In the other place, Leo is facing a battle right now. He looks like teleported into a shallow lake area. He's facing one of Lionel Academy's students. Leo just puts a smirk on his face and looks like he's underestimating his enemy.
The student of Lionel Academy speaks, "Greetings, you may call me 'Noir'. I want to challenge you, Leo. I'm curious about your strength, that was Gyrus' partner long ago."
Leo just chuckles and speaks to him again, "Well, then. Noir, may I assume you're his partner right now? I think you have a hard time as well."
Noir seems upset at his words and says, "I see. So/ you don't think his strength isn't strong enough to find the Book of Origin, huh? How rude of you."
Leo answers him back, "No, I think he is quite strong. He might be able to go on a journey to find the book. But, I don't think he will be the one who found the Book of Origin. That's for sure."
Noir speaks back, "Do you really think like that?! Enough!! I will make you understand your place!!"
He charges towards Leo and tries to attack him. Leo is just standing, not even moving an inch as if he's completely underestimating him. Even when Noir gets in front of him, Leo still doesn't move at all. Suddenly, Noir stopped like a frozen picture in the middle of action.
Leo chuckles at him, "I see. Illusion magic. Not an attack type magic, but quite handy. But…"
Leo taps at the illusion of him's forehead and it disappears. He is searching around for him, but there is no sign of him. His movement doesn't make any sound at all like he became one with the background. Then Leo chuckles again and lets his guard down. Noir appears from his back and goes to stab him using his spear, but Leo just dodges it like he knows that he will attack him from that direction. Noir seems surprised and swings his spear against him one more time, but Leo blocks it using his knife. The way he blocked it is so natural and easy, like he is playing with a kid.
Noir shouts at him, "How do you know where I attacked you?"
Leo just chuckles and speaks with an underestimating tone, "Just an intuition. Don't be confused."
Noir seemed even more angry at him and said, "Intuition you say!! Don't you dare to use that reason after blocking my attack!!"
Leo just chuckled at him with an annoying smirk at his face. He made Noir pretty upset. His head is heating up each second. Meanwhile, Leo is just mocking him with his annoying smirk. You can imagine it by yourself, you're trying your best but your friend is just goofing around but he's the one who gets all the praise. Just imagine he's looking at you with an annoying smirk like mocking you, looking at you with underestimating eyes. That's how Noir feels right now.
Noir tries to keep himself down, but his smirk is just gonna make him mad even more. His attack is getting fiercer than before and Leo is getting more difficult to dodge every attack that comes from him. Though, his annoying smile is never faltering. He blocks all the attacks that are necessary and dodges all the attacks that he can dodge. His movements are very light like a feather.
He speaks to Noir while continuing dodges all of his attacks, "Are you really his partner? You don't look strong enough though."
Noir who gets angrier shouts at him, "Shut up! Just fight me already!"
Leo chuckles and answers him, "Very well, then. Just allow me to use my magic as well."
The pattern in Leo's eyes changes, his eyes do look like a pentagram. Noir just uses his magic and creates a multiple of his illusions around Leo. Leo scans the area around him to find where the real one is. Though, the illusions are pretty real, even not moving. This time, Leo seems more serious than before. His smile is faltering and ready himself for a proper fight. Noir quickly charges towards him, but Leo blocks it using his magic.
Noir is surprised and some words escape from his mouth, "What the hell?"
His attack was blocked by something flexible. Leo doesn't chuckle this time and just looks at him with sharp, serious eyes. This view is quite rare since we haven't seen him so serious before.
Noir asked Leo with an angry, yet surprised tone, "What is that? Is your magic something that is similar to gum?"
Leo shaked his head and answered, "Nope, it's called alchemy. I can change the properties of any objects. I can make them become flexible like what I'm doing to this air. And I can even do this."
He used his magic to make the air become solid and made the spear stuck in the middle of air. Such powerful magic. Noir was surprised by his magic and tried to pull the spear, but he seemed to struggle to pull it since it stuck with something that was beyond the reason. How can you not be surprised? Leo can turn air into something flexible or solid. That makes him almost able to create everything he wants at this point.
Noir releases his spear and starts fighting with his hands and legs in close combat. Leo is still having his knife in his hand and continuing to dodge all of his attacks. He tilts his head aside once Noir attacks him right into his face to dodge it, then he strikes his stomach with his knee. BAM! It sounds hard, but unfortunately Noir manages to block his attack with his palm. Though, his hand palm is red as a result of Leo's attack. After blocking his attack, Noir counters his attack again with his left knee as well. Leo knocked back by his attack and tried to compose himself, leaving a trace on the ground.
