What do you call a person who would cut his own throat just to escape from history class?
Thar person's name is Tommy.
Tommy hated history class with all the strength of his body. It was a repetitive and boring subject that only served to teach the youngest things about the past that they wouldn't even need to really use.
He who does not know the past, is destined to repeat it. The sentence was more or less like this.
Tommy's answer to this sentence?
How am I going to repeat the past if I don't even know the past? In fact, the chances of me repeating what happened in the past increase exponentially for every time you teach me about the past.
His logic probably had flaws, but for Tommy, this logic was completely perfect.
It had been a week since Richard Piers' visit, and there was still no new news about him. Not that Tommy cared much, he had honestly lost all the interest he had in Richard.
His mind was on something else.
Day after day, more and more guardians were starting to die without explanation, attacked overnight in isolated areas.
No one had yet commented on this, neither the guardians themselves nor the damage control. But Tommy already knew very well what was happening. There was a creature in the city.
Well, in fact he had already found out a week ago, when he was killed by that same creature while returning home during the night. But he also hoped that the guardians would be able to deal with that.
Well, it seems that he put too much faith in the wrong people.
... Tommy was getting strangely philosophical these days.
BAM!
"Mr. Grimm! " A loud scream made Tommy finally come back to reality.
Without noticing, he had once again lost himself in his own thoughts and completely forgot about the history class he was taking now.
And he also hadn't noticed that the history teacher, Mrs. Walters, was right in front of heim
Mrs. Walters was that kind of teacher that you prayed to never make you a target. She was about 30 or 40 years old maybe, she was tall, probably 6 feet tall, and was probably very capable of scaring a lion if she was angry.
And she seemed very angry now. Tommy could see the red forming under her dark brown skin.
"Yes? "Ignoring all this, Tommy just looked at her as if she were the inconvenient person in the situation.
"What are you doing? "That question didn't seem like a real question.
"Paying attention to the class" Tommy spoke slowly and calmly, as if he were explaining something to a child.
And this clearly irritated Mrs. Walters, because now Tommy could see the veins on her neck.
"So what's that in your hand? "
A little confused, Tommy looked down and saw that he had his phone in his hands, with the screen showing some random fighting game that he had already forgotten the name. He had a lot of games on his phone, and he didn't even play most of them.
And only after looking at the phone in his hands, he finally understood the situation he was in.
He probably got bored during class, started playing and then got distracted thinking about something random. Mrs. Walters saw that he was distracted, noticed the phone in his hands and probably thought he was playing during her class.
And she was correct. He was really playing in her class.
"My phone" Even in the situation he was in, Tommy answered in the same calm tone as before.
"And what were you doing with your phone during my class? "
"Researching" That was the most obvious lie Tommy ever told in his entire life.
He was practically surrendering now. There was nothing in the world he could do that would make him look less guilty.
And Mrs. Walters' angry face was irrefutable proof of that.
"Who was the first ability user of the world? " Mrs. Walters asked.
"What? "Tommy was completely lost now.
She's not doing that, right?
"Who was the first ability user of the world? " Mrs. Walters asked again, this time more angry.
Oh, she's doing that.
"Kaiser" Tommy replied with the same calm he had kept since the conversation began.
Mrs. Walters, and the rest of the class, were surprised by the answer. Especially Mrs. Walters, because she hadn't taught this yet.
And Tommy was right. He knew that. He was always right.
"Well, his real name is something that has not yet been discovered, but from the reports of the time of the great separation, he called himself Kaiser " Tommy added with a sigh.
"What was the most devastating catastrophe that humanity has ever suffered? "
"This question doesn't have a correct answer. Some will say that it was the first because there weren't many ability users at the time, others will say that it was the fifth because of the emergence of intelligent creatures, and others may say that it was the second because of the emergence of demonic creatures and the fact that the ability users of that time are always fighting among themselves. It's all a matter of opinion "
"But in the opinion, the worst of all was the fourth catastrophe because of the emergence of the Leviathans, which to this day continue to hinder maritime travel"
The anger on Mrs. Walters' face was replaced by pure shock in a matter of seconds.
"When... When was GDF founded? "
"After the end of the fourth catastrophe. But if you want me to be more specific, it began to be designed on May 27, 2819 and was officially founded on December 18, 2859 "
The whole class was silent while looking at Tommy as if he were an anomaly that appeared out of nowhere.
All the questions that Mrs. Walters had asked now were from a subject that she had not yet taught. Still, Tommy seemed to have all the answers on the tip of his tongue.
"How..."
"I read the history book" Tommy cut before she could finish the question.
That was obviously a lie. He never touched the history book in his life.
Laugh!
Saved by the bell.
Without saying anything else, Tommy just got up, packed his things and left the room without saying anything else.
Today, once again, it was Friday. Normally he should be at the literature club, but Mr. Deeds was sick, and without him, they couldn't do the club's activities.
In short, Tommy was going home early.
"I'm home"
Silence. That was the first thing Tommy received. And that also made him realize that the house was empty.
Sophia probably went to swimming classes, Helena was doing some college project with her classmates, Tina and Tyler were in boxing classes and their parents were still at work.
He was alone at home. It was nothing new.
The first thing he did was go up to his room and throw his backpack at some random corner. Soon after that, he took a quick shower, changed his clothes and a few minutes later, he was in the living room watching some generic action movie.
In fact, he wasn't even watching. He just left the movie playing on the screen while he continued playing that same fighting game from earlier.
After a sequence of humanly impossible combos, Tommy finished the game with a total score of 1,236,459. It wasn't the highest score Tommy ever had in a game, but it wasn't the worse either.
With the game over, Tommy turned his attention to the movie that was playing on television. But he quickly got bored and changed the channel, putting the news channel.
He also got annoyed with the news channel.
At this point, Tommy began to wander inside his mind.
The first thing he started were his plans for the weekend. But then he remembered that he had no plans for the weekend.
In fact, Tommy remembered that he never had plans for the weekend.
Tommy hardly left home, he just went out to buy things at the nearby market, to go to school or to skate. And on weekends, he spent most of his time indoors.
That little outing he had with Sophia and her friends last week was the first time Tommy saw that weekends can be fun. But unfortunately, he had nothing to do on the weekend.
Now, what could he do on the weekend?
"Breaking news, another guardian was found dead in the alleys of Mapple Street" The reporter's voice caught Tommy's attention.
"Throughout the week, the bodies of 5 dead guardians were found around the entire city, and damage control finally pronounced on it"
"According to what they said, a creature is wandering around the city and killing the guardians. And from the evidences they managed to gather so far, they deduced that it is most likely a nocturnal creature "
"With that said, avoid leaving home at night, or else, you may be the next victims"
She kept saying something, but Tommy was already thinking about something else.
You could almost see a lamp lighting up on top of his head.
I think I already know what I can do during the weekend.
Mission: locate, immobilize, capture and kill the nocturnal creature that walks around the city.
Objective: achieve all the objectives listed above without dying more than 10 times.
Chance of success: low.
Accept quest?
"Absolutely yes" Tommy muttered to himself.