60 – 13. Skill Thief
Rain Arthur was in a somewhat complicated mood.
She had already made up her mind, but was it even possible for her, the weak one, to eliminate Namgoong Min, the strong one?
Although she had seen Nam Goong Min’s low-level physical abilities several times in class, Lane knew that it was her acting.
He, who showed her sincerity, is a strong man who destroys her supernatural powers with a single wave of his hand and subdues even the saint.
But she couldn’t help it this time.
[Win this exam.]
“…Yes, father.”
Because this was an order from someone stronger than Namgoong Min.
As far as Lane Arthur knows, he is the strongest person, and he is the one who taught her about her strengths and weaknesses from a young age.
Head of the Arthur family, Hector Arthur.
To Raine, his orders were like the truth that she had to follow unconditionally.
That’s why she worked together to eliminate Namgoong Min.
But her very act of defying the strong, even if it was an order, broke Lane’s heart.
‘No…… This.’
Is it really because of the strong and weak forces?
This is my first time experiencing pain like this.
Why are you doing this?
“……Let’s focus.”
Yes, ultimately the goal is to win.
To follow her orders from her strong side, to rule her as strong over her weak followers who follow her around.
Rain Arthur has opened up her job skill Even more.
Quaaa!!!
“What, what!?”
“Damage!”
“Ugh!”
Unlike other students, although they are on the boat, they do not row.
Rain, who had floated the boat itself with telekinesis, which is the best specialty among
, Freely walked around on top of her while she was sleeping.
The students are unilaterally ridiculed at speeds similar to jet skis, and those who resist are thrown into the lake with telekinesis.
Splash! With a plop! With a plop!
“Ji Chang-il, eliminated!”
“Nakamura Yuki, eliminated!”
“Bjorn Melt, eliminated!”
“……….”
Looking down at the students who were eliminated without any resistance, Lane had the same thought as always.
They are weak.
The weak cannot even resist the attacks of the strong.
The weak must obey the strong. The weak must serve the strong. The weak, the weak, the weak.
‘To the strong…… You should be scared.’
Things that her father, Hector Arthur, emphasized countless times, educated, taught, engraved, and made her memorize.
Unlike Lucas, who inherited the family, that was how Lane was treated, having grown up as someone who strictly followed only the Arthur family.
So, Lane Arthur moves to win.
That was also because of the strength and weakness engraved deep in her thoughts.
‘No more…’ … ‘I don’t want to get hit.’
It was also because of the traces of abuse left all over her body.
Recalling her father’s fist, which had been an object of fear since she was a child.
Between her fantasy and painful memories, Raine could only think of one thing.
‘The weak just have to follow the strong.’
If I just thought about that, I didn’t have to get hit or suffer.
Rain Arthur, with only one intention for victory, quickly flew to where other students were likely to be.
“Re, Lane Artu… Billion!”
Telekinesis.
“Rain! It’s me! I’m from Raine’s faction…aaah!”
Telekinesis.
“Artur ugh!!!”
Telekinesis.
“Oh, don’t come!”
“Don’t give me orders, you weakling.”
“Ugh!!”
Telekinesis. Telekinesis. Telekinesis. Telekinesis. Telekinesis.
Every single student who caught Lane’s attention was eliminated without any resistance.
Even if he was a strong student, he could not do anything about the environment of being on a small boat and Rain, who unilaterally used his telekinetic powers from a long distance.
If you make a mistake, the boat itself will flip over and fall, and there was no way to do anything about it.
This is a solo exhibition. There is no problem in itself with Lane Arthur ruthlessly excluding students.
But with hands without any hesitation, a high-handed tone, a looking down attitude, and even insults for being the weak.
The students who were eliminated by Lane all said in unison.
“Rein Arthur!!”
“Evil woman!!!”
“Damn you b*tch!”
“……………….”
Her numerous ridicules and insults directed at her.
Normally, I would have stepped on the underdogs who say things like that, but winning is more important than anything else.
The orders of the strong must take priority over the wriggling of the weak.
Rain moved as he had been trained.
However, ironically, that was an action that was more in line with the purpose of the test than anyone else right now.
“Rain.”
“……Oppa.”
Is it when about 30 people were eliminated?
Lucas Arthur was blocking Lane’s path before he knew it.
Lucas, who had used various magic tricks to keep the ship in the air like Reign, was facing Reign with his arms crossed.
“Stop it.”
“…Stop? Did you say stop?”
