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Remaining seated in the back of the classroom, his feet on his desk as he leaned back comfortably in his chair with a book with strange scribbles on the cover of it opened in front of him while Enigma's song La Puerta de Cielo played through his headphones. Not bothering to look up from his book, he made a slight snicker as if he'd just read something funny.
“Maybe you shouldn't flaunt your intelligence like an attention whore. Morons do not take into account that there are some people who enjoy reading and pyrokinetic people tend to act first and think later. It's how they earned the nickname hothead. Welcome to the classroom and yes. I was here before you yet you never seemed to notice me. I wouldn't suggest trying to sneak a peek either, Triton Matthews the Third, unless you intend to be put in a looney bin,” he stated in a smooth tone as if he'd used the boy's own gift against him. “It'd be better to stop researching him while you're ahead of the game, but you'd probably grow more interested in Texenius Ashiwar if I did. As for your earlier question of when phantoms were ever really nice... They've always put others, including humans, before themselves. They're scientists after all. Phantoms were a neutral force; never joining in wars but always trying to keep things balanced and at peace. It changed a few centuries ago when their population almost became extinct due to the vampire kingdom to the north. Ask your princes who also attend the school. I believe their names are Eric, Yue and Tori Phantomen. You might want to ask them to teach you the full extent of your abilities as well considering that the burnt book could've been avoided altogether, ya bairn.”
Viaresu then returned to his silent demeanor while already knowing that if the boy tried entering any further into his head than his imaginative version of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe playing in his head, he'd only end up hurting himself. His mind was completely sealed off to invaders, his magic seemingly unbreakable. In truth, his mind was actually saying, ‘Great... Another person interested in me and how I vanished with this curse of mine. Get a clue, moron! With knowing too much, you're only hurting yourself! Trust me when I say that knowledge may be some kind of power, but you'd lose to many other things... Bairns... They all be bairns...’

“I never threatened. I just put it on the table as a warning that many have tried before you and been sent to an insane asylum for it. You may just call me Viaresu and without even looking up, I can tell you're unused to not hearing someone's thoughts whereas they can hear every single one of yours. Try taking this little scenario as a taste of your own medicine. You should learn to respect other's privacy. If they want you yo know something about themselves, they'll open up to you,” Viaresu stated calmly as he flipped the page and then removed his hat from the top of his head. “Friendship can be achieved without basing it on the level of intelligence one has. Picking on someone just because they don't know as much as you is just making a problem.”
He paused briefly to brush his hair out of his face only for the book to vanish and his deep blue-grey eyes shifting up towards Triton. “You are correct though. I know who he is and where he is, but I will never, ever tell anyone. I promised him that much. He doesn't want to be found and doesn't exactly trust others easily. I can always pass along whatever message you have to argue your point of meeting him personally to see if he'd like to try becoming friends with you. You'd just have to start meeting people the old fashioned way instead of invading minds. Texenius is and always will be against invading the private thoughts of another person,” he smiled cheerily at the other as he dropped his feet off his desk and leaned slightly forwards onto his desk. He just seemed to be waiting patiently to "pass along the message". It made him partly wonder what this boy would do if he found out that a guy who looked like a ruffian was the guy he was looking for. He looked more like he'd spent most of his time putting guys in the hospital than being a booknerd and yet neither was wrong. He'd sent many to the hospital and even their graves, but he had just about every book known to exist memorized. It was an almost there moment, but there were some books he hadn't gotten to yet.

