Chapter 80: The most reckless guy (2/2)
“I.. lost.”
Battered and frozen by the huge force, unable to lift even a finger, Bessa watched Ayrin in incomprehension. After she subconsciously conceded defeat, she struggled to say, “Why did you do that? Don’t you know that my arcane skill is extremely poisonous, how could you directly step on it… You’re going to be in a sorry state even if you beat me this way…”
Under her gaze and the gaze of everyone else, Ayrin tottered on the verge of collapse. His body turned entirely green, and his lips became black. It looked a little funny, a little ghastly, and it even seemed as if he could die from poisoning at any moment.
“I know. You’re the last opponent anyway, it’s fine as long as I beat you.” Ayrin actually looked at her however, and said, “Aren’t there powerful medical teams here anyway… As long as I beat you and obtain victory, they’ll naturally come and cure me.”
Bessa was thoroughly frozen dumb.
Everyone in the stands was also struck dumb.
What Ayrin said was indeed the truth. He would have died if he acted like this in a genuine battle, but now was actually the last fight in the match between Divine Shield Academy and Holy Dawn Academy. As long as he won this fight, then it’d be a matter for the medical teams in the field.
“Ayrin wins!”
“Holy Dawn Academy wins!”
Along with the referee’s voice full of conflicted feelings, two arcane medical teams rushed separately toward Ayrin and Bessa.
“It’s fine as long as the opponent is defeated, the poisoning will end up being resolved anyway.” Many people in the stands couldn’t help but look at each other. They realized there was absolutely nothing wrong about what Ayrin said.
“Seen this way… This is really the simplest way to knock out the opponent.” Carter smiled wryly after blanking out a moment. “Really the most unpredictable guy, the one less prone to abide by the rules and most prone to reckless actions.”
“We won. We actually won just like that?”
Gerryn, Ender, and the others looked dumbly at an Ayrin receiving medical treatment in the center of the field. Then they seemed to realize something all of a sudden. They all jumped up, shouted Ah, and huddled together.
“…What a fearsome team, are they all men-lovers or what.” A shiver suddenly ran through Stingham in the stands when he saw Gerryn and the others hugging each other,. “He really won. No no no, I absolutely have to find a pretext. If I really have to join a man-loving team like this one, I might as well just die instead.”
“Ah…”
When the match finally ended, when they obtained the final victory, every Holy Dawn student started shouting, including some female students who shouted without the slightest air of a demure lady. Many people couldn’t resist throwing out whatever things on hand they could throw out.
“I didn’t expect such a great dark horse to suddenly spring up as soon as the tournament begins.” Ferguillo stood up and said faintly to Wilde and the others, “Let’s go, we also have to do our best.”
…
“Teacher Ciaran!”
Ayrin sat on a stretcher and received treatment when a bright patch of red suddenly flashed at the edge of his vision. He turned his head around and indeed saw Ciaran and several medical masters come his way.
“How does it feel like?” Ciaran asked him, looking at him.
“Very good.” Ayrin watched the chaotic stands and said in perfect contentment, “Seeing so many people happy, so many people go wild, this feeling is really hard to describe.”
Ciaran gave him a stare, a little speechless. “I’m talking about how it feels to be bitten like this by a poisonous snake. I urge you not to do that again in the future. If this arcane skill were a little more powerful, the toxicity a little more violent, then you’d die all the same if you can’t receive timely assistance.”
“I’m feeling cold one second and hot the next, and my head hurts too. The feeling is very uncomfortable.” Ayrin scratched his head in embarrassment. “Teacher Carter already told us before that Bessa wasn’t as strong as Charlotte though, she should be an arcane master with two open arcane gates at most, so the power of her arcane skill shouldn’t be that strong right?”
“Did you really consider things in this much details when choosing this method?” Ciaran looked at Ayrin, unable to talk for a long time.
Just at this moment, Ayrin suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed at the stands, shouting, “Look there! Teacher Ciaran!”
“What?” Ciaran looked in the direction Ayrin pointed at, asking curiously.
“It’s Rinloran! I saw him leave.” Ayrin shouted excitedly. “He really came to watch the match! I knew it, he doesn’t really hate this tournament.”
“That freshman with the high level elven bloodline?” Carter and Chris, with the other members of team Holy Dawn, had already rushed to their side in Ciaran’s slight stunned moment.
“Ayrin, how are you?”
“I didn’t imagine you’d progress so fast, you already became this strong!”
“Why are they coming too, they’re not convinced by their loss and want have a group fight?” While their side chattered on about little nothings, foolishly happy, Ayrin suddenly noticed people from team Divine Shield walking their way.
“It’s all right, they came to exchange team uniforms,” Chris explained with a glance at team Divine Shield.
“Exchange uniforms?” Ayrin had a little trouble understanding.
Chris nodded. “It’s tradition. Teams participating in the formal matches of the Cup of Starry Braves will exchange team uniforms between them no matter if they win or lose. It’s supposed to express their respect for each other, their admiration for their opponent’s courage, and their well-wishing to the opponent in their future matches in the tournament, as well as a memento of eternal friendship.”
“Is that so?”
Ayrin became excited as soon as he heard, and immediately shouted at team Divine Shield, “Did you come to exchange uniforms?”
This was a very meaningful tradition with a lot of history, but the defeated team would always be a little downcast, especially if they thought they would definitely win the match but ended up beaten in an extremely depressing manner. Their team captain even had to convalesce for a long time because of his serious injuries. So facing Ayrin’s question, no member of team Divine Shield spoke. They merely nodded gloomily.
What made many people almost fall down head first on the ground was, as soon as he saw these members of team Divine Shield nod, Ayrin immediately rushed to Charlotte walking at the rear and started shouting in excitement, “Is that so. Then Charlotte, let’s exchange uniforms!”
“…”
In fact, generally speaking, girls didn’t often exchange their team uniforms, especially when Divine Shield Academy’s coat and inner layer both hugged the body very tightly. The alluring sight of her curves beneath would be exposed if she took off her coat. But what made many people speechless was, Ayrin ran straight to a girl like Charlotte and asked her to exchange team uniforms, but Charlotte looked at him and nodded, then really took off her coat and exchanged it with Ayrin.
“Goddess Charlotte!” Very soon, countless miserable screams came from the Divine Shield stands.