Detention

As Liam approaches, Aziel raised his guard. However, when Liam got in front of Aziel, he bowed down.

"I am sorry Rocky that I hurt you earlier, or even back in our village. I promise not to do it ever again. In fact I won't even come near you anymore, so please accept my apologies." Liam still bowing his head, waiting for Rocky to respond.

"What? I don't expect something like this." Aziel whispered towards Rocky.

"Yeah, me too. What should I do?" Rocky replied whispering.

"I don't know dude, I haven't got into this situation where I was receiving an apology. Just do what you think is the right thing to do." Aziel responded.

"Okay." Rocky replied.

"I will accept your apology if you could promise not to hurt me or go near me." Rocky demand assurance from Liam's word.

"Who do you think you are!?" Liam replied in a very quiet voice, almost inaudible but Aziel can hear everything clearly, so he decided not to drop his guard and prepare for the worst.

"Liam?" Rocky called out Liam as he didn't get an answer from him clearly.

"Yes. I promise not to get near you from now on. So, do you forgive me?" Liam asked Rocky.

"Okay. I'll accept your apology." Rocky happily replied, as if a thorn was lifted from his chest, feeling relieve.

"Thank you!" Liam happily thanked Rocky.

Liam was about to grab Rocky's hands to show his appreciation, but Aziel stopped him from doing so. It made Rocky and Liam confused.

"Who the hell is this weak looking guy, Rocky? Who the hell are you?" Liam sarcastically asked.

"I am his friend." Aziel replied in a short sentence.

His look fierce and he hide Rocky behind him.

"What are you doing, Aziel?" Rocky whispered towards Aziel.

"I just find it unnecessary for you to grab his hand. He already accepted your apology, isn't that enough?" Aziel asked Liam.

"You're right. Fine. I won't grab his hand." Liam backed down raising both his arms.

"Tsk! Who the hell is that?" Liam went to his seat whispering to himself.

Aziel and Rocky also went to their seat from across the room.

"Aziel, what the hell happened back there?" Rocky asked Aziel in an agitated tone.

"You shouldn't trust a man like that, Rocky. After he tried to kill you not just once but twice and now he was apologizing like everything was just a small misunderstanding. A person like that has a motive if he could lower his pride to ask for forgiveness towards the person he tried to kill." Aziel replied, not telling everything towards Rocky.

Rocky couldn't answer Aziel's words. He find Aziel talks like an old man, and seem to have a lot of experience.

A few hours have passed and they were all released from the detention as they promise not to cause any disturbance inside the Academy anymore.

Aziel and Rocky went back to the classroom, and Liam went into a different direction.

When they got inside the room, they were welcomed by a yell and mouthing from their homeroom professor Arnold.

"What happened to both of you!? Rocky, I thought you were a quiet student, I always find it easy to reason out with you because you seem to have manners and respect towards others! And you Aziel! A new student who had just been admitted to the Academy, I thought you as a good student and has a bright future! But what did you both do to get detention on your first day together!? Huh!?" Arnold was fuming in anger towards to two.

"I apologize Sir, I wasn't really our fau…" Aziel couldn't complete his sentence as he was cut off by Arnold's another scolding.

"Oh really!? Now you apologize after causing me an embarrassment!? What do you think the other professor told me in the faculty earlier, huh!? They told me that two of my students were in detention because they destroy one of the library doors in the Academy!" Arnold felt dizzy after releasing most of his frustrations in one go.

"Oh my head! It's still too early for you to cause me trouble, but here you are! Hooo, I think I'm about to pass out from the stress!" Arnold said as he take a seat.

"Are you okay sir? We apologize for causing you trouble sir. We promise not to do it again." Aziel held Arnold's hand and cast a small healing spell as he helped him take his seat.

"Hooo. That felt so much better. You better do what your promise, you got it!?" Arnold still raised his voice but he wasn't angry anymore.

"Yes Sir, and you should take good care of yourself Sir." Aziel responded and give Arnold a smile.

"Alright, alright. Just go take your seat, and study your lessons. Rocky give Aziel some notes that he could study. You two help each other out." Arnold instructed both Aziel and Rocky.

"Yes Sir. Thank you." Aziel and Rocky offered their thanks simultaneously.

