How To Survive As A Villain

Meeting Enemy At The Narrow Bridge

Ren sneaked in with the help of the system. Following the virtual 3-D map, Ren walked towards the left wing.

He looked at the ground and searched the grass. He also took his shoes off and carefully inspected them.

However, there was not a single notification from the system. A clear indication that all his efforts were in vain. 

The cub, "..." Not every clue gets stuck on the shoe, okay!

Before Ren could drown in the sea of his disappointment, a few whispers made their way toward Ren's sensitive ears. 

The cub's fluffy ears twitched as it looked at Ren to see his next action. Ren wore his shoes back and stealthily made his way toward the source of the voices. The voices were coming from the virtual reality laboratory.

As he approached the open window, the murmur grew clearer and to his surprise, he found his academy rival, Terim, hunched over a virtual cabinet terminal. Not that Ren ever considered this person his rival. Dorion didn't think of him as his opponent either. 

Firstly, Dorion was entangled with his own problems. Secondly, Dorion never even noticed that Terim, the class leader, was targeting him.

It wasn't that Dorion was too dumb to understand. Rather, it was Terim's way of dealing with Dorion.

Terim is the son of an influential family, no less prominent than Xanders'. 

Due to his strict upbringing, even when Terim was angered by Dorion repeatedly surpassing him, all he did was speak harshly during class and ignore him. 

The introverted Dorion simply brushed off the harsh words and never suspected that the person who always gave him his personal space was angry with him. 

"I will make sure to learn everything in this chapter...." his hands moved swiftly across the controls, his expression a mixture of determination and anxiousness.

'Little god, this kid is too serious in studying. He ran here at the academy during the middle of the night to learn his subject.
Really, what a model student.' 

The system searched the relative data about the person Terim. In the original plot, Terim wasn't present at all. The cub could only read the general information about him present in his database. 

'Terim is the second child of the Polaris family. His elder sister is known as a genius of the century in mecha designing.

Growing up in an environment where he was constantly compared to a person ten years older than him left a shadow in his heart. Now, he tries to get first place in everything he does. All he wants is to make his parents proud. 

Looking at Dorion, who didn't want to show his picture at the 'honorary students window', made Terim furious. He has been trying his best to get that spot. 

Terim did get his picture there but as a second-rank holder.

Now, whenever he sees that picture, it makes him furious. To him, this looked like a charity. His picture was there only because others didn't want this place. He was slightly relieved thinking about the fact that Dorion was using expensive tutors and he, Terim wasn't. 

However, the recent incident left Dorion's financial situation an open secret. It means that Dorion must be doing a part-time job, managing the house and other such things along with studies. 

The rank-obsessed kid got even more infuriated at his own low capabilities, and hence, we are witnessing the scene where he came to the school to practice more.'