The Newbie Is Too Strong's
26. Luca Advance to the Dueling Arena
Areka who walked with Yudishar left his club room to the cafeteria apparently had been awaited by Nina. As soon as Areka saw Nina, she stopped her steps and looked at the woman with a sullen expression.
“Senior, I beg you, cancel that duel.” Nina on Areka.
“Hmm? What do you mean?” Areka still pretended not to know even though she actually understood what Nina meant.
“Duel with Luca. I beg you to cancel that, Senior. He was a child, but he had a difficult time to imagine all this time where he lived first. Only this time could he finally feel a hint of happiness. I beg you not to snatch that happiness from Luca again by humiliating him in public.” Nina said to Areka.
Areka stared at him for a long time in silence while emitting that cunning aura at him. Then, Areka smiled wryly as she said, “Tough times yes. I'm curious about the hard times you're talking about. Will I ask Luca in front of his classmates for a moment?”
“Senior!” Nina looked so angry that she gritted her teeth in front of Areka.
Areka still did not turn her gaze away from the presence of her junior still with a condescending expression. “So, if I cancel that duel, what will you give me instead?” Areka said cunning that made Nina's body tremble. He then tried his hardest to fight the intimidation by saying, “Anything Senior wants from me will do.”
Areka smiled cunningly hearing Nina's words. He then bent his body to the level of Nina's height and brought her mouth closer to Nina's ear. “Then, give up dreaming of becoming an e-sport player, then I will forget everything that happened in the cafe.”
Nina's eyes instantly widened and her body trembled upon hearing Areka's words just now. He did not think that what Areka wanted was to seize the most precious dream for him.
“Anything, Senior, besides. Please..”
“Then, let's just say this conversation never happened at all.” Saying this, Areka and Yudishar left Nina alone in the dark.
Without feeling, the school hours are over. Luca seemed to ask anyone he met about where he could meet Senior Areka. After finding out where Areka was, Luca rushed to get there. But suddenly, someone intercepted his steps.
“Excuse me, you're blocking my way.” Luca said to the man who intercepted the move. Can be seen clearly the expression full of annoyance from behind the person's face. Egi is one of Luca's classmates.
“Hey, stupid! You can challenge Senior Areka to a duel. It's best to just kneel before him before it's too late and you'll be humiliated in front of everyone!”
“Why can I be humiliated?” With an expression that irritated the person, Luca asked back to Egi who said it.
“Of course because you will only be battered in the face of a great person like Senior Areka! I never cared about you, but if with this duel, my idol Senior Areka was exposed to the rubber for being accused of bullying an idiot child like you, then I will never forgive him!”
Luca just walked past the boy with a small smile.
“Thank you for worrying about me, buddy. By the way what's your name?” Ask Luca to Egi.
“Who is worried about you?! My name is Egi by the way.”
“Well, yeah, just watch my duel anyway. It may not look like my body is small, but I am a great fighter.” Luca said confidently in front of Egi.
Luca then walked towards the large arena in the sports hall where 2 pairs of computers and vrmmorpg consciousness liaison bando were ready. Seeming all around, the audience had been boisterous to welcome the duel which was somehow gossip about the duel could spread to almost all the inhabitants of the school.
“Alright, Senior! If that's what Senior wants, I'll give up on the e-sport club registration form at school for good. But if I had to let go of my dream, it would be impossible. Anyway, I will make that dream come true to one day become a professional e-sport player.”
Nina looked very sad as she said that sentence. This then made Raia who was beside Nina unable to resist her regret.
“Nina, you don't have to sacrifice your own dreams like that.” Raia seemed to be trying to comfort Nina.
Raia turned her eyes to Areka with a hateful look.
However, before Raia could say a word to Areka, Luca stepped forward to calm the two men down. “Calm down, Sister Nina, I am a great player. I will definitely beat that haughty senior to a pulp.” Luca said with a gentle smile.
“Don't beat him up dong, Luca. Violence is prohibited. That means, beating him through the game right?” Raia's words then make Luca's view lead to him. Very clear on Luca's expression as if to say, ‘Who is this guy’ from the look in his eyes that seemed to fumble it.
“Eh, lest Luca has forgotten me huh? We have formed a party together in the game.” Said Raia trying to remind Luca of her.
Instantly Luca remembered and said, “Kak Raia?”
“Absolutely. Greetings to know in the real world, Dik Luca.” Raia formally introduced herself to Luca with a bright smile.
“Sorry, Brother Raia, did not recognize Brother. But I did not expect at all that the looks of Big Brother in the real world turned out to be more ordinary and shorter than those in the game. Hahahahaha.”
That's how our Handsome Mouthed Prince spoke as usual who unknowingly hurt little Raia.
“Hahahaha.” Raia only replied to Luca's words with a small laugh, but in her heart she cursed, ‘I would at least want to hear that from someone who is shorter than me like you, Boy.’
“But how can you beat Senior Areka, Luca? You are still a newbie. You even just started playing your first vrmmorpg two days ago. Itupun we immediately slaughtered the same boss monster then game over.”
“Newbie?” Areka is seen reacting to Nina's statement.
But Luca immediately showed the doubt Nina, “I never game over kok, Kak Nina. I managed to clear his quest until the fifth layer even obtained a hidden quest.”
“Don't tell me, you were able to defeat the boss of the silver wolf monster in the fifth layer whose rumors reached levels above that 30?”
Luca shook his head. At first glance Nina thought that it was Luca's no answer to her question, but she misunderstood. What Luca denies is just his monster level, “Not to that high, Sister Nina. The monster level is only 25.”
“So you actually defeated a monster boss at his fifth layer? Also nothing by just saying it on his monster level. Level 25 was already very high, you know.”
Luca just smiled listening to Nina's chatter. Nina herself did not doubt Luca's words in the slightest because she had seen the agility of Luca's movements which she thought came from her experience fighting on the battlefield. However, it is of course Nina's misunderstanding who still does not know about Luca's true origins.
After Nina thought about it carefully, it seemed that she was the one who underestimated Luca too much for seeing her petite appearance. With the agility of motion that he himself had witnessed that came from Luca's experience on the battlefield, it was not impossible that he could defeat Areka who had never had any real combat experience outside of the game.