"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."
expression grew more severe as he thought
unless we didn't give it our best. The ones who are truly disappointed should
his urge to break down in
grew fiercer. "Next year. We'll definitely get through next
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 with the emblem of the Martial
middle of the exam." Mana gasped
fucking amazing," Max grunted. "Damn, I wish I broke through in the middle of the exam in a moment of hopeless despair!
pain, caressing his
"Careful." Mana chided him.
team of nurses came over to
them handed them potions. "This should
been too debilitating to allow them to pass the round, a potion had been enough
She didn't need to mention whether they had passed or failed. Rui instantly guessed that they had failed, they came out far too early
Academy, yet, only a minute later, the ground rumbled and
STEP
of thin air, stepping down gracefully before them. He took a
Max squeezed
more important than the past." Rui blankly stated. "What's happened has
can teach you how to forge the future you want. Do not let this failure drag
Mana told him with serene,
next year even if it fucking
consumed in their own thoughts, they didn't notice the smallest of
nodded inwardly. ('I'm glad they lost, in
wished ill on them, of course not. It was the exact opposite. Prior to the exam, Max and Mana had been passionate, curious, excited, and a whole other slew
it's not enough.')
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