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.

at her with a mixture of different emotions displayed on their face...awe, fear, and surprise. All sorts of emotions appeared on the many

"Huuuu..."

retrieved

withdrawing doesn't

dissipate, some of the instructors couldn't help but sigh in relief as they

"Thank you, Donna"

"Thank you"

"Hmph"

the air and making her way towards Kevin who was currently being treated by some of the

guess the

towards Kevin, I stood up and prepared

went exactly as I had

se, but in the end, it wasn't really

decipher the reason

he lost was simply because he was too hell-bent on humiliating Kevin thus becoming

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

"Oh well..."

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

hope to see you

...

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

-Rumble!

were in absolute mayhem as the flames that burnt everything down seemed to

village not so far from Ashton city, transformed into a hellish

in the air as they haughtily watched some humans burn down everything below them. The scene below

a couple carrying with them a small

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

carrying a five-year-old child in his arms, the

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

-Clank!

a wooden door that led to the small house and promptly hid inside of the

down, the male put his finger on his mouth and seriously looked at the

don't make

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

please...just remain quiet

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

make

remained quiet as he laid in

did not last for

-Booom!

resounded near the house they were in. The windows of the house subsequently shattered due to the after-effects of the

"Get down!"

the woman

"khhhh...ahhhh"

inside of everyone's ears. Struggling, the back of the male was now

"H-oney"

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

"It's okay I-"

he was okay, startling them, was the sound of incoming footsteps. Opening his eyes wide, bearing through the pain in his back, he quickly shoved his wife away

I'll

"No! Johnathan!"

of grief on her face, the wife tried to

"Quick! Go!"

second, without looking back, the wife with the child

what have we got

woman and the child left, appearing from the other side of the door, a young man with long blonde

a thick red hue

"Die you bastard!"

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