Chapter 8: The Kings of the Clans

"Good job on school today Sir Argus, also good to see you again Sir Gareth." Lev greeted us when we got to my home.

He looked at me with a concerned look after seeing my face having anxious look. "Miss Athena is currently eating and she wants to speak to you, Sir Argus."

"Really?!" My excitement spiked up and I had a smile on my face, it has been a long time since I'd last seen my elder sister.

"Then, I'll wait in your room," Gareth replied happily as he sees me happily go to the dining room.

My older sister, Athena Andromeda, is a member of the Four Heavenly Kings, even if she's my sister she serves as an assistant for my father who's the head of the Andromeda clan that rules Japan.

As a member of the Four Kings and an assistant to the head of a clan, she is an important figure in the country and also the world, due to how important the head of a clan are she and the other Kings are the ones who make sure to protect the head and family of the four clans.

This is why when meeting with other countries, the Four Kings are the one who usually accompanies the head or they're the one who usually attends.

Without the guidance and protection of each member of the Four Kings and its former members, Japan's economy would've died long ago.

Upon entering the dining room I saw My sister casually eating dinner at the table, she noticed me entering the room and smiled at me happily. "Congratulation for getting handpicked by one of the Kings, Argus."

The compliment that my elder sister mademe smile in joy, I went to her and took a sit beside her. "So who's gonna taught me?" I happily asked.

She smile with pride. "Honestly, I was hoping that I'll be first in line to pick you, after all I never had any student that specialized in history, so I was sad to see that Hana managed to snag you first, but I guess her expertice with medicine is far better suited for history than mine."

"Hana? She's now teaching at Kingsman College?"

"Yes, along with Erik."

"That's amazing! I can't believe that the four Kings would work together to teach people at Kingsman College!"

The Four Heavenly Kings, like I said they are one of the greatest scientists in their respective fields, which is why they're deeply involved in the country's politics. Each King is respectively chosen by the head of each ruling clan, so they act as trusted associates for them but there are times when members of the clan would be the ones to join the Four Heavenly Kings.

Not only their one of the greatest scientists there are, they are also expert on warfare. Reasons to why they're always busy is due to them helping allied nations in wars this year, and majority of their contribution to our allied nation has led to victory.

My elder sister who is appointed as a King for the Andromeda clan, her expertise is in social science and zoology. Though her expertise is not as popular as medicine and engineering, she does use it in warfare a lot of times.

She mastered how the human psyche works, and with that ability, she used it to stop upcoming psychological warfare that a dictator once tried to do 2 years ago in Indonesia. Not only that but she uses is known for torturing enemies to gather information in past wars, and all of them surrendered. That goes to show how she abused and manipulated their brain easily.

Not only that but she is also a professionally trained assassin that works for the head of the four clans, by mastering the arts of assassination, warfare, torture, and how the human psyche works, she can easily eliminate any foreign visitors that's a threat to our country.

The second member of the King is the one who picked me as their student, her name is Hana Miyamoto. Unlike my elder sister who's a member of the Andromeda clan, Hana was chosen by the head of the Sakamoto clan to be their King.

Hana is an expert at making medicine and she's also one of the best doctors out there, she studied everything related to her field. From dentistry to even surgery she knows it all, so picking me who studied history is good match for her.

After all, from the news I've received from a couple of people working with my father, Hana is currently interested in ancient medicine, so I can see why she wanted me.

Well I don't mind her teaching me, she's very beautiful and she's also the nicest girl I've ever met.

The third King is someone named Erik Andersen, like Hana, Erik was chosen by the Oda clan to be their King.

People has a lot of respect for him due to him being the first foreigner to achieve the title of King, he is from what's now known as the Kingdom of New Scandinavia, meaning he is from Scandinavain descent unlike every person who achieved the title of King being Japanese. Which is why when it was first announced that he became a King people were hesitant to accept him, but as time pass they soon accepted him and he is idolized by the children.

He specialized in Military Science and Theories, because of this he is one of the only people who've attained the position of a six-star general.

