No Romance At All?

"Ah..."

After suffering from a massive headache, Deus wakes up in his room. He rubs his eyes and looks around the room... He tries to sit up, but he is so dizzy that he falls back on the bed. He groans... And thinks...

"What happened...?"

He tries to sit up again, his head still spinning.... He tries not to move too much... As his head is hurting a lot... He lays back down on the bed, holding his head... What happened last night...? Was it a fight...? The memory is all foggy and hazy to him... He tries to recall what happened...

"Did I win...? I think not."

As he tried to recall what happened, his room door suddenly swung open.

Someone came in - It was Evangeline, the principal.

The principal walked over to the Deus' bed and gently sat down beside him.

Then she spoke to him, a relieved smile on her face as she said, "You're finally awake. Are you okay?"

He looks up at the principal. He then smiles and gives a joke, scratching his bandages wrapped chest as he says it, "Well, at least I can tell people that I had an open heart surgery now...."

He laughs at his joke, and smiles as he waits for the principal's reply.

The principal sighs and massages her temples after hearing what he said. She then responded with this response, with slight annoyance, "That was not funny. What really happened to you? How are you feeling?"

She then mentions something about him winning the fight, and asks him what happened there and how he won. Her expression was telling him that she seems curious and surprised, but still annoyed as well.

"How did you manage to do that? I mean, you managed to cleanly cut his right arm off and place a severe hole in his stomach. What really happened there, and how did you managed to win?" She bombarded him with questions as he remained frozen in place after hearing what she said, his expression was stiff and had a forced smile in his face.

A few seconds later, he finally responded after a brief moment of silence, "I won?! What do you mean? He's the one who managed to beat me by making me fall unconscious, and now you're saying that I won?"

"Yes, it's you who won the fight. Also, what do you mean by falling unconscious first? You managed to cut off his right arm and make a huge hole in his body, and now you're saying you fell unconscious first... If you're going to lie, try to make it more believable." Evangeline facepalm and lightly shaked her head.

"If it wasn't for the fact that you two were inside my [Mirror World], he would have died! What happened there anyway?"

After hearing what she said, Deus snapped."Stop asking me because I don't know a thing! Aren't you supposed to be omnipotent inside your ability? How do you not even know what happened if you can pretty much control everything that is happening inside the [Mirror World]?"

"There's huge difference between omnipotent and omniscient. Although I can control everything that is happening inside, I don't have the ability to know everything!" The principal retorted.

The two of them continued to bicker with each other, trying to find out who's fault is who even though they knew that it was neither of their fault in the first place.

By the time they were done, the principal, with an upset and annoyance that was visibly showing in her face, she left the room and closed the door loudly.

Bam-!

Deus was slightly annoyed by her childishness, however, he decided to let it go and rest his back comfortably in bed. He had to attend the fight tomorrow, it wouldn't be a good idea to miss his match.

Right when he was about to sleep, the door once again opened. A girl with a platinum hair entered as her hair cascaded like the flowing water from a river. It was gentle and soothing at the same time.

"What are you doing here, Alicia...?"

As soon as Deus asked this question to her, Alicia's expression turned relieved as she let out a genuine smile.

"You're awake."

***

[ Timer left : 00M : 03D : 18H : 09M : 32S ]

A day had passed in a blink of an eye, and the day of the official tournament had finally arrived.

Reporters and carriage with different insignia that represented a noble family appeared, coming from other countries and races, and filled the academy's campus on the roads of the academy as they began to enter the entrance through the main gate. Almost all major families and royalties of the other countries had gathered in place.

However, their numbers won't be able to compare to the people that'll be added tomorrow.

Everywhere Deus and William go, they could see people from a noble family wearing elegant-looking clothes. They tried to look for people that wore a casual-looking clothes, however, they didn't find anyone wearing something like that.

"Why does today seems more like a birthday party that you had after turning 12 than a festival?"

"Does the two even have difference?"

"Of course, they have... I forgot how to explain it, but I'm pretty sure that they do!" Said Deus, taking a long side glance towards William.

"Woaw... I'm more surprised that you can actually forget something. Last time you helped me study for the test with Persia, I remembered that you just memorized ten books that have thousands of pages in a minute. How's that even possible I have no idea."

