Chapter 46: The Girl's Concern

The change of rules had made the students nervous since they would be fighting a emperor level honkai beast, as such they are pretty much swarming every training facilities in the academy. This leads to the Battle Simulation room to be opened in Friday as well as it can't possibly house the huge number of students that wanted to train in one day only.

That said, today isn't as crowded as yesterday. This is reason why Kiana's team postponed their training yesterday and decided to use the room this day.

"RAAAAAGGGGGGHHHH"

With a huge roar, a honkai beast with huge arms leap high up in the air.

"Mei, Fu Hua dodge to the side!" Kiana shouted. They waited for the shadow of the Chariot level honkai beast to get bigger and timed it on the last second before leaping on opposite directions.

They were about to attack its side but unfortunately, the beast landed on the ground too hard as it kick up a huge dust cloud. The two has a zero visibility and coughed because of the dust.

Bacause of this, Mei was late to notice the incoming arm. She quickly raised her katana to at least hope to lessen the damage. However the attack never landed as she heard something colliding on the smooth white arms of the beast, causing it to misdirect and miss its target.

She took this chance to move away from the beast. "Mei, are you alright?" a worried voice of a boy came from her earpiece.

"Yeah, thanks for the assist." Mei press the button on her earpiece and reassured the person on the other side. She didn't get any reply back but she imagined him nodding and continued to support to them from behind.

"Hiyah!" With Fu Hua shouting, the beast was pushed out of the dust cloud. She quickly followed through it a drop kick on the head. She then use its head as a foothold to kick herself away from the beast.

It didn't even have time to recover as it was pelted with bullets. One two, three four, and the fifth and sixth strike has a small delay but has a higher damage than the rest.

The girls were really merciless as Mei also closes in and did multiple slashes on its belly. It was fast and precise as in a short matter of time, she did about thirty slashes in its belly area.

"Mei," she heard a emotionless voice calling out her name. She understood her intent and stop her attacks. She quickly jump backwards to take some distance.

Three big missiles simultaneously landed on the honkai beast. It created a huge explosion and dealt a massive amount damage. However it doesn't end there as another three smaller explosion followed in.

The smoke soon cleared up showing a weak looking honkai beast. It was not soon that it drop on the ground and turned into purple light particles.

"Simulation is over. Clear time, 3 minutes and 21 seconds." the speaker announced the end of the training.

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With the door of the BattleSim room opening up, Kiana got out first while stretching her arms. "...That didn't pose much of a challenge... " she muttered as she was unsatisfied with how quickly they cleared the simulation.

"What does Kiana Idiotka expected? Even with the highest difficulty setting, a group of five is still an overkill." Bronya said in a sarcastic manner as she was the next one to get out.

"Geez, would you stop it you two." Mei quickly goes inbetween them to make sure that they wouldn't start fighting again.

"You really have it hard, Mei." Fu Hua sent her sympathy towards the dark haired girl. As the class president, she has her fair share of problems when dealing with troublesome students. However Kiana and Bronya quarrels are more frequent causing her to be grateful for the presence of another mediator.

"...." the last one to get out was Glynne. He was silent as he is trying not to stood out much. However, it proved to be for a naught since he seems to be gathering the gazes of the other students. He was clearly troubled by it as he let out sigh.

This, does not escape the attention of a certain someone.

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At the resting lounge, Glynne was busy doing some maintenance work on his weapon when a girl in a skimpy black and red dress approaches him. He is already fed up asking questions why, so the battlesuit designs doesn't bother him anymore.

"Are you alright, Glynne?" she asked as the boy stopped what he is doing and look up to see it was Mei.

"Should I be the one asking that?" Glynne smiled as he find it funny how the girl is concerned about him despite her seemingly more exhausted compared to him. Not to mention, how she was almost got hit by the honkai beast a while ago.

"No, that is not what I mean." Mei waved her hand as the boy seems to have misunderstood. She was about to correct him but she was interrupted by someone running towards them.

"Glynne! Let's have a spar!" Kiana declared as it seems like her dissatisfaction has lead her to challenging him.

"Eh, why me?" Glynne asked why as he find it troublesome. "Sorry, but I have something to do after this."

"Don't lie," the boy was surprised when Kiana glared at him. "Bronya said that you two already have finished with the manufacturing of the bullets."

'Ah, that's.... ' — Glynne thought while sweat run down his forehead as his excuse was quickly been found out. "No no no, don't you think I have other stuffs to do too."

"...and what would they be?" Kiana narrowed her eyes as if trying to interrogate the boy. His mouth begun twitching since he doesn't know what to answer. He has no other choice but to asked for the other girl for help using eye signals.

Mei, also has a bitter smile plastered on her face while watching Kaina forcing Glynne to have a spar with her. She moves closer and grab her shoulder. "C'mon Kiana, don't so see you're bothering Glynne?"

"Eh, but I haven't had a shed a single sweat this week. The simulation doesn't even registered as a warm up. If I don't train, my skills would get rusty!" Kiana throws a tantrum.

"You know you could ask Fu Hua or me, right?" Mei pointed out.

"Ah... No, well —" for some reason, this cause Kiana to flinch and started to spout some random excuses. It was Glynne's turn to look at her in suspicion as she let out a cute groan. In the end, she gave up and decided to challenge Mei to a spar.

The boy watches them leave as they excuse themselves out of the resting lounge. Glynne let out a chuckle looking how the white-haired girl seems to be hanging her head in shame.

After a few moments, Glynne has also decided it was time to go. He stretches his arms and then pick up his rifle on the table.

