Ren immediately got into guard position, sighing deeply. He recognized that voice.
"Seriously?" he shouted toward the nearby shadows. "You guys also want me to kick your asses? Because in case you didn't know, I just defeated Lin. That Lin! Do you understand what that means?"
Min, Taro, and Liu emerged from the invisibility provided by Min's amphibian, all laughing as if they had heard the best joke in the world.
"How the hell did you find me?" Ren looked at them incredulously. "My mana is hidden pretty well."
"We arrived since you were lying on the ground with Lin," Liu explained with a smile that Ren hadn't seen from him in months. "We followed you stealthily to see what you would do."
His friends had felt his mana during the fight.
The realization was both embarrassing and oddly comforting.
"Go away!" Ren gestured rudely toward the campus direction. "I have something important to do, and I'm not going to involve you in this."
