16 Why are you laughing?

Eariga Academy, an international elite academy that has gained the support of many world powers. The Holy Cross, 7 Capitals, Royal families and the mysterious Underworld, with all these powers placing their cards on the table known as Eariga Academy what will happen when a certain boy with unstable fate was thrown into the mix? Would he be the wild card? And if he is, on whose hands will he fall?

...

Middle Realm, Eariga, Eariga Academy.

Zeke was now the famous topic of the whole campus, from S to E people were whispering whenever he went by. He felt extremely uncomfortable and tried his best to avoid crowded areas but unfortunately it was not easy as he thought it would be, every area had at the very least a few hundred students and to think that a rumor spread faster than wildfire is simply unrealistic.

"Do these people have nothing else to do but talk loudly quiet?!"

Zeke said while silently finding his way into the dormitory, on his way however a weird object bumped into him!

THUD

As Zeke recovered he slowly saw that this object was actually a person and he couldn't help but reprimand this blind fellow.

"Watch where you're walking! You bloody tw....it?"

Zeke clenched his jaws immediately within a few seconds after staring at the mysterious person that he bumped into, it wasn't just mysterious but rather a totally unusual weird clown. The clown scratched his head and also squished his nose for a few times after seeing Zeke clench his jaws in an attempt to not laugh.

"Excuse me, but can I laugh for a bit?"

The clown was a little thrown off at the sudden question and absentmindedly blinked a few times before nodding hesitantly, after Zeke saw his silent reply he quickly lied back to the ground and started laughing and rolling while grabbing his stomach.

"That's not cool, dude..."

The clown just watched as a 13 year old boy kept rolling at something that wasn't even worth to be called 'funny', he eventually sighed and sat near Zeke while waiting for him to finish laughing. After a few minutes Zeke finally settled down and was panting like a dog while patting the clown in the shoulders.

"You're a good one! That could've actually killed someone normal"

The clown removed his wig and make up, revealing his white hair that covered one part of his face and red tired looking eyes. He shook his head a little making his hair bounce from side to side while standing up and offering an aid to Zeke.

[Zax Jenova]

[Class = Shinobi]

[Rank = Gold]

[LVL = 39]

[Lore = ???]

Zeke's eyes nearly jumped out of their sockets and he had to check the the class twice thus leaving Zax hanging in the air for a few seconds. Zeke took it and after both were standing up, Zax looked at Zeke warily and slowly stepped away.

"Why is a ninja like you dressing up as a clown?!"

Zax's mouth slightly opened but only for a split second before turning into a faint smile, he made a one handed praying sign while his other hand scratched his head while bowing.

"That's confidential information~ But I'll tell you soon enough, see you later dude..."

After saying those words, Zax sunk to his shadows and disappeared completely along with his shadow.

"Later?"

Zeke gazed at the ground where the shadow slowly receded into a dot and shrugged before going on his original destination, the school canteen or actually in this case the school restaurant. After walking past about several hundreds of whispering flies, Zeke finally found the school restaurant and he with all his might walked proudly in the middle of all the people eating. He was emitting some sort of sun ray as he walked towards a unused table but before he even reached it a boy blocked his path.

"Hey! Machton!"

The boy was big, Zeke was around 5'4 but the kid was a stunning 5'6 and they were the same age somehow. He had green hair along with emerald eyes and a relatively muscly or just fat body, regardless he was huge and thick.

"What?"

Zeke was a man of few words, boy, for now anyways and also quite full of himself so the result was him talking to the big guy while looking straight ahead, he did not want to look up nor did he want to look down so all he could was look straight and give off the feeling that he was not even placing the boy on his sight. This greatly infuriated the green haired boy so he went in front of Zeke once more in a more offending manner.

"My name's Dada! Remember it and answer my questions!"

A big grin appeared on Zeke's face after hearing the big boy's name, naturally he tried stopping it by looking down and biting his tongue lightly but Dada saw this as Zeke finally losing confidence and bowing before him so he naturally crossed his arms and started smiling at his new 'member' but in the middle of his gloating, Zeke knelt down and a few suppressed high pitch hiccups reverberated throughout the silent restaurant.

