Curse The Mainframe - Chapter 418

Katherine donned her metal gloves, pounding her knuckles together menacingly.

While she was still a teenager, she exuded the menacing bloodl.u.s.t of a Sin, which helped her image a little. It pushed the image that she wanted to sell so desperately – she’d been pushing it so long that it was already more than a part of her personality.

It was estimated that outside her clan, anyone who saw her would feel a chill running up and down their spines – unless, of course, the other person she was facing was also a Sin.

Alec sized her up.

She was taller than most girls her age, and she had long, slim legs that was matched with her body. Katherine Klein was almost elegant – if it wasn’t for the way she glared at every single little thing.

With her facial expressions, she appeared more like more like a feisty and headstrong beauty.

But Alec wasn’t looking at her surface features. He could tell that she was at the advanced stage, which was quite good for her age. She was indeed qualified to act a little arrogantly, but who was Alec?

They looked about the same age, but Alec was already a Meister.

If they wanted to talk about who was more qualified to be arrogant, then it was Alec.

But this girl didn’t know anything and insisted on fighting him.

On hindsight, it was quite funny.

Actually, maybe not. After all, Alec had an a.d.u.l.t’s mentality, so why was he competing with a child?

“Come on!” Katherine shouted, her voice reverberating across the walls.

Different from a normal arena, where the people watching would be cheering with excitement and exuberant, the only thing that was heard in the room was the sound of breathing and the sound of Katherine shouting.

To Alec, however, the arena was very noisy. He could hear the hammering heartbeats and rising excitement of the clan.

Alec stood across Katherine, looking clean and elegant.

He still had a gentle smile on his face, and his eyes were a pool of clear water. His crystalline blue eyes were like jewels under the light, and the sight of his handsome appearance made a few girls’ hearts beat faster in the audience.

Beauty was still a thing that made people’s hearts move no matter the world they were in.

Alec wasn’t inclined to trade barbs with Katherine. Since she had delivered herself to his doorstep, then he would just teach her a lesson that no one else obviously had.

Seeing how Alec didn’t even bother taking up a stance with her, Katherine glared at him even harder.

She was going to beat him down so hard that even his mother wouldn’t recognize him once she was done.

Thinking up to this point, Katherine launched herself across the arena at Alec, once again displaying a show of rashness.

But still, Katherine was built for speed, and she was much faster than those of the same realm. With an explosion of speed, she reached Alec before the time it took to blink one’s eyes passed.

She launched a series of kicks, but to her surprise, instead of any of them connecting, Alec dodged all of them with only the smallest differences.

Katherine wasn’t discouraged. Her brain continued to spin as she tried different ways to attack him.

She glared when she realized that she wasn’t doing any damage at all, and she backed off a little, her face unpleasant.

“You… who are you, really?”

Alec smiled faintly, but it was like a sweet spring breeze, and for a brief moment, Katherine’s heart stuttered.

She felt uneasy all of a sudden.

Because she was reminded of her brother, Regis.

Every time her brother smiled like that… it was evidence that she was in for a beating.

At that thought, her boiling blood abruptly cooled, and she started to quickly analyse the various things that Alec had done, as well as his facial expressions.

She didn’t even dare to entertain the thought that he was like her brother, but…

But… what if?

Her own thoughts scared her, but it just made her more desperate, more unbridled. Even while she was wary, she was like a cornered animal.

But she was fighting in a smarter way now. Still, she didn’t use any outward shows of magic, which surprised Alec a little.

All she was doing was giving him physical blows.

With Katherine’s personality, she should have already started using her magic, but instead, she was still fighting with only her physical strength despite the impatience and growing anger in her eyes.

Prodding her, Alec asked, “Not going to use your Magitype?”

It just served to make the anger in Katherine’s eyes that had tempered a little flare up instead, burning even brighter.

How dare he rub salt in his wound? There were already so many people that looked down on her for that alone, but now, even he…!

The intensity of her attacks became quicker, and she actually managed to land a few blows. Her eyes had a hint of satisfaction in them, and Alec raised a brow.

Actually, Katherine was thinking too much. Alec indeed had no idea about her at all. In fact, he didn’t even know about her existence before this, so how could he have known about her problems?

But… Alec had a theory, which was why he had prodded her.

Alec’s lips curled up a little, and Katherine noticed it.

Angry, she shouted, “Fight me like a man! Just dodging like a coward like that, aren’t you ashamed?”

Her words would have made most Sins in the audience flare up, but Alec remained calm despite her taunts.

Because… her taunts were really… so f.u.c.k.i.n.g cliché that he was speechless.

But still, since he was going to let off some steam and teach her a lesson, then he would.

Slowly, without her realizing, he controlled the pace of the battle, pushing it up so that she didn’t notice. In the end, the two of them were fighting at a pace that was almost a blur.

Alec started to fight back, not giving her any chance to retaliate at all.

Katherine was sweating as each time she just barely managed to dodge his blows, the strength of it made almost sonic sounds as they brushed past her, causing her to sweat.

The times that she couldn’t dodge, she was punted across the arena was pain flaring in all parts of her body.

One time, she even coughed out blood, but Katherine was nothing if not stubborn.

She pressed on with a roar, the only thought in her mind was for her not to disgrace herself in front of her clansmen.

But after a period of time passed, she suddenly realized something.

Alec’s punches and kicks… they all came in a direction that she was never prepared for, accurately hitting her weak points.

It was only when she started to correct herself that he would start to attack a different direction.

She was both confused and indignant.

Katherine was actually quite talented in the area of combat, which was why so many people remarked that it was a shame that she couldn’t –

By now, even the dullest person would have realized that Alec was indeed stronger than her – she had managed to realize that he was controlling the pace of the battle.

It had the flavour of a lesson, and she didn’t like it one bit.

Glaring at this thought, she backed away, circling him, before catching a gap that Alec directly left in his defences, and attacked that spot.

Alec finally nodded with satisfaction, and with a wave of his hand, she was sent flying away, slamming into the wall, unconscious.

Alec had completely dominated their battle from start to end, which opened many of the clan members’ eyes.

They looked at Katherine’s unconscious form, then back at Alec.

They didn’t do something like clap, but the bloodl.u.s.t in them grew stronger by a few times. They were starting to respect Alec, but to really cement that respect, they wanted to fight!

Alec made to step off the platform, but the referee stopped him.

“A victor hasn’t been decided yet.”

What?

Alec turned to look at him.

The referee just blinked. “None of you have admitted defeat.”

Alec inwardly scoffed in his heart. “I admit defeat, then.”

His words shocked the Sins, while some of the others were contemplative and appreciative.

After all, Alec had already shown his overwhelming prowess in front of Katherine and the rest of the Klein Clan members, which proved his dominance.

If he continued to wait for Katherine to wake up before she admitted defeat, he would almost come across as petty.

Alec dusted off his clothes and strode off, leaving before anyone could say anything.

The sight of his back as he was walking into the light was very cool.