After Areth finished his harsh training at school with his teacher, he went back to the place he told the girl he met yesterday about during the night, only to see her sitting on a bench, doing nothing, just waiting.
“Kirela!” He shouted at her as she turned around to see him.
“I didn’t expect her to actually show up…” He thought to himself as he walked to her.
Areth saw Kirela’s face and noticed it immediately.
She was serious about the training, ready to make a change, and prove that she isn’t weak.
“Let’s start.”
“…Right,” she replied.
Areth and Kirela started to fight each other, with her sending a flurry of punches at him, but he avoided and parried them with little to no effort.
Seeing this, she tries to land a kick on him, but he catches her leg with his left hand before throwing her away.
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As Kirela was in the air, she threw a ball of dark energy towards Areth, which was taken care of by sending a ball of energy of his own towards it, creating an explosion and smoke in the process.
“Hmm, that was a good move,” Areth said as she flew out of the smoke directly toward him, unleashing a flurry of punches that he blocked with little effort before throwing a punch of his own, expecting her to block it.
Unfortunately, she didn’t, and the blow knocked her unconscious.
WHAM!
After a few minutes, Kirela woke up and asked him how he became such a good fighter, to which he replied that he simply trained with efficiency.
“I see…”
“Well, now that we’re done, I’ll be taking my leave.”
As Areth leaves, he runs into someone he didn’t expect, it was the same man he ran into while in the dorms.
“Ah, hello,” Areth said as the man glared at him.
[IMMINENT THREAT DETECTED WITHIN YOUR SURROUNDINGS]
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“Again!?” The man said in shock as the man smiled at him, greeting him back before walking away, but for some reason, the smile felt forced to him.
“…”
“…this guy is way too weird.” He thought to himself as he continued to walk his way home.
The next day arrives, and Areth makes his way to school when he is met with a giant spacecraft covering the majority of the school grounds.
“What the…”
“Where going by spaceship?” He thought to himself as Inra walked up to him.
“Yeah, we are.”
“I hope you can handle the speed of one of those.”
PFFT!
“Please, I can fly, there’s no way I can’t handle this!” He replied to her as a loud, static, masculine voice could be heard shouting.
[PLEASE ENTER THE SPACECRAFT AS WE ARE GOING TO LEAVE IN 5 MINUTES, THANK YOU!]
“Looks like we gotta go,” Inra says as the two make their way into the massive silver ship.
They found a pair of four seats facing each other with a table in the center and a window that showed the outside, and decided to sit there.
Chatter could be heard all over the ship as the two put on their seatbelts before Inra asked him a question.
“So, do you plan to participate in the match against Tharkal?”
“Yea, i do.” Areth replied, which surprised her.
“Well, shit, I am too.”
“The entirety of class A is going to be here.”
“Also, four extra students are gonna be present as well, according to the teacher,” Inra tells him.
“But since we both plan to participate, we only need four others.”
“I’m pretty sure Leikon and Turvan are going to fight as well.”
“Turvan? The muscle head?”
“…Yeah?” Areth replied as he didn’t think of Turvan as a musclehead when, suddenly, the speakers in the ship let out a feminine voice.
[ATTENTION ALL PASSENGERS ON BOARD, WE WILL NOW BE TAKING OFF. PLEASE DO NOT GET UP FROM YOUR SEATS DURING LIFTOFF. THANK YOU]
The spaceship lifted off the ground as it slowly went off towards the skies and tilted itself towards outer space.
“Oh, there it is,” Inra said as she tightened her belt, making Areth confused as to why she was doing it.
“Inra, why are you-”
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ZOOOM!
“Oh shit!” Areth shouted as the spaceship started to fly at a speed he couldn’t even comprehend in the void of space.