Ren immediately got into guard position, sighing deeply. He recognized that voice.
"Seriously?" he shouted toward the nearby shadows. "You guys also want me to kick your asses? Because in case you didn’t know, I just defeated Lin. That Lin! Do you understand what that means?"
Min, Taro, and Liu emerged from the invisibility provided by Min’s amphibian, all laughing as if they had heard the best joke in the world.
"How the hell did you find me?" Ren looked at them incredulously. "My mana is hidden pretty well."
"We arrived since you were lying on the ground with Lin," Liu explained with a smile that Ren hadn’t seen from him in months. "We followed you stealthily to see what you would do."
His friends had felt his mana during the fight.
The realization was both embarrassing and oddly comforting.
"Go away!" Ren gestured rudely toward the campus direction. "I have something important to do, and I’m not going to involve you in this."
The three boys looked at each other for what was clearly the third time, obviously having had this mental conversation before. It was Min who spoke for the group.
"We already decided. We’re going to accompany you."
"No!" Ren protested vehemently. "I already told you that you can’t do anything about my problem... You’re not to blame for anything. You don’t need to..."
Liu stepped forward, his expression becoming unusually serious.
"Look, brother. We already tried twice to give you space to resolve your problems alone. And both times it ended badly for you. This time we’re not going to leave you alone."
"Didn’t you hear? Lin is lying back there because I defeated her!" Ren pointed vaguely toward where he had left his master unconscious. "Lin! The same Lin who’s going to kick all three of your asses together when she wakes up if you don’t leave right now!"
Min stepped forward with a malicious smile that Ren knew very well. It was the same expression he wore before saying something that would annoy him for being obvious but true.
"I’m willing to bet you barely beat her," he declared with absolute confidence. "And that now you’re half dead. Surely the three of us can easily beat you."
Taro and Liu smiled, clearly sharing Min’s sentiment.
The logic was infuriatingly sound.
"Seriously?" Ren looked at them as if they had lost their minds. "That’s your logic? If you’re wrong, you’re going to risk an extra beating from me?"
"Exactly!" Min clapped as if Ren had understood a particularly complex concept. "See! I knew you were smart!"
"Idiots... Why take the risk?"
Taro wiped tears of laughter from his eyes.
"Because we’re your friends... And the truth is Min has a certain logic. If you defeated Lin fair and square, you must have used everything you had. If you didn’t cheat, right now you probably can barely stay standing... And we’re fresh," Taro added with an even bigger smile. "Not to mention that it’s three against one."
Ren looked at them for a long moment, feeling a mixture of exasperation, affection, and genuine concern for their wellbeing.
They weren’t wrong about his condition. Every muscle in his body ached, and his mana veins were dangerously tired.
"You’re completely crazy," he finally murmured. "Do you realize we’re going toward extremely dangerous territory? That we probably won’t come back?"
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