Chapter 6. Why are you guys so old?

“Why are you guys so old? Is that your son?” Still muddle-headed Boss confused the appearance of Arthur’s father and mother with the kids who rescued him.

“Wait… you didn’t have blonde hair? Nani? You don’t look like the girl either… WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE” Boss shouted shocking the people in the room who couldn’t understand a single word coming from his mouth.

Seeing the look of confusion on their face along with a box of tissue in Samuel’s hand, a lamp in Angel’s hand, and a broken leg of a chair in Benjamin’s Boss slowly recovered himself.

Finally noticing the weapon that they each picked up both Angel and Benjamin shot Samuel a weird look. Was he going to attack with a box of tissues?

Recognizing his mistake Samuel tried to play it off by offering some tissues to Boss.

Boss seeing the comical mistake that Samuel made, screamed in horror at the box of tissue as it got closer to his face. Everyone in the room backed off away from Samuel and his box of tissues. Boss standing on the opposite side of the room and Angel and Benjamin near the door with Samuel in the center with his box of tissue.

Unsure what to do, Samuel stood in the center motionless wondering what the heck made him so terrified of a box of tissues? Is this box of tissues magical? Maybe?

Slowly Samuel regained his composure and started to smile at his newfound power he held the box of tissue and motioned it closer to Boss. Boss, seeing the box of tissue getting closer to his face began shuddering and screaming like a madman.

He is afraid of a box of tissues! Samuel completely believed as he slowly pressed the tissue box in front of Boss’ face hearing the scream before pulling it back completely shutting Boss up. He repeated the scream and shut method as he was enjoying every moment.

“Everyone, I think he’s afraid of this box of tissue, maybe on his planet he probably got invaded by tissue aliens or something” Samuel reasoned in his delusion as he went on one more time to make Boss scream.

However, this time the door opened from the outside with two kids and their pets peeking in. They were wondering why there was so much screaming coming from the alien only to see Samuel scaring Boss with a box of tissues.

“Kids, he’s afraid of this box of tissues!” Samuel exclaimed in excitement letting them know as he slowly pressed the box closer to Boss’ face.

However, the scream this time never happened instead a confused look on was shown on Boss’ face with a box of tissue pressed on his cheek.

“What’re you doing dad?” Arthur said as he looked at the interaction between Boss and his father.

“I uh, I can explain. He’s afraid of the box of tissues. When he saw it earlier, he screamed I thought… maybe we can control him with it. Look.” Samuel said as he tried to continue scaring Boss with the scream and shut method that happened earlier.

But all the kids saw was Samuel acting like an idiot pressing the tissue box on the guy’s cheeks before pulling it back away and then slowly pressing it towards Boss’ face again.

Strange he was scared earlier? Maybe it’s the tissue inside! Samuel concluded as he started to pull tissue paper out of the box and tossing them at Boss.

“Muahaha take that!” Samuel said completely delusional as he started tossing tissue paper at Boss’ face hoping to make him scream.

However, after all the tissue paper landed on the floor and there was no scream coming from Boss’ mouth, Samuel snapped back to reality. This guy was just messing with me! He concluded and began seething with anger forgetting about how powerful the person in front of him was.

“You! You made a fool of me! You motherfucker, I’m gonna kick your ass!” Samuel said completely losing his rationality.

Uhhh, the entire people in the room along with the two pets gave Samuel a weird look. Are you sure you can kick his ass?

Angel hurried towards Samuel and pulled him away before standing in front of Boss.

“Uh, hello” She said.

“Uh, hello” Boss replied.

Startled by the fact that he can speak English. She continued to ask.

“You can speak English?”

“You can speak English?” He repeated with the same shocked tone of voice she presented.

“Yes I can! My name is Angel Galafray, what is yours?” Angel beamed in delight knowing he understood her.

“Yes I can! My name is Angel Galafray, what is yours?” He repeated with the same enthused expression she made.

