Chapter 10

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Drew was sitting in the class. After his encounter with the strange water creature, his head periodically pained like never before. It was a necessity that he lived Ethan's life, not just because he hated anyone knowing that he was stuck in Ethan's body, but since he could not risk any enchanters finding out that he had time traveled. If they found out, the consequences were unpredictable.

To divert his attention from the intense pain, he forced himself to get annoyed by the kids' conversations in the front.

"You know, more often, to be good in arts, it is essential that we have to be depressed," Layla told to Carol. "I wish I got depressed more often."

"I never knew depression had this much demand," Carol mockingly remarked.

"I am serious. I can give you a long list including Charlie Chaplin. They all suffered from depression." Layla said, which made Carol groan.

Lewis turned back and commented to Layla, "Tell you what. Go and become a terrorist in a country that supports terrorism. That way you can get all the depression you want and compose whatever you want in jail."

"I would never do that. I am such a good girl," Layla said with disdain.

"Says you," Lewis said in a sly smile. He got up and put his right hand to the front, "I take a pledge that I will try my best not to make you depressed."

"I can't believe even you are pitying this hopeless creature," Carol said to Lewis.

"Who said that I'm pitying her? I can't bear to see someone like her becoming anything," Lewis said to Carol.

"Why are you so rude to girls?" Layla asked folding her hands, turning her lips into a frown.

"That's because I believe most of the girls in my class are boys disguised as girls," Lewis said and sat down, which made both girls flush with outrage.

"Excuse me!" Layla got up and pointed her finger at Lewis.

"Well, I remember a certain someone once telling that she wished she was rejected, abandoned and bullied seeing the shonen anime protagonists," Lewis laughed, in which the whole class joined the giggles.

"That was when I was a kid because at that time I got hyped seeing the underdogs do the supposed to be impossible," Layla said and sat down, trying to calm down.

"Before or now, I don't think anyone would get hyped when you achieve anything," Lewis said, to which Layla started fighting with Lewis.

Drew put his head down. It felt like he had space traveled rather than time traveled. The kids in this era had no discipline. He became worried about what would Ethan be doing. If Ethan was like his classmates, Drew could not guess the chaos Ethan would make. But ever since the fight with the water creature, Drew doubted if Ethan's soul was suppressed by Drew within the same body of Ethan. The possibility for a body fusion could not be ignored. If then, Ethan would not be under the mercy of Drew, Drew would be the one imposing his life on Ethan.

There was a stronger pang in his chest, dreading if Eve touched any of her visuals. They should have waited before wearing the ring. If she touched the visual of a wrong person, she could be in trouble, and she would be caught within the trap of the water creature. Feeling the intense pain, Drew's hatred towards the water creature grew more thinking if it harmed his sister.

The last thing Drew wanted was to be a burden to someone. He did not want anyone to suffer because of him. He did not want to lose anything precious to him ever again because of powerlessness. That is the reason why he wanted to remind himself through words and actions why Amora was useless. But now he felt like a puppet being controlled by an unknown source, with no idea of what will happen. His body was just an instrument to be controlled. Whether he had a mind or not, did not matter anymore.

A sudden feeling of thirst overcame Drew. His throat felt like it had never drunk water before. Quickly, Drew took the water bottle in Ethan's bag and drank it. The water flowed through his tongue and down his throat like a powerful waterfall.

For some reason, unconsciously, Drew inserted his fingers into the socket. The next moment, Drew could see the entire class from above with ten eyes, through the light bulbs with no eyes. A bodiless creature, Drew no longer felt any emotions. He just observed the class and Ethan's body sitting in the wheelchair with something merely to be called surprise. Ethan was not blinking. On Ethan's forehead, there was a spiral circulating like blue water.

Through the center light, Drew could see below the students, something like a giant red heart protruding out. It kept on enlarging, but none of the kids seemed to notice it nor be affected by it. The heart did not seem to touch them or the surrounding things. The students were freely roaming around in the break time. After acquiring a certain amount of depth and height of the tables, the heart turned black. Then out of it came something like black puppets with no facial features, except one big white sharp broad teeth. The puppets floated up with red balloons in the shape of a blade.

As if an unknown force was controlling him, through the central light, Drew's mind took the form of electric arrows, equivalent to the number of puppets, causing the central light to fuse out.

Through the sidelights, Drew could see that out of nowhere, a cat jumped up through the arrows, its orange pupils slowly becoming smaller and smaller, and its eyes transforming into something like water, its legs syncing with electricity, like it was dancing, and each arrow thrust into the puppets with force, turning them into dust.

It then went into the window and stuck itself onto the window. The cat seemed like a moving glass painting and Drew could see through the lights that its eyes became like a water fish with a small orange pupil, the cat striding through the glass like a proud cat that just snatched away its prey. The amount of water on its glimmering water body was equivalent to the water Drew drank. The cat then jumped out, giving a smile like it had outsmarted Drew and overtook him to crushing the puppets.

Usually, as someone who hated to lose, Drew would feel annoyed with the cocky expression of the cat. But for some reason, he felt like a calm lake without movement. Through one of the tube lights, Drew could see Ethan's head falling.

Slowly, he could feel his feelings returning to him.

Travis. I never thought I would say this. Though I can see the bright light, I am blind. Save me.

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