Joss answered in a serious tone, "Yes, chief. I will report to you again if we found anything important."
And the phone disconnected.
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(The day of entrance exam)
All the entrees who were there for the entrance exam were writing at a fast pace while sitting in their allotted seats. After the written exam, there will be an hour's gape after which the physical test or the second-round test will be held. Sandhya was allotted a special room where she was the only one seated there. She was being monitored by people from another room. Since she was the only one giving an all written exam, she had to go through more security checks than the other entrees. Lanlan was giving the entrance exam along with the other students.
Sandhya was giving the exam earlier than the rest so that when the second phase will begin she will be able to watch it. She went to the area where the physical exam was being held. She watched everyone's fight beside Ser
Sandhya's face darkened. She hasn't wished to say anything but looks like she won't be able to anymore. Will it be a problem if she talked with her a bit more? Sis, won't have any problem, right?"Underhanded method you say?"She walked to her with heavy steps. The girl who had thought that Sandhya would flee from there like other people felt a sudden tremor in her heart. She was surprised not because Sandhya answered her back but because of the sudden chill, she felt. She can feel that the person in front of her is nothing special. She can't feel much mana from her then how come she is feeling such uneasiness?"At first I didn't intend to answer back but after hearing what you have to say about Lanlan's winning I can't help but mention it. You say my sister is weakling because she is not wealthy? Hah, don't make me laugh. Then how come your brother lost this match? You know why your little brother didn't win?"Gemma narrowed her eyes hearing this. Sandhy
It was already past evening when Sandhya and lanlan reached home. Lola was anxiously waiting for them in the cafeteria. When Sandhya entered, she saw that uncle Han was preparing dinner whereas Lola was pacing around a certain chair. Serena was also there waiting for them while having a cup of tea.Lola almost ran to them when she saw those two."Finally, you two are here. What took you so long? Even Sere is here. So, how was the test?"Sandhya and Lanlan glanced at each other. Sandhya's face turned a bit gloomy which made Lola even more anxious."Come on just say it.""Well… I can't say about the first phase but… lanlan won the second phase with a huge victory!"Lola sighed with relief. "Ha… so she won."Then a sudden realization hit her."Wait… did you just say… that lanlan won?"Sandhya grinned and nodded her head."Ahh..."She squealed and jumped on both of them to dra
She changed some codes so that the physical AI can sustain its form for a long time and can also behave like a real person. It can work at a certain distance. She programmed the AI to be able to detect and analyze a person's emotional state and also the environment it is to take the necessary steps. She also programmed it to show general emotions.After some more testing, she was satisfied with the result. She has also given the AI some permissions like she can appear on her own if it detects some abnormality in the host's behavior.She loaded the software in her wristwatch she had worn when they had brought her here. She had requested Serena to give it back to her. Since there's nothing in it she returned it to her. She connected her watch to her roller skates which she was practicing for some days.She must agree that the naming of this planet justifies it 'Twin Earth'. Although, people like to call it just Earth. Everything about this planet is similar to it.
"Host, are you alright? I managed to stop it at the last moment." Yui noticed the number of people surrounding them, in case she would create trouble for sandhya she vanished.Sandhya stayed still on the floor for some moments to stop her shaking body. After feeling a little stable, she noticed the presence of the person who was squishing beneath her. She hastily rose only to notice a pair of hazel eyes staring back at her. She stood up while stumbling a few steps back. She bowed and apologized to him.'It's a tad embarrassing.' Though Sandhya in her head.She gave him her hand to stood up."A-are you alright? Let me help."Before the boy could answer, someone pulled Sandhya's ear."So, you are finally here?"Sandhya turned her head around and saw Serena standing behind her. There was no visible expression on her face but she could tell that she is pissed. Without waiting for her answer, serena pulled her out of there."Come wi
Sandhya understands that because of her mistakes Serena has to endure the problems. She came forward and apologized, “I am sorry. I had no intention of causing any trouble. My skate malfunctioned so…” “Hm? Do you mean to say your skates which ‘you’ were wearing malfunctioned? Normal skates like these can also malfunction on their own? This must be the best joke of this day.” ‘Because they are not normal.’ Sandhya wanted to say. Serena clapped to gain everyone’s attention. “Now that this mess has escalated this further, I can’t simply ignore it. This is your first day at school but I have to punish you for your behavior and I have decided what punishment to give you.” All of them looked at Serena. They know when it comes to punishing someone how harsh Serena could be. This was Sandhya’s first day in school but here she is being punished. They don’t know if they should pity the girl. “For your punishment, I have decided to let thes
