Chapter 40: Mission Impossible

Chapter 40: Mission Impossible

"You know if you put some kind of condition in your ability like; If your wooden doll is destroyed, then you die. Or if for every injury the doll suffers, so do you. It would make the ability stronger," I gave some advice to the semi-conscious senior.

Judging by his ability, he was probably a creator, and those guys have an easy time accessing a lot of power.

He might be a bit of a bully. But when the time came, we needed all the cannon fodder-... I mean brave fighters we can get.

To me, it seems like he's a creator that just created a doll of wood to fight. He might not have even put any conditions on the ability, which made it a trashy power unless he had a lot of Ord to back up the lack of conditions.

The senior student was somewhat conscious so he should have heard what I said. But why was he looking at me as if I was crazy?

I took a step back, noticing that people from other classrooms had started looking at what had happened.

After a while, the senior student was taken to the infirmary by other seniors. I could only hope that he would listen to my advice.

But deep down the answer was obvious. I knew he would probably think of me as a crazy person and dismiss whatever I said.

While being an exorcist was dangerous, most of them never created abilities with death as the repercussion of breaking conditions.

Doing something like that required a crazy mindset. Like the kind of people who go skydiving by throwing the parachute bag and jumping off the plane to catch it mid-air.

Since humans were heavier than a parachute bag, it would be logical to assume that as long as one stayed calm, he would be able to catch the bag.

But heres the counter-argument; why the fuck would someone ever do that?

That's the same with Special Abilities; someone can make them and train to grow them strong with time. So conditions in most cases would only be put on abilities after one has reached their limits.

Some would even consider this more efficient, and maybe they were right.

But for someone to reach their maximum with training first, it would take at least a decade or two of hard work. That was time I didn't have.

Unlike the others who would just stay on the plane. I knew I had to jump out and take a risk as the aircraft was about to explode. The plane in this analogy is the world as a whole.

But except me, everyone else didn't see a need to rush things.

The class didnt even start as Agon was pulled away by the old-looking Professor Chain. Youre coming with me to the principals office. Cross your fingers and hope that youre expelled. Because trust me, you wont want to see what I have in store for you.

Unlike Agon's life. My time in school was mostly quiet. I spent most of my time reading or discussing something stupid with Gem and Bets.

But as soon as I walked out a female senior student came and notified me. "You're Kon, right?"

She shifted around nervously. I didn't answer at first to try and read her intentions. In the end, she said. "The Headmaster has called you to meet at his office."

This guy probably planned this shit all the way back when he allowed me to use the demon-turning sword!

He's trying to stick the main character onto me. But why is he doing that? The only reason I could think of was that he was trying to get Agon out of the academy for a bit. Why, though? I have no idea.

He probably had a valid reason. The higher-ups wanted their weapon soon and would deal with anyone in their way. Though I eliminated an entire Arc, that doesn't mean they changed their goals. "Sure, my teammates will be Bets and Gem."

I didnt necessarily like this since Agon might draw danger.

"Done," he nodded and offered his hand in a handshake.

We shook hands and smiled politely. I knew the old headmaster was planning something. Essentially I was just a pawn in his board to accomplish what he needed. But the same was true vice-versa. He was also useful to me.

A small favor like this will be something I could use as an incentive in the future to ask for a favor.

Also, I knew that the headmaster wasn't the kind of man who would do something that would harm me.

The next day, I waited for the new team at the exit of the academy. I stood by the stairs which led to the surface and observed the students that went in and out of the academy.

I was nervous, though I was keeping an outwardly calm facade. My first mission and my companions were rookies too. The only upside to this whole thing was that we had Agon on our team. Also one of the most significant downsides was that we had Agon on our team.

Typically, while on a mission involving demons, it wouldn't be strange for something to go wrong. It was less than a 10% chance. But with Agon here, if we go by a shounen manga format. Then our first mission was bound to go wrong.

"Oh! You're already here!"

Think of the devil, and he shall appear.

Agon waved at me with a massive smile on his face. "Wow, and I thought I was early. You must be an early riser!"

"You could say that," I hid all of the uncertainties and tried not to even think about them.

After some small talk, Bets and Gem arrived too. They had been informed of the situation by me yesterday, and no doubt the headmaster or one of his assistants also told them what we needed to do.

Still, I took out a scroll. With Agon here, I wanted to be sure we were all on the same page. "Before we set off, I wanted to brief everyone on what we need to do."

Within the scroll, there were writings on the scroll. There was also a small description and rough map of where this was happening.

"Investigating strange drownings? People have already died from this?" Gem inquired. He seemed a bit surprised.

In any mission with demons involved, by the time it is reported, there are already victims. "Yes, and the demon seems to have a taste for children. As amongst the four drowned victims, three were children from the nearby village."Follow current novels on novelb((in).(com)