Kingsman Return

The Universe Does Not Lack For Conflict

Understood!!

This word spread through the arena like a storm as the cadets responded to instructor Fel's query. Instructor Fel nodded as she saw this, she then turned to Arran to say.

"That's all for today. You'll be briefed on what to expect at another time, but for today, you'll have to stand by on the side and watch how we conduct lessons here. Do you understand?"

As Arran was about to respond, suddenly, there came a low and creepy sound of laughter.

Arran, instructor Fel, and the rest of the other cadets turned towards the source of the sound only to see that at the very edge of their formation, there was a young man who was standing there still in the midst of laughing. He made no attempt to hold himself back.

Seeing him, the faces of some of the cadets there changed as they recognized who that young man was. At the back, Charmy cursed under her breath and her playful expression from before changed. What replaced it was a deep disdain and loathing that reflected off of her eyes as she looked at the young man. Eris who was by her side also had a distasteful expression on her face.

The young man in question was a person who had an air of refinement around him, but in contrast to this, his face that could be considered handsome, with sharp sword-like features, had a kind of ingratiating and despicable smile that gave people the urge to slap him across the face.

Instructor Fel, upon seeing who it was that had dared to interrupt her, frowned.

She said to him, "Kellogg, is there anything that you'd like to say?"

As if he had just realized that he had laughed out loud, causing people to look at him, the young man said, "oh! It's nothing instructor Fel, I meant no disrespect. It's just that I find the situation here very funny, that's all."

Charmy who was at the back could not help herself but retort by saying, "and just what about this do you find funny, hmm?"

Kellogg turned back to face Charmy and gave her what was supposed to be a dashing smile, but instead just gave her the urge to puke. He said to her, "well it's just that I never thought that I'd see a Kingsman this weak before. To be honest, it's kind of hilarious!"

What Kellogg said caused everybody's expression to change.

What Kellogg said could be considered disrespectful to all the Kingsmen out there.

It had to be known that while it was indeed true that the current Kingsman in front of them was currently very weak, not just everyone could say something so insulting in front of the Kingsmen. That was because the Kingsmen were known to be very protective of their own kind considering how few they were in the first place and how difficult it was to propagate. If there was anybody found to be disrespectful to the Kingsmen, no matter how weak that Kingsman was, the rest of them would rally to defend their fellow kin and band against all outsiders.

Not everybody had the kind of courage to do that, but it just so happened that Kellogg was one of the few who dared to do so. That was because Kellogg belonged to the royal family who possesses an equally powerful bloodline.

As much as the Kingsman bloodline is regarded as the top bloodline in the whole Aeth race, it did not mean that there were no other bloodlines that could not rival it. The royal families also possessed bloodlines that were as powerful as the Kingsman bloodline. The reason the Kingsman bloodline is considered the number one was because of how unique it was. That was why Kellogg was daring enough to disrespect a weak Kingsman, granted he could not be so unruly in front of a very powerful Kingsman.

Charmy who was on the receiving end of that disgusting smile coldly scoffed and said to him, "you'd better watch what you say, lest you invite a disaster upon yourself."

Others may be afraid to rebuke Kellogg, but she was not one of them.

Kellogg just smiled more brightly before turning to instructor Fel and said "instructor, I'm not wrong, am I? it's a fact that this Kingsman is a weak mortal. I'm just stating the facts and saying what every other person is thinking in their minds."

As everybody heard Kellogg say that, the cadets could not help but curse him in their minds. Granted they were all thinking that in their minds but you did not see any of them being as high profile as Kellogg and drawing attention to himself with this stunt he was pulling… not that they could afford to.

Instructor Fel was feeling helpless. She knew just how Kellogg was like, but she could not do anything to him, not when he had not committed any major blunders.

She could only helplessly say, "you are right. So, what are you getting at?"

Kellogg replied, "nothing. I'm not implying anything."

The way he said it, with so much sincerity, as if he could never tell a lie, one would have the urge to believe him wholeheartedly.

That was until he said again, "I just find it a pity that we would have to accept such a weakling into our ranks. I mean, he is too far behind us in terms of strength and there is no way to close the gap. I'm just afraid that he would end up dragging us down in the future."

Once Kellogg finished saying this, the other cadets immediately realized that this was a very important concern.

No matter how powerful one's bloodline and talent was, it was a fact that he was currently too weak and too far behind them in terms of strength. What would happen if they were forced to team up with him in other to complete missions in the future, he would only end up being a burden to them and drag them down.

What the world did not lack were lackeys who like to ride on other people's coattails. Immediately, all those who wanted to suck up to Kellogg started saying loudly.

"That's right. He is too weak right now."

"We cannot be expected to just accept him just like that, right?"

"This is not right. The council should not be doing this."

Arran just watched all this coldly. He had expected that his presence would not be accepted completely just like that and that there would be some form of opposition, but he did not expect it to come from the people that he was supposed to be studying with. He looked at Kellogg and saw him staring back at him as he sneered despicably.

Arran had seen people like this before. They had no reason to mess with you nor do they need one. They just bit everyone that they did not like, like a mad dog that bit everybody they saw all just to fulfill some form of twisted pleasure. He did not feel that these sorts of people were worth his time so he ignored Kellogg and instead turned his attention towards Charmy and the other girl in her company.

Kellogg who saw how Arran disregarded him turned sour and he frowned before smoothing his expression. Inside he thought, 'just wait, continue being arrogant. I'll make sure to make your life a living hell as long as we are studying together.'

Kellogg was pissed at Arran not because he was jealous of him or anything, he felt it beneath him to be jealous of a mortal, he just did not like how Charmy and Eris seemed to be interested in him and so he decided to mess with him a little. But now that Arran disregarded him, he felt insulted and decided to teach him a painful lesson.

Instructor Fel saw how the others were following Kellogg to give Arran a hard time and was very annoyed. She coughed coldly to silence the crowd. When they had quieted down, she turned to Kellogg and said.

"Hmm, what you have brought up is a very important concern, but orders are orders and I can't do anything about it. So what do you suggest we do to resolve this issue?"

Instructor Fel knew that Kellogg did all this with an agenda in mind, but she decided not to do anything about him and follow along.

She thought to use this opportunity to see how Arran would handle pressure so as to better understand this new student of hers.

Kellogg after hearing her say this was relieved because he knew that instructor Fel would not interfere. Feeling fully confident that his plan would work, he said, "it's very simple. He just has to prove to us that he has the qualifications to train with us and not drag us down in the future."

Feeling smug, Kellogg turned to face Arran and the look on his face could just read, 'ignoring me, Humph, I'll bury your head in the ground and take a piss on it.'