"Ahhhh!!" A gruesome scream resounded from the heart of the arena. The potency of the scream, sent a chill down to everyone's spine. Blood was splattered onto the floor of the arena. In the middle of the chaos stood Mateo, who was clutching onto his face while letting out a painful scream. With swiftness, the paramedics rushed on to the stage to attend to him.
The moment Mateo's hands were lowered, the viewers were taken aback by his present appearance. On Mateo's face, was a long-bloodied slash that stretch across from his forehead to his chin. The cut was so deep that one could clearly see the bone inside. Fortunately, Xue Yiran had held back a bit by avoiding the vital parts. Else, he would have lost both his vision or rather, his whole head.
"Save me!" Mateo yelled as the paramedics attends to his injury. The pain in his face was truly unbearable.
All this had occurred under everyone's gaze. However, none of them blamed Xue Yiran for her action. Instead, it was Mateo who had reaped what he sows.
One of the paramedics, who had a healing ability began to attend to Mateo. Some minutes later, the scream recede. On the floor laid Mateo, who had already passed out from the pain.
The emcee was scared out of wits when he saw the situation unfolds. After regaining a bit of his clarity, his trembling hand reach out for the mic. He then pronounced Xue Yiran as the victor of the match.
Despite the unfortunate disaster, cheers and applause erupted from the audience. Perhaps, Mateo actions had gotten on everyone nerves, they couldn't help but cheer for Xue Yiran victory.
The loudest clap was coming from a certain person, Jon. As he cheers, his eyes purposely glance to the side at a certain individual, before he questioned in a mocking tone. "Who is the person that just boasted that no cats or rats can push them out of the rank? I'm really looking forward to tomorrow competition. Perhaps then, I can witness the downfall of this mighty Roland academy." Jon ends his sentence with a scornful laugh.
The Roland academy student heard Jon's degrading words. Anger burns within him. However, he knew he couldn't refute Jon's sentence. Who knows whether he would be face-slapped once more.
'Just wait and see. Keep on laughing. Tomorrow match will determine the person that gets the last laugh.' The Roland academy student could only lie low and ignore Jon mocking words.
The moment Xue Yiran got down from the stage, all the homeroom teachers from Hermes academy instantly surrounded her, and began to praise her. At the back of the crowd, Louie had a smile on his face as he looked at Xue Yiran being surrounded by everyone.
Thinking aback to what she had just done at the stage, he let out a chuckle. "I've known that she's quite a feisty one. But I've never thought that she would hold a grudge to this extent." He murmured under his breath. All of a sudden, his eyes darted towards a certain figure that was trying to sneak away from the crowd. Louie's eyes squinted, the smile on his face became more amusing. 'Hmm, looks like I would soon get to witness an interesting scene.'
Similarly, Xue Yiran noticed Aviva departing figure from the crowd. The other party must be panicking right now, seeing that all of her plan were futile.
There was no way she would let Aviva go scot-free without letting her have a taste of her own medicine. Nonetheless, she decided to put her actions on hold till the end of the final tournament.
....
In preparation for the final, Xue Yiran was transferred into a separate hotel room. This was a decision made by the teacher, in hope to let her have a deep rest before the final match. Before she went to bed, Xue Yiran made a video call to Miley. Xue Haoran was busy playing with Lis in the background. As usual, she began to update Miley about how she had done for the day.
Miley wasn't surprise to hear that Xue Yiran had made it to the final. All members of the Tyron's guild knew how much Xue Yiran had improved for the past few months. As a result, fighting against those rookie students was just like a child play to Xue Yiran.
Before the end of the video, she chatted with Xue Haoran on the phone for a while and ended the video call.
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At night, there was a certain individual who couldn't fall asleep no matter how hard she tries. Aviva sat on her bed, biting on to her trembling fingers in panic. Beverly, Emily and Isabel were already asleep.
Before going to bed, they had noticed Aviva strange behavior but none of them were concerned about it.
In the silent night, Aviva mind was juddered with so many thoughts.
'Why! Why! Why is she always so lucky.'
"Gosh, I'm going crazy." She crouched her head to her knees and ruffled up her hair. "Why does she get away every fucking time."
All of the plan she made to destroy Xue Yiran were all futile. This wasn't what she wanted to see, which leads her seething with rage. Thinking about how Xue Yiran had been surrounded by the crowd, Aviva felt a deep sense of jealousy in her heart. At that time, she had noticed Louie smiling at Xue Yiran. This scene was what fueled her inner rage.
She wished she could ruin that bitch face. Right now, Aviva knew it would be impossible for her to do as she wishes, since both of her plan had failed.
Thinking of the person that would be competing against Xue Yiran tomorrow, Aviva knew that the chances of the other person agreeing to her plan was low. Perhaps, she would be the one being busted instead.
Still, that doesn't deter her from cooking up another plan.
'Isn't he a close friend of the crown prince. What if I tell him something that'll make him attack Xue Yiran.'
Using the crown prince as a pawn, she knew her plan was very risky. If this were to get out of hand, her whole family might likely get into danger. In spite of that, her deep hatred for Xue Yiran consumed her rationality.
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The next morning, the whole stadium was crowded with people. This crowd was large, in compare to the audience yesterday. This was due to the presence of the academies that were eliminated during the first round. The whole place was buzzing with people murmurings, as they all waited eagerly for the commencement of the match.
This year inter-school tournament can be said to be the best among all inter-school competition that has been held. This was due to the emergence of a dark horse that none of them had predicted. A lot of them began to guess the academy that's most likely to win.
Yesterday night, a voting poll was made to predict the victor of the match. Majority voted for Roland academy. Although the students recognizes Xue Yiran powerful contractual beast, none of them believed that she could win the match.
This time, Ian attended the competition. Looking at Colton who had been wearing a worrying look on his face, ever since he met him this morning, Ian couldn't help but asked, "Are you feeling nervous?"
"Of course not." Hearing Ian's question, Colton let out a chuckle. "This isn't even a national tournament. So how can I be nervous because of a puny inter-school competition."
"Sure, you're right." Ian also let out a chuckle and began to walk into the stadium. However, the moment he looked away, he failed to noticed the immediate changes in Colton's eyes.