Vol 4 Chapter 2 (1/1)

Volume 4 Chapter 2 Lesson 2: Escape, aside from confrontation Translator: Irid, Proofreader: Arc, Catchkatch, Wryn “How is Dar’s condition?” Theodore asked as he attached electrodes to Ezart’s body “The sae temper tantrum this time,” Ezart replied as he reclined lazily “This tihed “Why do all of you like denying it soa temper tantrum All you have to do is coax hi will be fine!” Theodore laughed bitterly If only it was really that easy “As for you guys, leaving this thing that looks so ht?” Ezart scrutinised DS II This ‘thing’ is practically identical to Dar “That won’t be a problem; there’s no way you would confuse him with Dark Sun DS II is a clone He does not have a brain, so to speak, and his skull contains only computer chips, so he’s completely different from Dark Sun, whose foundation is human Even if one day DS II crashed suddenly and clais up,” Theodore flippantly replied “That’s not the problem…” Ezart scratched his head, unable to put the reason in words He just thought this situation see two Dars was already quite weird for Ezart; when Dar looked at hily strange! Ring ring… “Phone!” DS II called out Since he happened to be right next to the phone, he picked it up S happily, he said, “hello, this is the Solaris Residence DS II speaking” Devon’s face appeared on the telephone screen At first, when he saw Dar’s adorable s face, Devon’s heart leapt violently in as al that Theodore had finally succeeded in bringing Dar back… but after the next sentence, he realised that it was DS II He froze and his joy quickly faded Suddenly, his heart contracted painfully “Gege, you’re okay, right?” DS II’s eyes ide, his face full of concern Hearing the word ‘Gege’ only made Devon’s heartbreak worse, and he reached out a hand to turn off the telephone screen The sound of “Solaris Eh the phone That was Kyle’s voice, and his tone was extreht?” DS II asked worriedly, his eyes i “I’ain as he replied with these words His face was as white as a sheet, but his expression was still as haughty as usual He threw a glance to the side, saying coldly, “I don’t need to take any e, are you alright?” DS II tilted his head as he asked, eyes flushed red, expression pitiful Devon looked deeply into that face, and sighed “DS II, leave us for a bit and let me talk with Avery” “Okay” Theodore braced himself as he walked over to the telephone Devon did not bother to beat around the bush “How is Dar’s condition?” “Same as usual” After Theodore said this, he didn’t dare look at the screen to see how ugly Devon’s expression had beco ”Should I put you through to Dar?” At that moment, Theodore only wished to see less of the Solaris Emperor Devon lifted his head and had just opened his mouth when… “Solaris Emperor, it is time for your conference” Devon quieted, then said, “There’s no need to put h to Dar; I’ll return home in a bit anyway Is Ezart there? Just have hio to school together toht in the arena” Ezart replied without a hint of social grace “You’re not allowed to bring Dar with you to fight in the arena! It’s too dangerous!” Devon ranted furiously Ezart snorted “Even if I wanted to bring hily?” “Ezart!” Theodore hurriedly tried to interrupt his words Don’t remind the Solaris Emperor of Dar’s current condition… Devon was silent for ato attend the conference” And with that, he hung up “Can’t you even hold back fro two sentences?” Theodore almost sounded like Eloise when she wailed After a hed bitterly “You’re not afraid of hiave the doctor a contemptuous look As he tore off the electrodes from his body, he said, “Are you done with the checkup? I told you I’reat, but you still insist that I coue irritably “I’” “Wait a second!” Theodore howled “Just let me experiment for a bit!” “… Experiment?” “I mean, examine a bit” Theodore used his most innocent expression as he corrected hioodbye to that kid It’ll be troublesome if he sulks even more Ezart walked up to Dark Sun’s room on the second floor Dark Sun hadn’t closed his door, so Ezart saith a single glance that he was sitting at his desk On it was a half-finished gun and a huge pile of parts, but Dark Sun was notat the telephone on the wall Ezart scratched his head “Your brother is busy with s and said he would return later today,” he said “That’s why he didn’t request to be connected to you” Dark Sun turned his head, nodded, and then lowered his head and continuedfor the arena” Dark Sun lifted his head and stated one sentence, “See you touns once again Ezart looked Dark Sun up and down Is this guy acting strangely? Even though he has been behaving strangely these days, he seelate, he scratched his nose and disappeared in a flash Ezart was not long gone before Theodore hurriedly ran up to Dark Sun “Where’s Ezart? Has he left?” Dark Sun shi+fted his head, then turned back around, saying, “He left” Theodore lifted the object he was holding and said soot to take his backpack” “I’ll take it to him” Dark Sun stood up “Okay” Dark Sun took the backpack and walked out Theodore had originally planned to leave and continue perfor on the table sparkled and caught his eye He hesitated for aDark Sun shut the front door, Theodore sneakily stepped into the room and walked to the desk He looked towards the source of that brightness but found that it was only a few drops of water Drops of water?

