Shoujo Hater

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"

A lazy yawn escaped from Jester as he spat blood from his mouth, then pushed himself away from the wall he had been slammed into.

The tear inside his stomach stopped bleeding.

He knelt down and picked up his jester hat, slowly brushing dust from it before placing it on his head, ignoring all of Luis's outbursts and even the powerful bleeding monster, as if neither affected him at all.

Luis tried to move to interfere, but Adrian blocked him, kicking him and changing their fighting position.

"You should get past me first if you want to interfere with Lord Jester's battle."

..........

"Now it seems I would have to go all out, since the final partner of that theater dance has arrived."

What actually happened was that Ariana wanted to transfer the library to Luis, and that was what made her weaker, since she lost her library abilities. Jester seized the chance to cut her arm during that process, then manipulated Luis into coming, using him as a weak point.

"So, in the end, people are nothing more than passing acquaintances. They meet, only to part ways again. Everyone eventually walks a different path. The road ahead is long, but it slowly branches into countless others, until every soul is traveling alone. Some remain standing, some are abandoned, and others perish along the way. Yet they all continue forward, knowing that death awaits them in the end. That is why clinging to life is the greatest fool's journey of all."

"Tell me, what is a low being to a real jester?"

Jester's crimson eye began glowing dark gray with a faint crimson hue, and five black stars appeared on his face, followed by another four stars, each pair appearing vertically and connecting to the large middle star among the five, as he was about to use his path.

His muscles began tightening slowly as a quiet smile appeared, and everything around them started to shake.

Luis's mother finally returned to her senses only to find danger right in front of her.

And in that very moment, the impossible happened. A fifteenth tier Dominant overwhelmed a twenty fifth tier monster.

The fifteen year old Jester had activated his Path and entered his Jestreed Martial Art Mode.

He vanished as his leg drove swiftly into Luis's mother's stomach, then he jumped and caught her skull with his two arms, adjusted his angle, and drove his knee into her right ear, destroying her eardrum.

He followed with his leg as if he were about to give a heel kick, and as expected, Ariana raised her hand to block the attack, but an invisible strike from Jester's hand hit her in the heart as his hand glowed gray.

Jester's eyes glowed. He had made three clones of himself, and they surrounded her at high speed. His clones flowed upward, keeping their speed as they attacked in unpredictable ways, automatically destroying Ariana's body.

Then the clones merged again, striking her across the face. He clasped his hands together and delivered an upward strike that forced her head downward, then followed with a downward blow, but Ariana managed to block it.

But the white mahraga had another opinion, because a spinning kick followed with three fast kicks, one to her heel, one to her back knee, and one to her head.

With that move, Ariana was sent crashing through two bookshelves.

He made a swift motion with his hand as ten tarot cards began flying around him at a forty-five-degree angle.

As Ariana rose, she raised her hand and fired a dark magic blast at Jester.

He raised his hand to counter it.

"Toon power of the cursed Jesterism path."

They were two different abilities Jester had managed to master: one came from his blessing, the cursed clown, which was brought forth with a boost from his Jesterism path.

As Jester muttered those words, her blast was absorbed into his hand in a strange way.

He drew two random cards, throwing one At the severed arm and the other onto the ground. They were then slowly replaced by two new cards that appeared around him.

This ability belongs to all clowns, but the tarot cards differ from one clown to another.

Because of their talents and the type of tarot cards they can use, Some can cause their users' instant death if not handled properly.

Currently, Jester can use three cards at the same time. As his power grows in the future, his ability will increase as well.

His first card activated, and the torn card in his hand began to glow. A ghost clown emerged, laughing as it slowly absorbed the card.

The second card bore the image of a pot filled with skulls. The pot appeared, and the skulls began to emerge, their eyes glowing crimson. A soul rope shot out from every skull, and in an instant they struck Ariana from every direction, leaving her unable to move.

But what had truly robbed Ariana of her senses were Jester's kicks. It was a product of his path, a martial art built to cause internal bleeding that resulted in paralysis.

..........

On the other side of the library, Adrian unleashed a kick, striking Luis hard in the face.

But Luis avoided it, then countered with a barrage of wind arrows and fireballs.

"You are disappointing me."

"Is that the best you have got?"

"Oh, what a poor performance!"

As Adrian avoided every one of Luis's attacks, he launched a punch, aimed directly at Luis's face, but Luis managed to block it with his own.

"Oh, nice move!"

"But that will not save you."

In one swift motion, Adrian's metal hand struck Luis across the head.

