89: I´m sorry

I´m sorry

An unknown amount of time had passed until Jason finally got his emotions under his control.

When he loosened his firm grip on his teacher's clothes, Jason could see tears in his teacher's eyes which surprised him slightly.

His teacher whispered an apology which Jason barely heard as he was still reeling from the after-effects of the pain. He wasn't aware that his teacher was almost crying in front of him.

Till hadn't known that such an accident would happen and the worst thing was that he wanted to be generous to Jason as a promising student.

As such, Till placed many grade-4 mana stones into the magic circle without considering the dangers that might occur.

He himself had once eaten a devilish valkyrie-shield fruit to finish a certain exercise, but he had endured the pain only for 12 hours...He had been multiple ranks higher than Jason and it wasn't even remotely comparable.

Still, he had never wanted to feel like that ever again, but now he had foolishly given such a fruit to his student, who endured such pain for 5 times the length he himself had gone through.

Till had been the reason behind Jason's suffering for the last few hours as he was the one who had given him the fruit which was the main cause for the painstakingly long time his dear student was tortured.

Thinking about the pain Jason had to endure, Till embraced Jason again and he profusely apologized. "I'm sorry….I'm so sorry…" 

Jason was still overwhelmed by his emotions and it took some time before he could find his voice again.

"It's okay" Jason said faintly, and he roughly knew why his teacher was apologizing. He noticed the grade-4 mana stones and was thankful for them.

Now, however, Jason hated them more than anything else…

Nevertheless, Jason had accepted his teacher's offer and the devilish valkyrie fruit, despite being warned of the dangers many times.

Even if the last few days would be imprinted deep into his mind for the rest of his life, Jason had finished constructing his first sub-area already while just being at the novice rank.

Even so, right now, it was not that comforting for him when Jason finally noticed a 10-centimeter long scorpion trying to climb up his clothes, struggling to reach Jason's head.

His teacher let go of Jason and looked at him, inspecting if his eyes were dulled or if he had gone crazy due to the unbearable pain he had endured after finally regaining control over his emotions.

Till helped Jason stand on his feet, as he was swaying a little while holding Scorpio in one hand.

Jason was drained both mentally and physically, the sweat making his clothes sticky as his hair was plastered to his temples. Despite the utter exhaustion, he didn't fail to notice Scorpio´s lush green exoskeleton and wondered why it looked like that.

Activating his eyes for a short moment, Jason noticed that Scorpio´s mana core was now radiating a denser black color as Till noticed him taking a look at his soulbond.

"I have to say that your personality is really weird. You're impatient and irritating. Wasn't it a little bit too dangerous to feed your maturing soulbond a mana core cleansing fruit, even if it was the weakest possible one?" He questioned Jason while holding up his grade-2 perennial neoxid box that was empty.

"Your soulbond somehow opened the box and ate everything while I was worried sick about you and it began to undergo a molting...Now it's completely green and I can sense that it is slightly stronger than before."

Jason scratched his head in embarrassment, but his brain had been wrung dry, and coming up with a lie was clearly not worth the effort right now. Thus, he told Till of his purity theory and research.

He also told his teacher how exactly he did what he did and how careful he was.

"It could have been extremely dangerous for your soulbond and your soul...but nevermind. It worked, but I'm curious if you already knew it would work and someone told you that the theory was already proven, which could be considered a secret of the big clans, or if you just experimented with your own soul and your soulbond´s life, you fool!" 

Till lectured Jason for a short moment before he realised that he had let it slip to his student, that the theory was already proven and a top-secret at that. 

Not many people on the Archipelago knew about the purity theory and its worth, while many more people were aware of it on Canir. 

But it was still cheaper than purchasing a beast with potential than buying expensive core cleansing fruits. 

This was when Beast-creators came into the picture which interested Jason, but Till wouldn't answer him right now. 

Till was still embarrassed because he had cried in front of his student and the entire situation they were in was getting a little awkward.

Before Jason could say anything, Till asked him to go home, sleep and regain his mental energy, and return once he was ready.

Almost 40 minutes later, Jason reached home, where he was greeted with warm hugs before he was pushed away gently as his clothes were full of impurities and reeked a lot.

They had wanted to know what had happened but after seeing Jason walk around like a living zombie, they let him go to his room, where he subconsciously took off his clothes before he fell into the bed.

Jason had not slept for the last 10 days if one included the time he had needed to learn everything about the Splitting mind´s first level.

