CATMAN - 21 Rejection

Tak~

As she landed on the terrace in front of Auden, she looked up and down at him and threw the pendant to him.

“Here.”

Auden grabbed the pendant and glanced at it turning over and over till he made sure that it was indeed his pendant and kept it inside his pocket.

“Thank you for taking care of my stuff. You have my gratitude. I’ll be going now.” Auden said as he took his stuff and started walking down the stairs.

“I held your stuff for you and you won’t even say hello properly? Let’s talk for a bit.” She said but Auden just kept going downstairs.

“Tsk…” She clicked her tongue, “Looks like we’ll be doing it the hard way then.”

With but a finger snap from her made a blue ball of light twice as large his body surround him completely. She too was enveloped in blue light but it wasn’t in the form of the ball but in the shape of her own body.

Czak- Czak-

Blue sparks discharged off the blue ball making it seem as if lightning itself was being made from the ball of blue light. Auden halted on his feet when the ball surrounded his body but immediately his surroundings turned blur.

In a matter of seconds when he could see his surroundings again, he wasn’t in the stairs. The place he was in was different than where he had been before.

“Space Magic!?…Did she teleport me?” He rolled his eyes analyzing the place he was in and he immediately found out where he was.

” Secret Hideout no.4: Old School Building.”

Yes, it was another of his hideout. The place was abandoned after the new building was made but wasn’t demolished. It was located at the back of the school and couldn’t be seen because of the new building blocking it.

If one wanted to enter it then they had to first cross the main building but no one wanted to enter it because of its cottage-like build and lack of cleanliness. Only occasionally principal Mark would enter the shaggy building and check how it was doing.

So, it was quite a place for him to hide…but seeing Rebecca bring him here…he had his guard up. After what Doc. W said, he definitely hadn’t planned on meeting with the girl, but she seemed like she wanted to talk to him about something and used the pendant as a way to lure him in.

He looked at Rebecca in front of her and didn’t shift his eyes on the slightest.

“You have several questions on your mind right?” She finally broke the silence.

“Like who am I? Why I’m hell-bent on asking you to join us?”

“Yes, come to the main point,” Auden said right away.

‘At least she has some idea of what I’m thinking.’ He thought.

“Yes, I have some idea of what you’re thinking,” Rebecca said.

‘How?’ Auden was alerted, ‘Was it just a coincidence? or did she really read my mind?’

“Coincidence? It’s not. I can read other’s minds.” She said.

“What the heck?” He blurted out in surprise, “First space magic and she can even read other’s minds?”

‘If I’m in front of her, I think I shouldn’t think. What the heck am I even thinking?’

“It doesn’t matter what you do. No humans can stop thinking and as long as they think I can just read it like a book.” Rebecca said. “I don’t have my nickname ‘Scarlet Witch’ for nothing.”

“Well, I’ll be damned. I can’t even think in front of you?”

“You can say so. If you think then I’ll l know right away.” She replied. “Now that I have revealed a bit of my ability, why don’t you say something about the ability you have which you used to win the match against the Talents.”

‘Damn, she wants to know about my ability? If I think about the system then I’m screwed.’

Shit!!!

Even though he didn’t want to, he ended up thinking about the system anyway.

“Why are you in a daze? Just say so…if you can’t get it into words then just think about it.” Rebecca said.

What? Auden was dumbfounded. Is it what I think it is?

“What is it what you think it is?” She asked.

“Nothing…” He replied.

‘System…I have a system.’ He thought as if to check if he was indeed correct with his idea.

…

“Why are you silent? And why don’t you even think?” She asked.

He grinned when he heard her. His guess was indeed correct. Even if he was to think of the system subconsciously, she wouldn’t be able to read his mind.

He wondered for a moment as to how powerful the system really was. But seeing that his secret wasn’t revealed, he heaved a sigh of relief.

ALL HAIL THE SYSTEM!

But it didn’t mean that he was out of the situation. He didn’t want to talk about his ability so he changed the subject.

“Why are you trying to recruit me?”

She didn’t reply but smiled and asked another question, “If I were to ask you that if there was a world where weak wasn’t dominated, would you like that place?”

“Of course, any weak person would want to go to such a place and would definitely like it,” Auden said.

“Then, do you think that the world needs to change?…do you want to change the world?” She asked.

