"..."
Recalling what had happened back then, Todo Touka could not help falling silent.
"Touka..."
"President..."
The members of the student council looked at Todo Touka one after another, their eyes filled with worry.
Clearly, they were afraid Todo Touka would take the blow badly and never recover.
Although Todo Touka was not mentally or emotionally fragile, Ikki and Stella were one thing. The two of them had given it everything they had and risked themselves to break Todo Touka's ultimate move. In the end, they had succeeded, and deserved admiration in every sense. Luo Zhen, however, was different.
One finger.
He had used only one finger.
Using just one finger, Luo Zhen had blocked the heirloom blade of "Raikiri" at full power. It was not merely that he had taken a risk, let alone gone all out—he had done it with complete, effortless ease.
Under such circumstances, the more self-aware a person was of their own strength and the higher their status, the less able they would be to accept the result, and the greater the blow would become.
Ask yourself honestly: when you gave everything you had to attack your opponent, only for them to defeat you with a single finger, how humiliating would that be?
No matter how magnanimous or tolerant Todo Touka was, she could not claim to have suffered no blow under such circumstances.
And in truth, that was exactly what had happened.
The result of challenging Luo Zhen had left even Todo Touka lost and bewildered.
Todo Touka could not help asking herself:
"Am I really strong?"
The strongest person in Hagun Academy?
A semifinalist in last year's "Seven Star Sword Festival"?
The undefeated heirloom blade?
All of these achievements proved Todo Touka's strength.
But that strength had now been mercilessly crushed, making Todo