28. Akane vs Bernard

Ren's point of view:

I was coming home after a long night of work with Kumiko, at the restaurant, obviously.

- master.

" Yeah?

- Do you think Akane will win tomorrow?

Kumiko asked as he ate a hamburger.

" It's on her.

I replied as I took a bite of my burger too

-huh, why?

"Um... if I have to put it into words... the problem is that she doesn't attack with intent to damage, and considering that to use the daggers you have to be lethal, it can become a weakness for her

- so she will lose huh?

"Maybe, maybe not.

- can you be a clear master? don't come up with words of wisdom when you have my age.

Kumiko replied with a sullen face, interrupting my moment of feigned wisdom.

'but it really depends on her herself, Akane is very talented, if only she wasn't afraid to slit my neck when she tries to attack, she could give me some difficulty at best.

"It's hard to say, even though the boy is a weakling from what I read in his test file, Akane can fail to avoid hurting the opponent... although she could manage in other ways as well.

-how?

Kumiko asked somewhat confused, but I really didn't want to waste my breath on this simple explanation.

"find it out, how can someone win without hurting the opponent?

Kumiko was silent for a few minutes while I took the opportunity to continue eating my hamburger along with this drink that she tasted just like the purple chicha from my old world.

-um... pulling his opponent out of the arena?

"touche, that way

-and after that?

'it's simple, my work will be done, and she can go back to being a normal student and make it to the top 10 freshmen.

"It's over, she can go back to being without worries about that guy since we made a bet with the director as a witness and once I win, everything will return to normal

-...didn't invest much in her?

"What are you talking about?

"I'm just saying...those skill books you gave she didn't cost?"

"ah, actually that money wasn't mine anyway

-How did she get it?

"very simple, I asked the principal Naomi to help me record them, and it turns out that they had a skills recorder inside the school

-oh really?

"That's right, when I told her about Akane's case, she offered to solve it, but I had to tell her everything and she told me that at least she would help me to separate the sand and get the recorder and blank books, truly a kind person.

'Although I really think Naomi did it on purpose, plus I have a suspicion that what is, I remember that in the story she was nice to her students.

- I don't buy them.

'woman... I barely have money for dinner tonight, if it wasn't for what she sent kiriko, she would be doing jobs to get money.

"Not really, I don't have money to buy them anyway, the cheapest skill is at least 200 coins.

It really was a steal to buy skills, although I can slightly understand where the price comes from, getting a skill that requires years of training to gain can be annoying, especially if you are a noble daddy's son who doesn't want to train.

'It's funny how the kids at the academy brag about the skills they learned in class.

- so Akane will stop hanging out with us?

snapping me out of my thoughts, Kumiko asked curiously.

"It's most likely, I'm already making progress in my deal with the director, I don't think Akane will join us again, besides, if she spruces up a bit, with her appearance despite being shy, she will win many admirers, I entrust Akane to you so she doesn't fall into the hands of some silver-tongued idiot.

-ha... more tired work, but I can't say no, I like that girl.

"TRUE?

-By the way, Master, why doesn't she tell me about her? get out of theoretical subjects, she will not have sold her soul?

'I really think I did, but hey, what's the use of having a second life if I can't enjoy it, plus training magic is fun, what's not fun is waking up at 4 in the morning to maintain and improve my physical condition, ha. .. I hope it's Sunday soon so I can sleep all day...

"Pretty much yes, but at least I'll get good rewards after this.

- By the way, master.

"Yeah?

-I already bought all the things she asked for on Friday

"Oh, very good, I guess today I will also keep my promise to you

- finally?

Kumiko asked with a rare smile on her face, I notices that she misses going to Kiriko's side, although I wonder how she couldn't be more daring with him.

'a young man of 15 years...well, 18-year-old with pheromones at their peak, I'm surprised at the amount of control to not try anything with Kumiko in all this time when she was also in the top 5 of the girls ranking most beautiful in the game... well, he's also the same guy who won't react even if he sees a naked woman in his room... is he a eunuch? it will be worrying for the royal family that the heir can't use it, I don't have an easy answer if he has that kind of problem, I better leave that problem to Kumiko

while thinking random stupid things, I replied to Kumiko.

"Yes, today we will cook with all our might, and at the end, I will show you the recipe for my special homemade bacon

- You're not cheating on me, are you?

'special homemade bacon ain't no kidding thing, girl

"When did I do it?

- yatai ヽ(^o^)ノ

Kumiko said as she jumped for joy causing it to catch the attention of the people around, Kumiko immediately changed her face to stoic.

'That face-changing speed is amazing, I have to learn that.

"but let's go quickly, tomorrow we must arrive early.

That night was the last culinary battle between Ren and Kumiko, this time it is said that Kumiko won, and she was finally able to sleep in bed, but when she lay down on the bed...

