Absolute Soul
53. Robed Figure

"Okay, today's lesson was enough. We will continue tomorrow" said Andre packing his luggage as soon as the sound of the bell came ringing. He stepped out of class after giving an appeal to go home immediately to his students.

Given that there are currently Skymaze Academy students who are targeted by irresponsible people, he does not want any of his students to become one of the victims.

Before going through the classroom door, Andre stopped and turned to where Haikal and Heru were sitting, "Ah, Haikal, Heru, according to news from the headmaster Salvia was aware and could be visited. Maybe you guys want to see her when's the day."

Haikal raised his eyebrows hearing the news, as did Heru who reacted more or less the same as Haikal. They looked at each other for a moment and nodded at the same time deciding to immediately visit Salvia.

At the classroom door, Andre smilingly looked at Haikal and Heru watching the reaction of the two, "You have a good partner, yes, Salvia," murmured Andre inwardly before continuing his steps followed by the students of class 1-A who intended to go home.

Haikal and Heru themselves did not plan to stay in school for too long, they wanted to go straight to the hospital to visit Salvia. If the girl had recovered and regained her consciousness, it would not take much reason to visit her.

They immediately packed the items they had and headed to the hospital, but not yet a few steps both out of the classroom, dozens of pairs of eyes suddenly appeared staring at them sharply like lions finding prey.

"Geek! It's Haikal!"

"Haikal Aldra's! I'm asking for your autograph!"

"Oh, Haikal's brother! I'm you!"

All of Haikal's fur shuddered to see a group of students running towards him from behind, especially when his eyes caught a human alien figure who was not clear gender.

"Heru, we're running!" Do not want to be approached by an alien creature whose gender is unclear— physically seen—Haikal immediately ran at full speed towards the stairs intending to escape as far as possible from the pursuit which may be part of the Fan Club Haikal.

Heru laughed loudly at Haikal running with a frantic face that was rarely seen, "You run, I have nothing to do with you about this."

After saying that Heru had just finished his loud laughter seeing Haikal's reaction, but all traces of the laughter instantly disappeared in an instant when his ears caught a heavy voice calling out his name.

Heru looked back and found a group of gigantic male disciples running behind the Haikal Fan Club group while exclaiming, "Abang Heru! Wait for us!"

Heru's eyes spontaneously glared for a moment before running as fast as possible following Haikal, "Why am I the only one being chased by a herd of burly homos?!"

***

After escaping from the pursuit of Haikal Fan Club and a group of sturdy students, Haikal and Heru both sighed heavily in a small alleyway located in the gap between buildings.

"Haikal, this is all your fault" Heru grumbled without much ado.

"Huh? What do you mean my fault?" Haikal turned his gaze to Heru feeling displeased with the words of his best friend just now.

Heru retorted Haikal's cold-looking gaze, "If you don't get stronger like this, you won't have your own personal fan club and I can't be chased by a pack of faggots like that!"

"Bodo's time with that herd of faggots you mentioned, that's your own problem!" Haikal shouted back not intending to give up.

"Are you my best friend or not? I was chased by a faggot and you just let me?" Heru tighter pulled the collar of Haikal's clothes.

Haikal himself did not want to lose and replied with the same thing, "You have no right to say that after leaving me attacked by 'flood bandang' students this morning."

Next to Heru's eyebrows raised in response to Haikal's words, "It's still better than a bunch of gay people."

"You're fighting, huh?!"

"You said it!"

Haikal and Heru removed each other's collar and took a few steps back creating a distance between them then clenched their hands preparing to launch a fist, which was to be taken, but before that happened there was a sound of applause coming from above them.

The attention of the two immediately turned to the origin of the sound and found a black-robed figure standing on the edge of the roof of the building clapping, "Excellent! My two prey went to a quiet place then fought with each other, this made it so easy for me!"

Haikal's forehead shriveled in response to the words of the cloaked figure and prepared the horses to fight empty-handed, as well as Heru who swiftly took out his Soul Arc.

Neither Haikal nor Heru needed to think too long to guess who and the purpose of this cloaked figure. They had been on standby ever since coming out of the academy environment so that when experiencing this kind of shock the two could react immediately.

"Oh, you intend to fight me?" The cloaked figure stopped clapping and focused his attention on Haikal and Heru while laughing for a while before squinting, "You guys are overconfident, stupid kids."

Haikal did not speak the figure, he poured some soul energy into his legs and kicked the ground, darting rapidly towards the sky and then launching a kick that led to the cloaked figure.

The cloaked figure took one big step back avoiding Haikal's kick, as a result of which Haikal's attack only managed to tear through the air. Haikal clicked his tongue slowly.

While Haikal's body was still floating in the air the figure threw a dagger that shot towards Haikal's chest, but just before the blade hit its target, the metal blade struck something that caused a clinking sound between the metals.

Can be seen the cause of the twang sound is Heru's arm which is now coated by his Soul Arc in the form of metal gloves. He stretched out his left arm a few centimeters right in front of Haikal's chest protecting his best friend from a deadly attack.

"I'm sorry, I'm a little off guard" Haikal said after landing safely on the roof of the building without taking his eyes off the cloaked figure.

Heru gave a small smile in response to Haikal and stared at the cloaked figure more sharply, "Don't use too wide a movement, he can see and attack our weak points instantly."

Haikal nodded softly approving Heru's suggestion, he himself had already noticed it despite not being told. If it were not for the serious situation threatening their lives, then Haikal and Heru would have again argued over this.

On the other hand the cloaked figure giggled for quite a while looking at the two young men in front of him, "Heh, so this is how the finalists of this year's tournament are capable of. That's fine." too."

After saying so, the figure took out dozens to dozens of knives from the sleeves of his robe. The blades did not fall directly to the floor but floated around the cloaked sofa as if against gravity.

He giggled with a strange sound of laughter and a smile, yet his abilities could not be underestimated. The robed figure looked at Haikal and Heru sharply before saying, "Well, give me and my knives an interesting match."