Chapter 6: (Reader’s P.O.V.)

[15 minutes ago]

Inside a big room where most of the academy meeting is held are the higher-ups of the Weorold Academy.

The numbers of founders of this campus are 17 in all, but 4 members aren’t here since they have work overseas so the only ones who are going to meet their new accomplice are the 13 founders.

Or so they thought.

Supposedly a new member will be joining their ranks but it turned out to be just a trap.

16 nonliving men took out pistols from their suits and pointed at the 13 founders and made them raise their hands.

“*Sigh* What a blunder this is.”

The one that sighed and gave out a calm impression is no other than Anastasia’s grandfather, Kurtz Douva.

“They seem to be golems, but only smaller in size. Who do you think sent them?”

Beside Kurtz is a man, who is about 30 in age and calmly analyzing the current situation is Douf Dorrel, one of the 17 founders and former student of Kurtz.

“Who knows, but one thing I’m sure about is who ever sent these guy must know about the underground warehouse.”

While Kurtz and Douf were quietly talking to each other, one of the suit- wearing golem walked closer in front of them and brought out a tablet and a video started playing.

“Greetings, I’m terribly for my lack of presence, but for now you gentlemen may refer to me by the name “Mr. Smith”.

Mr. Smith or at least that what he calls himself was not completely visible, only his torso and his mouth is shown and he must be using a voice changer since the pitch of his voice changes lower to higher.

“I don’t want to take all of your time; I know that the founders of this academy are quite busy so I’ll cut to the chase. I would like for all of you to tell me where the…”

Before “Mr. Smith” in the video even finished, the energetic old man who doesn’t act his own age stopped him and gave a quick reply.

“Are you some sort of new Gen-idiot?”

He was even picking his nose while saying those things right at the man in the video.

“True, to ask the location of something meant to hide is pretty dumb.”

And another insult from the middle aged gentleman was struck.

The teacher-student combo didn’t held back and just gave an insult to the man who controls the golems with guns pointed at them.

Mr. Smith, the man in the video has his mouth gapped open in surprised. He was shocked to find out that these two men didn’t even flinch in the sight of danger.

Mr. Smith soon gained back his composer and tried to reason with them once again.

“Heheh…you two seem relaxed from this, but that doesn’t mean it’s the same if it’s from them? Gol-3, 4 and 5 aim your guns at the other 11 members.”

Mr. Smith made a gesture with his hands and ordered the golems to point the guns at the remaining 11 members of the academy’s founders.

As soon as the guns pointed at them some started to tremble and covered their heads with their hands.

Douf reacted to Mr. Smith’s threat and tried to block them with his own body, but before he even got to one of them a gunshot was fired close to Douf’s foot and making him stop on his tracks.

“No, no, no Mr. Dorrel. Nobody wants to waist their life here do they? Now if you don’t mind, please go back to the place where you were.”

Douf clicked his tongue and slowly went back. Even though he followed Mr. Smith’s instruction, his fist is shaking while clenched together and staring back at the man at the video.

Kurtz notice the shaking of Douf’s hand due to anger and patted his shoulder.

“Calm down, Douf. Nothing is going to happen if you lost yourself.

Douf calmed down a little but he was still little angry that he can’t protect his fellow members.

“Its fine Douf, everything is going to be fine.”

“What do you mean?”

What Kurtz said made him wonder on what his former teacher meant, Mr. Smith over heard and asked him the same thing.

“Yes Mr. Douva, please tell us on what made you think that any of you are safe?”

Mr. Smith is so confident that he is in control and gave a grin while asking him.

But the old man Kurtz also gave a confident smile that even beats Mr. Smith’s and answered him honestly.

“Well, if you really want to know. I guess I could give you a little hint.”

Mr. Smith’s arrogant smile slowly disappeared and Kurtz’s continued his “hint” while still maintaining his composure.

“Let’s just say that I met a surprising guest who I was supposed to meet with tomorrow.”

Mr. Smith’s mouth slowly made a curve and laughed at the “hint” that Kurtz gave.

“HAHAH! You’re betting all of your lives on a single person? How can one man beat all of these hard bodied golems!?”

“It’d be best not to let your guard down.”

*SMASH!! SMASH!!*

A strong bashing sound emitted on the other side of the door, thus making the people in the conference room twitch in surprise, even Douf and Mr. Smith was shocked.

(James P.O.V.)

“Remember what I just said Ana, do not let go of me”

“Y…Yes, I understand, but this position is quite embarrassing.”

“I know, but you’re going to have to endure it for now.”

She didn’t answer me back; she only gave me a nod and buried her face on my back.

There is a reason why she is on my back by the way. Our current position right now is like how a son or a daughter clings on the back of their father with both arms around the parent’s neck and their legs doing the same but only it’s around the waist.

But obviously Anastasia is no child, so all the parts of a woman that pop out will be felt.

This just reminds me on how soft a woman’s body is…but don’t get me wrong though! It wasn’t me who suggested we do this! It was Ana who made me do this!...No! Really! It wasn’t me!!

