"Even if you are correct in your assumption...
I do not remember asking for your opinion on this matter."
Lloyd's voice was cold and cutting, and so were his words. The coldness in his eyes as he stared down the physically larger Rex made the entire room drop by several degrees.
The room grew darker by the second, yet when Rex finally stepped aside, the room returned to its prior lighting, no longer influenced by Lloyd's [Shadow Manipulation] ability.
As Lloyd left the room, he halted his steps and took a long side glance at Rex. It was not one of acknowledgment, nor was it one of curiosity... The action itself was a threat.
Turning around one last time, Lloyd silently walked out of the room.
"What was that?" Benjamin couldn't help but ask while turning to his wife, who seemed just as equally shocked as Lloyd's parents.
"It's one of his abilities. It's called 4-dimensional thought." Rex explained with a worried expression. He was not worried for Lloyd per se; he was just worried for whoever meets him while he's in this state.
"I thought that the ability increased his intelligence! He changed into... I don't know. He just changed!" Ava shouted, but she was quickly held back by Layla, who was just as equally shaken, but for another reason.
"His mind... His emotions. Everything about him went completely silent. He was manipulating his emotions so well... It was as if he became disassociated from his own mind." Layla frowned deeply, causing everyone else's worries to only increase.
"From everything he told us, 4-dimensional thought isn't just an intelligence booster.
It quite literally changed his point of view from a three-dimensional one to a four-dimensional one. He can perceive everything in the fourth dimension, if that makes any sense.
A side effect of it is that he loses the ability to feel emotion." Rex explained, yet instead of calming them down, understanding the situation only seemed to worsen it in their eyes.
***
"Lloyd, we'd like to talk." A voice echoed through the ward's hallway."
However, instead of responding, Lloyd halted his steps and glanced back, making Transcendent and Grisha quicken their pace to catch up to him.
Zack and the rest didn't see Lloyd leaving so quickly after them, yet when they heard Transcendent call for him, they were also alerted of his presence.
"What?" Lloyd asked.
"First off-"
"Let's keep walking." Lloyd cut him off and walked toward's the ward's exit with the two following right behind him.
"I'd like to pay my respects to you. Such a tragedy occurred and you must be under-"
"Transcendent... Please... Get to the point." Lloyd sneered despite there being a lack of emotion within the sneer itself.
"Oh, call me Arthur. What I was going to ask you was, what academy have you considered choosing?" He asked, making Lloyd think momentarily, yet it wasn't much of a contest.
The Raven academy board would most likely dislike him due to Lachlan's demise. The Caraxes academy is run by the Quinn family.
The crimson academy is run by a bunch of incompetent fools.
The Royal Elizabeth academy would be like walking into a volcano. You see it, it's quite large, it's bursting with fumes, but you're not really there for the view, yet you've still fallen into it like a moron. That's what normal people call suicide.
Relworth is cool and all, but even with the promise of keeping secrets, Lloyd truly doubted anyone would keep the secret of him being a void walker after one meeting.
'Should I tell my parents? I mean, they would most likely support me, right?' Lloyd asked himself before answering Arthur's question.
"Military Academy."
"Oh... Really? I could help you get into a better-"
"No need." Lloyd cut him off while slowly opening the double doors leading out of the ward and into the main area.
"You do know most of the people who go to the military academy are from low statuses, right? Your family is no higher family, but you are still considered highly amongst most families. Plus, you are already well-averted in combat. You only go to the military academy when you don't really know how to fight." Grisha, aka Grace Starforger, pointed out.
"I am well aware. Yet the military academy will give me the most freedom. While you guys have nothing to live for other than to take over for your family members once you reach a certain age, I have goals to achieve outside of this planet. Now if you are done, I'd like to have a moment alone." Lloyd replied, making the two look at each other momentarily before bidding farewell.
"Hey you." Turning around, Lloyd, quickly pointed at one of the soldiers, waving him over in more of a commanding voice than an asking one.
"What do you want?" The soldier asked, a little agitated by Lloyd's rudeness, yet Lloyd did not seem to care.
"I heard you found a young man's body out there?" Lloyd asked.
"Yes we did, however, I do not believe you are authorized to see the-" The man's words got stuck in his throat as a cold and sinister killing intent seeped out of the man in front of him.
"I suggest you show me to the body, or this just might not end well for you." Lloyd whispered, yet his whispers were like a booming voice to the ears of the soldier standing before him.
The man was quick to direct Lloyd to the man they found, and once Lloyd found Felix's body, he was quick to wave the man off.
It was covered in a white blanket alongside two other bodies. Lloyd assumed that the man took him to the three bodies they found, assuming one of them was who Lloyd was talking about.
Thinking back to what Rex said, Lloyd closed his eyes and took in a deep breath to calm himself. Of course, he didn't actually have lungs to put the air in, but doing things that he did when he was human made him calm down, so he did it before deactivating [4-dimensional thought] and taking the blanket off to see their faces one last time...
