The air was filled with tension.
It was a new one for me. But with my skills and senses heightened, I knew I could take them on.
Ten boys.
Ten faces that thought I was nothing.
The same faces that used to laugh at me when I first came to this school.
I could hear their snickers and heavy breathing. The one in the middle cracked his knuckles and spat on the ground.
“So the blind boy wants to play hero again?” he said, his voice rough like gravel.
"Does he think we are his stupid half-brothers?"
That was not my concern anyways. The system had given me a mission, and I was going to claim my prize. That was all that mattered.
I smiled. “Not a hero,” I said softly. “Just a boy tired of watching cowards.”
Some of them laughed. Others just stared. I could hear the weak boy they h
