Chapter 128: Chapter 128: Beneath the Mask
" ...?"
Piggy looked at Vikir with a blank expression.
Then, in a tone of deep embarrassment, he asked.
"Oh, you're no longer going to OT?"
"No. I'm not going."
Vikir turned into still adamant.
Piggy gestured frantically in the direction of Vikir, who changed into unpacking his few remaining assets.
"Oh, no! We must go! If we don't go to OT, we'll be classified an asshole by using our seniors, and we'll be a pariah among our peers, so that it will make it very tough for us to get statistics and connections...."
Aah. Outsider is a word that refers to a person who does not belong to a collection and stands out.
no longer most effective do they face problems in conditions that require organization strength, inclusive of surprising lectures, elegance agenda changes, and group assignments, but they may be also at a disadvantage in networking and information amassing.
therefore, Piggy's factor approximately attending OTs is nicely taken.
.... ... this is, within the case of a ordinary freshman.
but, in Vikir's case, it changed into an awful lot easier to be active without being seen through each person, as he instead wanted to turn out to be an murderer.
meanwhile, Vikir stared down at Piggy, who changed into searching sullen.
Piggy's gaze was genuinely involved about Vikir's academy life.
He's nonetheless a pleasing guy, almost to a fault.
"It's going to be tough for him to fit in at the academy with this personality.
Piggy is timid but cautious and true at amassing and studying statistics.
If Sindiwendy noticed him, she'd scout him out in a second.
but, a number of the new college students at the Academy, Piggy is the very best individual to take advantage of and bully.
The academy's way of life preferred practice and real work over notes and idea.
It's a belief that has been handed down via the generations, not simplest inside the Colosseo, but in different top institutions consisting of the Magic Academy, the Magic Tower, and the Varangian Academy of Martial Arts.
In other words, within the academy, energy is usually specifically else.
It's not approximately childish brawls or fistfights, it's about performance in practical assessments.
without that, it's difficult to get noticed.
In fact, Piggy became desirable at collecting and studying statistics due to the fact he had a good head on his shoulders, but that's it, he wasn't excellent at some thing in cold elegance or hot classes, so he continually got caught in practical checks.
His worrying nature, at fine, and timidity, at worst, caused diffused ridicule, scorn, and bullying.
'And to feature insult to damage, he had the misfortune of meeting the vicious Highbro of Baskerville as his roommate for the primary semester.'
From then on, Piggy become usually on the sidelines.
due to Highbro's persona, Piggy become barely dealt with as a person, and other lessons, or even upperclassmen, had been constantly bullying and taking benefit of him.
however despite this, Piggy was a very good boy who always had a smile on his face.
every time he saw someone who changed into weaker than him, he would constantly assist and assist them as quality he should.
"...."
Vikir glanced at Piggy after which seemed away.
Piggy, meanwhile, had no concept what Vikir was thinking, and changed into nonetheless trying to persuade him of the need of the OT.
"There's a whole lot of effective seniors coming to this OT! St. Dolores, the student council president, is coming! And we've a excellent class! You've heard of Tudor, the eldest son of Don Quixote, and Bianca, the eldest daughter of Usher! That's not all! The Baskervilles have triplets, and they're all great! There's a child named Sancho from the Mercenary Guild of the North, who passed up a danger to be a pinnacle pupil at Varangian to come back here! after which there's Sinclair, who's a pinnacle within the hot class, and this man or woman got here to the Colosseo after being widespread as a pinnacle inside the Magic Tower! Isn't it brilliant that he's a top within the Colosseo's hot magnificence? these guys are already considered the subsequent technology of heroes, so that you should definitely cross see them! i can't agree with I'm in the equal elegance as those men........."
virtually, it's brilliant that Piggy already has this statistics.
If the seniors of the cutting-edge college students had heard of it, they would make a scouting provide to their membership or own family just with their capacity to accumulate and analyze facts.
"How's that? You're feeling a touch more stimulated now, huh?"
Piggy appears up at Vikir with a twinkle in his eye, like he's seeking out a compliment.
however Vikir nonetheless shakes his head.
"however I'm no longer going."
"What? Why? What the hell-"
Piggy, who had hoped to go to OT together with his roommate so that they may have each other's backs, became confronted with an unexpected task.
