(Third update...)
(I still updated early today. Luckily, I finished today's portion before going to sleep. I hope everyone can support me...)
"Ha... ha... ha..."
At the edge of the pockmarked, utterly wrecked clearing, Charlotte hugged Sigmund, who had returned to the size of a cat, and collapsed gracelessly onto the grass, gasping heavily.
"My magic power... is depleted..."
"Of course it is!" Wu Yan sat down beside her as well, his voice full of indignation.
"I fought you more than a dozen times today! If your magic power still wasn't depleted after that, I'd seriously have to wonder whether you really are, like your registered codename says, a tyrannosaurus that only knows how to stare at its prey!"
"But I haven't won even once in all those matches!" Charlotte cried out indignantly.
"And every time, you took me down in an instant. Are you even human?!"
"Not losing to you makes me a monster?..." Wu Yan curled his lip and spoke disdainfully.
"I think you're more like a ferocious monster, refusing to admit defeat and pestering me for another match every time you lose!"
"I am Charlotte of House Billauer!" Charlotte snorted and turned her head away.
"It is absolutely impossible for me to keep losing to the same person!"
"Is that so?..." Wu Yan immediately shot back.
"But you still haven't won even once!"
"I'll win sooner or later!"
Charlotte glared at Wu Yan, then looked toward Natsuki, who was enjoying afternoon tea in the shade of a nearby tree, Natsuoto brewing tea beside her, and Astrea and Nagisa chatting cheerfully with Ikaros standing blankly nearby. Her shoulders slumped in dejection.
"In the end, you only used Natsuki, Ikaros, and Astrea. Natsuoto and Nagisa didn't even make a move, yet I was already no match for you..."
"Natsuoto