I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 10. Breaking the Academy (2)

“How about that? Isn’t that a more justifiable reason than spilling a small water cup? Don’t bully someone who can’t even fight properly… Come at me.”

Elsie tilted her head provocatively.

_Sreung—cheok!_

The two Hrimthursar students beside Truth drew their weapons. They growled menacingly.

Meanwhile, Truth, having wiped away the spilled water, lowered his stance.

He began to glare at Elsie with a chilling gaze.

“Silver-haired wench. State your name.”

“Who are you calling a wench! My name is…! My name is… Elsie.”

The once-confident Elsie replied with a hint of uncertainty.

She wasn’t yet accustomed to stating her name so naturally.

Truth savored Elsie’s name, a murderous smile spreading across his shadowed face.

“Don’t think this insult will end lightly. I’ll crush you in the Jotunheim style and take you as a trophy!”

“That’s a crime?! Stop with the creepy talk, and know that you’ll turn into a whitey the moment you lose.”
(whitey: slang or playful teasing implying the person turns pale with fear or is a sore loser)

Elsie was disgusted by Truth’s threat.

“You’d better abandon any hope that acting pitiful will get you leniency. Draw your weapon!”

At the command to draw her weapon, she merely shrugged.

Freely adapting to the situation is the foundation of combat.

Drawing a weapon right away when fighting wasn’t Elsie’s style.

“I’ll draw it when I need to. Looking at you, it seems like just my ‘eyes’ are enough for now.”

Pointing to her blue eyes with a finger, Elsie grinned, revealing her teeth.

Fighting with her eyes would be enough.

Indeed, Truth’s face twisted hideously at the provocative display.

“You’ll regret this.”

“You talk too much.”

Elsie widened her stance, jutting out one shoulder.

The battle had already begun.

A chilling aura began to envelop the space.

Thrud and Doyun also glared sharply, facing off against the giant students who wielded weapons.

Heightening the tension, Truth, looking quite angry, opened his mouth.

“Hrimthursar-style 3:3 duel… Begin!”

_Whoo-ee-ing._

A sudden chill circled the surroundings.

From beneath the feet of the three giant students, who stood with overwhelming size, like a fortress, white frost began to spread.

It was the moment Elsie and her companions recognized it.

**—Tu-kwah-ah-ah-ahng!!**

The three giant students’ surprise physical assault began.

An explosive force that burst the air.

With a tremendous roar, objects in the cafeteria flew and shattered in the wind.

“Ugh?!”

“What?!”

Thrud and Doyun, each caught up in the physical assault of their respective giant student, vanished as if torn apart.

Elsie quickly registered the two disappearing to either side, smashing through the walls.

And immediately, she turned her gaze to Truth, who was charging a beat late.

‘He doesn’t have a weapon.’

Whether he was a brawler or simply not using a weapon to respond to her provocation, it didn’t matter.

What mattered was how much skill he could show against her.

Suddenly, a cold wind blew from behind Elsie.

At the same time, she felt herself sliding, as if being pulled, toward the charging Truth.

“Oh—”

A short exclamation.

Elsie was instantly caught up in Truth’s body blow, which had accelerated rapidly.

_Kwa-gwa-gwa—!_

With that, Elsie smashed through the cafeteria wall and disappeared.

Radgrid and Eir, staring blankly at the scene, looked around the chaotic cafeteria and hiccuped.

“W-who’s going to clean this up? Radgrid…”

“The teacher will again, probably. You should drink water from the Nidavellir Workshop’s new tumbler from now on? It’s a cup with a lid, so the contents won’t spill even if it falls over.”

“B-but Svartalfheim imports are expensive…”

***

In an instant, the scenery flickered and changed.

The outer wall of the cafeteria had collapsed.

Elsie, thrown out into a place lined with warehouse buildings, bounced off Truth’s body.

A full-body blow like that couldn’t be deflected with an evasion skill.

If it were a game, there would have been a damage reduction calculation, but reality wouldn’t be so lenient.

‘I managed to offset the impact with a defensive skill… but adapting to these minor differences is annoying.’

It was the same during the duel with Thrud.

The confusion arising from the difference between the game and reality.

Because of that, she hadn’t been able to fully unleash her skills, and she had even allowed a dangerous blow.

‘I still can’t say I’ve fully adapted to this body. There’s a lot of the game’s sense that I need to discard.’

Truth tilted his head at the sensation of touching her body.

“Is your body made of liquid?”

“What are you talking about?”

He clenched and unclenched his palm, continuing.

“It was an unfamiliar sensation. I’ve never seen anyone as soft and squishy as you in my life.”

Elsie simply chuckled at his question.

“That’s all skill.”

“Hmm, skill.”

Truth’s gaze started at Elsie’s face and gradually moved downward.

Feeling as if her entire body was being scanned, Elsie instinctively shuddered and lowered her stance, scowling.

“H-hey, where are you looking!”

