Volume 1 - CH 19

I had beat him ."

Almark said, raising his rapier high and jumping back, and his classmates, who were watching, cheered. Morgen shouted loudly, "Almark got him!!"

"No way !"

Torque's face turned red and he shouted.

"That's not even a hit!"

That's not a way to win for him"

Leila said disgustedly, but Torque shook his head.

"Shut up! I don't accept it anyway!"

Almark glanced at Bowen. Thankfully, he's still in the position of remaining silent.

(All right,)

Almark calls out to Torque.

"Okay, Torque, you can try again. "

"Sure!"

Torque tries to get himself ready, but Almarc continues.

"But I have a condition."

What condition?

"If you lose, I'll leave the institute, just like you asked me to do,"

Wendy gasped at these words.

"But if I win ......"

Almark looked straight at Torque.

“Do not discriminate again against students in this academy based on whether they are nobles or commoners or whatever."

The classmates who were watching all buzzed at once. he saw Wendy clamp her hands over her mouth and made a small shake of her head.

"Who would take accept condition?"

"Are you scared, Torque?" , Almark asked

Torque's eyes flashed back .

"Are you afraid of losing?"

Torque's face turned red.

“I'm not afraid of you,! I'll do it! This is the last time I'm going to see your ugly face !"

He has roared like an animal.

“All right,, "we have a deal. Let's get started."

As he said this, Almark straightened his back and pointed the tip of his rapier at Torque. Torque raised up to his feet and steps aside.

"I'm going to kill you."

He swung his rapier around in front of himself. Despite his words and demeanor, however, Torque was cautious. He circled around Almark slowly and did not jump in as carelessly as he had done earlier.

Almark, on the other hand, always maintained his position directly opposite He keeping the tip of his weapon pointed squarely at Torque. It was a strange sight to see the large body buildid Torque circling the smaller Almark.

"This ......"

Torque circled around Almark three times and bit his teeth at the lack of openings.

Very naturally, Almark took a step forward.

It was so natural a step that even Torque, who was facing him, was puzzled. From that position, he thrust his rapier straight into Torque's chest.

The hit did not appear to have any power behind it at all.

At that moment, however, with a loud thud, Torque's large body flew through the air and was blown away to the side of the wall.

"Ugh"

Torque gasped as he hit the floor. Almark walked up to him, grabbed him by the collar , and pulled his upper body up.

Almarc brought his face close to Torque's and said quietly, "I won , Torque.”

Torque gritted his teeth and did not reply. Shaking him by the collar , Almark slammed the words into him.

“ Swear ! By your family name! By the name of Shi-Fei family That you I will never insult students of academy again!”

Torque growled and was silent for a moment, then squeezed out.

“...... I swear .”

Almark removed his hand from Torque's collar , and whoosh, a cheer went up behind him. he turned around to see his classmates running up to him

In a state of excitement, they said, "Wow! Amazing! "

“ Torque flew"! Morgen exclaims.

You're a swordsmen ? Why are you so strong? The other classmates asked Armark in surprise tones."

Wendy was at the back of the group. She stares at Almark with bright red face and wet eyes.

"...... you're being too reckless ......."

"Wendy finally said ."

“I told you I will return the favor ."

Wendy tried her best to smile at Almark's words. It was clearly a forced smile, but to Almark it looked better than any smile he had ever seen.

, "Thank you, Almark, for what you have done ......."

(Well, that's what I wanted to hear from her ) Almark thought as he looked at Wendy's face.