Sévir Is A Pariah!

The Second Undefeated

It's been 1 week since the three joined Stepan Capital Academy, Zephyr's last name hasn't been found out yet, thus she has gained a decent amount of friends. Sanguinex has been asked out by many of the boys near their class which she has turned down. Sévir is still Sévir, he remains a pariah. Everybody tries to avoid him as much as possible.

Sévir is out in the slums once again because of a mission from the West Capital Organization.

Am I really their only employee that can take down a whole gang by myself? What the hell is with the lineup in the Organization?

Sévir abruptly kicks the door of the site open, scanning the area before he enters. Huh, it's empty. They have to be hiding somewhere.

Sévir enters the place and closes the door. "You guys can come out now. Let's make this fast." Sévir shouts which echoes around the whole place. One by one, they start showing up, all armed with weapons. Among them is the leader of the gang.

"You've got guts to show up here unarmed, Little Gang Killer." said the leader.

The leader takes out his spiked club and points it at Sévir. "I still haven't gotten revenge for my defeat last time. This time, we're winning this, and we'll take your head as a trophy too." The leader narrows his eyes and looks at his men, he nods and all of them get to their fighting stance.

"We've prepared for this moment. Enjoy the show, Little Gang Killer!" The leader signals everyone to charge at Sévir with him, they start sprinting towards Sévir with their weapons ready, Sévir clicks his tongue. I have to take them down as fast as possible, their shouting will attract the attention of the guards if I leave it this way.

Sévir's right foot outline glows green, his right foot steps forward, he quickly rotates his body around and raises his right foot while doing so. Aimed at the gangsters, it makes a whoosh sound and suddenly the gangsters are pushed back, falling and landing on their butts, some on their backs.

Sévir crouches with his right hand touching the ground, the outline glows blue, he glances at all of the downed gangsters, ice grows around and right at them. Most of them panic as they try moving around to escape from it, some scream from the low temperature. However, their screams and struggles come to an end as all of them are now trapped in ice for a few hours.

He stands up and quickly leaves the scene. It's still no good. I need to learn how to trap them in ice in an instant, not in a few seconds.

Sévir arrives back to the academy, he walks at a fast pace to get to the dorm building.

"Sévirrr!!" a voice of a girl can be heard calling out his name, he walks at a slower pace this time and looks back, he spots a girl catching up to him.

The girl finally catches up to him, Sévir stops walking and faces her. "It seems like you were outside. Where were you?" the girl asks.

"Hello Minerva. Why are you asking?" Sévir replies.

"i saw you go outside like you were in a rush, your sister was asking where you were too. So I've been searching everywhere."

"I'll abstain from answering your question. It has nothing to do with you anyway," Sévir starts walking away.

"Ooh, suspicious. I like it." Minerva tags along.

"So, uh. Would you like to explain why you're tagging along? My dorm room is off-limits." Sévir looks around the area as he asks.

"I'm just observing you." Minerva observes him from head to toe in an exaggerated manner. "To see whether you're hungry or not. It's dinner time and I doubt you ate already."

"You're right. I am hungry, in fact, I'm starving. But starving would be an understatement, so in fact, my stomach has shrunk to a mere speck of dust." Sévir places his hand on his stomach and rubs it.

"I see." Minerva stops walking and grabs Sévir's arm, Sévir looks back at her. "Well then, let's go eat. I was actually waiting for you so I can eat and chat with you."

"Oh, um, alright. If you're okay with it then."

Sévir and Minerva walks and arrives to the canteen, they find an empty table and occupy it.

For the whole time of them eating together, he can feel Minerva looking and observing him intently from time to time.

"I take it that you come from the southern districts of the capital?" Minerva asks.

"How'd you know?"

"The way you eat is how people from the southern districts eat. It may not be completely obvious to most people though." MInerva puts down her spoon and fork as she finishes eating.

"You have a good eye." Sévir stands up with his tray on his hands. "You've been keeping your eyes on me ever since I sat beside you. Why's that?"

"Nothing really. I just think that you and the other new students are different from everybody in this academy." Minerva stands up with her tray on her hands.

"I guess you're right. I'll see you tomorrow then." Sévir walks away.

"Good night." Minerva walks away.

Sévir arrives to the door of his dorm room, his hand on the door knob. Wait, they might be sleeping, I should silently open the door.

He opens the door slowly and silently, every single inch, he sees more of the room, he looks at the mirror to the left of the door and closes the door slowly and silently.

Sévir facepalms. Nope. They're not sleeping.. They're changing clothes. Looks like I'll have to wait here for a while.

After a while, he finally opens the door, Zephyr takes her eyes away from her book and looks at Sévir, he steps inside. "Welcome back brother. Where have you been?"

"i did a job. Where's Sanguine?" Sévir suddenly feels someone's presence behind him.. And it's not good.

"Sévirrrr!!" Sanguinex leaps forward to hug him, Sévir immediately picks it up and quickly dodges to the left, Sanguinex instead hugs the air and falls on the floor, face-first.

"Owww! Let me at least get a very small dose of Vitamin Sévir for today!" Sanguinex stands up with her hand rubbing her nose.

"Cut it out Sanguine. I'm tired." Sévir grabs her by her collar and tosses her to the bed.

Zephyr quickly dodges her, Sanguinex lands on the bed with her forehead hitting the wooden headboard. "Owww!! This is mistreatment! I swear! This is mistreatmeeeeent!!" Sanguinex covers her forehead with her hands.

