The Second Hand of Time

CHAPTER NINE WE PICKED A FIGHT WITH CLASS A

The week after that passed on smoothly. We only meet the elites only on Tuesdays and Thursdays so I can rest after classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

After the second meeting of the elites last Thursday, I sent Laelia and Janus safely outside the campus, ensuring their safety. The one who needs more guidance is Laelia, because she is quite famous, and when she passes by, the boy's necks break just to follow her on their sight.

I never saw those who ambushed me last Tuesday anymore. They didn't return to avenge themselves and I can pass by safely on my favorite route.

Still, the class A elites act cold towards me, and I can't blame them. They feel insecure since I belong to the last section, and yet I have the first seat.

I've gotten pretty close to other elites, like Miss Jillian Henrietta, because her family is the one who made my rapier.

I talked to her friend Erika Kurashima too. Though she can't speak properly in complete sentences, I'm pretty sure she is a good person.

Speaking of cold elites, the seventh-seat celebrity Crowley Fields and I had some kind of misunderstanding.

He thought I was dating Laelia since he heard me ask her to take her out. Fortunately, Janus came to clear that misunderstanding.

Crowley is quite mad after hearing that I have never even heard one of his songs.

"What?" He said, quite loudly. "You never heard of my songs?!"

"Yeah, sorry." I said. "I'm not quite interested."

His face turned into something scarier and quite creepy for a celebrity. He kept on bugging me for the reason why I never heard of his songs, and Laelia's.

"It's because I don't listen to new music!" I reasoned.

"Dude, you gotta level up! The age of the pop music is the best! Grow up dude!"

"Whatever, man." I said.

He stopped bugging me after that, even if he was unsatisfied with my answer.

The guy Robbie Warren is the silent type, and even though he never talked with me or against me, I feel like he hates my guts just by the way he looks at me.

The only one that I could talk properly from the elites is Athena Vanistella from the tenth seat. She said she has no interest in the incoming battleground fights, and she told me she is much more excited with the Combat Arts Battle Royal.

I asked her if there is already a class that picked a fight with Class A. I asked her since she is the only one who gives a straight, and non-sarcastic answer.

"No class has filed a battleground match against us just yet. But I'm pretty sure Class F has some bad relationship with our class?" She said in a cool voice.

"So, um," I tried to find the right words because her appearance is quite unsettling, I mean, in a good way, like because of her beauty. "Uh, is Class A planning to fight any class?"

"I think, not. If there is, maybe it is you." She said in low but cold voice. She grabbed my hands and opened my palms. I was aware of Laelia and Jillian eyeing me from a distance. "Our class heard a lot of bad rumors about you, and I believe that they will accept your challenge anytime, if you wish."

I grabbed my hands back quickly and thanked her.

"Farewell then." She said.

The day after that is Friday, and we just had a regular class. In the afternoon, there was a club selection at the lobby. The clubs were like, Knights Club—for all those who want to enrich their tanking abilities and get every attention! And something like, Smite Club—a club made especially to those who enjoy vanquishing monsters in the school dungeons!