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Chapter 8 - Library & Chestnuts

"I guess, everyone's going to be one whole day late to join the library this time." Luna jokingly said as she looked around the library, while Larissa walked close to the librarian desk. The librarian is an old lady in her 60s with white hair and round glasses. She's wearing teacher dress code black trousers, white button shirt and black blazer.

"I want to borrow "First Eclipse War Of Marrone" and "History Of Human Civilization"."

The librarian raised her head to look at the student standing at her desk, "These two books were already borrowed by the other students yesterday and return time is around three weeks for these books. You can look for other books inside the library to check out, but be mindful about this and don't make any noise."

Larissa nodded her head in acknowledgement as she walked disappointedly towards the section of history books. She really wants to read about the first eclipse war, she knows that within one week the whole Island nation of Marrone ceases to exist from this world. The only solo survivor was a girl who managed to tell the horror of the war but since someone already checked out this book yesterday, she can only look for others.

"Details History Of Bessmertny Empire"

"History Of Human Survival"

"History Of Werewolf"

"History Of Saints First Act"

On the bookcase many books were placed, a lot of them something she didn't know about. But she didn't feel attracted to any of them to read till her eyes fell upon "History Of Saints First Act", a book about how all the saints first came out to protect human kind from the werewolf in the past.

Larissa grabbed the book from the bookcase and brought it to the librarian, "I want to borrow this book for 15 days."

"Sure, dear. Give me your student ID card for a moment." The librarian said with a smile as she scanned Larissa's student ID card and registered Larissa's name on the library computer database. As Larissa walked out of the library Luna caught up to her, "Luna, you didn't borrow any books?"

"Nah, I'm good and I already know a little bit of everything anyway." Luna started humming the melody and both of them went to park, unlike what Larissa thought at first but the park was mostly empty. There's only a few students walking around the park and spending time with their friends.

"Larissa, let's go over to the tree over there. It has the best view to look over the academy and garden." Luna holds Larissa's hand as she starts running towards the trees dragging Larissa with her.

Larissa sat below tree shades, leaning at its wide trunk as a breeze blew past her floating her long hair in the air. Luna is nowhere to be found around the tree but if one looks up from the Larissa position they can see Luna climbing the tree.

"Luna, is this really necessary? I mean, you can get roasted sweet chestnuts from the cafeteria. Why waste time like this? And I'm afraid you might accidentally fall from this up " Larissa raises her head to look at Luna plucking sweet chestnut different branches and some of these branches are thin as they look they will snap at any given moment. She couldn't think of a reason why Luna would take such a risk and how these branches haven't snapped under her weight yet.

"We are making sweet memories together with this sweet chestnut dear, you'll know when the time comes. Hehehe." Luna looked at Larissa's worried face below and laughed as she climbed up to different branches and began plucking one she found the best among the sweet chestnuts and placing them in a hidden pocket inside her blazer.

A few minutes later Luna climbed down from the chestnut tree with a huge smile on her face. As she shows one sweet chestnut to Larissa. "Look at this, isn't its perfect."

Larissa looked at the chestnut in Luna palm, it indeed looked better but before she could say anything she heard something.

"Look at these countryside bumpkins." Three girls walked past them as one of them looked in their direction and softly said to her other two friends but she didn't lower her voice enough cause she wanted to let them hear the insult too.

"You..." Luna walks forward to get into a verbal argument but Larissa holds her hand, stopping her from getting into a fight.

"Luna, its not worth it. Let's go somewhere else."

"No, we can't let them just get away with it like this."

"What if that's what they really want in first place trying instigate into get into fight with them, then later on they will turn whole situation and scenario to their liking. They would create a scene and its been just second day of our High school, let it go for now." Larissa looked at the face of three girls, she knows they're their classmates. All three of them had one striking features pale white skin and blue eyes. From the way they walk is filled with grace and etiquette but they seem to be full of themselves, rich bitchy girls with big ego and fake personality. That's all she could think of as they watch them walking inside deeper part of the park.

