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25.18% The Eminence of a True Monarch of the Shadows / Chapter 66: Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Chapter 66

[Third Person's PoV]

After the match Cid was walking out of the arena when he met Sherry looking around nervously with something in her hands.

A large smile appeared in her face when she saw Cid and practically ran towards his direction. When she was in front of him he started waving her arms around frantically describing the fight she just witnessed.

"That was amazing! YOU were amazing out there! The way you both swing your swords at each other"

Sherry brought her arms together and pretend she was wielding a sword while making noises with her mouth

"You went like whoosh whoosh bam!, but then your opponent also went whoosh whoosh bam, but your whoosh whoosh bam! Was stronger and then you went block, block, block"

Sherry then let out a dreamy sigh "Sighhhhhhhh your were amazing and so strong, it's a shame you are forfeiting"

"Phttt" Cid covered his mouth and turned his head to the side 'How cute' he thought.

Hearing Cid trying not to laugh brought her out her dreamy state and grew red with embarrassment.

She covered her face with both her hands and crouched down, trying to bury herself into the ground.

"How embarrassing" Sherry squeaked out.

Cid smirked and crouched down to her level and let out a small smile "Don't worry about it, that was adorable"

As she heard Cid her face got so red she almost fainted. She then quickly shot up completely straight causing her to almost blank out but Cid shot up quickly and grabbed her as she was falling backwards.

He put a hand on her waist and held her by the hand with one of her leg sticking out in the air, like a scene from a rom-com.

"Cid-kun~" Sherry mutters as the background around them turns pink with flowers everywhere, with Cid's face turning overly handsome in her eyes.

Their moment was interrupted by the vice principal clearing his throat a few feet in front of them. "Ahem, what are you two doing?"

Sherry let out a small whimper and spun around from Cid's grasps "Ah! Father, I forgot you were there for a minute"

The vice principal just looks at her teasingly "Yeah I can see that… It looks like it's true what they say. As soon as your daughter finds a boy they simply forget all about their fathers"

Sherry then start pouting while looking at her father "UmU, stop teasing me father"

The vice-principal then shook his head as he let out a small chuckle "Wasn't there something you wanted to give to this gentleman right over here, Sherry?"

A look of realization came across Sherry's face as she handed Cid the little bag she was carrying on her wrist.

"H-Here for you, I tried baking some cookies to thank you for the chocolates. And i-if it's possible, maybe, we could be friends"

Cid just smiled as he took the cookies and said "Sure, I don't mind"

A large smile spread across Sherry's face as she turned to meet her father. "Father, look I did it, we became friends!"

The vice-principal patted her head "I can see that, good job"

Sherry looked really pleased with herself.

The vice-principal then turned towards Cid as he asked "Cid Kagenou was it? I saw the way you fought, you fought wonderfully. Reminded me of my youth back in the early days.

Anyways, I want to thank you for accepting Sherry's request, I'm really glad. Sherry has been so focus on her research that she barely had any time to make any friends."

Sherry pouted once again "F-Father!"

"Hahaha, well a lot of things happened in the past."

'Like you killing her mother' Cid thought sarcastically.

"I hope you get along well with my daughter, I'm not saying that as a vice-principal but as a father." He said while looking at Sherry sweetly.

'The hell? He's not lying. Did he come to care for her? Talk about drama' Cid thought analyzing the vice-principal's feelings.

"Well I won't bother the two of you enjoy your time together" The vice-principal said while waving at them, leaving the two of them together.

Cid then took a bite of the cookies she made and nodded his head "Hmm, these are pretty good. I was planning on getting something to eat, want to join?"

"Sure!" Sherry said happily not realizing she's going on a date.

And so the two went and enjoyed their time together.

–The day after the tournament–

Alexia and Sherry were sitting together by a cafe with a cup of coffee in front of them. Alexia grabbing the cup asked

"I heard you wanted to talk to me about something, Ms. Sherry. Is it about your progress on deciphering the artifact?"

"No actually, I wanted to ask you something about a private matter." Sherry said while taking a sip of her drink. When she did she closed her eyes and stuck out her small pink tongue "blerg, bitter"

"It's better if you add some sugar and milk to your coffee to give it more flavor" Alexia advised.

Sherry nodded her head and dumped a lot of it inside her cup that it was almost overflowing.

