With a sense of disbelief and relief, Fray handed Desos to Yota. He put Desos on his shoulder and jumped with his fire suit activated, But to his surprise, Desos woke up in the midst and said reluctantly “P-please, save them. T-those idiots are like my brothers, I-if you save them, then… I am willing to become your slave throughout this and the next exam.”
Yota chuckled for a moment and exclaimed “Haha, who do you think I am? I am not the type of guy to exploit someone. Well, even if you don’t say anything, I was going to save them.”
Yota landed on the pillar and carefully put Desos down. He reassured him, saying “You stay here and rest buddy” before getting ready to jump again. At that moment, Ren shouted, Interrupting Yota’s departure “Hey! Lemme come with you!”
“What? you wanna come too? Why?” Yota asked, looking somewhat confused.
“Because Ric was against it!” Ren spat out, his face showing his stupidly firm determination.
“Huh?” Yota was now genuinely confused.
“If Ric’s against something, then I am with that something!” Ren said, his simple-mindedness showing itself.
“Well…” As Yota was conversing with Ren, A big sound suddenly interrupted them. They looked at the pillar which was minutes away from falling down as more cracks had appeared on it. They hastily got ready and Yota gave clear instructions to Ren “You take the bulky guy near the edge, and I will go get the mage”
“Roger that!” Ren replied, his face full of excitement.
Yota activated his fire suit and Ren activated his Firefly magic as Both of them jumped to save Fray and Jeff from falling down. Meanwhile, Jim confronted Ric, his face turned serious, he looked at Ric’s foot and asked “ Where did that blood on your feet come from?”
“Oh, this? There was a worm in my way, so I just squashed it.” Ric answered in his casual nonchalant manner.
“You do know that you’ll be eliminated from the exam if you kill someone,” Jim warned, annoyance and anger visible on his face.
“Don’t worry, The worm got away with his life, since I only squashed his will” A wicked smile played on Ric’s face as he answered Jim.
Jim huffed in frustration and walked away from Ric, saying, “Tch! Even a worm’s life has worth. But I guess someone like you wouldn't understand."
As Jim walked away, Ric called out, "Hey! Can you stop your magic? They might not make it in time."
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“It’s already stopped, what’s happening is the aftermath of my attack,” Jim explained before walking away towards a rock where he sat down, Trying to regain his composure. He let out a sigh, and started to mumble to himself as some horrifying memories resurfaced “That day… that cursed night… Arfen… Dang it!”. Jim clenched his fists, glaring at Ric with fury-filled eyes, and mumbled “You Monster!”.
[At the collapsing pillar.]
Yota helped Fray and put him on his shoulder and he realized how weak Fray was, What? why is he so light? It’s like I am carrying a half-filled water bottle. It was easy for Yota to carry Fray, but Ren’s situation was quite the opposite. Ren put Jeff’s hand on his shoulder and tried to carry him, but his weight was too much for him “Hey gorilla, why in the world are you so heavy?” Ren asked him in a teasing manner.
“What the? You shrimp! Who do you think you are?!” Jeff replied in annoyance.
“What?! Shrimp? How dare you call me that!” Ren got angry and both of them started arguing with each other.
Interrupting their heartfelt civilized conversation (sarcasm intended), Yota shouted “Hey Ren! I will take this guy to the other pillar, You wait here! When I get back we can carry that bulky guy together. Ren, who was bickering with Jeff “You monkey piece of--”, heard Yota and replied back “Huh? Okay! Get going Yota!”
Yota hastily jumped towards the Pillar where Desos was lying down in rest. Ren on the other side kept arguing with Jeff and continued to climb slowly as the pillar was crumbling even more. Yota carefully put Fray near Desos, who thanked him for the help “Thank you very much, Sir” Yota was taken aback by the sudden respect he was being shown and responded, shyly scratching his head “He he, Why are you praising me~ I am not a hero or something~”. But suddenly, Ren shouted “Hey! What are you doing?! Come and help me with this lump of meat!(Referring to Jeff) The pillar is almost falling apart! ”
“What the –“ Jeff groaned angrily
Yota hastily turned back and jumped towards the crumbling pillar at full speed. He reached there in an instant and landed with a thud. Ren carefully handed Jeff to Yota, who placed Jeff's arm around his neck and held him tightly. Ren also did the same, grabbing the other arm of Jeff tightly. Ren and Yota glanced at each other and dashed forward at the same time, boosting their speed as they landed on the pillar safely in the blink of an eye.
Carefully putting Jeff down, Ren engaged in a conversation with Yota “Hey Yota, you have gotten pretty strong! Wanna fight?” Ren suggested, a fire of excitement burning in his eyes. “Yeah! Let’s do it!” Yota also replied in agreement. But, interrupting their conversation, Ric exclaimed “No, did you guys forget that we are in the middle of an exam?”
Ren got irked and annoyingly said “Ptu! Here comes the ugly party pooper.”
“ha! I am not your mirror buddy,” Ric answered in his casual tone.
“What did you say?!”
“Are you deaf? And maybe you should take a look at your friend. He will pierce a hole through my chest with those eyes.” Ric gestured with his hand, pointing towards Jim.
Ren noticed Jim, who was glaring at Ric, filled with fury and anger. Ren went towards him and started a conversation “Hey, are you still thinking about that day? You know it’s not his fault.”
“His attitude says otherwise,” Jim replied in anger
“Jim, just let it go. It was an accident, he doesn’t even remember it.”
“Let it go?! Do you think I can forget about Arfen just like that?” Jim stood up in fury, swinging his hand in rage.
“Shh.., they will hear it”
“Dang it! Whatever!” Jim kicked a pebble in frustration and walked away as Ren tried to calm him down.