Free Web NovelChapter 183: Violent Welcome
Mika was now standing in front of the podium’s desk with his gaze directed at the entire student body.
While most of the teachers were eager to hear Mika’s speech, the students were giving him mean stares.
"I don’t want to be here..." Mika muttered, inaudible to anyone else.
He took a deep breath.
"Hello, everyone. I am Mika Elbar, the one who will represent the exchange students from Loogam." he began, trying to ignore the students’ gazes.
"Many things have happened and now we will stay here for the term. I hope we can get along in that time and if you have anything you want to say to us or me, you can always approach me."
Mika kept it even shorter than Yarjak and his mother. But this little speech of his was everything he could come up with in that little time.
"..."
He only heard the applause from a few people and those were either the teachers behind him or his own classmates. The whole student body was not impressed by Mika and still gave him the cold shoulder.
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However, a student was walking down the stairs and approached Mika while clapping his hands.
"What a great introduction!" the person remarked sarcastically with a smile.
It was Payl Krun, who was wearing his yellow shirt this time. Behind him, Asak and other people were following him silently.
"But it seems to me that your words didn’t reach my fellow students here!" he mocked Mika.
Yarjak stepped forward and was now standing next to Mika.
"Who’s that?" Mika whispered to Yarjak.
"Payl Krun. And whatever he does to you, please stay calm, okay?" Yarjak replied sternly.
"Hey, what are you whispering about?"
"What do you think you’re doing, Payl?"
"Me? I’m just trying to help you out, you know?"
Yarjak narrowed his eyes in annoyance.
"Helping...? How?"
Payl’s smirk widened.
"If you look in the faces of everyone here, then you will realize that nobody respects them. So I was about to fix that."
While Payl was talking, Sara, who was standing with the others from the white class a while ago, also descended the stairs.
"..."
Cylia was still remaining calm while sitting in the back of the podium. The other teachers were nervous about Payl’s appearance and tried to talk to Cylia, who did not respond. Even Ophelia decided to stay seated and observe the situation for a little longer.
"And how exactly do you plan on fixing that?" Yarjak asked sternly and cautiously.
Before Payl replied, a black dust gathered in his right hand.
"!"
He jumped to Mika with his arm retracted.
Instinctively, Mika drew his rusty sword when he saw something akin to a dagger being formed in Payl’s hand.
"..."
And upon seeing that reaction, Payl’s grin turned even wider and more eerily.
A black dagger with a symmetrical and wavy blade appeared.
With that blade, Payl attempted to ambush Mika, who pushed Yarjak aside for his safety. Mika held his sword in a way to block the incoming attack.
"?!"
However, Mika felt shocked when he saw the dagger passing through Mika’s blade as if it was not there. The dagger’s blade was about to pierce his chest.
And then, Sara appeared with her mother’s relic in her hand. She held its deadly blade just one to two inches away from Payl’s neck.
"Don’t move." she commanded in a deep voice.
"..."
Payl stopped his attack but his confident grin remained.
Then, the others from the white class stormed to the podium.
"Hey, what were you just trying to do?!" Rachel asked outrageously.
She was about to walk over to Payl but was stopped by his gang, including Asak.
"I was hoping for a different outcome, too, you see? I thought that your little friend here would at least have been able to defend himself but unfortunately, he could not have evaded this simple attack of mine without the help of Sara." Payl expressed his disappointment exaggeratedly.
"What did you-"
"If he’s the one representing all of you, then I don’t even want to imagine how weak the rest of you are!" he laughed loudly, making many of the students laugh as well.
That comment caused Ophelia to grin threateningly, which Cylia noticed.
"Hey, system. Can you do me a favor and..."
Mika was whispering something while he had to watch the entire student body laugh at him and his friends.
While some of them managed to stay calm in that situation, Harik, Rachel, Lily and Lisa were about to lose their cool.
"I won’t take this disrespect any longer...!" Rachel grumbled as she used magic.
Thick roots emerged from the ground and were targeting Asak and his group.