(A/N:Overflow? Anyone? No? Just me? Okay👍, continue reading)

Alexia looked at Sherry with a weary smile 'Way too much'

"Ahh, much better." Sherry said after tasting it.

"It's made from the best beans Mitsugoshi has to offer." Alexia explained.

Sherry then got really happy hearing about the Company, "Mitsugoshi, you're talking about the place that sells chocolates right?! They taste really good!"

Alexia then looked at Sherry with a raised brow "Oh? So you had them before? Even though they are so hard to come by due to their popular demand…"

Sherry nodded happily still remembering the sweet taste of chocolate in her mouth "Yes, it was actually Cid the one who gave it to me as a gift"

When Alexia started drinking her coffee and heard Cid's name she started choking a bit while spilling some of her coffee that she had to put her cup down.

"*Cough* *Cough* Cid did? Really? I know that we know the same Cid but are you sure you're not confusing him with someone else?"

Sherry just nodded his head, "Actually he's what I wanted to talk about"

"Okay hold up" Alexia said while cleaning the mess she made. "Just to make sure we're talking about the right Cid here. You're talking about tall, dark smooth hair, dark eyes that look like the night sky, handsome face that can charm almost anyone that looks at him, Cid?"

Sherry nodded here head with a dreamy look "Yeahhh, the one that fought in the tournament Cid"

Alexia then looked even more lost 'He willingly gifted someone something, I know he can be nice when he wants to, like what happened after my fight with Iris, but that's like once every blue moon, is she one of his wives that wants me dead?... Is this an assassination attempt? My drink isn't poisoned, is it?'

"So what did you want to know about Cid?" She asked with a bit of apprehension.

"umm I heard a rumor that the two of you were in a relationship together. Are the rumors true?" Sherry asked while drinking her coffee.

'I'm not trying to get myself killed' "Noped, it was a fake relationship, there is nothing going on between Cid and I at the moment"

Sherry then looked excited and stood up "Really! So the two of you aren't in love or anything, right?!"

'Huh why is she so excited, wait is she not one of his wives? Wait… No, What have I done'

"Wait!" Alexia said, trying to fix the misunderstanding. But before she could explain herself Sherry interrupted her

"I was so uneasy thinking about it! Thank you for telling me that you're not going out!" Sherry then started skipping away and as she did she turned around one more time and said

"I'll work hard to decipher that artifact for you" she said with a beaming smile and continued skipping away.

"FFFFUUUUCCCCKKKK" Alexia screamed out loud and started smashing everything.

Sherry, who was a bit far away, thought she heard something and turned around but saw nothing and just shrugged her shoulders and continued skipping away…


Chapter 67: Chapter 67

A/N: a treat for all my little dogs awaiting a next chapter, here are some crumbs for you to enjoy 🙃🙄😬😪

Anways enjoy 😘🥰

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[Third Person's PoV]

Cid was sitting in his classroom twiddling with pencil between his fingers.

"Classes are already over, Goddammit! Why can't we go home yet"

"The teacher said there's going to be a speech about the student council elections. The candidates and the president are gonna be coming here"

'So it's about to happen any minute now, I can already detect the cult members setting everything up' Cid thought while listening to the conversation of the people around him.

The door to the classroom was then opened as Rose went through with a girl walking behind her holding a stack of papers.

Rose then stood behind the lecturer's desk and started addressing everyone in the room, "Dear students, I would like to thank you for giving us your precious time here today. We'll start the election candidates speeches"

Rose then saw Cid looking at her and gave him a shy smile.

"She's totally checking me out." A random NPC said.

"No way dude, did you see the direction she was looking? It just had to be me!" A friend of the random NPC conversed

Cid then suddenly smirks 'So it has officially begun, magic has been officially cut off from the school. Well it couldn't even get through my skin so my magic is working perfectly fine. Oh? It looks like they're already by the door, 3 2 1'

*BOOOOM!*

The door to the classroom was blasted open with a huge explosion, startling everyone in the room. Everyone started screaming and shouting asking what was going on.

Everyone started running around frantically, when a group of cult members wearing fake shadow garden gear.

"NOBODY MOVE!" One of them shouted bursting through the smoke with his sword already drawn.

Another one then shouted "HANDS IN THE AIR!"

More and more cult members dressed as members of Shadow Garden started entering the classroom. The guy in the front then shouted "We are Shadow Garden! AND FROM THIS MOMENT FORWARD THE ACADEMY IS UNDER OUR CONTROL!"

