[First-person POV: Eden]
[A few minutes ago]
'Warja Shinda, a [Major Antagonist] of the First Game and a psychopathic killer who is obsessed with bloodlines and how they work.'
I reminisced about his overview from the game as I observed the guy giving his speech on the podium. Despite his appearance, he was one of the most intelligent people in the kingdom.
'I should end this quickly,'
I thought that by surveying the entire auditorium, if things got out of hand, it would activate the [Trigger Event] which would be bad.
Most students sat frozen in terror, hardly moving from their seats, while Cassia and Aron struggled to advance due to the doubled gravity inside the sphere.
'They are useless as always.'
My gaze shifted to the few teachers present, but I still understood their hesitation; one wrong move could cost everyone's life, and all they are doing is minimizing the damage by just doing nothing, and it's not like they could make any difference given how powerful Warja is.
'Ahhh, she is smiling.'
I noticed Grace with a twisted smile on her face as she kept observing Angelina trembling beside the podium.
I couldn't dwell on her mentality; there was no time to spare.
"And fuck you, god, strike me down if you dare!"
As he shouted, moving in the open area and closing his eyes, I knew the time had come.
{Mana Mirage}
Swiftly coating my body with a thin layer of Mana that refracted the surroundings, creating the illusion of me being nothing, I moved from my place, arriving right beside Aeloria.
She struggled to move, exerting her utmost effort against the tenfold gravity pressing on her, but no matter how much she tires, she fails miserably.
"Hey!"
I greeted her with a smile, my voice barely a whisper, as I placed both my hands, coated with Mana, around her waist.
I lifted her up, moving her away from the ground.
As I did, the gravity over her body lifted, and she gasped for air.
"H-how?" she asked, gasping as she leaned on me.
Her soft skin touched my chest, sending a tingling sensation all over my body, but I knew the time wasn't right for that.
"He is using gravity runes on the sphere walls to amplify his own affinity towards gravity," I explained, placing her down and making her sit on the ground.
"That's why it's hard to move for everyone, especially for the teachers. He's targeting them, making sure they don't move."
"But why are yo–" She tried to ask something, but I quickly interrupted her.
"We don't have time for that!"
I took out a sphere-shaped object from my pocket, something I had in case of emergencies, and handed it to Aeloria.
"Call Ivy out and have her place this sphere right beside the corner of the third pillar," I ordered, pointing to the designated spot.
"But wh–"
"We don't have time for that; just trust me on this."
"But what if he notices–"
"I will distract him, so make sure it is placed there."
And after saying that, I moved away from her and returned to my previous position.
I made sure only she could see me, and even though some had noticed a change in her behavior, no one would say anything right now.
The thing that I gave here was a mana bomb that will burst after a specific period of time, and the place that I ordered to place it was something that I used a lot in the game.
A glitch area that will make the sphere walls crumble if hit in that specific place, or, to be more precise, it is the weakness of the sphere,
"AHHHHH!" As Warja stood there with his eyes closed and a battle cry, Cassia charged toward him, wielding a large sword.
And as quickly as the battle started, it ended even more quickly with Cassia's leg getting broken in half.
'Poor girl,' I thought, looking at her whimpering and crying, lying on her stomach crawling as she tried to grab her sword.
She is one of the girls who rarely talks with anybody and gives off the vibe of an introvert, but she has her own reasons for that because she has suffered quite a lot in her life.
Warja left Cassia there, continuing his speech. At the end of it, he made Angelina stand in the middle of the stage.
He moved back towards Cassia, ready to end her life, but just in time, Aron came to her rescue, only to be dealt with in one blow.
However, this gave me enough time to come right beside Angelina.
"You haven't changed a bit, have you?" I asked as I arrived right beside her.
"E-Eden," she stuttered as she looked at me.
"Shut up and don't resist," I said as I moved right behind her. With a swift touch, the ring in my hand turned into a knife.
She leaned on me. Her body slowly stopped trembling, and her breath also became normal.
[Protecting her only to kill her from the inside later on is beyond evil, Eden.]
After so long, Edda's voice resonated in my head.
'Stop reading my thoughts, and don't tell me what to do or not,' I rebuked as I placed the knife right on her throat.
She just looked back at me without saying a word as she let me do whatever I wanted.
'Why do you still trust me so much?', I thought before focusing back on Warja.
In the game, when Angelina was a child, there was a time when she and her sister were kidnapped by the dark church and subjected to countless experiments.
This event was the reason for her trauma.
However, in Eden's inherited memories, there was no mention of this specific event, nor was it specified in the game.
As a result, I didn't have much idea about what really happened.
The only information available was the general outline provided in the game.
"Who are you?" Warja asked, looking at Aron with curiosity, but I was the one who replied to him.
"You should be focusing here, fucker." I said it out loud, making him glance towards me.
"What are you doing?" Warja asked confusingly as he looked at me.
"What do you think? I am taking matters into my hands."
"HHAHAHAHAHA!"
'What? Is he thinking this is a joke?'
"Never in my life did I think I would look at this scene," he said with a chuckle, moving his gaze towards both of us.
"The knight in shining armor who was there to protect her in her toughest time now has a knife in her throat."
He mumbled, but I didn't understand what he was talking about?
"You..hah..trying to threaten me with her life," he said with a smile that started fading over time. "You have grown some guts, 01."
"Wha–"
"Ahh, I should first complete my words," he interrupted before I could say anything.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to the very last descendent of the Human God".
"Angelina D. Merovingian."
He announced, but my mind was still on what he said.
"WAIT! WAIT! What DO YOU MEAN BY 01!" I shouted desperately, trying to understand his words.
He called Angelina's sister 01 in the game; why is he calling me that?
"Hmm, but what happened to you?" he mumbled, ignoring my words as he rubbed his chin.
"Even after your memories are wiped out of that time, your body should still remember the torture and trauma I caused, just like her body did."
"ANSWER ME!"
"I will, I will," he said with a grin, pointing towards Angelina, "if you give that girl to me."
'Calm down!' Taking deep breaths, I cooled my head, shifting my focus towards Ivy waving at me, she had already placed the bomb right in place.
"I will get my answers later," I said, looking into his eyes. "Goodbye, motherfucker."
*BOOM!*
The whole building trembled as the sphere that had been placed cracked from within and, in an instant, crumbled into nothingness.
*Swoosh*
As soon as that happened, Headmaster Alexander arrived without any words or doubt. He launched towards Warja, ready to kill him.
*THUD*
*Cracking*
But before he could even touch Warja, another figure appeared in front of him and punched Alexander.
The sound of a solid punch echoed with a dull thud, followed by the unsettling noise of bones shifting and grinding against each other as Alexander got stuck on the wall due to the impact.
'Why the fuck is he here?' removing the knife from her throat, I moved in front of Angelina, as I thought.
"Next time you do something like this, you take my permission, Warja," the figure said, looking towards Warja before turning his gaze towards me.
"Y-yes, my L-lord," Warja bowed down before him, trembling in fear.
As his eyes met mine, every muscle in my body tensed up, readying the Star Energy in my body to escape at any moment with her.
"Let's go; you have already messed up a lot of things," he said before the space around him got distorted, and both he and Warja teleported away.
The man who broke the jaw of the strongest person in the academy was the [Main Antagonist] of the First Game.
"U-uncle," a voice came from behind me, making me glance back.
'Ahhh Right'.
And he is also the rightful successor and king of this kingdom.
Joseph D. Merovingian.