Three men got off a train in Switzerland. They could speak up to five languages, including English. One man dug through his pocket to claw out his phone. He looked into a map that gave him directions to the station to get on Aqualino. Then, the phone notified him that an unknown number was calling him. He answered quickly and greeted the person on the other side.
"You have him?" The caller asked.
"Yeah, just like you told us to." The receiver said as one of the men carried a man with a black bag over his head. The male had a slender build and was wearing black pants and a white shirt with a black jacket unzipped. The jacket's sleeves were rolled up and stopped in the middle of his forearms. He had black armor cuffs on his wrists.
"Do you know what to do with him?" the caller asked.
"Yeah, take him far away, and then," the receiver was interrupted.
"Then, you can have your fun with him." the caller interrupted.
"Okay, then I'll just carry out your order. You know how much you owe us." the receiver said.
"Yes, you'll get your 50 grand when the job's done. Now go before he escapes." the caller said as he hung up the phone.
"Okay guys, you heard him. Get him in the car outside of this station, get to the train Aqualino. Before he starts acting up." the guy ordered the others.
The other two nodded their heads and dragged the masked man into the car outside of the station.
Meanwhile, in the German mountains, Aloysius was waking up and got his slippers on. He went into his bathroom and washed his dead face. He brushed his teeth to keep his smile the same. Aloysius then grabbed a towel and went to take a shower. He got out of the steamy shower, looking "alive". Aloysius put on a plain dark red shirt and blue jeans, which he has a lot of. He still had his necklace on and washed his hands before coming out of his dorm.
Waiting outside was Mirai, who was leaning against the wall. She had on skinny blue jeans and a pink shirt that seemed tight on her chest. Aloysius saw her and he kept staring at her. To Aloysius, although he can't feel an emotion easily, he felt something when he saw Mirai. But then, it quickly died down. Mirai looked at Aloysius and moved her head to the direction of the doors that lead to the cafeteria. She then walked to the doors and Aloysius followed behind. Dropping down, Tuomo surprised Aloysius, although he expected him.
"So, you think Mirai's beautiful, I mean, everybody does here," Tuomo asked Aloysius with a smug face.
"I don't know what you're talking about, I can't be attracted easily, you know," Aloysius said as he squinted his eyes at Tuomo.
"I know, after all, you can't feel anything, right?" Tuomo said quietly while grinning.
"You said what?" Aloysius asked.
"Nothing," Tuomo said with a smile.
Mirai opened the doors and Tuomo and Aloysius entered the cafeteria. This time, Mirai sat where Tuomo and Aloysius instead of the reverse that happened yesterday. Tuomo did the usual and tossed three coins somewhere. Three plates of food were then brought to their table. Pancakes with sliced berries on the crust, for Mirai, an egg sandwich, for Tuomo, and a breakfast burrito, Aloysius.
"How do you even this? Every time you throw a coin, it's a 1 coin." Aloysius asked Tuomo.
"Since this academy, and others as well, accept currency from any country, I can just throw a 1 coin and get my food. The reason why I need one dollar is that I'm ranked #3 here, so I get a special discount." Tuomo explained.
"Wait, so there's like a top 10 here?" Aloysius asked.
"Top 15, not Top 10," Tuomo corrected Aloysius.
"And who are they?" Aloysius asked.
"Okay then, #15, Mirai Rivas," Tuomo stopped as he stared at Aloysius, who was surprised.
"Let me finish!" Tuomo snapped at Aloysius.
"Okay, #14 Trey Poland, #13 Sarah Bowley, #12 Holly Terr, #11 Nova Cole, #10 Jolanda Greco, #9 Logan Casillas, #8 Chris Mina, #7 Cyrus Feliciano, #6 Starla Knowles, #6 Nick Gray, #5 Ervinas Mather, #4 Dominic Jackson, #3 Rocco Tuominen or me, #2 Kieran Addis, and #1 Darren James." Tuomo finished.
