My Hermes System

34 - Baby Gryphons

After Van's Unique Class abruptly ended due to the appearance of one Victoria Gates, Chad and Fred quickly bid farewell to him, riding off on some sort of giant lizard as they returned to their dorms.

Guess it's also time for him to go home as well. And so, with a sigh, he activated his skills and started moving his feet, leaving a trail of smoke in front of the Unique Class-1. However, before he could even pass the gates, he quickly slowed down, almost trotting in the process.

"You guys?", Van could not help but blink his eyes a couple of times. Harvey and Beatrice were in front of the Academy's gigantic gates.

"Eek!", Harvey shrieked and jumped in shock into the air as Van seemingly popped up out of nowhere, almost reaching the top of the gates' pillars.

"Are you two going somewhere?", Van asked.

"Yeah", Beatrice fixed her glasses, "To your house, where else?"

"What?", Van raised his eyebrows in confusion. They were waiting for him? Van knew they haven't been waiting for that long, but that was only because his extracurricular class ended too early. If it didn't, would that mean they would be waiting for him in the gates for more than an hour?

"Of course", Harvey cleared his throat as he composed himself, "We have nothing to do after school but to go to your house", Harvey shrugged his shoulders.

"Hm", Beatrice nodded in agreement, "You can't skip your lessons just because you have extracurricular classes for the day"

"I see", Van slightly looked down, a hint of a smile slowly growing on his face.

"Shall we go then?"

The three then proceeded to walk to Van's house. But once they were in front of Van's house, the three could not help but look at each other as they felt someone following them all the way here ever since they left the Academy. Van couldn't help but sigh in frustration as he activated his skills.

He then ran all the way behind the one that was following them.

"What're you doing, miss Gemma?"

"Kya!"

Gemma almost choked the pillar she was hiding behind when she felt someone tap on her shoulder. But as soon as she saw who it was, she cleared her throat and patted her uniform.

"I told you", she muttered, "I won't leave before I find out what happened to you in the arena"

"Van, is everything okay?"

Beatrice and Harvey quickly rushed towards them as they heard Gemma's shout. "This is?", Beatrice tilted her head as she looked at Gemma.

"Ah! You're the red-head we saw last week!", Harvey quickly pointed towards Gemma. He then squinted his eyes in suspicion, "...Are you stalking Van?"

"What!?", Gemma quickly waved her hand, "No!". She quickly denied. But in her mind, she was also starting to think that she might be stalking Van, but even so, she must know what happened in the name of justice, she thought.

"Fine", if Gemma followed him all the way here, then she probably won't stop until Van tells her something to satisfy her pursuit for the truth. And so, with a sigh, "...Come inside", he invited Gemma into his house.

***

"Something like that happened!?"

Van finally told the story of what happened to him when he visited the academy about half a month ago, how he went to the Academy to ask for help in unlocking his System, only to be led to an arena and be beaten by some student thugs.