Right after Leo is ready again, Noir doesn't give him any mercy and quickly launches some blows at him again. He blows a barrage of punches and kicks at him pretty fast in a professional way. When Leo blocked all of it, Noir used his magic to create some illusions of him again around him to hide himself. It feels like a cheat, he can duplicate himself to fight people.
Leo speaks to him with a serious tone, "Running again? You sure never get bored with running, huh?" He underestimates him while putting his left hand on his hip.
Noir answers him still with his anger in his tone out of nowhere, "Shut up! The one who underestimates their enemy is the one who always loses first!"
Leo answers him back, "Are you sure? I'm just underestimating you because there is no way you can beat me. Not a single chance." He glances towards Noir, thanks to him who answered him, dummy.
Noir just silent after he heard what he said and charged at Leo from his blind spot to beat him after revealing himself. At that time, Leo got stabbed in the chest through his uniform. JLEB. It seems like he hid the knife from the first place.
Noir laughed after seeing Leo get stabbed and said, "Hahaha! Just like what I said! You're underestimating me too much! Don't worry, it won't kill you. I'll just break your badge while you're unconscious and send you to the waiting room."
When he pulls off his knife, he seems surprised because his knife is broken. On the other hand, Leo just chuckles and gives him a look as if asking "Is that your everything?" to him. So annoying, really. Noir doesn't understand why his knife got broken against Leo's uniform. He shows a confused expression on her face, of course.
Leo continues to chuckle and say, "How is it? My uniform is pretty hard, right?"
Noir got angry and shouted at him, "How?! That's armor, that's cheating!!" He yells at him outloud.
Leo spoke again at him with an underestimating tone, "Of course, not. This is not armor, this is my magic." He says and makes things more confusing to him.
Suddenly, Leo's vest turned into a liquid and then became solid again when he used it as a gauntlet in his right hand. His magic is completely beyond the reason. He blows a punch to Noir's stomach with his right hand using a gauntlet. His attack is so heavy and the gauntlet is so hard, it doesn't feel like a vest anymore. Noir lets out a grunt of pain as Leo hits him hard enough. The vest is almost as hard as iron, thanks to his magic.
Leo's magic is really contrary to natural law. How can something soft and easy to rip become so hard and thick?
Noir still took the time to say, "What the hell?" He coughs as the punch lands on his stomach.
Leo chuckles and speaks in a mocking tone, "Really? After getting a heavy damage you still took the time to say that? Don't you have anything better to do than that?"
Noir just falls onto the ground and grunts in pain, it seems like he was injured pretty seriously. I don't know anymore who's underestimating who now. Leo grabs his collar and lifts him in the air. Noir seems more angry against his treatment, his self esteem has really dropped at this moment.
Leo said to him with a serious face, "Well, please say 'hi' to your teammates for me in the waiting room."
Without waiting anymore, Leo slashed and broke his badge. Immediately, Noir transferred into the waiting room. This match was won by Leo, it seemed like he didn't get any serious injuries. Once he looks back, there are many people approaching him as if trying to eliminate him.
The MC speaks again right after Leo won the battle with an enthusiastic tone, "Leo!! He won the battle against Noir!! I wonder why no one has put an eye on him before!! He's so strong and his magic is so unbelievable!! And Noir has sended into the waiting room!! But Wait!! There are other students approaching him!! One… Two… No, that's three!! What will he do, he's in danger!!"
Leo smiles and speaks in a calm tone as if nothing happened, "Fufufu, and who you might be?"
They continue approaching him together and surrounding him. It's not like they're in the same academy. There are two students from Lionel Academy and one student from Redione Academy. It looks like he's having a hard time soloing the enemy teams. They are battling at each other randomly, some of them keep switching their targets back and forth while protecting themself from the other attack. Leo is alone so he doesn't need to worry to cooperate with the others. But he is at a disadvantage right now even to protect himself.
The battle got intense, Leo tried to defend himself using his magic. He changes his knife into liquid form to attack some of them. Even if it turned into a liquid, his knife was still able to scratch one of persons' cheek. His knife is able to get through his enemy's weapon but still scratch them. It's like grabbing water, almost impossible to block it. Although, they just use their magic to attack each other's teams, including Leo. At this time, Leo is getting serious one more time and uses his magic to make the water become flexible like rubber. They suddenly lose their balance and Leo doesn't give them any chance to compose themself. He immediately charges towards them and eliminates them one by one. After he eliminated all of them, he deactivated his magic so the water turned back to normal again.
The MC shouts again with full energy, "He's so strong!! TOO STRONG!! Who's gonna stop him?! I can't believe Tyone Academy hides someone like him!! He's a black horse from the Tyone Academy!!"