I Am Tired Of Being A Hero-Chapter 198: Morning of the Entrance Examination

A single flap of a butterfly wing can lead to a typhoon.

Ravi sighed as he drove the five-seater Hyundai Exter down the road, he maintained a decent speed, not too slow and not too fast but apparently, it was too slow for the teenager directly behind him.

"Can I drive?"

"Do you have your driver’s license?" Asher asked from where he sat next to Sage flipping his book for some last-minute revision. freewёbnoνel.com

"I would be getting mine in three months. Unlike some people that I shall not name."

"Why are you here?"

Sage held his chest in a dramatic fashion that Ravi had only seen Arlen accomplish, "My heart! I am here to cheer you up."

Asher snapped the book shook and stared at Sage quietly, "It has nothing to do with a plan to cruise around Alstria with the new car while Lana would be taking her teacher’s Interview and I would be taking my entrance examination."

Their argument was a familiar backdrop and both Lana and Ravi did not twitch one bit, the only thing that he did was to raise his police badge a silent warning to the rebellious teenager behind him.

He did not doubt Malik’s ability to prepare ironclad identities but he did not want to risk it when Sage got arrested for driving without a license. Thinking of Malik, Ravi’s stomach twisted into knots when he recalled what Malik had told him after he had asked him who he was praying to.

"When I was around six, I was this close to death." He used his thumb and his index fingers to show how close he was while bringing the cup of mint tea and placing it in front of Ravi, "My parents were...sick. They tied me to my bed and locked the doors before they proceeded to pour kerosene around the house and set the house on fire. That is when my ability awakened and I became a mutant. I can recall asking myself why? Why? Even as the flames grew closer, why do they want to kill? Why do they hate? You know, things like that. Then suddenly, I could hear them, feel them. I knew why and it was so stupid. So I prayed, I was not raised religious but I prayed to any deity that could hear me, to save me. I would not waste my life, I swore. When I woke up, I was in the Capital City, in a hospital, and in my hands was an envelope with ten thousand dollars. You don’t need to stare at me like that, I know it is quite unbelievable to mutants who can move the earth but I believe, there are deities and that day, one looked out for me."

Ravi was not looking at him because he did not believe, of course, they were deities and one of them was sitting opposite him, he had looked at him because of the tone that Malik had used to say those words. They were so indifferent like he was narrating a bedtime story or the news.

Ravi did not know how to console him, especially when the other seemed like he did not care a bit, "Do you want to move to my place? There are rooms for the three of you." He did not like the thought of Malik sleeping in this house.

"You could give me the money instead. I could go to a hotel and stay."

Ravi had drank his tea feeling like his sympathy had gone to waste.

"Ravi. I am fine. And when I say, I mean it. I am truly fine. It is true that what happened was a terrible thing for a child to experience but I know why they did everything they did. I have closure. This house is just a great piece of estate to me and a perfect hideout. I am fine."

Ravi’s fingers clenched around the wheel. He said he was fine. Ravi could only take consolation that the couple had messed with the wrong person. Death was not an escape. Death was just the beginning of their punishment.

Ravi sighed as he drove past the signboard of Welcome to Davenport. His lips twitched, recalling the first date he had with Arlen, even now, there was a sweet taste in his heart.

His attention soon returned to the two teenagers in the passenger’s seat.

"Oh so confident! You do know it is not an ordinary private school. It is a branch school and the main school just had their entrance examination so those that failed would travel here, hoping to get in. Are you still confident?"

"Sage, don’t scare him an hour before his exams."

"I am not scared. I would pass. I have the best teachers." Asher said, the confidence in his voice causing Ravi to smile.

Sage was not wrong. The Bayside Academy at Alstria was a small, private school but it was also a branch of the popular Bayside in the Capital that was extremely rigorous with their selection process. Although it could not be compared to the one in the Capital, some of the students who had failed to enter the main school, might try to enter the branch schools.

"That is right. You had the best teacher." Lana said as she took off the VR goggles around her eyes and looked back at Asher, giving him a nod.

The moment Lana had sent her qualifications and applications, it did not take more than 20 minutes for her to receive a call back from the Academy. Her interview was set for this morning. Ten minutes before the Entrance Examination.

She had not been kidding when she said that she had graduated college at 17. He looked at her, her green hair was tied into a French braid, and a small seedling was growing out of her hand, that she had played with lazily.

He was a little curious, about how a young genius had turned into Poison Ivy.

Lana looked back at him, "What? Are we pausing to eat?"

"You just ate." Sage called out from the passenger seat.

Lana sighed, leaning back, "I am never full. I am still hungry."

Ravi sighed, "Ash. Give her a sandwich from the basket behind you."

"If she is hungry. I am also hungry."

Ravi drove steadily, his mind calm as the car devolved into arguments. His only wish was for this examination to go well.