The Bride of the 7 Great Sins
Chapter 07 - Javelin Elements Hampa Is Lowly

The chairs in the class are slowly filled by the students who arrive. When the announcement of— to the students who are still wandering are asked to immediately enter the class—diperlisten through the speakers in the hallway, those who are left hurry to fill the bench.

Then shortly after the announcement, the teachers entered the class they were teaching.

In grades 2-A1, a man came along carrying some sheets of paper which he then placed on the teacher's desk.

“Good morning, kids. It hasn't been a year, has it? Now we're losing some face because they didn't put in much effort in the final exams last semester. But on the other hand, we also got a new face. Either they were transfer students or the ones who failed to ascend to the advanced class.

“Because it is on this occasion, we will start by knowing each other and saying hello. By the way for those who do not know, the name of the father is Kura. In addition to teaching at the academy as your homeroom teacher, you are also a servant at the Claudia Family Children's Residence. For this next year, please help.”

When the man entered the classroom and introduced himself, Airen did not know anyone wrong. The man who became his homeroom teacher was Kura, the butler in their residence.

“Well, let's start the introduction from the very back. Mention everything you want to say about yourself in order to make a good impression on new people.”

Thus, the class begins an introductory session. The disciples who had their turn stood in place and introduced themselves.

Among the students, there are those who tell their hobbies, favorite foods and things that are not liked, there are even those who mention the name of pets. Everything is done to make an interesting impression.

Sometimes there are also twisting jokes like Zian so that the class is not silent from laughing.

One by one the students in the class had their turn until Sophia's ration finally arrived. The girl stood up from her chair and introduced herself.

“Sophia Claudia. There's not much I can say about myself because most of you already know. For this year ahead, please help.”

Then Sophia sat down with a class applause honoring her introduction.

With the completion of Sophia's turn, then Airen who sat next to her also got a turn.

Kura gestured to him and Airen stood up after gathering courage and faced his friend.

“N-My name is Airen. C-Claudia Airen– Uh, salah–”

Laughter in the classroom instantly broke when she saw Airen who stuttered from nervousness.

Sophia who was sitting next to wasted a tired breath while Zian who was sitting at the back table encouraged her and gave the urge to act more relaxed.

Airen personally is fine with being laughed at. It's just, he's embarrassed himself. Moreover, now Sophia and Kura were looking at her behavior.

To relax, Airen held a deep breath in the lungs briefly after pulling it through the nose. Then he breathed it out. He is ready to repeat his introduction.

“My name is Airen, Airen Claudia. As you probably know because you've heard of it somewhere, I'm the only man among Claudia's other children. All this time I never knew I was part of the Claudia Family. I'm from a faraway land that Strike has not touched.

“On hobbies and such, I thought nothing special. But I like to read. He said I had a high curiosity.

“Say also my ability is still below the average Javelin standard in the Claudia Family because of lack of practice and not much experience. I think I'm great at shooting accuracy because I like shooting games, but I don't know. I'm not used to dealing with Javelin or Strike at my home theme.

“Then, when talking about the elements, he said I am Javelin empty element. Frankly there is nothing special about me, so maybe that's all for my introduction. Please guidance for the next year.”

Airen's long introduction ended there.

But unlike Sophia or the others, he did not receive applause from the rest of the class. They all just fell silent.

Airen who was confused checked Sophia's expression. The girl put on a face in trouble.

When he turned towards Kura, Airen saw the expression of their butler who was now acting as his homeroom teacher as if to say, ‘waduh’.

“K-You all why? Is there something wrong with my introduction?”

Due to lack of clarity, Airen chose to ask directly.

“Barusan .. You admit that you're Javelin empty, right?”

Finally there was someone talking, and his voice triggered the other classmates to fuss over him.

“Element empty? What did he say?”

“Claudia family but empty elements? Is he serious?”

Surprise whispers began to be heard.

Everyone talks about one thing the same, which is about Airen who claims that he is a empty-element Javelin.

At first he was a bit confused as to why they were whispering it, so Airen tried to recall what he had learned so far.

Inside each Javelin, there is a so-called energy. Energy has several kinds for each person, as well as different blood types.

Energy is classified into all elements. There are 7 types of origin energy, they are: fire, water, air, earth, light, darkness, and void.

The use of energy itself is as a fuel to realize the Kavalian or activate special abilities Javelin. While the energy element serves to add the effect of strength, for example, wrapping a sword with fire or a blow that makes the ground lift.

