The self proclaimed rival

Just as Leopold declared declared Sekke to be his rival, the dark lord gave an annoyed sigh and turned towards Asta who was still holding his swords.

"What are you waiting for? Keep those swords back." said Sekke hearing which Asta realised that he was holding his swords and kept them back in his Grimoire.

"You Idiot, I told you to behave when we were here! And you, how can you wimp out for all of a sudden!" said Sekke as he smacked both Noelle and Asta making his fellow rookies hd their heads and groan in pain.

"Oi! It was their fault for-"

"S-Stop it Bakasta!" said Noelle as she shut Asta's mouth with her hand so as to prevent him from pissing of any more nobles.

"I am sorry fo-"

"Nope, no apologies will be accepted. Once we get back you two need to get straightened out. This idiot needs to learn how to behave and as for you Noelle...Looks like we need to make you grow some spine so that you can handle *whispers*these assholes on your own from next time. We can't have you breaking down in front of them everytime we meet." said Sekke with a smirk.

Asta and Noelle looked at Sekke with mild surprise as his tone which seemed like he was scolding them changed all of a sudden.

Both of them nodded their heads and didn't say anything further since Noelle felt that what Sekke said was true and as for Asta, he simply forgot about what he was angry about.

"As expected of my rival! Helping his squad mates to get them on the right track. Hm hm I like it." said Leopold as he nodded sagely.

The trio rookies from black bulls looked at Leopold with a deadpan look on their faces not knowing what the hell he was talking about.

'Sekke, bring us to right track?' thought Noelle.

'Huh, what the hell is this idiot spouting. Right track my ass.' thought Sekke.

'That guy is wearing even more make up than Noelle. Nobles are weird.' thought Asta.

"What was your name? Keke?"

"Leopold-san, it's Sekke. He's Sekke-san." said Mimosa.

"Haha Sekke, eh? That's a great name, my rival!" said Leopold as he slapped Sekke's shoulder.

'...Earlier I saw him using this hand to pick his nose...' thought Sekke as he glanced at the hand that was smacking his magic knight robe.

"Haha come, now! Rejoice! Rejoice." said Leopold.

'Ah he is so forceful....and stop slapping that hand ony robe!' thought Sekke as he took a deep breath and said, "I am a huge freak who like maids more than anything else all my favourite books are about maids and I visit maid cafes every single day and I like maid figurines too and in my spare time I wear maid costumes and breathe heavily while I stare at myself in the mirror. See ya."

Saying his part Sekke gave a nod and walked away from the royal not noticing Anna who was hurriedly writting something in a notebook.

"O-Oi, wait!" said Leopold as he grabbed Sekke's shoulder whose face scrunched up as he saw the same hand again om his other shoulder as well.

"Oh come on, I was sure that speech would have left you disgusted and make you keep a distance from me!" said Sekke in an annoyed tone as he shrugg d Leopold's hand off his shoulder.

"Haha, I am not someone who will easily give up against my rival! *whisper* and on the occasion of us being rivals let me tell you this, I like maids as well."

"*whisper*That was not the point of my words!"

"*whisper*D-Don't tell me, you don't like maids?!"

"*whisper*Of course I like maids!"

Seeing Sekke and Leopold whisper bicker to each other Sekke's friends looked at them with a confused and weird look on their faces.

"As expected of Sekke-san. To be able to get along with Leopold-san so soon."

"Hm, to not only be able to meet Sekke-kun but learning about one of Sekke-kun's 'taste'. This ceremony is getting better and better." muttered Anna.

Secre who sitting on top of Noelle's head because of fight glanced towards Anna and thought, 'I know most if not all his 'tastes'.' and just looked at Anna with a mocking look on her face though her expression didn't change much from her usual one.

"A royal acknowledging a commoner as his rival?" said Nozel gathering the attention from most of people in the room.

Hearing that Fuegoleon started defending his brother by giving logical explanations but the other royal didn't even cared about his opinion and both of them started to release their magic.

Amidst all this Yami and Sekke moved away from the crowd and got close to a wall with a serious look on their faces.

"Oi brat, are you feeling that as well?"

"... Unfortunately yeah."

"Good." said Yami as he used his mana skin to strengthen his body and punched the wall destroying it immediately.

This surprised all the people who were present in the room, but both Sekke and Yami ignored them and jumped through the newly made hole as Sekke looked back at the others and said, "Enemy attack!" and then followed Yami.

Falling down throught the sky Yami and Sekke looked at their surroundings and saw the destruction that was done to the capital as both of them immediately narrowed their eyes.

"Yami-san?!"

"Save the idiots and show hell to the dumbasses." said Yami as both of them landed on a nearby roof.

""I will go that way!"" said both of them in unison as the two of them stared at each other with an awkward look on their faces.

""I will go that way!""

Once again the two of them pointed in the same direction and said that at the same time causing another awkward moment.

A few veins popped up on Yami's forehead as he grabbed Sekke's head and clenched it tightly.

"Go that way dumass!!" yelled Yami as he threw Sekke away with full force and then started running in the opposite direction.

"FUCK YOU YAMI-SAN!!!" yelled Sekke while he was still flying in mid air after being thrown away by his captain.