World Academy W
An image of the school. "There's never a dull moment at the World Academy. Let's see what the students are up to this time" the narrator says.
Next scene: Claudia, Rema, Julio Paz and Hyung Soo are lying in the school park, forming a circle with their heads. For this purpose, we will call it the pity circle.
Claudia sighs: "So hungry. Because of these damn sanctions, it's getting harder and harder to find food."
"Tell me about it" Rema adds "I have to worry about them and rebuild after the war."
Carlos Machado and Julio nod in compassion. "I, sadly, share the same fate as you" Hyung Soo says.
Carlos turns to him: "You kind of deserve it, dough."
"I sometimes ask myself what's the point of it all. Are we born only to suffer?" a girl, whose covered head helps make the circle, says with her tiny voice. The others turn to her shocked. "Where did you come from?" Claudia exclaims.
The girl turns her bony malnourished face towards her and says confused: "What do you mean? I've been here the whole time."
Rema sighs: "That darn Alfred. I hope someone teaches him a lesson."
Footsteps announce someone approaching. It's Amir Gilgamesh standing above them, with a black eye.
"You alright there?" Julio asks.
"You should see the other guy" Amir says and lays beside them, adding another head to the circle.
"Is it over?" Rema asks.
"Yep. Only a complete nutcase would continue antagonizing me now" he says in a cold manner. They all smile, look up to the sky and sigh in unison.
Next scene: In the hallway, at the same time. Three gym teachers stand in the middle of the hallway with a menacing look on their faces. They have their large muscle arms folded. "Attention all students" one yells. He has long blond hair tightly tied.
The students stop and listen.
"We heard that there is a rumour that we sanctioned Ivan in order to sabotage the games. I assure you that is not the case" another one says with a burly voice. The students blink without saying a word.
"We have made our decision based on solid evidence. We will not tolerate some conspiracy theory slanting our good names" the last one with dark hair says.
"That is all. See you in P.E." the first one adds.
Dafina, Yasna and Aleksia stand near their lockers. "Wow, they sounded really unconvincing and really mad" Dafina says amused. Yasna scratches her face nervous. "Yeah, I bet if they ever found out who started the rumour, that student would do push-ups for life" Aleksia adds giggling. The two girls notice that Yasna is missing.
Next scene: She quickly passes Ivan in the hallway. He waves hello but she is in such a hurry she doesn't even turn.
"Hmm, probably didn't see me" he says entering the boy's room.
Next scene: Inside that very same boy's room. Ivan watches his hands when he hears groaning from one of the stalls. It sounds like someone in great pain.
"Are you okay?" he says and the groaning stops. Ivan carefully steps closer. He looks down and sees a small pool of blood. In panic, he grabs the door handle and yanks it open. "You are not attempting suicide in there, are you?" Ivan yells. He is horrified when he sees Alfred face all bloody, with his glasses broken.
Alfred grabs the door and shuts it again. The two don't say anything for a couple of seconds.
"You didn't see anything, comprende" Alfred says from the closed stall.
"Sure, sure" Ivan nods confused and still in shock.
"Good. Now leave" Alfred says in a threatening way.
Feeling a little sorry for him, Ivan obeys. He quickly exits the boy's room and we see the door close.
The frame zooms in on the door and the narrator concludes: "And that, dear reader, was another exciting day at the World Academy W. Make sure to join us next time. Goodbye."