Obaba Hiroko looked at me with a face that said "you fell for it."

"How about that, you lasted ten minutes which means there's still hope for you," she said.

Just then, a girl dressed in an old-fashioned style from head to toe approached.

"Grandma, are you accepting new disciples today? Let me see!" the girl said excitedly.

As soon as the girl arrived at the shop, she bombarded me with questions.

"Yun'ai, go play outside first. I still have a customer here!" Obaba Hiroko said to her granddaughter, clearly exasperated.

"No, I want to see the cute new recruit who will work here for free. I have to take a look too!" Yun'ai insisted, clearly not taking her grandmother's words seriously.

Yun'ai's eyes fell on me as soon as she turned around. Her originally beautiful eyebrows furrowed.

This girl was actually quite pretty, but her beauty was mixed with a touch of a savage and uncivilized aura. It felt unsafe to be around her.

"You're new here?" Yun'ai stared at me.

I nodded, unsure of what Yun'ai wanted.

She slowly approached me and scrutinized me from head to toe. Finally, as if she had made up her mind, she said,

"I can teach her a little!"

"Yun'ai, no! Don't be ridiculous!" Obaba Hiroko said, frustrated. She clearly had no control over her granddaughter.

"It's your first day here, so you're not familiar with the things here. If you're willing to learn how to provide satisfying service to customers, I will personally teach you!" Yun'ai said with a self-satisfied tone, as if she were a powerful figure.

"Hmph, I'm not useless enough to need a little sister to teach me!" I said dismissively.

"What did you say?"

Yun'ai immediately became displeased upon hearing my words, and her hair stood on end.

"You say that again, let's see if we need an idiot like you!" she threatened.

"Heh, I won't say it again!"

"You... Hmph, I'll let it go for now. Yukari said you're here to learn the ways of Zen, right?" Yun'ai seemed to be even more irritated by my previous comment.

"Come with me, I'll show you how useful a little sister can be!"

"Oh, you're still not convinced? Let's find out who's stronger then."

She even imitated my tone and spoke with great arrogance.

At that moment, fueled by her arrogance, I became irritated and didn't think much. I followed Yun'ai out of the manager's room.

"Paroni, stop for a moment!" Yukari quickly spoke up to stop me.

"Yukari, don't worry, I won't hurt her!" I confidently assured Yukari before following Yun'ai downstairs.

"Paroni... Sigh, I hope you don't cause any more trouble for others!" she said.

"Trouble?" I replied with a smile. "It's the other party who's filled with enthusiasm and trying to provoke me, right?"

Seeing that I didn't listen to her, Yukari followed me downstairs.

When I arrived downstairs, Yun'ai was already standing in the empty space in front, waiting for me. At that moment, when the boys and girls who came to swim after school saw Yun'ai and me face to face, all of them turned their gaze towards us.

"Wait a minute, isn't that one of the top ten students...? Are there people of that level coming to challenge?" (Boy A)

"Who knows, they say that the brat over there is no ordinary person. Just a week after awakening, he took on an S+ super mission. Hahaha... Although he was saved by the teachers in the end and is now the subject of ridicule among the students, we shouldn't underestimate his ability to fight against an S-class opponent until the teachers arrive!" (Boy B)

In short, everyone was filled with anticipation for the outcome of this battle, and instinctively, I placed my hand on my waist where the Magic Sword would be summoned.

"What's wrong?"

"..."

"Are you thinking of using the Magic Sword again? You should know that the reason it's called the Magic Sword is because it's an ominous object. Are you still going to use it?"

Under Yun'ai's mockery, everyone around us became nervous.

And I myself was very undecided. Should I continue using this sword that once controlled me...?

"Paroni, stop it!"

Yukari followed me downstairs and quickly tried to stop me.

"Yukari, don't worry, I won't use the Magic Sword from back then anymore, and I also know what matters."

"What do you know?" Yukari's tone had a hint of sarcasm. "I'm afraid you'll get hurt because you're too cowardly!"

These people... are they really trying to gang up on me and make me lose face?

Am I really unable to defeat a little girl who doesn't seem much different from me? Are they underestimating me too much?

"Hehe, I won't be satisfied without giving it a try!"

