The bell rang for the end of classes, as students rushed out of their classes in pairs while talking to each other, the loners just packed their bags and walked out, the bullies stood in the hallways and waited for their targets.
In one of the classes, a black haired boy with red pupils was packing his bags calmly, he was not handsome,neither was he ugly, he just had this sprt of charm around him.
"Yo! Azriel, you coming with us to the arcade, they just released the battlegrounds 100, today?" Three boys approached him with their backpacks.
Azriel zipped up and was about to reply them when his phone beeped he looked at the message and smiled. Seeing his smile, the three boys looked at each other and grinned.
"Who is it?" The guy in the middle asked as he placed his hand over Azriel's shoulder and looked at his phone.
Azriel immediately put his phone in his pocket and ran out of the classroom.
"See you guys,later!" He yelled as he passed the door, he almost bumped into someone. As he made sure the other was standing, he mouthed and apology and ran off.
The other was a white haired girl who looked at his back while her cheeks were rosy, she mouthed something as she stared at the running figure.
Azriel walked towards the alley by the school with anticipation, as soon as he almost got to the entrance of the alley, he stopped, he took a deep breath and walked into the alley but he paused at what was going on before his eyes.
Standing at a corner, a girl had her back to the wall while a boy was kissing her. As if the both noticed something, they paused their kissing and turned to look at Azriel. The girl's eyes widened at the sight of him.
"Azriel...what are you doing here?"
Azriel frowned at the question before he realized what had happened, he shifted his gaze from the girl and looked towards the boy who looked like a movie star with the bad boy vibe.
"Damien..."
Damien grinned as he grabbed the girl by the waist and brought her close to himself. His grin faltered when he saw Azriel just staring at him apathetically.
"You feel accomplished about stealing someone's girlfriend, I look down on you, Damien...you couldn't even get a girlfriend you had to steal...ha!" Azriel mocked as he hung his backpack across his shoulder.
He looked at the girl who immediately avoided his gaze and looked at the ground, his lips rose in a sneer.
"Alisa, you didn't break up with me, I did...keep that in mind"
"No...Azriel, I can explain" Alisa tore herself away from Damien's grip and rushed towards Azriel, she grabbed his arm and looked at him but the gaze he looked at her with felt like so many knives were stabbing her heart.
'I shouldn't have agreed to this...'
"There's no need to explain anything, as soon as you kissed someone else aside from me, that's the end" Azriel said as he pulled his arm from Alisa's grip,he turned around and walked away. Alisa collapsed to the floor as tears fell from her eyes.
Damien walked up to Alisa and knelt beside her, she looked up at him, his gentle smile irked him, she raised her hand and slapped him across the face. The slap stunned Damien, he felt a vein pop out of his head.
"You slapped me because of him?!"
Alisa stood up with rage flowing in her, she looked at Damien who was standing up while holding his face.
"Because of you....because of you, I lost him, I lost my Azriel" Alisa growled as she felt like tearing the boy before her into pieces.
Azriel was oblivious to what was going on behind him, he noticed a silhouette handing behind a lamppost and staring at him. "Isn't she the girl I almost bumped into?"
He smiled before approaching the silhouette, noticing his approach, the white haired girl panicked but she didn't move but stared at Azriel who was walking towards her.
Just as Azriel was about to reach her, someone pushed him and he flew towards the road in front of an incoming truck , his body collided with the truck before tumbling some meters away.
The white haired girl looked at the body coughing up blood as it lay there, her legs walked towards as she wished to deny the reality she was seeing.
Alisa also walked towards Azriel with despair written all over her face. Damien turned around and ran away.
Meanwhile, Azriel who was laying down felt unimaginable pain, he could not hear anything, he saw the white haired girl kneeling before him and crying and made him wonder why she would cry for him, there was no regret though, he didn't have any family that would be worried about his wellbeing. As his gaze darkened, he only just wished he had been able to tell the white haired girl that she was beautiful.
He noticed the lips of the white haired girl move, in his confusion his consciousness went into oblivion.
Noticing that the boy before her was no longer breathing, the white haired girl stood up as she wiped her tears, she looked at Alisa who stood at the walkway and stared at Azriel, she sneered and walked past.
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In an infinite space of darkness, a luminous object appeared. The object seem to be an illusory body. It was Azriel in his soul form, but the peculiar thing about his soul was the fact that it was only the left side that was visible, there was no right side.
Azriel looked down at his soul body and was horrified.
'why am I incomplete?'
Before he could ask himself another question, he felt a tug on his soul and it disappeared from this space.
As soon as he disappeared, a space crack opened and two humanoids walked out. They had human features except for their black eyes and horns protruding from their foreheads and halos floating behind them.
"There is nothing here!" The humaoid with five halos said as he looked around.
"I'm sure I felt it's aura here, it has already disappeared, we can only wait for another opportunity" the humanoid with six halos said.
"Hmph, how incompetent... Lord Mortala would never allow someone of that aura to live" the five halo humanoid said before he entered the space crack. The six halo humanoid just shook his head and entered the space crack that closed.
The infinite space resumed it's stillness.
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Azriel opened his eyes and looked around him in bewilderment.
What is this?, didn't I die from being hit by truck-kun?, why does it seem like that life was a dream?
He felt a feeling of being complete in his soul, but first he has to ascertain his thoughts first but even that had to wait.
"Student Azriel Necroline... It's your turn to awaken"
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