2 Chapter 2: Leonard?

"Leonard? Who's that?" Karl asks honestly.

"That's you. Now, no need to panic. You have survived a concussion from the jump, it is normal for patients to lose some memories and have some traumas."

"Lost memories? I remember everything. That bastard midget zapped me." Karl rants in anger.

"Hmm. Anything else you remember about this, midget?" The doctor asks with curiosity.

Karl proceeds to explains his entire morning to the doctor. "Looks like you had a bad dream while in coma. Fortunately, you are out of it and t-" Karl cuts in "Coma? Doctor, what do you mean? I was there. You can ask that girl in the corridor."

Karl stands up and feels weird. "Is something uncomfortable? Are you hurting anywhere?" After seeing the expression of Karl's face, the doctor asks in concern.

"No. I feel short and hungry. Just answer me doc, what's your height?" Karl asks. "5'7" doctor answers.

"Fuck no."

Karl rushes to the nearby window to see his reflection. His eyes almost pops out of its socket. He sees tall buildings almost jam packed everywhere. People walking with blunt weapons in hands and worst of all flying metros.

"Doctor. Where am I?" Karl asks in fear.

"You are in Renock City. U block." Doctor answers and continues "Now, this is serious. You need to get out of here. You were sinking in the quicksand before a traveler found you and turned you in the city gates. Unluckily, you had zero money you. So, the federal hospital refused to treat you. But I funded your treatment for 3 weeks and waited for you to wake up." Doctor explains.

Hearing all this makes Karl's brain fry. But Karl thanked the doctor sincerely. "Don't worry as a doctor I can't see a fellow human die. May the Horizon see over you." Doctor bids farewell leaving Karl alone in the room.

30 mins later. Karl receives a pair of clothes, a bag, a wristwatch and two cards. He steps out of the main door. "I am in a fantasy world. I have been reincarnated. Oh my god. I watched so many animes for this. I have been dying for this moment." Karl exclaims in joy.

Karl first checks his bag. He finds a bottle of water, few ropes, a wristwatch with few cracks on it and two different cards. First one is an orange card with "PROPERTY OF SABRE GUILD" written on it. "So that's my guild card and this one looks like a regular debit card." Karl clarifies.

Karl wears the watch and the wristwatch rings. He touches the wristwatch and it reads "BIOMETRICS RECOGNIZED"

A screen appears and it shows these messages "HELLO?"

"LEONARD DON'T IGNORE ME I NEED THOSE PHOTONS NOW."

"COME TO THE NURSE OFFICE NOW" "

LEONARD AVARITIA! I AM GOING TO REPORT YOU TO THE FEDERATION."

The screen closes implying that this was the last message. Karl goes to a nearby empty bus stand and sits on it as he goes through Leonard's watch. After few hours, Karl stands up with a smirk on his face.

"First, let's go towards my dorm." Karl proceeds walk in a direction given by the GPS of the watch. 'This guy Leonard Avaritia is my new identity. He is a 2nd year student in Black Pegasus Academy. He possesses a rare element of space which makes him a great asset and liability. He only learned 1 skill in his life yet. To make his life worse he is in a large debt to a teacher of the academy. Looks like I got a side character as an avatar.' Karl laughs as he checks Leonard's ID through the watch.

Looking around Karl could say that this world is far more advanced than earth. But it is still more savage as strength matter almost in every aspect of life here. While going through the web in the wristwatch everything Karl found out that everything is somehow related to fighting.

'Then, I need to find my standing in the world now. How strong am I? In the ID of the Guild, it classifies me as a Dwarf Star. Which personally sounds bad.' Karl thinks as he follows the GPS provided by the watch. He walks for almost half an hour. Then, Karl arrives at the gates of academy.

They are large enough to fit two trucks simultaneously. Karl walks closer to the gate and asks the guard for entrance. "Show me your ID, kid." The guard asks with a firm tone. Karl gets confused for a second but shows his wristwatch to the guard. Then, the guard scans the watch with his own watch.

Suddenly, a car arrives and stops near the gate. "Hop in." A feminine sound comes from the car. Karl not knowing much opens the door and sees a lady in her thirties. Wearing a lab coat, black short skirt, short brown hair, light makeup with a mature yet beautiful face.

Seeing the lack of reaction on Karl's face the lady adds "Not coming?"

"Ah! Yes." Karl sits in with slight blush.

The car drives through the gate. "When you didn't answer my calls for 2 weeks, I was certain that you ran away with the money." The lady says as she drives.

'Money? Oh! Then, she must be Zena, my school's botany teacher. But, from the texts she didn't seem too close to Leonard.'

