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The entire class just stared at him, saying to each other:

”Hes covered in bruises. ”

”Did he get into a fight before coming here? ”

”So this is the rumored new kid? Hes kinda cute. ”

”He looks like he kills people. ”

The teacher, Dae, stood beside Jae-Sung.

Dae had grey and black hair in a pointytail, circular glasses, and a grey mustache with brown eyes.

”Now now, be respectful. He is a new student, keep that in mind. Not everyone can warm up to new environments fast like some of us. We don want to make him uncomfortable. Now, Jae-Sung, would you like to tell us some things about yourself? ”

Jae-Sung asked, ”Huh? Like what? ”

”Where you come from or what you like to do, stuff like that. ”

”Ahhh, I see. Alright! My favorite color is red, I like action movies, manga, and manwha. I like to practice fighting and getting stronger, and I like japenese bento boxes! Oh yeah, and I can wield over 50 weapons with my blood skill! ”

Dae-Hyun gasped along with the rest of the class, and students said:

”Impossible! ”

”He can do that! ”

”Thats impossible! ”

Jae-Sung thought, Shit..I wasn really supposed to tell anyone that. Not even my adopted mother and father know Im a Berserker.

Jae-Sung smiled, ”Haha! Just kidding! Im not even a Berserker yet! ”

Nice save, self.

Among the students, were 4 students who caught Jae-Sungs eye.

Chae-Won – (Female, 13 years old, dark blonde hair, dark red eyes, and a gray birthmark on her cheek. Shes super nice, but will hurt someones feelings fast, shes not afraid of telling the truth, and she does it all with a smile on her face.)

She had multiple boys in the room fawning over her, but she ignored it like always.

Jung-Ho – (Male, 13 years old, wavy brunette colored in a small ponytail, bluish gray eyes. He was the silent type, not really butting into business that doesn involve. Feels its a waste of energy.)

He was pretty popular with the girls throughout the school, but he pays them no mind either.

Hyun – (Male, 13 years old, neck length wavy ash blonde hair, purple eyes, and a bandaid on his cheek. He was a pretty cool guy, but was psychotic. Always smiling, and was physically capable of doing a lot of things.)

Bora – (Female, 13 years old, long bright red hair, purple eyes. She was a tomboy.)

She had her feet up on her desk while chewing gum with her arms folded.

Hyun asked Jae-Sung with a smile, ”Where are you from, Jae-Sung?! ”

”Oh, uh Im from here! ”

”Really? Niceee. Niceee. Hey…Jae-Sung.. ”

”Hm? ”

With a creepy smile on his face, Hyun jumped from his desk, picked it up, spun around, and slung the desk at Jae-Sung.

The desk was flipping in fast, but Jae-Sung grabbed the leg of it with one hand fast without hesitation.

Jae-Sung grinned, ”Ah! That was really fast! Do it again! ”

Dae scoffed, ”Hyun, no! ”

Hyun chuckled, ”Hehe..as you wish. ”

Hyun pulled scissors from his school bag and started launching them at Jae-Sung. Jae stood still while dodging incoming scissors.

This guys fun! But hes a lunatic!

Jae-Sung jumped off the wall and spun in the air, flipping past more scissors that came his way. He even held up the desk to block the other scissors.

Jae-Sung then spun around once and slung the desk back at Hyun, and at the same time, Hyun threw a giant pair of scissors at him.

Jae-Sung caught the scissors between his fingers, and Hyun caught the desk with both hands.

They both grinned at each other, and Hyun exclaimed, ”Haha! I like you! Let be friends! ”

Jae-Sung replied, ”You bet! ”

The students said:

”That was kinda epic. ”

”Did you see the way Jae-Sung was moving? ”

”He seemed like hes been training or something. ”

Bora chuckled, ”That shit was cool as hell. ”

Jung-Ho said, ”Foolish. ”

Chae-Won said, ”… ”

The teacher, Dae, was hanging against the board, with scissors stabbing his clothes through it. He looked nervous, and he was shaking.

The class laughed at him, even Jae-Sung was pointing at the teacher and laughing.

Teacher Dae said, ”Thats enough h-horseplaying. You can get in that seat beside Chae-Won. ”

He slightly pointed at her, and Jae-Sung grinned, ”Alright. ”

He started walking through the aisle, as more whispers about him fluttered the entire room. Jae-Sung sat down beside Chae-Won, and they both looked at each other.

Jae-Sung blushed tremendously, thinking, Shes even more pretty up close!

Jae-Sung said to her, ”Um…hi..Im-. ”

Chae-Won responded, ”Jae-Sung. You told the entire class that already. Are you trying to get with me or something? ”

”M-Maybe! ”

Chae-Won smiled, ”In your dreams. ”

Jae-Sung thought, Damn, shes stubborn! Could she be my first school girlfriend? If I showed her my blood weapons and how many I can create, will she want me then? No, I can do that. What was I thinking?! Im so nervous!

