The Modern Immortal

School

When Daemon arrived at the classroom, most of his classmates were engrossed in their studies as they ploughed through pages after pages of past years’ papers, while a handful of them were reciting out loud their textbooks. A tense atmosphere filled the entire classroom.

As the final-year examination was only three months away, their main class teacher and subject teachers emphasised on the importance of this examination time and again. With wave after wave of weekly and monthly tests given to the third year students, this bunch of seventeen-years-old youths couldn’t help but feel nervous.

Seeing the eye-catching countdown number for the final-year examination on the blackboard, and all his classmates studying intensely, Daemon felt that he did not fit in with this world.

“Since I’m here just to fulfil my mother’s wish and not here to really study, I need not be too bothered about my surrounding.” Daemon quickly retracted his gaze as he walked to his desk.

What Daemon didn’t expect was that just when he stepped into the classroom, all his classmates that were initially busy doing their revision stopped what they were doing and turned to look at Daemon.

Those looks were filled with despise, ridicule, disdain, and loathe, which Daemon could not discern the reason for it.

“Daemon, we don’t welcome you here, get out!” Suddenly, a tall and skinny youth with glasses, with a face filled with despise, pointed his finger and ordered Daemon, with a broken gong-like voice which resounded throughout the classroom.

Feeling the strong hostility coming out from the tall and skinny body, Daemon’s gaze turned cold as killing intent was emitted from his body.

The tall and skinny classmate was called Leo Kenny, and he was a member of the class representative committee. He was always opposing Daemon, because he resented Daemon for his poor performance in the previous exams and always complaints about how he is not suitable in this class. When ever Daemon’s academic performance deteriorated, Leo grabbed the chance to ridicule and suppressed him.

“Daemon, we don’t welcome you here, get out!”

“Daemon, we don’t welcome you here, get out!”

“Daemon, we don’t welcome you here, get out!”

Before Daemon had the chance to question Leo, a clamor resounded throughout the classroom as wave after wave of perilous loud shouts caused Daemon to freeze momentarily while still at the entrance.

Just when he wanted to clarify exactly what was going on, a loud “clang” sound echoed throughout the class. When Daemon looked over, he saw that a fat guy at the last row had smashed his chair onto the table.

The strength that the fatty had used was simply too great, causing the classroom to tremor slightly. After the loud smashing sound, the uproar abruptly stopped. The classroom became dead silent as the classmates who were actively bashing Daemon seemed as if they were strangled by their necks.

“It’s just Daemon’s grade being a little bit poorer, and it’s not his fault being like this, is there a need to go against him?”

“Daemon is my tablemate, and I have seen him put in so much effort in the past year. I dare to say that Daemon is the most diligent in his studies out of everyone here. If not for all those problems one year ago, all of you here would not even have the chance to be able to catch up to his silhouette. So what qualifications do you all have to reproach him?!”

“This matter aside, so what if Daemon’s grades are not good. It’s not as if whatever you all say counts. He can come and go whenever he wants to, so it’s none of your business!” The fatty indignantly defended Daemon after seeing that everyone was looking at him.

The fatty was very plump and had a height of over 1.8 meters, his tummy was so round that it looked like a lady who was pregnant for 10 months, and his already small eyes were compressed by his fats on his face that made it look like a straight line, unable to see his eyeball.

It may be that fatty’s stature had given everybody a huge pressure, or that his murderous, fierce look was too intimidating, because the whole class was startled by him.

“Edward Barrett, what rights do you have to be so arrogant? The reason why our class’ average marks are the last in the cohort is all because of the two of you being such a disappointment. As the saying goes, ‘a dirty fish can make the whole pond dirty’. Furthermore, our class has two Dirty fish, that’s why it’s hard to raise our average marks even if we want to.” Leo Kenny retorted back unconfidently after being silent for so long.

“Leo, who is the dirty fish, I dare you to say it again!” With a “clang” sound, Edward kicked over the table and glared at Leo with eyes that seemingly wanting to devour him as he yelled back.

Edward’s action had frightened Leo as he avoided making eye contact with him; his face became deathly pale.

“Leo, it's not that I want to pick on you, but even if your grades are exceptionally good, a useless scoundrel like you would only be fated to work for others once you step into society, and you actually think that you are that great just because your grades are good. If I, your grandpa, wishes to deal with you, then it’s just a lift of a finger to me.” Seeing that Leo had admitted defeat, Edward did not bother with him anymore. He gave him a cold smirk before arranging back his chair and table and sitting down.