Delirious

As Jin walked back to his dorm, he noticed how lively the academy grounds had become.

At first, no matter what time of the day it was, the grounds would be nearly empty, except for the staff and teachers that seemed to live here, but they were quite few.

Now, you could see students walking around and carrying stuff, talking to each other. It seemed people in this academy already knew each other even though there was quite a lot of students.

Jin suspected it would be hard to get inside that social network. This would probably only add to his headaches.

Although he wasn't even at the stage where he ate only two demons, it already was such a pain. He just hoped it wouldn't hinder him too much, with the withdrawals and stuff. He even felt nauseous sometimes, which he really didn't appreciate.

Thinking about the reason why it had all come to this, he realized that a big percentage of his regular buyers were probably also addicts. But even if he wasn't there, it's not like it would've stopped them, right? So he felt no guilt.

Anyway, he really felt like shit because of his headaches. He wanted to quickly get to his bed to rest a bit.

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As he opened the door, Jin noticed black shoes in the entrance. Since the shoes of the two dorm mates he already met were both blue, he easily guessed the last dorm mate had arrived.

In fact, he didn't need the shoes to know that since he could feel an unusually strong source of faura upstairs. Since Jin didn't know his own aura, he guessed that person had one as big as his.

Before he could get to the stairs to go to his room, he distinctively heard à disgusted groan coming from the room of the new guy whom then stepped out and walked to Jin.

The new roommate was quite tall (slightly more tall than Jin actually) and muscular. His face looked rough, like sculpted in rock with a hammer and a scissor. He had two piercings on each ears and had a dragon tattoo on the side of his neck.

Jin's first thought when seeing him was: he's going to get even more glares than me.

As for what went trough the new guy's head, it was unclear as his first words were not quite polite.

-"What the fuck is something like you doing in here?" He said angrily

-"Ah?" Jin wasn't sure he had understood correctly.

-"Fucking rat. Get out, now." He then ordered.

-"You... what's your fucking problem? Are you retarded? Or blind? Can't you see I'm a student here?" Jin said as he was getting pissed off.

Inadvertently, Jin's faura started getting agitated and aggressive. Feeling it, the new guy took a fighting pose and glared at him. Seeing that, Jin's face turned sour.

-"Damn what is wrong in your head! Are you seriously going to attack me? I just want to get to my freaking room!" He shouted while clenching his fists. Right now, the violent withdrawals and headaches weren't helping him keep his cool, so instead of trying to solve things, he just did whatever.

As the tension was going up and they were about to jump at each other's throats, someone suddenly barged in while yelling.

-"Moach Brandair, Maki Jin, both of you stop right now!" Kyo Wan then intervened.

Disturbed, they both glared at him, but still stopped what they were doing.

-"Jin, please forgive us for this mistake. His reaction is our bad, don't take note of it." He said apologetically. "Brandair, the director wants to have a little talk with you. We have our reasons for this arrangement."

As Brandair seemed to have decided to walk to Kyo, Jin just stepped aside.

-"Urgh, whatever. As long as I can go to my room." Jin said frustrated, while walking to his room.

Kyo looked at Jin's back bitterly before walking out with Brandair.

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Latter that day, the Reng cousins were coming back to the dorm. They had spent the day watching the third years sparring at the practice hall and at the specimen center, like usual.

They were talking about what they were going to learn that year and how excited they were.

Finally second years! Just how long they had waited for this. At long last, the theoretical studies were going to take the back seat and they'd begin the practical part! Not just physical exercise like last year, no, they'd actually learn how to use faura!

As Neo was throwing something in the trash can, he noticed an aspirin bottle.

-"Hey hey, you did take the trash out yesterday morning right?" He asked.

-"Well yeah, why?" Dan answered.

-"I saw another aspirin bottle in the trash last time. You think that freak is high on aspirin or something?" Neo said.

-"Who knows what's going on inside that guy's head. Maybe he thinks aspirin is a vitamin or some type of candy." He answered half jokingly.

An awkward silence made them both look at the trash can. They both wished that their dorm mate would be more normal. Being around him made them uneasy.

The other time, not long after they settled in the dorm, they had talked about the fact that they found it kind of annoying that Jin didn't answer when they said hi, since then, he had always answered. Thing is, they were in the kitchen when talking about it and Jin was supposed to be in his room.

They weren't even on the same floor.

