I Reject Quests

Chapter 5: Fight

Rewen immediately understood what's going on and said in a cold voice. "Miss Ruby, I hope you know what you're doing is against the laws."

"SHUT UP! As long as I can kill you, I don't care even if I die!"

Seeing how critical the situation had become, Rewen whispered to Gill. "Go, call someone. Hurry up and go! Don't ask useless questions." 

Gill came to his senses. He had a little idea on what, why, and how even after watching the whole incident in front of his eyes and therefore, complied with his friend's wishes. Giving one deep look at him, he ran off towards the nearest street. 

Rewen looked at the idol and calmly said. "Take deep breaths. Since I assume you have interference, I understand your problems. It's not easy but let's be civil, alright?"

Ruby didn't answer but the yellow gas in her vicinity increased. 

Ruby let out a high-pitched scream and the yellow gas around her got more vigorous. The air got windy and the natural energy seemed to envelop her body. 

Seeing this, Rewen's expression turned dark. He gave up trying to reason with her and thought of ways to defend himself. 'From the looks, she is at least an Early Rank 2 Mage. With my physical prowess of Rank 0, can I possibly defend myself? Hmm let's see if the [Freestyle Knights Combat] works.'

Freestyle Knights Combat Technique is a mandatory technique for all the Knights. In terms of pure martial arts, although not the best it is still a pretty respected technique used all over the previous world of Rewen. To practice it, one needs to create 81 specific mana points all over the body and channel mana through those points. That's it. After that, no matter what move you make, it would always be a move designed for combat. This is also the reason why it is called "freestyle". 

In simple words, it can boost up the base stats by four times!

Opening up the mana points, Rewen felt his body lighten. He threw a jab in the air to see his strength. 'Not enough.' His father trained him and even after his father passed away, he still continued training the martial arts his father passed on to him. The martial arts itself was mediocre but he trained it every single day and knew the weaknesses and strength of it back at the palm of his hand. 

'Thankfully, my whole body transmigrated over. Not just my soul. Else, I wouldn't know how to adjust to the new body.'

Taking a deep breath, he channeled the mana through all the mana points carefully. All of a sudden, he felt his body flying. He again threw a jab in the air. 

*Screech!*

'Looks good. Now then, is her power-up still going on?' He looked up only to see a yellow-colored fist in front of his face. 

*Boom!*

The next second, a figure flew towards the nearest light pole and crashed. The light pole broke down bringing down several other electric poles and causing a massive electric discharge. The ground near the light pole shattered. The surrounding trees fell down. All of this happened in a mere few seconds. This is what happens when you piss off a Rank 2 Mage. 

Ruby stared coldly at the view. Her eyes didn't contain a bit of regret. She knew that she would regret doing what she had done after a few minutes but she didn't care. 'I tried being good only to be treated like trash. Now that I created a persona of my own and became somebody with power, nobody should treat me like this!' 

She was simply delusional. Technically, it's not that she couldn't control her emotions at well but her willpower was too low to overcome it.

She didn't try to run away after this. She was about to sit down on the street when she noticed the light pole move. Her eyes squinted and sprinted off in the direction of the light pole without wasting any time. As she neared the pole, she noticed a figure in black sitting leisurely on top of the pole and she immediately halted in her track.

It was Rewen. His elbow had red stains of blood, his face covered in dirt and his suit torn. He sighed before taking off the suit and looked at the psycho and wondered many things. If it had not been for his quick response, his face could have possibly received some serious injury. Without any words, he sprinted off to Ruby.

Like a wind, he closed the distance between them within a second and delivered a round kick. Ruby was shocked by the speed and by the time she noticed her own carelessness, it was already too late.

*Slap*

Ruby's face tilted. There was a bright shoe mark on her right cheek. It was a normal kick but has severe effects depending on how you see it. It had no mana behind it but it struck one vital mana point and destroyed it, creating a small ugly mark that would take time to recover. At this point, Rewen flashed a smile looking at the ugly mark. "Hopefully, this would remind you to be careful with your emotions in the future."

Ruby's expression was dark. Her head spun and her ears rang. She lifted her eyes with some difficulty and looked at the man she didn't even know the name of. Her blood boiled and she channeled her mana even more vigorously. Two streaks of blood tears came out of her blood-red eyes. Never had she hated someone this much. And this 'someone' was a guy she met a minute or two ago. 

