How the f**k does he know about it! Kyra thought as the juice squirted out of her mouth on the window. She quickly kept the juice tetrapack on her seat and then removed a kerchief from her pocket. She gently used the kerchief to clean the stains on the window.

  " Easy!" Indhra commented with a taunting tone. After cleaning the window, she turned to her right to face Indhra.

  " What...do you mean?" Kyra questioned him, her cheeks flushed red.

  Indhra got confused for a second while driving, but he immediately understood what Kyra was trying to do. " Don't try to avoid my question!" He said with a slight smirk.

  " Well..." She thought to herself whether to discuss this with her father. " Fine, you win!" Her body felt warm as she thought about Aldred.

  Aldred is a boy who studies in LNS, the same school where Kyra studies. He is an energetic boy with an ideology so terrifying that it scares an adult. Can you guess his ideology? That is, keep fighting until you reach your destination. For him, it doesn't matter what the goal is; anyone can achieve their goals by fighting and never giving up. Kyra fell for him the day he protected her from a bully named Hilol Roy.

  She also had another friend in her group named Amanda. Kyra and Amanda have a decent rivalry over who gets hold of Aldred.

  " So you do have a crush on him!" Indhra didn't taunt her; instead, he was trying to help her with the relationship. " Don't worry! Your secrets are safe with Shinsu and me!"

  Shinsu or Shinsetsu is Indhra's wife and Kyra's mother. She works individually, owning a small bank, 'Loan and Co.', A regional bank in the rich area of Luvinia.

  " Well..." Kyra tried to get Indhra's attention somewhere else," You were talking about freedom?"

  This sentence hit a nerve with him. The look changed as he got serious," Freedom!" Kyra closely listened to him," It is a simple yet difficult thing to achieve. It gets further away as you try to achieve it, and then there comes the reality!"

  Kyra got confused. She tried to understand each word he spoke carefully. Gets further away? She moved her eyes to concentrate on something that could ease her brain.

  " The reality..." He continued," It being that everyone is a slave to someone or something!" He gave an expression that showed his anger. He didn't like what he was talking about, but he knew that this was the reality of this broken world.

  " But..." He then lowered his tone as he saw Kyra getting frightened by his words," But, macro-freedom is still possible, and..." A sense of determination accumulated in his fist as it squeezed the steering wheel," I will bring freedom." He then deepened his voice to show authority," Even if it costs me my own freedom, even if it costs my peace of mind, I will bring true freedom to the people in need of it!"

  Kyra scoffed," Okay, stop!" She smirked.

  " Wait, you don't believe in me?" Indhra turned to his left to meet Kyra's eyes.

  " Not that!" She turned to her left to look out of the window to see the horrible fate of the middle-class people. " It's just not your character to speak such bold things in thin air." She scoffed as she saw the border of the middle-class area.

  She looked at the front mirror to see a huge black castle. The pollution here was much less than in the middle-class area.

  " You see! You have changed a lot..." Indhra turned his left eye to see Kyra's ponytail hairstyle," For a year or so, you have changed, you're much more sensitive than earlier!" She spoke with a sad tone.

  " But!" She exclaimed while turning back to meet Indhra's left eye," You will always be the best!" She gave a calm smile, giving Indhra comfort.

  *

  She tapped her feet continuously while sitting on a study table with a man sitting with her. It was Kyra and Aldred seated at the same table at school.

  She was shy the whole time, blushing badly because of Indhra's taunt. She was trying to hide her face from him the whole class, which caught his attention after some time.

  Aldred is not only a true fighter but is also a smart kid. He loves History. He knows every ruler of Luvinia in the past two hundred years, but for some reason, the history before Luvinia is either destroyed or hidden.

  But today was different. Aldred had recently found an unknown book whose name was 'The Seven Pillars of God Armour'. His parents had found this book earlier on the black market of Luvinia, but this book was found by Aldred in his dead parents' secret closet, which he had never opened before.

  He had invited Kyra to his house to read the book together.

  The secret closet also had a note to Aldred from his parents.

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  No matter what happens... The note said, Don't tell anyono about this book!

  It was weird for Aldred since his parents had never been this hurried before. Aldred noticed the book carefully and realised that whoever had written this note was in a hurry since he had made a small mistake in 'anyone'.

  His parents never made mistakes in their lives, so this was unusual for him.

  " Kyra!" He called out the nervousness in her. She looked up to see Aldred giving her a side eye while pretending to concentrate in the physics class.

  Kyra turned even redder after seeing Aldred's face. SO CUTEEE!!! She thought about him while looking at his cute face.

  She turned back again to avoid his face. Aldred got really confused and decided that it would be best to leave Kyra alone.

  Does she...like me? He thought about her. We can give it a try!

  Kyra is actually the cutest girl in the class, with every other girl being jealous of her, so it's natural for a guy to be attracted to her, but Aldred was different.

  There was a sound of a bell ringing, indicating that all of the students were to get ready for dispersal.

  " Tomorrow we will start Rotational motion!" The physics teacher said to all the students with a charming smile on his face.

  He took his books from the table and left the class.

  Aldred took the books from the desk below him and threw them in his bag. He lifted it and wrapped it around his body.

