Thanks, I'll treat you to a meal sometime." Xia Shang put the key in his pocket.
When the bell rang, after the others gradually left the classroom, Xia Shang deliberately stayed behind.
"Teacher, I dropped something. I'll look for it myself first." He made up an excuse, letting the female teacher leave first.
The female teacher didn't suspect anything and walked straight out of the classroom.
Afterwards, Xia Shang found two bottles of concentrated sulfuric acid in glass bottles. He checked them and found that the glass bottles were of good quality and the seals were fine. Unless the bottles were deliberately smashed, the sulfuric acid inside couldn't leak out.
With this stuff, Xia Shang was more confident in killing the parasitic beast in one fell swoop.
It was five o'clock in the afternoon, the time for Tokyo West High School to dismiss classes. Xia Shang, wearing a jacket, walked towards the Kendo Club.
The Kendo Club's training ground was very large. Many members were already practicing with wooden swords. They were all wearing simple protective gear to ensure that no one would get hurt. However, being hit by a wooden sword could still be painful.
"Xia-kun." Yuji in the crowd saw Xia Shang at a glance.
"This is Xia Shang, my classmate, who just joined the Kendo Club today," Yuji introduced to the others.
"Welcome, welcome."
The others didn't reject the newly joined Xia Shang. On the contrary, they all showed a welcoming attitude.
After Xia Shang greeted them one by one, he took the initiative to walk aside and watch them practice.
"Does our Kendo Club only have wooden swords?" Seeing that everyone had wooden longswords, Xia Shang couldn't help but ask.
"We also have iron swords, but we don't usually use those iron swords for training. Those swords are too heavy, and they can only be used in formal competitions."
Just as the two were talking, several tall students walked towards them.
The leading student had dyed yellow hair and looked at Yuji and the others with disdain. Their arrival immediately brought the atmosphere to freezing point. Xia Shang was a little puzzled and had to quietly ask Yuji beside him.
Yuji obviously had a grudge against these guys, and said with gritted teeth: "They are the third-year students. The leader is called Aso Koji. It is said that he knows gangsters outside the school. Usually, they like to choose training partners from among us, and they are very heavy-handed every time they train with them."
"What's going on? Why don't you greet your seniors when you see them?"
Forced by Aso Koji's power, Yuji and the others had no choice but to greet them in humiliation.
Seeing this, Aso Koji laughed loudly, and the people around him also laughed. However, they soon noticed Xia Shang, who hadn't spoken. As a new face, he actually regarded their words as wind in his ears.
Aso Koji narrowed his eyes and said with a hypocritical smile: "It seems that some people still don't recognize our status as seniors."
"It's okay to teach him a little lesson. Seniors bullying newcomers is a traditional practice in the Kendo Club."
The people standing next to him looked at Xia Shang with unkind eyes.
"Forget it, he just joined the Kendo Club. Don't scare him away," Aso Koji patted the shoulder of the person who had just spoken.
Then, he chose a few people from the crowd as today's training partners.
Yuji was among them.
The members of the Kendo Club all knew that Yuji and his group had a bad relationship with the third-year student Aso Koji. People would get hurt every time they trained, but the inferiority of human nature has never been exclusive to any race. Seeing that there was a spectacle to watch, they immediately gathered like a swarm of bees.
In the center of the training ground surrounded by railings, two people were putting on protective gear. Compared with the tall third-year students, Yuji's companions seemed much thinner. From the posture of holding the sword, it could be seen that he was very nervous.
Sure enough, at the beginning of the training.
Yuji's side fell into a passive defense. In just a few minutes, he was hit several times on his body.
Seeing this scene, Xia Shang shook his head silently. It wasn't that the third-year guy's swordsmanship was very strong, but that Yuji's companion had no desire to win at all. He only knew how to defend blindly. If this continued, it was impossible to win.
The result was as he expected.
Yuji's companion was hit on the back of his hand by the sword, painfully released his hand, and dropped the wooden sword in his hand, ending the match.
The next few games were the same, all one-sided.
"It's my turn." Yuji clenched the longsword in his hand, took a deep breath, and stepped onto the training ground.
His opponent was Aso Koji. At this time, Aso Koji seemed very relaxed, waving the wooden sword casually and taunting: "You juniors really haven't made any progress. It's really disappointing. When I think about the future, you will take over our class. It feels incredible."
"Stop talking nonsense."
Yuji launched the first attack. His speed was very good, and he came to Aso Koji in one step.
Unfortunately, this sword was blocked by Aso Koji.
It has to be said that being the leader of the third-year students in the Kendo Club does have some strength. Of course, this is relative to Yuji and others.
After all, in Xia Shang's eyes, Aso Koji's swordsmanship could be said to be full of loopholes and difficult to look at directly.
"Too slow, are you not eating?"
Aso Koji turned and came to Yuji's side, hitting Yuji's left arm with a sword. This made him clench his teeth in pain.
"Still as reckless as before, kendo is not something that reckless people can master."
Aso Koji said trash talk while dealing with Yuji. At this time, Yuji was obviously irritated. The veins on his forehead appeared, and he swung forward forcefully, making his originally somewhat methodical swordsmanship suddenly become chaotic.
Seeing Yuji lose his usual composure, Aso Koji's mouth showed a few cunning smiles. Then, when Yuji's remaining strength was exhausted and his new strength had not yet been generated, he swung the wooden sword and slashed it on the back of his hand. The area hit by Yuji suddenly became red and swollen.
"Give up, the gap between you and me cannot be filled by silently reciting fetters, friendship, and revenge in your heart."
Under Aso Koji's repeated attacks, Yuji's figure was already faltering.
Even the referee on the side couldn't stand it anymore.
He went directly to the center of the ring and announced Aso Koji's victory.
Aso Koji, who had won the victory, said to Yuji with a smile: "Sorry, it's really unfortunate, I won again this time."
Yuji endured the pain and walked off the ring. He lowered his head and said to Xia Shang in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I made you laugh. However, one day, I will defeat him."
"You rest first."
Xia Shang took the wooden sword from his hand, saw the scars on his body, and shrugged.
"Next, watch my performance." Saying that, Xia Shang walked towards the ring with his sword.