Alice's not a wuss

The first time I felt my fist correspond with my emotion was when I was on the floor 78 Nebula's Cradle.

A space theme arena where you face a monster called Vendora.

A monster where the body is the only thing that fights you and the head that control the entire arena.

Either changing it into a boat or a dome, it's a piece of cake for this monster.

What's worse is with its wit, the body is also strong that it can destroy you in one move if you're careless enough.

But this is also the place where I manage to acquire my mana manipulation, by devouring the monster itself.

Sounds disturbing but it's the only way to defeat it unless you want to spend your entire life in that space.

I fought with it as soon as we met, in the early phase, it's a very easy boss to kill but once you reach his third and final form.

That's where he will release the power of Kyojuro Hyaki, it was the reason for me to burst out of anger.

Because he made me feel helpless.

Kyojuro Hyaki is a spell that plays an illusion through one's mind, a thousand torture in other name called by me.

Not only that it shows you your greatest fear, but it also destroys you from the inside if it manages to corrupt your dantian.

The Kyojuro Hyaki originated from a monster called Momoko.

But I'm surprised that I've used my fist again once again for trivial matters.

Ian was taken aback after my strike, he tried to grab the glass shards as it falls on his face.

The blood on his face caused terror to other students.

" Nari, what's the meaning of this? " Alice looked at Nari who's smiling ever since Haenami appeared.

" Before that! " Nari then pulls Alice to her side and runs away.

" Let him finish what he started, we would only get on his way. " Alice looked at Haenami with anxiety as they run thinking about his safety but Haenami looked back at her and smiled.

Both of them managed to get out of the cafeteria safely.

And that only leaves one thing to worry about, Ian.

As the blood drips on Ian's face he grinned at Haenami.

" You called that a punch? " Ian then dashed closer to Haenami and pulled his hand all the way to the back to charge up his fist.

But Haenami could see it well and punched him in the face before he could even release his punch.

Surprisingly enough, he didn't budge on Haenami's punch and continued to push his fast all the way.

Haenami raised his guard to block the fist as it made contact with each other.

Haenami heard a faint crack on his arm as he collided with Ian's fist as he was blown all the way to the cafeteria's entrance.

This Ian bastard is strong. I said to myself as I observed his hand where he have two rings with each crystal.

One's red and the other is green, wait does that mean?

Before I could even continue, Ian once appears in my face with his fist going onto my face.

I shifted my body from the side and gave him an uppercut, I manage to land it properly but it only raised his head slightly.

He suddenly exposed his other hand which contains one last ring and which had a crystal that's in yellow.

Now I get it, that's why it feels so familiar.

Those are rune rings.

Ruby for strength, Emerald for agility, and Topaz for Tenacity.

This bastard must be loaded if he has those.

Apparently, one ring could even cost you ₩ 1,000,000

His other hand tried to ax me down by pushing it downwards thankfully my reliable flash step saved me and teleported me from behind.

He looked back with overflowing confidence and rushed back at me, sending a couple of shots which I deflected back and create a counter-punch.

As I go back he kept on punching despite none of them reaching me, that's when someone from behind purposely tripped me and he caught up to me.

His body is so close and his fist as well.

This is bad, his punches are heavy because of the rune.

" This is the end! " His fist was coming from me as I slowly fall onto the ground.

My vision was being blocked by his fist and I thought to myself.

This is probably it.

But that's when someone threw a tray on his head and it hit him.

I didn't waste any of this precious second and slapped both of Ian's ears and grabbed his head.

He was stunned by it and connected my attack by pulling his head and smashing his face with my knee.

We both crashed onto the ground and rolled onto the ground, I quickly stand up to check on who helped me earlier.

Turns out it was her.

" Alice's not a wuss. " She said as everyone cheered.

Earlier, as Nari and Alice ran away.

Alice was consumed with guilt and break free from Nari's hand.

" What? You wanna go back? Are you crazy? " Nari holds Alice's face, once she saw what face she's making she lets go of her.

" Well then, what are you waiting for? Let's go! " Nari looks at her as Alice led them back.

" This is why I envy you, Alice. " Nari said to herself.

Going back into the present, Alice was panting heavily.

She smiled at Haenami and gave him a peace sign.

But that's when Ian rises up once again and blasted everyone near him, including Haenami.

He was consumed by karma, that's the cons of those runes.

There's no telling when it would go and destroy you from within.

Haenami goes up and grabs the nearest fork.

" Fuck, it looks like I'm gonna have to use that move. " Suddenly, I felt a person pass by.

He casually approached Ian and crushed his face onto the ground, the karma runs out and everything went back to normal.

A man who was sucking on a lollipop looked at me and smiled.

" That was incredible, kid. "