MONOCHROME: Choice Of Destiny
Chapter 10 school life

Ba'al Academy's.

Being the best school in the Demon Empire, all students who graduated from this school are guaranteed to have a bright future.

Although it is open to the public but most of the students who attend here are noble to middle class.

That is because the cost needed to enter is very expensive and if you succeed in entering it does not guarantee students will be able to pay the annual fee.

Many parents of students have to sell their assets just so that their child can continue their education.

Not to mention the intense competition as all the parents from all over the Empire wanted to enroll their children in this school.

To enter the school students will be given a basic test based on the expertise of prospective students, this is done to see the potential of prospective students and the best candidates from each field will be awarded a scholarship.

Since I was quite confident with my mana control, I took the test and the result was that my mana control was better than the average prospective student.

Next there is a written test, prospective students will be given general questions to do.

I lived in this world for 4 years and never even studied, and I only stayed in the Empire for a few months.I did study in the library but it was still lacking.

Finally I get a red score that is even below average, normally I will be rejected immediately but!

Although it is forbidden in writing but this school still enforces the system of nepotism in secret.

Thanks to the help of Lucifer's family I managed to get into the school safely.

In this school there is a class division that starts from classes D, C, B, A, and S.

Class S is where the best students are, while Class D is the trash. Yep as you can guess I wasn't in either.

Right now I was in front of the notice board to see which class I was in.

"S s s s s s, nothing"

I searched my name and finally

"Ahhh! Ryu in class C."

"Thank God I didn't end up in D." This isn't my voice

"Yes, thank goodness."

"Ehh?"

"Ehh?"

I turned around and looked down because usually at a time like this the main character would meet a beautiful girl, but what is this?

I was quite confident with my height but this guy was even taller and the muscles in his body were very prominent.

What is unique about him is his purple hair and he has one horn on his forehead, Normally the devil will have two horns.

"Looks like we're going to class from now on, my name is zephyr you can call me zep."

The man started the conversation with a very dazzling smile.

"I'm Ryu, hopefully we can get along."

"By the way Ryu is, don't you feel the temperature around us starting to drop? I feel cold now."

"I feel the same way."

I glanced to the side and in the middle of the crowd I saw eyes filled with killing aura.

I don't see anything, I don't see it so don't mind.

Zep and I went on to see class divisions.

"Class S was occupied by only a few people and all of them were the children of great people.especially the daughter of the Lucifer family, she was referred to as a child prodigy because of her unparalleled talent."

"What kind of person is he? I'm quite interested."

"Ahh from what I heard she was known as the perfect princess, beautiful, gentle, loving, intelligent, and most importantly her swordsmanship was exquisite."

"Hehey he looks like a great man."

Your heart is soft and loving! you must have been brainwashed until you could say that.

"What if we get into class? it's good to get to know the others."

"Good idea."

I tried to leave as quickly as possible because the temperature in that place dropped very quickly.

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We go into class.

This class looks normal like a class in general.

I sat in the back corner of the window like the main character in general and Zep was sitting next to me.

"I thought we were going to study in a very fancy classroom considering this is the best school."

"Haha you must have the achievement to go up to a higher class because only A and S classes get special treatment."

"Not that I care, just getting in is good enough for me."

"I also thought the same thing, I came here so that I could use the best facilities they provide."

Zep became serious, it seemed like he had a good reason to get into this school.

"Ohh I wanted to ask you this earlier but since many people heard so I held it back, what happened to your horn?"

"Ahh I had no horns from the beginning, I was a human being."

"You must have worked hard to get into this school."

"Haha not really, actually when I was dying I was saved by a girl, in return I served her. she was also rich enough to put me in school."

"Well, you're very lucky, man."

"Haha you're right."

"Click." the door opens

A golden-haired woman walked into the classroom and headed straight for the teacher's desk.

"Good morning everyone, I'll be your homeroom teacher from now on."

"Include me is Angelina Von Mammon, I really like money and precious treasures so I'd be very happy if you guys gave me some."

The whispers among the students began to be heard

"Well, I didn't expect a family member of one of the 7 demon princes to be our guardian."

"Instead he is second only to the Lucifer family."

"What kind of family is the Mammon family?"

I asked Zep who was acting unconcerned beside me.

"You don't know? the Mammon family was the richest family in the Empire, he said the treasures they had were unlimited."

"But why would such a great person be the homeroom teacher in class C?"

"I don't know either, but based on what I've heard the mammon family will usually be the homeroom teacher in Class A."

"It's been, I'm going to pass on it now, everything I've mentioned by name please stand up and say present."

"Ana cross."

"Remain."

A green-haired girl with round glasses in addition to braid hair stands up. Typical of a hickey chick and a bully-an victim at school.

"Astart"

"Remain."

Now a handsome blue haired man stood up.

And the teacher continued to pass.

"Rul."

"Remain."

Whisper whisper "I heard he was a human being picked up by the Lucifer family."

"Maybe he's an eye."

"Surprising."

I could smile wryly listening to them. I sat back down and felt my hand on my shoulder.

"Not to be listened to."

"Thank you."

"Zephyrs."

"Present." my friend stood up

Whisperer

"Isn't he the traitor?"

"True, he has one horn."

"I can't believe he got into this school."

Zep sat back down like nothing happened.

I patted her shoulder.

