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

if he had been waiting for that moment since the very beginning. Slowly he came to

waiting for this moment since the very

Smiling, I didn't reply.

His analysis wasn't wrong.

indeed had been expecting his attack

Arnold being a somewhat important character in the latter half of the novel, I thoroughly analyzed his fighting

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

wasn't rocket science. It

you

to have not have understood what Arnold was saying, I leaned my

of my

with both hands on the ground tried to

it's not like I was going to let him stand up. Since I had the advantage, I wasn't just going to throw

-Bam!

"Khhhhhauuu!"

stay down. You need to rest a little

"I'll kill you!"

nose dripping with blood, I soon found, to my surprise, Arnold's head lunging in my direction. Almost like he

"Wow!"

action caught

head backward, raising my hand by reflex,

-Slap!

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

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

"I-ll kill you!"

-Slap!

red mark appeared on

trying to calm you down. Please don't take

-Slap!

my duty to help fellow students who

-Slap!

fact that Arnold's cheeks were progressively getting bigger, I continuously slapped him in the

next minute, loud slapping sounds reverberated across

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 taught a

the passive

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,

-Slap!

of slaps, lightly laughing I stopped. Arnold's cheeks were currently a dark shade of

hair, I stood up. Patting my

since you specialize in defense these slaps shouldn't hurt your right? Just take it

"I-ll...kkk"

battered, although he tried to speak, because of how swollen his

him and glancing around, I sighed

the fact that all the stronger students were already ahead, but currently, no one saw me

Altough the second and third years were here, they

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

warning the second and third years

I was 'educating' him like the good student I was, I had to be careful not to severely

"What's going on here?"

a crisp and pleasant

"Huh?"

figure emerged from the middle road of the forked paths. Glancing at me for a second, her

my mouth

believe me if I said he

"No--hmmm"

tried to speak.

I'm

"..."

the scene before

a

silence prevailed in

head Melissa proceeded to make her way towards the left side of the fork

in your kinks. Move aside, I can't

me away, Melissa slowly walked towards the

I waved at

have a

"Tch"

in annoyance, Melissa quickly