'Heimfher's academy life.. Is, in one word.. Trash, just like those whispers i heard back at the entrance, Heimfher is dubbed the failure of the academy, he enrolled by paying the entrance fee, yet he couldn't pass any of the tests that was given to him, because of that, he was sent to Class E, where the worst of the worst grouped together—
'The class itself divided into A to E depending on the student's strength, and i assume class A are exclusively for the top students in the academy.. If being on Class E wasn't bad enough, Heimfher are also the worst out of everyone in Class E, in other words.. He's the lowest of the lowest—
'He doesn't have friends, his roommates often scolds him or screamed at him, thankfully violence in the academy that wasn't officially approved meant instant expulsion, so he wasn't punched or beat up by others– Atleast in public.. Violence is not allowed, but there's no rules that say you can't mock or insult others, so for most of the time, Heimfher can't do anything but accept every insults and mockery thrown at him—
'Haaahh.. You gotta be fucking kidding me, how am i going to survive.. I don't know anything about this world yet, and from what i gathered so far.. The teacher never mentioned anything about magic yet, so it could be that there's no magic here..'
Heimfher looked down to see his own hands, it was rough and looked out of place, like a hand from someone that was constantly overworked in an oil rig.
While he was observing his own body, Heimfher ears suddenly heard something coming from the teacher, a word that struck him like a lightning and made him stare at the teacher intensely.
"While a sword itself is a good weapon, there's still a lot of weapons that can make it useless in battle, a spear for example.. You can't attack someone using a spear because your sword blade wouldn't be enough to reach them, and before you know it, your chest would be stabbed first." The teacher explained, he also drew a sword and a spear on the chalkboard while he was talking.
"However, without extending your sword blade further, do you know a way to beat a spear user with a sword?"
One of the student then raised his hand and answered.
"By avoiding the spear and use the opportunity to get closer so that the spear user won't be able to attack us? Since spear has a small tip with long pole that won't do as much damage, if a sword user can close his distance with the spear user, the spear user won't be able to do much." He said.
The teacher looked at the student that answered his question for a few seconds, he let the silence of the classroom took over before he chuckled and apprecauted the student for willing to answer.
"Heh, that's a good answer, you could use that strategy, but if you meet a spear user that knows what they're doing, they would know about spear's disadvantage and will try their best to not let that disadvantage be YOUR advantage, they would know what to do if you use that tactic– The answer that i want, is to use a Sword Aura."
Heimfher was stunned when he heard the teacher mentioned Sword Aura, that's because he was familiar with those words, and he had seen it multiple times before.
'Sword aura?!..' He shouted in his mind. 'That thing where your weapon was imbued with magic or the elements of the earth like fire, water, lightning, and other?! Those thing exists?'
'So there is magic after all.. But what about real magics though? Can i cast spells from my hand? Is there a mage?—
'No wait.. When i was walking on the city street, i don't see anyone that resembles a mage, no.. Even adventurers, wandering swordsman that go on quests from a guild to slay monsters, mages that brew potions.. Or something like that, i didn't meet any of that– Could it be, this world doesn't know the concept of adventurers and guilds?'
Heimfher was lost in his thoughts, and he couldn't hear any of the teacher's exlanation throughout the whole lesson.
A few minutes passed, Heimfher still pondering about the possibilities of this world, when suddenly, a loud bell rang from the outside, its ringing noise reverberated across the academy, causing everyone to hear it.
Gongg...
"Today's morning indoor lesson is over, we'll start the the outdoor lesson after this, meet me at the north training ground in 15 minutes." The teacher said, he brushed off the dusts on his clothes and packed up his things such as the white chalk and his sword before walking out of the classroom.
Heimfher and the other students soon followed as they stood up and began walking to the exit door, it was break time and Heimfher planned to eat at the cafeteria when he realized something.
