The Author's POV

"I've been waiting for you..."

Slowly walking in my direction, Arnold smirked.

"...I should've taken care of you shortly after what had happened in the virtual world, but because of everything that had happened in Hollberg and the many other things going on with my life, I completely forgot about an insect like you"

"But worry not, now that I've remembered. I'm going to make sure you suffer..."

-Crack!

Cracking his neck, Arnold disdainfully looked at me

"Let's start by making you fail the exam"

Watching Arnold walking in my direction, raising my hands, I slowly backed off. Smiling wryly I said

"...ah, Arnold, let's talk things out. Let's not get physical shall we?"

"Yes. We will talk. But not with our mouths"

-Boom!

Finished with what he wanted to say, Arnold tensed his calves and propelled his body forwards. Like a bullet, he quickly appeared before me.

Noticing his actions, as I watched him appear before me, I couldn't help but curse out loud.

"Oh come on man! why must people always resort to violence!"

"Die!"

As Arnold arrived a few meters before me, I saw his huge fist heading towards my face.

Sigh

Sighing, moving my head to the side, the fist flew past my head.

"Huh?"

Soon after, before Arnold could make out how I had dodged it, clenching my fist and concentrating my mana there, I threw a punch towards his right upper area.

-Bam!

A shockwave swept the surroundings.

"Wh-khuuuaa!"

Before Arnold could even have time to react, my fist connected to his liver. Soon after, he found himself on the ground kneeling.

"kkhhhhhh"

As saliva dripped from the corner of his mouth, Arnold tried standing up.

But was a futile effort on his end. His legs refused to budge.

As he tried to move, it felt as though a jolt of electricity coursed through his body from his liver down to his right leg and up to his brain stem. Within about half a second of when my fist connected to his liver, Arnold found his body paralyzed on the ground. He was in complete agony, unable to breathe, stand, or think clearly.

No matter how much he tried to stand up, he couldn't

"It's pointless. I concentrated everything I had towards your liver area"

Staring at Arnold squirming on the ground, I slowly walked up to him and said.

"If you've paid attention in class...as the liver is one of the largest organs in the human body when faced with a stimulus, the liver releases both the body toxins it tries to filter and a very large amount of blood back into the body, resulting in your body completely shutting down as a means of self-preservation."

Squatting down, at Arnold's eye level, I grabbed him by the hair and slowly said

"...so regardless of how much you want to stand up, your body won't allow it."

Regaining some clarity, staring at me with wide eyes, Arnold couldn't help but mutter

"Y-ou, h-how?"

It had to be noted that despite the fact that he was caught off guard even though he never took his opponent seriously, Arnold shouldn't have been this hurt from a simple punch.

Especially since he specialized in defense. Unless his opponent had higher stats than him, it was impossible.

Recalling the fact that his target was only ranked two months prior, he didn't believe he had higher stats than him.

It was impossible.

the blow came too fast and too

for that moment since the very

been waiting for this

Smiling, I didn't reply.

His analysis wasn't wrong.

expecting his attack from

important character in the latter half of the novel, I thoroughly analyzed

I did, I noticed that he had a habit of always starting a fight with a right hook. From there, it was fairly easy. With him thinking I was weak, I pretty much exploited the opening he created when he punched in my direction and hit him straight in the liver with the fastest and

did wasn't rocket science. It was just

are you trying

understood what Arnold

of

at me, Arnold with both hands

going to let him stand up. Since I had the advantage, I wasn't just going

-Bam!

"Khhhhhauuu!"

down. You need to rest a

"I'll kill you!"

I soon found, to my surprise, Arnold's head lunging in

"Wow!"

action caught me

head backward, raising my hand by reflex,

-Slap!

my hand that had turned red, I couldn't help but

Arnold? There's no need to resort to biting. What

"I-ll kill you!"

-Slap!

him once again, a red mark appeared on

calm you down. Please

-Slap!

is my duty to help fellow students who are

-Slap!

cheeks were progressively getting bigger, I continuously slapped him in

that, for the next minute, loud slapping sounds reverberated across the area

I continuously slapped Arnold in the face, I soon saw tears streaming down from the side of his cheeks. They were probably due to the pain. But I

needed to be

the passive me

loved to not stand out, that didn't mean I would stand by and get abused like before. If my opponent was someone I absolutely couldn't pick a fight with I would endure, but

-Slap!

were currently a dark shade of blue, and his eyes were

go of his hair, I stood

slaps shouldn't hurt your

"I-ll...kkk"

because of how swollen his cheeks were, barely

glancing around, I sighed

to do with the fact that all the stronger students were already ahead, but currently, no one saw me 'educating'

'educating' Arnold, I made sure to not overdue it. Altough the second and third years were here, they didn't actually know what was going

here to either monitor some of the students or rescue them when they were in

suit would immediately light up, warning the second and third years of the fact that he was in danger. Only then would

him like the good student I was,

"What's going on here?"

dealing with Arnold, a crisp and pleasant voice

"Huh?"

of the forked paths. Glancing at me for a second, her eyesight soon paused on Arnold's sorry

lightly, my mouth

believe me

"No--hmmm"

noticed someone coming, he immediately tried to speak. However, before he could do so, I immediately placed

I'm talking over

"..."

at the scene before

it didn't take someone with a high IQ to

silence prevailed in

short pause, shaking her head Melissa proceeded to make her

asked. I have no interest in your kinks. Move aside, I can't be bothered to watch

Melissa slowly walked towards the left path of the forked

I waved at

have a safe

"Tch"

in annoyance, Melissa