Chapter 335 Interlude: Asterias typical day as a student Part 6
[[[30 MINUTES LATER]]]
[Asteria]: Thank goodness you three shut your mouths already. Now, please don’t talk until I told you so, okay?
[Ex]: Mhm mmm.
[Cali]: Nhn nnn
[Bur]: Fhf fff
[Kibou]: Ki Ki ki!
[Asteria]: Don’t complain if I wanted you to stay quiet Kibou. You’re not even tellingl me important stuff right now.
[Kibou]: Ki? Ki ki ki! Ki ki!
[Asteria]: Yeah, yeah, your story about Derek and that sneaky Celeste is an important stuff. But after that? You just gave me undecipherable words. I mean... what the hell is a transceiver? Do you expect me to understand it? And you actually want me to make it! How did you even get to think of that?
[Kibou]: Ki....
[Asteria]: Hmph, if you want to talk to me properly, please speak in an understandable way.
[Kibou]: Ki..
[Ex]...
[Cali]: ...
[Bur]: ...
[Asteria]: Okay, let’s go and continue our journey!
[Kibou]: Ki....
[[[Asteria and her ’lackeys’ then continued their downward journey. A few minutes later, they suddenly stopped as they saw a massive stone gate blocking their way.]]]
[Asteria]: Huh? Why is this gate here? Shouldn’t it be near the top floor?
[[[The stone gate is closed shut right now, making it impossible for Asteria to sneak in. Aside from this, there was also a face engraved at the left side of the stone gate. The eyes of this face was closed, as if it was currently slumbering. However, at the moment that Asteria and her lackeys came closer to the stone gate, the face’s eyes suddenly went wide open.]]]
[Stone Face]: Who dares intrude my domain?
[Asteria]: Hey... Stone Face. We are not actually here to intrude your domain. We just want to go down to the teleportation formation... You can let us pass, right?
[Stone Face]: None of you shall pass! No matter what are your intentions right now, passing through me means that you intruding in my domain!
[Astera]: Hey! I just said we are only focused on going down! We are not interested in your stupid domain!
[Stone Face]: If it were before, I would have killed you all already for your insolence. But since I am a righteous guardian, I shall allow you to pass through my gate. However, you need to pass a trial of mine first!
[Asteria]: Motherf**ker! The whole place is in ruins already! There’s no need for you to do this! Please... just let us pass through!
[Stone Face]: Hmm... so there’s 5 of you right now. Good good. Let’s just wait for 1 more person, and I can give you the trial already. So sit back there and wait for your 6th teammate.
[Asteria]: 6th teammate my ass! You should not even be here! You are supposed to be guarding the maze that is on the top floor! You are supposed to be giving your trials there and not here!
[Stone Face]: I don’t need to know where I am. As long as I see anyone attempting to pass through my gate, they have to accept my trial first. Such is my duty in this institution.
[Asteria]: Argh! You are one retarded stone head! Why did I even give you some candies before if you will just do this to me? Ungrateful bastard!
[Stone Face]: Vent all you want, Miss Asteria. If you don’t pass my trial, you won’t be able to go to the teleportation formation.
[Asteria]: Do you want us to die?
[Stone Face]: Dying is a phenomenon that none of us can fight against. If you will die today, you will die today. That’s all that there is to it. So what I want from you doesn’t matter anymore. If you are all fated to die, then even with my help, you will still die.
[Asteria]: Hmph, you’re trying to sound mysterious again. Kibou, let’s try to find an alternate route. We can’t stay close with this stone geezer. He’s just wasting our time.
[Kibou]: Ki!
[Asteria]: Ex, Cali, and Bur. Don’t try talking to stone face. He will just try to eat you like before.
[Ex]: !!!
[Cali]: !!!
[Bur]: !!!
[Stone Face]: You’re all leaving already? Well, good luck finding an alternate route. From what I know, this is the only place that you can pass through.
[Asteria]: Huh?
[Stone Face]: Every other possible path in this room has been destroyed by the fighting above. It was only this path that was still intact.
[Asteria]: Wait... that can’t be true. K-Kibou! Scan our surronudings quick! Try to look for a possible route!
[Kibou]: Ki! Ki..... Ki... Ki... Ki? Ki ki! Ki ki ki ki! Ki!
[Asteria]: What? Kibou, are you saying that there are really no possible routes aside from Stone Face?
[Kibou]: Ki!
[Asteria]: F**k....
[Stone Face]: Language, Miss Asteria. I don’t like foul words like that tainting my ears.
[Asteria]: Urgh... If I can only kill you, I would have already done so! Argh, why do you have to block the only passable path here? Are you really tormenting all of us guides?
[Stone Face]: I have no such intention, Miss Asteria. Someone placed me in here, for reasons that I do not know.
[Asteria]: ...You know what? I will just ask about hat person later. For now, I will focus on your trial first! We need to pass that trial if we want to get through right? Now give us the trial already!
[Stone Face]: I cannot, since your group is only composed of 5 beings. If you want the trial to commence, you have to wait for another being to join you.
[Asteria]: Argh! Why are all of you so stupid? I can’t take this anymore!
[Kibou]: Ki?
[Asteria]: Yes, you are stupid too! Just in emotional terms, okay?
[Kibou]: Ki...
[Asteria]: F**k... since you are the only way that we can proceed, we have no choice now but to wait. F**k... whoever is there yet, please hurry the f**k up and go here!
