Chapter 4: Unexpected bullying Fight

“Ho, you sure are confident, Mitchiel-sama” laughed the leader of the group. “I really hate that overconfidence of yours”

“And I really hate you” added Mitchiel casually.

The leader of the group then took a step back. He pretended he was going away, and then turned around at a really fast pace and let his punch out.

His punch got stopped by Mitchiel. But it wasn’t merely that. The leader’s hand got grabbed by nonetheless Mitchiel himself.

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The leader of the group was a guy that was really proud of his strength. His punches are really famous, in fact, he won nineteenth place in the Young Adult Martial Arts Competition.

The Young Adult Martial Arts Competition allow everyone to participate as long as you are twenty-two years old or older but not exceeding thirty-five.

He won nineteenth place in the competition when he is only 25 years old. That is an outstanding feat, few could compare his talents to themselves.

Rumors have it that, if the competition did not allow those that were 35 years old from participating, Tymol [the leader of the group] would have at least gotten eighteenth place if not seventeenth.

Tymol was just that proud of his strength. Everyone in Ryoukai town knew who Tymol was. He was their pride and joy.

And since no one liked Mitchiel, the fact of Tymol bullying him was considered an enjoyable entertaining activity for everyone to watch.

For Tymol’s punch to be seen by Mitchiel and even for it to get grabbed by Mitchiel was something that should be impossible. Not even a miracle could cause something of that level to happen.

Tymol’s rank and reputation was high.

He was the second son of an influential martial arts family. He was trained since a young age to master martial arts and secret family techniques.

His rank in the Young Adult Martial Arts Competition puts him on par with those that are 30 years old and even those that are older.

Some of the older disciples in the YAMAC were very envious of Tymol’s strength.

They knew that with his talents, he would have a bright future and might even become a guard for the Imperial Government or even the bodyguard of an influential individual.

In this world, talents, fame, money, strength and also luck govern everything. If you lack even one of those, you will lose everything, sooner or later.

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On the other hand, Mitchiel’s family was an aristocratic noble family that specializes in product and businesses. And even though Mitchiel’s family did produce great wizards and some martial artists, Mitchiel isn’t on that list.

Once upon a time he was talented in magic, but that was in the past.

One day while practicing too hard and trying to learn more complicated spells, Mitchiel accidentally broke his mantra at the age of nine.

Ever since then, Mitchiel became unable to practice his fire magic, or any magic for that matter.

Ever since that day, Mitchiel was useless. His family was no longer calling him a talented individual. He was marked with scorn and disgust wherever he went.

He was considered the household’s freeloader. A person not worth any value, a useless person wasting the household’s money and bringing the household’s reputation down.

Even Mitchiel’s own family viewed him as useless. Everyone except for his father and younger sister treated him harshly.

Mitchiel’s mother was the worst of all. She spread nasty rumors about him and told lies of how Mitchiel was a child of misfortune.

Mitchiel at that time, tried to learn how to do business but that also failed.

He was useless at everything, and since he wasn’t necessarily bright, he was the 1st member of the household to not have gone to a higher education or training program.

He was viewed as being worse than trash. He was an eyesore, a disgusting creature, a mistake God made, an accident, a curse, whatever else you want to call it. That was him. Mitchiel.

Since early childhood, Mitchiel’s household discovered that he had an affinity towards fire magic. Fire magic is considered one of the destructive magic and those that master it rule supreme in the Imperial City.

Because there aren’t that many fire wizards in the world, those that do dedicated their life to learn fire magic, will one day be able to do unimaginable feats.

At first, they were proud of someone having such an affinity, even if fire magic was one of the hardest to learn, but their pride was very short-lived.

In a matter of a few years, Mitchiel’s mantra was broken, and he will never be able to practice magic ever again. And since certain martial arts skills require internal mana control to use, Mitchiel will never be able to learn the secret martial art skills.

He will forever remain a beginner Martial Artist even as he watches as everyone he knew and grew up with surpasses him, even those six years younger than himself.

That terrible sight is what caused Mitchiel to be jealous of everyone. He had lots of money but what use is money when you will never be famous or talented?

Therefore, Mitchiel soon came to hate everyone around him and use those around him to take his anger on.

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“Ho” exclaimed Tymol. “You managed to catch my punch. You must be feeling lucky today, aren’t you?”

“Let see where my luck will lead me then” said Mitchiel seriously.

“He he he he he” laughed the guys behind Tymol. “Does he think he can actually beat Tymol? Not even in your dreams, Mitchiel”

Right when Mitchiel let the hand of Tymol go, he proceeded to attack Tymol relentlessly.

“Ho ho ho” laughed Tymol. “Attacking me, huh? Don’t make me laugh, it tickles, hehehe”

“Oh, yeah, then what about this?” asked Mitchiel as he does a somersault takedown.

Tymol falls head first down. He did not see that coming. He had never expected Mitchiel to be able to actually push him down like this.

In fact, the attacks that Mitchiel did to Tymol was a feint to distract Tymol from his real motive. To give him one hard somersault takedown.