Chapter 7.11 (1/2)

Chapter 7. We came, we saw, we won.

7.75 Their Story

[3] The Beginning of a Legend

“Kuh!”

One of my comrades fell along with his summon. At the same time, more students from Arucia teamed up against another one of my comrade.

“d.a.m.n ittttt!”

One of them pulled up all of his power with his summon. He released a giant explosion using his salamander. It seemed too dangerous in a place of compet.i.tion like this, but the magic failed to damage anyone in the area.

“d.a.m.n it… Nerkia…”

Elemental Core.

No one knew who gave this nickname to Nerkia, but it fit him perfectly.

He blocked attacks that he could block with a stronger elemental. If he couldn’t block it, he would change the direction of the attack using an elemental of the same element.

He kept his cool amongst tens of different attacks, and managed to defeat his opponents.

“d.a.m.n it… So the council presidents of all the schools are here?”

The first one was Ruan, the council president of Arucia. His sword skills that already got approved by the imperial guard was extremely hard for an amateur to counter.

At the same time, there was commander Axis, the council president of Mercaria. He was perhaps the strangest individual in the entire school.

He wasn’t strong. He didn’t have much mana, either. But he was still a person that many knight corps coveted. If one told a corps that only one out of Ruan and Axis could be chosen, they would ten out of ten choose Axis.

He has one talent. A talent for a strategist.

He always deploys just the right amount of people. He calculates all variables, and looks through just about any strategy. Even now, despite the fact that countless Arucia students were rus.h.i.+ng their enemies, their number was calculated, and efficient.

If a president of Marcis joins in as well, an unbeatable team would be formed on the spot.

Arucia, a school specializing in melee battles. Marcis, a school that specializes in ranged battles. Nerkia, an individual who protects both schools with his army of elementals. This was… unbeatable.

“But!”

Even so, I looked up at Nerkia with flaming eyes, and shouted.

“You, I cannot forgive!”

I summoned Loki’s shoes. I combined this with the power of a low-cla.s.s wind elemental.

“Eh?”

“What the?!”

The students of Arucia felt a strong gust pa.s.s by them, but were unable to find me.

“I have only one goal in front of me!”

Victory? Leaving school? That didn’t matter any more. I just… wish to kill the sinner in front of me!

But.

My legs began to sink. The land around me was turning into a swamp. My speed that was like the wind began to slow. Even when I stepped in a place where there was no swamp, I almost tripped on a small rock tens of times already. More people began to catch up behind me.

This was no mere coincidence. One person. Just one person was causing this.

A style of fighting that wasn’t powerful, but efficient. In the end, I was taken over by several students who rushed me.

“Nerkiaaaaaaa!”

“I’m sorry.”

I shouted towards Nerkia at the top of the wall, but I only got a short response from him

.

“How could you… betray the school!”

“Have you turned crazy because of a single woman!?”

“We promised to make girlfriends at the same time, but youuuu!!!!!!”

The captured comrades began to shout along with me. It was their last words in the battlefield. After hearing these words, one purple-haired girl blushed, and shouted.

“D… don’t be mean to him! I asked him to do this!”

Nerkia’s girlfriend. His childhood friend, was it? Her hair had come all the way down to her shoulders, and as expected of a student of Arucia, her body was quite something.

Ah… I’m getting even madder from this. Nerkia, you b.a.s.t.a.r.d! I’ll kill you! This… this isn’t because of jealousy! It’s not! The thing in my eyes is just sweat!

A cold knight girl is beginning to tear up because of her boyfriend! Cute! I’m jea… no! I’m not jealous!

While we all denied what was happening with all our power, tears began to fall from the girl’s eyes. Normally, we’d be shocked over how we made a girl cry. But we were unable to be like this due to her following words.

“He’s… he’s just doing this to get approval from [us]!”

…Approval. That’s good.

He has to be approved. He’s from a bad family, after all. Right. This makes complete sense.

But isn’t something kind of strange?

There’s a grammatical error in her sentence?

…Us?

…Us?

…………………USSSSSSSSSSSSS??????????

After this, the first miracle began.

Lumian Lekein.

He was a demon inside the school, and the strongest individual outside the school. Even within the student council of Yugrasia, he was an abnormality.

No, his summon in the first place was strange.