Chapter 5 Attack (2)
Perhaps it was because I had experienced the wolf pack’s attack.
My senses were sharper than ever before.
And so.
I was able to swing my sword without hesitation even against people.
Trash that was worse than delinquents.
There was no need to bring out a sense of justice.
Jace’s body expressed anger.
It cried out to punish the cowardly traitors.
Calm down. I’ll handle it myself!
First, I should raise my physical abilities.
[Currently Owned Points: 14,200 points]Â
[Strength Enhancement I]
[Required Achievement Points: 5,000 points]Â
[Agility Enhancement I]
[Required Achievement Points: 5,000 points]
For the time being, I enhanced my strength and agility.
There wasn’t a big change, but I could definitely feel it.
“Wh-why can you use mana……”
“Your Dantian should have been destroyed……”
Denial of reality.
They still couldn’t escape from their panic.
I guessed they were thinking of Jace in his prime.
The refined sword gentleman.
A genius counted among the best at Hero Academy.
From their perspective, it was truly beyond their imagination.
In other words, it wasn’t strange at all for them to be frightened.
If we fought properly, I would surely lose, but I was confident of victory.
‘Their mindset was different from the beginning.’
The purpose of these guys coming here was obvious.
They only intended to unilaterally bully the weak.
They probably didn’t calculate even a little risk.
Compared to that, I had the heart of a general who had set up a desperate battle formation.
I would absolutely not retreat.
Even if I died, I would die here.
Let’s see who dies and finish this.
“It’s, it’s a bluff. It must be a bluff!”
When one guy shouted as if having a seizure,
I turned my head toward him and smiled broadly.
Yeah. Congratulations on winning.
I was wondering who to choose anyway, so I’ll mess you up first!
*****
“───!!”
Matthew was utterly confused.
The kids who came with him had already been defeated.
And now.
Jace was walking toward him step by step.
Bloodshot eyes.
Despite being stabbed by a sword, he smiled silently as if enjoying the pain.
“……”
He was neither a genius nor a delinquent.
He was something that breathed the breath of the wild.
We mocked him for looking like a beggar.
But looking at him now, he seemed like a warrior who had overcome harsh trials.
Had we touched the whiskers of a sleeping lion?
Matthew completely lost his will to fight.
If they clashed, he would die.
He had to run away as quickly as possible.
“Stop.”
THUMP.
Without realizing it, his footsteps came to a halt.
He clenched his teeth and resisted it, but……
“If I catch you, I’ll really finish you off.”
“……”
A warning he couldn’t dare resist.
Matthew eventually gave up on running away.
Partly because his heart had surrendered, but realistically, that was the right choice.
Jace was the heir to a great family.
He didn’t know what had happened.
But since he could handle mana, there was no way he would be expelled.
Matthew quickly finished his thoughts.
He shouldn’t make the situation worse.
“Please spare me…… I’ll admit our fault!”
While begging pitifully, he tried to hold onto a glimmer of hope.
Originally, Jace’s nature was quite merciful, so if he did well……
“Kneel.”
He came out unexpectedly strong.
It seemed he had become more vicious than before.
Well, kneeling wasn’t difficult.
If he did as told, there would be a flow of forgiveness.
For now, he had to get through this situation.
After his knees touched the ground, to gauge the situation.
Matthew carefully looked up at Jace. Right then……
“This is the eye level between you and me. Engrave it in your head forever.”
“───!!”
A terrifying thrill wrapped around his body.
Even though he spoke quietly, it sounded like a bolt from the blue.
He finally felt the difference in class.
It was like that before, but now it was more special.
‘Damn it! I touched someone I shouldn’t have touched!’
He had to change his thinking quickly.
There was no way it would end with this.
Matthew shamelessly revealed his thug nature.
“Those guys instigated it! I was just quietly there and got dragged along…… URGH!”
Before he could finish speaking.
His head was buried in the ground.
The opponent’s foot had stepped on his head.
When he felt the dirt that had dug into his mouth.
Blazing anger poured into Matthew’s ears.
“Betrayal…… is the act I hate the most.”
Soon merciless violence was inflicted.
Matthew eventually ended up fainting.
*****
My stamina hit rock bottom.
“……”
Wow, I thought I was going to die.
It really ended by a hair’s breadth.
In terms of simple specs.
My strength didn’t reach those guys, but……
‘There was no coordination at all.’
As expected.
They had only done bad things together.
In an actual situation, their cooperation ability had to be the worst.
Especially since they couldn’t gauge my level.
The fact that they panicked and acted chaotically was decisive.
“……”
Still, it wasn’t easy.
I got stabbed in the arms and legs.
It wasn’t cut deeply, but it hurt like hell.
‘These damn bastards……’
Old habits die hard.
They sold out their half-dead friends.
That made me angrier.
Fine, I’ll just take a beating gracefully.
They’re young, so their bones should be sturdy too, I don’t know what they’re worried about.
Anyway.
I stepped on them to my heart’s content.
After forcibly waking up the one who had fainted, I ordered Matthew to take the kids away.
He was covered in blood, his teeth were broken, and his ribs seemed to be fractured too.
But as if he was afraid of me, he endured the pain and quickly disappeared.
This should have been enough discipline.
Far from retaliation, they wouldn’t even be able to make eye contact now.
Separate from the fear being deeply engraved.
They probably newly realized my social position, that I’m the heir to a great family.
“Whew……”
This concludes it for now.
As the excitement subsided, the pain was felt strongly.
As if to comfort that pain.
This time too, the system window gave out a lot of rewards.
[Emergency Quest Complete]Â
[Reward: Achievement Points +5,000]
Hmm, they count this as an Emergency Quest too.
