"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
give it our best. The ones who are truly disappointed
stifling his
fiercer. "Next year. We'll definitely get through next
healed up after drinking a healing potion. She was surrounded by many proctors and other individuals wearing garbs with the emblem of
the middle of the exam." Mana gasped in
through
pain, caressing
"Careful." Mana chided him.
of nurses came over to them, examining
One of them handed them potions. "This should
allow them to pass the round, a potion had been enough to heal them each. The two of
up, having retained their belongings. She didn't need to mention whether they had
yet, only a minute later, the ground rumbled
STEP
out of thin air, stepping down gracefully before them. He took a good look at them.
Max squeezed
the past."
of them. "That being said, only the past can teach you how to forge the future you want. Do not let this failure drag
brother," Mana told him with serene, yet sharp, piercing
even if it
in their own thoughts, they didn't notice the smallest of smiles crack at Rui's
('I'm glad they lost, in
was the exact opposite. Prior to the exam, Max and Mana had been passionate, curious, excited, and a whole other slew of generally positive emotions. There was nothing wrong with
it's not enough.') Rui sighed
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