"Did you hear?" Someone whispered.

  "Oh yeah, Mithran was taken away by the royal investigators, right?" Someone added.

  "There is that too, but I heard he's gone mad." Someone else added.

  "What mad?" Someone asked.

  "Yeah... he started screaming he had gone blind." Someone answered.

  "What?" Someone asked

  "Apparently, he was also mumbling it while they were taking him away." Someone said.

  The news was all over the school now, and even outside school.

  Word had spread faster than ever, even the way Mithran had lost, and how he cheated, which had happened just yesterday, had not spread as quick as the news of him being blind and being mad.

  In a neat room, everything matched the elegance of the people in the room.

  From the cream painted walls with golden wall lights. The pillars were sculpted with intricate patterns, the arch's on the walls had floor to ceiling windows, the soft breeze of the wind they let into the room, made the crystal chandelier on the ceiling jingle softly.

  The white leather couches, surrounding the table, and the soft velvet like carpet beneath all fit to add a luxurious fit to the room.

  "Your family always has something going on." Someone said. She had long blonde hair, perfect in every way a girl would dream her hair would be.

  It flowed in neat waves up to around her mid back. Her long lashes flattered above her green eyes that resembled shiny jade. She looked at her beautiful, painted nails admiring them.

  "Must be fun coming from such a family, I'm jealous, I don't have siblings who make things interesting." She said, and then at the last moment, she looked at the boy across her on the other side of the table and flashed a small tight smile.

  "No offence." She said, and the boy glared at her.

  He was handsome, and everything about him screamed perfection. He was Mithran's brother, but they looked nothing alike.

  His shoulder-length hair in a wolf cut style had a coral pink colour to it that complimented his caramel brown eyes that looked unamused and slightly dull.

  No one else in the room said anything, not even the doctor, North, who was the adult in the room

  "Okay." Someone opened the door and walked inside. His steps were purposeful as he took the only armchair in the room, as he faced everyone else.

  He looked rough, with a huge build, the blue uniform clinging to his body in a good way. He had a scar across his face running from one cheek over his nose to the other cheek, but it added more dangerous appeal to his look.

  His stone grey eyes scanned the people in the room before he got a device from his pocket.**

  Behind him, there was a young man with a much kinder and softer look. He had a faint smile on his face that made his honey brown eyes shine. His long hair was braided to a ponytail that swinged gently as he walked and stood behind the other man.

  "My name is Captain Wilder, the one behind me is my assistant, We're from the royal investigation department." He said, and the young man who stood behind him smiled at the group and opened a notebook.

  "The 5 of you were picked out as people to testify of what happened during the first year ranking tournament held here, yesterday." Captain Wilder started.

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  "Wayde Cox, who shared a room with Mithran Zenith." He said a boy with a slightly unruly appearance looked at the captain, with green eyes that looked guarded. His coal black hair was messy, and it didn't help that he kept tugging and twirling at the side, which was longer.

  "Are you nervous?" The captain asked.

  "Yes. Everyone somehow expects me to know what Mithran was doing, I barely slept in the dorms, I already have a record for sneaking in and out of school, my grades aren't the best, and if this goes on my record, I'm going to be disowned." Wayde said clearly. His voice did a perfect job at hiding how nervous he was, but the way he anxiously played with his hair gave him away.

  "From what I've heard about you, you're into trade." The captain asked.

  "Is the investigation about me now?" Wayde asked, sounding annoyed.

  "No, I'm just saying you look like you've got options." The captain said, and to that, Wayde just shrugged.

  "Was there any notable difference in your roommate before the tournament?" Captain Wilder asked, and Wayde shrugged again.

  "I wouldn't know. As I said, I was barely ever in the room or at school. I never interacted with him to know anything that I could say changed." He said, and the captain was quiet, but the assistant, Syon, spoke.

  "You volunteered to be his roommate, and you switched with a boy named. Bradley Quin, who is now one of your close friends." Syon said.

