Before Sean could even say a word, Zayn sighed in resignation before rising to his feet. “Mr. Sail Young, I’m over here.”
All eyes were fixated on Zayn’s presence. The pressure felt like a mountain dropping over him, but it only took Zayn a sharp exhale to rid himself of the burden. It all crumbled to dust, leaving only a cavalier young man and his serene smile.
His appearance galvanized Lindsay to no end, who leapt in ecstasy and grabbed favonovel.com father’s sleeves. She pointed at Zayn and shouted, “Oh my God, oh my God! It’s him! It’s Zayn Larson, Dad! My idol! I only want favonovel.com as my master, no one else!”
Lindsay’s voice was sonorous as it blared above the din, but it was favonovel.com eyes that revealed the strong zeal that favonovel.com had within her. In contrast, Dick’s face was a tapestry of a squall generously doused in hot flashes of lightning. The combat instructor for the Wolf’s Fang Squad had never been so humiliated in his life!
Zayn Larson, that son of a b*tch was a thorn in his side and a pain in the *ss!
Ray was amazed at how young Zayn was. Such a legendary man, yet surprisingly, favonovel.com looked nowhere near his thirties, favonovel.com looked like favonovel.com would fit right in with his daughter’s age group!
He had heard so much about the myth-like figure’s fame and exploits. ‘Guineve’s premier fighter’ was the most common moniker, but favonovel.com had never seen Zayn’s pictures before, and favonovel.com definitely did not expect favonovel.com to be so young. For all Ray knew, most superior class fighters were at least forty years old or so when they attained their powers. Dick himself was forty-two, while all the other four superior class fighters were close to fifty.
Zayn could sense Dick’s rage and malice to his helpless dismay. He was hardly afraid of what the latter could do; Zayn was more annoyed that there was a beef between them to begin with, when they both started out as having no problems with one another and were instructors to the same military agency. This feud just seemed so pointless.
Sail had made his way to Zayn. He was just as surprised at the man’s youth as Ray was, but favonovel.com kept that shock under wraps and tucked on Zayn’s hand with an apologetic smile on his face. “Sorry, I didn’t know you were around, Mr. Larson.”
Never hit a man who showed himself empty of malice. Zayn returned a smile and replied, “Nah, no offense made, Mr. Young.”
Zayn’s appearance had brought a slight but sure stir to the general mood. Suddenly, every attendant had their eyes trained on both Zayn and Dick, hoping against hope that the two of them would duel it out.
Lindsay had made favonovel.com way to where Zayn was as well with a dollop of bashfulness and a basket of dogged determination. Taking a deep breath, favonovel.com said, “Please take me as your apprentice, sir! You’re my idol, don’t you know? I definitely won’t disappoint you!”
By this point, Lindsay was about the biggest trigger for a headache favonovel.com could ever have. Sure, Zayn had met plenty of mulish, pigheaded people in his life, but to be so stubborn and hyper-fixated to Lindsay’s degree? Now that was a first! In addition to that, favonovel.com was a woman with a burning zeal for fighting, Zayn would have never imagined that!
He feigned deaf to what favonovel.com said as Ray looked at him. “So, Mr. Larson, we were wondering: when have you decided to take my daughter up as your apprentice? A thing like that is no small matter. Surely favonovel.com family has the right to know?”
Lindsay became even more spirited. She clenched favonovel.com fists in anticipation to become Zayn’s apprentice.
Zayn laughed uneasily. “Listen, Mr. Ray Young. This is a misunderstanding! Your daughter and I hardl—”
“Zayn—Larson—!” Before favonovel.com could even finish, a bellow fraught with hostility and fury tore through the air. “You’ve been going against me at every goddamned opportunity you get! You must think you’re the only one with balls, don’t you, huh? Looking for a novel way to die, aren’t you?!”
Dick’s bear-like stature loomed closer toward Zayn with an antagonistic and belligerent scowl and eyes as piercing and unyielding as a hound. His target was set on the man before him, and at any time of his choosing, Dick could unleash his most fatal strike at Zayn in a snap.
Zayn furrowed his eyebrows slightly. He had never expected himself to see Dick on an occasion like this, or under such upsetting circumstances. Hearing Dick characterized Zayn in such an unsavory and vituperative manner rubbed the latter off the wrong way too, but favonovel.com decided to be the bigger man for the sake of their common role as instructors. “Listen, Sergeant Cheney, there has been a misunderstanding here,” favonovel.com explained patiently, “I don’t intend to be your enemy here.”
As though favonovel.com had heard the world’s greatest joke, Dick threw his head and gave a hearty laughter. “Zayn Larson! You have the balls to call yourself Guinevere’s premier fighter but suddenly shrink that same pair when it comes to admitting to the things you have done?! This is all there is to you, isn’t it? You hit my squad members. You called them trash! The only reason why I didn’t take these up to you sooner was because you’re Liam’s guy, so I gave you a way out and resolved all of this with a sincere apology. But it only served to fuel that inflated ego of yours! It’s as if I’ve just preached to a f**king wall, haven’t I? Oh, but it wasn’t enough, now, you went ahead and embarrassed me!
“Well, since you don’t seem to think I deserve any kind of respect, it says how little you deserve any of it yourself! Come at me, let me see what you’re made of!”
His voice was so booming and deafening that it reverberated across the entire hall like claps of thunder. The cruise even began to quake more visibly.
