Chapter 75 Throwing the bait! (1/2)
”The fight will begin in ten minutes!”
Stepping out of the changing room, one of the guides hurriedly informs me about the timing. So I still have a moment? It's a time to put my plan into motion!
”Eve, would you mind accompanying me outside?”
Grabbing her hand, I make typical puppy eyes while holding her palm near my mouth as if getting ready to courtly kiss it. I can't tell her what I'm going to do! With her shyness, I can only hope she won't hate me for doing it!
”Of course! Why do you think you even need to ask me this?”
With a question marks appearing around her face in my imagination, I can't help but chuckle. Did I mention that with our every interaction I'm falling even deeper in love with her? I didn't? Okay then. With our every interaction, I'm falling even deeper in love with her!
Since she doesn't have a problem with it, I can only bless my luck, grab her hand and follow the only way outside. Even while being here for the first time, the route to the open space is quite obvious, as if designed to encourage people to follow it.
As we enter the fighting grounds, I can see a massive crowd of people loaded on the tribunes! How come this silly fight between two common cultivators amassed such an audience? I know that Baxhar is considered to by prodigy by some but it still doesn't make sense… Did they come here to witness hard face slapping on some arrogant cultivator who dared to challenge him? Or did the rumours that I believe that this little shit is spreading made them emotionally invested in this fight? If that's the truth, they are in for a rollercoaster of surprises!
”So you didn't chicken out! Are you ready to be trashed around for your insults toward my Goddess? Don't think I will forgive you for threatening and forcing her to follow you around!”
Heh, this kid is already in the open space, probably waiting for my arrival to spew bullshit with my first appearance! I've gotta say, that's quite a dedication on his part!
”Look at your weapon? Did you stole it from someone or were you so scared that you forgot to bring the scabbard? You are truly a disgrace to all cultivators! I will make sure to correct your ways today and show you what a real might is!”
The more he tries to insult me, the happier I am. WIth every nonsense he speaks off, he increases the level of his rage by himself! The less emotionally stable he is, the easier it will be for me to bait him into betting his participation token!
”While I have no idea what made you force this duel upon me, I'm more than happy to oblige. But since I guess you had some ulterior motives in doing so - except for the fact that some seniors prevented your friends to ganging up on me. Mind telling me, what made you lose your mind to be so brazen and challenge me in the first place?”
I can't let him revel in his doubtful glory of insulting me without a single response! But the fire needs to be fanned carefully. If I show too much confidence in myself, he might calm down and realise that I'm not scared at all!
”What did you say?”
Seeing that I wasn't calmly holding myself while he kept insulting me, his little mind apparently stopped working. Was he so stupid to believe that he could do and say whatever he wanted and I would just take it without a word of protest?
”Don't you know who I am? Don't you fear death?”