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"That way of speaking... it might take a while to fix. You need a way of speaking that matches your pretty face. Anyway. Let's hear what this choice is."
"It was simple. Take your stinky, noisy, dirty underlings and leave the Alsace Forest completely, or die today. But you had such filthy thoughts that I lost the will to give you a choice."
"What is—"
Smack!
Sparks flashed in Karpa's eyes.
His body floated in the air.
He seemed to have been hit somewhere, but he couldn't even feel the pain yet.
Thud!
Karpa, who had been experiencing weightlessness for a while, fell onto the food buffet.
"Ugh!"
Only then did a burning pain rush to his left cheek.
'What, what is this!'
Swish.
Ignis's body disappeared, and then reappeared right in front of Karpa.
"You dirty bastard. You dared to treat me like a whore?"
Ignis had somewhat read Karpa's mind.
He had thought that she was attracted to his strength and had come to offer her body and fortune, but he couldn't have been further from the truth.
It was only natural that Ignis was angry.
Ignis grabbed Karpa's shaggy hair with one hand and lifted him up.
Smack!
Sparks flashed in Karpa's eyes again.
But because his hair was being held, he couldn't fly away this time.
Since he couldn't fly away, the impact on his cheek was doubled.
"Ugh!"
Dark red blood gushed out as if his mouth had burst.
Yellow teeth that had grown randomly were mixed in.
Thump.
When Ignis released her hand, Karpa's body fell limply to the ground.
Everything had happened in an instant.
Silence flowed through Ignis's mansion.
Karpa's longtime colleague, and the first subordinate when Karpa founded the bandit gang, Kalos, shouted.
"Hi-hit her!"
He didn't know what had happened.
He didn't know what the mistress of the mansion had done.
But he had to save Brother Karpa.
"Hit her!"
Karpa, who shouted twice, rushed towards Ignis first.
Had he ever run this fast since he was born?
Just as he was rushing with all his might and Kalos's ax was about to reach the mistress's body,
Smack!
Sparks flashed, and he experienced weightlessness.
"He was a great swordsman. I also learned a lot from that human. Of course, only in terms of swordsmanship."
"Listening to you, it seems he was quite the man."
Insanis finished talking about his human friend from seven hundred years ago, who had boasted amazing swordsmanship.
Davian asked.
"But how long are those people going to keep doing that?"
At Davian's question, Ignis turned her head.
In the wide yard, all 80 or so members of the bandit gang were kneeling with their heads to the ground.
Thump.
One bandit couldn't withstand the head-butting and put his knee on the ground.
"Hoo."
"Hoo."
The bandits on either side of him got up at this moment.
Then.
Thud! Thwack!
They mercilessly stomped on the bandit who had put his knee on the ground.
Then, all three of them put their heads back on the ground.
If the person next to you loses their posture, you can get up for a moment.
Instead, you have to mercilessly step on the fallen comrade.
If you did it sloppily and caught Ignis's eye, you would get slapped in the face.
As this process was repeated, they now got up with joy when the person next to them fell.
They were given a moment to rest.
The fallen bandit was the same.
Although he was mercilessly stepped on, he could rest for a while.
Then he would put his head back on the ground.
All of the Gold King bandits had been bowing their heads like this for two hours.
Ignis opened her mouth.
"Everyone, stand up."
About 80 bandits stood up at the same time.
Insanis asked.
"But that boss guy. Didn't he blow up the gate with magic earlier?"
Ignis nodded.
"He did."
"It seems like he uses a sword too?"
"It does."
"Hoo..."
A bandit who uses both magic and swordsmanship.
He is as interesting as Davian, who is double majoring.
Ignis beckoned to the bandit boss Karpa.
The red water was in the well-groomed nails at the end of the white fingers.
A gesture of incomparable beauty.
But to Karpa, it was a more terrifying sight than the devil's finger guarding the gates of hell.
"Come here, you bastard."
Only after Ignis's impatient mouth dropped.
The man who would become the bandit king, Karpa, took hesitant steps forward.
"You, do you use magic and swordsmanship?"
"Y-yes."
He was a man who would become the Bandit King who had become very humble.
"Interesting. My friend here uses both too. The two of you should fight once."
Davian tilted his head.
"Suddenly?"
"Why, isn't it the first time you've faced someone like that either?"
"There were many more unique people who came over from other continents."
"Anyway, it's the first time you've met someone exactly like you, right?"
"That's true."
"Hey, you. Boss."
"Yes!"
"If you fight him and your attack touches him even once for 10 minutes, I'll let you go as is. It doesn't matter if it's a magic attack or a sword attack. If you do, I'll allow you to continue being a bandit at the camp on that mountain."
Hope began to arise in the head of the bandit boss Karpa.
"But if you don't manage to touch him with an attack even once, you die and your bandit gang will be disbanded from today."
Karpa turned his head and looked at Davian.
A young boy who doesn't seem to be even twenty years old yet.
"Is that true?"
"Dragons don't lie."
Karpa tilted his head.
'Dragon? What are you talking about all of a sudden. There's no way something like that could really exist.'
More humans than one might expect think of dragons as just legendary animals.
"Anyway, you're saying that if I beat that young man, you'll let us go?"
"What are you talking about? There's no way you can beat Davian. I'm saying that if you just touch him with an attack, I'll let you all go."
Karpa looked at Davian once again.
'Just who is that guy?'
