(Third update...)
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Silence!
A deathly silence!
Every student present stared at the two men standing face-to-face, both with weapons wielded by Automatons pressed against their throats. Their expressions shifted continuously before finally turning blank...
"Impossible..."
Charlotte, who had just rushed out of the student cafeteria and caught up, wore a look of utter shock on her exquisitely beautiful face.
Not only Charlotte—even Sigmund, who flew beside her and perched on her shoulder, straightened up in a display of similar shock.
This unexpected battle had come far too quickly!
And it had ended far too quickly as well!
Yet whether it was Charlotte, who had known beforehand that the two would meet, or the surrounding students who had failed to react from beginning to end, all of them seemed to instinctively reject what they had seen and froze where they stood.
Although it had only been a momentary clash, no one present knew how much strength the two men standing on the main street had used.
However, it was an undeniable fact that the academy's most talented and strongest Automaton Master throughout its history had deployed all six of his Automatons, only to lose to an unknown nobody in a clash that might not even have lasted a second!
"—!"
Magnus's Automatons, who had formed an encirclement around the ununiformed man, began continuously exerting force on their weapons, apparently intending to break free from the chains wrapped around them.
"Clank... clank..."
Unfortunately, no matter how the six girl-shaped Automatons strained, the chains emitting a faint purple glow remained firmly wrapped around their weapons, leaving those various weapons utterly unable to move.
"Hah..."
With no other choice, the six girl-shaped Automatons decisively abandoned their weapons. Lightly tapping their feet against