"..."
Perhaps sensing something in Luo Zhen's tone and attitude, Stella fell silent.
After a while, Stella sighed.
"Even if he is the World's Strongest Blade-Breaker, he can't possibly stay at school forever, can he?"
Stella seemed to understand something.
It seemed Stella had known from the beginning that, given Luo Zhen's identity, he could not remain at this academy forever and live as an ordinary student.
Even if she did not know what Luo Zhen was preparing to do, it was surely something she could neither understand nor imagine, right?
In that case...
"Do whatever you want. Don't worry about us." Stella looked Luo Zhen straight in the eye and said, "We absolutely won't lose to the people from Akatsuki Academy."
Stella made that promise.
But what Luo Zhen wanted to say was...
"I never thought you would lose to the people from Akatsuki Academy in the first place."
Luo Zhen was unmoved.
The people from Akatsuki Academy were indeed extraordinary.
For one thing, there was Kurogane Ouma—a person who could even make Luo Zhen marvel.
That was not because Kurogane Ouma was so strong that he amazed Luo Zhen, but because his actions were what amazed him.
After all...
(To become stronger, he actually went that far.)
Luo Zhen recalled the first time he had met Kurogane Ouma.
Perhaps Stella and the others had not noticed, but Luo Zhen, who possessed Mind's Eye, had already discovered that an astonishing air pressure was firmly weighing down on Kurogane Ouma, constantly pressing against his body.
That was something Kurogane Ouma had accomplished through his own ability.
*(Using his ability to control wind, he turned the air into high pressure, then operated it in reverse, making that high pressure cover his entire body. He had been living in such an environment