Chapter 27

On a cold morning, Zephyr was walking slowly as he was on his way to his school. Zephyr casually glanced at the surroundings as he compared the modern city to the White Tiger City.

He then looked straight at the path to the school and mumbled that it was so tiring to walk there as it was still far. Zephyr decided to take a shortcut as he changed his route and took a turn in an alley.

The route was a desolate place as there were no people to be seen. Zephyr liked the atmosphere here as there was no crowd at all. It didn't take long for him to take back what he thought as he saw a group of people ahead.

There was a girl and two boys. Zephyr didn't recognise the two guys, but he recognised who the girl was. A teenage girl of average height with long pink hair, purple eyes, and a very well-endowed figure is considered highly attractive.

Strelizia Sakura, the top one in his class, is a beautiful lady whose on good terms with everyone in the class except for Zephyr. The delinquents were hitting on her, seeing how pretty she is.

"Beautiful Miss, can you hang out with us?"

"We will make sure to give you a good time."

Both of them said it with a perverted face. Strelizia took a step back as she was frightened. She clinched her hands as she wanted to scream for help but could not as she was scared of what they might do if she screamed.

"Somebody save me!"

She prayed in her mind as tears began to fall. Suddenly, the delinquents stopped as they turned their heads in a certain direction. She too did the same. She saw a familiar face. She recognised him as he was her classmate.

She was delighted that there was someone who could save her. She suddenly saw Zephyr as a knight in shining armor who saved a princess. But she froze when Zephyr just passed through and did nothing.

He still had his expressionless face as he passed through them, as if there were no people at all. However, both delinquents said in an annoyed voice.

"Brother, it seems like there is a disturbance. Let's take care of him. "

Having them seen hitting on Strelizia by someone made them uncomfortable as they knew they could be put in jail as they knew what type of people who wore the uniform of Averill Institute Academy. The other delinquent nodded as he shouted at Zephyr.

"Hey you! Stop! "

Zephyr turned around as he heard they called him, as his face was still emotionless. Zephyr then said.

"Continue on what you are doing. I have no intention of saving her as I don't have anything to do with her. "

Zephyr said emotionlessly, but the delinquent didn't listen to him at all.

"You have seen something you shouldn't have. Blame your luck, as this will be your last. "

He said as he took a knife and charged at Zephyr. Strelizia widened her eyes as she saw a knife come out. She wanted to shout to warn Zephyr, but no voice came out of her mouth as her body was still frozen.

Zephyr, on the other hand, looked very calm even when faced with danger. He then glanced at his surroundings and saw there was no surveillance camera at all. He sighed as he was too lazy to bother dodging it.

Zephyr raised his left hand, which made the delinquent grin, seeing how foolish Zephyr was. Zephyr wasn't planning to avoid it. Instead, he let the blade pierce his hand.

"What?"

The delinquent, whose face was grinning, froze. He looked at Zephyr as he was confused. Anyone in their right mind would avoid it, but he didn't expect Zephyr's action at all.

"You!"

Fresh blood began spurting out from the wound in Zephyr's hand. The delinquent tried to pull the knife back, but Zephyr locked his hand on the delinquent's.

"What the hell? What the hell are you?"

His eyes widened as he felt Zephyr's strength overpowered him. He could not believe that a teenager who did not have a buffed body possessed this tremendous strength.

Cold sweat started flowing in his body as he finally realised the danger he fell into. He wished he had not rushed earlier so he could have avoided this. As he was in his deep thoughts, Zephyr spoke in his usual monotone voice.

"This place, when no people can be seen, is a perfect place. All sorts of crimes can happen as there was no surveillance. You can r*pe someone here and..."

Zephyr paused for a while, but his next word made the delinquent feel his heart fall into the bottom of the abyss.

"Murder someone."

People might think that what Zephyr did was stupid but for him it was not. If he avoided it and report the situation, as there was no surveillance, even he reported what happened here, the delinquents can just deny it as there was no proof.

In this era, a single witness cannot help to resolve a case. Twisted words can make his report became false by the authorities and made him responsible instead. Justice can be bought as long as you have money.

As he did not wanted to undergo those troublesome process, Zephyr chose the easiest course of action for himself and let himself get stabbed. Even if this case got to the authorities, they can't deny as Zephyr possessed many evidence.

As Zephyr doesn't want someone to get involved with his life, Zephyr coldly stated.

"I can forget that this thing happened as long as you don't bother me in the future."

Zephyr said to the delinquent who stabbed him. Zephyr's gaze turned cold as he said the last word. The delinquent became scared and ran with all his might, leaving the other. He had only one thought in his mind as he ran.

'I will remember that face. I swear I'll never bump into him or else I'm sure I will die.'