Unfortunately.
Karpa, who had been training his internal strength and magical power alone for 40 years, was too ignorant of the world.
A black-haired youth wearing the Elton Academy uniform with a calm expression.
At this point, one might be able to guess who he is.
But Karpa didn't know about Davian's existence at all.
"Anyway, I accept. I'll do it."
Ignis turned to Davian.
"Can you play with him for a while?"
Davian shook his head and got up from his seat.
"Don't make it sound like you're asking for a favor now that you've decided everything."
"Hey, it's not a difficult task."
"Anyway, I understand."
Davian came forward as if he couldn't win.
In fact.
He was curious.
Of course, there was no way that bandit could be Davian's opponent.
But.
After choosing to double major, it was the first time he had met someone who had walked the same path as him on the Pax Continent.
"Kid. I have no grudge against you. But don't resent me too much. I have a lot of family to feed. And there are things I have to become."
"What do you have to become?"
"Bandit King."
After thinking for a moment, Davian opened his mouth.
"I have no grudge against you either. Don't resent me too much."
"What?"
"Because you won't be able to become that Bandit King. I don't really intend to go easy on you either."
"Insolent!"
Karpa swung his massive sword.
"Oh."
Davian looked surprised.
'He's more impressive than I thought.'
Whoosh.
The huge sword swung quickly.
The path of the sword is a bit of a mess, but.
The speed and the power contained in it are unusual.
Tatt.
He lightly flew his body to avoid Karpa's sword.
It was a sword path that could not be avoided with both feet on the ground.
"Not bad? You must have trained for a long time? Well, considering your age..."
"You're pretty good too, kid. To be able to avoid my sword. But I'll take today's victory. Don't underestimate my 40 years of training."
Davian nodded.
40 years, huh.
Then you should be able to do that much.
Whoosh.
Karpa's sword swung again.
But, you know.
I've already lived here for over 10 years.
He was about to avoid the sword lightly again.
Whoosh!
Karpa's fireball flew.
Oh, that's right.
You use magic too, right?
Chwaarruk.
He lightly unfolded an ice barrier.
Kwaang!
The fireball that collided with the ice barrier exploded as it was.
At the same time, Karpa's eyes widened.
The ice barrier that Davian lightly unfolded didn't have even a single scratch.
"Now you know, right? Why you can't become the Bandit King."
"H-how... to have such magic power with such movements. At such a young age."
If you've been training alone for 40 years.
I've been rolling around like a dog for 10 years.
Of course.
The talent we have from the beginning is different too.
Davian has no intention of going easy on him.
And Ignis said she would kill Karpa if he failed to land an attack on Davian.
'There's no need to fill the full 10 minutes and torment him.'
Davian lightly shook his wrist.
Swaeaeak!
Sharp wind element magic shot towards Karpa's lower body.
Surprised, Karpa blocked the wind element magic with the side of his big, thick sword.
Seogeok.
......!
It was just wind element magic that he lightly shook his wrist and fired.
It sliced through Karpa's massive sword as it was.
And yet, its sharpness, speed, and momentum did not decrease at all.
"Ugh!"
Karpa's two legs were cut off as they were.
Thump.
Karpa's upper body, which had lost its balance, fell to the ground as it was.
Still with an expression of disbelief.
"H-how..."
Davian turned around and headed back to the table.
"Why did you end it so anticlimactically, Davian."
"I didn't think there was a need to drag it out."
"Well, the level difference is too big."
"But he was pretty good. If he was that good, he really could have become the Bandit King."
Ignis chuckled.
"This is the fate of that human. If he hadn't thought that I had come here to offer him my body and fortune, things wouldn't have turned out this way."
Davian was surprised and asked.
"He had those thoughts about you, Sister? That bandit?"
Ignis nodded.
"Yeah."
"Hmm... I'll take back what I said earlier. No matter how good his skills are, if he has such a foolish and frivolous personality, it would have been difficult for him to become the Bandit King."
"Right?"
Tap, tap.
Ignis approached Karpa, who had fallen to the ground.
Thwack!
She stepped on his head and crushed it as it was.
Even Davian, who had experienced so much, frowned for a moment.
'She's different from Insanis.'
Unlike Insanis, who escaped the Guangryonghwa by humans and declared that he would not harm humans.
There was not even a moment's hesitation in Ignis's murder.
"Everyone else, get out of here. I'll give you 5 seconds. One, two..."
"Ugh, euaaack!"
"Euaaack!"
The bandits began to run away in panic.
"Five."
5 seconds later.
Hwareureureu.
Dozens of bandits who had not yet escaped the mansion were engulfed in Ignis's flames.
"Oh! You're here!"
Bellum, who decided to join the student council, and Davian, who decided to help with the festival preparations, visited the student council room.
"Welcome."
In addition to the student council seniors they met at C-Bre that day, there were about a dozen more seniors.
Public Relations Director Priya Anar took Davian and Bellum's hands and guided them to the inner conference room.
A piece of paper with the words 'Festival Preparation Room' was written on the door of the conference room.
As they entered the conference room, Executive Director Ronnie Stafford and General Affairs Director Pankas Bruno were sitting at the desk.
On the large chalkboard in front, various details for the festival preparations were written.
Public Relations Director Priya Anar put her hands together and said.
"For this festival performance, I'm thinking of doing a parade that starts from the academy's common area and goes to Elton City Square! What do you think?"
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