23 - Shooting Range

Leo noticed Anna's expression changing from shock to contempt, but he didn't care about that, Leo knew his own strength and didn't need to prove anything to anyone. Even more so since he had confidence in moving up the ranks before the entrance exams.

But Anna didn't know what Leo was thinking and was prepared to say something in contempt, but Liza said it before Anna could say anything. "Anna, you better come and watch the entrance exams at our school, I think you'll be really surprised."

Anna was confused by Liza saying that, Liza's father was an Awaken Pure Silver 2 Stars, while Anna's father was Pure Silver 4 Stars, not to mention other uncles they had, they had already come into contact with powerful Awakens.

For Liza to show that confidence Anna was left with doubts. Until an idea came to her mind.

'Does this boy have any Special Quirks?' Anna wondered mentally.

In Anna's mind, with the strength of an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars, the only way for Leo to enter the Military University would be with a Special Quirk, be it a Space Quirk, a Flying Quirk, or something similar.

But since asking about someone else's Quirk was impolite, Anna just kept quiet and went back to eating.

Leo continued to eat his sandwich while the two of them talked. He knew it was understandable for Anna to think he was an idiot for having that confidence being just an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars, but Leo didn't care, in time he would prove her wrong.

He wasn't the type of person who liked to slap other people in the face all the time, Leo preferred to be polite and let the person realize their own mistake.

Of course, if the person is too excessive, then Leo would have no problem teaching that person good manners.

After this was resolved, the three treated it as if it hadn't happened and started talking. At first the conversation was a bit awkward, but when Leo went on to share some interesting things he saw while hunting and the girls also shared things they saw while hunting, they found a common thread and the conversation became more fluid.

"Seriously, I'll never ask him to join a hunting party with me again." Anna said with a huff of rage after telling a story about a boy who made them fight a slime that melted their clothes.

Leo replied while laughing. "But are you sure he didn't do it on purpose? From what you told him he seems to have enjoyed this hunt a lot."

Anna soon understood what Leo was saying. "This…this might be possible!"

She was shocked to realize that the boy might have done it on purpose! Mainly because the slime melted some of her armor causing her legs and belly to be exposed a bit.

"Bloody hell, I spent nearly $700,000 on that armor!" Anna yelled angrily drawing the attention of several people around them.

Leo was laughing a lot at her overreaction. During the conversation Leo discovered that Anna was almost the opposite of Liza, while Liza was always calm and seemed to have everything under control, Anna was the opposite and showed 100% of the emotions she was feeling at the moment.

While Liza was laughing with her hand covering her mouth, Leo was chuckling blatantly.

When Anna saw how Leo was laughing, she got mad at him and screamed. "Why are you laughing?!"

Leo practically heard a trigger to change her emotion and responded. "You look like a chihuahua when you're angry, it's really cute."

As soon as Leo said that, the table went silent. Anna's cheeks reddened as she looked away, while Liza who was beside Leo frowned and pinched his arm.

Leo understood what was happening to Liza, but pretended he didn't see anything, just going back to eating his sandwich that was already at the end.

After Leo finished eating, he prepared to get up and leave, but Liza asked. "Are you going to do anything today?"

Leo was confused and looked at his watch, it was already 9 pm and he intended to just go back home, spend his Experience points and go to sleep to go hunting again tomorrow, but hearing Liza's question he answered. "No, why?"

Before Liza could answer, Leo noticed a surprised expression cross Anna's face before she changed to an approving expression.

"We were invited to go to a shooting club today, but as we don't know very well who goes there we thought it would be nice to invite someone we know, want to come too?" Lisa asked.

Seeing the looks of the two girls, Leo soon understood why they called him. They're both very pretty, so the guys at this shooting club are probably going to be very interested in them, but with Leo by their side, the guys probably won't do anything excessive.

"Sure, why not?" Leo responded with a smile.

Nowadays it can be said that it was more common for people to have fun in shooting clubs than in karaokes, since militarism was much vaunted, young people thought it was cooler to go out to shoot than to go out to sing.

With Leo's confirmation, the two girls smiled and also finished eating to go to the shooting club.

Anna rented a car when she arrived in town, so she drove with Liza in the shotgun and Leo in the backseat.

Anna was 2 years older than them, while Leo and Liza were at Bronze 2 Stars, Anna had achieved Bronze 4 Stars, which was already pretty talented for someone in their sophomore year at University.

If everything went according to plan, Anna's chances of graduating as an Awaken Pure Silver 1 Star were very high, which would already guarantee her a rank of Army Corporal at the age of 23, something that only the most talented students at major universities could do. do.

According to what Leo heard from the two talking, Anna graduated from Bronze 2 Stars high school, just like Leo and Liza, so she didn't believe that Leo would actually go to Military University based on his Rank.

For someone of her talent, perhaps reaching the Royal Gold 1 Star Rank was the most she could achieve, but considering that in her family the most powerful person was an Awaken Pure Silver 5 Stars, Anna was confident of being the first Awaken Royal. Family Gold.

Liza's expectations were the same as Anna's, but being 2 years younger, she didn't think she could be the family's first Awaken Royal Gold.

