(PDV 3° person, Five Elements Academy)

The guy that interrupted them was a clearly a delinquent… or it was what Serena though. Short, bright red hair, the black eyebrows clearly showing that the hair was dyed. Of course, he was dressed in the school uniform, but the piercing on the nose, large earrings and a tattoo on his arm.

He was followed by three guys that were like him, dressed in a similar fashion. Of course, red hair guy was clearly the leader. He isn’t that tall, around 1,70 meters. He’s really pale, and a bit muscular, with an average face distorted by a cruel grin.

Vanilla recognizes the guy. It’s a troublemaker from these last days, the cousin of the Red King, that just entered the school, Albert Ivanov, with his cousin being Alexei Ivanov, the Red King. She immediately though:

(Vanilla): “Well, this escalated way quicker than I though. It’s a shame that I can’t do anything about it. I can’t do anything unless he challenges me.”

She though. After all, the rules of the school stop her from fighting a student without a challenge. It would also be really bad for her to challenge a weaker student. It would hurt the reputation of the White Guards, the student organization leaded by Luminus. Bullying the weak is one of the things that Luminus stand against.

(Albert): “You will form a party with the freak and the little bro of the weak shit?”

Serena immediately got angry. Albert is the type that she hates the most. She frowns and says:

(Serena): “And what this has to do with you?”

She asks, as polite as she can be. She’s a princess after all, she can’t be uncivilized, even with an asshole. Albert smiles vulgarly, saying:

(Albert): “Y’know princess, those guys won’t satisfy you! They’re not even into woman after all! Hahahaha!”

Ha laughed disgustingly, followed by his subordinates. Maria frowned:

(Maria): “What do you mean?”

(Albert): “That tall guy over there is gay, and the little brother of the white dipshit is always with him! It’s obvious that they are together, don’t you think?”

Vanilla angrily frowned, ready to go and slap the guy. Although it seems to be stupidity, after magic showed up, most of the mythical monsters and gods also appeared. They said that they finally could appear on earth, not just influence it.

That also means that the Christian God appeared, as well his angels. That made most of the feverish religious people almost go mad with faith, and the racism, persecution against sexuality, etc. was deeply rooted and more open all over earth.

Of course, according to God, he doesn’t condemn gays and black people, as well neither other race or any kind of sexual choice, but the radicals didn’t want to hear, and again one of the rottenest parts of humanity flowered once again. Albert is one example of these assholes.

Both girls looked at Arius, who’s with a dark expression. They aren’t the type, but seeing his face and the face of the people around them, they can clearly see now why people are avoiding him and Umbra. They also looked at him.

He doesn’t seem angry; his face hasn’t changed. Except for his eyes. Serena, Maria and Vanilla legitimately felt fear looking at them, overflowing with murderous intention. Albert continued talking:

(Albert): “So why don’t you join us, Princess? I promise that I will give you a good time!”

He says, with a lecherous smile while reaching for Serena’s shoulder. Maria was ready to break his arm, however, another hand stopped him. Umbra had grabbed his hand, squeezing it really hard. Albert held back a wince, looking angrily at Umbra.

(Albert): “So the wuss wants to fight back?! You and your brother are just cowards an-!”

He was interrupted. Just a quick fact, although the fight between people of different years must be done by a formal challenge, and isn’t allowed to fight until the challenge is made, the local is decided and the rules as well.

However, between students of the same year, fights are allowed when there is a teacher around. they can fight without rules, and use magic, with fists or weapons. And that’s exactly what is happening here. Umbra’s fist sank into Albert’s stomach, making him raise from the ground a bit.

Umbra followed by tackling him into the ground and punching him as hard as he could on Albert’s face and chest. People around looked at the scene, shocked. Vanilla was even more shocked.

When she came here, she already knew who Luminus’ brother was, and was looking for an opportunity to approach. He did seem to be a bit different from his brother, a bit colder than normal. However, she though that he would be composed as his brother.

In this kind of situation, Luminus would try to talk things out, and fight only if the opponent attacked first. However, Umbra just jumped into combat, savagely beating Albert. As soon as blood began to gush out from the attacks on the head, the other three guys attacked Umbra.

Umbra immediately jumped out from Albert, who’s on the ground, unconscious, with blood all over his face. The first thug to reach Umbra released a right straight to his face. Umbra acted like a master, making the fist barely pass to the side of his face, with his left fist sinking on the face of the thug.

Umbra is also quick, really quick. Before the other two could attack him, he made a wide and powerful swing with his right hand, breaking the delinquent’s jaw before he could go to the ground. he also didn’t stop there, his left hand hitting the ribs, with the ominous sound of breaking ribs filling the air as Umbra’s hand sank in them.

The other two finally attacked him, everything happening within a second. The second crook tried to make a kick, but his leg was grabbed by Umbra, who made a swift punch to the extended knee, making the leg bend in an impossible way, broken.

As the crook screams in pain, Umbra releases his hand and twist his whole body, making his hand crash into the guys face, making teeth and blood fly. The third guy looked terrified at the scene. Everything happened way too quickly for him to process.

In his nervousness, he pulled a pocked from his pocket on his short, terrified. Umbra looked at the knife and then back to the delinquent’s eyes… and smiled, laughing scornfully. That surprisingly made the boy angry, and that gave courage to go for a stab before the teacher could run and stop him.

Umbra didn’t had difficulty dealing with the guy. He grabbed the hand with the knife, with the blade going between his fingers. Umbra’s hand closed into an iron grip, and he raised his right hand, making it strike from above into the boy’s head.

The guy fell to his knees, and Umbra finished him with a knee to the face, breaking his nose. In that moment, the teacher finally got to the scene, after pushing the students out of the way. Seeing that Umbra wasn’t harmed, he sighed took four cards from his grimoire, that’s stuck on his pants in the back of his waist.

(Dan): “Alright, Umbra Vane is the winner of this duel. I’ll heal these guys and we will start class again after that.”

Surprisingly, the teacher didn’t scold Umbra. As he went back to his group, the teacher used the cards, which had powerful healing spells on them. the students literally open way as Umbra approaches.

They’re scared from the brutal and bloody show that he just did. Even Vanilla trembled a bit when he got to them. When he got close, Arius started:

(Arius): “Umbra, I’m sorry, this is my fa-.”

(Umbra): “Don’t even start with this sorry bullshit again, Ari. I’ll kick your ass too. It was me who wanted to jump the guy, not you.”

He said, looking at his bloody hands. Ari took a handkerchief and gave it to him.

(Umbra): “You sure? Blood is horrible to wash, you know?”

(Arius): “I have a lot of them, I don’t need this one anymore.”

(Umbra): “Thanks.”

He says, as he wipes the blood on his hands, with a slight frown.

(Umbra): “It has been some time since I last punched someone. My knuckles hurt a bit.”

(Vanilla): “Why the hell did you attack him?! And how did the teacher didn’t scold you?!”

Umbra just looked at them, putting the handkerchief in his pocket after cleaning his hands.

(Umbra): “Firstly, when I grabbed his hand, while he was talking, I sent a message for Don-sensei, declaring my duel. He accepted, so that’s why I attacked. And also, were teammates, right? We look for each other. And he was looking for a fight anyway, I just attacked first.”

He says casually. Vanilla saw the clear difference between both bothers. Luminus is the rational, pacifist type, that fights only when necessary and he doesn’t have any other alternative, finishing his opponent as quickly as possible. Umbra is just straightforward and brutal, making plans all the time.

She just sighted. However, she felt some joy. She was right, he’s more interesting than the older brother.