Headmaster Sho was having a migraine especially with the events that had just unraveled earlier with Haru's bold action of trying to challenge someone who had no prowess while making it even worse by doing it when Malcolm was around along with Neon who took the opportunity just to harass Eunji.
It was truly an annoying thing to deal with especially when students had just come back from the academy. "They are stable for now headmaster but our only problem would be once Malcolm or even Haru file a restraining order against Rei." Eri said upon revealing herself out of the nurse's office.
"I see… I'll take care of it." The headmaster said before pinching the bridge of his nose, clearly stressed at the sudden situation especially with how Rei handled them.
"No wonder why Jinwoo advised me to watch over Rei more carefully this time…" Sho thought to himself as he recalled Jinwoo's call late at night.
'Do not let anyone provoke him. He's more dangerous than before.'
The headmaster couldn't help but feel frustrated for allowing Rei to attend the internship at Jinwoo during the application period. However, there was one thing that the young man knew that most of the academy students and staff didn't know within the academy's records and official system.
Then somehow Rei Nishimura uttered a single phrase that was long forgotten. Contract. While it wasn't the same contract of what Ethereal's history had written, Kamigami Academy had a spiritual contract within its institute which surprised Sho that the young man knew about it.
Was it because of the ancient being that resided within him? Was that the reason how Rei managed to know the actual regulations of the academy itself? He wouldn't know unless Sho asked Rei for it which would either result in a stalemate of both sides not responding or a one sided conflict that the headmaster was avoiding the most.
"Headmaster. It's time for us to leave so that we can handle the paperwork and every document now." Eto called out from the hallway as Sho had no choice but to comply as he proceeded to leave in order to attend to more important things that he needed to assess at the moment.
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Kamigami Academy was in shambles after the events of Rei absolutely demolishing one of the strongest. It would've been a positive look if it were to be senior Eunji or Rinka in a friendly spar but it was the opposite of the entire thing.
Rei Nishimura had absolutely turned the hierarchy upside down nor had implemented its presence to put everyone in a hierarchy level that the academy had not used for years since the headmaster's first year of putting equality after some certain events in history.
Rumours and gossip are already out in the open. It wasn't anything negative but rather a positive response to Rei's action.
"You saw how he handled them right?!"
"Yeah! He's cool as fxck, man! Think we could at least catch up to him?"
"Only if we train enough!"
The gossips from male groups were rather tame compared to the female ones that were utterly bold and straightforward, not bothered by what the words were spilling out of their mouths.
Some were fake sentences of them wanting to be with him.
Some were just blatantly eyeing the male naked while others were just blushing from his new look compared to his usual ones before the incident had happened for both cases of his status being revealed then the one with how the simple mission turned to tragedy.
His messy black hair then usual clothes of the academy's uniform or during the weekend of him wearing a simple plain shirt paired up with a hoodie and shorts or jogging pants. It was a typical thing that they would often see him back then.
Currently, Rei had his head straightened out of what others would typically compare it to an emo haircut back in the great 2000s. It was long but to neck level although it was mostly in a wolfcut hairstyle which was famous to this day.
To the staff who had been around the academy for a long time looked stunned, after all, with countless of archives that they've seen in the academy's records. They were looking at the actual Black Reaper from legend itself except for the longer hair compared to them.
After all, every person that was either recorded in history should come from a well known place, family, clan or Institute. The Black Reaper was once a student of Kamigami Academy then became a temporary teacher after a worth of fifteen to twenty years of service.
"Am I hallucinating or does he look like a carbon copy of him?" One of the staff whispered as they watched Rei walk formally along the long hallway for the next class with Sylvie.
Rei knew there was a lot of eyes stared at them but he didn't bother since he didn't detect any hostility within it or one of his new techniques would've detect anything earlier on especially with the 'Recoil' that allowed him to send an attack in any form depending on what the medium was to reflect it with either ill intentions or spiritual energy.
"You change a lot." Sylvie said as she looked at him, her mint green eyes scanning his looks especially with the rounded glasses that made him attractive.
"If you knew how to dress up like this back then, it would've been a chaotic mess with how people wanna use you for looks when dating." The magenta haired girl joked, giggling while Rei smiled softly before letting out a soft chuckle. "Anyways. Are you free later?"
"Yeah." Rei answered immediately while the ancient being within him just groaned although just allowed the moment to go on despite blatant flirting that the black haired male was doing which surprised Sylvie especially with how calm and sarcastic he talked.
To her, he was like a whole different person especially with his new attitude compared to the usual goofball and careless persona along with the former anger issues that she got used to.
The one that she was looking at now was confusing. Calculated, calm, observant and ruthless. She had seen the first three after the incident from earlier when Rei wasn't panicking at any inconvenience that he used to especially with sudden development of his academic performance from passing to decent ones then the fact that he was more confident with studying by himself during class especially when math, chemistry, physics and history were his biggest weakness in his academic performance.
His ruthless nature was the one that she noticed the most during the incident. While she had witnessed his brutal assault in Air Ellis Kadoorie High, the level of his fighting capability was more powerful from before. His fighting style went from injuring others to a degree of being unable to fight back due to broken bones or knocked out, then to immediately executing them in the least non life threatening way with cutting a limb or simply slashing them in one go.
The Rei she knew would hesitate to put someone in a near death state due to his trauma but the one that she saw had not possess any hesitation nor care of almost killing someone. It was like as if he became the much worse than the monster that he hated so much.
What was worse than a monster?
The embodiment of calamity itself that didn't regard anything nor look at others misery.
Just death itself that took life or anything that stood in its way.
A grim reaper to be exact.
It made her afraid of him yet she couldn't help but find him even more inspiring due to his own determination to do something about his own weakness just like how she managed to finally open up to her parents after Rei had helped her open up from her ice cold shell of focusing at her own success rather than taking breaks and enjoying life.
"Anyways. You wanna hang out later?" Sylvie asked while Rei immediately responded back with a thumbs up.
"Alright. Let's text or meet up after class then?" The magenta haired girl asked before heading off to her next class upon seeing Ha-Eun and Jinah waving at her.
Rei was waving at her as he stood still before his eyes glowed bright before looking subtly at a direction where he was feeling the eyes that were on him. "Looks like I got a stalker…" He thought to himself as he could see the spiritual energy flow since the person that was either stalking him had their prowess active that turned them invisible.
The male could only contemplate for a bit before leaving immediately to his next class, not wanting to get rid of something that could help him advance to his investigation or anything in particular.
"Think you can keep an eye at them?" Rei asked through the mental link between him and Keith. "Of course. Only if they don't leave the campus. Then I'll have my eyes on them at all time." Keith scoffed before going quiet to let Rei a moment of peace for the 'Assault Division Class'.
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