But still…she is a lot bigger than thought…WHOA!! I just felt her warm breathing behind my neck…Hehe…no, stop, I might not look like it but I’m actually quite ticklish.

Wait! This isn’t the time to be feeling all giddy. I need to save Ana’s grandfather and the other old guys!

“Ana, are you ready?”

“Y…Yes, I’m ready to go.”

I kneeled down and made a crouching start position.

………so soft………

I closed my eyes and slowly breathed in and out and checked the positions of every golem by using my enhanced hearing.

I can determine the enemy’s positions by using the sound they make, which bounces around a solid surface…you know

kind of like a bat…yeah, my hearing is far from normal, I know.

But right now I’m thankful to have learned this ability.

“Here we go, in 3…2…1…HMPH!

I made an X with my arms to shield both me and Ana, while banging the door open.

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In this situation, you won’t have time to look for a place for cover, so first thing I have to do is keep my body low. Most likely whoever is controlling those golems will think that I’d be standing once I open the door, so this is the best position I could go for.

Next, I’ll eliminate the threats in both sides. I have two pistols with me, so taking care of both of my left and right side quickly will give me more time to react when the enemies from the front start to attack.

One of the most important thing I learned back in my assassin days, is that do not let your enemy react, don’t even give them time to flinch or breath…though they’re not breathing already, they’re made out of clay after all.

Having numbers on your opponent’s side with weapons to boot is the most dangerous situation any guy can have, but there is a way to weaken that enemy’s strength.

Take out their weapons…

I started shooting at the golems shoulder.

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Since their made out of hardened clay, their hands which was holding the guns dropped on the floor and brake in two or three pieces.

Golems are pretty slow and the user won’t be able to change their commands quickly, so this is an advantage for me.

The golems, whose arms are now shattered on the floor are still standing and didn’t react yet.

See? Their very slow.

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Now my next target is the three in front of me.

They still aren’t turning towards me, so their backs are completely unguarded.

I then shot the heads of the two golems on each side and smashed the head of the one in the middle with the pistol’s handle.

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A golem can be controlled by ether from telepathy or by voice. But this much numbers of golems is close to impossible to control by telepathy, so voice commands is the only way to give them orders.

I then noticed the golem in the middle was holding a tablet.

I’m pretty sure the commands are coming from this, so I kicked it up and flew to the ceiling.

It’s not like I hate the company who build this! I just need to break it, so the golems will stop moving.

I raised my right arm and shot the table in the air while shouting…

“Forgive me Steve Jobs!!!”

“Huh!?”

[00:05:00 sec]

Ana gave a sudden twitch behind me. I guess she was startled from what I just shouted.

As soon as the tablet, (which looks like a very new and expensive model by the way) was destroyed, the golems surrounding the hostages started to drop down the floor.

I looked around the area to check if none of them will try to rise up.

“*Sigh* looks like that’s all of them.”

“R…Really?”

I gave her a small nod and let her off my back.

She looked around the room like I did while covering he mouth with both her hands, she then looked at me with a surprised expression.

“This is amazing James! H…how in the world did you do all of this!?”

……………………oh no…

Crap! How am I supposed to avoid this!?

While thinking of a way to wiggle my way out of that question, Ana’s grandpa walked closer to us.

“Now, now Anastasia, you shouldn’t be asking those kinds of questions. After all, what makes a man more attractive is their wild and mysterious side.”

Wow, that was both cool and embarrassing in the same time. I got a mix felling when the old man said those things about me.

But at least it got me away from that topic…but that only makes it clearer that this old man knows who I used to be.

While I contemplate on how I will make an excuse from this place, a dandy looking old man came closer to us along with the other hostages.

“Thank you, young man for saving us.”

This old man with a spiffy black suit gave of an “I might be old but I’m still have meny charms” kind of smile at me.

I want to grow old like this guy…but I might be asking for too much, so let’s just take that wish and throw it away.

“My name is Douf Dorrel, I’m one of the founders of this academy.”

He brought out his hand and offered me a hand shake…so dandy!!!

Crap, I need to reply back.

“I…it’s good to meet you to sir.”

Right after this Douf Dorrel guy was done thanking me the other founders also greeted me and thanked me with more handshakes.

Is this what a politician feels like after a successful negotiation?

[BEEP………………BEEP……………BEEP]

Huh? Am I hearing things?

[BEEP……………BEEP…………… BEEP]

I think I’m hearing a lot of beeping sound

Damn it! I can’t make sure where it’s coming from whit all these chattering.

“Everyone, be quiet!”

With my sudden shout, everyone did what I told them to do.

If it’s this quiet I will be able to find out where those sounds are coming from.

When everyone was silent, someone else noticed the beeping sound besides me.

Douf Dorrel noticed it and started to look around the room and soon after everyone is doing the same.

I walked around the room and find myself stepping on one of the golem’s arm.

But seriously, who would send CLAY monsters like these in a college university? Huh, CLAY?

I kneeled down and checked the golem’s broken arm.