Kumiko regretted it for a moment after lying down, the bed hurt a lot, so she decided to change to the mattress again.

and that was because Ren got a current insulating mattress detail from the headmistress so he could train her electrical magic while she slept.

Her method now is to pass orders from her brain directly to the nerves of her body, that's how she decided to train since Monday, at work she used it, and a while ago in the competition, she did it equally.

It turns out that in her old life, Ren was also a neurosurgeon's assistant on an infiltration mission and learned a few things, which saved him unnecessary research time.

and at night while he sleeps, he makes him consciousness travel through the nerves like moving the arm, legs, etc.

which scared Kumiko because Ren seemed to sleepwalk.

Ren also learned several tricks through the use of electricity on the nerves, although I do not try to use a lot of power so as not to be crippled, I only use the voltage necessary for the movement that is considered as messages from the brain, in other words, I was ready to visit Kazuma.

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author

(Yeah)

Can you explain how Ren is doing exactly? Since he doesn't usually monitor his progress very often, so far I don't know what Ren's state looks like.

(well let's see, his stats are more or less like this on his ID tab like this.

[State]

Name: Ren Artega.

Qualification:

none.

magical affinity:

Ray

level 4 (improvable)

Attributes :

Strength :D

Agility: -C

Stamina :D

Intelligence: D+

Mana Capacity: D+

Luck: ???

fighting styles:

[lazy style] - Rank A (improvable).

Skills:

none.

The guy usually trains until he meets his goal and usually looks at his procedure at the end, but to give you an idea, he doesn't usually see his attributes because he believes that if he does it, and he has good progress, it will make him complacent and stop doing it.

later I will put the attributes of the others, only that I still think about the abilities that I will give them)

typical author.

one way or the other.

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Ren decided to tell the principal after the excursion to visit Kazuma since he prefers to prepare well before trying to touch a brain that is not his.

In the arena today Akane, Bernard, Kumiko, and Ren are present.

The sand was separated in one hour of class and no one can come until it is over, although people do not usually come during class hours.

Ren was a bit surprised to hear Bernard's words, Kumiko the same, and they both started chatting.

-so that's why she refused before, huh?

-I guess yes master, I wonder how your relationship will be after this

-I don't think he could get worse if he dared to cut his fiancée with his sword

- Also... you shouldn't call me master anymore, the deal is over.

- sorry ren, the habit.

-Much better, now to enjoy the battle of my apprentice.

- you only trained her for a week

- that will show that in a week I can do miracles

-ha... at least show some humility.

while they were chatting nonsense.

Akane responded to her fiance.

"We haven't spoken in days, Mr. Squirre.

Bernard looked at Akane as if he were looking at a bug on the side of the road, a look that didn't affect Akane in the least.

- I don't feel like talking to waste like you, I only do it because they offered me something valuable, if it weren't for that, I wouldn't come here to waste my time.

"Can you tell me what they offered you?

Akane asked carefully, she wanted to know what ren could have offered for someone as arrogant as Bernard Squirre to come here to fight her.

Bernard smiled mischievously and responded to Akane as if he wanted to tease her.

- um, it will be a good thing that you know what was wasted on you, very good, they offered me to stop doing theory classes for the rest of the year.

Akane was silent for a moment, then spoke with a smile as if to say 'typical sensei'.

"So in the end you bet everything on me huh? Don't worry Mr. Squirre, by finishing you off, I'll let you at least continue with your top 10 rank

Akane said quietly, instead Bernard seemed as if he had heard something totally stupid, ending up laughing before looking at Akane with undisguised contempt.

-Joining with the garbage has loosened your mouth, eh? I will have to tell the duke that his daughter has bad meetings, maybe they will offer me more properties in exchange for not canceling the engagement.

"...he took a vow of silence, please don't miss it

-tch, at least they would have promised me to your sister, she does have curves, not like you, damn flat.

While the tension between them grew, one for the frustration of giving a fiancée four eyes that is not worth it, and another for staining the name of his beloved sister, a loud laugh was heard out of nowhere.

-hahahahahahahaha-

-pff, ren please shut up, you are embarrassing us

Kumiko scolded Ren who was holding his stomach from laughing, but Kumiko couldn't help but laugh as he tried to hold it back with his hand.

after a moment of giggles and chuckles, ren with a fresh smile answered him.

- Please Kumiko, your cheeks are red from holding back your laughter when you see how they call Akane flat.

Ren said before turning his attention back to Bernard and talking to him as if he was looking at something funny.

- Hey you, fiancé.

- huh?

- I have a new bet for you.

- What is it about? commoner

- I bet you to break your commitment if you lose, and if you win you will have 50000 coins.

- hey! that money is from don julio

Kumiko yelled from the side, to which Ren responded as if he wanted to see something funny.

