Free Web NovelChapter 79: Morning Confrontation
Roughly an hour later.
"Sorry about back then~"
"If you’re so sorry then would it hurt you to apologize without yawning...?" Mika grumbled quietly.
He was currently walking to school with Rachel. Belian and Harik went another route, in case the other classes stirred up trouble again.
"That was a close call..."
Not too long ago, she was trying to choke him in her room.
Mika gently caressed his neck.
"If Harik wouldn’t have barged into the room, then who knows what would have happened."
He remembered how Harik hurriedly rescued Mika from Rachel.
Apparently, Mika took longer to wake her up than Harik thought so he checked up on them.
"I said I’m sorry, okay? I’m just not a morning person..." Rachel said very tired.
She started to stagger while walking.
"H-hey, watch out!" Mika said concerned as he grabbed her shoulders from behind in order to stabilize her posture.
"Thanks..."
Her eyelids were almost closing this time.
"Rachel, stay awake!"
He shook her body lightly.
"Hmm..."
"Calling her not a morning person is an understatement..." Mika muttered exhausted.
Rachel yawned again.
"I’m sorry." she said, this time without sounding tired.
She truly was sorry.
"It... It’s just that since a few years ago, I have started to suffer from exhaustion."
"Exhaustion?"
She rubbed her eyes.
"I exert twice as much energy as an average person my age for everything I do."
Mika raised his eyebrows.
"But how is it if you use magic? After all, you still managed to get into the white class. Using S-rank magic must be pretty tough for you then."
Rachel stretched her hands to the front.
"I wasn’t born like that. I already had great magic skills early on."
"Are you trying to brag..." he uttered under his breath.
"Then, do you know the reason for your condition?"
"..."
Her gaze turned stern.
"Actually, I met a-"
"Mika Elbar! So you have returned, huh?"
Before Rachel could explain, someone meddled in their conversation.
Or rather than someone, it was a group.
Mika and Rachel looked around them.
Everywhere they looked, they saw either a silver or red uniform.
"It seems like they finally showed up." Rachel said.
"Yes."
Mika already had his hand on his sword’s hilt.
"Ha! You black-class students are truly pathetic! You all are always hiding behind the white-class students!" one of the students remarked arrogantly.
Said students emerged from the group and approached the two.
It was a boy from the red class. He had brown hair, reaching to his hip. His body was lean and his deep blue eyes were looking down on Mika.
It seemed like he was the leader of this group.
"Aren’t you ashamed of yourself, Mika Elbar? Not only do you hide behind your teammates, but you also need a girl to accompany you to the academy!" he mocked Mika in a loud voice.
"..."
Mika’s gaze sharpened and his grip on his sword tightened.
"If you can’t even stand up for yourselves, then what is the point of attending this sacred academy with your lowly skills?"
"I’ll use it." Mika muttered quietly.
[You do not necessarily need my permission anymore.]
[It will not change anything anymore.]
Mika did not heed the system’s last sentence.
As he was about to draw his sword, the tips of his hair started to change colors.
"Stop."
"!"
However, Mika could not pull his sword out.
He looked at his hip.
"Don’t fight back~" Rachel stated with a yawn.
Once anew, vines wrapped themselves around Mika. But this time just around his arms and his sword.
"What are you doing?!" Mika asked as he struggled to draw his sword. ƒreewebɳovel.com
"He’s provoking you. He wants you to attack him, don’t you think?"
"..."
The grin on the student’s face faded away.
"Tch." Mika clicked his tongue.
He stopped resisting.
"Good."
Rachel took the lead as they continued to walk.
"O-oh? Now you’re running away? What a disgrace."
The provocation turned desperate.
Rachel stopped in her tracks.
"Mika."
"Yes?"
"Can you get on your fours for a moment?"
"Huh, what?!"
He tilted his head and squinted his eyes at her ridiculous demand.
"Just do it~" she said drowsily as she crammed in her bag.
"..."
Reluctantly, he slowly got on his knees and hands.
"Hahaha, what is that?! Don’t you have any pride in you?!"
Not only their leader but also the students around them started to laugh.
