26: Cliché

"…..That Zepes..... was handled like a child...…." said one from the audience.

"...….Too overwhelming....who is that guy? I've never seen his face before," exclaimed another.

Voices like that started leaking out from the seating area.

"Zepes Endou has surrendered. Winner: Arnos Voldigod," said the owl judge, ignoring the crowd.

Along with the owl's words, the barrier disappeared, which Arnos completely forgot about since, to him, no barrier could lock him.

'Somethings strange though. My name has been declared, which is the same as the Demon King Arnos, but nobody is reacting at all,' Arnos thought confusedly. He thought after his name was announced there would be an uproar.

'Have a lot of foolish people taken the name of the Demon King in the past, so nobody thinks anything of it anymore?' he speculated while trying to find the real reason, as he had a gut feeling telling him that there's more than meets the eye.

'It would be troublesome if I became too famous, but I also want to prove my abilities.' His conflicting thoughts were brewing within him. Even in his early days, he liked to show off in front of others, as he was always beaten when he tried to compete with Rimuru.

"It was a good match," as he had his idle thoughts, he went towards Zepes to thank his rival, as it is proper etiquette.

"Bastard! Stop looking down on me! I'll remember this!!" Zepes slapped away Arnos's extended hand while running away. Arnos could vaguely see his hand twitching; was it because he was scared, or is that how he normally runs? Arnos didn't know.

Arnos took back his hand and looked at Zepes's departing figure, shrugged his shoulders, and thought, 'He certainly failed because of me, but I didn't kill him. Can't he just try again next year? If it was in the mythical era, he would return home healthy and come back to fight me again. At those times, many Mazoku found happiness and shed tears of gratitude for this, as this helps them improve faster than anything.'

"After a 10-minute break, you will fight your next opponent," the owl judge said to Arnos.

"Unnecessary," Arnos dismissed the notion. 'I don't need a 10-minute break. That last fight wasn't even a warm-up. I'll actually get tired from having so much free time. And I only got another 4 people to beat, which is fine since in those days I had to fight 100 people every day without any breaks,' he thought internally.

"By proposal of Arnos Voldigod, the break will be omitted," the judge didn't stop him, as he was used to these kinds of arrogant requests from people who tried to bite off more than they could chew.

Like that, another 4 people witnessed the abnormality of the Demon King of Tyranny.

While this was happening at Rimuru's side.

"It's that cliché situation, isn't it, Ciel?" Rimuru asked, amused.

"The probability of it happening is 97%," Ciel replied.

"Oh, why is it only at 97% and not 100%? You can clearly see the hate in that dude's eyes. Didn't you notice how some people in the special area are trying to control their emotions so they don't jump on Arnos to beat him up right there and now?" asked Rimuru curiously since she was sure Zepes would try to gang up on Arnos to wash his shame.

"I speculate that this situation would not go as master imagined it to be," Ciel said provocatively.

"Oh, then Ciel, why don't we have a bet then? The winner will serve as a maid for the other for one day. What do you say, Ciel? Up for the challenge?" said Rimuru, sure of his victory, as Ciel tended to lose most of the bets they made.

"We will see, master," Ciel said ominously.

Like that, nothing special happened during the practical test; Arnos won 4 matches repeatedly. Rimuru also won the practical exam in her division with flying colors. She single-handedly defeated her opponents with magic without giving them enough time to prepare. Although this gained her a lot of attention, it didn't make her abnormal, as this chaos generation had some more people like her.

When all the practical exams ended, everyone was sent to a large hall. The hall was like every building made from stone pillars and had a fantasy theme to it. But there was a large grey crystal and a same-sized mirror in the center of the hall.

Many people came from the different doors that were located in different directions, presumably the winners of the practical exams in each division.

Arnos and Rimuru spotted each other instantly and came together to find Misha since Rimuru felt her unique aura. Arnos was the first one to find her, though, so he called out for her.

"Yo, Misha."

The girl turned around with her long platinum blonde hair shaking gently. She came towards their group.

"Although you said you were not good at fighting, you seem to have broken through the practical test," Arnos asked, amused since she at the beginning said that she was not a good fighter.

"…..By chance..."

To this answer, both had different thoughts,

'So she says, but it would be impossible to beat 5 people by chance. Unexpectedly, she might be more powerful than Zepes and the others,' Arnos thought, while Rimuru thought, 'Yeah, you didn't give them any chance since you froze them before they could even register it,' Rimuru thought while sweat dripping.

"By the way, what's happening now?" Arnos asked, although he had a vague idea of what they are about to do but wasn't sure. But he was shocked to see the two blank stares directed at him. He thought, 'maybe asking them might have been the wrong decision.'

Rimuru sighed while rubbing her head and said, "Arnos, I know you like to act all high and mighty all the time, but did you not even try to find out about the new things that are popular nowadays when you went out of the house?"

Arnos scratched his face while having a wry smile.

Rimuru sighed again and stretched her hand to the side where a portal appeared, and her hand went through it for a few seconds, and she retracted it. Unlike earlier, she now has a magazine in her hand, which

she shoved to Arnos and said exasperatedly,

"Here is a magazine that has all the new things that were invented and some common sense for the reincarnated people who were born from the mythical era. And when I say reincarnated people, I mean you, since only you were important enough for your descendants to actually publish this magazine. I even heard that royals make their children memorize these contexts as they believe that one of them will become your vessel."

Arnos looked dumfounded at the magazine which Rimuru shoved right in his face. He saw that the cover had a picture of his old castle, Demon Castle Delsgade, as its front cover. It also read 'How to blend in with the current era.'

He looked at it for a while and had a thoughtful look in his eyes, thoughts that only he could understand.

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