Sacrifice: Time of Mine

"So it's you!" Mettany stomped forward, there's fury behind her voice.

Van glared at the men that were pointing fingers at him. Once met his glare, they would put down their fingers. He even found a shocking revelation, 'Even Sir Streson is pointing at me!' he felt like he was played.

However, Streson was under pressure as well. He could only go with the crowd. Miss Mettany when angry was scarier than he thought.

But soon, Van calmed down and thought, 'I am a Van Ansteran, there is no way that she could do anything to me.'

Looking at Van up and down, Mettany then whispered, "So you're a noble..."

'Yes!' Van inwardly replied. He was relieved that this woman finally noticed he's a noble.

"You must have a healer on you then, go and get them!" but Mettany abruptly and intimidatingly ordered.

After a pause, Van pointed at himself with a puzzled expression, "Me?" he muttered, "You're ordering me?"

However, Mettany just stared at him, not saying anything.

'A commoner is ordering me around...' a proud noble such as him felt the world was spinning at that moment. Van couldn't believe it.

Even Jhin was in a disbelief. The two of them were raised as a genius of a noble family. Commoners were just servants and slaves to them. They would do whatever you want them to do. They are like domestic animals.

Since they were born, that was what happening around them. They were the ones who should be ordering the commoners, not the other way around!

They had the expressions as if they saw a weak rabbit trying to intimidate a proud lion. The lion was stunned at this, thinking the rabbit would run away in fear just like it always does. But now, that rabbit is threatening it?

"Insolent!" Jhin was the one who shouted this time, "Who do you think you are ordering right now, you lowly commoner!?" he pointed.

Van was not saying anything but he had a raging face as if he wanted to punch this woman and beat her up.

"Why, is he someone important?" Mettany sarcastically asked but her tone was cold, "And more importantly, go get your healer now."

"Someone important?" Van whispered to himself "More importantly?" Every word that came out of this woman's mouth was a slap to his face.

"You!" Jhin didn't know what to do, this is going against their nobility.

"And who are you?" Mettany continued indirectly slapping them without knowing herself, "Are you two brothers? You look exactly alike... wait.... ah! You two are the Idiotic Rivals!"

That was when Van finally snapped. Suddenly, a translucent book came out of him and opened, releasing wood chips at fast speeds.

Mettany's eyes widened, shocked but was still able to dodge. She tumbled to the side. While still having a shocked expression, she shouted in anger, "Did you just released an elesp!?" she doesn't get it. This man should be guilty but now he is shooting offensive elesps at her.

The wood chips that were evaded the hit some men behind Mettany. They groaned in pain. These wood chips were sharp like blades and together with their speed, although slower than the modern world's bullets were still deadly. One man was even thankful that he had a fast reflex for closing his eyes.

"Van, you couldn't even hit her?" Jhin was about to follow, finally deciding to kill this woman when Streson shouted;

"Wait!"

"Hm?" Jhin then looked at Streson came out of the crowd. He knew whose this redhead was, "Sir Streson, can you please move your matters to another time or, at least, after we kill this insolent girl?"

While the Plant Elementalists were healing the men that got hit, the surrounding people were first startled, not believing what they were seeing. After realizing that these two young nobles were too arrogant, they gritted their teeth in anger.

"No, please stop your attacks. The one you are dealing with right now is Mettany, the precious assistant of the Gon Butcher Guild's master." Streson tried to explain as fast as he could.

Van and Jhin stopped for a while but that was for a moment before Jhin said, "Then the Guild Master can just hire another young woman to become his assistant." he waved his hand and just like what happened to Van, a translucent and formless book came out of him and opened to release green vines.

It was spread and entangled like a net that Mettany failed to dodge it.

"This is the girl that defeated Prince Harold? So weak!" Jhin shouted in pride, seeing the Mettany dropped to the ground since the vines were too heavy.

Jhin then saw Van's approving gaze which he smiled back. They were rivals but they were also friends, they just don't want to accept it.

After thinking that this woman was as good as dead, they still heard;

"Oh, so you both are Plant Elementalists."

This voice resounded to the quiet crowd. That was when the people surrounding them smiled.

For the first time ever, they were happy to see their Miss Mettany's face gone red.

"You're still not staying down?!" Jhin anger was increasing. The more persistent this commoner was, the bigger the slap they were having.

When one book disappeared, another appeared besides Jhin and came out of his hands were roots that grew at a terrifying rate into a vine whip with thorns.

Seeing this, Van smiled in satisfaction, 'That's Jhin's strongest offense elesp, Green Thorns. You're dead now, woman!'

With one swing, the vine whip momentarily bent and curled, bringing a strong force that will be released on its tip. With little effort, the whip was coming towards Metanny with a force that can break her bones even if she were to have Body Strengthening of a Dih Elementalist!

Pak*!

The book then disappeared and the roots that coiled around Jhin's fingers to his forearm withered.

"Ah...." his jaw dropped when Jhin saw this. Not just the whip but also the net almost at the same time. 

The cause of this explosion was a single grip. Even the vines that were entangled to each other, forming a net disappeared. The moment it broke, it lost its function, and the elesp that summoned it deactivated.

In front of the Idiotic Rivals was Mettany who had her face red and her fist up in the air. Even if Van and Jhin saw what happened, they still asked inwardly, 'What?'