The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

93 – Semifinals

The next day.

The semi-finals of the duel began with the cheers of the numerous spectators.

As the saying goes, there were more people than yesterday, so there was no space to even step on.

The corner of my mouth went up at the thought that there would be Luna among all these people. The feelings I shared with Luna last night remained in my heart like a spark.

I can’t see it, but the thought that Luna is cheering me on made my nervousness and worries disappear.

My own tranquilizer. It is also very addictive.

“Did we finally meet?”

At the sudden words, I turned my head from the stands and looked at Elena.

“Okay, since we’ve come this far, we should aim for the finals.”

At my reply, Elena nodded her head with a pleasant smile.

―First year semi-finals! Let’s start the first game! It’s a confrontation between the combat department and the sorcery department!

At the shout of the host, a cheer that seemed to be louder than yesterday resounded through the stadium. Elena’s expression hardened a little as a great pressure fell on the arena.

After a while.

With the moderator’s countdown, the duel began.

As Elena swung her staff, one of her huge ice spears appeared over her head.

As I drew out the power of destruction, I charged towards Elena.

As if waiting for me to move, Elena fired her ice spear at me as I came within range of her.

The floor of the arena was shattered by the formidable force. In the place where the ice spear passed, a path of freezing was created. He swung the spear of destruction wide against the flooding ice spear as if it were about to explode.

The ice spear, which boasted a huge presence, exploded as it touched the spear blade. As a result, pieces of ice fell all over the stadium.

Perhaps expecting her own attack to be blocked, a new ice spear was already floating above Elena’s head, aiming at me like an arrow from a bow.

Once again, he slashed the rushing ice spear with terrifying momentum, narrowing the distance between Elena and her. It was an unfavorable situation in which the distance between me and me had narrowed, but Elena still had a relaxed expression.

I broke my upper body to avoid the unexpectedly flying small ice spear, and at the same time, I swung the spear roughly at Elena, who came within range.

But Elena had already prepared her to get out of her seat the moment she fired the little ice spear. When Elena, who had distanced herself from me again, swung her staff, the ice shards that had fallen on the floor of the arena floated and gathered in one place, forming an ice spear again.

Two ice spears created by Elena. It was so powerful that the upper body would disappear as it was if allowed to attack even once.

But I had the spear of destruction. With her short breath, he ran toward Elena like a wild beast. The huge ice spear rotated and rushed toward me as if it were about to explode.

As I saw the ice spears approaching sequentially, I reflexively held the spears briefly and fired a series of attacks.

Kwawaaang———!

With a huge explosion, shards of ice fell over the arena again.

As she opened the distance again, creating an ice spear, I thought that Elena was plotting something of her own. I was worried about the ice fragments that fell all over the stadium.

If I pursue Elena like this, she will use the same method to keep her distance. Approaching a wizard in a situation where you can’t use space magic was very annoying.

In the end, no matter what trap Elena set up, it was enough to prevent her from escaping.

I took out the cloud beanstalk seeds I had put in in advance from my pocket. Immediately after concentrating magic on the seed and throwing it, a giant beanstalk flew towards Elena.

The beanstalk that had grown huge was blocked by a huge pillar of ice that had grown on the floor of the arena, and instead fell towards me.

Kwaaang-!

In an instant, I dodged the beanstalk by throwing my body forward, and rolled without rest to dodge the huge ice spear falling from the sky.

There was no direct attack, but the light of the artifact on my chest turned yellow due to the shockwave created by the ice spear that fell from the sky.

As the time passed against Elena, I was in a situation where I did not know when the ice shards that fell on the arena would turn into ice spears and fly after me.

I sighed when I saw the nasty Elena preparing to run away after opening a distance and creating an ice spear over her head.

It’s dangerous to be dragged around any longer. Quickly thinking of another method, I concentrated my magical energy and threw a bean sprout at my feet.

