Volume 7 Chapter 52: I Was The Same As Well.


    <span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400">Volume 7 Chapter 52: I Was The Same As Well.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Later that day,


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"What''s the matter with you, Krystal?" Everyone was now having their meal. But Keith noticed something: the girl had a dark expression as her eyes darted around. It was even more so a few hours ago.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..." Do you really need to ask?


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Yeah. The headmaster and deputy headmaster eat with us." Alfia answered her question.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..." Why? There was something wrong with this.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"So delicious." Cadmus smiled as he continued to eat his food like any other day. Sohma looked at Krystal, "Student Krystal, wee here all the time." At this point, he had to ept this.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"...I see." She needed some time to adjust. A few hours ago, this dragon was ready to bring the hammer down on her. But this time, he ate like there was nothing wrong.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Dinner went on with a calm and disturbing feeling.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Krystal, help me out with the dishes." Many dishes were in Keith''s hand.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Okay."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Keith, I can-" "Diana, it''s fine. Just take a break this time." Diana helped out with dinner as the two walked to the kitchen.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Wash it like so," Keith handed the scrub over to the girl. The two started to wash the dishes. As the two did, it was silent, and there was nothing to discuss. As they continued,


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Krystal, I want to make it clear; you''re living on my ind starting now, which means you follow our rules."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"...Okay." Not surprising.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Because you live on my ind, I''m your leader going forward."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..." Krystal scowled, "Don''t worry. I won''t shame your image." She understood what he meant. With her living on the ind, if she did anything crazy, she would affect their ind''s reputation.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"That''s good." Keith shook his head as he continued to wash.


    <span style="font-weight:400">...


    <span style="font-weight:400">While Keith continued to wash with Krystal, everyone was sitting in the living room.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Come on! Why do we have to do something like this?!" Herrick was about to cry. Scarlet scoffed, "Of course we need to. We need to bump up your scores. Unless you don''t ever want to go the dungeon, then study."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Ugh." Herrick groaned as he stared down at his nemesis: studying. It was decided that there would be a study session after dinner. With Aidiun here, this had be a no-brainer.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Jack, you''re doing this wrong," Gabrielmented, pointing at an error.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Ah, I see."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Sarah, try this as well." On the other side was Faelyn. The two were acting as assistants.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Alfia, what''s the matter?" While Scarlet continued to chew out Herrick and Melor, she noticed the dark look Alfia had.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"It''s because of you." Alfia''s gaze was directed at Herrick.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Me? What did I do?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I mean what you said about Krystal." His words had been on her mind the whole time.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, that." Herrick was the only one who agreed with Keith. He didn''t go further in exining what he said about Krystal.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I''m curious as well." Scarlet was curious.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Herrick exined, "I got the feeling Krystal is like all of us."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Hmm?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Yeah. Like all of us were stuck in one circle. We didn''t know many things before meeting Keith." Herrick realized it a long time ago. They could only change so much because they stayed with Keith and his ind.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..." Alfia and the others nodded to that; Keith basically opened a new door for all of them.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"That''s why I''m assuming the principal brought her to this ind, am I right?" On the side were Cadmus and Sohma, who drank tea like nothing was wrong. He tried to be nonchnt.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, I wasn''t the one who decided." Cadmus shook his head.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Then it had to be Keith," That meant the other person who did this was none other than Keith. Herrick turned to the others,


    <span style="font-weight:400">"All I''m saying is you guys should give her a chance. Gabriel and the others gave me a chance, and I became like this." Herrick was weed by the others even though he was so cautious and wary.


    <span style="font-weight:400">And look at where he was.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"You guys willingly joined his ind. Krystal didn''t; I was the same as her." The only person who really went through the same situation as Krystal was Herrick. The others joined for a different reason, while the two were punished and forced to join.


    <span style="font-weight:400">How Krystal felt right now and how the others did were twopletely different things.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..." Alfia and the others blinked.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"When did you be so understanding?" Melor gasped. Herrick saying all of this was too surprising. Leona was the only one who stared with a bright look.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"That''s because I learn." Herrick scoffed.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"...Alright, we''ll listen to your words." Alfia nodded.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"And she''s pretty chill for the most part." In ss, Krystal was the silent type. Besides thesest few days, she didn''t do anything crazy.


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"Yeah, she''s fine," Jack added.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Since we all agreed, let''s get back to work!" Aidiun pped his hand.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..." That only caused Herrick''s expression to distort.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Dammit!"


    <span style="font-weight:400">...


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..." Later that day, Cadmus and the adults were in the living room, drinking some wine.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I''m surprised Herrick would say something like that." He didn''t expect him to say something like that. If this was in the beginning, the child would never have said something like that.


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    <span style="font-weight:400">It was the same for others. Keith really had a positive effect on all of them. Before, the others were pretty closed off to their own thing. They didn''t want to do anything else but stay inside this bubble.


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    <span style="font-weight:400">Keith was an outlier to all of this. Dude is a duckling that runs into a face of danger and survives. And that affected everyone.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I wonder what kind of effect he would have on her." Cadmus could only grin.


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