Chapter 48: Personal strength
In less than a minute, a robot came over with the dish. Even it's appearance was mouth watering, I couldn't wait to try it. I picked one and took a bite and oh my god 'Heavenly' I thought. But right then, a cold voice bought me out of my bliss. "Get out, this is my seat" said the voice.
'oh my God, don't tell me, my very own arrogant young master encounter' I thought while raising my head to look at the person who spoke. It was a fairly handsome guy with his groups of three lackeys behind him. 'Hmmm?, the lackeys are in early silver while the boss is the same as me, mid silver.
"Hey didn't you hear what the young master said" said one of the lackeys with a scorn on his face while I was scrutinizing them. He had the tooks of every typical thug out there with tattoos on his body and a buzz cut.
"Show me your name" I said. "Hmmm?" grunted one of the lackeys. "Show me where your name is written on the table" I clarified.
"This bastard, do you know who I am?" asked the boss. "Don't know, don't care" I replied. Meanwhile, the other cadets in the restaurant all watched in amusement with some whispering about him being from some 'Stein' clan and whatnot.
"Hey kid, if ya know what's good for you get out of here before I turn you into my punching bag" said another lackey, this one was huge and packed with muscles, his bloodline most likely a physical type.
"See, let's be reasonable here, I was here before you guys, it doesn't make sense to for you to just come and send me out, we can even share the table if you want, there are enough seats" I reasoned, as I saw no need for a beef. "Hmph, a commoner teaching me what's reasonable and what's not?, Here's what's reasonable, my word, and right now I want you to get out of here" said the so called young master.
'Alright now I'm pissed'. "You know what I'm not going anywhere" I said glaring at them. "Young master, let me take care of this fool" said the huge lackey while smacking his fist with his palm and coming closer to me. "Sigh do you really want to do this?" I asked the huge dude as he came before me.
Standing before me the attempted to grab my collar but I smacked his hand away. Seeing his hand smacked away, it seemed to hurt his ego as he reached out for a punch with his other arm which I tilted my head to dodge. He was pitifully slow, compared to others I've fought like that black robed man or even Owen not to talk of instructor Blake.
He kept trying to either grab me or punch me, and I was dodging or parrying his attempts all while being seated. Everything he tries to do plays in slow motion to me. "Tsk you're useless, move away" said the so called young master while shoving the lackey away. As I saw him conjuring a green energy ball in his palm, my patience ran thin as I activated crushing on him and the lackeys.
Caught by the unexpected shift in gravity, they lost their balance and pummeled to the ground in embarrassing positions especially the leader who had his face planted on the floor. "RING, RING, RING, an alarm started blaring as some of the robots surrounded us, "fighting is prohibited in this establishment, you're hereby banned for two weeks, please see yourselves out" spoke the robots simultaneously.
'Stupid f*ckers, you could at least let me finish eating before you all came and started chaos' I thought as I glared at the four sprawled guyswhile deactivating the crushing. 'Anyway, no way I'm missing this food I already paid for' I thought as I put the plate of wings in my storage before heading out of the restaurant.
As I walked towards the dorm building, the four idiots came to disturb me again. "Hey bastard don't think I'm done with you yet" shouted the young master. "You still have the guts to follow me here after what happened in the restaurant?" I asked no one in particular.
"That was a sneak attack, and it won't work again now that I know about it" said the young master as green energy balls manifested in both of his palms, but before he had a chance to launch it, I disappeared from his sight and appeared directly before him. "You.....you how did you do that" he stuttered. I didn't have time for his words but held one of his hands and simply gave him a resounding slap making his head tilt to the other direction.
"Hey how dare you" said the last of the lackeys as they began to come close to us but I simply gazed at them and "kuek", they all collapsed again under my crushing. As for the clown who calls himself young master, I slapped him again and again, slap after slap until his face was swollen, I released his hand and gave him another slap this time making him fall. Before me he was simply a lamb for slaughter. "Hah, I really needed to let out some steam" I let out.
I crouched close to the clown before saying; "listen clown, in this academy, in this world even, only your personal strength matters, so you going around flaunting your clan's strength is utterly ridiculous, if you had enough strength I could understand but a weakling like you heh". I stood up to go and he mumbled "Y...y..you will regret this". "I'll like to see how you'll make me regret it" I said before I blasted into the sky no longer intending to walk back.
In less than ten seconds, I reached my balcony. I entered my bedroom, wore my pajamas and crashed into the bed. Today was indeed a hectic day. The next day I woke up around four am, and set off to continue my daily routine.
When I reached the combat grounds, instructor Blake was there as usual. "You're here, good, from today we'll kick things up a notch, I'll be fighting you at peak silver and then after you've adjusted for sometime, I'll adjust to early gold rank.
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