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“… Why?”

I asked him with sincere doubt.

I couldn’t see Li Jiyuan’s expression. To be precise, it would be correct to say that it was impossible to tell what he was thinking because he still had an expressionless expression.

“I’m not a particularly famous person… . What… Does this mean that no matter who you fight with, you do your best to destroy it?”

It was a bit absurd so I burst out laughing. Rather, there was no tension.

Until recently, to Han Sejun, Li Jiyuan was just a condescending and unlucky guy, nothing more or less than that.

But at this moment, Han Sejun’s perception of Li Jiyuan had changed to someone who was not only unlucky, but also had a strange personality.

The current state of nervousness was based on the absurdity that came from the feeling of confronting a ridiculously strange guy.

In response to Han Sejun, Li Jiyuan lightly tilted her head as if stretching. His hair swayed slightly as he twisted it from side to side.

“Then say hello to your sparring partner.”

After the instructor spoke, everyone bowed slightly. Han Sejun bowed and sighed lightly.

I tried to go easy, but I haven’t had any luck lately.

Yeah, it happens sometimes, doesn’t it? The story goes that when a lion hunts, it always does its best regardless of the condition of its prey.

One of my high school friends holds such beliefs.

Wasn’t that a craftsman who saved up a fortune by playing fighting games at a local arcade and then made all the elementary school students who came to the arcade burst into tears by wiping out their coins?

There were more than once times when I felt like punching my friend in the back of the head while watching that scene.

“You really don’t know?”

“Huh?”

The sound of clicking one’s tongue was heard. His expression had changed.

His face, which had been expressionless like a corpse, was filled with irritation. No, it would be much closer to the correct answer to see it as discomfort rather than irritation.

Sejun got a little goosebumps and trembled at the sudden change in his expression.

“I. I, Li Li Yuan, the first awakened person, have become a sparring partner with you, a nobody. This alone is a big problem.”

“What do you say? I didn’t decide that. If I was dissatisfied, I would argue with Professor Northmund─”

At that moment, something passed through Sejun’s head.

─Because the first awakened person, the hero of the Chinese nation, has received an official declaration that his skills are equal to yours.

This was what Jang Ah-hyeon said to herself.

‘No, just because of that?’

Who would attach much importance to something like that? Li Jiyuan himself knows well that skill is not simply determined by such things anyway.

“So I have no choice but to crush you. You may feel unfair, and of course it’s not your fault. But it’s an important issue to me.”

“Aren’t you too obsessed with meaningless things─”

“Stop. Let’s start now.”

Li Jiyuan interrupted him as he watched the instructor give the ready signal. The Yongjosu boy’s eyes are slightly tinged with madness.

“Start!”

The chime signaling the start of the sparring rang. Han Sejun took steps and paid attention to his appearance.

You won’t be able to use the tidal water anyway. Evasion is something we practiced all weekend, so let’s continue to avoid his attacks and aim for counters.

“It’s empty!”

Suddenly, something comes rushing towards his face.

Sejun rolled on the floor due to the sudden attack. My cheek, touched by his hand, feels hot as if it had been burned.

‘blood?’

I rolled awkwardly on the floor and touched my burning cheek to find red liquid on my fingertips. Without any time to panic, a fist is swung at him who falls down once again.

The fire of Ganghwa lingered in his hands, and with the repulsive force, he pushed off the ground and raised himself up.

When I raise my eyes and look ahead, I see Li Jiyuan. However, both of his arms were strangely mutated. Yes, like a dragon’s hand.

“Hey, the fuck, are you disqualified for this?!”

Before I could even finish my story, I took a breath as the attacks continued. An absurdly fast and sharp horizontal slash grazed his shoulder.

It was certainly no illusion that his arms glinted in the gym lights as he swung.

Li Jiyuan ridicules him after seeing him helpless with embarrassment.

As he looks at the scene, Sejun suddenly becomes angry and throws a fist at him.

─Badeuk!

It feels like hitting a rock at your fingertips. Li Jiyuan used his arm to block Sejun’s fist.

Sejun was filled with jealousy at that very relaxed face. Is it not in your mind to lose points by allowing this kid to attack?

“Are you going to fail the test at all, you crazy bastard!”

“Really? But contrary to what you think, the instructors are quiet.”

“Huh?”

Now that I think about it, it was like that. The red hats who are supposed to disqualify or block fatal attacks are so quiet.

Sejun’s gaze, which was scanning the instructors with resentful eyes at the extremely unreasonable and irrational situation, eventually lingered on Li Jiyuan’s arm.

‘what.’

The fingernails sticking out from his fingertips were very short. At first glance, it looked like it was wearing small knuckles. To exaggerate a bit, it was about the length of fingernails that women grow.

Are the instructors of the opinion that this is not a fatal blow? But that sharpness is real.

“No… The clause prohibiting the use of weapons… .”

“Oops. This is not a weapon, it is my special ability. And if you defend with this, your points will not be deducted. Because it will always be an ability.”

The sight of him grinning and shaking his hands suddenly reminded Sejun of a psychopath.

Han Se-jun was horrified and wrapped his arms as he looked like he was counting the floors with his fingers in front of the Elada dormitory every night.

Anyway, since we are dealing with monsters, it only has to work against monsters, right?

In addition, since he can block attacks from monsters with his special ability, Dragon Beast, does that mean there is no penalty for blocking one’s own attacks with that special ability?

Indeed, if you wear it on your ear, it is an earring, and if you wear it on your nose, it is like a nose ring.

Still, it was almost like gambling, but did Li Jiyuan ask questions to the instructors in advance and receive answers?

─Pow!

With a sound like an exploding rubber ball, Sejun’s body accelerates and his feet covered in flames fly towards Li Jiyuan.

But his attack is immediately blocked by his arm.