"No, mam. I was trying to gather money by my ways." Karl confidently says.

"Mam? You fell on your head from that cliff?" Zena asks sarcastically.

"How did you know?" Karl asks genuinely.

"The academy keeps tabs on every student. If a student were to go missing or killed in an expedition, the academy informs student's family." Karl remembers this as an importance piece information.

"The doctor's report said that you lost your memories and had a bad dream." Zena asks looking concerned. "Yeah! I had a bad dream. But now I am good or even better." Karl smiles as he says that.

"Good. Its rare to see you smile. Anyways, return my money by the end of this week." Zena stops the car near a three-story building. Karl steps out and waves at the car as it speeds away.

'Rare, huh?' Karl checks his watch and walks in the building. 'Room 791. Where is it? Where is it? Oh?' Karl discovers a uniform near the trash bin at the entrance. It has 'LEONARD AVARITIA' written on it. It is dirty and full of holes.

Karl puts his hand in the trash bin and sees personal stuff lying on ground like toothbrush, books and a family photo with Karl's lookalike in it. Naturally all of this was Leonard's.

Just as Karl leans in to pick up the family photo, he hears a voice ahead. "Yes, Throw that out too. Sell those boots in the market." Ignoring the voice Karl focuses on the photo.

There are two kids in the photo with Leonard. They seem around 12-year-old. 'Twins? I don't know why? But they look so cute?' Karl's heartbeat increases unconsciously.

"DAMN! IT'S THE ASTROBOY." A taller boy looking not older than Karl comes up to Karl. "I thought you died, weirdo."

The boy says in arrogant tone. Karl stays quiet and looks straight into the eyes of the boy. "Not even the Horizon wants you."

'Uneven breathing. Open stance. Confident voice. Lack of eye contact. Is this kid underestimating me?'

The boys yells "What are you looking at? Take his things away."

A worker comes and tries to snatch the picture from Karl's hand. Karl moves his hands away. He just straight punches the arrogant kid in the face.

Unexpected, the kid falls to the ground. His nose bleeding heavily.

"You lot." Karl points at the workers. "GET FUCK OUT OF HERE" Karl yells. Every worker left in a hurry.

Karl walks to a room with open door. It's a studio apartment with minimum room for 2 people with absence of shower and toilet.

"Ahh!" grumbling sounds comes from Karl's back. Karl goes back to the fallen kid and lifts his head and smashes it into the wall. Breaking's his nose.

"Listen, you lived with me here?" Karl asks. "YE-YESH" the boy answers. "Great. You see that bench over there just below the tree?" Karl points. "YESH!" the boys answers crying. Tears falling from his eyes. Jake's teary face comes into Karl's mind. In response, Karl grabs the boys left ear and rotates it fully anti clockwise.

The kid winces in pain and cries harder. "DON'T. CRY. WITHOUT. MY. PERMISSION." Karl orders as he twists his ear more tightly.

Karl releases after few seconds and the kid fells on his knees. "Just curious. How old are you?" He grabs the kid's hair. "SIXTEEN! SIXTEEN!" the boy screams.

'A fucking child?' Karl makes a puzzled expression. "Scram now!" Karl watches the kid run away.

'Who would have thought that I, a 25-year-old male would bully a 16-year-old child?' Karl laughs at that thought. 'Well, that's one thing off my bucket list.' Karl walks in the room and closes the door.

He first searches the apartment for anything related to Leonard's life. As Karl goes through his drawers, he founds a uniform in good condition and few books like "Learn how to be a good hunter", "Conquer your mind first" and "Close quarters fighting: Intermediate" Karl grabs first and third book and lays down on bed as he reads through them one by one.

'Gosh! That took too long to finish.' Karl looks out of the window to find that moon is already up. He looks at his watch and sees a notification. "MESS IN 5 MINUTES"

'I keep forgetting that this is a school and I am a student. Well, that solves my food expenses at least." Karl glances at his clean uniform. 'But I won't go tonight.' Karl sighs as he says that.

He spends his entire night learning the ways of this world. He learned few tricks in hand-to-hand combat from the book. Unfortunately, Karl fails to learn anything about mana and mana control.

Next day. Karl wakes up at 8:13 am. He brushes his teeth and takes a shower in a public restroom which is on the top floor. At the 8:59 am Karl is sitting in his room wearing a clean school uniform. At 9:03 am a notification comes on the watch saying that breakfast is ready.

Karl steps out of his room and looks around to see dozens of students walking in a particular direction. 'Guess I follow them.' Karl decides.