Too Much Trouble On The Way 2

"How dare you!" Blood flowed out from his nose as he tried to stand up. He grinded his teeth and raised his hands, pointing his fingers towards the both of them.

"I'll make you both regret this!"

I looked at the boy with pity. Even without saying, after the two girls saw that I was getting beat up, I knew that it would end badly for him. And from the looks of it, they looked at him like they were about to blow up in anger.

𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵... I regrettably thought, exhaling before turning my head to look at Athena.

Rubbing the blood out that slowly poured down from my nose, I questioned, "Whatcha doing here? I thought you guys had classes this time."

Averting her attention from the boy to me, Athena blinked a few times before answering, "Didn't the principal announced yesterday that the classes today will be suspended, because the exceeding half of the professors will be sent to a mission?"

"Ah..." With a look of realization, I facepalmed inwardly. "I totally forgot about the event about the increasing numbers of monsters in cit-?! Hey, that hurt!" Before I could finish my sentence, Athena nudged my injured shoulder with her arm.

"Don't talk about that right now, you Idiot. We're outside. What if somebody hear you?" Her expression became upset as she stood up and crossed her arms before furrowing her brows, staring at me with a grumpy look.

I nonchalantly rolled my eyes and didn't give a reply. Seeing this, Athena walked pass me. While doing so, she secretly stepped on my foot hardly as she ignored my existence.

"That's just a joke!" Raising my swollen foot that Athena had stepped on, I accidentally fell onto my bum. She just ignored this and stared at the two girls' back... No, it was towards the boy at the distance.

𝘋𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘪𝘮? I was about to ask this question to her when the boy from earlier had once again spoke up. He was swaying left to right as the boy tried his hardest to remain standing.

𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦... I stood up once again and patted the dust away from my pants.

Athena looked as if she know him. His clothes, personality, and what he looked like... I do feel like I know this guy.

It was then the realization hit me...

"...It's him, isn't he?"

***

"Don't you know who I am? I'm the heir of the Broaden Family, Roche Fou Broaden. You two dare touch me!" Suddenly, a sword was produced out of thin air. Thus, the boy grabbed it's handle, propelling himself towards the two girls. He screamed, "I'll kill you two!"

Caught by surprise, the two didn't have enough time to react. Because of the boy's unforeseen speed, Alicia was only barely able to manage to create an ice wall as protection on time. It was also because of this, the ice wall she created was only thin and immediately shattered after one hit.

Soon enough, the boy reached the ice.

*Triiiing-!*

*Crack!*

Using his knees, the boy shattered the ice wall innto pieces. "You're first!" Grabbing ahold of his sword with both hands, the boy raised his sword from below to attack her neck.

But...

When his sword was about to reach Chloe in the neck, Athan had bought his hidden blade out from the bottom of his right shoe. Using this, Athan raised his right foot up and deflected the sword away from Chloe on time.

*Clang-!*

"...Huh?"

The sword and his small blade sparkled as they clashed.

"Y-you!" Staring at Athan, who was badly injured and managed parry his sword using only a small blade with one foot(!), his face contorted with rage.

*Sigh...*

Feeling the killing intent the boy was excluding, Athan looked at him straight in the eyes and sighed without saying anything.

Seeing this, the boy's anger roused up even more. He was about to say something else when suddenly, he felt something really strong hit him on his abdomen. Without knowing how it happened, his body once again flew away and stopped after crashing the wall.

*-Thud!*

"Gah!"

Unlike last time, the boy's eyes opened widely after crashing to the wall, knocking the air out of him before falling unconscious on the ground.

At this moment, after the boy fell unconscious, the hidden blade from Athan's shoes disappeared. He slowly retracted his foot back to the ground.

Heaving out a deep long sigh, he turned his attention back to the two girls' who remained confused after seeing that the boy flew away at great speed.

They looked at him. "If you can easily beat him with one kick, then why did you let yourself get beaten up?" Asked Alicia, as they raised their brows, crossing both of their arms and bought their face closer towards Athan.

Looking at the two girls and the unconscious boy at the distance simultaneously, he shook his shoulder and left without giving a reply.

Seeing Athan leave, Chloe took a glance at the boy asked Alicia, "Hey, what should we do with him?" She pointed her fingers towards the unconscious boy as she waited for her to answer.

"Leave him be. I'll handle that guy on my own soon." The one who answered wasn't Alicia, but instead, it was Athan, as he walked away from the boy.

Hearing this, Alicia and Chloe looked at each other before nodding. Soon after, the three of them left the boy alone and went on walking. Athan felt fortunate since the three girls decided not to follow him.

Time zipped by.

