Humanity Return

Ch. 35 - Duel

The newly rising sun managed to awaken the humans and Beasts in the camp and forest, signaling the start of the new day.

Some people emerged from within the forest while carrying Beasts behind them as morning arrived, looking extremely tired and sleep-deprived.

Nothing special happened on that ordinary morning.

Aura had already finished her breakfast and was combing Rufus' body with the large comb she got from Leinn, who inexplicably carried a special brush for the Beast inside her large bag.

“Hoam...”

Leinn was seen lying in the sun, with sweat almost drying on his face.

He had only stopped his morning practice after swinging his sword for three hours after his morning breakfast, then fell down and lay down on the grass while closing his eyes.

The Gorilla Beast also lay not far from there, imitating Leinn.

Clear himself had found a new game, which was turned into a ball and rolled around Leinn.

“Hm~ Hm~” Aura humming while combing Beast in front of her.

Rufus just lay enjoying the new sensation of the comb in Aura's hand tidying up her fur.

Time passed peacefully, until suddenly...

“Hm?”

Leinn opened his eyes and looked in one direction, finding a sizable group had just exited the camp and were seen walking towards them.

Aura also noticed the newcomer and stopped combing Rufus' fur, with a feeling of panic beginning to appear on her face.

While the wolf looks very unhappy to see the time to leave is disturbed. He got up and walked to the side of Leinn who was already standing while folding her hands, waiting for them.

“Hm..”

Leinn finished counting and found the group comprised of 39 humans and 5 Contracted Beasts, while Aura was already standing behind him and looked anxious as she watched the large group get closer and closer.

After they got to 20 meters in front of Leinn, the group stopped walking and just stared at him tensely.

A short while after, the group of nine people and five Beasts broke out from them, then started walking closer to Leinn again.

“HAHAHAHA..

“Huh?”

Leinn rubbed his eyes and looked once again at the Beast who was standing at the very front of the group.

His face was greasy and his head that only left a few strands of hair. His 160-centimeter-tall body was covered in a white cloth with golden ornaments that could barely hold the width of his body. Gold shoes, gold bracelets, gold rings and gold necklaces with precious stones adorned his body.

“..HA! Thank you for seeing the First Son of the Head of Golden Boar Trading Company, Bartolomeo Schwein!”

“...”

The beast... spoke?

After a while passed, Leinn realized that the creature in front of him was a human. With almost the same height as Aura, Leinn was quite certain the creature had more than four times the weight of the girl.

Bartolomeo seemed oblivious to what Leinn was thinking about him and continued his sentence with a face filled with sweat.

“I heard you have a tame wild Rank B Beast. I want it! Call it your treasure!”

“...ah”

Waking up from his daydream, Leinn turned to the Gorilla Beast beside him.

“It looks like he wants to make a Contract with you?” leinn said as he pointed at Bartolomeo.

“Hoh?”

The Gorilla Beast began to look at the human that Leinn had pointed at. After three seconds of judgment, the Gorilla Beast shook its head.

“Hoh”

Leinn returned his gaze forward after receiving that answer.

“Yes, he doesn't want to. Forget it”

The smile on Bartolomeo's face disappeared replaced by an expression of wrath.

“I TOLD YOU I WANTED IT, WHY DON'T YOU GIVE IT TO ME!?”

“...”

Leinn saw the followers behind Bartolomeo had already started grabbing their weapons. He turned to the restless looking Aura, Rufus who had started to show his fangs, Clear who did not care and just lay behind Aura, then the Gorilla Beast who was looking back at him.

“Alright, I understand”

Leinn replied and looked back at Bartolomeo, who heard that and came back smiling widely.

“Good if you understand, so how much-“

“You just need to beat me”

Leinn took one step forward.

The group subconsciously began to step back as well after seeing the savage expression on the face of the young man in front of them.

Bartolomeo was already hiding behind the biggest man beside him, pointing at Leinn who was still walking slowly towards them.

“A-WHAT DO YOU MEAN!?”

“Yes, he followed me because I beat him. So you just need to beat me to make him acknowledge you guys?”

Leinn touched the sword on his waist and all the humans in front of him pulled out their weapons. Swords, axes, spears, bows, are quite varied.

“So what are you guys stump-“

“Hoh..”.

“What's up?”

“Hoh Hoh's... Hoh”

“You want to fight too? Why?”

“Hoh Hoh!”

Leinn immediately smiled after hearing the Gorilla Beast.

Rufus had been lying down since Leinn stepped forward and Aura just stood still while looking at Leinn who was talking to the Gorilla Beast.

Bartolomeo and his followers could only stare confusedly at the exchange with cold sweat that began to drench their backs.

“B-isn't he yet to make a Contract with that Beast?” Bartolomeo attracted one of his followers.

“S-I don't know either, Young sir”

Leinn seemed to have finished talking to the Gorilla Beast.

“So the loser must grant one winner request?”

“Hoh!”

“Alright!”

Leinn returned his attention to Bartolomeo's group, then pointed at the Gorilla Beast beside him.

“So he also wants to join the fight, so please for your group to be two”

“A-what?”

Seeing the difficulty level of the fight instead increase, Bartolomeo naturally wanted to reject that.

“I-this is not according to our agreement! Didn't you say-“

“If you do that, I will fight without using my weapon”

The sword in Leinn's hand started to glow then turned into a bracelet on his left wrist.

Looking at the bracelet, Bartolomeo began to think.

“Hoh!”

“Hm? Oh, and he said he also wouldn't use his magic” he said as he pointed at the little Gorilla.

Bartolomeo first became surprised when he heard that the Beast in front of him could use magic, then smiled back.

“Alright! I accept your offer!”

“OK”

Leinn began to walk away from his tent to a wider place, with Bartolomeo's group starting to follow him from behind.

Aura also followed Leinn with Rufus beside her, and Clear who was already riding on the wolf.

...

The two groups were 50 meters apart, each besieging one creature.

Leinn was already surrounded by 20 people and 4 Beasts, most of whom looked extremely tense. Bartolemeo and his greatest followers were also in this group.

They planned to defeat him as quickly as possible then help the other group to take down the Rank B Gorilla Beast.

“Glup..”.

Aura, Rufus and Clear stood not far from there.

People also came out of the camp to see the fight after noticing the two groups in the middle of the meadow.

The supervisor and prospective new disciple were waiting to see this 40 versus 2 fight tensely, this could happen because they had already heard the rumors of a new student candidate who managed to defeat a Rank B Beast alone.

This fight will reveal the truth of the rumor.

“So, what are you waiting for?”

“Hoh?”

Leinn and the Gorilla Beast looked bored waiting and asked the same thing.

Bartolomeo's face turned bright red due to his mounting anger.

“SERANG NOW!”

Two battles start simultaneously.

The five men carrying swords with five spear-wearers instantly moved and surrounded Leinn from all directions.

Before they could reach the distance of the attack, Leinn had already kicked the ground and slid towards the one leading sword wearer.

“Ah-“ the sentence of the sword-wielding youth was cut short, seeing the black-haired youth manage to reach in front of him in an instant.

Bham

A loud kick landed on his stomach, condensing his body into the body of the spear wearer behind him and making the two of them fall on the ground.

Before the wearer of the spear could get rid of the body on it and stand up, black shoes could be seen landing quickly on his face and making him lose consciousness.

“Two”