"If… If you still don't want… to fight me… then I will spread the news about when… when I take a sleep at your lap…" Alicia stammered.
Baston who was still in his dream suddenly came back to his sense. Just after hearing her words, he felt this noble girl dared to threat him. Still, when he looked at her, she trembled over her own words. Although she
looked calm at the outside, he could sense that it took all of her energy to simply said that thing. Luckily, it was just a whisper between them. It would become a big trouble if any boy heard her statement.
"Alright… If you really want to fight…"
Alicia was excited, but she quickly controlled herself to calm down. After hearing the confirmation from Baston, she determined to give it all when confronting him in the arena. Everything then went silent with no one took a chance to start another subject to talk about. Despite the awkward atmosphere, Alicia truly liked this situation where no one disturbed her. Being with Baston was really different from other boys.
All this time, she heard too many praises from boys and girls. The boys always tried to strike a conversation with her while the girls
always gossiped about something. As a noble, she couldn't refuse them completely so in the end, she could only follow the current until she got a chance to get away. It was too tired to act noble but Baston gave her a different vibe. Instead of trying to talk about something, the fat boy chose to be quiet. Whenever she faced this kind of reply, she felt peaceful since she didn't need to engage on boring conversation.
Waiting for a moment, the announcer soon called for Baston and Alicia to go into the arena. As soon as both of them stood facing each other, the audiences clamored that this match was between the beauty and the
beast. Baston was dumbfounded since it was clear he was the mentioned beast while Alicia should be the beauty one. Although she was far from him, he could see the noble girl giggled but resisted until the end.
"I really become a bad guy today…"
Baston thought and shook his head. Regarding what the people commented on him, he didn't care since he got his own priority. As always, the referee came and quickly announced the match to begin. After Baston heard the start, he then unleashed his ice blast toward Alicia. The girl quickly chose to dodge rather than confronting such powerful magic straightforwardly.
"Booo!!! How dare you attack first! Are you a gentleman?"
"Don't you know ladies first?"
"Such a coward! A person like you should lose today!"
Baston heard many negative remarks just after he launched his attack first. For all of these opinions, he wouldn't care about it. Since he was deemed as the beast in this round, there was no reason to allow such
manner to exist. Why the beast had to keep its own gentleman attitude toward human? Moreover, the poor class like him didn't need to have a high reputation since everyone would soon forget about him anyway. Back to the arena, the fight was still ongoing and he needed to treat it seriously.
Just after Alicia avoided the ice blast, she then casted the wind blade and threw it to Baston. For this weak attack, the fat boy simply erected the ice blast to protect him for any incoming attacks. Looking at her blocked wind blades, Alicia suddenly launched another type of wind magic. She
casted mini tornado at the bottom of Baston's legs. Baston himself could feel
there was a rush of high-speed wind coming through him, threatening to throw his fat body into the air. He then quickly froze the surface of his legs so it stayed still to the floor.
Noticing her strategy didn't work, Alicia then got back far from Baston. The fat boy knew rather than defeating him directly, this noble
girl wanted to throw him out the arena. By then, he would be disqualified and she finally won the match. The idea was quite ingenious since it was really hard to defend once the person got caught up in the place. Moreover, there were many ice blasts surrounded him in order to protect from her attacks, yet she could take advantage of it by limiting his movement.
He then tried to hide his smile because such girl was very smart. Alicia was truly different among the nobles he had ever seen. There was an urge to continue the fight so he could see what kind of ability she could show to him. After the failed plan, Baston then kept using his ice blast but Alicia simply hovered around with her wind magic. It felt he hit a soft feather with his strong ice magic. Whenever it made a contact to her, she simply used her wind magic to propel her away from the ice blast. By doing this, her
stamina and magic power would be kept minimum while he himself would exhaust all
his power before he could find an opportunity.
It was good experience to have this kind of opponent. Unfortunately, Baston could also become efficient when dealing with Alicia. He took a piece of broken ice from his ice blast and threw at Alicia suddenly. Looking at the close impact, the girl quickly dodged it with the help of wind magic. Before she could rest, another piece of ice shard flew toward her. She then dodged it again but once Baston threw more, she knew it would be pain if she kept avoiding it. She had no choice but quickly took the shelter of nearby
ice blast to cover her.
"Hey, are you a gentleman? How could you just throw it into such beautiful lady?"
"Such rude action! He should be disqualified!"
"Exactly! Referee, look at him!"
Many boys and men scolded Baston from their own seat while the fat boy kept doing his attacks. The referee looked at him but could only shake his head. Although it looked like a cheap trick, but Baston didn't violate the rules so the match would still continue. Anyway, he would be the one who reap all the hates so as good referee, he just needed to be fair. While Baston kept
throwing many ice shards to Alicia, Claire who was inside the VIP room was laughing merrily.
