"... That's my plan. Does Teacher have any suggestions?" Kai finally finished his thirty minutes long explanation. In the anti, not a single word was spoken either from Ria and other girls.
"Suggestion? Nah, I don't want to give you suggestions for this mission because it's just an easy way for you. Instead, I will give you so howork, so you will know what you are missing and search for the answer yourself." She shook her head and answered calmly.
"Alright. This is Teacher's style of teaching anyway." Kai nodded. "There should be one and a half weeks before the mission. Maybe I will stay here for one or two days and work on it after I get back."
"In that case, I will give you the assignnt later." Ria nodded, leaned back to the chair and closed her eyes, formulating a few questions and writing it down.
Suddenly, Kai broke his silence with an unexpected question.
"By the way, Teacher… I almost forgot to ask this, but I need to ask you this. What is SS rank magical beast?" Kai asked.
Ria opened her mouth in surprise while her face appeared a shocked expression. Her hand slipped out of the table, but she didn't fall because her other hand held onto her chair.
Michelle and the others had a confused expression before it turned into a shocked one. They couldn't understand why a person like Ria, who had been in control this entire ti, suddenly had such an expression.
"SS Rank magical beast?" Michelle had a distorted face while she asked. She never heard such a term before, so this clearly shocked her. If Kai asked such a question, it would an he already knew such an existence. The problem would be what kind of existence an SS rank magical beast was?
Ayaka and Tasha couldn't help but recall the S rank magical beast they t in Russia, the Snake God. Recalling such a beast made them think of how puny their existences were. And to think there was another existence beyond that snake…
*Gasp-!* Ayaka closed her mouth with her hand while Tasha looked at Kai with the sweat beginning to appear on her forehead. "What do you an, Kai? The highest should be an S rank magical beast, right?"
"Teacher, can you answer that question? When I asked Sir Nathan, he said to ask you." Kai asked with a grim expression. Seeing her reaction already let him know that she had so knowledge about it.
"That Nathan? I really should co and beat him up for good." Ria bit her lips while slamming her table. A few seconds later, she suddenly looked up with another shocked expression. "Wait… if you are asking that question, it would an you have known about 'That,' right?"
Kai looked around and nodded his head. "Yeah. Teacher is right."
"Haiz. I should have predicted that you will ask that question after the battle in Cuba. I have miscalculated that Nathan would explain it to you and asked the other one to . With your ears, you should know about ���that' on the battlefield… Wait. Now that I think about it, the report isn't correct. The reason for the battle wasn't nurous magical beasts. Instead, it should be that."
"Why does the teacher ask? Isn't it in the report with your rank?" Kai asked with a confused expression.
"That old man was playing with his life." She narrowed her eyes and released killing intents.
"What do you an?"
"Do you think that old man would send you into a mission like that without my permission? No. He needs to ask my permission first. I agreed with him because of his proposal about his plan and asked him to give the report later. It seems I can't trust that old man anymore. Fine then." Ria was seriously pissed about it.
"So… Can Teacher answer my question?" Kai looked at Michelle and the others before turning back to Ria.
"Two S rank magicians and a Zodiac… They indeed have a rank to access more information. However, I can only tell you about the SS rank magical beast, not that unless you ask individually. It's only because of my identity you can enjoy that kind of rank after all." She shrugged.
"Yeah. That's fine."
"SS rank magical beast is…" Ria paused for a mont, staring at Kai for a minute.
"Teacher, what is it? The suspense is too long, you know." Kai made a weird expression while his fingers were twitching because he didn't know what she was thinking.
"I have given you the answer." Ria rely answered with a simple but aningful line.
Kai fell into silence and looked down, weighing sothing in his mind. 'She has given the answer? Is she playing around because Sir Nathan lied on the report? No, Teacher wouldn't direct that anger at … Then, she must have answered my question, but there is no word that describes it… Wait, word?'
He looked up and stared back as he realized the answer. "Teacher, don't tell …"
"Oh, you are quick to catch on," Ria smirked proudly.
"What is the answer?" Tasha furrowed her eyebrows while Ayaka crossed her arms. Both of them began thinking about the answer. On the other hand, Michelle gasped before unconsciously muttering, "Kai? The SS rank magical beast is Kai?"
"!!!" Tasha and Ayaka ca into a realization as they looked back at Ria to check the answer.
