NINE! Scapegoats!
Vincent felt like his body is stretched to its maximum limit and sometimes he felt as if his body will be compressed under the high pressure.
'So this is how teleportation felt like... but the one I experience one I was teleported from school to the outside felt much more pleasant than this' Vincent thought before closing his eyes.
Swoosh
'Where am I?' Vincent thought as he look around.
"Are you the one sent here by the senior?" A soldier asked immediately when Vincent popped out from the teleporter.
"Uhh... Kinda" Vincent answered in an unsure way.
"What is your ability?" The soldier sternly asked.
"I had no ability" Vincent casually replied.
The two soldiers are stunned before looking at each other and then turning to look at the innocent looking Vincent.
'What the hell? How can he not have any ability?!' The second soldier kept racking his brain for solutions but ultimately failed to come up with a reason.
'Dammit! This can't be! How can the great senior made such a mistake? and here I was, thinking that the senior has finally decided to take a disciple but it ended up with the boy being a trash but even though he is a trash, he is still sent here by Senior, so we avecan to treat him with Respect and care' The soldier that has been questioning Vincent thought.
"Follow me to take the test and mind you, you have to use everything you got in this test because this test can determine whether your academic life will be fun or a living hell" The first soldier said before turning around and going the opposite way.
'What?! This guys take me for a weakling?! I should teach them a lesson, Nah... That's too stressful. Whatever...' Vincent give up the thought of taking revenge on them and quietly followed them.
"Young man, you have to punch this with all that you have"
'A piece of cake but I have to restrain my strength or else I will give the a hearth attack'
Vincent stand opposite the machine and pull back his arm.
'Here it goes!
Boom!
The two soldiers are stunned again and they have their mouth wide open.
"Did I fail?"
'I must have use a bit more strength than I expected, it seems I have to learn how to control my strength'
"No... That is above average" Said the first soldier.
Vincent participate wonderfully in the other examinations and tests, he is not too weak and not above average too. Just been enough to qualify for the class.
"So, should we ask him about which place he would like to be part of? or just assign him to a certain class?" The first soldier whispered to his friend.
"Uhh... This... Most of the dorms are filled and all that remains are incomplete buildings" The second soldier is also hesitating about.
'Since they are been respective of me then I will make things easy for them and choose a random number' Vincent decided to casually picked a number.
"Why don't you assign me to room 09?" Vincent casually suggested.
"Ah... Yes that's it"
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Knock!
"Ah! why did you knock me?" Vibcent asked.
"Because you are an idiot, didn't you think that the room will be super crowded when their are five of us?" Reginold angrily spoke.
"That's why I said its a lucky number!!!" And with that, the duo start bickering with each other while Alex is silent by the side.
'This number nine kept on following me around, is it a curse or a blessing. I have already have more than one situation that I have to deal with nine'
'When I was nine, that is the time I heard the worst news of my life, the military decided to stop concealing the truth and told me that my parents had died'
'My room number is nine and the hospital room I was admitted to was also nine and now the same number nine brought Vincent here'
'kiddo, you also forgotten that you are the ninth generation of the shifter emperor and also the ninth candidate to inherit the shifter emperor's power' The shifter emperor's voice sounded.
'Dammit! Why does the number nine kept on following me?' Alex tried to make sense of the situation but couldn't find a right answer to it.
'I hope is not a bad thing' Alex finally decided to threw the matter to the back of his mind and shrugged it off but that number nine still aroused a dark memory of his that he tried hide and so his mood I very bad right now.
"Cut it off!" Alex shouted but the duo kept on bickering.
"I said STOP!"
Swoosh
» Explosive Punch «
With that Alex disappeared from his position and reappear between the two quarreling people.
BOOM!
A fist to the gut of each one of them and they were sent flying.
Reginold and Vincent that are about to fight soon became the target for Alex to vent his anger or rather, the SCAPEGOATS!