"Welcome heroes from another world," she smiled.
After dropping that bombshell she kept quiet, just watching them with that god-perfected smile of hers.
It was like she was in a theatre watching a play unfold.
As expected, the next moment waves after waves of voices emerged, as the students who were originally anxious and filled with fear began speaking all at once, each trying to voice their opinions frantically on this reality altering situation.
Watching the chaos unfold, the world-defying beauty chuckled.
Dean frowned, her countenance suddenly didn't seem so endearing anymore.
This woman, she was clearly enjoying this, the power, the effect her words spoken casually had on the group, the b*tch was obviously enjoying it.
'This woman... is dangerous... '
"Big brother..." he felt Shea reach out for his hand, hers were shaking and trembling as they gripped his firmly."I'm scared".
Dean paused, he looked towards her and managed to force a smile then he lied through his teeth, "Don't worry, nothing will happen... I'm here..."
It was all he could do to keep his voice from breaking, but it seemed his lie worked as her hands stopped trembling.
Just then the woman from before began speaking again, and as if by magic, the moment her voice floated out the noise sounding about dissolved immediately.
"I know you are all feeling lost and afraid, and may even feel distrustful towards me but if would please give me a moment I would dispel all of them".
She flashed that smile again, a smile of a woman who knew the effect her beauty had on people, and wasn't afraid to use it.
Dean frowned again, feeling annoyed.
"I know it's difficult to believe right now, but I really wasn't lying earlier, you have all indeed been summoned -"
"Oh please!"
A harsh voice suddenly sounded from the crowd cutting her off, with the silence earlier it was heard everywhere and everyone immediately turned towards the source.
Dean faced the woman, a frown still evident on his face.
"Let me guess... your kingdom is under attack by the demon realm, and your warriors are being overwhelmed by those demonic brutes... blah blah blah... long story short, you decide to summon heroes from another world to come save you and we just happened to be those very ' fortunate ' heroes predestined to save this world of yours..." he paused. " Did I miss anything?"
The woman looked taken aback, she blinked a couple of times, then nodded.
"I would say your observations were very astute, however - "
"Spare us the sob story," he sneered. "Just put a call out to our parents with your demands, you'll get your money, we'll get our freedom, everyone's happy".
Facing his blatant disregard, the scarred knight stepped forward menacingly, a fearsome glare directed at Dean.
UMPH
Dean choked. It was like a formless pressure descended on him cutting off all access to oxygen, his head became strained and grew as red as a tomato, even the gravity surrounding him seemed to have trippled, he suddenly couldn't support the weight of his own body and his knees began shaking violently, his heart began beating so fast it seemed it was about to free itself from the confines of his chest.
Just when he was about to keel over a gentle voice sounded frantically.
"Stop! Stop Sir. Abel, what do you think you are doing?!"
The suppression instantly stopped, it dispersed like it wasn't even there in the first place.
Dean collapsed immediately, his knees finally gave out after being relieved of the pressure, he took in large mouthfuls of breath as sweat poured out from almost every pore on his body.
"Apologies, Lady Olivia". The knight bowed.
"Dean!"
"I-I'm fine".
Facing their worried faces, he barely managed to blurt out amid heavy breaths.
At least the attack seemed exclusive, Shea who was beside him wasn't affected in the least.
'But what was that... it should be impossible, just what is happening here... '
"My apologies for the rash behavior displayed by my Knight earlier, it was my fault for not disciplining him properly".
She smiled 'politely' in his direction.
"But it seems there is a misunderstanding somewhere".
Dean did not speak.
It might have looked like she rescued him from the reckless behavior of her knight, but in truth would he have dared to act so if he knew he would be reprimanded for it, besides weren't knights supposed to be loyal and chivalrous b*stards to a fault, him interrupting as such could be termed as disrespectful so he obviously wouldn't do something such as disgracing ' his Lady ' in public, especially a knight who was obviously of such higher ranking.
And besides that, if she really wanted she could have spoken up immediately, why did she wait for a few seconds - a few agonizing seconds - to pass before she did.
It seemed a few students realized this too as a deathly silence descended, and the apprehension they felt which had been toned down because of her pretty face returned.
If she noticed she didn't show, the woman - Lady Olivia it seemed - smiled brightly and continued speaking.
"If you don't believe my words, how about I just I prove it you," she smiled ' warmly '.
A slight ripple of murmurs ran through the crowd but she didn't stop.
"It's simple actually, all you have to do..." she raised a finger. "Is say... ' open status window ' ".
There was a pause as everyone regarded her with disbelief.
" Go on," she smiled even brighter. "Try it".
The students exchanged glances with each other, entirely unsure, but it was just a few words, it wouldn't hurt... right?
They were at a standstill till a certain male senior student yelled, "F*ck! Open status window!"
As he said it he winced and turned away, a certain silence settled as everyone put their attention on him, but even after a short while nothing happened yet.
The boy turned forward again while carefully opening his eyes, once he did...
"What the f*ck!"
His hands came forward and began tapping at the empty air a few times, like he was typing an invincible keyboard.
After watching for a while, someone beside him couldn't take it anymore, the guy had literally been tapping away on nothing while yelling all sorts of profanities.
"... the f*ck you doing dude?"
"Huh?" the guy turned towards him genuinely confused. "What do you mean...?"
He suddenly paused, then all of a sudden his eyes widened.
" You mean you can't see this?"
The boy earlier gazed at him skeptically, obviously worried about his mental health.
"See what?"
"This!" he gestured grandly at the total emptiness before him.
The boy looked at him, then at the open space in front of him, then back at him again, and at the open space in front of him, then paused.
"Jesus! The motherf*cker's gone mad".
"I told you to ease up on them weeds bro".
"Go fuck yourself!" he raged. " Just say the damned thing yourself if you don't believe me".
" Open status window... F*ck!"
" Eeeeek!"
" What the hell!"
" Th-This... what is this?!"
" I-Impossible!"
With one person already testing it out and everything seemed alright, a massive number of people followed up and they too began displaying unusual behaviors.
Except for a certain corner, where Mr. Matthew exchanged a meaningful look with Mrs. Emily, but she shook her head, while he let out a sigh.
Dean furrowed his brows, then he exchanged looks with Diane and Richard.
It was at that moment that he heard a small voice sound from beside him, it was shaky and stuttering but still full of resolve.
"O-open status window..."
"Shea..."
He looked at Shea in alarm, she had already said it so he could do nothing about it, he just hoped it really was safe.
'Damn it!'
He really hated it, this feeling of powerlessness, just standing here and hoping for things to turn out right and not having the power to do anything about it.
He didn't have to wait long, immediately he saw her eyes widen as she pointed forward to the empty space before her.
"Bi-Big bro- brother... there..."
Dean exchanged looks with his friends again, this time he nodded.
He inhaled a deep breath, and after calming the anxieties in his heart, he opened his mouth and whispered softly.
"Open... Status... Window..."