Chapter 64: A Secret to Remember (1/2)
”Sniff... Sniff...”
Sobbing and whimpering sounds rang out within Calvin's mind. The spirit of the Notebook of Secrets That Will Destroy Your Life had entered Calvin's glabella and was now crying his eyes out.
He officiated the recently concluded graduation ceremony.
Calvin could still remember the stern look of encouragement on his face as he ruffled the hairs of the children. Earlier, Calvin had admired the spirit for having a heart of steel. In fact, he had even doubted if the spirit could even feel sadness.
But at this moment, his theories collapsed.
The seriousness on the spirit's face earlier was nothing but a mere facade.
When the children disappeared to reincarnate, he rushed into Calvin's glabella and started bawling. Crying itself wasn't really a problem for Calvin, but his cries sounded obnoxious to the extent that Calvin couldn't help it anymore.
”Man, can you shut up? Just how old are you? To think that you could cry like a child!” Calvin commented.
”Shut up! That's the last thing that I want to hear from you, you cry-baby! Do you really think that I didn't know that you were crying in your sleep earlier? Hmmph! Crying from a nightmare...”
”What a joke!”
”What? Do you want mommy to sleep with you so the bad guys can't get you while you sleep?!”
The spirit retaliated with a sharp jab.
Calvin replied, ”At least, I wasn't whimpering like what you are doing right now!”
”Hah?!”
The spirit was infuriated and it threatened to leave Calvin's glabella so that it could send even a single punch right across Calvin's cheeky face.
But after its burst of anger, silence descended in the room.
A school without any students was without life.
Both the spirit and Calvin could feel that.
Letting out a sigh, Calvin suddenly asked the spirit, ”Are you the one that healed my left hand?”
”Yeah...” The spirit replied, ”Be grateful that I fixed that arm of yours! You really went too far this time! If not for the fact that I was there to save your arm in time, then you would've been forced to amputate it!”
Calvin nodded, ”Thanks.”
He felt grateful to the spirit.
He knew that he had indeed gone too far earlier. However, if he didn't use that Combat Art earlier, then the battle would've lasted longer and Calvin could've died before he could scratch those demons. What he did was a high risk, high-reward maneuver, and in the end, he got his rewards.
If he didn't kill those two on time, then he would've collapsed from blood loss.
He had sacrificed the blood on his left arm to the Goddess so that he could enhance his physical abilities after all.
The spirit may have prevented enough blood loss so that his left arm wouldn't die and be amputated but his right arm was still broken from using the Rozenstruik Empire's Hand-to-hand Combat Arts.
”Thankfully, everything went well...” Calvin lightly chuckled, ”Hey!”
Calvin suddenly raised his volume.
”What is it?” The spirit realized that Calvin was talking to him.
Well, there was no one in this school apart from him and Calvin.
”Can you tell me your name already?”
”Oh, my name?”
”Yeah... I need to have something that I can use to call you.”
”That makes sense, all right... Hmmm... Let me see... I guess you can call me Dandelion.”
”Dandelion? That's such a peculiar name for an ancient spirit. A flower? Is it your favorite flower?”
Calvin asked while he walked along the school corridors. He swept his gaze across the school.
Finally, he had some time to admire the scenery.
He was tense the whole time ever since he arrived at this school.
But now that everything was over, he could finally relax.
In fact, he even felt like whistling some tunes as he walked on the dark school corridor.
”What if it's my favorite flower? Is there something wrong?”
”Not really, there's nothing strange about it.”
”It's good that you understand.” The spirit lightly chuckled.
”So, should I call you Dandelion from now on?” Calvin asked once more.