The Metal Military Academy
Chapter 59: Rafa and Ardan's suspicions

What happened in the testing session this morning was still thought by Ardan. It's not about the juniors, it's about Shujin.

About the reason the black-haired young man recklessly attacked Ardan so much that it almost left him paralyzed, about the motive he was trying to humiliate Ardan, and the Awakening Power of Shujin that looked strange in Ardan's eyes.

As now, tonight Ardan just sits on a slipper on a bed covered with a plaid holster. His eyes seemed empty, still thinking about the strange things that had happened this morning.

Rafa was leaning on his bed that was right next to Ardan's bed. He had glanced at the young man, feeling astonished because since the shower was finished Ardan continued to be silent daydream. Unlike usual who is always active, chatty, even had giggled himself when chat-chat’an with Chrysanthemum.

However, how did the guy become so adem tonight? Rafa became afraid that suddenly Ardan even got possessed because of a dreamy time.

“Hmm...”.

If Rafa thought about it, it seemed like Ardan was thinking about his fight against Shujin this morning. Incidentally, Rafa also wants to talk about Shujin, but he can't talk about it with Ardan if there's still Damar here.

Damar himself was seen fiddling with a laptop on the bed opposite to Rafa's bed, checking the data of the results of Student Orientation Activities for two days.

Rafa gets the idea that his friend is out of the unit so that he and Ardan can freely discuss the matter of the fight this morning.

“Mar.”

“Hm?” Spontaneous Damar looked towards Rafa.

“Buy’in me the same Ardan ketoprak, dong. In the canteen south of the dormitory. Want this again..”.

“Dih, south side? Very real,” comments Damar, “Not able to buy yourself near here aja, Raf? In sono often ngantri, solid bener.”

“Again tired after there was activity this afternoon with Senior Miranda. Ardan is not feeling well anymore. From earlier diem mulu kayak national statue,” alibi Rafa while shaking his legs that squiggle. “I transfer nih money, all ama duit jalan.”

Rafa also typed in the nominal money that he would transfer to the Damar account using a mobile phone. A second later, Damar's phone has received a notification of the transfer of some money in.

Damar glared a little when reading the nominal money that Rafa transferred. “300 Dt? The opaque only 15 Dt aja, Raf....”.

“Buy’in for me the same Ardan, three servings will be if you want too. The rest of the money way you.”

“Tumben baek...”

Because he had gotten a lot of money from his best friend, it was not good if Damar refused. So, he was forced to go buy the ketoprak in question.

Damar got out of bed, put on a grey jacket, then stepped towards the exit of the unit.

“Actually, Raf, do not need to be given money the way was not anything.” He smiled mockingly at Rafa. “Important, give me permission to make a way with Nadia during the semester break later aja ‘dah enough.”

“Whimper you, Damar Seblak!”

“Kyahahaha..”.

Rafa throws his pillow at Damar, but the bespectacled young man runs away laughing mockingly, while his pillow ends up sandwiched between the automatic doors of the unit.

“This room.... Make sprains.”

Rafa walked to the door, took the pillow from the door clasp to make the door automatically closed again, then turned to the side of the bed.

“Dan.”

“Dan.”

“Andang!”

“But your muzzle from earlier. Any more thoughts about your fight with Shujin this morning?”

Ardan did not answer, instead tightening his scabbard to cover his body which is currently only bare chest.

Rafa sighed, “.... I told Damar to buy’in ketoprak so we can talk about this Shujin problem.”

The young man who owned the blonde mane began to sit on the edge of his bed, right facing Ardan.

“You must be feeling weird about Shujin's Resurrection Power, right?”

Ardan turned his head with an astonished look, “You're aware?”

“Yes aware, lah. If you don't realize, it means I'm sleeping.”

“Not that, Bekicot,” sewot Ardan. “I mean, you realize that there is something odd about Shujin's power?”

“I'm equally aware Nadia, while the people around the kayak Damar and Chrysanthemum began to understand that Shujin's moves are similar to the other people's moves are the basis of the Shadow Element, which is the, so they don't feel suspicious anymore. But, not for us.”

Rafa continued, “Shujin is ‘kan has the Power of Resurrection in the form of controlling shadows. But, there are some styles that even look unusual called the power of shadow.”

“Oke, the same style of Chrysanthemum and Nadia can still be called from the shadow because the basis of the strength of the shadow itself is that it can resemble anything and form it in the form of shadows. But not with a style that can make that crystal.”

Ardan tried to remember what moves Shujin launched when fighting against him. Until he remembered the part when Shujin created some purple crystals that could explode creating large crystal pegs.

“That makes purple crystals, it will continue to grow large crystal pegs if it explodes, right?”

“Well, the sure!” show Rafa enthusiastic. “The form doesn't look like a shadow, does it? Even more similar crystals created by the original crystal controller.”

It does. The purple crystals Shujin created do not look like shadow objects. Naturally, shadow users can create other objects only in the form of shadows. The object looks not so dense, black with a purple or blue aura, and is not 100% similar to the original object.

But, the crystal that Shujin created did not emit any shadowy aura at all, was not pitch black and instead looked brightly shiny like a crystal in general.

“Other people may still assume that the crystal is also part of the shadow element because it is purple, just like Shujin's aura. But, if it is associated with other Shujin moves that are similar to the style of having Chrysanthemum and Nadia, like the power of the boy is not just controlling the shadow,” Rafa is suspicious.

“You mean, he also has a genuine power that he's trying to hide, just like me?” point Ardan to himself. “Kok you can think in that direction?”

Rafa also said lightly, “That's it. Me and my family have been plotters with you and your late father, of course we ‘dah used to the way you hid the power of the Controller and the Creator of your Weapon.”

“Because remembering the way you hid the power of the weapon controller by turning it into a metal controller, I also speculated that this Shujin hid his original power by turning it into a shadow controller,” Rafa continued.

“Hmm...” Ardan pulled the strands of his gray hair back. “I also thought in that direction. Just, I'm still a bit hesitant.”

Rafa also idly asked, “Try you think, what powers are similar-essentially the same shadow, can create moves that look like other people, others, can even create objects that actually do not look like shadows?”

Ardan tried to think of the answer. But Rafa had already predicted it himself.

Rafa's two bright blue eyes narrowed sharply before he revealed what he had expected about these suspicious things.

“Imitate, merge, and modify.”

Ardan was slightly dumbfounded, realizing the intent of Rafa's words. He began to get an early answer from their suspicions against Shujin's Resurrection Power.

Ardan began to question, “Is Shujin's Resurrection Power a Mimic and Modify Elements that he sees from others?”

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