10 Arc 1 Chapter 1.10 ( Sealed School of Demons )
A man stood at the top of the rooftop beholding the wide dark area of the sealed school . Despite standing at the highest building , he still could not see over the walls . What kind of world is there on the other side?
Everyone in the school occasionally thought of this , but they only have little hope of escaping now . As they had completely accepted their cursed fate .
Holding a long sharp sword , and a bow and arrows at the back . He slowly moved his face to side and murmured .
The silhouettes behind him moved and scattered . He himself also moved and disappeared unto the darkness .
Later on , a bloody man suddenly dropped unto the ground as the wristwatch issued a red alarm and turned gray . A wristwatch with a gray light meant the death of the owner . A few seconds later , a black cloaked man approached the corpse and dragged it back to the darkness . However , no one noticed the twitching fingers of the corpse . Red eyes secretly glowed in the dark as it were immediately covered by his long bangs .
That 'corpse' was indeed Zone , who secretly tampered the wristwatch and turned it gray . No one knows that device better than him as he retained the memory of the original owner . However , when the original learned of this information , he was immediately discovered by the cloacked men sending him to death . And that is the last regret of the original owner ... To escape from this school .
But not in this life , Zone will no longer risk dismantling the technology , and expertly tampered it according to the memory . When Zone was tampering it , he even felt an indescribable emotion within him which he could not comprehend . As if the original's deep emotions were about to leak out . Like he was one with the original .
Kang-Dae also moved and killed a student . Later on a cloaked men also approach and was about to drag the corpse when Kang Dae suddenly moved and fought with the Cloaked Man .
However , that Cloaked Man is no vegetarian and immediately reacted without panick .
Kang-Dae had trained intensely and even fought with the talented Zone and Jiro before and challenged a lot of strong hunters to hone his skills to perfection .
When that black man punched Kang-Dae , Kang-Dae was immediately sent flying and hit the tree .
Kang-Dae coughed blood and stared unwaveringly at the man before disregarding his health and attacked the man again . He knew that they were abnormal but he didn't expect their strength to be so great . He really underestimated these group of men .
The two fought intensely until they unequipped their weapons and started doing close combat . Kang-Dae smirked and fought fiercely , he was more experienced with close combat due to Zone who always entangled with him whenever they fought . Kang-Dae himself was confused and amazed by Zone's close combat skills but he was unaware that Zone had dreamed a lot of fighting scenes which made him stronger when it comes to calculation and movement prediction base on the stance he had seen in his dreams .
Zone taught a lot to Kang-Dae before . And now , Kang-Dae and the Cloaked Man were now in an intense fight where both have almost similar level in this area .
Kang-Dae's black eyes whirled and groaned twisted his abdomen and strike his elbow on the Cloaked Man multiple times on the back .
The Cloaked Man on the other hand vomited blood and twisted Kang-Dae's wrist more but he didn't expect for this guy to have persisted until now . It's been a long time since anyone in the students fought with their group and it caught him off guard when Kang-Dae attacked.
Kang-Dae groaned when he felt his wrist going to break and gritted his teeth before quickly thinking of any lethal move he could do in this position.
Suddenly he paused and relaxed his body , the pain from his wrist twisting subsided a bit . The black man was stunned and confused , he subconsciously loosened his grip when that hand suddenly moved and poked his eyes . Kang-Dae didn't waste any more time and lifted his elbow and stabbed the hidden dagger to hit the Cloaked Man's neck .
The man's body dropped and started bleeding . Looking around vigilantly , Kang-Dae dragged the man's corpse with difficultly before stripping the man's clothes and removing the admin wristwatch that only people with authority could wear .
The wristwatch was also unique only to the Cloaked Man which why they couldn't use the admin watch on the members of the school such as the teachers , canteen chefs or reception ladies.
[ Username: BlackWolf ]
Age: 30
Rank: 100
Area: 10th Building
Staring at the information from the wristwatch Kang-Dae closed it before disappearing unto the darkness . Suddenly , the wristwatch issued a short sound which indicated something Kang-Dae doesn't know .
He paused and saw that a shadow was slowly walking over his direction he was currently dragging a corpse along .
[ Rank 56 HundredFace sent a private message ]
Kang-Dae secretly gulped before accepting the message request and read the message .
