The Red Halo: Outset

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(y/n) wakes up in a cold sweat, confused about what had happened from yesterday. He looks around to see he was in his bed and in his room. He looks around to see if he still had the book from yesterday to only find nothing. He then looks at himself to see if anything has changed about him to see that he looks the same.

It must have been one big dream. (y/n) goes back to his bed as he thought his life would finally have changed just for it to only be a dream in his head. He was so desperate for power that he had a dream of getting it. Sadly it was just a dream. (y/n) went on his phone to see what today it is to see something horrifying.

52 days has pass

(y/n) looked at his phone in disbelief, did he somehow sleep through half of his summer break. How could he have done that?

(y/n): what? How? How can I sleep for that long?

(y/n) was very confused. He looked at his phone one more time to see if he was seeing it right. He thought maybe that his phone must have malfunctioned somehow and it is just showing him the wrong date. There's no way that he just slept through half of his summer break. Maybe he was just very stressed out. He thought he was going crazy because of all the pressure from school and from his bullies.

So he decided to go to his bathroom and take a nice hot bath to calm himself down. He goes to his bathroom, and makes a hot bath just for himself. He takes off his clothes and enters the bath. Once he was in, he started to feel a little bit comfortable. It felt really nice on his skin. How warm it is to him.

It was like someone was hugging him. Something he craved so much. Something that Selen used to give him, but now she is gone. No longer a part of his life. They say that you shouldn't be sad when something ends, but be happy because it happened. But he felt like it could have lasted forever, but he screwed it up, like usual. There was nothing he could do right, all he can do is nothing, like the worthless person he was.

"Worhtless!"

"Waste of space!"

"Loser!'

"Piece of shit!"

"Garbage!"

All those memories were appearing again, all at once. All the insults he had taken over his entire life. All the beatings he was given because he didn't have magic. All the punches and kicks he took because of something he had no control of. All the things the bullies had done to him, because he was weak and couldn't defend himself. How so many people have pushed him around like he was their punching bag. (y/n) started to breathe rapidly, he was doing his best to forget those bad memories, trying to remember good ones, but the only good memories were the one he had with Selen, but they don't feel like good memories anymore, they don't bring him joy like they used to do. He started to turn his head and body back and forth in the bathtub as he tried his best to stay as calm as he could.

In 52 days, he would need to go back to school, the place he doesn't feel safe at all, a place that feels more like hell than a school. He barleys learns anything there because he usually gets beaten then learns anything. He would need to go back there, where he'll be beaten again and there will be no one to help him. He barely survived being alone for half of the school year so who knows what would happen to him for the whole year. A whole year of highschool, by himself. With no one else with him.

(y/n) started to panic, he didn't want to go school, but he didn't want to live off his parents money for all of his life like a loser. He wanted to do something with his life but what can he do with it, he doesn't have any magic of any kind. What can he do, what will he do, what could he do.

While this was happening, his bathroom's lights were flickering on and off but he didn't pay any attention to them. (y/n) just didn't want to go back to his school.