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Chapter 78: The intruder

"What will you be doing Ed? Will you go train again?" Ellie was curious about what Ed was going to do. They had just won the tournament, making them the strongest of the academy. But there was always room to improve.

"No, I'm going to be meeting with my family in the capital." Ed had other plans. He was going to spend this time with Eri and the children, before taking them back to his kingdom.

"Your family will be visiting you?" His friends were rather curious about this. Usually, no one would cross such a distance just to meet with someone. It hasn't been that long either.

"Not exactly" Ed didn't explain himself, nor did he need to do that. Everyone had their privacy, and the ones present knew exactly what that meant.

Before Ed could leave, he was surrounded by other students. They all wanted to have a chat with him, especially some girls, while some of them wanted to fight him, or train with him. It took Ed a while to get away from them, mainly thanks to the help of Hayato, and the others who made it seems like he already had plans to be with them.

As Ed was making his way to the teleportation circle to get back to the castle, he was stopped by an ear piercing scream. Everyone present was surprised by the sudden scream. Even the king and general, who still had not left, turned around to check the situation. Ed looked to the back to see a girl clutching her head while screaming. She looked as if she was losing her mind as the seconds' pass. Not a minute later, another scream sounded that freaked out the students.

This time it was another student, an Oni to be precise. 'Two of them?! Could it be a sickness? No that's too much of a coincidence…'. Ed who was surprised by the sudden change of events activated his Sharingan to check the two students that were in a weird situation. After checking out the QI of the two students, his worst fear had come true. Both of them were in the same situation as Eric from before. In fact, they were much worse, their QI seemed as if it was exploding inside their body.

Before Ed could inform someone about the situation, someone spoke. "Well then, I won't be needing this anymore" Ed looked at the source of the voice to find that it is Class C's teacher. His face looked as if it was melting, anyone who looked at his felt nauseous. "T-Teacher?" Leon and Charlie, who were rather familiar with their teacher, looked surprised at what was happening to him.

"I had to avoid you two since you were much stronger than the rest. But now, everyone will be dying!" The teacher released his QI and immediately, the students felt fear. 'This isn't Earth Establishment! This is even further… It can't be an Immortal Establishment.!' The QI released by the fake teacher made Ed lose some hope. If the enemy was truly this strong, they had no hopes of leaving.

"What have you done to my teacher?" A voice broke Ed out of his whirlpool of despair. The king and general seemed to have gotten an idea about what was happening. Both of them seemed ready to fight, no to kill the man in front of them.

"Oh, I haven't done anything. I took the teaching test and you people accepted me." The man was speaking with a smile stuck on his face at all times. Instead of making people feel that he was friendly, they wanted nothing but to get away from him.

"What do you want here?" The king remained calm even while everything was going south. More and more students were falling on their knees screaming. There were now more than 20 students in such a state.

"I'm here to announce the return of my sect." The man stopped for a while, adding a dramatic feeling to his words. "The blood sect!" The king and general's eyes both opened up wide. It seemed that they couldn't believe what they heard.

"That can't be true! That abomination of a sect was destroyed a long time ago!" The general who was silent until now couldn't stop himself from speaking.

"That's why I said, we have returned! And we prepared a festival to celebrate!" The disgusting smile never parted with the man. "What did you do to the students?!" The king seemed to be losing his patience as he screamed. Ed who was listening to them all this time finally had the courage to speak. "They are being controlled!"

"How did you know?" Hayato who was next to him thought that the students were poisoned. No one thought about the possibility of them being controlled.

"I encountered this situation before." Ed didn't tell them about the incident with Eric, but they believed him. Even the king and general had no doubts about it.

"Oh yes, the illusionist was sent to Avalon. I guess you were the reason why he failed to do his job." The man switched his attention to Ed. His look alone made him shiver uncontrollably. The killing intent being released was too much for anyone to handle. His friends who were next to him weren't the target, yet they could feel helpless.

"You can die now." Before Ed could register what he was told, a palm was descending, aiming for him. 'I can't block it. Should I dodge?' In a split second, Ed studied all the possible situations that were presented to him. He knew he was doomed if nothing was done. Suddenly a sword slash made the palm dissipate.

"Don't think you can push my students around." Harry had appeared to help Ed and the others. They were all relieved to see him. Then, another person stood next to him. IT was class A's teacher. "All bets are off Harry. The students were being controlled, which means that they weren't at their best!" He seemed to be trying to make Harry forget about their bet. "No way" Harry didn't seem to back away either.

"You two get the other teachers and try to save the students. You can't handle this man anyway" The king was preparing to fight himself, while the general was going to support him.


