“MIRACLE OF RESTORATION!”

But while she was distracted by the false assumption of her victory, Terez roared out his spall’s name, and his bottom half was restored while he was still in the air.

…although without clothes…

“KYAAAAAAAAAH!”

Seeing a pantless boy falling onto her, crotch-first, was enough to break Elizabeth’s concentration and the extremely embarrassed, crimson-faced marital artist closed her eyes and waved her hands intending to show the offender away when…

*bump*

“…eh…?!”

Something pushing into her from below – and when she glanced down she saw the shirtless Terez with only his pants and shoes on, tackling her down.

*THUMP*

“…ghh…!”

Pantless Terez and shirtless Terez managed to throw Elizabeth off balance and pin her down to the arena.

As the girl mentioned before, she did not use the law of Taurus – once caught and taken by surprise there was little to nothing she could do with just the law of Capricorn.𝑂𝑽𝐿xt.𝗰𝒐𝐌

“AREA MEGA HEAL!”

Still, despite the rather easygoing act, Terezs were not going to risk her getting away – so the spell they used encompassed the entire arena, leaving only the outside as a safe spot.

*WHOOOOSH*

The next second a pillar of soft, yellow light burst towards the sky, causing a great number of students in the audience to back off as fast as they could in fear of getting caught up in the burst of magic.

“Ghugh…!”

As the light faded away, it revealed the trio in the same position, only with Elizabeth bleeding from ears, nose, mouth, and even eyes.

“Miss Elizabeth, I do not want to make it seem as if I am underestimating you, but this was not my strongest spell by far. I am a healer and don’t enjoy seeing people in pain. Would you consider giving up?”

Pantless Terez asked in a hushed voice, making sure that only the injured girl would be able to hear him.

“Who needs your mercy, pervert?! LAW OF CANCER!”

The martial artist embarrassed to high heavens shouted dropping the pretense and using the law that she was excelling at.

“!!!”

Terezs could not hold their captive for long, the vapor of spiritual energy left her body and floated upwards which was already harmful enough for the split magician to get injured – but that was not the end.

The spiritual energy that left Elizabeth’s body formed a moon-like sphere above her and at the same moment, her body went through a change.

She suddenly bulked up and a thick fur grew out of her skin, ripping off her uniform into shreds.

Her face elongated into a wolf-like snout and her hands and feet grew powerful razor-sharp claws…

“Miracle of restoration.”

Terez wasn’t idly waiting for the transformation to conclude and used the regeneration spell for the third time, although this time it was without him suffering a gruesome wound.

“It’s not working!”

The monstrous half-humanoid half-wolf beast laughed mockingly, putting her hand forward and moving her fingers as if to enjoy the reflection of the moon-like sphere in her claws.

*WHAM*

“GUH…?!”

Without any of the two Terezs responding to the provocation, the third – this one completely naked – Terez landed a devastating kick at the back of transformed Elizabeth’s knee, causing her to kneel down and yelp in surprise.

“WHAT?! HOW?! WAIT…! YOU…!”

The marital artist growled, but then her wolf-like eyes widened as she realized that the hand she ripped out of the young-looking magician was gone, and connected the dots.

“You want me to show you something even better? EMPOWER!”

*SWOOSH*

The naked Terez grinned and shouted, causing his body to dissolve into the particles of yellow light – just in time, it’s worth adding because instead of answering,

Elizabeth swung her clawed hand at the magician and said attack would definitely end up in a spectacular gore-fest if it connected with flesh instead of light.

That said, the other two Terezs also turned into light, making the arena look like some fantasy garden.

Then, each and every particle gathered and condensed, creating a basis for a tall young man with long yellow hair, piercing yellow eyes, and sharp shark-like teeth.

Basically Terez, but how he should look at the age of eighteen.

Somehow, this time he was not completely naked, wearing every part of his bloodstained uniform, only that it was far too small for him now.

“Oh? What’s with that face? You thought only you could transform?”

Terez grinned, raising his head to better show off the teeth that were almost more threatening than the werewolf’s fangs.

“Are you stupid? Do you think that no one else is practicing the law of Cancer?”

Elizabeth scoffed, regaining her composure even if only a little bit, and taking a low stance, readying herself to pounce at the very confident young man.

“Stop! Pause the duel for a moment!”

The teacher put in charge of overseeing the duels after the earlier disaster of his predecessor raised his hand and called out in a loud voice while stepping into the arena.

“…?”

“…”

Elisabeth tilted her head in confusion while Terez’s expression turned indifferent once more as he closed his mouth, hiding his sharp triangular teeth.

“Vice headmaster, do I have full decisive power in the matter of the duels?”

To the surprise of everyone, both the students and teachers, the man in charge asked Marcus, the vice headmaster.

“You do.”

Marcus nodded his head with a rather suspicious expression.

“I understand. Then, with that in mind, I judge that with having the health of both contestants as the top priority, this duel is a draw!”

The teacher in charge then declared without a moment of hesitation, causing quite a stir among the martial arts students who saw this as losing a good chance for a redeeming victory.

—–

“Good to know that there is at least one person who can make hard decisions despite their own desires.”

Devios took a deep breath in smiled with relief as the teacher in charge did not change his decision despite loud protest and sent Elizabeth and Terez back to their respective groups.

“I did not win. I apologize, I should not play around as much as I did.”

Terez’s first words toward his friends were that of an apology.

“If you want to apologize for something, apologize for not correcting my mistaken assumption that you were a light attribute magician. But first – you did not lose, good job.”

Devios scoffed, shaking his head in disbelief before smiling and nodding at the yellow-haired young man.