In fact, it changed into uncommon, even not possible, for a freshman to skip OT.
To this reasonable query, Vikir had a quick answer.
"I simply don't want to head."
That become it.
Vikir amassed his things and quick left the room.
He quick disappeared down the hallway, which become bustling with inexperienced persons.
Piggy watched, dumbfounded, and muttered.
"... Cool. My roommate is a fab guy! I must analyze from that form of dedication!"
continually the tremendous Piggy.
* * *
gloomy nighttime. The afterglow burning over the excessive partitions of the academy.
The streets leading right down to the lecture corridor have been already crowded with new college students.
ladies dressed up brightly, boys dressed neatly.
but by hook or by crook, the environment became sloppy and inexperienced.
Sloppy make-up and overdone hairstyles are nevertheless on show, and the women are status a bit stiffly.
Boys and ladies are exploring every different's businesses, looking like they're approximately to be blown away.
And the seniors were lightly leading the newcomers to the meeting location.
"okay, cold class A, please gather this way."
"'hot magnificence C', we'll meet beneath the purple flag over right here~"
"pupil council executives, please lead the new students to the venue!"
in the lecture hall wherein the evening play is over, students and rookies input each empty lecture room due to the fact the beginning of the semester has no longer yet arrived.
in the corridors of the lecture hall, which quick have become crowded, rumors and gossip about the new students had been spreading.
"those freshmen are honestly tough. They're all killing it on their practical tests~"
"Of path Tudor, Bianca, and Sinclair are the ones you're maximum excited about, proper?"
" well, in my opinion, I assume, however then there's the Baskerville triplets, and that i'm extra enthusiastic about their synergy together."
"but didn't that... crap say that 'he' became moving into from Baskerville this year?"
The chatter many of the rookies heats up even greater at this final assertion.
"Oh, you mean Vikir? I idea that became a rumor."
"There's no manner he may want to have performed any such feat in his overdue teens, isn't he a fictional individual?"
"Yeah, well, aristocratic households have a tendency to spread rumors to reinforce their circle of relatives's inventory charge, and Baskerville is a pretty closed community...."
"There are extra than a dozen children named Vikir on this freshman magnificence, and that they're all commoners."
"however there's one youngster who stood out, and he's the only who took the primary written exam."
"A written exam? Ah, what's so incredible approximately a man who most effective is aware of principle? I don't discover studying worms like that appealing – jocks are cool!"
quickly, the chatter inside the hallway have become increasingly frequent.
New students have entered each school room within the lecture hall.
Boys, ladies, boys and girls.
After some moments of small speak and eye contact, the classmates fast bonded.
even though the friendships were hastily made, they have got already sprouted between them.
" Is anyone here? permit's take a roll name of the brand new college students in magnificence 20."
The seniors of the pupil council name out the names on the list and continue to test the attendance of the elegance.
and then a name is known as out.
"Vikir."
"yes."
"Vikir."
"yes."
"Vikir."
"yes."
"Vikir."
"...."
"Vikir?"
the one absentee who were known as a few too many times through commonplace names.
Vikir van Baskerville. No, simply "Vikir" now.
He did certainly now not attend the OT.
It's just that he wore a black cloak and mask because the Hound of the night time instead of the student Vikir.
...growth!
Vikir stepped at the roof of the academy's spire wearing a black cloak and a gasoline mask formed like a stork's beak utilized by medieval plague doctors.
Over a wall nearly as high as the town walls, he stepped into the stunning town middle of the Imperial town, with its countless waterways and bridges.
Vikir melted soundlessly into the pitch-black city.
It's a night while classmates of the twentieth elegance are consuming and strengthening their friendships with their seniors and classmates.
in the intervening time, Vikir will visit the mansions of those on the kill list, one by one.
The demons. And traitors.
it's miles here, inside the Imperial city, that the traitors of mankind accumulate!
'...My comrades, be affected person. i'm able to avenge you in a second.'
Vikir remembered the faces of his fellow hounds who had been betrayed and died, recalling the bad ties of his previous existence.
and then.
He accompanied the faint fragrance of demons across the city.
The night Hounds have eventually started their hunt.
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