Chapter 378: [Bonus - ] The Metallum Blade
*Do re-read The Metallum Blade Part 1(Chapter 155), to refresh.
Part 2: Expectations to My Rupture
"You have a gift son. How are the Ordinate or the Krialin going to ever accept you with marks like these?" Mr Parnell slapped his son’s report card on the table.
"Your sister’s already ending her internship at the Ordinate. You’re seventeen going on eighteen Okod, it’s time to put some effort into these things," his mother told.
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"D’you hear? Melanie apparently got accepted into Reneka’s University for girls—up in Galuvit Town. Shame; she was really cute," Zach told offhandedly into the wind as it brushed past his hair.
The dirty-blonde had grown much taller—a bit of awkward facial hair over his face, alongside fading scars of acne. His toned arms of lean muscle shifted back and forth, throwing and catching a paper aeroplane over and over.
There was no paper of course, instead it was formed of sea-like bluish wind, which also propelled it in little gusts.
Beside him, having grown a little taller since the previous year or the year before that, was a young man with clear skin and sharp blue eyes—his medium black hair ruffled and jawline more pronounced.
Okod silently sat, staring across the rooftops—both of them sitting on a rooftop as well.
"Can’t say I have a plan either," Zach continued. "I mean, I got archery practice and contests going for me. Maybe I have something there."
In Okod’s hand was a large paperclip he fidgeted with—around his fingers it went and back into his palm he held. "Galvanize," he muttered under his breath.