Claire was trying to get close to Angela with one reason; to kill her today.
’She’s been annoying since the day I t her.’
I got away with threatening the other girls since my family is influential but I couldn’t get to threaten Angela due to the fact that her family is much powerful than ours and would imdiately kill if they I knew I threatened to kill her if she wouldn’t stay away from Cypher.
But since I’ve got this amazing power, I’m going to finish her today. I’ll disguise it that I miscalculated and thought that she was a wild animal or I could just bla soone.
’Who’s next on my list? Hmmm...’
She suddenly rembered the girl who suddenly cut off her conversation with Cypher.
’That b!tch!’
After I take care off Angela, she’s next.
"Claire? Claire? You okay?"
"Hmm? Ah yes, I’m fine."
"It looks like your spacing out, maybe you should skip this event for now."
She smiled while looking at Angela.
’Ugh! Your kindness makes sick!’
"No, I’m really fine. I’m just excited about the hunt we’ll be doing later."
" too!"
’I can’t wait to hunt you later.’
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I finally arrived at Aetherspire District. I looked around as I walked to where our event is held. Tents were set up, residents of the district walking around, chattering with each other.
As she walked further, she noticed a group of students gathered around a tall, dark-haired woman. Se was speaking with a group of students, gesturing animatedly as she spoke. Seeing that she was surrounded by a bunch of students, ’She must be the club president,’ she thought to herself.
"-Okay, is everyone here? How about the tents, tables, and decorations? Are they done?"
The club president checked the list she was holding.
"Gather up everyone! As you have read ssage earlier, we’ll be having a competition, so the more wild animals you hunt, the greater the prize you’ll win. The tents that are set up are for club mbers to place their personal belongings or resting place. After the ti limit, you can just stack the wild animals you killed in one place and my assistants will get it for you."
She placed a paper on the table and sat down.
"We don’t have much ti left so those who are interested, co and sign up!"
Imdiately, alll of us went to line up and sign our nas. When it was my turn to sign my na, she looked at questioningly.
"Are you a resident here? I’m sorry but club mbers are the only ones allowed to join."
"I’m also a Club mber. I didn’t get a chance to attend the orientation because of personal matters."
The president’s expression brightened up.
"Ah, I see," she said.
"Well, welco to the Field Sports Club. I’m your Club President Elara. I’m glad you could make it."
"My na’s Remillia. Nice to et you, Elara."
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"At exactly 1 PM, you may now enter the forest. The ti limit will end at 8 PM sharp. It’s currently 12:59 PM, wait for my signal."
As Elara explained the rules, I looked at the participating mbers, I spotted Angela at the center while Claire is at the far left.
Bang!
"Let the hunting begin!"
All of us ran into the forest while I followed Angela closely behind.
I know that if I follow her directly she would be annoyed that I was here and deliberately lose behind. So the best way to follow her is to climb the trees and jump tree to tree.
’Why does it look cool when ninjas do this but it’s too exhausting to do it myself?’
I was sweating all over by the ti Angela stalked her first prey.
Hah. Hah. Hah.
Macaron suddenly appeared beside making startled, almost falling to the ground.
"Gaah!"
I quickly shut Macaron up afraid that Angela would hear us. anwhile Angela only heard a faint shriek. She scanned her surroundings but it was too quiet.
"What was that?"
Remillia’s heart was throbbing as she watched Angela raise her head and look at their spot. Thankfully, she went back from hunting.
"You’ll be the one to hunt in my place."
"I know you haven’t had fun these past few days."
Instead of wild animals livivg in the Academy’s territory, there are only practice target monsters like the novice ranked type for students to train on. Although there are wild animals, those are the rodent types that liked to dig underground so I know that Macaron is having a hard ti in hunting.
"Don’t you also want to grow more? You can use your original form but be careful to the other hunters, they might mistake you as one of the wild animals."
"Let’s half 50-50 of the Monsters okay?"
And with that, he flew while transforming into his original form.
