Chapter 5
The school was still clamouring even after the matter was resolved. Of course, Esmeralda was still finding the 'suspicious' Neo-Human who helped them in the morning. Meanwhile, the girl felt irritated as she watched Anthony's smug face as he boasted to his friends how he remained unscathed even when a villain with an extremely dangerous power was after him. The girl furrowed her eyebrows, unhappily seeing him gloating like this. She really dislikes people like him. In the end, she decided to let them go as long as they don't bother her. If they dare to, though. The girl smiled coldly, they would find their bodies in a few years if she was generous.
The girl frowned as she sensed a faint presence trying to spy on her. A scrying spell, the girl recognized. Of course, the tools on the girl's body make sure that such attempts would be meaningless, but still, this left a bad taste in the teen's mouth. After all, the teen is someone who values privacy very much and didn't take kindly to such attempts. But the teen decided not to act upon it and just deceived them. This scrying was on the girl herself, so she couldn't show her hands if she wanted to keep covering her existence even a little longer.
The girl ended this matter peacefully, and just projected the illusion of a normal girl doing normal things into the scrying spell. However, she decided to punish whoever was behind this a little. Another square shaped crystal appeared in her hand once again, and she crushed them. The girl smiled mischievously, with this the mastermind behind this would have a bit of bad luck. Not anything too serious of course, just stubbing one's toes at a table or something kind of bad luck. After the teen was done with this, she went to look for her friend Esmeralda. She found her amidst the rows of lockers, arguing with a group of students. Of course, they are only arguing. No one dared to touch Esmeralda. She was one of the most capable fighters at the school, not to mention her Neo-Human status.
The teen quietly walked toward her friend and shook her sleeves.
"Oh, you are here. Good, come and support me, these guys seriously wanted Rob to be executed even though what happened was because of their fault," Esmeralda complained to her friend, her heart filled with righteous anger. But the girl, not very much so.
After all, this is the state of this world. It was like this since the beginning and got worse with the emergence of Maya energy. The people with power and influence got to do anything they wanted and got away with a slap on the wrist. Even the prison they went to is as luxurious as a five star hotel. Meanwhile, people without power and influence were used as a scapegoat and oppressed everywhere. How laughable humanity is. However, since this was Esmeralda, she naturally had to support her of course.
"You guys should be ashamed of yourself," the teen offered her own two cents. Esmeralda beamed in satisfaction as the teen stood with her. The teen sighed in exasperation. It wasn't as if Esmeralda didn't understand the ugliness of this world. If anything, she should be someone who knows the most about it in this whole school, bar the teen herself, considering she went out every night to battle with this ugliness.
Esmeralda and the girl returned home after arguing with bullies for a bit. They managed to win the argument and scolded bullies. However, both the teen and Esmeralda didn't enjoy it.
"These guys! I really can't believe it. Piss me off," as you can see, her blonde hair friend is still ranting about it. She hugged Esmeralda's thin waist lightly to comfort her.
"There, there," the teen said quietly. Like a moth to the flame, Esmeralda leaned toward her touch. She sighed in satisfaction.
"I really can't imagine my life without you, you know?" Esmeralda said to the girl. The girl smiled gently. She also wondered where she would be without Esmeralda. After a while, she decided to not bother thinking anymore. She already has Esmeralda by her side, after all. They eventually split off at a crossroads. The girl's house was on the west side of the city, while Esmeralda would continue to Golden Dawn gym, where she would work out. She once asked Esmeralda why she was working out, even though her body was already enhanced by the influx of Maya energy into her body. Esmeralda answered that even though being a Neo-Human came with enhanced strength, it doesn't come with abs. The teen conceded that she raised a good point and didn't ask anymore.
As she walked toward her home, the teen discreetly created a dagger and left it on the street. The dagger, which she dubbed as Phoenix's Tear, has the ability to burn away anyone it stabbed and revive them in 'healed' form ten minutes later with some added benefits. The victims wouldn't have any physical injuries, except that they would feel the pain of being burned alive down to their souls and the feeling of being stuck in a limbo where nothing exists for ten whole minutes. The teen has been scattering her creations like this for a long while now, and it's not just this city. Of course, this city has one of the most concentrated of Forged Miracles. There is a reason Clover city is one of the most chaotic areas in the US, despite its small size. Distributing them like this is her way of monitoring situations all around the world and influencing them. For that purpose, all the Forged Miracles she created were equipped with surveillance features. The teen narrowed her eyes. She could feel it in the air. The tension and the fear enveloped all over the city. Something big was about to happen. For that, she has to prepare. Not for herself, but for her beloved ones.
She hoped her newest creation wouldn't be picked up by some boring guy who would just hand it to the Meta-items Containment Unit. She has more than enough surveillance in that department already. In fact, she has so much dirt on them that it wasn't even funny. Especially since all the members were required to be a user of Forged Miracles, they tend to carry at least one item all the time. So regarding that department, her only response would be haha. She knew everything about them, ranging from their shady dealings to their sex lives. Which was unpleasant to say at least. So yes, she didn't want her creations to go to that department anytime soon.