[Stone Face]: Language, Miss Asteria.
[Asteria]: Shut up! Just focus on preparing your trial! Dumb stone....
[Stone Face]: ....
[[[With the conditions given by Stone Face, Asteria and her lackeys were left with no choice but to wait for the 6th being to appear here. Fortunately for them, after a few minutes of waiting, someone did arrive near them. However, this person was someone that Kibou, Ex, Cali, and Bur were dreading to meet right now.
[Celeste]: Hey Asteria! So you were here too! Yay! We can work together now! Can I join your group?
[Asteria]: ....
[Celeste]: Ummm... Asteria, why are you staring at me like that?
[Asteria]: ....
[Celeste]: H-hey Asteria, you are scaring me right now... Please stop staring at me! [Asteria]: ....
[Celeste]: H-h-hey! Why are you like that! Please stop?
[Asteria]: Celeste, how did Derek’s abs taste like? Was it good?
[Celeste]: D-derek’s abs? What are you talking about Asteria?
[Asteria]: Hoho, so you’re denying it? So you did not spill tea on his abs and slurp it with your tongue? You did not do that?
[Celeste]: Ah um...
[Asteria]: What? You can’t explain yourself right? Hmph, don’t try denying it anymore. Kibou saw everything that you two did!
[Celeste]: Kibou did?
[Kibou]: Ki...
[Asteria]: Yes he did! So you don’t have to explain anything!
[Celeste]: ...Oh.
[Kibou]: Ki...
[Celeste]: ....
[Asteria]: B**ch, I told you that Derek is my type. And yet you did that with him? And it’s at your room no less! How shameless can you be?
[Celeste]: H-hey! So what if I did that? Derek is not in a relationship with you! He can do what he wants with his yummy abs! So what if he wanted me to lick it huh? What can you do about it?
[Asteria]: ...Y-you dare say that words to me? You really want a beating!
[[[Before anyone could stop her, Asteria suddenly rushed towards Celeste, with her arms waving around frantically. With one look, it was obvious that a fight was about to happen. But before this fight could start, a fearsome sealing power appeared out of nowhere, which stopped Asteria and Celeste from moving.]]]
[Asteria]: Huh? Did you just seal me Stone Face? Let me move! I want to fight it out with that woman!
[Stone Face]: Once a 6-man team has been formed for my trial, its members are not allowed to hurt or attack each other. Anyone who attempts to do so will be stopped by yours truly.
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[Asteria]: Not allowed to attack? 6-man team? But we only have 5 members... Wait, don’t tell me that Celeste is my teammate now?
[Stone Face]: That’s exactly right, Miss Asteria. Since Miss Celeste is the 6th person to arrive here, she’s automatically the 6th member of your team. Congratulations Miss Asteria. You can now accept my trial!
[Asteria]: Argh! I don’t f**king care about your trial! Let me move! I have to assert my dominance over Celeste!
[Stone Face]: Miss Asteria, please stop struggling now. You will just make it worse for you.
[Asteria]: Shut up stone face! Let me do what I want to do!
[Stone Face]: No can do, Miss Asteria.
[Asteria]: I. SAID. LET. ME. MOVE!!!
[[[All of a sudden, Asteria’s body let out a resplendent golden glow, which covered the whole area. This glow seemed to be full of majestic might, which forced everyone who saw it to prostrate. Only Stone Face seemed to be unaffected by this, as his face was showing only curiosity.]]]
[Stone Face]: Miss Asteria, this is your third warning. Please stop using your heirloom power here. If you don’t, I will be forced to take drastic actions.
[Asteria]: Then do it you little f**ker! Let’s see if you can do something against something that father left for me! Hahaha! Come and approach me th-"
[[[Asteria’s words were cut off as her golden glow disappeared, with her body suddenly crashing to the ground. ]]]
[Kibou]: Ki!!!
[Ex]: Oh no!
[Cali]: Ah!
[Bur]: Oh god!
[[Luckily for Asteria, her body was caught by Kibou, who held on her limp body tightly. Stone Face, who watched what happened with an impassive face, let out an angry growl]]]
[Stone Face]: For failing to listen to my commands, Miss Asteria has been punished to sleep for 1 hour. She will only wake after that time limit is up. Nothing can wake her up, unless I willed it so
[Kibou]: Ki! Ki ki ki!
[Stone Face]: Stop complaining, Mr Kibou, and those three guards. This is her punishment for being hard-headed. I hope she will get to learn something from it. As for you, Miss Celeste, I hope you are okay now.
[Celeste]: Umm.. I’m definitely okay now, Stone Face. Umm.. thank you for your help.
[Stone Face]: I just did my job that is all.
[Celeste]: Um... so now that Asteria is unconscious, do we still have to accept your trial, or do we have to wait for a new 6th member?
[Stone Face]: Miss Celeste, even though Miss Asteria is unconscious right now, she’s still alive, which means that she’s still a part of your team. Since your team is still complete, the trial will commence as planned.
[Celeste]: What? But Asteria is asleep now! Can we still do the trial with Asteria like this?
[Stone Face]: Miss Celeste, I don’t know the answer to that. It will all depend on your luck and talent.
[Celeste]: Hey!
[Stone Face]: I wish you 6 luck for the trial. Don’t worry, this won’t be difficult.