982 water, 18 solid consisting of sodiunesium, chlorine, and other trace elements… consistent with huh he had collected the few drops of water for examination and had suspicions about what those drops were yet he was not entirely convinced it was possible This was because Dark Sun did not shed tears, not unless Theodore or Devon ordered him to shed tears Then ere there teardrops on Dark Sun’s desk? Dark Sun would not cry Does that mean that the emotion switch has been activated? Has Dark Sun reverted back to being Dar? But hoas that possible? Absolutely nothing had happened to trigger it Besides the two of them, no one had visited or spent tiht of Ezart’s words Dar is just throwing a teht about it Maybe… “Theodore, where’s Dar? Why isn’t he at hoh from the telephone Theodore looked towards the phone, which showed that it was actually a call froaped “Wh- why did you return so quickly? Didn’t you have a ?” Devon promptly bellowed, “I was so worried about Dar thatThere was no way I could hold a conference like that! Other than quickly returning to visit hi else I wanted to do! Where’s Dar?” “Ezart forgot his backpack earlier Dar went to deliver it He should be back soon” “I see” Devon nodded, his expression glooo take soested sincerely “I haven’t eaten anything If I take painkillers, et DS II to cook you soitated that he practically leapt up Turning to face Theodore, who looked on in shock, he explained somewhat tiredly “I don’t want to treat DS II as Dar anymore” “But I want you to treat him as Dar” Devon was stunned He lifted his head and looked at Theodore shrewdly The corners of Theodore’s lips curved slightly upwards “Regarding theDar, I have some ideas…” he said slowly

Dark Sun walked hohtly late because Ezart was not at the arena he usually frequented, but at another, causing Dark Sun to spend so He opened the front door, walked into the living roo to Dr Avery… “The noodles Dar cooks are the tastiest!” “Really? Then Gege should eat more” Dark Sun slowed to a halt He spotted Devon as soon as he walked into the living roo adorably, both of the hot noodles Devon was even attentively wiping a bit of soup that had dribbled down the corner of DS II’s mouth When Devon turned his head and noticed Dark Sun, he stared blankly for a bit before saying, as if startled, “Dar, you’re back” “Would you like to eat so “I’ll have Da- … DS II cook for you, all right? DS II?” At the last sentence, Devon turned his head, s at DS II “The noodles DS II cooks are really delicious,” he added DS II smiled happily “Froe,” he said “Great” Devon indulgently ruffled DS II’s hair, exactly like what he used to do with Dar Dark Sun was silent for aDr Avery supper” he declared Devon nodded indifferently “Ok” He continued eating his noodles, s with DS II Dark Sun sat on the couch and pressed the button to access the base towards Theodore’s laboratory After the sofa descended, Devon turned his head to look at the spot where Dark Sun had been e?” DS II revealed a doubtful expression “Bringto look at DS II “All right, Gege” DS II continued to s to retrieve the painkillers Devon requested

