Chapter 248 - The field trip (5) (2/2)
Faces of the people important to him flashed through his head as he could not help but wonder if he already had lost them too? Had he seen his numerous loved ones for the last time already?
”No... They are all alive...”
Mars quickly convinced himself, they had to be alive, they were safe in Green river, all of them, they had to be safe... Had to be, quickly he felt an urge to give up everything here and just rush back, but quickly he slowly shook his head and thought
'What use is it if that shitbag administrator just throws me away again?... I have to get stronger, strong enough to beat him up so bad that he would not dare to hurt me or the ones close to me again...'
A faint light of revolution shone in Mars' eyes as he looked up at the sky past the clouds up towards his current enemy, suddenly Mars felt a soft touch at the side of his face and looked down and saw 78 had awoken and was stroking his cheek
”Hey... I knew you would save me Mars”
”I almost didn't... Sorry”
78 showed a smile and continued stroking Mars cheek for some time until she spoke again
”What about the other bandit's?”
”I'll get to them in due time, you are more important”
”But the other students...”
Mars gave a sigh before he spoke again
”As I said you are more important, this living god has decreed it so”
78 gave a laugh before she showed a very happy smile, after all the person she loved most called her important, twice. But she knew she could not be selfish for much longer as the other students needed Mars' help
”... I am okay now”
”Really?”
”yeah... So you don't have to worry... Go kill the bad guys”
”.... Fine, stay here I'll be right back”
Mars put 78 down on the grass before his figure blurred and disappeared from 78's vision, for the next few minutes the forest was filled with screams before it quieted down and Mars returned to the clearing and sat down next to 78 that still laid on the grass with her eyes closed
”Let's go back to camp”
78 opened her eyes and quickly got on her feet before she reached out her hand to Mars and helped him up, Mars walked over and picked up the bone broadsword before 78 latched onto his free arm and the two of them began slowly walking back towards the camp while chatting...
The field trip ended, after all it could not continue in a forest filled with mangled corpses for obvious reasons. Mars used most of the day heading back to the academy with his group of students in tow, the return trip was quiet, none of the excitement from the trip out to the forest remained, after all most of the students had had close contact with bandits
'Well they will get over it... Or they won't'
While it might seem cold Mars didn't really care if the students recovered from their trauma, after all to him they were still mere mortals, but 78 was different after all there was a saying that went 'you don't know how important something is until you lose it' and as Mars had almost lost 78. Thus he swore to do better in the future as 78 already had taken a solid place in his heart, Mars didn't realize that yet however, after all, Mars is a very dense person...
Back at the academy Mars sat down his backpack and looked around the room he was assigned to by the academy
'4 months left... I should be able to make some progress on my mandate during that time... Well let's take it one step at a time...'
Mars sat down on the bed and meditated for sometime until a knock sounded out from the door to his room, Mars jumped off the bed and walked over and opened the door and came face to face with Rick that wore a smile on his face as he asked
”Wanna go drinking?”
”Sure, let me get my wallet real quick... There, let's go”
Mars and Rick walked down the hallway as Rick asked
”Where do you want to go?”
”Hmm... Let's just go to the usual place”
”Sure”