Chapter 27: Who are you!?

“It’s finally the weekend!” One of the students in Biology class shouted as the teacher dismissed class.

“Hillary.” I look back to my assigned staff, “How much homework do I have this weekend?”

“I am happy to inform Young Master Logan that you do not have any homework as you worked hard during class. In English, you are even a couple days ahead of the assigned classwork.” Hillary smiles as she talks to me.

“I see. That means I can relax this weekend.”

“Sadly, not true. You are forgetting that you agreed to meet with your disciples after classes. I recommend you go do so Young Master Logan.” Hillary bows as she takes my school items and hands me a bag with a change of clothes in it. “I have taken the liberty of bringing appropriate clothing.”

“Thanks Hillary. You help out so much, take the weekend for yourself. You deserve it.”

“Thank you, Young Master Logan. I will be leaving now, if you have any needs, do not be afraid to call for me.” Hillary bows to me slightly as she follows the crowd of people out of the room.

I see… I guess it’s time to manage my disciples.

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After getting changed in a bathroom and storing my school uniform in my locker, I walk to the back of the school where I always see people exercising. Well, I told them to use this as their designated area so that they didn’t interfere with other people.

“Teacher! It’s been a while. The entire group is ready to move on to the next steps!” George runs up to me and bows slightly after reaching me.

“Oh? Can I be shown proof that they are all ready to move on?” I smile as I look at George.

He puts a serious look on his face as he stands in front of all the students that have decided to gather. There are at least thirty people here right now… should I really be teaching them the methods I used to escape prisons? Eh, why not, it isn’t like they’ll know where these skills came from. I bet they just think of it as something that looks flashy and has no practical use.

“Line up!” George shouts to the small crowd and they line up in order from shortest to tallest… I wonder how long it took them to be able to do that. “Start!”

The line of people starts to move. They first do the smoothest rolls I have ever seen in my entire life, followed by a perfectly executed front flip.

My jaw drops. I know I taught them the form and all that… but isn’t this a little too fast? It has barely been two weeks.

“How was that teacher?” George smiles confidently as the students finish the exhibition.

“Good!” I clap slowly. “However, these are the basics. You should know better than anyone here that free running is separated into many parts before it is possible to move fluidly and not injure yourself. Don’t be confident because you know some basic moves. This is where the real training starts!”

All the students start to groan and I smile more. George only laughs to himself as he realises what the next step is.

“Okay you worthless bunch of trash! We are going to train practical skills now! I hope your cardio is good enough for this!” I look to the students who were sitting on the ground first. “All of those who sat down after the exhibition, follow George for more cardio training. The rest of you, follow me.”

I am glad to say that I have not been slacking the past little while and I am almost back in shape. I’m young so my body’s muscles remembered the forms from when they were strong and had rebuilt quicker. It hadn’t been too long since I had last exercised, so I wasn’t really that out of shape. If I had to run around the school to look for Claire again, I probably would barely be out of breath.

“Teacher, why do you want them to train their cardio?” George looks at me with confusion on his face.

“They are obviously newer than the others. The older ones will know that I punish those that slack. Sorry to punish you George, but you have been through this with me once already.” I pat George on the shoulder as I start to jog at a fairly fast pace.

The students that I had told to follow me all started to run to catch up. Good seeing that they are full of enthusiasm… time to break them.

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“I’m… dying…”

“Heh… Good… whew…. work…”

“Sleep.”

“Come on you guys. That was easy!” I yell at the people who were dying on the ground. Well… I guess pushing them for an hour straight was not the greatest plan. But hey, who said I was a good teacher?

Claire walks over to me with a bag filled with enough water for everyone.

“I brought water for everyone!”

“The… goddess… has… arrived!”

“Water!”

“Still… sleeping… first.”

The students on the ground, a mix of both male and female, crawled pitifully over to Claire. She hands them a bottle of water each as they literally roll off to somewhere to curl up in a ball.

“Hey Logan, looks like they worked hard. Did you do it with them like usual?” Claire sits beside me on a bench that was previously used for vaulting.

“Yeah, I may have made it a little tougher than when I did it a while ago. There are a couple people that quit halfway like usual, but these are the people that made it all the way through the tor- exercise.” I chug a bottle of water that Claire had handed to me as she sat down.

“So… Logan, after you shower, do you wanna go out?” Claire asks me as she stands up and leans over in front of me.

“Trying to seduce me by wearing low cut shirts and leaning in front of me? Ha! I am immune to that by now!” I stick my tongue at Claire who starts to pout slightly. “But in all seriousness, yeah, I feel like going somewhere… but I don’t feel like going anywhere fancy. I need a break from all that.”

“Of course!” Claire quickly kisses me and helps me stand up. “Where do you want to go?”

“Hm…” I take a deep breath and walk with Claire back to my locker to grab my school uniform before heading back to my dorm room to shower. “I think we could go somewhere we haven’t been in a while… oh, maybe that mall we went to when that weird raid thing happened. I heard the restaurant that was run by Ryan’s parents went bankrupt shortly after that incident. Reviews on the website were something along the lines of, ‘I saw someone held hostage just for eating with someone the owner’s son liked. 0 stars.’ It was quite funny to read.”

