Null proceed too eat with the other..
But the others knew he had something on his mind.
Then a screen appeared in front of him.
"Are you, okay?"
Null looked up at the girl with a curious face.
"I'm okay, so don't worry okay.." Null answered.
From the side Lumina looked at him with sweater sleeve covered hands.
"0, how was your day too day before the military?' Lumina questioned.
Ezze looked at Lumina than back too Null, curious too.
"I lived in the outer-city the, slums of my city." Null said recalling his past with a bitter sweet smile but shaked his head.
"I lived there experience different things and met different people...." Null said keeping quiet after a bit he continued, "Good and bad, bad taught me and good tried there best to distance themselves from me, but taught aswell, and years later I'm here."
Ezze scrunched her face at the short story of a life, but understood he doesn't want to speak more on it.
Lumina thought the same.
As he knew 0 doesn't like too tell anything about his past, but still spoke just because he didn't want to be seen as suspicious and distrusting.
Null didn't talk about his past because there were there friends rather, there his allies
Resources.
Shield.
Till he was strong enough to protect himself
He wouldn't let his guard down so he just saw them as quaintances that had a measure of information you can lay on them.
Lumina didn't care cause a friendship takes time..
And trust even longer.
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A boy was walking down the hallway too his class, bandages around his forearms as he had a slumped back unkempt hair and shadows under his eyes he was lean and tall.
It was Jern.
He turned to the right than bumped into something.
Jern's back hit the floor and rage was on his face but he only stood up as he walked pass a, boy with falling curly black hair and a lean face, leather clothing and black iris eye, making the whole eye black except the whites of his eyes.
"I can help you, Jern." The boy, said
Jern looked back.
And laughed
"Of course your here too mock me correct?" Jern, chuckling some more, "What I'm i saying obviously your here too mock me." Jern spoke
As he sped towards the boy as he grabbed his collar, "Obviously your here too mock me, me, the Haste-meta who was beaten by a freak of a normi."
'Anger' the boy thought with his cold smile.
"I..." Jern hicked as tears fell to the floor, "I lost my cred." Jern's said his hand loosening his grip as his hand and himself flew too the ground.
'Sadness' the boy thought with a piting face.
The boy patted his shoulder.
"I can help you, and regain your cred Jern." The boy comforted.
'CRED' is the status which heir's of a business measured each other and it even affected there parents.
The future success of a business depends on the next generation.
The heir's 'CRED' depends on there.
Power in all, Meta-ability grade, beast equipment.
There influence.
Intelligence.
And what there known for.
And the military based is were they prove there worth, building groups, with a stable hierarchy a something they control on, to barter with.
Building connections with others heir's, and concur other groups, then lastly there immense influence they have on the base.
The least of the students are talented Meta's, that were scouted for there combat abilities.
And others specialist or scholar's that get into the military through a exam.
But the heir's filled the base.
And Jern was one of them.
Yesterday after leaving class still healing but not really significant injuries but his...
Ego, was hurt.
He walked through the hallway as he heard mocking words and chuckling and jokes of him.
But he was pulled towards the wall as a tone yet buff boy around his age looked at him with pity and whispered..
'Sorry..'
As a slap collided with his left check and blood dripped from the side of his face.
Obviously this is wasn't a normal slap if it made him bleed it didn't even seem like it were a serious one.
He turned his head from the side down too the short girl.
That looked like she was pouting.
And an accent she said,"Too, slow love?" The girl said, then slapped him again with a speed unseen to the receiver.
"You didn't answer?!" She mocked, then grabbed him by the mouth and shaked him, "You became complacent, Jermmy, Meta-genes can deteriorate at grade 1, you were at peak grade 1, so why did you grow such hubris, the genius heir grew exponentially and compared to all other heir's of a accelerate house hold, but beaten by a normi." The girl smiled.
"Jermmy, you've always been a germ." She said as she walked away.
Jern faced the floor as his hair shadowed his face, the boy let him go as he slid down on the floor and tears fell that day.
That was one of the results of losing cred losing acknowledgment and respect, reason being Cred meant creditability.
Jern looked up too the boy and asked "How?".
"Let me help you take revenge against Null, i can weaken and disablize his senses." The boy said.
"And what do you want?" Jern asked
The boy smiled 'Hope' the boy thought.
"You just owe me a favour, this favour depends on the capabilities you will have in the future, due my help." The boy explained "And support from your family and of course you in the further future." The boy said.
Jern scoffed, Jern didn't believe he could fight Jern anymore due too his deteriorating Meta-ability till it fully disappeared, because now his haste ability was now in the 'infancy stage'
"My ability is in the infancy stage and i was stronger than before but now I'm weak." Jern stated.
"I just need you too be at the third stage of grade 1," the boy said.
Jern looked down contemplating.
Should he trust him, a stranger.
Then he chuckled what else can I do.
But...
"Proof." Jern said "I want proof." He said with an undertone.
The boy, smiled.
He knew Jern would of accepted for the reason of Jern was in his weakest.
'You already accepted without knowing, you wanting proof, funny enough.. proves you already accepted.' the boy thought.
The boy looked down on Jern and only one word
Rang out in his head
'Pathetic' the boy thought purposefully, this is what he wanted someone pathetic and at there lowest.
Jern's state of weakness, was necessary as he targeted him specifically after learning what happened too him by Null, so he would profit off him in the long term.
And this is the beginning.
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