My Bothersome Life 88 Going Back to the First District 3

"Stop!" Ben shouted as he tightly grabbed my hand to prevent me from running up the stairs.

"What!" I yelled at him angrily.

"Don't you see Rika?" Ben pointed out a thick fog of mist covering the stairs worth about two floors.

"We can just use mana to create a air barrier to push through it?" I answered Ben's worries like they were unfounded in the first place.

"You haven't noticed yet, have you Rika?" Ben asked me while he sighed in disappointment.

"This place is a research center," Ben continued while he shrugged like I was helpless child who didn't know anything.

'Umm, so what?' I glanced at Ben to continue to explain he meant.

"Ben means that research centers are highly volatile and unpredictable since they develop strange mechanisms and devices," Shelly explained on Ben's behalf.

'Weren't research centers part of a independent country?' I thought.

Research centers were funded by the taxes collected from the people who reside in the first district. Since research centers could be corrupted by those with a political agenda, it was determined that it would be the best if they stayed independent from the government system of the first district.

"It's not like the mist over there is spelled with anti-mana," I said to Ben sarcastically.

Ben smiled in response, "Actually they can be, we don't know how far the use of mana have developed in the research centers."

"Oh, then what do you suppose we should do?" I mockingly asked Ben with irritation from the fact that he was treating me like a little child.

"The mist only covers the stairs so we can get a rope to attach to the upper part of the rail so we can climb up," Ben told us with eerie merriment in his eyes.

Shelly and I miserably frowned in response as we were already exhausted from using our mana to teleport to the upper floors and the strenuous exercise we went through beforehand when we climbed the stairs one by one.

"Is this really happening?" Shelly asked Ben in disbelief.

"You'll get used to this once you go to higher level missions when you get into the high school section of our school," Ben informed us like he was very experienced in landing in these kinds of situations.

"Then where do we get this stupid rope?" I asked Ben with great contempt.

Ben took off his fancy leather belt. When Ben straightened the belt, the belt suddenly expanded into a long strip of leather that was long enough to cover the height of two floors.

Of course his clothes were altered by mana spells. It was just like the work clothes Luke and I bought at the boutique that were customized to match our mana and figure.

Ben threw his belt into the air as the end of his long belt latched onto the stair rail that was above the mist.

Ben grabbed onto the rope to show Shelly and I how to climb up the rope. After Ben was halfway up the rope even with his injured shoulder, Shelly and I followed him with no other choice.

'I should have just taken the teleportation gate!' I thought with great regret as I panted from the lack of air flowing into my lungs from the intense exercise of climbing the rope.
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Unfortunately, Shelly didn't look much better as her face reddened from doing something she wasn't used to doing.

Other than our physical education class, Shelly and I didn't do that much intense exercises as we just went to cute cafes or shops on campus during our free time.

"I made...it," I congratulated myself after pulling myself up to the floor with no signs of the fog of mist that was below us.

I looked up to see we only had to climb one floor worth of stairs to get to the staff-only door.

We ran up the last set of stairs with great hope and opened the door. Even Shelly who was about the faint any minute ago ran faster than me as she was the one that opened the door.

"We're here!" I jumped with the last bit of my energy.

"There's a chair!" Shelly sat down on the chair gratefully.

Fortunately, the cafe was empty as nobody visited the school during the holidays.

We collapsed onto the chairs while quickly ordering cold drinks on the tablet.

"We're using the teleportation gate next time," Ben groaned.

"There is no next time!" I shouted to defend myself.

"Who knows with you Rika?" Ben refuted.

I screamed as I spotted Luke and Alex was about the enter the cafe that we were in while Ben covered his ears in surprise from my sudden scream.

'Why were they here when practically nobody visits the school during the holidays?' I thought.

"Rika?" Luke looked at me in confusion when they entered the cafe.

"You!" Alex yelled at me angrily.

"I know you were listening to the call when you were at the Nuelle's family villa on Monday," Alex continued.

I quickly tried to hide behind Shelly as Alex angrily walked towards me. I attempted to offer Shelly as a sacrifice as I apologized to her in my heart.

However, Alex stopped walking towards me when Luke asked with great suspicion while studying all three of us, "Why are all your clothes in tatters and covered in blood?"

Chapter end