*Noir's POV.*
I woke up in a familiar yet not familiar room. Same apartment, same room but it got bigger. I looked twice and it definitely got bigger. I got up and stopped overthinking about it. I cooked and ate my meal. I changed my clothes into school uniform and went to the train station.
I arrived at school earlier than before because there's no incident happened on the way. There's something weird. Many students are looking at me for some reason. I saw Simon rushing towards me with indescribable expression.
"Noir!! Damn you! Tell me that this is not you."
He showed me a picture of Yulia and me laughing at the restaurant. I see, So that's what it is
"Yes that's me. Is there something wrong?"
I asked with a smirk on my face. Whispers can be heard from the surrounding students.
He grabbed my collar and started shaking me.
"That's YULIA ROUGE and you asked me what was wrong? You take a leave yesterday and even the Secretary George of the Espers Association, Yulia Rouge's father asked a leave for you and I was so worried that something might have happened to you. Then what? You're just having a date with Yulia Rouge. You asked me what's wrong? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!? Damn it! Curse you! I'm so ENVIOUS!!."
"What are envious about? The fact that I have a date yesterday or the fact that it's Yulia Rouge?"
"BOTH! DAMN IT!"
Haha! This is actually fun.
"Actually we're not dating. She just helped me with something."
" There's no way I would believe you. She's known as Ice princess you know? There's no way she would talked happily in a fancy restaurant if it's not a date. There's also the fact you two are eating in a 3 star class restaurant. I don't even know that you could afford it."
"Of course I can't afford it. Yulia is the one who paid."
"Isn't that even more enviable?"
"Like what I said, we are really not---"
*Beep!* *Beep!* *Beep!*
A luxurious car stopped at the school gate. Yulia stepped out of the car she saw me and waved at me and I waved back at her. The whispers becomes louder. This is the time I know that my quiet life as tertiary student is gone forever.
"And you still say that you are not dating?"
Yulia approached us and greeted me.
"Good morning Noir."
"Good morning Yulia"
(What a loud crowd!) she complained. I ignored her complained and asked her directly.
(Is it you or your father is the reason why my place became bigger?)
(My father hired some Espers who specializes in construction.)
(I see, please thank your father for me.)
Not everyone uses their powers on battle. There are Espers in every job or profession.
Another Girl approached us with a shocked expression.
"Wait Yulia! The rumors are actually true that you have a boyfriend?"
""No! We're not dating.""
(How is the feeling of being famous?)
Yulia telepathically asked
(There's no peace.)
(True.)
"There's no way I will believe in that"
Ruby retorted.
(I got an Idea.)
I have a bad feeling about this. She grabbed and hugged my arm.
"If you don't believe it then don't." she said to Ruby
"You! You! You!" Ruby got flustered and run away.
(What the heck are you doing!?)
(My Idea. Are you angry?)
(I'm not angry but is this a good Idea?)
(I never said it was a good Idea. Can't you see the bitter faces of those NPCs? It's so funny.)
*Sigh!* She's hopeless.
(Why are you signing?)
(I see your true colors.)
(Shining through?)
Whatever.
We separated after we arrived at my classroom and she continued to walk towards to her classroom. The class started but the I can still feel the gazes of teachers and students. *Sigh!* This is my life now.
*Yulia's POV*
I walked towards to my class room, The classroom of the "elites", the Alef class. I was being stared at by my classmates but I don't care. I saw Ruby and smiled at her and she just looked away blushing. I felt satisfied.
If I asked myself, do I like Noir? I could only say that not yet but who knows in the future? More than a friend but less than a lover? All I know is that I trust and respect him. I even cooked mapo tofu earlier to give it to him. Shows that I care for him. I'm not a girl who is clueless about her own feelings.
As for age gap? I don't care about that. My situation is special after all. Saying that I'm old to be his mother is wrong because I never experienced maturity. However saying that I'm a little girl is wrong either because I live in two lives. Not to mention I have my own values about love.
Love is like a tree. You need to plant a seed first, take care of it carefully until it grows. Growing up to be big and strong, strong enough to protect you from storms and when the time is right it will bear delicious fruits. Rushing things will destroy the growth of the tree and waiting for a long time will make it rot.
The seed was just planted and we're still young so we have time to think about it without rushing things.
