“Huh?”
“What just happened?”
The students were shocked by the unexpected situation.
Sien, who had taken the blow directly, was even more shocked.
‘What just happened? What did I just get hit with?’
As soon as the fight started, Sien enhanced his body with aura.
Then, he kicked off with all his might to finish the fight quickly.
But,
‘Hmm…’
Contrary to his expectations, it was Sien who was hit, not Kaine.
Moreover, Sien couldn’t even see Kaine’s attack.
“You coward, hitting me with your face again?”
At that moment, Sien frowned.
‘What? Hit me with your face?’
Sien was furious at Kaine’s words.
At that moment,
-Whoosh!
Sien drew two daggers from his Space ring.
Sien swung the daggers at Kaine, who was looking down at him.
-Whoosh!
The daggers were sharp and covered in aura.
If Kaine wasn’t an overwhelming opponent, it would have been a decent attack.
-Thud!
But for Kaine, who had enhanced his body with mana, it was a slow attack.
Kaine blocked Sien’s attack and grabbed his wrist.
Sien tried to break free, but,
“Hmm?!”
Contrary to expectations, Kaine didn’t budge.
Sien was shocked, and as he hesitated, Kaine asked,
“Do you have time to be surprised?”
Kaine squeezed Sien’s wrist tightly.
Sien gritted his teeth, enduring the pain.
‘Hmm! I can’t stay like this.’
Sien was worried that his wrist might break.
Kaine’s strength was overwhelming, and Sien’s pride was hurt.
But he needed to escape first.
Sien kicked Kaine in the abdomen.
“Oh, that’s unexpected.”
Kaine was surprised and stepped back.
Sien took the opportunity to free himself from Kaine’s grip and checked his wrist.
‘What kind of strength is this…?’
Kaine’s strength was overwhelming.
Sien had never thought that Kaine’s physical abilities were weak, but seeing his red wrist made him change his mind.
Kaine’s strength was so great that his wrist turned red in an instant.
“I have to admit, you’re strong.”
“Hmm? What?”
Kaine was surprised by Sien’s sudden admission.
Kaine made a confused expression.
“Your physical abilities are outstanding, but your technique is lacking. You have too many unnecessary movements.”
“…”
Kaine was surprised by Sien’s words and scoffed.
“It seems like you forgot. Last year, you were toyed with by this strength.”
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At that moment, Sien’s body split into three.
One of the Sien clones opened his mouth and said,
“Let’s see if you can handle it again like last year.”
The three Sien clones kicked towards Kaine.
.
.
.
At that moment, Kage, who was watching from the audience, asked Jenny,
“Is that the signature technique you mentioned?”
“Yes, last year, Sien used his clones to toy with Kaine.”
At that time, Sien didn’t even fight Kaine directly.
He used one of his clones to toy with Kaine.
He deliberately controlled his strength to avoid knocking Kaine out and even pretended to be in trouble a few times to give Kaine hope.
The female alliance, who witnessed this, wanted to kill Sien, but it was difficult to intervene.
The students and even the professor just watched from the training ground.
“Hmm… I’m not too worried about this fight.”
At that moment, Mira, who had been silently watching, spoke up.
Olivia tilted her head, confused.
“May I ask why, Mira-nim? It seems like Master is at a disadvantage.”
“Well, it looks that way, but look at their expressions.”
Everyone’s attention turned to the two fighters’ faces.
Mira continued in a calm voice,
“As you can see, Kaine-nim is very relaxed, while Sien is anxious. It seems like Kaine-nim is holding back.”
At that moment, Sien’s clone disappeared.
Kaine opened his mouth with a disappointed expression,
“It’s exactly as I thought.”
“Huh?”
Sien was surprised by Kaine’s unexpected words.
Sien made a fierce expression, but Kaine ignored him and said,
“Exactly as I thought.”
“…”
Sien’s expression stiffened.
In fact, he knew that Kaine seemed more relaxed than him.
But,
‘Damn it. That guy must have pulled some trick.’
No matter how obvious the answer is, people don’t always choose it.
And Sien was no exception.
Sien knew that David von Kaine was stronger than him, but he couldn’t accept it, so he was in denial.
“What did you do? It can’t be a normal method, right?”
“Hmm?”
“What are you pretending not to know? Do you think your strength is normal?”
“Hmm… I did something, and that’s why.”
Kaine nodded in agreement.
Then, he scoffed,
“Hmm… People’s thoughts are similar, aren’t they? You’re just like those guys. Anyway, let’s fight seriously now.”
Kaine said as he drew a mana gun from his Space ring.
At that moment,
-Boom!
A small sound came from Kaine’s weapon, and then,
“Cough!”
