There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 398

Chapter 398: Chapter 390. Testing the Darkness

"An academy?" Han Shin raised his brow, quickly following Zein and walking toward the outer building. "You’re not going to use it for your clan’s headquarters?"

"Why would I do that?" Zein replied. "We have the house that my father built in the industrial complex. I would rather build another building there if I want a bigger clan house."

"Or the lakeside," Bassena added, to which Zein nodded in agreement.

"Besides, it’s better in the public eyes," Logan said. "Using this place for an institution rather than a private use--not even those people outside would have any justification to continue their protest."

Zein nodded in satisfaction. With the connection to the Old Houses’ patriarchs that he gained recently, it wouldn’t be hard to get a licensing. He had heard that a lot of people grew a massive interest in combat guides after the success of Trinity’s program. Other guilds had been asking for cooperation to teach their own guides, although Radia politely declined using the reclamation project as a reason.

"I planned to talk to the Temple too," Zein said. The council of elder priests had been trying to contact him ever since his Saint candidacy, but he had been...let’s just say he had been too busy to accept their call. "The academy will also teach guides in active duty, aside from the newly awakeners."

"Oh, that’s a trade," Han Shin snapped his fingers. "Will you have the time to establish it, though? I mean...before the Deathzone?"

Zein exhaled slowly. "Haa...I don’t know about this," he chuckled. "I’ll have to beg Radia to lend me Nadine and some kids as mentors."

"Eh, as long as the price is right," Bassena shrugged, and they continued their inspection while chuckling at the challenge further down the road.

But the place was indeed suitable for an academy. The outer building, which consisted of small housing for the servants and guards, could be turned into a dormitory and clinics for practices. The guide’s education didn’t need a lot of places; just a classroom for theory, and clinics for practice.

Combat guides, however, needed more physical training areas. And simulation chamber too, if they had the funds. Perhaps in the future. "It’s good that this place had its own training area, isn’t it?" Senan commented as he looked at the blueprint of the compound. "Gyms and all that--complete with a basement."

"Basement," Bassena snickered. "Basement that is reeked of miasma."

"How fitting," Zein smirked. "It’s like they know we’ll turn it into a combat guide training."

Well...joking aside, they did need to get rid of the leftover miasma there--which was why Eugene and Anise had tagged along with Zein today, bringing the purification device with them. And something else.

"The inner courtyard and the main hall will be the faculty office?"

"And the patron residence," Zein nodded.

"Patron?"

"Certainly," Zein glanced at Senan. "This is still an Ishtera’s property."

The old man smiled and bowed slightly at his Young Master. Of course, the running committee should still consist of people from the Ishtera household. After all, this would be Zein’s and House Ishtera’s legacy--along with the foundation that Zein could finally start again.

"This one is because of you, isn’t it?" Zein narrowed his eyes and pointed at a half-destroyed cabin.

"In my defense, I didn’t know they were holding an explosive," Bassena shrugged. "Ask Kei, really! I don’t know how to explode things!"

"You know it’s more suspicious the more you vehemently denied it?" Han Shin said with a smirk and an arched brow.

"You, shut up!" Bassena looked at Zein worriedly. "I’ll pitch in for the reconstruction, okay?"

Amidst the chuckle of the others--who had gotten used to seeing the Bassena Vaski being a puppy in front of his guide--Zein patted his boyfriend’s cheek. "Just joking," he said. "You’re easy to tease these days."

"Then you shouldn’t tease me all the time," Bassena pursed his lips, eliciting a small laugh from the guide.

"Ahem--no frolicking in public, please," Han Shin snapped his fingers between the couple’s heads, before pointing toward the infamous archive hall. "What are you going to do with that place?"

They stopped to look at the archive hall, which was still surrounded by tapes and guarded by government agents. It was still deemed as evidence, and there were a lot of things inside that needed to be scrutinized. The basements were supposed to be evidence too, but there was nothing more after the device used to generate monsters was taken away.

"Just what it intended to be; an archive hall," Zein said. "The place...further down...could be used for digital library."

"Right! Better put it to good use!" Han Shin jumped and clung to Zein’s back. It was clear to them that Zein still had a bitter sentiment toward the place that had been imprisoning his father’s remains for the past twenty-nine years, and they had actually thought Zein would have wanted to destroy it.

But, well...putting that sinister place to good use; a place that could bring more benefit to other people seemed like a more apt revenge than simple destruction.