I sat on a chair, looking miserably at the woman in front of me. The woman was wearing a nurse's uniform and polishing her nails.

It was almost as if there were no other sound in this room apart from that.

She's the one who locked me in here with her, and now she wasn't even paying attention to me.

What did I ever do to deserve this?

"Can I go now?"

"No, you cannot."

She didn't let me get out of here and she didn't talk to me about why she kept me in here either. What was she, a tyrant?

She kept on polishing and each stroke felt like it'd take an eternity but it didn't.

Time moved slowly, and I could almost count the seconds. Why was all this taking so damn long? And was polishing nails always this much of a chore and took this much time?

Seriously!?

I just wanted all this to be over with.

After half an hour of that, she was finally done and she looked at me. "Patience is a very special gift. Clearly, you lack it and that's why you better learn to master it."

'Oh, trust me, I'm very patient.' Otherwise, I'd have busted my way out of here long ago.

"Can you please get to the point, so I can go? I've to have dinner or this weak feeling won't go away."

I was kind of feeling hungry. And though I was feeling a lot better than before, I still felt a little faint.

She sighed. "What part of 'be patient' didn't you get? Anyway, this wasn't why I told you to stay. Lately, I've noticed some weird waves in your brain. Are you alright?"

Now, she was concerned about me? That was her job I guess. But wouldn't it have been better if she offered me dinner instead? Because that would have been a lot better for my health, no doubt!

"One of the seals is open and I think another one might open up soon."

"Why do you think that?"

"Just a feeling." A very bad feeling.

I kind of wanted to talk with someone about this. Ever since I woke up, I'd felt more than enough. I didn't know what was happening but I could at least make a guess.

"Who did the seals? Can it be redone?"

"I think it can but I don't want anything to do with who did it in the first place. I have my reasons."

"Alright, I won't press on that but- does your mother know?"

"She knows that one seal is open and she shares the same opinion as me."

She crossed her legs. "I see. I do know someone who could perform extraordinary seals but he is currently in Belgium." She thought for a second. "If you were to reach the finals, you'd get a free ticket to the internationals. How about I arrange a meeting between the two of you somewhere in Germany?"

I didn't know if this was a good idea or not but a meeting couldn't have hurt. After actually meeting the liquid darkness, I didn't, I really didn't want it to get out. And I got the feeling it didn't want to get out either. It even went as far as to tell me to kill it. "We can trust this guy, right?"

"He was my senior and though he can be a bit extreme at times-" She seemed to recall something rather horrible and grimace a little. "I think he can be trusted- probably."

She didn't sound convincing though.

I sighed. "Fine. Please do so. Can I go now?"

"Not only are you impatient, you're also rude! Have you no courtesy!"

"I have plenty but I'd rather not waste them on you-" I really wanted to say that, but I couldn't. I knew I'd get a lot of backlash from it. So instead- "Thank you very much." I grinned.

"Why do I feel like I'm being mocked?" She gave me a bit of a dull look. "You may leave but- don't even think of doing anything taxing for the next two days. And be sure to have plenty of meat on your diet. You've been consuming too much sugar and not enough meat. So-" She glared. "Be sure to add red lean meat to your diet from today onwards."

Weren't people supposed to not eat meat a lot? And this woman was telling me to eat it more? I guess I was a bit different than typical people anyway.

There were no fights for me in the first two days, as I'd be fighting the ones who'll lose the next few fights. But this also meant I'd be having a rather busy time near the end of this week.

This still worked out for me though. Since I'd have plenty of rest now. And hopefully, get well soon.

"Alright, I'll try." I grinned and stood next to the door. It was still locked. "Do you mind opening this?"

"Try to try a little harder please." She opened the door and I came out.

Once out, I got stares.

A lot of stares: from the boys.

And a lot of giggles too: from the girls.

It was a bit past evening and till now, this door was locked, I could really imagine what sort of rumors I'd be getting.

I sighed.

I sighed again.

Quota was full.

Damn it!

I wanted to sigh some more.

***

On my way back to the dorm, I received a lot of applause and praise. This was new.

Really new.

Who'd have thought knocking down Clyde could make me this famous. But I didn't really care all that much about attention: I hated it after all.

I also got weird stares from some boys. Some even went as far as to call me a womanizer.

Well, that was also new.

I kind of wanted to sigh, but oh well. I settled for scaring them with a bit of warning instead. "Mess with me and I'll make you impotent." Seemed to work pretty nicely.

Nothing else happened- at least nothing noteworthy and I reached my room in short order. All this felt a bit monotonous.

When was my life going to get better? When was I going to get my things and have my dreams come true?

I really wanted to know.

"Knock!"

The door opened three seconds later. Was this guy standing next to the door and waiting for me or something? "What took you so long!" He hissed.

Merin was sweating hard.

Something was up and I didn't want anything to do with it. "I'll come back later then." I tried running away, right away.

But Merin grabbed my shoulder and pulled me in. there was no helping it I guess. I was too weak to actually run away at this point.

***

Inside, there was only one girl: I already forgot her name.

"What the hell is she doing here?" I looked at Merin.

"Why the hell you asking me? How'd I know?" The guy fired back.

If he didn't know, then how the hell was this girl here?

"Then who would know!"

He apparently didn't have an answer.

The girl tilted the hem of her skirt and bowed. "Welcome back." She was wearing a rather normal dress: white shirt, brown skirt. Till now, I only saw her in daring and kind of expensive dresses but not today.

"Why are you here?"

"I'm your loyal servant, of course, I'd be by your side." She smiled.

Loyal servant my ass. She framed me and even accused me. Then tried to cripple me with a thousand soldiers, granted it was my idea, but still!

"Do you mind leaving?"

"I could stay outside your door if you'd prefer." She was serious, this girl was serious for some reason.

"Call the dorm manager?" if she wasn't going to leave of her own accord, then there was only one thing to be done.

"Apparently, the manager already gave her permission." Merin lied down on his bed. "And now it's your problem." And with that the guy totally ignored me.

"Heh, huh! Wha!?"

What the hell!

The manager hadn't given me permission to bring my very own sister to my room after dark and she gave this girl permission?

What the hell indeed.

"She can't do that!" I glared at the girl. "What did you do?"

"I just told her the truth." She smiled and was even more confident. "I love you and want you. This was the truth and when I told her this, she gave me her blessing." This girl had no shame. "I've made a mistake and I'll do anything to amend it. Even if you told me to kill myself, I will- no won't kill myself. If I killed myself, how will I give myself to you?" She grabbed her cheeks and blushed.

Granted, she was good-looking and probably one of the best-looking girls in the whole academy but I hated this kind of people: I hated her.

I was already feeling a bit faint but now I just felt my veins throb.

And what the hell was wrong with the dorm manager? I really wanted to file a complaint right now.

"Get out!"

She was shocked for a second but then smiled. "As you wish." She went out of the door. But when I was about to close it, I saw that she was just standing right next to it.

"You're not going to leave?"

"I won't" She smiled.

I didn't need to hear anything else. "It gets really cold in the hallway at night you know." I just locked the doors.

"You sure about that?" Merin looked back over his Holo.

"Pretty much." I was really hungry and I needed food first before I could worry about all this.

But I certainly didn't want to worry about that girl. Seriously!