Kidnapped Dragons

Ling Ling’s HP was reduced to 0 and she soon turned into fragments of light. 

Still enraged, Yeorum approached the place where Ling Ling had been, and angrily bellowed at an empty place.

[Victor: Yu Yeorum.]

[Combat time: 03 minutes, 15 seconds.]

[Acquired Points: 10]

“…”

“…”

An unfathomable battle and the gruesome appearances of the two cadets – after watching it all, one of the spectating cadets blocked their mouth with a myriad of emotions.
He wasn’t the only one getting goosebumps from it.

To prove that, the waiting room remained quiet for a very long time.

***

“That fucking slut! I’ll kill her!”

Yeorum screamed after being summoned back to the real world.

The Level 4 artifact, [Statue of Competition] healed the injured cadets almost entirely after the end of the duel.
Thanks to that, she was back to normal and her several wounds had already vanished.

“Calm down.
Yu Yeorum.”

“You saw right? You saw that as well! That crazy bitch tried to rip my clothes after realising she couldn’t win!”

She no longer had a weapon after the spar ended.
While fuming, Yeorum glanced around and picked up a fire extinguisher before kicking the door open with her foot.
She walked forward in large strides and appeared like she was about to kill someone. 

He could understand both sides.
The red race viewed fights and duels as important but amongst the competitive superhumans, there were several of them that had a screw loose like Ling Ling. 

Should he stop this, or no.

In fact, the Regressor couldn’t really find the reason to stop her.
Wouldn’t she be in a better mood after venting her anger?

So if this wasn’t Colosseo, he might have let her do whatever she wanted.
However, there were too many eyes in the surroundings.

A thick arm covered her body before she could go outside onto the corridor. 

“Let go.
Don’t hold me back.
I’m serious!”

Driven insane, Yeorum shouted and raised her nails to scratch Yu Jitae’s arm.
Of course, he didn’t bleed and it was her own nails that bled instead.

There was no other choice.

[Knifehand Strike (D)]

***

“…”

That night, Yeorum crouched down and smoked a cigarette after cooling herself down.

“…”

She didn’t get angry at him for stopping her.
Having decided to obey the system of the academy, she knew what sort of result her actions would have caused. 

“…”

After coming back to the dormitory, Yeorum stayed holed up in her room and brooded over what happened the entire day.
It wasn’t the first or second time she was doing this, so the Regressor had an idea of what it meant for her to spend time alone and sulk. 

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In fact, it wasn’t something to get angry about.
The fight had just escalated more than it should so her anger was only temporary. 

She needed some time to settle her rampaging emotions, like what she was doing now.

As he had expected, Yeorum walked out of her room the next morning while scratching her belly beneath the shirt as if nothing happened.

“Do you feel a bit better now.”

“…Yeah.
Breakfast?”

Yeorum spread some cream cheese on a slice of bread with nimble hands and pushed it into her mouth.
Meanwhile, Yu Jitae talked about what happened the day before. 

“You fought well yesterday.”

“…Yeah.
I won, and that’s all that matters.”

“Right.”

“Yourself?”

“Huh?”

“You thought it was a shame didn’t you? When you were looking.
Since I didn’t properly use what I learned.”

He didn’t say anything in response.
She was right and her fight yesterday was simply a mess.

Yeorum grinned.

“You knoowww~ That girl was fuckin’ acting like an animal.
I was freakin’ surprised and I got caught up in her pace.”

“Whatever.
No need to explain what’s happened already.”

Hearing that, she gave a nod with a pout.
Then, she quietly resumed pushing the bread into her mouth so Yu Jitae had to break the silence.

“Lair’s community website is in an uproar.
Quite a lot of them watched the video as well.”

“Ah, you mean that, footage of the fight?”

“Yeah.”

“How many?”

“5,200.”

“Shit.”

It meant that half of the 1st grade cadets had seen it.
“They must’ve seen me go mad,” she chuckled.

“And?”

“What do you mean.”

“Anything fun apart from that?”

“People were bad-mouthing that Chinese girl a fair bit.”

“What were they saying?”

When Yu Jitae quietly showed her the posts and comments of [Community Lair], Yeorum once again chuckled.

And after seeing an announcement, her expression turned a level brighter.

“Hoh? What’s this.
She got sanctioned! You see this ‘3 days of restriction on individual spars for misconduct and 20 points deducted’ part? She’s fucked now right?”

It wasn’t there when he last checked but it seemed that the education department had just come up with a punishment.

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“Serves you right, you stupid bitch.
Fight if you’re there to fight.
Why try to rip someone else’s shirt?”

“…”

“Did she want to see it that badly? Well, my titties do stand out a bit too much ♥”

She joked around and laughed frankly without keeping a pretense.
Even her mouth munching on the bread began moving slightly faster.

Yeorum being happy and enjoying herself wasn’t too bad to look at.

“Anyway, there was a call from the PR team.”

“What did they say.”

“They want to carry out an interview with ten or so from the top ranks of the individual spar section.
How is it – are you interested?”

“Not really.”

“You want me to turn them down for you?”

“Hmm…”

Blankly chewing on the bread, she asked.

“By the way, is that tiny bitch also coming?”

She appeared to be talking about Ling Ling.

“I think she was.”

“I’m going then, of course.”

“…”

“I’m not trying to fight.
My mood’s all settled now, and I just wanted to have a chat.”

“…Alright.”

“Seriously, do you think I get angry all the time?”

Although it was hard to believe her, the Regressor couldn’t find the reason to dissuade her either.
Thus, he took Yeorum that day and headed to the PR team.

*

But after arriving at the waiting room of the PR team’s interviews, Yeorum became slightly startled.

She entered after kicking the door.
When eyes gathered on her, she greeted them by saying, “Hello unnis and oppas?”. 

Up to there was fine because she was doing all that without thinking too much about it.
What was strange instead was the atmosphere surrounding the room and the ones that had already gathered.

When she curiously inspected them closely, she realised that someone was holding another person by their collar.

Besides, they all looked familiar.
Those nine cadets who had gathered at that place were all inside the list of people that required more attention, provided by Yu Jitae.
In other words, they were all candidates for the top positions amongst first graders.

They were fighting but the tense atmosphere was cracked by Yeorum’s entrance.

One of them let go of the collar and spitted on the ground, while someone else swore.

“…Look at you guys.”

Though surprised, Yeorum gave a smile.

“What are you doing here?”