Vol 4 Chapter 5 (2/2)

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“Where’s Dark Sun?”

Elian’s face was deathly pale. Right now, it was time for the third lesson, but there was still no trace of Dark Sun. Because of this, the princ.i.p.al had bombarded him with questions for one whole hour. The princ.i.p.al’s rage, however, was not quite enough to frighten him. Right now, what he was truly afraid of had absolutely nothing to do with his onslaught.

With a loud ‘bang,’ the princ.i.p.al’s door was suddenly kicked open. Both he and Elian turned at the sound, and the first thing they saw was Eloise’s foot.

After kicking the door open, Eloise dashed in energetically. Behind her, Eli sauntered in at his usual pace. The former immediately started yelling, “I can’t find Da…Dark Sun!” She received a sharp pinch from Eli and managed to change her words in time.

Eli unhurriedly explained, “When I called his house, his father said that he left home early to head for school.”

“This is so frustrating!”

Antonias suddenly roared, giving the three students a fright. He angrily rounded on the nearest student, spraying him with saliva as he bellowed, “It’s a good thing that singing fellow is also late. Otherwise, how am I supposed to deliver a bodyguard to him? If you have a plan, then say it! Elian, where the h.e.l.l is Dark Sun?”

Elian made a bitter face. How would he know?

This was bad. Originally, he hoped that the reason Dar wasn’t here was because he was at home doing a body check-up, brain scan, or something along that line. However, Eli’s words had utterly destroyed his hopes.

Dar was really missing.

This shocked, worried, and scared Elian all at the same time. He was shocked that Dar had actually gone missing, worried as to where he had gone and whether something bad had happened to him. He was afraid of… certainly, of the Solaris Emperor’s reaction.

Compared to the Solaris Emperor’s frozen glacier face, the princ.i.p.al’s saliva seemed like a light rain from heaven.

“Find Dark Sun and bring him to me! Right now! Immediately! This instant!”

The ghostly wailing intensified many times over, and the three students simultaneously covered their ears.

At that moment, the sound of someone knocking on the door rang out. However, the door had long since been kicked to one side by Eloise, so that person had only been knocking on the wooden door out of politeness.

Everyone turned their heads towards the door at the same time.

“Da-Dark Sun!” The three students had called ‘Da’ in unison, and then shut their mouths, and called him Dark Sun instead.

Once Antonias saw him, he went completely berserk, yelling, “Where have you been? Don’t you know that today is your first day of work?”

Dark Sun just replied in a flat tone, “To send off a little bird.”

Hearing that, Antonias looked towards Elian expressionlessly. The look plainly asked him to translate for him. Elian looked toward Eli by reflex, for mind-reading was his forte.

Eli fell silent for a moment, and then he glanced at him rather dispa.s.sionately. He said, “I cannot read Dark Sun’s heart, as you should know.”

Elian went quiet, and then he hesitantly interpreted this for the princ.i.p.al. “Maybe he had a pet bird, and this morning, that bird unfortunately…”

“Oh, is that so?” Princ.i.p.al Antonias frowned. This was considered pardonable. Who knew this icy extraterrestrial student was a bird-lover? That he was willing to come to work even though his bird had died was commendable. After all, it wasn’t very polite to trouble others like this.

Did Dar have a pet bird? Eloise and Eli, who had visited Dar’s house countless times, tried their best to control themselves from revealing any looks of suspicion.

Elian nodded his head vigorously. Whether the story was true or not didn’t matter. What was most important was that Dar was back, the princ.i.p.al believed it, and the Solaris Emperor’s face also wouldn’t freeze over!

“Fine, in any case, thankfully that fellow Lance is also late, so nothing major happened.”

This was also the reason why Antonias so generously forgave Dark Sun. However, he seemed to have lingering fears as he added, “Just wait here for Lance to come, and then follow him to Cla.s.s A for lessons together.”

Hearing that, Elian asked in doubt, “With Lance’s strength…”

“Of course he wouldn’t be able to get into Cla.s.s A.”

Antonias replied without any intention of hiding things. “That fellow’s fighting ability is good for show, but not practical. If he were to come in and take the exam normally, I would have to consider carefully whether to let him into Cla.s.s C or not.

Hearing the princ.i.p.al’s answer, Elian pondered over it for a moment, finally coming to an understanding.

“The students in Cla.s.s A will be able to help protect Lance?”

