My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World
Chapter 223: Intermission (Part 2)

Chapter 223: Intermission (Part 2)

After I found Drakzen standing on the edge of the city’s hill, I told him to leave the place since I didn’t want to fight him at that moment.

Strangely, the devil agreed with me, saying that he also didn’t wish to fight.

"Yeah? Then why did you interrupt the tournament?" I asked.

"I was just simply showing a traitor that they can’t run away from who they are!" he replied proudly.

’Right, of course, he sees Nessa as a traitor...’ I thought.

"I thought devils would just do anything they wanted. I see you are all just some loyal dogs for someone else..." I said mockingly.

Still, my taunts had no effect on Drakzen, who simply chuckled as if I had told him a joke.

"Tell me why you are here..." I continued.

The devil sharpened his eyes and stared at me with a severe expression while slowly approaching me.

With caution, I placed my hand on the handle of my mithril dagger, but suddenly, Drakzen was standing less than a foot away from me with his face next to my ear.

"I’m just wandering around... I am the traveling devil, don’t you know?" he muttered.

Right as he finished his sentence, he appeared on the edge of the hill again and, with a wicked smile, jumped down.

I peeked at the bottom to see if he landed anywhere, but Drakzen was nowhere to be seen, making me shake my head with frustration.

’I hate that guy so much...’ I thought.

After the encounter, I returned to the arena, where we still had some time to relax before the final match, and told Melina and Nessa about Drakzen.

Melina looked angry and annoyed at the fact that a devil had tried messing with Nessa, but the pink-haired girl looked more scared than anything.

She explained that Drakzen was the strongest of the devil commanders. However, she had never seen his full strength, which was how she knew that he was extremely powerful.

’Well, he did fight against three sages without unleashing his full power...’ I thought, remembering the times we fought against him at the Sephyr Kingdom.

I didn’t think that Drakzen would genuinely try to do something else, so I told Nessa to calm down and enjoy watching the final match.

There was still some time left before it started, as it was meant to begin during the sunset, so we used that time to pay a visit to the two finalists.

Putting the devil’s problem aside, I felt pretty proud that the two combatants who reached the end were my students.

However, when I got to the practice range, my smile turned sour after noticing that Takeo was saying something to Yuki as she looked down with a sad expression.

"You cheater, I always knew you were trash!" Takeo exclaimed as he pointed a finger at his sister.

"What’s going on here?" I said, interrupting his tantrum.

"Heh, what? Are you going to defend her again? I’m already out of the tournament, so what are you going to do? Disqualify me?" Takeo said with a mocking tone.

"You called her a cheater, and I’m her professor. So, how did she cheat?" I calmly asked.

"I know she was using an artifact to cast magic without chanting anything. It was probably given to her by you!" he exclaimed.

Melina placed her palm on her face, feeling almost too embarrassed to look at Takeo without laughing in his face.

However, Takeo’s delusions made him believe that she was embarrassed for me, and he quickly approached her.

"Princess, you shouldn’t hang with cheaters like these... I can give you everyth-..." Takeo said as he went to hold Melina’s hand but stopped after his face was turned abruptly to the side.

*slap!* the sound of Melina’s palm against Takeo’s cheek resounded in the practice room.

"Get your filthy hands away from me..." Melina muttered with an incredibly intimidating killer aura.

"Do you really think I would be so stupid as to listen to what you have to say?

You are an arrogant piece of trash that believes everything is your property.

You treat the people of your nation like slaves and your own family with disdain.

Prince Takeo, I would rather destroy the entire world and then kill myself than spend another minute of my time talking to you..." Melina said.

Her speech made everyone in the practice room utterly silent as they stared at her with shock in their eyes.

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t surprised. I knew Melina better than everyone, and I had seen her getting mad in our past lives, but it had been so long that I had forgotten how scary and ruthless she could be.

Yuki was speechless, with her mouth wide open. However, Melina stood her ground and crossed her arms as she looked at the prince with disgust.

Takeo couldn’t believe what someone had said to him, staying silent for what felt like minutes until he managed to stammer a few words.

"I... I will not let this slide!" he exclaimed before leaving the practice area.

A few minutes after the prince was gone, I noticed a group of people were trying to enter the practice area from the back entrance, which wasn’t allowed.

When I got closer to see what the commotion was about, I noticed that it looked like a family.

Four women and three children wanted to step inside, and it turned out that it was Yuki’s family who couldn’t sit in the royal booth with the king and queen.

After I told the guards to let them in, they all ran up to Yuki with haste.

The four concubines and Yuki’s step-siblings had arrived to congratulate the black-haired princess for reaching the final, giving her a group hug that made Yuki blush with a smile.

They had been watching the tournament from the castle, and seeing her giving it her all made them rush to the arena to see her.

It was a pretty heart-warming moment, and as Melina and I watched them happily congratulate the black-haired princess, she commented on how she had never seen Yuki smiling that brightly.