- I can work later to get more, please Kumiko, I need more entertainment at the end of this

- but don't use our hard-earned money

Ren grabbed Kumiko by the neck and began to talk in secret.

after a while, ren spoke to Bernard again with a smiling Kumiko next to him.

- As I said, if you win, apart from saving you from theoretical subjects, I'll give you 50,000 academy coins, 10 times more than what you gave me, isn't that a good deal for you?

-um ... I accept, ending this commitment will be the best for me since I can't have fun with girls because of him, plus I won't have to do anything for the rest of the year and 50000 coins.

Akane saw Ren's smile as she gave Bernard, although it was a pure smile, she knew that it was indeed the devil's smile.

It was the same smile that she put on the scammers who wanted to take credit for her plates of food and ended up giving Ren a giant compensation with tears of blood in their eyes.

Bernard returned to the center of the arena after signing the deal with a mana contract, and his attention turned to Akane.

- very well dear Akane, your name will serve to give me happiness at least once.

Akane tried to ask Bernard as if she was worried, but only Kumiko knew that Akane wanted to make sure that guy didn't change his mind.

"Are you sure about this, Mr. Squirre? His father may be annoyed for doing it without authorization from the heads of the house.

-I am my boss, and I decide what I want, now he stops talking to me with your horrible voice and fighting.

Akane knowing that it won't do any good to keep trying to convince him, lowered her head so no one would see her expression, even her body trembled a little.

Only Kumiko with her feminine intuition knew that Akane at that very moment had a pure smile that she couldn't remove, it bad her opponent... it's a smile similar to Ren.

She took out of her ring 2 daggers, although these daggers had something unique inside them, they were connected with chains attached to wristbands, a congratulatory gift from Ren before entering the arena for Akane.

Ren taught Akane all the basics of using daggers and solved her problem of not being able to return her weapons once thrown, Ren got a pair of large daggers with chains, both chains attached to bracelets on her arms, it only remains that she can now use them to their full potential, but that will be for the future.

Akane positioned herself at the same time as Bernard who had her two-handed sword.

they heard the artificial whistle that started the duel.

Akane moved around Bernard, testing her new weapons first and throwing a dagger at him, Bernard reacted and blocked the incoming dagger and yanked on Akane's chain, in response, Akane threw the other one.

Bernard released the chain and immediately stepped on it and grabbed the other.

Akane seeing the 2 weapons held by him, didn't panic and sent fire mana through the chains, heating them red hot.

One detail that the author forgot to mention is that on Saturday, Ren took Akane with the director to her practice. Naomi, knowing what was happening, put them to train Akane together with Aiko.

At first, it was extremely awkward, since Akane was embarrassed and Aiko looked at her with a look as if she was looking at a sworn opponent.

After a while, and after scanning her, Aiko sighed and agreed to help.

Since Aiko is more experienced in using her attribute since she is her magician, she helped him train her magic, and it turns out that Akane had the wrong view of the fire.

She thought that the fire had to be controlled at all costs since you could burn yourself.

But she was wrong, fire symbolizes the freedom to get out of control, if you are good with fire, fire will serve you.

At least that was what a spirit magic user demon said in the past, you must not control the fire, you must let it loose and it will know what to do according to your wishes.

And so she was able to level her up from a level 2 to a level 4 in one reveal.

Worthy of the most troublesome future boss in the game.

Because of that, Akane was able to send mana through the chain without her running out of mana, or not being able to guide the mana to the end of the chain.

Bernard pulled away as he felt the heat about to reach the end.

as they collided, there was a difference, Bernard was losing, parts of his uniform were being burned, and his hair was similarly being burned from Akane's ranged attacks.

By now, Bernard's brain was already hot, first of all, Akane wouldn't approach to fight directly, she would send attacks through her chains or spells along the way and Bernard would use his wind magic and his sword in a directed style. to 1v1 damage, not mobility.

Out of nowhere, Akane looked at the time and saw that they had been fighting for 4 minutes, wanting to beat the time she had with her master in a fight, she decided to end it.

she threw one of her daggers after imbuing it with the concentrated fire attribute at the tip.

Bernard in response put up a wind barrier in front of which he took the full blow of the flames.

appeared on the opposite side of him, another similarly shaped dagger.

Bernard reacted immediately and placed another barrier.

a third blow appeared from behind, it was another of the daggers.

After blocking, Bernard thought that Akane would enter from the front since there was still fire on the 3 sides around him, he was surrounded by wind barriers that prevented the fire from reaching him, showing him great talent for magic.

But to his mistake, Akane through the cloud of flames that appeared to him left, threw the 2 chains by Bernard's sides, and as she embedded herself in the ground, she pulled both of them for a kick.

