"Touka-chan?"
"Hmm?"
The blonde-haired student council president looked at the person calling her out, just as the rather verbose student council general affairs manager, along with the secretary, ran towards her. She immediately stopped in front of her, fast as she was, and saluted in front of her.
"All done, Touka-chan!" She perked up with a smile, "Nothing else to report!"
"I see," the student council president sighed, "Take a break then. I'll do the second round."
The three of them, with the secretary finally catching up to them, stood on a clearing in the middle of the forest near the Hagun's training camp. It was obvious that they had to make sure that nothing else, especially the media of all people, were snooping around Hagun grounds.
The general affairs manager was rather cheerful for someone patrolling the area, whilst the secretary showed more of what it means to be on that particular job.
"Alright, Touka-chan!"
She then waved off, as she ran towards the relative direction where the mansion was.
"She's so super lately," the secretary said, "Anything that happened to her?"
"Ask Stella-chan and Ikki-kun," she brushed it off, "If anything that only ignited a spark on her flame. Not that it's detrimental; she does help them on training."
"That meant sandbagging from both Vermillion and Kurogane?"
"Not necessarily," she crossed her arms, "At any rate, they should be trained as well on handling fast opponents. Stella-chan, in particular, has to stop using the same technique and focus more on saving up for a finishing blow. She has reserves, but it's best to prepare if someone does try to starve her off."
"Good point, Pres," he nodded, "I'll take my rest then. I'll tell the Vice President on my way."
"Thank you, Ikazuchi," she smiled, "I'll take my leave as well."
Both of them walked towards the opposite direction, just as the student council president took her turn in patrolling the area.
"Sure feels nice to be out in the open for once."
She commented, a small breeze brushing off her hair.
Even so, she still couldn't brush off that feeling she had.
She kept herself in silence, just as she sighed.
"...In the end, I'm still that incapable, huh?"
While humble, she was, without a doubt, a person that took pride on herself. Her own techniques were just as elegant like a lightning bolt striking smoothly on an open field. However, that match with Kurogane Ikki shattered all of that pride about herself, of how much she is capable of.
True that she is the favored student of Nanjou Torajirou, having acquired his skills in both swordplay and combat, it all felt lacking compared to the cold-hearted and realistic determination that the Uncrowned Sword King had. If anything, who wouldn't be ashamed to find out that you were bested by someone that was malnourished for almost weeks now?
With you being on tiptop shape, yet still defeated?
She admired that determination from him, but she was jealous that she didn't had the same willpower that he had. In the end, she was still a person that had her own wants and needs, and so likely it manifested in her behalf as a prideful soldier at best.
"Am… I not doing it hard enough?" She doubted herself, "Did I even give Kurogane the finals that he deserved?"
She pressed the bridge of her nose, as she shook it off.
"I'd rather patrol first than deal with this."
The blonde-haired student council president moved on, vigilant and aware of the surroundings that she was patrolling. Even if she did remove her glasses, she wouldn't find anything…
...odd?
She blinked twice. Thrice. She switched back from her Reverse Sight and normal sight back and forth, just as she saw the phenomenon right before her electrically-powered eyes.
"Is that even…?"
She approached the irregularity calmly, and switched back to her Reverse Sight.
If she used her normal sight, it wouldn't be anything at all in the vicinity she was in.
If she used her own powers to see it, then you could see how wrong it was in front of her. She can't describe what it particularly was, but the space in front of a tree was contorted. Twisted. Out of this world. And it was rather a spherical one in shape, contorting whatever small electrons were passing by it.
Because of Touka's sensitivity to electricity, it, in turned, also alerted her of anything that screamed "electrons, neutrons or protons". Then again, it was the basis of electricity, but still- she was curious by the sight alone.
"Is this a Noble Art?"
No; she couldn't fathom that it was a Noble Art. There is the current Hagun Academy's director that had the similar ability, but it wasn't this subtle. So subtle that she tried to use a bit of her magic to send a spark on the irregularity that the moment the spark touched it, it got sucked into.