’Now back to Ange- Huh?’
I rubbed my eyes. She’s already gone.
"Where did she go?!"
I began to panic as I scanned the trees.
"Who you looking for huh?"
The hair on my neck stood up as soone whispered behind my back.
I slowly looked back and saw Angela, her one eye is glowing red, ready to kill .
"Eeeek!"
I imdiately backed away from her, resulting for to finally fall on the tree.
"Sh!t Angela! How did you even get there?"
I groaned while I rubbed my aching back.
"Answer . Why are you following ?"
She raised her bow and pointed it at .
"Woah, chill! It hurts my pride to say this but-"
"But what?"
"I ca here to protect you."
"Pffft. Hahaha! You? Hahaha!"
She suddenly turned serious as she aid her bow again at .
"Don’t f*ck with . Just because you saved and Cypher last ti, doesn’t give you the right to follow and befriend us."
’Hah! Can you believe this brat?’
I suddenly want to leave this instant so that this brat could taste her own lesson.
[But your conscience won’t allow that, am I right?]
’Who cares? She isn’t worth saving.’
[Suppose if she dies, can you carry the burden of not saving her in ti?]
"Damn you! Get out of my sight!"
Angela looked at her offended.
’Sh!t.’
"Say that again?"
"No! Ah-I an to say is that I’m also here to join the hunt. You see, I’m also a mber of the Field Sports Club."
Angela didn’t believe her.
"Are you... stalking ?"
"What? Ewww no! I’m not into girls!"
"Then why are you up there?"
"I told you already! I’m protecting you since I believe that you’re in danger today, now let’s go."
"Danger?"
"It’s hard to explain. Let’s go to a safer place first."
"No. Just tell , what danger are you talking about?"
I was about to grab her when a flash of dark shadow ca hurling towards us.
"Angela, move away!"
We luckily dodged the shot as we looked at each other in shock then looking at the burning trees at our side before looking at the direction where the attack ca from. A person was standing far from us.
"That’s the danger I’m telling you about."
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Claire was humming while strolling around the forest like it was only a walk in the park.
’Where is that little prey of hers.’
Suddenly a white little rabbit appeared in front of her, staring at her with those red beady eyes.
"Awww, how cute-"
Her tongue, once soft and pliable, lengthened and sharpened into a long, pointed claw that reaching out to strike the poor little rabbit.
"Eeek!"
The poor rabbit laid on the ground writing in pain, as its own blood soaked its white fur.
"I hate pathetic looking things."
Claire said in disgust as her appearance began to change, her left eye began to glow with a fiery red light.
Her body contorted and twisted into a grotesque, demonic form. Her skin turned a deep, fiery red and beca scaly and rough to the touch. Her once-luxuriant hair now grew wild and unruly, with long, pointed horns sprouting from her forehead.
Her mouth stretched into a wicked, cruel grin, revealing razor-sharp teeth that seed to be designed for tearing flesh. The air around her seed to grow thick and heavy with malevolent energy, making it hard to breathe.
Her senses seed to also have heightened as she can hear everything. Her ears twitched when she heard two voices bickering.
She smirked.
"Lucky , I’ll be killing two birds in one stone then... or is it hitting? Never mind."
She quickly ran to where she heard the voices, destroying all the obstacles that blocked her path. Soon, she spotted the two person she wanted to kill.
She created a flaming dark ball and threw it at them. Sadly, they dodged it right in ti.
’I missed.’
She walked up to them while saying, "Hey guys, let also join the fun..."
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anwhile on the other side. and Angela just looked at each other before looking at the one talking. I turned to face Angela.
"....Can you hear what she’s saying?"
"No."
"Why would she even talk when she’s 50 feet away from us?"
"Don’t know either. You go ask her."
"Nah. Let’s just enjoy her mont for a while."
After a few more seconds, we can finally hear her babbling about sothing but we didn’t care. Instead, Angela can’t help but to ask again.
