Nine killed Twelve

We were summoned to a meeting that had been organized by the principal.

I was wearing a t-shirt that did not belong to me. It was already uncomfortable enough, but nothing compared to what I felt as I was walking along the corridor of the school...

I was walking with four other people. As the French teacher was showing me the way, I could not help but look at my surrounding. the walls on both sides were filled with the track, and what seemed like blood stains. I got goosebumps in my mind and pictured, all the things that happened here.

" how many of these things attacked the school?" I doubted that it was the best time to ask but I wanted to know.

" The fae?" The young man that was walking with us asked. He was the same young man from earlier who was being fed by one of his classmates. Again, I did not know his name and was too embarrassed to ask thanks to my poor interpersonal skill.

The girl in question was also with us. The two of them were holding each other hands and seemed rather close.

" there were only twelve of this fae, but they caused huge casualties on our side.

Dozen of people were injured. More than twenty students and teacher died" The French teacher seemed to choke on her own words while saying that, and from her moistened eyes, it seemed like she was about to cry.

I felt pretty dumb, I was an idiot.

I wondered why they were calling the monster from earlier Fae. Because they were small humanoid monsters? I did not feel like it was the right time to ask it, though, so I resolved to shut my mouth...

But as we were walking, I continued to feel more lost than ever. I had not been teaching in this school for a long time but I could at least find that the way that we were walking was odd.

" the principal office... " I asked while looking in another direction in particular.

I was not the only one who felt lost apparently. The two students looked in the same direction before looking back at the French teacher for an explanation.

" the old principal office was destroyed during the attack. At that time the principal almost died. Luckily M. Juan was there to save him" the last person in our group explained, her expression almost brightening.

She was a female teacher. She tough biology in this school. I suddenly wondered if she was the one who came with the name fae. Her smile seemed to bring some like back in the middle of this gloomy atmosphere.

I knew little about this M. Juan apart from the fact that he was rather handsome, and that he taught Philosophy class.

My mind was full of questions.

In any case, I highly anticipated the meeting hoping that I will somehow obtain the answer to all my confusion...

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We soon reached the place where the meeting was being held. According to my memories, this place was the teacher's cafeteria. I only visited it once ever seen I arrived at this school.

When I had been told about the meeting, for some reason, I initially thought that only the teacher was going to attend.

I was wrong, the place looked quite crowded with more than forty people present.

The most surprising thing was that most of them were students. The number of all the adults counted together was slightly higher than twenty.

It was less than half of what you will expect in the school while accounting for the teachers, the principal, and the rest of the school personnel. I could feel my stomach churn at my sudden realization.

" sorry, principal, we came late," The French teacher said politically.

" don't mind it. I send you to find some people and I am happy to see that you managed to bring them with you" saying this, the principal looked right at me while sighing before looking at the young man for a longer time.

His reaction left me quite baffled. I looked sideways at the group of people that arrived with me. There were two men and three women in the group. But the gender was certainly not the thing that settled us apart that much.

It is at that moment that I remembered that I killed one of these monsters. I did not see the corpse and no one told me so, but the memories of the sounds that the thing made while breaking was still clear in my memories.

It seemed like I had I know become a hero. I felt somewhat strange before looking to the side at the young man that was close to me.

" doest it means that he also killed one of these things?" I muttered before realizing that I was thinking too loudly, and covered my mouth.

I was not the only one that looked at him at that moment. I was not too good at understanding people's expressions, But I could still see the surprise, recognition, admiration, and gratitude that was being shown on some faces.

" We must thank them because without them many more people would have died," The Principal said as he seemed to read the mood in the room.

Following the principle, the other people in the room started to clap their hands. I feel kind of confused. It had been quite a long time since I received this kind of honor. At the same time, I did not feel like it was the right thing to do at this moment. Some people were still grieving at this very moment.

But seeing that the people in the room seemed appeased while doing so, I remained silent.

But I also discovered something else. There were ninth people, in the room who seemed to stand out for some reason.

Among them, there was the teacher I heard about earlier. The one saved the principal and killed a monster that attacked the monster.

I started to understand what was so special about these people. They were all monster slayers. But there had been, Twelves monsters attacking the school.

I was wondering how there were only nine of us.