"Good morning, Mr. Aroldo," said a young man in his twenties, as he entered the yellow transport.
"Good morning Alex, ready for another day of work?!" replied Mr. Aroldo, the school bus driver
"I'm going happy today because it's Friday, I can't wait for today to end, so I can rest on the weekend" said Alex as he sat in the seat behind the driver to talk to the man along the way
Alex went on the school bus every day because he worked at a school
And after years of studying, and another year working at the school, he became more than friends with the driver, who had been working in the same job for over a decade doing the same route
So besides his parents, this man was one of the people who knew Alex best, because he had seen him grow up since he was very young
"Good morning, Mr. Aroldo"
"Good morning Alex"
The two were greeted by the students who got on at each new stop, varying in age, as they went from elementary to high school
With such excitement and energy that the two workers, and some others who were also on the bus, didn't know where they were coming from
"Have you seen the new chapter of the Shadow Monarch anime?"
"A new chapter is out yet?!"
Two friends were talking, right behind Alex. The first was tall for his age, with light brown hair and green eyes. The second was of average height, with curly black hair and black eyes.
O segundo era de estatura mediana, com cabelos pretos cacheados e olhos pretos.
"If you haven't watched it yet, you don't know what you're missing. It's transf..."
"Don't give any spoilers, I want to see it with my own eyes."
The second friend shut the first friend's mouth tightly before he could say anything compromising about the anime.
"Listen to the noise back there," Alex said.
"That's great, Karl. If you didn't shut Hill's mouth, I would shut it myself." Alex continued.
"Didn't you watch the last episode either, Mr. Alex?" Karl asked Alex
"No, I'm letting all the chapters of this season pile up to watch, but I've already read the manhua, so I don't impose myself too much." Alex was an otaku in his teens, so even as an adult, some habits don't go away easily.
After years of working at the school, at an age not so far from the students' age, and due to his closeness with the students, Alex became friends with most of them, and those who are not close are at least known and respect him.
Not with obligatory respect due to his commanding role at the school, but genuine respect, due to Alex's calm and approachable personality.
He is the kind of person that adults like, and young people too.
Because of this, he has already solved several problems at the school, be it fights between students, complaints from parents, or even disagreements between teachers.
Even the driver depends on him to keep the bus in order.
But only as much as possible, because if you put too many teenagers together, what you can expect is complete and unbridled chaos.
Even someone with the respect that Alex has earned has difficulty putting the minimum amount of order in place.
After thirty minutes of traveling, the bus made its last stop to the school, and now all 35 seats were occupied.
The trip lasts on average 1 hour and 30 minutes, so they still had a long way to go.
That should have been the idea, but things don't always go as expected.
And this time, it was no different. Amidst the noise of the vehicles, the conversations, about dramas, anime, movies, gossip, passions and all those conversations that involve teenagers.
A pale purple light began to envelop the bus, forcing everyone present to shut up and close their eyes tightly.
Outside the bus, the confusion was greater, drivers who were coming behind, and in the opposite lane, closed their eyes, causing cars and motorcycles to crash left and right.
And after the light disappeared, everyone who witnessed the light was left open-mouthed, with the disappearance of the bus, which had been there before, suddenly disappeared without a trace.
In addition to the runic marks present at the scene, Everyone began to record the scene and call the police, firefighters, and all authorities that could be contacted.
But no one could do anything about it.
Everyone had to accept the fact that the bus had disappeared, leaving doubt as to where it had gone.
But not even this light was enough to prevent the sensation of dizziness and distortion that enveloped all the passengers on the bus.
In addition, a burning sensation enveloped each person's body, as if they were being burned from the inside out, as if their souls were using fire to process their bodies.
And Alex was going through something much more brutal.
He felt as if his body was being dismantled molecule by molecule, each part of him was being rebuilt.
The pain was so great that after seconds everyone passed out.
Otherwise, they would have gone crazy from the pain.
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