"You are still inexperienced."

"Have you not heard that a warrior who has fought one battle is far stronger than a warrior who has read a thousand books? Though that would be false if the warrior who read was a genius. But here you have failed in one assumption, believing the one who fights is a fool and not a genius."

"If you did not survive inside this library, you will not manage to survive out there."

"Because there are many monsters out there, and I am one of them."

As his aura grew stronger, he raised his sword, and seven year old Ian appeared behind him. In a fast motion, Ian struck Adrian, who avoided the slash, but Luis abandoned his sword and performed the exact same attack Ian had used on him, surprising Adrian with a hit to the mouth that drew blood. A creeping smile appeared on Adrian's face as his blue eyes glowed with a faint blue light.

His hand, covered in metal gloves, began wiping the blood from his lips.

"Gravity Law: Double Pressure."

As he spoke, a pressure appeared between the two of them as Adrian began walking toward him. Luis raised his sword and gradually increased his speed using wind magic, but Adrian simply raised two fingers and drew a mysterious symbol. The wind around Luis burned and sent him stumbling back, yet Adrian was already behind him.

"Time Law."

In just one second, Adrian struck Luis across the chin, sending him crashing into a bookstand. He teleported again and hit him with his heel, drawing blood from Luis and knocking out three of his teeth.

Adrian bowed slowly and stepped in front of him, raising Luis's chin toward him until their faces were eight centimeters apart.

"Do you know, Luis, why your mother's name is Ariana and mine is Adrian?"

Adrian was giving him a clear hint.

"I am Adrian Lumian Law, and she is Ariana Lumian Law. She is my adopted older sister."

Luis was dumbfounded as Adrian kept hitting him.

"And let me tell you, power ups only happen in fictional stories. This nonsense does not happen in real life. And one reminder: your mother will be dead in a few seconds, since my Lord Jester has now activated his path. She will not survive any of that, all because she tried to make you inherit the library."

Continuing with cold words, Adrian spoke in a mimicking tone.

"Honestly, I hate family bonds.

They are nothing more than cheap handcuffs that chain your freedom. They toy with your dignity whenever it serves their interests, and in the end they humiliate you with the money they claim they worked so hard to earn, as though providing for you were an act of charity rather than a responsibility.

Then they twist their words into lies, because the truth is that you were born from the lust of two humans who refused to bear the consequences of their own actions.

And in the end, they will favor one child over the other while insisting they treat all of you equally.

Are we not pathetic after all?

At least animals never pretend to be just. They follow their instincts without hiding behind lies, while humans disguise favoritism as love and control as affection."

As Adrian finished his words, his foot pressed hard down onto Luis's back, making him groan in pain.

And so the proud eagle had been pinned beneath the white wolf of the fool's arena.

Luis's golden eagle tattoo began heating as he struggled to break free from the white wolf Adrian's grip.

An image appeared. It was the dark horse again. Luis had borrowed the power of the martial art prodigy, Lin Noctarine.

On the next hit from Adrian, a flip erupted from Luis, sending him back several meters.

He appeared in front of Adrian as his knee drove toward his head, but Adrian managed to block it, his mouth bleeding.

His eyes began blazing with killing intent.

"What is that martial art? It is my first time seeing something like that."

"Where did you get it?"

Luis sensed that his success in enraging Adrian was working, so he used earth magic to make a stand collapse onto him.

He ran, his eyes fixed on Jester and his mother as they continued fighting, with Ariana bound by countless soul ropes.

As he made his decision to run, a voice cut through the moment, sending him crashing hard to the floor.

"Imperial Law of the Crescent Moon: Definition."

Adrian sat on Luis's head in a humiliating way, crushing his dignity underfoot.

"Snow Law."

"The Handcuffs of the White Wolf."

A pair of handcuffs materialized, capturing Luis and forcing him into stillness.

"Watch now. Watch the death of your beloved. Watch your despair and philosophy be destroyed in the hands of my Lord.

Watch how we will drive you to insanity.

Watch how you will weep when you do not have enough power to protect the people you love.

Is that not the law of our jungle, my beloved Luis?

Life is nothing more than a jungle ruled by laws.

And I am those laws.

As for you, my beloved, your wings have been clipped, my little golden eagle.

Now my laws shall bind you, just as they bind everyone else.

But they will never bind me.

Because to you...

I am Adrian Lumian Law. The Law Incarnate of the White Fang.

And from this day forward, my will is the only law you will ever follow."