Right now was the first time he smelled his bed once again and it felt like he was sucked into the darkness that devoured him as Jason closed his eyes.

While sleeping, the pain he had felt during the last three days resurfaced and Jason couldn't wake up from the hellish nightmare he lived through, even if he knew that he was sleeping. 

There was nothing Jason could do as he was subjected to the eerie sensation of his limbs being torn out, his eyes dug out, getting skinned alive and the only thing he was able to do was to cry helplessly. 

Jason was crying in pain and rolled the sheets into his fists as he writhed in the all too familiar agony when a golden light suddenly appeared out of nowhere. His body had been coiled like a spring, but the light seemed to loosen his tension.

His body shook violently and Jason was forcefully woken up from the nightmare while his back was drenched in cold sweat.

Suddenly, he felt the unimaginably vast amount of mana stored inside his eyes declining at a rapid pace. Jason sensed that the memories of the pain and torture he had gone through over the last days were becoming more distant and untouchable for him.

It was as if his memories of the pain he had endured over the last few days were stored away and locked in some far corner. Jason felt too tired to comprehend what happened as he gave in to the exhaustion and fell into a dreamless sleep.

*

He wasn't sure how much time had passed but the sun was well above his head when he woke up. Jason felt somewhat weird, and completely different from the time before he had constructed his sub-area.

He could still feel the pain and recalled how he had wanted to die rather than enduring the pain for 60 hours.

But somehow, Jason didn't feel scared anymore.

The pain had strengthened him, rather than turning him weaker and Jason remembered that his eyes had somehow woken him up from the nightmare before.

Sensing the mana inside his eyes, he noticed that the vast liquefied mana was completely used up.

He wasn't sure how this could happen, but he had a gut feeling that it had something to do with him not being scared of the pain and torture he had endured, anymore.

Meanwhile, Scorpio was lying next to him, transmitting his hunger to him…

Looking at the holographic screen of his quantum watch, he was astonished to see that it was already Friday which meant that he had slept for more than 24 hours.

It was 10 am and got ready for school, and he didn't mind reaching school a bit late as he patiently fed Scorpio some amber fireflies.

He was the only one at home, right now and Jason wasn't sure why, but he didn't want to be alone, which was the reason he was going to school.

It was around 10:40 when his shuttle set off.

During his drive to the school, he practiced the Heaven's Hell technique and he noticed that his Soul energy had already reached 9 units.

Considering that Scorpio was now a three-star wild beast, he only had one soul energy left. It was not enough for either Artemis or Scorpio to increase their ranks to that of the four-star wild beasts without Jason losing complete control over them.

Jason was still astonished to see that his soul energy had reached 9 units while his mana core had already reached the 8th Novice rank which shocked him.

His physique and mana core size was still at the 8th Novice rank even after getting a 33% share from Artemis and Scorpio, but they were very close to the 9th rank as Jason smiled lightly thinking about his two soulbonds.

Jason was holding Scorpio all the time because he wanted to hold onto someone at the moment before entering the school gates as he felt suddenly reluctant to enter the school grounds.

After a few minutes, Jason stood in front of the arena, where he saw his classmates from far away.

`They are practicing martial art techniques?` Jason wondered and he entered the arena while placing Scorpio on his shoulder in order to free his hands.

As he walked into the designated arena for his class, someone noticed him walking in.

"OH!! It's Jason!!" The first one said and all of his classmates turned around at once.1

Some students immediately started to gossip while looking at him while other students were unbothered by his appearance.

But a few of his classmates stopped their practice, and rushed to him, ignoring their instructors' orders. 

Apparently, their teacher was also absent and doing something else, causing Instructor Brian to walk inside their classroom on Monday morning.

Nobody knew why Brian was required to fill in for their teacher and even he didn't provide any reason. He simply began to teach and they began to learn a Tier-1 martial art technique that could be used by almost all kinds of weapons.

This caused the technique to lose some of its potential, turning it into one of the weaker Tier-1 techniques.

Nevertheless, the technique was still better than most tierless techniques and the students were quite happy to learn the same. It was difficult to receive permission to teach such techniques from the school's authority.

Brian knew that one of his students had been absent for the whole week which caused the ambitious instructor to feel slightly angry.

He wasn't even updated on the reason for the second last student's absence and Instructor Brian subconsciously labeled him as a lazy student.

It was already Friday, and only now this lazy student had decided to show up, distracting his diligent classmates which caused Brian to become a little furious.

"STUDENTS! GATHER TOGETHER"

(Author note: Cliché? :O)

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