To the surprise that she did not appear from the front, along with his speed, Bernard only had time to put his arm up to defend, but to his bad luck, the kick did hit him hard and sent him down to the ground. back several meters.

When the smoke cleared, Bernard heard the whistle for the game to end, looking at the ground he realized that he was not inside the red line, looking up, Akane was already moving towards Ren's location.

Akane felt happy, very happy in fact.

She had followed her belief of not hurting others and just pushed Bernard out of the field and won, of course, there were several variables, for example, if he had not fallen into the deception she was not going to go forward avoiding the flames The game could last longer.

Their engagement was broken, which gave Akane the most joy, since the contract Ren had was one of the highest quality and had the seal of the director, so neither her family nor the Squirre family can complain about it.

Akane felt sad since she will have no reason to hang out with Ren, maybe go to the restaurant, but Kumiko already told her not to work there anymore, since she ended the deal with Ren and it means she won't work there again, but at least She wanted to kneel in front of him as a respect to a teacher who took away part of her worries and helped her find her way.

When Akane was coming in front of him, Ren was smiling at him, it wasn't a smile from the devil, it was that rare smile similar to when he was talking to Don Julio and saying goodbye to him while giving him all the money they paid him, she was there when Don Julio I hug him and Catalina was tearing up.

As Akane was about to kneel, out of nowhere Ren's smile turned into a distant look, lasting a split second, and then turned into a hollow look as he summoned his sword from his ring.

Akane wondered what was happening, but she felt a new intention, different from Ren's pressure that she got used to, she knew him blood's intention towards her, but it wasn't Ren's, she felt it from behind her.

When Akane looked away from her she saw a longsword about to slice her, when it was only inches from her face, the sword was stopped by a black sword with blue lines that were placed in front of her.

Seeing the sword inches from her face and the red look Bernard gave her made Akane feel afraid.

Since the start of the game... she felt fear, fear of hurting Bernard, fear of being hurt, fear of disappointing her new teacher, fear of going back to where it all started... being a loner with no desire to live when she got someone who believed in her... plus fear of losing.

At this moment, Akane learned 2 new fears, the first was her seeing that sword and Bernard's look right now, she felt the fear of death.

And the second fear where I can say she was more scared is when after the crash Ren said.

- so I should have killed you at that first crossing, huh?

Ren spoke calmly as if she was talking about the weather, but her tone was so cold that she sent horrible chills down Akane's spine.

Akane knew the fear of the unknown.

' so at that time, it was not my imagin'-

Cutting off Akane's train of thought, it was Ren who broke through the crossing through force and sent Bernard flying breaking Bernard's sword in the process.

Ren began to run towards Bernard, Akane seeing that her teacher did not use the usual posture, but only ran towards the corner where Bernard was, she threw her chains into Ren's arms to stop her advance.

Kumiko didn't stand idly by, she ran towards Ren with the shield, using the moment Ren stopped with Akane's chains, she faced Bernard with the shield in front of her.

Ren yanked the chains hard, pulling Akane with hers, and slashed at Kumiko with her sword.

Kumiko blocked, but colliding with Ren's sword, she felt as if a truck was coming at her, as she tried to recover, ren jumped on the shield, straight to slash Bernard who was rising from the ground.

Bernard thought he saw the grim reaper when he saw Ren about to cut him, his arms did not respond to him, Ren's blow broke the bones of his arms, and his mind could not do anything in the face of inevitable death.

When Ren was about to hit, out of nowhere, Ren was surrounded by a sphere of water capturing him, and a melodious but angry voice was heard prompting the bow.

-Luckily I decided to watch Ren's disciple in her fight.

Seeing the director present, the 3 wanted to kneel, but Bernard couldn't because of the pain from the blow.

-Bernard Squirre.

-Yeah!!

Naomi looked at Bernard calmly causing Bernard to almost pee his pants, even though he was about to die for Ren, he knew that Naomi Hakuya could do worse than death to him.

- You wanted to break your agreement by killing the student Akane, eh?

- no, I just-

Bernard tried to excuse himself, but Naomi's words cut him off.

- I don't care about excuses.

Naomi said as she lowered the ball of water to the ground and released it, after releasing the spell, a reindeer passed out from drowning.

- Students Akane and Kumiko, take Ren to the infirmary, he must be attended to by my daughter who is there, as for you, son of the Squirres, you will come with me to speak with the head of the Squirre house for compensation and return of all properties obtained from the Scarlett family.

After that, Akane and Kumiko lifted Ren on a stretcher.

And the director made the tutor of class B come to take him to Bernard since the director did not even want to use her magic on him, the teacher arrived and heard the situation, put Bernard inside a sphere of air, and secretly sent icy winds down and they flew him off to take care of the whole thing between the Scarletts and Squirre.