28 We Found Her (1/2)

”Fight!” The announcer yelled out to commence the fight between the two competitor, but even though the announcer commenced the fight, no one on either side started to move. All they did was just stare at each other.

” Aily, just surrender, a rose like you is only good enough to make the scenery better. A frail looking girl like you wouldn't even endure a punch from me,” Adam said, finally breaking the silence between him and Aily.

Aily couldn't help but scoff at Adam in her thoughts at Adam. ” How about you stop talking and show me what you have as talking doesn't show you how strong you are,” Aily said with an emotionless face.

”Fine then,” Adam immediately charged Aily after speaking. From Aily's point of view, when she saw Adam's stance, all she saw were flaws and openings. Now seeing the sloppy charge and seeing how weak the punch Adam was trying to wind up, Aily couldn't help but laugh and mock Adam silently in her mind as she stood there before Adam motionless.

Adam on the other hand thought Aily was frozen in shock. ” You should've surrendered when I gave you the chance!” Adam cried out as his punch was about to come into contact with Aily. But just right before it came in to contact with Aily, Aily immediately took evasive maneuvers and spun her body, dodging the punch.

Seeing how fast and smoothly Aily dodged Adam's punch, he couldn't help but be in shock. Now that Aily was now behind him, Adam tried to turn around as fast as he could, but sadly he was too slow to turn fully around.

With a clear a shot, Aily kicked Adam's back that was facing her, knocking him to the floor. Aily, Following it up by grabbing his neck with a hand and using enough force to pin him to the ground without breaking his neck, not allowing Adam to get up.

Just like that, in less than a minute, the fight ended with Aily destroying Adam in a mere three moves. The room was amazingly silent, not a single word was spoken as everyone stared at Aily in astonishment.They never expected to see Aily, who looked like she hasn't trained in martial arts one bit to demolish Adam who was really muscular. The audience alongside Adam truly learned to never judge a book by its cover.

” The winner is, Aily Fields!” The announcer said after coming of his shock, officially ending the fight between her and Adam. The silent gym immediately echoed in applause and cheers for Aily. Before Aily let her hand off Adam's neck, she leaned down so that her mouth was next to Adam's ear and whispered,

” Though roses can be used to make the scenery better, but there is one thing you forgot. It's that roses have thorns,” After finishing her final words, Aily released her powerful hold on Adam's neck and walked off the stage to where Reed was sitting.

No longer feeling any pressure that was holding him down to the floor, Adam got up and turned to watch as Aily was walking off the stage. As Adam looked at her, he didn't feel angry or vengeful as everything that just happened to him was mostly his fault. The only thing he felt was curiosity. ” Just how strong is she, and how did she become so strong?”

In this world, determining the ranks of those who hasn't broken through into Gold rank was really difficult as there was no way to tell those who haven't broken into Gold rank by looking at them. The only method was to have them test their strength was by having them take strength measuring test. The required strength of Silver one was 200lbs and the next rank Silver two required a strength of 300lbs. To sum it all up, to reach the next rank in the Silver ranking, you would have to increase your strength by 100lbs.

The school Reed is enrolled at, Crystal High, did have that test. The only reasons they're having the marital competition before the test was because even though some students might be stronger when compared to some other students. The weaker students could still win against. The school's faculty members understood this, hence the reason why the competition was hosted before the strength testing.

When Aily sat on the same bench Reed was sitting on, Reed looked at her and asked, ” How did it feel fighting Adam?”