"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."

as he thought about Rui. "He's gonna be disappointed

unless we didn't give it our best. The

stifling his urge to break down

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

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 with the emblem

Martial Apprentice in the middle of the exam." Mana gasped in disbelief. "That's

amazing," Max grunted. "Damn, I wish I broke through in the middle of the exam in a moment of hopeless

pain, caressing his

"Careful." Mana chided him.

nurses came

"This should

their injuries had been too debilitating to allow them to pass the round, a potion had been enough to heal them each. The two

messaging Rui to come to pick them up, having retained their belongings. She didn't need to mention whether they had passed or failed. Rui instantly guessed

at the Martial Academy, yet, only a minute later, the ground rumbled and

STEP

air, stepping down gracefully before them. He took a

Max squeezed

more important than the past." Rui blankly

said, only the past can teach you how to forge the future you want. Do not let this failure drag you down, instead, turn

Mana told him with serene, yet sharp, piercing

it

two of them were consumed in their own thoughts, they didn't notice the smallest

('I'm

opposite. Prior to the exam, Max and Mana had been passionate, curious, excited, and a whole other slew of

not enough.')

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