60 Chapter 60: A Trace of Peace (1/2)
The War Wasp shrieked as my arrow pierced it, and it dropped onto the ground in a messy pile of insect guts and ooze. Around me, my flock of Corvus screeched as they tore apart the swarm of War Wasps, leaving little trace of the poor rank F monsters behind.
”Hmm, that should do it.”
I glanced at Orion, wondering if I should unleash Betelgeuse instead of sending my Corvus to clean up the mess. That technique took up quite a lot of magical energy, so I wasn't fond of spamming it too many times, but it was also pretty devastating. Plus it made me feel like Ishida Uryuu.
It had been a couple of weeks since that incident with Selina and Hades. After Cecilia's reinforcements arrived, half of them sent me and Alicia home to Jing Tian City, while the other half escorted Cecilia safely back to wherever she lived. That was the last I heard of her, though Alicia told me that she was fine.
Apparently the Stuart Clan was trying to track down the assassin and find out who hired her, but they hadn't gotten any success thus far. Fortunately for Cecilia, Selina didn't try to attack her again, or at least I hadn't heard of any new attacks. Funnily enough, the first assassination attempt ended up on the online news, but Alicia and I only got tangential mentions. Which was fine by me, because I preferred to keep it that way.
”Hmm…”
I studied Orion, wondering if I could use Rigel. I hadn't had a chance to replicate that feat, and obviously it was stupid to waste my magical energy nuking part of the forest when the low-ranked monsters didn't call for such drastic measures. So I hadn't tried it again in reality, though I did try it inside my training room, and accidentally nuked myself. After a scolding from Dong Fang Yue Chu, I ended up going outside on a mission to beat something up.
Plus we needed the prestige points for my faltering society. It had only been a few months, and my juniors still weren't able to fight on par with their seniors yet, so we were balanced precariously above the profit line. Our prestige points were getting dangerously low, and if we lost anymore, we would have to surrender most of our rooms in the Rear Building.
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That was why I was out here on a mission, to replenish them. But…yeah, I seemed to have accomplished it pretty easily.
Looking at my Orion bow again, I shook my head and dismissed it. Another time, perhaps. Furthermore, there were other skills I needed to practice. Just because I had powerful arrows didn't mean I should neglect my swordsmanship.
*
”Okay, your monetary rewards have been deposited into your account.” Allison raised her head from her screen to inform me coolly, and then made another note. ”Your society also has their prestige points, so regarding the rooms you own, you'll be safe for another month. Unless you suddenly lose a bunch of matches.”
”Thank you.” my ranking also went up, according to Allison, but I didn't pay much attention to that. I was just relieved we didn't have to give up our rooms. ”I'll come again for another mission soon.”
”Don't overwork yourself,” Allison reminded me, and I waved casually before leaving the administrative building and making my way toward the training room.
”Thanks for the hard work!” Dong Fang Yue Chu said when I strode into the room. He was doing admin stuff for our club – that was his job as the president, after all. ”Thanks to you, we managed to replenish our prestige points again!”
”Sorry for losing them, though.” Harvey looked a little glum. The first year students were really struggling against their older opponents.
”It's not your fault,” I assured him. ”It's those bastards' fault for thinking you guys are easy prey and picking on you. I do hope you've learned something from those matches.”
”Yeah!” Harvey brightened up. ”I think we're getting a lot closer than before…still not quite there yet, but…”
”Show me the replay,” I instructed. ”We'll go through it later. On second thought, show it to my Dad later when we hit the dojo. I think he'll have better advice than me.”
”Sure!”
”Don't forget about me!” Stan raised his hand wearily. He was slumped inside a ring, evidently working hard at honing his spells. A couple of training dummies lay opposite him, pockmarked by a barrage of shots.
I was suddenly reminded of Alicia and her dual pistols that night a couple of weeks ago. She would have been a fine mentor to Stan, but evidently he wasn't qualified to join Black Roses. Oh, well. I could ask her, but that would spark an outrage among members of her club – obviously she would have to prioritize mentoring her juniors in her own society first, and I didn't want to add to her burdens. As the president of the Black Roses Society, Alicia was extremely busy.
This was why I didn't want to be president. Heh. Good thing I palmed the job off to Dong Fang Yue Chu, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do anything I like.
”Still, that was fast. You finished the mission in a matter of hours.”
Dong Fang Yue Chu looked up at me in amazement.
”Hah!” Harvey snorted. ”Those are only rank F monsters. They pose no threat to Vice-President Richard at all!”
I was amazed at the amount of faith he placed on me. I really didn't have the heart to tell him that I was a fallible, weak human who lost more than I had won. Right now, my win-loss ratio stood at about twenty-six to a hundred and eight. Even though I clawed my way up the rankings with a sizeable amount of wins, I still lost nine matches.
That was reality. In a wish-fulfilment, power fantasy story, I would never lose again and have a perfect, flawless record, but…yeah. Reality was cruel. There was no way I could win every single one of my matches. On the bright side, if I discounted the ninety-nine losses from last year, I actually won twenty-six to nine. Well, twenty-one to nine, if we didn't count that fluke team-kill against the representatives of Crowley's Academy, which didn't contribute to my rankings in any case.