Anna and Priya stands up together walking out the class right after their teacher’s exit. Priya asks, “do any of you two need anything from the cafeteria? Or from the store in front of school?”

Akhidra nods to Fushi, and Fushi gives a small shake while he scrunches his eyebrows together in thought for a split second. Akhidra replies, “nah, we are good.”

Priya says, “ok. Hey, what about you Tanisha? Wanna join?”

Tanisha replies, “sure.” She looks up from her notebook and closes it putting it back in her bag, zipping it.

All three girls walk out the class’s back door, leaving it open halfway. A few other girls from front benches also walk out when their friends from other class comes to pick them.

Akhidra says to Fushi, “now, that really was slick move by sir.”

Fushi turning towards Akhidra, replies, “yeah, he just made it look like he needed to cover his entire body, but he didn’t.”

Akhidra affirms. “You noticed how the aura around the upper head of Fanakar sir was the only one that had more aura layers. Or whatever it’s called?”

“Yeah I noticed that too, he literally needed only to cover his head but for show off just made a layer all over his body”, said Fushi.

 “Uh, huh, and-” Akhidra was saying. Akhidra is grabbed by a speed hovering Kirit and flung to the back of the class.

Akhidra lands flat on his back. Kirit lands on top of Akhidra, cancelling his fire magic spell he put on his shoes.

As Kirit is landing, Akhidra grabs onto the nearby leg of the seat with his right hand, but he gets kneed in the stomach by the time his hand reaches the leg.

Akhidra lets out a sharp, “Ah!”

Fushi reacting to his best friend getting bullied, plunges forward towards the last row.

Fushi is just finishing creating an orange ‘Nice manifest’ pole construct to his right that would hit Kirit right on his left side as it gets completed while he readies a ‘Nice manifest’ hammer construct in his left hand to slam it into the other end hard.

Akhidra seeing Fushi’s constructs rather than slamming the chair he has grabbed onto, moves it to block Fushi’s attack.

Akhidra calls out to Fushi, “Don’t! He isn’t worth it, Fushi.”

Fushi stopping his manifest construction, exclaims, “what?!”

Akhidra looked Kirit directly in the eye, “what you scared that I will win today if we match? Huh, Kirit?”

Fushi responds, “hey, idiot, he isn’t doing it for the match! Everyone has the choice during it to reject and fight someone else.”

Kirit turns his head slowly while kneeing Akhidra more by rotating his knee. “I will come for you next, so you don’t have to speed up the process, orange.”

Kirit looks back, “as for you, you pissed me off again today. Wasn’t yesterday’s lesson not clear enough?”

Kirit said, “Fire magic: Flame cinders.” A small flame from the magic circle came into existence in Kirit’s right hand he hovered above Akhidra’s head.

Kirit asked, “should I drop it?” He waved it around a few inches above Akhidra’s face.

Akhidra said, “uh, huh, how about?-” Akhidra slammed the well-placed seat he moved to protect Kirit from Fushi.

He now slammed it hard enough to throw Kirit off himself and into the lockers at the back of the class.

Fushi, who the entire time, was waiting confused because he thought ‘that isn’t like Akhidra to protect his bully’, but now his feeling changed to satisfied surprise thinking, ‘oh, why didn’t I think of that, of course he used me as a distraction, my boy’.

Akhidra looked at Fushi, Fushi nodding to Akhidra at his action. Akhidra thought to himself, ‘that’s good, Fushi is stopped’.

Akhidra stood up, while Kirit sat up. Akhidra kicked Kirit right where Kirit’s neck lace’s main ornament is.

Kirit backed off gliding towards the back door by using chantless fire magic spell ‘hollow blast’, while changing the magic spell’s addition of fire protection to null and speed to a very slower one. Making this a custom ‘hollow blast’ spell, and turning him as the spell’s object to be blasted.

As he backed off from a sudden appearance of a fire ring all around which looked like propelled with a few cinders around his school uniform, he dabbed away the cinders not harming his clothes at all.

He said, looking at Akhidra, “did you really wanted to die? You just kicked me at my ‘Everflame’ that I carry around in this necklace of string and orichalcum glass?!”

Akhidra said, “nuh. I am not that suicidal and I do remember you bragging about how that ‘Everflame’ spell, that requires you to put mana into it for protecting you against fire below a certain level, and that it is in a special glass, the one of the toughest of current times?”

Fushi said tauntingly, “what was it again? Orichalcum glass?”

Kirit stands up showing his height and built of 5 feet 9 inches with a perfect body shape, exceptional for an eighth grader. Except his opponent is also exceptional.

Akhidra standing tall at 5 feet 9 inches himself with a more significantly better body shape, cracks his neck to remove stiffness.

Akhidra flexing his neck and looking at Kirit, “so shall we start?”

Kirit puts his left hand on his right shoulder, stretching and exercising his upper left arm muscles. “you sure? You don’t have your bodyguard here.”

Chakshas slammed both his hands onto his table, each beside either end of his lunch box. “I just want to eat in silence before the combat period starts!”

He turns his head and faces the ruckus in the back. “So, keep the destruction of property within the combat period class and combat arena.” He smiled at both of them.

Akhidra and Kirit looked at Chakshas, and Chakshas stared back at them.

Kirit said, “yeah, seems fair enough.”

Akhidra also said, “oh, so you do have some functioning brain cells! Interesting find.”

Fushi laughs out at his friend’s joke.

The voices of Anna, Priya and Tanisha can be heard by the students at the back of class, including Kirit, Fushi and Akhidra. All the girls slowly approaching the class, not knowing what happened in the class.

They reach the class’s back door, and sees Akhidra and Kirit correcting the same desk and chair. Anna asked, “did something happen while we were gone?”

Tanisha and Priya notes Chakshas still staring back at Akhidra.

Fushi replies to Anna’s question. “Nah. Just another day at school.”

Anna looks at Priya. She raises her both hands.