Deleted Scene from chapter 65: How to Melt Iron (Patreon)

I didn't feel like this fit, so I removed it. From the Young Master of the Hermetic Iron Sect's POV.

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Tie Delun, Young Master of the Hermetic Iron Sect could feel the vein in his forehead bulging as he witnessed the slip of a girl insult his sect.

He would crush her for this insult, and injuring his junior so!

His eyes were fixed on the scene, remembering every blow, which he would make sure to strike in the same place! With his hammer! His Junior Brother was a fine, upstanding gentleman! To have him injured like this was beyond the pale

Finally, the little rat knocked his junior out of the arena, nodding her head as if satisfied.

He could contain his wrath no longer. He  stormed into the arena from where he was supposed to remain. Some mortal started wo walk forwards to get into his way, but he ignored the man, marching right up to the cordoned off arena. His junior gave the necessary bow, and trudged back to their section.

“Worry not about this loss, junior brother. I shall repay her a hundred-fold for what she did!” He shouted.

His junior brother looked up.

He expected to see the look of failure on his junior brother’s face. A look of defeat.

Instead… he seemed pensive. He wasn’t even hurt.

“..she was telling me how to properly block her blows.” His junior stated, sounding mildly confused. “She said  ‘this is boring, so lets trade pointers instead.’”

Delun paused.

“What?”

“She spent the entire time telling me that my blocking was inefficient, and that to properly disrupt a faster foe, I needed to have a looser stance. The second last hit, before she removed me from the arena… was the same as her first. I managed to block it.”

Delun replayed the fight in his mind. Indeed, most of her attacks had followed a pattern— a pattern that had been on purpose to give his junior something to see and block.

Some of his ire faded. It was still insulting, for a member of his sect to be toyed with like this!

“...is this true?” He asked the girl.

She cocked her head to the side, staring at his armour and hammer, all carved with the symbols of his sect. Before one worked iron, first they learned to engrave it. With ancient characters of power and protection.

“Yes! His carvings were quite pleasing, and though it was a boring fight, I decided to trade pointers with him. Perhaps next time, he will be a good fight.” Her eyes flicked all over his body, before settling on his face. She smiled. “Your freckles and muscles are quite pleasing! You remind me of my master! I hope to meet you in combat later, Handsome Man!”

Delun’s jaw dropped at her words.

“Ugly brute,”

“Dirty-face”

Those were common words directed at him. What woman called him handsome, with his brutish, oversized muscles, and the blemishes all over the bridge of his nose?

Rou Tigu smiled earnestly, brilliantly.

Tei Delun felt his heart leap to his throat, and his head span, as he stared at those yellow eyes.

At her own carefully sculpted muscles. She turned to leave, and his eyes followed her.

“Young Master? Young Master!”

Delun startled. “Ah, um, yes! Let us go, Junior Brother!”

The announcer was saying something, and sounding disappointed, but Delun was still in a daze.

“Handsome Man” “Good carvings”

....how did one court a woman again? His father said intricately worked metal was best....

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Yeah, just didn't feel right for some reason. But Tigu thinks Jin is handsome. so she called a man who looks a lot like him, in terms of muscle mass good looking, when said man has been constantly called a brute/barbarian.