Chapter 102 - Miss Lisa (1/2)
After the lunch break, it was time for the fifth period. According to the schedule that Ryan got from Principal Li, fifth and sixth periods were assigned to Miss Lisa, the painting teacher.
Everyone was curious to see the teacher about whom Dr. Fin was praising. The bell rang as scheduled and she entered the class just in time. Everyone in the class stood up and wished good afternoon to the new teacher and sat back in their seats.
The new teacher was an ice beauty, no smile was visible on her face. Her skin was as white as snow. Ryan was getting a chilly feeling just by seeing into her eye. This was not an oppressive feeling nor an intimidating feeling, it was something that he was unable to explain in words. It was a feeling of nothingness that he had felt earlier.
She took the pointer stick from the table and wrote something on the board.
”ETERNALITY OF SPACE”
Everybody read the words on the screen and showed a confused expression on their face. Ryan was the only one who didn't think too much about it and raised his hands to ask a question.
Miss Lisa agreed and let him ask his question.
”Miss, what do you want us to do with that?”
”You asked the right question,” replied Miss Lisa in a monotonous voice and passed him a sheet of white paper. ”This is a specially designed paper made with the combination of technology and cultivation elements. You have to pass some of your mental energy into it, after that it will be connected to your ICO.”
”ICO?!! What's that?!!” asked Ryan.
”Imagination Circuit Output, the name justifies what it does. Don't ask any further questions and start your imagination. Whatever you think it will be drawn in this white paper. And I want you all to imagine the theme ETERNALITY OF SPACE. Is it clear?” asked Miss Lisa and handed over the sheets to everyone.
Seeing the footage from the Principal's room, everyone in the room sighed in stress. Chairwoman Linda had already returned from his brother's place and was on her way to the office when Principal Li called her and asked her opinions on what to do with Miss Lisa.
Few months back there was an international Imaginative Painting Competition and the theme was INFINITE ETERNALITY. And to be more accurate, it was not a competition but a request put on by a rich old man of a certain country. Before dying his wife's last word was INFINITE ETERNALITY, and before he dies he wanted to see this INFINITE ETERNALITY. AS he couldn't find a painter who could draw it for him, he invited all the famous painters of planet X27 Earth and asked them to draw the same topic for him.
Miss Lisa understood what the old man's wife wanted to tell and derived her own version of meaning in the form ETERNALITY OF SPACE, and to her surprise, it was a correct guess.
The old man's wife likes to see the stars of the night sky and before dying, she saw the last night sky of her life and blurted out this word. The old man dispersed all the other painters and asked Miss Lisa to draw the scenario using the ICO paper.
Miss Lisa too agreed on his offer and started working on it. But destiny was not on her side at that time. Even though she decoded the meaning of INFINITE ETERNALITY and derived the result ETERNALITY OF SPACE from it. She herself hadn't understood the profoundness and the depth of those words.
As a result, she ended up making something that became her internal demon and something that sucks in people's emotions.
Only two people were affected by that painting, one was Miss Lisa and the other was the old man who commissioned her for it. Before it affected someone else, higher-level cultivators sealed it and later destroyed it in the fire of Apocalypse.
The old man returned to normal but the creator herself didn't. Over the months starting from her behavior to skin color to mood everything about her changed. She became a completely different person and turned into the opposite of what she used to be.
Not only Ryan everyone was getting goosebumps just by seeing into her eyes, even though they were somewhat afraid they imagined the theme of ETERNALITY OF SPACE and submitted it to her. The bell rang, and she left the class. One of the students told her from behind that she still had another class, but she didn't listen to anything and rushed out of the class as soon as she got the submitted paper.
Just after a second of her rushing out a man in his 30s came and told everyone to let her be like that for now. Nagisa stood up at once and greeted this person a good afternoon.
Seeing her everyone stood up and greeted him the same. This person before them was their martial arts teacher. And Nagisa knew him very well because he was a student under her uncle.
”Ah.. Hello to everyone, I am your new martial arts teacher Robert Hyungie. Call me Robert sensei if you want or only sensei as you wish. From today onwards I will teach you all the ancient martial arts of the Hiragi family. Not all, but the ones approved by the Hiragi Family. If you have any doubts, feel free to ask.”
”Robert sensei I have a doubt,” said Ryan and raised his hand to ask a question.
”Okay, ask.”
”You said Hiragi family, then are you somehow related to Nagisa?!”
Nagisa ”...”
Robert ”...”