Chapter 61: Uneasy

A wooden door with engravings stood before me.

The instructor glanced at me once before knocking twice on the door.

There was a brief silence before—

“Come in.”

A commanding voice spoke from within.

The instructor motioned for me to enter. I didn’t know what to expect from this meeting, but—

There wasn’t a reason for me to feel nervous.

Holding the handle, I pushed the door open.

What greeted me was a modest office with basic furniture that could be found anywhere.

A table was placed at the far end of the room, with chairs on both sides.

A man sat on the chair behind the table, his hands locked under his chin.

With greyish-white hair, he looked to be in his fifties.

But that was far from the truth.

The person before me had walked these lands for centuries, or even more. It wasn’t like there was a file keeping records of the ages of individuals like him.

The Headmaster’s eyes never left mine.

I made myself comfortable on the chair opposite him.

Neither of us spoke. Strangely, the silence didn’t feel awkward.

But in the end, I couldn’t keep staring at an old man.

“Is it your hobby to stare at your students?”

I tried to initiate the conversation.

“If so, then I might just take my leave.” I prepared to depart—or at least pretended to.

Not that the man before me would be fooled.

“Kael Frost.”

Hm?

The Headmaster stood from his chair and made his way toward the window adjacent to the table.

“I must say, you are quite talented, as opposed to the rumours I had heard about you.”

The Headmaster spoke without looking at me.

“I must apologize for the disappointment,” I replied.

The Headmaster stood silent for a moment.

“I was curious about your journey… well, after you left your house for some enlightenment.”

Enlightenment?

“Otherwise, there had to have been a reason for a kid who wasn’t even a proper Iron Core to suddenly show himself after three years and participate in the academy admissions… that too through the commoners’ section.”

“And what’s so strange about that? Anyone could train themselves in such time.”

“Well, it certainly is strange when you could have easily been admitted for being a Frost. With the recommendation of your household, there was no need to trouble yourself with these tests, was there?”

I found it strange.

What were these childish questions?

It was a well-known fact that my relations with my family weren’t the best. So why was this guy—

“I am quite adventurous, you see. I had this dream of rising from the mud and becoming a…”

I stopped midway.

I wanted to make it sound cool, but the words just didn’t come to mind.

The Headmaster briefly glanced at me before gazing out of the window again.

Lunatic…

I really couldn’t wrap my head around this interview I was going through.

Did he learn something about me?

D.X.?

“You don’t have to be nervous. I just wanted to talk with the top ranker of the new recruits.”

So I did rank first.

“I have read your theory test paper. I must say your understanding of mana is unparalleled. You could already be considered the best in mana mechanics, even among the strongest Immortals.”

So I was still lagging behind a Sovereign.

Well, that was expected.

“The academy ranks everyone out of a thousand points for both exams. And you have performed quite fabulously. For that, I must congratulate you.”

I nodded my head in acceptance.

I didn’t know what was going through this guy’s head, but I felt extremely uneasy in his presence.

The feeling was minor in the beginning, but now I could feel it in my guts.

Something was wrong with this guy.

He felt like the character from the game, but at the same time, I didn’t feel like he was the same one I had always known.

I couldn’t quite put my finger on the actual root cause of my uneasiness, but one thing was sure—

I was downplaying this world again.

I had expected to create my organization in the shadows, believing that as long as I was cautious, everything would flow smoothly…

But—

What if my existence had never been a secret?

I didn’t know why I was having these thoughts now, after having transmigrated for a full two years.

But looking at the back of the man before me, I just felt wronged.

The Headmaster didn’t speak for a while. He just kept looking outside.

Was he looking into something beyond reality?

Huh?!

What was I thinking about?

My thoughts seemed more jumbled the longer I stayed here—specifically in his presence.

Ugh.

My headache seemed to have returned.

In the last year, my headaches had reduced by quite a lot. At least there was no constant pain in my brain.

But random headaches had started to haunt me from that point onward.

The frequency was low compared to before, but still, once a headache appeared, I felt like I was losing control of my body for an unspecified amount of time.

It was like I felt the headache one moment, and the next—

I was somewhere else, doing some other work.

My memories of that time remained foggy.

And it was starting to happen again.

But… I couldn’t show weakness here. I didn’t want to risk doing something unnecessary before this man.

I looked at the Headmaster once before my vision began to narrow.

Huh!

Was I fainting?

I tried to resist whatever was happening to me, but my vision kept becoming muddy.

As I fought to keep my eyes open, I could see the Headmaster turning to look toward me.

His black eyes had an amused look in them.

Was this his doing?

No.

“What—” I tried to speak, but my mind stopped before I could voice the words.

I felt my consciousness dimming with each second… or was everything happening in a single second?

I couldn’t tell.

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