Wenji's Plight

The boy perfectly heard Junya, however, he had a scheming plot in his mind and continued to walk away. Luring him into his 'trap' further.

"I said wait!" Junya knew what he was trying to do and played along with his trap.

"I'm sorry I never heard you." His little grin was enough to tell Junya he was full of shit.

"How?" Junya simply asked.

Playing the fool, he asked, "How what?"

Junya got angry but swallowed all his annoyance. "My fatigue, how did you know."

"I said it before, I could tell because you couldn't grab your phone from me easily. It was just a matter of observation. Even more than that, I have a way I might be able to fix it."

Being a little sceptical, Junya asked. "How so?"

"Easy, I'm willing to trade you this stamina potion and you let me use your phone, for my research". He held the vial in the air waving it for a few seconds before having to snatch it back when Junya raised his hand.

"Nu-uh, Let's introduce ourselves first." He said with an outstretched hand, "My name is Wenji Blackwell"

Wenji was as tall as Junya with a more slim frame and fewer muscles. His hair was filled with styling gel, however, it was still untidy. He had a particularly cocky expression and mumbled under his breath a lot.

His uniform followed suit with his image, copying its messy and untidy trait, however, he had a book heavily strapped to his side which he drummed his fingers on.

Junya grabbed his hand, not interested in making friends but instead the authenticity of the vial. "Junya… Junya Wotanbe."

"You don't have to give me a fake name. I'm not someone that's you should be wary of." Wenji's smile broke when he saw Junya's straight face.

"I'm not lying" Junya insisted.

'Jeez, lying for no reason at all, people like this guy can't be trusted.' Wenji thought inwardly before shrugging.

"Fine, just let me borrow your phone for my research and I will give you this potion." He proposed.

"Potion first," Junya ordered.

"Nah uh, phone first," Wenji wagged his finger disapprovingly, then held out his hand.

"Fine," Junya grunted through his teeth giving him the phone.

Wenji smiled before taking to the ground to do his 'research'.

'Goddamn pervert, how would someone like him have anything remotely good to fix fatigue, I swear I'm going to wring his neck if he scams me' Junya cursed his current situation.

Ten minutes passed by while Wenji continued his research with an unmistakable lecherous smile, which made Junya cringe.

'I need to stay far away from this guy.' Junya noted.

***Everyone start making your way to the edge of the forest***

A loud shout coming from all round echoed to all the students. Soon all the students shuffled toward the destination.

"Hey creep, I need my phone back, let's get this deal over with."

Releasing a loud sigh Wenji put down his pen. "A deal is a deal, Here is your phone and the potion I promised, good trade".

He shoved both of the items into Junya's hand before quickly walking away.

"Asshole, what do you think you'r-" Junya immediately could tell he was giving him something fake. As he was about to make the chase a large swarm of people started covering Wenji's footsteps and making it harder to track him down.

"Shit!" He cursed before giving up and following the crowd toward the woods.

'If I ever see that slant-nosed asshole again, he better pray I don't.'

Junya could only bottle his anger and follow the crowd to the starting grounds.

There arrived at the edge of the woods. Standing in front of them with their backs facing the woods was Horun and his other classmates looking out into the crowd.

Junya never knew who he was and never paid him too much mind, he was more interested in finding Wenji.

"Everyone listen up!" Horun Yelled. "From this point on will signify the beginning of the mandatory fitness test of the school. The primary goal of this test is to gauge the ability of the new coming students but also their capabilities under pressure."

"This means there is no restriction on how you choose to stop an opponent from taking the lead. While at its core this is a foot race, in actuality it's also a way to see how capable you are in coming out on top in any situation…

With that said the person that comes in last place will be expelled, You may begin!"

A brief moment of silence fell.

Junya cursed his intuition for being correct at the worst time possible.

'I knew this wasn't just some race!'

Immediately, everyone activated their best movement techniques and took off in all directions. Spreading themselves out from their competition. Within seconds everyone left, leaving the area empty.

Junya stayed back on purpose to see analyze the number of people that ook off in different directions before picking his own.

'Most people went northwest and northwest, while the fewest went north. Weird, you would expect more people to charge straight ahead. O well, north it is.'

As he was about to take off, an even faster flash leaped from behind him in front, knocking his shoulders, almost sending him to the ground. He had to use all his strength to stay on his feet.

'What the fu-' He could see could barely see the silhouette of the figure before it zoomed out of his sight.

He used his Asura step and burst into the woods after the figure but it had already long gone. 'What the hell could be that fast. Even weirder, I couldn't even sense someone else was here…'

A brief moment of shock he continued on at full speed, jumping between trees for more efficiency.

***

Thirty minutes later, around three miles from the starting point outside of the woods.

"Wenji, are you sure this is the fastest way toward the school. How do you have this kind of information?"

Within a group of six, four boys and two girls, one being Wenji were running through the forest. They all employed their own movement techniques to move through the forest quickly, making their surroundings appear as a blur.

"Does he really know where we are going?"

"Yeah, I heard this guy is a perv, should we trust him?" The girls mocked in a disgusted tone.

The other facial expression agreed with the thinking of the two girls.

"Don't worry about him ladies, I can vouch for him that he knows the quickest path there and as for his bad track record with women… Well, nothing like that will happen while I am here. We made a deal so we simply have to carry it out." The leader of the group who was trailing slightly in front of the group addressed.

His name was Creig, he was fairly slim and built with lean muscle. His uniform was tightly fitted, however, he left his top buttons open. he was fairly good-looking by many standards and normally carried a blank look on his face.

"I don't like this creep either boss, still a deal is a deal". Another student added this gave the others no choice but to put up with it.

"Where to next Wenji!" Creig the leader hollered behind him. If we wrap onto the left of this hill we will be able to reach the school in 10 minutes if we maintain this speed.

"How do you know for sure, you must be guessing," Creig questioned. "I thought you might have had a cracked version of the map on your phone but I haven't seen you look at it even once, Is anything wrong with that."

"Is something wrong with your mouth. Just hold out your end of the deal and we can finish this test faster. I don't even mind coming last out of everyone here, just remember our deal and cooperate toward the best interest of all of us" Wenji snarled angrily.

After his speech, the members of the group looked around at each other and silently nodded, as if giving a signal.