  Kyra followed him but still tried to avoid eye contact with him.

  As Aldred walked to the exit, two soft hands wrapped around him. He felt a feeling of warmth in his body as he turned his head around to check who it was.

  " ALDRED!!!" The girl shouted.

  Amanda! Kyra scoffed in her mind with a face of disgust.

  Aldred was unfazed by her, which caused Amanda to try more.

  " You look so good today!" Aldred was still unfazed; actually, he was annoyed by her jumping on him like that.

  Amanda got down and waited for an answer. Aldred turned back unfazed," Oh...Thank you." He said with no expression.

  Amanda's eyes went blank after getting the answer.

  " Kyra! Let's go!" He said with a smile while turning back to walk out of the classroom. Kyra, while following Aldred, gave a smile to mock Amanda. She gave an annoyed expression and then took her bag from her table and followed Aldred and Kyra.

  " Kyra!" He removed his bag and proceeded to give it to Kyra," Imma quickly go to the washroom and come!" A slight, charming smile from Aldred removed all the fear Kyra about him.

  Kyra took the bag in the corridor to the exit. She lay back on the wall of the corridor, which was plain and simple without any innovation.

  Everyone had left the school except Kyra, Aldred, Amanda and a few others.

  " Well... he is taking his time." Kyra scoffed at Amanda, who was still annoyed at her.

  " What is so much in you he likes?" She questioned while trying to taunt Kyra, while Kyra was smiling.

  " Maybe, my beauty! Or my 'good' personality!" She put more effort into saying 'good'. The annoyance increased on Amanda's face.

  " A**hole!" Someone shouted at them. Amanda recognised that sound, which made her terrified. She slowly looked to the side to reveal Hilol. He was a classic bully who thought that the world revolved around him. For some reason, he hates Amanda.

  "Ms Kyra, can you please move aside!" He twitched his eyes," This is between us!" Kyra didn't move a bit, but Hilol ignored that.

  He placed his hands on the wall surrounding Amanda with an annoyed expression.

  " What...Wha..." Hilol laughed at her as she stuttered to say any word.

  " You scared, little girl?" He mocked her.

  " Guys!" He shouted at his other friends behind him," Would it be fun to r**e her?" He said that with a disturbing smile.

  His other friends, a few disgusted, but many of them laughed at it. The people who were actually disgusted by him smiled too to save their skin.

  Amanda's eyes started to shed tears as she heard that.

  He used his right hand to hold her left breast with a creepy smile on his face," Now now, there is a nee..." He felt a hand moving his hand aside. The person pushed him back.

  Hilol Roy, after some time, glared at the person with a serious face.

  " Ms Kyra! I said this doesn't concern you!" He said to Kyra, who had pushed him earlier. She stood in front of Amanda with a face of disgust on her face.

  She bit her lips in rage and charged at him with her fist to punch him.

  He held the fist with his left hand and pulled her down. She kept her posture and lifted her left hand to punch him. He quickly, effortlessly, kicked her stomach, which caused her to back off and hold her tummy because of pain.

  Kyra looked up and started to walk towards Hilol, who was also walking towards her. Kyra pulled her right arm back to punch him. She suddenly felt a fist on her cheeks, and without any pain, she fell on the floor. The pain did hit a bit later.

  She rolled on the floor helplessly due to pain. She had gotten a concussion due to the punch to her head.

  After the punch, he slowly walked up to Amanda with an evil smile. Amanda shed tears after witnessing this harassment.

  He pushed her against the wall with an immense force, breaking her backbone. She released a breath of pain after she got slammed against the wall.

  He pressed her hips to embarrass her.

  Kyra from the ground rubbed her lower jaw with her upper. Of course! You're useless! These thoughts rushed into her mind. All the negative thoughts slowly piled up in her mind, slowly giving her a headache.

  The f**k am I supposed to do? A drop of tear dropped from her left eye. And that was when she thought of Aldred. Never give up! Aldred's voice commanded her to move.

  Hilol Roy felt a hand on his legs. He turned left to see Kyra with her eyes full of determination to protect Amanda. He got annoyed and kicked her to the wall, where she fell sideways.

  His other friends came to handle Kyra while two of them stayed behind in true horror of the moment. Hilol turned his sight back on Amanda, who had started to shiver due to fear.

  He smiled and lifted his right hand to rub it against her head. First the forehead, then the nose, and then the lips, which were shivering. As he went to her chest, a hand stopped him. He thought of who it could be.

  " You b***h!" A calm yet terrifying voice said as the hand grabbed his collar and pushed him behind. He controlled himself and saw a worthy opponent.

  " Finally!" Kyra said with a low sound, so low that even Aldred couldn't hear it. The other villains looked to their right to see Aldred.

  Kyra below was bleeding from her nose, mouth, and forehead. Aldred stood in front of Amanda as a protector.

  He had a serious look with rage burning within his eyes as he looked at the situation of both Amanda and Kyra. He looked back at Hilol.

  " Why?" He said with a slight rage as he walked in front to stand just in front of Hilol," Why did you hurt my friends?" Rage could be heard in the words he spoke.

  Both their eyes met one last time until one of them lost. The battle between the fire and water had begun!