“Indeed…”

Truth briefly exclaimed, then kicked off the ground and closed the distance.

“I’ll crush you!”

The difference in physique was absurd.

Because of that, the pressure was even greater than against Thrud.

_Whoong!_ A massive fist flew toward Elsie.

“Hoo…!”

He seemed confident in hand-to-hand combat, but Elsie was the same.

She would counter Truth’s racial advantage as a giant with Valkyrie skills.

The large fist slammed into her body.

Reacting to the impact,

she activated Spin Evasion.

High-speed rotating internal energy.

Riding that flow, Truth’s punch passed through Elsie’s body as if flowing out.

She added the force she had deflected to her rotational power.

Having succeeded in evading, Elsie accelerated her rotation and unleashed an enhanced kick.

The extended white leg moved along its trajectory, leaving afterimages.

_Ppeo-eong!_

Truth was struck directly in the jaw by Elsie’s powerful kick.

His upper body tilted sharply to the side.

However.

‘He blocked it! He extended his empty left hand under his chin at that timing to counter the kick!’

The force was astonishing, and his upper body tilted greatly.

But Truth’s two legs remained firmly planted on the ground.

It was almost an instinctual sense.

He had luckily blocked Elsie’s counterattack, which he would have otherwise known and still been hit by.

Wildness. What better word to describe it?

It was truly a beast-like combat instinct.

Truth’s left hand, which had blocked the kick, moved.

As he tried to grab her ankle, Elsie quickly retracted her leg.

Even if she were caught, it wasn’t as if she couldn’t escape, but his massive size and brute strength were troublesome.

‘Don’t forget. This isn’t a game, it’s reality! There’s no such thing as system-based correction!’

Even in the Aesir Saga, Elsie was closer to an all-rounder armed with technique and agility.

She was far from a power-type character.

‘Assuming I don’t use my abilities, this difference in physique is hopeless. The moment he crushes me, there’s a high chance I won’t be able to move.’

Truth’s tilted upper body recovered.

Slowly lowering his left palm, which had defended his chin, he glared at Elsie with sharp eyes and opened his mouth.

“That was an unexpectedly heavy attack.”

‘If he hadn’t blocked it with a lucky reach…’

Even though he had blocked it, it was a dizzying attack that had momentarily made him lose consciousness.

If it had landed properly, it would have been a dangerous counter.

“So there are strong people who can’t be judged by their appearance. Interesting, Midgard.”

“Do you really like talking that much?”

_Bbeonjjeok!_ In an instant, Elsie’s figure vanished with a flash of light.

Pure Strike!

_Peo-eok!_

“Keuh-eok!”

A fierce blow, which he couldn’t react to because he was blinded by the flash, slammed into Truth’s stomach.

His posture broke, and Truth’s body leaned forward.

She didn’t miss that moment.

Elsie, who had ultimately charged into his arms to land the Pure Strike.

Truth had no intention of simply letting Elsie go.

His body was involuntarily bent by the tremendous impact that struck his abdomen, but he instead used that momentum to gather both hands and slam them down on Elsie.

_Tu-kwang!_

Elsie was slammed into the ground, and the floor cracked.

It was the moment Truth’s improvisation, not missing the timing, had worked.

However, although it was a brief exchange, the difference in skill between the two was stark.

Elsie surpassed him by far not only in skill but even in agility.

To land a proper blow, he had no choice but to adopt a strategy of sacrificing flesh to strike bone.

“Keuk!”

Truth gritted his teeth.

‘A miscalculation! I was too deceived by her appearance and underestimated her! She’s strong!’

He sensed that he had no choice but to push through with the physical difference and durability that came from his racial advantage.

He realized his own immaturity.

To think that such an opponent was at Midgard Academy. There was no room to be complacent.

“Come forth! Hrímsaxa!”

Light flashed from Truth’s raised hand, and a sturdy, single-edged blade, imbued with frost, appeared.

The keenness of the enormous sword blade, forged with cold air, flashed extraordinarily.

Elsie was a formidable opponent.

A worthy adversary, for whom the humiliation of being drenched in water was of no consequence.

Then all that was left to do was to crush her with all his might!

Truth’s weapon swung relentlessly towards Elsie, who was pinned to the ground.

A blizzard containing the harsh cold of the snowy field swept through the area.

_Whooosh!!_

**Valkyrie Armament Summon: Brynja-hildr!**

Thud!

“What? It deflected Hrimthursar?!”

Truth’s eyes widened.

The Hrímsaxa, a blade imbued with a cold and frost that could cloud the mind.

The Hrímsaxa, which could cut through the permafrost of Jotunheim like butter, was futilely deflected.

A dizzying shockwave traveled up the Hrímsaxa and into his hand.

“That’s a brutal weapon. To think you’d make me use this. Or is it that I still haven’t gotten the hang of it?”Creak, clinkㅡ!”

The sound of metal interlocking chains began to echo.