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Translator: Nemui
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◈ Reincarnated as the Villain's Heir
Chapter 57: The Academy Power Struggle, the Birth of the Three Powers
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After school at the academy, a certain group was about to hold a duel.
On one side were Erik, Muto, and Shemna.
Having completed contracts with demons through summoning, they challenged the leaders of the academy factions.
On the other side were Rubiton and Togari.
Both were third-years and the current leaders of their factions.
After being called out by Erik and challenged to a duel, there was no way they could stay silent.
"First-year. I hear you beat Scalaba."
"Rubiton, are you so anxious that you need to confirm something obvious?"
"I see. Your mouth works well, at least."
Rubiton, a large man with a crew cut, was a third-year in the Student Council Executive Division and led the largest faction in the academy.
He looked after others well and was admired by his juniors. In the club activity known as the magic combat club, he had reached the top ten at the continental tournament.
People from all sides wanted him, but he himself said he wanted to inherit his family's farm.
His dream was to use what he learned at the academy to develop agriculture in the future.
He had not created his faction of his own will.
It had simply formed naturally while he was looking after his juniors.
His membership in the Student Council Executive Division was only the result of his sense of justice.
Second place in duel records across all years. That put him right behind Clyde, the student council president.
It was the result of following his motto that disputes should be settled by duels.
That Rubiton turned his gaze not to Erik, but to Muto.
"You were Muto, a second-year, correct? My juniors have been in your care. I was just thinking I should thank you someday."
"Ah, that self-proclaimed officer from the Rubiton faction? He was so weak I got sleepy."
"Then there is no problem if I fight seriously."
After saying that, Rubiton glanced at Scalaba, who stood near Muto.
Scalaba and the other students who had lost to Muto's group were now serving one of those three.
They had absorbed factions and expanded their power.
Here, the leaders of five factions glared at one another: the Rubiton faction, the Togari faction, the Erik faction, the Muto faction, and the Shemna faction.
"Scalaba, are you fine with this?"
"They've said it since forever, Rubiton. Roll with the strong. If I can get a sweet deal, I don't care who I serve."
As if giving up, Rubiton faced Muto.
The battle between Muto and Rubiton began on the field, and Rubiton did not hold back just because his opponent was a junior.
His ability was real, having led the magic combat club to the continental tournament, and he fought using martial arts as his base while incorporating magic.
By using fire magic to raise his body temperature and activate his body from within, then adding mana reinforcement on top of that, his physical ability rose explosively.
As the destructive force of his single blows was called the best in the academy, no one had stayed standing after taking the explosion released with his fist.
The epithet he gained from ending every duel with one blow was Blinking Fist. But...
"Gah...!"
"Hmm, senpai is too weak too... It ended in one hit."
Rubiton spat blood and collapsed face-first on the field.
When he looked up, the silhouette of a reaper in a tattered robe overlapped with Muto.
Rubiton, who had never run from any opponent and always stood with the weak behind him, trembled for the first time in his life.
"What... is that...?"
"What are you talking about? Anyway, senpai... You're seriously weak. I'm getting sleepy... Faaah..."
"Damn it!"
After that, Rubiton was thoroughly beaten down by Muto.
Muto did not knock him out of the field, and to everyone watching, it looked as if Rubiton was simply being toyed with.
"The magic combat club uses martial arts while strengthening the body with mana, right? Like this... Acho!"
"Gah!"
"Hoataaa!"
"Goh...!"
After taking Muto's kick, Rubiton staggered and fell out of the field.
By the time Muto got bored, the light had vanished from Rubiton's eyes.
"I'm bored. Next, Shemna or Erik can go."
"Hmph. All you do is gloomy crap. I'll show them what a fight is."
Shemna's opponent was Togari.
Togari had his hair spiked up, with piercings in his ears and nose, looking as wild as he pleased.
With his hands shoved in his pockets, Togari glared sharply at Shemna.
"Shemna, you took out almost all my soldiers. What are you gonna do about that? I'm pissed now. Huh? Huh?"
"Not my problem. It's because you've spent all this time acting tough and getting carried away. The ones who lost are at fault."
"Then you won't regret it if I humiliate you while beating you down! Turn into wind!"
Togari specialized in wind magic and rode that wind himself.
"Turn into wind" was not a metaphor.
People called him Storm Gang because he rode any wind and danced through it proudly.
Most opponents could not even stand against the wind, and while they were sent flying, Togari's blades attacked.
In that situation, he further threw knives, bringing a storm of weapons into the field.
The academy's most reckless man. Those watching silently repeated his other name in their minds.
"You're too damn loud."
And yet, Togari had been slammed into the floor and was bleeding.
The match had ended in an instant.
Shemna stepped on Togari's neck and made it crack, forcing him out of the field.
Then, after leaving the field herself, she spat on Togari as he panted.
"Wh-what the hell are you doing?"
"Move, small fry. Don't ever show that ugly face to me again."
"That was against the rules! What the hell was that power? It wasn't magic... It wasn't magic!"
"Shut up."
Shemna kicked Togari away.
Then Erik entered the field in her place.
"This is such a bother. Togari-senpai, if you refuse to accept it, I will take on all of you at once."
"Hah!? Are you out of your mind?"
"You cannot accept it, can you? Then we should continue until both sides are satisfied. Am I wrong?"
"Fine by me!"
All members of the Togari and Rubiton factions challenged Erik at once.
The match lasted only thirty seconds. In that time, the faction students even begged for their lives.
Forgetting they were inside the field, they cried and wet themselves.
This battle would later become known within the academy as the Demonic Thirty Seconds.
At the same time, the academy's power map was rewritten all at once, and new top factions were born here.
The Erik faction, the Shemna faction, and the Muto faction.
Because of their overwhelming strength, they were grouped together under the name the Three Powers, and people seeking to join their factions never stopped appearing.
The number of people borrowing a tiger's authority surged, and dark clouds began to gather over public order within the academy.
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