“Oh my… look what we’ve got here. A-hehe. Come forward Ishikawa-san.”

“W-W-Wait a second! You didn’t purposely set this up, right Ayaka-sensei?”

Beads of sweat trickled down Naomi’s face as she was reluctant to accept the current situation.

Ayaka walked towards Naomi, stopped in front of her…

“Are you saying that I’m a bad lecturer? I’m a cheater something like that?”

…whispered to Naomi’s ear with an eerie tone.

Eeekk!

“I-I accept the challenge, Ayaka-sensei!”

“Good!” Ayaka smiled.

Naomi then plodded to the front of the class with nothing more to complain about, standing, facing Kizuki in a distance.

“Why it’s even you, hot-headed girl…?”

“Shut up… I think the plane flew with your self-perverted thought.”

This little—!

“In this mock battle, both of you need to use Ice element, freeze your opponent. Who’s the first to freeze its opponent completely at one place, wins the battle. Simple as that. Usage of Index, [Substitute], and offensive spells are prohibited. Just make your move, whenever either one of you are ready.”

“I won’t be going easy on you, pervert!”

“Still going with that, huh?”

This girl, not just an ordinary Mage, the aura from her, that’s quite something.

Kizuki sensed a tremendous energy flowing out—surrounding Naomi’s bestowed physique.

Both of them glaring at each other.

I cannot allow myself to lose against this pervert. As the top student in this academy, I will bring judgment upon him. That is my pride as a Mage… Let’s do this!

Without delay, Naomi stretched out her arm, with the palm facing at Kizuki and began her chant in a split second.

“With the power of ice—make their limbs freeze and still—!”

In that instant, a spiral-like magic circle manifest from Naomi’s palm, accompanied by a chilling aura of ice, and an ice energy rapidly approached towards Kizuki.

T-That was fast—!

Kizuki managed to glide backward, evading the Naomi’s incoming spell—barely dodged it.

An uneven block of ice formed on the ground where it hits.

“Heh!”

Naomi smirked as Kizuki almost fall on his feet, dodging her spell.

For a second-year Mage, that’s incredibly a good chanting skill.

“You won’t escape this time! With the power of north wind—cold——”

Naomi kept chanting and casting her spell, rendering Kizuki helpless and at state of losing the battle.

“I didn’t expect you’re this good at chanting.”

“Now you know! Fufufu.”

Naomi persistently chanting the spell, [Glaciate], aiming Kizuki ceaselessly.

Dodge after dodge, eventually—

“Gahhh—!”

—Kizuki had his right arm hit by [Glaciate]. He started to feel heavy as his right arm frozen, block of ice seemed to build up, and pulling him to the ground, restricting his movement.

“Hahaha—! Just look at you, Izumi-san. Hopeless, aren’t ya?”

Said Naomi boastfully, seeing Kizuki failed to overcome the difficulty that he was experiencing right now.

“—Tch!”

Right now, Kizuki’s head was half-panicking.

“Prepare to face your faith—!”

Naomi no longer interested in delaying the battle, decided to end it, chanting her freeze spell.