Chae-Won asked with another grin, ”How long are you going to keep staring at me? ”

Jae-Sung turned around fast, saying, ”Sorry, its just that you
e really pretty looking to me, miss. ”

Chae-Won replied with a chuckle, ”Haha..miss. ”

Jung-Ho was looking at Jae-Sung, thinking, With that type of raw strength and speed, theres no way he isn a Berserker. Hes entered this school with bruises and cuts all over him, and hes overly cheery. His fists are bruised too, so hes been fighting. On top of that..

Jung-Ho and Jae-Sung stared at each other the whole time Jung-Ho was monologuing in his head.

Jung-Ho continued to think, Hes giving me a dumb look, but the look in his eyes tell me hes done darker things than what his outside presence is showing us.

Jung-Ho turned around.

Jae-Sung thought, The hell was he staring at me for?

Teacher Dae said to the class, ”Now then! Now that weve introduced the new student, lets get down to the real business. Im going to explain the school rules and then Im going to put you all in groups of 5. There are 20 of you here, so four groups of five is perfect. ”

Hyun raised his hand, waving it around and around, exclaiming with a smile, ”I gotta question! I gotta question! ”

”Yes, Hyun? ”

”Uhhh what are the groups for? ”

”Theres a little activity I like my students to do at the beginning of the school year. Its called, BATTER BATTLE! ”

The class was silent.

Teacher Dae thought, Hmph. I thought that would make them laugh. The word scheming was insane.

Teacher Dae continued, ”Well Batter Battle is when the grouped up students will all work together out of school to create a desert off the given list to bring into class for a beginning of the year party. ”

The students said:

”Awesome! ”

”Best teacher ever! ”

”I love to bake! ”

Bora popped the gum in her mouth, saying, ”Haha! Now this is what the hell Im talking about. Things are getting hella saucy. So what are the groups? ”

Teacher Dae said, ”Group one: Jae-Sung, Chae-Won, Bora, Hyun, and Jung-Ho. ”

Jung-Ho and Chae-Won exclaimed together, ”What?! ”

Jae-Sung, Bora, and Hyun exclaimed together, ”Hell yeah! ”

Jung-Ho said, ”Tch. I have to group up with those fools? How absurd.. ”

Chae-Won thought, Impossible. My aunt would never let me go over anyones house. Or let any friends of mine come over to our house. I have to sit this one out. I must talk to Teacher Dae after class.

Jae-Sung looked at Chae-Won, saying, ”We
e in a group together. I promise I didn rig it so we can be in the same group or anything. ”

Chae-Won chuckled, saying, ”Sure you didn … ”

Hyun and Jae-Sung looked at each other, and Hyun exclaimed, ”Fist bump! ”

Hyun and Jae-Sung fist bumped, and Hyun went flying across the room bashing into the wall.

Jae-Sung said, ”Shit. Im sorry! ”

Hyun laughed, ”HAHA! You
e strong! ”

”I didn mean to do that! ”

”Haha! No worries! ”

Teacher Dae thought, Im a Berserker and Im not even that strong..but a 13 year old boy is? What is he really?

He continued, ”Okay now, Im going to set up a list of deserts your group can choose from. I have 20 deserts listed altogether, you can only choose three of them! And once youve figured it out, tell me so I can cross out the name. Once a group has chosen a desert, its no longer available! Have fun! ”

On the board, a screen popped up, and it showed 20 deserts/cakes/pastries.

The class started talking amongst themselves, choosing what they wanted, then telling Teacher Dae.

Jae-Sung thought, My first day in 8th grade is going well so far. I need to make tons of friends and do what school people do to have fun from the movies and books. Of course, I won let it distract me from my ultimate goal of killing all the gang families. But I want to have fun and live a regular school life at the same time. Oh! I have an idea!

Jae-Sung said to his group, ”I can choose what to pick from the list. But I know where we can do the project. ”

Bora asked him, ”Oh yeah? Where at? ”

”My house! ”

”Your house big? I might steal me a couple things if you don mind. I can sell em on the black market, get a billion dollars and then take over the world and shit. ”

”Uhh..that wouldn be a good idea. ”

”Hoh? Why not? ”

”My parents are two of the many higher ups in the Anti-Division : Soo-Yun, and Ho-Seok. ”

His group gasped, and Jung-Ho thought, His parents…are THEM?

Chae-Won didn say anything.

Bora grinned, ”Oh yeah?! Haha! That means you guys are loaded! ”

Hyun shook Jae-Sung drastically, ”WHY DIDNT YOU TELL US YOURE MOM AND DAD WERE TWO HIGHER UPS THERE? ”

”I-It isn something I just blurt out randomly, Hyun. ”

Jae-Sung continued, ”And plus, they
e not my biological parents. They adopted me not too long ago. ”

Chae-Won and Jung-Ho didn say anything, but they were listening.

Hyun asked, ”What happened? ”

Jae-Sung lied, ”Oh, nothing bad, haha! They just adopted me from an orphanage is all. ”

”Ohhhh, okay! ”

[FLASHBACK]

[AFTER THE FESTIVAL INCIDENT]

[HOSPITAL]

Jae-Sungs eyes opened, and he sat up fast in the hospital bed.

