Big Raccoon

Two figures were flashing across around a part of the training room where mock fights took place on a stage.

A crowd were watching them flashing and clashing with each other.

Azul like a lightning flashed behind James and thrust his blue spear sizzling with blue lightning at him.

James as if expecting this, without looking back burst towards the front, dodging the attack coming behind him by moving forwards, out of the range of the spear.

Using the same momentum he took to move forward, he rotated his body to face Azul and slashed his sword downwards in the air.

Ziiinngg

A huge sword light came slicing the floor of the training room towards Azul.

Azul, seeing the sword light coming towards him, strengthened the lightning and concentrated it at the tip of the spear.

Showcasing the outstanding control he had on mana.

Concentrating his mana and covering the tip with lightning, he thrust it towards the centre of sword light.

Just when the tip of the spear touched the sword light...

Boom

An explosion sound was heard and the stage was covered in smoke and debris.

James who was inside the smoke guarded his face with his left arm.

He moved his pupils searching through the smoke and debris for the silhouette of Azul.

Tap

Hearing the sound of footsteps, James rotated his body towards the direction of the sound.

Seeing the silhouette of Azul in that direction, without any hesitation, he channelled his mana towards his legs and burst towards the silhouette, holding his long swords in both hands he slashed at the silhouette...

"Victory is mine.!"

He shouted.

But...

"Oh really?"

When James' sword was just about to touch the silhouette, it disappeared.

James could feel a cold weapon pointing at the back of his neck just one inch away from piercing it.

"Azul wins!"

Olivia announced.

The crowd, which was the class of A7-Kai's class- clapped their hands.

Standing at some distance from the crowd was a group of three girls.

Two girls had serious expressions on their faces while on the other hand, while one girl with silver hair was rotating her pupils from left to right as if looking for someone.

"Azul is becoming stronger and stronger day by day."

Mary said with a serious tone. She was surprised by the way he fought.

"Yes, especially his control of mana and strategy."

Layla nodded and said with a cold but serious tone. She could still remember how he baited James with the control of his mana, creating his silhouette- although not perfect- and covering it with smoke.

And just when James gave his final blow, Azul came behind James and defeated him.

"But even James is improving fast. Especially the moment he dodged the thrust of a spear behind his back by moving forward.

The control of his body is improving and is much better than before."

Mary added from the side.

Freya as if didn't bother conversing with them still rotated her head from side to side.

Mary seeing Freya asked with a smile, "Freya what do you think?"

She, Freya, and Layla were best childhood friends and shared every secret. Their families were also on good terms so they had been together from when they were kids.

Freya looked at Mary, her gaze was as if asking her a boring question, said,

"It was good, but nothing out of ordinary."

"😑"

Was Mary's reaction towards Freya's bland answer.

Layla also kept quiet but out of the corner of her eyes, she noticed that Freya was searching for someone.

Curious, she asked, "who are you searching for?"

It was a direct and straight question.

Freya answered, " Kai rosso."

...And it was a direct answer.

Both of them doesn't like to beat around the bush.

As, Both of them almost have the same personality.

It was just that one was cold and the other was a little friendly.

But it is dangerous if you offend any one of them.

"Is it that boy who got outsmarted by the professor whose name I dont know?"

Asked Mary.

Freya nodded her head.

Mary asked another question out of curiosity,

"Why are you searching for him?"

Freya looked at Mary, "To fight him."

3 simple words.

But due to these words, both Mary and Layla were surprised

'Did he offend her somehow? Or else why would a rank 4 want to fight someone with a rank below a thousand? '

Mary thought.

But Layla had something else on her mind. She did not believe even for a single second that Freya would want to fight someone with a rank below her. Her pride won't allow that.

'So then it leaves 2 cases. One, he offended her and pissed her off. Two, he... '

Thinking of the second case, Layla lifted the corner of her brows.

'Two, he was strong enough to fight Freya or even defeat her. But...How can a boy ranked below 1000 defeat a girl rank 4?

This is too much of a gap to cross. Unless... "

Layla raised her brows and looked at Freya, 'Unless he was hiding his strength!? '

Freya who felt a gaze landing on her looked towards Layla.

Seeing Layla's expression, Freya understood that Layla knew why she wanted to challenge Kai.

Unlike, Mary who was a little slow in picking up things, Freya knew that Layla was very observant and can analyze things just from a clue.

But Freya didn't confirm her doubt.

She left it for Layla to figure out. And she knew that Layla will soon figure it out.

"So where is he? "

Cutting them off from their thoughts was Maria's voice who, now, seemed to be looking at Kai.

"Don't know. Let's ask my sis. "

Replied Freya.

With that, they went towards Olivia who was not far from them.

"What do you three want? "

Olivia asked a rather indifferent question using Freya and the other 2 girls walking towards them.

But after hearing them, Olivia's mood became gloomy.

"We want to know where is Kai. "

Hearing that name Olivia's bro twitched. She couldn't help but remember that over-smart, weird brat who is insecure about his charm.

It seems that Kai's luck was not that good as he got caught red-handed about his charm by Olivia.

Gazing at the stage where mock battles were taking place, Olivia replied in a rather indifferent but with a tinge of irritation tone," He's on sick leave."

"""..."""

The three girls became speechless.

Which idiot would give out such a lame excuse to take a leave nowadays.

Given that he is a hero right now, acquiring a minor sickness is just impossible.

Even for a level 1,being affected by Fever and cold are just next to impossible!

And here, some boy who had just attended classes for a week or two, took a leave, from that too Olivia- who hates kids who take leave- with a reason of being sick?

"""Hes not even trying to fake his reason for leave... """

The three said at the same time.

...

"Is this really the place where 'he' is? ''

I cross checked the map from the system and I was sure that I was at the correct place.

"Come on, such a famous informant group has hideout in a place like this?"

I couldnt help but say that.

In front of me was a bar.

Yes a Bar.

But this bar was too worn out.

Even from the outside you can see cracks on the wall.

With spider webs in every corner. Even the walls seemed to be not painted for a decade!

And If you look at the whole building, You may think that it may crash down on me in any second now.

"Ahh... Well lets go inside. Anyways, I Have to get 'him' on my side. '

Blabbering in my mouth I entered the bar.

I am coming to get you ti work for me.

Big Raccoon.