Speculation of Teacher and Disciple

「THAT B*STARD!」

Shiga, the assistant instructor of the Heineman-style dojo, angrily kicked up

the wooden chair in his room.

Three of the disciples he had taught had gotten eliminated in the first

preliminary round. The trio had surrounded Kai Heineman to give him a

beating, but their target left the arena as soon as the trio surrounded him.

Normally, Kai Heineman should've been scared shitless of the trio and

received a beating.

Unexpectedly, not only did Kai Heineman qualify the round, but three of

Shiga's disciples even got eliminated.

While this had happened, Shiga had been watching Riku, the disciple he

had placed his hopes in and whose match schedule had overlapped with

Kai's. Thus, he didn't get to see what had happened in Kai's match.

「THAT F*CKING INCOMPETENT! Just what kind of shady means he

used to pass the first preliminary?」

Kai Heineman was well known in Lamour as the weakest incompetent. No

matter how much Shiga pondered this question, he just couldn't picture the

scene of Kai passing the first preliminary round. Thus, it left only one

possibility in his mind. Kai Heineman had cheated using an item. Shiga

knew that Kai's mother was an elite hunter. Thus, he assumed that she, who

doted on her son, must've left something for Kai Heineman that would

protect him when she was away. However, a victory in this tournament was

worth the value of the item she had left for her son considering the bleak

future of her son, who was granted a trash gift.

Naturally, Shiga had raised a complaint to the referee immediately after

hearing the result of the match. But, the other side was unwilling to listen to

him.

「Shiga-sensei, we were defeated by underhanded means!」

Shiga's female disciple who got eliminated said so while loudly crying.

「THAT INCOMPETENT APOSTATE! He dared to sully our efforts!」

「UNFORGIVABLE! Let's beat him to death!」

One of Shiga's disciples clasped his wooden sword and walked toward the

entrance of the room with bulging blue veins on his forehead; the other two

disciples followed suit. Just when they were about to cross the entrance,

「Stop right there.」

Riku, the handsome, blond disciple of Shiga, stopped them.

「Don't try to stop us, Riku! This is the problem of distinction of our

Heineman-style!」

One of the disciples squeezed his voice and shouted at Riku with bloodshot

eyes.

「That's right! This is our problem, not yours!」

""

The female disciple added with a shrill voice. Although this female disciple

always acted affectionately toward Riku, her current temperament was the

exact opposite today. That showed just how much they felt humiliated after

finding out that they had been beaten by the one they called incompetent.

「―」

Shiga opened his mouth to reprimand his disciples, but…

「Then, I'll beat that apostate in the second preliminary round. I'll

thoroughly beat him in front of the crowd. And after I win, I'll reveal the

fact that he is cheating to completely crush him. As long as we show to

everyone watching the tournament that he is, in fact, a weak incompetent,

even the management won't have any choice other than to acknowledge the

fact that the incompetent is cheating, right?」

Shiga couldn't help but agree. His disciple was right. As long as Riku beat

up the incompetent apostate called Kai Heineman in front of the spectators,

the public would have no choice but to agree with them. With the audience

on the side of Shiga's group, the tournament's management would have no

choice but to acknowledge that Kai Heineman was cheating during the first

preliminary round.

At least, beating Kai till he was half-dead was much better than leaving him

to become a bigger threat later in the future.

「You're right. I agree with Riku.」

「SENSEI!」

One of Shiga's disciples tried to appeal in a loud voice to change Shiga's

mind, but…

「If you guys rampage outside of the tournament, your actions will only

besmirch the Heineman-style's reputation. You might even get punished for

that. And I don't want to impose such danger on talented youths like you

just for that incompetent.」

Shiga stopped them with such insincere words unbefitting of a teacher.

Even Riku, the disciple he favored the most, was nothing more than a way

for him to raise his position in the Heineman-style dojo. This was especially

true for the trio, whose talent in swords was far below that of Riku.

Although he could use them as his handpieces, Shiga absolutely couldn't let

them become a hindrance for his future. And he planned to make them

understand that.

「Sensei…」

However, his performance managed to bring out the sympathy of his

students.

「Well then, Riku, can I leave this matter of the second preliminary round

to you?」

「Leave it to me. I'll definitely pay back everyone's humiliation to him,

double. I'm gonna beat him no matter how much he cries and apologizes.」

The sadistic smile on Riku's face convinced everyone that he was going to

beat Kai until the latter couldn't recover as a swordsman anymore.

Although they couldn't do that before, thanks to the influence of Kai's

grandfather, Elm, there was nothing to stop them in this city.

Currently, an intense competition was happening in the Heineman-style

dojo for the position of the next grandmaster. The competition was between

the branch family faction, who endorsed the spear king's gift holder,

Roman, and the main family faction, where Elm and Kai came from.

The branch family faction was in the lead since no one had a better gift than

Roman's spear king. As long as Shiga, who also belonged to the branch

family faction, could uncover the foul means Kai Heineman, who was

renowned as the stain of the main family, used in this tournament in front of

so many people, he would inflict a decisive blow to the main family. On the

other hand, he could also preserve the honor of the Heineman-style since

the one who was going to beat Kai was Riku, who came from the same

style. Yes, it was just like killing two birds with one stone.

If everything went smoothly, a position would be prepared for Shiga when

he would bring back the news of their victory to the branch family.

「I'm looking forward to your performance then!」

When Shiga came closer and tapped Riku's shoulder, his expression was

filled with worldly desire.