UNIQUE EYES?..{†.°.†}..

***Continent 'Eclipse of the Oceans'..

***Inner Outskirts..

***Clingford's Academy Duelling Arena..

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***{¡!¡17:18pm¡!¡}***

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*LOW M€TALLÏC HUM¡¡¡*

*CLANG!*.

On the inside of the arena's door, Navi calmly wacthes as the heavy door lowers itself. Like a curtain, the dorr slowly falls before locking onto the metal below with a low clang that echoes through the space.

With the door closing, the space Navi is currently in goes pitch black though only for a second as a few distant lanterns comes to life with bright white light to illuminate the space.

Blinking twice to adjust to the sudden shift in light, Navi gets distracted by the voice of the other person who have stepped into this space with him.

"I don't know if you had considered it a battle-plan to use emotions to throw him off balance but.. making a stronger opponent so angry before a death duel definitely does not increase your very low chances of survival.", The present Martial Master slowly says to Navi who turns to looks towards him calmly and with a lightly raised brow.

Seeing Navi's nonchalant reaction to his words, the Martial Master lightly chuckles to himself before saying..

"Somehow, I feel you are foolish enough to be confident about winning this impossible battle.", The martial master says with intrigue in his tone as he purses his lips at Navi.

"Are we supposed to be discussing opinions right now?.", Navi calmly asks to the intrigued Martial Master who suck some air through his teeth before replying.

"Right¡.", The master says calmly as he turns his gaze away from Navi then towards the wall that's opposite the closed door.

Following the master's gaze, Navi looks towards the wall and on it Navi sees almost a hundred different martial weapons hanging off in a rough order.

"So I get to pick one?.", Navi asks as he takes three slow steps towards the wall while the martial master dismissively nods his head once in agreement.

Looking through the weapons on the wall, Navi can immediately tell that most of the weapons present are not remotely close to high quality.

The shields are all either made of wood or fragile metal, the sword's are without shealths and their dull blades looks like they would shatter after a few hits. The spears are mostly wooden though with pointed metal heads, the axes are small and fragile and there is not much effort put into the balance of the daggers.

The spears that are made-up completely of metal have mockingly short and slim rods and the swords with better blades have wooden handles!.

Looking through the weapon collection on the wall, Navi is quick to notice a pattern. The smaller or more useless a weapon can be in battle, the higher the weapon's quality.

For example, there is a chin-guard and face mask on the wall with a quality much higher than that of Navi's claymore sword!.

Looking through the collection of weapons for a minute, Navi makes up his mind. He lightly points a finger forward to a part of the wall before calmly saying..

"I would take that."

The Martial Master present follows Navi's fingers then gives Navi a wierd side glance with confusion in his eyes though the master soon shrugs nonchalantly.

What's his business if the kid decides to choose a toy for use in a death duel?.

Walking towards the wall, the martial master takes off Navi's selected weapon(if it can even be called that) and inspects it.

The selected weapon is: a single claw shaped metal!.

This single claw-like weapon can only be partially worn over one finger!. It fits like a thimble and its body is made of tough metal through its slightly bent tip is made of a white-and-blue crystal.

The quality of the single metal-crystal claw is way beyond that of Navi's claymore sword!.

Infact, the tiny weapon is seems so high-tier that it is an entire grade above the other better weapons that Navi had seen when he went to choose his claymore sword!.

It could be so useful if only the tiny weapon is not so useless!.

The claw weapon is so small that if worn on ones finger, it would barely covers half way!. This weapon has the ridiculously sharp white and green crystal on almost its entire body so holding onto it is impossible and trying to stab someone with the weapon on your finger would be extremely difficult.

Because of its short length, the weapon would probably cut the rest of your own fingers and palm before you can do damage to your opponent and fast movements in battle would garantee the tiny thing slipping off.

To finish things off, the tiny weapon completely lacks balance so it cannot even be properly thrown as a stone!.

Taking the small claw off the wall, the Martial Master speaks with both brows raised.

"Are you sure?.", The martial master asks to Navi while calculating just how useless this small thing would be in any sort of battle.

Not answering the question, Navi strecthes his hand forward before recieving the small claw on his palm.