"My bad. I put too much strength in that toss."

"Toss!? That's more like a throw!"

"If I threw you, you'd be in much more pain, maybe you'd be bleeding right now." Sévir takes his top off and grabs a shirt from the closet.

"Ooh! Ooh! He's stripping! He's stripping! I CAN SEE HIS SIX-PACK!! OH MY DAYSSS!!!" Sanguinex cups her cheeks as she fangirls over Sévir's six-pack.

"Very interesting. Brother, your six-pack has definitely developed since the past years." Zephyr writes something down on her notebook.

"Even you Zephyr? Give me a break." Sévir puts his clothes on and drops to bed.

"Good night. Sanguinex, don't try anything, I'll throw you out the window if you do." Sévir closes his eyes.

"Okay, okay. Good night guys." Sanguinex instantly falls asleep.

"Good night." Zephyr puts her notebook under her pillow and instantly falls asleep.

A few minutes in, Sévir opens his eyes, seemingly unable to sleep.

The old man told me I could do anything to those gangsters. Should I have killed them then..?

Sévir contemplates his decision from the fight earlier.

Other than that, I still wasn't able to trap them in ice in an instant. I've been practicing it for a while in Source Style. If it was in Visionary Style, it would've been done in an instant.

Sévir lets out a silent sigh. It looks like I still have a long way to go.

The night quickly passes by, Sévir wakes up early as the sun starts to rise.

Sévir stands up and walks to the closet to get his uniform. After a few minutes, he's ready to go.

While it's still early, Sévir leaves his dorm room to go to the canteen.

I heard the canteen opens around this time already, I'll buy some food for me and those two.

Right before Sévir enters the canteen, someone tugs his jacket from behind, he looks back and sees Minerva.

"Good morning Minerva. Is that your way of greeting people a good morning?"

"Good morning Sévir. Why are you up early?" Minerva looks down and yawns.

"No reason, I just woke up early. What about you?"

"I usually wake up at this time to go to the stadium and train. Would you like to train with me?"

"I'd rather watch you train for now."

"Sévir.. Is watching girls train your kink?" Minerva looks at him with a teasing smile on her face.

Sévir crosses his arms. "That's clearly not it. Your humor is horrible. I'll train with you when you improve your humor."

"Ouch. Anyways, wait for me in Stadium #2. I'll grab my cutlass real quick."

"Cutlass eh? Alright. See you there." Minerva walks back to the dorms, Sévir buys food for him, Zephyr and Sanguinex before going to Stadium #2.

Sévir sits down on the first row of seats which are the closest to the fighting area.

"Hello Sévir. Ready to see me train?" As Sévir looks at the standing Minerva, he sees a Minerva he's never seen before; A Minerva with her hair tied up and on training clothes.

"Sévir? Cat got your tongue?"

Sévir looks away. "Proceed on training."

"Alright." Minerva vaults over the fence and walks to the center of fighting area.

Sévir watches her every movement intently, she draws her cutlass and begins her training.

For minutes straight, Stadium #2 is filled with sounds of splashes and crackles from her water magic.

So she's a Source Style user.. I like that. She's got the hang of Source Style, though I don't feel anything from her that I can consider a threat.

Sévir finishes his food by the time she's finished with her training, she climbs over the fence and sits beside him.

"How was it?" Minerva looks at him with her face slightly sweating.

"You're quite skilled with both Source Style and Water Magic. Do you perhaps hold a big title in this academy?"

"Actually I do. Everybody calls me the Second Undefeated." Minerva forms drinking water near the tip of her sword and drinks from it.

"'Second Undefeated'? What's your record?"

"87 wins and 27 losses. I've had a 60 win streak since hitting my 27th loss. Do you want to know the First Undefeated and Third Undefeated?"

"No. I'll find it out on my own."

"Heh, it would be funny if you duel one or both of them without knowing they're the first and third." Minerva stands up. "I'll be changing my clothes. See you in class!" Minerva resheathes her cutlass and walks away.

"The First Undefeated and Third Undefeated.. Who could they be?" Sévir looks at the food for Zephyr and Sanguinex in his lap. "Oh, I forgot about this. I better get back to the dorms." Sévir stands up and runs to the dorms.

As he opens the door, he sees Sanguinex and Zephyr in their uniforms already. "Good morning, here's your food." Sévir tosses it to them and they both catch it.

"Good morning brother. Where were you?" Zephyr unwraps the food and starts eating it.

"Minerva invited me to train with her but I told her I'd watch her instead so I did."

Sanguinex puts down her food. "Hey, I noticed you've been with that Minerva Groswhatever girl a lot recently.. 'Got a thing for her!?" Sanguinex furrows her brows and crosses her arms.

"It's not what you think it is Sanguine. Also, I heard she's called the 'Second Undefeated' with a record of 87 wins and 27 losses."

Sanguinex looses up and sits down on the bed. "Oh? That's a pretty good record if you ask me, wait no, that's literal insanity! Who's the first?"

"She asked if I wanted to know, but I told her I'll find out who the first and third is by myself."

"Need our help?" Sanguinex bites on her food.

"Not this time, thanks. By the way Sanguine, I'll go to Stadium #2 and do a bit of training. Would you like to train with me?"

"Sure, let me finish this one real quick. Do you want me on sword form or..?"

"Stay in that form, I won't be using your sword form for now."

"Alrighty. I'll be down in 4 minutes."

"See you then." Sévir closes the door as he leaves the room.