As soon as I felt like I was kicking a rock, I immediately kicked his arm and used the repulsion to spread the distance again.

‘I told you not to do anything, but I can’t help it.’

His entire body bursts into flames and his supernatural abilities appear. Li Jiyuan looked surprised for a moment at the sight.

“You’re a bastard!”

It screams and jumps right in. The swinging nails sprinkle silver light.

‘Can I block the attacks of monsters with my body where my supernatural abilities are expressed?’

That won’t work. No matter how much you surround your forearm with red energy and strengthen it, you won’t be able to block the slasher’s claws.

In that case, it would also be an error to defend against Li Jiyuan’s attack. Points will be deducted.

If you use shallow defense that cannot block a monster’s attack, the instructor’s pen will definitely move.

Han Sejun quickly took a step back. Li Li Yuan’s swung claws passed just a stone’s throw away from him.

A few strands of hair were cut off and blown away by the wind he created.

‘Then it is an attack. Let’s see if no harm will come to you.’

Sejun’s fist, covered in shimmering red energy, began hitting Li Jiyuan’s arm. Thump! Thump! The sound of a hammer being swung filled the gym.

─That guy… What was your name? Do you know, Robert?

─Ha… I think it was Han, and I think she was a member of that woman’s clique.

─Amazing… It’s like Ramirez.

Li Jiyuan was busy defending against his repeated strikes while swung around in flames.

At first glance, Han Sejun seemed to dominate Li Jiyuan, but in reality, that was not the case.

‘It doesn’t work.’

His arms were really strong.

Even if you recklessly block your own attack, there is no penalty.

It was clear that it was at a level that could easily defend against attacks from real monsters.

The flow of the two changed, and this time Li Jiyuan took control of the attack.

Fists are thrown and arms are waved. The nails emit silver light and cut through the air in all directions.

“You rat!”

Sejun was dodging Li Jiyuan’s arm by one step. The hem of his clothes got caught in the tips of his fingernails, and his gym clothes were in tatters, but he had dodged all the fatal blows.

She stretched out her hand aiming for his face, but Li Jiyuan’s fingertips had no sense of piercing the soft flesh.

─Tup!

A sound rang out there that he could not understand with his common sense. The sound made when something soft wraps around something hard.

Li Jiyuan, who was mobilizing her brain to understand the situation, suddenly felt her body being pulled forward.

Li Jiyuan’s head was burning with anger at the sight of Sejun smiling as he passed her by.

Sejun Han grabbed Li Jiyuan’s hand and pulled her towards him. Sejun then kicked his feet and turned behind him, hitting him hard on the back with his palm.

“Qu! At least this much!”

Li Jiyuan swung his elbow and attempted to remove his hand from his back.

But─

“What… ?”

My body didn’t move. Or, to be more precise, the body was moving, but it felt like something was restraining Li Jiyuan’s body.

Seeing Li Jiyuan rolling her eyes to understand this incomprehensible situation, Han Sejun opened his mouth.

“There was too little information about the other person, Li Jiyuan.”

“What?”

“Didn’t you research my abilities? I’m disappointed.”

What are you talking about. Your ability is to release magical power. The ability to emit magical energy from the body to strengthen oneself, others, or objects… .

These thoughts are probably going through his head right now. And as if I realized everything,

“… !”

Li Jiyuan urgently lowered his gaze to his own body. So urgently. As if there would be an answer to one’s curiosity at the end.

And at the end of his gaze, he saw a fiery red energy flowing from his gym clothes.

The sight of one’s gym clothes being on fire… .

“You coward!”

“Are you not considering it yourself? After all, people with special abilities… .”

Han Sejun, the corner of his mouth rising towards the sky, opened his mouth.

Yes. Han Sejun gave his special ability to Li Jiyuan’s gym uniform.

His ability gives the strengthened target the strength of steel.

That is why Li Li Yuan has now become a statue stuck in the center of the gym, with his entire body confined by a steel straitjacket.

“You son of a bitch! You dirty bastard! How dare me! Aaaah!”

Sejun… .

─Whoa!

“Uuuhhh!”

His fists made him pay for his pride.

His fist exploded, and Li Jiyuan spun around and fell to the floor, bleeding from the nose.

Ugh– As soon as he let out a sigh, the chime for the end of the match rang.

“I didn’t hit it that hard. I didn’t even activate my supernatural ability.”

Sejun muttered softly as he watched him writhing like a caterpillar in a strange position, sprawled on the floor, probably lost in his defeat.

That moment.

─Oooo!

─Amazing! Han, you are amazing!!!

─You completely destroyed Li Jiyuan!!!!

─It’s a man. Jinja is a real man! Awesome!

The gym was filled with cheers. Wasn’t the scene just now a great reversal that would make everyone’s heart pound, regardless of faction or other political reasons?

Except for a group of people whose faces were rotting, everyone was chanting Sejun’s name as one at this moment.

An instructor spoke to him as he scratched his cheek in embarrassment.

“You’re amazing. It’s a very quick achievement.”

“Ah, thank you.”

“As expected, you are talented.”

“Talent? Ahaha… Thank you, but I just had a bit of luck. Haha.”

Sejun smiles awkwardly, greets the instructor, and returns to his seat. After that, the instructor’s gaze continued to focus on me.

‘Now that I think about it, this is the instructor I’ve never seen before. It doesn’t matter, I’m not a strange person.’

I had a moment of doubt, but I didn’t have the energy to care. He didn’t even have the presence of mind to respond to the people who chanted for him.

Their group was waving their hands in the distance.

Muriel cheered with a grin and waved both hands widely, and Tania smiled and nodded.

And even Nakajima smiles and applauds himself.

Sejun returned to his seat with a big smile on his face as he saw his group cheering for him, as if they were really happy.