Chapter 253 - Why so nice? (1/2)

Although Ray was wondering where Van went, without realising it he had already been taken by the middle-class students. On top of one of the roofs of a building. Nano and a couple of his friends had beaten Van to the point where he could no longer stand, this was all by the order of Blake.

Blake had informed them that they had a special surprise for Van and his new friend and wanted to show them what it meant by getting in his way.

A bucket of water was then chucked over Van to wake him up as he was nearly passing out.

”Come on freak, we have a show to do and you are the main attraction.” Nano said, ”I hear the stage has been set.”

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Instead of following the middle-class students like the other in their class, Ray and Max decided to go look around to see if they could find Van anywhere. If it was an important lesson then it meant even Van would get in trouble missing it.

”Come on Nes, Let's give up we've looked everywhere, our dorm room, the storage closest, the classes and even other places.” Max said, ”And now we're late for our next class as well”

”But where did he go?” Ray thought, at this point and time Ray truly wished he had his dragon eyes skill. That way he could scout the areas that might have been hidden away or even they couldn't see.

”He's probably just hiding somewhere, come one let's go to that assembly hall before we get int trouble, if we're late they'll deduct points off us and right now, a single point could be the difference between a grade for me,” Max said holding onto Ray's shoulders as if he was begging.

”Fine fine, we can look for him later,” Ray said.

As the two started to head to the assembly hall Max had something lingering on his mind.

”Nes, just why are you concerned so much for Van, it's not like you knew him before joining the academy. I just don't understand why you would go through all of this to help him.”

The main reason why Ray was doing this was because it was a request from the queen. Once this had been sorted, he would go onto his other tasks of finding the divine being and handing the prince the crystal. But, of course, Ray couldn't come out and say this.

”It's because when I was younger, I used to get bullied all the time as well.” Ray said, ”Instead of being called a freak though, people used to call me a monster. I hated the world for it and I can imagine the exact same thing that Van is going through right now.”

Tears started to fill up in Max's eyes as he heard Ray's emotional story. While Ray was quite proud of himself. His time as a human wasn't a waste and by the day he was becoming a better actor. Or so he thought. Ray's act of sorrow would only be good enough to fool the truly dumb ones such as Jack and Max.

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Inside the assembly hall, the lower-class students from Ray's classroom had gathered. It was a large hall with a stage at top. On the stage, Momo and five other middle-class students stood behind him and around the room there were several other middle-class students.

”Hey, just what is going on here?”

”Didn't they say we were meant to have a class here?”

”Yeah so why are there no teachers and why are there only middle-class students here.”

”Is everyone here?” Nano asked.

”Yes, everyone from Professor Dell's class should be here.” A middle-class student said.

”Great, since all the pieces are now here, it's time to start the show.”