After Athan left the academy to wonder around the city, after making sure that no one was secretly following him from behind, he went to the dark alley to meet up with someone.

"You finally arrived..."

Athan heard a feminine voice from above. Soon enough, an unfamiliar girl sitting on top of the roof suddenly jumped down and landed in front of him. "So, you are the boy my grandfather was talking about..." The black-haired girl smiled at Athan shallowly.

Staring at her up and down, one thing Athan noticed the most about the girl was the long top hat she was wearing. It clearly looked the same as the old guy usually wear.

"Is inheriting the old man's top hat necessary?" Athan unconsciously spoke the thoughts inside his head out loud.

Her smile became stiff as she spoke. She clearly looked unhappy after hearing what he said. "If not for the fact that my grandfather asked me to respect and not hurt you, I would've have end your life." Her voice sounded sweet, yet the thing she spoke was scary.

"Mhm." He shook his head and continued, "That is, if you can actually end me here. I'll even give you three seconds. After this three seconds and yet, you still didn't managed to kill me, your head will immediately detach from your body."

When the girl heard this, she raised her brow on the right. "Kid, you have guts. Unlike other people, you are the only person who actually said those words to me out loud. But, still, do be careful with your words. You might end up dying sooner because of it." Athan didn't know why, but the girl sounded sincere when saying that.

"I know." He smiled. "Well.. he might, in fact, die a little too soon actually," Athan replied with a sarcastic tone.

Knitting her brow, she sighed. "You know, I'm not joking when I said that warning."

"Well, neither am I."

"....."

"....."

At this moment, it became silent. No one spoke, until they heard a loud laugher coming from the darkest area. The laugh sounded oddly familiar yet also unfamiliar at the same time.

Coming from try distance, a long brown-haired, tied in a ponytail, man came out of the darkness. He briefly took a looked at the girl intently before turning his attention to Athan.

"Yo. It's been a long time since you called me." Jack said as he secretly took a glance at the girl.

"...Why do you sound unhappy?" Athan asked. He wondered why would Jack look at the girl with an intense gaze earlier, and why did his tone sounded obnoxious.

Pointing his finger towards the girl, he answered grumpily. "It's because that violent woman is here. Do you know, she almost killed me during our first meeting after the old guy with a long top hat, her 'grandfather', died?

"That's because you didn't immediately tell me who you are and what are you doing there." The girl crossed her arm as she furrowed her brow.

When he heard this, Jack's eyes twitched. "How the fuck can I tell you who I am when you attacked me all of the sudden! Also, Olivia, it's a funeral, for god's sake! Why are you even asking me what I'm going to do there? Pee at the old guy's corpse?"

The girl didn't answered after hearing that. As for Athan, he could only tilt his head in confusion. "Wait... the old man... died?"

They both stared at Athan with a questioning look. Soon, they finally understood why he asked that. It was because he didn't know!

"Oh... yeah. I forgot that you don't know anything about that." He scratched his cheeks in embarrassment.

Thus, the one who continued his trail of thoughts was Olivia. "Well, yes, it was around a two months ago when that happened. He suddenly had a heart attack after finishing one his mission and died."

Exhaling, she continued, "Before he died, he personally told that I should meet up with 'this' idiot-"

"Hey!" Jack rolled his eyes after hearing her words.

"-and ask him about the mission you ordered my grandfather to do."

Although she said those words without her expression changing, Athan could still tell that she felt sad after observing her body language carefully.

Shaking his head, he turned his head to look at Jack who was right beside her. "Jack, go and comfort your potential girlfriend. Or else, you might end up dying as a virgin."

When they both heard this, they looked at each other with a disgusted expression for a moment before turning their heads back to me.

Jack : "Like hell would I make such a violent woman as my girlfriend!"

Olivia : "Like hell would I make such an annoying pervert as my boyfriend!"

Hearing each other's words, they once again looked at each other.

"Huh? Why the hell did I suddenly got called a pervert? Even though yours is indeed big, fondle..., and every man's dream(!), I would rather date a girl who's flat with better personality!"

"Huh?!" Olivia immediately covered her chest with her arms as her face turned beet-red. "Y-you pervert! Just die!" She took out a huge death scythe from her [Pocket Bracelet] and swung it towards Jack.

He dodged her sudden attack while calling her a "crazy woman".

Looking at their 'sweet' antics, Athan couldn't help but crossed his arms before saying, "Okay, guys. Please, stop with the lover's squarers for a moment. I need you guys to do something for me."

Hearing Athan mentioned the word 'lover squarers', they promptly turned their heads towards him.

""I said, We are not lovers!!!""