A few weeks passed away in a blink of an eye. The academic life didn't go smoothly for most of the students except for those who followed the rules.
If Azzy's punishments weren't harsh enough, Estella's addition made it worse for the undisciplined students that are going through a rebellious phase. Usually, for bullying, the accused would have to display a heartfelt apology to the victim by kneeling in front of classmates and later, write a self-reflection letter to the homeroom teacher.
When the said accused won't fulfill it within three days, then, the disciplinary committee will have the right to detain him in a cell-like room at the Disciplinary hall.
But, after Azzy took charge, he had changed that punishment with serving at public facilities for certain hours as repentance. Those who don't follow might receive a few days of suspension, a letter to accused parents, get a demotion of division, or even get a warning of a reduction in examination scores.
Since bullying is a serious issue, the teachers also wholeheartedly supported Azzy's punishment too. In fact, it even happened with the girls from the soul weapon division, a while ago. The students studying in the academy were teenagers below 16 years old. They thought it is too cruel.
However, Estella took that to a whole another level. Instead of handing out punishment like commute hours, she first beats them up black and blue, then, makes them kneel at every classroom, playground, and even cafeteria with a small placard hanging around their necks. On it, words are written, "I'm a bully. I have committed a sin. Please forgive me."
The first incident happened on Day 4. The accused was a girl from eighth grade's Elite division and the victim are two girls from the Common division of the seventh grade.
Maybe, it's because she's a girl, she only stopped there.
But, her act triggered another bullying incident the next day. Rather than bullying, it's more like sexual harassment done by a previous classmate of Claire and Mia towards a 13-year-old girl from common division.
Flared up Estella didn't just punish him once. She made him do that for three days in a row.
To punish him, she didn't even go to the Arcana world trip on Sunday. Instead, she made a trip to the Boys Dormitory with the placard and dragged him outside ad then, forced him to kneel in front of the girl dormitory in sun for several hours.
Azzy naturally didn't like her method. It is just not but humiliating the accused. How can such punishment redeem a person? And what happens if the guy/girl will commit suicide because of it? And more importantly, in this situation, doesn't she seem more like a bully?
At first, he confronted her. Estella just responded to him that she knows what she was doing and this method of hers actually works in stopping the bullying incidents like how she did it at the main branch before she transferred. She even challenged him that if the result can't be seen in the next seven days, she will listen to him or else, she will follow her own way just like he did.
The higher realm experts stationed within the premises of the academy don't care about it.
The teachers don't dare to point to finger at an Arcana Master with twin platinum grade Arcana. In their eyes, she's just like Azzy.
Barton and Sahara put their trust in Azzy that he will take care of the issues posed by Estella.
Most importantly, the Reaper was on her side and lectured him that he was too soft. He praised Estella to teach the undisciplined kids a good lesson.
Surprisingly, within a week, forget about bullying cases, even small indiscipline actions like getting late weren't reported. It's as if the whole academy is being transformed. However, Azzy know that it was due to fear. The Reaper clarified to him that even at Death Clan village, whether it is the head of the Discipline Hall or whether it is the Clan Head; they must instill fear in everyone to make sure no one goes out of control.
To be honest, he knew that he wasn't the type to care that much about people's personal lives. What happens to their future or growth has nothing to do with him. Like Estella always says, he and others don't belong to the same world.
So, with the help of the Reaper, Azzy came to be in peace with Estella and allowed her to do what she wished. As long as the results are delivered, he is fine with it. And when it happened, decreasing his workload by a lot, Azzy slowly warmed up to her.
The little bit of closeness developed between them irked Claire very much and she continuously maintained her rivalry with Estella and vice versa. In four weeks, they fought against each other more than twenty times. So far, the score between them stays at 0-0 to date.
The other things that happened to Azzy during the first four weeks of the semester were the boring trips to Arcana world along with the missions. Since he's the mentor for Flora, he was tasked with protecting her and hunting down the beasts in those level-1 regions.
Despite how his soul power was restricted to 100, his death energy is enough to kill them with a simple touch. With Flora being fine on her own, he felt the trips were very boring and wondered when this mentoring will be over and when he will get to level-3 regions. Thankfully, he has an indifferent expression all the time. So, Flora didn't get to know his thoughts at all.
Another thing Azzy found out is that strangely, Gideon and Estella know each other from childhood. But, for some reason, Gideon refuses to speak about it. Azzy thought it might have been linked to the Death clan considering both are hidden clans and didn't probe the matter.
It is the last day of the second week in the month of May. As soon as the classes are over, at 10 o'clock in the evening, Claire and Gideon followed Azzy to the house.
Claire slept in the guest room while Gideon ended up sleeping in Azzy's room as the both of them chatted for a long time. Gideon confessed to Azzy that he finds Estella cute and likes her, not considering her overbearing behavior. Azzy didn't take it seriously and just wished him luck instead.
The next day morning, the three of them left for the portal point to get to the Central city located in the world of Arcana, and from there, they found another portal point that leads to Silver city. This overall trip cost the three of them, nearly 1000 Krocs (10000 credits) per each. With such money, one can happily rent a room at a five-star luxury hotel in Aclein city for a whole week.
It was expensive. Nevertheless, it saved them a lot of time. From the teleportation/portal point at Silver City, they traveled for another two hours to reach the place that was surrounded by three hundred feet tall walls on every side.
As Azzy stepped down the cab, a familiar-looking person appeared in his view. It is the same Lieutenant commander Hailey who received them on their previous visit to the HQ.
"Welcome to the world training center, cadets." She shook hands with everyone and turned around to start walking without wasting time, "Follow me. We'll first sort out your uniforms, identity cards, personal equipment, and accomodation. Then, you'll be thrown into your first day of training right away."
Just like she mentioned, Lt. Commander of the Dragon Corps only informed them about the important stuff and left the useless stuff like touring, later.
It wasn't even fifteen minutes since Azzy stepped inside the training center but he already found himself wearing a black t-shirt and black pants. Azzy felt the uniform was too simple but didn't voice out his thoughts as he liked the color.
Soon, the three of them were taken to one of the training grounds where he saw nearly twenty people were running laps with wearing weights.
"Lt. Commander." An instructor who was keeping an eye on the cadets called out to her. He appeared to be in the Upper-Elite realm.
As he stopped before them and saluted her, Hailey nodded and pointed the three, "new recruits. I leave them in your hands."
"Sure." The man smiled at her and introduced himself, "Hello, I'm Myron, Captain of Squad four but, for now, your temporary instructor. A pleasure to be working with you."
He shook hands with each of them while maintaining his smile. The Reaper commented in Azzy's head, "I smell several deadly sins from him."
"Deadly sins?" While Azzy wondered what it is, Hailey decided to return to her office.
As soon as she was out of sight, all of a sudden, the smile on this captain was gone and his tone was also changed. "What are you lot waiting for? Click the button on those watches and start running. In case you don't know the drill, 100 km of running, then, 1000 pull-ups, 1000 push-ups, and 1000 sit-ups, and finally handing leg tucks for 50 rounds. And no soul energy either. See me after you finish with the running."
<strong>A little more than ten minutes later;</strong>
All the level-1 cadets who were running earlier were seen standing with a look of shock on their faces. Even the instructor himself has the same expression as the blurry figure stopped before him. While taking heavy breaths, Azzy raised the watch and showed him. "100,000 meters. Done."
"What the hell..."
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