Zyric tries his best to avoid the continuous attacks of David, but even if he had wanted to, he couldn't completely stop the fierce blows that David was throwing at him. Zyric keeps bringing his hands in front of David's punches in order to protect the wound on his head, yet after some time even his hands begin to grow numb and lose strength. On the other side, David was using all of his energy and force to keep punching him. After a few minutes had passed, when he had already injured Zyric severely and the blood had started flowing rapidly from the wound on his head, Zyric's entire body became soaked in his own blood, dripping from head to toe, until even his clothes were fully wet with it.
Inside the canteen, there were also many teachers present as witnesses. For a brief moment, Zyric even turned his gaze towards Raven, but neither Raven nor anyone else was coming to help him. Raven was still proceeding to enjoy her lunch as much as ever, and the other teachers were just sitting there and watching Zyric get injured with them not even daring to go and help him.
It was just then that David scrambled up on a table standing near by, and glaring around shouted, "Whoever dares to help this boy! It will not go very well the very next day for them. Understand?" he screamed, his eyes fixed on Zyric. And therewith, adding in no milder a voice, "And even if he dies, he is nothing but an orphan, there is no one behind him to care, and he is of no use anyway. In a way, I am actually freeing this school of its burden." After saying all this, he jumped down from the table and walked away together with Matteo.
The people who were present there stepped back as well and pretended as though nothing had happened in front of them, each going back to finish their lunches as if it were just an ordinary day. No one dared to help Zyric, whispering among themselves, "David… David is the son of a very big mafia boss of our town, and his father is not only extremely influential but also an extremely dangerous and powerful man. God, who will go against him?" And after muttering this, they too left from there.
Zyric also noticed Raven leaving in the end. After that, he forced himself to stand where he was and tried to walk, but in the very next moment, his leg slipped and his head grew dizzy. As the dizziness fully settled on him, and his eyes were indeed already closed, Zyric caught sight of the figure of Dr. Hazel in front of him. Right after this, his eyes went off, and the next thing he knew his eyes were opening in his own room.
Slowly, Zyric stood up while holding his head. The wounds on his head had already been stitched, and it was midnight at that time, it was exactly one o'clock at night. Zyric climbed down from his bed and began looking around his room in confusion. "Who brought me back home?" and so he thought and then he saw a pretty girl standing before him and heating the coffee in the little kitchen in the room. "What are you doing here?"
Zyric asked, staring at her. The girl then came out holding two cups of coffee and handed one to Zyric. But Zyric, without thinking, immediately dropped the cup to the floor. This girl was none-other than the Dr. Diana, his step-sister, and Zyric never used to like her because, as he was aware, it was Diana who had caused the accident that had left his parents dead.
Zyric screamed at Diana: "Go away! go away from here!
"Don't forget that I am your elder sister", Diana said firmly.
"Sister? No, you're not my sister. You are a doctor, Doctor Diana, that is all you are to me", Zyric, said bitternessfully.
"Ok fine, if that is what you want. I am just a doctor for you. So, I have come here only for your treatment. Now go and sit on your bed," Diana said, forcing him to obey.
The only thing Zyric could do was argue for a moment because by now he was feeling weak because of losing much of his blood and did not even have the strength anymore to continue arguing with his sister. She seated him again on the bed, examined his wounds, and again dabbled them with fresh medicine, and bound-up fresh strips of cloth.
"Look, Zyric, I know you do not consider me as your sister, and I am not asking you to obey me, but you can at least accept my name and my support. I have never told anyone until today that you are my brother, only because you never liked it," Diana said softly. But before Diana could even complete her words, Zyric suddenly stood up, went near the window, and looked outside, clearly just to show her that he was not interested in her talk.
"Please leave from here," Zyric told his sister again, but in the very next moment, he suddenly noticed something.