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As the one-sided overwhelm, rather than a fierce confrontation, continued, the excitement in the stands was already fading away.

Jin Ye-seo, whose body was covered in bruises and bruises, flailed her arms forward, but she only swept the air.

The masked male student easily dodges him, then lowers his stance and punches again.

-Pow!

“… !”

The heavy fist lands squarely in the blonde female student’s lower abdomen.

Jin Ye-seo could no longer even let out a hoarse scream. All I could do was shake my arms and open my mouth.

Some people left Dalian without being able to see that terrible scene anymore.

“Is that the Jinyeseo I knew?”

However, a large, muscular male student in the audience could not take his eyes off the scene.

“I got beaten up like a real dog… ”

Choi Woo-jin only showed interest but showed no particular sympathy for her.

Rather, it had a savory taste of its own.

She has an arrogant personality and a harsh manner of speaking that makes it hard to believe she is the daughter of a famous family. After all, his skills are outstanding.

Choi Woo-jin has been close to her since they were young, but at the same time, they were impatient because they couldn’t get along with each other.

-Pow!

“Really… Ah. It’s barbaric. It’s terrible. Even if it’s a duel, how can you beat someone like that? He’s not some kind of demon… ”

Moon Yeo-ul unconsciously got sick of the sound of the fist hitting Jin Ye-seo that rang out again.

Then, he dug deeper into the forearm of his fiancé, Ryu Seung-heon, who was sitting next to him.

“Moon Yeo-ul. How come you talk like you’re strangers?”

Woojin noticed that there was a strange point in Yeoul’s words and dug into the gap without missing it.

Rather than worrying about her friend Jin Ye-seo, she was more disgusted by the barbaric behavior of the masked male student.

“Aren’t you angry that your friend is being beaten to dust like that?”

At the muscular male student’s sly tone, Yeoul glared at him with her signature harsh expression.

“Woojin Choi. What kind of bullshit are you going to say again? ”

“Why are you upset? I was just asking.”

However, Woojin continued speaking calmly and made an exaggerated gesture indicating that he had thought of something.

“Oh, or is that it? I feel relieved because I am getting revenge on a friend I never defeated… ”

“What nonsense!”

A look of prickling momentarily passed across Moon Yeo-ul’s face as she fired wildly.

Regardless of their personal relationship, they have been in the same group since they were young.

Of course, she knew everything about the situation, but she wanted to catch and kill Choi Woo-jin, who was blatantly talking nonsense.

Although he had been friends with Jin Ye-seo since childhood, the fact that he could never beat her gave Yeo-ul a strange sense of inferiority.

And after entering the cradle with the same rider. The fact that Jin Ye-seo was relegated to a second-place position rather than a senior position was a source of consolation in its own way, but unlike Ye-seo, who was still competing with Woo Jin for second place, she was barely maintaining her place in the top 10.

Jin Ye-seo and I were maintaining a good relationship, including working as a mentee for Baek Seo-yeon, a senior we respected, but the emotional rift growing secretly was increasing day by day.

“Woojin. Stop it.”

“Hehe. Joke, joke.”

When Seungheon intervenes, protecting his fiancée, Yeowool, Woojin only then steps back.

The muscular male student turned his attention back to the sparring hall.

A masked man was seen dragging Jin Ye-seo’s hair as if showing off and throwing it against the wall of the sparring hall.

-Quaang!

“… I want to try it too.”

Woojin’s eyes, looking down at the sparring grounds, were shining with interest and a desire to win.

Then, Moon Yeo-ul shot him a bitter voice as if she wanted to take revenge on him just now.

“Don’t be funny. How do you beat him? Yeseo is losing like that too. They even said that he made Ire’s chin like that… ”

“Don’t say that in front of my sister. You know that Jaeryong was taken to the second-year training room for talking about that, right?”

Woojin answered, cutting Yeoul off.

When his older sister, Choi Lee, reappeared in the cradle after the Japanese invasion. Her lower jaw, half shattered and wrapped in bandages and a cast, became a hot topic.

Choi I-re was listed as a second-year player after Baek Seo-yeon, and was also the person who raised the performance of Seongsan’s unique magic, Phalanx, to the limit.

Even Baek Seo-yeon had to take a long 15 minutes to break through her phalanx in sparring.

