The Author's POV

"To think you would stoop low enough to actually seriously injure a student just because you couldn't accept your loss..."

"Hmph"

Under Donna's overbearing pressure, Gilbert firmly stood his ground. No matter what he did, he believed that as long as he didn't kill Kevin he would be fine...and he wasn't wrong. Glancing at the instructors in the stands, Gilbert knew that if had stepped over his bounds they would've all interfered.

Seeing their lack of action meant one thing...he was still in the clear. Smiling to himself, Gilbert couldn't help but think

'...They don't have the guts to do anything to me!'

Noticing the smirk on Gilbert's face, incensed, Donna shouted out loud

"Answer me!"

Glancing at Donna, with a smirk on his face whilst raising his voice he answered

"What is there to answer? I let the emotions get the best of me and I went overboard..."

Turning around towards the audience, Gilbert bowed down and apologized to everyone. As he spoke, his voice would occasionally tremble, making it seem like he was trying his best to hold his emotions back.

"I'm sorry you had to see m-e in such a sorry state. When I-I saw Kevin, I was reminded of a friend of mine in the past and lost control of my e-motions...I'm-m sorry"

As soon as Gilbert's words died down, after a couple of seconds of silence, a wave of support from the crowd came crashing down.

"We understand"

"...yeah, it was just a mistake"

"It's not like Kevin died or anything like that!"

Sitting down on the stands, I shook my head. Although it looked like the crowd was supporting Gilbert, in reality, they were either people from his faction or people looking to curry favor with them.

Some of the people in the crowd were also those that hated Kevin due to how outstanding he was...In the end, no one particularly cared about what happened to Kevin.

"Bullshit!

Standing in the air, Donna's enraged shout shook the whole place. Pointing at Gilbert, the purple hue around her intensified even more as the area around Gilbert froze

"khh..."

"How shameless can you be!"

Conglomrating mana into her eyes, Donna prepared to use one of her skills against Gilbert, however, right before she could use the skill, multiple instructors shot from the stand and stopped right before her

"Donna stop!"

"Instructor Donna please calm yourself down"

"Please don't do this instructor Donna"

Staring at the instructors before her in disgust, the purple hue around her didn't decrease one bit. In fact, it intensified.

As her clothes fluttered in the air, with her shining amethyst eyes, she stared at everyone before saying

"Good, good, good, is this how low our academy has fallen? Only interfering when Gilbert is in danger but not doing anything when he goes berserk like he had done with Kevin a couple of seconds ago?"

Under Donna's overbearing pressure, the instructors all tried their best to withstand the pressure as they tried to calm her down.

"Yes we saw, but instructor Donna, please look around you...please calm down and let's talk in a more private place"

Pointing towards the crowd, one of the instructors couldn't help but say

"What?"

Frowning, Donna looked around her...and that's where she saw it.

surprise. All sorts of emotions appeared on the many students below her. In the stands, some of the students were sweating profoundly as they breathed heavily due to the residual magical

"Huuuu..."

Donna retrieved her power and

because I'm withdrawing doesn't

some of the instructors couldn't

"Thank you, Donna"

"Thank you"

"Hmph"

air and making her way towards Kevin who was currently being treated

the

making her way towards Kevin, I stood up and prepared

went exactly

bad match per se, but in

to decipher the

he was too hell-bent on humiliating Kevin thus becoming

precise moment where Gilbert was most vulnerable, Gilbert, caught off-guard couldn't defend himself and thus resulted in his

"Oh well..."

at Kevin who was currently in a stretcher, tended by multiple nurses, I followed the crowd

to see you

...

upon a land engulfed in flames. Screams of terror resounded throughout the air, as buildings

-Rumble!

as the flames that burnt everything down seemed

a regular peaceful day in a small village

devilish smiles stood in the air as they haughtily watched some humans

flames, a couple carrying with them a small child desperately looked left and right, in hopes

"Huff...huff...Honey, quick, over here!"

carrying a five-year-old child in his

spotting a small house in the distance, the couple quickly made their way

-Clank!

led to the small house and promptly hid inside of

male put his finger

sure you don't

"D-ad, what's going o-"

please...just remain quiet here

the five-year-old child, with tears streaming down the side of her cheeks, the

make

were, the kid nodded his little head and remained quiet as he laid in his mother's warm embrace. Like that, for the next five minutes, absolute silence prevailed the

the silence did not last

-Booom!

house they were in. The

"Get down!"

the woman with his body, the

"khhhh...ahhhh"

explosion rang, a constant ringing sound rang inside of everyone's ears. Struggling, the back of the male was

"H-oney"

Trying her best to not make a sound, she gently caressed her husband's cheeks as hot tears streamed down her

"It's okay I-"

his wife that he was okay, startling them, was the sound of incoming footsteps. Opening his eyes wide, bearing through the pain

run! I'll hold

"No! Johnathan!"

her face, the wife tried to protest, but she was promptly shoved

"Quick! Go!"

without looking back, the wife with the child in her hands ran out

have we got

other side of the door, a young man with long

red hue

"Die you bastard!"

...