Episode 61. Prologue for Exams pt. 2

The clock finger is now pointing down. It means 'that' the person will soon arrive. Quickly, Bahar ordered us all to gather in front of his cramped room.

"Princess Tyas will be here soon! So move your body to the gate and prepare to greet her!" Bahar shouts loudly while pointing at the gate.

Like trained soldiers, we moved in rhythm and moved toward the entrance of the school. A line shaped like a Roman numeral 2(II) formation was created by us to prepare to make a way for the princess.

Without anyone speaking, we waited for the princess' car arrival.

...

After about 15 minutes, the bumper of the car is still not visible at all. But like statues, they all paid no attention to the situation and remained frozen where they stood.

Something's weird, and that's for sure.

I forcefully cast CODE magic to catch that noble's car's sound.

....?

But unfortunately, the sound of 'other passing cars?' were interfered by the magic, but with a marker such as a plate number, this obstacle can be overcome.

...

'Still no luck for the engine sound?'

Where's that cars?

The guards seemed to still be frozen regardless of the princess's delay.

'Something weird happened!' I said while wandering my eyes.

Time seems to freeze here, even the breeze wind doesn't make a sound.

BOOOM!

Shortly after, a sound capable of making the earth temporary tremble happen.

"UWOGH!" My balance suddenly lost.

My back was hit to the ground with a pretty loud bang. At the same time, my eyes began to stare at the guards who didn't react slightly to the voice.

"Th-this?!" Something crossed my mind. "CODE Magic?!"

I immediately brought myself back to reality and moved away from that place.

I left that place and stopped in the middle of the school yard. Looking at the tree near me made me realize it. The fallen leaves stopped in the middle of the air.

'So... Is it really them?'

Everything's frozen, if there's an idiot who did this. It must be one of them!

Since nothing is moving, I am free to do anything. But a mission is still a mission, I'm moving across the borders of my life.

I see a quiet and empty pavement and road like a failed and glitchy open-world game.

My slow steps are slowly accelerated by a=2/4.

Constantly, I looked at the sights of the curse of Medusa along this road. Everyone turns into stone. Cars that still move ended up hitting a road fence and light poles.

Like a dead city, this doesn't even look like there is life anymore. It looks more like cursed by a furious god.

Finally, after traveling a long distance from the front to the back of the school, I managed to reach the source of the sound.

At the scene, I see a car wreck that looks like it had been bombed with a weak explosive power. Black smoke continued to billow out of the car. The fire ferociously continued to eat the body of the car.

I immediately moved my feet forward quickly until I ended up in front of the car door.

A little sweat dripped off my face, but unfortunately, this sweat came out not because of the princess but because there was a fact that someone else could use CODE magic besides the three of us.

My eyes looked into the inside of the window which was already full of smoke, but the princess couldn't be found at all.

"Tch?!" The only thing I'm doing here is getting the burning driver out of the car.

The driver's body is like food that has been fried too long and smells bad.

Luckily, Anitya is still working even though time was frozen. Slowly his body returned to normal.

Feeling like I'm throwing too much time in this trash, I leave the man alone lying there stiffly.

My top priority, find the princess!

"Rasyid, can you hear me?!" The voice of the family that I rarely talk to sounded in my ears.

"Ri-Rizki?!"

"Listen to me! Spacetime has stopped but of all people! Only the three of us that not affected!"

"Why did that happen?!"

"Looks like someone managed to steal the CODE magic and use it for their 'evil plan'!"

"Who is it?!"

"I don't know! But what I do know is that they are one of them! Now only those groups and us that can move!"

"Tch! Useless!"

"Sorry if I am useless!"

"I'll just fly up and search them!"

"Wow! Wow! Don't do it! It's dangerous!"

"So what?! Pacing around uncertainly?!"

"Tch! Do as you please!"

With that, the call ended in a fight.

But the water inside me was already boiling hot just by hearing his voice. I got carried away and decided to fly upwards using my wind magic.

"I hate to do this, but since it's already done... Well!"

I feel my dominance over the blue sky like a god who wanted to curse his creation.

My eyes narrowed to focus on my vision.

In this frozen time, it would be very easy for me to find movement between them.

"Got you!"

My retina managed to capture small dots moving between houses and buildings.

An abandoned building seemed to be their boss's main headquarters.

Without further ado, I fly straight to the top of the abandoned building(maybe I have to call it a tower? But it is not even tall).

Up there, as usual, I activated my pageblug and raised my blade up to prepare myself to summon the rain.

But... In the middle of preparing, my mind changed.

'I have the feeling that if I keep doing this and doing this I will get bored!' I groaned in my heart as I lowered my sword weakly.

I feel like my mood for fighting is lost if I do the same thing over and over again. Moreover, the enemy gonna knocked just in a moment. There is no fun in it. In the end, I decided against my intention to electrocute them all and chose to jump from the building and run along the wall to the bottom of the building.

There were 5 people standing guard at the main door.

Quickly, I pointed my blade at them and launched a surprise attack.

SLASH!

I cut a birthday cake perfectly without any stray lines.

Now only 4 guards remain there.

"Huh?! Enem-"

KRETEK!

This time, I broke the candy bar in half using my wrist. Understandably, the candy is quite large, so it has to be.

"Damn you!" One of the guards cast high-level fire magic towards me who was still holding his friend's neck.

"Burn this!" I use their comrades' bodies as meat shields to withstand the magic.

"Fool! Why did you burn your friend-?!"

The neck of the fourth guard was stabbed by an ice bullet that shot straight through the skin.

"Mo-monster! How could you kill coldly?! Didn't Anit-" I ended his life by making a gun with my fingers and shot it towards his mouth

BRAAK!

Blood spilled to the wall and made the guard fall with a hole in the mouth through his head.

There was still one more guard, but he seemed just affected by time freeze and was just standing frozen there.

'Just leave it...' I turned towards the main entrance and exit of the building.

But still the same as always, I can't leave any traces.

'Goodbye, people who work because desperate for need! Hope your family doesn't ask about your corpse!'

I showed my palms to those lying there.

Slowly... Their bodies experienced frostbite and froze completely.

I gathered their bodies into one pile and stacked them on top.

I took slow steps towards them and...

PYAR!

Their frozen bodies were scattered like broken glass.

'The problem here... Has resolved.' I bowed my head to them.

Sometimes, even though I promise I don't want to take human lives like flowers. But inside me, I don't feel it at all...

Without realizing it, my hand reflexively did that. Is it because they are just lowly trash and nothing more than unimportant people in life?

If that's the case, I'll have to restrain myself when fighting their boss. If I automatically cut a pole just because of priorities, then I have to re-train myself to refrain from doing that.

This was a difficult choice, but because I was used to priority tasks, I turned my head towards the door. 

'I'd better just play quietly!' I said in a puddle of my heart at the empty reflection of myself.

My first step in entering the building was just about to begin, inside there...

I want to evaluate how much I have changed. Naturally. changed towards humans rather than demons.