The Immortal Player

Creek!

The door in the room opened and Engr. Garcia was back with his back.

"All done? Let's go, everyone!" He just looked at the students and seeing them in groups of five, he decided to depart as soon as possible. Other rooms were still noisy, this meant that they were still choosing groups.

"Let's go!"

"I wonder if the announcement would be related to the news last night!"

"I also wonder..."

The excited classmates of Pedro picked up their things and were about to go out of the room per group.

"But there's just the four of us!" Aldo suddenly uttered while being focused on playing his PGC. As usual, their classmates looked to Aldo with disgust. Lukas looked at Pedro like saying 'Didn't I say to tell your friend to behave well!?'.

'This guy again!' Engr. Garcia wore a grim expression inwardly.

Pedro could only slap his face of humiliation, not to his classmates but to Sabrina and Loren who had no choice but to be their groupmate.

"It's fine... You'd get your last member later! The school administration predicted such cases. Hence, such cases were too settled in the University Arena! Now hurry! We don't wanna join a huge crowd and line up for minutes!" Engr. Garcia had a relieved expression as Pedro's classmates started going out.

"Classmate Aldo!" Sabrina approached Aldo.

"Sis..." Loren was tried to stop Sabrina with a worried expression but she was too late.

"Let's follow Professor... Looking at how he acts, It seemed like he also wants to go home early like you! If we follow his instructions we'll be able to head home earlier than others!" Sabrina smiled to Aldo that looked 'cute' to Pedro.

'Such a treacherous beautiful smile..." Pedro chuckled inwardly. He knows that Sabrina's smile has a hidden meaning in it... Somehow...

"I guess you have a point!" Aldo finally took his bag and stood while still playing his PGC. Aldo, Loren, and Sabrina looked to the still sitting Pedro.

'Oh... So I'm the leader?' Pedro wore a wryly smile in his face as he stares back to the three.

"Let's go then!" He stood and walk out of the room leading the Aldo, Loren, and Sabrina. He and Sabrina had a smirk in their face. While Aldo had his focus on his game and wore a serious look. Loren looked a bit troubled as if saying 'Why did Sis and I became a part of this group...'.

They were the last group to leave the room. As soon as they came out of the room, All of them left to the University Arena. Their class had six groups accounting for twenty-nine students.

The way to the University Arena was fast as there was hardly anyone seen by Pedro's class. It was like a ghost town in that area.

When they were about to enter a hallway leading to the assigned seat area for their class they encountered three students. These students walked up to Lukas' group who was walking in front of the class.

"Yo... Brother Victor, It's Lukas and his gang!" A man smirked as he approaches Lukas. The man wore glasses and wore a red and white colored jacket similar to the other two students.

"Well... Well... If it isn't Lukas, the pretty boy!" The man with a scar in the right of his lips, called Victor, approached Lukas with a mocking and malevolent smile.

"What do you need? Do you want me to add another scar on your lips that your women can enjoy?" Lukas sneered evilly as he breaks the arrogant act of Victor and made them angry.

"You!!!" Victor launched a punch but was stopped by another man on his back. Victor looked back and stared at the man who stopped him.

"Brother, Calm down!" The man with a big body build pointed his other hand towards the other students behind Lukas.

"Tsk... I'll see you again! soon!" Victor sighed as he pulled his jacket and continue walking past Pedro's class. While passing Pedro's group, the last in their class, Victor glanced and smirk to Pedro and Aldo.

'Such a trash class... Tch...' Victor wore a frown in his face and looked at the distancing figure of Pedro's class with malicious intention and killing intent.

"Brother Victor, you need not worry! None of those EE23 losers would be able to match up to us!" The man with glasses mocked.

"Why would I? I just can't wait to crush them! Let's see If they could still have that smirk in their face! He!" Victor smirked after he replied.

...

'Why does this class look troublesome? Just a second there, I thought they would cause another trouble!' Engr. Garcia chuckled as the class approached him.

"Hurry and sit! I need to go to my seating area too! Ahh... Pedro's group! Go to sit there... Beside that student!" Engr. Garcia pointed to an area with chairs located near the center area of the arena where a woman with black hair was sitting.

The University Arena's setup was like a basketball arena. However, Instead of a basketball court in the center, a black stage slightly elevated was put in place. The area where Pedro was instructed to head was the second row of the VIP rows in a basketball arena. While the rest of his class was located at the far end of the "block area" in a basketball arena.

The seats in the arena were mostly arranged by five seats. In between each was a space, one seat long. On the opposite "Block area" of where Pedro's class was seated, another class was already sitting. He recognized them as the Department of Computer Science and Visual Reality. Besides their "Block area", was another class which was where Victor belonged. It was the Department of Computer Engineering. (Computer Engineering were mostly on hardware, while Computer science was mostly on software, so they're a separate department.)

"Thanks, Professor! Let's go, guys!" Pedro bowed slightly to Engr. Garcia as a sign of his thanks and respect.

"It's nothing! Good luck!" Engr. Garcia responded as he watched Pedro and his group goes their assigned seat.

...

Pedro and his group sat to the four remaining seats beside the girl Engr. Garcia pointed. He sat beside the girl, who was in his left. Aldo sat in his right, followed by Sabrina then Loren.

"Huh? Who are you?" The girl wearing a white hoodie and a face mask stared at Pedro as she tries to grasp the situation.

"I am Pedro... Armaz! And my group was assigned to sit beside you! You are?" Pedro interestedly stared back to the girl because of her face mask.

"There must be a mistake! Anyway, things would be taken off later... I am Ashley... Ashley Montenegro!" the girl remained calm as she stared back to Pedro.