The Astral soul system-Chapter 135: The golden boy (2)

Zyro smiled sheepishly, quickly raising his hands in surrender as her oppressive aura went through him despite doing nothing.

"Wait wait wait. I can explain,let me explain please"

Aurora sized him up and sat down, pointing to a chair.

"You have five minutes"

(Five minutes later)

Aurora looked at Zyro suprised and honestly a bit skeptical.

"So there’s three of you in there?"

Zyro nodded.

"And how long has this been the case?"

"Since we were kids"

She started hitting a few buttons on her screen and an image of Zen suddenly came up with his details.

[Name: Zen]

[First year student]

[Vital status: Alive]

She suddenly looked at Zyro.

"Open up your stats.

Zyro did as she asked and something similar came out of his watch, identifying him with the name his body had registered with : Zen.

Aurora looked at the details blankly. Unlike most things, the student identification system used the students’ DNA ,so it couldn’t be hacked to show false data, and since the watch couldn’t be removed, this was at least Zen’s body sitting in front of her.

She stood up and walked over to Zyro, holding his face in her hand and looking into his eyes.

"So Zen and the other one,they can hear me?"

"Well...no. it’s a form of mental repression, they are still in here, just..."

"Locked away?"

Zyro nodded although a bit hesitantly

Aurora looked at the boy who was still sitting with a cheerful expression and suddenly sighed, covering her face with her hands.

Zyro tilted his head curiously.

"Is something wrong?"

"No. What’s your name? Or do you all go by Zen?"

Zyro got up to introduce himself

"I’m Zyro. Nice to meet you, teacher"

She stared blankly at Zyro for a few seconds. The difference in attitude between Zen and Zyro was so vast it could make someone’s head spin.

"Um... teach, we’re gonna be late. Shouldn’t we go to class now?"

"Yeah, sure"

Zyro got up and started heading for the door when he suddenly realized Aurora wasn’t coming. He looked back, confused and asked.

"You coming, teach?"

"Yeah, just go ahead without me"

She said waving him off, seemingly deep in thought.

The second he left, Aurora tapped a button on her desk and the hologram of Gemma appeared in front of her.

"Search any and all information on all possible sites. Look for the keywords, Zen, Zyro,gold eye,red eye and black eye. Also look up eye mutation,eye of terror, nightmares, basically anything that sounds demonic in relation to a mutated right eye"

Gemma was a bit stunned at the sudden command but answered professionally.

"Would you like to use your -"

"Yes. Use my full authority level to search anywhere and everywhere "

"Understand, making use of Penta-Black diamond rank clearance. It will take some time "

"I’m patient "

Gemma nodded and her hologram disappeared as she immediately got to work.

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Zyro found the club Zen had picked and he was actually pretty satisfied. Surely something like mecha piloting or space travel would have seemed cooler but he still enjoyed the charm of using fists especially since beast weapons were so popular, and he felt like his counterparts could agree. Plus,he could already fly a spaceship and pilot a mecha decently well already even if he never got his license so he wasn’t very interested.

Zyro tried to see if he could find the same sweet smell and find Sable but instead of finding her, the first person he saw was Jade who ended up bumping into him by pure accident.

"Oh,hey,Jade"

"Um...hi...Um..."

"Zyro, but you can call me what you want"

Jade still seemed a bit uncomfortable, causing him to feel a bit awkward. He was too use to weird things happening to him, besides, Zen and Zaine were just having a little argument. Once they cooled off, or once Zaine cooled off, he’d release them both.

"Don’t worry,i don’t bite. And Zen’s perfectly safe too"

Zyro said, pointing to his head

"Just in a little time out "

Jade didn’t know how to feel about that, she didn’t even know how it was possible for three people to share a body, but here Zyro was, standing in front of her as living proof

"So, do you wanna spar or something?" Zyro said, pointing to an empty ring.

Jade looked like she was about to respond when Aurora suddenly came into the class, and seeing her,all her students got in line, the ones who were chatting immediately pretending to be busy.

"Zen, with me ’

Aurora said, making sure to use the name people knew him by.

Although confused, Zyro went to her, waving to Jade as he did.

Aurora pointed Zyro to one of the rings and obediently he walked to it, getting inside.

"Right. New rules, once you win a fight,you have to defend it,back to back battles until you lose, and that applies to everybody"

The class was a bit shook when they heard that declaration but Zyro’s looked like he hadn’t heard it at all or understood what it meant as he kept the same smile on his face.

Almost immediately,someone had challenged him, walking into the ring confidently.

"Get ready to be sent on your ass"

They tried taunting Zyro but he didn’t reply and just got ready.

(Five minutes later)

The unfortunate boy fell to his knees, breathing heavily but Zyro was still standing, looking like he’d just gotten started.

"Are you okay?" Zyro asked, genuinely concerned but the boy seemed too busy catching his breath to even answer properly as he was carried out of the ring after Zyro helped him up. The strangest thing was that other than a few hits, the boy looked like Zyro hadn’t even touched him.

The same thing repeated for the next two matches and Zyro was still standing energetically, looking unscathed.

His next opponent was a girl and Freya in his mind suddenly said "oh,no."

"What’s wrong?" Lilith asked but Freya just said she’d see

The fight started and just like with the other opponents, Zyro mainly dodged around while giving weak hits when he got the chance. The fight went on for a few minutes and ended around the same time as his previous fights.

