27/11/995.
Max’s perspective
Eleven years have passed since I was born, and of those years, I have remained the Nexus Institution for as long as I have lived.
The education that occurs here has been getting harder by the bay, of everyday we study, the material of studies keeps getting hard.
One certain thought popped in my head as I wrote a test.
The instructor: Mr. Franco sat in his chair, watching us complete the test filled eighty question.
The time we were given was an hour and twenty minutes.
After the test has been declared as done, the instructor will walk vertically across the rows in the classroom.
“Class, you may now go to the Science department. Today marks a glorious time for all your lives.” The instructors said.
At this period in time, there were about 7 students left in the Nexus Institution fifth generation, all of the others have been eliminated from the curriculum.
The seven of us, five boys and two girls walked in the science department.
At first, we all thought this was going to be another day of studying but we were met with something else.
A tall table stood in the class, it contained a tall covering, a rube perhaps, That thing was used to hide whatever was inside.
“Students, form a roll.
Today, we are going to transplant special artifacts into your eyes.
People with their special abilities already awakened can stand aside.
That much is permitted.
Using my special eyes which I have learned how to use in my free time, I peeked into the covers and discovered something.
There was a set of eye balls, fourteen in total.
I slowly stepped aside, not wanting to take any part in this.
This was something I wanted to keep to myself, something I learned to use ever since I learned that I am by myself.
No matter what stands in my way, I am Max Tsukasa.
I am the son of Cane Tsukasa, the same person who built the institution called the “Nexus Institution.”
At the beginning, I cried, I sobbed because I wanted love.
I wanted what every child my age from then should have.
But, instead I got a hellish education.
My mother abandoned me when I was a child.
I know this much because that man told me, but what makes it worse is that I remember the exact day she threw me away in order to get her freedom.
Maybe, any person in that situation would have done the same thing.
Maybe the fear of losing her life was more than the love she had from me.
I am not mad, I am just curious why this had to happen to me.
“You do not want the treatment they are giving your mates?” The man asked.
“No, I already have what I need. Getting that will ruin my ability to be independent, I know, you of all people do not want that.”
“I guess you are right. I want you all to be just fine. You are my pawns after all.”
Pawns or not.
I wasn’t his, I was my own person.
From here on out, I will lead my decision forward.
After the brief interaction, the children started getting their eyes transplanted.
Uimo, a boy from the curriculum went first.
They injected the chemical in his body, then he fell down on the sleeping mattress after that they did the exact same to the other six.
They proceeded to stretch the Lacrimal gland and Meibomiam gland.
Then, they used a scientific tool to remove their ordinary eye balls.
After the process, they add a special injection which has the ability to cool the eye-led.
After everything is done, they went and grab a special eye.
Special eyes are ancient techniques which were left to us by the seven pillars of lights.
They can grant the user extraordinary abilities.
This could be used in combat, and our everyday life.
Uimo received a special eye called the spring eyes.
As of now, we do not know what it can do.
I don’t know its full potential yet.
And it is too bad, I won’t get to it.
Depending on when my plan will flourish, that will be when the time will arrive where I will have to spread my wing and fly away.
The main special eyes that they had were spring eyes and the soul eye.
Which means they couldn’t get their hands on the other three.
The textbook provided enough information for me to know that there were five special eyes.
Though, I can understand why they couldn’t.
The pure eye people are mostly dead, or immigrants.
So, getting their hands on one will be extremely difficult.
The stars and Luna eyes are yet very, very, very difficult to get, since there are thirty users globally.
They are finished within an hour and two.
But as for us, not even close.
The instructors gave them twenty minutes to rest and settle.
The next section will be martial art class.
After the twenty minute break ended, we all went and got dressed up as usual.
I was fairly sure that someone would invite me to fight.
Now that their abilities have been boosted, they are definitely thinking of themselves as superior.
“Perhaps, who will jump the opportunity of being stronger than the rest.” The words echoed in the silence.
Both Ichika and Shiro left the Nexus Institution last year.
I wished I joined them.
Do I?
“Hey, Max. Do you gonna be my fighting partner for today.”
(“I will crush you and put you to sleep.) “This was what he meant by saying that.
“I guess,” I answered him casually.
“Begin.” Said the instructor.
A spell had already been created before hand, or that is what it seemed like.
“Fire arrow shot.” He shot a medium size arrow at me with incredible speeds.
It was about sixty kilometres per hour.
I jumped in the air and adjusted my body.
I extended from my lower part to my upper part, then as the arrow came at me, I curved my body sideways, letting the arrow miss.
I manipulated the mana around me, in my mind, the weapon I wanted was a sword but that was forbidden.
And so, I decided to use my creativity.
I formed the lightning into a sword.
If I rush at him with full speed and seventy power, he will be eliminated.
His spring ability has already been discovered.
“Magic creation.” The ability to create magic circles and activate them at incredible speeds, that was why he was able to catch me of guard.
This should be enough.
I formed a sign in hand, my soul eyes were activated.
“Sixteen mana blocks path.”
I rushed at him, he couldn’t even perceive my speed because he stayed there the entire time.
And before he knew it.
All his mana pathways were blocks.
Which met, he was eliminated on the first day after gaining his new ability.
“I guess talent always wins over hard work.”
I do not believe in that saying.
I think hard work can beat talent but only if they take the time to study the basics.
This is the only way which they could.
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After the match.
I was called down stairs, “the outside world.”
It was blue, the clouds were white and the sun too.
Trees surrounded us entirely from every direction.
But there was a narrow pathway behind the institution which I could use to escape the Nexus Institution.
“So, how is it?” He asked.
“What do you mean?” I asked back.
“The outside world. How is it?”
Looking deep inside, it was everything I wanted but he doesn’t need to know that.
“….Nothing…”
“Huh!? That is a surprise.” I turned and stared back at him.
“Let go back inside,” he whispered behind me.
Well, I will see you soon.
Outside world.”