CHAPTER 69: 69 - GOTCHA! [2]

"What’s happening here?!"

After Sean punched out to Raven, a loud manly voice echoed across the cafeteria.

It was Kendy’s voice.

"Huh?"

Sean immediately looked behind him where he heard the source of the voice, and by doing so, his eyes shifted away from Raven.

Everyone’s attention shifted toward Kendy—except for Raven, who was closely watching Sean’s movements.

When Sean completely turned his head away from him—

’Now!’

Raven exclaimed internally and activated Thought Acceleration!

Everything around him seemed to slow down, but Raven didn’t pay any attention to that and instead talked to the system telepathically.

’I request to the system shop to increase my strength stat by 2 ranks for 3 seconds!’

[Request sent... Request has been approved by the Higher Beings!]

When the system declared that, Raven immediately deactivated his Thought Acceleration.

His head was already hurting after literally using the skill for a second!

But it didn’t stop him from moving.

SWOOSH—

He already swung his open-palmed right hand horizontally toward Sean’s face!

It all happened in a split second. The moment Sean became aware of Raven’s attack—

BAM-!

—it already made contact with his face!

When Raven’s palm seemed to be grabbing his face, he changed the trajectory of his hand downward and slammed Sean’s face on the floor!

BOOM!

Raven slapped the hell out of Sean with all of his might!

"Huh...?"

"W-what..."

"What happened?"

Everyone’s attention went back to where the two were after hearing the loud banging sound.

Gasp!

And all of them were shocked to see Sean lying on the ground unconscious. His eyes were wide open but all white, and his body was trembling a little.

"SEAN!"

It was then that someone rushed at Sean’s body—it was Ervin.

The other members of the group that Sean brought then snapped out of their shock and glared at Raven.

"What the fuck do you think you’re doing?"

"Do you think the school will let what you did go?"

"You’re dead, you idiot!"

They cursed and threatened Raven, but they actually didn’t do anything, as they were even too nervous to get close to him.

Instead, the group pointed at Kendy’s direction.

"Sir Kendy and Miss Ruby saw your violence just now! You wouldn’t escape punishment from the headmaster!"

One of Sean’s group members shouted to Raven.

Raven looked to Ruby and Kendy’s direction. Kendy was looking at him with a glare, as if asking for his explanation.

While Ruby, on the other hand, was smiling ear to ear, as if she found everything that was happening amusing.

Raven then looked back at the group that Sean brought. They were all smirking at him and scoffing.

The only exception was Ervin, who was trying to wake up Sean.

But after a while... When Sean still didn’t regain his consciousness, Ervin glared at him too.

"What do you think you just did?"

He asked Raven with a threatening tone. The aura he was emitting was scary as a bit of bloodlust escaped his body, making the others who felt it scared.

Not for Raven though. After meeting some crazily strong creatures who really wanted to kill him, Ervin’s bloodlust seemed like a joke to him, even without using his skills.

Raven just shrugged his shoulders.

"What did I do?"

He asked, then smirked afterward.

"Self-defense."

Raven’s words echoed through the silent cafeteria. No noise was produced after he said that.

"WHAT BULLSHIT?!"

But the silence was destroyed by Ervin’s angered voice just a few seconds later.

Not that Raven gave a shit.

As a matter of fact, his eyes turned cold and he gazed at everyone in the group Sean brought.

S W O O S H~

After that, due to Raven’s annoyance, his skill Monarch’s Presence activated on its own and pressed down on the group.

"...?!"

"...!"

"!!!"

It made Ervin flinch, and the others sweat continuously as they avoided Raven’s eyes.

Though all of them were experiencing at least one same thing—it’s that they couldn’t move.

Tap-

Raven stepped forward, and the sound of it made the whole group flinch again.

Then he looked down at Sean and pointed at him.

"That son of a bitch came at me and brought a group."

He said and looked at the said group.

"But we don’t plan on hurting you, we just came here together!"

Ervin exclaimed. It took a lot of courage for him just to talk back to Raven.

"That’s bullshit."

And Raven just scoffed at him.

"That Dick.son shit attacked me first, and he used mana."

Raven said, still pointing at Sean.

"I just fought back as self-defense, and I didn’t even use mana."

He added with a smirk.

"Krghh..."

And his words made Ervin shut up.

Everyone watched Raven single-handedly humiliate a well-known dangerous group of the Lunar Academy.

And that sight made them feel awe.

But to the group in question—they felt the worst.

Raven didn’t actually care about his surroundings, so he looked at Kendy instead.

"That’s what happened. I didn’t do anything wrong. If you suspect I’m lying, there’s a lot of witnesses here."

