Hi everyone! I updated today cuz there is no school today- well for yr 12s only muahaha XP
Anyway I am so happy you guys have been enjoying this- I know that the whole thing makes no sense (sorry) but I would like to remind you all it is an alternate world however I guess I should have really thought out the whole electricity and gun thing in a medieval setting (OOPS)
So I would like to just clarify this – yes there is electricity in the form of things like lamps, torches and other machinery like that however it is meant to be like a very rich person's privilege so these things will not appear often and characters will rely on stuff like candles or fireflies or something. Guns are available in this time though uncommon. (Hiruma has many because he is Hiruma end of story)
Now enjoy the story! X3
Also Kria and anyone else who wishes this Monta is appearing as Sena's best friend eventually- don't worry. Oh and I have decided while Hiruma may be the one to instigate these (delicious) moments of fanservice he probably won't hold any real feelings toward the kid and will instead treat him like a brother… A sadistic brother but a bro all the same. I'm not sure
'-T, Shit!'
Blushing Sena scampered to pick his box and a few other dazed individuals followed the leather-clad teen.
"U-uhm Takami nii-san I choose this one!" The brunette's eyes showed childish excitement despite his timid voice as he picked the box marked 21. The supervisor chuckled at his innocence though felt a little bad at the task he had given the kid. He probably couldn't even comprehend the complexity of the challenge and thought it was too simple or something and blurted it out.
"Ok Sena-kun here's your switch." He replied with a gentle smile nothing like his strong dominant leader persona before. The brunette gave such a pure smile he wanted to just give the kid the answer. As soon as the small teen took the switches he switched them all onto ON and then proceeded to do... Nothing. A little puzzled Takami left handing out the switches wondering what the strange kid was doing.
Shin chose box 40 and raised his eyebrows as he saw Sena just sitting staring at the box. 'Strange.' Was all he thought, but he didn't hate that. As Takami handed the athletic teen the switches he frowned feeling he forgot something important.
Suddenly he remembered the moment the small pieces of machinery left his hands- only to be crushed by Shin's larger ones...
The tall teen sighed 'I completely forgot about this guy's lack of control on his strength!' There really was no point in testing Shin now- he would just have to pass him for now and rely on his written test.
"Shin why don't you just go sit with Sena-kun and see what is he doing, maybe help the kid but DON'T TOUCH his switches."
Shin nodded emotionlessly and did as told greeting a surprised but happy Sena.
It had been almost 9 minutes and no one had asked permission to overturn their box yet. Takami watched the scene unfold as the teens around him slowly become more and more frustrated. Some cried, some banged their head against the wall, some chose venting their anger onto the switches throwing them to the ground- it was very amusing.
The only ones who stood out were Sena and Shin who were just staring at their box and once in a while chatting quietly. Curious and maybe a little annoyed at being left out the keen eyed teen decided to join them.
"How are you doing Sena-kun?"
The boy smiled nervously "I-I think I want to open my box now."
This quiet statement caused everyone to stop what they were doing and stare. 'It hasn't even been 10 minutes! And this small child thinks he solved such a hard puzzle?!' Takami glared harshly at the gaping bystanders who quickly went back to the puzzle and then turned back to Sena with a worried expression. "Are you sure Sena?- I can't open the box a second time."
The little thief nodded more confident in his choice.
The tall teen stared into his deep honey brown eyes to see only determination, hesitantly and for some reason blushingly he opened the box. There were three bulbs where the one in the middle was the only one that was switched ON.
Sena then touched the end left and right bulb before nodding toward the two raven-haired teens.
"I got it."
Everyone edged a little closer- even Shin who was already quite close- to hear his answer. "Switch A is the second bulb, Switch B is the one on the right and Switch C is left." Takami looked at the teen then down on his answer sheet, then back at the teen in shock. His mouth felt a little dry-
"He's... Right."
A huge commotion suddenly began in the room filled with cheers, oohs and aaahs. Everyone felt more motivated as someone had finally beat the impossible puzzle and began getting really into the problem using Sena's light bulbs as a hint.
However in the end only a few more people passed and they admitted they only got through by guessing which was the last two bulbs. "So how did you do it?!" They all bustled around Sena who was unused to so many people surrounding him for something other than beating him up.
Shin and Takami could see the small brunette's discomfort taking it on themselves to get some distance between the crowd and the thief, Takami began trying to order everyone to take a few steps back but what really got them to move was the intimidating Shin who had transferred close to Sena, glared at everyone and simply told them politely to back off.