Antonias clapped once, and then said with certainty, “That’s right, that’s how it is. If it wasn’t for the fact that the Elite Combat Section has never had lessons, and a curriculum arranged at the last minute would definitely expose us, I had even considered letting him into the Elite Combat Section for lessons. That way he would have had thirty or more bodyguards so strong they are like aliens.”

P-Princ.i.p.al, don’t say that the students are like aliens right in front of their faces… Elian forced a smile. At the very least, he comforted himself with the knowledge that he was still an earthling, born and bred.

“Right, Elian, I have already arranged the spot where you and Sin will be lying in wait. It’s right next to Cla.s.s A.”

“Me…and Sin?” Elian responded with some difficulty.

“Cla.s.s B is next to Cla.s.s A, right?” Eloise interrupted to ask. Recently, for the sake of watching Dar, she had often run to the cla.s.sroom where the normal cla.s.s held lessons, and hence she was extremely familiar with it.

Antonias said expressionlessly, “Your news has become outdated. Starting from now, beside Cla.s.s A will be Elian’s and Sin’s own private cla.s.sroom.”

“Oh!” Eloise’s eyes shone, and she asked in antic.i.p.ation, “Can I go sneak a peek?”

“If you want to go and be the third and fourth wheel, both you and Eli are free to do so,” Antonias answered approvingly. “As long as you all remember to help out when Lance is in danger.”

Eloise replied enthusiastically, “Relax, we will only be looking on secretly from the wings. We wouldn’t go in and be a third or fourth wheel. We aren’t that insensitive, right? Right, Eli?”

Eloise nudged her companions with her elbow, and Eli gave Elian a look of sympathy.

Elian raised both of his hands up high, as he looked towards the sk...the ceiling.

G.o.d! To have to work together with a seriously dangerous guy, and that wasn’t even the worst part of it! The worst thing was, peeking in on them from the sidelines would be a girl, a girl with an excited gaze...

“My apologies, I am late…oh! What exactly has happened to this pitiful door?”

Everyone turned around to look and saw Lance standing at the entrance, looking over the slanted door. He was wearing a student uniform that had been ironed until it was pencil straight, and he was even carrying an equally new school bag in his hands. As expected, he really did look like a student, except…

His school uniform was white as snow. However, the YeLan Academy’s uniform had always been blue and black.

Antonias looked at the snowy-white clothes blankly. Combat uniform? More like a model’s outfit!

This kind of sparkling white clothing, whether going on a date, appearing on stage in a fas.h.i.+on show, or even attending a upper cla.s.s ball––it still wouldn’t be disrespectful, but...it was simply unsuitable for combat.

Antonias threw away his pride, wanting to put on a smiling face to flatter him, but realized that it was really too difficult. He could only switch to show a princ.i.p.al’s dignity, as he coolly said, “So you made it. That’s good. Let Elian show you two to the cla.s.sroom.”

Hearing that, Lance only nodded his head, and then all of his interest and attention went to Dark Sun. He gave a slight smile at Dark Sun, saying, “I have made you wait for a while, sorry about that!”

Dark Sun only nodded his head, and gave no reply.

“Then, shall we work hard and study together?” Lance extended a hand in his overly friendly way.

Dark Sun didn’t take his hand.

The atmosphere became a little awkward in that moment. Elian promptly smoothed things over by reminding them, “Let me take you all to the cla.s.sroom! Otherwise if we wait too long, cla.s.s will have finished already!”

Hearing that, Lance withdrew his hand with a slight smile, and his expression was very natural, as though he had already shaken hands and was now pulling back.

“Then we’ll be going ahead first, Princ.i.p.al.”

Elian quickly turned around to bid the princ.i.p.al farewell, and then he led the two out of the princ.i.p.al’s office.

As they were leaving, Lance’s pa.s.sionate inquiry could be faintly heard. “Dark Sun, how old are you this year?”

There was silence for a few moments, but instead it was Elian’s voice that spoke, “Dark Sun is sixteen.”

“Wow, you’re so young! You’re even younger than I had thought…”

At this moment, within the princ.i.p.al’s office, Antonias suddenly turned around to ask the remaining two students, “Dark Sun is sixteen?”

Eloise and Eli both nodded their heads.

Antonias held his face blank as he asked, “Then did he start learning martial arts in the womb, and so trained for a total of seventeen years?”

“He started when he was seven.”  Eli had remembered it very clearly. Daren Solaris had said before that he was around seven years old when the modifications on him were started.