The clone’s forehead was completely pierced.
Sien was confused, like a broken robot, and turned his head.
‘What… What just happened?’
Sien had seen Kaine draw his weapon and aim it at him.
But when Kaine moved his finger,
‘He got rid of my clones…’
Sien calmed his trembling pupils and thought to himself.
“Hey, is this the time to be relaxed?”
Kaine’s cold voice echoed in Sien’s ears.
At the same time,
-Boom!
An alarm bell rang in Sien’s head.
Sien instinctively dodged to the side, feeling that something bad would happen if he didn’t move immediately.
“Oh, so the original is different?”
Kaine made a surprised expression.
He hadn’t expected Sien to dodge.
‘But Sien was once the top student. It’s ridiculous that he’s being defeated like this.’
Kaine’s mana gun was indeed overpowered, but Sien shouldn’t have been defeated so easily.
If Sien couldn’t even dodge this, he didn’t deserve the title of top student.
“Well, let’s continue.”
Kaine infused mana into his gun and fired at Sien repeatedly.
-Boom! Boom! Boom!
The mana bullets flew at an alarming speed, unlike the one Kaine had used earlier.
‘Damn it!’
Sien cursed under his breath and kept moving.
If he didn’t move, the threatening bullets would surely hit him.
At the same time, Sien thought to himself,
‘Hmm… Calm down.’
Kaine’s weapon was undoubtedly threatening, but it seemed to absorb Kaine’s mana.
‘It must have a limit based on Kaine’s mana.’
In other words, Sien could overwhelm Kaine by continuously summoning clones.
Sien used his unique ability to summon clones.
At that moment,
“Thank you for moving exactly as I expected.”
“Huh?”
Kaine was already in front of Sien, with a smirk on his face.
Sien panicked and shouted,
“All the Clone! Attack him!”
“…”
Contrary to expectations, the clones didn’t move.
‘What’s going on? Why aren’t they moving?’
Sien looked around, confused.
The clone on his left had its forehead pierced, just like before, and the clone on the other side was impaled by a sword that had appeared out of thin air.
‘What… When did this happen?’
Sien was sweating and couldn’t think straight.
“You’re panicking, but did you think your ability was invincible? You don’t even know the weakness of your own technique.”
“…”
The weakness of the clones.
Sien knew that the clones were only 70% as strong as the original.
But,
‘How can he be defeated so easily?’
Although the clones were weaker than the original, the original was none other than Sien himself.
Sien couldn’t understand why Kaine was so confident.
Then, Kaine punched Sien in the abdomen.
-Crack!
The sound of breaking bones echoed through the training ground.
“Cough!”
Sien knelt down, holding his cracked ribs.
Then, he spat out blood.
“Don’t be such a wimp.”
Sien wanted to say, “Why don’t you try it yourself?” but he was in too much pain to speak.
Kaine read Sien’s thoughts and said,
“Are you cursing me in your mind?”
Sien flinched, feeling like his thoughts had been exposed.
Kaine ignored Sien’s reaction and smiled to himself.
‘I never expected him to move exactly as I predicted.’
The Sien in front of him was a skilled third-rate villain.
Because of his clones, the difficulty level in the original story was quite high.
‘Thanks to that, I’ve figured out his weakness.’
Sien probably thought that the weakness was the clones’ ability.
It was true that the clones were weaker than the original.
But that wasn’t the weakness Kaine was referring to.
The real weakness was,
‘His openings are too big.’
When Sien summoned clones, there was a brief moment of vulnerability.
Of course, against weaker opponents, this opening was negligible.
The clones could react immediately.
But,
‘That’s only against weaker opponents.’
When facing an opponent of equal or greater strength, that brief moment could decide the outcome of the fight.
So, if Kaine waited for the right moment, it wouldn’t be difficult to exploit Sien’s opening.
‘How should I defeat him now?’
The fight was practically over, but Sien felt uneasy.
He had overheard the female alliance’s conversation while adjusting the volume.
‘Of course, I’m not Kaine, but…’
As soon as Sien thought of this, a lightning bolt flashed through his mind.
‘Because of him…’
Kaine had become a maniac because of Sien.
Kaine had suffered a lot because of Sien.
He had been punched in the stomach by Kim Soo-yong, his family’s allowance had been cut off, and he had been treated with contempt by those around him.
‘…I can’t let this go.’
Kaine couldn’t forgive Sien for what he had been through.
Kaine took out Karin’s potion and sprayed it on Sien.
Sien’s broken bones slowly healed, and he looked at Kaine with a confused expression.
Kaine glared at Sien and said in a voice filled with killing intent,
“Take this punch, you bastard.”