"Who are we fighting anyway?"
"Claire."
"Claire? As in Claire Danes?"
"Yup and don’t worry about hurting her since we need to kill her."
"We what?!"
"Can you stop with the who and what? It’s hurting my ears."
"Why do we need to kill her?"
"She already had the devil’s mark aning she’s now a Rogue."
"How do you know this?"
"I have my sources."
Seeing that she’s already 10 feet away from us. I readied my weapon especially Arcanum as I glanced at Angela.
"This will be a long day."
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Angela and Remillia finally faced Claire. Claire laughed as she looked at the two of them.
"This is unfair you know? Two versus one, really?"
Remillia just tiredly looked at her.
"Just because Cypher doesn’t see you as a woman doesn’t give you the right to kill us, you psycho."
"You don’t know anything! Cypher was the one who helped escape from that hellhole. If it wasn’t for hi-"
I yawned, quickly cutting her off.
"Sorry but I don’t need to hear how the story of your life. But one things for sure, no matter what you do, Cypher can’t like you back. Got it?"
Annoyed by my retort, Claire launched an explosive attack on but I quickly dodged away.
"Hah! I must’ve hit a nerve there! Poor Claire, Cypher doesn’t see you as a woman hahaha!"
Finally, all Claire was seeing right now is red.
"I should kill you first since you’re f*cking annoying!"
As Claire charged at Remillia, her body seed to blur and distort, her demonic powers coursing through her veins. Her eyes glowed with an intense red light, and her skin rippled with dark energy as she unleashed a wave of fury upon her.
Remillia dodged and weaved, her movents quick and precise as she tried to avoid Claire’s attacks. But Claire was relentless, her blows raining down like a torrent of hellfire. She struck her razor sharp claws, trying to scratch her one bit.
"Ahhh sh!t!"
Claire finally landed a scratch on her stomach. Claire was laughing as she licked the blood from her claws while I tried to stop the blood from flowing out. The wound is too deep so I carelessly fell down.
"Not so feisty now, are you? Now die!"
Claire charged at full force but then Angela joined the battle as she continuously shot her arrows manifesting in a burst of fiery energy. It was not enough as the demon was too quick, dodging and countering it with a blast of dark energy that sent Angela stumbling back.
"How dare you interrupt our fight? I’ll deal with you later after I finish this one!"
Remillia took advantage of the montary distraction to strike at Claire’s exposed flank. She lashed out with a kick that sent Claire stumbling back, but the demon quickly recovered, her eyes blazing with fury as she counterattacked.
The battle raged on, the three combatants clashing in a whirlwind of steel and fire. Claire’s powers seed to be fueled by her rage, her attacks growing more and more intense as she fought on.
Cling!
Clang!
Angela and Remillia fought back with everything they had, but it seed like they were slowly being pushed back by the sheer force of Claire’s fury.
Boom!
Bam!
As the fight continued, the air around them grew thick with the stench of brimstone and smoke. The ground shook beneath their feet as they clashed, their movents growing more and more frenzied as they struggled to gain the upper hand.
Kapow!
In the end, it was Remillia who landed the decisive blow. With a fierce cry, she launched herself at Claire, her Arcanum glowing with a fierce blue energy. She struck the demon with a blow that sent her flying across the room, sending her crashing into a hill with a deafening crash.
They were all bloodied and full of wounds. Claire struggled to get back to her feet, while the both of them stood over her, their chests heaving with exhaustion. For a mont, they just stared at each other, their eyes locked in a fierce struggle. Angela was the one who spoke first.
"Claire, it’s over now. So just quickly accept your death."
I added more salt to her injury.
"Besides, you’re ugly as heck. Why did you beco a Rogue anyway?"
This seed to trigger Claire as she used another one of her attacks that caught us off guard as we were pushed back.
Cough!
Cough!
"Grrr! If I can’t have Cypher then no one can! Not even you two!"
And by the mont we opened our eyes, she was already gone.
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