Chapter 1.2 Destiny?

Part 2.

"My name is Rū Vermilion Crimson, 14 years old, and if you write my name, please put dash above the u, That's all thank you"

I introduced myself in front of my classmates.

After the ghoul girl managed to escape, I didn't manage to see her again. I tried searching for her but no matter how hard I try I can't find her.

After searching for a long time, I looked at the time and I was shocked, mouth wide open as I saw that it was already 6:30 am and F@ck did I forgot, class should have started right now!

I went to the classroom with haste after my failed attempt.

Our school consisted of 2 main areas. One field dedicated for grades 7 to 9 and one for grades 10 to 12.

The one I'm in right now is section A Junior variant, Arkline, Located south of Davao. whilst the Section B Senior variant is located 2km away southeast of my current location.

Section A Junior variant consists of 4 main buildings separated correctly per grade level and a huge grass field along with a covered cemented volleyball gym.

I'm a third-year student. And if memory serves me, all grade 9 classrooms should be found in front the Grade 7 buildings which consisted of 3 floors.

Looking at the bulletin boards which guide students where their classrooms are, it seems like there are 8 total sections in grade 9 with 50 students in each classroom.

There's 450 students total in that grade level and searching for my name-, it looks like I'm in Class 3-A, which can be found on the first floor of that building.

When I went into the classroom, everyone stared at me for being late. Their eyes were wide in surprise, not expecting someone to be late on the first day of the school.

The Silence in their eyes pierced me and as I went in, I was then called by the teacher to introduce myself.

"done introducing"

When I looked at the teacher, I noticed that she was wearing a yellow sweater which doesn't really give the impression of the homeroom adviser. Looking at her ID, it says 'substitute teacher'

Where the hell is the Adviser?

After introducing myself, the girls in my class kept looking at me. Don't tell me they were there when I assaulted that ghoul? She might be a ghoul but it's still a girl in their eyes.

I ignored their gazes and looked for an empty seat. Since almost all of them are occupied I tried to look for available seats and somehow, there are 2 empty chairs side by side unoccupied.

I looked at it and thought, why's no one sitting here? Is this cursed? Well, I guess it's because the Electric-fan won't hit this area.

Since I'm right-handed, I picked the right-handed armchair beside the other that's left-handed. Sitting on the chair made me realize that I know no one in this classroom.

Perhaps except people from when I was 8th Grade. Since I was late, I haven't heard their names. Well, that's least out of my concern.

For now I'll try to wait and find the ghoul who wanders in this school, Since she's not here perhaps she's in the other classrooms.

The teacher suddenly glared at us for no reason, with a suspenseful stare. We don't know why she was doing it but the entire classroom slowly but surely fell into silence.

No one dares to say anything because no one knows why the teacher was staring at all of us. me neither.

After staring right through our soul, the teacher grabbed a phone and started playing.

"TF"

The theme of a popular MMORPG game rang at her phone and we stood there not knowing what the hell she's doing.

After a few minutes of awkward silence, someone came running, slamming the door.

"Haaaa... haaaa.. haaaaa..."

She immediately went to the table whilst catching her breath. Her silky hair jumps around as she steps. I didn't see her face because it was covered, but somehow something reminds me of how smooth the hair was.

She looked at us panting, exhausted, trying to introduce herself.

"I'm sorry, haa haa, I'm Slyvyna Lockwood, haaa haaa, 14 years old, a foreign exchange student, nice to meet you"

Why is she goddamn exhausted? the first thing we in the classroom asked in our mind as we saw her catching her breath.

The teacher looked at her and worriedly asked.

"Are you okay? why are you exhausted?"

"I'm sorry, haaa! some red-eyed per...- I mean Dog was chasing me the whole campus, I'm sorry..."

"Red-eye dog?"

Looks like a dog I don't want to adopt.

Though as they were talking to each other, I managed to peek at her face. She was quite far away since she was on the left side of the classroom and multiple heads were covering the scene.

But when I saw her face, I saw that she's a beauty possessing clear porcelain skin. Not mentioning her eyes the colour of wisteria

Wait a minute.....

She's- Wait....We're classmates???

She looked for chairs and when she found one right beside me, she immediately went over.

She didn't notice me and walked calmly. not until-

"Ah!"

