This Beast-Tamer is a Little Strange

Soren's face turned a deep shade of red at the question. For a moment, he seemed paralyzed by the embarrassment as everyone in the room just silently stared at him.

The seniors burst into laughter, enjoying the discomfort of their underclassman. Kain and Kairos also exchanged glances, their own apprehension replaced by curiosity and mild amusement.

After all, no matter what the seniors asked them it shouldn't be this embarrassing.

Oliver's grin widened, clearly enjoying his reaction. "Come one Soren! Don't leave us hanging. Is it true?"

Soren, still blushing furiously, tried to regain his composure. "N-no, it's not true. I…I chose Dark Moon City for myself due to its excellent training facilities. It had nothing to do with anyone else."

Oliver turned to give Theo an exaggerated look of expectation.

Theo then narrowed the grey eyes that matched his hair and gave a slow, dramatic shake of his head. "That was a lie. At least partially. You may have passed if you didn't add the part about it having nothing to do with anyone else."

Oliver sighed dramatically in disappointment like he was an upset elder that caught his grandson in a lie, but the smile that he couldn't completely cover up revealed that he was enjoying the situation greatly.

"Okay! It may have been influenced by someone else. But I didn't choose to not attend First Celestial due to Serena. That is the truth!"

This time Theo nodded. "Hmm, you're telling the truth. Surprisingly."

Oliver looked disappointed that he couldn't obtain more juicy gossip surrounding the love lives of his juniors.

Soren let out a sigh of relief mixed with frustration. He shot Oliver a glare, before turning to Kain. "I pick Kain to go next. Truth or Challenge?"

'Wow! What a surprise!' Kain thought sarcastically. He knew Soren wouldn't give up a chance to pick him due to their previous conflicts. If he picked truth, it'd surely be something uncomfortable and if he picked challenge, it'd probably be just short of torture.

"Truth." Kain was more confident in his ability to bend the truth. Not to mention that Soren's conflict with him seems to be largely due to Serena and the rankings. If he were to ask Kain a question it'd most likely be related to those two things.

If a senior was questioning him he might be more apprehensive about having to answer a question truthfully, but a question from Soren? Nah!

Soren revealed a smug smile. "Do you think that you will be able to keep you current ranking at the re-ranking?"

'Sure enough…' Kain looked at him calmly. 'What? Is he trying to take this opportunity to see if I'm actually intimidated by him?'

"Do I think I'll keep my current ranking at the re-ranking? No." Soren's chin rose and he seemed about to open his mouth to say something taunting, but Kain continued. "I think I'll go up to Rank 1 after the re-ranking."

The smile on Soren's face immediately dropped, while Oliver and some of the other seniors clapped enthusiastically.

Although it was unnecessary, Theo still confirmed that his answer was true, which only made Soren's face uglier.

"I pick Kairos. Truth or Challenge?" Kain said without hesitation. After all, he was quite curious about the kid. Regardless of whether he picked truth or challenge he was going to make sure he got some valuable intel from him.

Kairos, who had been relatively quiet throughout the previous rounds, glanced around thoughtfully before making his choice. "Challenge."

"Hmmm…" Truth would have been better, but he could make due with challenge.

"I challenge you to show us all of the pages in the cursed book that you contracted."

Kairos narrowed his eyes, while all of the other seniors smirked having realized Kain's purpose when selecting Kairos.

"Ahhh we have a sly one here…" Oliver said in a loud stage whisper to Dmitri that everyone heard despite the fact that he covered his mouth for show.

However, Kairos still released his contract and flipped through the pages of his contract. Kain was initially surprised that he was so willing to do so, but quickly realized the reason.

Like Kain had hoped, majority of the pages in the thick book were empty. However, there were still quite a few pages that Kairos hadn't activated during the day, meaning that the cursed book still had several more skills hidden. However, the pages did not have any images to hint at their effects, nor was the text in a language that Kain had ever seen.

Therefore, the only information that Kain was able to obtain was that Kairos definitely had more cards he hadn't shown, he wasn't able to get any information on what exactly those cards were.

"I want to select Kain." Kairos said with an expressionless face, likely wanting to pay him back and try to obtain some information that would be useful during the re-ranking.

"Nuh-uh! What fun would it be if there are all of us playing but the rounds just keep going back and forth between the two of you! Kain can't be chosen again until after everyone has gone at least once."

"Tsk." Kairos couldn't help but click his tongue in annoyance. "I'll pick senior Theo then. Truth or Challenge?"

"Ah! It's unfair for Theo to pick truth since he's the only one that can actually determine if he's telling the truth. So, whenever we play he's only allowed to pick challenge. Still want to pick him?"

Kairos nodded nonchalantly. He didn't care if he'd have to come up with a challenge for Theo, he had really wanted to pick Kain, or even Soren, but was unable to do so since they'd already gone.

"Okay a challenge…I'm actually not really sure what would be a suitable challenge for you senior."

"I do!" Oliver yelled enthusiastically while raising both of his hand. Kairos waved his hand to Oliver to defer the choice of challenge to him.

"Summon Kitsu, and have him transform you into a girl!"

Theo narrowed his eyes at Oliver. Likely this wasn't the first time that he'd requested this, but whether he'd gotten his way in the past was unknown.

Theo summoned out one of his contracts, a cream coloured fox with five tails. Kain didn't see Theo actually give his contract any instructions, but in the next second it sent a burst of green coloured spiritual power towards Theo. After a blind flash of light, in Theo's place was a beautiful woman with dark brown skin, and long grey hair.

Surprisingly, Kitsu had also made the transformation quite generous in the chest area, a fact that Oliver couldn't help but comment on before receiving a fist to the nose.

However, seeing Theo's female version, Kain was reminded of someone else—Seraphina Mindshade. Could Theo possibly be related to one of the few 9-star beast tamers in the empire?