Rewen stared at her messed-up face and noticed her violent reaction but didn't move away. He very obviously stretched his right arm pulling in for a punch in front of her and threw it to her face. 

This time, however, he missed and felt a scorching hot thing on his waist but ignored it and pulled another punch on her. Ruby's white palm was filled with yellow gas and as her palm neared the waist, she neglected her own defense. Now, it was just a matter of speed. If Rewen's fist reached her face faster, he would win the exchange. If Ruby was faster, she would throw him off before he could attack. 

*Creak*

*Fwoosh*

Ruby flew off somersaulting on the rough street seven times before coming still. Laying on the ground, she groaned. "Ugh" Her eyes were filled with unwillingness and hatred. She herself had no idea why she hated the unknown man to this extreme. She just hated him. Her originally white teeth are now missing more than three teeth. 

She looked at the blue sky and remembered the day she was thrown out of the house by her own parents. She remembered the day she entered underground with no other options left. She remembered the day she killed her own lover and best friend. She remembered the day the allies and friends she had been trusting all turned against her. She couldn't understand why she needed to deal with all this crap. 'I just wanted to be happy'

Unknowingly, her eyes turned moist. She heard the sound of slow footsteps and a rough-looking face appeared in her view. Although he looked tired and weary, the calmness of his face didn't fade away. Her gaze went down and saw his waist filled with blood. 

"I'm not done with you yet." Rewen approached her dragging his feet. He himself was not in a much better condition.

Hearing him, Ruby got the urge to beat him up but unfortunately couldn't. She again gathered all her willpower and tried getting up when all of a sudden, she felt lost. Why? She wondered as all of her hatred seemed to disappear. 

"This is for crashing on to me."

*Smack*

"This is for going out of control."

*Smack*

"This is uh for being prettier than Carla."

*Smack*

Her already messed up face swelled up. She already went numb to the pain and didn't care about her face anymore. 'Why did I start fighting with him? From his uniform, he should be a newly-enrolled student. Why did I bother breaking rules and hit him? What is wrong with me'

Sounds of sobbing came from her mouth. She is 26 - an independent and strong woman. Even when she was thrown out of her house, she didn't cry. Even when she killed her own lover and best friend, she didn't cry. That day, she closed her heart and killed every other emotion except for hatred. Here she is sobbing helplessly. 

Looking at the pitiful figure, Rewen shook his head and just sat down on the bare street. His waist was burning but he couldn't do anything else other than holding it in. Spitting red blood from his mouth, he rubbed his face and looked at Ruby with a hostile expression. "Say, what is your name?"

"Pan Weimer." Ruby looked at the sky and muttered in a daze.

He was about to reply when another voice. 

"Rewen!"

'Finally arrived!' Rewen turned around to see his friend Gill blanking out looking at the surroundings. Behind him stood Kesha, one of Rewen's female friends, who similarly tried to decipher the happenings which led to the current situation. At a distance from them, several men and women in black who had serious looks on their faces. 

"Oi! Help me up, you two! You took long enough." Rewen shouted. 

Both Gill and Kesha snapped out of their daze and ran towards their injured friend. Only when they neared did they notice how bad his condition is and started panicking. 

Lifting his right arm while Kesha lifted the other, Gill asked. "Are you okay?"

"Where in the hell did you get the idea that I'm okay!? My internal organs leave it. You better not speak anymore. I can't guarantee I won't hit you."

Gill immediately shut up. Kesha, on the other hand, was terrified looking at the pig-like person laying on the street. 'T-that shouldn't be Ruby, right?'

Taking heavy breaths, her curiosity got better of her. "Did you beat her, Rewen?"

"No, a superhero was passing by so he decided to beat us because he found us annoying."

Kesha's eyes shined in realisation. "Ah, so it was a superhero-"

"Shut up! A single more word and I promise I won't beat you up disregarding the fact that you're a member of Female Union."

"Yes, yes. I'll shut up." Kesha had never seen such an angry Rewen before.

They helped get to the car parked. As Rewen laid down, he saw a cop staring at him. He immediately understood what that gaze meant. "If you're going to ask me what's happened, look at the camera. If you're interested in hearing from my mouth, as for what happened, I don't have the energy to give a proper answer. To get beaten up by a victim of interference on the first day of my academy makes me feel like absolute dogshit. I request you to give a few minutes to recuperate."

The cop laughed out loud hearing him, then sighed. "Sorry for troubling, kid."