Chapter 95
“Yo, Hibiki . Good job . ” (Sai)
Along with the end of the first round, there would be a slightly longer break ti .
As Lux and I left the waiting room, we were greeted by familiar faces who were busy talking about getting so snacks .
“You have already arrived, Sai?” (Hibiki)
“Yeah, I was right on ti for Hibiki’s match . ” (Sai)
Behind Sai there was Kuesu and the others, as well as Amy and Zir .
“Good work, master . ” (Amy)
“Yea, t’was quite a bout . ” (Zir)
The two of them praised .
“That’s right . You were up against a hero candidate after all . ” (Gary)
“It was really amazing . ” (Baara)
I nodded at Gary’s impression, and smiled at Baara in reply .
“[Annihilation] is my disciple after all . ” (Kuesu)
Winning was only natural . Kuesu had made that sort of statent . I wondered where that confidence ca from .
“…” (Seira)
Seira was still staring at . Without worrying about it, I continued with the conversation .
“Lux was much more amazing than I was . ” (Hibiki)
Kuesu shook her head, while Gary and the rest smiled wryly .
“Lux, is Lux . ”
“That’s right, there is no point in cheering for Lux’s matches . ”
“He’ll still survive even if left alone . ”
Contrary to what they said, it showed how much they trust him .
All of us entered a nearby restaurant but it seed that everyone else also had the sa thought . It was packed .
“This, I guess we ca a bit late . ” (Hibiki)
“Master and Mr . Lux still have so matches left after this, so we better get them sothing to eat now if we can . ” (Amy)
“Since that is so, we all can simply eat whilst viewing the matches . ” (Zir)
I’m not that hungry yet, but I appreciated everyone’s concern .
Fortunately, Lux and I were still able to eat the sandwiches and skewers they had bought earlier from a street vendor .
“Ah, that’s right, Sai . I’m sorry, even though you have just arrived but I have sothing to request of you . ” (Hibiki)
I spoke to Sai while biting on the skewers .
“What’s with this rough treatnt of your employees? Then, what do you want to ask?” (Sai)
I asked Sai to gather information about my next opponent .
“By next, do you an that lady with a lot of scars?” (Sai)
Apparently he watched the girl’s match as well . His face looked troubled .
“Sure she’s quite strong, but not as good as you, Hibiki . ” (Sai)
Apparently her opponent was wrapped in a fire pillar as soon as the match began .
Saying that I’m better than her after seeing that match was quite weird .
“It’s just in case . I’ll just do what I have to do . ” (Hibiki)
“I know . I’ll collect as much information as I can before the match starts . ” (Sai)
Sai imdiately left .
My match will be the second match, so it couldn’t be helped since there was not much ti left .
Break ti was over and the second round began .
At the mont, there were two magicians clashing with their magic spells in the arena .
Those two seed to be a part of the “exempt from the preliminaries group” and were rivals to one another .
Since the comntator talked about the match for quite a long while, Sai’s info managed to get to in ti .
The winner of this match, was the elite magician who was proficient in water magic .
Now then, my match ca next .
Called by the official, I quietly rushed to the arena .
I was greeted with the live comntator saying that ”This girl has a better chance of winning the match” .
As the referee announced the beginning of the match, the [Sickly Girl] imdiately shot fire and water balls with both hands .
The crowd cheered at that flashy attack .
I manipulated the wind to divert their trajectory, cladding my sword in flas then proceeded to use the fiery sword to cut the water ball .
I couldn’t completely deflect the fireball, but I managed to divert it enough to allow so gaps to wade through .
I sohow managed to withstand the first wave without a hitch, and returned fire with my own fireball . To display that I’m her senior it should be a bit bigger than the girl’s fireball, don’t you agree?
The girl didn’t even try to dodge the fireball . It directly hit her in the stomach .
The crowd started booing at . What’s with this difference in treatnt?
However, the girl was still standing there . Upon closer inspection, her stomach was actually protected by a layer of ice .
Apparently that was what neutralized my fireball .
“Girls shouldn’t let their stomach’s feel cold . ” (Hibiki)
I approached the girl while spouting that light remark . It was to fight within sword range .
The girl seed to notice my intention, she prepared an ice blade in her left hand .
I once again cladded my sword in flas like I did earlier .
Fire Sword VS Ice Sword, both swords clashed against each other at the blade’s midsection .
It seed to be a draw at first glance, but it was actually my loss .
I quickly released my grip on my sword and retreated .
The next mont, a fire and ice blast blood at where I previously stood .
“You have deprived of my weapon, eh?” (Hibiki)
Taking a quick glance to the audience seats, I noticed Sai waving at .
“Apparently, it seems that he rescued her safely . ” (Hibiki)
I sighed, then talked to the girl .
“Leelan . That’s enough . ” (Hibiki)
When I pointed towards Sai, [Sickly Leelan] turned towards the audience seats .
“Para, thank goodness . You really helped out!!” (Leelan)
The girl fell to her knees and started crying .
The referee looked at with scornful eyes . It seed that he suspected of threatening the other participant .
He reluctantly declared the victor . The crowd also seed to have the sa idea, thus they started booing at again .
