Chapter 70 - Intruders

Diana walked to the cafeteria, feeling like her arms aren't there anymore, she couldn't believe Aroma could be so cruel with her. After she sat down and began massaging her right shoulder; Aroma walked toward her and helped her to her feet. She instructed her to continue until she achieves 5 hit.

She protested, claiming she could barely move her right shoulder.

Aroma smile at her and picked up a dagger and shoved it into her left hand, helped her with the right movement and asked her to continue with the left hand.

She did till she had no idea when she swapped to the right hand again, when the left shoulder also seem to be chopped off from her body.

She somehow find it worthwhile as she ended up making those requested hits before Aroma released her, asked her to go and eat and take a nap before her swimming section.

She saw her roommate's table and walked sluggishly toward them. She collapsed on the chair and rested her head on the table. The other trainees laughed at her act while they eat their food.

She groaned and suddenly felt someone's hand on her shoulders, massaging it. "Eh?" she looked up and saw fatty with a smile on her cute face massaging her shoulders.

"Thank you." she said, closing her eyes in pleasure as fatty hands perform its magic. Suddenly, "will you teach me what you learnt after eating?" Fatty asked.

Diana opened her eyes wide, "no way!" she exclaimed. She said that because she didn't wanna go through the torture again, but got misunderstood as being greedy and didn't wanna share. "Ha!" she exclaimed as Fatty hit hard at her shoulders and returned to her seat, "what was that for?" Diana asked.

Fatty rolled her eyes at her and began eating her food, while the rest of their roommate mocked her wasted effort on helping Diana massage her shoulders.

Eating was torture for Diana as the spoon kept shaking and barely carried the food up to her mouth before falling off. She ended up lowering her head to the table's level and eat under the mockery of everyone. But she didn't felt pissed at them, she has been mocked a lot but this type of mockery is normal to her. She knew she would do the same if she were in their shoes. She like most of the things about this place, she couldn't recall the last time she worried about people's opinion on her face. She hasn't even thought about it for a while now.

After eating, she made her way to her room to rest well before going for swimming.

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In the middle of the night, the sound of alarm woke up everyone. 'Intruders! Intruders! Intruders!' could be heard everywhere, while their entire room kept getting illuminated by a certain red light.

Diana opened her eyes, her heart racing fast, 'if it's intruders, isn't this a bad news?' she asked in her head and watched as her roommate got to their feet with a smile on their faces, "come Diana, let's enjoy some fireworks." The girls said to her and dragged her outside with them.

Immediately they stepped out of their room, there was traffic already; as the other trainees were all out of their rooms, heading towards outside of their quarters.

Getting outside on the clear field, they saw in a far distance; explosions and firing of rifles. They couldn't see who it was aiming at, or what's getting exploded, but yeah; the view is quite nice and looks like fireworks since the day hasn't broken entirely.

The others kept laughing and cheering. Diana had no idea what to do and just remained at the spot looking confused. She wondered what's funny about this.

She suddenly saw the familiar figure of Nathan, Aroma and the other seniors approaching them. She took a deep sigh of relief like she just found her savior.

She was walking towards them when she looked up at Nathan. He was smiling at something the others were saying. The moonlight shone at his beautiful face, making him look more breathtaking. Her mind drifted to his words the previous day and couldn't help but wonder why he said that.

She lost her confidence to walk towards them and remained at the spot staring at them as they stopped and also turn towards the direction of the explosion.

She had no idea how long she's been staring at his side profile until their eyes met. Before she could retract her gaze; Nathan already did. It's like he didn't know her.

"What are you staring at?" Fatty voice was heard behind her. Fatty traces her line of sight and quickly left before Diana could reply.

"Hey! wait!" she called and went after her. She couldn't approach Aroma and ask the questions she's craving it's answers anymore.

Fatty halted her steps, letting her caught up with her. "Why did you suddenly leave like that?" Diana asked.

"Nothing, I thought you were busy." she said.

"What could I possibly be busy with while standing there?" Diana asked, before she could get a reply, "by the way, what was that? I heard the alarm said intruders, but what's happening?" She asked again.

"Those are the intruders getting blown into pieces. If it were one of us trainees that tried to escape; it will blow up instantly. Those people got tricked into walking far in between the land mines before it got activated. They need to help their self out without getting blown up. Isn't it fun?" Fatty explained and smiled happily.

"Wait, those are humans blowing up?" Diana asked, not believing her ears.

"Those people came to attack us, they came to kill us. Can't you see how much of a fool they were?" Fatty asked.

'So, that's what it is.' Diana said in her head and smile, "in that case, let's enjoy the show." She said and also began to watch.