chapter 55
55. Grade Test (6)
“-Next! Cyan!”
A name used excluding the family name.
It was what Xi’an had requested.
Even in an ant hole.
Even during tournaments.
As long as you don’t call me by my full name, my identity won’t be revealed.
Now, Cyan has lost a lot more weight than when Lloyd, Bobby, and Louis first noticed him, and his appearance has changed quite a bit.
Iris, who understood the situation, allowed it, saying that it was freedom to that extent.
Cyan slowly climbed up onto the dome of the training ground, holding a wooden sword.
Thanks to this, all the students’ attention was focused on Si-an.
Could it be because he displayed his aura during the tournament and rescued the princess?
Cyan was quite a suspicious person within the academy. He always walked around quietly and alone, and didn’t really talk to the students.
Despite his cute appearance, there was even a rumor that he was a man who followed Hedy Marigold around all day long.
How did you train Hedi?
Are you holding onto her weakness?
Even if everything was wrong, there was a rumor that Cyan must have been a person with something.
“go for it-!”
In the silence, one of the many students cheered for Xi’an cheerfully.
It was a woman’s voice.
Si-an, a character of interest within the class, was popular with the girls.
A chic, classy, and reserved handsome man.
Although Xi’an Tan may have been trying to live a quiet life, the female students interpreted it differently.
“If you get an A grade, you can marry me!”
“I can do it even if I’m a B-rank!”
“Fighting! Fighting, Xi’an!”
“… … .”
Cyan, who had climbed up onto the dome, had a dumbfounded expression on his face without saying a word.
In fact, I realized it a long time ago. I just turned away because I felt awkward.
Let’s lose weight. Recently, many girls have shown their favor. Any normal person could notice it here.
I think my looks are pretty good.
However, this kind of situation was unfamiliar.
Before becoming a nerd, he wasn’t ugly, but he was an ordinary guy who had rarely heard anyone say he was handsome.
It was a big deal that I was too busy making money to dress up, but I also didn’t think I was good-looking.
So this situation felt good, but also very awkward and embarrassing.
“What a fucking idiot… What an unlucky guy.”
“Please take D.”
The male students’ gazes are also sharp.
Cian quickly calmed down and looked at Iris.
“You’re popular.”
As soon as I looked up, Iris smiled brightly.
“…no.”
But Cyan just stood there with an awkward expression on his face.
Then, Iris realized that he was burdened by this situation, so she said nothing more and assumed the same posture as him.
It was just before the exam started.
They stare at each other like that for 5 seconds.
“start!”
Soon, the assistant student raised one hand and shouted.
As expected, the first one to jump in was Cyan. Iris had no choice because of the rule that said to stay put.
-widely!
Iris lightly blocks the wooden sword that Cian swings in a square motion.
After Iris knocks away Cian’s wooden sword, she tries to counter Cian in the same way she did to the other students.
“… … !”
He stopped for a moment and then suddenly and quickly put the wooden sword away.
And then he took his stance again and let out an aura from his spot.
“Uh huh…?”
“Come…? Why is the professor suddenly…?”
The students watching are curious about Iris suddenly putting an aura on her wooden sword for the first time.
Of course, the students would not have understood the situation just now because they had no practical experience.
‘As expected, you are sharp… .’
Si-an, who expressed his regret with a sigh, took a stance again, putting some distance between himself and her.
… There was a brief moment of psychological warfare between the two.
Cyan’s strategy of taking advantage of Iris’s slow tempo in the beginning.
Cyan learned Iris’s behavior pattern of always blocking the students’ wooden swords first and then countering by striking the wooden swords.
That is why, at the timing of that lightly flying counter, he tried to surround himself with an aura first and cut off Iris’ wooden sword.
Iris, who was already in her current position and had lost her wooden sword, would have no choice but to give up her body defenselessly.
Even if he were to block Cian’s sword with bare hands, it would still be Cian’s wooden sword touching Iris’ body.
But Iris’s senses were sharp.
I could immediately sense the life in Cyan’s eyes and figure out his intentions.
-Whaaa!
Cian squeezed out his magical power while keeping his distance, strengthening his body and aura.
I knew that tricks wouldn’t work. So the only way was to confront them head on.
“Eww!”
-Tuqwaang!
