18 EVERYTHING IS WEIRD!

PRISCILLA'S POV

The day of the competition arrived. The atmosphere around the dining hall is heavy. When I looked at the class B's table, I did not find Andromeda. That Cat! Hawk was also still acting weird, ever since yesterday. Did they get into a fight? Everyone was acting normal, though.

The other students were talking to each other, some were fighting with cocky words. Airheads. Oliver was surprisingly quiet. Oh, right. He planned on beating Andromeda. It's not that it's impossible, Andromeda cannot use her full potential so Oliver has the advantage. I'm not sure about Hawk, though. Hawk do not fall far from Andromeda's power.

About me... Of course I have developed skills. Compared to Andromeda, my status rises up very slowly. Maybe because I was practicing on the skills that are not my forte. Or maybe Andromeda just cheat often.

I only ate light food for breakfast and just when I was about to leave the table, some girls from class C approached me, four of them.

"My, aren't you the so-called weakest of the first years? I heard you are not capable of fighting."

"Yeah, right? She must be really nervous because we will be ruining that beautiful face of hers."

They laughed. I rolled my eyes while they were close. Honestly, I'm not nervous. I mean, I might lose but I already know that. I will be facing my classmates, the class Bs, and Andromeda and Hawk so I clearly stand no chance of winning. My forte is making Potions and seducing men so I'm not the battle type.

"Is that so? Good luck then." If you can win.

I elegantly walked between the group like I was slapping them with the truth that when it comes to beauty, I am ahead of them. It's not like I was boasting or whatsoever, I just wanted to annoy them. Their reaction said it all.

I finished my food early because I wanted to look for my cat. It is my duty as her owner, is it not? Although most of the time, Andromeda is the one who acts like a boss. I blew my already long bangs that fell on my face. I fixed my clip and brushed it softly.

Time passed and I already went to every corner of the dorm. I even walked on the hallways and visited her room. Seriously?

I was about to scream in frustration when the announcement that the tournament is starting sounded all over the school. I walked my way to the school arena with disappointment and frustration.

Our teacher gave us words of encouragement but I paid it no mind. I just mindlessly entered the place. Battle Royale, huh? Our goal this round is to bring down as many student belonging to the other sections as we can and survive. The arena is so wide that we all fitted.

As I roam my eyes, a small figure with long dark gray hair caught my sight. It's Andromeda! As usual, she just looked at everyone with no emotion. But something is odd. Andromeda never really acted like a cat when she's in her human form, but this Andromeda just licked her wrist like a real cat.

"I'm so fired up!" Oliver exclaimed, looking at Andromeda. He is so excited to settle the score with the cat, if he could.

I expected Hawk to accompany Andromeda but he was on a different circle of people. Faye, Sarah, and others were with Andromeda, though. Everyone is acting weird!

Before I knew it, the round started. As expected, the mean girls that I encountered this morning targeted me. Some other opponents cannot approach me because Oliver is close.

"I'm going to crush your petty face, bitch!"

They came at me with all sorts of magic and physical attacks. I blocked them with [Ice Magic], I created a huge ice wall between us. When they broke through, I already prepared my materials. I threw bottles of potions of sleepiness and then dragged Oliver so that he won't get affected.

My [Potion Making] skill is high so the effects are high. Everyone who inhaled the smoke passed out, thus making them out of the fight. They magically teleported out of the circle. The smoke caught some other participants, too. Good thing I separated from my class with Oliver. I had this anticipated, you know.

The battle continued, I fought with magic together with Oliver. And we made it until the time runs out.

The next part of the competition is the Team Battle. Of course, the members are randomly picked. The way of choosing the qualified participants for the next round, it all depends on your strength, tactics, and cooperation. It will be individually picked so it doesn't matter if you lose or win.

There are forty-two participants left after the battle royale. Pretty low from the one hundred and eight students, eh? There are so many powerful foes, some not even minding hitting their own classmates. On top of that, some surrendered after witnessing the other's powers.

They grouped us in seven. Our goal is to destroy the enemy's fortress and guard our own. However, it is not easy. For us, that is. Our group consists of airheads— two men, a super flustered girl, a delinquent, a dangerous woman, a weird but seems alright dude, and the weak me.

"Strategy?" One airhead laughed.

"That's right," the weird dude answered and fixed his eyeglasses.

"There's no way we're gon' win wit' 'his weaklin's," the other airhead who forgot how to talk normally said.

"Fine, we're on our own way, then," the woman declared then looked at me weirdly.

"We're not gonna get chosen if we're not going to work together, either," I said.

"Fine by me," an airhead answered.

"Hah? Is it fine for you not gonna get chosen? Your muscular build will look weak compared to those with normal body who will get picked. Poor soul." I feel like all my spirit will leave me as I was saying this line.

"Fine then," the man responded, annoyed.

The other airhead also looked interested. The dangerous woman had no other choice. The other girl also participated. We made a plan.

"Are you sure this is going to work?" Airhead number 2 asked.

"I'm not sure. But if anything happens, we'll be doing a freestyle." The weirdo smirked and the whole atmosphere around him changed. Could this be his bloodlust?

"I guess it's worth a shot," dangerous woman said and stood up, stretching her muscular arms.

We transported to the battle ground via Teleportation. We're in the middle of nowhere. Small hills, plane, trees, water, and the dark forest are what I saw as I roamed my eyes.

The flustered girl immediately entered the fortress because she was tasked with long range attacks. Weirdo and I also stayed here in the fortress while the others— Airheads 1 and 2 and dangerous woman attacked.

Just when the enemies tried to intercept and stop the attackers, they wore their masks and threw the potions of Paralysis I made. The three members of the other team dropped down. And they were able to capture them.

One Airhead is enough to bring the enemies to us so the attack continued. A long range attacks was fired by the enemy but our girl managed to stop it by countering it with magic. Good job. As a result, the magic exploded in the middle and our girl became fired up that she launched more attacks to the enemy's fortress.

We won. The top of their fortress was blown up by girly and the bottom was crushed by one of our airheads and dangerous woman.

There's something fishy here, say. That's true. Weirdo set us up. He never intended to reveal his strength because this is not the final battle yet. Sure we were in charge of creating a barrier. But he placed himself in the position of strategist.

I know because I also thought the same. I only revealed my Potion-making skill that helped us a lot, with the attacks, capturing, and also boosting the power and stamina. I placed myself in the item support position.

In the end, all of us were chosen for the next round. And the weirdo and I will be in the opposite team.

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