Chapter 4: Orientation (Part 2)

As soon as the announcement was made, the students started murmuring.

"Do you know who the vice director is?" Anna asked .

Hearing this, Tanya had an incredulous look on her face.

"Do you guys really have no idea who Vice director is?"

""No"" Zen and Anna replied together.

"You guys really should research more before doing something. Anyways, I'm a single word, she is a demon. She is extremely ruthless and the academy has a unspoken rule, if you see vice-demon, just lower your head and don't say anything. If she gets annoyed, even the president of UHF cannot save you." James said.

Although he whispered, it was still loud enough for people in front and back to listen what he said and started at him.

"Ahem. I was just joking. She is a very beautiful and an example to live by. I want to become like her."

Tanya, Zen and Anna rolled their eyes.

Zen wanted to ask something, but suddenly he felt as though something heavy was on his head. He looked around and saw everyone was looking extremely nervous.

"Silence" a sweet but very authoritative voice came from the stage. Everyone looked on the stage and saw an extremely beautiful woman was on the stage. She had red hairs and big eyes. Her body, in one word, was just perfect. Although, she wore elegant but somewhat loose clothes, her two round rabbits were threatening to tear her top.

"Welcome students." She said in the same no bullshit tone.

"You guys are the best students on the face of Earth. But you have to understand you guys don't amount to anything."

"I guess she is a serious person." Anna whispered to Zen.

Silence. This was a heavy blow to ego. They, who came from the noblest families and stood on top of everyone, were nothing? The fuck is wrong with this…. Sexy woman.

"You kids might be some hotshot in your group, but in my eyes, you are nothing more than tiny 1-2 outer rings ants. So for fuck's sake, keep your worthless pride for when you at least become a inner ring."

"I don't tolerate mediocrity." She continued, "work like you are gonna die if you don't. If you don't, either I will kick you out of the academy, or I will personally make you work so hard that you would regret coming to the academy."

Zen really liked her attitude. There were a few things Zen hated from the bottom of his heart. Procrastination and laziness were among them.

"Now coming to some rules. Don't bother throwing around your family's name here in academy. All the professors and administrators are from other countries to make sure professors are impartial. So be ready to face a trial if caught."

"So that is, if they are caught huh" Anna said with a strained smile.

"Well the law of jungle applies everywhere. We have to stand high to make things go our way." Zen replied and then shifted his attention on stage.

"Let me ask something, what is the purpose of the academy?"

"To learn our disciplines and become successful." A student replied with a smile.

"To understand the beauty of learning." This time a girl replied with a ridicule while looking at the boy who answered previously.

"Any other guesses?"

"… to learn to survive." Zen said with neutral expression.

The vice director looked at Zen with a glint in her eyes and then said,

"Exactly. Although you guys think you are big hotshots, that's just in your country. We started exploring universe a few millennia ago which is negligible if compared to some races you can live for hundreds of thousands of years. Even among humans, we Earthlings are at the bottom of the barrel. So, this year onwards, whatever discipline you belong to, you are required to attend martial arts classes. I will leave details for later. Now coming to final thing, the top 3 students of each discipline will be the Elite Students. The next 10 will be first grade. Next 20 will be second grade. Next 30 will be third grade and the rest will be the fourth grade students."

"I wish you a good year and I hope you won't die." With this she left the stage.

'Yes. She is a completely no bullshit person.' Zen chuckled inwardly.

As soon as she left, the announcer took the stage again. She told all about the rules the students have to follow. Everything in academy was based on points. You wanna buy lunch for your girlfriend, bring points. You don't wanna live on street, get some damn points. The elite students were awarded 150 points every month. Rest can be earned with part time jobs and freelancing. But the most common way was to do duels. Every student has to duel once every week. If not, they will be penalized with 50 points. The duels can be proposed by any lower grade student to any higher grade student with at least 10 points on the line. If any student loses 3 duels in a row, they will be immediately be demoted.

"So they are forcing all the students to fight huh?" Anna said absent mindedly.

"Isn't it the fun part? I can't wait to fight. How fun it will be see those crying faces when I will break their bones." Tanya said with a big smile.

'Fuck she is a sadist.' Zen and Anna gulped after listening to her.

Zen had a good impression of Tanya and James. But he still couldn't help and ask,

"Can you tell me why you guys talked to us? I mean most of the students are avoiding us like we murdered their whole family."

"Hahaha. Most of them are nothing but idiots hanging on their parent's pants. They can't even fight properly. Instead of those damn wanna be protagonists, I would rather hang out with you guys. I mean sever since we came to you, we all are getting strange stares. I am sure it won't be boring around you guys. Maybe I'll be able to break some bones too."

"You love breaking bones huh?" Anna said with a sigh.

"You guys have no idea how much of a bitch she becomes when it comes to.." James stopped and didn't complete his sentence when he saw the fearsome smile on Tanya's face.

"That was all. If you have any doubts you can ask your assigned tutor later. Now follow me to the other side. A banquet organized by the sophomores is waiting for you. I wish you congratulations and I hope you all will have a wonderful year."