Chronicle Of The Stars

Velmir panicked as his vision was slowly replaced by another... until the whole scene changed to the modern world. As the smell of magic faded... sunlight gradually replaced it.

In the classroom, a student sat beside the window, basking in the warm sunshine from the dawn... his name card is "Seo Wero". 

Pure black hair in a face with a "death" expression as his gray, emotionless eyes were hidden under his glasses, which he slowly moved his gaze to the scene outside the window.

Beneath the warm sky, students were making their way home, drifting through a long day. Seo Wero sat unchanged as the sound of the clock vibrated "Tick...tick...tick" - until a voice broke the silence.

"Hey, did you hear about Eun Y-?" - Seo Wero heard their conversation of the two girls who sat just above him, two seats away, yet he didn't remember the name they had mentioned... 

However, through his chest, he felt his heart tighten as if it had been chained for its guilt. So, he trembled.

As he glanced at them for a bit, the two also looked back at him while whispering, "Hey, is that cold-hearted jerk looking at us?" - They quickly added, "I've heard he's the reason why she suicided."

Seo Wero captured every bit of the talk with his eyes wide open, and his eyebrows twitched slightly like he was forced to remember something that he wanted to forget. 

He clutched his hand to his temple as the headache appeared, blooming the hidden pain in his eyes. Furthermore, he had unconsciously smashed the table, leaving the two girls to run away.

Through his vision, the world seemed like a twisted reality in red and yellow colors, with demonic whispers surrounding, trying to devour him with their lure. 

"You killed her... you're a demon..." - Each paused with a shrill, unnatural voice like a madness-driven ghost. "Fck! Stop!" - Anger filled his mind as the voice kept harassing him.

It haunted him, tore him, and devoured him... Until... it suddenly stopped. The voice had disappeared, but the smell of blood drifted into his nose, unexpectedly, and dramatically.

The moment he felt it, he stepped back with his eyes open as a voice came through the speaker... "A dead body was reported...It's from a girl in _____ middle school... The reason is: committed suicide." - In front of him were blood stains, leading to a dead body.

"Ahh...Ahh...Ahh" - He roared painfully, kneeling to the ground, and held his head tightly, as if he was hiding from something.

In front of him, a remnant of shadow crawled its way to this world, a shattered one, staring at him in silence - judgment. It was waiting for judgment. It didn't speak, or it didn't have to.

Nevertheless, as he was slowly losing his consciousness, he felt the presence of magic again.

Just like that, he got back to reality, leaving the twisted world collapsing as the blue sparks remained in that world, also disappeared.

Darkness clung to the corners of his vision as Velmir gasped awake.

Sweat dripped from his face as his left hand tightened and his body trembled violently. The familiar scent of aged wood and the freshening atmosphere did not calm him.

He quickly looked at his palm, no glowing mark, no blue sparks, but it was something.

"Eun Y__..." - A name which he didn't know, or had met. Yet he felt like he had a responsibility in it... her death.

"Who was she?" - He asked himself, begging for answers, but he quickly added without realizing, "Who... was I?" - The similarity between the two lives filled his empty mind as the death of "Eun Y__" haunted him.

Memories flowed in like a storm trying to destroy everything. Until... it paused at yesterday's experience. The experience with 0035...

Her eyes, her trembling body, her helplessness... Even though he acknowledged that, he still ignored her.

Was it because he was scared of the earl? "No... I feared...feared that everything...would repeat." - Like an answer to himself, he straightened up as the crowd looked at him and the bully. 

Piercing eyes were what the others saw in him. Without thinking, he stepped forward.

Each step was a burden on his shoulder. Each step was a needle trying to fix his broken heart. Each step was a pain he had long forgotten. 

And each step... reverberated in the room. Instinct - It was his instinct to move. The sound of a heavy step on the wooden floor, the sound of whistling wind as he formed his "magic".

Steadily, he came to the bullies with his compressed thorn and pointed his hand at Zeon with his palm open. "Boom!" - The sound echoed as his palm snapped shut, leaving the class shocked.

On the other hand, 0035 looked at Velmir in surprise. In her eyes flickered a spark of thankfulness, yet sorrow.

With the explosion, Zeon Bathon wasn't damaged as he formed a wind shield to block the attack, still he was repelled by the blast.

The five of them were unpleased, so they quickly created beams of water to fire at him in a matter of seconds. 

Velmir was calm as he used his vision to sneak 5 more compressed thorns behind them without them knowing. As the beam got close to him, he stood ready to dodge and was about to explode the 5.

But suddenly, a firewall spell was cast, protecting Velmir. To Velmir's surprise, it was the guy sat next to him, 0005. Followed him, there's also Elize and her friend, 0012. They had just come to class. 

"Why are they...helping me...? I thought I was...alone." - A confused breath spread in his mind while three quickly stood by Velmir, supporting him with a grateful look.

However, when the fight was about to start, the sound of the door was rendered as the magister came in with heavy pressure. 

She looked at them with threatening eyes as if she were saying, "Stop making trouble." - All of them could sense it, so they quickly stopped and came to their seat apologetically.

An odd voice from the guy sat next to Velmir, "Ignis compression isn't it?"