“Dar… what a surprise! You actually boughton a bowl of noodles He setically “I’m terribly sorry; DS II has already cooked sooodness he’s here, or else I would have starved to death! Why don’t you put the food over there? If I get hungry later, I’ll think about eating it” Dark Sun put down the uns!” Theodore dismissed Dark Sun with a wave and then lowered his head onceto eat noodles as he pored over a pile of experimental data Dark Sun nodded his head, turned away, and left When he sat down on the sofa and returned upstairs, Theodore put down his noodles and lifted his head to watch the underside of the ascending sofa with a concerned expression

In theas usual The unusual part was that one of the orders to his secretary, and the other was notcorpses Instead, they were chatting together in the laboratory “How is it?” “My heart is in greater tur about Dar” “It seereetto his roo him like this makes me miserable!” “Just take more painkillers! The end justifies the means If it means it will restore Dar, won’t the pain be worth it?” “Of course, but I’h, you’d better be careful or I’ll—” “—Blow my brains out, correct? I know, I know I have faith in the effectiveness ofand confess to Darlike that” “I won’t!” Avery’s doubtful expression struck Devon like a physical blow “I won’t, probably…”

In the , when the time came to head to school, Ezart did not make an appearance Dark Sun waited for 20 minutes, but Ezart still did not turn up After a while, Dark Sun reasoned that since Ezart had fought in the arena until late the previous night, perhaps he wouldn’t attend classes today So Dark Sun decided to head to school by himself As soon as he stepped into the classroom, Dark Sun automatically looked towards his own seat… and spotted Ezart already sitting at his own desk next to it, sleeping so deeply that he produced a symphony of snores Dark Sun’s footsteps slowed for a moment, but he still went to his own seat, and without disturbing Ezart’s nap, he simply opened his backpack and put the materials he needed for class on the desk Today the classroom was also extremely quiet All of the students were as well-behaved as they were yesterday On closer inspection, one could see their gazes continuously drifting towards the , but today the view outside theappeared to be as peaceful as the inside of the classroo the beginning of class The teacher stood at the doorway and poked his head in, sizing up the overall situation and deter whether or not to have class today The students today were as well-behaved as before, but there was no wailing female student at thethis ti ested carefully, “Let’s start class first and see how things play out; later we can decide whether or not to end class early Is that okay with everyone?” The students nodded simultaneously Most likely this was the first time they had ever shown this much respect to a teacher The teacher took out a textbook froht then, n-now let’s start the combat history class,” he declared “First let’s read some text Ac-actually I’ll just read it myself In year 2007…” Because Eloise was absent, it only took minutes before the students were unable to contain their i’ was not really in their vocabulary How could they be expected to remain well behaved for an entire class when there was no ier to their lives? All of the students seemed to have ants in their pants, and one by one they started to squirm At first they didn’t dare tonext to thes fro desk After threeas discounts for guns? You un Collect 10 and get a freebie, damn it!” “How dare you say that? What kind of price is this, huh? Are you an extortionist? You ht be faster!” “You’re right about that… Hey! I’ you now—take out your wallet!” “bastard, you think you’re the only one with a gun here?” The teacher hid behind the podiu class,” he said in a small voice And maybe it was because of the excessive strain fro before the classroom became even more chaotic The teacher did not dare toto avoid getting hit by a stray bullet Even though the entire classroom was in a state of utter chaos, the desks where Ezart and Daren sat were especially clean and tidy So clean that it seemed that even stray bullets would veer off course to avoid this danger zone Since the teacher wasn’t teaching the lesson anymore, Daren waited for a moment, then put down his pencil and took out the virtual lover game console from his backpack Only, he played without expression, as if playing it was just a kind of routine task and notclass Daren had previously been ridiculed when he played his Xiao Ai game console in front of other students, but they hadn’t dared to bully hi hihtening enough Actually, she