'Ah wait..' He stopped abruptly while walking down the stair, since the classroom itself mimicked a college, all of the seats were higher than the one infront so that students can get a clear view of the teachers and the things drawn on the chalkboard. 'I forgot that i only have 4 silvers.. And it's for my inn rent..'
'I guess i won't eat today..'
Heimfher decided to instead go straight to the northern training ground, if he can't eat, then there was no reason for him to go to the cafeteria or stay in the classroom if the next lesson will be done outside.
Heimfher left his classroom anxiously as he was being stared at by many of his classmate, he walked through the academy hallway along with many other students from other classes, some were laughing, while others were running towards the cafeteria. Heimfher thought an academy in another world would be different from earth, but as he slowly see everything around him, he realized that no matter where it was, school will never be any different.
"Hey!" A cocky voice called from behind, Heimfher had a hunch that that voice was calling him, so he turned around to see a group of boys walking towards him. "You're going out Heimfher? It'd be cool if we accompanied you right?"
Heimfher saw the group of delinquents approaching him with a wide smile, they were obviously here to cause trouble for him. At first, Heimfher was hesitant to run away, but after remembering that public violence would mean an instant expulsion, he stood firm and let the delinquents approach him.
"Hah? What the fuck are you staring at?" One of the guy infront that seems to be the leader then asked, he finds Heimfher's unnatural stare uncanny.
'This guy is.. Cadriel De Goldleaf, a noble from the Goldleaf family– And also, one of Heimfher's frequent bully..' Heimfher remembered Cadriel face from his memories.
'He never directly use violence on Heimfher, but he often play pranks on him that always endep up with Heimfher being the laughing stock by the other students that witnessed it.. His memories are flooding, every memories of his encounter with Cadriel– Urgh, there's surprisingly a lot..'
Heimfher's head started to ache again after the memories of Cadriel entered into his mind. All of the things that Cadriel did to him, it all came back to haunt the new Heimfher.
'N- no way.. This guy..' Heimfher looked at Cadriel with slight fear, his breathing became heavier as the smile on Cadriel's face grew wider. 'He's a fucking devil..'
"Huh? What are you looking at? Is there something in my face?" Cadriel asked again, he purposely moved his head closer to Heimfher, their eyes were locked together as he noticed Heimfher's heavy breath.
'Shit.. My body instinctively reacted because of all the trauma that he inflicted towards the previous Heimfher..' Heimfher thought as he was trying not to lose his balance, just from seeing Cadriel's face from up close, his body almost fell to the ground.
"He must be appreciating your handsome face." Another boy behind Cadriel suddenly spoke, he was one of Cadriel's unofficial underlings.
"Yeah, look at him, shaken up and almost falling to the ground, your face must be so beautiful that he can't stand up!" Cadriel's second underling, a boy with the same hair color as him, which is blonde, also spoke and praised Cadriel.
"Haha, i guess that's true, if you want to see my glorious face, then go on." Cadriel said to Heimfher, his cheeky smile never leave his face as he saw Heimfher's determined eyes.
After a few seconds and everyone in the hallway staring at them, Cadriel then dropped his act and began walking away from Heimfher.
"Welp, see you later, you can come anytime you want to my class, 2-B– So that you can see my beautiful face again." He said mockingly, before he passed Heimfher, he moved his leg slightly towards Heimfher's own leg so that his leg would bump into him.
Thud!
Heimfher fell on his butt after Cadriel pushed his leg, and he could hear the other students laughing quietly and also hiding their smile.
'...Just endure this.. Right now, i don't have any chance to fight back– If i keep talking towards Cadriel, he'll annoy me relentlessly and make sure that i won't sleep tonight.. The best course of action right now should be ignoring him—
'But what is this, i feel like my heart is about to burst.. I know i shouldn't, but why am i so angry?!.'
Beneath his gray hair as Heimfher looked down, avoiding any eye contact from everyone in the hallway, he was hiding a grotesque expression that bears every emotion known to man in one single face, he gritted his teeth with a frown and furrowed his eyebrows as much as he could while he stood up and walked to the north direction.