"I knew it! It really was you, after all." The voice belonged to the halfling John and he called out to Dreamer before he could fully leave the Duel Fencer Academy.
'Dammit! Why is this halfling after me today!?' Dreamer thought in an angry tone.
The reason Dreamer was angry because when he retrieved Liberi's sword the system's notification didn't came so he thought that when he will successfully leave the Duel Fencer Academy then only the system will consider the quest to be completed but when Dreamer was just about to leave the halfling John came and stopped him from leaving which made Dreamer angry.
But he still kept his cool and decided to talk with the halfling John.
"Huh? What do you mean, Mr. John? And why are you here? Weren't you looking for the S rank sword backstage?" Dreamer asked the halfling John in an innocent manner.
"Don't play dumb kid! I know you are the one who stole the sword.!" The halfling John replied.
And after hearing the halfling John's reply Dreamer was surprised but he still kept his cool and kept on talking.
"How can you say that, Mr. John! My hands are free as you can see. So where will I be carrying it? And I also don't have a space bracelet in which I can store the sword. So, Mr. John, you are wrong, I don't have the sword." Dreamer answered while showing both his hands to the halfling John.
"Ohh, is that so, then why the hell are you feeling relieved and calm! While the others are scared!?" The halfling John said in an angry tone and continued.
"While I was searching the sword backstage I heard two heartbeats and both the heartbeats were relieved and happy. And after sometime I can only hear one heartbeat that was showing relief. I thought something must be wrong so I decided to come back from backstage and find the owner of that heartbeat, and look what I found!
Out of those two heartbeats one of them belonged to you so the other must belong to your friend and there is a high possibility that the one who currently has the S rank sword must be your friend! So, tell me where is he? Or if you don't want to tell, then I have many other ways to make you speak. So, Tell me!" The halfling John explained his reason for coming here from backstage while threatening Dreamer to speak about Liberi.
"Mr. John, he left before me! And I was just about to leave too. And we were relieved and happy because we didn't get caught by anyone as we were sitting inside an auction without any money. We really didn't have the sword." Dreamer again denied halfling John's assumptions in an innocent manner.
But Dreamer's refusal was making the halfling John more and more angry.
"Kid, first of all you are very lucky that you have encountered me here, instead of the principal otherwise he would've given you hell. And second, stop lying! I thought I would make you spill the location of the sword by talking and then I would have spared you. But you are being stupid and constantly lying! So, I decided that you will be punished, enough talking, let's fight!" The halfling John declared and held his weapon which was a spear while taking a fighting stance. He was fully ready to fight Dreamer.
But seeing all this was making Dreamer very tense and he also knew that lying can't help him here as the halfling John can spot a lie very easily so with nothing left to do he took out the mana potion he had brought from the Treant shopkeeper and drank it.
His mana was very low after he used the invisibility skill so first he decided to recover his mana before anything else.
And after doing all this he decided to talk with the halfling John again in order to avoid a fight with him.
"Mr. John. Let's not fight! Listen to me first, I don't want to fight. And I haven't stolen the S rank sword, in fact the one who stole the S rank sword was the principal. This sword originally belonged to my friend. Believe me!" Dreamer revealed some truth and also accepted that his friend has the S rank sword with him.
After hearing Dreamer's revelation the halfling John went silent but he didn't discard his fighting stance. And after a few seconds he spoke,
"This time you are telling the truth, But my duty was to provide security for the S rank sword and you are the one who has it so I have no choice but to capture you. No offense!" The halfling John replied and without wasting any further time in talking he moved from his spot while pointing the spear towards Dreamer's chest in order to kill him but,
"JOHN!!"
A voice sounded and after hearing the voice, halfling John stopped his attack which was aimed towards Dreamer and stood still.
"John! Why the hell you ran off all by yourself and thank you for not killing this boy. As I will kill him myself!" The voice belonged to no one else but principal Vrama.
Before coming after Dreamer, the halfling John had told the principal that he found the thief. So when principal Vrama heard this he also went to look for the thief with the halfling John but midway he lost the halfling John and was searching for him and eventually when he came outside the exit of the academy he saw Dreamer and Halfling John fighting so he arrived at the conclusion that Dreamer is the one who stole the S rank sword.
After seeing the principal Dreamer was afraid because he can sense the anger and the killing intent the principal was showing towards Dreamer but he still kept on holding his ground without backing down.
The halfling John also recognised the voice so he also stopped his attack towards Dreamer and moved back, but before moving back he decided to say something to Dreamer.
"Kid! I take it back." The halfling John said in a serious tone.
"What? Now you are feeling sorry or something!?" Dreamer asked in surprise.
"No, Remember I said to you before that you are very lucky! I take it back." The halfling John said and while walking away from Dreamer he continued. "The principal's arrival, before me killing you, is a naked proof that you are unlucky!"