wasthan Ezart At least Ezart did not publicly announce that he was protecting Daren, and, most of the time, he would probably be too lazy to care if Daren was only verbally attacked In contrast, Eloise had actually jumped onto the podium and announced that if even one hair on Daren’s head was hurt, then she would make them pay a heavy price As for Eloise’s recent actions, no one doubted her conviction It was as if she earing a sign saying ‘I just want to beat people up’ “This is an announcement from the Principal’s office Sorry to interrupt the students’ lessons Mr Dark Sun, Mr Dark Sun, please report to the Principal’s office as soon as possible” At this time, silence had fallen over the entire class The corners of their ether, Dark Sun? When did Dark Sun become a student? Wasn’t he ‘personnel unrelated to the school’? When Daren heard the announcement, he slowly lifted his head and pressed Xiao Ai’s off button After he put Xiao Ai back into his backpack, he lifted his bag, stood up, and walked out of the classroom He did not attract any attention from other people even as he did so In this class where class tihtest bit different, everyone had always coone as they pleased Only, in Daren’s immediate path, even stray bullets see to cross the minefield When Daren walked out of the classroo back Ezart was just in ti Daren Elian and the others noticed that Ezart ake and entered the classrooed to the class to flee They were even afraid to move inside a 10-meter radius around the classroo drawn into ould be thebattle in the academy “Have you also received the Solaris Eed his shoulders “Yeah, yesterday night at around 7 or 8 Dar’s big bro sent soo to school with him, not to speak to hinore hi winded!” “But this is so hard!” Eloise was the first to burst out loudly “Dar is so cute How can I stand ignoring hi, I want to pinch his cheeks, I want to…” Eli covered his ears and tried to hide so bohts, as she was the kind of person whose actions matched her words “Yeah” Elian and Ezart co noises “But what’s worrying me is whether or not this plan will really work,” Elian rehtly concerned “What if the plan fails and Dar starts behaving even more coldly?” “Don’t overthink it!” Ezart drawled, rolled his eyes “Let’s just try it! Even if Dar gets mad and decides to beat me up, that’s still better than his hed bitterly “What I’m worried about isn’t that he’ll beat us up I’nore him he’ll decide that we aren’t his friends and won’t even bother greeting us” Ezart snorted “Then we’ll do the reverse and beat him up,” he said coldly “I just can’t believe that that kid would dare to treat us as enehed bitterly He did not share Ezart’s confidnce If Dar was completely trapped within the mind-set of Dark Sun, then he couldn’t believe in the idea that Dar would never exchange bloith them Dark Sun was heartless If one was considered his enemy, it wouldn’t be unusual to be killed by him At least, that hat Dr Avery had warned theo check it out” Elian frowned Even though the Principal had onlyDark Sun, surely the Principal wouldn’t refuse to let hiorously “Let’s go look, let’s go look!” “Going to check on him?” Ezart scoffed “How poor do you think Dark Sun’s level of awareness is? It’d be strange if you weren’t found out! If you ruin the plans of Dar’s brother, let’s see if you can escape with your lives!” Elian wrinkled his brows frowned deeply After a long moment, he released a breath, turned his head to look at Eli “Eli, hold onto Eloise properly and don’t let her sneak off to visit Dar” Eli lowered the hands that were covering his ears He walked back towards the rest of therab onto the heo! Eli, you idiot” However, Eli did not show the slightest intention of letting go Eloise glared at him “Are you my partner or are you Elian’s?” she demanded “I want to say that I’m Elian’s, but, unfortunately, I’ed Ezart “You and Dar are in the same class, so you can pay a littlereally is off about hiood if we really hurt Dar…” “You’re just as annoying as Dar’s brother!” After yelling that, Ezart was too lazy to bother paying attention to Elian anyEloise stood at the side laughing loudly “Haha! No wonder Dar said fro that Elian was si this, Elian flushed “Eloise!” he growled threateningly Eloise held her head in her hands and screa to hit me!” “He won’t hit you” Eli said, and explained expressionlessly “To tell the truth, he really likes it when Dar calls hi to hi very e the excuse that he’s just worried about the Solaris Emperor’s retaliation, and so on” “… Eli, I think the person El wants to hit now is you”

Eclipse Hunter v04c02 END

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