The three walk through the door and are about to go down. The lady suddenly stops, looks back, and looks Ten and Demo up and down. The two guys look at each other as they are unsure why she is doing this. She looks at Ten.

“The core?”

Tens eyes open up because they did indeed leave the core in the shop. Ten and Demo smile innocently like two fools who forgot something very important. Ten runs back to the ship.

“I’ll be right back.”

As Ten is going to get the core. The lady turns her head back and waits for him to return. Demo is still slightly agitated but realizes that he never asked her name.

“What’s your name?”

The lady doesn’t turn around but answers him with her back to him.

“Pulmo.”

Ten comes back with the core in his hands.

“Sorry about that.”

Without saying a word Pulmo starts walking down. The three of them walk down the stairs until they come upon a door. Once they open the door they are in a gorgeous school hallway. It’s decorated with epic paintings and chandeliers. The students in the hallway don’t look like kids at all. Their bodies all have amazing proportions. It’s as if each one of them has been sculpted by a master of anatomy and fitness.

The sheer size of everything overwhelms Ten who has never seen anything like it. It’s as if he stepped into a world of models. Demo on the other hand doesn’t really care about any of that. He is still trying to figure out how Pulmo transformed his arm like that.

“Pulmo, how did you change my arm like that?”

Pulmo continues walking but turns her head enough so that she can side-eye Demo before she answers him. She looks at him with the driest look Demo has ever seen.

“Because you’re weak.”

Demo stops walking, his body starts to shake with rage. He releases a dangerous amount of energy in the middle of the hallway.

“What?”

Because Demo released so much energy Pulmo is forced to stop. She turns around and is about to start walking towards Demo to continue their skirmish. But then two students whose bodies don’t have perfect proportions walk by and recognize what is happening. The boy who is walking in the front has his eyes closed but turns his head at Demo.

“You’re about to fight the PPA without Cover-Up? Please contain your aura, your stupidity might be infectious.”

Demo who is still enraged has just been called stupid as well. Just as he is about to snap, Ten rushes in front of him with his hands out.

“Demo, Demo it’s ok. Calm down. It’s not that serious.”

Demo looks at Ten with rage in his eyes. Ten knows that an angry Demo can be pretty destructive and there is no benefit to this right now. Ten pleads with Demo.

“Please calm down.”

Demo knows what Ten gave up to be here so he controls himself. His rage is still there but he acts like everything is ok.  Ten nods his head.

“Thank you.”

“She thinks because I went easy on her that I’m weak.”

“I know, I know. You will have a chance to prove her wrong. Just not here.”

Demo then looks at the two students who stopped to talk to him. He looks at them with a face filled with rage. But the two seem unfazed.

“What is Cover-Up?”

The boy in front is shocked at the question as everyone on this planet knows what it is and uses it. But he then hides his surprise and places his right hand on his chin.

“Enlightening the stupid is also a king’s responsibility.”

Demo almost pops a vein at being called stupid again. He swallows his rage because of Ten and the fact that he hasn’t gotten the answer yet. The boy smiles as he answers with a very cocky tone.

“Cover-Up is what you call covering your body with a protective aura so people can’t just transform your body parts.”

Demo nods as he now understands what happened. Instead of items they transmute body parts and to protect yourself you cover yourself up. And she was able to do that to him because he didn’t know about Cover-Up. He looks at Pulmo and points at her.

“YOU CHEATED!”

Pulmo looks at Demo with her bored eyes and without blinking she answers him.

“Stupidity isn’t cheating.”

Ten already knowing where this is going jumps in again. And at the same time, the girl behind the boy student reminds the boy of their schedule.

“Your Highness, we will be late for class.”

“Indeed.”

The two then continue on their way. And Ten tries his best to calm Demo down. After a few moments, the three of them continue walking down the hallway as the students make their way to their classes. They then arrive at a huge door with elaborate decorations on it. On the side of the door is a sign that reads HEADMASTER BRAVERTE, Ten decides to ask for some more clarification as he heard something he wasn’t able to fully understand.

“Excuse me Pulmo, but what is PPA?

“Principle Personal Assistant.”

Ten nods as he thinks to himself that if the PA is this strong the Principle must be amazingly powerful.

“Thank you.”

Pulmo places her hand on the door and pushes it open. Ten and Demo and both a bit nervous as they are about to meet Li-On’s friend.

Chapter 25 Fin