Chapter 162: Stay calm- stay cal-

"Why didn't you tell me?" I grabbed Merin's shirt and wiggled him back and forth. 

"You have a Holo, how am I supposed to know you don't know!" He also wiggled me back and forth. 

We both went back and forth while the girl next to me just rolled her eyes. "Ah, men."

What the hell did this snake-dragon girl know about men?

I so, so wanted to sigh right now. Oh, wait, too late. 

Wait, if I had a match today, how the hell was I supposed to go if I still had my wounds?

Did everyone just assume I'd miss today's match because of my severe wounds?

Oh. But I was pretty much healed this morning and Germany wasn't that far. I mean it was only eight hours away. 

"You thought Marg would teleport me so didn't tell me anything?" I just tried to be clear with him. Besides, I needed some answers. 

I playing darts in the dark was all I could muster.

He nodded vigorously. I guess everyone just assumed that. Wait, then how come Marg didn't say anything?

And then there was the thing about the club not even contacting me. I didn't know why but it felt like these guys didn't want me to fight today's match. 

But if they didn't want me, then I had all the more reason to. I didn't know why but if people told me to not do something, I wanted to do it more. 

'Can Marg even teleport that far?'

Only one way to find out. 

I used Merin's Holo and gave Marg a call and told her to come over. 

She took exactly three seconds before coming right before me, a toast in her mouth. Super cute, but I was super freaking out. 

That was fast and the call was still going for crying out loud. 

"Can you teleport to Germany, here?" I brought up a map on Merin's Holo. 

Marg continued chomping and spoke in very cute ways. "I need to see the actual place before I can teleport." Well, shit. "Pictures will do too." She swallowed and all my worries kind of dampened a little.

I wanted to hug her so damn much right now. 

I sighed hard and searched for pics quickly. We were running out of time. 

Oh, wait.

***

After seeing the images, Marg grabbed my hand, and immediately, we started teleporting. 

Everyone else was left behind. 

She actually didn't take the toast with her, which was kind of a bummer as she looked way too cute with that in her mouth. But now that I looked at her, Marg looked a bit pale. 

Before I could think or say anything, we had arrived. 

Light!

These people really went overboard with the lights.

There was a distinct silence from the crowd. I guess they had too much of waiting. 

I did hear loads of murmurs as my eyes adjusted to the light. 

The murmurs turned to very audible whispers. The general conscience- teleportation was a marvel. 

I for a moment forgot Marg's talent was really rare. 

"I didn't think you'd show up." A rather pesky voice came from my right. Why pesky?

He was jeering at me. 

My vision was almost restored. I took a glance at my surrounding before looking at the man to my right. 

This was a big stadium, at least three times bigger than the enlarged gym we used last time. There were loads of crowd and the scoreboard already declared my opponent as the winner. I guess I was too late. But something felt off about the scoreboard and it almost felt like everything was preplanned or something. 

It was pointless I guess.

And the man? Well, he wasn't a man. Rather he was just some dude in full plate shining golden armor. Maybe a bit taller than me? I didn't see his face because of that thick helmet though. 

Marg grabbed my sleeve and pulled gently. 

"Something wrong?" 

She was awfully pale. 

"I think I have a mild headache. Can you sit me down over there?"

"Sure." I lifted her up and carried her like the princess she was.  She was a bit surprised at first but in the end, she just smiled, blushing slightly. "Do you want anything to drink?"

"Isn't the tournament more important?"

The whispers were getting way too audible now. 

"Nope, you are." Then again, I already kind of lost. 

I sat Marg down on a bench outside the court and located the guys holding drinks in the corner. 

With a grin, I dashed for them and quickly made a round trip with a bottle of juice. No one dared to stop me or even say a word.

Everyone just watched in silence.

They were probably confused as to what sort of reactions they wanted to make. 

With all that done, I just walked. The air was fresh and didn't have any smell. 

Oh well, I went for the center of the stage again and met the guy in armor with a full glare. 

"Sorry to keep you waiting but I had business to take care of. And since they already declared you winner, congrats."

Obviously, I was kind of pissed but there was no choice. It was my fault for not checking properly. 

"Well, if you beg me, we can just fight and see if you really are the wuss who won by kissing a whore on the battlefield."

"Oooh." The crowd here wasn't really helping. 

Both of our voices were being amplified. 

I turned my head to the right and there was a girl who had glowing blue eyes. I guess this was her doing. 

"You say, interesting things." I smiled. I was still searching for a judge or maybe an official announcer of sorts. "So you're not afraid that you're going to lose some limbs here that you want me to beg you?" I only realized after saying that, it didn't make sense. 

I was close to exploding but found my own patience to be surprising. This was rare, and this was bad. The more patient I got, the more harm I did to my opponents, which was why I got impatient whenever I wanted to mow down my enemy- for their sakes. But both my body and subconscious wanted to be patient for once. 

The guy chuckled. "Your powers are worthless against me and you will be the one who'll lose limbs."

And with his thoughts, the crowd cheered. I hear weird shouts. 

'Mow him down!'

'Use the mowner!'

'Divine judgment!'

I actually knew some German but, seriously, these people were screaming stuff like that?

There was a loud rumble and a guy fell from the roof to the ground. The roof was just a roof, so was he hanging there like a spider or something. "Ladies and gentlemen, pardon my lateness. One of our guests had some bowel troubles so she went missing and because of that we won't be holding Helio Romswell Jintel accountable for being late." I guess this guy in red, was the announcer. He smiled very devilishly and pointed at the top of the west region. "Therefore we would have a guest judge."

He first spoke in German followed by English. 

The win by default sign vanished on the scoreboard though it was 7.11 right now. Almost forty minutes late. 

"Booo!" The crowd booed. 

I did not get this crowd, no. 

I saw the three judges and though I didn't know any of them, I did know the one missing. Why? Because her chair had a name tag, that being Alexandra. Apparently, she was the mother of my childhood friend whom I hadn't talked to in seven years and had no intention of talking to either. I kind of did something rather horrible to that kid, so I didn't want to meet him. 

But I was glad. 

Now, my smile warped and I felt like my veins throbbed. 

It would have been bad if I couldn't fight here, after all, fighting the participants outside the matches, would mean disqualification. And I was fine with being disqualified, but since it didn't happen, I was glad. 

"How far am I allowed to go?" My stare was on the shining guy in armor but my focus was on the announcer. 

I really hoped he got my drift. 

"We will have a barrier for your special match, so feel free to use all your powers. As long as you don't kill him, it's okay." Oh, and he sure did. 

"Works, for me."

And with that, a barrier formed and a timer started on the scoreboard. 

3…2…1.

I stayed calm. I was very mad, but I stayed calm. 

I was going to beat the living crap out of this guy, but I was going to savor every last bit of it. Every part of my being was in agreement. 

So I started off with alpha and beta. 

Both bounced off him and the guy didn't move. Next gamma, also didn't penetrate that armor. It was golden in color but I guess there was more to it. And I couldn't use too much Gamma in a place like this either. 

Oh but I sure wanted to, and I had a feeling the moment I lost my patience, a lot of shit was about to happen.