“Huh…?”

<Huh…?>

Joren used his left hand to hold onto Virena’s right leg, propping him up for a jump. Simultaneously, he used his other arm to drop his pants while his right foot went for her face.

Bam*

Virena was made to look the other way while Joren felt like he kicked a boulder!

Instead of making a full movement, Joren was stuck midway as he did not expect her to be this tough. So basically, he tripped on Virena’s cheek mid-air, making him dive onto the ground instead of landing on both feet.

When Joren somersaulted, he pulled up his pants and felt the instance danger from his behind. Therefore, he made another somersault to the side.

Crash*

Looking back at his original position, he saw a small crater was formed by Virena’s stomp.

Glancing at her face, Joren felt a little scared.

‘So this is a monster!?’ he thought yet he didn’t dilly-dally as he made a run for it.

“It’s too late for mercy now…”

Virtual smoke came out of Virena’s mouth. Coupled with her glowing red eyes and darkened face, she looked more like a furious demon instead of a vampire.

<See, now, you’re escaping but you can’t!>

“I’m not escaping, I’m making a distance.” Joren whispered before regulating his breathing again.

<But I’m impressed. You’re able to use your Sagging Pants ability so deftly even though it’s the first time you used it.>

“I don’t think it’s that hard to find the right timing to put my pants down and up. I can use one hand for that, after all.” Joren replied.

He then turned around and saw that Virena was nowhere to be found. Feeling the wind above. Joren looked above.

‘Ugh, why is she wearing pants instead of a skirt!?’ he thought before sidestepping.

Crash* the ground Virena’s foot landed exploded. She didn’t give Joren any rest, she turned to her and punched.

Joren evaded his head, making her fist brush his cheek while giving a right jab, straight to her nose. He then retreated.

“Did you just… tried to break my nose?” Virena tilted her head.

“Huh? I thought we can restore it?” Joren replied honestly. He didn’t like breaking a pretty girl’s face but he knew it wasn’t going to be that bad and that would be fatal.

Virena’s cold face twitched.

“Yes… I guess I can break your nose too.”

“Of course, if you can.”

Joren then ran forward with his arms raised like a boxer. Knowing that creating some distance will just give Virena some advantage to assault him stealthily, he chose to go forward.

<I don’t understand this…>

“Huff!” Joren jabbed which Virena didn’t even budge and went for a counterattack.

“Tsk!’

Knowing that his faint didn’t work, Joren dropped to hug Virena on the wait and jump to wrestle her on the ground.

Virena’s attack missed as Joren caught her and jumped!

“… huh?”

However, the vampire didn’t even budge as if she was rooted on the ground like a tree.

Redness tinted Virena’s placed cheeks as she grabbed Joren’s both shoulders and pushed him down.

“Ack!” Joren was brought to the ground, “What tactic even works on you!?”

Bam* he was smashed onto the ground and was carried. Virena readied herself for a headbutt. Knowing that this will be a fatal strike, Joren acted fast!

He fully unbelted his pants, making it dropped and readied his head too!

Thud* the wind exploded as Joren was thrown away from the force that hit his head.

“Ouch!” he fell to the ground and felt dizzy. He felt a drop of blood trickle down to his nose that came from his forehead.

“P-pervert!”

Joren saw the red glow on Virena’s eyes became brighter. He saw her forehead and saw not even a scratch!

“O-okay, I guess this is a bad idea, after all.”

Preparing for Virena to jump to him, Joren immediately pulled his pants up and stood up to see that she was just standing there. She seemed to be in a daze as she stared at his forehead.

Joren found it strange at first before he remembered.

‘Oh shit, she’s a vampire!’

He immediately wiped the blood from his face. Although he didn’t know what is the deal with vampires in real life, showing blood to her shouldn’t be a good idea.

“…”

A drool dropped from Virena’s side of lips. She wiped it too while still staring at his forehead.

Joren noticed something scary. Virena’s fang seemed to be getting longer and longer that it came out from hiding, behind her lips.

“What happens if a vampire bit me?” he whispered.