[ Rank 56 HundredFace : Our time's already up . Let's go back to the headquarter already . ]
Kang-Dae nodded and followed the man out of the school . Kang Dae lowered his head and observed the bloody corpse being dragged .
' That Corpse ' slowly moved and red eyes locked unto him .
Kang-Dae almost screamed out of shock then bit his lower lips to stop himself . Fortunately that higher ranking man didn't notice .
Zone smirked and went back to acting dead . Actually , his current body feels cold because of the drug he made from the memory he drunk earlier to conceal his breathe and pulse .
Currently , he looked no different from a real corpse .
The two no trio arrived at a wall and paused . HundredFace slammed his wristwatch on the brick before the wall suddenly moved to the side and showed a passage . HundredFace dragged the corpse and entered . Kang-Dae also followed yet the wall suddenly closed . Kang-Dae , of course as a smart one slammed the wristwatch immediately and was then permitted to enter after .
" So you're the newbie called BlackWolf? "
" ... Yes sir , this is my first night mission actually . "
" Hmm ... Even if you're part of our group now . You still have to struggle and raise your rank . Or else , you will be bullied by a higher ranked member . I advice you to not stop training and become cocky . Because even if you have successfully caught the attention of the supervisor , there are still a lot of hidden gems in the school that could eliminate you . "
That indeed happened to the original Cloaked Man . But there's no way Kang-Dae would say that to this strong man . Kang-Dae could feel cold sweat dripping down from his temple , he was so lucky to have encountered the weakest member of the Cloacked Man! If BlackWolf was already this strong , then how strong could this HundredFace be? Who is a Rank 56 Cloaked Man?
Zone's eyes turned solemn when he heard this and secretly memorized the passage of the exit .
On the other side , Reina was successfully recruited as a Cloaked Man member and entered the Headquarter of the Cloaked Men .
Spade had also successfully knocked the cloaked man by injecting the man a potent drug from Zone .
Zoe on the other hand pretended to be a corpse just like Zone and secretly held the drug from her bossom . Hanz on the other hand chose to knock a Cloaked Man out like Kang-Dae while Jiro also knocked a cloaked man and stole the wristwatch before climbing over the high wall .
Jiro had already done this in his past life so he didn't feel scared . Moreover , his footwork helped him a lot when avoiding the men's vision .
Arriving at the morgue , Zone was tossed on the thousand of corpse piling like a mountain and glared at the high ranking cloaked man before pretending to be a corpse for a few more minutes .
Their methods has never been easy , even though sir Ian taught them chemistry . He never taught them how to make drugs , even the library was sealed and students were prohibited . Gathering the materials itself were the most dangerous , fortunately Jiro snucked inside the Library and Laboratory before and stole a couple of chemicals Zone requested .
They planned this escape before but had not decided the exact date yet . Now is the time they commence this deathly escape operation .
Secretly looking around for any monitors , Zone secretly cursed when he discovered that there's a glowing CCTV above the ceiling .
Kang-Dae did not follow Hundred Corpse to the morgue to avoid suspicions and secretly observed the passages on the headquarter .
Reina also memorized the building structures and corridors and sent a voice message to the leader , Zone .
Listening to Reina's report , he whispered what floor is the morgue .
" Underground Level 3 "
Jiro joined in. " I'm currently at the second floor of the headquarter . "
Zoe " I'm still dragged by a Man ranked 68 . "
Zone " I'll wait for you . "
Shade " I'll go over there , I'll also knock some admin watch and uniform for your disguise . "
Zone " avoid suspicions "
Hanz " I'll go save Zoe "
Kang-Dae " honey , Meet me at the second floor . I'm ranked 100 BlackWolf ."
Reina " I'm Scorpion X ranked 104 "
Zone " Have you find the exit yet? "
Jiro " I'm at the garage , preparing the car for escape . "
Good! Zone secretly whispered and looked around . He remained not moving for a while when a man suddenly opened the metallic door of the morgue .
" Zone? "
Zone clicked his tongue twice .
Shade locked on the bloody corpse and nodded . He looked up to the CCTV before dragging Zone's body as if he was about to cremate him before exiting the morgue . He walked to a dark area where monitors couldn't reach and handed the cloak to Zone and wrapped the wristwatch to the man's thin wrist .
Zone immediately stripped his shirt and pants before wearing the cloak in the blink of an eye .
