BUTTERFLIES (Arc 2&3; The Undefeatable Class 192)

Chapter 89: Reunion (1)

  "Agh!" I suddenly jumped off my bed from my deep sleep, with a loud cry. My Meditation realm cultivation sent me this piercing instinct of being watched by several people, in my sleep. Who wouldn't get creeped out?

  Voices in the darkness shrieked. A boy muttered, "Seems she hasn't lagged off a bit. Her innate senses could rival ours!"

  The voice sounded familiar, but with my sleep disrupted, all I was thinking of was violence. Who was this fool that dared to scare me awake? And how many were they?

  "Eyes of Insight!" I exclaimed, causing the people in the room to move back abruptly. The way they moved back, I could tell their numbers was scary. White streaks of insight flashed across my eyes like I was a thunder god's daughter. Immediately, the dark room suddenly became illuminated in my vision.

  14 odd and familiar faces stared at me in incredulity.

  "Three, two, one, surprise!"

  They suddenly called in one accord. Who were these people? Do you even have to ask? These were the students of Class 192! My very classmates in the Tower of Cultivation!

  "What?!" I screamed aloud, involuntarily, in joy.

  That was not all the surprise. I could feel their auras much richer than it formerly was. In fact, that was the reason I hadn't noticed them immediately I woke up. It seems the indoor cultivation had really benefitted them a lot. It was not only me who had been making improvements. Still, there was more.

  From the darkness, Zhaohu said, "Hey, Steph, check this out. Mingming!"

  Mingming, the silver-haired maiden, grunted a response and spun around using her Silver Lining Speed. She spun around as though she was making a whirlwind or tornado. Her ability was the Silver Lining Speed. As she spun, heavy silver arrays spun around her as well.

  The whole class had already separated from her, but they didn't look surprise. They only had pride glinting off their eyes.

  Zhaohu stepped forward, towards Mingming and his hands suddenly began to move really quickly. It kept on moving at such a speed that it gave illusions of multiple hands in motion.

  "Ultimate Hands... absorb!" He cried at the top of his breath.

  Immediately, everyone noticed Mingming's speed reduce to about half its original speed, while those silver white arrays that spun around her suddenly started flowing into Zhaohu's fists. When this was over, Mingming stopped spinning around and smirked. Her eyes were fixed upon Zhaohu in a sort of manner I could not explain at the moment.

  Zhaohu tilted his head towards me. Even though everywhere was dark, they all understood that I could see them all with that streak of light in my eyes.

  He spread his arms and opened his fists.

  'Whoosh!' a blinding light spread out across the room and made it as bright as day, such that everyone could see themselves.

  "Ta-da!" exclaimed he.

  "Show off, humph!" Jessica shouted, giggling all the way into my arms, in no time. "Buddy! Welcome back! You need to know how much I've missed you—"

  "We've missed you."

  I looked at who just spoke, and to my surprise, it was Xueyi!

  "Who are you, and what have you done with my roommate?" I asked Xueyi in fear.

  Xueyi missed me? How was that even possible to begin with? Someone who, before I left, was a total kill-joy, since when did she become such a loving person?

  Everyone burst into laughter.

  Xueyi's face flushed red in embarrassment.

  "What do you mean by that? Are you trying to say I can't miss my roommate who's been gone for a month?"

  I laughed aloud and told them that I had missed them all. Being alone by oneself for one month was actually a torture. In truth, had I not beasts with intelligence around me, I would have died of boredom before that Shadow Clone teenager could even attempt to murder me.

  "It seems you've all improved in your relationships," I said some minutes after when we were all seated leg-crossed on the ground. We were chewing some meats Zhangkong had already prepared along. Weren't they the most caring classmates?

  "Indeed," said Jessica, speedily. She quickly looked from Zhaohu to Mingming, then from Xueyi to Jaded. Then she looked back into her meat in her hands and continued eating without another eye contact.