"I forfeit."
"...?"
Cael met Raelis's gaze. "You dealt a bit of damage to me, and as much as I'd like to fight you here..."
A faint smile appeared on his face. "I have a special mission tomorrow. If I lost another one of my bodies, I'd get a bad grade... and you know how it is with bad grades, I'd be screwed."
With that, he stepped past Raelis and walked up to the limp body.
He placed a single hand on it, causing it to vanish into smoke like some illusion. Soon after, he approached the body holding the shield and made it vanish as well.
Cael dusted himself off and tapped the hilt of his sword before flashing a nod at Raelis.
"We're all going to be living on the same floor, so let's meet in the living room sometime. Take care, will ya?"
Just like that, Cael stepped off the elevated platform and walked back into the academy.
"Hmm... the match is over," Julian said in passing, then sighed. "Are you going to continue?"
