A mystery

~SLAP~

"I'm sorry!"

~PAH~

"I won't do it again!"

~SLAP~

"Please I'm begging you!"

I was being hit by master for risking my life in the first round of a 'lousy tournament' as he called it.

"What would I do if I lost you!" he shouted. "First of all, your parents would kill me, Second if all I don't want to lose my precious disciple!"

~WHACK~

He stopped hitting me and he let out huffs and puffs though he was still pissed at my recklessness.

"Get yourself treated and meet me in the glass room by the west."

"Y-yes master."

'Sheesh, I almost died a second time.' I thought as inspected my wounds and bruises.

I took a walk from my dressing room where I was being beaten to the infirmary.

"Gosh, someone would think you were the one who lost your match." the nurse joked.

I sat on a black chair and she began to bring out some strange looking liquids from the cupboards. She poured a transparent white liquid into a purple one and it turned sickly green with a hiss.

~HISS~

The sound made me shudder in fear. The nurse wore her white disposable gloves and she dipped some cotton wool into the green liquid and started to rub them on my bruises.

Surprisingly it didn't hurt or so I thought. When she was done, I felt a sting and then many stings and soon enough my whole body was on fire. It was even worse than when master beat me up!

"Aaah! It hurts!" I screamed.

"Are you really rank 8?" the nurse asked.

"C'mon, people forget we're children because we're overlords!"

"Well after what you did in the arena, no one would call you a child."

"You're right. Ah!"

I walked out of the infirmary and I went to the glass room in the west as my master had instructed.

I met him sitting on a sofa holding a bottle of milk which he gulped down. He finished the bottle and threw it to a corner and he took another from a little refrigerator beside him.

He was currently watching the third bout of round 1. A kid James versus Rudra. James had a powerful earth element while Rudra specialized in Lightening.

Rudra attacked and James defended and they were at a stalemate. It had turned into a match who ran out of stamina and mana first.

Master turned his attention to me and then back to the match.

"Sit."

"Yes master."

We watched the match in silence and soon there was a clear winner. James was running out of mana and began to make desperate attacks that were easy to dodge and soon, in a flash of lightening, he was teleported to the glass room in the east.

"THE WINNER OF THE THIRD MATCH OF ROUND ONE OF COCO IS RUDRA!"

"UP NEXT WE HAVE PRINCE LEYN BLUECLOUD VERSUS MARCO!!!"

I stiffened a little hearing Leyn's name, he hadn't caused much trouble throughout the past year and he laid low. His specialty was the dagger though no one had seen him use it except the dagger class teacher. Even his weapon class classmates hadn't seen him use it.

"Ooh, the prince brat. Thank the ancestors you're not like him." Master commented.

Leyn and Marco walked into the arena which had been fixed. Some people in the audience held banners showing the symbol of the bluecloud empire and were chanting Leyn's name.

His gaze was impassive and he didn't seem to care about anything. He didn't have the arrogant look from before. He was completely different.

Marco on the other hand was an earth user that specialized in close combat. Using earth to amplify his strength and making golems to fight with.

He grinned at Leyn and shouted "I Marco Uzenki will defeat you!"

He reminded me of on over optimistic main character in the last anime I watched before I died, they even had similar surnames.

"BEGIN!"

"Aaah!"

Marco let out a war cry before charging at Leyn like a bull. Leyn didn't move from his spot and the next second a purple pulse spread from his feet and passed through Marco's and the moment it did, Marco was still like a statue and the look in his eyes was one of utter fear.

"M-m-monster..." Marco muttered before he was teleported out of the battle platform when Leyn was about to strike him with a mana infused fist.

"T-THE WINNER OF THE FOURTH BOUT OF THE FIRST ROUND OF COCO IS PRINCE LEYN BLUECLOUD!"

~CHEERS~ ~WHISTLES~ ~SHOUTS~

That's when I remembered something, I had never wondered what Leyn's magical affinities were...