Aloysius put on a more shocking face than before. He was more confused than surprised as Darren James is his classmate and Mirai is in front of him now. Thoughts kept hitting Aloysius like a chaingun. So many thoughts, so many questions, Aloysius tried to keep his composure together but it just kept hitting him. Tuomo looked at Aloysius as he tried to cope with what he was told.
"He has nothing to worry about, besides, six of them will be okay, but one won't be." Tuomo thought as he ate his sandwich.
Back at the train station, the three men have arrived at the station. One of them got out and dragged the man, who still had a black bag over his head, to the station. Inside, the Aqualino train had just arrived when they did and opened its doors to them. Since they were the only ones inside the train, they could make all the ruckus they wanted. The train left and they waited until they got to the mountains. During the wait, one of them took a pistol that was at full ammo.
"Ready?" the man asked the others.
"Ready," The others said.
The train was soon going through the mountains and then they opened the train doors. One of them dragged the masked man and put his head outside of the train, through the door where the fast wind was traveling. The other man readied his pistol and aimed at the mountains, next to the masked man's head.
"Watashi wa anata ni shitsumon o suru tsumoridesu, soshite anata wa yori yoku kotaeru ka, samonakereba anata wa ichi-byō inai ni shinde shimaimasu." the man said in japanese.
"Sate, saisho ni, naze yoroi no sodeguchi o chakuyō suru nodesu ka?" the man asked but the masked man didn't respond. The man then fired the pistol to threaten the guy.
"Dewa, naze jaketto o kiru nodesu ka? Kotaeru ka shinu ka!" the man asked but he still didn't respond.
The man then ordered to put him back inside. The guy threw him back inside the train but then the masked man managed to sit up on the floor and spoke.
"You know, you don't have to talk to me in Japanese just because I'm part Japanese. I can understand English too." the masked man said.
"What's your name?! Before I blow your head open," the man asked as he threatened him.
"Oh sorry for the late introduction. The name would be Tatsuya Marr. Member of the Precussor squad." Tatsuya said.
"What's the Precussor squad? Your play club?" The man asked as he made fun of Tatsuya.
"Oh, you shouldn't worry about that now. You need to worry about what's going to happen in a few minutes on this train." Tatsuya said.
"Nothing will happen, you have your hands cuffed up with titanium chains." the man scoffed.
"Can you just take off this bag, it's very hard to breathe in. This shouldn't be the standard way to keep a hostage in control." Tatsuya said.
The man reached and pulled off the bag from his head. What it revealed was a guy with chin-length black hair who had forest green eyes.
"That's far better. I can breathe fresh air now." Tatsuya said as he was relieved.
"Now, what's about to happen is, is that I'll beat the shit out you guys and you'll cry over the pain you'll feel in your head," Tatsuya said as he grinned.
The three men were just there, laughing at what Tatsuya said. But the joy quickly died down when they heard a clanking noise. They looked at him, Tatsuya was free, his hands were free.
"Now it's time for pain," Tatsuya said.
He grabbed one of the men and pushed his head against the window until it shattered. He dropped the man and punched him in the stomach. Tatsuya walked to where the others were. One of the men was a coward and went to the other passenger car with fear in his eyes. The man left on his own, grabbed a gun, and shot at Tatsuya. Tatsuya dodged the bullets by moving his head. He then, with the precision of a dragonfly, punched the man in the side of his forehead while running. The man dropped dead and fell on the seat of the train. Tatsuya then went through the gangway and into the passenger car that the last man fled to. When he entered, he saw no one. Then, coming from the other passenger car was the man. He was holding a chainsaw and it was fueled up.
"How are you going to hit me now!?" the man taunted Tatsuya.
"You just don't know that you can't beat me." Tatsuya sighed.
He then put his wrists together and held them in position for five seconds. Then, two mantra enchantments appeared on his hands. One symbol on each of his armor cuffs was glowing sky blue.
"What is that? Tell me before you get your hands cut off!" The man threatened again.
"You won't need to know, besides, you won't even see the light once I punch you," Tatsuya said as he grinned while walking slowly to the man.
