Chapter 175: Chapter 175 Library.
After all of the first-year students in Class A introduce themselves, the teacher starts to brief them on what they should do and what they should not do in school while also giving all of the students a small book that fits inside their pockets.
The book contains many rules and guides for the students to follow. It's also written that from this moment, the students had to be stated in the academy as one of the school's regulations.
"Okay, that's it for today. There will be no class. You guys can explore the academy as you wish; just don't cause a problem on your first day of school. You guys can dismiss".
Teacher Lee is packing up his belongings before he leaves the class, seen by the students before the class door closes with a thud. A sigh escaped the students as they finally had time to relax. Many of them had formed some connections before coming here and began to create a group to plan their next agenda.
Soma, who opened the book teacher Lee gave him. He read it fast while using his puppeteer skill to memorize all of the content in one single glance. He flipped the pages over and over, making the other students and Xiao Lian, who didn't know about his abilities, tilted their heads in wonder, asking. Is he truly reading the book?
After more than half a minute passed with a clap, Soma closed the book in his hands before storing it inside the relic on his palm.
"Soma, where are you going to go?".
Hina, who also stopped reading, glanced at her side, waiting for Soma's answer. Soma covered his mouth slightly as he began to submerge in his thoughts.
The time when he arrived in this world was so chaotic that he had to rely on his luck to get out of every predicament that
came knocking on his door. He also still lacks in so many things, and he needs solid information to plan his next move. Because the story in the novel will get pretty dicey once entering the Academy Act. But he can't be sure about that because of the changing plot.
Soma, unlike his earlier habit, always relies on the half-baked knowledge from the novel, which clearly shows some slight change in its plot. So, at least, he must be ready to deflect the incoming danger that would come and threaten his life and the people around him.
The first thing he needed to do was. Soma needed to discover and look toward the world from his own eyes, not as a reader but as a person. So, for now, the first thing he needs to do is to know this world and gather as much information as possible, which means his next destination is.
"I am going to the library. What about you, Hina?".
"Hmm, it's a good choice. I also need some good grasp of what the academy has in store for us, So let me in".
"Okay, how about you, Xiao Lian?".
"Mm? Maybe a training ground where I can exercise for a bit".
"Got it. Let's go, Hina".
"Okay, see you later, Silver-hair".
"Mm…".
Unusually, the two of them feel a bit tamed upon entering the academy. It aroused his curiosity, but he could ask them later because there was something he needed to do first. When Soma was about to leave and passed the door, a hoarse and irritated voice called him from behind.
"Oi, black hair?".
Soma halted his step as he was pretty much aware of who was the one in mention. Because inside the class, even though it's brief. Soma managed to catch everyone's appearance in the class, especially their hair, and there were only three people in the class who had black hair: Soma, Eiji, and Lin Fan.
Eiji would not talk rudely like that to Soma, and then it only left one person. The person Soma had eyes on ever since the entrance exam.
Hina, who also heard the rude attitude from the boy, stopped in her tracks and turned her back with knitted brows.
Soma turned his back and saw Lin Fan with his two lackeys standing with knitted brows, looking at Soma as he owned the place. Slowly, Lin Fan closed the distance between them, making Hina's body twitch, but got stopped by Soma's raised hand.
"By Black-hair. Do you mean me?".
Lin Fan didn't answer as he stared with his shrunken gaze, probing Soma's appearance. Then suddenly, with swift lightning movement from Lin Fan, he swung his tiger palm, trying to strike Soma's left jaw.
However, with the difference in status, his attack seems slowed a bit before Soma's eyes. Soma bent his head back, grabbed his right wrist using his left, and clenched it tightly.
Lin Fan tensed his right hand, trying to break free from Soma's grasp, but it wouldn't budge even a bit. Finally, with a clicking tongue that can emf from his lips, he spoke.
"Release it!".
With an aloof tone, he begs to order Soma while looking at him with contempt. Soma sighs as he loosens his grip, which Lin Fan acts with another antics. He slaps Soma's left hand. Then, he glared at Soma for the last time before snorting and leaving the place with the other two males, who looked at Soma with contempt.
"What the hell is his problem?".
"...Fuu, Let's go Hina".
"But, Soma?!".
"Hurry up, or I will leave you".
"Wait!".
Soma, who leaves the class door, doesn't manage to see the expression of his other acquaintance, who seems to worry and is a bit reluctant to greet him upon witnessing the event that unfolds.
In the hallway that stretched like a maze, Soma began to recall the content of the books as he took the other way around the hallway, different from his first coming to his class.
"Um, Soma?".
"What's the matter?".
Hina walked beside him, fidgeting as she hesitated to ask about the earlier greetings.
"Do you happen to know that rude boy?".
"No, not in my life".
"I see. Then he is an enemy".
"Stop saying scary things".
Lin Fan was indeed not his acquaintance, but Soma had already received a request from Martial Saint, who happened to be Lin Fan's ancestor. There is also the true identity of Lin Fan as one of the Villains inside the Chronicles Saga.
However, as Soma had heard the words, "A Villain was not born, but made". Lin Fan also has some circumstances that will turn him into one of the ragged demons and troublesome enemies if he is being done wrong. But Soma knows of what has caused him to become one, so he plans first to make a connection with him, gain his favor, and then save him like Martial Saint had asked him.
Besides, if Soma could pull him toward Leon's side. Lin Fan would become one of the greater forces in facing the disaster later.
"Well, if you say so. By the way, do you know that…".
Hina began to chirp as usual as the two of them transposed the path that would lead them toward the library. The walking was never boring because Hina always came up with many topics she had researched before coming to this academy.
The two of them finally arrived at the three junctions, where there was a twin door made from light brown wood with a glamorous design creaking open, revealing two senior female students holding thick books for their studies.
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Soma stood on the side of the door while greeting the female senior, opening their eyes wide and seeing a handsome, polite boy they didn't recognize greet them. But the moment they were about to ask, their gaze was blocked by Hina, who had beautiful curves on her lips, but her closed eyes emanated a menacing aura that frightened them.
The two seniors who stiffened their faces raised their hands to say hi before turning their back and leaving the place in a hurry.
Soma, who ignored the turbulence that happened beside him, lifted his gaze up and saw a wooden plate with a connected letter that said. "Grand Library".
"Bingo. Let's go Hina".
"Okay".