Chapter 149: Academy life

"Chirp…"

"Yes, that's all we can do anyways."

"Chirp."

"Well, if you enjoy it, it's not too boring."

A few days have now passed since we got into the academy. And we had been spending these days getting familiar with the new things.

'My current rank had been kept a secret for the time being so not everyone knew who I was.'

They will know once I start taking a class, but we will get to that once we return from the subjugation mission that Serulians and Sungrades are set to carry out.

It's going to be important so until that is finished, I am keeping myself a little free.

"We don't know how long it will take but I know for a fact that this is possible."

Right now, Nyx and I were in my room, staring at an ancient fossil that Lexie and Kiren stole from the Sungrade museum.

It had been with me all this time but, since it was not going to be useful to me in its current state, I was trying to revive it ever since then.

'The method to do so was simple: keep it in a certain rejuvenating solution and wait.'

No one really knew how long it would take for the fossilised thing to come back to life, but we just had to be patient.

It could happen anytime. Now, a day later, after a year, there was no real way to know how this process worked but I will certainly work. I know that much.

"Chirp."

"If even you don't understand how this works, then what else can we do in the first place? Let's just wait it out, ok?"

There was only one instance where this had happened in my past even though the method to do so was somehow discovered from an ancient text a long time ago.

I don't really have much details on how it will happen but, of all the fossils available in the world, I know for certain that the one that was going to help me the most right now would be this.

Even if it takes this thing to come out a year or two, having it will be worth it.

"Anyways…" Now that we have nothing much to do right now, it's getting somewhat boring.

I'm done setting up my lab and other rooms in this building, I am also done taking the others around the academy mountain.

'Apparently they were surprised how I knew so much about the academy.'

They were used to the unexpected when they were with me, but even if Lexie knew I was from the future, seeing me talk about the various places and their historical background to taking them to the unique hidden locations was something that surprised them both.

Rainin was also getting used to this place.

He had been going off on his own to see things that will help their family and since there were many things here that the Serulians took care of, as the son of the late patriarch, he was watching over those things in his free time.

He was working most of the time and when he wasn't working, he was trying to be around Lexie.

'Sadly, he's just a kid like me in her eyes.'

Anyways, the two of them aside, Art had been going off on her own these past few days as well, doing something of her own.

'I don't know what she's up to, but whatever the case may be, she's there when I need her.'

Nyx, on the other hand, had been in here with me all this time, doing pretty much nothing as if there was not much left to do in this place.

He wasn't channeling his forever curious mind properly.

Stanox is big so if he decides to go around on his own and look around the mountain, he will certainly find something that matches his interests.

Most of the important people already know about him as well now, so they must be wanting to meet the unique being that bypassed the academy's system.

But he doesn't want to go anywhere on his own. Instead, he had been sticking around me for some time now.

'I don't know why he'd do that but maybe he has his own reasons.'

I don't mind it. But then again, there are many stimulating things that we can do here. And he also wants to explore those things.

'Then why is he like this?'

I looked at him, at his bored face, his eyes watching the bubbles inside the flask that had the fossil.

We were done for the day anyways so, there's no need to spend the rest of the day here anymore. Lexie and Rainin were going to be out today as well so we have some time.

"Do you wanna go and have some noodles?"

"Chirp?"

"I mean, yes it's that cheap human food. But you'll like this one."

"Chirp? Chirp."

"Alright~!"

It's evening time already so they should be open by now.

"Let's go."

The room we were in was covered in weapons.

Magic scrolls, the old enchanted weapons, modern things, powerful items that we have been making over the last few months, the entire room was covered in things that weren't something you'd find even in the weapons shops of the academy.

There were three rooms like this on this floor alone. And each one of these things were protected by a system supported barrier that wouldn't let any unauthorised person to even touch them.

They are safe here, and once they are ready to be held by people, they will leave this place.

We are still studying them and scanning them for the data. Nyx is also adding the data for the things we have made into the system.

'We will be done soon.'

Nyx and I left the building and once again, while we were moving out, I saw him.

"Greetings, senior!"

He bowed to me respectfully the moment he saw me. And the people who were around him did the same.

"Greetings, Ser Theo."

"A-ah? Sir?"

He should have been as discourteous and as disrespectful to me as he had been in the past. But that will take a little longer for us, it seems.

"You're a knight. I ought to call you with proper manners, right?"

Perhaps the others in higher positions aren't like this. But then again, he's in his graduating class right now. He is also taking care of the things inside this building so it's been fun having him around.

"Anyways, what are you doing right now?" His light brown hair fluttered with the wind and the deep hazel eyes were looking at me with a little confusion.

"Ummm… I was about to go and practice-."

"So you just finished your daily classes, huh? Alright, then come with us."

I walked away without saying anything else and the people present blankly stared at the boy I had just invited with me.

"Hey…"

The receptionist of our building had to call him out to unfreeze him. This must really be something really unexpected to this guy.

"Ah!"

When he realised I had walked away, he ran and chased after me.

He had never liked me when we were younger, but the situation was different right now. I wasn't a student, I wasn't like the rest of the people who just entered the academy as the students.

I stand at a stage where even the lecturers have to be careful of me. So, he couldn't possibly be like his usual self around me.

But we have to change that.

"Do you like noodles?"

"Huh…?"

We arrived at the destination not long after we started walking.

Surrounded by various tall and high rising buildings was this small traditional house, a house and not a building, that was owned by a small family.

The entire family worked here, with their young children studying in the different schools of the academy.

'There are hundreds of families who live inside the academy, and while they also have to take the entrance test to be considered an official student, they are a little special.'

Then again, the people who live in this specific place have a unique history of their own. A history that few know about.

'This small house made in traditional eastern style was a warm ray to one's eyes tired from looking at all the flashy houses of the ground floor of Stanox.'

The infrastructure above from here was vastly different and more diverse but this ground floor was the only place that was constantly changing with the students who made it into the academy but could not advance much further.

'One can leave the academy if they want, but they can also stay here if they have made up their minds.'

The academy is special, and it allows one to do what they earnestly wish.

'And the people of this establishment live that kind of special life.'

It was also this very place where we had met for the first time in my past life so, this place is close to my heart.

"Welcome, dear customers!"

And so are the people who run this place.

"Hello~. We'd like a table for two-."

"Chirp?!"

"I meant a table for two and a special seat for my beloved companion."

"Oh of course, dear sirs! Please, come in~!"

The motherly woman who seemed to be in her late thirties was in fact much older.

Her husband, the one who was cleaning a table that had just emptied as we entered, looked a lot younger than her, but he was not like her, and thus was in fact older.

The same was true for the couple that were making food behind the counter to our left side.

They were old, so much so that it's pretty difficult to tell from their old appearance.

They were also beastfolks so they had different appearances of their own.

'Not that it bothered any of us.'

This just made the fame of this lesser known establishment that impressive.