The attack missed its targets as they jumped to the sides.
[I am done with the scan.]
"Thanks." Mika muttered calmly.
"And is that other thing possible? Can I do it partially?" he added.
Chaos emerged in the auditorium as other students joined the fray.
There was no turning back anymore when Rachel launched the first attack.
Realizing that, the others from the white class lend her a hand and defended against the students from Youra, who were also launching magic attacks.
"..."
Cail, who was trying to be in the background, just shook his head and silently left the auditorium.
"Fight back!" Asak shouted as he led his group and other students.
"Haha, they are crazy!" Payl could not stop laughing, watching from the sidelines.
However, neither they nor the white class managed to push the other side back. freeweɓnovel.cѳm
"Y-your Highness, we have to stop them!" one of the teachers stated nervously.
"No, please wait for a moment." Ophelia responded, still smirking.
But this time, she was smirking from excitement as she stared in the direction of Mika, who was still at the podium’s desk.
He heaved a small sigh before he headed over to Payl, who was enjoying the show.
[10.]
The sound of the battle was so loud that he did not even notice Mika approaching him.
"Enjoying it?" Mika asked with a straight face.
"Oh, you’re still here?"
[6.]
But Payl noticed something strange.
"What happened to your eyes...?"
He leaned closer to him.
[3.]
"Why are they blue and wh-"
[2.]
Before he could either finish his sentence or react to it, Mika hammered Payl down with his punch. It was a clean hit to the temple and he landed head-first on the floor, knocking him out.
"..."
[1.]
Mika, whose eyes turned into their other appearance, stared down Payl coldly before his partial transformation wore off.
And when they changed back, everybody’s attention was on him.
"B-boss...?" Asak stuttered in shock.
Even the other students were baffled.
"W-wait... Did he beat him...?"
"B-but that’s P-Payl Krun...!"
"I-I saw how he knocked him out w-with one punch!"
Chatter broke out amongst them.
"..."
Mika walked back to the podium’s desk as if nothing happened.
"Heh..." Sylvia huffed unnoticed.
"..."
And Belian just wore a faint smile with his arms crossed.
"Alright, everyone." Mika addressed the student body once more.
Previously, Mika asked the system for two favors. First, he wanted to know if it was possible to partially use his powers without transforming completely as he intended to use Time Manipulation on Payl. Secondly, he wanted the system to scan the entire student body and give him a report about their strength.
"Let me introduce myself again. I am Mika Elbar, a student from Loogam. And to make one thing clear, I won’t tolerate any disrespect towards me or my friends. As you can see, my friends are at least on the same level as you guys."
Mika grabbed the sides of the desk firmly with his hands.
"And I can confidently say that I alone am more than enough to handle all of you at the same time."
Some of his friends, including the Tiam siblings, were laughing and shaking their heads in embarrassment while Youra’s students were agitated once more as they raised their voices against Mika.
"Pfft! Haha, did he go crazy?!" Ophelia, too, could not hold back either.
It was a chaos there.
[You are really a handful.]
"Well, I can’t help it if they look down on us." Mika muttered sternly.
Then, Cylia stood up and headed to Mika, touching his shoulder from behind.
"Aside from the damage caused to the auditorium, I was very pleased by your performance and action." she whispered in his ear with a slight smile.
Mika could only smile wryly and avert his gaze from her. He stepped back and offered her the spot.
"Quiet, please."
She did not really raise her voice. Like usual, she sounded calm. And yet that was enough for the students to obey. freewebnøvel.coɱ
The room was silent.
"Just like Mika Elbar told you, any form of disrespect will not be tolerated in this academy." she stated sternly.
Even though it was coming out of the mouth of their queen, some were still dissatisfied.
And Cylia caught on to that.
"I can understand that there are people here, who still don’t want to accept the fact that foreigners attend our academy. Therefore, I have a proposal for everyone here."
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Mika tilted his head, suspecting only the worst.
"I, hereby, declare an official match between the students of Youra and the students of Loogam!"