Knowing that Royal Gold 1 Star could be the ultimate for their talent was something that didn't put the two girls off, as a Royal Gold 1 Star awakened would already become an army officer at least Second Lieutenant! This was unimaginable glory for the Awaken.

The difference between Leo and the normal Awaken was that Leo could avoid putting his Exp points to go up in Rank and putting everything into his skills, that is, his talent would never be insufficient to keep going up.

While normal Awakens would reach a point where they could no longer hunt more powerful monsters because their abilities stopped leveling up, Leo would still be stronger than monsters of the same rank as him because his abilities will always be at a high level.

But of course, he would never tell anyone about this, at most he would make people believe that he is very talented.

The trip was quick, in a short time they arrived at the shooting club.

Leo had never been to the shooting club before, especially now that he had Aim-Bot, now that he wouldn't have to come to a shooting club anyway, since he didn't need to practice his aim. But other people were still having fun.

For an unaccustomed person, if they saw these luxury cars parked in front of an establishment they might even think this place was a nightclub, but the gunshots betrayed that the only music that played here was the noise of guns.

"Come on, he's waiting for us in room 02." Anna said as she walked and looked at her cell phone to check if they were going to the right place.

Leo and Liza just followed her.

This meeting was arranged with a classmate of Anna's who studied with her here in town when she was still at school. Like her, this colleague entered a big university and came this time to see his younger brother's entrance exams.

Before entering the room, Anna stopped Leo and Liza and gave them warning. "This classmate of mine is called Charles and he has a mental Quirk, if you look him in the eye he can read what you're thinking, so if you don't want him to read your thoughts, avoid eye contact with him. He probably will. be the only bald one here, so if you see a bald one, just avoid looking him in the eye."

Leo and Liza nodded and followed Anna to room 02.

Upon opening the door, the three saw approximately 10 people aged between 17 and 20 years old chatting happily.

At that moment no one was shooting, the 10 were sitting on sofas while eating some snacks and talking.

Seeing the door opening, everyone turned and saw Anna and Liza walking in and the men soon broke into big smiles as no one would complain about beautiful women arriving to have fun with them.

But just as they cracked a smile, Leo appeared behind Liza and saw the expressions of the men in the group change from water to wine, while the women in the group broke into big smiles.

Just as Anna warned, it was pretty clear who Charles was, as his bald head almost glowed.

Soon he got up and came to Anna. "Anna, how long! Unfortunately we didn't get to go to the same University, but fate brought us together again in our hometown, right?"

Leo rolled his eyes as he heard Charles talking about fate trying to please Anna. As someone who already knew what a girl wanted to hear, he knew that saying that you were meant to be together when you weren't even close was silly, even more so when you were ugly, then the possibility of it working out dropped to less. of 1%.

But Leo didn't say anything and just let the two talk and introduce themselves.

Anna introduced Liza as her younger cousin and Leo as Liza's classmate. While Charles introduced some friends who had come from his University, his younger brother and some friends of his younger brother.

Charles' younger brother is called Eric, but unlike Charles, Eric had hair, so Charles' baldness was probably by choice, or because of his Quirk, as it wasn't genetic.

Eric didn't even look at Leo and came to introduce himself with a smile to Liza.

From how close Charles was to Anna, Leo already deduced that Charles regarded Anna as something of his, and Eric apparently wanted to do the same with Liza, but unfortunately, as soon as Eric crossed the barrier of Liza's personal space, she took a step back. back and got closer to Leo.

Leo noticed Eric frowning as Liza approached him, but unfortunately Eric couldn't help but act as if nothing had happened.

At this point Eric finally looked at Leo and his brows got even more furrowed, mainly because he saw that Leo was more handsome than he was, and felt that just like him, Leo was also an Awaken Bronze 2 Stars.

"Very well, we didn't come here just to eat, so let's shoot!" Charles said with a smile and let everyone choose a gun to shoot.

Hearing this, everyone was interested and went to the closet to choose the weapon they would use.

Only Leo and Liza stood on the sidelines watching people having fun.

"Why don't you go shoot?" Leo asked curiously.

Liza looked at Leo and answered in a low voice. "That Eric looks very suspicious, as much as I like to shoot, he managed to spoil my will. What about you? Why don't you go?"

Leo just smiled and responded with another question. "Do you think I do?"

Hearing this, Liza remembered the miraculous shots Leo took during practical class at school and had to agree. "Really, with your level this would be child's play."

Since they weren't going to shoot, the two sat on a couch and started talking while eating some snacks from the table.

Seeing that Liza was still uncomfortable with Eric looking at them all the time, Leo slipped his hand over Liza's shoulder and continued talking to her matter-of-factly.

Liza was shocked by Leo putting his arm around the back of her neck and holding her shoulder, but as soon as Leo did, the discomfort in Eric's gaze disappeared. It was as if Leo's arm was a barrier protecting her from Eric.

But Eric on the other hand was furious to see Leo put his hand on Liza's shoulder, and even more furious when Leo looked at him and gave him a mocking smile.

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