Arnold waved his hand signaling them to just go, as he wanted to rest in his seat after the scolding that he gave.

After a few more hours, the bell rang signaling everyone that the class for the day was over.

Everyone got up their seats and said their goodbyes to Arnold.

Aziel and Rocky went outside the room together as Aziel was still studying the notes of Rocky, and also Aziel doesn't know where his dorm room was located so Rocky took him for another tour.

When they both reach the field across the Hall where the huge statue was standing. They saw Liam approaching with a fire ball already casted in his two hands just waiting for the right time to be release.

Liam, without second thought shoot his fire ball towards the two. However, Aziel reacted quickly. He pushed Rocky to the side, evading the two fire balls that hit one of the bench in the field, destroying it. And Aziel dashed towards Liam and punched him in the gut.

Liam fall to the ground cowering, his mouth salivating because of the pain in his stomach.

"That will be your last warning. If you ever come near us again, I won't promise to leave you behind breathing." Aziel threat Liam

"What! What did… you say!?" Liam struggled to finish his sentence clearly as he was still holding his stomach from the pain.

"Who… do you think you… ARE!?" Liam screamed and unleash a dark aura coming from his magical core.

Aziel was surprised by the aura that Liam was emitting, then suddenly a voice came through his head.

"Aziel, my child! That demonic aura, I know where that came from! It looks like he was already on the move! You have to finish him before it gets worse. That kid had been blessed by the god of the underworld, and it's too late for him to return from a normal being. If you don't finish him now, it will also be too late for everyone around you. Its aura is contagious and can infect anyone nearby!" Eleanor warned Aziel about how bad the situation is.

"Alright Miss Eleanor, but I won't kill him." Aziel replied as he dashed towards Liam and cast his light magic.

"What do you mean you don't want to kill him? How are you going to do that? Eleanor asked Aziel.

"I discover the best way to use the light magic that I mastered." Aziel responded and he channel his light magic through his palm.

Liam began to transform into a demonic creature when Aziel thrust his palm to where Liam's magical core was and released his light magic into it.

The light began to swallow all the dark energy coming from Liam's magical core along with its demonic aura. Aziel's light magic causes Liam's transformation to stop, and slowly he began to turn back into a human. Liam collapsed to the ground unconscious.

Aziel cast a healing magic towards Liam and when he's consciousness returned, for some reason, Liam couldn't remember what happened. All he could remember is that he went outside the Academy without permission just to have a fresh air, and bumped into a person wearing a hoodie, is all.

After Liam had recovered most of his strength, he leave and went to where his dorm room is, and promised not to bother both Aziel and Rocky anymore, and if he were to cause trouble for the them again, he promise to kill himself after that.

"What do you think of his statement Miss Eleanor?" Aziel asked Eleanor who had heard everything.

"My suspicions is that he must have met this person before or bump into it somewhere once, where a seed of hatred was planted. And then when their path crossed again, that person purposely bumped into that Liam kid again and activated the seed." Eleanor assessed the event that had happened.

"Yes, that was maybe the most on point assessment of what really happened to him before everything. Thank you ma'am! I'll talk to you again soon." Aziel said his goodbye to Eleanor because Rocky has been bugging him ever since Liam left.

"Hey! What is wrong with you!? You were just standing there looking at the ground. Are you okay?" Rocky asked.

"No, I'm fine. Let's hurry and go to the dorm now before anyone sees us here. We might get detention again if they caught us destroying something again." Aziel hurriedly leave the scene, and Rocky follow after.

"Who is that person giving a random student a demonic seed?" Aziel was still thinking about the person as they run towards the dorm for students

"Aziel? Aziel? AZIEL!?" Rocky called Aziel whose thought was still on the mysterious person.

"Ah! Yes?" Aziel snap back to reality and responded to Rocky's call.

"We're here. What number is your room?" Rocky asked.

"It is room number 113." Aziel replied.

"What? Room number 113? You could have said that earlier to save us some time because that's also my room, we're roommates!" Rocky said, a little annoyed towards Aziel.

"My bad, hehe." Aziel playfully apologized.

They both walk towards their room, not knowing that someone saw everything they did.

"Hmmp. Interesting!" Said by the person who saw them.

-End of Chapter-