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Taekwondo

Bam!

Austin slid several meters back. His classmates behind him quickly dodged him.

"Urrghh!" Austin let out a groan.

Austin felt a great pain in his left arm, which was red now.

Seeing the state of his hand, Austin shook his head.

"No choice but to use my fire."

He wanted to know how he fared without using his blue fire and the result was clear. If he continued like that, he would lose in the next attack.

He gripped his sword again with his two hands but this time he channeled his mana.

"Flare."

Sizzzzzle!

Blue fire appeared on his hands and it quickly spread on the whole sword. He also put more mana to cover his body.

"You're finally taking me seriously."

Riona uttered. She gave him a good punch to force him to get serious and it worked.

Whoosh!

Austin jumped at full speed toward Riona.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

He swung his sword at a very high speed. Orion could see just the afterimage.

But Riona parried all of his attacks just with her hands.

Or rather she was using her ability to parry his attacks. Using her ability in her own hands, she enhanced speed and strength.

Austin was feeling frustrated as none of his attacks hit the mark. He swung again, but sloppily.

Riona dodged easily and raised her knee to her waist. Then, at an astounding speed, she extended her right foot toward Austin's chest.

Bam!

Crash!

Austin was sent flying away fast and crashed into a tree.

"""Eh ?"""

They were all stunned by Riona's attack. The kick felt very familiar but they couldn't remember.

"Ta-Taekwondo...?"

It was Orion who muttered loudly as he was shocked.

Orion's father was a great fan of martial arts. He would watch all day long with Orion. He was forced to see his father's favorite hobby, so his father brainwashed him quickly. Thus, he also became a fan of martial arts.

Obviously, he also saw the famous Korean martial art, Taekwondo. But he was more shocked by the fact that Riona, who was from this world, used a martial art of Earth.

For there was no doubt the kick she just used was the famous Front Snap Kick. He had an excellent memory, so he knew he was right.

His classmates, hearing his mutter, were also shocked.

"Ehhhh?!"

"Taekwondo in a fantasy world ?! "

"What the hell ?"

Hearing the commotion, Riona explained.

"It's normal, it was one of the previous otherworlders who taught this martial art to us."

"Eh! previous otherworlders ?" A girl asked.

"Yes, hundreds of years ago..."

Orion was confused by what she said. On earth they were in the year 2016. Hundreds of years before meant before or during the First World War.

'Did Taekwondo exist at that time ?'

But he quickly threw aside this thought. It was possible that time didn't flow equally in both worlds.

'If ever we return to Earth, will it be the same Earth or the Earth of a distant future... ?'

If time flowed slowly here and quickly on Earth, it was possible that the people they knew wouldn't be alive anymore when they returned.

Orion thought that he didn't really care, as he didn't have anybody there for him. But what about his classmates who still had their families there worrying about them?

Thud!

Bringing him out of his thoughts, a sound echoed from a nearby tree.

"Ah...ah...ah...ah...ah..."

Austin, who was completely forgotten, was bleeding from the head. He was using the broken tree as support.

"Do you want to continue ?" Riona asked.

"Yes..." Austin nodded with a tired smile.

"Then com..."

Thud!

Before Riona finished, Austin collapsed on the ground.

""""...""""

"Maybe I should have held back." Riona thought seriously about what was obvious.

"Au-Austin!"

Elena wanted to rush to him but several maids had already come and did their job to heal Austin with great pleasure...

"Elena, stop glaring at the maids, your husband will be okay."

Daisy comforted her.

"Yeah...W-wait! What husband?!"

The whole class was already aware of Elena's crush, so they were used to her behavior. Well, the whole class except Austin himself and Orion, who was clueless as expected.

"Man, when I said to him she was a tsundere he didn't even believe me."

"Yeah, I don't know how to call that. Stupid or dense ?"

Austin's two friends, Jake and Jaxon, insulted the fainted Austin.

"Hmpf! Pathetic, right brother ?"

Vincent sneered at Austin's fainting after saying that he would continue.

"A clown like him has a unique ability, it's nonsense, like this trash."

Jordan replied arrogantly, glancing at Orion.

"Teacher!" Aura suddenly raised her hand.

"Yes Aura ?"

"You said hundreds of years ago otherworlders came in this world like us. Did they return back to Earth ?"

Aura asked a question which was obvious to everyone. If they had returned, they should have learned about them back on Earth.

But that wasn't what Aura wanted to know and Riona understood that.

All of her classmates' breaths stopped. They didn't ask because, for them, they just lived happily in this world, but it was obvious that the subject of the previous otherworlders was avoided by the people of the palace.

"You want to know where they are now or their descendance, right ?"

"Yes," Aura replied.

"I will tell you after today's training."

All the students sighed in disappointment but Riona didn't care.

If she told them now what happened, they would lose their motivation, so she preferred to tell them after the training.

"Now we will start the fights between you all. Take the paper in this tray."

Riona said, pointing the tray before her.

There were 34 papers with the absence of Austin and there was the same number twice in the papers. Like that, they could choose the fighting duo easily.

Soon, one by one, they picked a paper, Orion being the last.

In the past month, he had fought Austin, Aura, Sienna, Elena and others, but he won in none of the fights. The gap between them was that large.

Opening the folded paper, he read the number 1 on it.

'Sigh...I am the first.'

"Who picked the number one, raise your hand."

Riona said and two people raised their hands. Orion, with his hand raised, looked at his future opponent and froze.

'N-No way...!'

For a month, he luckily avoided him in the training matches but his chance turned today.

Riona smiled bitterly and spoke.

"Orion, Jordan, come forward."