[Rein's POV: ]
"What's your problem, bastard?"
"Nothing bitch. Just shut the hack up and let the teacher continue with the class. I want this to end already."
"What did you just say, you sonovabitch? Say that again."
"Bitch. Give. Those. Snakes. Back. And. Let. Ma'am. Start. The. Class."
"Haha… hahahaha! You-"
"Alright, you two."
I looked back when I heard her voice and her pretty face covered with a delighted smirk entered my eyes.
She was really having fun with whatever was happening but we couldn't just start a verbal curse war in her class like that.
I knew it wasn't good but that bastard had successfully ticked me off. And he was still looking at these little guys with a disgusted look! This bastard…!
"Alright, alright girl. Calm down.
I understand you can't bare his look and words and it's fun seeing young people fighting like this. It almost gives me nostalgia. Hahaha.
But, this isn't the right way to fight.
You should fight, I want to watch a fight in my first class too, but since we are in my class, the method of fighting should be corresponding, no?"
-Snap!
She was smiling, that basted was showing that clear disgust, the classroom was in a confused state, and the snakes also didn't like that person at the back so they were hissing at him as if telling him they didn't like him.
But as soon as teacher Vivi snapped her finger, a slab of white rock same as the walls sealed off the entrance, and the room glowed in a new light.
And this light was blinding so most of the students covered their eyes, while the rest of us saw the normal-looking room we were in transforming into a vast grassland with a clear sky above, and many trees at a distance.
"Wow…"
"Seeing it for the first time really is quite something."
"This is how an artificial reality classroom feels? I wasn't expecting it to be thiiiiiis real."
"Right? I can feel the winds and the smell of grass."
'A classroom made for students to experience the real deal… for a so-called theory class, this really is exciting.'
The classroom had turned into a different place and it was almost like we had been teleported to a different place.
Everything felt real, even the touch of wind on our skins. It was fascinating.
"Welcome to the Great Plains of Adanca, the northern entrance to the forbidden zone known as the original paradise of the energy beasts, the great forest of Kamut."
"The great forest…?"
I looked beside me, at my little Zoe, with surprised eyes and she looked back with a smile, and of course a spark of sadness.
This great forest, the central area of it more specifically, was her birthplace and also the place my darling met his master and her mom, and also the place he learned many things he knows, and also the place that became the reason we met.
It sure was surprising hearing about it and even more surprising seeing this place near that special place, but, as he had always said, that great forest, be it the greatest place he could have ever been, was also a hell that showed him darker things than a pile of corpses on a battlefield.
'We will go there when the time comes, but this grassland before us right now wasn't that forbidden zone. It was only the place from where one can enter that place, and then get lost for eternity.'
He once told me he met another ancient tree there that told him about the four exists of that great forest and also how he made his first friend there…
'Fern… he often wonders how she might be doing, expressing how that meeting gave him enough strength to meet that ancient willow tree, and how thanks to that old willow's gift, he was able to survive that newborn demonic creature, and finally meet the person that holds the greatest place in his life.'
I wanted to go there, see the places I had only seen through his memories, meet the beings that helped him, and thank them for doing the great things that they didn't know about.
'But that was a story for that 'eternally uncertain future' as he says. We were in a theoretical class right now and there was a bastard I had to take care of.'
"Alright~ you two. Tell me the strongest energy beasts you know the most about and we will have the two fight each other~. I will even give two class points to the winner but-"
"That's unfair!"
Everyone looked on the right side as soon as we heard that voice and this time, it was the special person Zoe found.
"Why do only two people get such a chance?!"
He objected with that loud voice and it certainly made sense. There was a dispute between two people and the teacher was trying to resolve it in her own way… or was having fun but she definitely didn't want a verbal battle in her class.
It was up to her as the teacher of the class what she did but giving two people a chance to see how this virtual room system worked on top of giving the winner class points would certainly seem unfair because all of it had actually started with his curses, for which we should be punished.
'Whatever was happening right now was confusing to many, but well fuck them.'
"Hmmm? What's up, sweetie? You don't like that only two people will have fun? Then what about this…"
Now, there was a wide smirk on her pretty face, her red-black hair dancing with the artificial winds, and her sharp blue-like eyes looking at not just the boy that had spoken up but also the entire class.
"Everyone who wants to play with us will tell me about the strongest energy beast they know, we will create them here, they will fight under your own command, and the winner will get three class points and a date with me~."
She chuckled after saying that while hiding her pretty lips behind her hand fan, and just when everyone was being cheerful over this new opportunity especially since the date thing was added, everyone felt a sudden sense of danger and were stunned…
-Tap!
"But remember cuties. You have to at least roughly know their natural habitats, habits, preference for food, natural enemies, physical and biological characteristics, the racial skills they possess and the special skills they can possess, and a place you think you can find one of them.
This naturally means you can't just foolishly bring up some divine, demonic, or draconian species at least without knowing those things about them."
She was serious now, her eyes said that, and the energy we felt, the presence of her sharp authority, was more than enough for everyone to realize this was a game that wasn't just for fun.
It was also a test to check the understanding we had of the energy beasts, and the fights we would have were also totally dependent on how much we knew about the opponents and how to take advantage of them.
'It would have been more fun if we could fight them ourselves but even the creatures would also be just illusions so there was no need to get much hyped over this.
But one thing was again certain…
"You are gonna die bastard. And death won't be painless…"
"Same to you bitch."
That bastard had a smirk on his face now, a smirk that was confident enough that he actually was thinking he could beat me.
'Funny bastard!'
He still had that look of fear when he looked at me and the cute snakes with us. And though that look and his confidence both were ugly from my perspective, that smirk he gave me after the teacher's announcement was even more disgusting.
"Alright then, who is taking this chance to show off their great knowledge?"
She was excited now, that look of excitement making her seem even more dangerously pretty.
'And that shade of red lipstick looked perfect on her lips…'
A total of ten hands rose up in this class of fifty-seven excluding the two of us, and thankfully, Zoe wasn't participating in this little 'test' of ours.
'There was no chance for even someone with a dragon to win otherwise.'
But she wasn't participating so I had a chance to win this and crush that unknown bastard and the one that had possessed someone like some novel character who seemed to be in need of money.
"Alright then let's start from the back~."
She knew exactly what she was saying but that aside, she started with that bastard and everyone looked back, a similar scene to how the entire class looked back at us.
'Haaa… I wonder if my bastard is having fun.'
"What beast do you think is the strongest, little one?"
She looked at him with a smile, I looked at him with anger, and the three snakes with us were still angry at that bastard but they were now resting with Zoe, happily sleeping with adorable expressions.
But the bastard smirked at me and that fishy smirk wasn't pleasant…
"I think the strongest energy beasts are the eight original divine beasts but I don't know much about them so for this 'test', I would like to choose an evolved [Origin Dracoudines] that has adapted to demonic energy, aka catastrophe 3D6EMP."
"…oh?"
The teacher looked at his smirking face with a surprised expression as if she had just heard something she wasn't expecting here.
"That bastard…"
And he really was a fucking sonovabitch to bring something like that up in a petty dispute like this.
'But just the fact that he knows information like that shows he really isn't as simple as he looks.'
Still, he was a bastard, and his foolish actions… were enough to widen the smirk on our pretty teacher's face.
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