For a few moments, Leox was stunned into silence. He stared at the woman's face, and she stared at him with her blue eyes. The smile on her face remained the entire time.

  "I..." Leox stuttered.

  The doctor let out a laugh and sat down on the windowsill, crossing one leg over the other.

  "Don't worry. Frost is an ally, which means you are too... Assuming that he was right about you?"

  Leox had long since come to realise that he couldn't trust anybody blindly. This woman? She could call herself an ally, but until she explained herself, he would stay on edge the entire time.

  In one swift movement, he reached over his shoulder and into the back of his coat, drawing the blade that he had carefully hidden there. The sunlight shone through the window, highlighting the sharpness of the weapon as he held it out in front of him.

  The doctor didn't flinch, or even raise a brow. "You would be smart to put that away." She then said, but Leox didn't listen.

  "How do you know Doctor Frost? Where is?" He asked fiercely. He had many more questions he wanted answers to, but these were the most important. The doctor eventually let out a sigh.

  "Where is he? Pfft, I wish I knew myself. As for how I know him? Well unfortunately, we were pushed out of the same hole."

  Leox slowly lowered his blade as he took a closer look at the woman. That was why he recognised her. She looked exactly like him.

  "You're his sister?!"

  "That's right."

  Just like that, his entire demeanour towards the woman had changed. He had originally intended to come here, with only slight hope that he could find answers. Now, that had been made certain. The woman noticed the intrigue glowing in Leox's eyes, so she gestured for him to sit.

  "Before you ask me any questions, there are some things I need to know from you." The woman said as she made her way over to her desk at the far side of the room, where papers were stacked.

  "My name is Snow, Doctor Snow. What's your name? Who is your professor? Tell me every single detail shown in your overview."

  "..."

  Leox had forgotten to even look at the woman's overview. He ignored her extremely personal question for a moment and checked her stage.

  ---

  [Snow]

  [Awakening Stage: Third Stage]

  [Classes:]

  Unknown

  [Class Skills:]

  Unknown

  ---

  Third stage. Strong.

  "My name is Leox Lether, and I've been assigned to Professor... Um, the Judge."

  "You mean Gutaru, Professor of Class One? Hm, I guess I shouldn't have expected any less. And your classes?"

  Leox hesitated for a moment. Was this really a woman he could trust with his greatest secret? She had already had hunches after all, but to say it out of his mouth would confirm it on his overview.

  "I can control fire, wind, earth and water at a novice level. I'm also a monk of the apprentice rank."

  After he explained, he watched the woman squint her eyes at him, as she likely watched the information fill itself into his overview. Afterwards, she raised her brows, expecting more.

  Leox shook his head. "I won't say anything else, until you give me answers."

  "Oh really?" Doctor Snow mused. "You realise I could just kill you, and confirm it for myself."

  The words immediately made him reach for his sword once again. As he did, the doctor laughed playfully.

  "I'm kidding, what do you want to know kid? It only makes sense that I provide you with the answers you want. After all, I'm sure you have issues trusting people after what happened in the sewers."

  For a moment, Leox paused. He realised that since Doctor Snow 'knew' about his immortality, she could make better guesses as to what happened in the sewers with Donn. For some reason, this made him feel slightly at ease.

  "Who is Doctor Frost?" He asked the first, and most important question, which put a slight smile on the side of Snow's lips.

  "Frost is a genius, a foolish genius whose knowledge stretched way past the sciences. He was once a travelling apothecary who travelled between the five countries, giving help to the villagers who lived in the most dangerous areas. Until he found you, of course. After that, everything changed."

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  Leox remained silent and listened to the doctor speak. It felt like he was being told ancient tales at a campfire.

  "Frost said that he found you drifting in a basket, until you eventually arrived at the shore of The Living Sea. Your body was malnourished, and upon further inspection, he came to a conclusion. You had been placed in that basket soon after your birth, and managed to survive drifting across the sea until you reached the age of one... roughly."

  In a basket. So Frost wasn't there during my birth, which makes my actual age and date of birth completely made up? That explains why I was able to awaken at the age of 'twelve'. In reality, I'm probably closer to the age fourteen at the moment.

  Doctor Snow continued.

  "It was then that Frost came up with the theory that you were immortal, but did not dare to test it, nor was he in a position to look after you himself. That was when he travelled to the Undying City, his hometown, and dropped you off at a village nearby. This was probably how you arrived at the place you called 'home'."

  This fit perfectly with the information Leox's father, Kyle, had told him the day before he left the village. Frost had told them that Leox came from the other side of the sea, which in a way, wasn't a lie. He had found the boy drifting across the waters and naturally came to that conclusion.

  "What happened afterwards?" Leox asked desperately, completely immersed in the story. "Doctor Frost healed me of an... Injury, seven years ago. He left our village after that and I never saw him again. Have you seen him since then?

