The Key 1

Several days later.

After the professors of the academy finally got back from their missions, the long suspension of classes was over.

Slowly, everything went back to the usual days. Cossette, however, was still missing. No one had contact with her except for the principal. And because of this, the two temporary teachers of her class, Charlotte and Mila, was still on duty.

"Does anyone knows why the elemental crest in the back of your right hands are important?" Mila sat on her table in a seductive way as she asked her question. The boy's, William included, swallowed a mouthful of saliva seeing her act.

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘶𝘺... 𝘏𝘦𝘺! 𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘶𝘮𝘣 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦! Even though Athan wanted to voice this to William out loud, he stopped himself after seeing how the other guys in his class reacted the same as him.

As for the girls in the front...

Sighing, seeing that no one raised their hands up to answer her sister's question, Charlotte took a brief glance at me before tugging to her sister's clothes.

"Sis..." Charlotte mumbled. Her face got close to Mila's as she whispered something to her ear.

Noticing her unexpected behavior, Mila decided to listen to her request. Soon after, Mila's face turned surprised. She looked at the boy beside an empty chair, as her eyes furrowed.

"Mmm..."

𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴... With this thoughts on her mind, Mila's lips curled into a smile. Obviously, she pretty much misunderstood things why Charlotte was doing this.

For the guys... Seeing how the two pretty teachers secretly glancing at the certain boy in the back, the boys glared at Athan, unconsciously releasing their intent.

Thus, after noticing the intent of his classmates' unconsciously excluding, Athan turned his attention towards them and asked, "What the fuck do you guys want from me?"

Unlike his usual, Athan felt too pissed off seeing the guys exclude their own intent to hurt him even though he didn't do anything wrong.

No one answered his question as they averted their eyes somewhere else. Yet, some of the glares remained.

Heaving out a long deep sigh, Athan turned his attention to the girls on the front. Some part of him was telling him that they were the reason why the guys was giving him a glare.

Rolling his eyes elsewhere, he turned his attention back outside.

And so, the class continued.

"It seems no one was able to answer..." Mila spoke. "Well, I shall explain it to you guys then." She sat up from the table and walked to the center.

Raising her right hand and showing her crest, Mila continued, "Even without explanation, it is obvious that it was thanks to this crest that we were able to feel or use mana in our surroundings."

Suddenly, the crest from her hands glowed, as she began excluding a small portion of her mana that she can control.

"Meaning, without our crest, we humans, elf, dwarfs and demons won't be able to feel, use or control our magic power, or in other words mana, even if we forcefully tried."

Soon, the light and the mana she had been excluding slowly disappeared.

"Ma'am, can I ask you a question?" One of the students raised her hands. Seeing this, Mila nodded.

"What will happen if your right hand got injured or got cut during a battle with a monster? Is there still a possibility for you to use mana after that?"

When Mila heard the student's question, she spoke, "What was your name again?"

"Alicia... Alicia De Vladimir." She answered.

Nodding her head once again, Mila continued, "Well, Ms. Vladimir, as for your question, the answer is no. Even if you were to drink a high quality healing or rejuvenating potion, the outcome won't change. You won't be able use mana after those events..." The one who continued Mila's trail of thoughts was her sister, Charlotte.

"It was already proven to be just impossible."

***

After all the remaining classes was finished, I went back to my room to rest.

[ Timer left : 01M : 13D : 08H : 58M : 48S ]

Staring at the remaining time I have left in my phone, I laid down on my bed and placed my phone on the table.

Slowly, I closed my eyes to take a sleep, but...

*Knock, knock, knock!*

"Damnit..."

I suddenly heard a knock on my door.

Soon after, I sat up from the bed and tiredly walked to the door. "Who is it?" I unlocked the door handle... Which I regretted immediately.

As I was halfway from opening the door, three people dressed in black suddenly barged in, and lifted me up.

"Wha-what!?"

"You're coming with us."

For a a second, I immediately felt a strong sense of deja vu.

"He-Mump!?" I was about to say something when a rope, that was made out of bright light, suddenly covered my mouth and went around my whole body like a snake.

𝘖𝘩 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬! Before I could even struggle free from the rope that was tied around my body, they entered through a mirror portal one of created, as the guy who made the rope pulled me towards them.

*Thud-!*

"You bitch!" I cursed at the three after my head bumped hard, that made the rope that was tied around my mouth to loosen up, on the bottom edge of the mirror. Whist in pain, I didn't struggle much after I was finally inside the mirror.

Clicking my tongue in frustration, I took a brief look at the room we were currently in... It was just the principal's office!!!

*-Creak...*

When I heard the creaking sound coming in front of me, I diverted my attention back toward it.

"Do you seriously have to do this?" I asked, suppressing the rising anger screaming on my insides.

By which she answered, "Yes. Knowing what happened between you and 'her', I'm sure that you'll try your hardest to run away." Saying this, Eva nudged her head on to the direction behind my back.

At this moment, I felt cold chills running down in my spines.

"!?!. D-don't tell me...." With a look of realization, I slowly turned my head to look at who's, or what's behind me.

"Heya!" Mina waved her hands towards me, wearing a sweet smile on her face... This masochist bitch!

I took a few step back until my waist bumped on the table, making me stopped.

Seeing this, she grinned as she slowly extended her delicate hands to my cheeks. "How cute~" She spoke, making me swallow a mouthful of saliva.

Hearing her speak, I turned my attention to Eva. "Why the heck is this masochistic bitc-woman here?"

"My~ oh my~ It's seems like someone needs to be taught a lesson." Mina pulled my cheeks and raised my head, making subconsciously look at her straight in the eyes.

At this moment, I suddenly had a flash back from my previous life's trauma about what one of my junior colleague did to me.

Unlike Mina, 'that' junior colleague was a guy. He kinda look like her too, but was only the male version. And although I'm older than him, he scares the living hell out of me.

What he did was far worse that I won't even wish for my enemies to experience it.

They won't be able to handle the trauma what I and my other colleagues experienced.

Whilst tears started forming at the side of my eyes, with the help of my dark magic, I escaped from her grasp and went to hide behind the principal.

"Help me..." I whispered and begged Eva on her ears.

*Sigh...*

The principal let out a long deep exasperated sigh as she gestured her hands to stop Mina. "Okay. Mina, can you stop acting childish already?"

Mina pouted. "Fine..." She rolled her eyes.

Pinching the middle of her brows, Eva turned her attention to me. "Well, anyway, there's a reason why I called you."

"Does that include you kidnapping me from my room?"

"If I wanted to kidnap you, I would have taken you somewhere else on my own. I don't need someone's help to do something like that easily." She crossed her arms and raised a brow.

"Hey, we knocked three times at the door before we took you. So, that can't be called as a 'kidnapping'." One of the black cloak guys spoke.

"William, if I took Persia from you while consenting that I'll NTR her from you, does that mean that it won't be included as an NTR?"

William took his mask of and stared at me. "I don't know what you mean by saying that... But for some unknown reason, why do I feel like hitting you?"

"Try it. You'll only lose an arm if you did anyway."