BLACK ✴- FOURTH CHAPTER-NEW WORLD PART 3

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1-A Classroom

Raeyon sat alone in the classroom. He didn't go outside since he didn't know what to do once he was outside. He also wanted to avoid making contact with the other students as he wasn't sure if they would accept him-

*Grooowwwwll!*

"*Sigh!* I guess I better eat."

He took out a sandwich that Roy had prepared for him. The sandwich had barbecue sauce, lettuce, tomato and burger meat. All that was in a burger bread. To the ordinary person, such a thing would be common, but to Raeyon it was the best thing he ever had, since back in the cave, what he ate couldn't really be considered good food.-

"Thank you for the meal Mr. Roy."-

He took a huge bite out of the sandwich, nearly half of it was already gone. He also had a box juice with him to help with swallowing the food.

*Slurp*

He drank. Since he never drank anything like that before, his face looked like he was experiencing a great pleasure. Meanwhile, in the hall way-

"I can't believe he didn't follow me again. I swear, I will punch that idiot into the ground when I see him."

Jenna walked furiously. She was angry since Raeyon didn't follow her again. She entered the class, but what she saw was something she didn't like.-

"Hish Jenna, howsh ar shyou?"

Raeyon talked with his mouth full. She absolutely didn't like that since when people did that, they didn't pronounce their words properly.

"Haaaah! You greedy pig! Why are you talking with your mouth full?!? Matter of fact, why didn't you follow me to the cafeteria?!?"

"I washe supposed to fullow shyou? I dishn't kn-"

" Just stop talking and eat. For the love of Aril, don't talk with your mouth full."

"*Gulp* sorry. Anyways, I was supposed to follow you?"

"Yes. Though it wouldn't have made much sense since you already had snack. Did Roy make that for you?"

"Yeah,he did. Also earlier you said about a cafeteria. Where is it?"

" Right, you just came to the school so you didn't get a tour, come on I will show you around."

Raeyon got out of his chair and walked out of the class with Jenna. They walked down the hallway side by side like they were a couple. Many of the students stared and whispered, one very special student however couldn't stand the sight of those two together, that person was Jack Frost-

"Well, what do we have here. A beautiful goddess hanging out with a ugly pig."

Jack was in love with Jenna ever since he met her. He thought they were fated to be together, so when ever he saw another boy with her, he would make that boy feel small and would always drive him away.

"What do you want Jack? I don't have time to stay here and chat with you, break ends in 15 minutes."

"Come on, I just wanted to say hi. Also, to find out why you're hanging out with the new kid so much."

"Is it any of your business?"

Jenna didn't like Jack one bit. He had a nasty attitude and an annoying personality. She would try to avoid him any chance she got-

"It is since you're going to marry me."

"Funny."

"Um, Jenna, we better hurry up, if we don't then break will end."

"You're right let's-"

Before she could finish, Jack was already infront of Raeyon. He was blocking his path and had no intention of moving.-

"Hold it. I'm not done"

"Jack mo-"

"I said, I'm not done."

Jack glanced at Jenna coldly. A bone chilling aura came around him. The area around him froze and cracked under pressure. Jenna stood still in fear, unable to do anything. Raeyon on the other hand was perfectly okay-

My fight against BEHEMEN was way scarier than this.

Then Jack asked-

"So Raeyon, why is it that you're always standing next to Jenna. Are you her body guard or something?"

" Um, no, I'm not. I guess I'm her-"

Raeyon didn't know what Jenna was to him. He wasn't sure whether or not she was his friend or just someone who helped him because Roy asked her to. Unexpectedly she answered for him-

"I'm his friend"

Raeyon was surprised. He never expected for her to say that she was his friend. It made him feel really happy inside.

"Yeah, she is my friend."

Thank you Jenna. Can't believe I made my first friend

"I see. So she is your friend. Then that means I hold a higher value to her since I'm her lover. Do you know what that means?"

"What?"

"MOOOOVE!!"

BOOM!!

Jack created a fist made of ice and punched Raeyon straight in his abdomen. Raeyon flew back tens of meters, stopping near the class room.

"Ugh! My back hurts.'

He groaned in pain while he held his back.

"What the hell is wrong with you Jack???"

"What, I barely touched him. If that's all it took to knock him out then he wasn't worthy of being your friend anyway."

"Ugh! I can't believe you! You're so stu-"

WHOOOSH!

BAM!!BAM!!BAM!!

