"Ooh~ He hit a sore spot."
Luis chuckled.
"Aren't you the one responsible for it?" Alicia said, rolling her eyes.
"It's fine." Luis waved his hand and picked up the snack to munch on it. "Thomas doesn't blame me anymore. Don't you remember? He called me his good friend."
Alicia gave him a blank look, then shook her head.
"They have caused such a big commotion. The academy guards must have been alerted by now."
When Luis heard this, an evil smirk appeared on his face. "They are probably going to be detained. I wonder what their punishment will be."
***
Things proceeded, just like Luis expected. Alex and Thomas were in the middle of their weapon fight when the academy guards came to stop them.
Blood wounds and scorched marks covered their entire bodies, showing how fierce their fight had been. If not for them being stopped, one of them was probably going to die today.
As Alex barely had any mana left, he couldn't use his Holy Flame to recover from his injuries. So, his state wasn't much better than Thomas.
However, since Thomas took a high-grade recovery potion, he recovered in no time. As for Alex, he didn't have such expensive elixirs, so he could only wait for his mana to recover.
Regardless of the excuses and various explanations, they tried to make up. The academy guards detained them and took them to get punished later.
When the video ended, Luis had a satisfied expression on his face.
"They didn't disappoint me, a drama about two guys fighting for their love interest. Oh~ So touching~"
Alicia also chuckled.
"It would have been more interesting if Rura was here to see this video with us. I would've loved to see her reaction."
When Alicia said this, Luis also thought that it might be interesting. However, he soon shook that thought out of his mind. "Let's forget it for now."
"Anyway, Alicia. How were your teammates?" Luis asked, diverting the topic.
For his former sentence, Alicia was just listening with an 'I'm listening' expression. However, when she heard his latter sentence, she knit her brows and looked at him with a serious expression.
"What level of genius?"
This is what she was more curious about. Among their peers, there are many geniuses. Diana, Rura, Thomas, Sera, Alex. They all are geniuses. She, who has 3 S-grade talents and has a rare ice element, used to consider herself one of the top geniuses until she met her fiancé, who was a monster among the geniuses.
She still can't describe the level of shock she received when she found out that Luis was the first dual element user in existence and he also has 5 talents, with four of them being S-grades. (A.N: Alicia doesn't know about Luis' Performer (S) talent yet.)
Which is why when she heard Luis calling someone else a genius. She asked what level of genius he was. If it's just at the level of other geniuses from their peers. It doesn't matter. However, if he was more than that, then she was going to be careful.
Luis didn't know about Alicia's thoughts, as he answered her with a nonchalant expression.
"His level? Well, his current strength is at least above C-rank."
As soon as those words left his mouth, Alicia stood up in shock.
"Are you serious?!"
"Yup."
"Then his strength must be higher than you?!"
"Well, yeah."
"... Unbelievable." Alicia opened her mouth wide in shock.
"Only for the time being, though, soon after, I will surpass him. Besides, I never said that he can defeat me." He said in a casual tone, as if he was stating a fact.
Alicia also didn't doubt him, because she knew her mysterious fiancé has a lot of trump cards under his sleeve.
"So, do you plan to recruit him, too?" Alicia asked with a knowing expression.
"I already did."
"So fast! How?"
Luis grinned and answered. "Of course, with my charisma!"
"..."