Vol 2 Chapter 12 (1/2)

A Fight, A Challenge, A Dimensional Door

Standing in front of Class A’s classroo, said toI ht?”

“Not at all Hahaha!” I gave her a dry laugh As a matter of fact, this has actually caused me quite a bit of trouble… and from the looks of it, if I don’t leave Class A soon, what awaits s by a isa “Well then, I’ll first…”

“You, you ht when I was about to leave, a rather good looking male student stepped out from Class A’s classroom

“Erm…yup, that’s me; what do you need from me?”

“Don’t you andquite well?”

“Kitashi+ and I are not in any sort of relationshi+p – so, please, don’t give hiisa looked at the student naave hi

“Hah!” Kitashi+rin, but his sht, you guys aren’t in any sort of relationshi+p I a’ I understand perfectly”

“That’s because…” Nagisa fell silent, for some unknown reason

Isn’t this darn simple? That’s because you and I are friends Just hurry up and explain it to him

“I just wanna know, Yorikawa-san, why you keep rejecting h I have asked you out so many times?”

“We… we are not right for one another”

“Oh? Having a fa the only son of the Kitashi+ that sorade is not even as worthy as so, who ranks top in our grade only if you count the ranking in reverse? “

“Hey, you bastard, watch what you are saying!” I was furious – how dare he call ht, I had to admit, I was rather useless

“Was I wrong? Incole spirit?”

“DON’T SAY IT LIKE THAT ABOUT HIM! I apologize… I didn’t ht for you; Kitashi+ma-san, you are an excellent person, and there are plenty of other girls who are …”

“So, you were saying that I should give up on you?”

“…” Nagisa didn’t reply and just nodded her head ever so slightly

“Hahah! No way! You are the first girl that I have liked All those girls I had before, they all came onto me because of my family’s wealth, because of my ability But you, you are different You weren’t even moved by the 500 roses I sent you at the start of the school year You were equally unaffected by the latest and greatest high quality irl; if I can’t have you, I don’t think I could live it down”

“Oy, even though I a able to ‘live it down’, I’ll recoisa anymore Can’t you see from her expression that she is quite upset and troubled by this, you bastard?!”

Wasn’t this Kitashi+isa’s facial expression that she was unsettled by this, but he just kept going on and on all by himself there

“Oho? Incompetent-kun spoke? That is quite out of my expectation You think you understand Yorikawa-san very well?” As he spoke, Kitashi+ht for my face

“Ba with each other)

“What? You were able to block my punch?”

“My sincerest apology, heir-apparent-kun With your speed, it was difficult for rabbed onto Kitashi+an to slowly apply force…

“Please stop… Lin Xiang, let go of hied at me anxiously

“Oh? Rather strong, aren’t we? But” Just when Kitashi+isa towards hiht uard with his movement, he rammed into me with his shoulder with an incredible force, and knocked ”, slammed me into the wall

“Lin Xiang! Lin Xiang!” In a daze, I could see Nagisa, whoround, craards ht!

I felt that my chest was about to explode, and my head felt like it was in a haze – I wanted to throw up

“Humph!” Kitashi+isa did, right? In my daze, I could more or less hear him say, in a cold voice, “Incompetent-kun, you ht? To give you some closure so that you can spend the rest of your days in a hospital in peace, I will tell you – my spirit is the superior class earth bull!”

Upon hearing his words, other than students froave out sighs of astonishment

“It was a superior class spirit?! This…isn’t this guy totally badass? Before, with Takahashi+ being top in our grade, I have never really paid hirade, , he even summoned a superior class spirit”

“Yeah, even though earth type isn’t much to write home about, it is still a superior class spirit, and this should take quite a bit of spiritual strength… What scary guy! Looks like it is over for that Trash”

“Totally I thank my lucky star that I have never really offended hiel’ hang out with that Trash?”

“Now, the Trash is done for, right?”

“Cough…” I gave a few painful dry coughs

I was just wondering how he could be so incredibly strong, to be able to break free frorip – as it turned out, he had a superior class earth spirit… Just when did he attach the spirit onto his person? Did he do that when he cauy had every intention to start a fight with o

Phew! My body… hurts all over Just how much force was behind that?

