Everyone Else Has a System

Lucas and Dalton were observing me with a keen expression; and Lucas having a tinge of curiosity on his face as last time. Rather than observing the tournament, these idiots were watching me.

"Hey Aidan. Can you please stop calling me that?" Adara asks in a really polite manner while this surprises Lucas, Dalton, and the third guy, they all observe Adara with a dumbfounded expression.

\'Perhaps she is the type who stays cold with everyone?\' I thought before speaking,"well, what was it that you wanted to talk to me about?"

"We can discuss that later. Right now, I have to observe the matches. I am one of the referees here in case things go wrong," she answers before turning to focus on the matches and then asks,"you were late, though. Did something happen?"

"Just woke up a bit late, that\'s all," I answered as I began watching the matches as well, though she asked again,"well, there is a monthly stipend allocated to all the students of the Academy. Though, that is based on the rank which they have. Are you sure you didn\'t want to secure a higher rank for a better stipend?"

"That\'s news to me. Hmmm.. since I am the last rank, what would be my stipend?" I asked curiously, and she answered immediately,"100 Arcadia Coins."

This made me chuckle a little, gaining her attention before speaking,"not really interested in it."

"The first rank in the whole Academy gets 10 Million Arcadia Coins at the end of the year," she says and I yawn a little before speaking,"doesn\'t really interest me. I have enough to keep me going on my own."

Adara then turns a bit quiet before another person joins the conversation,"do you both know each other?"

I turn to the person and say,"And who might you be?"

He becomes a bit dumbfounded before speaking,"you must be really ignorant to not know me," and at his words, I look at Lucas and in turn he speaks up immediately,"what he does has nothing to do with me."

I sigh and that guy makes a really surprised expression as he turns to Lucas as he speaks,"Lucas, you know this guy?"

"Not really," Lucas replies, shrugging his shoulders a little before moving towards one of the matches that was going on at a close distance. Adara turns at the new guy and speaks.

"He is Blaze, the Leader of the Vanguards, and that\'s Dalton, the Vice Leader of the Vanguards."

\'The guy that Lucas almost kills two years later?\' I pondered before getting a clear look at him. From what I have collected about Blaze… he was a pathetic guy who rose in ranks because his parents had a lot of money.

He is strong because he had forcefully absorbed a large amount of monster cores. He is one of the strongest here. Sadly, he will always be as strong as he is right now.

\'He is peak A-Grade,\' I calculated his strength before focusing on the match that was going on as I ignored him.

"Aidan Williamson, the guy who broke the record of the Unorthodox by a huge margin. From my sources you are someone who has vast knowledge about monsters," I hear Blaze speaking out of nowhere and I sigh before thinking,\'of course I know about them… I have killed thousands of varieties and experimented on them to know about their strengths and weaknesses.\'

"Why don\'t you join the Vanguards?" He spoke again, and I turned at him before speaking,"my talent is wasted there. I would rather sit in a library and hone my talent even more."

He ponders over my words and sighs before speaking,"your choice. Still, you haven\'t answered my question. How do you know about Adara and Lucas? Someone with that pathetic amount of mana shouldn\'t have the capability to-"

-BOOOM!!!

-BOOM!!

-BOOOM!!

From multiple arenas in the stadium, several contestants suddenly started flying out. I turned towards that area, only to find Cristine, Bernette, Eliza, Elizabeth, Lucy looking in this direction with a dangerous aura before turning back to their own battles.

\'Hmmm.. were they listening in on us?\' I thought before sighing and turning at Blaze and speaking,"That is something that I cannot share with Mister Blaze."

"Hey! Adara!!! How are you?!!" I heard another cheerful voice as a girl came running towards us before she hugs Adara tightly and then smiles cheerfully as she turns at me and speaks,"hey Aidan. Looks like you joined this year as well."

I observed her… Annabeth and smiled in return as I peeked to look at the ever so dumbfounded look on Blaze\'s face before he angrily stood up and then left from there.

Dalton too leaves from there as he looks at me before muttering,"just what were you trying there?" and then leaving without waiting for my answer.

Annabeth then makes sure that no one unknown is around as she speaks,"Now exactly what are you doing here? Creating a scene in front of Blaze when everyone knows that he is trying on Adara?"

"Oh! He is? Then he should give up, you know?" I speak with a slight smirk and she narrows her eyes at me before looking at Adara and saying,"how did you end up getting so lucky?"

Adara gets confused even more and asks,"Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! I don\'t know what you are talking about and wait! You both know each other? Just what exactly is going on here…"

Hearing her words, Annabeth turns to me and says,"the only one who can tell the correct answer is you."

I chuckle a little before speaking,"what do you mean, explain? I was talking to my love when her one sided lover came and started interrupting us and later another acquaintance of mine came in between and started blabbering."

This made Annabeth growl a little in anger before sighing and speaking,"he saved our lives a month ago… in ways that I can\'t explain."

Adara turned to me with a surprised expression before asking,"and then?"

Though Annabeth just shakes her head and speaks,"a couple of things happened like he found out that my brother is a freaky psychopath who was the instigator behind the attack and a few other miscellaneous tasks. There were a few other things he did, but we only heard about it later on."

Adara, hearing all this, makes a slightly confused expression before speaking,"looks like he left a big impact on you. Still, that doesn\'t explain anything about him."

"Sure doesn\'t… still, you tell me. How do you happen to know him?" Annabeth asks with a really curious face, especially with the word \'love\' involved in this. Though Adara makes a confused expression before speaking,"asks him, I have really no idea where all this started."

This made Annabeth and Adara turn at me with a curious expression before I asked,"you guys too know each other, huh?"

I already knew about their friendship because of the things I figured out, comparing it to my past timeline. Last time, it wasn\'t Elle who came, but it was Annabeth who was in the body of Elizabeth who came and probably asked for help from Adara.

Even though Elizabeth told that Adara was her teacher whom Annabeth knew, this one meeting cleared all my doubts about their previous relation.

"Yeah, we have been friends since we first joined the Academy. Don\'t tell me you didn\'t know that?" Annabeth asks as she narrows her eyes at me and Adara, confused a bit, asks,"what do you mean by that?"

Well, I think it was normal for Adara to be confused right now because she still doesn\'t know about my knowledge pool, the way I function. As for Annabeth, I guess she started taking me seriously after I told them about their brother\'s secret, which they even themselves did not know about.

"Well… If you ever end up dating him. There are many things you would come to know about him… but one thing which you should know first is that… his knowledge pool is beyond scary. He knows things that normal people will consider a myth… he is scary… be careful with him," Annabeth speaks as if recalling old memories and I narrow my eyes at her before sighing.

Well, it wasn\'t like I was trying to hide or anything. I was just waiting for the right timing to tell her.

Adara, hearing her words, narrows her eyes at me before turning at Annabeth, who had already started walking towards Lucas with a cheerful face as she hugs Lucas from behind and I hear Lucas shouting in frustration.

I turn to Adara,"now that we have some privacy… what was it that you wanted to talk about?"

Adara just looks at me with a dumbfounded expression before muttering,"that…"