章節 15: The Showcase Of Strength & Ramika's Regret

"I can't believe that this thing worked... Phew!" elated Ramika, walking all alone in the corridor. It took a while, but Ramika eventually noticed that she was walking alone in the corridor, which was meant to be leading to her class, and no other students were accompanying her.

"Is it a holiday today? Where is everyone?" She pondered and looked around. And she saw a silhouette of a figure getting closer from a distance. A silhouette of a tall man who may be in his twenties.

"No way... NO WAY... NO—"

"Hi, Ramika... Long time no see," with his bright teeth, John Devitto, offered a bouquet of roses to the stunned and terrified Ramika, while creeping her out more with his predatory smile.

"Yohan said you won't be coming back..."

"Nah. Nah. He must have said, I won't harm you..."

"Whatever. You know what happened last time, right? Leave. Otherwise, you will have to answer to his fist. He'll kick the crap out, loot the life out of you... So, if you want to live, get the fu—"

"He asked me to show you around and protect you, actually."

*Silence♪*

A sudden wave of silence coursed through, and Ramika dropped her conjured-up valorous act down to the floor and stared like a lost rabbit when she came to hear the truth.

'This Yohan guy is the one who is going to be the death of me...'

[In The Staff Room]--

Yohan tried his best to not come off as awkward, but the stares, glares and condescending whispers from the staff members, made it difficult for him.

"So... Like she said. My name is..."

"Gohan!" a bald staff member, shrieked.

"No, that's a Dbz character. I'm Yohan. And... And... It's nice to see you. Hmm... And... Fuc... See, I'm not good at this self-introductory thing—"

"We need to meet someone, Mr Yohan. Come along with us!" A strong pair of hands grabbed Yohan suddenly and Yohan found himself ganged up and the other staff members forcefully dragged him out, pulling his shirts and pushing him away.

"More than the Dean, we are loyal to Mister Joshua... You won't understand his influence. You need to meet him..."

Yohan didn't put up a fight, and let the staff members be rough on him. Worse was, they did behave roughly on him. Treating him in the worst way possible, they pushed and pushed Yohan further and further, urging him to go away and not look back.

"Does your ma'am will be happy regarding this? I mean... I think she maybe. She treated me like this for ages—"

"I don't know the history between you two, Mister Yohan, but sorry, we need to follow the 'procedures'. And Miss Diana gave her wholehearted consent," A lady with pink hair and a big pair of green eyes, said to Yohan, as she led the way in front.

Yohan felt a mystical aura around her, and he quickly deduced that she must be an A-tier being - Beings having the utmost power levels and capable of undergoing peak-level assassin training. An understanding smile escaped from Yohan's lips while he allowed himself to get pushed around.

And finally, the spineless staff members reached the grand gymnasium, where a dozen of students were practising dojo, with a tall, muscular man teaching them. But contrasting to what he heard, the man actually carried a sense of grace, calmness, and especially kindness, perplexing Yohan.

'That guy is Joshua? Damn... He's peaceful as fuck. Maybe these guys are manipulating him... cocksuckers...' he thought as he looked at the graceful judo master with a respectable look and even bowed to him when they made eye contact.

*BAM!* *POW!* Out of nowhere, a crushing kick and a punch, smashed the skull and ribs of the Judo master right in front of Yohan when a brash, loud and foul-mouthed kid suddenly appeared and attacked the master from behind.

"The FUCK!" Yohan shrieked and rushed to the master, who got his entire set of teeth knocked out and struggled to form sentences. Yohan touched the back of his head and realized that there has been a serious crack and internal bleeding going on.

"Brain... It might be brain damage. There's a possibility... I'll... Hold it. HEY! GUYS! Help me lift him..." He stammered, whispering the gruesome possibilities and looked back to the staff members, calling for help. But the members stood petrified and bowed to the arrogant punk while having no shred of concern for their colleague in pain.

"Mister Yohan, we would like you to meet... Mister Joshua Josh, one of our final year students, slated to be launched as an elite assassin from next week..." The pink-haired, lady guided Yohan to grasp the situation and he soon realised that Joshua was not a teacher in the first place.

"WOOOOOh! The Human shit went down... And Helloooo! Mister Gohan... Heard that the Dean had picked you by herself... You also came for the 'spot'? How's the school?" With a half-assed accent on wording the words, the beastly eight-foot tall, 'boy', Joshua, approached Yohan, pushing the other students away.