[ Username : Atlantis ]
Age: 24
Rank: 96
Building: College 5th Building
Zoe "We've arrived at the garage "
Hanz " Hurry Up "
Jiro " ... "
Kang Dae and Reina walked towards the backyard of the Building and secretly looked up at the nearby cloacked men .
Reina gulped and clutched the bomb tightly. " Shall we drop this immediately? "
Kang-Dae nodded . They continued walking while Reina secretly dropped the bomb unto an inconspicuous place .
They didn't know either how Zone made this dangerous things when it was not taught by the teachers unless they took a course .
Zoe and Hanz stared at the little guy on the passenger seat . " I didn't expect to see you here little one. "
Sean glared at them and lifted his chin smugly . " Of course , i clung to Uncle Jiro's back when we were escaping . No one had noticed us so far . Were so good . "
Zoe chuckled but her heart still thumped in nervousness . " Brother Jiro , did you already know the gate ? "
Jiro nodded and took out a cigarette and smoked . Hanz on the other hand is still listening to the live communication .
Reina " 5 bombs are now successfully dropped . let's go to the garage immediately . "
Zone also dropped a bomb inside the building and proceeded to climb down towards the garage along with Shade .
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The silver haired man paused and frowned . Goosebumps standing up as chill crept up down his spine . He suddenly have a premonition that something bad will happen .
He switched the monitor from the school to the headquarter and saw that there's nothing wrong . He was about to switch the monitor back to the campus when suddenly . The emergency alarm rang .
[ An unknown sound was detected . It is currently predicted by the MAIN Artificial Intelligence as a sound of a powerful bomb . ]
[ Please immediately search for suspicious things in the area . ]
The timer of the bomb started ticking as the scattered escapee gathered on the garage . No one noticed their movements as the alarm of the Main AI resonated .
The superior Cloaked Men immediately moved and gathered for inspection while the personnel for the search started searching for suspicious thing .
Shade and Zone was about to go to the opposite side when a cloak man stopped them .
" Gather at the Main Hall! Immediately! "
Zone and Shade secretly cursed but still pretended to follow the flow of black men . When they were about to enter the Main Hall they changed their direction and hid inside the darkness .
The superior earlier paused and looked around. When he saw that nothing seems wrong , he turned back and entered the Main Hall .
" Ok!! Line up properly and start the count! " He shouted and walked to the front platform .
Zone and Shade started running quickly and entered the garage .
" Rank 5 White Snake! "
" Rank 6 RedFox!! "
" .... Rank 30 69Allure! "
The door of the black car opened as Zone immediately entered the passenger seat and put Sean on his lap before taking the seat belt .
Shade went to the back seat and sat on Hanz' lap , while Zoe sat on Reina's . Kang-Dae on the other hand sat on the middle .
" Rank 56 HundredFace "
" Rank 57 .... "
" Let's go let's go let's go!!! "
Jiro slammed his feet on the accelator and speeded up ahead without care to the surroundings .
The silver haired man suddenly noticed a running car om the east side where the gate was located .
He stared blood shot at the black car and immediately called the Private Guards guarding the gate.
A fatty man with a white uniform yawned and sat on a plastic chair lazily . He exited the house and took a pee on the grass at the back , he completely missed the call from the telephone which only the superiors used to contact him only for emergency reasons . However , he didn't do his job properly and neglected it .
The silver haired man slammed the telephone on the marble floor and cursed .
" Dark Men!!! "
Two slender men in tight suit and loose robe suddenly appeared on thin air behind the silver haired man . " Yes Master . "
" Capture those rebel escapees immediately! Bring them back to me!!! "
They didn't answer the silver haired man as they immediately run towards the east .
" Summon your baby immediately . " A hoarse womanly voice escaped from the thin figure beside the slender man in tight black suit .
The slender man took out a button and pressed it . Not long after , a large motorbike broomed loudly and stopped in front of them .
The slender man lifted his feet and climb on board followed by the woman . He speedily drive the motorbike towards the east .
" Where's rank 96 Atlantis??? "
" ... "
The atmosphere within Main Hall turned heavy .
" Actually , i also noticed that the newbie Rank 100 was absent . " The rank 101 spoke .
" 104 also went missing as well as Rank 115 and .... "
Silence loomed over the whole Main Hall then they suddenly moved simultaneously and searched for the suspicious thing that the Main Artificial Intelligence announced .