<That’s obvious, she will suck you dry. For vampires, blood is like cocaine or marijuana or LSD or a pain reliever, you get it, in other words, they are addicted to it. Vampires were kept hidden and are classified as Level 7 for their impulse to drink human blood. By the way, monsters at Level 3 are already known for their viciousness against humans. You should already make the comparison.>

The fish immediately explained to tell Joren the danger of his situation.

“T-then what should I do?”

<Survive! Here, I’ll give you an awesome mission to motivate you if retaining your life isn’t already a motivation! Who knew that with your 10 Thugness, you will face a vampire?!>

A board then popped out in front of Joren.

[Mission: Survive Virena, a Vampire!

Time: None

Reward: Straight to Level 5, get the title of Street Thug]

<Truthfully, I can advance you straight to Level 10 with your Thugness but you need to forge your own Thugness first as a foundation. Don’t die, you’re the last person I can->

Joren didn’t continue hearing the fish’s explanation and immediately dismissed the mission. Honestly, he doesn’t care about it! Even if there’s no reward, he would want to continue living and save Scarlett!

He was more focused on Virena’s next move. Earlier, he didn’t fear her that much since he does not feel any harmful intent from her. Of course, that was until he kicked her on the face. This time, his gangster senses is tingling.

Joren’s in a dangerous situation.

However, it seemed that Virena was trying to stop herself from going on full strength right now and bury her fangs on his neck.

“P-principal, drinking your student’s blood is against the rules… I don’t know what rules but there should definitely one.”

“I… I am not the principal.” Virena snarled.

“Okay, I’ll just walk out and we’ll talk later, okay?” Joren slowly backed out. He had already completed his objective. He learned what happened to Scarlett, he learned that he needed power, and scoped the strength of the First Level’s Principal.

It’s fine to retreat now, right?

“That’s… that’s not the exit.” Virena said. It seemed that she agreed with Joren.

Joren turned around and unknowingly, their position changed after their fight. He began to sweat.

‘I need to go around her…’

That was in his mind when he heard the splashes of water behind him.

“Ah, why don’t I just wash the blood off.”

Virena raised an eyebrow to this while she restrain herself. But when she saw that Joren went towards the lake where the lock ness monster is, she almost forgot her thirst for blood and shouted.

“Not there!”

However, she was too late as Joren had already washed his forehead on the lakewater. He looked up and just saw that the supposed “loch ness monster” was just a stone statue.

But since Virena stopped him, the law-abiding Joren stood up and raised his hands. He was no longer pissed off so he turned to his normal self again which the fish would call “what 10 Thugness should be”

“Sorry, but I already washed it.” Joren pointed with an innocent smile. But his eyes was still squinted and he looked like he was tricking her instead.

“Y-you… what have you done…?” Virena pointed with a darkened face.

Joren frowned at Virena and saw that her expression changed.

‘Is she… scared?’

What could scare this crazy-strong vampire? Questioning this made a chill run up Joren’s spine.

That was when he heard a splash of water behind him.

“P-principal Ness… forgive me…!” Virena shook and fell onto her knees. Joren assumed Virena’s guilty expression to be a scared one. But he didn’t saw this as his heart skipped a beat as he turned around.

He looked up and saw…

“Nothing…?”

“… what?”

Joren, who expected a huge monster behind him, rolled his eyes down to see a petite girl with long black hair that reached her delicate heels.

Before Joren could react, this girl’s expression changed.

“Who are you!? Virena, Virena, where are you!?” her eyes were becoming teary.

“You dare make Principal Ness cry!?” Virena’s bloodlust heightened which made Joren stammer and jerk.

“W-wait! I didn’t do anything!”

He subconsciously retreated due to fear from Virena’s bloodlust. However, with his next step back, he didn’t notice that it was a slope to the lake as he fell back.

“No!”

As if as scared as him, the teenage girl reacted in a reflex and pushed him away.

BOOM*

At that moment, Joren felt like he was hit by a tank that does drag racing just to hit him with it’s full-force.

His back cracked and blood spurted from his mouth before he was thrown away like a pebble from a slingshot.

Swoosh – bam*

He hit another tree, head first.