  "Yeah and?" Wayde asked with a slight frown

  "Why did you volunteer to room with him?" Syon asked.

  "I knew Mithran was, you know, what the rumours say, a weak and pathetic loner, he has a terrible personality and all. I thought rooming with someone who wouldn't be all up my business and I wouldn't be in his would be nice. It worked since neither of us cared about the other." Wayde gave his reply.

  The captain perhaps knew there wasn't more he could get from Wayde or maybe that talking with Wayde was just circling the situation over and over again. He moved on to ask the next person.

  "Miss Leora Fairchild, you fought against Mithran Zenith." The captain said to the girl who sat confidently beside Mithran's brother. She had icy blue hair, but the warm look in her marigold eyes didn't make her look cold. She was beautiful enough to be mistaken for an angel.

  "Yes." She said confidently.

  "It was my fault at first, I knew that Mithran was weak, so I didn't take the fight seriously. I'm not blaming myself for his actions. He chose to respond by cheating." She said.

  "Have you ever had another fight with him?" The captain asked.

  "No, at least not physically. We do not get along, though. He made it clear at the first days of school. My status as a child from a fallen house, and also that I used light magic, irked him. We've never gotten along. I can't say he hates me specifically. He just seems to have an issue with talented people who are from a lower class than him, since a lot of other students, noboles, and even commoners who were talented can testify that he's not the easiest person to be around." She said.

  "He bullied others?" Syon asked.

  "If we're defying bullying by lashing out at everyone lower and him and treating them like servants...then yes." She said with a slight pause."But no one has ever come with a complaint that he directly treated them violently on random. When he lost to someone, that's when he got violent, so I think he was more of a sore looser." She said.

  "Hmm." Captain Wilder said and then asked the next question.

  "So when he lost to you, is when he activated the dark magic?" He asked.

  "No, he was using it the whole time, I wasn't sure at the begging, but there could've been no way he kept up with me for 10 minutes. When he was sure he would lose his when, I think, the dark magic was released at an explosive amount of power." She said.

  "Why didn't you let the teachers intervene?" Syon asked.

  "Because I was sure I could win." She said. She didn't sound like she was dragging. It was more like she was stating a fact.

  "Daylan..." Before the captain finished calling his name the boy with coral pink hair, Mithran's brother spoke.

  "No, I didn't notice anything. We don't have a good relationship." He said clearly, and from the look in his eyes, he wasn't saying anything more.

  "It's a house without love, Captain. Maybe that's what happens when the men in their house are always second choice to women." The blonde hair girl said, but her words were ignored by Daylan, who didn't even look at her.

  "You're..." Before the captain could speak, she introduced herself with a sweet and confident smile.

  "Aurelie Dell, the only choice of the house of Dell, it's your pleasure to meet me." She said.

  "Representative of the first years." Soyn added, and Auerlie smiled

  "Yes." She said.

  "Among every student who's in this school, you've interacted the most with Mithran." Soyn said

  "I wouldn't say interacted as you're trying to put it. It was more of, I thought he was annoying, he was inexcusably weak and a shame to all nobles when he acted high and mighty just because his daddy is the famous Duke of capital. He didn't live up to the legacy of the house of Zenith. But aside from that, he would've been good if he was born into someone I could use." She said.

  "Is that all?" The captain asked her.

  "The rest has been said, and you're not asking because you don't exactly know him, right? He's known as the failure of house Zenith before anyone even knows his actual name." She said, and the captain moved on to the doctor who just gave his accounts.

  "Apart from the damaged mana pathways, nothing stood out to me until he said he was blind. The first person I called was the Dean, Lord Cox." Doctor North said.

  "Well then, thank you for your cooperation then." Capatain Wilder said as he got up, tugged his coat downward, and left the room, Syon following close behind.

  "What did you think about what they said?" Captain Wilder asked his assistant.

  "Well, I think what they said is true. But Wayde was a little bit too angsty." Syon said.

  "He's as good a liar like his mother." The captain responded and the two left the academy