“Yes, I understand that you are trying hard to win, but you should give more time to other students…”
“Ha, hahahaha.”
“…Rain?”
“Oppa, you’ve changed.”
“……………….”
The Lucas she remembers was a cold-blooded meritocrat.
Why has it become so soft?
There are many reasons. A special environment where he lives with his peers, wizards who follow him after the entrance ceremony, and a new unrequited love.
However, if I were to pick the biggest reason, it would be Namgoong Min.
‘No, it’s not just you.’
After meeting the fortune teller, Lucas, Liu, and the princess change.
Lucas tried to understand others, Liu’s suspicions clearly decreased, and the princess smiled more and became more active.
Is that all? The hero, who didn’t say a word, hung out with him to find out what was going on, and the prince, who had initially looked at Namgoong Min with disdain, became close enough to chat with him alone.
The saint seems to approve of fortune-tellers, whom he naturally detests according to his doctrine.
Everyone was changing. Everyone I’ve seen since I was young, but it’s always been the same.
But only Lane remained the same.
‘Why on earth?’
Is Namgoong Min friendly with everyone?
But we were all close friends.
…… Is not it?
‘No. ‘It wasn’t.’
Rein Arthur, Lucas Arthur, Liu Yen, Eunha Kim, Seongil Kim, Rafael Martina, Abel Legion.
The seven people I had seen since I was young were familiar with each other, and although we had met, we were not close friends.
Rather, they faced each other in dismay. Because we were in an ambiguous relationship, we were able to maintain goodwill with each other, but we couldn’t become friends.
Namgoong Min destroyed it.
I came in casually and became friends with everyone, from the most difficult person, Liu, to Eunha Kim, Lucas, Seongil Kim, Raphael, and Abel.
But what about Lane Arthur?
‘Me and Namgoong Min…… Are you close?’
No. Absolutely not.
He is strong, she is weak. That is the only clear fact, that is the only link.
Rain was not close to anyone.
That was the reason she was the way she was.
“……….”
My head is complicated. So many thoughts and self-blame run through my head.
In times like this, as always.
It becomes easier if you think about just one thing.
[Win this exam.]
Order of the strong.
That’s it.
“…Oppa, now that I think about it, if I want to win, I have to eliminate you too.”
“Rain.”
“I’m sorry, brother.”
Causes
Superpowers＞.
Quaaa──
The water in the lake swirls and rises, and the water floats in the air and clumps together like a sphere.
The overwhelming majesty of a supernatural being that encompasses the surrounding area.
Lucas, whose face hardened at that, uncrossed his arms and muttered.
“.”
Fire, water, earth, wind, and lightning occur in the air.
Lucas Arthur. A being who can use and dismantle all the magic in the world.
However, even he had to do his best against the
Superpower.
“……….”
Lucas looks at Lane. The eyes showed no hesitation, as if the decision had been made.
Those eyes were the same as his mother’s, which he had seen right before she was kicked out of the family, saying it was a test.
‘Rain.’
I now know very well what happened in the family while I was rolling around in the back alleys to prove that I was Arthur’s successor.
Although Lucas was cold towards her, he was worried about her.
But even though Lucas and Lane are siblings who are closer than anyone else, they have come too far.
From now on, there is no need for the two to open up their feelings to each other.
While I was pondering that reality, someone suddenly came to mind.
…… There was a fortune teller who was promised love fortune telling.
“Ha!”
“……………….”
“Yes, maybe…Maybe so.”
In order to restore a relationship that has become so twisted and distorted.
I don’t think there is any way unless you really believe in fortune telling.
Lucas smiled, remembering the fortune teller he was deeply grateful for.
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It was a somewhat familiar smile.
Right after that.
Quaaa-
A psychic and a magician clashed.
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“…So, are you here now?”
“Yes.”
“You look quite refreshed after losing 1-1.”
“……………….”
“It’s no use changing your expression now.”
The older brother lost after competing one-on-one with his younger sister and was eliminated.
Lucas Arthur, who trudged along like a wet mouse, raised the corners of his mouth.
Even though he was drenched in water because he was the main target, he still looked handsome.
Please have a beautiful love with Lily.
…… Oh, there was a prince too. Pestilence.
“By the way, fortune teller.”
“Yes.”
“This…What is it?”
“Yes?”
Please tell me the subject of what you are talking about.
I looked at Lucas with eyes asking what he was talking about, and he turned his head with a puzzled expression.
“Those students.”
“Ah, you mean the free student comrades who fight for proper grades and student rights?”
