Humanity Return

Ch. 77 – Youth Blonde and Golden Lightning

The sound of thunder that was no less loud than before shook the stadium once more, but this time it only sounded once before it disappeared without a remnant.

One bolt of lightning, coming from the blonde-haired youth with a sword in his chest.

“This is very surprising”

Roland spoke slowly as usual, but a happy tone could be heard clearly in his sentence.

“I really didn't expect you would use his sword and attack me straight”

Roland lowered his left hand that was grasping his sword and looked at the little girl in front of him with a smile on her face.

Aura looked back at the blonde young man's gaze with an expression of disbelief.

This slash was an attack that added with the Body Enchant to exceed the limits of his body, causing both of his arms to become covered in injuries and covered in the red color of his own blood.

His plan had been perfect until the very last moment, and his already impossible opponent could avoid it.

“I didn't expect to use this before fighting it”

Aura tried to pull back the sword without succeeding, not even flinching in the slightest.

The reason for the phenomenon was the claw that was clamping the sword's eye a few centimeters before reaching the blonde youth's chest.

[Thunder Dragon Claw]

Four golden hooves emerged from his right hand which was enveloped by the lightning.

The sword eye could not touch the young man's palm and was sandwiched between the lightning hooves, stalled on the spot.

Aura endured the pain in her palm from the electricity that kept flowing into the hilt of her sword, not taking her eyes off the young man in front of her.

“Hm..”

A smile appeared on Roland's face once again, a different smile.

Aura recognized the smile on her opponent's face, it was her smile on the day she fought Leinn the previous day.

“Baik”

Aura could suddenly pull back the sword then take a few steps back, trying not to fall.

Before he could return that balance...

Crackle...!

The sound of lightning could be heard in front of him, and he could only see a bright light covering his entire vision.

Roland knew his opponent would not give up, so he could only give an ultimate attack.

A golden ball of lightning began to appear between the four golden hooves on his right hand, until it reached 20 centimeters wide in an instant.

Roland let out a short sigh, then looked at his opponent's eyes once more.

[Thunder Dragon Breath]

Crackle-boom!

A huge burst of lightning spread out from that exploding ball of lightning, dyeing the world white for a few seconds to everyone in the stadium.

They could also feel a sharp wind pounding their faces firmly amidst that light.

The light only began to subside after a few seconds that the very long terrace had passed, restoring the audience's vision there.

The scene they saw first was a crumbling arena that did not look different from before, other than a huge hole that looked much cleaner than before.

On top of the arena only seen Roland standing alone with both his swords already sheathed.

Lightning had also disappeared from his body and he looked like an ordinary handsome young man, with his gaze only fixed in one direction.

On the other side outside the arena and in the direction that Roland was looking at stood a black-haired young man, who only smiled while looking at the half-conscious girl who was in his hands.

“U-uh...?”

“Yo”

Aura began to regain her consciousness and the first one she saw was Leinn who was wearing?

“Uuu-Hue?!”

He realized he was in a familiar position and tried to move, then realized his whole body was tingling and could not be moved. So he could just stand still and let Leinn lift him in that position.

Leinn then turned his attention and looked back at the blond young man standing on top of the arena.

An impatient smile appeared on the faces of the two youths.

“U-um... Leinn?”

Aura's face turned red as she realized the spectators at the stadium had regained their sight and started to react with her position. Some people started whispering while staring and pointing at the two of them. He realized new rumors would start to spread without him being able to stop.

“Huh?”

Leinn returned her attention to him and started walking to the podium, but Aura realized something from that instant.

Aura could see Leinn's eye color behind her sunglasses and it looked different?

“What's up?”

Leinn smiled slightly after seeing Aura looking at him with a puzzled expression.

This time Aura could clearly see the two black eyeballs staring at her, then shook her head and thought she was wrong.

“There is nothing”

...

The damage in the arena this time was much greater than the previous day, but the repair team was also better prepared. With the number tripling from before, they would only take 30 minutes to re-level the arena.

“Yes, she's fine”

Leinn leaned back in his chair and sheathed his sword and turned it back into a bracelet.

The aura sitting beside him also heaved a sigh of relief after hearing that.

“Thankful..”.

Leinn had just finished examining the condition of his sword, which he had only remembered when Roland returned Aura's wand to the podium as well.

He immediately ran over and found his sword sheath and his sword were on two different sides outside the arena.

“Are you sure your condition is better? I still have a few bottles for you” said Adeline anxiously.

Leinn had already brought Aura onto the podium and placed her in his chair, until suddenly Adeline poured out a high quality healing medicine on both of Aura's arms.

He seemed very worried about his friend's condition.

The aura that had been soaked with the healing medicine was finally finished drinking the third bottle, his face looked paler than before due to the satiety of the healing water.

Taking such a high quality healing medicine does not have any side effects, but it is still very filling.

He could only force himself to drink it after seeing the worried expression on Adeline's face.

“A-I've b-ignored..”

Leinn finally intervened after seeing Adeline pull out the next bottle from her pouch after seeing Aura's pale face.

“People at the door of death will come back to life after receiving that much healing medicine, stop”

Adeline seemed to wake up after hearing that and saw the forced smile on Aura's face.

He fell down on his chair and showed a gloomy expression.

Seeing Adeline's face, Aura began to extend her hand.

“A-I can still-Hue!”

“You also stopped”

The palm landed on Aura's forehead who was seen intending to force her to take the medicine to alleviate Adeline's worry.

Finally Aura could only sit back while stroking her new wounds.

Roland looked at the exchange with a cold look.

“Urusion yourself, next gili-“

“Pffft-Hahaha.!”.

Roland's sentence was cut off by Leinn's loose laughter.

It was the same reaction after seeing the red circle on the blond-haired young man's cheeks earlier.

That red circle was the wound he had gotten from Adeline's little fist, the, the late one closed his eyes and rolled around in pain on that podium for a while while holding both of his eyes after taking a direct look at that Roland technique.

Of course Roland knew the real reason he had received the blow, none other than the wounds on both Aura's arms.

“Are you not satisfied laughing..?”

“But! Buahahaha..!”.

Roland started grabbing the sword on his back without changing his flat expression, but it was stopped by the sound that echoed in the stadium.

“With this, the tournament will resume!”