"This...is pretty hard to endure.."
Gravel stared at the hard wall in front of him.
Cough! Cough!
A mouthful of blood was coughed up in the deathly silent room, he leaned on the wall, breath turning ragged and labored every dragging second that felt like a needle piercing his skull.
Detention, that was the place he was in currently, and this place was special in many ways, one was that it prevents death, no one could willingly take their own life in detention. It was essentially a law, a law that prevented one's escape of punishment.
Gravel did not know much about detention and how it prevented death or what exact consequences they entail, but now he knew firsthand how painful it was.
"I can't believe it...I thought I would just get a slap on the wrist, but instead I got slapped in the face with a salmon, followed up by a truck"
It was a reasonable assumption, after all how could someone make detention really deadly?
But he was wrong, completely wrong at that.
"Ha Ha"
Blood trickled from his mouth.
He thought back to the reason he was here.
"Accursed filthy monster"
Gravel had been tricked by a monster, a colorless one at that, the ones who only have mental-altering kind of abilities that do not physically affect the world, allowing for unrestrained and maximum use of ability with no repercussions tied, though the punishment they get in detention gets tricky.
Other times they would turn mad, or experience enhanced nightmares that are realistic to the dot.
"It did everything to make me not notice...Cough!"
A mouthful of blood forced its way out of Gravel's mouth.
It wasn't like Gravel knew much of Gardenia, however he did know that the colorless monsters were the weakest as said by the teachers he asked.
Who were extremely happy to help, calling him some sort of 'genius' and doing all sorts of things to kiss his ass.
"That guy sensed my attacks, it must be that sensory or whatever it is"
The monster that had tricked Gravel was likely sensory oriented, while it could change depending on circumstances, a price would always be taken from the colorless when they try to affect the physical world, and the price could be haggled by using an item or a famous bloodline equipment by going to the 'Mercator', for some reason however, the swirling colorless mass did not have any item.
"I guess the colorless do have red blood then?"
Gravel didn't really find any other colorless monster except for the one he found since they were quite rare, of course just because they were didn't mean they were strong.
They are capable of dodging attacks that shouldn't have been dodgeable unless they had eyes on the back of their head, but other than that, they weren't capable of holding any firepower on their own, with the exception of one singular monster that is.
"That thing was genuinely terrifying in every damn aspect"
To the point that it forced a strategic emergency retreat.
'But that guy right now.. what did it just do?'
Gravel turned his attention to the wall where the loud banging sounds were heard not long ago.
It had been 5 days since him and the colmo (Gravel coined it by combining 'colorless' + 'monster') were sent to detention.
"It obviously got punished as well, but what was that bastard's punishment that made it act like this?"
The monster in the room next to Gravel repeatedly banged on the wall, till it abruptly stopped.
"No, was it really the wall?"
The banging sounds that were heard were close to the window.
"Did it try to break the window?"
Gravel hadn't thought of that, after all, why would you want to break the window? what would you do after breaking the window? there was only an endless void below so what would compel one to break the window?
'It stopped banging on the window... does that mean it gave up on trying to break the glass?'
He didn't know what had conspired on the other side and he didn't feel the need to find out, even if he wanted to find out he wouldn't be able to since there was no way for him to know anyway, there weren't really any CCTV cameras to take advantage of here and use.
"Haaah why do they make me wait for that long just because I was killing a monster? Wasn't I basically doing them a favor by getting rid of those pests?"
Gravel had a strong ability, and that ability was the power of short-range teleportation, he could do long range but it was quite difficult to pull off even for him.
He was also strong, so physically strong that he was basically a superhuman, this was also due to the effects of his abilities.
It took a long time for him to get accustomed to his abilities but it wasn't much of a problem once he learned his limits and how to accurately use his ability to teleport with pinpoint accuracy.
Cough!
Gravel coughed up even more blood than before and fell down to his knees.
"Hah...hooo"
He exhaled and then took deep breaths.
"Kugh!"
His lungs burned with a profound intensity.
This burning sensation Gravel felt extended to every fiber in his body, it was a unique sensation, well it wasn't like many people get burned on a daily basis.
"How..Cough! Annoying...."
It felt painful but as long Gravel didn't move much he wouldn't feel the searing pain that seeped itself into every crevice of his body.
"Out of..every punishment I could've gotten...Ha...I got the worst..one possible for me"
All of his strength was drained and he was barely staying conscious, the burning sensation he felt now was nothing compared when he first got here.
At first he was able to sleep soundly with no problem, but the pain quickly intensified and made sleeping unbearable.
The pain was stacking and Gravel could no longer stay awake and bear with this searing pain he felt in every pore of his body, he knew he wouldn't die, but being left on the edge of death still felt unbearable.
Tok
He laid softly on the ground, laying his body gently down and closing his tired eyes, trying his best in the meantime to bear with the pain shooting needles at him, however his efforts ended in vain.
With pain becoming even more sharper than before, it also dug deeper into Gravel's mind, making sure he doesn't forget the pain he feels now.