Chapter 38: The frightened teacher and the missing Moss (2/2)
“Yeah! When I came here, I tried many times before succeeding. The most important thing is that I always fell when I reached the top.” Ayrin said, his face a wide smile, “Now I know how not to fall though.”
“Impossible, try it again, let me see!”
Huston’s lips began to quiver. The test was merely a few days ago. Even the students he was most proud of back in the days couldn’t have progressed so fast.
“It’s true, teacher Huston, I’m not lying to you.”
Ayrin and his slow reactions were entirely ignorant of Huston’s blank stare. He shouted out loud, then once again charged toward that huge white boulder.
“Pa!” “Pa!” “Pa!” “Pa!” …
At first, his sprinting silhouette was just like a blue gust of air, so fast it was entirely impossible to see him clearly. His body became distinct after running up the rock. Every step he took seemed especially strong, giving off the feeling of a raging bull stamping on stone.
Faint tremors rang through the faintly tilted boulder. Faint tremors ran through the hearts of Huston and the freshmen as well, continuously.
“So wild…”
There was a girl among the freshmen who couldn’t hold back such a cry.
Wild. This was the feeling that came most intuitively from Ayrin’s figure charging up the stone with everything he had.
They all could see that Ayrin’s steps never slowed down while he charged up. He never fell, he just continued to shout as before and ran towards the sky, ran straight to the top of the huge boulder!
On top of the rock, when his foot stepped in the air, looking as if he were about to fall, he pushed on his foot still stepped on the stone, his body fiercely bending forward at the same time with a strange “Ah!” yell. He didn’t directly jump atop the rock, but his wildly swinging hands grabbed the edge on top of the rock. Then he firmly pulled himself up and flipped over on top.
This ending seemed to make for a sorry scene, but everyone who watched the entire process was already thoroughly astounded.
“Impossible… Impossible… Impossible…”
Huston looked like the mentally-challenged kids of St. Lauren, looping the same word over and over.
“Is this guy human?”
“Is it really the Giant Food Monster bloodline? Is the Giant Food Monster bloodline this strong?”
“Don’t tell me he was hiding his strength before, how could he progress so fast in a few days!”
Most freshmen were also dumbfounded, staring blankly for a long while without coming back to their senses.
“Teacher Huston?”
Ayrin jumped down from the boulder, his face filled with joy. He saw Huston mumbling to himself nonstop, his eyes looking vacant, so he curiously waved his hand in front of Huston’s face.
“…You!” Huston retreated back a step, looking at Ayrin as if he were seeing a monster. “You really became like this just by training a few days in the ball bouncing gym with an empty stomach?”
“Yeah.” Ayrin excitedly said, “Teacher Huston, look at the speed of my progress, do you think it’s possible for me to condense arcane particles in three months?”
“Condense arcane particles in three months?!” Huston felt as if his vision was going to go black. “Why do you want to condense arcane particles in three months?”
“To beat the school’s team members and join the team, to participate in the Cup of Starry Skies Braves.”
Ayrin seemed to remember something, and said excitedly to Huston, “Teacher Huston, didn’t you ask me what my dream was last time? Didn’t I tell you I didn’t know yet, well now I know, my dream’s to help Chris become the national champion in the tournament.”
A clamor.
“This guy isn’t even an arcane master yet, he’s actually shouting about participating in the tournament already?”
“Does he know how powerful the other teams are?” Many freshmen watched Ayrin as if they were looking at an insane kid.
“He already has the guts right now to set his goal as participating in the tournament and become the champion. Really amazing.”
“With the speed of his progress, maybe he truly can become a character that’ll astonish everyone in the great competition.” The expression in quite a few freshmen’s eyes filled with passion and adoration however, when they looked at Ayrin.
Huston was soon going to lose his capacity for rational thoughts under Ayrin’s repeated blows.
He stayed blank for a long while, only saying then, unsure of his own mood, “You continue working hard then.” Then he asked, “What about Belo and Moss?”
“I forgot to ask a leave for him.” Ayrin immediately scratched his head, embarrassed. He said, “Teacher Carter came to find Belo, he had some business with him. He also told me to tell you, when he’s free he’ll come find you and explain something.”
“Carter?” Huston blinked, restoring a little sanity. “What about that red-haired kid then?” He couldn’t resist glancing all around, worried whether this “partner” of Ayrin’s was also hiding somewhere, waiting to suddenly scare him.
Ayrin shook his head. “Moss? I don’t know why he didn’t come to class.”
Huston didn’t show much of a reaction for the moment, but the rest of the freshmen all looked at each other. There was actually someone who dared to skip the Notebook Teacher’s class without even a leave?