The day of the duel arrived, the crowd was mostly the students and the teachers, the teachers were betting on who would win and the students looked as if they knew who would win.
Shin stepped onto the Arena which has clearly never been repaired he waited and soon enough his opponent stepped onto the arena, just by looking at him Shin could already determine he was going to be extremely arrogant and cocky.
"what's with that ugly smile?" Shin asked, the smile was hideous it was clear ths man was single, and for a valid reason too.
"arrogant huh? you must not know who i am!, i am Jaun pu-"
"yadda yadda yadda, i could not give a damn on who you are and what so good about you so hurry this up already"
"Fine!" Jaun exclaimed, he was enraged at being cut off like this and unsheathes his sword to go for a vertical slash.
Shin could only look in disbelief as in all his years of fighting..no form was as bad as this teacher, it was so bad that Shin just dodged back and faced the principal.
"Uh sir what subject does this teacher specialize in?" Shin asked, the principal hearing this looked away clearly not wanting to say,but still did it anyway.
"He..ahem...teaches combat.." he said with a hint of embarrasment and shame.
Shin just froze and could only think of one thing: "How is this man..TEACHING COMBAT???" he looked at the principal now understanding his shame since this guy was terrible at it.
"AM I NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOUR ATTENTION YOU BASTARD!?" Jaun shouted, Shin was still thinking on how despperate the principal was on hiring this man, Jaun went for a horizontal slash, but Shin just grabbed the blade of his sheathed sword and smacked the sword out of Jaun,not even wanting to look at such a failure.
The crowd was suprised since they thought Jaun would win...which clearly meant these people have never seen a real fight.
Shin turned to face Jaun and walked up right to his face which scared Jaun.
"you dare teach such monstrosity to students?"
Shin asked, he was enraged and did not expect an answer.
"your students probably go and die in real quests because this is what you teach the...so i'll make sure you get the punishment you deserve" shin's voice was serious, he raised his blade up ready to smack Juan out cold.
"WAIT SHIN,NO!" The principal shouted but it was too late.
"BLOODLINE ENDER" Shin shouted, as he dropped his sword and kicked Juan right in the groin,decimating any chances of him continuing such a shameful bloodline.
Everyone watched just froze in shockas what the actual hell just happened. Shin moved his leg back down and looked at Juan with such mocking smile.
He lightly pushed Juan and he collapsed instantly as any man would after being kicked like that.
then sudenly the students began bursting with laughs and some were cheering shin for such a performance.
The teachers who had bet that Shin would lose could not help but laugh aswell.
Shin smiled at this and faced the principal.
"So do i get the job?" The principal chuckled before nodding.
Shin was happy about this and soon after the principal and Shin discussed the matter in the principal's office.
They sat across each other before the Shin asked a question. "Sir?, i was wondering, since we are going to be working together from now on i thought i should get you name"
"Ah right, i never told you my name, well i suppose you can call me Touka" He responded.
Afterwards they started talking about the details of the job, from the students to Shin's salary and any events in the Academy.
As for Jaun he got fired and kicked out of course. Shin could finally start teaching tomorow, and as the next day arrived he was already in his class looking at it's condition and it was...decent enough there was enough tables and a board on the wall to write on.
it was 6 Am and classes would start at 7 am so he had time to relax which he did,he slept for the entire hour until he instictively woke up from the sound of footsteps.
he looked at the entrance and saw the students walking in and taking their seat.
Shin got up and introduced himself.
"Hello everyone!, my name is Shin and i will be your class teacher from now on!" he said estaticly, but none of the students felt the same way,infact they all seemed dead even after witnessing such a performance yesterday.
"Uh you guys all good?" Shin asked a bit worried, suddenly a student walked foward with a stack of paper before putting it on the desk.
"Here's the homework sir..." She said tiredly, shin was of course confused since it was his first day, but he assumed it was the homework the previous teacher gave and took a look at them.
"If a fire-breathing dragon sneezes, does it accidentally roast its allies, or does it have some magical sneeze control?" was what the first question said, Shin was dumbfounded by what the hell he was reading.
"Uh all of you introduce yourselves please while i check this work" He said,they all complied and started their introduction while Shin looked at the homework. He felt his brain shutting down the more he looked at these qustions until it was too uch and slammed the paper his desk which suprised his students.
"Everyone...i want you to throw away any homework Juan gave you right now" He ordered, His students were shocked but relieved and they all threw it away.
As soon as they finished Shin began his lesson. "Alright so first of all let's talk about the basics" He said as he drew something on the chalkboard.
on the board he wrote all the magic element types and their counters.
"Fire beats wind, wind beats earth, earth beats Thunder, thunder beats water and water beats fire. And of course light and dark counter each other perfectly" Shin explained and looked back at the students.
"I assume you all know this yes?" he asked.
They all nodded in unison. "well forget everything about it because it is useless" Shin said, whch shocked the students.
Takeshi raised his hand and asked: "teacher how could we just forget something as important as the counters for magic!"
"it's simple,everything can counter everything,no matter what anyone says each element is powerful with weakneses to balance them out but they don't have a direct counter" Shin explained, he then went on to explain how element magic works to his 10 students, he explained and debunked the basics that were created entire day until it was over.
Everyone left the classroom with their bags and items and Shin watched them leave as he stayed back to watch.
"..this is the greatest thing that happened to me.." he mumbled to himself as he leaned back against his chair and soon left the academy to head somewhere,He left the kingdom and walked towards location that was quite secretive, after an hour of walking he reached a cave,this cave was known for having a dangerous Aura around it scaring everyone away.
However Shin had already been inside the cave before he walked in and walked through the menacing aura with ease, and soon enough when he got deep enough inside was the location he would call home from now on.
A hidden hot spring inside the cave,with a small cabin attached to the wall, the are ain the cave was enough for the Hot spring and the small cabin but it looked stunning,The lights shined a nice blue hue from the exotic plants in the cave and the hot spring was the best in the world.
Shin walked towards the cabin which looked a little worn down but it was fine, he opens the door and enters,inside was a bed in the corner of the room with a small kitchen across it, a small table in the other corner of the cabin and a chest right next to the bed.
"i'm back" He said, he walked over and sat on the bed before taking off all his clothing and armor, he placed excalibur against his bed and opened the chest.
he shoved his clothes in thir and walked towards the hot spring to relax,he closed his eyes planing to sleep, when his entire body suddenly was in pain and agony, Shin could only scream in pain before looking down at his arm, he could see his veins turning into a black colour, he quickly surpresed it with his magic and the pain was gone.
"damnit...i can't use my magic too often anymore" He said to himself, This was a curse of corts he could not cure, and he was guaranteed to die at the age of 30,he still has 5 year left but that could go down quickly if he used to many magic type attacks.
Shin sat there and thought about how short his lifespan was,and just when he had gotten the perfect life.