Leelan and I could care less about such a thing and the both of us returned to the waiting room .
“Thank you, thank you very much . Big brother . ” (Leelan)
Leelan kept saying that repeatedly on our way back .
Well, what had actually happened before the match?
Let’s return back to the ti before the first match started .
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“Hibiki!!” (Sai)
It was Sai who ca to the waiting room alongside of Kuesu .
Apparently, people other than those concerned were not allowed to get in, which was why he brought Kuesu along .
“The thing about that girl, after I looked around for a while, I found it, found it . ” (Sai)
He seed to have various things to say so I allowed him to explain it to .
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That girl, she was an experintal object of a magical research institute .
The na registered for this tournant was [Number 15] .
For , I could only hear it as a number, but for everyone else it seed that they heard it as sothing that rhys with 15 .
In other words, there were 14 other people before her .
The institute was experinting in order to be able to artificially produce a magician with a dual or even more elent combination .
Apparently, they experinted by having soone live in extre environnts, like next to the entrance of a volcano or near a iceberg, in order to force them to awaken a new elent of magic .
They were able to awaken sothing, but the result was weak in power .
They repeatedly tried and found out that the younger the person they experinted on, the greater the result .
However, they stalled there . Using younger people also ant that their magic before awakening was not that strong .
It would be no different than a single elent magician .
The next thod, was to implant body parts of a monster with a certain elent into the human body .
Apparently, they grafted the monster skin onto the subject’s skin and waited to see if there was a power transfer .
Again, there seed to be so success .
Since it was directly put inside the body, it didn’t take very long to take effect .
However, they also stalled here .
So individuals did obtain the power, but they soon died .
It seed that the human body couldn’t handle that of a monster’s .
From those two attempts, two studies were born .
Raising a human from childbirth in an extre environnt, making them capable of mastering 2 elents as they grew into an adult .
Grafting monster parts onto the human body to transfer their attribute .
Both showed results, but both also had limitations .
With a more than normal ability, but less than an elite magician, an amiable human chira was created .
The researchers who weren’t satisfied with the result continued to try to find a better thod .
Having lived in an extre environnt from their early years, combined with the surgery thod .
That was, the chira magician .
[Number 15] was the fifteenth result of such an experint .
She was a chira with her own elder twin sister, showing practically no rejection to the implants and adjusted to them very well .
The masterpiece of the research institute .
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That was the story Sai managed to dig out .
It was information gathered in such a short ti . So there were bound to be so mistakes .
But knowing this much about her was already good .
Looking at the girl who sat in the corner, facing down .
That man from the first round didn’t seem to be around .
I was standing before her when she finally noticed .
“Why do you not run away?” (Hibiki)
I tried talking to the girl . The girl lifted her face and looked at .
“If you are that strong, why didn’t you try to escape?” (Hibiki)
The girl finally realized my intentions .
“Because, I’m a big sister . ” (Leelan)
So it was just like what Sai told .
“No, it’s because I’m Para’s big sister . ” (Leelan)
Para, was the na of the chira born at the sa ti as her .
It was probably a asure to prevent escape or rebellion .
They threatened to kill Para if she went against them .
“If I rescue her, then you won’t have to fight anymore, right?” (Hibiki)
The girl looked at with a surprised face .
“…hm . ” (Leelan)
Hearing that reply, Sai left the waiting room .
She’s been waiting for this mont .
“That uncle over there will go look for Para . ” (Hibiki)
“Really?” (Leelan)
“Yeah . So please don’t fight seriously to buy so ti . It will be hard for if you co at as fierce as in your previous match . ” (Hibiki)
“Hm . ” (Leelan)
And with that, she wouldn’t fight seriously in our match .
Sai also seriously started searching . He’s a really good guy after all .
“Hibiki, we’ll also help . ” (Baara)
Baara and the others also offered to help .
“It’s difficult to speak about but the church officials are suspicious . ” (Lux)
Lux whispered into my ear so as not to be heard .
“Why?” (Hibiki)
“She’s still alive even with that many traces of implant surgery . Even if the rejection was small, she should’ve run out of energy and died . ” (Lux)
I didn’t know anything about this transplantation surgery, nor about this rejection thingy, but I did understand a little about the operation . Baara noticed what I wanted to say .
In other words, the surgery wouldn’t be successful without extensive use of healing magic during the process .
Only the church was capable of bringing together a large amount of healers .
Baara frowned but nodded her head, then followed the others accompanying Sai .
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Before our match began, I had been trying to get to know her better .
As long as she trusted even just a little, it’ll be less risky for .
Her na [Leelan] apparently ca from her older sister’s [Lee] and her own [Lanfa] .
The researchers usually only called her with “hey”, ”you”, or “Number 15” .
She had never t her older sister [Lee] before . It was only natural as they were separated since childbirth .
She was called [Lee] on the day of the surgery, the first ti they t these two people mutually gave each other nas .
[Regardless of who will expire first, I will always rember you and you will always rember . ]
Those were the last words of her older sister [Lee] who she t for the first ti .
“Big brother will not forget about Leelan’s matter, right?” (Leelan)
Even after the match had concluded and we returned back to the waiting room, Leelan never left my side .
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