I rely on myself

Chapter 45 Friends and Expectations

Ikki sat in the preparation room, quietly waiting for the game to begin.

After being released this morning, I was told that there was no special car to pick me up and I needed to take the tram by myself.

Yihui had long known that the Ethics Committee would stop at nothing to prevent him from participating in the competition. Normally, it would be difficult for him to arrive at the competition on time. However, thanks to Lin Yuan's help some time ago, Yihui's illness and the toxins accumulated in his body were eliminated.

Although toxins accumulated in his body again due to the food he ate and he continued to face unreasonable interrogations, he overcame them all with Ikki's strong will.

Of course, during the subsequent interrogation, Yihui pretended that the illness was still there, otherwise the other party would not let him go so easily. At the same time, he also concealed the fact that Lin Yuan had secretly visited him.

Ikki felt the condition of his body after being urgently healed by Shizuku.

"I never thought that Shizuku would do something like this for me."

Thinking back to when he had just returned to the gate of Pojun Academy, his sister rushed into his arms and hugged him, as well as the support she brought.

Shizuku, who originally claimed that she hated humans, ran around just to convey the support she had collected to her brother.

There were many students including friends, classmates, apprentices, former rivals, etc. waiting for Ikki's arrival in front of the school gate.

Yihui stared at the group in front of him in disbelief. Although Yihui knew from Lin Yuan's conversation that he was carrying the expectations and demands of others, he was still very surprised when he actually saw this scene.

Then Shizuku said to Ikki:
"Brother, I have successfully passed the trials and became one of the representative players."

After hearing these words, Ikki seemed to understand something. This was the agreement between Shizuku and himself.

"Brother, I won't ask you what happened to you. I can easily imagine what despicable means they used, but I still want to say, please cheer up. You were indeed walking alone before, but not anymore. But now there are so many people willing to cheer for you. Stella and Alice are unable to come because they have a game, but they also sincerely pray for your victory. So brother, please fight and win!"

After hearing this request, Ikki's heart seemed to be on fire, and his blood drove up the temperature, making his whole body boil with blood.

"Ah, Shizuku, everyone, I'll be back soon—"

Suddenly, a call came.

“Ikki——!!!”

Yihui recognized the person instantly because that was the person he loved the most.

Her voice was so powerful and so beautiful to Ikki.

“…………Stella!”

“Great…I made it…!”

The girl with flaming hair ran up to him, gasping for breath and muttering in a low voice.

"Why are you here, Stella? You should still be competing."

What Shizuku said was correct. Stella, who also maintained an undefeated record, was also one of the candidates for the Seven Stars Sword Festival representative.

Logically speaking, her competition should have just begun, but Stella did not answer this. Instead, she took out an item, which was a medal, proving that she had qualified as a representative of Pojun.

"Ikki, I have become the representative of the Seven Stars Sword Festival as agreed!" and pushed the medal in front of Ikki.

Ikki instantly understood why the girl in front of him was so anxious, it was to encourage himself at this moment.

"So, Ikki must win too! Then we can move forward together! Together we can reach the pinnacle of knighthood!!"

Yihui couldn't help but feel tears welling up in his eyes when he heard these words.

My lover... is such a good girl. Not only did she encourage me who was exhausted and led me here, she also gave me incomparable courage and such powerful strength at this moment.

'It is my life's absolute pride that I can like her.'

This is the purest thought in Yihui's mind at this moment.

'So I have to prove that I am worthy of the girl in front of me and become a man worthy of the lovely girl in front of me.'

Ikki made a firm commitment here.

"I will come back with victory!"

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Lin Yuan was sitting alone in the audience. In order to come here early to watch the game, he defeated his opponent as quickly as possible and won the status of a representative player of the Seven Star Sword Festival.

Soon, Stella, Chione and others who had just been cheering for Ikki at the academy gate arrived here, while Shizuku went to participate in her own competition.

"Lin Yuan, you are here, why don't you go to cheer Yihui up?" Looking at Lin Yuan sitting leisurely in the audience, Stella said dissatisfiedly.

There was also Qianyin standing by. Although she didn't say anything, she still looked at Lin Yuan with a reproachful look.

Both of them felt very strange about Lin Yuan's attitude. Of course, they did not suspect that there was anything wrong with Lin Yuan. After all, Lin Yuan had just spent a lot of effort to help Yihui with special training to improve his strength not long ago. If there was a problem, he would not do such a thankless task.

Lin Yuan was very calm about the doubts of the three people.

"There's no reason. I've already said everything I need to say. I don't have anything else to say to Ikki."

Stella and Shushiku were both very confused when they heard this answer, but Qianyin, who grew up with Lin Yuan, understood it.

"Lin Yuan, did you do something, like visit Yihui alone some time ago?"

It was not surprising that Qianyin had such a guess. After all, she knew Lin Yuan's character very well.

Although Lin Yuan is very introverted and low-key, which leads to his lack of interpersonal communication, and he has only a few friends such as Qianyin since he was a child, Lin Yuan has never treated people with whom he has a good relationship unfairly, and will help as long as he can.

It is for this reason that Qianyin suspected that Lin Yuan had secretly visited Yihui.

Hearing this, Zhu Shizuku suddenly said, "So, when I was giving my brother emergency treatment just now, I did find that although his physical condition was not very good, it was not too bad. This means that my brother had received treatment. But those guys would never do that, so......!"

At this point, everyone understood, and the three of them looked at Lin Yuan, who had a calm expression.

Lin Yuan didn't think there was anything to hide, so he admitted it directly.

"Ah, indeed, I did go to visit Ikki alone some time ago. Well, after all, we are friends, so seeing how useless Ikki was, I gave him a little help. It's not worth mentioning. Now let's just watch him struggle."

Looking at Lin Yuan's indifferent look, Stella and the other three were very dissatisfied.

"Really, Lin Yuan, since you are going to visit Yihui, why don't you take me with you? Do you know how worried I have been about Yihui during this period?" x Stella.

"Although I am very grateful that you helped my brother, you just said bad things about my brother, so you must apologize for that." x Shizuku.

"Lin Yuan is really something. He looks very calm, but he is always so impulsive. Do you know what would happen if someone found out about your actions?" x Qianyin.

After the three of them had a round of arguments, the game officially began.

(End of this chapter)