The other one also ran as he felt danger from Zephyr, whose face was still expressionless despite being stabbed. Leaving the 2 of them, Strelizia snapped out of her daze as she looked at the knife that pierced through Zephyr's hand.

"W-hat should we do? Should we pull the knife?"

Zephyr ignored her as he continued his way to the school as he wanted to go directly to the clinic. Zephyr also didn't pull the knife as he would only suffer a blood hemorrhage as he didn't have anything to put to stop the bleeding.

He also didn't want his uniform to be stained with blood as it would totally stink. Seeing Zephyr ignoring her, Strelizia called him out.

"Wait!"

Zephyr pretended to not hear anything as he didn't want anything to do with her as he knew she would only annoy him as the attention of others would be directed at him.

Strelizia wanted to pursue him, but her body made her incapable of it as it unconsciously froze seeing the blood. After her body returned to normal, Zephyr was already gone. She sighed and continued her way to the school, hoping she could catch up with him.

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While the class was still going on, Zephyr felt uncomfortable as he could feel a gaze that was looking at him from time to time. Zephyr sat on his seat with a bandage on his hand, but no classmate noticed as he was an invisible person in the class except for one person.

'How can he be calm with his hands like that?'

Strelizia thought, seeing the state of Zephyr's hand. She was also worried about him. She was also amazed as no one noticed him at all. She might have overlooked it before, but now that she focused her attention on him, she noticed that Zephyr didn't attempt to communicate with everyone.

He also looked like he wasn't bothered by it, as his face was emotionless. After staring at Zephyr for a while, she didn't notice a single change in his expression at all.

"Now that I think about it, he's also very good looking. What am I thinking?"

Her face became red as she felt her heart beating faster than before. She then glanced again at Zephyr and noticed that Zephyr was actually the most handsome boy she had seen.

Her face even became redder the more she stared at him. She remembered on the first day of school that she had greeted him, but Zephyr ignored her. She greeted him again and again, but Zephyr always didn't respond.

It didn't take long when she had, as if, forgotten his presence as time passed, making Zephyr as if he disappeared from everyone's attention.

She felt sorry for him for being alone for all this time. She then thought to herself that she should talk to him and become his friend, but found that she was embarrassed at the thought of approaching him.

She bit her lip as she focused back on class and patiently waited for it to be over. It didn't take long for the bell to ring, indicating it was lunch time. She immediately packed her things and tried to approach Zephyr, but she found he was nowhere to be seen as Zephyr had left already.

She felt it was a pity that she lost her chance but swore to herself to not let go of the next opportunity. On the other hand, Zephyr, who was on his way to buy his lunch, felt better as the feeling of being stared at by someone disappeared.

Just like usual, he ate alone under a tree in the camp. He took his time as he also glanced at the bandages in his hand. Zephyr then ignored it and focused on eating.

After finishing his meal, Zephyr returned to the classroom and went to his seat. Suddenly, he saw something under his desk. It was a letter. Zephyr opened it and read the content within it.

Zephyr concluded that the writer was a girl as he saw the writer had good handwriting and addressed herself as a female due to the content.

It was telling Zephyr to meet the person who wrote it on the roof top as she wanted to say something important. Zephyr then returned the letter to the envelope and tossed it in the trashcan that waa located in his back.

He thought it was someone who misplaced it or someone was pranking him, as he apparently knew no one in this entire school. Seeing Zephyr threw the letter, which she gathered her courage and made effortly, Strelizia felt a little hurt and annoyed at how he didn't even consider it.

She stared at him from time to time as she talked with everyone in the class. She found it strange that she became even more conscious of him as she watched him watch the window.

She sighed and thought, which made her face become red as she blushed.

"Am I falling for Zephyr?"

Her thoughts ran wild as she remembered the moment Zephyr had saved her (unintentionally) from the delinquents. She kept looking at Zephyr as her face turned crimson, which worried her friends.

"Are you okay, Strelizia? Your face is beet red, you know."

A teenage girl of average height with upper-back length yellow hair that has bangs hanging on the left side, and blue eyes.

Aleyah, one of her best friends, asked worriedly as she wondered if Strelizia was sick or something.

"No, I'm fine. I just thought of something that made me embarrassed."

"Hoh!"

Alleyah's interest was piqued and asked her, but Strelizia said it was a secret as she was embarrassed to tell you that she was beginning to like Zephyr.

Zephyr, on the other hand, felt annoyed as he felt someone was staring at him but didn't find it as he was lazy about doing it. He felt it was unusual as this had never happened before, and Zephyr was sure of it as he was confident in his instinct.

However, even if he was slightly annoyed, his face was still expressionless as he became bored again and waited for the school day to finish so he could do something even more interesting.