A COLD REUNION WITH BRUTALITY..

***The Upper sector of the Outskirts of Continental 'Eclipse of the Ocean'..

***Chingford's Martial Academy Male Dormitory..

 The next morning has Navi gets up while feeling a little better than last night.

He's still sore all over but the screams of pains from his body has quiet down more than a little bit.

 Getting off his bunk, Navi performs his usual morning routines. He takes his bag, gets washed up at the bathroom, returns his bag then goes on with having a bland meal at the cafeteria though today, he adds Nutrient packs to his diet.

 Because he cannot stress his body much, Mvai takes up medication class as his sole lessons today.

Due to him registering almost in the middle of the three months martial team, the Academy's first martial holiday comes in the next month.

 The only two new things that's going to happen this month for Navi is that by the end if the month, he would be getting his weapon choice from the Academy. as One interesting thing Navi is also looking forward to is the death duel which he plans to attend but for now, Navi lives through the next few days with nothing but chill in his pace.

***Seven days later.

***Clingford's Martial Academy..

 With a deep breath, Navi rises up early today like any other day with the only difference being that today, Navi has something to truly wacth out for.

 The Death Duel.

 Navi puts aside guilt at the concept behind a death duel as he admits to himself that he's very excited by the idea of watching this happen.

He still doesn't know the exact reason for this duel and honestly he doesn't care much. He's just thirsty to see some blood pumping action.

 He had prayed to the world for some sort as thrill to push him forward and although this is not exactly what he has expected, it is still better than nothing.

Atleast this is what Navi thinks to himself not knowing the chains of events that would soon come storming at him.

 The duel is not until sharp afternoon so Navi has time to spare for a three hour meditation lesson. Speaking of meditation, learning to meditate seems to be proving harder for Navi than for most others.

 It's difficult to clear his mind without sleep and even with sleep, a part of Navi's mind never seems to truly quiet down.

His first trails are complete failures but under the guidance of the masters, Navi thinks he's getting a little closer to finally making silence the only thing on his mind.

 Navi feels like if he can fully settle his thoughts then he would be able to fully sense the world for what it is. He feels like he would be finally be able to touch the unique energy form called mana.

 Meditation class has levels to it.

It takes place outside for disciples who have passed the most basic levels and are then training to meditate even with the presence of distractions.

For beginners like Navi, Meditation takes place in a soundproof hall.

 With calm steps, Navi trails his way to the meditation hall where he alongside others go through the normal lesson session while under the guidance of the masters.

Just like that, the two hour long meditation lesson session comes and goes as Navi waits patiently for the event.

 Afraid for lack of seats at the duelling centre, Navi goes in thirty minutes earliwr than the starting.

 Although he has not been her before, just as Navi has expected, the Dueling center is a below-ground level structure with stairs-like seats making steps around it in a circular fashion.

Actual stairs runs down the between the seats of duel centre for easy movement and as expected, most seats are already filled up with the campus getting mostly silent and the duel area getting crowded.

 Navi moves down the walking stairs and sits as close to the level of the duel-ground floor as he can.

He is surrounded by other talking disciples and the burning sun makes sure the area smells heavily with mixes of martial disciple's sweat as well as dirt.

 Navi patiently waits on the death duel as the seats gets filled up even more and more though before he knows it, someone comes to sit by the last empty seat by his side.

 He does not care enough to pay any attention who it is but he soon hears his name from a female voice.

 "Hi Navi.", The voice greets as its owner sits by his side.

 Raising a brow, Navi turns his head calmly with a bit of confusion in his eyes. Apart from his once in a while encounter with his room-mates and the martial masters, Navi does not think that anyone else knows him well enough to call his name so fondly talk-more a female.

 Turning his face,Navi lols at the lady's face while trying to recall where he've seen her before.

Curly Copper-brown hair tied into a very messy bun as a result of work out, light blue eyes in doe shapes and blush-like light freckles spread over her nose and under her eyes. All of this features and a bright smile perfect smile as their linking bridge.

 In her blue female martial robes, anyone would admit that the female disciple is a stunner. She's a bunny-like poison to any male's mind but Navi just can't recall where he has met her before.

 Seeing Navi's quiet confusion, the young lady gets a little flustered and thus shows Navi that she blushes easily as a light shade of pink appears on her cheeks.

 "A.. at the cafeteria one week ago, you told me your name is Navi.", The young lady explains while Navi slowly nods as he finally remembers her.

 At the cafeteria, one week ago on the evening of his last 'dream therapy'. A lady had addressed him as kid and he had told her his name.

Faced with this realization, Navi tries his best to hide his instinct to directly ignore the lady.

 "Greetings Senior.", Navi greets politely while hoping the conversation would die off there and then as he then turns his gaze away from her calmly.

 "My name is Amado Yuxi.", The lady replies to Navi whille sounding as little smug for some reason in an almost 'I got you back' manner.

 Navi looks at the lady a little confused to her tone but then he just politely nods three times in response yet somehow, Navi's calm reaction makes Yuxi blush into a deeper shade from embarrassment.

 There is silence for a while with Navi staring at the sandy duelling grounds and Yuxi trying to get over her unreasonable embarrassment.

 "Are you sure you can handle the duel?. There might be blood and someone would die today.", Amado Yuxi asks with a bit of concern in her tone.

 Navi looks at her then he blinks twice in confusion as to why she thinks he cannot handle a bit if blood and death and then realisation strikes him.

 It must be because if his age and immature figure.

In all facts and truth, Navi is sure that he has seen much worse than whatever is about to happen. The first memory dream he had where he saw of his alternate self(Ikita Shi) had shown a white tiled room used as a brutal slaughter house for dozens of people.

 The smell of the blood, the iron in the air, the stains on the walls, the red pools in the ground, the limbs around with some still twitching as they lost life, the heads with expressions still hanging on them, the screams of terror as people lost and begged for life while fighting a losing match against death.

After this, the episode of cold darkness and silence in the room before lights come on to show the figures of death and suffering painted boldly across the room.

Flashing back to this scenes, Navi indifferently shekes his head.

 Nay. There's no way whatever is going to happen here would be worse than even a single event from that dream.

 With this believe in mind Navi says calmly as he looks at Yuxi.

"I can handle it.".

 For some reason, Yuxi still seemed worried about well everything though she keeps her silence as she watches Navi calmly turn his gaze back to the duel arena.

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