"Ah, well.... I'm a human. Of course there are times I would forget about something, hahaha... haha... ha...." When Deus heard what he said, he couldn't help but scratch the back of his neck with an awkward laugh. And thus, the two continued walking.

Deus walks down a corridor at his school, with William beside him. They then turn a corner while walking, and suddenly, some students from a noble background approach them. The people look at the him, and seem to have a bad impression of him, however, they haven't got a thing for William, just because he's usually hanging out with Athan (Deus), the students decided not to get close with him.

Even though William was a prince in one of the most powerful country, there are still some that can match his influence and above all, William's father power.

Noticing their gazes, Deus shook his shoulder as he increased his pace and walked more faster, ignoring the people to focus his attention towards his room that was only at the corner. William followed him from behind as he also increased his pace to catch up.

"Wait up!"

Once they entered his room, Athan closed the door and went to the kitchen to prepare Deus dime tea to drink.

"Here, drink up." He handed Deus his drink and sat down.

William took his drink and took a sip in an elegant manner. He was a prince from a kingdom, it would be obvious that he knew proper manners. "So you want me to help you buy some clothes... Is that what you're saying?"

"Eh, uh... Uh huh. Can you help me? I can't afford to waste much time since I still have many things to do later today. If I don't finish them all, it'll be a problem for me tomorrow." Deus said.

"Why do you even want help to buy you some clothes? Can you not do it yourself...? Also, why does it seems to me like your being desperate?" As he said this, William squinted his eyes as he stared at Deus with suspicion.

He couldn't help but feel creeped out from his gaze, so he quickly denied his accusations.

But...

"I-I-I'm not being desperate!!" Deus said as he stuttered through his words. "I'm just going out with Alicia tomorrow... It's not that it means anything, however, I want to look good since I don't want to make her upset."

This wasn't truly a lie, but a part of his reason for being like this was because this was the very first time Deus was invited to a... date. Unlike Athan, although he had experienced loving someone back in his previous life, he never dated that girl since she was trying to kill him every time they meet. The only time they had contact without them trying to kill each other was the time the two of them were invited to a ball from another country and met up unexpectedly.

At that time, even though the two knew who the identity of the opposite side, none of them planned to either secretly attack while off guard or cause trouble to the others. The only romantic part Deus was able to experience was him being able to dance with his crush before getting killed including her a couple of days later.

"..." Deus raised a brow before shaking his head with a grin. "You're already planning to move up to a new level. I'm so proud of you." He patted him on the shoulder as he wiped the fake tears in his eyes as a joke.

Feeling annoyed, Deus brushed his hands off him and rolled his eyes. "After we're done here, let's go. I can't afford to waste anymore of my time since I still have seven more matches to finish later."

"True..." William nodded his head in agreement. He let out a chuckle and said with a smug smile, "I, too, have to fight... probably later?"

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰'𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳...

Deus took a sip at his chocolate drink without saying the sentence on his mind. He shaked his head lightly and showed a contrite frown at his little old friend, who happened to have lost the battle even though it haven't started yet.

"Why are you looking at me like that...?"

Noticing the strange gaze Deus was giving, William felt unknowingly annoyed for some reason.

"Nothing." Deus replied half-heartedly, taking a quick sip at his favourite drink.

[A/N : Hello dear readers, just wanted to say that thank you all guys for reading up until this far. Although there's only few people who reads this novel, thanks to you guys that I was able to continue writing and not drop this novel.

The ending of the prologue is already getting near.

After just a few chapters, I'll probably get serious and won't hold back on writing some of the scenes that was supposedly to be more brutal, shortened chapters, and add some new powerful villains that had more messed up personality. Not to mention, I haven't showed you guys the real antagonist as of yet, including the FL.

The chapters following this one and so on will be much longer than usual. I'm not sure how long, but I promise that it'll be long.

... Although this may be considered as a spoiler, I would like announce that the protagonist halo only works on the protagonist and the protagonist ONLY... you should remember that clearly.

Anyway, once again, I would like to thank you all readers for reading this far. I hope that you'll continue the support me in the future. ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]