The Author's POV

-Clank!

Saying goodbye to Leo and Ram, I quietly went back to my dorm. Thereafter, I sent a quick message to Smallsnake with regards to W.V. pharmaceuticals and threw my phone on my bed.

*Sigh*

As a sigh escaped from my mouth, sitting on my chair in front of a large spacious wooden desk I took out my computer and booted it up.

So far, this was what I gathered from the small conversation I had with Ram and Leo on my way back.

The current Manticore building was ruled by the stronger more influential people, and taking advantage of the fact that there is a time regressive machine, they forced and coerced weaker students into giving them their time passes.

In a way, this was pretty much how gangs operated.

...It was sort of cliche, but with this world being filled with cliches, I wasn't really surprised.

Taking a small notepad from the drawer of my desk, I immediately summarized the information that I had gotten from them.

I first started writing about the social hierarchy of this place.

From what I remember that they told me, there were five people I had to watch out for in this building.

...and according to Leo and Ram, these five people, because of how influential and powerful they were...they were known by everyone here as the 'five tyrants'

Through their connections and parents' fame, these five people ruled the Manticore building with an iron fist.

Gerrard Lim - W.V. Pharmaceuticals chairman son

Romelu Connel - Both his parents are A-ranked heroes, and work under platinum rank guild.

Adrea Forsetti - Son of the elder of Gladiatori, platinum rank guild.

Jessica Pandev - Daughter of one of the school instructors.

Gabriella Lemass - Daughter of branch manager of Ashton-district bank, one of the largest banks in the city.

As I looked through the list of names, apparently, I was quite lucky to be under Gerrard's rule.

According to what I heard from Leo and Ram, he was the nicest of the lot. Although from what I've gathered they didn't kill as Gerrard did, what they did was even worse.

...torturing you to the point that you wished that you were dead. Be it through targeting your family or anyone that was around you...as long as they didn't like you, they would immediately subject you to intense bullying and include your family in their nonsensical acts.

They were all practically psychopaths. I wasn't really sure how these people even existed as there is a clear boundary between arrogant and insane...and this was on that level.

...to be called the 'five tyrants' because of what they did was understandable. From the way they behaved and pressed people, they were nothing short of tyrants.

Worse thing, because of the connections they each had, working together they managed to secure this iron-clad rule that basically prevented any of the students present from voicing out what was happening...meaning that they had free reigns of this place.

Unless your background was something they couldn't handle, if they deemed you to be their target, you were pretty much done for.

I knew that eventually I may be implicated

act before

looked through each of their backgrounds

it down on a

would also stop and ponder for a couple of

different plans started formulating in my mind as I

having any

was going to be a better place compared to the horned sheep building...but it seems like

only planning on dealing with Gerrard, but after hearing what Leo and Ram had said, I changed my

all needed to

were going to be interfering with my training and daily life, but also because it was a necessary measure I had to take in order to make Ava join

open, I took a large piece of paper and started creating a mind map with five large squares by the

all that I currently knew, I started creating connections and links between each member. Though I wasn't planning on acting anytime soon, preparing myself earlier was never a bad

mind, I quickly got to work as I tried my best to come up with a foolproof plan that would achieve my

my

don't blame me for doing this. After all, I am just doing this for self-defense. Blame yourselves for threatening to ruin my daily

...

Class A-25, Lock.

"Huuuuamm..."

out loud as I stretched my arms in the air, I wiped the tears that had formed on the corner of my

a lie. Having spent most of yesterday going through all of the information I could find regarding the 'five tyrants', I

...I was understandably tired.

-Clank!

like usual, Donna calmly walked towards the podium of the class. Thereafter, placing all of her stuff down she took out a tablet and

"Rank 1, Kevin Voss"

"Yes, Present"

"Rank 2, Melissa Hall"

"Present"

"Rank 3, Jin Horton"

"Present"

calmly observed the classroom. Kevin and the other were sitting in their usual seats on the

the

Arnold, Melissa was going through a bunch of papers in here and, and Amanda

first time I had come here. Although if I did have to point out a notable

was no longer a nameless nobody in their eyes. Which I didn't

that was going on, their connections were indeed quite useful for my future

"Rank 197, Ren Dover"

"Present"

at me for a split second, Donna looked back at the tablet and checked my name off. Thereafter, she continued

"Rank 209, Ruben Nasri..."

register. Thereafter, after finishing the register, placing

tournament have been pushed to tomorrow morning and that all

"huu?"

audible gasp escaped from my mouth as I looked towards Donna in confusion. Soon after, a wave of whispers

did

"What's going on?"

to be in another couple