"..."
Mika bitterly gritted his teeth.
However, he had faith in Rachel. She must had a reason for this.
"?"
Mika sensed, how Rachel was writing something on his back with a pen.
"A-are you using my back as a table?"
"Don’t move."
"..."
The laughter around ended.
Instead, they were confused by Rachel’s actions.
"I’m done. You can get up again."
When Mika got up, he saw a piece of paper in Rachel’s hand.
Rachel got closer to the leader until she stood right in front of him.
"W-what...?"
Frightened off, he took a few steps back.
However, at that moment, big vines emerged from the ground and surrounded everyone.
"H-huh?"
Confused and scared, he looked around the cage, she just made.
"Rachel...?"
Even Mika was puzzled.
Then, the vines began to attack the students.
The group of students was screaming, crying for help and groaning in pain.
"E-even if you’re a white-class student, do you think you could away with this...?!" the student asked anxiously as he pointed his trembling finger at her.
Suddenly, vines popped out beneath him and wrapped his extremities and his neck.
"Argh!"
Rachel held out the paper in front of his face.
"What’s your name?"
"A-as if- Gueh!"
The vines tightened around his neck.
"What’s your name?"
Her expression was drowsy and yet she was able to emit so much intimidation just from her tone alone.
"L-L-Leydan Agant..." he confessed with a strained voice.
"Then, Leydan Agant, sign this document."
His right arm was freed and the grip around his neck loosened up a little.
"W-what is that?"
"Hurry up or else your comrades will leave with injuries they won’t recover from."
The screams around them were still clearly audible.
Even Mika was frightened by this display.
A pen was put into Leydan’s hand by a vine. And as his hand did not move yet, a vine wrapped itself around it again and led his hand towards the document.
"W-wait! What am I signing here?!"
Rachel yawned.
"With your signature- you will endorse that everything that happened here was due to a little spar between me and your group." Rachel stated coldly.
"Huh? Why should I- Ugh!"
"You don’t have a choice here."
The vine on his neck tightened more and more.
"R-Rachel, isn’t that en-"
"I-I-I s-sign...!" Leydan said struggling.
Rachel dropped the paper and Leydan on the ground.
"Haa... Haa... Haa..."
On the ground with his knees and hands, he gasped desperately for air.
He hurriedly grabbed the pen and signed the document.
"H-here- Buwah!"
When Leydan reached the signed paper, Rachel took it and gave him one last kick to the face.
"Now, let’s go. We will be late for class." Rachel said as if nothing happened.
"S-sure..."
As the cage of vines disappeared, only the view of scared and lying students was left behind.
"So the thing that you wrote on my back was..."
"Yes. It was this document." Rachel confirmed as she waved the piece of paper around with a little and satisfied smile.
"Jeez... It’s scary how you were able to come up with such a strategy..." Mika remarked both impressed and frightened.
Now, they walked to the academy, which was in sight already.
On their way to its entrance, Mika sensed many gazes from the students, but unlike Leydan, they did not try to confront them.
He wondered if it was because of Rachel’s presence or because some of them witnessed that incident from a few moments ago.
Trying not to worry about it so much, he went to his classroom.
"Hm? Where are the others?" Mika pondered as he saw the empty class.
"Most of them arrive just in time or a few minutes later in order to evade the other classes."
"I see..."
The situation sounded worse with every passing second.
Mika sat down on his usual seat, which was in the row at the front.
"Will every morning be like that...?" Mika asked exhausted.
"Some students have it worse." Rachel, who sat beside him, replied.
And while the two were talking, two other students entered the room. They headed straight to the front and also took a seat around Mika. ƒгeewebnovёl.com
Sitting beside Mika was Belian.
"Did anything happen on your way?" he asked.
"Just a little incident, but I handled already handled it." Rachel replied as she rested her head on the table.
"Well, on our end there were no problems." Harik, who was behind Mika, stated with crossed arms.
"..."
With an indifferent face, Mika noticed something weird.
"Wait a minute. Why are you all even here? Isn’t this the black class?"
"Oh, weren’t you informed yet? We’re in your class now." Belian answered.
