"This one is on . I should have taken into the account the possibility of the participants having so sort of past that once triggered by a certain phrase would throw them into a wild rage."
Although the duel ended up in favor of the magicians, Devios sighed, shaking his head over the way it was won.
"Don't be too harsh on yourself. Look, even if he is under mana depletion, he is taking it extrely well.
tavicero waved her hand dismissively and reassured the blue-haired young man.
"That said, I should be next, right? I will make sure to not give you a headache."
"You better be. If not you will be the one responsible for nursing back to health."
The white-as-snow young woman breathed out and straightened her back with a confident smile, to which Devios responded lightheartedly.
"Pfft, yeah, you wish."
tavicero snorted, seemingly unbothered.
While that happened, Noex returned to his group where he was greeted by a bouncy Terez who still kept his indifferent expression.
"Yay~! Thanks for protecting !"
Terez cheered, putting his fist out.
"Shut up. I would have defeated her even if she wasn't perving over you."
Noex scoffed, looking to the side to hide his embarrassnt but he bumped his fist against Terez's anyway.
"Noex! Congratulations on winning! Are you okay though? You must have used a lot of mana, aren't you feeling worse? Do you want to sit down or lay down?"
As the two moved a bit further back to where they had a bench provided, Reo who was occupying the spot perked up and asked with a worried voice.
"...I'm... I'm fine..."
Noex blushed, glancing at Reo's lap as if it was a spot included in the offer, and stepped to the side, sitting a respectable distance away from the young woman.
"Te-he~ I see what's going on~"
"Shut up!"
Terez teased his friend without his indifferent expression ever budging, making Noex blush even harder.
"The third duel will be between miss tavicero and the youngest high-ranking disciple of the Unyielding Pride sect, mister Lionel Diorenn!"
From the slightly bothered voice of the teacher announcing the next matchup, it was easy to tell that things weren't going exactly according to the overall plan – and honestly, that was like a soothing lody for Devios's ears.
"I'm off."
"Have fun."
tavicero moved first, even before her opponent, and entered the arena after nodding at Devios who nodded back encouragingly.
Once she was in the arena, she was the first ember of the magicians' representation who made the watching martial artists start murmuring amongst each other.
Reo looked normal for their standards, the sa with Noex. Brown hair and green eyes and brown hair and brown eyes weren't uncommon in the slightest, but then there was tavicero.
A person without a trace of color in her body.
If she stood in front of a freshly snow-covered field, she would disappear.
She literally looked out of place in the world brimming with different colors.
And there was the case of her favorite white one-piece dress and sandals that were almost as out of place as her color.
Then, her opponent showed up.
Despite having the title of the youngest high-ranking disciple of his sect, he was at least eighteen or nineteen, he was tall, muscular, and had this wildness in deep-brown eyes. His hair was so gold that he could be mistaken for a light magician given the proper distance.
"I am looking for a proper fight that would challenge my abilities, and you aren't even taking it seriously."
Lionel's first words towards tavicero were a complaint.
"What makes you think that?"
The white-as-snow young woman tilted her head and asked, raising her brow in confusion.
"The way you are dressed. It's not proper attire for a fight. Unless you are a master in the law of Virgo and take pleasure in exposing yourself."
The young man declared with a serious expression while taking a well-practiced stance in preparation for the official start of the duel.
"Sounds like you aren't really strong, what a sha."
tavicero responded with a disappointed sigh and a light shrug.
"...what is that supposed to an...?"
Lionel frowned and asked without breaking his focus.
"If you are bothered by an attire, you clearly haven't practiced enough, not to ntion underestimating your opponent like that... All of that is an easy way to an embarrassing defeat."
tavicero explained lightheartedly looking to the side as if the gold-haired marital artist was not a threat at all.
"Begin!"
"Law of Leo! Law of Capricorn! Law of Aries! Law of Taurus!"
The teacher called out and Lionel activated his laws without delay and launched himself at the white-as-snow young woman, stopping right in front of her with his hand raised for a devastating punch.
"And now I will show you how wrong you are in everything you just said!"
The young man abandoned the pri chance to strike to inform his opponent in a mocking voice.
"No. You will not."
tavicero declared with a grim expression, raising her hands and taking a battle stance on her own.
"SHOW HER WHY OUR SECT BEARS THE NA OF UNYIELDING PRIDE, LIONELL!"
"Hmph~!"
The current contestant seed to have vocal supporters this ti around as voices from the audience raised to encourage him – to which he led confidently and attacked, throwing together an entire combo...
*THUMP*
Just to slam unconscious at tavicero's feet seconds later without landing a single hit.
"Wha...!?"
Even the teacher watching over the duels could not believe what he just witnessed.
"Wow. Geroizen would be ashad to see the pathetic state of the so-called high-ranking disciples of his father's holand."
tavicero shook her head while shaking her hands as her knuckles beca pink after landing repeated lighting-fast hits upon the law of Aries'augunted hits on Lionel.
"Teacher~? Can you announce the result? Or should I use magic to make it more obvious?"
The young woman looked towards the middle-aged martial artist and asked lightheartedly, but it seed that the man had a problem with accepting the outco this ti.
It was because it looked like tavicero had defeated a martial artist... with martial art and not magic, beating him at his own ga.
There could hardly be a more humiliating way for that fight to end...
...or was there...?
"I only ask for a fair trea..."
"...law of.. Aquarius..."
*WHOOOSH*
While tavicero stepped away from the defeated opponent and addressed the teacher, Lionel did manage to regain at least a shred of consciousness and activated another star power that expanded from his body and hit against the talking young woman.
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