“I can see it.” She glanced at Sandhya and said to Selly, “What do you want to confirm?” “President we found that the brooch worn by Miss Sandhya has a green star in it. Does it confirm that she is a candidate for the 12th seat?” Serena narrowed her eyes and answered, “I see what you want to ask. Yes, she is. I can’t tell the reason as it’s classified information.” Her eyes fell on the girl named Ellaine and she continued, “I assure you that there’s no unfairness or being biased. If you have confidence in yourself then this little matter shouldn’t affect anyone.” She stopped and tried to gauge every student's reaction through the screen. “Teacher Selly after school come and meet me in my office.” “Yes, president.” And the call ended. The whole class submerged into silence. Even though they found it unbelievable, they have no right to object to something decided by the headmistress of the academy
The next class started so both of them stopped talking. When lunch break arrived most of the students headed towards the cafeteria to have their lunch. Ren’s deskmate wasn’t there so Ren was sitting alone. “Are you also going to the cafeteria?” Ren asked. “I am not hungry so I will stay here. What about you?” “I likes to have my lunch in classroom. Normally it’s just me but now that you’re here it won’t be lonely.” “Why? Aren’t we enough?” Sandhya turned in the direction of the voice and noticed two girls approaching them. Ren stressed, “Luisa, Felicita.” “Well, well, well… look what we have here. Our Miss reporter trying to form a bond with the transferred student.” commented the girl named Felicita. “Ops, not transfer student. How disrespectful, call her ‘Miss participant’ or maybe ‘Miss holy sister of the headmistress’? Right, Miss reporter?” Luisa taunted. “What a surpise! Who knew that a trashy reporter lik
“You are late.”“Yeah, did I make you wait for long?”Lanlan shook her head.“Nope. I also got here a few moments ago.”Sandhya noticed that lanlan was less energetic than usual.“What happened? You look drained.”Lanlan sighed, “Yeah, so much for coming first in the entrance exam. Everyone’s eyes were kind of glued on to me. They were waiting like vultures for me to make a mistake so that they could tear me up. But thanks to Lola’s tuition it saved me a lot.”After a momentary silence, she asked, “What about you? You also look worn out.”Sandhya looked at the sky, there was some time before evening.“Nothing much. It seems like we faced the same storm but our places were different?”Lanlan laughed, “I see.”As they were walking towards Sandhya noticed Serena near the entrance gate talking
The impact was great. Sandhya’s eyes blurred and her head was dizzy. She slumped on the ground while holding onto the net. “Are you alright?”She shook her head and tried to get up. “Why didn’t you use your mana layer? I’m amazed you are still standing.” Demi said.A while later her dizziness subsided and her eyes cleared. She saw Demi resting near the post. “How much time did I take?”“10 minutes. Much faster than a normal person.”He gave her water to drink and replenish her energy. “There are 20 minutes left. Do you want to continue or want to get some rest?”“I will continue.”“Then you better use mana layer or else you won’t last.”Demi prepared himself to kick the ball. He gave a quick look to confirm Sandhya is alright and gathered all his energy on his foot. With a swing, his foot touched the ball sending it towards her. Sandhya took a deep calm breath and replayed all the moments where she had practiced with her magic. Regaining her strength and confidence she poured all
Sandhya nodded and watched the whole fight. The time they had for the fight ended and the result was a draw. Both of them were equally matched and both of them had sustained some damage. The fight ended and the crowd dispersed. Jazz and Sandhya went to them. Jazz handed both of them a healing crystal to treat the wounds.“That was a nice fight. Both of you must have enjoyed it.”“You were late though.” Said Wynn. Her eyes landed on her tag and her weapon.“You are a patrol member?” “Yep, just joined today. Sorry, I didn’t make it on time. But I enjoyed watching you two nonetheless.”Sandhya and Jazz went towards the playing grounds. On the way, they met some troublemakers but Jazz was able to pacify them. Sandhya watched and noticed how he was doing it so that she could apply those techniques. They were walking beside a football ground when a ball hit Sandhya with tremendous speed. Sandhya put up her mana layer but the timing was slow. She was pushed back quite some meter away. Wh
She said this loudly so that each and everyone present in the classroom could hear her. The student's jaws dropped after hearing this. They indeed had noticed it and they also knew the real incident but who could tell these mind-sick girls that are way head over heels about Kane.Some boys couldn’t stop their laughs so muffled sounds of laughter echoed in the room. Those girls glared at Sandhya and those boys who dared to laugh.‘Did she just call them crazy?’ Thought those girls in their mind.Those boys also stopped laughing instantly knowing that if they didn’t then it might become their last laugh.Sandhya waited for Kane to speak.‘Say something. At least say a word so that I can clean this mess up.’ Sandhya yelled at Kane in her mind. But when she didn’t even see a shift in Kane’s face, she decided to initiate it herself.“Is there anything between us, Kane?”She asked and slammed the desk to get his attention. Kane finally looked at her. He stared at her deep brown eyes who wer