Viaresu responded with a soft chuckle before returning to leaning back in his chair with his arms crossed in front of his chest. Poor, naive child was the only response that briefly passed through his head. “It's called stupefying your vocabulary to their level. To you, I probably look like some ruffian who enjoys getting into scraps, five-finger-discounting and taunting cops and teachers while taking lunch money from people of your intelligence level. That's just based on how I'm dressed. You can tell, however, that I'm not just some ruffian based on the fact that I was reading a book that didn't have any colorful pictures or simple sentences like "See Spot run” in it. Besides, I didn't read too far into your head. I skimmed the surface before exiting. There's a difference,” he purred in a low, smooth tone that showed a slight interest yet not too amused persona behind it. “You should know that stupefying your vocabulary for someone means that although they may not have a high intelligence, you enjoy their presence. Friends like that are worth the effort you put into it. I've had experience in said friendship with another of higher intelligence and while they understand bigger words, they prefer making it a competition of who can outsmart who and end up becoming snooty lil' bxtches that need their arse rung when you end up outsmarting them even once. He accepts the meeting of you in person, but would like to warn you that he isn't all that nice and will tell you as it is. Do you accept the meeting with him even if he calls a complete moron or a poor, naive child should he consider you as one? Aura, sound of your voice when you speak and even little stories one tells can betray what the mind is saying. Unless you can control those subconscious things your body does, you're technically an open book. All I looked up in your head was your name. He wouldn't mind if I just did that much if it was giving you the message that some people are stronger and far more closed off in their heads than others. It also taught you that your mind isn't completely safe from others and rude to look up things that shouldn't be mentioned.”
Flipping his hair out of his face, he slid one long muscled leg out from under his desk only to set it back on his desk while following it with the other leg. It was... Cute how the other thought he'd been invading his head the entire time. If only he knew that everyone had subconscious habits in everything they did that exposed them like a book. Then again, it might be better that the boy didn't realize such things existed. He already seemed smart, but if he became too knowing... No. Vulnerability wasn't an option. He'd be sure he remained outside of that vulnerable zone, minus Adrienne though. She'd already broke through his seemingly invulnerable shell around him even if she'd done so unfairly.
“Just remember; the more you know, the weaker you actually are... A lesson Texenius taught me through his own experiences. Knowing too much makes you cocky. Being cocky makes you more vulnerable than you think even if it's only a subconscious cockiness.”

Viaresu briefly removed one arm from across his chest to where he could tap the side of his head. “We pass messages along in our heads... Or perhaps I should say head? It's a matter of opinion I suppose... Whereas most would call it having a multiple personality, I consider it a second opinion. It takes more of an effort to speak in a third grade level when you're thinking of a sentence with words of more than three or four letters in them. For all you could've known, I could've been skipping another class by sitting in a room without a teacher. Now that you know that I'm the guy you're looking for, I still would rather you call me Viaresu. It's the name the school knows me by and I'd rather remain under the radar if you don't mind,” the auburn haired male murmured from where he sat while shifting slightly in his chair so he could slip out of his jacket and let a set of deep red demonic looking wings stretch out behind him. A deep red tail with a sharp arrowhead at the tip flicked behind him as if it'd been there all along, swaying from side to side out of utter boredom. “There's more to life than knowledge so live it to it's fullest potential. Go learn how to ride a skateboard, break a few bones, invent a cure for the G-virus and T-Veronica virus. Hell, find a cure for cancer, Las Plagas and Uroboros. The phantoms created most of those viruses, minus cancer, before the Phantomlands became a desolate wasteland. Go meet your next leader and his two younger brothers. There's a million things you can do and yet you're wasting it on me; a halfbreed that ditched everything when finding out many dark secrets behind the ancient languages of our ancestors. All people will do is use you for your intelligence and once that's done and over with, they'll kill you to be sure no one else can have it. I've lived it for many times your age, you poor, naive child, but I will say that if you wish to learn from your own mistakes, be my guest. I'm not gonna stop ya. I'm not your daddy nor any part of your family so I'm not gonna babysit ya by holding your hand and telling you which path to take. I'm just giving you warnings as to personal experiences. It's possibilities I'd rather you be prepared for is all. Besides that, I'm just seeing how much intelligence has improved. It's the only reason I'm here and to be honest, I'm highly disappointed.”
He gave a slight shrug before sliding a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and glancing inside of it. Empty. Again. Why was the world so stressful? Why'd he have to let her get him addicted to these stupid things in the first place? ‘'Cause you were stupid and thought she'd be our one-and-only, Texenius. That's why we let her manipulate us... Hehehe... To think you'd be giving me the duh factor is a definite low, Tex... Oh hush. You started asking those questions and I answered. End of story,’ echoed the voices in the back of his head while he just snickered aloud. He practically admitted to the boy that he had multiple personalities and now it was just to see how he'd respond to the news of a rumored genius actually having multiple personalities although technically he'd developed the second persona after having left the vampire kingdom.