CATMAN - 4 Fret Academy

After the ordeal, he had again become a human male who was but seventeen years old. The bodies of the female and the man weren’t there when he came out and concluded that a superhero saved them.

His blue crystal-like eyes were shining as ever when he got ready for his school after breakfast.

Packing the books he needed, he then walked to the school after chatting for some time with his parents.

The school he was studying in was actually a school that was dominated by magic. It was obvious given the fact that the population of the world was dominated by the magic-user which was 99% but there were still schools for the people who didn’t have any affinity with magic.

He didn’t want to attend such school even after being counseled many times because deep down he knew that if he attended the non-magic school, it was all over.

His dream of someday using magic would be cut off by the knowledge of human books before the Great Magic Era and there were no such interesting things in Maths and others if compared to Magic.

The students who were studying on the non-magic schools and colleges were actually groomed to work under superheroes and other wizards as butlers or maids which was what he didn’t like in the least. He didn’t want to work under someone in this life of his because of one reason…

“Hey, Auden!”

A female voice rung from behind when he reached the school’s front gate. It was Remi. She was one of the students who were able to use magic but wasn’t too proficient with it and because of that ended in Class D as well.

“H-Hi” He hesitantly answered as if taken by surprise.

“Hahaha, were you talking to school gate as if some idiot as always?” She said as she shot a glance at the door.

Although she could use magic, even if she wasn’t proficient, she had every right to act arrogant in front of a guy without any magic but she wasn’t like that. Because of that, she was admired by every student of Class D who didn’t have any magical abilities and saw her as some goddess.

She was a nice person like Veneesa who even though having ice-related abilities had a warm heart. And Vaneesa was from Class A, one of the Royals.

The hierarchy inside the school was maintained strictly and was like an iron rule. If students tried anything funny regarding the system then it was an obvious fact that they were going to be expelled, but the matter that concerned the student was how…?

The hierarchy and status were the same in every school even if it was the top school. But what was different was that the status and how powerful the school really was to groom talent.

The school widely famous and had a good reputation would surely be something that low-class schools couldn’t compare to. A student of A class in low-class school might even end up in the D class of high-class school because of their talent.

If one was to consider why then the answer for it was simple…a gold for a poor would be it’s lifetime riches but in front of a rich business tycoon it would be nothing but another stone in the pile.

Students were categorized and placed in class after determining their affinity with magic. The more aptitude they showed, the higher the class and the more facilities they earned to strengthen themselves.

The hierarchy went like this;

Class D: Garbage/Trash/Loser(…Whatever)

Class C: Talents

Class B: Perfects

Class A: Royals

The Royals got the better resources to hone themselves where Garbage got worst or simply nothing. If one was in Class D because of their uselessness then it was almost impossible for them to change classes.

Here weak would become weaker and strong would become stronger unless some weak had some heaven-defying fate.

Auden was weak but now that he had the system, he could try changing classes even if he wasn’t able to sense any magical energy present in the surrounding.

“N-No, it’s not what you think!”

“Then why do you always mumble in front of the school gate for hours?” She asked.

“Don’t know, habit, I guess,” Auden replied and entered through the gate.

Fret Academy wasn’t that great in terms of teaching magic but in this area of the district, it was the best one could hope to enter.

Auden right after entering the gate bumped into someone. It was someone he didn’t want to meet one bit. His name was Jack, one of the lackeys of Norr who was the gang leader of the bullies of Class C.

“Sorry,” Auden immediately apologized.

“Sorry? What do you take me for, you trash?” Jack grabbed him by his collar and said.

“What happened, brother, Jack?”

“Did this trash do something to you?” Two more students dressed in black joined Jack.

Auden immediately realized that it wasn’t by coincidence that he bumped into Jack after entering the gate when he saw the other two lackeys. They were just waiting for him to enter.

The dress the students wore symbolized their position in the school. Black meant they were Talents, Red meant they were Perfects and Purple meant they were Royals. The teacher wore gray or green representing their status in which gray was upper class and green was lower.

The students wearing black behind Jack were Hul and Ray, who would always chase weak students and beat them unconscious. Auden wasn’t weak but they still had Norr backing them who was the star of the class and was arrogant as hell.

Realizing that it was all set up, Auden didn’t refute but said again, “I’m sorry for bumping into you.”

“Trash!” Jack threw him to the ground and said, “If you want to apologize for bumping into me then what you have to do is kneel.”

Kneel? Auden wasn’t shocked in the least but Remi who watched the scene was. He would have to kneel just for bumping into that guy. She couldn’t just let it slide seeing that it was unfair.

She then walked towards Jack who had an evil smile on his face, Auden who saw Remi marching towards Jack thought stopped her.

“Stop Remi.”

Her glance fell upon Auden as she asked, “Why? Isn’t it unfair?”

“Unfair though it is but such is the fate of the weak. You don’t have to get involved in my problems. Just go to the class and I’ll follow you from behind.” Auden said.

“But…”

“Just go!” Just as Remi was trying to say something Auden interrupted.

Gritting her teeth, Remi walked inside the school building as she timely shot glance at Auden who sat in the ground.

“Now that she’s gone, you will be more comfortable while kneeling, won’t you? No matter what happens, you just have to save your face in front of a girl. So now kneel.” Jack said.

Patting the dust off his pants, Auden said, “Actually I never planned on kneeling. You see my knee is scrapped, so I can’t kneel. So, just let go of the matter with another apology.”

“You…” Jack shot a murderous gaze at Auden and said.

But why would he kneel now when he hadn’t knelt before anyone in his entire life no matter how harsh the situation was. If he were to kneel just for bumping into a talent then where would all the effort of not kneeling till the date go?

Bam!

A punch right at the gut by Jack made him again sit at the ground. But he knew that it wasn’t over. Since it was preplanned, he knew that even if he had knelt, he would have been beaten all the same and seeing them cracking their finger just before beating the crap out of him, Auden sighed.

“Trash, Your parents must also be some trash to not teach their son any manner about how to respect someone superior.” Jack said, “Today I’m gonna beat you so hard that it’ll be a lesson even to your parents that they should teach some good manners to their son.”

My parents are trash? Teach something to them? Auden when he heard those phrases changed his mind about getting beaten.

He may have tolerated himself being beaten but seeing other trash talk his parents who they didn’t even know of made his blood boil.

Auden returned the murderous gaze and said, “Alright, teach me and my parents how to behave. But not here…”