## Chapter 257 – (8)
“Huff! Huff!”
Was it because he’d gotten bigger?
His excited breathing could be heard clearly even from a distance.
This wasn’t good.
Excitement was one of the worst emotions in a fight.
Thump! Thump!
Baran stomped his feet on the spot like a cow a couple of times, then—
“Ummm!”
Thump, thump, thump!
He charged forward in an instant, almost like a tank.
Accompanied by an unknown cry.
“Eek!”
Seeing this, the opposing girl shrieked and pulled the trigger.
Then, mana gushed out from her body and entered the gun.
Soon.
Shoosh—
Bang!
A fist-sized fire bullet fell near Baran and exploded.
“A magic tool.”
A magic tool that turned mana into bullets.
In the case of magic tools, where the power depended entirely on the user’s ability, it seemed that they could be used even in such duels.
While Baran paused in surprise at the explosion, the opponent poured mana in for the next bullet.
Baran belatedly regained his senses and started running, but.
Boom!
The second bullet hit his head.
“Kyaaa!”
“Ooh…”
“What to do…”
Everyone knew that he was protected by a shield, but even so, the sight of flames exploding in front of someone’s face and smoke rising was enough to make them scream.
The shield absorbed the impact, but Baran seemed quite surprised and froze in place.
His tail and ears were shaking wildly.
Unfortunately, the match was decided.
“You’re so dirty!”
With the girl’s considerable outburst, the last bullet flew and hit Baran’s chest.
Clang!
With a sound like glass breaking, the shield shattered.
“Stop!”
The girl won the match.
Compared to the flashy transformation scene, the result of the match was a bit anticlimactic.
Baran approached us, dejected.
“Sorry…”
It didn’t really matter.
More than that, it pissed me off that his long ears drooped along with his spirits.
“If he had transformed into a bear-type beastman instead of a cow-type…”
“…”
I didn’t think that was the problem.
Transformation magic, huh.
It seemed like it would be good if used well, but it seemed like it basically required physical ability to accompany it.
Honestly, it didn’t seem like a magic that suited a wizard.
If knights like Nana or Ethan used that magic, wouldn’t they be able to use it much better?
…Not that I want to learn it.
“Hehehe!”
Kai, with his unchanging sly smile, stepped onto the stage.
“Kai, you must be nervous.”
Camille added from the side that that smile was the one he made when he was nervous.
That?
He looked like he was laughing with excitement.
Look, the opponent was also shrinking back in fear.
She had a look that said, ‘I shouldn’t have won.’
Like going from mountain to mountain.
After defeating the snorting Minotaur, it was the appearance of the golden sun.
A golden sun holding a suspicious pill in his hand, no less.
“What kind of pill is that…?”
“I don’t know… Doesn’t it seem a bit suspicious?”
“Could it be one of those pills? The kind that makes your body heat up a bit…”
“No way! There’s no way he’d use that kind of pill in front of everyone…”
“He’s using it because everyone’s watching!”
“…”
I heard a voice from the audience that seemed to have similar tastes to me, whoever it was.
As such misunderstandings deepened, the expression of the opposing girl hardened.
Conversely, Kai, who was used to being misunderstood, became calmer.
A good start.
“Start!”
With a loud voice announcing the start of the match, Kai swallowed the pill.
A very confident doping.
In a duel where doping was allowed, Kai swallowed several pills and slowly approached the girl.
“U, ugh! Don’t come!”
Shoosh—!
A cannonball-like fire bullet flew towards Kai.
“Hehe!”
Whoosh.
Kai bent his body sharply and dodged the bullet as it was.
It was a somewhat clumsy movement, but the speed was beyond imagination.
“He, he dodged it?!”
It felt like he was ahead of most knights in terms of speed.
Recognizing that his turn had come after dodging the attack.
Kai took a sprinting stance as he was still crouched and started running.
Thwack! Thwack!
The distance between the two was visibly reduced each time he moved his long legs.
“Wh, what to do… I have to run away…!”
The girl fumbled, wondering whether to prepare and shoot the next bullet, or to create distance, and eventually missed the timing.
Kai, who had already reached the girl’s eyes, grabbed the opponent’s shoulder with a thud.
And what he took out of his pocket was—
A black pill that looked very suspicious.
“Hehehe, open your mouth…”
“St, stop… No…!”
“…”
This scene looked like it would cause a huge misunderstanding.
“That, that crazy bastard is going after the other girls in our class too!”
Sure enough, a male from the Fire class yelled.
The audience wasn’t much different.
“Something’s a bit…”
“Right…?”
“I feel like I’m seeing something I shouldn’t.”
“It’s a bit lewd… Right?”
“What are you talking about…”
Even the Fire class professor who was refereeing had a slightly complicated expression.
He didn’t stop it in the end, though.
Whatever.
Kai moved his hand, forcibly opened the opponent’s tightly closed lips, and shoved the pill into her mouth as it was.
“Swallow it. Quickly.”
