Legendary Oops System-Chapter 31: Meeting With Rukun Malevolent 2
DRIIIIIIING!
The sound of ringing echoed, and a notification flashed from both their wrist watches.
[Next Class: Awakening Training Simulants]
[Next 30 minutes from now.]
White’s brow furrowed at the sight of that.
If he wanted to get there, he needed twenty minutes of walking without being late.
"Someone seems concerned about being late."
Rukun said, noticing him seriously eyeing the time frame.
"Unfortunately, Rukun. I value my reputation as a good student in the academy. So yes, I don’t want to be late."
"It was fun catching up. See you around."
He said, rising to his feet, his hands reaching for his trousers and lightly lowering the belt before he moved, bouncing down to the exit.
Rukun didn’t try to stop him.
Instead, he kept his gaze on him, watching as he mixed in with the rest of the students and soon disappeared out of view.
His grin remained for a while, but after he was gone, it quietly disappeared, his face settling into a neutral expression.
"It didn’t work on him. The class’s teaching didn’t work on him."
Rukun mused quietly to himself.
"They had been taught if they wanted a man to feel the greatest pain, it wasn’t to deal him pain directly, but instead to go after the ones he loved and deal them pain."
He had thought with how White defended the girl the other day, he must have loved her, yet seeing how unfazed the guy was—
One thing was obviously clear.
There was no love, not even any sense of partnership.
"It’s the first time there has been a little misjudgment in my calculation in 5 years now."
Rukun mused, his teeth unconsciously clenching hard in anger of his failure, but that lasted only for one second before his evil grin widened.
"Oh, someone that can make me remind myself once more of failure."
"Finally someone interesting."
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[So much for judging by actions.]
The system panel flashed as White took one of his seats in the dimly lit classroom, reclining on the seat with his eyes closed.
But even though his eyes were closed, the golden panel was as clear as day.
[Are you teasing me?]
He asked in thought, and it replied.
[Actually, I’m mocking you.]
It admitted.
[He went after Nova yesterday night. He sliced her leg and her hands, and left her to bleed out on the cold street. And all you did on hearing that was... compliment your time with him?]
The system asked, obvious disgust and disdain even in the written text.
White giggled to that.
’And here I thought someone was all-knowing. Glad to see you’re not so divinely smart after all, even though you can read my mind.’
[I read your mind. There’s no guilt on hearing what he said. You felt nothing.]
The system panel flashed, and White nodded.
’I truly didn’t. Let me explain to you what you’re missing.’
’See, Rukun isn’t after Nova. He was once interested in her, wanted to kill her off, but only after she was a disappointment to him.’
’I took Nova from him. I saved the one he wanted to kill. And naturally, that switched his target onto me.’
’Slicing off her arms and legs—that’s not meant for her to feel pain. He doesn’t want her pain. He wants mine.’
’You know there’s a law back in the United Federation. The best way to a man is through the people he loves. If he wants to make me feel pain, he attacks Nova, because he feels since I saved her life, I must love her in some way.’
[Even if you don’t love her, that doesn’t change what you said to her. Doesn’t change you both fought together for three days. You were supposed to react, but you did nothing.]
"I would have caused her more danger if I had reacted."
He said simply, before his eyes opened, staring forward at the front.
There, a blue gate had appeared on the podium, and it quietly opened up as someone stepped out.
It was another female instructor, with long pink hair that actually spread down to the ground beneath her, though there was no ground as it was hovering in the air.
Her pink eyes eyed them all, and a weird sensation filled White as he felt as if she was standing before him and looking right at him.
[How would reacting have caused her more danger?]
The system panel flashed, bringing him out of the reaction.
’Because reacting would have shown she is my weakness. Even if I beat up Rukun, he will heal, then go after her and deal her damage, hurting her more.’
’Without reacting, he must now think I have nothing for Nova, and hurting her is not the way to make me feel pain. Guess what he’ll do to her now.’
He asked in return.
[He’ll lose all interest in Nova.]
’Exactly. I helped her from getting within our crossfire. Now if you don’t mind, I’ve got a class to attend.’
The panel flashed, and White was finally able to focus, though his face changed massively when he looked before him.
She was before him.
The instructor.
She was less than an inch before him, her bubbly pink eyes looking right into his.
"What is it in you?"
She asked, and White flinched.
"What?"
"You didn’t fall into the slumber like the rest."
She claimed, and White’s eyes turned around him.
There... was a bizarre scene.
All of the students were on their feet, but their necks were slumped down as they all remained motionless.
"Your confusion was that of clearly talking with another soul. You weren’t talking to someone by your side, meaning whoever you’re communicating with is in your mind."
"And their consciousness is so real, they are almost like you, as if capable of independent life."
"What is it in you?"
She asked with such alarming clarity that White’s heart almost escaped his ribs, but then the panel blinked once more.
"She must think I’m an alter ego of yours. Don’t worry. I won’t be discovered unless I want to."
It flashed, and White replied.
"Just an alter ego. I’m sorry."
He said, and she hummed before both her hands reached out.
He flinched cautiously, but paused, and her hands gently held the side of his face. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
"I’ll pull you into the same slumber as the rest. Don’t resist..."
