Chapter 77 - Zagan

The demonic beast stood up on its two and looked towards the person, pleading him to get up, never in his life had he seen someone like Howk who plead his enemy to get up so that he can fight some more.

Howk went back to his position where he was standing before and gave some time to the demonic beast to recover some of his strength.

After sobering up and coming out of his confusion, he recovered his five senses that he was losing earlier and stared at the person standing at a distance from him.

"Human, I commend you for your bravery. You showed me that you are worthy of fighting me the great.."

"Cow?!!"

"Yes, the great cow… No, the fck fck, great cow!! I am the great great Zagan!!!"

Spectators "...."

Aryan "...."

Sir Jean "...."

Howk *Poking a finger in his nose*

"Boss, you know him?" shouted Howk, asking Sir Jean.

"Yo dumbass, fool, why are you asking me out of nowhere as if he is a relative of mine," replied back Sir Jean from the VIP zone.

"You heard him, cow? You are not his relative and I don't know any Zagan, so I don't care who you are. Just let me beat you to a pulp till I get satisfied."

Hearing the request of the boy standing before the demonic beast was getting a headache, after waiting for three millennia he was finally free and the first person he stumbled upon was a sadistic battle frenzy.

"Muuuuuuuuuuu muuuuu muuuuu, Lil boy, I am none of your relative nor friend. Let me introduce myself, I am Zagan the 61st demon from Solomon's Book Of Demon."

"What?!! Solomon's Book Of Demons!!" exclaimed Howk.

"Yes, I am the great Zagan from Solomon's Book Of Demon." 

"I see, on a side note can you tell me what's this Solomon Book Of Demons," asked Howk, with utmost sincerity on his face.

Zagan "...."

Yoshino "...."

Sir Jean "...."

"Pfft, whahahah wahahaha," laughed Aryan and asked Sir Jean about Howk.

Sir Jean took a sigh and said, "One of the reasons this kid was selected as a secret trump card by the IGSHF academy was because of his written exam marks."

"Written exams marks?!!" asked Yoshino. She had been sitting on the side from the past half an hour and seeing Sir Jean and Aryan talking she felt insecure about her screen time. So without any further hesitation she intervened and asked out her doubt.

"Yes, written exam mark. It's true that his practical exams marks are way much higher than average students, but his written exams marks are..." said Sir Jean and handed over his Virtual Pad to Yoshino.

Yoshino clicked on the folder named Howk and opened it.

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Name: Howk Switenzer

Class: Special Combat 

Written Exam Marks: 2/300, 8/200/, 6/400, 5/300.

Practical Exam Marks: 300/300, 200/200, 400/400, 300/300.

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Yoshino got a headache from seeing his written exam marks, it was understandable he got full in all practicals, after all, he was a single-digit ranker. But his written exam marks were just too much for her heart to endure.

"Bruhhhhh, what's wrong with these marks? All of them are single-digit like his rank."

"Sigh….. What can I say….. That kid is a prodigy but at the same time too much of a realistic thinker."

"Huh!! Prodigy and realistic thinker?!! I couldn't understand what you meant. If he is a prodigy, he should have scored at least eighty to ninety percent in exams, or at least the passing marks. But he failed in all."

"Yes, I know." agreed Sir Jean.

"Also, what do you mean by realistic thinker?" asked Yoshino in confusion, no matter how she thought Howk's written mark's and his title as a prodigy were contradicting each other.

Sir Jean sighed and said, "The thing is, that kid can learn anything to everything if you show it to him once. Starting from practicals to academics, everything. He can even do quantum energy calculations if he takes an interest in it. But as I have said earlier, he is a realistic thinker, also a battle frenzy. So according to his train of thoughts, academic studies are none of his use. So he never read them."

"Pffft, hehehe" laughed Yoshino and said Sir Jean had gotten his hands on an interesting kid. Sir Jean too laughed and told her how he met with Howk.

Meanwhile, in the arena, Howk was still talking with Zagan asking him info about Solomon's Book Of Demons. But to his disdain, Zagan didn't reply him anything and every question answer was a long sweet *Muuuuuuuu...*

Howk was running out of patience and asked his last and one of the most important questions, "Is that drug user still inside or gone for good??"

An evil grin appeared on Zagan's face and he replied, "That kid was half-dead after taking all those pills, so I freed him from his pain by taking over his soul."

"Ah, I see."

"Ehh, you aren't surprised nor any sadness or anger on your face, isn't he a comrade of yours, I was reading his memory in that demon reincarnation egg and found some interesting stiffs about their organization."

Hearing these lines a light flickered in Howk's eyes, Sam is gone and dead he can't do anything about that, but this beast calling himself Zagan has information about the Organisation from Sam's memory, and he wanted to get that information at any cost.

He got down, contracted his leg muscles, and plunged Zagan with discs on his two hands. Zagan saw his incoming attack and dodged it by moving to his right. Howk missed the attack and went straight towards the arena walls. Everyone was thinking that Howk will collide with the wall and get himself injured, but to their surprise, Howk landed on the wall, like a cat landing down from a tree and plunged towards Zagan like a frog jumping to catch its prey.

This time too Zagan moved to his side and dodged his attack, once again Howk landed on the wall of the opposite side then plunged towards him. 

Like the first two times this time too, he avoided seeing Zagan avoiding his all attacks without any effort a smile appeared on Howk's face. Finally, he found someone with whom he can go all out. There were others in the academy like rank seven and above but going all out was restricted in the academy for safety purposes and all his missions till now were dull and bleh he completed them all without a sweat but this Zagan in front of him was dodging his attack without a sweat.

He increased his speed and plunged towards Zagan from different sides from right to left, left to right, right to the top, top to bottom then left. With each passing minute he was becoming invisible, his movements were getting blurry to everyone's eye. 

Even Aryan, an experienced cultivator from an ancient era, was having a hard time to keep up with the speed. 

After five minutes or so Howk landed at a place with a broad smile on his face. In the past five minutes, Zagan had avoided all his attacks without much effort. Even then there was a laugh on Howk's face.

Zagan couldn't endure seeing the laugh on Howk's face and asked with fury. "Mortal bastard, tell me the reason for the laugh on your face?"

Howk didn't reply anything and gave a blink to Zagan with a victory symbol.

Zagan was getting confused by Howk's behavior and asked once again, "Mortal bastard, tell me the reason for the laugh on your face?"

This time too Howk didn't reply anything, he just pointed his hand towards Zagan and snapped his finger.

*Krch, krch, kchhhh, krchh, krchhh*

Out of nowhere several wounds appeared on Zagan's body and instead of blood black liquid came out gushing.

Zagan looked over his body and took some time before screaming in pain, "Muuuuuuu, muuuu, muuuu, muuuuuu. YOu mortal human, you are dead, I will kill you, I will definitely kill you."

Howk laughed at him and said, "Sure, sure, why not. Freedom to dream is an universal right. No one can take that from you."

"Tch, tsk," cursed Zagan.

"But let me tell you, you stumbled across the wrong person this time, I will not kill you at once, I will kill you slowly, giving you pain, making you scream from that pain, breaking down your mental state…..Ahh, I am looking forward to it," said Howk with a cold smile on his face.

Listening to the convo between them Aryan was having doubt of who was the bad guy and who was the good guy there. All the things spoken by Howk sounded like dialogues spoken by a sadistic villain, who plays with his prey before killing them.

After pondering for sometime Aryan finally asked the question, that was giving him a stomach ache, "Uncle Jean, Am I the only one who feels like it or Howk's sounds like the antagonist here?"

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