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Shigun Shigun

Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay on the release. I had to take a three hour trip on the train. Alson if you notice a lack of quality in this chapter, then please excuse me, I didn't get much sleep and I had to take a make-up exam this morning. Enjoy^^

Chapter 79: The tragedy

By now, about half of the students were affected. None of them were from E class, however. 'I guess he targeted the mediocre ones'. Ed also noticed that none of the exceptional ones were affected. 'He probably plans to kill us himself'. Ed was looking at the man and king who were now disappearing and appearing faster than the eye could follow. Each time they exchanged a blow, the wind pressure that was resulted would force everyone to protect themselves.

The king looked like he was fighting while drawing him away from the students. Every time the man tried to get back, the general would stop him. By now they were hundreds of meters away from their original position.

The students who were being controlled started attacking the normal ones. Harry and his friends were trying to subdue them, but every time they were stopped, they would struggle with all their powers. Harry had no other choice but to release them in such a state. "We have to knock them out" Ed remembered the way he used on Eric. Knocking him out made him less resistant.

However, it was much easier said than done. All the students were berserk right now. Approaching them meant fighting, and by now, all of them were rather tired due to the tournament. 'He sure knew when to start his plan' Ed was thinking of various ways to end this. The king and general would take care of the man. All that remained was to save the students. Ed gathered all the sane students. He withdrew some pills and potions to heal them.

The ones he wasn't familiar with got only pills, while his close friends got the potions. He made a special exception with Alicia since she was gravely injured. "We'll try to knock the students out, but be careful not to get killed by them" What he said was intended for the weak students. They weren't targeted for a reason.

As Ed was fighting the students, he was finding some things to be illogical. In the previous case, Eric was targeted because he was next in line to the throne. However, this time it seemed that they were being controlled and made to fight each other. 'If he wanted to kill everyone, doing it himself would be much faster and efficient. He would have done it while the king wasn't present'. The king's presence was bound to cause trouble for the man, even put an end to his plan, so him taking this chance was not normal.

Ed was making out theories as he fought, his performance dropped because of this. 'Does he want to start trouble between kingdoms?' This was one of the reasons. A student killing another one was bound to cause a war between the two kingdoms they belonged to. A parent wouldn't care if the one who killed his child was being controlled or not, he would try to get revenge on both the killer and the controller.

'But even in that case, why do it when the king is present? It doesn't make sense' The more Ed thought, the more mysteries he unlocked. 'Unless he wanted the king to be present?! In that case, all of this is only a diversion!' The realization Ed came to sent shivers down his spine. If what he figured out was true, then the capital and its people were in grave danger. And in the capital, there was someone that shouldn't die. 'The children!' Ed stopped fighting and immediately approached the king.

The fight was making it harder for him to approach them, but he didn't give up. He activated Ren and condensed it near his body, making him resistant to the wind around him. He reached a point where he couldn't advance any longer. But, his voice could still reach them.

"The capital is in danger!" Ed enhanced his voice with Nen and screamed as much as he could. He didn't know if the man had other allies so he chose to deliver these words to the king himself. This way it would be guaranteed that he would act.

"Oh, you found out! And so fast!" The man seemed surprised that Ed was able to figure out his plan so quickly. "I should have killed you after all, but maybe next time". The man pulled out a ball-like item and crushed, suddenly he started disappearing. "A teleportation item. Ed, tell me mo-" Before the king and general could get more info from Ed, he was already away.

"Raikou, Gobuta, Goburou protect my friends!" Ed summoned his companions. The three of them could easily fight the ones who were currently here, and Harry and the other teachers would take care of the strong ones that appeared. "Ed this is?!" Emilia seemed to remember Raikou and wanted to ask about him, but Ed was already far away. He was running at maximum speed to reach the teleportation circle.

When he reached it, he found that it wasn't broken. He was thinking that the man would make it malfunction somehow to buy time. 'I guess it would have been too obvious' Before Ed could teleport, the king had already reached him. He gave up on asking Ed question as he knew it was too late, so he simply teleported as well.

When the both of them reached the other side, all they could see was flames, all they could hear were screams, and all they could smell was blood. Ed didn't wait for the king to act and simply started running. He checked his Map and found out that small green dots were near the slums. 'Why are they so small?!' Ed activated all his speed skills. This time he used a condensed Ken to protect himself from crashed and started running. The capital was overrun by monsters. Ed was hoping for the best, but his heart was beating faster than ever. Even when he died, it wasn't beating this hard.

In this state, any monsters that got close to Ed was blown away, any wall he encountered was destroyed. All he could think about was reaching Eri and the others. It didn't take him even a minute to get there, but what he saw made him drop to his knees.

Eri, along with the children and two elderly women were lying on the ground. A pool of their own blood was surrounding them.

"NOOOOOO!!" The noisy capital suddenly turned quiet. The previous screams seemed to disappear in front of Ed's own scream. His scream filled with sadness, anguish and also, anger.


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Shigun Shigun

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