Chapter 310: Rivals
Date- 27 Mar 2321
Ti- 15:11
Location- Sky Blossom City, Card stadium, Arena no.2
“Force punch” Corey who was under pressure facing my punches suddenly started glowing and my punches did not seem to affect her. Instead of using this as an opportunity to get her balance and defence stance back she just kept taking my punches head-on. With my every punch the glow on Corey started to grow stronger.
And after 2 seconds the glow that was covering Corey’s entire body converged and focused on her right fist seeing that I knew what was going on. No wonder my punches were not affecting her and she just stood there taking them head-on. she was collecting the force behind my punches and building up energy to use it back on .
Knowing Corey’s next punch was going to be devastating I jumped and took three steps back just enough to be out of Corey’s lee range and enough for
to engage Corey again after her punch so that she does not get ti to get her stance together.
But contrary to my thoughts Corey did not use her ‘force punch’ to attack . Instead, she attacked the arena floor. And used the reverse force from punching the floor to jump back in the air. After performing a sorsault in the air she landed on her feet in style. It was a wrong judgent on my part that led to Corey using this opportunity to pull back and get a breather.
“I thought you were just a greenhouse flower who only knew to stand behind his summons. I am surprised you did not summon your stone elents yet.” Corey realised that she had underestimated my fighting ability and fought recklessly. Which almost cost her losing the hand to hand combat with . Not the duel, just the hand to hand combat. Just like how wars have many battles Corey wanted to best
in all combat types, lee, ranged, cards, rules and runes. She seed to have taken this duel as an opportunity to show Susan that she is better than
when it cos to combat. I guess this ideology stemd from when she decided to open a Card studio right next to my card boutique. She was trying to prove to
and Susan that she is better than
at Card creation too. I do not know what made Corey so comparative towards
but if I had to guess I would say it must be because of the close relationship between
and Susan.
Corey thought that I was a rookie in hand to hand combat and decided to end this in one go by using the skill Barrage to land continuous punches on
to activate the Double back passive effect while leaving her entire defence to skill Iron defence. She never expected that I would make a quick judgent and aim for her legs instead of defending and trying to get out of her lee attack range.
“I know what you are trying to do Corey, but I will not let you have the satisfaction of getting it. Be it close combat or Cards or Rules and runes I will beat you in all of them. And enjoy it while I am doing it. Corey, I am flattered by your infatuation with
but girl you should know when to take a hint. I ain’t interested in you.” A classic technique to throw your enemy off their ga is getting them angry and clouding their judgent.
Let’s just say I am being childish right now trying to fight Corey on her term to best her. But there is a point to all this, the first one is that if I make use of any other skill or item cards other than the close combat cards I will lose one of all battles in the war that is the duel between
and her.
I already lost the first battle by being the first one to summon the grimoire and making use of close combat cards. I did not plan on losing the second battle by making use of any spell skill cards.
A wise general would focus on winning the war rather than winning each and every battle. But this duel ant more than that for
and Corey. This feeling… I finally knew why Corey was so irritated and ready to pick a fight around . She saw
as her rival.
Rivalry, when taken positively it has lead to the formation of history’s greatest friendships but when taken with negativity it has bred history’s greatest tragedy. For now, Corey’s rivalry was just at the level where she wanted to prove herself in front of Susan. Yeah, Corey’s rivalry towards
stemd from my close bond with Susan.
Corey is competing with
for Susan’s favour. For , Susan was the first person whom I started to trust and form a relationship with after being transmigrated into this new world. If I were to say in deeper terms my relationship with Susan was like a chick that will imprint on anyone whom it sees first as its parent. By this, I don’t an I see Susan as my parent but Susan definitely ans more than just a friend or colleague to , she is the first root I laid in this world. Like the saying goes no matter how big the man grows he can never forget his roots and always cos back to them.
I think for Corey Susan must also an sothing more than just a ntor, friend… I have heard her call Susan mother so I guess this weird chick imprinted on Susan and believes her to be her mother. Anyway seeing Susan closer to
than her, Corey sees
as a rival for Susan’s favour. So all her weird and rude actions towards
finally beca clearer. I thought Corey hated
for being closer to Susan but now I knew she was just like a child fighting her sibling for her mother’s favour.
Understanding what Corey did not an I would let her off easy. As no matter what the reason was what she did was not cool, after all, I had just started getting used to the idea that Corey is one of my trusted friends but one day she just woke up and started to be a bitch. Trusted friends do not do that.
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