I’m Just an Ordinary Clown at the Academy

41 – Duel 2

“Leader! It’s not over yet, right?”

Idra approached Elysia, who was sitting alone in the audience, and spoke.

“Idra, did you make that?”

Elysia asked Idra, her gaze fixed on the arena.

The “that” Elysia mentioned was the mine Rofri stepped on and triggered.

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“I made it, but the idea was given by student Loki. It’s so beautiful how you came up with that.”

“For something you made yourself, it seems surprisingly weak in power, doesn’t it?”

Although Lofri had stepped on a mine and was injured, she was not completely immobilized.

Of course, it was probably because of the artifact’s protection, but if Idra had made it seriously, the artifact would have pierced through and knocked Lofri out in one go.

“Loki asked for it, right? Not to make it too strong.”

“Loki?”

Elysia couldn’t understand Idra’s words.

Was there a need to deliberately make it weaker?

“Loki asked to make it with power that would make it difficult for her to regain consciousness.”

Idra adjusted the power as requested by Loki. And as a result, Lofri was now struggling to regain consciousness.

“What did I get hit by?”

He remembered something exploding when the guy threw it, accompanied by light and noise.

And in preparation for the guy approaching and wielding his sword, he shamefully swung the sword in any way he could. By swinging the sword randomly, he bought some time, and when he could see ahead, he opened his eyes. And that guy, without even approaching, sat in a chair and watched himself.

As his gaze seemed to mock him, he rushed to kill him, but something exploded as he stepped on it.

“Why aren’t you coming?”

As he was lost in thought, the guy’s voice reached him.

The guy’s voice was filled with laughter.

“I’ll kill you…”

Lofri was about to rush towards Loki right away, but hesitated.

I was afraid that a mine might explode just like before.

“Someone told me, ‘What’s important to the inspector is the footsteps.'”

Loki said to the perplexed Lofri.

It was delightful to see Lofri at a loss for what to do.

It was indeed a good idea to ask Professor Edra to adjust the power.

Ending the duel by hitting a mine was too merciful a way.

There were still many things prepared for Lofri.

“So, that’s why I couldn’t help but laugh earlier.”

Seeing Lofri confidently speaking without knowing that he’s intentionally not ending it, I couldn’t help but laugh.

What will happen in today’s duel will make Lofri follow behind in the future.

“So, I will take your step first.”

Loki said so and reached out while sitting in the chair.

“What is that?”

“Looks like a frog?”

On Loki’s outstretched hand was a frog.

“Isn’t that a toad?”

The third-year magician noticed that the frog on Loki’s hand was a toad.

The frog on Loki’s hand opened its mouth wide.

Splish, splash!

A tremendous amount of water gushed out from the frog’s mouth.

A tremendous amount of water surged upward and then fell downward.

Splish-splash-splish-splash-splish.

As a significant amount fell beneath the arena, the floor became soaked with water.

Rophri, too, couldn’t escape the water.

Rophri’s head and clothes became wet from the falling water.

However, unlike Rophri, Loki’s head and clothes remained completely dry.

“It seems it’s raining. Seeing how quickly it stopped, was it just a passing shower?”

Loki calmly remarked, using an umbrella.

“Oh my! You’re all soaked. You should always carry an umbrella. Shall I lend you mine?”

Loki offered a soaked Rophri.

“You little…!”

Unable to hold back, Rophri charged toward Loki.

In preparation for potential mine explosions, Rophri used artifacts to block below and reinforced their body with mana.

Though reinforcing their body with artifacts and mana made it better than the initial impact, it didn’t mean they weren’t injured.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Continuing to step on mines and rush forward, the shield made of artifacts began to weaken gradually.

“I never expected you to charge in so foolishly.”

Swoosh.

Loki said so and threw a dagger.

Rophri saw the flying dagger with their eyes. It looked exactly like the one that had erupted in light earlier.

The brightness that was still vivid enough to not let me open my eyes and the force that was powerful enough to not let me hear any sound were lingering in my memory.

Instinctively, I closed my eyes, covered my ears with my hands, and crouched down.

But even as time passed, there was no explosive sound.

Sensing something was amiss, when I looked ahead, the dagger was lying on the ground.

“I’m not foolish enough to use the same move twice.”

Loki said with a laughter-filled voice.

Rofri realized she had been played.

