Chapter 462 - Tamers War - Broken Threads
Klein looked up from his books, and immediately his expression hardened with the accumulated resentment.
"What are you doing here?" he asked, his voice letting out months of repressed frustration.
"I’ve come to take you to the new home where you will belong," Kassian responded, slowly advancing toward the room’s center.
The small number of teachers and guards tensed... being silver or lower, since all school gold ranks participated in the war, no one dared move. There was something in the two visitors’ presence that promised instant violence to anyone who interfered.
"I don’t want to go with you," Klein declared, remaining seated but with his jaw clenched. "I’m sick of your lies and how you hog all of father’s attention."
He didn’t say it all directly, but also the resentment for years of being deceived and manipulated hadn’t been forgiven and was evident in every word... The accumulated grievances of someone who had been lied to, exploited, and systematically undermined by the person who should have protected him.
The auxiliary teacher, seeing tension escalating and instinctively recognizing Klein was in danger, stepped forward.
"Excuse me," he said with all the authority he could muster, "but students are under academic protection during this crisis. You can’t simply..."
He didn’t finish the sentence.
Ravenspire moved with speed that defied perception, and the young teacher simply stopped breathing. His neck so brutally destroyed that the echo of his pain was felt throughout the entire refuge.
The silence that followed was absolute.
"Does anyone else have ’academic’ objections?" Ravenspire asked with courtesy that made his violence even more terrifying.