Tatsuya eventually got close enough to the man, who raised his chainsaw. The man struck at Tatsuya, but he blocked his chainsaw with his hands. He then squeezed his hands a little tighter and the chainsaw broke. Tatsuya then thrashed the man in his face. When Tatsuya left the passenger car, he left bone shards and stains of blood inside the car.
"Why did you do that?" a voice, only Tatsuya can hear, said.
"I needed to show that we are on different levels of combat, you know this as well." Tatsuya thought.
Tatsuya then left the station and started to run to an airport.
In Septem Academy, Aloysius was in his Archive magic class with the teacher that had never said his name. He was focusing and writing everything down, but deep inside, the things he wrote were empty. They meant nothing to him since he doesn't take Tuomo's words seriously.
"Like somebody's going to kill me. No one will take my life, I have nothing to offer." Aloysius thought.
"Okay class, today, we are going to learn the seven archives and how themas work." the teacher said as he circled what he wrote on the chalkboard.
"Can anyone tell me, what the seven archives are based off?" the teacher asked the students. No one knew except Aloysius, who reluctantly, raised his hand.
"Pride, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, Wrath, and Greed," Aloysius said as he sighed.
"Good, now, before we get any further. I have to explain something that I forgot to say yesterday. When we use the abilities we have as connectors, once we've connected, we use the rules that are in their world. Since the souls, connectors connect to, come from different worlds in different universes. That connector needs to abide by the rules, although there may be some alternation." the teacher explained.
"Now, these archives activate the abilities we have as a connector after connecting to the soul. But, after these archives, come the themas. Themas and archives are the things that are the opposite of what you are. So, if I was extremely kind, my thema would be in the Wrath Archive. But you wouldn't say Wrath, you would have to use its Latin name, Ira. So, my thema would be in the Ira Archive, if that was the case. It takes time to find a thema in an archive, but once you find it, the rest is easy." the teacher explained.
A student then raised their hand,
"Excuse me, if we're using Latin names, then what is the English version of thema?" the student asked.
"Thema would mean topics and/or themes." the teacher answered
Aloysius noted down everything the teacher said. As he wrote, Aloysius felt like someone was watching him. Indeed someone was, it was Tuomo on the ceiling, camouflaging to conceal his face and body. Tuomo was lurking and watching Aloysius in his class to scrutinize his growth. He saw everything that Aloysius wrote but was still confused as to why he hasn't found his thema yet.
"It's in front of him, he expressed it so many times!" Tuomo thought with concern.
"But I guess it won't be easy for him, after all, he can't sense any feeling easily. That will affect how fast he reacts to the incoming situation." Tuomo continued to think.
In Switzerland, Zurich International Airport, the Sun was at dawn. Tatsuya already had a plan to fly to his desired destination. When he walked inside, it wasn't crowded. To be precise, it was a ghost town with only AI voices to be heard. Only the staff were there, but even they were dozing off, while some were resisting.
Tatsuya continued to walk and get to the gateway for his plane, but then he appeared. A young man appeared; he was wearing a tight fit long-sleeve shirt. The shirt was split black and white and the sleeves followed the same. The pants he was wearing were the same as well, split black and white. He got closer to Tatsuya, who recognized him although the young man's face and head were covered by a black hoodie and a black mask that covered his mouth and nose while the rest was shaded by darkness.
"What do you want this time?" Tatsuya asked with his wrists near each other,
The young man raised his hand, which was covered by a black combat glove, "I don't want anything, I just gonna give you this, so good luck. But remember, you don't want to attract attention from him." the young man said, but his voice, it sounded like a mix of a young woman and a young man. His voice was a little distorted.
What he had handed to Tatsuya was a ticket to the destination he was heading to, Germany.
"Yeah I know, but before I go, why wear the black long scarf hanging behind your back?" Tatsuya asked.
"That will never be mentioned," the guy said, in the same voice, as he slowly turned into smoke and disappeared.
Tatsuya then headed to the gate with one thought in his head. "I'm coming for you,"