 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘴, 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵...! Is what I wanted to say. But after carefully thinking about my future, I kept my tongue leashed inside my mouth.

"If you ever do that again... I'll kill you." Said Lumine, staring at me with her cold and deadly looking eyes.

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘳?! I internally screamed out. "Yes." My voice was low but it was still loud enough for them to hear. If she ever wants me to kowtow, I would immediately do it.

Look here, I ain't got no death wish. I still want to live in this life. I don't want to just go straight back to hell once after seeing what's inside. I've already seen it once, who in the right mind would ever try and get back there inside!?

Lumine took out her wand and pointed it towards my neck, saying, "I can't hear you."

Faced with her eyes, which seemingly pierced through everything, I unconsciously shrunk back slightly. "Yes..." I answered with a pained voice. Arthur just shook his head seeing me back away into the corner, before speaking.

"Why are you here anyway?" He asked, clearly not hiding any tint of curiosity. Lumine returned her attention back to Arthur, then folded her arms.

"Who's he anyway?" Asked Lumine. I'm clearly sure that she was still angry at me since I noticed her glancing at me before looking away almost immediately.

"He's Athan... Athan von Lohengramm," Arthur answered. "He was the student who was late on his enrollment. He is also at the same class as me." He said, pointing his fingers towards me.

"Ahh..." With a look of realization, she turned her head towards me in a 'horror movie-like' manner, and pointed her wand to my neck. "If any words came out from your mouth about us, I'll burn you alive."

Swallowing mouthful of saliva, I answered.

"Yes..."

Lumine seemed satisfied at my response as she turned back with those few words. With that, she finally left the room, leaving only the two of us behind.

Clearing my throat, I stood up from my sit. "Do you already have a party member on the incoming Dungeon Exploration?" I asked.

Hearing this, Arthur suddenly became serious as he began pondering about something. "This... This is my chance... But." He mumbled. It took him a few seconds before continuing. "Sorry... I already accepted Lumine's invitation. Because of it, I unfortunately can't team up with you." Said Arthur, scratching his cheeks while averting his eyes elsewhere.

With my fingertips under my chin, I sighed. "I see... That's fine. I already expected this to happen in the first place."

"Expected?" He tilted his head, seemingly thinking about what I meant.

"It's nothing." I replied. I waved my hands, turned back with a smile. With the help of the wall, I carefully dragged my injured body back to my room.

"I really need some rest..." Muttering that, I lost my consciousness as I fell flat on the floor because I didn't managed to reach the bed on time.

*

Without noticing it, Athan had forgotten to lock the door to his room. Slowly, a girl wearing a mask came inside, and when she saw him laying on the floor she decided to help him out.

After she placed the unconscious Athan from his bed, she took out a blanket inside the drawer and covered half of his body with it.

Sophia took a sit beside him on the bed as she took a closer look at Athan's face. Her face was only a few inches away from Athan's when she stopped, and stared at him for a few seconds.

"Why do you look really familiar...?" She mumbled. Sighing, she backed off and took out a paper from her pocket and began writing something.

"I'll just leave this here~." She said to herself.

Sophia was about to leave the room when a dust from the cabinet fell on top of her nose as she let out a cute sneezing sound. "It looks like we missed some dust here... I'll just clean this up real quick." Taking out a broom behind the door, she put on some cleaning clothes before starting.

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"Phew..." With that done, she wiped her sweat that dripped down from her forehead using the towel she brought, then went back to her room to take a bath.

At the next day, the two dumb couple; William and Persia, began knocking loudly at Athan's door.

"Hey, Athan! We're here." He said knocking on the door loudly. They waited for a few minutes. And when they didn't heard any reply from him, William suddenly took out a key from his pocket.

Persia looked at him worriedly before holding on to his arm, stopping him from what he was about to do next. "Is this really okay? H-how did you get that spare key to his room anyway?" She had kept bombarding him with questions after another.

Smiling, William played with the key before answering, "I got this spare from the Principal. She asked me to watch over him earlier."

"But..."

"No buts. Let's go in already!" William excitedly opened the door with the help of the key he got, as he pulled Persia inside.

Sighing, Persia didn't try to resist as she let herself get pulled by him.

Athan was still unconscious in the bed when William suddenly jumped and landed on top of his stomach, knocking the air out of him.

"Wake up!!" The two of them said in unison.

The blanket that was used to cover Athan fell off the bed. He looked as if the soul of him got out and was immediately pulled by some unknown force back to his body.

"You... Fuc...ker..."