So they found it quite a creepy coincidence.

Not to talk about the loud banging noise he started making, along with the bruises on his forehead that appeared shortly after he started doing that. You didn't need to be a genius to understand what was happening.

After talking with their friends when they finally arrived, they understood they were the only ones that got stuck with a freak in their dorm. Not to mention nobody ever heard about Jin Maki before, which meant he wasn't at this school last year.

People usually didn't change demon eater academies since they were few and spread out thin. They assumed he was forced to change schools.

The adults also didn't seem to like him from what little they saw.

-"But isn't it still dangerous for health to take too much aspirin? Won't he die?" Neo asked.

-"I don't think you can die from aspirin overdose... Worst case scenario he's sick like hell." Dan said.

-"..." Neo stayed silent.

As they were pondering whether or not they should report this, they suddenly heard a loud crashing noise, not like the usual banging. Both having a bad feeling about this, the Rengs looked at each other and nodded. They then called the school staff.

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Jin was was sitting in the kitchen.

Suddenly, a green gorilla with lazy eyes and a kilt appeared behind him and said "Get the fuck out idiotic rat.". This sight instilled pure disgust and annoyance in him.

Jin was still trying to figure out what was happening when the room shifted drastically and seemed to get bigger, but after looking down, he understood it was because he transformed into a point pest, the rat criter.

Immediately, he started looking around anxiously and as he feared, where previously stood the gorilla, now stood an ugly and evil him. Jin started running for his life inside the fairy forest, because the kitchen had simply transformed.

No matter how hard he tried, Jin couldn't run fast and seemed stuck in his slow mo, on the other hand, his devil doppelgänger wasn't slowing down at all as he started yelling his crazy high score of 235 457 point pest in one hunt. His doppelgänger only needed to kill him to beat his high score!

As he started despairing, he saw a rabbit hole in the walls of the fairy forest! Quickly he threw himself into it.

but, the rabbit hole was hollow! He kept falling and falling. Oh no... what about the high score? He doesn't want to be stuck at 235 457! He started thinking.... Jin kills point pests... Jin kill point pests... Jin kill point pests... pests Jin kill point... point Jin kill pests...point kill Jin point... pests points Jin kill...pests points kill Jin....

But before he could finish this captivating train of thoughts, he suddenly crashed on a plastic chair. The air in his lungs blew out when his back slammed against the seat. "Oof!".

Getting up, he looked around him and saw he was in a dark room, his wrists cuffed to the table. On the table, a chipmunk sized him was wearing sandwich boards with "bite me" written on them as only clothes, weird thing was that the chipmunk him was dancing and crying at the same time.

Feeling disgusted, Jin swatted it off the table.

Then, he noticed a menacing big looking point pest in front of him. It had a dark aura and a business mustache. It suddenly started "Idiotic retard, you are aware of the fact that unauthorized high score beating is illegal, yet you have been doing so for the last four years. Normally, we would give you a sentence of thirty years in academy, but I've made an exception for you."

Jin stopped the thing, "No, wait, who the fuck are you?".

It then glared at him, but still answered, "I am the town point pest, dear idiotic retarded country point pest." It then sighed and continued "instead of eating unrefined raw demons, I offer you to eat fine demon that have been refined into soup." It said while nodding.

Jin then shook his hand and said "Nah I'm okay, I think demon soup tastes bad and the academy is shit. I'll just continue illegally beating high scores, thanks for the offer though..."

He then got out of his cuffs and tried walking away when suddenly....

"tsk tsk tsk"

A red fox with a dark blue cloth mask on his eyes and gloves appeared in front of him.

"You think you're free? You're too late! You'll never escape now!" It said with his brother's voice.

As it was slowly stepping closer, Jin felt highly threatened.

He didn't loose any time and started trying to pour faura in his limbs and brain, but his control seemed extremely off!

Swip-..., the fox then started laughing maniacally and lunged towards Jin!

-"Ack!!!"

When Jin opened his eyes again, he was in a bright room.

-"Huh?"he said while blinking.

He was laying in a messy infirmary bed. A deep silence seemed to weight in the air. Jin looked around him and noticed that he wasn't alone.

in what seemed to be an infirmary, Kyo Wan, the director, three other unknown adults and a nurse were keeping a safe distance from him in a wary pose.

After an awkward amount of time, the nurse stepped up and talked.

-"Are you okay?"