BXBX NOVEL Chapter 278 Final Round Begins
"I can't believe he also knocked him out."
Those were the first words Brad heard as soon as his consciousness returned and the words had come from Zach.
The three second-year students had regained their consciousness a few minutes before Brad and had gone to check on Brad.
To put things straight, they were quite surprised to see Brad on the floor.
"Where is he?" Brad said, getting up with his hand placed on his head.
"We're the ones supposed to be asking you that question," Zach said.
Brad didn't say anything until he had slowly gotten up from the floor.
"I was getting the better of him until I stabbed him with an arrow," Brad said.
"You stabbed him with an arrow?" Dan said.
"Yeah, then he pulled me to the ground, pulled out the arrow like it was nothing, and stabbed me on the shoulder with it, what happened after that I can't remember," Brad said, rubbing his head.
"I'm not sure that person is a student here," Zach said.
"He's just as strong as that Luis Miles but deadlier with those abilities," Dan said.
"Luis Miles," Brad said as something clicked in his mind. "The green-eyed kid right?"
"Yeah," Zach replied.
Before he had gotten knocked out by Luis, he had felt the heat of his water blast against his face and that reminded him of something Luis had done to Rodney with a water blast.
"Do you know him?" Luke asked.
"Yeah from the competition," Brad said with a nod but he didn't say anything more as he began to walk away. "I'll tell George what happened, you guys shouldn't worry about anything." He said before disappearing into the woods.
"Why do I feel like he wasn't honest about where he knows Luis Miles from?" Zach said.
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The sun slowly rose over JoJo mountain as the birds perched on trees began to take into the sky.
The students were all having a nice rest in the room when they were suddenly blasted awake by the speaker.
"Every student should be present in the arena by seven am, I repeat every student should be present in the arena by seven am." The female voice spoke through the speakers which were available in every dorm room in the academy.
"Come on, do they have to remind us every morning?" Ace grumbled, covering his ears with his pillow.
After staying like that for a while, he threw his pillow aside and sat up on his bed.
That was when his eyes darted towards Luis' bed to see that he wasn't there.
"I thought he would have returned last night but he didn't." Ace said.
He was getting a little worried now but he wasn't making a big deal out of it for now because of two reasons.
"He's an Angel and maybe he decided to crash at the library." He said getting up from his bed.
He looked up at Dylan's bed to see that he was no longer there.
He let out a sigh as he dropped back to his bed.
He had been thinking about what Luis told him about Dylan feeling really sorry for what he had done and some part of it understood that but the other part just couldn't forgive the blonde-haired teenager.
The reason not being exactly because of what he had done to Luis but because he had not told them.
He acted on his own without seeing out the help of his roommates.
Ace was still wandering in his thoughts when the door was pushed open and Luis had entered the room.
"Where have you been?" Ace asked as soon as he had seen the young Angel.
"I thought you weren't talking to me," Luis said, walking to his bed.
"That was yesterday, I'm over that now." Ace said.
"So we're good now?" Luis asked, turning to face him.
"Not entirely, where were you last night?" Ace asked.
"At work, at the library, that's where I go every night," Luis said.
"Yeah, and you always return that night, sometimes late, sometimes early." Ace said getting up from his bed.
"I don't get why you're being suspicious, you already know that I am an Angel," Luis said.
"True but that's not the only thing to be suspicious about." Ace said as his gaze turned to the tear on Luis' shoulder. "Why is there a tear on your shoulder?"
Luis didn't reply to him as he turned to the tear on his shoulder.
"You want to know?" The Angel asked.
"Yeah." Ace replied.
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All the students of Crockel Academy had made their way to the arena including Ace and Luis who were walking to the arena together while keeping an eye on Dylan who was walking ahead of them.
The two entered the arena and slowly walked to their normal standing position as Dylan retracted to the back.
It didn't take long before Sonia had spotted Luis and quickly made her way toward the young Angel.
"Hi Luis," Sonia said, stopping beside him.
"How are you doing?" Luis asked, trying not to make eye contact with her.
"Fine, I didn't see you leave yesterday." She said.
"I had to head somewhere to take care of something urgent," Luis said.
"Ok," Sonia said.
"Hey, greenie." He heard Ciara's voice from behind before feeling a little pain in the part of his shoulder where she had punched him.
"Oh, hi Ciara," Luis said, turning to her as he rubbed his shoulder.
"You got lucky yesterday but let's see how you'll do today," Ciara said.
"Yeah," Luis said.
"I wish you good luck." She said before walking away.
"Dude, how did you get to know all these girls?" Ace leaned to him and whispered into his ear.
"I can't really explain that now," Luis whispered back.
"No problem you can tell me when we return to the dorm room." Ace whispered before returning to his normal standing position.
It didn't take long before Orah, Monica, and Henry had entered the arena.
As soon as the three had entered the arena Lieutenant Kate was brought up by her earth pillar and it was time to begin the final round of the competition.
"Welcome everyone to the final round of the Crockel academy's competition." Lieutenant Kate said as her voice resounded through the speakers all around the area.
"The last events for today will be a racing competition and an archery competition but for now the event will be kicking off with the final round of the fighting event.
"We currently have fourteen students left in the fighting event, fourteen students who have struggled to make it through to the last round."
"Yeah, fourteen students who really struggled." Ace said, giving Luis a weird look.
"This fourteen students comprises six third-year students, four second-year students, and four first-year students." Lieutenant Kate said. "This is sure going to be a string of entertaining battles."
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