Everyone Else Has a System

"How are things going on at the Academy?"

Linda looks at me with a casual expression before speaking,"Pretty much the same as usual. The teachers support the rich and strong guys in exchange for being backed up by the strong guilds. The dog vs dog fight among the students to reach the top of the food chain. One side winning one side losing miserably, with the winners living like kings and the losers being bullied on a daily basis.

The Security Council and the Student Council, trying their best to stop the bullying and trying to make a comfortable environment for everyone, sometimes achieving their goal other times getting trapped in some or the other plan.

The tests are as brutal as they always were, and the criteria for passing still remain the same. Ummm… ask me anything else, in particular. I can give you an account for everything but it might take too much time."

I look at Linda and observe the drastic change in her personality from someone who was trying on me to someone who was scared of me… and then finally to this.

It kinda amazed me a little, but not the first time I have seen something like this. Hmmm… now to the questions I want answered,

"What about the Principle? How is she dealing with all of this that's going on in the Academy?"

Linda thinks over my words for a minute before speaking,"I don't know. The only time you will find her is during graduation or some important event, or maybe when she is giving the welcoming speech to the freshman? Other than that, nobody knows where she is or what she has been upto."

After she is finished talking, I review her words as I find this piece of information quite interesting, to say the least. A principal about whom no one knows anything… interesting! How very interesting! Amelia… just what are you up to?

"What about the leaders of the three clans?" I ask as I recall the information I have on the Academy.

All in all there are three divisions of the Academy in which the students are divided accordingly, each ruled by the strongest individuals of the Academy. Lucas, however, wasn't one of the leaders because he was still hiding his true powers.

Though they all serve the same purpose, that is to give the newcomers a chance to interact with the seniors and grow up to be stronger in a commutative environment, there are three of them because of their differences in ideals.

One of them wants to rule everything solely with power.

The other believes in the power of the society and individual power being a small part of it.

The last one being a neutral one where you are allowed to freely interact with anyone, but most people who want to learn things on their own without getting attached with anyone else, go there.

Though, what exactly is the story behind them… is something I would like to see with my own two eyes when I reach there.

"The leaders are still fine and the groups are functioning the way they should except…" noticing the brief pause in her words, I gaze at her concerned face, which was looking at Irene.

"Except?" I ask and this time Irene was the one to speak as she continues after Linda,"Except that one of the divisions, the Vanguards, is pressing the other division members to either join them or leave the Academy. They are even forcing the newcomers to join their division or else they will make their lives much more miserable than they can even imagine."

I then close my eyes as I recall back what Elle (Annabeth) from my previous timeline had told me.

[There was a time when Lucas had to single-handedly shut down the whole Vanguards. I don't know what happened, but it was probably something related to his little sister, and if it wasn't for the principal… the Vanguards would have vanished on that day once and for all.]

Hmmm…. Looks like things will be more interesting than I had thought it would be in the Academy.

"What about the Student Council? Are they doing fine?" I ask and Linda laughs out loud in sarcasm before speaking,

"Tell me another joke, will ya? Them and fine? Ha! The only reason the Student Council is surviving is Adara Harriet. The President of the Student Council has solely kept the Student Council alive for the past 2 years or it might have gotten under the wraps of the strong ones long ago… though things aren't really that great either right now as the Vanguards are oppressing her these days… a lot for some reason."

I look at her for a few seconds before recalling another piece of information from my memory, which Elle told me…

[Though, oddly enough, when Adara brutally butchered almost half of the Vanguards including all of the top 10 members, the principal didn't even lift a finger… wonder what was that all about]

'Hmmm… Adara and Lucas… I guess it won't be long that I will be seeing them,' I think as I can feel my heart racing at the thought of the intriguing things that are about to come, in future, in the Academy.

"You are joining the Academy this year too, aren't you?" Irene spoke as she looked at me with a deep gaze and Linda too, while I nodded at them before speaking,"have some business there."

"Making more deals, I suppose?" Linda chimes again and I give her a wink as I speak,"isn't that a given?"

"You are not that hard to read but then again there will always be something that you will be hiding," Linda suddenly speaks as she looks at me with an analysing gaze and, taken aback by her statement, I ask,

"What was that?"

"Nothing, just trying to see through you… though it isn't working really I guess," Linda replies in a dejected tone before she stands up again as she speaks,"All this serious talk has made me hungry. I am gonna make steak. Do you guys want some?"

I nod at her and then watch her humming as she walks towards the kitchen under our gazes.