Rising of the Weakest Mage

Vol 3/Ch 24 - The Meeting After the Duel

"Oh, you mean Allen's duel," Rose responded, while getting her senses back together.

"Correct. You've already told me how it went, and I also have some sources as to how the duel went. However, I'd like to hear it from the one who actually was in the duel," William explained while motioning over to Allen.

"You want me to explain how the duel went through my own eyes?," Allen asked.

"Well of course. Not only because you were actually the one participating, but because it was your duel. Rose was only a spectator, after all," William added.

"Well, calling it a simple duel would be a lie," Allen nervously laughed. "Where to begin?"

"Just start wherever you'd like," William said, patiently waiting for Allen to start.

After Rose took a seat, Allen began explaining the events that went down in his duel against Nathaniel. He explained how he was mostly defensive at the beginning, then pushed to the offensive. He explained that at first, he gained the advantage against Nathaniel, but that was soon overturned once Nathaniel put on the mysterious ring that was most likely a magical artifact. After Nathaniel put the ring on, he gained much more power. At that point in time, Allen was already exhausted, using the rest of his mana. Nathaniel quickly turned it back around again.

Instead of ending it there, Nathaniel proceeded to humiliate Allen as much as he could, getting the audience riled up. Meanwhile, Allen began a last minute ditch effort to defeat Nathaniel with any mana he could possibly use within him, and then quickly moved at him. He managed to put Nathaniel on his toes for a split second, only to be ended when Allen's foot was discovered to be slightly outside the boundary zone, resulting in his loss.

"How unjustly," Rose said in an annoyed voice, commenting on Nathaniel's behavior in the duel.

"It is quite unfortunate how Nathaniel has grown," William commented.

"Nathaniel does things like that?," Martha commented last, confused that students could act even worse than she already thought.

"Well, it was definitely a duel I knew I was getting into, but there were parts I was not expecting," Allen nervously laughed.

"Don't tell me you would allow Nathaniel to do such things to you!," Rose said, annoyed at Allen for not being that mad at Nathaniel. "You would allow him to get away with this?"

"Well, of course I hated that he did that to me," Allen responded. "But there's not much we can do about it now. Only way I could get back at him would be to duel him again, but I doubt I could win with how the last one went"

"Even so, you would condone the humiliation he put you through?," Rose raised her voice. "His actions were beyond what's allowed in a duel. He should be-"

"That's enough, Rose," William intervened. "Isn't that what we've been talking about this past week?"

"I-, sorry," Rose apologized, putting her head down for a moment.

"No, it's alright. I understand your frustrations, but no need to get mad at Allen about it. After all, the humiliation was directed at him in the first place," William explained.

"Yeah, don't worry about it too much Rose," Allen tried to reassure her. "After all, it was my duel, and my problem to deal with"

"No need to take things on alone, Allen. Don't try to develop that kind of habit," William said as he looked at him.

"Right," Allen responded, thinking for a moment.

"Either way, several of the actions Nathaniel took in that duel were unacceptable," William said, starting to get serious. "However, we are limited to what we can do at the moment. That's what Rose and I have been working on, not just these past weeks, but since last year when she first became student council president"