I isa’s hand away, and with some difficulties, I slowly stood myself up I looked at the wall behind me, and took a deep breath – if it was the “me” from before, I would have been DOA (dead on arrival) before I even got to the hospital

Before me… on the wall that I just slammed into, there was a dent with a diameter of about half a meter To top it off, around the indentation, the wall showed signs of cru… Bear in ically reinforced Unless it was an extraordinary a it, the ouldn’t have suffered any dae at all…

This bastard was a very strong opponent He was even stronger than Takahashi+ On top of that, the only reason I was able to beat Takahashi+ was because he was possessed by a deainst him

However, this bastard is different; he wasn’t relying on the power of a de on his own capability Since Takahashi+ left, he was the de facto nurade Now that he had a spirit with hier than some of the sophomores in our school…

“Oh? You can still stand? This can’t be possible, can it?” Kitashi+h he couldn’t believe what he just saw

I could understand how he felt After all, with that much force, most people would either drop dead or at least be completely paralyzed

“bastard! Don’t you get too cocky! I’ed at hiht when I was about to punch Kitashi+ voice belted out, “Stop!” It stopped me in my track

“Satokatsu-sensei?” A student a the crowded cried out

“What is going on here?” Satokatsu-sensei deh the crowd of students surrounding us His voice sounded i and made people feel intimidated

The whole place fell silent all of a sudden

“Don’ton here?”

“Nothinga friendly spar,” Kitashi+ma replied calmly with a smile

“Friendly spar?” Satokatsu took a look at me with suspicion, then he took a look at the indentation in the wall, “I don’t care if you are having a friendly spar, so long as you are fighting within the perimeter of the school, you need to be punished Besides, you even daed the wall This is a serious matter You all have to come with me to the Principal’s Office”

Nagisa stepped in front me, shi+elded me with her body and said, “No… Sensei, I caused this incident… So… if you need to repri at how she was treht?

“Anyone who violated the school rule must be seriously dealt with and be reprimanded Since you said you were part of it, then you will come with us too” Satokatsu’s facial expression didn’t show the slightest change, and here I was, thinking that he would be isa’s…

But, back to the o to the Principal’s Office again I was just there yesterday… On top of that, this tiine what Grandpa Mitsu would think of isa into this…

“Sensei, could you be lenient this one tio just this once?” I tried to act as humbly as I could

“Are you certain?”

“Yes, I am certain”

I saw hiavethat you all are first tio this one tiain If soain, I won’t be so lenient” I guess Satokatsu believed that I was the victiestions

“Thank you, Sensei” I gave hiratitude

He grunted and walked away as the surrounding students made way for him

“Oh? Incompetent-kun, you even know Satokatsu-sensei? I really have to see you in a whole new light On top of that, you are even unscathed after taking eration – you are no pushover In that case, let’s have a duel then! Right here, right now, I challenge you to a duel, with Yorikawa-san as our wager – the loser will never get to see Yorikawa-san again What do you think?”

“Nagisa is not a ‘wager’, she is not a thing; don’t you dare rando, accept your challenge! But, we are not using Nagisa as a wager If either of us loses, the loser siisa!” da decisions on everything all by himself?

“Even though you gave a good speech, the end result is still the saeave ht he could, for sure, win against me?

“When and where?”

“No need to fuss over that In four days’ tiainst each other in the event, that would be perfect Even if we are unable tothe co deal Since I know for sure that I will be the champion for this competition, I should be able to put in a request with the school to have a match with you afterwards”

“I can’t ask for anything better” shi+t! That arrogance! I know that you rade, but to say it yourself, don’t you know that makes you look conceited?

“Lin Xiang, don’t, don’t… don’t accept this kind of challenge because of h she was in a daze; then all of a sudden, like she had just woken up froe

But, not accepting the challenge was not an option I , but even just based on this incident alone, I could ed pursuit had troubled Nagisa In order to wipe away that distressed expression from her otherwise carefree and happy face, even if I had to be covered in bruises, I would still need to defeat Kitashi+ma

“No big deal Besides, a man never backs down from his words On top of that, haven’t we been friends since that night alked hoether? Friends – shouldn’t they help each other out?”

Nagisa didn’t say a word, but, isn’t that twinkle a drop of a tear co and beautiful eye?

“Why are you crying? Did I say so?”

“You…you truly are a… good person”

“damn it! The more I look at you, the more I can’t stand you, Inco close to Yorikawa-san” This ti intent

What’s with the killing intent? Even though I aisa cry, do you have to be so mad at me that you actually want to kill me?

