Continuing the Training Regimen (Part Two)
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Oh great. I only agreed to help those five people from before but now, there's a total of eleven people wherein six of them are total strangers. I didn't sign up for this.
Sigh...
I guess I'll include them then.
It's not like I hate to help them broaden their horizons but I need a lot of financial points for me and my sister. It's not that we have insufficient amount of points to live independently but...
Let's face it. It's a rare occasion to see someone giving away his goods and services for free, especially in this kind of world where you die not with fatal injuries but with poverty. Those five individuals' parents and guardians gave me a thousand points for that. It seems cheap, but I'm satisfied with it. A thousand points is worth of a week of daily consumption in our hunble home. Maybe I'll just ask for the chairperson to cover up their fees. One thousand points per head won't hurt her wallet.
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"ACHOOO!!"
"Chairperson?"
"A-ah, sorry about that Andrew."
Why did I sneeze? That's odd.
I'm pretty sure my health is as stable as it is.
•••
"Now that you guys are prepared, let's have the same setting. The eleven of you would be—"
"I don't wanna hear anything from a dead man!"
Before I could continue, a black-haired lady just launched a barrage of ice attacks in the form of spikes rising to the ground after flinging her sword.
How ironic. And here I thought those who possess the ice element loves to inflict slow and freeze status ailments before trying to do some damage.
I responded to her assault by just standing still. A spike rises up in front of me and it barely touches my nose. She seemed pissed off for some reason though.
Just what did I do to you? I know nothing about you at all.
"Don't celebrate just yet! Sub-Card Activation, [Frost Golem]!"
Hmm? Oh. Sub-Card, huh?
Sub-Card is a type of rune card that could only be used after getting certain requirements. Also, Sub-Card is one of the only three rune cards not directly made by human hands -- it occasionally appears after a rune card user mastered the rune card it uses. In her case, she used her sword to give her Sub-Card the catalysts it needed to spawn.
The ice spikes burst and turned into some form of golem. Huh, she's more on offense. That's neat.
The golems, which were taller than me (my height only reached their shoulders) came running towards me and tried to punch me. Their strength is remarkable, but it's speed is comparable to a seven-year old child's. I, someone who could move a little faster than that impostor, has suffered nothing.
I don't want play around with these dolls any longer so I allowed a punch to "hit" me and I dissipated.
"Now, now... Please listen to me."
"Huh!? Where— Wait, when did you come over there!?"
"I don't know, and even I do know, I'm not in the right mind if I were to blabber the secret."
Oh my, she IS INDEED pissed off.
I think she's more hotheaded than Faze.
I took a deep breath, paused for a moment, and evaded an cursed attack coming from that girl who told her colleagues that I have the "stench of death".
They're really trying to deal a fatal blow, a typical move for those who saw the opposing party as dangerous.
Should I tell them that I'm a student of this school as well -- not that it'll change anything. The only thing their eyes are saying is to beat me and win. They have different reasons as of why they wanted to, though.
I cleared my throat, and used an inferior version of the rune card I used before to remove their mental deterioration. Eleven Disposable rune cards were deployed above their heads.
"What the heck is this!?"
"A rune card above our heads? Be careful everyone!"
"I'll try to disable it's effects!"
"Who cares! Just destroy them before they get activated!"
Each one of them, saved for the five who knew about this, did their best to prevent the rune card from activation. The ice girl tried to cover herself in ice. The hex girl tried to overwrite the card's effect. All of those efforts are in vain though.
I used my card once more.
Come to think of it, this card was named by Cory before, right?
"Oh!? You made an Original? That's pretty neat! So, have you named it yet?"
"Ah, I haven't."
"Geez, you're preeeeeeeeeety dumb."
"I can't help it. I'm don't have the talent of naming my cards."
"Wait, WHAT!? Doesn't that mean your cards are all unnamed? And what about this Custom rune card that you gave to me. The name you bestowed on it is marvelous, you know!? [Wanderlust's Scythe] is cool, you know?"
"Ah...well... I don't even know why."
Cory couldn't help but laugh at me. She then did a smug, putting the tip of her finger to her chin.
"Want me to name your cards?"
"Eh. It would change to Custom."
"Don't worry! I'll recommend you the name and then you'll encode it in your rune card! Sounds good?"
"Fair enough. So what would you call this rune card I made after yours?"
"Let's see, how about..."
...
That's one great memory.
Oops. I better focus on this one.
The rune cards above them were activated, turned into powder form and fell below. Some of them dodged the powdered form but there's no need to do so since it's just the usual event after using a Dot V Disposable.
"First Seat, Second Seat, Third Seat, Fourth Seat, Fifth Seat, Sixth Seat, Seventh Seat, Eighth Seat, Ninth Seat, Tenth Seat and Student Secretary — do your best to capture me. You have time ''til the clock's hands point at 11 o'clock tomorrow. Now, it's time for you to take a sneak peek of the people's greatest fear."
The eleven prepared their stance and plunged towards Yukti. Yukti just smiled weakly, and finally activated his rune card.
"[Nightmare Requiem]."
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