“Yes, I think that the world should change…but as to the question of if I want to change the world, I don’t have such ambition.” He solemnly said.

“What? You think that the world is unfair but don’t want to change the world? Do you want to suffer your all life being called trash? Instead, if you join our organization, we are planning on a revolution. We’ll definitely change the world for real.” She said.

“If you had said you’d change the city, I would have ignored it. If you had said you and your organization would change the country, I would have just laughed it off but…listening to you spewing nonsense of changing the world just ticks me off.” Auden said.

“Do you think that the world is just some small house or something? It is big and is filled with all kinds of people. Let me warn you ahead of time that the revolution you are planning to change the world will be subdued just like an ant.”

“You…don’t you think that weak should be treated equally as well?” Rebecca said.

“I think they should be treated that way but at the end of the day, weak is weak and nothing more. And even if I join you in that revolution of yours, what will I have to gain?” Auden asked.

“Freedom…you’ll have freedom.” She said.

“Freedom? I already have it…so I don’t want it. I can’t believe some people are planning to retaliate against the strong…people think that they are being dominated but from what I see, they also have plenty of freedom.”

“We should be glad that we are even alive. Who do you think is protecting us against the demon beast threat? I obviously don’t believe that it is your organization that is letting us sleep in peace.”

“You say as if bringing change is a simple thing.” Auden looked at Rebecca and said, “Tell that organization of yours to stop what they are trying to do or it will be over for this country.”

“How will revolution end this country? Explain it to me…if I don’t like what you say, I’m going to cripple you for good. I heard enough of those insults from you.” She said with a clenched fist.

“So, this is your problem. You always think you’re right without even knowing what others think of it. It seems you don’t understand people’s feelings…and if this goes on…even if you can read other’s minds, you won’t be able to understand them.” Auden solemnly said.

“You are just asking for a beating right now. Just talk about how it’ll cause the downfall of this country.” She said.

Auden sighed and said, “You sure are on the high horse right now. Even though you are tired to the point of fainting. What you have good about you is your poker face and nothing more.”

“Taking down twenty Perfects and using teleportation…it might have tired you a lot. You are nothing but a bluff right now and even I can defeat you so don’t just go on trying to scare me.”

Her eyes opened wide in shock.

‘How? How did he know?’

Bam~

He punched at the floor which made a small crack in it and blood flowed down his fist.

“You don’t have strength but I’m in my peak strength. You wouldn’t want to be beaten by someone less skilled than you, right? So, just listen to what I have to say.”

‘System…That hurt…System.’

“The world is suffering from the problem of invasion of demon beast horde in this era and our country is no exception. If at this critical time our country starts the internal battle then it would destroy the country for sure. After all, it won’t help either weak or strong…it’ll only help demon beasts.”

“And even if you somehow managed to achieve what you said, then what? What can you do to maintain it? You’ll just keep them in check using power? Then how are you people any different?”

“More importantly, conflicts will only rise. Everybody is power fed so they wouldn’t just bow…there will be many more internal wars and chain of hatred will only continue with next to no sign of stopping.” Auden said.

He then looked at Rebecca who seemed completely surprised by what he said.

“You didn’t think of that?”

“No, ” She shook her head.

“Going to change the world without any idea of the consequences? You are dumb, aren’t you? If I were to guess then you would be a student with a low grade. What is your grade?,” He asked.

“A+, ” She replied.

“Don’t lie,” Auden said.

“It’s D+”

“Hahaha, no wonder you don’t have thinking ability. But if I were to look on the good side, you still have +.” He stood up with a proud face.

At least he wasn’t dumb even if he was weak. He then turned and walked out of the old school building saying,

“I might have thought of it if it was some superhero organization…but an organization preparing for internal conflict? Just forget about getting me in. I reject to join it.”

‘Gyaahahahaha…That was too cool of me.’

He had to take a round trip before he saw the school ground again. As he walked forward, he saw students gathered in a place.

“Has the event already started?” He mumbled to himself.

He walked even fast to the crowd when he started hearing sobs. It got louder the closed he got to the crowd.

As he squeezed through the crowd to know what was happening, he finally got to the front. A girl wearing the uniform of the perfect was sobbing above the body which lay covered in the pool of blood.

“What happened here?” Auden couldn’t help but say it out aloud.

As if responding to his question, the girl sobbing finally raised her head and looked at Auden in anger.

“You bastard…why did you kill her?”