“Ugh, ugh… No…”
“Hehehe! I can’t help it then!”
When the opponent didn’t try to swallow it, he lightly tapped her uvula with the edge of his hand.
Then, he saw her neck move up and down as she swallowed.
She definitely swallowed it.
The girl’s face turned snow-white.
“Wh, what did you make me eat…!”
“Hehe, you’ll find out soon.”
No sooner had he finished speaking than the opponent began to stagger.
“Ugh…”
Her eyelids seemed heavy as her eyes gradually closed.
Sway.
Her body shook greatly and she collapsed as if collapsing.
Kai managed to catch her before she fell to the floor.
It was the movement of a gentle gentleman.
Because it was Kai who did it, it looked like he was trying to put her to sleep and then kidnap her.
But that’s a minor matter.
“It’s a sleeping pill.”
Judging from the reaction after taking the pill and the situation, it was certain.
I hadn’t seen a sleeping pill that worked so quickly, though.
So it must be a pill made with special magic.
“Originally, the shield had to be broken… But since she’s unable to fight, Rebecca’s class wins!”
“Waaa!”
Camille jumped up and down alone, celebrating her brother’s victory.
Nana and Baran also waved their hands and told Kai he did well, even if they couldn’t do as much as Camille.
Unable to hold back any longer.
A man strode onto the arena.
The man who was the cause of all this.
The man who had been foaming at the mouth, saying that Kai had approached his woman.
“I’ll kill you!”
His excitement was too much.
Seeing that, I thought Kai would win easily this time too.
“Start!”
The professor glanced at the two people who had moved to their positions and started the match.
“Hmph!”
Tap, tap!
Kai started running out as if trying to end the match before the man could do anything.
The opponent raised his hand towards Kai.
“Die!”
Once again, harsh words were heard, and a long spear of fire was created from under the man’s hand.
The spear of fire was fired from the man’s hand as if it had its own ego, and immediately flew towards Kai.
Whoosh!
“…Hmph!”
Kai jumped up from his spot with all his might and rolled to the side.
Whether it had a bit of guidance function, the spear of fire bent slightly towards Kai, who was rolling to the side.
But unable to control its own speed, it ended up being stuck in the innocent floor.
“Hmph… Something’s wrong…”
Kai’s movements had changed.
To be exact, I couldn’t feel the agility he had in the previous match.
In the previous match, even if the movements were somewhat clumsy, the speed and physical ability alone were amazing.
It wasn’t slow now either, but it was definitely slower compared to the previous match.
“Could it be…”
Had the drug worn off?
“Die! Die!”
The man poured out mana in succession and created a spear of fire.
The flying spears of fire came towards Kai at almost a constant speed and cycle.
Thwack!
Thwack, thwack, thwack!
The spears of fire were stuck in the arena floor.
Kai was sweating coldly as he dodged each one.
But the distance between the spears of fire stuck in the floor and Kai gradually began to close.
It meant that he was slowly being caught up in terms of speed.
And finally—
“Take this!”
A spear that flew quickly.
Thud.
“Ugh!”
Kai allowed an attack on his side.
The shield blocked the impact, but Kai looked at the man with shaking eyes, as if the psychological shock of being caught up was greater.
“Try running away like a rat again!”
“…Hehe.”
Kai took out a pill from his pocket.
It wasn’t a black pill this time.
The doping pills he had taken at the beginning.
“No!”
Camille shouted as she saw that.
“What’s wrong?”
“If he takes more pills there, it’ll put a strain on his body…”
If he took more pills, it would put a strain on his body.
And the damage caused by an overdose of drugs is not blocked by the shield.
Even so, Kai was trying to swallow the pill.
That wouldn’t do.
It wasn’t enough that Kai was misunderstood in this accidental happening due to a mere misunderstanding, but he was even going to harm his body.
I raised my hand high.
“Stop both of them! What’s going on?”
Seeing that, the Fire class professor temporarily stopped the match.
“What…”
“It was getting interesting…”
Sharp gazes and groans flew from the audience.
“Kai will forfeit.”
“Hmm.”
“Huh? Really?”
“It’s ending with a forfeit…?”
Kai looked at us with a surprised expression.
“What are you going to do?”
“…”
The professor looked at Kai and asked.
“D, don’t be ridiculous! Where are you running away to!”
The opposing man shouted, and Kai also seemed a little hurt in his pride.
But when he met Camille’s eyes, who was folding her arms as if she was angry, he came down from the arena with a helpless smile, as if he couldn’t win against her.
“Sorry.”
Kai apologized for not being able to do more, and I shrugged my shoulders and nonchalantly went up to the arena.
The opponent was from the Fire class.
I recalled the spears of fire that the opponent had been firing until just now.
Honestly—
‘I don’t think I’m going to lose.’
“I’ll kill you too!”
The man was now spewing out the animosity he had been spewing out at Kai at me.
I started to warm up, wondering how to beat such a man.
