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It was a just a normal day. I woke up this morning, brushed my teeth, refreshed myself, changed my clothes yada yada yada!

just a normal morning, Is what it would have been if not for the fact Neolyn is the one who woke me up!

Usually it meant that dad somehow destroyed the left wing of the castle trying to make breakfast or mom found my report card! But today was different. It was dad sitting at the dinning hall with a report in his hand.

"Good morning! Draco" he looked at me with a smile.

"Good morning father!" I replied while looking at the attire the both my father and my sister were wearing their military uniforms.

And judging by their eyes, it's been quite a while since they last slept!

"dad! sis! you two look really tired, did you rest yesterday?" I asked them.

"what is rest? is it a fun activity?" Neolyn asked me with a zombie like tone.

"we have been sorting these documents for 3 days without any sleep!" dad replied with the same tone.

eh!

what do they mean for 3 days?

"wait! how did mom let you free?" Jacob, my older brother entered the hall. And yes he too has become a corporate zombie!

"Because dear Draco here really sucks at math!" my mom entered the room with a displeased expression.

Am I screwed? mom doesn't look happy! Should I run?

She approached me with a tired expression. I'm no mind-reader but I can tell that she was thinking about disowning me.

"Why can't you be as good as Neo? You're my blood and yet you're dumb!" she groaned as she walked towards the counter to make some coffee.

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"What are you doing anyways?" I asked out of curiosity.

"Damage reports that the panther squad left in their wake!" Dad complained as he grabbed the coffee.

"what!"

"yeah! there was a raid conducted at the docks. But the enemy was prepared and hired 2 Espers as protection, and I got involved and here we are dealing with an entire mountain of paperwork!" Dad drank the coffee with a tired expression.

moments later, the aforementioned panther squad entered the room with each one looking worse than the last!

"*yawn g~ood morning princess!" Cyan, the captain of the panther squad.

The panther squad were the emperor's personal bodyguards to protect the royal couple from any danger. but in reality, they are protecting the danger from the royal couple!

They are also famous for their discipline. they wouldn't even as so much as blink at their job. and here's their captain tired and yawning uncontrollably to the point where their soul could be ejected from their bodies.

"Draco! I heard there was a festival being arranged at the academy, right?" Mom suddenly asked me about the festival!

"yeah! I need to be there early today!" I replied.

the door opened, and the Royal chef and the Maids entered the hall and began preparing for the breakfast. And soon we began munching down on the delicious sandwiches.

"Oh! yeah! you called me here dad!"

"Yeah! what is this?" he handed out an application form. My application form for the ECC. Esper Control Corps. It's a new task force created just to handle issues that involve Espers. In recent years, the Espers have become a little more common, and more and more people have been discovering their powers and those who discovered their power trained them to use for work, to bring justice, to help, to entertain and to cause trouble. Espers naturally have insane regeneration, unlimited stamina and endurance and superhuman strength. Basically making them superhuman. But with the power they manifest later on makes them even more unpredictable. With all this, even a child could be stronger than an adult!

The ECC was founded to find and recruit these Espers and train them to use their powers responsibly and solve problems related to superpowers. This was a big deal for two reasons. One this means that Espers will finally be allowed to officially join the Military.

Previously there was an Esper Guild that recorded information on the Espers and assign them to the appropriate departments after giving training. But this mainly exclude the Army and the police. the main reason being Espers were unpredictable and inconsistent to be utilized.

Secondly the crimes related to superpowers were increased significantly in the last decade, and the police could absolutely nothing about them. This has caused civil unrest between people as they were afraid of the Espers and couldn't trust them. This will give those people a chance to prove themselves.

"Umm! I want to contribute as well!" I replied nervously.

"*sigh Draco, we had this conversation several times before! What part of 'you are my darling daughter and I can't afford to lose you' do you not understand" my dad yelled at me.

"And what part of 'I want to grow up on my own' do you not understand?" I retorted back.

"And risk losing you! NO"

"you are not risking anything! I'm your daughter, and part of the Aurora clan. Everyone else in the family has something going for them. Everyone but me!" I shouted at him, dad's face frowned at hearing my words.

"you are not everyone to prove yourself."

"I -ughh!!"

"you can't join the ECC. That is my final verdict!" he slammed his fist on the table.

"now that's one way to start a morning, don't you think?" mom said while drinking her coffee.

"it's okay, dear! you can join the ECC!" she said with a smile.

"thanks mom!" I thanked her.

"but Frostine-" Dad tried to object, but was cut off.

"Draco, you have a school festival today right? why don't you take Neolyn with you? She usually spends her time in her room or with me. She needs to touch grass." mom said with soft tone.

huh! I wonder what's going on today? usually dad's the one who's supporting me and mom's the one spanking me. But now it's different.

"no mom! I really need to touch some grass!" Neolyn said while sleep-eating.

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After a 2 hour journey on the train, we made it to the city where my college is located.

Chandra college. It is the biggest college in the Ashokan Empire, with the state-of-the-art facilities and best educational and training provided to all Espers.

It is always breathtaking every time I see it. The abnormally large campus that's the size of a city, where we have to use teleporters to get anywhere. It is actually used to a city which housed three large universities which then later merged into the Chandra college.

"Hey! Draco! and you're brought your sister I see!" An older voice was suddenly heard behind me. I turned around to see my sociology professor, Mr. Tyler prince.

"Good morning Mr. Tyler! Yeah! mom told me to take her with me, but she slept, I have to give her a piggyback ride." I greeted him with a nervous smile.

"oh! let her rest! After the recent raid, the empress was not happy looking at the damage report!" He laughed.

"Oh! you sure do know everything Mr. Tyler" I smiled thinking back to the corporate zombie apocalypse in the morning.

"yeah! Your mother said that she needed to keep it a secret, but I'm not exactly sure, how she plans on doing so!" He forced a smile as he pointed me to direction of the once former docks, now replaced by an ENORMOUS ice egg.

it's was so large like a massive mountain, And inside was a faint silhouette of a massive beast, trapped and frozen in place.

"..."