The Slayers
Chapter 81 (Season 3)

In the morning, the air gets very cold. Right now heavy rain is falling, making the sunlight blocked. The cold weather makes people who usually shower early in the morning so delayed, they do not want to bathe with ice-cold water.

But, of course, there are those who enjoy the icy water, for example Johan. He got up early in the morning and exercised, swung his sword and bathed.

"Ahhhh, enjoy the morning shower!"

Johan came out of the bathroom with only a towel wrapped around his waist.

[Are you not cold?] Seraphim asked in surprise.

"No, after exercising my body became very sweaty. With a shower in the morning, especially if it rains, then the water will keep me refreshed!"

[Truely too.]

Johan walks towards the wardrobe, he picks up the school uniform and wears it.

It is currently at 05:30 WIB. So Johan planned to train again with the real sword. He could not practice using the real sword in his own room, or he would damage one of the furniture, and had to pay a fine.

Although the students in the academy live in dormitories and are free to use all the furniture or facilities provided. The students are still subject to fines if they damage the furniture or facilities. So every time Johan swung a sword in his room, he only used a wooden sword.

Johan took out his sword. He opened the room door and walked down the long hallway of the dormitory. Of course, it was a male dormitory.

Johan opened the door and walked out of the dormitory. He walked on a long path. There, he could see the female dormitory. And he saw a woman he knew; she was his classmate.

They meet in an upside-down Y-shaped junction. Johan greeted the woman first.

"Again, Via!"

Heard a cheerful greeting from Johan. Via immediately turned his head and greeted back with a sweet smile.

"By the morning, Johan. You've been up so early?"

"Of course, I want to train at the training facility."

"I want to go there too."

"Then let's go there together."

"Come on!"

They walk hand in hand on a long road with many sights that are still pleasant to see even though they are seen every day.

Finally they reached the training facility. To enter, you have to stick your palm in the middle of the door, it will recognize the student and the door opens automatically.

Johan was very excited to train, but inside the training facility, the sight he saw turned his spirit into anger.

The view also surprised Via a little.

The scene they saw was Zoel holding a large sword and beating a gloomy looking child, his name was Niji.

Not only Zoel attacked, there were 3 others who attacked Niji alternately with Zoel.

Can't bear to see the cornered and helpless Niji. Johan disappears from his place and appears to have turned his back on Niji and pulled out the sword from its sheath.

The sword was long and pure white. Its hilt was luxurious gold and sparkling, even so, the sword was lighter than expected.

Johan stood very firmly like a hero, he stopped Zoel's attack easily.

Zoel was immediately shocked, even though the attack he launched was strong, but it was stopped by Johan with just the tip of his sword.

Johan's sword is against Zoel's. But I can see who won.

Johan pushed the zoel until he bounced away, but he was able to land well.

"You... What are you doing!?" Zoel yelled in annoyance at Johan.

"If you're alone? Why did you beat up Niji?"

"Teaching? I'm helping him practice shit!"

His voice was so loud and contained great anger. His voice echoed throughout the room.

The cold-faced Johan had now changed, not out of surprise or fear, but his expression became bright.

"Oh, did you help her practice anyway?"

"Of course, and you're interrupting our training, bangs*t!"

Johan who was smiling shyly and feeling guilty turned around and looked at Niji's face. His face was completely gloomy and full of Luka.

Johan's face changed again, turning cold again. And asked Zoel again in a really cold tone.

"You said it was practice, but why did it go like this?"

Zoel becomes very upset with Johan, he yells at him again, this time louder and rougher.

"Why, huh!? That's so he can grow faster!"

"But you attacked Niji with your friends aggressively, you call that training?"

"She asked for her own baj*ngan, don't you fucking know, goddamn it!"

Johan turned towards Niji again and asked.

"Is it true that you asked him to train you?"

Johan asked very seriously, his eyes sharply staring at Niji's eyes which were blocked by his hair bangs. Niji became frightened, he was afraid that if he answered no then he would be finished off by Zoel sometime. But, Niji chose to be honest. He felt that Johan could help him.

But, Niji sees Zoel and his friends attacking Johan. Johan was already aware of that, he clasped his sword tightly and prepared to fend off their attacks.

But...

"[Counter Butterfly]"

A glowing golden butterfly appears before Zoel and his friends, unable to stop their attack and destroying the golden butterfly in front of them.

When the butterfly disintegrates and gives off a burst of bright light. Zoel and his comrades were thrown far away, Zoel's friends did not land well, some even hit the walls of the room. While Zoel managed to land by plugging his greatsword into the floor.

