The Bully (2)

Shawn POV

"You sure you're not pranking me?"

"By telling you that I have a girlfriend?" he gave me back this questioning look "Not a lot of girls are attracted to a weirdo like me, so when I say I have one, just trust that I do."

I'm so calling dad after this, this is weird. My anti-social brother who's with a blindfold almost 24/7 gotten himself a...

*****

The meeting ended and sure enough, Ollie was among those who raised their hand from our school for wanting to be one of the members of the student council, I think from Phoenix Academy, only 2 others apart from me and Perseus didn't raise our hands.

"Mr. Silver, are you sure that you don't want to be a part of this?" Principal Arthur asked before realizing that there were 2 of us "Perseus Silver, I mean."

Ollie then raised his hand and asked a question.

"Why should he be a part of the student council?" he asked "I don't think sorcerers would trust him being in charge, he can't even see."

"I assure you, he can." the principal replied calmly "In terms of mana control amongst the first-years, Perseus Silver would rank as easily the best."

Woah, I know that he's a genius, but he's that good?

"Perseus, explain to everyone how you can see behind that blindfold." the principal instructed

"I inject mana into my eyes, it helps me see past clothing or anything I used to block my vision. And I can see normally without the blindfold, as for the reason why I wear this, I'll be keeping it a secret sir."

"No worries," the principal assured before having someone display what he did during the test "Us 4 have witnessed his actions at the test, unlike the rest of you who have been sponsored with expensive gear, he fought with only his talisman, and he even showed that he can cast out 6 spells at a time."

The video footage showed all of us on what we did during the test, but he focused mostly on Perseus with his footage showing up the most.

"Even though the practice required for this means he illegally practiced magic, we choose to disregard this." Principal Von of Tiger Academy added, "To get this far without proper tutors means that he got a lot of talent."

"All 4 of us agreed unanimously that he should be in class A, to even inject mana into your eyes and see clearly without going blind or having both of them pop, require a very scary amount of precision." Principal Arthur said "So he is more than qualified to be in this class and even in the student council, any other questions, Mr. Maddox?"

Maddox then sat back down with an unhappy expression, but he didn't try to fight it. But I didn't know that his eyes could pop if he was careless, he didn't tell me either, ughh, that blockhead, I'll seriously strangle him after this. Just cuz you can actually function blindly doesn't mean your family wants you blind.

"Are you sure you don't want this position?" Principal Arthur asked again "If you want your brother in there too, I can give him a spot, even though he has not proven himself, he has a lot of raw potential, he can be developed properly."

"I'm sorry sir, but I will have to decline, if my brother wants to be in it, he can go ahead, but I'll be devoting my time to becoming a great wizard." my brother answered

*****

After the meeting with everyone having their name noted down, they gave us time to mingle around, to see if we want to team up with someone from our class or other schools to be deployed together.

My brother was supposed to just finalize our post tonight and apply to several of them to see how it goes, but he's being surrounded by the student council members of Tiger Academy.

"Wow, she really wasn't lying when she said her boyfriend goes to a different school." the secretary said

Well I didn't believe him either when he said that his girlfriend goes into another school, my brother is just sitting there being hounded, but despite his silence, I can tell that he's quite pissed, he's now probably noting down the location of the posts these guys are deployed to not go and be deployed with them.

After a while, he managed to separate from everyone and we retreated outside where we sat at a nearby staircase and discussed the different posts of where we wanted to go, we wrote our forms and start applying to the levels 2s and 3s that we like, for now, we're just waiting for the acceptance or rejection letter.

Surprisingly he didn't choose any spots that would coincide with Minerva's post.

"How'd you 2 meet? Heck, I don't think she's even from our country."

"Her family travels a lot, so we get to meet up sometimes, but our relationship is mostly a long relationship." he answered with a sigh

"What's the heavy sigh? Is it not going well or something? Like no offense, even though I heard she doesn't come from a line of great mages, but she does have a few connections."

"It's not that, we're like solid." he denied, "I like her, it's just that well...I met her during one of my 'walks'."

"Oh...if dad finds out, well, if anyone finds out...so she knows?"

"Yeah, she knows, that's how we met in the first place. Known her for 2 years, but we really didn't date till like 7 months ago."

"Well, rumors will spread, and guys will kill you."

"That's why I made sure to stay away from her for now."

"What even made you like her in the first place?"

"I like strong independent women, what can I say?" he answered with a slight chuckle "I don't really know what she saw in me if you're asking, but she's the one that gave me her number."