Students A and C

Steeling her resolve, Julia walked over to the Zicrus bastards. The people who were watching the scene looked at Julia in shock. Zicrus Academy was the most prestigious magic academy in the entirety of the continent and no one dared to offend anyone from the academy since most of the students belonged to powerful noble families. Offending them would only call for death, not only of the offender but of the whole offender's family.

(This is will be troublesome if they were to latch to our tails. But oh well... I am also at my limits.)

"Haha! What a weakling! Are you really an Elvene?!"

(Tch, how annoying...)

Student A threw his clenched fist at the curled-up elf who was trembling in pain. The elf was weak, so weak that he couldn't defend himself without reinforcing his boy with mana. That statement "how annoying..." was not directed to the student but the shivering elf.

Not rebelling against anything you don't like would only make you look weak and meager. Sou got a taste of this in his previous life. And now he stood firmly on his belief.

(...weakling.)

Bam! Bam! Bam!

The barrage showed no signs of stopping until a hand grabbed the fists out of nowhere.

"Huh?" Student A looked towards the owner of the hand.

"Who the hell are you?"

"You should stop what you are doing," Julia said in the usual tone.

"What? You friends with this little piece of shit?"

The eyes of student A ran through Julia's body, his lustful eyes gorged at Julia's gorgeous body like a glutton.

"Hey, why don't you come with me for a night? I can surely show you wonders in the bed. Don't stick with this eyesore and come with me. I have some protections on me too~"

A trigger snapped in Julia's head after hearing the words that came out of the insolent bastard in front of her.

The grip tightened and his hand was on the verge of breaking into smithers.

"Aaaagh!!"

But she let go of the hand before any permanent damage was done.

"Huff huff... You!"

Student A charged at Julia with predictable but fast movements.

(Was he really a lower stage-III? He is totally inexperienced.)

'He is slow.'

Little did she know that this was the effect of her relentless training with Sou.

(This will be a piece of cake for her.)

Student A spun his body vigorously, showing off as if he was meant to, and lunged his body at Julia.

"Hah!"

But Julia was way above the likes of him. 

(Oh...)

Just before assault reached, a sharp tearing noise rang out. It was not from any flesh nor was it from great power. It was just from a fabric.

(Fucking hell... that would be hella embarrassing.)

"You really are a filth."

There was nothing under his pants. His junk was hanging crystal-clear in front of all the people gathered here to enjoy the commotion. 

"Die."

Julia kicked a stone lying beside her with obvious anger. It flew through the air aiming for the delicate spot of the bastard.

(She is doing the same thing? Does she have dirt on every male in this world?)

Before student A's leg could regain its footing, the stone darted at his two hanging balls, almost at a blinding speed.

Crack!

"Ouph!" Every man in the vicinity uttered the expression in unison, including Sou.

(Did I just hear a cracking?)

Sou instinctively patted his tied-by-fate little brother to ensure that it was still alive and kicking. He was terrified by what the girl could do. That kind of thing took a good amount of courage but it was clear that Julia had that courage in tons.

"Phew... scary girl."

Without any further movements, student A was lying on the paved ground with foam gushing out of his mouth. He wasn't dead, just unconscious. 

(Well, it would be weird if he wasn't at least knocked out by that.)

Students B and C panicked, especially D. He ran off to somewhere with his tail between his legs.

"Y-You! What is your mana stage?!"

"I don't have a mana stage."

"Y-Y-You! You dare to lie to the heir of the Cione family?!"

"Cione family?! The branch family?!" Celina exclaimed in shock when she heard the name.

"Branch family?"

"Yes. They are the branch family of the Rable family. From what I heard, the Cione family is especially close to the Rable family."

(This is going to get complicated... they are sure to get back at my family.)

"Heh," Sou smirked at Celina's statement.

(... only if I was not around.)

Julia, on the other hand, twitched and backed off a little upon hearing the name.

Julia shifted her ruby eyes towards Sou, only to fume more in anger. It was strange. She couldn't understand Sou. What kind of sane man would smile like an evil magistrate in a situation like this? Even if the person wasn't exactly a sane man.

"Mom, you all go ahead without us. We will join you guys later."

"Sou, what are you going do?"

"Save a friend. But I can't unless you guys are out of the area."

"What?! You are going to do something dangerous, aren't you?!."

Whatever Sou did to this point were all dangerous, sometimes, things that would not be possible by humans (like wiping out the Blues). So there was nothing to worry about. But these things were unknown to his mother. She could only imagine Sou attracting the attention of the Rable family which was the same as destroying his own life in this place.

But after seeing the determined look in his eyes, Sou's mother had to back off.

"..."

Sou watched over them until their figures and presence disappeared. And then the evil smirk on Sou's face levelled up to an evil grin.

"Sub-space."

The purple-lined crack of his sub-space appeared near his hand and from there, the mask he used when he was adventuring emerged.

He grasped the mask and adjusted it on his face, concealing the malicious grin.

On the other hand.

Seeing the opportune moment, student C charged at Julia. Julia was still irresolute to make a move. The fist of student C was just a few inches away from her face.

'I must take the hit!'

Bam!

"Huh? What th- Aaaaaargh!"

Crunch! Crack! Crunch!

The crunching and the scream echo resounded in everyone's ears. The chatters started.

"Hey, isn't that the infamous adventurer Eve?"

"What the hell is he doing here?"

"He is relentless. How can he crunch someone's hand like that?"

"The bones must be reduced to smithers by now."

Whoever said that was correct. There was nothing left crush inside the fist, so Sou let it go.

"M-My hand!!"

Boom!

Sou's foot stomped the ground with destructive force, making a large crater. The force made some of the onlookers dizzy while some were unconscious due to fear. Now, a few people were standing.

"Kyaah!"

(Heh, what a girly cry.)

Student C looked at the fearsome mask with fear and anger instilled deep in his eyes.

"You've got quite the guts to still look at me like that."

Sou lifted the stick lying beside him with his leg and got a hold of it.

"What ar-"

Slash!

The crushed fist fell to the ground, lifeless.

"Only I will ask questions here."

Sou released such an intense and impeccable bloodlust that is capable of giving attacks of palpitating to the strongest beings in Melim.

"So, what the hell were YOU going to do to the Young Lady?"

Shit was about to go down.

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