Whatever. I nodded satisfactorily.
[Achievement Unlocked: Historic Famous Line]
[Reward: Achievement Points +10,000]
Wait, what’s this again?
Don’t tell me that ‘kneel’ worked?
“……”
My head feels dizzy.
I get more points from one joke than from fighting a hard battle.
Is there a need to suffer like this?
It might be more efficient to study jokes rather than training……
No.Â
Jokes have limits.
Someday all the material will be exhausted.
Whether it’s money or power, it should be obtained through blood and sweat.
With this, everything seemed to be over.
But I still didn’t let go of the tension.
“How long are you planning to watch? Hurry up and show yourself.”
There was no particular presence I could feel.
But there was a possibility that the student council was monitoring.
I counted to ten inside, but the surroundings were just quiet.
Isn’t there anyone? If not, never mind.
I should quickly return to the cave and rest.
What about the wounds?
Would it get a bit better if I put saliva on them?
As I barely turned my heavy body around.
“───??”
As if claiming she had been standing there from the beginning.
A female student was standing guard across from me.
Ah, what a surprise!
If you were there, you should have appeared earlier!
Anyway, this worked out well.
I should leave the aftermath to her.
*****
Chloe Venice took time out to head to the forest where Jace would be.
About two weeks had passed since the trial.
If something had changed, she planned to assess and invest.
She didn’t have much expectation.
The possibility of Jace’s revival was slim.
‘Well, there’s no loss in checking briefly.’
A walk for a change of mood.
The girl thought of it as just that much.
But she happened to witness that scene.
The problem children known as troublemakers at the academy.
Those things had flocked and were oppressing Jace.
‘Interesting……’
Understanding the situation wasn’t difficult.
The behavior of kids filled with an inferiority complex was obvious.
They probably wanted to take action before Jace got expelled.
Should she step in or not?
Chloe quickly made a decision.
How could she miss such a good opportunity?
If she stayed still, she would achieve what she wanted.
A situation had been created where it would be clearly judged without doing anything.
A fight seemed about to break out, so she could examine Jace thoroughly.
‘Those three’s skills are terrible, but……’
Jace’s Dantian was destroyed.
Even if just one person stepped forward, he wouldn’t avoid trouble.
Moreover, the opponent’s number was three.
He would definitely be unilaterally lynched.
‘I should watch for a bit and then intervene before it’s too late.’
Strictly speaking, Jace was still a student.
If they assaulted him as a group, the delinquent youths would immediately go to trial.
Since it was detected at the scene, making excuses was also impossible.
‘It’s better to kick out that trash quickly.’
She had caught them red-handed after a long time.
All that remained was to watch leisurely.
But the flow was somehow strange.
As if he had something to rely on.
Jace confidently drew his sword. And then……
“───??”
Chloe doubted her own eyes.
Huh? What did I just see?
He drew out mana to strengthen his body?
No matter how many times she checked, she hadn’t seen wrong.
The girl ended up feeling ecstasy at that fact.
‘I knew my intuition was right!’
This changes the story completely.
She had to focus and watch with her eyes wide open.
One of the few candidates for hero.
The sword gentleman seemed to be declaring his revival.
‘Still, the disadvantage remains.’
He was at a level that had just started walking.
Facing three with just that skill was unreasonable.
But Jace beautifully penetrated the opponents’ gaps.
Even Chloe, who was a third party, was flustered, how would the parties involved feel?
By defeating them one by one.
He easily overcame the numerical disadvantage.
The process itself wasn’t remarkable.
Jace’s power was still lacking, but what caught Chloe’s attention was the atmosphere.
“……”
Rough.
It was just like looking at a wolf.
It was different from his existing style.
The girl was greatly shocked by that appearance.
‘Change…… no, it might be evolution……’
She instinctively knew that he had been newly born.
She couldn’t think of the man who had been doing delinquent things.
Actually, Jace wasn’t Chloe’s type.
Should she say he was too perfect so she felt distance?
Now it was completely different.
He had transformed into a man suitable for her.
“……”
There were rough men in the world.
But with a high probability, they were muscle-brained and not good.
In Jace’s case, it harmonized fantastically with the gentleman’s style and overflowed with charm.
The girl gulped down her saliva.
Until now, she had a light heart.
But it seemed she should seriously aim for the position of the Crodaine family’s mistress.
‘Hmm, how much chance do I have?’
She had confidence, but no certainty.
She had to clash directly to predict the possibility.
THUD, THUD THUD. THWACK!
Heavy impact sounds.
Even though they had already lost their will to fight.
He mercilessly trampled the enemies who had targeted him.
‘Totally cool, right?’
Chloe liked that ruthlessness.
Just watching made her feel completely refreshed.
If it had been before, he would have passed it over moderately.
The girl’s heart began to pound as if she had fallen in love at first sight.
She shouldn’t approach clumsily.
A target she should invest her everything in.
How should she do it indeed?
When Chloe was carefully pondering.
A voice that couldn’t be ignored pierced her ears.
“How long are you planning to watch? Hurry up and show yourself.”
“───!!”
Something unbelievable happened.
He detected my presence? How?
Even the former Jace wouldn’t have found it easy……
Don’t tell me he intentionally hid his power?
Chloe instinctively realized Jace’s intention.
‘A scheme to make competitors complacent…… That’s definitely it.’
The method was a bit different.
But Jace was still looking at the top.
“……”
Now she had to admit it.
It seemed she had fallen in love with a man she couldn’t handle.
Even if that was the case……
No, precisely because of that, she couldn’t give up even more.
The girl’s determination became more solid than ever.
