Conflict

"I really underestimated the toothy hare." One student commented to another.

"Me too, but in the end we were able to beat it" The other student replied.

Class D students had asked Atalanta for permission to have a small barbecue with the flesh and blood of the monsters they had killed. Everyone was happy to have finished the test without any problems and they were commenting on their experiences.

"Have you seen how I dodged that monster attack and then attacked it?" One boy tried to brag in front of a group of girls.

"Tch, presume when you do something at the level of Setanta and Sahazel" One of the girls replied sarcastically.

"Setanta was incredible, his movements seemed artistic" Another girl praised Setanta's movements.

"For me, Sahazel has been better" One boy commented.

"Do not forget Fleur, she is the pride of us girls" A girl remarked the performance of the female star.

While the class D students were arguing about who had done best in the test, there were six of them who were not participating in the discussion.

Sahazel and Setanta were eating meat silently. Setanta smiled every time he heard his classmates mention his performance during the test.

Fleur was sitting near them and Amy was sitting next to her. Apparently they were roommates in the girls' bedroom. The conversation between them was quite one-sided as Amy only spoke while Fleur nodded or said a few words.

Amy occasionally glanced at Setanta, to which he responded with a bright smile. Amy then quickly turned her head and kept talking to Fleur. Fleur's eyebrows were twitching every time this happened and black lines were appearing on her forehead, Amy didn't seem to notice this and kept talking calmly with Fleur.

Further away from the group were Ryan and Austin. Austin ate his flesh calmly but Ryan looked at the hare in his hands with a complicated look. He still had in mind the face of the hare about to kill him, if Professor Atalanta had taken a second to kill the hare... Ryan didn't want to think about the result if that happened.

"Young master, you should eat monster meat," Austin advised him.

"I don't have an appetite."

"Don't be stubborn, it's enough that you couldn't absorb the monster's energy. If it goes on like this, you may have been left behind by the rest of the students" Austin tried to convince him.

Ryan hesitated for a moment, he looked at the rest of his classmates who were happily talking and then he looked at Sahazel and Setanta who were eating quietly. He still remembered the ease with which the two had finished off the monsters, a hint of respect could be seen in Ryan's gaze as he looked at the couple of friends.

He thought of Austin's words. He was already one step behind the rest, he couldn't afford not to eat the meat or else they were going to leave him far behind.

Doubts in his mind were replaced by strong determination. He plucked a leg from the hare and ate it with big bites.

Austin smiled when he saw that his Young Master had regained determination, he could even see that his aura was slightly different than before.

(It seems that this accident has been beneficial for Ryan)

Sahazel noticed something and looked in the direction of Ryan. He was surprised when he noticed that his aura had changed slightly.

"A stroke of reality has been the trigger for a great change," Sahazel muttered.

"What arr yu sayin?" Setanta asked with his mouth full of food.

"Look at Ryan's aura, it's no longer the aura of a tutorial boss"

Setanta opened his eyes with surprise, "Fuck, it's true!"

"The future is going to be more interesting than I thought," Sahazel smiled.

Class D members picked up all the dinner trash and headed for the dorms.

They happened to meet the class B students who were also coming out of their training camp.

A boy at the front of the group recognized someone from class D and approached them with an evil smile.

"But isn't this Ryan Desul, the heir of Desul Industries? I was really surprised when I learn that you were in class D." The kid made fun of Ryan.

Ryan clenched his fists tightly. The boy in front of him was the heir to the company that competed with his father's company.

Ryan knew that if he answered now the only thing he would win was humiliation, so he bowed his head and left without responding.

Or that was the idea he had in mind. Ryan's shoulder collided with a colleague's, he felt he had hit an iron wall. He was going to complain out of habit when he heard a voice in his ear.

"Are you really going to give up like that? Aren't you even going to stand up?"

Ryan lifted his head and crossed glances at the man he'd hit. Sahazel stared into Ryan's eyes. Ryan saw Sahazel's green eyes, he was going to lower his head again when he saw him.

Ryan could swear that he saw a flash of disappointment go through Sahazel's eyes. He remembered how Sahazel had easily ended up with the same monster that Ryan almost peed on his pants, he remembered the promise he had made while watching all of his classmates celebrate while he was the only one left behind.

Ryan got up the courage and turned around, standing up to the class B kid.

"Looks like the chicken's getting cocky." The class B guy made fun of Ryan again when he saw that he was trying to challenge him.

The boy became irritated when he saw Ryan's determined look. He wasn't a good person, much less a patient person, seeing that Ryan wasn't moving, he decided to push him aside.

What was the difference between a level 1 and a level 2? They were two worlds apart.

Ryan couldn't stand the boy's push and fell backwards, although he was caught by someone before he fell. He looked up to see who it was this time and saw Setanta's smiling face.

"you dare to catch him?" The class B kid got even more annoyed when he saw that Ryan hadn't finished on the floor.

"There are few things I don't dare do and catching a partner doesn't fit into them," Setanta replied with a bright smile. Even Sahazel wanted to punch his face at the sight of that smile.

The boy was furious, how could he bear to be looked at like that by a commoner? He gestured with a fist and tried to hit Setanta.

Before the fist could connect he was grabbed by one hand. The boy looked surprised at the redheaded woman who had blocked his attack.

"D-D-Devil Beauty" whispered unconsciously.

Black lines appeared on Atalanta's forehead at the sound of her famous nickname.

"First you push my student, then you try to hit another and now this. You don't seem to know what death is"

The boy's legs shook, he had heard rumors about Devil Beauty and now he knew he had fucked up.

"It was them, they provoked me first!" The boy pointed at Setanta and Ryan.

The boy felt an immense pressure, as if a beast was watching him. He looked and saw Setanta's orange eyes and smile that was much wider than before.

(He's a madman, he's going to kill me!) The boy thought as he saw Setanta's wide smile. He retreated unconsciously and fell to the ground.

"I don't think they provoked you" Atalanta had only seen the boy pushing Ryan and the later so she didn't know if it was true or not, but she trusted her students... although Setanta's smile was a bit strange.

"Since it's not clear to us, why don't we work it out some other way?" A man dressed in elegant clothes appeared.

Atalanta frowned at the sight of the man.

"What do you mean, Bjorn?"

"Hunter Duel"