Chapter 210: Welcome

“I’m sorry for involving you.”

“No! I’m totally fine! In fact, I’m happy to help!”

Sophie and I arrived at the school’s practice field, where we were to meet.  They had me as their designated student and the meeting place was at the training ground…could it be that they were ready to fight?

When we arrived at the meeting place, Shana and Claudia were already there. So I first apologized to Claudia for what had happened today. I’m glad she didn’t mind and was rather happy.

By the way, the reason she says she’s glad about helping is because she won’t have to attend classes while the study abroad program is here. And if she does well, she’ll be in the same situation as us, where she doesn’t have to go to school and can just take tests. But what does if we do well mean? Does it mean that the foreign students give us high marks?

“Oh, it looks like they’re here.”

I hear some people walking by, talking in a gaggle. Or rather, the only voices I hear talking are those of Bequa the beastman and Gladen the dwarf….

Then the door opened vigorously and the foreign students entered.

“Zeros! Long time no see!”

“Long time no see! We missed you!”

Bequa and Gladen said so loudly as soon as the door opened. How nice it would have been if the person who said this had been a girl. Nah, friendship between guys is good too! So, Sophie can you break the gravity spell? It’s pretty heavy here.

“Nice to meet you, my name is Zeros Adolfo. So, um… who are the two guys behind Bequa and the two next to Gladen?”

I think the two beastmen hiding behind Bequa and the two dwarves beside Gladen are new here. They aren’t the same two who took part in the last interschool battle. Elira was the only elf, by the way.

“I’ll introduce you to them later! For now…!”

After saying that, Bequa started running toward me. Then he slowly swung his arm. As he came at me and I caught him with the belly of my sword. From the outside, it looked like he was punching at me vigorously, but from my point of view, I could tell that he intentionally took it easy on me so that I could catch it.

“Let me have my revenge for the last time.”

“I think we usually introduce ourselves first, don’t you think? Huh… okay.”

Perhaps there is some reason why it is more convenient for me to fight before introducing myself. I’m sure there is, right? If it’s because of a quick fight or something, I’m going to slap you later.

“Now, we will have a mock battle between Zeros and Bequa. Are both of you ready?”

“I’m ready.”

“Yeah!”

“Then, begin!”

I readied my sword and Bequa readied his fist. He still seems to be using bare hands.

This time, Sophie would be the judge of our mock battle. If she thinks my life is in danger, Sophie will stop it right away.

“Lightning Triple Enchantment, Raiden Armour.”

“Ice and Snow Armor.”

I used the triple enchantment and the Raiden armor as soon as we started. I could still use the additional half enchantment and spirit descent, but I left them in place for the magic consumption. And the most annoying thing is that Bequa is probably evolving…

“Let’s go!”

“Come!”

Bequa came at me vigorously. He wears ice and snow on his body. The snow changes its shape freely when it attacks. And sharp ice cubes are popping out of the snow. It’s much harder to fight than the last time we fought with only ice.

“Heh-buh! Bwahaha!”

But to that extent, I hate Sophie’s magic much more. Sophie’s magic is a bunch of unreasonableness. At any rate, I had already seen this, so I beat up Bequa one-sidedly. It’s easy for me because I can swing my sword around him because even if I attack him with the blade of my sword, he protects himself with ice and snow. I’m not going to let Bequa do anything other than taking a step back because if I’m struggling with this, I’m not going to see what I want to see. Well, if this were a match instead of a mock fight, I’d have already knocked him out.

“No way…my brother is being completely outplayed…”

“But…but… Bequa-niisan still has a few more tricks up his sleeve…”

Such voices could be heard from the outside. The two beastmen hiding behind Bequa were apparently Bequa’s brother and sister. Since I was in the middle of a battle, I could not determine what kind of beastmen they were by closely checking their ears.

“Ku… haha, it’s like I’m no match for you!”

“If you’re going to swear, don’t say it while laughing.”

Bequa said with a good smile that seemed to be enjoying himself despite his words, once he had distanced himself from me.

“But why didn’t you try to finish me off? There were plenty of occasions when you could have finished me off, weren’t there?”

“There’s something I want to see.”

“This is what you want to see! Beastification!”

After saying that, Bequa once released his ice and snow armor. Then he changed from an ordinary humanoid to a white bear about 3 meters long.

Until now, Bequa had been clad in ice and snow that mimicked the bear-like shape. But now he looks like a bear equipped with ice and snow. I wonder, is it a relative of the Beast King? I wanted to see what it would be like to become a beast after making a contract with a beast.

“Sorry to keep you waiting…”

“The bear can talk?”

Bequa spoke to me in a voice a little lower than usual. By the way, it took Bequa about a minute to complete the beastification. Perhaps it was rather recently that he acquired beastification. It seems that he’s still not that familiar with the process.

“Ggah!”

And then Bequa came toward me charging on all fours. Perhaps it would have been better if I had won before he got beastified. But this is a mock battle, and I want Bequa to give it his all. So this is good.

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