The entire room became silent. The temperature within the room began to freeze up. This fucker was just mimicking me! He doesn’t know what I’m saying. Angel flared up ready to attack.

However, she controlled herself knowing that this is not the right time or person to attack she calmed down. Once she did so she froze in place. The temperature in the room was still just as frozen as she made it, however, she already stopped using her powers…

A shocked expression can be shown on Angel’s face as she backed away. Everyone in the room knowing Angel’s power stared at Boss’ face in disbelief. This guy is dangerous! He can copy her powers exactly. Just what on earth is he?

Finally getting the attention he wanted Boss’ motioned them to calm down and sit. Everyone in the room know this universal gesture and sat instantly waiting for him to start speaking up. However, the next moment the sound of grumbling could be heard as they looked at the only guy standing up. The guy standing up had a bashful expression as he began to blush. Damn you stomach why now!

“You’re hungry? Benjamin quickly let’s get him some food!” Samuel said as he noticed the gurgling noises from Boss’ stomach.

Benjamin disappeared and prepared a light snack for Boss to eat. It was just some sandwiches and a glass of water since it’s been nearly two weeks of him being asleep.

Devouring the sandwich and finishing the glass of water Boss exhaled a contented sigh as he turned to the people sitting on the ground. He motioned the little boy to come over. However, Angel stopped Arthur from getting up. He’s too dangerous for Arthur to get near.

Realizing that he’s quite scary right now Boss, then pointed at the books scattered on the floor. Gesturing that he wanted to read the contents of the books. He was also too lazy to pick up the books, so he wanted to use his scary persona to have others do it for him.

Shelly calmly picked up a book about the history of Tierra. The planet that they are from.

Boss slowly flipped through the pages all the way towards the end before speaking up again.

“Alright, I understand your language now.” He said in perfect English.

The entire room was silent, no one was sure of what to say.

“Ahaha, it seems like I’m quite Exotic eh?” He continued referencing his hair and eyes.

Arthur beamed when he saw the casual expression on Boss face.

“Hi, I’m Arthur! What’s your name?”

“You may call me Boss.” He replied.

Did he read the book right? Boss is a title not a name does he really want to be a boss. However, Arthur was okay with this.

“Hi Boss! You’re right you are an Exotic! I think! Uhh, I’m not sure! Shelly~” Arthur continued to exclaim in happiness even when he didn’t know something.

“In our world, you would be considered an exotic since your hair color is different from the normal brown, red, green, blue. And your eyes are not brown, magenta, cyan, or yellow.” Shelly answered for Arthur.

“However, there has never been an Exotic that was born with either black hair or eyes before. So, I’m not sure if you’re considered an exotic or not” Shelly continued honestly.

“Hmm, this history book doesn’t tell me much about the school of power can you tell me what they are?” Boss replied asking about the two Red, Green, blue hair academy and the Cyan, magenta, yellow eye academy.

“I can answer this” Samuel interjected since he had more knowledge of the current power system of the world.

“There are two powerful institutions in this world that we know of that teaches the way of the hair or the eyes. One is here in our country of Zeldova, and the other belongs to the Tillowisk Empire Or more accurately, in the Kingdom of Cheshire. The school where people of brown hair goes to train to become either red, green, or blue hair is called The Lumiere, these people focus on enlightening people the way of training the body.”

“Each body is born with a different constitution that is better suited for either going in the pathway of red, blue, and green. Those who are born for red will focus on power, green will be durability, and blue will be speed and reflexes”

“Why would people want to be durable? When there’s speed and power as an option?” Boss asked.

“I’ll get to that. The two institutions while teaching different methods of thoughts are not against the other’s way of thinking. In fact, students who go to one school, if they are capable can also go to the other school. These two schools can make students who have for example red hair and cyan eyes! Prodigies!”

“Ohoho, I see so they combine the powers of the hair and eyes together I see, I see.” Boss replied.