“I will tear you apart for sure!!”

“But you see, I thought it would work on you, so I used it again.”

Sssssssssssss!!!!

“aaargh!!!”

Late, a bomb of light and sound exploded from the dagger.

Blinded by anger, Rofri couldn’t react.

“Shall we move now?”

Covering her eyes with both hands, Rofri recalled what Loki had said.

That guy said it moves. If I lose in this state and get expelled, the throne will definitely pass to my brother.

Rofri swung the sword again in a pitiful manner, continuing until she could open her eyes.

As soon as she could see, Rofri immediately opened her eyes to confirm Loki’s position.

Loki was sitting in a chair, tying his shoelaces.

“Oh, sorry. I forgot to tie my shoelaces.”

“This bastard!!!”

Lofree charged at Loki.

“I will definitely kill that guy.”

Because of that guy, they became a laughingstock in front of many people.

“This is a bit scary, isn’t it?”

Thunk.

As Lofree rushed towards Loki, a wall suddenly appeared, blocking Lofree’s path.

“Clearly fake. Do you think I’d fall for something like this?”

Before the duel, Lofree had investigated Loki to some extent. They hadn’t discovered much, but they knew what Loki’s unique magic was.

Convinced that the wall in front of them was fake, Lofree ignored it and charged ahead.

Crash!!

However, the wall was real. Lofree collided with it at full speed.

“Ouch! Just looking at it hurts.”

Lofree, enduring the pain, somehow managed to overcome the wall to pursue killing Loki.

Thunk.

Once again, a wall appeared in front of Lofree.

Trying to kick over the wall, Lofree leaped, extending their leg towards the wall, but the leg passed through the wall in that state.

This wall was fake. Lofree lost balance and stumbled.

“Pffft!”

As the sound of laughter reached him, Lofri instinctively looked at Loki.

“It wasn’t me who laughed this time.”

Upon hearing Loki’s words, Lofri turned his gaze toward the audience.

Some students were holding back their laughter as they looked at him.

There were also those who couldn’t hold back and burst into laughter.

Feeling a mix of shame and anger as these kids, who would easily be defeated in a direct fight, mocked him, Lofri enveloped himself in embarrassment.

“I’m serious. I’ve been practicing archery lately.”

Glaring at the mocking students as if he could kill them with his gaze, Lofri looked back at Loki when he spoke.

Loki, holding a bow, was aiming at Lofri, and to anyone’s eyes, his posture seemed awkward and sloppy, as if he was holding a bow for the first time.

Swish.

The arrow, launched from the clumsy posture, didn’t even reach near Lofri.

“As expected, practicing for three minutes before coming didn’t help much.”

“Are you insulting me right now?”

“Well, partly.”

Loki shrugged his shoulders.

“You shouldn’t let your guard down just because it’s a stray arrow, you know?”

Upon hearing Loki’s words, Lofri quickly looked at the fallen arrow.

However, the arrow was just an ordinary one.

Swish.

While Lofri was still focused on the fallen arrow, Loki shot another arrow.

◈.

However, Lofri deflected the incoming arrow with her sword.

The arrow deflected by Lofri fell to the ground.

“Is this all you’ve got!!!”

“Oh~ Come on. I told you not to let your guard down just because it’s a missed shot.”

Crack.

There was electricity flowing through the arrow that had fallen to the ground.

Normally, there should have been no damage since the arrow and Lofri were separated.

However, due to the water sprayed by the frog earlier, the arena floor and Lofri were soaked.

Sizzle!!

“Kuaaah!!!”

After encountering a few traps, Lofri arrived in front of Loki.

Lofri was a complete wreck. Her hair was disheveled, and her clothes were already torn in several places.

“There’s nowhere left for you to escape now.”

Lofri pondered how to kill Loki.

If she fought with only her sword without any traps, Lofri was confident she could crush Loki.

Clap clap clap clap clap!

Loki, sitting on a chair, applauded towards Lofri.

“Oh! Impressive of you to come this far.”

Lofri thought that the seemingly relaxed appearance was just a show-off.

Trying to rush towards Loki, who was sitting in the chair.

The entire chair disappeared before Loki’s eyes.

“What’s going on?”

Rofry heard a voice from behind when he had not yet assessed the situation.

“Then please come back here again.”

Loki was sitting in the chair in the opposite direction from here.