After swiping her card to pass through, Kobayashi Mirai walked straight toward the Shooting Range and briskly loaded her weapon.
The score on the electronic screen began to jump between nine and ten.
Once her shooting was complete, the numbers on the screen totaled up, finally landing on a total score of 95.
She walked out from the other end of the Shooting Range, glancing at her score with a look of indifference before using Teleportation to appear beside Lin Yu.
This time, Lin Yu finally managed not to be startled.
He handed her the phone; Kobayashi Mirai took it and saw that the screen was already on the WeChat interface.
Lin Yu had already finished the registration for her.
“xl… wl…”
Kobayashi Mirai haltingly read the WeChat username Lin Yu had helped her register.
“What does this mean?”
Kobayashi Mirai asked.
“It’s the abbreviation of your Chinese name.”
“Why is my Chinese name in English?”
In her mind, Chinese should be something similar to Japanese, not a few English letters.
“This…”
Thinking about the difference between pinyin and English, Lin Yu didn’t know how to explain it for a moment.
“Forget it. Anyway, is this Doraemon you?”
Kobayashi Mirai pointed at the solitary contact in the address book and asked.
Lin Yu nodded dully.
“Do you like Doraemon?”
After a moment of hesitation, Lin Yu said, “Maybe…”
“Huh?”
Kobayashi Mirai looked at him in confusion.
She began to wonder if there was something wrong with Vigus’s translation; she and Lin Yu didn’t seem to be on the same wavelength.
***
Moving from the Shooting Range to the indoor arena, the content of the second exam seemed to have regressed into primitive hand-to-hand combat.
Compared to the shooting evaluation just now, there was a sense of disparity, as if they had jumped from the modern era back to the Stone Age.
The rules of the exam were similar to the Swiss-system Tournament used in certain game competitions.
Opponents were first assigned randomly, then winners faced winners while losers faced losers.
This cycle continued, and the condition for passing the exam was to accumulate three victories.
After the candidates registered their information, Vigus directly assigned the matchups.
A win was achieved by making the opponent surrender or knocking them down.
There was no protective gear on the field; it was just raw fighting.
‘What a simple display of the aesthetics of violence,’ Lin Yu lamented in his heart.
Holding the girl’s blade, he retreated to a spot against the wall.
The massive indoor space was divided into four combat areas, without even any caution tape to mark them off.
Only a few people, whom he couldn’t distinguish as either Seniors or Teachers, acted as Referees.
After an unknown amount of time, the girl’s information finally appeared on the electronic screen.
The girl let out a yawn, took off her gray jacket, and handed it to Lin Yu.
Lin Yu helplessly took the girl’s gray jacket, thinking to himself, ‘After all that, am I just here to be your assistant?’
He took the jacket into his hands while the girl stretched her body and began walking toward the field.
Underneath her jacket was a white T-shirt.
Lin Yu took a glance; judging by her silhouette, she could be considered quite sturdy.
Walking onto the field, Kobayashi Mirai took a hair tie from her wrist and tied up her striking hair.
Her opponent was a handsome guy with short hair, standing over 180 centimeters tall.
From his appearance, he looked European, with classic Western features.
Legitimate combat sports usually distinguished between gender and weight, but this school’s exam was incredibly casual, pitting people against each other based on a simple draw.
Although he didn’t think Kobayashi Mirai would lose, he felt somewhat helpless regarding the school’s laxity.
Kobayashi Mirai’s opponent also seemed to recognize her, as his face wore an expression of terrible luck.
Seeing the handsome guy’s expression, Lin Yu suddenly wondered what would happen if he were the one standing across from Kobayashi Mirai…
‘I’d probably just lie on the ground and surrender immediately,’ he thought.
After the Referee confirmed both of their identities, he waved his hand to signal them to begin.
The man took the lead in the attack, launching a swift straight punch toward Kobayashi Mirai’s face.
Kobayashi Mirai reacted extremely quickly; she pulled her elbows in to protect her head and chest while simultaneously lowering her center of gravity.
With her knees slightly bent, she used her forearms to steadily block the attack.
The exam rules seemed to strictly forbid the use of Superpowers.
Otherwise, based on Lin Yu’s impression of her, she wouldn’t have resorted to blocking.
After his punch was blocked, the man didn’t hesitate to follow up with the next move.
He turned his body slightly and delivered a low sweep kick toward Kobayashi Mirai’s supporting ankle, a common technique aimed at disrupting the opponent’s lower balance.
Lin Yu didn’t understand these fighting techniques, but he felt that both of their movements were professional and their strikes were fierce.
Facing this dangerous low sweep, Kobayashi Mirai demonstrated incredible body coordination.
She suddenly exerted force through her core, her body leaping upward and backward.
With a clean and sharp backflip, she precisely avoided the kick that swept across the ground.
Before Lin Yu could even admire the stylish flip, he suddenly froze for a moment.
The moment the girl’s body was in the air and her clothes hung down naturally, he caught a glimpse of her abdomen — there were several abdominal muscles there…
He couldn’t see clearly whether it was four or six, but it didn’t matter.
‘Ghost!’
Lin Yu cried out in his heart.
‘For a girl who just started her freshman year, shouldn’t a good figure just mean having some muscle lines? What the hell is with the abs?!’
He subconsciously swallowed.
Seeing a girl with several defined abdominal muscles was a scene he had only encountered on the high-protein muscle queens in biology textbooks or in Mikasa Ackerman from Attack on Titan, who could slaughter giants.
Kobayashi Mirai didn’t pause for a second after landing.
Taking advantage of the brief moment of imbalance when her opponent’s sweep missed, she immediately launched a fierce counterattack.
She pressed her center of gravity forward and threw a swift straight punch aimed at the man’s midsection.
The man reacted quickly and blocked the punch, but he was still forced back by the power behind it.
The moment the blond man stumbled back, she lunged forward like a leopard, driving a vicious knee strike precisely into his unprotected abdomen.
This was the signature finishing move of Muay Thai; the power was generated by twisting the hips and waist, which, combined with the forward momentum, was enough to turn one’s internal organs upside down.
Lin Yu sucked in a breath of cold air.
Kobayashi Mirai was even more brutal than he had imagined.
Just watching that knee strike made him feel the blond guy’s pain.
Sure enough, after the man staggered to his feet, he chose to surrender.
After all, this was only one small match of his exam; he could still pass by defeating other opponents.
After winning the first match, the second and third rounds of combat followed immediately.
To Lin Yu’s surprise, even though Kobayashi Mirai had fully demonstrated her brutality, none of her subsequent opponents forfeited before fighting.
The opponent in the third round even traded blows back and forth with her.
Although the process was a bit rocky, the result was no surprise.
Kobayashi Mirai passed the exam with a record of three wins and zero losses.
After fighting three consecutive matches, Kobayashi Mirai was drenched in sweat.
Normally, someone perceptive would have bought water in advance and thoughtfully draped her clothes over her when she returned, but looking at the girl walking toward him, Lin Yu just instinctively gave her a thumbs up, meaning she was great.
Kobayashi Mirai nodded.
Without any expression on her face, she grabbed her jacket from Lin Yu’s hands and casually draped it over her shoulder.