"Via, you're a shirt"

"Enough, Zoel!!"

Via's anger makes Zoel's rude speech stop.

"Your bad qualities still exist even today, you never change!"

"What's your business, huh!?"

"My business? You beat up Niji for practicing, I know you're lying or not Zoel."

"You.. always ruin my fun!"

"You want to have some fun? Then, here face an opponent who is as good as you."

"You..."

Via was really serious, he unsheathed his sword and stared very sharply and menacingly. Although Via said sepantaran, but actually Via is stronger and more expert than Zoel.

Eventually, Zoel gives up and leaves the training facility along with his friends.

"Huft, he's finally giving up."

Via breathed a sigh of relief and sheathed back his sword.

"Woah, the skill you used was amazing!" Johan said

"It's normal that, you're great too, you can stop Zoel's attacks so easily."

Johan becomes embarrassed when praised Via. He scratched his back head.

"Ehm, you two, t-thank you, yes" Niji said with a lowered head.

"No papa, friends should help each other" Johan said, scratching his head again.

"Why were you beaten by Zoel?" Ask Via.

"Ehm, j-so yesterday I accidentally spilled my drink on his shoulder. He was angry because of that, and he beat me up with his friends, and he told me to come to the training facility tomorrow morning, otherwise, I'd be beaten up even worse."

"And that's it, I'm their punching bag."

"Zoel, he never changes" Via said as he patted his forehead.

"You mean?" Ask Johan curiously.

"How did you say it? The kids from my school who come here are very naughty. They like to treat non-special children like messengers. Some even made into boxing. A lot of kids quit school because of them, even..."

"...why?"

"Until a child dies."

""Huh!?"" Niji and Johan were surprised, they thought it was too much.

"Well that's it, there were two kids who were depressed to suicide."

"It's so bad!"

"Yes, one of the children was bullied to depression and eventually committed suicide by jumping from the 5th floor of the school. It surprised the whole school, his head until dented because he fell on a hard garden stone. And secondly, he was depressed and dropped out of school, and he was reported missing, he probably killed himself and his body could not be found."

Johan and Niji spoke a thousand languages. Their mouths are really tight as they are sewn together.

But finally Johan opened his voice, "why are they still here? They should be in jail!"

"Our parents were not ordinary people, our parents were very influential. For example Zoel, his mother is Zuora."

""Z-z-zuora!? Zuora the barbarian woman?" Niji said as he stuttered, the name mentioned by Via is not an arbitrary name

"Yep, Zuora the barbarian woman, Slayers the 301st woman in the world."

"Crazy!"

"So, our parents' influence can mask our bad behavior."

"You're behaving badly too?" Ask Johan.

"Of course not" said Via, shaking his head, "I was only friends with them because my parents, my parents and their parents were very familiar. So I was told to be friends with them. If I'm not told to, I'm with them."

"Ooh."

Finished with the explanation of the Via. Johan asks Via for something.

"Hey, Via, would you like to practice a match with me?"

"May be."

Johan and Via finally practice sparring, while Niji sees their excellent sparring practice.

The first lesson hour.

Mr. Arton walked in with his usual expression, a flat expression. Mr. Arton was wearing the uniform of an academy teacher with a sword on his waist, wearing round glasses and holding an attendance book.

He passed all the children in the class, all of them were present, no one was truant or sick. But of course they are not necessarily in top condition. Most students are not excited and lethargic.

"All right, everyone is present. Fortunately, no one was absent because today was an important day."

The students became serious, who were lazy to be firm, whose eyes wanted to be closed to be wide open, which was serious in the lesson became even more serious. All because there is a word 'important'.

"Listen to all, put your ears together well."

Mr. Arton paused for a moment to prepare the words.

"...so, you will be given a first group assignment today. The value of this task is very important to you. So, within 10 minutes, form a group of 5 people each."

"Oh yes, since the number of you in this class is thirty, then one person left will be free to choose which group you want to enter."

After Mr. Arton didn't say anything. All the disciples instantly moved as fast as lightning to obtain the team. Well all but one student, that's Johan.

While the others moved quickly, Johan was still sitting in his chair while letting out a strange expression.

But he was approached by people he knew.

"Sister Johan, let's have a team!" Of course, it's Grace and Rise.

Johan was relieved by the presence of the two of them, not only that, one more person approached him.

"Hey Johan, may I join your group?"

Johan was a bit surprised and looked at the voice.

"They? You sure?"

"certain."

With this, one person remained. Johan looks around at people who have not been able to group, but he sees Niji has not got a group and finally he gets up from his chair and goes towards Niji.

