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“How’s the toast prepared by me?”
“Here, drink the milk too.”
-Apparently, Radhika took her duty as a maid seriously.
“It’s tasty, I wonder how many boys will be envious when they learn that only I can enjoy such a meal.”
-After enjoying what Radhika prepared, I gave her a head-pat.
Radkhika’s eyes turned crescent.
Since I took care of all her worries, the space in her heart which was filled with burden was cleared giving ample space to accommodate other emotions.
Because Shouta had been away for a long time, she longed for her brother’s affection, and with Eladnor’s temperament and personality, with his caring attitude….unknowingly, she started to fill that void by getting closer to Elandor.
‘Aah this feels good, I wonder if brother Elandor could stay with us forever? He is such a nice person!’
‘I am already eighteen years old and my mom is always worried, Who will I marry?…there is not much age difference between him and me if we could be together…then mom will also be satisfied.’
‘Blaaaah!…..What am I thinking?’
-Radhika blushed as her thoughts got deeper and deeper.
“Ouch!”
-Radhika held her head and looked at me aggrievedly.
“Why did you flick my forehead with your finger?.. It hurts!”
“You seem so lost in your little fantasy you were thinking that I thought it was my duty to bring you back to reality”, I replied playfully.
‘Haha, looking at me with such obsessed eyes? This girl can’t hide what she is thinking! But it’s still too early to make a move on her.’
“Okay, I am going now, you and your mom after she wakes up can watch television in case you both get bored or can take a stroll outside.”
“Remember your mom has just started undergoing her treatment and she hasn’t yet recovered. Tell her to rest properly, in case she decides to do something strenuous.”
“Hmmm”, Radhika gave a deep nasal sound.
She watched Elandor leave.
“Eladnor is a nice guy, he reminded me to take care of my mother before going out so early. Brother Shouta has never shown any care towards me and mom. He had always ignored us and not even visited us for a long time but brother Elandor is completely different from him.”
-Radhika and Michelle had already started subconsciously comparing Elandor and Shouta. It was not their fault, when your world is small and only involves a few people, it is natural to compare them.
And in Radhika and Michelle’s little world, except for Shouta, only Elandor managed to enter inside, so it seemed only normal.
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‘It feels so good after regaining fourth order of strength.’
‘My strength should now be equivalent to a grand master’s level by this world’s standards.
Another day of the class was about to start but a lot of people were looking at me with weird eyes.
It was because on my right sat Claire, while in front of me in some spare space to the left, Mitshua had put a chair to sit in front.
This was not it, to Mitshua’s extreme right, sat the girl to whom Claire gave a note yesterday. Apparently, she had another quarrel with Shouta who again came to exchange seats with her. She sought to have reached some secret deal with Claire and firmly refused Shouta, not budging to him in the slightest.
All four of us seem to be cramped in the leftmost bottom corner of the lecture hall by the side of the window.
Shouta was getting angry. Why did both of the girls like to sit next to me? Even if he said to sit somewhere else, they refused without giving any suitable explanation.
In his opinion, both Mitshua and Claire seem to have taken some interest in that boy-named Elandor, with a bad mood, he could only stare at us fiercely.
‘Humph, today is mostly practical classes, I will prove that I am much stronger and better than you, Elandor’, Shouta roared in his mind.
As Shouta expected, there were practical classes today.
After entering, the teacher took all of us to the field,
where our physical strength was tested by various standards.
Running laps, lifting weights, punching on cement walls with bare hands, sit-ups, shot-put throw, discus throw..various activities were conducted one after another.
Shouta, who was overconfident of his strength of master level which only equalled 2nd order in front of Elandor, suffered the biggest blow.
No matter if it was a race, Elandor was the fastest.
If it was just running, Elandor ran the largest number of laps.
It didn’t stop there, in almost everything they did Shouta suffered a loss.
Claire’s eyes were full of stars the more she saw Elandor’s performance. In her head, the mysterious veil shrouded around Elandor only seemed to get more unfathomable.
Mitshua, who didn’t know how to react after the previous day too admitted that Elandor was the most naturally- talented person she had ever seen.
Seeing almost everyone admiring Eladnor, Shouta felt more and more bitter.
Actually, Elandor was controlling his strength. These sorts of activities were like a child’s play in front of him.
If he had really performed seriously, he was scared his performance would be exaggerated enough to give everyone a heart-attack.
“Wow, your body is really made of steel, Elandor!”
“Everyone is tired so badly but there’s not even the slightest strain on your forehead”, Claire exclaimed as she handed a towel to Elandor to wipe his sweat.
She wanted to unravel all his secrets so badly.
“Humph, I have to admit she is right!”
“How the hell did you even train your body till now? Are you only at master level?”
-Mitshua who was standing along them too chimed in.
The barriers she had set up against Elandor were being pulled down one after another.
Once she witnessed Elandor’s performance on the field, she realized Shouta was no match for him.
The suppression brought by an alpha male made her look at him in bright light even if she did not want to.
It’s the rule of natural selection, females tend to be attracted to alpha males who are the strongest and domineering enough so that her offspring can inherit his excellent genes.
And, Elandor was doing a perfect job at this moment.
Seeing all three of them getting together, Shouta who was sitting at another corner felt a threat.
“Why do I feel both Mitshua and Claire seem to be avoiding me? They give an excuse and get away from me whenever I approach them today!”
“Fuck, this Elandor guy is too perverted, how can he be better than me?”
“He must be cheating! Look at his muscles, I am pretty sure he is taking some drugs to impress girls. Taking steroids to increase muscle tone and look cool?…Bastard, I have seen plenty of stupids like you. In a 1v1 fight he won’t be able to take even a single punch from me”, Shouta, sitting alone muttered to himself.
“I will challenge you in the upcoming martial tournament that is in 15 days. There, everyone will see Elandor’s true face, when he cries and begs me to stop..but I am gonna beat the hell out of him.”
-The hostility and dissatisfaction in Shouta’s tone were as clear as water.
