1 How It All Started (1/2)

Spring, February 8th, Hokkaido 2071.

Cold sweat trickled down Kinoshita Ayumi's face as she watched the clock ticking away. Every second the time went by, Ayumi grew paler and paler until it was the shade of a paper. She felt nauseous when she thought about what would happen after this and she couldn't seem to stop herself from hyperventilating.

Her heart had been jumping unstoppably since this morning when she first opened her eyes. Her chest felt like it was ready to burst open in any given moment. She even seriously wondered how she hadn't got a heart-attack yet.

However, the fact was, it wasn't just her who woke up this way today. Several students in her class shared the same worry. If one stood in front of the class now, they would be able to see how dreadfully horrified these couple of students were.

One of them couldn't even hold it in and had threw up ten minutes ago, but despite feeling sick to the point of fainting, she strongly refused to visit the infirmary because right now for the people like them...

For omegas, the only safe havens for them were the classroom and the dormitory.

But even then, after the class ended in fifteen minutes, the classroom could no longer shelter them and the dormitory would only open at five O'clock in the evening.

In the end, those omegas, the lowest of the strata could only buy their time before they would eventually be hunted down.

”Hunting” was the term the people of Kyuten Gakuin used to refer to the activity where the higher ranks, Alpha or Beta, went after their target whom they had chosen beforehand during the cycle of moon every month.

What came after the hunting went smoothly was the ”Mating” where the hunters would be deemed legal to fuck their victims and robbed them of their aether even if the omega refused to submit to this intercourse activity.

This was what the students of Kyuten Gakuin called ”Hide and Seek”. The game that happened three times every month with different grades every single time before the cycle restarted again next month.

Kyuten Gakuin was the infamous academy located at a city in Hokkaido, Japan, called Noboribetsu. It was built by utilizing the geographical structure of Jigokudani, the Hell Valley, that was once known for its volcanic hot springs. But, presently the place was renowned for its pure aether thus it became a strategic location for the academy. The building of the academy itself was constructed by following the Edo-period style of architecture.

In this New Age, Kyuten Gakuin stood majestically as the number one Academy among the elites and especially those who were born gifted that landed them in the highest rank of the strata since birth.

However, before all of these came to existence, almost fifty years ago, it was the age of darkness for humans. At that time, everyone had thought that it was the beginning of the end.