The King's Mandate: Anomalous System

"So. what is this half-slave shit of yours?" asked Das.

"I already said I don't know."

"Then why did you propose it?"

'Dammit! I had my heart beating fast for a moment there.'

"I don't even know what does full-slave means," stated Elena.

"I should have known an idiot like you would never know it."

"How dare you disrespect your master, you half-slave."

Das stood up as he grabbed his bag and said, "Enough of this now. Let's go."

Elena packed her stuff and got up from the chair.

"Seriously. Why do you even suggest something you have no idea about?" Das said as he left the room.

"Maybe it means… you belong to me?" Elena muttered as her face flushed.

Das looked back at Elena as he said, "Did you say something?"

Elena shook her head and said, "I was ordering you to close the door."

Das' face twitched as he said, "Don't tell me you are just going to order me around?"

Das reluctantly closed the door and started walking towards the elevator.

The elevator door opened as Das waited for Elena to catch up to him.

He stood before the elevator, and when Elena reached there, he let her go in first.

After racing the ground floor, they made their way to the school gate.

As they were parting ways, Das called out to Elena, "Hey,"

Elena stopped and looked back, "What?"

"Uhh… let's drop by your favraite cafe"

"Uhh," Elena started sweating as she gulped down and said, "I am sorry, I have something to do."

She turned around and soon disappeared from Das' sight.

Das was still standing at the school gate, completely fazed.

"Did she just… say no to the cafe?"

'Why?!'

"Was I being creepy?"

Das started pulling his hair as he said, "But I was just inviting her because… because why?"

'What is wrong with me? Why did I invite her to go to the cafe? We just went there yesterday.'

"She must be feeling creepy."

Das calmed himself down and made his way to his home.

On his way, he was walking through the park, and he saw lots of couples walking around.

'Couples, huh?'

'It's normal for high schoolers to have lovers. I am sure everyone in my class also has one.'

Suddenly, Elena's face flashed before his eyes as he stopped walking and looked up at the sky.

"Does Elena have one too?"

'She never talks about herself. But maybe she has a boyfriend?'

He then remembered how Elena turned him down today.

'Maybe she was going to meet her boyfriend? Why else would she say no to the cafe?'

"Dammit," he muttered.

'What is this feeling? This dark feeling. It's the same as before, but it's darker than last time.'

'It's like the darkness I didn't mind is engulfed by something darker.'

"Maybe currently doing… with her boyfriend?"

He punched the tree beside him and said, "Disgusting."

'What do I have to do anything with her having a boyfriend or not?'

'Didn't I decide to let her do anything he wants with her life? Who am I stop her?'

"Her boyfriend might…" Das stretched his hand towards the sky as if he wanted to grasp the sky and continued, "He might know the sides I don't know about her?"

'Stop it. Stop it, Das.'

"Why do you care?"

'It has nothing to do with you. But I know one thing--'

"I don't like this!"

Das walked the rest of his way, thinking about Elena and her unknown boyfriend.

As soon as he reached the house, he quickly got into his room, took out his clothes, and quickly went to the bathroom.

As he was showering and shampooing his hair, he stopped and washed his hair.

He was holding the shampoo bottle as he said, "She only had four contacts on her list."

'If I remember correctly. Two were of her parents, and the rest were… Virza… Sela?'

"Virza and… Sally? Or was it Sely?"

'Argh! Whatever it was. I know Virza as she is Elena's best friend, though I don't remember ever talking to her. The other one, who is that Sely?'

"What kind of name is that?"

'I can't predict the gender.'

"What if… it's her boyfriend's name?"

'That has to be it!'

Das crushed the shampoo bottle in his hand as all the shampoo from the bottle fell out.

"Aw shit!"

'This one is mom's. She said I could use it but make sure not to use too much since they are very branded as there are many demands for them and very hard to find.'

'If you order today, then you get it after almost over two months'

Das gulped down as he watched all that shampoo washing down with the water on the sink.

"I am dead."

Knock~ Knock~

The knock was followed by the voice saying, "Das? Is everything alright? You just yelled pretty loud."

'Aw shit!'

"Das? Can you hear me?"

'What should I do?'

"Das? Please answer me. I am getting worried."

"..."

"Das! Answer me, or I am coming in."

"I am alright! So don't come in, okay?!"

"Alright, but why did you yell?"

"It's nothing! I will tell you later."

Angela left and continued making the dinner.

Meanwhile, Das was freaking out.

'Should I just tell her what happened?'

"But even if I do, she will ask a reason for why I did that"

'What am I going to do that?'

"Even I don't know why I did that"

'I just don't want to imagine Elena with someone else.'

Das gasped as if he had finally come to the realization.

"Don't tell me…"

He crouched down as he gasped again, saying, "No way. That's impossible."

'It shouldn't be possible. There is no way.'

"I have developed some kind of affection towards her?"

'Is it because I tutor her?'

"Yes. That has to be it. Now I get it"

'Now I know why I was feeling like that.'

"Sorry, Elena, but I can't let you have a boyfriend."

'As you tutor, I won't allow you to be in a relationship.'

"You have to focus on your study, so you can't be in a relationship."

Das' imagination and thoughts were getting worse and worse.

Elena turned down the offer to go to the cafe with Das because she planned to meet Virza before her operation.

She originally planned to meet her yesterday, but as Das offered to go to the cafe yesterday too, she couldn't go. But she had to go and meet Virza today since she has her important surgery today.