Lola rolled her eyes. No doubt about it she is turning like her sly best friend. They are sisters after all. …. The next day Sandhya and lanlan were walking to the academy when Sandhya asked, “What happened about the duel between you and that girl named Wynn?” “We’ll duel in today's break at the practice ground before our lessons.” Said Lanlan. When they reached the entrance gate, they saw Wynn and her two friends standing there waiting for someone or maybe for them? “You are here.” She said looking at them. “I thought you may not come so I was waiting here to confirm but looks like you didn’t back off on your words.” Lanlan only returned it with a smile. “All the best to both of you.” Said Sandhya to both of them. “I was also waiting for you. I wanted to invite you to see the match.” Said Wynn. “Sure, I will be present there.” Wynn nodded and said to lanlan, “Let’s go.” Lanlan sighed and they went to their classrooms. “You came.” Sandhya turned her head and saw Aina st
Ren had a weird expression on her face when Sandhya showed her the medicine she was holding, “The wound looked deep so went to bring medicine. While returning I came across this stall who was selling these so I bought them.” Ren looked at Sandhya’s calm face as if it’s her daily job buying medicine and sweet potatoes. She internally facepalmed herself. “Well, come in.” Sandhya nodded and entered the house. The house was nicely furnished with just the daily necessities. The front door opens directly to the living area. She put the baked potatoes on the table and her bag on a chair while Ren went into the kitchen to wash her wound. Some time passed and Sandhya entered the kitchen. Ren was standing in front of the faucet with her eyes closed while trying to put her hand underwater. She looked like a reluctant kid who doesn’t want to take her injection. ‘It will take forever.’ She sighed and took a small cloth to clean the wound. Since Ren was busy deciding she didn’t notice Sandhy
Ren puffed her cheeks up while Sandhya shrugged her shoulders.“Shall we go now?”“Yeah…”When they got out of the academy building Ren asked, “Wouldn’t you like to visit the headmistress?”“Hm? Why?”“To tell her about this incident. Felicita and Luisa might try to smear your name. If you tell the headmistress everything beforehand then you may not get punished.”“I don’t think so.” Sandhya replied.“Why?”“First of all, even though they had initiated the fight and I was trying to defend, the classroom got damaged in which I was a part. So, technically I should be punished for this as well or students will take the rules lightly.Second, the incident happened during lunch break and no one was seriously injured so higher-ups may not put much stress on it. They may get it closed saying that this was just a small fe
She walked towards her desk. There was still some distance between her and the desk when she sensed danger and instinctively leaped two steps back.Several wooden swords hit the place where Sandhya was a moment ago. “What the…” She looked at the front to see what was going on. Two thick branches came into her view moving towards her with tremendous speed. She ducked. A deep frown etched on her face.‘Swoosh.’Another thick branch hit her from one side. Sandhya knocked on to a desk and toppled. She activated her mana layer and blocked it but it was late. Her hands started to bleed due to the cuts made by the branches.‘Fwish…’Another wave of wooden arrows swarmed on her from various directions. She rolled away. The swords pierced into the hardwood desk. Thankfully no one was sitting in that area.Sandhya heard crackling sounds beneath her. Getting up she stepped far aw
Miss Selly entered to take class. She glanced towards Kane’s desk to see if Sandhya is still sitting there. Her eyes widened for a second and turned into a subtle smile. “So, where were we last time? ...” During the lunch break, more students were present in the classroom than the day before. Sandhya guessed they must be waiting to see if Luisa and Felicita will do something for yesterday’s humiliation. Instead, something else happened which startled them. A girl wearing senior’s uniform entered the classroom seemingly searching for someone. When her eyes landed on Sandhya her eyes lit up and she pointed at her. “You, the girl sitting beside 11th star come with me.” This time it was Sandhya who was dumbstruck. She pointed at herself and asked, “Me?” “Is there anyone else sitting beside 11th star? Follow me.” She turned and walked away. Without any clue Sandhya followed and ran out of the classroom. She was walking
“You are late.”“Yeah, did I make you wait for long?”Lanlan shook her head.“Nope. I also got here a few moments ago.”Sandhya noticed that lanlan was less energetic than usual.“What happened? You look drained.”Lanlan sighed, “Yeah, so much for coming first in the entrance exam. Everyone’s eyes were kind of glued on to me. They were waiting like vultures for me to make a mistake so that they could tear me up. But thanks to Lola’s tuition it saved me a lot.”After a momentary silence, she asked, “What about you? You also look worn out.”Sandhya looked at the sky, there was some time before evening.“Nothing much. It seems like we faced the same storm but our places were different?”Lanlan laughed, “I see.”As they were walking towards Sandhya noticed Serena near the entrance gate talking