Noelle: You Won't Laugh at Me?

At that moment, the Black Bulls were in the middle of a lively scuffle.

However, Carl's actions only stirred up everyone's urge to play around even more.

Carl and Vanessa had teamed up, while everyone else chased after Carl and tried to hit her.

But Carl's physical abilities were no joke. The extraordinary bodily strength granted by the Eight Gates meant that even if she took a few minor spells head-on, she would remain completely unharmed. The two of them fought with effortless ease.

Everyone grew even more annoyed.

In the end, Magna was knocked to the ground after Asta used his ultimate move, Elementary School Rebound, batting the shotgun magic ball back with the flat of his sword.

Magna immediately cried foul and declared that he was done fighting.

He went straight up, grabbed Asta's hand, and invited him to join forces against Carl.

Carl was just too infuriating.

She had only just joined the Black Bulls, yet she already dared to make a move on their big sister Vanessa. And seeing the two of them acting like partners in crime, looking absolutely suspicious, made everyone's anger flare up.

So everyone began chasing after Carl and Vanessa one after another.

Seeing this, Yami burst into laughter. He sat on a stool nearby, drank beer, and watched everyone fool around.

Meanwhile, Finral, who had stepped out of his spatial magic in the corner, kept drawing circles on the ground, as though everyone around him had already forgotten he existed.

Amid the chaos, Carl shoved open the Black Bulls' front door and charged outside with Vanessa.

Various spells flew after them from time to time, with Luck being the most excited of them all.

Crackle, crackle—

Lightning Creation Magic formed electric spears that shot continuously at Carl.

It might have been a game, but that momentum really looked like they wanted to beat Carl into the ground.

The two ran all the way outside. They had barely gone any distance when they saw a massive water ball shoot into the sky before plunging back down.

Before anyone could react, Asta was struck down by the water ball the next instant.

Asta looked at his drenched clothes with an awkward expression.

"Wait, what? I was charging at Carl, so why am I the one who got hurt?"

Everyone came to their senses and looked toward the distant forest.

Constant booming sounds came from within the trees.

Following the noise, everyone saw that Carl and Vanessa had already arrived at an open area in the forest.

By then, everyone had also realized that Noelle's water cannon magic was curving all over the place, twisting into all sorts of strange shapes.

Yet she could not even hit a target just two or three meters in front of her.

Noelle stood there wiping away tears, practicing her magic over and over.

However, when she heard movement behind her and turned around, nearly every member of the Black Bulls was standing before her. Noelle's embarrassment at that moment was beyond description.

She had just cursed them out, and now they had seen her make a fool of herself.

Noelle felt as though her entire life had turned pale and gray. She did not even want to live anymore.

The more Noelle thought about it, the more depressed she became.

The ridicule from her brothers, the contempt of her family...

She had inherited the magical talent passed down from her mother, yet she did not possess even the slightest bit of proper control.

For a noble like her, this was humiliation beyond humiliation.

And all of it had been witnessed in full by these Black Bulls members, people she had not even considered worthy of notice.

At the thought of being laughed at and mocked by everyone next, Noelle's magic power began to rage throughout her body.

Unparalleled magic power bloomed around her, and the water ball in her hand instantly lost control.

As Noelle's magic spilled out, the water ball rapidly swelled larger and larger.

The next moment, as it spun at high speed, the water ball swallowed Noelle whole and floated into the air, still continuing to expand.

The surrounding trees only needed to be brushed by the terrifying water cannon magic to nearly be uprooted and flung into the distance.

However, Noelle had completely sunk into despair within it.

She was utterly unable to control her magic.

In full view of everyone, she was not merely losing control. She might actually die.

At that moment, Noelle had almost lost all will to resist.

Only one thought remained in her mind.

Humiliating!

Life was not worth living.

What could possibly be more terrifying than drowning to death?

Nothing. How was this any different from taking a dump in the middle of the street?

As a young noble lady, she felt that this was the darkest moment of her life.

When everyone saw this, they were all stunned.

"Wait, can this woman really not control her magic power?"

Magna finally understood what was going on.

He pointed at Noelle, his hand trembling nonstop, looking exactly like King Kiki.

"Th-this, this, this, this girl... really can't control her absurd amount of magic power? Damn it, so she really wasn't attacking me. It was just an accident!"

Magna's words immediately resonated with everyone around him.

Who would have thought that the young lady of the Silva family, with her somewhat tsundere princess syndrome, was actually a problem child incapable of controlling her magic power?

No wonder her older brother from the Silver Eagles had ruthlessly thrown her into the Black Bulls for training.

So that was where the problem lay.

Still, the situation before them was rather urgent.

Asta held his Demon-Dweller Sword and looked at the enormous water ball in the air, excitement immediately appearing on his face.

"Hey, everyone! My Demon-Dweller Sword can cut that water ball apart instantly, so we can save her! We can't just watch her drown herself, can we?"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Holding his broad greatsword, Asta stepped forward and prepared to charge in.

However, perhaps because Noelle had felt the terror of drowning, the spinning water-bubble magic around her began trembling violently.

Huge droplets of water were continuously squeezed out from within the water bubble.

The moment the huge droplets appeared, they crashed down on everyone like water cannons falling from the sky.

Asta swung his sword and cut apart one water cannon, but even more water cannons formed one after another.

Even though Asta's Demon-Dweller Sword could erase all that water magic, this was not something that could be solved with just one or two swings.

Vanessa had just been about to use Thread Magic to slice apart the droplets overhead.

But the next moment, she realized that she absolutely could not use her Red Thread Magic, or she would only make things worse.

If she really drowned Noelle to death, the Silva family would probably go insane.

Drowning in her own magic was simply too embarrassing to talk about. If that happened, there would be no explaining it.

Carl immediately let out a sigh.

"Seriously, is it time for me to show off again?"

She looked a little embarrassed.

But the next moment, her Grimoire flew out. Before everyone's eyes, the cover of Carl's Four-leaf Grimoire rapidly enlarged.

Carl threw out a punch in an instant.

At that moment, everyone beside her froze completely.

A dragon's tail formed from fire magic lashed out, instantly scattering the massive water ball overhead.

Then Carl formed one hand into a claw and reached directly toward her Grimoire.

The next moment, a massive, thick, powerful claw emerged from the Grimoire.

It was a massive Dragon Claw formed from simple, unadorned earth magic, even covered in clearly visible dragon scales.

With one swipe, Noelle was pulled out of the water ball.

Once Noelle was freed from her loss of control, the huge water ball sustained by her magic finally dispersed completely.

Noelle knelt halfway on the ground, her eyes filled with despair.

Social death...

Complete and utter social death.

Although these people had saved her, she would definitely be subjected to merciless mockery next.

Thinking of that familiar scene, Noelle could not help wondering why these people had saved her at all.

Perhaps drowning to death would have been a decent option.

Just as Noelle waited for judgment to descend upon her, Carl reached out her hand.

She said to Noelle:

"You're pretty capable!

Other than your terrible aim and being a little dumb, your magic power is definitely among the best in the Black Bulls!"

Asta immediately jumped out as well, staring intensely at Noelle.

"Your magic power is so strong! So this is what royalty is like? That's amazing!"

Noelle stared blankly as everyone encouraged her one after another.

Not a single word of the mockery and ridicule she had expected appeared.

Instead, Carl's hand firmly pulled her up from the ground.

Noelle's face turned frighteningly red, and she then asked timidly:

"You... won't laugh at me?"