“Yes! Those who go into the school of the mind or The Naturelle will learn the powers of Magenta, Cyan, or yellow. I’m not sure if the history book talked about their powers so I’ll just repeat it. Magenta is the power of Telekinesis they’re able to control inanimate objects, Cyan is Empathy, they can understand, enhance, and manipulate anything related to feelings, and Yellows are able to Teleport.” Samuel continued with his exited expression.

“Oh, I see, interesting then if that is the case being a durable teleporter or object tossing person is quite difficult to deal with” Boss surmised.

“The combination of any hair and eye color will greatly boost one’s capabilities. However, there is a clear weakness.” Samuel said.

“Their color represents their power?” Boss easily guessed the problem.

“That’s right! No matter what power you have, if your opponent knows what you are, they can be prepared for it. That’s why the two schools work together, they have no reason to be against each other when their powers are so transparent.” Samuel said.

“Couldn’t they just dye their hair to fool the enemies?” Boss asked

“They can, however, it’ll only be able to fool the idiots. Students of Lumiere and Naturelle are already taught about situations such as this, there is a resonance between those who have the same power and those who don’t, you can’t fool them by pretending to be normal if there’s a similar or different resonance when you’re nearby.

“What about the Exotics then?” Boss continued to ask

“That’s the cool thing! Exotics much like everyone here, including yourself probably, are those born with unnatural powers. Their hair and eyes don’t have a specific pattern of power that we know of, they are capable of everything and anything. Some are more powerful than others and are normally used as the last line of defense. Also, there is no resonance between Exotic no matter how similar their powers are.”

“Ohoho, that’s interesting what’s the strongest Exotic on this planet?” Boss asked his interest piqued.

“Uh, that is a hard question to answer, for every Exotic there is one that has powers that can counter it. However, if you want to know the two currently most impressive well-known Exotics that may be considered the strongest. It would be Judas the demon of the west and Uriel the ghost of the east.”

“Oh? What makes them any good?”

“Their longevity, the stories of Judas and Uriel has been passed down for generations, in the west whenever Judas appears there will be bloodshed soaked into the ground no bones or bodies are left behind. Uriel the ghost of the east is a plague, anywhere he goes death and decay follows like an illness turning everyone into ghosts. Corpses scatter the area filled with any and all types of diseases.”

“Ooooh, sounds scary” However, the enthusiastic smile on Boss’ face tells otherwise.

“But that’s not all, they’re so high profile yet no soul has ever come back alive to tell us about their power. Only the things they’ve left behind can tell their story. We don’t even know their real names everyone just calls them Judas and Uriel.” Samuel continued.

“It is also a very effective way to scare children to stay inside. So, everyone continues to tell their story.” Samuel leered at Arthur with a smile.

“I see, I get it now, Exotics are secret weapons for wartime. Then how come you guys are just chilling here in this shanty ol’ town in this giant mansion on the outskirt of it?” Boss asked.

“Nobility, we are the Galafray one of the largest and most powerful families. While I am just part of an offshoot branch of Galafray our blue attire and white snowflake is a recognizable symbol status. No foreign enemies would dare engage with us in public.”

“What about in private?” Boss asked.

“Everything is more dangerous in private, kidnapping, assassinations, we’ll have to be completely prepared for that. However, foreign enemies are not what we should worry about. It is the other families can rule a nation and control an army of their own that is the most worrisome. However, we’ll know when they come to town as they’re not hard to miss.”

“Oh? Can’t they disguise?” Boss continues asking about disguises.

“Our families are not idiots, ya know. I know information about everyone who enters and leaves in this town and the village across the mountains.” Samuel explained.

“Which family is the most dangerous?”

“Obviously the royals, our current royalty, the Masters, are probably the most powerful family of Exotics with King Baroque Masters being a powerful Exotic himself. Only other royalties of foreign nations have the power that can match the Masters. Probably the Vistas are equal in power.”

“Ooooh! I see! Ok, would you like to become royalty?” A mischievous look can be seen on Boss’ face as he asked such a blasphemous question.