She did. As she saw me, she froze and immediately twisted her face to cover it away and slowly turned backwards away from me.

The teacher looked at her and asked.

"What's wrong Ms. Lockwood?"

"Um....."

"What is it?"

"n-Nothing of sort ma'am"

She looked at me again to make sure she saw me correctly. And as she did, I winked and posed for a peace sign.

She got terrified as she verified it was actually me who she encountered earlier this morning.

"Miss Lockwood? You're sweating are you fine?"

"Ummm...." She looked at me to verify which answers to pick and told ma'am.

"Can I visit the clinic?"

She's- Hmmmmmm... She's trying to get away. The teacher then told her.

"I'm sorry Ms. Lockwood but the Clinic Nurse is absent today due to circumstances we apologize, why not sit down first, if it's not severe even I can aid it"

The ghoul looked at the teacher with guilt in her eyes and told her.

"I-I'm sorry ma'am, i-it was nothing"

"Is that so?"

"I'm sorry"

After that, she searched for other chairs that's at least not 'besides me' and when she found out that there were no other chairs aside from this one-

Her face turned extremely pale, as if she was anaemic.

Gulping her saliva, she slowly resolved herself and continued to go into the empty chair right beside me. Averting her gaze to avoid meeting my eyes and slowly sits beside me.

She put her bag down beside me acting as a wall and went a bit further away from me. but since she's surrounded by a dead end, she can't

After that, the teacher looked at us again and now confirming that we students are complete, she then picked up her phone again and played a MOBA game she was playing earlier.

Is she not going to teach something today?

I looked at the ghoul next beside me. Her name is Slyvyna Lockwood as I remember.

She's acting Incredibly pressured with her face sweating nervously as she fidgets her fingers behind her skirt.

I never expected that the person I'm hunting earlier would turn out to be my classmate now.

The smell of lavender became stronger as this ghoul came sitting besides me. Don't tell me that lavender smell came from her?

She averted her eyes trying to take a peek at my face and mumbles something into me.

"He-he-Hello ha-, Good mo-morning eee-"

I looked at her in the eyes and when I did, she immediately averted it.

I wrote my name on the Armchair with a Flip-tel pen the school provided and wrote a letter on it.

I whistled to her to look at it and as she did, she saw a sketch of a female stick woman dying with its blood dripping on the ground.

She told me.

"Do- Do not kill me- please- He - he"

I looked at her without saying a word.

She continues.

"I'm no-not a bad person you- see, you know, I'm actually"

I looked at her face, but she kept averting it when I stared at her. She looked at me again when I'm not looking at her, trying to wait for my reply.

"I'm actually, um.. you see, um I'm-..., I'm"

This girl is seriously nervous, I confirmed that she's not a human, though I wonder what kind.

Ghouls is a title we derive from the type of being who has flesh and blood, anything ranging from (Duwende) to vampires are considered as one.

Even if someone is not actually undead, as long as they possess Flesh and Blood we call them Ghoul.

This girl right here is a ghoul, but what kind?

"I'm- I'm, Be- Believe it or not, I-I'm actually a Dark elf!"

A Dark Elf huh..., that's interesting... I've never seen one befor-

"Huh?"

Dumbfounded by the information, I calmed my mind, trying to look at this Kojic person. I asked.

"You- You're a Dark elf?"

When I heard dark elf, my mind clouded for a second.

"Excuse me?...."

I mean, she is...? she's a dark elf? She's white as f@ck, she has the skin of someone who eats glutathione as breakfast!, ears are small. Bltch not even an elf!

To look closely at it, what's a dark elf in the first place, basing my hentai knowledge, they're creatures who have immense beauty, Tan-layered skin who live in tropical countries.

She's not even Tan. She's supposedly the exact opposite of what a Dark elf is! This girl must be lying, she's either a vampire or some other sort of thing, but vampires can't go around the sun, so let's eliminate that possibility.

When she saw me filled with doubting eyes, she looked at me and said.

"Be- Before saying I'm lying, ma-may I assume you don't know what dark elves actually are?"

"The f@ck you're talking about? of course I know, Hentai told me so"

"Hen-Hentai?"

She starts explaining.