On the other hand, Javelin with empty element energy does not get any effect except physical reinforcement that can indeed be used by people with other elements.

In this section, Airen does not realize that the empty Javelin element is viewed with one eye by people. He does not know Javelin which has a hollow element is considered a disgrace that is no different from ordinary people.

Airen's mistake that makes the rest of his class so noisy is claiming to be a vacant Javelin element while he comes from a family known for its great Javelin-javelin.

“Is he probably hidden from the Claudia Family because of the hollow element?”

“Can only! The appearance of Javelin with a hollow element in their family must be embarrassing, so they threw it away!”

“Surely her parents are in poverty, so they plead with the Claudia Family so that her son can be schooled in the academy until graduation and get a good job.”

“If that is true, I feel sorry for Miss Sophia who is constantly occupied by him. Miss Sophia must be having trouble taking care of it.”

The atmosphere was getting hotter with flips that suddenly worsened.

Airen had to say something, but he did not know what to say to get the situation back under control. Fear that the situation is getting worse.

He looked towards Sophia. Sophia clenched her hands, visibly holding back anger from the bad comments that vilified Airen and her family.

As Sophia was about to stand up and refute their every talk, the sound of applause turned everyone's attention forward.

The applause came from Kura. He managed to grab the attention of the noisy class.

“Class is still not over, but you guys are like in the break hours. There is still one person left who has not introduced himself, do you intend to make him wait a longer turn or even miss his introduction?”

Kura calmly reprimanded his students. His eyes were on Airen.

“You can sit now.”

“B-Good.”

Airen according to Kura's instructions.

Then the student to the left of Airen stood up as his next turn of self-introduction fell upon him.

“Suel Hunter's. What is clear is that I am not a Javelin with a hollow element like someone.”

The loud applause from the classmates sounded as soon as Suel sat down. They smiled as if giving appreciation to Suel's words that offended Airen indirectly.

Kura could only clap his eel and waste his breath tired of seeing the behavior of his students.

After that, the class continued with Kura who shared the lesson schedule and determined who had a package turn every day.

Finished with all that, Kura ended her class. He called Airen before he left.

“After this can come to my room? Come later with Miss Sophia.”

“Alright, I'll come with Sophia later.”

Airen agreed to Kura's request and the man left after smiling to hear his answer.

On the other hand, he saw Sophia already preparing her things and getting out of the chair. Airen hurriedly took out a bag to catch up.

But when he was about to catch up, Zian and two others blocked his path.

“Ups, relax buddy. We have some quizzes for you, can you please have a minute?”

“Sorry, I have business after this.”

Airen tries to evade them as he is about to catch up with Sophia, but Zian's two friends get in his way.

“I promise it won't be long. Well, only if you can answer it quickly, anyway. I just want to know the extent of your ability, whether you deserve to be in this class or not.”

Zian's statement made Airen aware of the man's intentions. He wanted to assess Airen's eligibility to stay in their classroom.

“What is this? What is this?”

“Say Zian wants to test Javelin vacuum it.”

“If you've talked about Javelin empty, it's clear they're fools. Especially to be given a test? Want to embarrass him even further?”

The uproar that Zian made provoked the interest of other classmates so that there was no way for Airen other than to accept it. If he ran away, he would definitely be considered a fool.

“Originally not too long.”

Airen nodded approvingly, making the man on the right side of Zian who had messy brown hair smile with his canine teeth revealed.

“I am the first. Why are we called Javelin and the weapon that comes from our soul is called Kavalian?”

The question came from the man with a fanged smile.

Airen took a moment to compose his words before replying:

“Kata Javelin is a pun on the name of the first person to possess Javelin powers and share it with the rest of the world, Jack Avelin. Meanwhile, the term Kavalian is used by Jack to honor the death of his brother who fought and was killed while fighting disaster-carrying monsters. Just like Javelin, Kavalian is a pun on Kanaria Avelin. Is that enough?”

Airen confirmed whether his answer was in line with what they expected.

Zian and his friend looked towards the answer giver, making the messy brown-haired man hold his chin before nodding.

“Yups. For questions of the fundamental lesson, it is enough.”

“Then my next question. It should be a little harder this time than it was, so prepare yourself.”

The man to the left of Zian who had the appearance of a gray-haired cool man pushed his glasses before giving a matter.

“What happens to Javelin if they continue to forcefully use their power even though the energy is up?”