"That's right. I am staring at an SS rank magical beast…" Ria glanced at Ayaka for a few seconds to strengthen her point. "The SS rank magical beast is the Zodiacs, which ans Leo, Aries, Pisces, Sagittarius, and Taurus."
Kai closed his eyes for a few seconds before letting out a long sigh. "I see. Sir Nathan didn't want to talk about it because Teacher would be the best person to answer this question."
"Yeah. Don't worry. Even if the whole world treats you as a magical beast, I will just destroy the world together with the magical beasts." She shrugged. "As long as I am alive, no one in this base will mistreat you.
"Then, when I pass away, you will be able to fend them off by yourself. Besides, with the dicine, your children won't bring the curse of their parents. Though I can't say anything if the governnt creates more zodiacs. At the very least, the ones that I care about will be fine." Ria smiled gently, treating Kai like her own child.
"Thank you, Teacher." Kai was moved.
She wanted to enjoy this kind of mood, but couldn't. Her expression turned serious again as she said, "There is also another kind of SS rank magical beasts out there."
"Eh? Do you an soone from the Europe Union Base? There is a zodiac in that place, right?" Kai asked.
"No. I'm not talking about that." Ria shook her head with a grim expression. "I am talking about the failed experints."
"Failed experints?" Kai frowned before releasing his killing intents. This was the exact reason why Kai asked Ria to stop the Zodiac after him.
"It was only after they kicked out of the project. They tested on a bunch of the people and turned them into half-beast half-human. As I said earlier, it wasn't like the movie. Instead, their appearances were… horrendous. Most of those who survived were locked inside a cell, so they could get more data… but after a certain accident, all the failed experints managed to escape from that place and scattered around the continent. No one knew about their locations, and the governnt couldn't do anything."
"Is it fine to talk about it to us?" Michelle, who knew about the rank and classified information well-enough, asked.
"It's considered the sa topic, so don't worry." Ria brushed her anxiety away with a single sentence. "Anyway, the animal genes in their body already dominated their human genes… so the magical beasts treat them as their own and don't attack them at all. If you t them, can you kill them for ? After all, the failure part ca from my own experint."
"It's the governnt fault, not you. With your experint, I could live, so I am not blaming you, Teacher." Kai smiled gently. Looking at her ashad expression made him want to change the topic. He let out a long sigh first before he asked, "That's right. You want to fight , right? How about we do it now?"
Ria stared at him for a few seconds before smiling. "Yeah. We should. The rest of you may watch our match. I am sure it will be beneficial for you."
Kai took the first step toward the door before Ria passed him and guided them to the battle room.
All of them entered the practice room where Ayaka trained with Ria. This was the battle between a teacher and a student, no one would actually interfere.
Kai glanced at Ria, who already entered the simulation tube, waiting for him inside the stage she had prepared. Michelle and the others stopped not far from Kai before their attention was taken away by the screen above the simulation tube. They saw Ria Ross with her poker face appear in a plain white room, waiting for Kai to arrive.
Knowing that he had made her wait, Kai quickly entered the simulation tube and entered the white room. The room was quite big, considering it was a 50x50 ters room.
"Are we going to fight here?" Kai asked while looking around the room.
"Yeah." She nodded while stretching her palm toward him before pulling it back again mysteriously. "I have inputted the data of your Vibration Sword, so you can call the swords here."
Kai nodded with a serious expression, closed his eyes, and imagined a pair of swords from earlier. A second later, they appeared right in front of him. He took both of them and swung it a couple of tis to check if they were the sa swords.
"How is it? It's the sa, right?" Ria asked while inserting her hands on her laboratory white coat's pockets.
"Yeah. There's no problem." Kai nodded before relaxing every muscle in his hands and pointing his swords against his teacher. He closed his eyes for a few seconds before opening it again. However, his eyes were not the sa anymore. The eyes turned into sharp yellow eyes, releasing killing intents.
"The ti limit is thirty minutes. If no one is defeated by that ti, it's your win." Ria Ross said and stomped the ground with her right foot. A greenish silver magic circle appeared on the ground before a white sword slowly erged from within. The sword length was the sa as Kai's, but without any decorations, as it was made of magic. "Start!"
As soon as Ria shouted, both of them leaped forward and slashed their swords against each other.
*Clank!*
The clicking sound of tals was the starting sign of this great battle.
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