The girl was breathing heavily and about to collapse when Zyro quickly grabbed her waist and arm, holding her up. He’d done the exact same thing in his previous fights so this wasn’t out of character.

He looked her in the eye and asked "Are you okay?"

"Shut the f..."

The girl looked up, meeting his gaze and the words seemed to get stuck in her mouth as she looked up into his heterochromic eyes,her mind going blank as he smiled at her warmly. The little control she seemed to have over her feet disappeared instantly and he ended up having to pull her in an embrace with both his hands but she still didn’t look away from his face.

"You must be really exhausted. Don’t worry, I’ll help"

Zyro said before lifting the girl in a princess carry and taking her out of the stadium.

Everyone stared dumbfounded as the girl basically became limp and completely compliant as he carried her to the edge before returning to the ring

Lilith was about to say something when Freya said

"Just watch"

Everyone had originally made fun of the girl, thinking she was just that mentally weak but the next few battles instead had everyone dumbfounded.

"Fifty points in charm"

Theia said, struggling to keep in a laugh.

Lilith herself was a bit suprised but she felt it made more sense when she remembered that literally eighty percent of Zen’s class basically fawned over him already but his cold demeanor kept them back , Zyro on the other hand was as warm and welcoming as the sun, his positivity acting like an actual aura surrounding him.

"It’s not just that" Freya said sighing .

"Where Zen would have looked at someone and made them feel fear, Zyro for some reason just makes people feel free of their inhibitions and just... happier. I honestly don’t know what’s more shocking,the fact that it works on almost anybody,or that he still hasn’t figured it out?"

Lilith smiled thoughtfully

"His charm is on the level of a high ranking vampire,it would be a waste not to hone such a useful weapon. Unless something changed,i know a large settlement of succubi hiding out on a nearby planet that wouldn’t mind taking him in as an apprentice"

Theia suddenly appeared in front of them, revealing she didn’t need her host to be here for her to access it.

"Really? Where? Give me the coordinates "

Meanwhile on the outside the situation had gotten ridiculous, because for some reason not even the guys could look into Zyro’s eyes without being forced to review their life choices...on their knees of course.

After a few more fights, everyone had basically given up,no one could beat him without using abilities, and the most embarrassing things about these fights were that it looked like Zyro was consciously trying to avoid hurting his opponents, literally no one had managed to touch him yet,he just kept dodging and hitting with little strikes,most infuriating was that he actually took what Aurora said to heart and started giving pointers to his opponents, pointing out their mistakes with the precision of a hawk, pointing out a flaw in someone’s footwork or the way they threw their punches. Weren’t they all supposed to be learning here? Why did it seem like Zyro was a second teacher ?

Zyro was just about to start the next match when he suddenly felt a familiar smell.

"Sable"

"oh no"

Zyro was suprised by Lilith’s words but the second he actually saw Sable he understood.

He didn’t realize her accepting her vampiric heritage would cause such a change

Her legs moved gracefully as she approached the ring,her hair that seems to have grown overnight, blowing in the wind and glimmering in the light like in a movie scene. Her pale white skin looked like it was literally glowing as she confidently moved around,heads turning wherever she went . Her oval face looked up at him,a strange light in her eyes.

"This is so not good "

Literally everyone had turned to look at Sable now and literally no one recognized her as murmuring erupted everywhere

"Did a supermodel decided to join our class?"

"Am I going crazy or is she literally glowing?"

"First that Zen guy and now this?!"

"That does it. I’m going to stop lying to myself and just accept the facts, I’m ugly!"

"Zyro, do something "

Thinking quick, Zyro quickly dashed out of the stadium and took Sable by the hand, running out of the class.

Once they were far away enough he suddenly stopped.

"Why did you do that?" Sable asked curiously, seemingly not aware of how she looked.

At this point Zyro was considering just telling her but Lilith stopped him.

"Don’t"

"Why not?"

"There’s no time to explain, just don’t tell her"

Zyro was confused. If he couldn’t tell her, what could he do,ask her to wear a mask?

"Um...do you feel different lately?"

Sable shook her head

"Other than the... blood thing, nothing out of the ordinary"

Before Zyro could say anything, she asked him a question.

"Hey...is there something on my face?"

"Huh?"

"For some reason people just kept staring at me the whole way here, it was really uncomfortable. And I was in such a rush because I overslept i couldn’t even focus on freshening up this morning.

"Oh trust me, you look good enough already. No need to change anything, you’re just...you"

"Right? Nothing’s ever going to change about me, and I’m still the same person SO THEY CAN JUST STOP TRYING TO..."

Sable suddenly stopped realizing she was talking about something entirely different.

"...Sorry, that was personal baggage"

Zyro looked at her shocked, not because of her little tantrum, but because the moment she had verbally confirmed that she was the same,her eyes glowed red and she suddenly started reverting back to how she looked before. That didn’t mean she wasn’t still beautiful, in terms of appearance, she went from a solid 20/10 to a respectable 8/10.

"What are you looking at?"

"Her body has started to adapt to the transformation even though her mind doesn’t know it. It seems she’s acquiring all these skills slowly even without her knowledge. It’s honestly best she never uses this "

Not bothering to ask why, Zyro lied , saying nothing was wrong despite feeling bad about it a bit.

He was wondering how he and Sable would go back to class and explain when he suddenly got a text from Aurora.

<Don’t come back>

<For the rest of the week>