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She was surprised to learn that he was going to challenge to join switch which doesn't usually happen, almost never happened before, so when people of academy heard that some was challenging to join the academy they were all curious to see who was crazy enough to challenge the academy's professors.
Switch academy professors are all heroes who are ranked in top thousand in the human domain. hence, 'Sparring room' was soon flooded with curious people.
She took the blazer he handed her with a 'Why are you giving it to me?' face.
*
She looked at Eshwar fight the guy with a moustache, he was aggressively punching from the start and on the other side Eshwar was dodging all the attacks with ease.
'You don't want to draw attention like this?' she titled her and started to rethink the meaning of not drawing attention.
Eshwar was relaxed at the start, suddenly turned serious, pondered and crossed his arms.
'No matter how much you try....'
"It's no use like this." She mumbled.
"Isn't he so handsome."
"That's what I was saying."
"Hahaha."
Isha furrowed her brows as she heard the murmurs of the girl group beside her. 'See, your existence is enough to draw attention.' She thought.
"Stop dodging and fight me seriously." Said the guy with the moustache, he seemed tired because his breathing was uneven.
"Oh!" Eshwar exclaimed.
'What's he going to do now?' Isha felt uneasy.
"Huff.... Huff..... Good one." He said as he faked panting and showed thumbs up to the guy with the moustache.
"You basta*d."
'You idiot. Who is going to get fooled by that?' Isha face palmed and shook her head. She looked at Eshwar from the corner of her eye.
'Hm?' she tried to read his lips.
"That bad..... Of course, what did you expect?" she grumbled with a slight smile on her face.
He turned serious and the fight started again, this time he didn't dodge but punched 'moustache's' forearm.
"Oh!" she was surprised because those kind of attacks are dodged most of the time, she had never seen anybody fight like that. She was now starting to pay attention to the fight closely, but the fight ended after the next blow.
"Eh?"
'I'll just pay attention to the next one!' she resolved herself.
"I challenge you to a dual!" the next opponent announced.
'Just don't kill him.' She thought as she felt uneasy thinking Eshwar might do something to the goatee for drawing all the attention.
"Ok, I accept the dual." Said Eshwar, picked a random sword and held with his left hand.
'Why is he using left hand? I'm pretty sure he is right handed.' She thought and next 10 seconds passed instantly with Eshwar mumbling something in between.
The guy with a goatee stopped and raised his sword.
'He is open!...'
"Now!" she mumbled to herself and as if Eshwar had heard her, he disappeared and appeared right in front of the goatee, the only thing that kept them apart was the goatee's stomach.
'Why is he standing still?....'
PATT
'Ah! That's why.' She pressed her lips holding back her laughter.
"Nice!" said Eshwar, looking at the goatee's stomach.
"Pfft." She pressed her lips harder but her lips curled up either way and it was much harder for her hold back laughter after hearing him say 'Nice!' but, suddenly she furrowed as she glared at the goatee closing in on Eshwar as he was facing backwards.
Eshwar turned around and stood calmly.
"Surrender! Or I'll cut your shirt into pieces!" he said.
'Why does it sound so perverted?'
"F**k that, you bastard!"
"Haa.." Isha sighed.
"Hm?" Isha looked at Eshwar swordsmanship and was surprised.
'It's slow?' His swordsmanship was so slow that Isha's eyes could clearly follow the sword path even though he was stronger than her. Everything felt very slow to her, goatee was moving slowly, Eshwar was moving slowly but everything seemed to be in the normal pace.
Eshwar's swordsmanship was slow, beautiful and deadly at the same time. His sword moved very fluidly, like he was fighting in water but it held a very strong destructive power behind every strike.
"Water!!?" she mumbled.
'Right, water! It seems like he is fighting inside water!' She concluded.
Goatee's shirt was cut into pieces, Eshwar held out his hand and used magic and paper cuts appeared on the goatee's body with his sweat beads frozen.
She shivered slightly imagining the pain and she walked out of the 'Sparring ground.'
*
She was coming back to the 'Sparring ground' and suddenly Quinn flew past her at an alarming speed.
WHOOSH
'Why is he...'
BOOM
"Shit" she cursed and ran towards the arena.
She arrived at the entrance and saw Eshwar lying on ground with a overloaded artifact in front of his face while a puddle of blood disappeared below him. Artifact suddenly stopped reacting, a blob of mana formed around it and flew towards Quinn. Eshwar also floated in air as Quinn bought him back to his office followed by Isha.
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She was walking in the corridor after talking with Quinn about everything she needs to know. She easily found classroom 5-1 because she too had studied in the same academy.
She leaned on the side of the classroom and remembered all the incidents of today. Her mood brightened up when she remembered how she joked with him when she saw him at the entrance.
Her lips curled up before she even notice.
"Hehe." She giggled remembering the time of challenge and suddenly frowned as he remembered Eshwar laying on ground unconscious.
"Hey! You okay?" she turned towards the voice and found Eshwar jogging towards her with his shirt's top two buttons unbuttoned.
She noticed blood on the corner of his lips and pointed it out. He wiped the blood off with his thumb. He looked very erotic when he wiped his lips, she looked at him dazed and blushed when she snapped out of the daze.
"Done?" he asked with a puzzled face, Isha turned around and simply walked in to classroom. She drew all the attention instantly, mostly of the boys.
"Woaahh."
"Is she a student?"
"She is so beautiful."
"Hey, isn't she the 'Ice Queen?'"
She furrowed her brows at the remark and the class suddenly turned silent, she walked up and sat on the last bench. Katharine Glover walked, sat next to Isha and chatted.
Eshwar walked in and this time it was girls turn.
"Kyaa!!"
"He's so handsome."
"He looks so hot!"
Isha frowned, but Eshwar smiled brightly and walked towards the podium.
"He's a professor?" everybody exclaimed simultaneously.
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