"Thousands of years ago, There once was a group of low class elves who were not born with the Elven's pride and passion, the elven ears, Elven ears are considered sacred and are the source of identification that differs us from humans.

Yet why are some pure blooded elvens not born with this identification? We were then called dirty, shameless, just because we don't look like them, we don't even possess their standard orange hairs, Over the years, we were outcast and exiled by the kingdom and was branded, The Dark elves.

That's our history"

Ohhhhhhh... Racism, I mean Western people in the 1800's did that but instead of killing them, they made them work on their cotton farm.

So the Dark elves I knew before aren't real but a by-product of Stereotypical mind washing? I wonder what made us think like that? is hentai lying?

The Fuc?

"I'm a Dark elf"

You're just a zigga elf, I said to my mind

She also continued.

"Because of Discrimination, we were hunted by the Elves, Our ancestor looked the same as Caucasian or Asian humans so we hid amongst their society and escaped the brutal Elven execution"

"Uh-huh, Typical, do they make you work on farms?"

"I.... I don't believe so... the prejudice was too strong even making us slaves disgust them"

"That's one hell of racism"

Hiding amongst the society of humans huh, So someone out there might be one? But I've never heard about dark elves looking like her to ever exist. I've heard of elves but I don't think they still exist till this day.

Though I still wonder about this one thing. I don't know how dark elves body works but I'm sure as hell this is something someone should not be possessed, so why-

"As a Dark elf... nope, as a being who possesses flesh and blood, why do you possess the Reverse-eye reflection?"

I grabbed her hand at lightning speed which shook her by surprise, notifying her that I caught her off guard.

Her eyes were wide open, shocked, asking me.

"I- I'm sorry?"

I continued.

"That's a characteristic of an apparitional monster! why do a ghoul-type being have it?"

The Myth of Reverse-eye reflection comes from an Old legend in the Philippines, that a person whose eyes that reflect your reflection turns upside down, that's a ghost.

It comes together with the myth that when you look below between your leg and the person behind you has no legs, they're an Apparition.

But why is an Apparition trait on a Ghoul?

I can touch her and my Classmates can see her, she's definitely a flesh-filled person. So why.

"Why do you have that?"

The Ghoul looked at my hand while grabbing her hand with full force. She knows she can't get away with it now.

She replied.

"I, I don't know, and wha-what do you mean I have a Reverse-eye reflection?"

"Look at yourself in the mirror, and what do you see?"

She replied.

"I, I looked at myself in the mirror earlier but- But I think it's normal"

"What are you really? What's something you always see everyday"

She grabbed her face and barely touched her eyes. She looked surprised when she touched her pupils and then I asked.

"You're not a Dark elf aren't you?"

She denied.

"No! No! No! I'm definitely a Dark elf! and what do you mean by my eye, it's the first time I've heard about it?"

"Playing dumb huh? Why are you here in this school anyways?"

I keep pressuring her with more questions, the more pressured a person is, the more they spill the truth.

"I-I-I I just want to study high school-" Her eyes tweak, but her tone is saying the truth

"Why here?"

"It's the nearest Junior High school?"

Is her house near here?

"You're a member of some devil cartels aren't you?"

"De- What's that?"

Hmm, Even amongst pressure she did not spill anything, yet told no lies either.

"So, you're just a Dark elf who wants to go to a Junior high school and studies"

"I- I mean yo-you could describe me as that, um... your grip is hurting me"

I grabbed my phone and opened it, I opened my messenger app and wrote a message. The Ghoul looked at it and asked.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm sending a message to my, not your business really, I'm just asking if Dark elves are exactly as you, tsk no load, do you have one?"

"I'm sorry... but I don't have my phone right now"

"Really?"

I Forgot to subscribe to the International Wi-fi broadband Sunlink and can't send a message, if only the free data subscription works like it used to before. Mhm...

I think I've saved an Encyclopaedia about the type of Ghouls here on my phone. Let me check.

<Search: Dark Elf>

<Please connect to Wi-Fi to download resources>

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"

I grinded my teeth in anger after seeing this unfortunate event but immediately calmed myself down so as not to worsen the situation.

I asked her one thing.

"Do elves still constantly hunt you for the dark elf in exchange of bounty?"

With my hand still on her wrist, she told me.