Two auras collided.
The aftermath causes the practice room to shake.
A few students flinched reflexively, overwhelmed by the resonance of the atmosphere.
-Kwakwakwakwa!
Iris and Cian’s aura-covered wooden swords continue to clash, testing their strength.
Iris’s aura is at least a 6-star aura.
The wooden sword wrapped in Xi’an’s aura had to break because it was less dense and could not withstand the blow.
But Xi’an’s wooden sword did not break.
‘… you are watching me.’
She lowered the density of the aura in some way.
This situation was a test, not a real battle. If I made a mistake, I could have killed Cyan by cutting him with a 6-star aura.
‘Then I can bump into things as much as I want, and it’s good for me!’
Xi’an’s heart burned hotly.
I was excited at the thought of being able to put everything I had at stake.
It was also Shian’s wish to test the results of his training up to this point.
“… I’m going. Iris.”
“Come.”
Cian retrieved the wooden sword that had been clashing with Iris’s power and once again opened the distance between them.
and.
“Ugh!”
-Wha …
He took a deep breath, strengthened his abdominal muscles, then rushed to Iris and swung his aura-covered wooden sword at full speed, repeatedly.
It was like a fight. The sword was cut so fast that the students watching could only see afterimages.
But… Iris was holding a wooden sword in one hand and was countering each of Cian’s sword strikes with her own eyes.
Iris, who was blocking Cyan’s sword with a calm expression, said.
“If you swing it so recklessly, you won’t be able to penetrate the skin of a superior demon. Think of each swing as a heavy, crashing wave.”
“Ugh…!”
Hearing those words, Si-an’s sword speed slowly slowed down.
The wooden sword that seemed like an afterimage gradually begins to appear in the students’ eyes.
The students thought it was because Xi’an was tired.
‘One swing like a wave… I know that.’
But it wasn’t.
It wasn’t that he was tired, he was just accepting what Iris was saying.
‘The reason I pushed the speed limit to the limit was because I wanted to test what the maximum would be. Now that I have a rough idea… .’
Cyan’s swordsmanship begins to become more and more sophisticated.
Iris felt the weight of her sword become heavier just by giving feedback once, and for a moment she smiled with interest.
As expected, this guy is a genius. He figures out the answer as soon as I give him a hint. That’s what I thought.
In fact, it is because I understood it with the knowledge of a person before becoming an icebreaker and with the mental age of a person in his 20s.
-Tukwa! Kwa! Kwa! Kwaaa!
The sharp and razor-sharp blade of Xi’an strikes down like a meteor.
Still focusing on the sword, he pulled up all his strength. All of these attacks were sword strikes that contained everything in Xi’an.
Never in my entire life in this world have I ever faced my full power to this extent.
… faster
More heavily.
More elaborately.
More densely.
Like a master blacksmith swinging his hammer one stroke at a time, Sian put all his effort into each swing.
His danjeon was squeezing his magical power until it was on the verge of going wild.
‘… … !’
At that time.
-Shu-pang!
Cyan’s wooden sword and Iris’ wooden sword both stopped moving in midair at the same time.
The students looked at the two people who suddenly stopped attacking with puzzled eyes.
But a few seconds later, the students figured out why.
Dilated pupil of the eye.
An expression as if possessed by something.
… it was an epiphany.
Without even realizing it, Xi’an had become so focused on the attack that he had fallen into a state of selflessness.
Soon, Cian’s expression returned to normal. Then, Iris, who saw this, said to Cian.
“Congratulations.”
“… … .”
Cyan spreads out his hands and looks down.
Something feels different.
The density of magical power felt from the danjeon.
And my body felt a little lighter.
“Cyan. B.”
“…yes?”
Cian asked back, surprised by Iris’ absurd announcement.
“Didn’t you just blank out during the test? If it had been the real thing, you would have died.”
“… … .”
That’s true, but… it was an act of God.
Sian had no choice but to accept Iris’s cold and merciless decision.
But all the students in the practice room knew.
Even though the grade is B,
The skills and swordsmanship that Si-an showed were not limited to that.
That day, some male students in the practice room were jealous of Si-an and planned to go find Si-an during break time after the test and pick a fight with her.
No one could reach Xi’an.
The eyes of the female students looking at the poem only sparkled even more.