The next morning..
"Wake up."
Scythe's words rang through Calea's ears like a loud bell and soon, she opened her eyes and woke up from her dreams, it's the usual scenario, and after getting used to it, the fear of being kicked by Scythe had disappeared from everyone's mind.
"Yes.." Everyone said.
Calea swiped her eyes back and forth, trying to get rid of her eye crusts, once she gets a clearer vision, she noticed that Vedra is still sleeping, he wasn't moving, and Scythe's call for waking up also didn't get heard.
'What the fuck?.. Has he lost his mind? This is strange...' Calea thought, confused as to what happened. 'Vedra isn't the type of guy who'd do this intentionally, he might be arrogant and annoying, but he wouldn't do anything that's against the rules– Scythe clearly said a week ago that if we don't stand up after he said 'Wake up', then he'd kick us until we do so..'
Whilst everyone was wondering why Vedra hasn't woken up yet, Scythe himself decided to approach him, his step were heavy, followed with the constant creaking noises from the floor.
"Hm.." Scythe looked at the Vedra's body, his eyes were still closed, there was no reaction at all. "Wake... UP!"
THWACK!
Scythe then proceeded to kick Vedra, he kicked him on the waist and threw his body near the wooden wall, Scythe didn't put much strength into that kick as he didn't want to further damage the walls and causing more chance of destruction to likely happen.
Thud!
Thud!
And yet, despite having been kicked quite hard, Vedra still insisted on his act, his body didn't even flinched and his fingers were flaccidly still, his disjointed arm was in a position where it would usually be painful for him, but even then he still showed no reaction.
After seeing the strange behaviour, Scythe then walked again to see Vedra, everyone else were staring in the distance, near the front door.
"What the fuck..." Scythe said as he crouched, now believing that there's something going on, Scythe moved his fingers to Vedra's nose, he placed it just below his nostrils. "Tck– This guy's dead."
"Wait– What?.." Orbeth said, surprised with what he just heard.
"HUH?.." Deon also reacted in disbelief. "Vedra's DEAD!?"
"What? There's no way, how did he die?.." Said Hughen, his face didn't show any changes whatsoever. "Well, i guess someone either didn't like him or he died because of diseases, haha!"
"V- Vedra is dead?.." Zayn also got surprised, but he mostly was confused.
"Well well well, it seems like there's a murderer in here." Endi said, his calmness stull unfazed, even infront of a crime.
While everyone was shocked with the death of Vedra, Calea that is standing on the back instead felt an indescribable rage inside of her, her eyebrows furrowed and her mouth frowned at the sight of Vedra's lifeless body.
'He's dead!?' She shouted in her mind, her teeth grinds against eachother and an invisible aura manifested around her. 'What is this? He was supposed to die by my hand.. And now you're saying that he's dead? How dare you.. Who is it, who is the person that stole my target..'
Calea shook her eyes, her pupils were flashing left and right, each of those movement were a brief glance at everyone in the shack, she analyzed each of the students, seeing if there's any abnormality in one of them, whether its a new dirt stain, or a new injury, she tried to not miss a single detail.
'Nothing..' She thought. 'Nothing, nothing.. Nothing.. There's nothing significant.. How did it happen.. How did Vedra died, i need to know– A natural death caused by diseases shouldn't be this instant, he was fine yesterday, he trained like normal, although his disjointed arm was certainly a problem, i don't think it would be causing an infection, or atleast not this soon..'
In the middle of Calea's deep thinking, a voice suddenly spoke out among the students, it was Kalioseth, he said, "Instructor, how did Vedra died? Is it murder?"
Hearing Kalios's question, Scythe then stood up from his crouch and faced the students.
"Hmm, this is quite problematic." He said coldly. "His body had way too many injuries, i couldn't figure out if there's a new one that previously wasn't there yesterday– However, calling it a murder might be the correct answer, despite his injuries, there's no sign of an infection, from what i've seen, most of the wounds on his body had already dried out."
"Since everyone is not allowed to bring any object into the shack at night, it's likely that someone had broken the rules and snuggled it, but i'm here not to punish, i still don't have a solid proof of identifying who the culprit is– What i can say though, is that— Vedra's cause of death is most likely from suffocation."
"Huh, who the hell has the strength to overpower Vedra and suffocate him without giving him a chance to scream or fight back.." Said Orbeth, he raised his hands to give more credit on his explanation. "Vedra was the second strongest person in this group, and the only person who's stronger than him was Carsel.."
Once everyone heard Orbeth's explanation, their attention then moved to Carsel, their head turns, fixating their eyes on him suspiciously.
Realizing that everyone is suspicious of him, Carsel then said, "What? you thought i killed him?"
"You're the only person who's stronger than Vedra, who could it be if it wasn't you." Said Seir, pointing his finger at Carsel's chest.
"Hey fucker, what the hell are you saying, it's true that he and i are rivals, but i'm not holding that kind of grudge against him– Infact, i think his presence is one of my reason why i kept growing stronger each day, not like you piece of trash." Carsel replied, his voice sounded mad.
"W- what did you just say—
Seir was about to mock Carsel back, but it was stopped by Scythe, he approached the students and then dispersed them from the conflict.
"Did you forget that i'm here?" Scythe said with a threatening tone. "If you want to fight, do it later in the evening, or.. Are you trying to disobey me?"
"N- no sir.." Seir responded, he turned down his head.
"Tch, he's the one who accused me first, you should add some punishment for these people, you shitty instructor." Carsel said, looking away from everybody.
Scythe ignored Carsel's complain, instead of continuing the pointless argument, he chose to walk away from the students and went outside, everyone followed him, thinking that this is the time for the daily morning check up, however, instead of stopping at the training ground as usual, Scythe just kept walking and disappeared into the forest.
"Huh? Where is he going?" Said Kalios.
"Eh, i don't know, maybe he's going to give us a morning meal first?" Endi replied, he thought that it would be like yesterday.
"Ohh, that would nice, im quite hungry anyway." Said Hughen with a smile.
"Hey, wanna try to see what's beyond those trees? He'll probably come back in a minute, that's enough time to explore right?" Said Deon, he was imagining an escape plan in his mind.
"Do you want to die? if you want to meet with Vedra, i'll allow you to do so, but don't drag anyone into this." Orbeth responded, he wasn't very fond with Deon's idea.
On the other side, Seir fell quiet after that short quarrel with Carsel, he's still trying to figure out who could've killed Vedra if it wasn't Carsel who did it.
'The only person i can possibly count on as a suspect is–' He thought, turning his head to take a look at Calea. 'It's her.. There's no doubt about, after that girl awakened her aura, her presence became more prominent and her strength also raised significantly– Not to mention the fact that she said yesterday that she wants to kill us all— With her advantage of using Aura, she could've killed Vedra silently without alerting everyone..'
Seir sighed in discomfort, 'This is bad, i don't know if Scythe will punish us for murder or not, but what i can say certainly is that– As long as that girl Calea is still alive, all of our lives are in danger.'
After approximately 30 seconds passed by, Scythe then came back from the deep forest, everyone was waiting for him, some students almost accepted Deon's suggestion, if he had arrived way later, then one or two of his students would be found missing and another murder might happen in the morning.
Scythe came back with a cloaked man, he was one of the guard that stood outside of the wooden shack.
"This guy was the one who guarded the shack last night, he'll be the one who will answer the question about last night situation." Scythe said while he guides the man infront of the students.
Everyone gulped as they saw the cloaked man, they thought that some truth might be uncovered after this, who knows what would happen in the next day or week after this incident unfolded.