A confusion in the fog of that night was all around Isavaka. A battle within himself that questions him, “What did I lose? What am I lacking?” was pulling his leg down. With the thoughts eating his head, he completed his dinner before his mates and washed his hands and came out of the mess.

While Isavaka was walking out, Kai glared at him. Abdul-da witnessed Isavaka’s confused face and asked him, “What are you thinking idiot?”

“Uh. Nothing dada, *lifting head* what is the will of astra?”

“*smirk* It's nothing but the manifestation or the bond with your weapon. And *glaring Isavaka* I don’t feel you in you. I don’t feel you who I witnessed on the first day. Seeing you than saying you have grown, I’ll say, now you are scared. You are scared because of the inferiority complex of yours that degrades you in front of those rich kids. Forget who’s behind them, rather remember that you should be able to stand on par with them in any case. YOU just be YOU! Now dismiss.”

Isavaka nodded his headed and moved forward. A person from back pointing Isavaka, started shouting, “A LOSER is walking to his room!” Isavaka lifted his head with rage and turned back and started walking towards that person with anger clearly in his face. He did not think about anything and punched the bully’s nose. The nose of the bully started bleeding. His supporter in anger pushed Isavaka down and started kicking his stomach. After getting few kicks, Isavaka held the supporter’s leg and forced him down and mounted on him and started beating him. Another supporter of that gang lifted his staff and aimed at hitting Isavaka’s head. Isavaka suddenly stopped hitting him and held the staff which was almost an inch far. He got up holding the staff and walked towards him and slapped his right cheek till it was dark red.

Seeing this violence to his known juniors, a group of second year and third year students circled him. Suddenly an arrow flew down from the heights. When the bullies turned up to see who shot the arrow, it was astonishing that the best archer of the Aarambh, Madhav, shot this arrow to show him as the alley of Isavaka.

“MADHAV! You dare help this BRAT who insulted MY BROTHER by defeating HIM AND HIS FRIENDS!”

“Uh, I did not hear what you told Harry. Just shut the fuck up. You might be the best spearmen and the part of Inter and the fifth strongest hand-to-hand fighter of Aarambh but in terms of hand-to-hand, he will defeat you. Why not challenge him for your presence in Inter? This will make your grudge on him calm by beating him to the pulp.”

“OK! I Harrison Babu, the son of Thomas Babu, the guild master of Troilus, challenge you, Isavaka Jayanth, a son of a bitch, to a fight.”

Everyone laughs at the comment that the final year student, Harrison did on Isavaka. Meanwhile, all the students surround Isavaka and Harrison. Kai and Sahas push others back to see what head breaking work did Isavaka do. Both ran towards Isavaka and advised him to not take part in this fight.

Isavaka crossed his arms and bowed his head and walked towards Harrison and said, “If I defeat you, will you acknowledge as equal to you?”

Everyone started laughing. Adhira came into this whole incident and stopped this hot pot.

Isavaka repeated his question but this time he let free his hands and turned his head and glared at Harrison. This time, his presence was strong, and everyone’s laugh was silent.

“What are speaking Isavaka-”

“Let him, Adhira. If he is ready for the fight, then I’m ready to be the Kartha of this fight. Say, you want to fight Harrison?”

“I accept the fight in one condition, Abdul-da.”

“What is that condition?”
Isavaka walks to Abdul-da and whispers, “Abdul-da, I want my mates to bring my astra for this to happen in its presence. Only if you say yes.”

“*whisper* Ok then, *to everyone* the fight will commence after 10 minutes of prep time. Everyone should assemble in the fight arena. Now dismiss!”

Isavaka walks towards his roommates and without letting them tell a word, he explains why he accepted this challenge and why is he so confident that he will win. His roommates accepted his explanation and walked away to do their duty which they got from Isavaka. Anji leaped and settled over Kai’s shoulder.