"Is Glynne going somewhere?" he was about to leave when he heard a emotionless voice. He turned around to see Bronya is hovering using her mechanical legs.

"Uhm, Bronya, are you not embarrassed with that?" Glynne asked as he is doing his best not to look down.

Bronya's battlesuit was like a modified navy officer uniform. However, maybe because of her mechanical legs, she is wearing a skirt instead of pants. Glynne was troubled by this as the girl like to hover around. He was worried if some random wind would blow it upwards.

"With what?" Bronya tilted her head as she slowly landed on the ground. Glynne breath a sigh of relief as there seems to be no accidents today.

"Nothing, it's just a stupid question. Just forget it." Glynne said as he turned around. "Anyways, I'll be going to change my clothes."

"Hm, Bronya is also planning to change. Bronya suggest to go there together." the girl said as she grabbed the boy's hand.

Glynne has no reason to decline her offer. In fact, he would appreciate it as he might get swarmed when he will be alone. Shrugging his shoulders, they proceed to head towards the dressing room.

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Fixing the collar of his shirt, Glynne was about to open the door when he sense a presence on the other side. He knew it wasn't Bronya as he tell that they are multiple precences outside.

He was contemplating whether or not he would open it when he felt a vibration in his pockets. He brought his phone out to see Bronya has sent him a message.

"Glynne, do not get out of the door."  it says. This leads to him confirming his suspicion as he close his phone.

"They are becoming more desperate...." he muttered. Well it is understandable since this was their last chance to join the team. It was laughable how what they are doing is all for nothing as Kiana doesn't seem too keen in strangers joining.

Letting out a huge sigh. He turned around and walk towards the window. He poke his head out to see quite a drop down below.

'Well, this is the second floor' — Glynne thought as he begun to do some light stretches. He once again poke his head out to do a quick check to see that no one is around.

As he confirmed there are no presence below, he quickly jump out of the window with no hesitation at all. Stigmata have improved the endurance of the body, but sticking a landing on a eight feet tall jump would still be hurt. That's why, Glynne did a roll upon landing to help lessen the impact.

Patting out the dirt on his clothes, Glynne walk away from the scene as if nothing happened.

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At night, Glynne was staring blankly at the ceiling of his room. The week has been quite hectic for him. As he was alone currently, he can't help but to reflect on what happened.

"I never had any peaceful moment, huh?" with the exception of when he was at his room, he was put into troublesome moments left and right.

The spar with Rita;

The issue with Kiana;

The sudden change of rules at the exam;

And in the last two days, he felt like everyone was after his neck.

He tried to hide his worries from the others but it seems like they are slowly leaking out.

"Oh, you look like you are troubled by something." Glynne's thoughts were interrupted when he heard someone by his bedside. He glance to his side to see pink colored eyes a few inches away from his face.

"You're too close, Rita." he complained in a deadpan tone. The maid stood up with disappointed look on her face. Knowing her intentions, Glynne just let out a sigh as he got up. "Isn't really that obvious?"

This was the fourth time today someone was worried about him.... No, even at the dining table, every single one of them are looking at him with a worried look in their eyes.

"Glynne, are you perhaps underestimating a woman's instincts?" the boy furrowed his eyebrows as he let out a sigh of defeat. It was a very illogical question but he can't help but to agree with it.

Rita sat down on the bed and patted her lap. "You know, you could always tell me about it." she offered.

"No thanks." The boy responded with a bitter smile. The situation may be troublesome but it isn't like he couldn't handle it. Besides, there will be no school tomorrow so he won't be bothered by it for a while.

That said, even with the boy declining her offer, Rita grabbed his head and force him to lay down on her lap. It happened very quickly as he has no time to react. The next thing he knew, the maid is gently stroking his hair.

Strangely enough, Glynne doesn't seem to dislike as doesn't let out any complaints or even try to stop her hand. Rita knew this would be the case so she take her time playing with his hair. "By the way, are you really set on using the sniper rifle?"

There was a a bit of a silence before Glynne answered with a simple, "Yeah".

"Is that so, I thought you said you will be doing your best." Rita said. she stopped her hands as the boy turned around to see her face.

"As expected, so it was you who have been watching me all this time." Glynne narrowed his eyes.

"Oh my," Rita put a hand over her mouth, "So I have been discovered."

"No, you aren't even trying to hide it." The boy pointed out as he let out a sigh.

The maid only smiled in response. The boy would always found out if someone is watching him. Even the best snipers and assassin on the Schicksal HQ would always get found out one way or another as soon as they lay their eyes on him. That is why, Rita never really bothered to hide her presence when she watched him in a distance.

They stared at each other for a few seconds before the boy opened his mouth, "Say, this isn't some kind of an elaborate plan of the Overseer again, isn't?"

Glynne has met the Overseer quite often when he was living back at the HQ. Even if they only exchange a few words at each other, it was enough to get a gist of what the man truly is.

"Hm, what made you think of that?"  Rita replied with another question.

"Once is a coincidence, twice would be hard to ignore." Glynne only answered in a vague manner. However that was enough to basically say that he would always know.

After saying those words, Glynne turned around to his side and refuses to tell any single word. He has just laying down, eyes close, fully intent on just enjoying Rita stroking his head.

He failed to notice.., No, he chose not to notice how the maid has a unusual poker face.

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Ahahaha 😅...... Sorry for the delay...

So yeah, my internet data provider release a new promo this week and because of this, I was able to download HI3 again...

Tadaaah!! Yeah, I got a lot of things to catch up leading me to waste a lot of my time on it. Efffing hell I missed it so much.😅

So yeah, I forgot to write because of it hahaha....

That said, Thanks for reading.