The cafeteria buzzed..
The place wasn't decorated, no need for extraordinary things, only the essential items needed for a cafeteria to be... a cafeteria .
Long wooden tables were arranged in a straight lines leaving just enough room to walk around.
On each of the tables has two Ben he's for the students to sit on and have their meal.
Zach quietly observed as he stepped in the wooden door, the windows of the place was just a square hole in the wall, no glass, nothing.
The place was basically a warehouse, filled with neatly arranged tables and benches.
Students in black and gold say on the trys and chatting and laughs flew around.
All students in this area all had different golden strips on their uniforms.
The rank of this school was determined by home many parallel lines outline the black suit.
The frist years all had one one line outlinimg their suits. Zach haven't actually noticed till the students were al gathered in one place.
Zach quickly collected his food which was a bowl of rice and some sauce, with a little of meat and vegetables on the side.
Zach looked at the food and sighed...
He felt like the government were ripping them off. He literally paid 40 000 us dollars just to be here and gain access to the broken realm.
But ever since he came to the island, he has been wondering..
' Where are all the government funds going to in this place..? ' Zach thought.
Zach decided not to think about it and walked over to his seat.
"Hey over here...?" He heard a voice. It was Amy, sitting in one of the empty benches waving at him.
He looked at her position, his hands tightened around the tray in hesitation.
"Make friends.." Zach reminded him, reluctantly dragging his feet to table 56.
He sat diagonally away from Amy, not uttering a single word.
Authur arrived a few moments later sliding his sizzling steak on the table, the aroma hitting Zach and Amy making glance at the food with wide eyes.
"Wow.." Amy blinked.
"I never thought we had a rich kid in the building" she teased..
"So what made you come over, I thought you were sitting with the other high ranking students" Amy hurled the spoon at her mouth.
Zach looked at Arthur.. back when he was to the A.I.S (Astryx Immigration services) they had mention if he wanted to subscribe to a higher plan, at the time Zach didn't think much about it l and when with the normal plan but now..
He was thinking of changing his.
"What are you thinking about.." Amy asked Zach.
Zach blinked.
"I've been wondering..." Zach paused.
"We've paid literally thousands of dollars to be here, why does it feel like we're being ripped off.?.." Zach pondered out loud.
Amy and Arthur looked at him for a moment, eyes wide.
Zach looked confused.
Arthur shook his head.. while Amy looked amused.
"What ?... did I miss something..?" He asked.
"Did you read the facilities structural guide" Amy asked with a raised brow.
Zach sighed in defeat...
He remembers that book, when he registered for his card the assailant handed him a book, Zach didn't even know where he had kept it.
"Umm no.." Zach chuckled nervously.
Amy sighed..
"So basically... if you looked around it seems like this place is t that expensive right.. she tapped on the table"
"Every material used to build this place is made of a mystic spell.enchantment that hides the island from any outsider..." she explained.
"Each and everything you're seeing was imported from the broken realm" she raised a finger.
Zach looked around..
Indeed the wood do have a different feel to then but Zach just assumed it was special kind of wood from some tree.
"But why is there no electricity " Zach asked.
" Because the government don't want this place to be tracked" Arthur finally spoke.
"Every square inch of this school was built using hands, no machines " Arthur cut the steak using a fork, hurling it at his mouth.
Zach looked around again but this time with profound respect, he man to say only simple tools and human effort built such a massive school.
"Damm..." he remarked.
The hall suddenly went quite as the sound of foot steps echoed.
The entire cafeteria turned to the group of students walking in.
Black sleek uniforms with four golden lines at the outline..
"Fourth years " Someone whispered..
The group of students walked over to a crowded table the students on it immediately got up and scrambled to different directions, the groups of Fourth years sat peacefully on the chairs.
"I heard that the fourth years gets sent on mission st battle thyxars that escape rifts" Amy leaned in, whispering
"Yeah no kidding... " Arthur shivered.
"I can feel a pressure from them.. something dangerous" his voice toned down.
Zach wasn't having any of that his gaze was fixated on one of the people that walked in.
Skin fully covered in black attire highlighting her curvy figure as she sat admist the group, long black hair and violet eyes. They all chatted while the food vendor brought them steaks, to enjoy.
Zach looked at her and felt something shift in him. Now that he thought about it she looked kind of familiar. Zach squinted.
Her purple eyes scanned the food as he picked up the cutlery, taking a bite os the well prepared steak with grace.
Her eyes wondered around, meeting Zach gaze.
*Coughs* *Coughs*
She chocked on her steak...
"Rei are you ok..?" some of her comrades asked. She regained her composure.
"Y-yeah" she sighed.
"..Come on man.." Zach turned, to the duo staring at him.
Amy with her cheeky grin.. spoke "she's way out of your league man, stop staring like that, your gonna cause trouble for yourself.." she whispered and Zach nodded, facing his food.
But he couldn't help but glace at her one more time.
And that when it clicked.
During Harukis battle, she was there with the police, surveying the damages and leading citizens away, how could Zach forget such a pretty face.
*Slam*
A loud thud echoed on Zach table... "I see you're eyes have a death wish" Zach turned around to one of the Fourth year cadets looming over him.
' Oh shit ' Zach immediately used his hand to coved his slightly darkened eye.
"My.. vison not good.." he spoke with a strange accent making Arthur and Amy look at him in bewilderment.
" Huh..", the guy was a white haired youngster wearing a smile on his face.
Zach gulped.