And Choi I-re was reacting very hysterically to the strange rumor that the person who had brutally destroyed his phalanx and damaged his jaw was the new successor to Heukryeon.

“And you won’t know until you fight, right? I don’t know if it’s versatility, but if you’re just looking at the durability of the barrier, I’m not behind my sister.”

“… ”

“I hope I can match him in the next ranking match. Or try challenging him to a duel? or not… ”

Yeoul was left speechless by his groundless confidence.

In the row below them, three female students were also watching the duel.

-Pow!

“Ah… ”

“Why am I sick… ”

Every time Lee Hyun’s fist hit Jin Ye-seo, Sarah and Yeo-reum flinched.

He usually showed a personality that was closer to naive.

However, it was still not easy to get used to the fact that he changed into the exact opposite way when entering a ranking match or duel.

“It’s good that I became close with Hyeon… right… ?”

“Yes… ”

A female student with medium-length hair. Yeoreum responded to Sarah’s words and looked down.

There, a female student with brown eyes was desperately holding hands.

She, too, was shaking every time the boy threw a punch, but she never took her eyes off the sparring room.

It would not have been strange at all for someone who did not know the situation to mistake the person Yena was rooting for for a blonde female student.

“… ”

Summer recalled a story she had heard from Yena over and over again.

I had heard the story about the masked boy saving her from thugs in the back alley so many times that I could now recite it with my eyes closed.

-Pow! puck!

“Ha… ”

‘It’s going to be a bit of a struggle…’ ‘

Yeoreum thought as she watched Yena flinch again at the dull sound.

***

“Ugh… Anyway, I think it’s a bit harsh… I’m deliberately controlling my strength… ”

“That’s right. I wondered why they put such a condition on it… ”

The sound of the professors who were present as judges talking could be heard from below Ben Yeon-ha, who was sitting on the left side of the audience.

Instead of accepting the duel, Lee Hyun had set one condition in advance.

Since it was a separate duel and not an official ranking match, conditions could be added as long as there was agreement between the two parties without deviating from the larger framework.

The condition he put forward for this duel was to prohibit any interruption or intervention in the duel within 5 minutes of the start of the duel, no matter what.

And the duel was established as the opponent accepted Lee Hyeon’s conditions.

There was no way not to accept it since the cause was a duel on this side in the first place.

Moreover, it was a very simple condition with no blind spots or room for expediency.

Of course, now everyone here clearly knows his intentions.

-Pow!

“But if you do something like that, you will be disciplined later… What on earth are you thinking? ”

Sun-kyung Moon, an elegant-looking professor who was present as a judge and the aunt of Moon Yeo-ul, sighed.

No matter how many conditions were imposed, it could not stand on top of the school rules.

And the violence that the masked male student inflicts on Jin Ye-seo clearly exceeds the level permitted in a duel.

The result of the game was already known. As soon as the five minutes are up, the bell will ring and the duel will end with his victory.

Jin Ye-seo will be taken to the clinic immediately, but the masked male student will be referred to the disciplinary committee at a later date and punished.

“There’s no way you don’t know him.”

A male professor with ponytails also attended as a judge. Kwon Chan-yeol received the comment in a tone that said it was no big deal.

“I think it means that he will send a certain message even if he has to risk punishment.”

“It’s a message, right? Which?”

“Why… There will also be a position for second-year student Yeon Yeon-ha… Moreover, isn’t Jin Ye-seo openly following Baek Seo-yeon? Maybe they’re putting those points together to warn you.”

“Are you two really close friends? ? I know you joined the mentoring group, but… Before that, there was no contact whatsoever… ”

“Ai, the professor knows everything… ”

Professor Kwon Chan-yeol waved his hand.

The commotion that occurred in front of the student council room a few days ago and subtle rumors about their relationship had already spread to professors.

It was so detailed and specific that the Board of Education was considering asking for an explanation.

In order to prevent reckless deviations and efficiently manage the lineage, dating of the opposite sex was strictly prohibited in the cradle unless there was an official engagement.

“Oh my, then that’s really… ”

“Shh… ”

“… ”

Leaving behind the professors who were talking about such things, I was still lost in thought as I watched the duel with pity.

She had been repeating the same worry over and over again for several days.