"Later, during the tournament held at Kains Academy, you wanted to participate and feel your recent improvements. However, in the first round of the preliminaries, someone kicked you straight off the stage, leaving you out of the academy's tournament. Furthermore, more people became aware of your existence and mocked you, which fueled your hatred and desire for revenge. But you knew that with low power in the Imperial Capital, you couldn't do anything, so you chose to lie low."
Listening to Taichu's account, Lu Hong's thoughts slowly returned to that time.
At that time, he was thoroughly embarrassed. Although he had become Hughes' disciple, he hadn't attended a single class in the academy. Also, when he first entered this Otherworld, how could Lu Hong know the normal standards of students at Kains Academy? So he foolishly signed up, wanting to prove his strength to someone, ahem, that someone was Nono. Yes, Nono was cute and kind, who wouldn't like her?