Zoe felt anxious and looked back before choking in the air in shock . " Speed up speed up!!! Someone's chasing up! "
The black car suddenly speeded up without care for the obstacles . They hit some metals along the way while the chasing motorbike effortlessly avoided the metal guides .
" I've only practiced driving simulation at school . "
Inside the silent car , Jiro suddenly spoke . Such statement made their heart ache . " Don't worry , our only goal today is to escape out of here even without good driving skills . I'll just step on this accelator with more force then speed up . " With that statement , the black car flew like a rocket to towards the gate .
" Now!!!"
With Zone's shout . Kang-Dae immediately opened the car ceiling and took out a ramp that immediately assembled itself automatically and throw it forward .
The black car passed through the ramp and suddenly flew in the air and bypassed the gate . Before the motorbike could also stepped unto the ramp , it suddenly broke apart causing an accident of the two people on board .
Zoe teared up when she saw that they were no longer chased .
" Wait!!! Aaaah hold!! Hold!! "
Reina screamed and ducked while pushing the head of the trio beside her to also duck .
Zone slowly closed his eyes and protected Sean's head . The car landed with a big impact on the road accompanied by the sudden explosion of the headquarter .
* Boom!!!!!!!!
Sean who was facing the back of the car saw the explosion behind . The beautiful red orange fire reflected within his eyes beautifully in a slow motion as the car they are staying shook followed by the pain on their buttocks .
The car slowly stabilized before it started driving towards a certain direction far away from the academy . All of them remained silent for a while , they thought they would shout in joy after they successfully escaped the campus but they could still not digest the fact that they had indeed escaped with such ease . In fact it was not easy , they escaped with their own ability , they made their own drug , bomb and they even trained for a long time enough to contend with the weakest Cloaked Man . They didn't dare contend with the Cloaked Man at all , all they want is to secretly blend and escape .
Crystal Tear dropped from Reina's eyes and sobbed . The heavy chains restraining and suppressing her heart that always pressured her emotions and mentality finally broke down . She burried her head unto Kang-Dae's chest and screamed to the air silently .
Zoe also hugged Hanz and bit his shoulder to suppress her feelings . Shade who doesn't have a partner could only chuckle wryly with a hint of sarcasm towards himself but his watery eyes couldn't be avoided .
Sean , who also suffered when he grow up silent pursed his lips and tightened his grip on his uncle's shirt .
" We're finally out " Reina hoarsely said .
" Yeah " Zoe nodded while head still buried on Hanz chest . Hanz took off his glasses and wiped his eyes before kissing Zoe's hair .
The group of escapee drove to the capital city and went to the National Police Force of the nation of Ayuzi and handed over the evidence and their life stories inside that Sealed School of Demons .
That next day , the place where the Academy was located was found by the military by the guide of Hanz and Kang-Dae . The military also discovered the bombing incident and found several corpses of suspects and captured an unconscious silver haired man who was actually the Second Son of the most powerful family in the capital .
That news spread through out the country and they learned the dark life of the missing children inside a hell like academy .
The data of the dead students were collected by the police and posted online for the family who lost their family members and the remaining students joined the army because of the discovery that they weren't normal anymore due to the environment in the campus .
The teachers and professors also narrated their lives as former students of the campus and victims of human trafficking of the Cloaked Man .
" What the!! This Juline was definitely a monster no! A demon to have done such thing to the children . "
" The supreme court even discarded the law and sentenced Julie to Death because of his actions of kidnapping millions of millions of children . "
" My son was finally found , I'm so happy and also sad for the big change of my son . "
" The children raised inside the cage school developed mental disorders and several psychiatrist were sent to help them recover . "
" What if these children would retailiate? I heard that they always kill without batting an eye after living there for several years . "
" No , i heard from a superior from the military that they were only forced to kill in order to survive . "
" But the fact that they killed still can't be denied . "
" I couldn't imagine how hard it were for them to constantly be on guard because of their fellow students . "
" Don't worry guys , i heard that they would soon join the military . This way , our force will soon be strengthened . "
Zone , sitting alone in a room painted a dark theme painting . On the wall were several paintings depicting his struggles inside the campus . He put down the brush first and drink some water before continuing .
When the phone suddenly ring . Zone paused and put down the brush again and looked at the caller id .
It was Jiro ...