  Doctor Snow's face suddenly went sour. It was clear that whatever her answer was to this question, it wasn't one that she liked.

  "Since then, I haven't heard from my brother, only faint rumours that I've had to search for myself. He's earned himself many names: The One-Eyed Failure, the Mad Scientist, the Fallen Doctor. Since whatever happened in Everhurst Village, he has travelled the world and earned himself these titles from various locations. He's notorious in the medical scene."

  From Leox's loose memory, Doctor Frost didn't fit any of these titles. He had always seemed like a calm and collected individual. It made him wonder, was witnessing Leox's death truly so life-changing for him?

  "What did he do to earn those titles?"

  "Isn't it obvious?" Doctor Snow asked as she tilted her head. "He dared to study immortality."

  "I... I don't understand. What is so wrong with studying immortality?" Leox asked in confusion.

  No matter what way he looked at it, studying mortality seemed fit for a doctor, and also very beneficial if successful. What was so wrong with Doctor Frost's curiosity?

  "It wasn't his choice of subject that angered people, although they did find it a pointless area to study. What earned him his title was the passion that was said to draw him to insanity."

  Leox wanted to ask a thousand more questions, but suddenly a knock came at the door. It seemed that one of the first-year students had already injured themselves before their first day had even started.

  Doctor Snow sighed and rose to her feet. "You'll have to question me more another time, student. Hopefully I'll be able to ask you some questions too afterwards."

  Leox reluctantly nodded his head before thanking the Doctor for her information and promising to return when he had the time. However, before he left, he had one more question.

  "There was another doctor in the city who seemed to know about Doctor Frost. His name was Biomancer Nikolai. Why did he act so strangely when I asked him?"

  Doctor Snow blew air out of her nose as if she had just heard the most pathetic joke in her life.

  "Nikolai? Frost beat the shit out of him the first time they met because he perved on me. The guy doesn't know shit about anything, he was just embarrassed."

  "..."

  Leox couldn't help but laugh. This whole time he had wondered if Nikolai was a man who might hold some of the secrets behind his own mysterious life. In reality, he was just a weirdo.

  "Thank you, Doctor Snow."

  "Anytime."

  ---

  With that, Leox left the doctor's room and walked past the boy who was waiting to enter. The state of the boy's face made him physically recoil, as bumps, bruises and cuts riddled it. The boy seemed half-conscious and had to be carried by two other boys who helped rush him into the doctor's room.

  What the...

  Suddenly Leox's attention was drawn to a large amount of commotion taking place in the academy field, followed by a crowd of children hurrying outside towards it. Leox joined the crowd and soon found a large bunch of students of all years watching a scene taking place on the grass. Two students were facing off with each other, and by the looks of it, they were not the same age... In fact, Leox recognised one of them as a student from his own class.

  It was the brown-haired, feminine-looking boy with the pink star-shaped pupils. He stood there in front of an older student who towered over him. This older student has his sleeves rolled up, revealing dense muscular forearms that bulged with veins. He glared down at the feminine boy, before grabbing him by the shirt aggressively.

  "When I ask for your fucking overview information, you give it to me without hesitation. That's how it goes for you, and any other year ones when a second-year student questions you." The muscular boy with black hair then looked around the crowd, eyeing up any of the younger students. "Understood?"

  No one responded. The message was received immediately.

  The third-year brute tossed the boy down to the floor, sending him sliding on his back across the grass. Afterwards, the older boy started to make his way over to his posse of friends, and the crowd slowly started to disperse.

  Leox heard whispers around the crowd.

  "Poor kid." They said.

  "First years have it rough, as always." They pointed out.

  "Oh well. That's the way the world goes. The weak are eaten by the strong." They sighed.

  But no one seemed to be focused on the boy on the ground, only Leox. That was because he was physically unremarkable in all ways, and surely didn't stand out to anyone. He was thought to be just another victim to those stronger than him.

  Until the boy rose to his feet, outstretching one arm to the side. He had a smile on his face the entire time, which suggested that the only emotion he could harbour in his heart was kindness. Yet, the magic that suddenly appeared in his grasp was far from kind. It struck from the sky like a falling star, landing directly into his hands with a crash that cast a blinding golden light across the field.

  Everyone shielded themselves from the light whilst turning towards its source. Leox also had to cover his eyes, but he was so desperate to see what lay behind the light. Eventually, it cleared, and what was revealed could best be described as angelic. The boy's hair was no longer brown, but golden, in his hand was a trident made from light that was as tall as himself, and on his youthful face was a smile that hardly suited the immense power radiating from his body.

  The surrounding students gasped in utter disbelief and eventually began to scream amongst one another at the spectacle of the boys' power. The brutish second-year student gulped, despite being an entire awakening stage above the student in front of him.

  The young boy squinted his eyes kindly and tilted his head to the side.

  "Here is my class: The Astrologer. I am sorry for not telling you sooner."