He stated and pointed at random students around him.

"I can testify that what Raven stated is all true."

"Me too!"

"Me three!"

Alec, Blake, and Adelle then respectively exclaimed.

Though it’s not much, their readiness to take his side immediately made Raven grateful to them.

Kendy looked at Raven for a while before shaking his head and letting out a sigh.

"Fine, I’ll just check it in the security room..."

He muttered in a defeated tone.

"Sir!"

"Sir Kendy!"

The group tried to protest, but it was no use.

"You guys were caught red-handed by many, and your group doesn’t have a good reputation. You can complain all you want. I wouldn’t help you."

Kendy declared while emitting a heavy pressure and bloodlust. He was pressing down on Sean’s group using them.

He knew the disgusting things Sean’s group committed by abusing their parents’ positions and power.

That’s why he hated them and was actually delighted to see Raven slap the hell out of Sean.

As a matter of fact, he would take Raven’s side even if he attacked first. But now he had a valid reason to side with Raven.

The group shut up and just lowered their heads. Ervin just bit his lower lip and continued to glare at Raven.

But Raven just casually walked away, ignoring everyone.

"All of this made shits made me lose my appetite. I’ll go to my dorm for a while."

He said casually, waving at Alec and the others.

"What are you planning?"

Kendy asked Raven as he passed by him. Raven smiled mischievously...

"I’m gonna remove what the academy can’t."

Then he weakly whispered to Kendy before passing by him. Kendy frowned at his words and felt a bitter feeling inside him.

Raven passed Ruby too.

"Thanks for the help."

He mumbled to her ear. Ruby smiled and nodded her head.

"Thanks for the show too."

She replied.

-’Raven, I did great too!’

Then Raven heard Levina’s childish but sweet voice inside his head.

’Yeah, thank you too.’

He nodded and replied in his mind.

Click-

And with that, he left the cafeteria.

*****

(Raven’s POV)

"Ugh... Fucking hell."

I weakly cursed as I massaged my right arm.

Because of the sudden increase in my strength earlier, it strained my whole right arm.

It aches a lot and it’s trembling. Luckily, no one noticed it in the cafeteria.

Sean is a rank higher than me, so I increased my strength stat by 2 ranks—and I didn’t slap him randomly, I aimed at his jaw.

"Now, I’m officially an enemy of Sean and his group that’s full of perverts."

I mumbled as a smile appeared on my face because everything went according to my plan.

When I was sure that Sean was gonna come at me earlier, I planned things against him.

I used Levina as a communicator with Ruby, while I used Ruby to drag Sir Kendy into the cafeteria in the form of a small talk.

And when I saw Sean throwing his punch at me, I sent a telepathic message to Levina that they can enter. She passed my message to Ruby, and then Ruby dragged Sir Kendy inside the cafeteria.

’Now that’s the operation I called [Catch the Slippery Bitch Red-Handed].’

I happily muttered in my head.

Oh, and the reason I knocked out Sean is for the future.

Well, I didn’t really need to knock him out, but he annoyed me so I did it in the end.

Anyway, with what I just did, Sean will be raging with hatred against me.

’And I’m sure he will use his father’s authority to rig the upcoming test.’

There will be a group combat in the upcoming assessment test. I’m sure he will manipulate who I’m gonna be grouped with—and I’m pretty sure their group will be our opponent, "coincidentally."

"In the assessment test..."

A sly smile appeared on my face after roughly predicting what will happen.

"I will make my debut."

I stated, then I formed a new plan for me.

"Hmm, is Yuki done with the mission I gave her?"

I weakly mumbled, as I didn’t see her yet since coming back yesterday night. Though I know she’s fine, that’s why I’m not really worried.

But I still want to see her.

I shook my head to remove such thoughts, as Yuki’s mission is my very first priority at the moment.

Then going to my second priority, I opened my [Body Reconstruction] mission.

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[Body Reconstruction]

1. Run 20,000 Kilometers. (10,001/20,000)

2. Do 5,000 push-ups. (2,549/5,000)

3. Do 5,000 sit-ups. (1,565/5,000)

4. Do 5,000 squats. (1,658/5,000)

5. Lift 75 Kilograms, 20,000 times. (8,084/20,000)

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’I still have 4 days before Saturday, the start of the assessment.’

I massaged my chin as I thought and walked.

"But it’ll be much better if I completed this shitty mission as early as possible."

Nodding my head, I decided to lessen my sleep and focus on finishing the [Body Reconstruction] requirements.

And as proof of my determination, I started training as soon as I reached my dorm.

But in the near future... I’m gonna regret this decision of mine for a bit.