"----!"
In that instant, every student present who had openly or covertly directed all kinds of emotions and gazes toward Luo Zhen—and mocked or resented him without restraint—felt a chill run down their spines.
As Luo Zhen swept his gaze across them, every student who met his eyes felt as though invisible needles had stabbed them in the eyes. Their eyes immediately began to ache, and the mockery and jealousy on their faces turned to horror.
"I... We should get going..."
"It's... it's almost time. Be careful not to be late..."
"Y-Yeah..."
The students hastily concealed their abnormal reactions and hurried away from Luo Zhen as if fleeing for their lives.
Thanks to that, the area around them became empty in the blink of an eye.
Seeing this, how could Ikki not understand what had happened?
"You..."
Ikki could only let out another helpless, bitter laugh.
Luo Zhen, however, withdrew his gaze as though nothing had happened.
"All right, let's go to the classroom."
"Mm."
The two of them tacitly chose to forget the matter and continued toward the classroom.
Incidentally, because he had repeated a year, Ikki was still in Class 1-A. Luo Zhen's class happened to be Class 1-A as well, so they were classmates.
If this was fate, then they were indeed rather fated to meet.
Of course, Luo Zhen's ties were not limited to Ikki. His connections with the others had yet to run their course, either.
Hagun Academy, Class 1-A.
When Luo Zhen and Ikki entered the classroom side by side, the students who had been chatting animatedly abruptly fell silent, stopping what they were doing and turning their gazes toward them in unison.
"So that's..."
"Yeah..."
The uniform gazes and uniform whispers told Luo Zhen and Ikki just how eye-catching their presence was