He looked around, and he looked at a reflection in the window beside him.

He saw there were bandages and wraps all over him, and saw that he had a black eye.

He touched his own face, and his eyes shook.

”Mom…dad…sister… ”

He jumped out of the bed, making the entire bed flip over and he ran to the window, looking out of it.

He had a hard time breathing, and his body and hands continued to shake. Tears fell from his eyes, and his fists clenched. And as that was happening, the window was cracking tremendously. Jae-Sung had flashbacks of what happened at the fair not too long ago.

At that moment, doctors came rushing in, exclaiming, ”We heard a crash-! ”

Jae-Sung peered his eyes at them from the corner, and he dashed up to one of the doctors, and bashed his head into the wall as blood blasted out of his nose.

He then picked up the doctor, flipped across the room, and put him in a chokehold, pressing his finger on his neck, holding him hostage.

Jae-Sung said to the other doctor, ”Who brought me here?! ”

The other doctor replied, ”The ambulance! They said you were deeply buried under a pile of rubble, on the brink of death! We saved your life! ”

”Why am I still alive then?! Why didn they leave me there?! With my family?! I didn ask for this! None of it! ”

The other doctor thought, A little boy..thinking like this…whats with his intelligence?

”Please let the doctor go! ”

”Im..gonna crush his head, ” Jae-Sung replied. ”And then youll be forced to kill me, right? ”

The hostage doctor replied, ”No!!! ”

Walking into the room was Soo-Yun and Ho-Seok.

Soo-Yun said, ”Child. ”

Jae-Sung responded, ”W-Who the hell are you two? ”

”Im Soo-Yun and this is my husband, Ho-Seok. ”

Ho-Seok said, ”Jae-Sung… ”

Jae-Sung responded, ”You know my name..why are you investigating me? Who are you? ”

Soo-Yun answered, ”We
e a part of the Anti-Division. We specialize in taking down enemy Berserkers who commit crime, and hunting criminal Berserkers in gang families, unless we have proof that they
e doing crazy things. To put it simply, we
e an anti-berserker group, when we ourselves are Berserkers, we serve as the force fighting against the bad ones. ”

Ho-Seok added, ”And the good ones just…join our side. ”

Jae-Sun says, ”If thats the case..then deal with me..after I kill this doctor. ”

Soo-Yun said, ”You want us to put you down? You
e only a child. Why are you talking like this? Like…your maturity level is that of an adult.. ”

This child..isn bluffing..hes going to kill that doctor. We can let him. I have to make the first move.

Jae-Sung pushed the doctor to the right, and he vanished, zigzagging around the room, and dashing up to Soo-Yuns face in a split second, making her gasp.

Hes fast!

Ho-Seok jumped in and tackled Jae-Sung through a wall, but Jae-Sung grabbed Ho-Seoks head, slammed it down, and bashed his knee into his face, sending Ho-Seok up the ceiling.

Jae-Sung reached up to Ho-Seok in a split second, and grabbed him by the face, smashing his head through a wall. As soon as he did that, Ho-Seok looked at Jae-Sungs eyes, and saw the tears.

Jae-Sung said, ”Please…please…mister…do me a favor…let me join them… ”

Ho-Seok replied, ”I can only give you this.. ”

He hugged Jae-Sung tightly, and Jae-Sung paused. He cried even more, as blood dripped from Ho-Seoks face.

Jae-Sung released his fists, and he ended up hugging Ho-Seoul back.

Soo-Yun was walking into the room, joining them, as she hugged Jae-Sung.

Months later, they adopted Jae-Sung, and they had many fun times together. They were turning into a real family.

Jae-Sung had started to grow fond of them so much that it was on one specific day that he decided his life was going to change drastically.

Jae-Sung sat in his room with a bunch of newspapers of gang families committing all sorts of crimes.

Him realizing he was a normal Berserker, he knew he had the power to prevent things from happening. Thats when he decided he didn want a repeat of what happened to his family at the festival. He didn want to lose his new parents, so he came to the conclusion to kill all the gang families. And if he had to kill some bad Berserkers along the way, hed do that as well.

He began training every night, all night ever since he was adopted, and his strength and blood manipulation skills were growing abnormally…

[FLASHBACK END]

[PRESENT DAY]

Jae-Sung clenched his fists in class, thinking, I won lose my motivation..

”Jae-Sung? Jae-Sung! ” Bora called his name.

Jae-Sung looked at her, ”Oh! Haha, sorry. Got lost in my thoughts. ”

”Hm? You were probably thinking about miss perfect Chae-Won over there. ”

Jae-Sung blushed, replying, ”N-No! Anyways, we decided well do the project at my house! ”

”Im down. ”

Hyun got excited, ”Yes! ”

Jung-Ho replied with his arms closed and arms folded, ”Hmph. Theres no way Im going to this brats domain. ”

Jae-Sung said, ”Huh? You scared or something. Haha..chicken shit. ”

”What was that?! Whatever, fool. Ill go then. ”

Hyun smiled, ”Great! We have the place figured out, next is what we
e gonna bake! ”