The beanstalk rooted on the floor of the stadium began to grow rapidly. Grab the growing beanstalk and go up the arena. An ice spear flew with the intention of dropping me, but I swung the spear away.

I grinned at Elena, who was obviously taken aback by my actions, and took out all the beanstalk seeds from her pocket and threw them all at once towards the stadium.

The beanstalks that grew rapidly in the air rained down on the stadium like huge hailstones.

Two pillars of ice appeared on either side of Elena to block the falling beanstalk, but the impact shattered the pillars and shards of ice hit Elena.

As if the impact wasn’t as great as expected, Elena’s artifact turned red but did not fall off.

I used up all the beanstalk seeds in my pocket, but it didn’t matter. As initially intended, Elena had no escape from the beanstalk that filled the arena.

I went down the beanstalk and Elena’s ice spear flew at me as if I was desperate, but all of them were blocked by the spear of destruction and exploded. I knew that Elena had nowhere else to run, but I didn’t relax and safely swung the spear, gradually closing the distance between Elena and her.

The closer we get to each other, the more panic I see on Elena’s face, the more confused I can’t say. He greeted me in a whisper with a stupid smile.

“Hello?”

“Kyaaa!”

Elena’s reaction as she screamed at me as if she had seen a ghost was a bit hurtful.

*

The first game of the quarterfinals of the freshman year is over. As Ross watched as the crowd cheered and exited, Lycan stroked her chin.

“That’s amazing. I couldn’t believe it, but to advance to the finals…. A student named Ross, you must have been granted special admission, right? Roel’s younger brother, the senior of the second year.”

Lycan nodded her head at Professor Tia’s question, who was sitting next to her.

With her sigh, the lycan crossed her arms and leaned back in her chair.

“That guy… You have grown so much.”

The lycan muttered to himself in a bitter voice and roughly brushed her face.

In the first class, I couldn’t even wield a weapon and passed out from a single blow. Later, I screamed and fainted when I saw a dead body.

Lycan thought that Ross was a serious inferior student. So he seriously recommended dropping out. He thought that if he stayed at the academy like this, he would end up expelled because he couldn’t get out of the grade without growing anything.

Until recently, Lycans considered Ross to be below average. However, it was absurd that she suddenly came to see him and offered a wild bet that if he won first place in the survival test, he would train him.

She

She didn’t know the subject, she thought. The fact that she had grown up a little meant that she was thinking arrogantly. Often a young student would make a childish mistake.

However, Ross proudly won first place. It also surpassed everyone’s expectations with an early end to the test and a new high score.

‘Was it me who was arrogant….’

The lycan burst into laughter at her own pitifulness. Her own eyesight was completely wrong. Intoxicated with the position of professor, she arbitrarily measured the growth of her students.

“I guess wise men are different. Where did she see the potential….”

Lycan nodded in sympathy with Professor Tia’s self-talk.

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Now, if someone asked him which of the freshmen at the academy had grown the most, Lycan could choose Ross without hesitation.

I can’t help but think that there must have been a reason why Principal Nelson allowed Ross to enter the school under special circumstances despite everyone’s opposition.

When the moderator announces the start of the next duel. Lycan rose from her seat.

“Huh? Aren’t you watching the next game?”

“I have something to do.”

It was time to right her mistakes. Reflecting on her own arrogance, she intended to tweak her training methods for Ross, who had won her bet.

“How can a professor who is not good enough watch the game when the students are trying so hard?”

Professor Tia instinctively fixed her eyes on the arena at the ferocious figure of Lycan burning with passion.

“Worst…. No, I will prepare the strongest training….”

Professor Tia didn’t want to know what the words in her ear meant.

*

After the game, I hugged Luna who came to the waiting room after the game and rubbed a ball on her head.

After I stopped rubbing her cheeks and shook her body, Luna lifted her head from her arms and looked up at me with a loving look.

“Why?”

“Oh, no, no….”

The anxiety was quickly buried by Luna’s warm warmth, but a strange feeling of uneasiness remained in a corner of her heart.