Navi has plans for this tiny thing and his plans for it are not related the death duel. For this duel, his sword's blade should be enough.

The martial master takes a look at Navi face before sighing out of his mouth as he shakes his head.

"Since that is out of the way, it is time to test for poison.", The martial master says to Navi before casually pulling out a wraped napkin from his robe.

Suddenly wiping the napkin towards Navi, a burst of white powder pours out but the powder soon disappears into thin air two seconds after.

"You're clean.",:The master slowly declares with a smack of his lips while Navi hangs his new claw weapon on the waist of his suit.

Now,.. he waits.

Till the door lifts open once more.

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***{!!!17:58pm!!!}***

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It's fully dusk and the arena is now completely filled up by hundreds of mummuring excited disciples who look forward to the event that's about to begin.

Both excitement and tension drifts through the arena's atmostphere with people waiting for the doors to lift as this movement would once more signify the beginning of a duel to the end!.

".. wait!, how long do you think the duel is going to last?.". In the crowd, a male disciple mummurs with excitement to his friend group who immediately have words for replies.

"Three minutes?!.", A female disciple asks and says at the same time while holding up three fingers with her right hand.

"Hey that's too long!. I once saw two martial seniors sparring and although I have been in the academy for two years, I would not have lasted a minute!. Giving a kid three is an insult to me!..", A male disciple in the friend group immediately counters the girl's opinion with a small frown as he dismissively waves his palm.

"..I would give the kid ten seconds. One minute if the senior wants to torture him!.", The male disciple completes his words with a smug confident look and his friend group seem to agree with his words.. Well, all but one member of the five person friend-group whom currently has her head facing the floor as she seems completely lost in thoughts despite the layered background noises.

"Yuxi, what's up with you?.", A lady sitting next to Yuxi asks while swaying Yuxi lightly with a small push.

"Yeah, you seem a lot off balance lately.", Another male friend probes as all of Yuxi's friends turn their attention to the girl who has been awfully quiet lately.

As usual, Yuxi looks bunny cute with her plump lips, messy bun, freckled fair skin and doe blue eyes though, right now Yuxi is not wearing her bright friendly extroverted glow. Instead, her eyes are slightly reddened and gaze seems very unfocused(a little sad infact).

"If you don't want to wacth the duel then you can skip. Or is this because you've had some mild encounters with the kid?.", One of Yuxi's male friend probes while earning a dirty stare from Yuxi that shuts him up.

"I'm fine guys.", Yuxi says with a small crack in her usually bright voice. Pushing herself, Yuxi sits-up straight though her friends are not buying her lame efforts of acting fine as they all stare at her in silence till she cracks seconds after.

"Do you guys really think that that cute kid could have killed five people?.", Yuxi asks with an unnecessary whisper in her tone while one of her male friends immediately fires a response without much thoughts.

"Well, the academy legalized the death duel so what do you think?.", The guy says with a nonchalant roll of his eyes while immediately earning himself a small jab from the lady sitting next to him.

"Hey I didn't say anything but facts!. He must have killed the girl and her friends else he would not be in the duel. Since we know that he can't fight,.. then the rumours of him poisoning them to death must be true!.", The jabbed guy says in self-defence as he rubs over his torso that had gotten jabbed ruthlessly by his girlfriend who's now giving him the side-eye.

"That's not what I mean!. I mean,.. can a kid really have the conscience to kill somebody talk-more five people?!.", Diane asks with wide eyes though another one of her male friends does the 'male friend thing' again.

"He does have scary eyes.", The male friend whispers almost subconsciously only to purse his lips akwardly as soon as he realizes that the words have slipped out.

"What I meant is.. his eyes are cold and maybe a bit scary when he glares at people.", The guy tries to diffuse the situation but his words does not do much so he just shuts up.

"His eyes are unique!.", Diane replies sharply in defence to her friend's insensitive words though it is obvious that her friends don't agree much with her words.

About to fire words in argument, the group of friends are forced to give up on the conversation as a low metallic *Hum¡* rings through the arena while instantly silencing a lot of mummurs.

*Uuuunnnnggghhh¡*..

One of the arena's doors begins to lift and everyone know what this means!.

The Death Duel is about to begin!.

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