Gaju - One

Chapter 8 - Soulmate's

Day-68s

A week after the announcement of the ranking results was made by the Manager.

As Gaju guessed, everything was not as simple as it seemed. The initiator of all these Programs, the Professor, is currently witnessing a change in attitude and all the movements that take place within the Complex through dozens of CCTV-connected screens that oversee all of the candidates.

The professor smiled as he felt the atmosphere on the Island begin to change. Of the many CCTVs he saw now, some Candidates who were not so serious when attending lessons and training became changed.

Some candidates who feel their brain and physical abilities are below average also began to form a small group and approached 6 people ‘monster’ which is considered to be a king and queen with above average abilitiesrata on the Island.

Only one person is unlike the other children.

The professor scrunched his forehead when he saw the child, he remembered the boy once. The boy who deliberately answered wrong when the first test knowledge was done, even though if the child wanted to, Professor believes that the perfect score can be achieved by the child.

And what the boy was doing now left him, the Professor, shocked. How not, it should be a logical step and plan for a child with intelligence like the Three Seven, he will hone, focus and develop his brain skills. Become a strategist who can use his analytical skills to fight enemies.

But, on a screen showing the image in the dormitory room occupied by the Three Seven, a child was doing physical exercise there. All physical exercises taught by the Coach to improve the physical abilities of the Candidates.

One by one the movements and reps the child performed tirelessly. Sweat also flooded his body. But the boy did not stop at all until he finally collapsed exhausted on the floor of his room.

The professor held his head. His brain, which was always considered to have intelligence far above average, could not find a single reason underlying the behavior of the boy number Three Seven.

The Professor sighed before finally deciding to let the boy do whatever he had planned. Professor knows, for a little eight-year-old but already able to refrain himself from getting praise and being in the spotlight of his peers of his age, surely will not decide something without a strong reason.

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Day710

Gaju was sitting on the beach outside the complex. He had not been on the island for nearly two years. He was no longer an 8-year-old. He is almost 10 years old now. Despite this moment, Gaju and all the other Candidates on the Island never knew when their birthday was.

During these two years, Gaju has also been training relentlessly to improve his physical abilities by continuing to train hard. It was so hard that his whole body screamed in pain. His body was sprawled without energy on the floor.

This morning, while Gaju and his colleagues were taking classes as usual, Professor came and entered their class. Quietly, the only Manager who did not wear the mask explained to them about ‘soulmate’.

Gaju clearly remembered the faces of his comrades back then. There was a cheerful face, there was a sad face, there was a hopeful face, there was a face of anger and there was an expressionless face.

Hopeful and cheerful faces of course come from the male and female Candidates who are in the lower ranks, with the presence of soulmate, they will have someone to depend on. Or at least share the hardship and moan.

Especially for male candidates, getting a partner sometimes becomes impossible. Isn't it with the ‘soulmate’ rule, no matter how bad they are, everyone will definitely get a partner? Either they will be a couple to live or not, but at least they have been given a chance.

Faces full of anger and sadness came from some Candidates who had had other Candidates they liked. Given this soulmate program, isn't there a possibility that they will be forcibly separated?

When Professor said what their soulmate method was like, the whole class fell silent, your “Soulmate is your closest partner. Starting from Empty One will be soulmate for Empty Two and so on.”

The entire class remained silent for a while before boisterous sounds filled the entire class. Some protested, some shouted in excitement and some were silent bowed lethargic.

Gaju quickly glanced at the Three Eight, the girl who became an idol as a candidate for Strategist who had already dominated the top three for the category of Intelligence. But Tian looked calm and was not at all shaken by the Professor's words.

One of Tian's friends, Three Two with the call of Tia, held Tian's hand on the table and asked slowly, “soulmatemu the Three Seven strange, you're okay right?”

Tian glanced at Tia with a smile, “hmmm, he is indeed strange, but he gave me another sensation. Maybe I'll check it later,” Tian replied to his best friend.

A sweet girl looked down languidly in her seat, Koga who was sitting next to her also fell silent. The girl is Empty Six, with the call of Song Nam. Already this year, Song Nam was close to Koga, the candidate with the strongest physical ability among the other Candidates.

And Song Nam knew that Koga also had feelings for her, so they became close. Even though their closeness is still like a 9-year-old boy at that time.

But, by the rules given by Professor just now, that meant, Song Nam was the soulmate of Empty Five, and Koga himself had to be the soulmate of Empty Four.

Song Nam glanced towards Empty Five, the boy who was familiarly called Koma. Koma is Koga's toughest rival in fighting for dominance in the Physical Attribute category. And now, Song Nam, who everyone knows is close to Koga, will become Koma's soulmate.

Song Nam looks like a trophy is rotating between two monsters fighting for dominance. And he just looked down sad.

Koga himself only glanced towards Empty Four, a little girl who asked herself to be called Em. Judging from his facial and physical features, Em is not Asian blood like Koga. He seemed to be of European blood and Koga did not like that at all.

Koga prefers girls with Asian characters like himself, like Song Nam or Tian. For a typical caucasian girl like Em, she has absolutely no interest in him.