His every footstep created mini-quakes on the floor and his mad eyes filled with insanity and hunger for blood said about his reputation.

But Yohan had other priorities than noticing these 'pointless' details.

"Yeah, we can talk later! I need to take this guy to the hospital, first..." Yohan shrugged him off, with no second thought, not even slightly intimidated by him and focused mainly on helping the man in his arms to get some immediate help.

While some might appreciate Yohan's goodwill, the place he was in right now doesn't value such things, and definitely not in a place where he was invited to get pummeled.

"Oh, so you're a righteous hero, I guess... And hospital? Hmm. No need. The management has appointed some of the finest surgeons and a really good medical team to look after the teachers and students in case anything happens—"

"Oh, really? That's... That's nice—"

"But I'm not going to let you disturb them!"

"Classic... Good. Typical villain talk." Yohan shook his head, sighing and rolling back his eyes.

"You see, Mister Gohan... He's a human. Just like you. Came for the teacher's job. And it kinda rubbed me off, so I thought of putting him in his place... I mean, your puny kind has no authority or a spot in a place like this, man... This is for assassins. For Beastly creatures like us... whom you passionately call, 'the Others'. So, you see—"

"I don't have all day for this. I need to leave... Save your preaching for later, okay? I'm leaving," firm on his priority, Yohan voiced out his thoughts and lifted the groaning 'master' into his arms and turned back, marching towards the exit.

The others gasped almost in chorus, seeing Yohan and immediately backed away, rushing to the corners of the gymnasium, including the spineless staff members. No one wanted a part of 'this', especially after seeing the flared eyes of Mr Beast, Joshua, who glared at Yohan, who was walking away.

*WHOOOOSH*

Joshua's forceful punch generated a scorching gust of wind and its powerful momentum slapped the faces of the bystanders as if they had been struck by a hurricane.

Yet, the man for whom the punch was intended was seen nowhere. A sly smirk crept across Joshua's face as he swiftly turned around and gazed upward, only to find Yohan suspended in mid-air, effortlessly carrying the 'Master' with him.

And like a feather, Yohan landed on the ground and glared at the smirking Joshua.

'No matter what, every workplace has this one element that stays marooned and unchangeable, whatever happens... A Bully. And there's a set of elements which never stops supporting the growth of such a Bully... Cowards.'

"GOHAN!" roared Joshua, like a mad beast, while also clapping his hands, looking impressed and admiring. But his thirsty tongue had a few more words to let his thoughts well known.

"Don't be in a rush... He'll be in the revivable zone for thirty more minutes. I mean... he's ripped as fuck for a human. So, yeah... he'll be fine if you take him to the docs within that thirty minutes—"

"And?" Yohan cut him off, urging him to hurry up. His fearless smug face and upfront attitude irritated the heck out of Joshua, who saw nothing other than his righteousness from him to be impressive.

"I don't like humans. Simple and clean. And sadly, the eighth staff member of Block E had to be a human... A fucking rule from that Dean whore. A disgrace of a vampire..."

"AND?"

Yohan, behind those sunglasses, glared with more restlessness in his eyes and the focus kind of made Joshua uncomfortable; a feeling that he didn't like.

His silver eyes scanned Yohan from top to bottom, but his wild instincts picked no hostile factor from him, making Yohan nothing but a poser to his eyes.

"I really want to see what makes you talk like that, Yohan... No signs of physical strength. No special powers... Mere human. And definitely not a peak human. Hmm... Have a duel with me."

Yohan frowned and zoomed in on Joshua with his sharp eyes. "What?"

"A duel... Fight me. Win, you can take that worthless meat to the doctors... Nah, just survive for ten minutes, and you can immediately take him to the medics. No need to win, or anything. But if you lose, I mean, YOU WILL LOSE... You had to leave. Alone... no heroics of saving or anything. Just walk away without turning back—"

"Why? What's the point?" asked Yohan, looking not even slightly overwhelmed or angered by Joshua's condescending agreement. While Joshua smiled back at his opponent's questions.

"Like I said... I don't like humans roaming around my campus. Until I'm here as a student, I don't want any humans to be walking around in front of me... It irritates me, you see... My wolf just goes wild seeing these worthless punks roaming from here and there pointlessly—"

"Oh, fuck, of course! OF COURSE! He's a werewolf... Again! Why the heck do I always get into a scuffle with werewolves? WHY?"

"Mr Gohan???"

"IT'S YOHAN, YOU FUCKHEAD!"