'Recovered yet kid? It's been quite some time.'
"It's been 40 seconds, so can you shut up?"
'Why the long face? That guy just fulfilled his wish. It's not like was some other guy but your past self.'
"You try having a existential crisis then."
'had a lot of those, over 5 if I remember.'
Asta had no argument against that Statement, he looks towards the ceiling and took a deep breath before looking down at the machine grimoire in hand.
He caressed the grimoire lightly and opens it, he saw a cyan coloured gem embedded into the middle and slowly reached for it.
"It's time to wake up, Yubin."
The gem broke and instantly a white light baths the entire room, a small translucent figure about the size of a palm forms in the air.
The small spirit looked like a small mechanical bird made of metal with a silvery shine to it's body. It looks at Asta with a big smile and flew into his embrace.
"JASSEN. You are alive? Where are we, what is this place?" The spirit asked enthusiastically while looking around the room.
The spirit's eyes then looked at Asta's arms which were lightly stroking it's head and observed the lack of the prosthetic.
"Your arm.. *retreats* YOU ARE NOT JASSEN" the spirit yells as it fires something akin to a laser which asta quickly dissolved with anti-magic.
"Well I am Jassen but also not. Remember the resumption plan?"
"What is my favourite food?"
" Obsidian pieces."
"My hobby? my model number?"
" Sandbathing and mimicking people, model 806- crystal sparrow."
Yubin makes a sigh and flew back into Asta's hands and nudges onto the his hand again, it looks at the other grimoires in his hand with curiosity and tries to go closer.
"What is this? It looks - Kyaa" as soon as the bird went closer, a wisp of anti-magic flew to it and left it scrambling on the floor.
Asta quickly calls back the anti-magic, as the bird flew to Asta's shoulder and hide behind his neck.
"W-why do you have something like that!? I almost died!!"
"That's my new grimoire, get familiar with it."
After the nonchalant reply Asta looks out the window to see the sun not even rising yet and the moon is high in the sky.
Changing into his clothes, he leaves the room and goes outside to the top of the dormitory.
"Huh? Isn't that the lustful guy i humbled on the first day?" As soon as he reached the top, Asta is meet by a view of several boys circled around a small nerdy boy with a monocle who has two staffs on his back.
He doesn't jump in and watches the situation from a distance to see what is going on over there.
"Listen here you peasant, we need those staffs and you better give them to us or it will not end well for you. RIGHT BOYS?" The blue haired noble says while threatening the boy with the monocle
The other goons also grow forward while the boy clutches onto the two staffs, pointing them at the goons he shows signs of fear.
"I asked you for the staff a hundred times but you just wouldn't listen, so now pay for the consequences."
"You scum wanted to buy my everything for a gold coin, no way I am surrendering to some pieces of trash like you."
Both the staffs begins glowing as one takes on the bright colour of light and the other a pitch black of darkness. A scale that is half black and half white appears behind him.
The goons leave no moment as they bring out their weapons and jumps together on the the guy, aiming for the staffs.
The dome like a barrier appears around the boy which blocked the hits but crumbled under the constant assault. The shine of the staffs dims and after a bunch of attacks later the staffs no longer had any power left to create barriers.
The elite bastard himself comes and grabs the boy by the hair and threw him into the ground, followed by a kick to the chest, leaving the boy grasping for air.
"Why can't you just follow my wishes for once? First it was your brother and now you, when will you siblings understand that there is no destiny for you except being my servants."
"Boss, I got the staffs. What should we do with them?" A goon asked the blue haired boy who was taking pleasure in his own superiority complex.
"Just break them, those things have no worth for me anyway." The blue haired bastard nonchalantly says as a creepy smile forms on his face as he looks at the boy pinned under his feet.
"DON'T YOU DARE YOU SICK BASTARD"
The victim roars with anger before receiving another kick to the chest.
The goons laugh as the throw the staffs on the ground and one of the goon come forth with a fireball in his hand, the boy's filled with tears as it looks at the his staffs that are about to be incinerated.
"I have seen enough, begone."
A magic forms in between the group of goons and a giant metallic falcon forms, it quickly grabs the staffs and soars to the skies.
The goon quickly retreat at the appearance of the hawk, they turn to the side to see the hawk land right on the hand of Asta, it lowers it claws and drops the staffs in his hands.
" A Rune artifact, master level... So this is what the everything is?" Asta says as he calculates the weight of the staffs and the runes imprinted on them.
Suddenly one of the goon lunges at him while twirling a spear, the spear comes crashing down but Asta didn't care.
Leaning to the side, Asta dodges the spear as it plunges itself into the ground, placing a foot on the spear Asta looks at the goon with pity before slamming his fist in the goon's chest.
"I remember telling you to stop thinking that you own this place, Viscos aridiam. It hasn't even been three weeks yet."
As asta complete his words, the goon finally reached the ground and hit a bunch of others goons, the one who got hit then spun like a frisbee and fell right in viscos's feet.