Raeyon suddenly appeared infront of Jack and punched him 3 times. Jack was pushed back a lot, almost crashing into the wall at the end of the hall way. He got up-

"Damn!! I can't believe I let myself get hit"

Jack spat out saliva. He immediately rushed back to where Raeyon and Jenna was but by the time he got there they were already gone-

"What?? Where'd they go??"

He looked around, searching to see if they were hiding among the crowd of students who were watching the fight. After he realized that they were not there, he walked back to the class angrily.

"Whew!"

"I think he's not following us. You okay Jenna?"

"Yeah, you?"

"Yeah, I'm perfectly fine."

How is he still okay after that punch he got?? Even if Jack said he barely touched him, he shouldn't be standing like this.

Jenna was very curious as to why Raeyon was perfectly fine after that punch he received from Jack. She was also curious about how Raeyon instantly appeared infront of them, but didn't bother asking.

"Look, the bell is about to ring, so how about we head back to class. We'll do the tour tomorrow,ok?"

"Ok."

Although Raeyon was dissapointed, all he could do was agree since he didn't have any control over what just happened. Jenna saw this, but made no attempt to cheer him up. The two of them went back to class in a hurry, hoping they were not going to be late again.

"We're not late."

"Huff, yeah we're not."

How is it that I am always breathless and he isn't? Am I that unfit?

"Ehem!"

Jenna and Raeyon heard a voice behind them. They looked back and saw a teacher behind them.-

"Will you two please get to your seats?"

"Yes miss."

Jenna answered, thinking that it was a woman who was there. However the teacher was actually a man. After he heard ma'am, his eye brows  twitched. He couldn't stand being taken for a woman. Everytime he was, the person who mistook him for a woman, received a beating yet-

I think I will leave it slide this time. I better introduce myself.

He let Jenna of scott free. He walked to the teachers desk, he looked at Jenna who was already sitting with disgust in his eyes. He then introduced himself-

"Hi, my name is Yokiro Sazuka. It's a pleasure to meet you all. Also, I am a MAN!, so don't mistake me for a woman."

What?? He's a man?? I thought he was a woman. I can't believe I did that. I should probably apologize after class.

Jenna was surprised. Not only her, but all the other students in the class, including Raeyon. Yokiro looked so much like a woman, since he had long curly pink hair and long eye lashes. He also had the figure of a woman, just lacking breast.

"Anyways, I will be your OSCELL teacher. We shall begin immediately."

"Aren't we going to introduce ourselves?"

Laura was the one who asked the question. She really liked talking about herself, but she mainly wanted to introduce herself again since Genova interrupted her before-

"There will be no need for that. I already know all your names, Laura Haruna."

Genova heaved a sigh of relief. He hated talking a lot, and since he already introduced himself to Lingui and that took so much out of him, he didn't want to do it again. But, most of all, he didn't want to hear Laura's annoying high pitched voice.

"Anyways, can anyone tell me what is OSCELL?"

Kazuki was the one who answered-

"OSCELL is a strong energy that exists all around and within us."

"Good. And what do we call people who control OSCELL?"

Kazuki continued-

"We call them OSCELLIANS."

"Excellent. Thank you Kazuki. Now then"-

WHOOSH!!

"This is what we call OSCELL. Once it has been refined and cultivated, it will change shape to fit your star. Can anyone tell me what your star is?"

No one could answer. They only knew about their powers and OSCELL, but didn't know about the star. Suzaka Sensei expected that, but did not expect someone to answer-

"Your star is the heart of your powers. It is said to contain your OSCELL. You can only have 1 star. That star will contain one type of energy. In special cases, such as Jack, they will have 2 types of OSCELL, however, those two types of OSCELL has to be able to mix. Jack has wind and water within his star, allowing him to use ice."

That person was Raeyon. Everyone looked at him surprised. The most surprised person was Yoriko. He never expected for him to answer the question, and even know about the two types of OSCELL within a star being able to mix and form one main type of OSCELL.

"Amazing. I can't believe you were able to answer so well. May I ask, who was your teacher?"

"Well I can't give his name, but he was a very strict yet loving teacher."

Raeyon smiled. The person he was talking about was the Voice. He was Raeyons teacher for 12 years. Yoriko was curious. He really wanted to meet the man, who was able to understand the structure of the star. He continued on with his class-

"Well, excuse me class, I am surprised as you are, anyway let's continue. As Raeyon said, the star is the heart of your powers, it contains your OSCELL. Now, what I am about to tell you is very important. If your star is disrupted,disturbed or harmed in anyway, both your physical body and your ability to use OSCELL could be destroyed."