“Only started when he was seven? He has only trained for about ten years, and he’s already so strong that he doesn’t seem human anymore?” Antonias’ face twitched, and then he shouted loudly, “Aliens, as expected, they’re all aliens! The two of you, go and follow them back to Mars!”

Hearing that, Eli silently walked towards the entrance, and Eloise followed him in a hurry.

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Daren Solaris had a taut expression, pretending to wear Dark Sun’s heartless look. Though he felt pity for El, who had been working very hard to help smooth things over by talking, he still didn’t want to return to being Dar.

On one hand, Daren really didn’t like Lance, even if he himself didn’t understand why. Lance always seemed to present himself as a nice person, but everytime he spoke, it made Daren feel…as though he had been as though a knife was going in his back.

On the other hand, it was because of the actions of Elian and the trio and Ezart. Who asked them to listen to Gege and purposely ignore him?

Though he knew that Elian and the others weren’t exactly in the wrong, Daren still felt indescribably angry. Who asked them to listen to Gege? And Gege...Gege…

“Gege said, that in the future, I will be called Little Dar and not DSII. Dark Sun, you have to remember it, okay, don’t call me by the wrong name.”

Daren clenched his fists without realizing it. I hate Gege the most!

At this moment, Elian stopped in his footsteps, and turned around to tell the two, “We’re here. This is Cla.s.s A.”

“I’m very thankful to you, this cla.s.smate with a beautiful heart.” Lance gave him a gentle smile.

A beautiful heart… Elian silently gave a bitter laugh. He knocked on the cla.s.sroom door and then opened it. As he did so, he replied courteously, “No problem. I believe that the princ.i.p.al has already talked to Cla.s.s A, so you two can go in directly.”

Lance gave an elegant nod of his head, and then took the initiative to walk first into the cla.s.sroom. Once he stepped in, the whole cla.s.sroom became a sea of dead silence. Even the teacher forgot his lesson.

However, once Dark Sun had also walked in, the entire cla.s.sroom erupted into all kinds of noise, such as shouts, screams, and the sound of people falling off of their chairs. Every kind of shocked noise that one could possibly imagine echoed throughout the room.

Outside the cla.s.sroom, Elian smiled humorlessly. It was indeed something to be shocked about. To simultaneously see the most famous singer in the world as well as the most mysterious expert fighter in YeLan Academy, there simply wasn’t anything that could possibly be more shocking…other than having a gun put to your head by the one person at the top of the world, the Solaris Emperor.

At that thought, Elian gave a helpless sigh. He once again hoped sincerely that the Solaris Emperor wouldn’t find out that his most precious darling brother had actually become someone else’s bodyguard.

Elian stayed until the noise in the cla.s.sroom quietened down before he left. He walked to the cla.s.sroom next door. Once he opened the door of cla.s.s B, he saw that all the chairs had been pushed to the furthest wall and stacked up into a haphazard mountain. The desks had been arranged side by side, right in the middle of the cla.s.sroom. On top of them were piles of tidbits and biscuit packages strewn about. Sin was lying within this whole mess, using a newspaper to cover his face while he snored loudly, dead asleep.

Elian looked at this whole mess a little helplessly, and then took a deep breath and stepped into the cla.s.sroom…

“Who’s there? Don’t think that you can sneak attack me!”

Sin gave a loud roar and jumped up, causing the newspaper on his head to scatter pages everywhere.

“Elian,” Elian reported his own name.

Hearing that, Sin froze for a moment. After he stared at him, he confirmed that it was indeed Elian. With that, he promptly lay down again. While he covered himself with the newspaper again, he murmured, “Oh, it’s Elian! I have set up your position, it’s that chair by the blackboard. You just sit there, and then use the convenient peephole that the princ.i.p.al has drilled there to survey the situation..just like that. I’m going to sleep.”

He watched Sin finish speaking. As expected, once he lay down, he didn’t move even a bit. Elian felt a bit stunned, but still walked to the blackboard, grabbed the chair and sat on it. Once he sat down, the peephole was directly in front of him, not a inch to the left nor right.

He looked at that peephole, and then helplessly gave another sigh. With some difficulty, he tried to make himself feel less embarra.s.sed. “No matter how I look at it, I feel like I’m a pervert peeping on females.”

Thankfully, Dark Sun is male… Speaking of which, peeping on a male seems even more perverted? Elian thought, wondering whether he should laugh or cry.

Chapter 5 END

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