The Culprit (3)

Matthew rose to his feet, brushing the blood from his lips with the back of his hand, his gaze locking onto James with a huge killing intent.

James quickly averted his eyes, not out of fear, but to avoid raising suspicions from anyone other than Matthew.

"W-what happened?" Leon was a bit confused as per why he won the contest of strength.

"It was nothing..." Matthew replied.

He immediately stopped playing around. From his body, that same red aura sprung out like a river.

Pressure...!

In an instant, the overwhelming force nearly brought Leon to his knees, but he managed to maintain his stance by raising a mana shield around himself.

However, Matthew's spade eyes suddenly turned completely black, and Leon immediately collapsed before him.

"The winner is Matthew!" Lilian announced.

She clapped her hands, and the healers immediately appeared and started using healing magic over Leon's body.

"Now, the possibly final match between Class A and F will happen!" Lilian declared with a faint voice.

Stacy finally stepped into the arena, being met with Matthew's cold eyes. At those, she simply smiled with a cute tilt of her head.

RING!

The start of the match was announced, and neither of them moved a single bone in their bodies.

Mainly because Matthew's attention was not on Stacy herself, but he was glaring at Lilian.

'She probably noticed James' magic... but didn't she nullify it or say anything about it!?' Matthew's anger was slowly increasing.

It felt as if everyone was against him.

The grip on his fists slowly increased as he finally turned around and looked at his opponent, Stacy.

Ding!

An even greater amount of pressure was put on the host.

90% percent of the host's strength has been sealed due to the amount of pressure.

Grip!

Without thinking twice, Matthew finally snapped out. Instead of attacking Stacy, Matthew turned directly to James.

An immense red aura leaked from his body and formed into a sword attacking directly James.

But, it was quickly dismissed as James waved his hand. The differences between their strength was HUGE to say the least.

James was a S-rank awakened, and Matthew didn't even awaken his power as an F-Rank awakened.

"What is the meaning of this?" He stood up and directly asked Matthew.

Matthew clenched his fists tightly as he heard his words.

"Fucking hypocrite..." He uttered coldly.

"Nothing... Just testing something." Matthew replied with a faint smile.

A vein popped in Jame's forehead upon hearing his words. He was about to say something but was directly interrupted.

"Silence. The battle may continue." Lilian ordered coldly.

In this instant, Matthew looked at Stacy and sighed.

"I don't know if I should simply beat you up or just knock you out."

"H-huh...?" Stacy stammered upon hearing his words.

"Well... your dear 'boyfriend' doesn't stop using his powers to seal my strength, so... you might as well take 'rewards' from provoking me."

"B-b-b...BOYFRIEND!? I don't have a boyfriend!" Stacy declared loudly. Her voice was so loud that it was propelled through the whole arena.

Immediately, Matthew felt a bunch of gazes on his body. He didn't expect Stacy to literally scream out loud.

"Whatever... then, your 'pursuer' it is." He added.

"Who is it...?"

"Huh? Did you say something?"

"I asked about who you were talking about." She asked again.

At this moment, a small smirk appeared on Matthew's words, and a sound amplification spell was put on both of them secretly.

He also put a spell that made her unable to see that her voice was being amplified.

"Isn't it obvious? I'm taking about the professor from Class B, I think his name was James or something..."

"W-w-what? What do you mean? How could Professor James be my 'pursuer'?" Stacy said, clearly not knowing that her voice was being heard by everyone.

"Isn't it obvious? Not only is he sealing my strength, but when he talks to you, he always smiles very widely and even blushes a bit. He doesn't even hide his feelings; it's quite disgusting, to be honest." Matthew commented.

At that moment, everyone's gaze was on James, and they instantly noticed his strange yet guilty face.

"N-nonsense!" James declared out loud; however, what he didn't expect were the next words that escaped Stacy's mouth.

"Well... I appreciate his feelings, I guess... but I would never like him. He's just a professor and nothing more." She spoke bluntly.

Puff!

James immediately vomited a whole mouthful of blood upon hearing Stacy's words.

At that moment, Matthew dismissed the spells and laughed out loud.

Stacy looked around and also noticed that everyone was laughing while James seemed to have passed out.

"Pffff... AHAHHAHAHAHAHA!" Matthew continued laughing under Stacy's puzzled gaze.

Even Lilian was chuckling while covering her mouth, not to mention Roxanne, who was laughing loudly while holding her belly.

"Why is everyone laughing...?" Stacy asked. She was obviously confused and curious about why everyone was laughing.

Matthew waved his hand.

"Don't worry about it. Let's just begin with the battle already." Matthew stopped laughing and spoke.

He raised his sword, however, before he could actually do something...

"I forfeit!" Stacy immediately declared.

"Leon and Kennard can't win against you, so I obviously can't either." She smiled and then bid farewell.

Seeing this, Matthew shrugged his shoulders and walked out of the arena.

"The winner is Class F!" Lilian finally announced, and the students from Class F immediately cheered.

Upon getting back to his seat, Matthew felt a tap on his shoulders and looked upwards, where he saw Roxanne looking at him intensely.

"I'm not fighting anymore, only if needed.." Matthew declared.

He was tired of fighting... and it seems that even if James had vomited a whole mouthful of blood he still had enough strength to suppress him.

"Nihihihi, sure~" Roxanne giggled while sitting next to him.

"Next... the professors from the remaining classes need to draw the lots once again, but since there's only three teams, only one will be drawing."

With that, a professor approached Lilian and drew a lot.

"Well... the upcoming match is... Class C versus Class B!"

"Then, we'll have the finals of Class F against the winner!" Lilian declared with a faint smile.

Once again, each professor chose a student to go to the arena and fight, but something that Matthew found strange was that the students from Class B looked overly confident.

Even though Class C should be weaker, there should be no reason in particular for such high confidence, right?

After all, they still need to take out the final boss, which is Matthew, and then the final hidden boss, which is Roxanne.

But, not like they will win against Matthew.

After all, Matthew only used his [Spades???]. He didn't even strengthen his body or use proper magic.

He only relied on the dominance of [Spades???].

Right now, Matthew can only manifest [Spades???], and not use his magic.

However, he's pretty sure that if he used spades magic, he would probably kill someone because he wouldn't be able to control it.

So, he's quite curious to read the book that Roxanne said she would give him. After all, who doesn't want to get even more overpowered?

Especially when their first goal is to kill an S-rank awakened?

Slowly, under Matthew's bored eyes, the matches continued...

And because he was so bored, he ended up falling asleep. 

"Oh my~, you really fell asleep!" Roxanne giggled.

Without thinking twice, she moved Matthew's head onto her lap and started caressing his soft hair.

"His face is so beautiful..." She murmured as she took his hair away from his face.

Now, she could clearly see Matthew's delicate facial features, and to take an even closer look, she leaned down a bit...

BOOM!

Due to a giant explosion, Matthew suddenly opened his eye and was met with the approaching face of Roxanne.

"..."

"..."

The two of them stared down at each other awkwardly; however, as Roxanne noticed that Matthew wasn't doing anything, a mischievous idea appeared in her mind.

She brushed his hair and continued looking at his navy blue eyes, which had a red spades symbol on them.

Matthew simply sighed and let her do what she wanted.

He wasn't going to lie... Roxanne's thighs feel pretty good. However, that wasn't the same for Roxanne.

"Hey, hey~! Are you enjoying this big sister's thighs?" She asked with a mischievous tone.

And that directly ruined Matthew's peace.

Smack!

"Ouch... that hurts." Roxanne complained about it.

Matthew ignored her and simply sat down on his seat once again...

It appears that the match between Classes C and B was taking longer than he had anticipated...