“Yeah.” Claire laughs as I tell this to her. “We can go there, but I don’t know any stores there that will be to your liking.”

“You don’t need to worry about that one bit. I happened to see quite a few stores that I would enjoy, and a lot that you might enjoy, even though they are cheaper than the stores we went to that day.” I hold Claire’s hand, and despite her complaints that I smelled bad, she didn’t move away from me.

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“Trains are boring!” Claire exclaims this while sitting in my lap on the train that took us to the mall.

“Well… most people find it to be so. It is like a car, but faster. If you aren’t driving, it is likely that you will get bored.” I hug Claire to make her stop moving around.

Instead of getting her to stop, she turns around while sitting on my lap to face me.

“Ah, you know we are on a train? Doing this is a little… odd, no?” I try to reason with Claire who looked extremely bored.

“Shut up and kiss me already.” Claire leans in to kiss me and I just resign to my fate.

Hey… it’s not a bad fate. Not all fates are bad.

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“So Logan…” Claire and I were waiting in line at a theatre that was connected to the mall. “How do you manage to do all these things? I mean, you seem like you have no stress built up at all, what’s with that?” Claire holds my hand as we wait to buy tickets.

“Well. Just being with you is relaxing for me. You are the perfect wife. You have never once nagged me excessively. You care about what is best for both of us. I wish I was as good as you are.” Claire was about to talk when we make it to the front of the line.

“What tickets would you like and how many?” The man standing behind the counter asks in a monotone voice.

“Um…” Claire speaks up for me so I don’t have to talk to him, “Two tickets for the most romantic moving showing.”

“Oh?” The man smiles, but his voice staying monotone. “Here are your tickets. Have a good date.” The man gives me a thumbs up after going back to expressionless.

Well… how bad can a simple romance movie be?

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What just happened!?

How was that romantic in any way!?

I mean… seriously!? The main character and the love interest both lose their memories at the start of the movie and slowly regain them only to die of cancer! Both of them! They died at the same time!? How on earth is that romantic!?

“Not a bad movie, I’d like to watch it again sometime.” Claire smiled as we stood up from the seats we had chosen.

“How would you know? You were trying to make out with me for over half the movie. Not that I’m really complaining, but we are in public, can’t we tone it down a bit?” I look to Claire who just shrugs her shoulders.

“I thought that was your goal in the first place. Take me to a dark theatre so that we could make out.”

“Didn’t we do that for the majority of the train ride in front of others? Why would I try to hide it after that?”

“Meh.” Claire smiles as we start to wander around the mall.

After a while of wandering I stumble across a familiar figure. He was sitting by himself on a mall bench just waiting for something, constantly checking his watch. Claire and I continue to walk as we talk, I never point him out to Claire because he is harmless. Claire happily walks hand in hand with me.

It took me a while, but I am finally used to the jealous stares from people. They are harmless and will never do anything. If there can put so much energy into being jealous, why don’t they just get a girl for themselves?

“Hey Logan, wanna get something to eat?” Claire pulls me in the direction of a fast food vendor in the food court. I hadn’t even noticed we entered the food court.

“Uh… sure. I didn’t know you like fast food.” I pull out my wallet and use some of the large amount of money that was left on the gift card from the scavenger hunt.

“It’s been a while since I’ve had some, so I thought it would be okay. A hamburger every now and then isn’t a bad thing.” Claire sticks her tongue out at me as we order.

Claire and I find a table in the food court to sit at. Ah, this is relaxing. Sitting in a mall with my wife, eating a hamburger.

“Oh, mind if I sit with you Claire?” A person noisily pulls up a chair and sits beside Claire.

Well, you can say I chose this spot to sit strategically. Cameras in this room don’t cover this small area. Claire looks to the person and frowns.

“Who are you?” Claire looks to me, “Logan, do you know him?”

“Nope. I have no idea who this is. Are you done eating Claire? We may as well go home now.” Claire and I had actually just finished eating.

To be honest, I do know this person, I am just choosing to ignore him.

“How dare you ignore me!? The richest and most handsome Young Master of all!”

I walk up to him and shove the garbage from my meal in his mouth.

“Thanks for taking that from me. Nice to meet you by the way!”

Claire and I run away from the scene quickly in order to avoid getting in trouble. Not like we would have gotten in much after an explanation. I just don’t feel like wasting my time on such a trivial matter.

Claire and I board the train back towards the school. The train leaves as the person arrives at the station. Claire and I wave out the window at him. He punches the nearest wall and falls to the ground holding his fist.

“So… how should we deal with him this time?” Claire smiles to me as she sits on my lap again.

“Well, I don’t really want to make out the entire way home, I’m pretty sure my face will hurt, and I think he dealt with himself back there, so we can probably just leave it for now, it isn’t like he is really getting in the way anymore.” I lift Claire off of me.

Claire manoeuvres in a way that she hooks her legs around me… she really doesn’t want to leave my lap…

“Hey, I took some self-defence classes when I was younger. I can move quicker than you think.” Claire smiles as she forces me to endure her on my lap.

I once again resign to my fate as another day comes to a close.

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