1 The Pendant

"Clover~"

A mischievous voice reverberated throughout the classroom. It belonged to a Fatty kid aged 18; with his group of friends on his back.

He made his first move to bully his classmate in front of him. Clover, who had been called to, sat on the chair without changing his facial expression. He had already been accustomed to this and knew that the group in front of him dared not to go in bully physically.

"What again?" Clover asked, feeling annoyed.

"Y-You." A frail thin man stood beside Fatty exclaimed in anger.

"Calm down, Justin. Don't erupt yet." The Fatty swept his arm in front of Justin.

The latter immediately calm down, while did not stop cursing Clover. The latter appeared not to hear him, as he gazed right through Fatty's pair of eyes.

"Fatty Brian. Why are you so obsessed with my girlfriend?" Clover asked exasperated. "She had only been rescued once when you were in danger. Furthermore, that happened when you were still a kid. Why are you still obsessed with her despite her flatly rejecting you when you confessed for the first time?"

Clover's words struck right through Fatty Brian's heart. He did not expect that Clover would suddenly go into a topic something that was considered taboo to him. However, what Clover said next made him enraged.

"Are you a dude in distress or what?" Clover asked while cleaning his right ear.

All the people who were still in the classroom froze and were trying to process how Clover had insulted Fatty Brian. After all, the latter had been dominant to others, and this was the first time they heard someone humiliating him.

"You're courting death!"

Lee who stood beside Fatty Brian, the latter who appeared quite shocked and froze on his ground, erupted and made a move to kick Clover's face. Clover gently moves his body sideways, and Lee's kick past through the hair, and hit nothing.

Lee stumbled to the ground and was covered with chairs afterward. He groaned in pain but quickly recovered right after. However, he was flabbergasted as he did not expect that someone could dodge his kick.

After all, he was the captain of the taekwondo club, and thus anyone could have not dodged his kick easily. However, Clover made it rather easy.

Lee turned his head upward slightly and noticed Clover looking down at him. He was enraged, and his body shivered in frustration. However, he only stood up, and quickly came back to his previous position. He let his leader, Fatty Brian, deal with the man in front of him. After all, they did not come unprepared.

"C-Clover!" Fatty Brian gritted his teeth. "I know that I can't do anything to you besides cursing you again and again, and so-"

Clover suddenly interrupted him. "Of course, you can't! You are afraid to gain my girlfriend's wrath, after all!"

"Y-You!"

Fatty Brian was beyond speechless, and despite his boiling anger reached its peak. Fortunately, he still had his rationality and controlled his rage in time. However, it was not the same for his friends, as another one of them, Axel, erupted enraged.

"How dare you!" He leaped forward and punched Clover. "You have already claimed one of our Goddess!"

Clover dodged again, however, rather clumsily as he almost stumbled to the ground. Axel, on the other hand, was unfortunate as his face contacted the ground and his nose became flat. His butt face the ceiling, and everyone who had witnessed this was having a hard time to prevent from laughing.

"W-Why did you dodge?!" Axel complains while immediately standing on the ground.

"What? You wanted me to accept it?!" Clover snorted.

However, despite the calm and collected facial expression. He was panicking inside.

'Who would have thought that they eventually get physical with me? Did they lose their mind or what? Fortunately, with their idiotic dimwit mind, they are easy to read!'

Clover exclaimed on his thought while trying to calm his agitated emotion.

"Speak!" He could not take it anymore, and Clover decided to straight to the point. "Why have you come to me?"

Fatty Brian sneered. 'Finally!' he thought while grabbing his pocket. He slowly took out the object, and Clover saw what it was.

'I see. I remember that they still have it. Why did they take it out to me right now? Do they want to give it back to me?'

He wondered, as his eyes caught Fatty Brian's ambiguous smile. He realized that they did not come with good intentions, and thus Clover decided to wait and see approach.

However, just as Fatty Brian brought the item in front of Clover. The latter who caught a glimpse of the item froze, and his mind stopped working.

The item was a pendant, with a portrait shape ornament. The Pendant was quite unique, as the ornament was similar to a picture frame, but in an id frame.

Furthermore, the ornament shape portrait inside was empty. It was completely barren, with no one in the picture inside. However, Clover caught that a magical thing was happening in the center of the portrait.

There, a man with an obscure appearance slowly came to shape. Similar to how the image of a person that was printed to the frame, the man's framework was only his head and his body. The lower limb was cut off.

Slowly but steadily, the man's appearance became more distinct. Under Clover's scrutinize intense gaze, as if time stopped and his whole attention was obsessed by the man's arrival, the man's outline reflected his pupils.