Speaking of Jiro , he's now living his life as high ranking military officer . Zone wished he could confess his love to him , however ... as time passed even though he still yearned for him . The hot feelings he had gradually chilled ... He doesn't know either , he want to marry him but he doesn't want to pursue him anymore .
" Yeah? "
From the phone Zone could hear Jiro chuckling and asked " Stop painting and go out with me . "
"... Where? "
Zone's face was stoic , he used to have a cheerful and innocent face but it became cold and stoic after staying inside the campus .
Jiro wanted to say ' date me ' but then paused . Although he indeed once received Zone's creepy love . Because of it , Jiro started secretly hoping to try a relationship with a man . But he didn't realized it untill now , he was wondering what's his feelings for Zone . Is it friendship? Comradeship? Or Love?
He denied that he was inlove with Zone because he never tried getting into a relationship with a guy . Moreover , he couldn't feel sexual attraction himself because of his twisted mentality arrogantly thinking that no one could make him change his asexualityness .
" Let's watch a movie . "
Zone paused and hummed in agreement . " Ok " His voice was faint but Jiro still caught it .
" I'll meet you later . See you "
" Yeah ... See you "
Hanging up the call , Zone stared at the device before putting it back on his pocket . He somehow didn't feel any excitement . Weird , he should be feeling excited , Zone wondered wether his love for Jiro disappeared .
But he was unaware that he just doesn't want to admit that there's still a shred of love inside his heart . His feelings were just burried too deep that even he himself thought he didn't have emotions for him. Just like how Jiro didn't want to admit that he was attracted to Zone but still insist on dating girls thinking that he didn't like Zone but was actually hoping that Zone would get jealous .
Will their love even last long? When both party denied their feelings and at the same time did not want to take the first initiative . If Jiro had not discovered Zone's sneeky moves during night , will he even have emotions in his heart the he would deny?
When both party have high egos . When will their love story even start?
Now , standing in front of each other . Jiro smiled and greeted him .
" Hmm ... Let's go . "
Zone was about to enter the building when Jiro suddenly captured his elbow . " Can i do something? "
Zone raised his brows? " Just do it "
Jiro chuckled thinking that Zone was too fearless . " Then don't get angry . "
Zone nodded .
Jiro slowly walked closer , he leaned nearing his face close to Zone . Zone watched the face of Jiro who was getting bigger before feeling a soft skin pressing against his lips .
Zone didn't expect Jiro to kiss him but strangely , he doesn't want to react . There's a faint palpitations within his heart but he quickly supresssed it and relaxed to slow his pulse .
Jiro frowned when Zone didn't react and wrapped his arms around Zone to deepen the kiss .
Zone opened his mouth indifferently as his lips starting moving closing and opening , pushing then retracting and then sticking his tongue over his lower lips as he received another lips that were also moving to swallow him . They fought over dominance which made their kissing style fierce . But they were actually gentle , savoring the feeling of their lips meeting
Silver string stretch in the middle as Jiro leaned back and stared at the emotionless eyes that were staring back at him , but with lips red swollen Jiro filtered out the stoic expression on Zone's face and felt he looked so good to be true . Bewitching indeed.
Zone licked his lips and chuckled . " It feels good , we should do it more later . "
Jiro was stunned but then chuckled in amusement before nodding . He didn't hear any confession , he scolded himself for hoping too much .
The two sat on the red cushioned chair and watched the sci-fi movie from the start to the end . Zone reminscined his life in these past few years and hung his head lower . He was still thinking when his eyes started getting heavy .
Thump thump thump ... Thu-- ....
Jiro looked beside him and saw that Zone was sleeping . He wrapped his arms over Zone's shoulders and pushed his body to lean on himself . Jiro went back to the movie when a few minutes passed , he didn't feel any movement from Zone's body .
Zone's shoulder should have faintly moved up and down because of inhalation and exhalation when he couldn't perceive any single movement from his body . He trembled and moved his finger over Zone's nose .
Suddenly , Jiro could feel his body weakening when he thought of a thought that he does not dare think about right now .
His breathing turned ragged as eyes were still unblinking because of shock .
"... "
Jiro closed his eyes and hugged Zone's body closer . " I regretted it ... I regret not confessing my feelings to you even though we have a chance earlier . "
" I only now realized after you died? Aren't i a fool? "
Jiro's voice turned hoarse and cried silently . " Let's meet again ... In our next life , hope there's still another life . "
