"Ack...!" The boy crawled away bleeding profusely from his mouth. "Rrgh."

He puked out some more blood.

STEP

Crea stepped over him.

"Get away from me!" He cried in fear.

Crea looked like something out of a low-budget horror film.

She turned him over.

"S-Stop!"

She plucked a badge out of his garb, pinning it on hers, before walking away. Soon after, an announcement drew everybody's attention.

"The second round of the entrance exam has come to an end." The proctor announced.

All the applicants paused. Some sighed in relief, some broke out in celebration. But most were disappointed.

"Huff..." Mana exhaled, trying to compose herself as she tended to her broken jaw.

"Fuck!" Max cursed as he gently caressed his broken ribs. "We're disqualified."

more severe as he thought about Rui.

our best. The ones who

brother is kind." Max choked up a little before stifling his urge to break down in tears before his sister. "Next

grew fiercer. "Next year. We'll definitely get

as she furrowed her eyebrows, wiping away a single tear, ignoring her throbbing jaw. She turned towards the distant figure of Crea, healed up after drinking a healing potion. She was surrounded by many proctors and other individuals wearing garbs

Martial Apprentice in the middle of the exam." Mana gasped

she's fucking amazing," Max grunted. "Damn, I wish I broke through in the middle of the exam in a moment of

pain, caressing his

"Careful." Mana chided him.

team of nurses came over to

potions. "This should heal everything, we'll give you stronger potions

pass the round, a potion had been enough to heal them each. The two of them thanked the nurses before leaving

whether they had passed or failed. Rui instantly guessed that they had failed, they came out

Academy, yet, only

STEP

He took a good look at them. For a moment, none of them said

brother..." Max squeezed

important than the past." Rui

teach you how to forge the future you want. Do not let this failure drag you down, instead, turn it into fuel that will

brother," Mana told him with serene,

if it fucking kills me." Max's eyes blazed with barely restrained

them were consumed in their own thoughts, they didn't notice the smallest of smiles crack at Rui's

('I'm

them, of course not. It was the exact opposite. Prior to the exam, Max and Mana

not enough.') Rui sighed

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