The noon comes and I walked out of the classroom to find Noir. I saw him coming out of his room with his friend. There are many people so I called him using my telepathy.
(Noir can I eat with you?)
(Just come.)
(Okay)
Then I approached them and he introduced his friend to me.
"Yulia this is Simon Tryceon. My seatmate and a stranger."
"Aren't your my friend? Why are you so cruel to me? Hello miss Yulia! I'm Simon, Noir's friend."
"Nice to meet to meet you Xi Muen."
"Pfft hahaha!" Noir hold his stomach laughing.
"It's Simon! not Shimwen."
"That's what I said Xi Muen."
Noir looked at me and nodded asking me to use telepathy on him.
(What is it?) I asked
(Are you having fun?)
(Just okay.) I answered
"Okay guys, shall we go? We have limited time for lunch after all."
I followed them to a secluded classroom. We found chairs and sat down. I took out two lunch boxes and handed one to him.
(Noir this is the dish that I cooked earlier. It's called mapo tofu. I hope you'll like it.)
(Thank you.)
"Tsk! You guys looked like husband and wife. How envious."
We just ignored and let him eat "dog food" (flirting in front of a single dog). Noir ate a piece and I nervously asked.
(How was it?)
(It's so delicious. This is the first time I've eaten something like this.)
(That's good to know.) I proudly said.
We ate our lunch together and went back to our own classrooms before the classes starts.
*Noir POV.*
We finished our lunch and we went back to our classrooms. The food that Yulia cooked was truly delicious. I'll ask her the recipe next time. The afternoon class has started and we all went to the training ground before the grumpy teacher arrive. The certain blonde delinquent is looking at me with ill intent. Honestly tho, His intent was like a barking chiwawa compared to monsters in the Labyrinth. He approached me with his underlings.
"Oi! You loser are getting carried away lately huh?"
I just ignored him. What a classic line, can't he think of a new line for himself? He looked like a 4th rate character. What should I do? He will die even if I attack him wit a flick but I can't just not fight back right?
"YOU DARE TO IGNORE ME LOSER?"
He tried to grab my collar so I looked into his eyes and release some killing intent. The eyes is the windows of the soul. That's why the pupil glows every time Espers used their powers. Releasing a little bit of killing intent to shake his spirit is probably fine. He crouched and started shaking and shivering.
Huh? Did I misjudged the strength of his will power. My bad, I didn't know he was this weak. My classmates are looking at me with fear. Simon came to me and asked.
"Bro! What di you—"
"WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE!?"
A Grumpy voice of an old woman covered the entire training ground before Simon could finished his question. Mrs. Feliz has "Arrived" or should I say she's just watching in the sideline for a while ago.
"It was me Mrs. Feliz."
I admitted, there's no point of denying if she has always been there.
"What are you doing? You could have just blame blonde for having a diarrhea."
Simon whispered.
"We can't, she's been watching for a while." I whispered back.
"What?"
"What are you two whispering about? STUDENT NOIR! Come to my office. The other students will do self studying. Understood?"
"""" UNDERSTOOD.""""
I followed her to her office. She frowned and asked.
"Do you know why I called you here?"
"Because of violence?" I guessed.
"Personal reason, yes but not the entire reason."
"I'm not the one who started it. You know it, I know that you're watching."
She looked surprised and continued speaking.
"I know but like I said earlier it's not an entire reason. The Espers Association wants you to move into the elite class because of your "re-awakening" so the school wanted me to revaluate you. I didn't expected that you could defeat your classmate even without moving. How did you do that?"
"I just used some killing intent on him." I answered truthfully.
"That's my problem. You never had a record of fighting or killing so it should be impossible for you to manifest killing intent."
"it's Confidential."
"No wonder that the Association got involved. You and elite student Yulia Rouge have re-awakened on the other night and your apartment was destroyed. Yesterday, Yulia Rouge helped you to buy things that the others called "Date" but it shows that both of you have became closer out of nowhere. The question is what happened that night?"
She's definitely not a normal teacher. I have to be careful so I stayed silent.
"…."
"Something indeed happened on that night and it's confidential. Obviously the Association knows something about the so called "re-awakening". You can go now."
"Yes" Yikes! Even silence can be used in deduction?
I stood up and walked out of the office. What's up with her I wonder.
The class ended before I knew it. I saw Yulia again and say goodbye to her and go back home. Another eventful day has ended.