Kill no more volume 02, p.10
Kill No More - Volume 02, page 10
Liola frowned, and decided not to ask Kaiser to look after Baolilong too much, or else who knows what other habits Baolilong would pick up.
When Liola got on the bed, Baolilong immediately unwrapped itself while half-asleep and went to Liola’s arms.
Before Liola closed his eyes, he prayed Anise would appear in his dreams tonight. He had far too many questions to ask her.
* * *
“Anise, where is your home?” Liola asked suspiciously. The doesn’t seem worried about her family.
My home?” Anise blinked her beautiful eyes: “My home is right here.”
Liola was confused: “Here? This is the headquarters of the organization that abducted you.”
Anise laughed sweetly, and pointed at the sky and the grass: “My home is here. I swore to travel the world, and practice healing around the world!”
Practice healing around the world!
* * *
Liola opened his eyes again, and saw a pair of blue eyes, and Liola realized his face was being pulled in opposite directions by four fingers.
Liola asked coldly: “Kaiser, what are you doing?”
Kaiser said in all seriousness: “Getting the lazy Assassin off the bed.”
And then, Kaiser added: “Originally I was going to leave you alone, but then I thought, without you, boss might not be willing to go pay for breakfast, so I had to get you up.”
“How come you were so sound asleep?” Kaiser raised his eyebrows.
Before today, he could never get within ten meters of Liola without being noticed, but now he was even able to touch Liola’s face. This was more unfathomable to Kaiser than winning the lottery.
Liola did not respond, and instead he asked Kaiser: “What exactly do I have to do to learn healing magic?”
“Meditation, sensing magic element. Practice magic, continue meditation. Learning magic is fairly difficult, and there is no shortcut at all.”
Liola sighed in his heart, and understood he was too impatient. Even when he was trying to learn martial arts, it took years of practice and training. How could he expect to learn any healing skills like those of Anise in a short time?
Liola, Kaiser, and Baolilong, who clung onto papa’s leg, walked outside of the dorm.
As soon as they did so, they saw Purity and Meinan already waiting outside. When Purity saw Liola, she cheerfully went up to him, and said with curiosity: “You guys seemed slow today.”
“Because someone was still on the bed, and I couldn’t get him up!” Kaiser replied confidently.
As soon as he replied, he saw Purity and Meinan glancing at him, as if there were no possibility of the Assassin, who was standing right next to him, to be the person who couldn’t get up.
Kaiser immediately protested: “Hey! I wasn’t the lazy bum, it was that silver-eyed guy.”
Purity’s eyes widened in complete disbelief, and Meinan looked at him as if his eyes were saying “stop feigning your innocence”. Even Baolilong poked its head out from behind Liola, and its eyes were filled with doubt.
Veins popped out of Kaiser’s forehead: “I wasn’t the bum! When there’s breakfast, I will never stay on the bed!”
Purity and Meinan both suddenly realized: “That’s right, when there’s food to eat, Kaiser would struggle and crawl over even if he hasn’t had sleep for seven days. So did Liola really oversleep?”
Should he be happy that his friends believed him? Or sad about what they said of him? The corner of Kaiser’s mouth twitched. But in the end, he succumbed to the smell of food. He grabbed the bag from Purity’s hands. Kaiser asked as he pulled food out of bags:
“We aren’t going to the cafeteria today?”
“Didn’t you see the class plans announced yesterday? Yesterday the principal said, we will be having classes inside the dorm today.” Purity worriedly said.
She was suspicious that the principal might have came up with some new stunts to pull on the students.
“This dorm is beautiful, but something seems very strange about it.” Meinan sighed.
He wasn’t sure if he could graduate from the School of Sorcery. He heard the graduation rate in recent years had become terribly low.
“Of course it’s strange.” Kaiser said as he was swallowing: “I noticed the other day, the room we’re staying in is on the top floor. That floor was completely empty other than our room. Why didn’t they make more rooms in that floor?”
‘If the principal’s plan only involved Kaiser and Liola, then it’d be great…’ The Sorcery students congregated in front of the dorm thought.
“Dear students,” The principal had suddenly appeared behind everyone with a satisfied smile on his face.
All the students trembled. Seeing the smile on Barbalis’ face, everyone’s heart sank.
The principal must have thought of something absurd for class. And unfortunately, this class probably had something to do with their dorm. Meaning even after class, the dorm they would go back to probably won’t be a safe place at all.
“Come, come, everyone take a textbook.” Barbalis cheerfully handed out textbooks , completely ignoring the dropped jaws of every student.
‘Since when did we have something like textbooks?’
Dormitory User’s Manual . Kaiser blinked, realizing he didn’t read it wrong.