"Ha… ha… ha…"
"Miss Claire, you should watch your manner. If anyone see you like this, it will implicate your family," Principal Viral shook his head.
"Ha… ha… ha… But… but… Do you see that boy?" Claire was still laughing, "That boy named Baston simply doesn't look like a wizard. Instead using his ice magic, he just simply throws his piece of ice blast to his opponent like a barbarian."
"Well, as long as it doesn't break the rule, then he can keep doing it."
"Yes, exactly. This fat boy is really interesting. He notices his opponent takes care of her magic power and he suddenly follows her way of fighting. This time, his opponent is in passive while he keeps throwing things."
In the meantime, Alicia still took cover. Deep down inside her heart, she was grumbling over the way that Baston fought her. Unlike her imagination, this fat boy simply took a wild route to break every strategy she had. After just a couple of minutes, Alicia also decided to fight him straightforwardly. She grabbed and broke a piece of ice shards from the ice she took cover and quickly threw into Baston. Once the fat boy saw a chunk of ice was heading toward him, he also took cover.
"BAM!!!"
The ice shard hit the ice blast he erected before. Just by listening to the impact, it would be nasty if he got hit. Baston thought Alicia would keep her noble manner, but unfortunately, her way of thinking developed
into something unexpected. She began copying the way he threw the ice shard to her. Not wanted to be dominated, he also retaliated by throwing more to her. By the time they were each hitting each other, the audiences saw it was just like a snowball fight.
The people soon cheered for Alicia to hit Baston. The influence she got was very different from the fat boy. Not only they still
booed and scolded him, they also kept encouraging Alicia to fight back. Even though they did the same thing, the attention they got was not the same. With high status of noble and beautiful face, Baston would surely lose.
"It can't be going on like this…" he murmured.
The fat boy suddenly jumped out of the protection and rushed ahead to Alicia. He then casted ice armor, covering all his body while he kept moving closer to her. With this kind of hard armor, the ice shard she threw
simply couldn't make a dent. The noble girl also changed her strategy. She took a time before she unleashed wind cannon to Baston. Once it touched the ice armor, the fat boy felt tremendous impact and getting thrown back a couple of meters. When he stopped, the armor was getting crack before it was broken. All its pieces were crumbling down, revealing unprotected Baston in front of her.
"THAT'S MORE LIKE IT!"
"KICK HIS ASS!"
"C'MON, YOU CAN WIN THIS!"
Many people suddenly shouted out once they saw a chance to defeat Baston. Being a bad guy must be hard but since he never thought to win this match, then he would play around until he could just give up naturally. Despite no one encouraged him, Baston tried again to get closer to Alicia. With his ice armor, he then moved toward his opponent. The girl noticed Baston kept
attacking so she once again used the wind cannon. Before it could get closer, the fat boy casted another ice blast. The ice magic soon blocked the wind cannon. When both of magic collided, it destroyed each other and left nothing. Baston then could go forward easily.
Alicia saw Baston was getting closer so she tried to run away, but he simply wouldn't let her escape easily. He casted ice shards toward her direction in order to keep her movement limited. By doing so, the distance
between them was getting closer and closer until he was right in front of her. She gritted her teeth and quickly unleashed another wind cannon. Baston on the other hand countered with his ice blast. The two spells collided once again, revealing the girl and the ice armored body.
The people around expected Alicia would run, but the noble girl did something incredible. Another wind cannon manifested in no time and blasted the ice armor again. At once, the audiences were in commotion because such spell needed a time to cast, but Alicia could handle it instantaneously. It
was truly such a talent to unleash this type of attack continuously without rest. The ice armor crumbled in no time and Alicia quickly casted wind cannon again. With this chance, she was sure to be the winner. What she didn't expect was there was empty spot after the ice armor crumbled. Baston who supposedly at there was nowhere.
From one of several ice blasts from before, Baston then came out. He didn't have any ice armor and just ran toward Alicia. Because she was too focused in front of her, she didn't realize that he already hid himself
from the front place. He tricked her into believing that he was inside the ice armor. This situation suddenly overturned many expectations from the audiences. They thought Baston would lose yet he suddenly came up from beside her. Unprepared, Alicia was in panic when Baston grabbed her hand tightly. He then pushed her out from the arena. While she was still in the air, she frantically used her wind magic but since Baston still held her tightly, she couldn't get
away from him.
Baston should let her hand go so she would fall while he was still inside the arena. Still, both of them looked like they were going to lose because people thought Alicia would bring him down with her. Before they fell,
Baston quickly threw Alicia back to the arena while he himself crashed and disqualified. The referee just stared at it blankly before getting back to his sense. He then announced the winner quickly.
"THE WINNER IS ALICIA!!!"