"AHAHAHAHAH! WHO NAMES THEIR CHILD DADA?! OH MY FUCKING LORD! DADA, HE SAID?! DADA FUCKING DADA!"

Everyone in the restaurant started looking away while whispering 'condolences' and Dada shivered while stretching his arms out to grab Zeke but he stopped in the middle and instead threw a pin in front of the still laughing Zeke.

"I challenge you to a duel, Zeke Machton! I'll teach you a fucking lesson and make you my ass wiper!"

Zeke heard the issued challenge and started laughing even louder, for him who has been isekai'd this situation was cool to say the least so he couldn't help but imagine the sight of him beating up the big bad bullies while looking majestic.

"Ahahahaha! Oh my god! Sure, sure! Do you also want some milk after the match?"

Zeke continued jeering at...DADA but the boy himself didn't do anything else and just walked out of the restaurant, flipping and kicking some chairs on his way out. Zeke on the other hand was still trying his best to regain his tough aura, but he failed it miserably because no one really took him seriously now, in fact they even ignored him in fear of having Dada take revenge using them, although it won't work on our Zeke.

GRUMBLE!

Zeke picked up the pin and sat on the nearest open space and ordered some food, it took him 7 minutes to eat the whole menu and the people near him couldn't help but praise him, not because he ate so fast but because he could actually pay for those! The price were very expensive and the place was considered high-class even on the school, but Zeke was little too rich and some few gold coins weren't really important for his wallet.

...

After the hearty feast, Zeke took a stroll around the school and accustomed himself to the campus, on the way he also took his time to ask the teachers about the school and duels especially.

"Y-You accepted a duel at the very first day?! Show me the pin!"

Zeke was a little taken back at the current change of attitude, the teacher was kind when he gave him his own and pin and now that he asked for details, the teacher went a little...wild.

"S-2 Dada Leypax, what a mess..."

"Why? It's just a duel right?...Sir. Grod"

Grod palmed his face and massaged his temples, the sheer amount of things he has to explain was tedious and he really wanted to go away but the son of a 2nd cardinal wasn't any other normal fellow. Grod coughed and sat up straight picking up the atmosphere of a teacher for once.

"Duels don't actually need pins to be thrown but the students just made it that way in order to add flair to the act of challenging someone, it also acts as a mark that the person was challenging someone since their pin was missing"

He showed the pin and wiggled it a bit before giving it back to Zeke. Looking at it, Zeke observed the details of the pin and it was apparently made of rare metal, there was a gun and staff intertwined diagonally engraved on the surface with a rectangular golden box with the words 'S-2 Dada Leypax' on it.

'Wait...Leypax?! Is this Dada guy a relative?!'

Zeke glared at the pin and little amounts of killing intent leaked out, Grod saw this and raised an eyebrow before continuing his explanation.

"This school takes teamwork a bit seriously, so in the end they had to categorize the different amount of students in this school. Vanguards, who are mostly the tough students and weapon users have a pin with with a sword and shield intertwined engraved on it they usually fight it out at the frontlines with support. Rearguards have a staff and gun intertwined in their pin and are the majority of mages and some gun users in this school, they usually get protected by the Vanguards and are usually the most flashy ones in a team duel or a duel in general. The last one are a special case, the Scouts which has a two daggers engraved in their pin instead are always only from 3 families, Jenova, Hood and Huntras. They are the families of ninjas, thieves and hunters respectively and are considered as a top tier specialization"

Zeke nodded slowly with his eyes staring at the clown behind the window who was waving at him, he actually did not pay too much attention but got the gist of it. Grod saw this was just a little bit disappointed, he was used to this and only sighed after his explanations.

"Anyways, wait for tomorrow and your adviser will give you your pin after taking an additional test"

"What's the point of the entrance exam then?"

"That's just the school being picky for no reason, they want at least basic middle for no reason at all even though they encourage the students to forget about it later on if it's not their talent..."

Grod glanced behind him suddenly but he only saw air, he then looked back at Zeke who had his mouth wide open and looked back again. He felt ridiculed and shooed Zeke off after a few more attempts at catching whatever it was he was looking at.

...

After the information Zeke gained, he then went near the class of S-2 and sat on the stairs just right beside it trying to pry off some information.

