"Ugh..."
Gravel woke up, got up and-
"Agh!"
He felt a piercing pain shoot up and surge wildly within him, it was intense, It felt like hot coal was poured on him.
Struggling to get up, he grasped the desk next to him and balanced himself before sitting on the chair.
"I-I need a slight break"
Gravel did not know how many days had passed since he fell asleep, his eyes remained unfocused, threatening to fall unconscious once again.
The monster on the other side was still quiet, eerily quiet so.
"Hua...just what the hell is it doing?"
He thought at first that it might have already gotten out but he quickly dismissed the idea since there was no way to confirm if that was true or not.
Gravel looked at the hard wall for a few moments, then he turned his attention towards the lectern.
"..."
On that lectern was a piece of paper, it kept track of how long someone stayed in detention.
The paper was deeply embedded into the lectern, making it hard to see it unless you specifically go up to it.
'However, those who break the 3rd rule can not check the time, after all it is a more severe punishment'
Gravel remembered the words that Carlos had spoken to him.
'Hm? the 4th rule? if someone breaks the 4th rule, the least of their worries should be detention'
Carlos had given him a lot of useful information, so much so it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say Gravel's brain overloaded with the sheer information drilled into him.
"Hooo"
Taking a deep breath, Gravel started counting from 3.
'Three'
His fingers drummed on the desk, he still felt the pain but it was a habit of his to do this.
'Two'
Gripping the edges of the desk he got ready to sprint to the lectern to minimize the pain he was about to feel.
'One'
He raised his buttocks slightly from the seat, a burning sensation enveloped his entire being immediately, he clenched his jaw tightly, so tightly he started grinding his own teeth together.
'Go!'
He shot up from his seat and bolted to the lectern, he couldn't teleport due to abilities being restricted in this space, but sprinting before the pain got to him was possible.
"Nnn!"
Gravel's eyes widened in pain, he screeched, barely holding his scream in.
Gripping the desk closest to him, he started to slow down and make his way to the lectern.
Step
He took a step forward, his entire body screamed and convulsed erratically at the pain he felt.
Drip
'Blood..?'
From his mouth a drop of blood fell to the floor, it didn't seem significant at first but-
"Urgh!"
Gravel clenched his stomach, it rumbled and churned as if something was eating it from inside, vomit welled up in his mouth.
"Ug!"
Gravel leaned forward and started vomiting everything that was inside of him.
But it wasn't vomit that came out.
"O-Oh that's not goo-Cough!"
He violently coughed up blood...again, the blood was added to the giant puddle of blood that was vomited out.
Gravel felt dizzy, his vision swirled, his breathing turned heavy, but that was only for a few moments.
"Hup!"
Knowing he wouldn't die in detention, Gravel stood up and-
Step!
Took a step forward toward the lectern.
There wasn't any reason for him to be doing this, but Gravel knew that not knowing how much time remained would keep on gnawing at him and eventually turn him crazy.
It was better to check now than later when the pain would only be more unbearable than before.
Step!
He was only a few steps from reaching the lectern, his shoes were soaked in his blood.
Cough!
He begun to cough up small drops of blood again, Gravel almost fell face down to the wooden floor due to the sudden cough.
His head spun and his lungs grew heavier and heavier with each passing second that passed.
Gravel couldn't drag this anymore, he had to reach the lectern In the next step, however he was currently disoriented, weak and already drained of strength.
'Just how long did I fall asleep for, the pain is getting more and more unbearable by the second'
Taking a deep breath that made his lungs burn with even more intensity.
"Huap-!"
Gravel took a leap of faith, In a instant his legs had already crossed the lectern, he didn't miss the opportunity and grabbed the lectern firmly with his hands.
Coughing up blood again like he was donating it, Gravel steadied his breathing as much as he could and his bloodshot eyes locked at the blood soaked paper that was caused by him.
Almost the entire paper was stained with blood, but the most important contents of the deeply embedded paper still remained untouched and readable.
[Time Remaining]
Gravel's eyes then widened in astonishment.
[00:03]
Three seconds were all that remained.
[00:02]
"I fell into a coma for"
[00:01]
"An entire month?"
Even he couldn't believe it, falling unconscious he could understand happening to him, but falling into a coma for a entire month?
Apparently, there should of been a teacher who should have forcibly woken him up or done something else, in order to avoid something like skipping the entire sentence by falling into a coma.
"There's no way they were lazy and forgot? Right?"
Obviously Gravel's punishment was still permanent. It would always be engraved into him like a curse, which was bad for him, since it significantly weakens him and his power.
But Gravel already knew that this curse was going to function slightly differently from how it worked in detention.
He didn't know how, as anyone who gets sent to detention gets a punishment fitting for their ability.
[00:00]
'I guess I'll find out'
Gravel then disappeared, as if he had never even been in the classroom in the first place.
The room turned quiet, the quiet bloody and wrecked classroom created by rage was left all alone, only silence seeped into the floorboards.
Tick
The only thing that accompanied the lonely classroom, was a soft rhythmic ticking coming from a clock.
The clock ticked and toked closer and closer to the inevitable day, biting the crumbs of time that remained.