"How much damage would be caused to our physical body?"

Genova was really worried since he hardly relied on his OSCELL to fight. So if his physical body was damaged to the point where he couldn't fight again, he wanted to avoid that all cost-

"Though I don't know anyone who had their star damaged, theoretically, all the joints in your body would not be able to function again, your muscles would be torn apart and your nerves would be destroyed. It would mean the end of your life."

especially after what he heard. Genova and his classmates, were terrified. They couldn't believe that your star getting damaged could cause all that. Tervon, being the person he was, wanted to know about the effect it would have on your ability to control OSCELL-

"What would happen to our ability to use OSCELL?"

Since Tervon was someone who relied heavily on his OSCELL in battle, he was really worried about the effect it would have on OSCELL control-

"Well, you wouldn't be able to control OSCELL anymore. The OSCELL circulatory system would be destroyed completely, resulting in the inability to control OSCELL."

What?? It's that dangerous??

"Since no one is going to ask the most important question, I guess I will."

"Ask away Jenna."

"How can your star be damaged?"

Jenna was a smart girl, so instead of worrying about the effects it would have, she was more worried about how it could be damaged so she could know how to avoid it-

"Well I only know of one way, that is when someone drowns you in OSCELL."

"Drowns you? What does that mean"

"It basically means that they gave you more OSCELL than you can handle. It's like giving a plant to much water, since it can't contain all the water, it drowns."

After Jenna heard that, another question surfaced-

"And how would one go about drowning you?"

"By directly transferring OSCELL into your body. Since the OSCELL circulatory system carries all the OSCELL taken in to the star and stores it there, the moment they begin pouring energy directly into you, the system will try to carry it down into the star. But, because it's too much energy, the star becomes full. This results in the OSCELL circulatory system getting blocked, since it has no place to transfer all that energy to. Once it's blocked, the system over loads, and then boom! It explodes, causing your inability to control OSCELL."

Jenna tried to understand what Yoriko said, but something didn't feel right to her, so she asked-

"If OSCELL is all around us, why aren't we being overwhelmed and why isn't our OSCELL circulatory system exploding?"

Jenna asked a very good question. Yoriko himself was troubled by that before when he began learning about OSCELL, but after he found out the answer, it was really simple-

"The answer is simple-""

"Really?"

"Yes. OSCELL in the city is very low, due to so much people being here. So, our star is capable of refining that energy very easily. This means that it is easily compressed and made smaller so there is space for larger amounts of energy. When, however, there is a higher concentration of OSCELL in an area, we need to cultivate and refine it ourselves since it is to much for the star to do alone."

"Oh, I see. It really was simple."

Jenna felt stupid. She couldn't believe that she didn't figure out such an easy answer. Yoriko saw that, so he decided to cheer her up a little"

"Hahaha, don't feel sad. I didn't know the answer was so simple till I learnt it from an OSCELL scholar, so cheer up."

"Ye.. yeah."

Jenna felt a bit relieved. After that, Yoriko continued teaching. He told them about the simplest way to cultivate and refine OSCELL, and different places where there was a high concentration of OSCELL. He also told them  about techniques that could be practiced to cultivate faster. There were 3 grades of techniques that could be practiced, BRONZE,SILVER AND GOLD. BRONZE was the weakest one, SILVER was stronger than BRONZE and GOLD was the strongest out of all three.

"There are 3 types of cultivating and refining techniques, BRONZE, SILVER and GOLD. GOLD is the strongest yet hardest to use, and BRONZE is the weakest yet easiest to use. These cultivating techniques require a chant to unlock. Once unlocked, they can only be used for a certain period of time."

"How long can a BRONZE one be used for?"

Laura was the one who asked. She looked at Genova to check if he would say anything.

"A BRONZE one can be used for a total of 15 cultivations and refines, each cultivating and refining session last for about 5 hours. So that's 75 hours of cultivating and refining sessions."

"Oh I see. What about the others?"

Laura thought that if a BRONZE one could be used for a total of 15 sessions, then a Silver should be 2x that, but-

"A SILVER can be used for a total of 45 sessions, each session lasting for 8 hours. That is 360 hours or 15 days of sessions. A GOLD can be used for a total of 70 sessions, each session lasting for 24 hours. That is a total of 1680 hours or 70 days."

Laura was astonished. The fact that the GOLD could last for so long was unbelievable. If she was able to get a GOLD, she could train for so long. Her strength could have increased a lot.

