The King's Mandate: Anomalous System

When Serah saved Elena and Virza, Das was cursing Elena in the classroom.

"What the heck?"

'Where the hell did she go?!'

"How dare she keep me waiting and leave me alone"

'Dammit!'

"I will demand for an explanation when she comes back"

He then looked at Elena's bag as his anger calmed down and said, "She will come back… right?"

'I admit that I yelled at her too much, but it's not like I like yelling at her. I yell at her for her own good. So that she can study better and advance the semester with… me… huh?'

"Is that why I yelled at her?"

'Why do I want her to advance the semester with me?'

He stood up as he slammed his hands on the table and said, "What is wrong with me?! I don't understand"

'So what if she isn't coming back? So what if she has run away? So what if she fails in her study? It has nothing to with me'

He slowly sat back in the chair and said, "We are nothing. We don't share any relationship. We are basically strangers. Merely a stranger"

On the outside he was angry. But inside, he was genuinely worried about Elena.

His emotions were fighting with each other, trying to dominate each other.

Das took a deep breath and looked up at the ceiling as he leaned back in the chair.

He let out a big sigh as he said, "I guess I should apologize to her for yelling at her"

He gulped down and said, "Where are you? Come back, I will never yell at you,"

He then gasped as he tried to get up from the chair and said, "I will just look for her myself"

He placed his hands on the desk and tried to get up--

"Huh?"

Suddenly, the skin of the backside of his palm started to get red.

"What's going on?"

'It burns!'

As he was about to touch his hand, a small cut appeared on his hand, leaving a trail of blood.

"What the--!"

He sat back in the chair in shock.

He tried to touch his hand, but his attention was diverted by the sound of an opening door.

He looked at the doorway and found Elena standing there.

'Here she is!'

He has never felt this much relief in his entire life.

He then looked at his hand but didn't find any cut or any sign of blood, even the redness of the blood had vanished.

Das shrugged it off, thinking he saw some kind of reflection from the window as it was sunset and the sunlight was directly reflecting on the glass window.

He looked at the window, trying to figure out what must have caused it that he saw something like that.

Meanwhile, Elena slowly walked into the desk and just stood there.

Das was patiently waiting for Elena to say something, but she didn't say anything, she just stood there in silence and kept looking down at her feet.

Das grew impatient as he sighed and glanced at Elena, shouting, "You are great. Just great!", 

Elena said nothing.

"You went somewhere without even informing, then you came back, and didn't even apologize?!"

"I…"

"I am seriously disappointed in you"

Das' face twitched as he yelled, "Come on! Say something! Where were you?!"

"I went outside,", Elena said, finally opening her mouth and gathering the courage to say something.

"For what?!" Das then glanced at Elena's clothes and asked, "Why are your clothes so dirty?"

"I slipped in the puddle of dirt"

Elena's lips were constantly trembling, and her eyes were full of tears.

'What happened to her?', Das thought as he stood up.

'She looks like she is about to cry… wait! Could this be because of what I said?!'

'I told her to stop crying before I come back. And she couldn't stop crying, so she went outside'

'Dammit!'

Das stood up as he grabbed his and Elena's bag, and said, "Let's go home"

When Das was waiting for Elena, he packed up Elena's bag in the meantime.

Das handed her the bag and started walking towards the door.

Das opened the door and heard the sound of a thud coming from behind him.

He hesitantly looked back and saw Elena lying on the floor.

"Hey… what's wrong with you?", Das said with a voice full of worry and concern.

Elena was grunting, trying to get up. But she had no energy to move.

Das walked one step at Elena but seeing Elena in that state, his legs gave out, and he fell on his knees.

He walked to Elena on his knees and shook her.

"Hey… what happened to you?"

He shook her again and again, but she didn't open her eyes nor say any word.

He then noticed foot prints on Elena's dress.

"Why are there footprints on her dress?"

He then placed his hands on her face.

"Huh?"

It was so spongy.

"Even though her face is soft, it shouldn't feel like this. It feels like her insides are ruptured"

He wanted to check more, but for that, he would have to remove her clothes.

He would have done it if it weren't for his rage erupting from inside him.

'Who the hell did that?'

He was making a face like he had never made before.

His face showed how angry he was.

He carried Elena in his arms as he got up and dashed out of the room.

'While I was waiting for her, she was being…'

He quickly made his way to the infirmary.

AS he was running with Elena in his arms, he looked at Elena and saw her looking back at him.

She didn't say anything. She just glanced around.

After glancing around for a while, she finally realized that she was in Das' arms.

"Where are we going?", asked Elena.

"To the infirmary"

"..."

She came to the realization that Das has found out about everything.

Her body wasn't responding to how she wanted, and she couldn't think straight.

On his way to the infirmary, the only thing on Das' mind was what happened to Elena? And who did this to her?

As he was making his way to the infirmary, he passed the security office.

He stopped and looked at the security office as he thought, 'Whoever did this, should be in the footage'.

Das walked to the office door, slowly rested Elena on his legs as he opened the door with one hand.

"What are you…?"

Das went inside the office just to find the person who was supposed to keep an eye on the monitor was sleeping nicely on his chair.

Das put Elena down and walked to the chair.

He picked up the man and threw him out of the room.

The man was slammed into the wall.

He jolted as he woke up and glanced around.

Das picked up Elena and sat her on the chair.

He then walked to the monitor and started watching the footage.

Elena finally realized what Das was doing.

She tried to get up from the chair to stop him, but she couldn't move.

Das first watched the footage of the classroom after he left.

He saw four girls entering the room and dragging Elena out of the room.

A minute later, Das entered the room and started yelling as he kicked the desk that slammed into the wall.

Das deleted the footage of him kicking the desk.

He then followed the camera where the three girls were dragging Elena.

He saw the three girls throwing Elena out of the window of the first floor.

Das' face was about to explode from anger.

He then checked the footage behind the school and watched everything.

Das was clenching the mouse so hard that it broke.

"I will kill them!", Das said in a blood thirsting voice as he rushed out of the room.

Elena tried to run behind him, but she fell down from the chair.

Das was running with blood thirst in his eyes.

He was serious about killing them.

Suddenly, he stopped and started making gagging noises.

"Argh!", he grunted as he choked himself.

His face went purplish as his eyes turned red for a split-second, and he fell down on the floor with a loud thud

~.~.~.~.~.~.~

Das opened his eyes and saw Angela sitting beside him.

"Huh?"

He then glanced around as he rubbed his eyes. Much to his surprise, he was sleeping on the bed of his room.

"Mom?"

"Oh" Angela rubbed her hand on Das' forehead and said, "You are awake"

"What happened? Why am I here?"

"I got a call from the school that you passed out"

"Passed out… argh!"

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah" Das sat up and said, "My head aches a little"

Angela rubbed Das' back and said, "You should rest. I will call you when the dinner is ready"

Angella got up and walked to the door.

As she was about to leave the room, "Mom"

Angela turned around, "Yes?"

"Why did I pass out?"

"Doctor said it was just because of overworking yourself"

"Is that so?"

"Yeah. Do you remember anything?"

"No"

"Okay. Sleep now"

"Hmm"

Das laid back on the bed as he let out a small grunt.

'My entire body aches for some reason'

"What happened again?"

'The last thing I remember is going back to the classroom, and Elena wasn't there'

"Did she ever come back?"

Das looked at the side and saw his phone on the side-desk.

'Should I call her? Or that would be creepy?'

Das sighed as he said, "Why am I worried about her in the first place?"