Chapter 116: Training with Nene!
"I'm truly sorry for causing you trouble."
Ikki bowed ninety degrees to Kurono.
After hearing that Stella and Shizuku had started fighting, he hurried over from the infirmary. What he saw was the two girls tied up by Kurono.
"This has nothing to do with Brother. In the end, it's all the fault of this countryside princess."
Shizuku really wanted to comfort Ikki right away, but her hands and feet were bound by the director, leaving her unable to move. All she could do was glare at Stella with eyes cold enough to freeze someone to death.
"You were the one who attacked first, you jerk. Even in the Vermillion Empire, what I did would count as self-defense."
Stella spoke with dissatisfaction. She had kindly gone to help Ikki welcome Shizuku, yet who knew this girl would react so strongly?
Kurono looked at the four people present with a headache.
Each of them was better at causing trouble than the last. But aside from Ikki, she really had no good way to deal with the other three.
Shiro was basically outside help Nene had called in for her. As for the remaining two, one was a princess, and the other was the treasured daughter of the Kurogane family. If she handled either of them poorly, it could turn into a diplomatic issue.
So she angrily glared at Shiro, who had been watching the show the whole time.
Before the fight broke out, Shiro could clearly have stopped them. Instead, he hid to the side and watched, and in the end, Kurono had to step in herself to save the classroom.
In the end, both girls received a punishment that was neither light nor heavy. They were suspended from school, which was basically the same as locking them inside the dorm for one week.
This punishment did not matter much to Stella. She had already studied the school curriculum back in her own country, so being suspended for a while would not affect her much.
But for Shizuku, it was rather unfriendly.
"Damn it... I finally reunited with Brother after so long, but now I have to be locked up for another week..."
Under Ikki's gaze, Shizuku was dragged away just like that.
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Hagun Academy's classes were divided into academic classes and practical combat classes.
The academic classes were mostly the same as ordinary schools. They involved learning this country's history, along with the categories of Blazer abilities.
But practical combat classes were different.
Besides training a Blazer's physical strength, ordinary practical classes also included students teaming up with each other for battles.
"Are you ready, Kouhai~?"
Nene held her Device, [Beniiro Ageha], and smiled at Shiro.
As a teacher at Hagun Academy, Nene did not need to teach student knights every day like the other teachers. She also did not need to guide students on their future paths, so she could be called extremely free.
Her appearance in today's practical class caused quite a stir among the student knights.
After all, Nene was currently ranked third in the world. If one earned her favor, the future could almost be called smooth sailing.
However, when the students saw Nene say nothing and pull Shiro aside for private training, they all fell silent.
No matter how slow their information was, they had already heard that Shiro had broken Hagun Academy's entrance record.
So even though Nene giving Shiro private lessons could be called a complete neglect of her duties as a teacher, no one dared jump out and criticize them.
"Let's begin."
Shiro nodded.
This training should have happened on his first day at Hagun, but too many accidents happened in between, dragging it out until now.
"Then I'm coming~"
Nene opened her iron fan.
In the next instant—
Boom—
A tremendous sense of gravity descended. The ground within fifty meters of Shiro let out a miserable groan and sank. If Nene had not considered the many students in the distance, the range of destruction would have been even wider.
"How is it? Do you need some time to get used to it?"
Nene stood at the center of the gravity field in her wooden clogs, looking at Shiro with a teasing expression.
Shiro answered her with action.
His foot moved, and he ignored the dozens of times heavier gravity placed on him, appearing right in front of her.
At the same time, Nene wrapped dark magic around her iron fan, forming a three-meter-long blade, and swung it down at Shiro as he rushed in.
Thud—
The sound of magic colliding rang out.
The instant their blades crossed, Nene understood that her gravity field had very little effect on him.
"But this level still isn't enough, you know~"
"Is that so? Then watch carefully."
After saying that, Shiro vanished from Nene's sight.
"Nukiashi? But I could already break that old man's move ages ago."
Nene showed a confident smile and released a tiny amount of magic, spreading it into the surrounding air.
To put it simply, Nukiashi only made a person impossible to notice. It did not make them truly disappear. As long as Shiro moved within the area covered by her magic, he would definitely leave a trail.
However, in the next second, her confident smile froze.
A hand had already reached her slender waist, and she could even feel the man's warm breath beside her ear.
"If I were using a blade, you would have lost already, Nene."
Without her noticing, Shiro had already slipped behind her.
"How is that possible? Was it not Nukiashi? No, you combined your Noble Art with Nukiashi, didn't you? I really underestimated you, Kouhai."
Nene slid forward and escaped from Shiro's embrace.
"But that kind of move will only work on yours truly once."
She waved her fair hand, and the dark magic blade transformed into butterflies that flew toward Shiro.
This was Nene's Noble Art—[Kokushichou or Black Death Butterfly].
Although those butterflies looked light and gentle, in reality, each butterfly had the mass of a bomb weighing ten tons.
The terrifying weapons surrounded Shiro from all sides.
At the same time, to prevent him from escaping, Nene increased the gravity on his body several more times.
At that critical moment, Shiro moved half a step back to the right, matching the butterflies' path. Just as the butterflies gathered together, he swung down his sword.
Then, the explosion happened.
Rumble—!
A violent roar that shook the sky came from the distance, drawing the students' attention.
"Hey, hey, that direction... If I remember right, that's where Saikyo-sensei took Shiro, isn't it?"
After realizing the source of the explosion, the surrounding students all broke out in cold sweat. Even the students who had originally planned to participate in the Seven Star Sword Art Festival faintly began considering withdrawal.
'What kind of joke is this? If I fight a monster who can cause that kind of scene, I'll definitely die.'
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