The Newbie Is Too Strong's
54. Luca Ahead of Level Hike Exam
The next day, Luca is going through his regular activities casually at school since the e-sport club's new hell training activities start on Friday. Or at least that's what Luca thought.
However, the last days where he could relax, it was not able to enjoy Luca. Egi and his entourage of other male classmates soon drag Luca for a walk.
In fact, this is Egi's sneaky move to humiliate Luca by looking for his weakness. He takes Luca to a karaoke place so that Luca can show his ugly voice. Or at least that's what you think.
One thing Egi was right about Luca, Luca is still new to this world so he has not known many popular songs on earth. But that was not a problem in the face of Luca's fast learner skill. Luca soon learned the lyrics and how to sing by copying the song that Egi was singing.
After Egi sings and hands his microphone to Luca, Luca quickly performs the same steps as what Egi does including choosing the same song. Luca also sang the exact same song as what Egi was singing before.
But unexpectedly, Luca turned out to have a golden voice. Although with the same song, Luca sang his song with far superior compared to Egi, well even though it can be said Egi was a pretty good singer. But by comparison, Egi's voice is just crisp meat in a street-side street-side street stall, while Luca's voice is a high-quality A5 steak from a five-star restaurant.
Everyone was amazed by the amazing beauty of the sound. Inevitably, everyone present there so compare the two singers who sang the same song, but with a difference in charisma like the earth and sky.
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You're a nobody.
Don't think you're the same as me
You're a loser and I'm a king
We are in a different caste
Be aware, losers
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Luca just sings according to what examples he gets from Egi including the lyrics. However, so much so that Luca lived the song, Egi even fantasized about it as an expression of Luca's ridicule against him. Angry Egi even he piled in his heart.
Feeling defeated by Luca, Egi is reluctant to end the night just to get here. Egi also took Luca and his group to the rock climbing training ground. Egi feels confident that even though he lost to Luca in terms of sound art and game play dexterity, he can not lose to his talent on this one to climb a cliff.
However, Egi's hope was betrayed. Well of course for someone who has been used to working as an assassin all this time in his old world, rock climbing training is not a difficult thing for Luca. Even if told, Luca was able to walk vertically on the wall for about two meters.
Egi also roared in his heart because he had lost by a score of 3 – 0 against Luca. Well, even though it's all just a one-sided statement from Egi who so considers Luca as his rival.
However, as soon as Luca and Egi were about to separate, Luca and Egi were about to separate,
“Today is fun yes, Egi.” Egi grew annoyed to hear Luca while smiling brightly saying that line. However, the next sentence from Luca instantly wiped out Egi's anger just like that, “Thank you for wanting to be my friend and invite me to play, Egi.”
Egi who is sensitive to covert intentions, is well aware that Luca is speaking that sentence at this time sincerely. He also realized that his mind all this time that thought Luca underestimated him was just a one-sided delusion Egi alone.
Egi also replied to Luca, “Sure. Sometimes we play again.” where Egi said it also sincerely from the bottom of his heart.
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That night, Luca arrived at his house at 21:30. There was still some time for him to work on PR and play games. However, the tiredness of the streets makes Luca choose to fly immediately to the world of cotton.
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The next day, e-sport club hell training began which was followed by the 18 members of his current club, or exactly 15 because again 3 players did not attend training without news.
However, rather than hell training, it might be more appropriate to call the training as the demon lord Luca was torturing his seniors.
Luca takes turns fighting the 14 other members who are more senior than him mercilessly, including to their two cleric members, Yurika and Shea.
Each of them only fought Luca 3 times and that was even if the time of their three matches, almost no one passed the number a minute, except the archer, Danang, with a total time of 1 minute 3 seconds, thanks to his expertise in dodging and running. They all agreed that it was one of the toughest moments of their lives.
At exactly 17:00, the training [of the demon king Luca] ended and all the members went home limp helpless, except for Luca.
Luca walked to the middle of the corridor that connects the club room and the sports hall exit while thinking about what strategy he would use on the second level of the unlocking mission.
However, Luca suddenly listened to Nina's voice shouting furiously somewhere nearby. Luca is peeping.
“What does Senior know from me! Stop meddling in my life!”
“How do I not interfere in seeing your stupidity like this?! How long will you keep your idiot dream?!”
“Hey, hey. Senior Areka! Senior's remarks have gone too far!” On their sidelines, Luca also sees Raia arguing.
“You, loser, shut up! I'm talking to Nina!”
“Enough, enough, enough! I don't want to hear anymore.”
“I won't stop until you listen to me to let go of your stupid dream and see the truth! Do you want it to go on and end up regretting later when there is no way back?! Huh!”
“No, enough, Senior.” Then with that last sentence, Nina fell unconscious.
“Hei, Nina!”
“Surge! This is all Senior's fault!”
Instantly Nina fainted, Areka and Raia immediately reached her. Seeing that from a distance, Luca also can no longer maintain his calm and then also ran to the figure he has considered as the older brother since coming to this world in panic.
They immediately took Nina to the hospital.
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“Hei, Senior! Stop pressing Nina like that! See what Senior has done to that fragile girl!” Outside the door of the ER hospital room where Nina was being treated, Raia shouted while holding the collar of her senior shirt angrily.
“Kak Raia also calm down. Brother Nina needs a quiet rest.” Luca then immediately calmed the mood of Raia who was full of anger at that time.
Areka did not comment again. He realized that this time he had gone too far.
“Ah, Dik Luca's. Sorry yeah. Though we should have helped Dik Luca for the lower middle level ascension test tonight. But now that Nina passed out and I had to look after her. Dik Luca was forced to find our replacement.”
In response to that, Luca smiled, “It's okay, Brother Raia. It's not important. It's just a game, anyway. I can do it next time.”
However, the door of the ER room where Nina was treated was opened.
That's Nina.
“No, Raia. I'm fine, just need to rest. You accompany Luca to level up because if not, he will have to wait another month to get a replacement mission to level up. Poor Luca.”
Luca immediately cut off Nina's words, “No, Sister Nina. The truth is okay.”
“You just shut up!” But Nina also immediately turned back to make Luca speechless.
“I understand best how a gamer feels. Although in the presence of others seems trivial, in your heart, honestly you can not wait for that long just to level up right?”
This time Luca was silent about Nina's words.
“So, Raia, you just accompany Luca's level-up exam tonight. It will be difficult for him in the remaining half an hour to find a replacement. Also Senior Areka, this is one of Brother so I drop. So it was Big Brother who had to take my place to accompany Luca to level up. Understand?”
“Haaaaaah.” Areka took a long breath. “Alright, I understand.” And then Areka agreed.
That night, 30 minutes before Luca's second level unlocking exam began, a party member left, but was soon replaced with another party member. He was the Areka who replaced Nina.