Chapter 46: Not following through your words, that’s the real shameful thing (1/2)
Chapter 46: Not following through your words, that’s the real shameful thing
Sunlight warmly sprinkled down on every corner of St. Lauren.
It was already close to noon.
Inside Golden Lion Academy, someone heavily kicked open the gates to a dorm room with a bang.
Inside the single room, wearing an eye mask, half his body hanging out of the bed, Stingham was still so dead asleep even drool was flowing down.
The four people who’d kicked the door open were dumbfounded when they saw this scene. Then their outrage exploded.
“Stingham, you’re not yet awake even at such an hour!”
“You, you ran alone to Iron Forest Academy and expose your strength without telling us! After you’ve seen Ferguillo’s power you’re still goofing off and skipping on training!”
Wrathful roars exploded inside this dorm room.
However, what made the four of them almost hysterical was, this kind of roaring noise could almost deafen someone’s ears, but Stingham was still passed out, dead asleep.
“You’ve done it now!”
The four of them finally couldn’t resist anymore. They charged forward and pressed Stingham on the bed, then gave him a thorough beating.
“Uh…”
Stingham finally woke up from his dream after taking a beating. He pulled off his eye mask and bitterly looked at the four people blazing with anger, standing in front of him. “When did you guys come in, I saw Ferguillo beating me in my dream, it was really too fearful.”
“We’re the ones who beat you! Just look at the time, you’re still sleeping instead of training. If you continue to goof off like this, Ferguillo will absolutely beat up you for real!”
The four people shouted, beside themselves with anger.
“I can’t. Captain Hansen, I can’t train today.” Stingham looked at the tall and sturdy, thick-eyebrowed boy among the four and said, “I’m sick today.”
“You’re sick nine days out of ten! Can’t you at least change your excuse next time you want to be a lazy sod and skip training!” Blue veins suddenly started to bulge on captain Hansen’s head.
“I can do that… My belly hurts really bad, maybe I’m pregnant, I have to rest for three months,” Stingham said.
“You…” The four of them immediately turned to stone.
“Whatever, captain Hansen, only ordinary people like you guys need to train so hard. Why does a wise handsome fighting god like me need whatever training?” Seeing the four soon about to go out of control, Stingham tossed his hair and said, “Also, you probably understand why I joined Golden Lion Academy right? It’s precisely because Golden Lion Academy’s teachers are all extremely ordinary, there’s no particularly powerful teacher or freakish teacher who’d force me to train. There’s also the Golden Lion Academy’s secret skill “Golden King of Beasts” that looks especially pretty when you use it, it’ll definitely make hordes of pretty girls go crazy. If you have to force me to train hard even in Golden Lion Academy, maybe you won’t be able to find me just tomorrow when you wake up. Since you guys already woke me up though, we might as well go downtown and eat lunch at Meiran Street? There are a lot of beautiful girl receptionists there.”
“Go eat alone if you have to! We’re off training!”
The four people really couldn’t take it anymore. They slammed the door on their way out.
On the road outside the dorm, a team member with hair so short he seemed bald said to Hansen, “Captain, we better go find a teacher and make that guy train. Time is becoming shorter, if it goes on we’ll be totally unable to defeat team Iron Forest.”
“Forget it, all of you also heard what he said just now. If we really went to a teacher and forced him to train, he might really jet off somewhere on vacation.” Hansen said with an extremely unsightly expression, “After all, he’s the kind of genius who opened two arcane gates as soon as he Awakened, without much training. Now the only ones we can rely on are ourselves, we can only train as much as we can ourselves, increase our own strength as much as possible in this short time left.”
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“You really want to go to Divine Shield Academy and fight that glasses boy?”
“Yes I do, didn’t I say yesterday I’d go beat him today?”
“I actually thought you were just casually saying it, just looking for an excuse to run away yesterday! You don’t even know what he’s called, you don’t know anything about him, you want to go fight him like this? You can tell at first look he’s a senior student of Divine Shield Academy. He talks so big, it’s very possible he condensed arcane particles a long time already. Also, that place is Divine Shield Academy’s territory… You actually want to knock at their door and fight him?” Moss looked incredulously at Ayrin at the entrance to Holy Dawn Academy.
“Faint… How could I possibly find an excuse to hightail it, that guy was too annoying. I just have to punch him!”
“Weren’t you still saying yesterday when we came back that you and Belo wanted to challenge the class tyrant in our second-grade class, Rowan Flint? Right now you might not even win against Rowan, but you already want to fight that Divine Shield student that might be much stronger than Rowan outside their academy? If you want to fight, first fight against Rowan, alright?”
“I don’t even know where Belo went,” Ayrin said, not stopping his steps in the least. “I definitely have to punch that Divine Shield guy first. Also, brave warrior! You’re talking so much, are you afraid?”
Moss followed behind Ayrin, sweat oozing from his palm. He said, dumbfounded, “Don’t tell me you’re not afraid?”
“What’s this afraid thing?”
“…” Moss was even more dumbfounded. “If you don’t know what fear is, you must at least know what shame is right? Aren’t you worried you can’t beat him at all, and you’ll end up getting hit into a flat cake and pasted on the ground? Aren’t you worried about looking like a fool?”
“Not following through on your words, that’s the real shameful thing.” Ayrin forcefully waved his fist. “Even if I can’t beat him now, I’ll certainly be able to beat him in the future. Didn’t we say that fighting, especially fighting against stronger opponent than ourselves, will make us progress faster? Not having the guts to fight against people stronger than yourself, eternally unable to defeat your opponent, that’s the really shameful thing isn’t it?”
Ayrin wasn’t looking at Moss when he said these words, but Moss actually quieted down all of a sudden.
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“Where’s that glasses guy from yesterday! I came to beat him up!”
A voice filled with fighting spirit rose in front of a store sitting near the walls around Divine Shield Academy, immediately attracting a bunch of people.
“Ah? You really came.”