“His strength will stay out. But because the energy is exhausted, the fuel used is the energy of life. And if the life energy is exhausted, Javelin will die or at least experience paralysis. Therefore, young Javelins are strongly commemorated to use their little energy wisely so as not to run out.”

In the second question Airen became more confident in answering. Zian and his two friends were impressed.

“Huh, amazing.”

The bespectacled cool guy snorted.

Remaining Zian. He also gave the third and final question.

“This time it's from me, if you're right you're graduating. How to catch Strike without killing him?”

Zian's questions pose little threat to Airen. Airen's expression showed that he wanted to avoid it as much as possible. But if they refuse, I don't know what bad things they will say.

“If it is not wrong, by attacking a certain part of Strike, they will stop moving or at least slow down to focus on regenerating the part. In those moments, Strike can be secured.”

“And what specific part do you mean?”

“I-It ...”

Zian asked exactly what Airen could not answer. He had tried to avoid it, but Zian seemed dissatisfied that there was still less to Airen's answer.

Then Sophia's voice exhaled somewhere.

“Strike has fast regeneration ability except for its heart. If it attacks his heart without destroying it, Strike will stop his movement and regenerate to focus on healing the heart. In those moments, Strike can be mutilated to make it safer and catch it.”

The answer came from Sophia who was leaning against the door, making the entire attention of the people in the class turn towards her.

“Nona Sophia, this is not a question for you, why did you answer it instead?”

The bespectacled man to the left of Zian had previously floated a protester.

Sophia, however, showed a stronger and more honest reaction by crossing both hands in front of her chest.

“I'm sick of waiting for you guys to finish, so can let Airen pass?”

Sophia's orders made Zian and the two people next to her tremble due to the threatening aura she had. But on the other hand Airen instead looks busy thinking about other things.

“Heart? I never remember a book calling it that.”

“Hearts are just figurative because they are similar. Javelin first called it Antis, so the old books wrote it that way. At this time, the term is rare and replaced with ‘jantung’. Surely what you read in the library is only old books because you do not know the name ‘jantung’.”

“I just follow the advice of Mr. Kura, so do not pay too much attention to whether what I read is an old book or a new book.”

Airen laughed wryly admitting it.

Seeing the conversation of the two, the fangs man on Zian's right nudged the narrow-eyed man.

“Antis? Is there such a name for the heart of Strike?”

“Entah.”

“I vaguely remember it, but that time I saw it in a really old ancient library book belonging to my great-great-grandmother.”

The bespectacled man helped convince his two friends that Sophia and Airen were not making things up.

Sophia who noticed their whispers returned.

“If there is no business, can release Airen now? I'm really sick of waiting.”

Faced with Sophia's request, Zian and his accomplice had no choice but to open a path by going from there.

But before leaving, Zian patted Airen on the shoulder to convey something. Followed by the two snake tongue friends, the glasses and the fangs.

“Well, I admit that your entry test scores are not cheating. This way my heart can be a little relieved.”

“Enterprise not to be a burden in the match between classes later.”

“Come sometime play together, Airen~!”

The three of them also walked out of the classroom, leaving the bewildered Airen on the spot.

‘What exactly are they good people?’

“What are you doing there? Isn't Kura waiting?”

Sophia reminded their interests, instantly resuscitating Airen to reality.

“B-True too, I'll be there soon.”

“Wait!”

As Airen was about to get to Sophia's place, someone held back his steps with a cry.

He is Suel, the short man next to Airen's bench who has neat orange hair and eye-capping bangs.

“Packed Javelin empty like him, aren't you a hassle, Miss Sophia? Javelin empty like him will definitely only be a burden of time competition between classes later.”

“... Huh? What are you talking about?”

Suel's words astonished Sophia to the point of whispering in an angry tone.

“Airen is my family, no one should speak ill of him!”

Airen was surprised to hear Sophia raising her voice. He also hugged Airen's wrist while staring intently at Suel.

“Come, Airen.”

“Y-Ya ...”

Airen is not given power when pulled by Sophia to leave the classroom.

On the other side Suel clicked his tongue.

Sophia pulled Airen far enough before finally letting go. The two stopped in place by making a little distance while avoiding each other's sight.

“Thank you, for defending me.”

Airen expressed her gratitude for Sophia's help.

Without turning her face to look at her interlocutor, Sophia said :

“Kura is waiting for us, don't linger anymore.”

So Airen smiled for reasons that he himself did not understand.

“You're right. Come.”

That way, the two continued on their way towards Kura's room.