Chapter 14: Mischief

The next morning, when Fang walked out of his room, he found his roommate was already up with two cups of milk on the table.

“Morning, Fang!” The attitude of his roommate made a complete 180, and he greeted Fang with a sweet smile. “I’ve gotten two cups of milk for breakfast, do you want one?”

Fang felt surprised, because he remembered that his roommate was quite angry before, but now, he was so friendly.

Maybe I just misunderstood him?

Fang walked and sat down, taking the cup of milk in his hands. “Thanks, Blue!”

His roommate looked startled. “Hey, how do you know my name?”

“Well, when I looked at your chest yesterday, I saw your badge.”

Blue almost spat out his drink, shouting in anger, “I said, Fang, don’t talk about my chest again!”

For the majority of warriors, having strong, developed muscles were something to be proud of, but strangely, his roommate didn’t like it.

Perhaps his roommate experienced some sexual harassment in the past, which left a traumatic scar to the point that he may have an extreme aversion to his chest. It would explain his anger, as well as why he didn’t wanted anyone to enter his room.

Thinking of this, Fang felt some sympathy for his poor roommate. “Ok, Blue, I promise you that I’ll never mention it again. Also, even if you had some issues in the past, it’s only the past – everyone should be looking towards the future, right?”

Huh? What’s he talking about?

Is Fang… taking pity on me? Blue shook his head, and responded, “I got it, I got it, hurry up and drink your milk before it gets cold.”

Fang didn’t dwell on it, and picked up the cup again, downing the milk in a couple of moments.

“Mmm, it tastes good.”

The corners of Blue’s smile turned up slightly, a hint of evil present.

Tastes good? I added some stuff just for you!

In an hour, where everyone would gather for the first day of the training, Fang will begin to feel nauseous, and then start vomiting, having to rush to the bathroom for at least a couple of hours, missing out on the entire meeting. Everyone would be staring at the lone person who had thrown up, disgracefully running towards the bathroom.

Visualizing that nice scene in his mind, Blue almost laughed, but he endured, as Fang was next to him.

Old man, I dare you to keep me in this training camp, when this boy would sooner or later become miserable for life!

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Fang thought his roommate was quite a nice guy, bringing him a warm cup of milk before he woke up. They headed out together to the public cafeteria, and then arrived at the center of the camp.

An aged man in a white suit came up the platform.

“Young people from around the country, welcome to the training camp. My name is Kingsley, director of this glorious intermediate school!”

The crowd started to stir, as they had heard a legendary name.

Kingsley!

He was one of the brilliant generals of the country that had the respect of millions of people with his contributions and strength. Tales of his deeds reached small cities even like Victoria City, and his history was known to everyone. At the age of 50, the youngest one in the country’s history, he broke through into the supreme level. His strength was admired and idolized by many, but it wasn’t the most prominent feature of his accomplishments. From the country’s headquarters, he led the charge into reforming the education system, putting forth proposals like the standardized entrance examination, and the intermediate school to hone the young talents of the world.

After the school was built, Kingsley retired from the country’s service, and devoted his entire attention into the training camp. With his selfless efforts, many powerhouses that dominated the country’s prominent positions appeared, and his influence and prestige grew throughout the land.

The youths from the small cities had Kingsley to thank for the opportunity, because without the program that was set up, this wouldn’t exist.

Fang had heard about his feats as well, excited, and his eyes full of respect, he commented, “I never expected that one day, I could finally see the legendary Kingsley!”

Blue’s face crumpled in disdain. “What, he’s just a common person, there’s nothing to be excited about!”

His brow wrinkled, Fang replied, “Blue, you shouldn’t mean those words, without his contributions to the country, we wouldn’t have this opportunity to come and learn…”

To Blue however, these “opportunities” were available anywhere for him, so listening to Fang’s preaching, bored him to death!

However, he shouldn’t arose Fang’s suspicions, so he nodded and said, “Okay, okay, you’re right, okay?”

Fang shook his head once again. Blue was really a strange guy, randomly getting angry, but eager to get him a morning drink, and now, being arrogant.

Probably, the dark, sad memories of sexual harassment had deeply affected Blue and warped his mind.

“Like the rising sun, vibrant, full of energy, you youths here today are the rising hopes of the country…” The speech that Kingsley passionately spoke captured everyone’s eyes, enraptured in a current of positive momentum.

In fact, Kingsley was spreading a thin layer of weak energy through the whole crowd, energizing them throughout his motivational speech. Everyone listened in rapt attention except a single figure, who was intently listening for something next to Fang. Undisguised delight rose to Blue’s face as he saw a small frown of pain on Fang’s face.

The poison should’ve started to react now.

Old man, I wonder what your expression will be when you see someone vomiting and running out during your marvelous speech!

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Weird, did I eat something bad for breakfast? No, that shouldn’t be the case. The cafeteria food was guaranteed to be healthy, and the environment clean, there shouldn’t have been anything bad.

Nausea kept rising from the depths of his stomach, threatening to hurl as Fang started to sweat.

Damn, I can’t vomit at this time, Kingsley’s giving a speech right now!

But then, he recalled during those countless conversations he had within the void, a theory for the endless method to detoxify the body and cleanse it from poisons.

Maybe bad food would also count as poison?

Withdrawing his energy inside of him, Fang tried running his energy through his entire body, pushing out any foreign substances towards his skin. A thin trickle of black ran down his arms into the ground.

It seemed that it really works!

Those elders were truly remarkable, something minor as nausea was so easily solved!

Relaxed and happy, Fang continued to listen to Kingsley’s speech.

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Blue waited for the mayhem to arrive, as the nausea should’ve already fully kicked in seven or eight minutes ago, but Fang only displayed that short burst of discomfort before reverting back his full attention at Kingsley.

Seeing Fang stand perfectly fine, Blue finally asked in a low voice, “Fang, don’t you think that you’re feeling a bit unwell?”

Fang whispered, “How’d you know that?”

“Well… I noticed that you looked a bit uncomfortable.”

“Oh, that’s why.” Fang was touched by his concern. “Thanks for worrying, I just had a small feeling of nausea, but I’m feeling completely okay now.”

“Really?” Blue widened his eyes. “How’s that possible?!”

Although the laxative was slightly toxic and didn’t cause serious harm, it was synthesized from a rare plant that even a master rank would have been affected. But Fang said that he was feeling completely fine?

Fang was puzzled, and asked, “How is it possible? Blue, what do you mean?”

Improvising, Blue hastily responded. “I mean, the cafeteria that prepares the food takes the utmost care to make it, how could you have an upset stomach?”

Believing him, Fang quietly replied, “Yes, I did feel a bit unwell, but that’s all done with. I don’t want to miss Kingsley’s speech, let’s stop talking and listen.”

Fang turned his attention back to Kingsley, while Blue stared at him with question marks floating around his head.

Did I give him the wrong drug?

No, no, no, I carefully checked, it was the correct drug!

Perhaps he just had natural immunity to that poison?

However, to be born with a body that had immunity to poison was extremely rare, maybe one in millions and millions of people would have such a body.

… What’s going on?