This was it. This would be the most meeting in his life. To meet the villain of Arc-V and talk to him, it was complex.
He didn't know whether he should just kill the guy right off the bat or no, let him live because he wouldn't know if he removed Akaba this early, what would happen to the plot.
What if someone else stepped up and took Akaba's place? Zarc was still around and without Akaba's plan there wasn't any chance to summon him and defeat him.
But was it even necessary to defeat Zarc? He could just take the place of each counterpart of him thanks to the system and in a way become Zarc.
'No point in useless thoughts... let's see how this meeting goes.'
He knocked on the principal's office's door. A second later Akaba's voice could be heard clearly, that said to come in.
Opening the door and walking there he saw Akaba sitting in a chair behind his desk and sure enough, the egghead looked exactly like how he did in anime.
"Welcome young man. Please take a seat."
Ryoken took a sit near the desk "Thanks. It's an honour to be meeting you sir."
"I hope you have enjoyed your stay in our academy till now."
"I did. So what did you call me here for?"
Akaba leaned in from his seat "You have proven your skills by defeating one of our most praised instructors, Dr. Vellian Crowler. And per agreement we had, you will be getting your own dorm."
Ryoken smiled giving a small bow "Thanks for considering my request."
Akaba shook his head "No need to be modest. You earned it. Now I called you here to discuss the matters regarding the dorm such as name, outfit colour and location."
Ryoken didn't say anything, just gave a nod, allowing Akaba to continue.
"For location, we can offer you two places. One is the empty ground near the volcano, which is ofcourse a dead one so there's no meed for you to be worried about it. Next is the abandoned dorm, which I assume you've heard of it before. The place is old but we can renovate it to make it suit your taste."
"I pick the abandoned dorm." He answered right away, making Akaba raise a brow.
"You know why that place is abandoned right?"
"Of course. But there's no need to worry about it, it wouldn't be a problem for me."
"Alright then. As for name and outfit.."
"I prefer for the outfit to be a mix of black and white." Then Ryoken smiled, one that made akaba unconsciously shiver "As for name, how about Zarc dorm?"
Akaba's eyes Widened as he heard that name, the name of his arc Nemesis. He took a breath to calm down, before answering him.
"Why Zarc?"
Ryoken gave him a confused look "Zarc? what are you saying professor, I clearly said Arc Dorm."
"Ah then I must have misheard it... Sure we can name it that."
"Then Zarc dorm it is then." Ryoken exclamaied happily, while Akaba stared at him with an unreadable expression.
"Hmm? Professor are you ok? If it's not okay with you I can name it something other than Arc."
"No it's fine, it seems my age is catching up to me and I must have misheard what you said."
Akaba was deep in thought. At first he thought maybe the boy knew something about Zarc, but he disregarded it as the boy looked confused when he mentioned Zarc.
'Maybe the stress from all this work is catching up to me... Yeah that's it probably.' He thought to himself.
"So professor when does my Zarc dorm be ready?"
Akaba twitched again in his place, before calming himself down "The Arc dorm will be ready in a week."
Ryoken clapped for them inwardly. To rebuild or renovate a dorm that big in a week wasn't an ordinary task.
"Thanks professor. By the way, do you have a son? you said Zarc when I said Arc, perhaps that's the name of your son?"
Ryoken knew what he was doing. He was purposely getting on Akaba's nerve to have some fun.
"No." Akaba replied immediately, his tone coming out a bit harsh, making him cough to clear it up "What I mean is that no I don't have a son, and if I did have one I wouldn't name him Zarc."
Ryoken leaned in with a fake curious expression "Oh? why not? no good memories? perhaps a guy named Zarc scammed you?"
Akaba's hamd clenched the chair's armstand hardly, trying hard not to kick the boy Infront of him out of the his office.
"I had a daughter. Her name was Ray. A guy named Zarc took her from me." Akaba explained.
Ryoken feigned ignorance "Ah I get it. He married your daughter and she went to live with him. I congratulate you sir for your daughter's marriage."
"..."
Akaba finally noticed the nasty side of the boy Infront of him. Whether it was in dueling or taking, he seemed to make people rage unintentionally.
"No. She died because of him." He said, his tone becoming evidently sad.
"Oh... You have my condolences. I'm sorry for making you remember the loss you felt."
"No need to be sorry young man. I'm sure it was unintentional, you were just Curious."
Ryoken was genuinely sorry this time, no acting. Sure he was trolling Akaba and was an asshole to him, which he definitely deserved it. But he wouldn't step down so low that he would ridicule someone who's dead.
That being said, he would do it if it was weevil. That obnoxious and annoying son of bitch deserved to rot in hell.
"Tell me Ryoken... what would you do if you were in my place?"
Ryoken thought about it for a moment before answering "I'd let go. It's in the past anyway, I can't always be dragged down by what happened in the past."
"Is that so..." He muttered. What Ryoken said might have affected him if he wasn't deep in his plan.
He was too invested to stop now. He needed to bring back his daughter. For now he decided to observe and watch Ryoken's life in Academia a little longer, to see if he could be a pawn for his plan or a piece that needed to be removed.
"I enjoyed our talk. Keep up the good work young man, you have great potential." Akaba complimented him sincerely.
"Same here professor. I hope I can live up to your expectations." With that he stood up from his seat and bid farewell, leaving Akaba alone in his office.
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And that's it for this chapter. Been long time since I uploaded a chapter. Like 4 days? Donno. Hope you enjoyed this chapter even if it didn't have any action.
In a what if version, Ryoken proceeds to summon Furious Dragon's spirit and kill Akaba right on spot, then goes and kills Doktor too. Since there's no war, Xyz dimension stays the same and everything goes smoothly. END OF THE FIC
Sorry for not uploading for a few days, signed up for my driver's license classes. So that+university+work= less time to write.
Nothing else to say so just take care of yourselves. See you guys in the next chapter.