Chapter 57

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Chapter 57

“The Twin Blade Sasha? Ha, is this how you’ve been playing around at home?” Matteo sneered.

The classmates felt the same. They each made a disdainful remark.

“We should try to get on the good side of the Twin Sword Sasha, right?”

“Hey, hey, it’s the Twin Sword Sasha. Shouldn’t we add ‘sir’? It’s not a nickname that we can casually use.”

Sasha’s face turned red, likely due to the teasing from his classmates. Being only 16 years old, Sasha couldn’t hide his embarrassment.

“Brother, what are you doing he—ugh,” Sasha tried to approach Kane but winced at Matteo’s rough grip. Matteo’s hand was gripping Sasha’s shoulder tightly. On top of that, Matteo pressed down on Sasha’s foot with his own. It was a familiar form of bullying. Even the skin exposed under Sasha’s clothes showed bruises, clear signs of abuse.

Matteo’s voice soon followed. “Sasha, shouldn’t you introduce me to your brother?”

“Got it... yes,” Sasha swallowed his pain, and Kane saw everything. Memories of the past came flooding back to Kane, who then spoke.

“Move your foot. Can’t you see Sasha is in pain?” Kane’s calm voice echoed on the fifth floor. There was no force, no threat, just a quiet statement. Yet, Matteo instinctively felt fear and quickly removed his foot from Sasha’s. Matteo looked around, checking if his friends felt the same way.

‘Damn it. Am I the only one scared? Of this so-called dullard?’

Matteo’s face turned even redder than Sasha’s. To cover his embarrassment, he became more aggressive.

“Sasha, it seems your brother has misunderstood something, hasn’t he?”

Matteo’s hand on Sasha’s shoulder tightened, as if trying to crush it. He even started to channel his mana.

“Ah!” Sasha screamed. Matteo was a High-Tier 2nd class, while Sasha was only a beginner-tier 2nd class, leaving Sasha unable to shake off Matteo’s grip.

Sensing the unusual atmosphere, Camilla called out to Sasha. “Young Master Sasha, are you okay?”

“Ugh, I... I’m fine.”

“Excuse me, what are you doing? Master Sasha is in pain. Let go of him,” Camilla strode towards Matteo, but the classmates blocked her path.

“Who are you?”

“Wow, I didn’t know there was such a pretty knight.”

“I’m disappointed, Sasha. You should’ve introduced her sooner.”

They were all noble scions, and thus lacked respect.

“Move aside.”

“No.”

“We might if you take off that heavy armor.”

“Wow, genius idea.”

“Heh, in this area, I’m better than you guys.”

They mocked Camilla. Meanwhile, Matteo addressed Kane.

“Sasha, tell your brother we need to use this place.”

“Brother... sorry, but,” Sasha tried to ask Kane while enduring the pain, but Kane cut him off.

“You stay put. I’ll handle this.”

“Kane, are you finally going to kill them?”

Blata’s eyes sparkled.

Whenever Kane moved, it usually resulted in bloodshed, and Blata showed his anticipation.

“Camilla, cut a piece off each of those guys.”

“What?”

“Didn’t you hear me? Or do I have to kill them all myself?”

Camilla nodded at Kane’s piercing gaze. “I’ll follow your orders.”

Camilla was a mid-tier 3rd class knight. Even if everyone here ganged up on her, they couldn’t defeat her alone. As she drew her sword, the others began to speak up.

“You’re drawing a sword in front of us?”

“You’re so bold because we praised your looks?”

“Do you even know who we are?”

They were still only running their mouths. That was their mistake.

Camilla closed her eyes tightly and swung her sword.

Whoosh.

A light breeze blew across the fifth-floor terrace.

Crack.

With the sound of something breaking, screams began to fill the air.

‘We’re screwed.’

‘Who the hell said Rehinar had fallen? Wait till I find out who it was.’

They couldn’t even breathe freely, completely overwhelmed by Kane’s presence. One of their toughest adversaries turned out to be a classmate’s brother. Exactly as they feared.

“What should I do with you all?” Kane’s gaze shifted to the other classmates.

“We’re sorry!”

“We’ve committed a grave sin. We won’t bully Sasha again. Please forgive us!”

“We didn’t recognize you. Please give us another chance!”

They all begged, knowing that having their mana circuits severed meant losing their noble status. It meant never being able to handle mana again. Although there was a slim chance of restoring the circuits with a miraculous elixir, such an opportunity was almost impossible.

“I’m not looking for forgiveness.”

“Anything you want, just say it. We’ll do it.”

“Go back and tell your instructor that I broke your arms.”

“N-no!”

“Do it.”

“We swear we won’t say a word.”

Kane frowned. They were stubborn, or perhaps they couldn’t grasp his words.

“Should I just kill you here? Do as I say.”

Reluctantly, they agreed. “We’ll do as you say.”

“Now go.”

The classmates quickly carried the bloodied Matteo downstairs, disappearing in an instant. Sasha struggled to comprehend the situation.

* * *

“Young Master Sasha, don’t try to understand. No matter how much you think about it, it won’t make sense,” Camilla soothed him.

“What just happened?”

“As you can see, we had business in the capital. It’s a good thing.”

“What is it?”

“The young master received an invitation to the Ball of the Stars from the First Princess.”

“R-really!?” Sasha looked at Kane, who nodded in confirmation.

“Camilla is right,” Kane said.

Sasha’s eyes widened in surprise. “Camilla, why is my brother talking like that?”

“It’s hard to get used to, isn’t it? But you will have to.”

“It doesn’t feel like my brother.”

“I felt the same at first. I even wondered if someone else had taken over his body.”

“And those movements earlier,” Sasha started.

“Young Master Sasha, take it easy. There’s plenty of time to ask questions,” Camilla calmed him down.

“Sorry, I was just so shocked.”

“I understand. Everyone felt the same way.”

As Sasha calmed down, Kane asked, “How badly were you hurt? Your mana flow is a complete mess.”

“Huh?”

“Your internal mana flow is still not smooth.”

“Those guys are truly awful. They’re worse than humans,” Blata interjected, clearly seeing the injuries on Sasha’s body and getting worked up.

“Don’t let yourself get bullied anymore. It will become a habit,” Kane said, his stern gaze causing Sasha to shrink back involuntarily.

“Okay....”

“Although, I doubt anyone will try to bully you from now on.”

It wasn’t just the classmates who had ignored the bullying. The biggest problem was the instructors. They either accepted bribes, betrayed the Fresia Empire, or were spies disguised as instructors, allowing the decay to spread slowly from the smallest issues.

The ones who had tried to bring Rehinar to an irrecoverable ruin were now the ones who needed to be eliminated.

“I look forward to tomorrow.”

Kane had cut off an arm from each of the noble brats. Though they were not heirs, they were all direct descendants. Would their families really ignore the fact that their precious sons were injured? The ones responsible for them were their instructors. To avoid being blamed, the instructors would take action themselves.

“It’s amusing to imagine how they’ll react.”

Kane’s eyes turned into crescents as he smiled.

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