If what I think is right, then what is mixed inside this clay will be…

“James? I’ve been hearing this small beeping sound and…”

“DAMN IT! I WAS RIGHT! HURRY UP GET TO THE RIGHT EDGE OF THE ROOM!!!”

The golem’s body wasn’t only consisted with clay, it was also mixed with plastic explosive, or should I say the body of these golems contains C4.

Since they were just in a dangerous predicament, they easily found out that it was still wasn’t safe so their reaction time was decent.

The long table that is used for the board meetings looks sturdy so we could use this as a shield.

I started to pull the sturdy table making my way to the right side of the room where I instructed them to go.

So heavy!!!

It was a good thing that Douf Dorrel guy was there to help me.

“Just stay behind this table, alright!?

They didn’t answer back and just nodded to my instruction, I told them to sit down and curl their bodies just in case.

Now all I have to do is flip this table and…

……

………

…this thing…it’s so heavy!

Just what is this thing made out of!? 20 tons of iron!?

My body is trained well and I could probably lift 200 kilos if I used all my strength but this thing is too damn heavy!!!

“James, please let me help you!”

What is this girl saying? If I can’t flip this thing there is now way she could…

“Hyaa!”

*FLIP! THUD!*

………!!!???

Huh? Wha? What just happened!? I barely lift this thing, but Ana just flip this heavy ass table with a cute shout like it was nothing!

I’m not imagining things am I?

[BEEP………BEEP………BEEP]

This isn’t the time to think about things, I need to get her behind the table!

“Ana! Get to the other side! Quick!”

“But what about you!?”

“I still need to pile the golem’s body parts to the further left side of the room!”

“But…”

I didn’t listen to what she was about to say since we don’t have much time left. But Douf Dorrel and her grandfather stopped her form following me.

“Come on lady Anastasia, it’s safer behind the table.”

“Listen to what James is saying. He knows what he is doing.”

“But grandfather…”

“It will be fine Ana. He won’t go down that easily. Trust me on this.”

“……I…I understand….”

Alright! I got all of the parts to left end of the room. Now I just need to get myself behind the table.

This meeting room of the academy is really big so I have to run all the way to the other side. Makes you think on just how rich are these founder guys?

But with all the parts gathered in one place, at least the explosion will be away from us………huh? All the parts, did I really gather everything?

Wait…I FORGOT THE ONES IN THE HALL WAY!!!

*BOOOOM!!!*

“Ghaaa!”

My body flew sideways, but it was a good thing that the door was closed. I was able to use the door as a shield.

But that doesn’t mean my body didn’t fly away. I eventually landed but the force of the explosion was till to great so my body rolled straight out of the window.

*CRASH!!!*

Before I fall to my death I quickly grabbed the edge of the window and I hold on tight.

“*Sigh* That was close, that was really close.”

I’m relieved that I and along with everyone else aren’t hurt.

Well I guess I’m not that uninjured, after all when the door flew to me, it hit my left shoulder pretty hard so it got dislocated.

So yeah, I’m only using my right arm to hold on to my dear life.

“James!!! What in the world happened here!? Are you OK!?”

Huh? This voice belongs to…

“Reshulla, is that you!?”

I guess Reshulla finally woke up, but then again who won’t wake from the sound of gun fire and explosions.

While I look down on where Reshulla is standing, I noticed someone was running towards the academy’s gates.

“Hold on James, I’m coming over!”

“You don’t have to, Reshulla! Just go chase after the guy running towards the gate!”

“Huh? You mean the school gate!?”

“That’s right! He might be the guy who started all of this!”

“WHAT!? SO IT WAS HIM!?”

Reshulla suddenly turn her head, facing the school gate and ran in an amazing speed.

“That bastard just hurt my James and he seriously think he’ll get away from me!? I will put a curse on him, turn him into a pig and feed him to hungry hobos!!”

…………I’ll just pretend I didn’t hear that.

“Grab on kid.”

Huh? Oh, its Dandy Dorrel, I mean Douf Dorrel.

When he reached his hand for mine, he soon noticed that I couldn’t raise my left arm so he and the other founders helped pulling me up.

“*Sigh* Thank you for helping me uuUUP!?”

*Thud*

Wha…what is up with this situation? Ana just suddenly jumped at me and now I’m sitting on the floor while she’s kneeling and hugging my neck.

“Idiot *sniff* you said to me to*sniff* stay close but you…”

Whoa! She…she’s burying her face on my neck! I could feel her warm breathing.

“Why did you have to do *sniff* something so dangerous?”

And now her cheeks are touching and rubbing mine! Wait, stop! Without the girl hating spell, this kind of things are too stimulating for me!

Not only that, whenever she rubs her cheeks with mine, I could feel her soft lips rubbing along with it. She’s practically

kissing me! No, correction, she is kissing me!

“Ana, the thing you’re about to do is something you must do in a more private location.”

Ana’s grandfather suddenly interjected while wearing triumphant smile.

“Not unless my granddaughter is into that kind of play. But don’t worry, even if it is, grandpa will always love you.”

He then gave Ana and me a thumbs up with a wink.