The night before the tournament became rather silent, shrouded by awe and curiosity. Although, everyone knew deep down it all rooted to one thing. Something they could not help but burn into their being upon bearing witness to the earlier events.
 
Fear.
 
“Seiya, are you okay?” (Jessie)
 
“I’m not sure. Though one thing I know is that if Sir Aaron didn’t interrupt us earlier, things would’ve been ugly.” (Seiya)
 
“Why were the two of you late anyway?” (James)
 
From the looks of it, neither the two of them wanted to answer his question.
 
“You really can’t tell us? Even to Instructor Leon?” (Lorelei)
 
The two of them nodded.
 
“It’s been really awkward since we got tangled up with those awakener specialized schools, I can’t wait to go home. After we beat their ass, of course.” (Jin)
 
“I’m sorry your training got ruined earlier. If you’d like, I can open my independent space for you to train at right now.” (Alice)
 
“Sure. We couldn’t even do light sparring earlier, right Jin?” (Lorelei)
 
Jin scratched his head in frustration to the fact that he can’t disagree with Lorelei.
 
“Hey, rude. Just admit that I’m right, would you?” (Lorelei)
 
“Please open it, I’m itching for a proper training session.” (Jin)
 
“Don’t ignore me, bastard. I’m gonna beat you up before those elitists.” (Lorelei)
 
“You think you can do it? Feel free to try.” (Jin provoked her with a smug expression)
 
“Don’t act like you won against me. You might end up with your face buried to the ground.” (Lorelei)
 
“The top students of our class are becoming alarmingly delinquent-like…”
 
Agreed.
 
…
 
Alice looked at James and Jessie.
 
“How about you two? I bet the both of you aren’t satisfied with earlier either.” (Alice)
 
“I mean, yeah, but its not like I could get stronger overnight. So I’ll skip for now.” (James)
 
“Lazy ass. I’d like to go.” (Jessie)
 
James sighed, moving over to a more comfortable resting position.
 
“Suit yourself. It’s not always about firepower and combat experience.” (James)
 
“Alright, I’ll open it for two hours. You can go all out bonkers as much as you want. If you want, you can have a 3 on 1 with me later.” (Alice)
 
“Sure, see you later.” (Lorelei)
 
Lorelei approached Alice handing her a note.
 
“Please cheer up Seiya.”
 
Alice, upon reading the note let out a sigh.
 
“He doesn’t need something like that.” (Alice)
 
“Huh?” (Lorelei)
 
“You’ll see.” (Alice)
 
The three of them then proceeded to train in the independent space, while the others just wanted to rest after such an exhausting event earlier.
 
…
 
2 hours have passed.
 
…
 
“You all good?” (James)
 
“Say it again.” (Jessie)
 
“...” (James)
 
“Do I look like I’m good?” (Jin)
 
“Well, you reap what you sow.” (James said with a somewhat sinister look in his face)
 
“Get that creepy expression out of your face.” (Jessie)
 
Amidst all the talking, a panting sound was heard around the corner.
 
“A… Alice? Are you okay?” (Lorelei)
 
“Yeah, it’s alright. I’m just a little tired from earlier with Instructor Leon and Seiya playing aroun-”
 
Alice, who was looked upon as one of the pillars of class 6B, collapsed in front of them. Extreme panic and worry was all over the place.
 
Seiya, who was staring blankly into the scene, immediately rushed into her arms. They ran to Instructor Leon and immediately to the clinic provided by the Association President.
 
“I’m serious this time. For the sake of both you and Alice, what really happened before you got here?” (Mr. Leon)
 
Seiya, looked at Alice yet he could not utter a word that moment.
 
“I-”
 
“Don’t.”
 
Alice opened her eyes and held Seiya’s hands.
 
“I’m okay, I was just exhausted from containing the both of you earlier.” (Alice)
 
“From what I’m seeing, you were in top condition when the both of you arrived that time. I know merely setting up a bunch of barriers wouldn’t event make you sweat a drop.”
 
Instructor Leon stopped, as if he realized what was going on.
 
“You… can and would you like to still participate tomorrow?”
 
“Yeah.”
 
“Well, if that’s your choice then.” (Mr. Leon)
 
“I won’t worry much if it’s you two.”
 
“But make sure to be careful until we find a way.”
 
“You all don’t need to worry much, she’s just really tired.” (Mr. Leon)
 
“What did I say earlier? You’re all overreacting.” (Alice)
 
“...”
 
“But thanks.”
 
…
 
Class 6B left the clinic, with only Seiya and Alice remaining.
 
“How long do we have to do this? Man, if I just knew I would’ve taken some more training sessions with Mr. Sei too.” (Alice frustratingly said)
 
“See? It’s not a bad idea to feel some muscle soreness after a while after an intense physical training.” (Seiya)
 
“Well, we realized you’re growing stronger at an unprecedented rate even for us.” (Sei)
 
“Ah, it’s not really that much of a problem because the stronger you are, the better. We’re just taking some measures in case of something unprecedented like that growth of yours happening too.” (Lei)
 
“No matter who your opponent is, you’ll always be weaker than them. Learn to win, learn to lose. Like what that James kid said, it’s not all about power and experience.” (Sei)
 
“But you can win every match though, it’s really just up to you.” (Sei)
 
“Alright, let’s just get this over with already.” (Seiya)
 
…
 
After Seiya left the clinic, the consciousness of Alice was summoned into the Timeless Domain.
 
“Hey, are you sure it’s okay to send him out tomorrow like that?”(Alice)
 
“I’m not sure, I swear he’s in a normal state and I’m certain he has no problems adjusting from his power suddenly getting weaker.” (Lei)
 
“He was making a face earlier similar to when he briefly fought with Instructor Leon.” (Alice)
 
“When he was saying to get this competition over already…”
 
…
 
“Leon, are all your students like that?” (Sir Aaron)
 
“Ah, I was surprised myself earlier too. He’s usually the type of guy who’s a calm smart ass all the time.” (Mr. Leon)
 
“He looks… pretty excited to be able to fight you, who’s even stronger than him if what I saw was right.” (Sir Aaron)
 
Mr. Leon suddenly got chills, but there was no wind that blew to make him shiver.
 
“I think he got weaker than when we first fought.” (Mr. Leon)
 
“Huh?”
 
…
 
“Sei, I think you raised a battle manic too.”