The cult members then started pointing their swords at all the students and shouted "Drop your swords on the ground!! One wrong move and you're dead!"

Rose then step up towards the cult while withdrawing her sword "Looks like you don't really understand what you're walking into taking over the academy of spellsword, sounds like the ambition of a madman"

While getting into a fighting position the guy in front of Rose said "I told you to drop your swords toots"

"I refuse. As the student council president, I will not watch this unfold silently" Rose said while also getting into a fighting position.

The cult member then started charging his sword with magic.

Rose tried to do the same thing but failed "What! My magic… It's not working"

The guy Rose was facing let out a sinister smirk "So you finally noticed! But it's too late now!" He then swung his sword with full force aiming to kill Rose.

Rose couldn't do anything but close her eyes and prepare for the inevitable. She felt a gust of wind fly across which she assumed was the sword until she heard a voice, Cid's voice.

"Are you alright?" Cid asked.

When Rose opened her eyes she looked shocked, Cid was standing in front of her while holding the sword between two fingers, she wasn't the only one that was shocked, the cult member in front of them and the owner of the sword was equally shocked.

"What! That shouldn't be possible! You shouldn't possess any magic!" He shouted trying to pull away his sword from Cid.

Cid then turned towards him and just said "Who said I'm using Magic" Cid then turned his fingers slightly causing the blade to break and fall apart.

Cid then took the pencil he was fiddling with earlier and jammed him on the side of his head and when he withdrew it blood started gushing out, killing him with one strike.

Rose looked at this with widened eyes unable to believe what she was seeing. She wasn't the only one everyone present in the room looked at Cid in shock, whether it was the cult or all the students, everyone just looked at him in awe.

"A pencil" someone whispered

"He killed him with a pencil." another one finished.

The cult all quickly got out of their shocked state and screamed "Kill Him! Everyone together!"

All the cult members then went running towards Cid, but Cid didn't sit still he ran towards all the cult members that were running towards him.

When the one in front tried to swing his sword at him, Cid easily sidestepped out of the way and plunged the blood soaked pencil right into his neck, making him drop his sword and grab his neck to stop the bleeding.

While his comrade was trying to blood his punctured throat, another tried to use him as a distraction and tried to sneak attack Cid, which failed as Cid grabbed the guy that was holding his throat as a human shield and blocked his attack.

A giant slash appeared on the human shield as blood sprayed everywhere from his injury he just received.

Cid then threw the human shield at the attacker, the attacker was unable to move in time, his sword ended up embedded inside the human shield making the attacker unable to attack or move.

Which Cid used as an opportunity, he spun around on his heel and stabbed him with the pencil on the place he attacked the first cult members.

Two members then appeared in the air behind Cid with their sword aiming right at his back. As they were dropping down Cod spun on his heels once again and threw his pencil like a dart and impaled one of them right on the forehead making him drop down from the sky, dead.

The other one dropped down and slashed downward using the moment but Cid easily dodged it by leaning backwards a bit.

The attacker quickly slashes upwards towards Cid but Cid once again easily dodges it, but as the Attacker slashes upwards Cid punches the hilt of the sword slightly making the blade face towards the attacker at an awkward angle.

Cid then follows that in one quick motion by doing a palm strike to the very butt of the hilt pushing the sword forward and into the throat of the last Cult member in the classroom. Killing every single one of them once and for all.

All the students in the classroom were frozen in fear and shock as they just saw something unbelievable. Never in a million years have they witnessed someone killing a group of people with just a pencil and come out completely unscathed without suffering a single injury.

Cid then turns to Rose as he says "It's best that you all stay here and stay hidden"

Rose who was still looking at Cid in shock and pure admiration and adoration snapped out of it when he heard him "Wait what about you where are you going?"

"I want to make sure, people I know are safe" Cid as he started walking out.

"Wait let me come with, it's dangerous outside for you to be going by yourself." Rose said, worried for his safety.

Cid just raised a brow and asked "What are you going to do? You can't even use magic, if you tag along you'll just be a burden. You're more useful here keeping everyone calm"

Cid then started walking out the classroom with his hands in his pockets stepping over all the dead bodies.

While Rose just watched Cid's retreating back while biting her lip and clenching her fist until her knuckles turned white.

'He's right I'll just be a burden' she thought…


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