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Virile Orion ?

Looking at the receding back of Andrew's group, Orion sighed. It was not the first time someone pushed him during his run and it would certainly not be the last he thought.

'They are acting like those typical villains in movies or animes...'

Thinking about that, Orion rolled up his pants to his knees.

"Ouch!"

Blood was flowing out from the wounds of both of his knees.

Then he took out bandages from his space ring.

During his first meeting with the princess, the space ring was already attached to his finger as it also had a language translation functionality in it. It was thanks to that, he and his classmates could understand this continent's language.

But now it was useless as, upon their awakening, they were able to understand different languages without the ring, which was amazing for them.

Still, he and his classmates kept the ring for storage functionality.

"Orion ?"

As he was covering his knees with the bandages, a familiar voice rang out.

Looking up, he saw Aura and her friends, Noemi and Maeva, staring at him.

"What happened ?"

Aura asked, pointing at his knees.

"No-Nothing. I just fell while running." Orion replied awkwardly.

Aura didn't believe him, she knew the others were pushing him during the run, but he never bled that much.

Orion was feeling awkward with their gazes so he continued to cover his knees.

"I will help you."

Suddenly, Aura took the bandages from Orion's hand forcefully and kneeled on the ground.

"Au-Aura...?" Orion was surprised by her sudden action.

Aura ignored him and covered neatly the bandages around his knees to not hinder the training after.

Aura wasn't stupid. She knew Orion was avoiding even them. She knew it had something to do with what happened in the bus incident back on Earth.

But that didn't mean she would let him like that. First, Orion was her classmate and second, she wanted to redeem herself.

"Done!"

"Th-thank you."

Aura just smiled and left with her friends, who sighed at her. They knew how she felt after all. Smiling at Orion, they followed after her.

Orion slowly stood up while feeling conflicted.

Whoosh!

As he was looking at the ground, a shadow covered him.

Looking up, he saw a pair of beautiful heterochromia with blue and green eyes looking at him coldly.

*Gulp*

Orion gulped, faced with her eyes. It was as if she wanted to pry deep into his soul.

"Sienna, what are you doing ?"

Her friend Claire came from behind her.

"Orion ?"

Whoosh!

Before she even asked what was happening, Sienna ran ahead.

"Hey! Wait me Sienna! See you Orion!"

Claire said before leaving Orion, who was speechless by Sienna.

"I better run. If not, I will encounter one of the stars again..."

He immediately resumed running at his own pace.

"What happened, Orion ?"

'Ahhh...'

Turning on his right, he saw Isabel looking at the bandages on his knees.

Just next to her was Anna Foster.

"I fell..."

"As if!" Isabel replied.

"Calm down Isabel." Anna said to her friend.

"Anna, don't you think the guys are really harsh against him?!"

Anna ignored her and stared at Orion. The latter averted his eyes from her very beautiful face.

"Pathetic."

"...!" Orion trembled.

He was used to hear such words, but from Anna it was the first time and he felt sad somehow. She was one of the few who didn't treat him harshly after all.

"Ann..."

Isabel wanted to scold her but Anna spoke before that.

"Instead of wasting your time in a library with a foreigner, you should train. Against the leader of those bastards you were manly for a minute. Where has that guy gone ? "

"I-I..."

Orion didn't know what to say. Honestly, he didn't even remember what happened at that time. He just knew that he was feeling extremely angry.

If someone showed the footage of him beating up two guys, he would surely ask who that guy was.

"Eh ? Anna, you have a crush on Virile Orion ?"

Isabel suddenly let out a bomb.

"What?!" Anna shouted.

"Maybe you want the Viril Orion back..."

"Shut up!"

"Ouch!"

Anna pinched Isabel before running ahead.

"See ya Orion!" Waving her hand at Orion, Isabel left.

'We will see each other again in the training after though...'

Shaking his head, he ran again.

***

An hour later...

Little by little, all the students came back to the training area in front of Riona.

The king and the princess had already left as they had their own things to do.

Riona counted the number and there was one lacking.

Sweeping her gaze on all of them, she quickly found out who that was.

'This boy...'

"Ah...So-sorry ah...for...the...late...huff...ah..."

Fortunately, Orion came rather fast compared to before but he was out of breath.

*Sneers*

"We will start now. I will fight first. Who wants to be my opponent? "

Riona asked, silencing the sneers.

Jordan took a step forward but someone was faster than him.

"I want to be, Lady Riona."

"Oh, Austin, so be it."

Riona smiled and accepted.

Austin was one of the strongest of the class with Andrew and Jordan. Ryan was also very strong but he was not fighting seriously for some reason.

Anyway, she wanted to know how far Austin progressed.

Jordan glared at Austin and stepped back.

The students made a giant circle around Riona and Austin to watch the fight.

Austin took out a blue sword from his space ring.

A month ago, after their awakening, they were all free to choose any weapon from the treasury of the Solaria Empire.

Austin chose a two-handed sword that could amplify his fire magic.

Riona, of course, didn't choose a weapon as she was far stronger than Austin, even if he was a hero.

Austin took a fighting stance while squeezing the hilt of his sword hard.

Whoosh!

Putting mana in his legs, he closed the distance quickly toward Riona.

Swish!

He swung his sword but Riona sidestepped.

Austin immediately tilted his sword and swung horizontally to the side.

Swish!

Riona avoided it again but this time she retaliated. Closing her right fist, she punched Austin in a hammering motion.

Austin felt a chill and quickly released his left hand from the handle of his sword and shielded his face.

Bam!