The brunette looked up gratefully toward the stoic teen that suddenly felt his heart beat skip, frowning slightly in reaction to this strange occurrence he nodded in response.
Shyly Sena explained how he solved the trick.
"Well first I put all switches ON then after 7 minutes I switched C OFF then right before I opened the box I switched B OFF. That way when the box was opened A would be the only one ON and B would be the hottest bulb as it was just switched off, leaving C to be the other bulb."
A couple of ooohs filled the room but at least half still looked confused.
"Idiots." Takami murmured annoyed as he nodded along to Sena's explanation, the puzzle was hard true but if one had the mindset flexible enough to think of the many options the solution can be quite simple- sadly not many people have those mentalities around here. He didn't know why but he also felt a little tightening in his chest with all these men paying so much attention to the teen. However he brushed it off as overprotectiveness.
"Ok guys!" He shouted loudly so everyone turned to him. "It's time for part two!"
And at the statement Sena paled.
Door Four
"-KER WHAT THE HELL?!"
Agon yelled in frustration as once again the coin fell off his finger- which he quickly caught with his Godspeed Impulse. Everyone flinched at the sudden outburst also dropping their own coins and cards.
'How is it even with my god like reflexes I still can't move the fucking card without the goddamn piece of trash coin from falling!?'
Sendoda looked on at the frustrated teen and shook his head and sighed. Unfortunately this did not go unnoticed by the dread headed teen. "AaaAghHh?! The fuck you just do?" A vein was about to pop on the prodigy's head and even Unsui had to back off a few steps. The ex-knight however was unfazed meeting the harsh killing intent with a cool commanding stare. "You need to calm yourself- a fool expresses all his emotions, but a wise person controls them."
The clash of the gazes went on a for a few more seconds before Agon turned away with a "tch."
'Goddamn I hate this sorta crap- if only he was here...'
Flashback
"Hey trash."
The small brunette looked up at the greeting and smiled with childish purity- usually not the expected response with the intimidating violent young prodigy.
"Agon! It's been a while since you last played with me!"
The bleached haired scowled. 'Played with me? Who does he think I am- a five year old child?!.. Though that sort of innocence is what made the trash kinda endearing…
I did NOT just think that.'
The child genius's concentration broke when Sena began tugging at his hand tailored outfit with his small thin dirty hands.
"Ne Agon?"
Though he never admitted it Agon always felt bad for his.. I-guess-not-really-trash's living conditions, one could even call it guilt if they didn't know any better. He still didn't give two shits about the other street trash but Sena was different somehow.
"What now trash?!"
He scowled again but this time noticeably softer, which Sena immediately picked up on as the kid, smiled shyly. "Did you bring anything interesting today?" Agon gave a confident smirk "Yeah today school was pretty shitty as usual so I ignored most of the crap the trash teachers were spouting but we were given this question which took even the great me a hard time to finish!"
Honey brown eyes widened at the story- he knew very well the talent of the teen and the fact he had even trouble doing this mystery task really says something.
Excited the thief was practically jumping like a hyperactive little puppy "Let me see!, Let me see!"
"Well don't blame me if you get too frustrated." The bleached haired 11 year old handed him a folded piece of paper.
In truth the prodigy didn't just have trouble with it, he went through fucking hell to finish the question- after a few ripped pages, two broken desks, four hours and one class of traumatized kids he finally solved the cursed question written on the sheet.
Sena looked at the question, slowly mouthing the words and sometimes asking Agon to explain the harder ones. The elder boy chuckled as he watched the poor kid struggle waiting for the moment to swoop in and save with the answer.
What does man love more than life?
Fear more than death or mortal strife?
What do the poor have, what the rich require,
And what contented men desire?
What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save,
And all men carry to their graves?
After finally reading the whole riddle the brunette furrowed his brows and began muttering softly. 'Seriously it's almost adorable how the trash tries- seriously who is hacking my fucking mind?!'
"I got it!" The boy yelled out causing a few passerby's to look into the alley curiously. Blushingly he whispered to his disbelieving friend repeating the sentence. "I think I got it." Agon smirked
"Yeah if you got it then I'm not fucking straight."
The brunette huffed indignantly "I did too get it!"
"Well?"
"The answer is nothing!"
