A Gift From a Far Away World (A Seven Knights Fan Fiction)

Round 2: Ordinary or Not So Ordinary Problem

At the end of the last lecture of the day, Kris was ready to bang his head on the desk surface. He knew that beside theoretical Physics, he had to get credits on Ethical Practice and Law program, but never had he once thought it could be as boringly exhausting as this.

True, all scientist needed to build some conscience and learn ethic so they wouldn't disregard human and animal rights in pursuing their goals; and sure, all their intelligence and capability should be used for good reasons and intention. But, you know the saying? A path to hell is mostly built on good intentions—thing?

Everything usually started on good purposes and motives, and yet circumstances and occasions every so often twisted them in so many ways that in the end, it just blew up in abuse and malpractice. All for the sake of changing something in life, whether it was in medical field or in physics law. The drive of humanity to do more and better (or worse) was just too overwhelming sometimes to be stopped, no matter what the cost was.

So of course, people like Kris Tenebra that always thought with his head more than with his heart, occasionally would misbehave, especially when there was something bigger and life-changing in front of him, waiting for him to do something about it.

Or, you know, Kris was probably just trying to justify his counterpart's doing in messing around with time and space continuum law, that it ended with their current situation. Despite knowing full well that such kind of experiment was unquestionably illegal to do without supervision or permission from the higher ups, or without any fail-safe plan as the backup, he still did it. How could he take responsibility for it if what he had done and happened to him happened to other people? Kris could be sanctioned because of this. Heck, Kris would have sanctioned himself if he were one of the higher ups.

Alas, the 'Ethical Practice and Law' was still definitely necessary, so no one as smart as Kris Tenebra would try to do something like he did in the first place. Kris needed to do something, seriously. He feared what would happen to the law of the universe if this went on too long. He could be the reason of the world ending here, and he definitely didn't want any world to end because of him, counterpart or not.

And Kris could absolutely not fail this particular program, damn it! Boringly exhausting wasn't a good enough excuse.

Successfully depressing himself a bit, Kris collected his textbook and notebook and put them inside his bag. He would just go home and start that dinner. Maybe Eileen had brought the grocery home...

...

Kris blinked when suddenly he was already outside his building, walking on the paved track to the exit of the campus to go home. "I wonder why I mostly didn't recall leaving the classroom..."

A bead of perspiration prickled out on his cheek. Kris should really stop doing something by instinct. He relied too much on body memory. At this rate he would seriously stop thinking himself as original Kris instead of his counterpart.

"Ah, Kris! Wait!"

Upon hearing that very familiar, enticing baritone voice, Kris stopped. He almost jumped actually, because it was Rudy and he was coming toward him and oh man, his heart wasn't prepared and—

What in the world, Kris! Stop behaving like a teenage girl having a crush, damn it!—Kris scolded his body inwardly for being so over-dramatically responsive to Rudy's presence again. Though, of course Kris couldn't help it. His body was young and his counterpart had such feeling for his best friend. It affected Kris as well personally, because liking it or not, Kris himself had that –not crush—complicated feeling toward his Rudy.