Kaiser started wondering:
‘What needs to be explained about a dorm? Can it be that they need to explain where you should go to pee, or where the fire escapes are? No, Barbalis can’t be that bored… To be exact, Barbalis was pretty boring, but no matter how bored he might be, he would never care about the students’ escape in the event of a fire. On the contrary, he was more likely to be the arsonist who sets the dorm on fire, and expel anyone who dies in the fire.’
Liola was more practical. He didn’t make any guesses. He immediately opened the book and started reading. However, Liola was completely clueless as to what this manual had to do with the dorm, because it was obviously a Mecha manual. More specifically, it was one that required multiple pilots.
‘Can’t it be…’ Liola raised his head to look at the metallic hull of the dorm.
“Principal, sir…” A student raised his hand hesitantly.
“Don’t ask me. Every room has an assigned number, use your eyes! I’ll give you half an hour, go learn what you need to control it.”
Barbalis yelled: “We will begin drills in half an hour! Anyone who makes a mistake will be expelled!”
All the Sorcery students gave a long sigh. ‘Why is graduating this difficult?!’
Chapter 7 : The Strongest Student Dormitory in History
* * *
“Kaiser…” Liola said calmly.
“What’s up? Don’t bother me. This is difficult. God, why were you and I assigned the hardest part? Most of the actions are controlled from where we are. Wooah. Purity is only responsible for a barrel. Let’s me see about Meinan. What? He’s only responsible for the temperature of the air conditioning system?!” Kaiser was so mad, he almost tore the manual in half.
“Kaiser…”
“Stop bothering me, Liola. Go and read your manual quickly. We’ll have to divide labor.” Kaiser’s blood was pumping with adrenaline. He was using his ability to read 10 lines at once, and he was determined to compress ten years of Mecha Fighter classes into half an hour.
“Kaiser…”
Kaiser finally raised his head and yelled loudly: “Why the hell do you keep calling me? Why aren’t you reading the manual? What do you want?”
Liola pointed at the first line of the first page of the manual: “What is a control stick?”
“Uh…”
Kaiser was too busy minding his own business. Finally, Purity, who spent 3 minutes on barrels, and Meinan who spent 3 seconds on air conditioning, took the job of explaining things to Liola.
However, the main functions of the Mecha Fighter was very complex. Even Meinan and Purity could only understand about a third of it. When they explained what they understood to a confused Liola, no one knew how much Liola actually understood.
A minute before the half hour was up, Kaiser asked while trembling: “Liola, which parts do you understand?”
“I know how to use the sensors.” Liola answered honestly. The sensors looked fairly simple. As long as you equip them, the sensors will detect the user’s movements.
Kaiser almost fell to the ground. He then gave a muffled reply: “Then you control the sensors.”
When Barbalis was teaching the students, he would never arrive late.
In exactly half hour, without even a second of delay, Barbalis appeared in front of the students. His face was filled with a strange, satisfied smile. He said excitedly:
“Come, come. Everyone head up to your rooms and get ready. We’re going to be putting on a show for the Mecha Fighters and the Knights. To display that we, the School of Sorcery, can do everything! Hahaha!” Barbablis finished his instructions and burst out in laughter.
“The principal must have gotten into something with the mentors from the other two schools.” Purity and Meinan both wanted to cry.
With two streams of tears on his face, Kaiser patted Liola’s shoulder: “Bro, let’s prepare you for the fight with Mizerui.”
Liola had no rebuttal. For someone who didn’t know what a control stick was just a few moments ago, controlling the large mecha without any mistakes would be impossible.
Liola and Kaiser practically walked into the dorm thinking they were going to be expelled soon. When they reached their room, the first thing Kaiser did was pack his belongings. Although it was just a couple sets of clothing.
“Hurry up and start the mecha! Otherwise everyone in room 111 will be expelled!” Barbalis’ voice echoed throughout the entire dorm.
Kaiser was so scared that he stopped packing and rushed towards the desk with his life was on the line. He placed his hand on a circular symbol made out of paper. After a few rays of light emitting from the symbol, a soft and neutral voice could be heard.
“Mecha starting. Please choose the transformation shape.”
“Human.” Without thinking Kaiser chose a shape of a human. Considering they were not familiar with the Mecha, he didn’t want to choose the shape of an eagle to fly. Although if he fell out of the sky, he wouldn’t have to worry about getting expelled or fighting with Mizerui.
Liola sat quietly in another desk, also putting his hand on a symbol.
The large metallic dorm started to change. All the walls and room started to recombine.
The bed in their room turned upside down, and it turned into a metallic platform, and Kaiser’s chair was moved on top of that platform.
The walls started to move towards them and, before long, the whole room became a small cubicle.
A dashboard and buttons appeared on the walls surrounding Kaiser. Liola was standing in front of Kaiser’s platform, with all sorts of sensors wrapped around his arms and legs.
Finally, they were both surrounded by screens. The screens all around showed the outside view.