"No need to listen to my friend."

"I know, I'm used to it."

Angelina Pov

A few moments ago at the principal's office.

"Sir, this is the data of all the new students."

The female secretary handed a stack of papers in front of the headmaster. The headmaster began to look at the papers one by one at an incredible speed but suddenly stopped.

"Man?"

"That Ahh was Ryu's student according to the explanation of the Lucifer family he was the child they picked up at the border."

The principal continued reading the documents but after a while stopped again.

"Haha!! I didn't expect that guy to send his son to this school."

"You mean the Zephyr student descended from the traitor?"

"Yes, all this time the descendants of that person have always lived in hiding for 10,000 years and now the descendants appear here. This is very interesting."

"Move Angelina from class A to class C to keep an eye on these two people."

"But class A will lose their guardians."

"Enough replace it with another."

"Understand."

The moment the secretary left in the room was the headmaster himself.

"Zenos, what are you going to do?"

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"Haha the lesson I didn't understand at all, how about you Zep?"

"Haha.... You don't understand that? I don't either."

Whisperer

"Snack."

"Ahh than that how about we go to the cafeteria together? I heard the food at this school is in the class of a five star restaurant."

"Good idea, I'm hungry too."

We went to the school cafeteria and looked for the quietest place.we ate together while talking about silly things such as the characteristics of dream women and so on.

"Can we eat with you two?"

It was Ana Cross and Astarte.

"Sure, please sit."

"Thank you."

"Haha..now four weirdos at school are gathered."

"It seems we can get along because of that, I am Astarte von Belzebbub the youngest son of the Belzebbub Family."

"I am Ana Cross just an ordinary woman with no high social status."

"Greetings, I am Ryu and as you can see I am human."

"My turn, I'm a Zephyr and you already know I'm a descendant of a traitor."

The four of us spoke while pretending to be unaware of the disgusted look from everyone.

The next lesson is combat practice.

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We were all gathered in a room on the wall with wooden weapons ranging from swords, shields, arrows, magic wand, and dagger.

All the students started to pick up their weapons, Zephyr and I took a sword, Ana took a magic wand, and Astarte took an arrow.

As mentioned earlier this school provides all the facilities in full, for sword users will duel with others while archers and magicians will be given moving firing targets. Especially for healers they will give a sick or injured animal to be healed.

I'm currently dueling with Zep.

"What kind of rules do you want?"

Zep asked me.

"Because this is an exercise should the use of magic and strengthening of the body be prohibited, even though I am slightly harmed when looking from your stocky body."

"Haha! you asked for it."

Zep attacked first and I prepared to dodge, what happened next was that I remembered myself while sparring with Lucy.

His attack was too simple as never being taught how to use a sword.

I dodged Zep's attack and immediately counterattacked but he managed to dodge it.

We did it for a while and it ended in my victory.

We both sat on the floor gasping for breath.

I extended my hand to Zep to help him stand up.

"How about we go and see Ana and Astarte?"

"It looks good."

First we went to the archer room and saw Astarte shooting really fast and everything was exactly 100 points.

"Great..he became a Belzebbub family not without reason."

Zep was stunned beside me, Astarte who heard him turned around with a gloomy face.

"Haha. archery is not a symbol of the Belzebbub family, our family is a struggle."

"Then why are you using arrows?"

"Well I also want to use an ax like the others but I don't even have the power of Belzebbub from birth so I can't absorb the damage and turn it into strength."

"Now it explains why the son of the Belzebbub family is in Class C."

"Haha right, they told me that I would be expelled if I could not awaken my power after graduation."

"If that happens I want to offer you to come with me as an adventurer when we graduate, so meet me."

Zep who said that and after that Astarte's expression became a little brighter like seeing a glimmer of hope.

"I also plan to become an adventurer after graduation."

Everyone immediately looked at me.

"Haha! good then we can form a party of freaks!"

"Haha, how about we take Ana along?"

"Good idea."

And so we went to where Ana was practicing magic, in contrast to the previous one where Astarte showed incredible archery skills, what Ana did was perfectly normal and ordinary even if I could tell Ana was worse than an average witch.

We observed in silence for a while for fear of bothering her and after several attempts Ana lowered her head.

"Huuhh turns out there's no development."

Ana went to sit in the corner for a break.

We approached him like the man who had just arrived.

"Ohh Ana! is your training over?"

Astarte immediately ran over and greeted.

Ana quickly calmed down and welcomed us.

"Ohh friend, ahaha there is no development at all."

"Don't worry we'll be in this school for 3 years so until then we'll study and practice together."

"Right, we'll help you."

"I'm a blacksmith so I'll make you a very powerful magic wand."

We all immediately glanced towards the person who said that, and that was Zephyr

"What's? why do you see me like that?"

"I thought you were a 2-handed sword user." it was Ana

"I thought you were a tank." That was Astarte

"I thought you were a Knuckle user." And that was me.

"Ehh? I thought you knew because you all knew about my bloodline!"

"I don't know."

"I don't either."

and lastly Astarte.

"I've heard of it but all I know is that a one-horned demon went berserk and slaughtered countless innocent people."

"It did happen but that's it?"

looks like I'm gonna have to find a book that tells me about this traitor.

We continued the conversation for a while before the bell went off, and we went back to the dormitory.

It doesn't feel like 1 year has passed.