“……What?”
“Correct grades and student rights──”
“No, it’s not that I don’t understand what you’re saying…I’m asking why something like that was formed.”
“Oh, I did it.”
“…As expected.”
Actually, it is not that difficult to incite. Rather, it is a catching technique that anyone can do.
With a common theme that can unite people, stimulate them, mix in some acting and speaking, and voila! The agitation is over!
At the last entrance ceremony, we fell over the issue of ‘differences in born occupations’, and this time over the issue of ‘impossibility of proper grade evaluation.’
The number of students who were eliminated from the starting point due to the small ball launched by Liu, Rain, and the princess amounts to approximately 20%, or several hundred.
Of course, the Academy will be concerned about evaluating their grades.
If we just give them the lowest score, there will be a lot of behavior such as attacking right after the start of individual competitions in the future.
If that happens, non-combat occupations will be at an overwhelming disadvantage compared to combat occupations.
The Romance Academy must be equal.
It was our destiny because it was an educational institution.
“How…Did you do it?”
“Well, I just said something roughly. Everyone was so vainly eliminated, this won’t be able to properly evaluate your grades, the test method was wrong in the first place, and as a student, I should protest to the academy… To that extent.”
“So?”
“After that, there is no need to touch it. Like during the entrance ceremony, if the enemy is the wall of a maze, since the enemy is the academy, it is a matter of questioning the officials and instructors right next to you.”
What is most sensitive to students? It’s a grade.
Moreover, this survival test is the test with the highest score among all tests.
If you think that one grade can make a difference in the amount of money you earn after graduation, both students and parents must be desperate.
“Of course, there was one fact that was overlooked.”
“A fact overlooked?”
“The other party is Romance Academy.”
I wouldn’t have been able to survive in an ordinary academy, but this is a romance academy.
It is a neutral zone established by a coalition of powerful countries from around the world, and the best academy built while creating a grandiose floating city.
How many s*xual protests were there at Romance Academy, which boasts a history of over 100 years?
Every time, Romance Academy’s answer was the same.
[Grades are always processed fairly.]
Because nothing was said other than this, students and parents also fell into despair, and this academy, which still maintained its top position, continued like that for 100 years.
In other words, my agitation was useless from the beginning.
There is a reason why they incited it even though they knew about it from the beginning.
“So…Those students…”
“That’s how you boycott.”
Just as I said.
The students, who only heard consistent answers from the instructor and officials, were forced to leave the dropout lounge and sit on the ground as a group.
A kind of protest that we will not return until the academy listens to our protests.
Even though he was eliminated, he boycotted and strongly insisted that he not use the lounge for eliminated candidates.
“We demand students’ rights!”
“”””Student’s rights!””””
“We want the right grades!”
“”””Correct grades!””””
“The Academy must disclose the evaluation method so that we can understand it!!”
“”””Make it public! Make it public!!””””
“Until an answer is given, our free student comrades who are fighting for correct grades and student rights will not stop!”
“”””Doesn’t stop!!!””””
“But despite our cries, the Academy has not responded for an hour! Now is the time to step forward! Comrade Namgoong Min! Please come this way!”
“Oh, Mr. Lucas. Please excuse me for a moment.”
“Uh, uh,”
Tap. Step by step. Step by step.
The students’ eyes were burning with motivation even though they had rushed out of the comfortable lounge and sat on the damp dirt floor.
Yes, if you studied hard and suddenly someone stole all your pencils and you couldn’t take the test, you would definitely be upset.
This incident is not much different. Everyone must have prepared their own efforts and strategies, but it ended in vain.
I just tickle it. It’s no big deal.
“Comrade Namgoong Min!!!”
“”””Nam Goong Min! Namgoong Min! Namgoong Min!””””
“You’ve waited a long time. Soon, you will be able to meet and confirm the correct grading method for the person you have been longing for, everyone!!”
“”””Waaa!!!””””
“There he is! Namgoong Min has stepped forward! Just like I heard from Instructor Charles, we just have to catch that guy!!”
“hahahahaha! Unknown instructor, you are too late! Dear fellow students! The academy is trying to silence us by force! Let’s fight back!!!”
“What!? Oh, no. We just have to catch Namgoong Min──”
“”””Let’s fight! Let’s fight! Let’s fight!””””
“Oh my! Everyone evacuate! Evacuate!”
“……What is this?”
In a situation that is difficult to understand.
Only Lucas muttered in vain.