They saw Barbalis flying in front of the Mecha, with shining eyes, he yelled: “DESTINATION: SCHOOL OF MECHA FIGHTERS!”
Sweat ran down Kaiser’s back. He thought, while crying:
‘We haven’t even had time to practice, and now we’re taking the fight to the School of Mecha Fighters? When they see something this huge coming towards them, wouldn’t it be strange for them to not open fire? Can a bunch of Sorcery students, who spent half an hour with a manual, even have a chance against Mecha Fighters? Forget it. It’s probably better for me to fight Mizerui.’
“Kaiser, what am I supposed to do now?” Liola lifted his hand and looked at the sensor on his wrist. He was completely clueless as to what it was.
“The things on your hands and legs are sensors. Whatever you do, the mecha will do the same.” Kaiser said weakly.
Of course, things were easier said than done. Every single action must be coordinated by the complex control panels in front of Kaiser.
Kaiser took a deep breath: “Don’t move too fast. This is a robot, and it can’t move as fast as you. You have to coordinate with me, otherwise we won’t even need to wait for the mecha fighters to fire at us. We’ll fall to our deaths first.”
“Now take a few slow steps ahead.” Kaiser said, as his hand started hitting buttons, activating various parts of the mecha’s body.
Liola nodded and slowly raised his foot. Outside, the human form mecha also slowly lifted its foot. This made the students in other parts of the body very busy, as they all tried to obey Kaiser’s coordination commands.
Liola took a few steps ahead, and turned his head to ask: “Everything good?”
“You don’t need to turn your head. Doing so requires another command. As long as you talk, everyone will be able to hear you. Now walk towards your 10 o’clock. Barbalis is getting impatient again.” Kaiser snapped.
A silver, human shaped mecha was slowly heading towards the School of Mecha Fighters, although sometimes it seemed like it was about to fall on its face.
The news immediately reached the ears of the Mecha Fighters’ mentor. Because of the disappearance of the School of Sorcery’s dorm Barbalis flying proudly in front of the Mecha, the mentor immediately jumped up and yelled:
“Damn Barbalis! It’s certain that he wants to break the School of Mecha. He only lost a game of chess. Does he really have to make such a big deal out of it?!”
Seeing the reports in his hand, the School of Sorcery’s Mecha was more than 30 meters tall. The mentor’s eyes almost popped out of their sockets. Such a large mecha would take the students a long time to learn to operate, even for Mecha Fighter students. Could it be that their previous wilderness survival was actually a secret training in operating Mechas?
The mentor immediately used the emergency broadcast and yelled: “ENEMIES INCOMING! All Mecha students on deck! Go to our mechas and wait at the academy gates!”
The emergency broadcast, which had never been used before, shook the entire school of Mecha Fighters.
Could someone actually dare to attack the Aklan Academy? Every student started running, boarded their Mechas, and waited for their first real battle with anticipation and nervousness.
Seeing hundreds of mechas lining up outside of the School of Mecha Fighters, the hearts of all Sorcery students sank. The only fortunate thing was that all the Sorcery students were well prepared, they all bought a very high life insurance policy… … …
However, driving a mecha to challenge the School of Mecha Fighters was probably a suicidal act.
The students wanted to cry, they were worried that if they die, they will not be able to cash in the insurance policy!
“Liola, do you think it’s easier to kill Mizerui and Barbalis, or to control this mecha and defeat hundreds of mechas controlled by the students of Mecha Fighters?” Kaiser started to hesitate.
“I can’t kill.” Liola answered straightforwardly.
The giant mecha from the School of Sorcery slowly came to a stop about 10 meters away from the School of Mecha Fighters, and the students quietly awaited Barbalis’ next order.
All the Sorcery students had already started their prayers, and the opposing students gulped when they saw the gigantic mecha. Such a gigantic mecha was a rare sight to be seen. The School of Mecha students began to wonder if they would be flattened under the huge mecha.
Barbalis proudly yelled: “Such tiny things. With a single step of my mecha, they will all turn into paper maché!”
The opposing mentor used an angel-shaped mecha to fly in front of Barbalis, and yelled angrily: “What the hell are you doing?! Is it necessary to start a war between our schools because of a round of chess?!”
“Hehe, of course it’s necessary!” Barbalis said with a sinister smile. Of course he wouldn’t admit it was just an excuse. The real reason was that the Knights mentor said to him in disdain:
“The School of Sorcery sucks at everything.”
After Barbalis takes care of the School of Mechas Fighters, and the resulting fear had been instilled into the School of Knights, he will of course, take a trip to the School of Knights.
“Liola, I really want to flatten Barbalis with his mecha!” Kaiser ground his teeth. The Sorcery students inside the mecha’s body nodded their heads like crazy in agreement.
However, Barbalis didn’t give them a chance to flatten him. He yelled at the giant mecha: “Fire the main cannon!”