"Dude!"

"E-eh, huh?"

"Have a group?"

"I haven't been able to."

"Then you want to get into my group?"

"Can?"

"By dong! Our group lives one person."

"Ah, okay."

And 5 people are complete!

It had been 10 minutes of walking, everyone had already gotten a group, except for one person. In the end, the group chose Johan's team. His name is El, just El.

"Well, you've all formed a group, now I'll tell you the task."

"The job is portal cleaning."

All of the disciples were instantly shocked, this was the first time they had been given a task that they thought was not boring.

"Usually, you come home at 3pm, but today, you'll be home at 11am. You go home this early because at 12 noon, you're going to do a portal cleanup, so for that hour, have a discussion with your group."

And so, Mr. Arton's explanation ended and the 'torture' began.

***

"Hey, get up."

It's 9 a.m., Alan intends to wake them up, but it's not easy for Alan.

Therefore, Alan tried a rather strange way. He clapped his hand once very quickly. As a result, the sound produced by Alan's clapping was like an explosion. Alex and Norga who were fast asleep immediately jump on the bed and fell on the floor, even neighbors Alan immediately woke up from his sleep, they thought that there was an attack.

"What's going on!? Is there an attack!?"

Norga frantically got up and looked around. He also felt an attack. While Alex, he's still collecting lives.

"Haaa~, you guys are so hard to wake up, so I'm using a weird way."

"meaning?"

Alan clapped his hands once more, and a sound like an explosion filled the room.

Norga immediately jumped in shock, and Alex who was still collecting lives was instantly literate.

"It's obvious, right? Now get up and take a shower."

Alex and Norga who have been surprised twice are not sleepy anymore. They alternately bathe and wear clothes borrowed from Alan.

Alex and Norga then went to the dinner shirt and sat there.

Alan then came with two dishes of fried rice and the two plates were placed in front of them.

"Now, eat."

Alex was reluctant to eat, in contrast to Norga who immediately ate.

"Let's eat!"

He tried a mouthful of fried rice made by Alan.

"How does it feel?" Ask Alan curiously.

"It's normal" Norga said with a flat face.

Alex was immediately shocked and turned to Norga.

'At least say it's good!' That's how he thought.

Alex looked at Alan's expression, strangely Alan was not angry, he looked calm.

"You're honest too? Well, my cooking skills are mediocre anyway."

Alex was relieved to see Alan was not angry. He tried a mouthful of fried rice and it was just as mundane as Norga said. She thinks her mother's fried rice is still better. Of course, mom's cooking is always number one!

They finished eating and put the plates down. But Alan was invisible.

"Where's Alan's brother?" Norga asked confusedly.

"Where I know, Alan's brother ate very quickly and just disappeared."

"Maybe per-"

"You're looking for me?"

Alex and Norga turned to look at the voice and saw Alan emerging from the forbidden door.

But, Alan came up with a very different appearance. A long black jacket and a berhoodie, there were many potions hung on his chest, waist, legs and many more; a revolver and a gun also hung on his waist. And also, Alan wore fingerless gloves on his right hand, on his back, a golden skull.

""Woah!!""

His appearance is very cool and handsome. Anyone who sees it will be amazed.

"Well, now, you guys have to get ready."

"We?"

"Yes, you guys."

They were confused by what Alan meant. Next to Alan, a small portal appeared and from it came a gun and a sword.

"Who wants a sword? Who wants a gun?"

"I want a gun!" Norga answered quickly.

"Well then, Alex is wearing a sword."

Alex takes the sword and Norga takes the gun with pleasure.

"Why did you give me this, brother?"

"Well, now to the backyard."

Alex is more confused, he can't guess what Alan's goal is. While Norga was already happy with the gun given, so he just kept quiet.

They were standing in the middle of the yard. A cold wind hit their bodies. They feel very calm.

"Okay, now you're attacking me."

""Huh!?""

"Strike it."

Alex is confused and feels wrong, but Norga immediately shoots.

The bullet quickly shot towards the random direction, but was caught quickly by Alan.

"Strike, it's okay."

In the end Alex and Norga attacked simultaneously, but they also lost together.

They continued to fight without knowing what the goal was until 11:30.

"Hmm, is it time?"

"What are we doing, sister?"

Alan looked at the two of them who were exhausted and said.

"Let's follow me out."

Alex really doesn't understand, he starts to assume that Alan is a fraud.

"Come on, you won't regret it."

Alex reluctantly stood up and Norga followed.

They are out and about to embark on an exciting and deadly adventure, excluding Alan.