"..." Agon stared probably for the first time in such immense shock.
"Well because man loves nothing more than life, fear more than death, the rich need nothing and obviously-" the underprivileged thief gestured to himself "- the poor have nothing."
"T-that's... Right." His usually deep voice came out a little strained. Agon couldn't believe an uneducated street urchin who can't even read properly like Sena actually solved such a hard riddle in less than 10 minutes! 'Worse the trash actually beat me!'
"So what was that on not being- how did you so beautifully called it- 'not fucking straight'?"
The little brunette giggled under the pissed off glare of Agon. Usually by another other human being such teasing would have earned them a beating so bad that they couldn't fucking sit up for a month but instead of the usual feeling of anger something a little different bubbled in the male. It was a strange feeling.
Respect. Affection. Camaraderie.
Sena chuckled again as the older boy roughly ruffled his chestnut brown hair and grunted with well disguised approval. "That was pretty good.. Sena."
At the sound of his name the brunette blushed.
"It was nothing really... You just shouldn't overthink these things ya know?"
End Flashback
Agon snapped back into reality as the answer hit him like a bolt of lightning. "It couldn't be that simple... Could it?"
Once again he put the card on his finger and the coin placed in the middle, his determination sharpened like a knife. Sendoda observed the change in the hot-blooded teen, something seemed different this time, he seemed calmer, more focused.
The he flicked the card. It was a quick fluid motion where in a split second the card fell to the ground leaving the coin still sitting on his finger. It was so simple and he still fulfilled all the conditions. He looked up smugly toward the old man and proceeded to go in the corner to relax as he waited for the trash to finish.
In the end only Unsui managed to also pass, as though the solution was simple the flick of the fingers required a high amount of precision, reflexes and balance to avoid disrupting the coin so after a few failures the kinder twin finally succeeded.
Sendoda finally got up from where he was sitting once he wrote down the results. Softly but firmly he announced
"The first half has ended. We will begin the written test."
Door One
At the end of the appointed time limit Shogun looked around at the results. Over half the people managed to successfully get their candle on the wall 'maybe my challenge was a little too easy.' The ex knight mused. As he noted down the result of each individual and how creative they were he found disappointingly so far no one had gotten the perfect outcome he was looking for.
Finally he reached to the cowboy duo and grinned at their result. 'Finally - some people who can actually think outside the box!'
Kid grinned lazily but there was a twinkle of smugness in his eyes that betrayed his overwhelming feeling of accomplishment. Instead of just using the thumbtacks like everyone else the cowboy had used the box containing the matches to hold up the candle. Thumbtacks supported the box and hot wax he used when lighting the candle allowing the pedestal to be even more stable. "Full marks"
The ex knight stated in a gruff monotone with a faint whisper of a smile on his face in which Kid responded by tipping his hat slightly.
"Ok everyone! It's time for the second half."
'This is going way to smoothly for my liking- I have foreboding something bad will probably happen in the second half.' The cowboy thought pessimistically.
Door Two
"Kekekeke"
The demonic blond cackled victoriously, legs crossed up on the table with his cards successfully holding up a glass half filled with wine.
The cards were place in a triangular formation with the cup acting as the lid. 'The teen managed to figure it out with 5 minutes left on the clock- impressive.' The drunkard took a swig of sake as he nodded in approval at the crazy demonic teen. "Not bad kid you pass."
He stated as he took the glass of wine and gulped it down causing the arrangement of cards to fall out of place much to the annoyance of the blond. The ex-knight chuckled at the pissed expression of Hiruma and quickly excused himself to get more liquor.
As the blond waited bored for the time to tick on he watched the other aristocratic teens struggle to find a solution. Suddenly he smiled devilishly, silently gesturing the closer males to come closer to him.
"Oi fucking rich kids c'mere- Let's make... A deal."
It took only two minutes for the ex-knight to refill his alcohol but it took only half that time for Hiruma to strike up a 'deal' with a good quarter of the group. Doburoku was greeted to the sight of an evil smirking blond devil hands filled with things from gold coins and expensive items to hastily scribbled notes of information. The room contained many similar looking houses of cards holding glass cups and just as many guilty looking or fear filled faces.
"Hiruma… What the-"
"No one fucking said I couldn't have a nice... chat with my peers."
The trainer sighed taking a loong gulp relishing the burning taste at the back of his throat.
"Fine brats the first half is over."
"Kekekeke"
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