Chapter 293: Sparring match. (1/2)

Kaira felt confused. There was no possible way for anyone to know that she was pregnant since she hadn't even gone to the hospital yet. But Haru somehow knew. She looked at him for a few seconds to see that his gaze had drifted to the stage where her husband was fighting.

Haru was smiling while looking up at them both fighting when suddenly Kazuo dodged an attack from the Siberian man and then launched an ice spell.

[Glacier Spear]

Kazuo raised his hand in the air after avoiding a fire attack and gathered mana in his hand. Suddenly a ball of blue light shot from his arm, forming a spear made out of ice as it travelled through the air before coming to a quick stop as it slammed into the man's chest.

Blood splattered across the ring as the man dropped to his knees. He wasn't dead, just heavily injured, but before he could do anything else. Kazuo raised his hand back out towards the man.

[Frozen fountain]

He opened his palm as wide as he could, causing the spear of ice in the man's chest to expand and begin to travel across the surface of his skin. The ice invaded his bloodstream and froze the inside of his veins and arteries as it travelled to his heart, stopping it as his body was enveloped in ice.

As the man kneeled down lifelessly, it looked as though the water was spurting from his body and then froze in the air. Exactly like what would happen if you were to freeze a water fountain. Haru smiled upon seeing Kazuo win. Since he was about to become a father, he didn't want to see him leave his child behind.

Kaira looked up in awe at her husband's performance as he quickly became the champion of the deathmatch and began to clap and praise him for his victory. The whole stadium erupted into chaos as the people who had bet on the Siberian man had lost all of their money, and then people who had bet on Kazuo won a lot of money.

People danced around, and others remained seated with self-pity as they all glared down at Kazuo.

”Well, what do you know? The reigning champion wins once again. It seems like nobody can knock Kazuo Satou down. As a one time event here at the Izu Arena, we have decided to give a lucky member of the audience a chance to spar with the reigning champion.

I wonder if anyone will be brave enough to go head to head with our champion here after watching something like that? If you think you have what it takes. Then come on down to the ring. But be warned, only the first person here will have a chance to fight against the great Kazuo!” The announcement voice shouted out as the room fell silent once again.

Everyone in the audience looked back and forth at each other to see if anyone was going to take the offer and spar with a mage who they had just seen kill a person. But none of them budged.

”Are you crazy? Who would willingly walk into the hands of death?!” A man shouted from the seat behind Haru. But as he did so, Kaira noticed a grin on Haru's face, unlike anything she had seen before.

”What are you thinking?” Kaira asked Haru, confused as to what his intentions were.

”Well, I think I should give your husband a wedding gift since I missed out on it.” Haru smiled once again before standing up from his seat and walking out towards the stage.

The room fell silent once again as the camera that was floating around the ring suddenly focused on Haru as he walked towards the ring.

”Oh, It looks like we have a contender. How about we give a round of applause for this brave young man?” The announcer shouted out once again, but the room remained silent.

”You're gonna die out there, boy!” A voice shouted from the crowd as Haru walked over to the referee that was standing outside the ring as two men went in to drag away the body of the Siberian man.

”Listen here, boy. I don't know who told you to come up here, but you should probably get out of here as fast as you can. Although this is just a sparring match, there are no rules about killing your opponent. If you are lucky, then you will get a few broken bones, but if you piss him off, you won't be leaving this arena alive.” The referee warned Haru before he could say anything else and then turned around to signal that Haru had changed his mind, but he hadn't even thought about changing his mind.

Before the referee could say anything else, Haru walked past him and up a set of stairs to get into the ring.