Now, let’s take an example, a wasp.
Mushroom, frog, Spiders, also... Snake.
I had read it before in some book, how an animal who had a poison in its body tell its environment that they were poisonous by having a colorful appearance.
It called as aposematic coloration.
What we were talking about, you ask?
We talked about the Mad Sorcerer, Grisis.
The first time I met that guy, Grisis, was at the welcoming party of each department that was held right after the opening ceremony.
Thought this academy was inferior compared to the Kristina Academy at Rizetta Kingdom in term of magic, but being the academy holding the name of "Sorcery king of the dusk", among the academy where one could learn magic, this academy was the excellent one as it was faster to count this academy position from above.
Thats why, we, freshman who were able to pa.s.s the exam and successfully enroll into the Sorcery Research Department, were laughing happily imagining about our bright future with each other who will pursue the highest of sorcery together.
Look at that person. His hair was navy blue, surely he had a strong sorcery trait of water.
Oi, that woman amazing, her hair had two colour, she possess several sorcery trait.
Similarly, while it doesn"t appeared on the outside, but I had two sorcery trait of Gold and Mana Diffusion.
What, you had sorcery trait of Gold as well? Me too, it surely would be fun to do some join experiment with you in the future.
Just like that, one could heard a conversation talking about each other trait one after another.
Well, while there were many who simply having fun on doing that, but mostly were trying to measure their position among the peers.
Then suddenly, a voice that clearly had a different tone than those who tried to measure each other power resound among the ma.s.s.
"O, oi !Look at that! What the h.e.l.l is that!? That"s amazing, look!!"
One of the freshman who said something that was clearly out of place in that moment made everyone s.h.i.+fted their gaze to the place that that student point, and made everyone gasped in surprise.
"Wh, what the heck is that...!"
I remembered I mutter so at that time.
After all, the hair of male student at the end of everyone gaze, was something that was too much out of ordinary.
--- Black, Blue, Red, and then Gold.
From the root, to the tip of the hair.
I wonder if he dye his hair? In four colour out of all things? In the first place, the academy"s rule stated that its prohibited to dye one"s hair.
Then, it means... four?
Four sorcery traits?
In an instant, the room started to stirred up in completely different aura than what was before.
The student with the four coloured hair who were bathed with the attention raised his head as if realized the commotion, it seems that he was just in thought, as he looked at his surrounding with his eyes still squinted.
Then, one sentence.
"Ah, are we doing self-introduction? So now is it my turn now?"
For a moment, everyone didn"t know what in the world that kid"s saying.
It seems that this four coloured hair student was so deep in thought that he misunderstood the current situation.
"Eeh, umm, then let"s start by naming myself"
Before anyone had any chance to correct his misunderstanding, he started to introduce himself.
"My name Grisis=Diebold=Reactos=Nizzet=Reactos, oldest son of Ractos Duke Household, I am come from Azolias kingdom"
Our breath stopped.
It wasn"t a metaphor, everyone in the room, including me, had their breath stopped.
This four coloured, student, what did he just said?
"My sorcery traits are quite lot you see, shadow, gold, flame and magic detection. Look, my hair colour is amazing,right? My eyes also look like that, too, look"
Said that, leaving the people around him who was totally baffled by the things that he had said, that student who name himself as "Grisis" and "Diebold", as it is opened his eyes wide.
After our breath, our thought was the next thing that stopped.
The pupil with the four colour of his sorcery trait, each of the colour seems like repel each other creating marble-like pattern.
More than that, when one look at his face, he had really well ordered face like that of a handsome man, so the sight of his eyes enhanced the strangeness even more.
The amount of one"s sorcery trait, it wasn"t an exaggeration to said that it would easily become the symbol of status for that sorcerer.
But even so, looking at those colour would only incite one"s fear rather one"s envy.
Exactly just like aposematic coloration.
"Then, what should we do next, is it end just like this? I feel like there should be another thing... ah, question! Anyone have any question?"
The thing that return the tense atmosphere inside the room to how it was, was the easy going word from that student who became the source of all of the problem in the first place.
He, who still continue to misunderstood that we were in the middle of self-introduction asked whatever we had any question to him.
Question? I had, actually,I had many thing that I wanted to ask to him.
About his name, sorcery trait, colour.I wanted to know about all of that from the start to the end.
But, no one dare to asked that. Was it really fine to asked that? Was it alright to get involved with this person? Everyone gaze silently scream those.
Among those people, one person, with either recklessness or bravery, resolve themselves and decided to asked him the question.
"Ah, Umm, your name. Your name, I wonder..."
The way that student asked was vague, but Grisis seems realized what that student tried to asked him and answered accordingly.
"My name, alright! It"s so long, right? My great-grandfather was the one who gave me my name, he said that he wanted to insert his name in my name, or so what my grandfather said. Ah, but you"re still curious why I have two Ractos in my name,right? Well, that last Ractos will be removed the moment I graduated. I will be adopted to Nizzet House after all"
Perhaps he was happy that someone asked him a question, Grisis answered that question fluently.
But, the content of the answer that we receive just bring another confusion among the students.
"As I thought, you"re Diebold-sama"s....! Eh, wait? Adopted? Nizzet? Eh?"
I was pretty sure that the one who said that didn"t had any intention to asked him furthermore, that person surely just didn"t able to understand the answer so much that that person unconsciously said it out loud trying to rationalize it.
However, Grisis who heard those word answered once again fluently.
"Yes! It"s my mother"s home. They"re called Nizzet, don"t you know? Well, my great-grandfather"s name is way more famous after all... Well, let"s leave that matter alone for now. Anyway, since my sister will be the one who will become the next head, it"s decided that I will succeed the Nizzet"s way of sorcery. It"s precisely like this saying, "right person in the right place", right!?"
That statement was something that already surpa.s.sed our comprehension.
Man who had four sorcery traits, the person that named by Diebold=Ractos himself, furthermore the oldest son, but he wouldn"t succeed the house? Instead, He would be adopted by another house?
No one able to comprehend the word Grisis just said.
"That"s why, I am able to do any magic experiment as much as I want"
Even though no one asked him another question, Crisis continued to talk, as if he forgotten how to close his mouth.
"Forever, I could continue my experiment forever. At school, after graduated, forever until I die! Until I die, amazing right! I will continue to experiment as long as my life permit me! Experiment! Kihi...!"
Grisis who became ecstatic continue to rattle, and slowly his well featured face started to distort, until finally he raised a laughing voice like a madman.
"Kihi... Kyaahyahyahyahya!!"
A laugh that tainted with madness... no, it was the madness itself, resounded inside the room.
Looking at his state that suddenly changed made everyone"s leg shake and couldn"t move.
It felt like we fell, engulfed into that madness itself.
Four years already pa.s.sed since that time. Even now, the fear of his madness still engraved into people mind around him.
I could heard it, that mad laugh, just like in the past, that laughing voice full of madness still came out from his mouth.
People who tainted with his madness, and decided to started to helped him with his experiment started to appear one after another.
Every one of them insisting that Grisis was normal. With the eyes of madman.
I wonder if I would be able to safely stay sane until the graduation came.
... I could heard it. That voice. I couldn"t forgot it. That marble pattern.
Even though he wasn"t here, I could felt his presence.
Am I still sane?
TL: SOMEONE SAVE THIS GUY!