"Asta.. I was waiting for a chance to show you who you are, what are you morons looking at? Jump him" viscos yells at his followers who charged at Asta like starving mindless beast with no strategy.
"Such stupidity. Have you not seen the difference between us in the class?"
The first of the nine remaining goons shot towards Asta, the goon's short saber coming at Asta, Asta's fist shot forward as it hits the neck in a instant.
The momentum carried the already unconscious goon forward as Asta sidesteps to avoid the flying ragdoll.
Two more goons arrived with one having a pair of batons and the other for some reason was using bricks, the one with the baton lowers his body and lunges at Asta like a bug.
" Machine magic: transfigure." Asta raises his fist as a layer of metal forms on it, he slams it into the goon's chest while sweeping his leg.
The second goon arrives and ate a iron fist straight to the mouth, losing a bunch of teeth and probably his memories as well and then got hit by a bicycle kick to the head.
" The hell are you morons doing? This ain't some drama where you will take turns getting beat up, ALL AT ONCE" Viscos screams as he himself shots towards Asta.
The metal coating transforms into a whip sword as a bunch of runes form on it, with a quick cut the whip blade stretches and slashes the air as it curves towards the other goons.
The whip collided with a bunch of spells and weapons of the goons, The spells seemingly vanished while the cheap metal weapons literally got cut to pieces.
"Pathetic as i expected, even I wouldn't want to be surrounded by such idiots, 'even the black bulls were smarter than them.' Get lost."
The whip retracted as Asta blocks a hit from Viscos while the goons lose any but of morale they had left, Asta just stood there glaring into Viscos's eyes as he blocks the attack with one arm.
"Yubin, deal with him." Asta says and from the side the metal hawk screechs in, Viscos jumps back and barely dodges the hawk's claws.
Just as he landed, he felt something tick beneath him as a small circular disk with a red light in middle quickly flickering with a beep sound attracted his attention.
A explosion happened but the elite managed to minimise the damage by strengthening his body with ki.
"Emerald rush." Viscos's blade shines green like a emerald as he shot forward raising the blade in a wide guard.
Asta merely smirks at him as he watches the blade coming towards him, a few runes appeared onto his fist in a instant.
The blade was caught between Asta's fingers like a pebble and Viscos was kicked straight in the face followed by a beatdown of kicks and punches.
Viscos hovers in mid-air through the constant hits by Asta before finally launching away from a strong punch and then bashed to the ground into the ground by Yubin.
"OI, you, the one with a bandana. Come here." Asta calls one of the goons who are cowering in fear, he lifted up the beat up noble scum and put it on the goon's shoulder.
"Deliver him to the infirmary for me, also here is some change.. *Asta puts his hand on the goon's shoulder* Say any lies about what happened here and you will join him to the infirmary"
After threatening the sidekicks, Asta walked in slow strides and soon appeared in front of the boy, the boy's face has now swollen a little and there is a small stream of blood coming out from the corner of his lips.
"Why did you help? I could have taken care of it myself."
"As if, stop acting tough. You would have beaten up to death if I didn't help you.. now, take these back." Asta says as he hands the staffs back to the youth and takes a good youth for once.
A boy of average looks and style with silvery hair tied up in a ponytail and two bangs, black pupil and fair skin matching a teen, he is wearing the standard academy uniform and has a grimoire that has a swirling pattern of gold and black.
"Atleast you won't have to face off with that scum, he is a resentful bastard for all I know. He would come back for you." The boy says
"Then let him come, that guy is all bark and nothing else, he wouldn't need underlings if he had the skills." Asta says unfazed by the warning as he helps the boy to his feet, the moon shines high above as Asta gives him a ride on the Goliath.
-Somewhere in the bunch of trees nearby the first year campus-
A certain tanned figure is currently hiding inside a bush with a pair of binoculars and looking around with excitement.
"I got woken up by that boom sound, what is going on at this time anyway?" Sol complains about loosing her precious sleeptime despite messing around during her night patrol.
She sees the bunch of roughed up goons skedaddle away on their brooms while carrying the unconscious members of their group and Viscos being carried by four people.
"A turf fight already? Who did they fight anyway, i dou- *sees Asta from the corner of her eye* Asta? Did he beat them up?" She questions herself while zooming in.
She watches as Asta helps the injured boy onto the Goliath with a smile on his face, she focused even harder when Asta begins moving away from the dorms.
"Where is he going? At this time with a boy who seems to can't stand up.. Did the rebirth made him 'That'? " She follows behind in camoflage while a disgusting thought pops up in her mind.
Her expression worsens as the thought eats away at her thinking, she panics as she determined herself even further to found what exactly was going on.
" It can't be that right? No way! I can't let this happen, I have to find out or I will have nightmares about this for who knows when." Her heart tightens as something deep down causes a turmoil in her mind.