"Dude! Dada challenged someone today! Guess who's the unlucky dude!"

"Who?"

"The apprentice of the 2nd cardinal! And he's from A-2, what a dumbass hehe!"

"He's from the A-2 despite being an apprentice of a cardinal? Aren't all of them supposed to be in Class S?"

"I bet he sucks so much or something, I bet 5 gold coins that Dada will use Wind Dome and Water Blade combo!"

"I bet 6 gold coins that Dada will finish the much with an Emerald Whirlwind... what? Still dare to bet!?"

"Screw you man!"

The two conversing idiots went on and on about how Dada was awesome and what he usually does, this was like getting a cheatcode by listening to NPC conversations... Those never happen. After a few minutes of hearing them talk, Zeke then walked away silently no one will ever know that those two were important factors on the debut of the Flame Lord.

Zeke finally decided to check out the dorms and after arriving at the huge mansion like dormitory with a big sign stating 'Class A Dormitory 7' he went inside, not even a step in and a sexy lady walked out of the dormitory while giving a key with a tag on it to Zeke.

"You already have a roommate, don't be too noisy now ok?"

The lady's voice was angelic and soft, but the way she walked was a little bit on the lecherous side with hips swaying a lot and a 'pa pa pa' sound every step. She only needed to look back and it'd be a similar to a model on a stage. Zeke ignored this after a while and just went up to his room that was on the 3 floor, he was in room number 17 and he wondered at how wide the place was and if every single one of the mansions are this big...

CREAK!

"Oh, hey there dude... I was about to pick you up but never mind~"

Zeke blinked a few times and just took it on like a man, he ignored the surprise that was welling up inside him and looked around the room. It was a very large room with a 2 bathrooms and 2 closets and table, the bed however was a large bunker bed.

"Oh, I'm too lazy so I'm the one on the bottom, you take the top..."

Zeke nodded and sighed inwardly while climbing on top of the bed, he sat at the edge and closed his eyes.

"What the fuck?"

"Oh so you were gonna ask..."

"Seriously, how did you know I was your roommate?"

"I didn't I just knew we were in the same dorm~"

Silence spread throughout the room and Zax just kept smiling at Zeke. Truly this boy was an anomaly, not to mention his suspicious temperament. As Zeke was about to open his mouth Zax appeared behind Zeke and circled an arm around his shoulders.

'How!?'

Zax kept smiling and only poked Zeke at the cheeks, before breathing hot air to his neck. Was this dude gay?

"I'm not gay, you're just too cute and girlish that I can't help my...'huff' self"

Zeke sprung up and kicked the suspicious gay man in the head but Zax blocked it, he then grabbed Zeke by the ankle and spun before using it's momentum to throw him in the ground, Zeke crashed down and immediately used his arms to spring himself up and stand while taking out his two gunblades.

"Gunblades? Cool, dude..."

Zax yawned and clenched his fists.

SHIINK!

A blade appeared or most specifically went out of it's holder, it looked very similar to a Katar but the blades weren't the same in fact the only Katar part of it was the way it looks when on his hands as they were on top of his wrists.

VOOOM!

Zax reappeared behind Zeke once more and pointed his blades at his eyes. Zeke's sweat dropped and made a loud 'Tak' sound.

"Oh...nice one dude..."

Zax knew he wasn't on the winning side because on his left temple blood was dripping and a gunblade was pointing at his head.

"What's the point of this? Did Dada have something to do with this?!"

Zax's eyes widened and he slowly walked away from Zeke. He then saw the pin of Dada on Zeke's pockets about to fall off and he laughed awkwardly while scratching his head.

"Aww...sorry man, I thought Dada influenced you against me or something. Looks like you went against him though..."

Zeke glanced at his pocket and hid back the pin while still pointing a gunblade at Zax.

"Put that down-"

"NO WAY!"

Zax smiled wryly and sat down in a lotus position as he massaged his temples. He quickly opened his eyes after a few minutes and spoke once more.

"Want to hear the fight between Dadork and me?"

Zeke lowered his gun but still kept them in his hands, he smirked while picking up a nearby chair and sitting on it.

"I'd love to listen!"