As a former noble of the Eastern Alliance on the mainland, no matter how fallen I am, the pride of my family still exists in my heart, and striving for superiority has always been the nature of our clan.

"I'll tell you, I don't even need the Magic Sword to defeat you. Don't get too proud!"

I issued a final warning to Yun'ai.

"Is that so? Well, you better use it, at least then you won't lose so miserably. I've heard about it, using the Magic Sword can elevate your strength to an S-class level, right?"

"Haha, you seem to know quite a lot. Since that's the case, be prepared to be thoroughly defeated by me!"

But is the battle really going to be as smooth as I imagine?

...

"Hey, does doing what you said really improve the effectiveness for the user of the Magic Sword?"

Juxi was still hiding under her pure white robe, playing with a jade-colored gem in her hand, sitting on one side of the room while Ancestor, the man named Ancestor, sat on the other side of the room in the thunderous castle tower.

The night is always particularly long, at least for this world.

Seeing that Juxi, pretending to be asleep, still ignored him, Ancestor sighed and continued to ask him.

"Lucifer, don't you have any thoughts?"

He was really anxious this time. Watching Juxi sitting there all day without any movement, not willing to take any responsibility as the savior he brought, just killing time all day, this is too carefree, isn't it?

"You're right, no matter what, Paroni that kid is having too much fun."

Juxi is not ignoring that kid, it's just that having the Heavenly Eye is already enough, why bother following him directly?

"Ancestor, you may not know, but I have my own reasons for not being able to interact with him too much. After all, my body is a constitution that cannot be accommodated in both realms!"

"Not accommodated in both realms... could it be?!"

"Hehe, let's not bring up those matters. Although I don't have wine or anything, is it too much to ask for some water?"

"..."

The two fell into silence for a while, and Juxi's hand holding up the wine glass froze on his face, just like his smile.

"Ancestor, Paroni himself is a Magic Sword. His strength should be as you have said..."

"Yes, what about it?"

The Ancestor leaned back in his chair, looking like he was listening attentively.

He cared so much because he wanted to do his best to resolve the current crisis, and even Lucifer himself spoke up.

"I think you must have heard of the Child of Two Realms. After all, you have been a Four Heavenly Kings in the Divine Realm for so long, and you have experienced the three leaders of the Divine Realm. You must understand the law of black and white being incompatible better than me, right?"

...

"Paroni, what's wrong with you?"

Yukari was sweating over the outcome of this duel.

You should know that in Qiu Caolan's duel against Yun Ai, they could at least fight to a draw.

"How... how could this be so fast!"

"Without the Magic Sword, you only have the combat power of an A-rank?"

"I... cough!"

A mouthful of dark, murky blood spurted out of my mouth, and the speed slowed down in that instant. I fell heavily onto the hard stone floor, clutching my chest and gasping for breath.

"This... well, it's a bit too much!"

Although a classmate who was closest to me saw me, he didn't run over immediately... well, after all, this is a duel between S-ranks. At best, I am only a quasi-S-rank, but Yun Ai is a genuine mid-tier S-rank!

Yun Ai, who had already stopped, panicked and ran towards me when he saw me in pain on the ground, with a look of panic.

"It's probably an internal injury, don't move, quickly let go of your hand..."

Yun Ai shouted loudly at me at this moment.

But I was in so much pain that I could almost roll on the ground, how could I let go of my hand?

At this moment, Grandmother Etsuko saw that I was in bad shape and directly straightened my leg, then pulled my hand away, and applied considerable pressure to my abdomen. After about half a minute, all the pain in my chest disappeared.

"Huh, my body doesn't hurt anymore?"

"Hahaha, the recovery ability of the body of a god is quite amazing!"

When I confirmed again and again that all the symptoms in my body had disappeared, Lan rushed towards me in a hurry. After all, such a big commotion just now, she couldn't have failed to notice.

I am now Lan's descendant, so if anything happens to me here, I believe Lan will not spare them...and maybe not spare me either...

"What on earth is going on?"

Lan walked angrily towards me, especially when she saw my bruises all over, she looked furious.

As soon as she entered, she angrily confronted Yunxi.

"It's you again...Indeed, you came for me, didn't you?!"