"I heard they're still, but they don't have that much power like they used too especially in a society filled with humans"

"So elves still exist huh, 'I was not told about this', how much is a dark elves bounty worth?"

The ghoul stopped for a moment to think about the worth and finally came back and answered.

"It's in euros so I guess up to 24 million pounds per head, I'm not sure, but I guess much higher"

"24 million pound huh..."

how much is that to pesos? Let me calculate, 2029 euro to pesos exchange rate is.....

"1.6 billion pesos?"

I declared after solving it, immediately looking at the self proclaimed dark elf in front of me with a long stare that keeps observing her.

She was immediately terrified for a little and looked a bit concerned about herself and she told me.

"Yo-You're good at maths..."

I kept looking at her, especially not letting my grip out of her wrist. I told her.

"You're a walking billion pesos!"

"Huh? Eh?"

"You must die for the sake of billion pesos!"

"Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! No! No! No! No!"

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!"

She immediately tried and removed my arms in her wrist but I kept a high grip on it, she started drilling her nails but her nails are cleanly trimmed. I looked at her face with a crescent smile, happy about the bounty.

'Wait! wait!" screamed by the helpless billion pesos. She told me "Even if you manage to take me, it's extremely rare to find an elf and you need to travel to Sweden to find on-"

"Did you just tell me where I should hand you out?"

"They might not pay you"

"I'll find one who will, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

I reach out my backpack to get a handcuff whilst laughing my ass out, the ghoul tries to break my grip on her hands but she's shown unsuccessful.

I slowly put the handcuff into one in my arm, and when I tried putting one on her, she stopped me and told me-

"H-How about we negotiate this?"

"No!"

"W-wait, just please hear me out I swear!"

"What are you gonna do? Give me 1.6 billion? as if there are other things that could benefit me other wise"

She slowly loosened her grip in my arm when she tried to remove it and told me.

"Does Soul essence suffice?"

Soul-....

My eyes opened wide in surprise, sweat started dripping upwards, mouth tightened and sealed. I looked at her as she mentioned the word, Soul essence.

She have the face of worriedness about her being, but my mind clouded for a moment and let my instinct dive inside me.

I instantly pushed her hands and slammed them against the wall, putting out a shockwave. She was shocked and looked at me, eye to eye.

"W-what's wrong?" she asked.

"How do you know about it?" My eyes were on fire like a snipe looking through a scope. "And by Soul essence, which one would it be?" I asked.

She was shocked to the point she couldn't talk and remained silent. But she resolved herself by answering.

"I-I heard, p-people like you grow stronger after absorbing- the- the essence"

"Why do you know about it?"

"I- I can't tell you a-about it for now I-I'm sorry"

I asked her, "Why?" As I looked at her eyes within my reflection.

"I-I'm sorry...." she apologised trying to avert the questions. I was not mad or anything, more like I'm surprised. Why is- Why does she know something only us should know about?

She must need further investigation! I took the handcuff and cuffed her into myself.

She asked, "Wh-What's this?" "Don't ask!" I told her.

After looking at my classmates after causing a little commotion, the ghoul told me.

"I have a proposal!"

I looked at her to ask, "What proposal?"

"This proposal to exchange that you'll spare me!"

I looked and observed her carefully.

"I- Instead of having to kill me just to die and having 1.6 billion pesos, How about you'll spare me and I can make you more stronger! I heard that you absorb the orbs right?"

"You! who taught you that?" how did she really know about the Soul essence! I asked "And how will you make me stronger?"

"I'm a dark elf, we were all born with a skill that attracts spirits and beings, Hunting beings is a pain I know, so my proposal that I help you attract it and you kill it"

"A skill huh, Where too?"

"I lived in a house near a forest filled with NLO (not like ours) I'll do the deed there"

I told her, "You assume I would just accept the proposal?"

"Please," she pleaded. Pleading aside, I think I need a further investigation to what this being is really is, being a Dark elf is a case, but knowing what a Soul essence gives to a lot of connection to a bigger fish.

There might be someone, behind her back, behind the scene. I looked at her.

"I accept this proposal in a condition!"

"What condition?" she asked.

"This whole entire day! You'll be handcuffed with me!"

"Eh?"

I eased my mind to the burden and let my future self handle this afterwards, I told her with a smile.

"As you promised, Bring me to your home!"