Practical Test (4)

BANG!

Suddenly, the sound of a guy firing echoed through the student's ears.

They all looked at Matthew in shock, and slowly, Stacy's body fell into the ground. Matthew didn't even catch her or anything just silently looked at it with a faint smile on his lips.

"Ahh, like I'd make a deal with you. Bitch." He uttered coldly.

'I accidentally read a bit of this novel because my Sis recommended it to me, but just after reading a bit I regretted it.'

'I didn't think it was going to be a reverse-harem novel, so fucking disgusting. That bitch... I'll kill her if I even come back to my own world!' He clenched his fists tightly thinking about his sister.

He looked at Stacy's lifeless body and then looked at his phone.

"Oh, the first day already passed. That means that the students now don't have safety magic and now they can get injured." He murmured.

His gaze landed on Stacy's belly and saw that the bullet didn't even pierce through her body.

'Tsk, she unconsciously protected her body with mana? As expected of the protagonist.' He shook his head with a faint smile.

"BASTARD!" A loud voice reached out to Matthew.

He looked forward and saw the golden-haired handsome prince looking at him with a vein popping out on his forehead. He was also clenching his fists tight.

Kennard was also pretty mad... he was gripping his arms so tightly that his nails probably pierced through his skin.

"What? It's just a meaningless 'gun', a useless weapon, right?" Matthew smirked at the students.

They all seemed to be hit by his words which made him chuckle lightly.

However, as he got distracted a sudden blade suddenly approached his neck, and with that movement, a strange symbol appeared in Matthew's eyes.

On his dead, black eyes, a faint symbol of spades appeared and shone on a blood-red color.

SWING!

As the blade reached out to his neck, it suddenly stopped and Stacy's eyes widened as he saw Matthew grabbing the blade with just two fingers.

She looked at Matthew's eyes and once she saw the spades symbol, her body trembled with fear.

From her perspective, Matthew seemed to have a huge shadow of a Demonic Fox behind him.

She licked her lips as her index finger reached out to Stacy's body and trampled her.

"HAAH!" Stacy screamed loudly.

She started breathing hard, occasionally gasping from time to time as if she had seen her worst nightmare.

The sword dropped to the ground as Matthew looked at Stacy with eyes as cold as ice.

"You fucking bastard!!" Leon dashed towards Matthew and directly swung his sword.

But, as if he hadn't learned his lesson from last time, Matthew parried the sword with his own hand, making it slide to the right.

And then, with two fingers he tapped Leon's forehead and suddenly Leon's body dropped to the ground.

THUD!

Kennard looked at this scene with horror, he wanted to go and save both Leon and Stacy, but because he was weak he couldn't.

The only thing he could do was simply watch his friend and his crush land lifeless on the ground.

Matthew remained calm and squatted down to pick up the flags that Leon had on his body.

Then, he silently left the group.

Immediately, Kennard ran towards Leon's body and checked his injuries. Then, he looked at Stacy's body and he blushed slightly upon seeing her sleeping face.

SLAP!

"Fuck, it isn't time for this kind of thing!" He slapped his own face, awaking up from his daze.

"Julia! Come here and heal them, they only seem to be unconscious." Kennard ordered.

With that, Julia approached and recited silently.

"Recovery!"

At that moment, faint green magic seeped out of his hand and enveloped both Leon's and Stacy's bodies.

A few moments passed, and Leon's eyelids started trembling and finally, he slowly opened his eyes.

"Leon! You're awake..." Kennard cheerfully exclaimed.

He was happy that Leon woke up so fast.

Leon only nodded his head to his words and then his gaze switched to Stacy's body, just to see her body quivering...

"N...no...no... NO! PLEASE!" She suddenly woke up, her upper body raising as she loudly pleaded in a teary voice.

"Huff... huff... huff..." She breathed hard, the sweat on her forehead slowly sliding down her face.

She looked around and saw the face of her group looking at her with a deep amount of pity and worry.

"S-Stacy, what happened? Did you have a nightmare?" Before Kennard could say something, Leon spoke.

Stacy looked at him for a moment, and then her lips parted.

"I need some time alone." She got up and used magic to clean herself.

Then, she walked towards the forest with a deep-thinking face.

Leon only sighed at her actions, as her childhood friend, he knew that she had a very hard childhood.

And maybe, that "nightmare" may be related to it...

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As Stacy walked the path of the forest, she suddenly heard a faint groan, it seemed that someone was injured.

'Huh...'

With a huge amount of curiosity, she didn't think twice and followed the sounds.

She walked a few meters until she saw the beautiful land view of a huge lake with crystal clear water.

Her eyes widened as she saw such a pure river of water, but then, her eyes landed on a figure.

"Keukk!" The figure groaned in pain, holding his hand above his chest.

He coughed as blood came out of his mouth and reached the dirty ground. He gripped his chest tightly as he suddenly turned his body.

At that moment, Stacy's eyes widened as she saw the figure of Matthew.

His appearance remained the same, but now she could see a huge amount of red lines on his body.

And it seemed that they were "active" somehow, she could see a dark liquid flowing through them at a very fast rate.

All of those lines seemed to reach to Matthew's eyes.

"What is happening!?" She asked herself.

"ARGHHH!" Matthew screamed loudly as the pain seemed to have increased.

However, this time, Matthew bit his own arm hard. He didn't seem to care that he was tasting his own blood and simply started walking towards the lake.

He got into the water, and the dark liquid seemed to propel itself into the water, turning the crystal-clear water into a dark-colored impure water.

Stacy couldn't help but take a few steps forward as Matthew got a bit far away from her vision.

At that moment, she saw how the dark-colored water suddenly turned into some kind of wisp and entered his eyes.

Matthew slowly stopped groaning from the pain and seated down on the once again, crystal-clear water.

The water's deepness wasn't so high, so Stacy could clearly see Matthew's whole body.

The lines with the dark liquid flowing on them had completely disappeared, but now, Matthew had a strange aura around his body.

Before, he had a cold aura that seemed to tell everyone to get away from him, but now...

He had a faint gentle yet relaxing aura as if he was some kind of saint.

"Hah... It finally ended." She heard Matthew's voice.

"Sigh... I thought I would die with that amount of pain. But, whatever, it was worth it!" Matthew gripped his fists tightly.

With a faint smile, he rose, and then with his hands, he condensed some kind of seal...

Slowly, the water turned into small drops and Matthew's smile widened, he controlled the drops and played with them.

All of that while having that same cheerful and happy smile on his face.

Looking at this, Stacy started to feel strange; she didn't like Matthew's personality, but now...

Seeing this "different" Matthew, her heart started to beat up fast. A faint rosy blush appeared on her cheeks as she put her hands on her chest.

"What is this feeling...?"