She asked another question-

"Does the school have any cultivating techniques?"

"Yes. The school will supply you all with 2 BRONZE techniques. One HEAVEN and one EARTH."

Why BRONZE. Why can't it atleast be SILVER? Anyways, HEAVEN and EARTH? What is that?

Laura's face was twisted. She was struggling to understand what was HEAVEN and EARTH technique. She also wondered how ANILA academy, such a prestigious school, only gave out BRONZE techniques. Yoriko realized this, so he added-

"There are two techiques in each technique if that makes sense. HEAVEN is used for cultivating, basically it is used to gather the OSCELL from the surrounding area into your star. EARTH was used to refine that energy. It is used to compress the energy and make it smaller so that there is more space for more energy. Basically, it is taking raw unrefined OSCELL and make it your own. Understand?"

"Yes ma- I mean sir."

She almost said ma'am but quickly caught herself. Everyone in the class now understood and knew what HEAVEN and EARTH were-

Hmm?

Yoriko looked at a clock that was in the class and realized that the bell was going to ring-

"Since the bell is about to ring, you all are dismissed. Next class will be a practical on how to cultivate OSCELL."

As he finished speaking, the bell rang. The students got up and went out into the hall way. Raeyon looked at Jenna, as he did not know what they had next-

"Jenna where are we go-"

*CHAIR NOISE*

Jenna got up and walked towards the teachers desk.

"Jenna?"

Raeyon, oblivious to the fact the Jenna called Yoriko a woman earlier, looked at her as he wondered what she was going to do. Yoriko heard her coming so he looked up-

"How may I help you Arie?"

"I'm sorry. Earlier I mistook you for a woman, so because of this I am sorry."

Yoriko was surprised. He didn't expect her to apologize to him. He stared blankly at her for a while. Jenna was scared. She thought he was going to scream and shout at her for being so rude earlier, yet-

"It's ok. You did not know that I was a man. I do look like a woman, so it's very easy to make that mistake. I'm just glad you came to apologize, since most people never did."

He smiled. He looked happy,like he had just been blessed by a God. Jenna nodded her head and walked back. She stopped by Raeyon and told him-

"Let's go."

"Ok."

Raeyon got up and followed her.

THE GYM HALL

The gym hall was in a different building. So they had to walk from the main building to the building it was in. Raeyon followed Jenna. Since he didn't get a tour of the school before, he made sure that he looked around and observed his surroundings to ensure that he remembered the way there. The gym had lockers that the students used. This was where they would change into their gym clothes. There were one for boys and one for girls. Jenna brought Raeyon to the boys changing room then left. He walked in-

[ Hey isn't that him?]

[ Yeah.]

[ He's the one who was fighting with Jack.]

Raeyon could hear them whispering. He also knew what they were whispering about. It was about his fight with Jack. He continued walking until he arrived at the end of the room. That was where his locker was. Each student had their own locker. The lockers had locks on them, as to prevent people from hiding the clothe of other people. Raeyon got his code to unlock his locker from Jenna on their way there.

He turned the lock, trying to input the code. It was 3578. He successfully did it-

Yes

He was happy he didn't mess it up. He had a huge smile on his face. The other boys looked at him like he was crazy. He opened the locker and saw his gym clothes. When he was registering, he had to give his measurements so that the school would know the correct size to make his gym clothes. He removed his uniform so that he could put the gym clothes on. That is when he remembered that he had a sealing mark on his chest-

Oh right, the sealing mark that BEHEMEN placed on me is still there,so I have to be careful when I remove my shirt.

He looked around to see if anyone was facing his direction. After he confirmed that it was safe, he quickly took off his uniform and switched to his gym clothes. That is when he heard someone walking towards him. He looked back and saw that it was Jack-

"Raeyon. You have guts to come here after what you did."

Jack was angry because Raeyon humiliated him before when he tried to separate him and Jenna. Jack came closer to him and grabbed his collar-

"So after punching me like that, you just turned chicken and ran away huh. Well, I'm not the type of person who accepts things like that, so you better be ready."

"Be ready? for what?"

"You'll see."

Raeyon was worried. He thought that Jack would try to fight him again when he was with Jenna. But that was not what Jack had in mind. Suddenly, they heard a voice-

"YOU IDIOTS. WHY ARE YOU STILL IN THE LOCKER ROOM?!? THE GIRLS ARE ALREADY DONE!!"

Author's Note

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