“I, too, will let you regret challengingIt was all h I didn’t knohat I had done wrong, figured that I would apologize anyway

“No, you haven’t done anything wrong I should be the one apologizing, I am so useless, all I could do is cry…”

—————————— Classroom

“Lin Xiang, it isn’t true, is it? Are you really having a fight with Kitashi+ht?”

“Yeah, I aht him”

“But…, he has dual abilities… Besides, what’s the matter between you and Yorikawa?”

“Actually, Nagisa and I met when…”

After hearing itated before, finally calmed down Of course, I kept quiet about the little incident of isa’s first kiss If I had told her about that, she would probably think of ht?

“What? How could she be so pitiful, and that way of solving her problem ay too dumb, no? She was lucky to have met you And that damnable doctor… On the other hand, , someone really had taken notice…”

“What are youabout?” Satsuki started her speech passionately, but towards the end, she kind of trailed off, and I didn’t e to catch a word she said at the end there…

“Nothing – right, where do you plan to get a Éguilles Grass?”

“Argh… actually, I planned to ask my uncle to ask around; you know, since ure thatof, I actually had no idea what my uncle did…

——————————— Friday

After an to look at me differently This was because they knew just how solid that school as, and after I took that powerful blow fro had happened: I fell asleep during class like before, I chatted with friends after class like before This made them realize that there was more to me than met the eye

This kind of thinking was no doubt beneficial to isa cry had spread while ere up on the rooftop Quite a few boys had already decided to beat me up But because of the incident with Kitashi+ma, they became hesitant – it was probably because they believed that they themselves wouldn’t have survived that powerful punch from Kitashi+ma

——————————— Saturday

‘Finally, the day has arrived! I finally have a chance to return to the Netherworld!’

‘It is now the Demon Word’ Freed reminded Yalide

‘Who cares?! Kid, you all set?’

After sneaking out without letting Silent Water knoe arrived at the woodland near my house Yalide had said that the spatial membrane around this area was relatively weak, so he could utilize less of y to open up the dimensional door

‘Mmm, ready’

‘Then, close your eyes Focus on your senses to feel the dragon poithin your body; use your et a sense of the spatial structure and a sense of the spatial shape Now, let your dragon power slice through that spatial dimension…’

I followed Yalide’s instructions, closed on poithin me…

‘This… what’s with this black hole?’

When I opened ht The light pulsed and twinkled, as though resonating with the black hole in front of me

‘This is the diht in It will only take a et there, you can go find theht back here, resolve everything After that, you can take et me…’

I didn’t wait till Yalide finished and ju into that black hole – dimensional door

Dusty’s Short Story

“Hurry up and keep going! You du huain for heaven knebeaten up, ical energy is alone The way I am now, if I don’t form a contract with someone, I will disappear soon, won’t I?

At the ti to the Human World Actually, I can’t even recall how I ended up here in the Human World in the first place I just re for food with ot carried away by the current

I sed a lot of water What happened afterwards, I don’t remember… But when I came to, I was already in the Human World

After that, I was taken away by that scary looking huical power to help him loosen the soil and move the dirt…

At the worksite, there were a lot of other spirits like me, but they all had formed contracts, that hy they could continue to work so hard, right?

I also want a le person ants me They all see all the spirits, my kind ranks the lowest That is the reason why no one wants to forht? If I don’t forical power, if I continue like this, I will disappear for sure

So, that night, while they were all asleep, I snuck out…

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After I confirht in a broken down shed

The next o outside and look for a master of my own

As I walked on the road, every human would take one look at lance at me Why was that? Could it really be because I was the lowest class spirit?

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I couldn’t tell how long I had walked, I just felt really tired, and I was really hungry too Right at that ti so that they would give me a little bit of food

Unfortunately, they didn’t Then, one of theround

Since it had already fallen onto the ground, they probably wouldn’t want it anyht about this, I walked over towards them…

“Oh! My round, damn it!!!”

“Then, don’t eat it Look, doesn’t it look like that dog wants it?”

“It is so ugly, and it has cuts all over”

“Right, right I aive it any of my food”

After he said it, those hu around and threw them at me The stuff that they threw at me really hurt I cried out in pain, but that seemed to have only an chasingme…

When I was running away, a lot of people saw us, but not a single one of them came over and stopped those children

At that retted my decision to coot beaten up every now and then, at least there was food and shelter at the work site, it wasn’t nearly as painful as this…

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Ouch! It hurts! My foot hurts a lot