"Is that…" Clover murmured while he felt astonished. "Is that me?"

Although, his voice was soft. It was rather conspicuous to all the people, and the group of Bully in front of him should have heard him. However, what he did not notice, was by the time that the magic happened, time – the absolute – stopped.

It was natural that he did not notice it. After all, his whole consciousness was pulled by the Pendant, or precisely, the man's arrival.

"He is so handsome…" Clover shook his head, dejected. "It's impossible for this man to be my future portrait of mine."

The man had blonde silky hair and a golden iris. To be exact, all the man's hair was golden colors. Furthermore, the man's bare naked body was half-exposed, as he only wore light linen, and it exposed the muscles on his shoulder and his chest.

"Whoever the man is…" Clover's eyes became sharp. "He should be the perfect man that exists in this world."

As he had said those words, the man in the portrait. Its eyes became alive as if they could penetrate even time and space itself. Clover suddenly felt pressured bearing on his back, and he sweated so much, which was visible on his dampened clothes.

Clover wanted to step backward and gained space. However, his intense gaze was glued to the pair of eyes of the man, who appeared to use magical power to keep him in his tracks.

All of a sudden, the man smiled at him with an obscure smile, and Clover was having a hard time deciphering the meaning of that smile. Slowly, the man became vague, and the magical image of a man, which suddenly appeared in the portrait ornament, disappeared like there was nothing that happened.

"What was that?" Clover exclaimed while gasping for breath.

Time continued to tick by, as his shout reverberated throughout the classroom. They could not help but gave Clover a weird gaze.

'Did Brian's intimidation already break his mind?' They thought while they gave Fatty Brian an admiration gaze.

"Are you playing with me?" Fatty Brian became enraged.

He does not know, how many times Clover made him explode in anger. He knew for sure that Clover was mocking him. After all, what could be the reason for his sudden yell, and was sweating so much that made his clothes dampened.

'Aside from his excellent acting? What could be the other reason?'

Hence, he wanted Clover to punch right through his face. However, before he could even make his decision. Clover, all of a sudden, grabbed the pendant out of his grasp and sprinted out of the classroom, amidst the flabbergasted classmates.

"CLOOOVEEER!" Fatty Brian roared at the top of his lungs while tearing out of his clothes with his fatty arm.

***

Eleanor, Clover's sister, and one of the recognized goddesses of their school were currently in the archery training center, inside of the training gym by their school.

She wore sportswear in archery for girls, causing her slim figure to be more figure and enticing in the eyes of the men. The latter could not stop but took a glimpse of her body outline, and could not help but admire her beauty.

As Eleanor continued to fire arrow after arrow, where not only her body and looks could be admired deeply. Her skills in archery were recognized as the youngest archer who claimed the world championship.

All of a sudden, Clover opened their door, and all of the people stopped what they were doing and gazed at Clover who panted out of breath.

"B-Brother!" The previous icy cold demeanor was replaced by a cute, gentle little sister the moment she saw Clover.

The boys could not stop their envious gazes directed at Clover. However, their jealousy came from the fact that they do not have such a beautiful and cute little sister.

"Eleanor!" Clover exclaimed. "Are you done training?"

"Yes!" Eleanor immediately threw his archer and arrow to the floor. "Let's Go!"

She grasped Clover's arm, the moment she reached him. She turned her head left and right as if she was trying to find someone. Soon, her amiable smile was replaced by a frown, and looked at Clover with a questioning gaze.

"Where is Big Sister Rose?" She asked.

"She said she had something to do. Hence, I came to fetch you early before we go to date." Clover smiled and felt over the moon.

After all, how could it not be amazing, when his lovable sister loves his girlfriend very much? As long as they get along together, that all matters.

"Oh!" Eleanor's eyes lit up. "I want to come too!"

"No!" Clover flatly rejected and felt helpless.

There was no date that Eleanor was not there. Hence, he immediately rejected her, since he wanted to have some time alone with Rose.

"No Fair!" Eleanor takes her arms out of Clover and pouted in displeasure.

"All right, All right!" Clover sighed.

"Let's go home first!"

He planned to trick Eleanor so that he could sneak out alone with his girlfriend. However, just as they were about to make their way out of the school. A sudden pressure landed on them, or precisely, on all the living beings on Earth.

They felt as if a mountain suddenly appeared and stomped them. Some puffed out blood afterward, while some immediately glued their body to the ground, the moment they felt that it was a better option to choose.

Clover saw Eleanor groaning in pain, and he felt his heart stung from a bee. He immediately reached out to her and held her in his embrace.

"It's okay, Eleanor. Big Brother is here." Clover comforted, but his face contorted in pain.