He fought in many wars in the past and has achieved a lot of victories, due to this is why children idolized him. Not only that but he is also an expert in making and fixing any guns he sees, there is a rumor that he mastered it to the point that making a gun can take him only a few seconds to build.

The last one is the one I admire the most, Neo Saber. He is the leader of the Kings and was considered to be one of the most intelligent person in history, having the IQ of 325 makes him smarter than scientist like Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin himself.

Like my older sister, he is a part of the Saber Clan, which is the leading clan of the four.

He is known for knowing everything in the field of science, but what's he mostly associate in term of his expertise is making new machines and gadgets.

With his newly invented technologies, the world changed a lot thanks to him. The long-wished flying cars, lasers as weapons, a machine that stopped global warming, and a way to destroy trash without destroying the environment.

Those are just some of the things that he did, but that doesn't compare to what he is truly famous for.

Neo Saber, nicknamed as the "God Killer". Not because he's some superhuman who could kill God or the Gods, but instead it's because of his famous project, or should I say infamous for the religious folks.

Known as Project Primordial, one of the most important project that happened on the course of the entire history of the Earth.

It is a project that was first started by the first head of the Saber clan 200 years ago, but it was finished by Neo Saber and majority of the important parts of the project was done by him.

What is Project Primordial? It is a project that proved that Darwin's theory of evolution is real, and he and his family did just that. They proved that evolution is indeed real.

By creating an underground lab on a hidden cave and researching on animals for two centuries, his family created notes on theories in ways to make evolution faster and others created a habitat on the lab for the animals to lived in.

And so, with the amount of research his family has done and upgrading the lab and some of the technologies there comes the final part.

Neo Saber managed to evolve a normal chicken to a massive bird about the size of an ostrich and made it into a bloody carnivore.

That's who Neo Saber is and that's why I idolized him, I knew that he teaches at Kingsman College so I was hoping he would pick me, but for the looks of it my luck is non-existent.

"Also, are you ready for tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow?" I was confused at my older sister's question, from what I remember tomorrow is Saturday, so I don't have to go to school and the four of us friends didn't make plans to meet up at that day. "What do you mean? I don't remember making plans tomorrow."

"Didn't your teacher announce it to you?"

"No..." I can't tell her that I didn't go to school or else I'm gonna experience hell again.

"Tomorrow, you and the other students chosen by the Kings are gonna attend a ceremony at Kingsman College, not only that but the students who were picked are gonna meet the Kings and introduce themselves to the Kings."

My eyes glittered as I hear what came out of my older sister's mouth, my body shaking in fear and I was about to jump in joy but stopped myself midway of doing it.

Even though I met the rest of the Kings before, meeting three of my heroes again is still something I've always wished to do, and now I'm gonna be taught by one of my heroes is a dream come true for me and some of the students they've picked.

A night has passed without Gareth and I noticing it, all we did was play video games and stayed up late until it was time for me to go to the ceremony.

Right now I'm riding on our Limo with my older sister to go to Kingsman College. Normally I would've invited Himiko and Arisu to ride along with me, but with what happened yesterday I couldn't manage to face the two.

Well, I"m gonna see them again at the ceremony along with her...

I looked down on the floor, I thought about what happened last night with Marine. I beat her up to the point I might've injured her, and that was the first time I've physically assaulted Marine, yet someone...

Did I regret doing it? Thinking about it now, I might've gone too far, but I know for a fact that what I did is in the right.

The vision I saw of her future, the future of Himiko, and the death of Arisu, Gareth, and possibly me are done by her own hands.

I can't blame her, she might want revenge after all the cruel things we did to her and I can clearly why she did it.

But involving the city on this sick revenge of hers is inexcusable, which is why I'll do anything. Even if I get my hands dirty, even if I'll change my entire personality, or even if people's opinion would change I'll do anything to protect this city.

This city is the pride of every scientist and science enthusiast in the world, I won't let the sweat of those scientist who sacrificed their very own life just to build this city.

I would never...