"Luna, forget about them. Let's go back to our dormitory room, we already been out for more than half an hour." Larissa looks at Luna with a worried face as Luna seems deeply offended by their remarks about them but Larissa fails to hear things that Luna heard they said about them as the trio walks ahead.

"Okay, I'm letting them go this time because of you Larissa or else I would have printed their face into the tree trunk." Luna said this with a smile on her face like a sunflower but Larissa didn't feel warm but a little bit chill as even though Luna showed a normal face she can tell she's still angry at them and didn't truly let go of this matter.

After they left the park all the way to their dormitory room Larissa tried to make small talk with Luna but she didn't say much cutting short the conversation as they walked. 'It seem what they said really hurted her feelings, but they just looked down on being country bumpkin. it wasn't anything bad or cursed word they used for us?'

Larissa coundn't understand why luna got so much angry over this, few minutes later both them get to their dorm room, Larissa opened the door and went straight to her bedand laid down on her bed. Luna couldn't help herself but ask Larissa "Larissa, you are not going to change your clothes I don't think its a good idea to keep wearing your same clothes from the combat class that are covered with sweat it's going to smell awful after a few hours just change your clothes and take a shower."

Larissa didn't even move her head to look at Luna "I don't think I will Luna. My body didn't even have the strength to slightly move my finger Luna, I really don't know how come you are not tired, it feels like my muscles are screaming that I'm going to die. I just want to sleep now for some time. I'll take shower when i wake up, so don't worry about it."

Luna laughed out loud as she heard Larissa and just shook her head as she understood she's tried as hell that's why she didn't take her words to heart and knew she was just joking and let Larissa sleep. Luna went to the bathroom to take a shower. After getting fresh she changed her clothes and looked at the sleeping Larissa, and she mumbled to herself "You won't be able to understand even if i tried to tell you reason why i didn't like what thing they said that you wasn't able hear."

Few minutes later Luna came out the shower room, she look at peacefullly sleeping Larissa on the bed and decide to late her sleep and went outside their room. For some reason entire lobby seems is dead silent, no one is walking in the lobby beside her, she can hear her own heartbeat. She was sure nobody would be coming out of their room after evening, she started humming a beautiful sweet melody as she made her way through the dining hall in their dormitory. Except for a few senior students, the dining room was quite empty. Luna went to the coffee machine and began to make coffee for herself, the aroma of strong coffee hit the nostril of her.

"You got quite a heavy taste for a coffee, I don't think even I could handle such a strong one." Luna turned around to see a girl she saw in the combat hall today and also one of the few standing still till the end without getting exhausted, she's wearing white and golden colour crop top with chinese dragon and moutain print and black shorts with golden strips on sides, her well portion physique as if she trained her whole life. She has slender arms and slim body; her soft tanned beautiful skin makes her look like a weak girl but if they look closely they can see fine muscles slithering across her body like snakes, on her belly her six abs are visible but that doesn't make her look ugly instead makes her look way hotter than any girls she saw here as if her body is made by the best sculpture artist in the world.

As Luna held her coffee cup, the girl began to make coffee for herself, "Yup, I prefer the strong one, it tastes good to me."

"Hehe, I wouldn't be able to handle that. I prefer strong too but not like yours by the way I'm Lin Suet Mei."

"I'm Luna Proklyataya, you are stronger than you look and the way you demonstrated your spearman ship was flawless and impressive."

"It's not a spear, it's guandao. It has blades for slashing and chopping. While the spear is for thrusting, I mean both have long polearms that's why it looks that way to most people as usually most train with spear not guandao." Suet Mei sweetly explained the difference between gaundao and spear as she just got used to it as most people don't see gaundao a lot so they just take it as a type of spear though it does sound . 

"You got quite a cool weapon, I have to say. I never tried any weapon before but I think a double headed axe going quite suits me well." Luna said as they began talking to each other.

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