Legends Academy: Emergence Syndrome

Epilogue

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Alucard PoV

After spending April wrestling with Emergence Syndrome, I spent May in relative peace. Or that's what I like to say.

Screaming my love from the center of the schoolyard had certainly changed things. I wasn't only known for the hospitalization incident anymore. The tag of 'cringey lover' was also labelled on me. Which soon changed into 'desperate SIMP' as I constantly proposed Miya everyday due to the promise I made.

Sun: "Yo! How's everything going pal?"

And with the rumours, I was approached by the guys of similar nature. Drinking and partying all night, with degeneracy and intense lust for women, they would be perfect definition of what simps really are. And the infuriating fact is, they think I am one of them.

Chou: "Want some beer to forget your sorrows? My treat!"

Seriously I wasn't rejected! Don't show me those eyes of brotherhoood, I am not like you guys!

Alucard: "Thanks for the offer, but I have some work to do. Later."

These guys doesn't seem of the type who will listen to what I say, so the only option for me is to ignore them as long a possible.

Zilong: "Sure! Let's party when you have time. And don't worry, there is one in million chance (it's impossible) that you're wish might come true. (In your dreams.)"

I hate this guy the most. Always mocking me between the lines. With that, they leave and I continue walking towards the campus library.

Inside, I met the two people who helped me during the invisibility case.

Gusion: "Man, your heart is sure made of solid steel! I would have died of shame! Hahaha!"

Yeah... just walking down the hall I am met by many glares from all direction, followed by the slow whispers and occasional snicker. Being at college was possibly more uncomfortable than ever.

Natalia: "You really are a rascal, Alucard."

Alucard: "What does that even mean?"

Natalia: "When those hospitalization rumors started, who was it who insisted, 'Fighting the atmosphere is pointless'?"

Gusion: "Ohhh, that was Alucard! I totally heard him say it!"

Yeah, I remember it too. And my opinion has still not changed.

Natalia: "You can't get serious about your own problems, but if it's for a beautiful actress, no shame is too great. I don't know a better word for that than rascal."

Alucard: "....."

I couldn't really think of a good comeback for that.

Gusion: "Haha, so you really are a simp."

Alucard: "I will tell your girlfriend about the clones-"

Gusion: "It was a joke! a joke! Don't get serious dude..."
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After Gusion had gone, I turned towards Natalia,

Alucard: "So Natalia, does that mean your hypothesis was correct?"

Natalia: "No idea. If Emergence Syndrome is defined by unstable teenage psyches and tricks played on the mind by powerful misconceptions, then scientific proof is of no use whatsoever."

Alucard: "I guess not..."

She was on right track though.

Miya had been acting like the air, so the student body had treated her like air. Since all those thought processes had been unconscious, the distinction between her and the air had vanished. It changed from metaphor to fact, becoming their reality. I was sure this was happening in other schools. Anywhere a lot of people gathered would start to develop an atmosphere of its own... In Miya's case, the silent understanding within the school had spread to the world at large via Emergence Syndrome. That was all it was.