She gulped, switching back to her normal vision and doing it again to see the results visually. The newly-generated spark was being sucked in. What made it worse is that she noticed that something was 'up', that the irregularity increased in its spherical volume- to the point its symmetrical radius increased by 2 inches.
Nothing was still changing visually, but it was still there.
If she continued charging it with sparks, she dreaded what would happen to her and the surroundings.
...or to the world.
She shrugged off the nihilistic thought, just as she tried the a zanny idea; by poking it with a tree branch from the ground. She picked up one nearby, switching back to her special vision, and poked the irregularity. If anything, it wasn't being sucked at all. And she noticed, by switching back to her normal vision, that nothing happened to the branch.
"...So what's the purpose of this thing?"
She then gulped at the possibilities. Hagun Academy's Student Council President discovers physically-impossible phenomenon that might change the world's view of almost everything scientific. Hagun Academy's Student Council President suddenly caused a cascade that would eventually destroy the world.
"No, no!"
She was a warrior, but in the end she was a human. Of course she'd be terrified of the prospect that she technically fucked the world up. While she was a genius of her own right, she still had to consult people regarding this.
"Should I tell the others? Maybe Utakata-kun? Stella-chan? Shinguuji-san?"
She scratched her head of the infinitesimal possibilities in front of her.
And one possibility jumped to her mind.
The stupid and curious action to stick her own hand towards the irregularity.
Before she could even think of it, she already did.
"C-crap!"
She was shaking the moment she did, grinding her teeth in the slowly, teetering realization that she did something so stupid in the blink of the eye. Did her anxiety cause her to do it subconciously? Who knows?
She was indefinitely screwed.
…
Or so she thought.
Nothing actually happened, really. She sighed, laughing at herself at the possibility that she just cheated death for the first time… was it the first time though?
But the student council president would soon regret switching back to her Reverse Sight, only to see the invisible irregularity managed to not only engulf her entirely, but also a large portion of the forest she was in. No, it might be expanding far more than she'd expect it to be.
Touka stood there dumbfounded by her action, sighing in defeat as she knew that she started what might be the end of the world.
And it did. A bright light then started to engulf her and her surroundings.
Despite the intense white enveloping her, she didn't feel anything at all. Rather, all of her five sense didn't sense whatever could be corresponding to the phenomenon that's devouring her entirely.
"Is this it?" She thought, "Is this some sort of punishment that I'll get?"
She didn't confide in it, of course, but she had the slightest feeling that it might be the case.
The bright light that blinded her body soon died down, just as she found herself standing in a dark area. All alone. No warmth, no cold, no anything. Everything was dark.
But she, herself, was shining in that darkness. One could describe that she was being shined by her own sun, while nothing else shined before her- or perhaps anything around her. She was also peculiar with the dreaded feeling of being in a tight room, the silent, dreaded buzzing noise of silence gnawing in your brain, telling you to get out.
She had nothing of sorts.
She just found herself whisked away from her own reality. In whatever Noble Art she is in.
If it was a Noble Art in the first place.
"Hey!"
She shouted to the void, her voice unexpectedly echoing in the dark.
"If this is a Noble Art, let me out of here!"
Which, to her mind, would be useless to say if the intention was to trap someone in the first place.
She didn't chide with just standing around and screaming help, so she indulged herself with exploring the dark fabric of reality around her.
She did switch to her Reverse Sight, only to find herself cluttered by a lot of electricity. No, she was… unable to identify what was really going on around her. Try as she might to say a lot of electricity was flowing in the area, none ever did fly around or be even felt by her abilities.
"It's like this place is a contradiction..."
She moved on, using her normal vision to continue on the sudden situation she was in.
Then, the thoughts started to gnaw on her.
Would she be trapped there forever? Would she die here all alone because of curiosity? Because she stuck her hand out like someone pushing a metal fork on an outlet.
Really, really stupid choices that you can tell; and yet still done without hesitation.
"Not like I can contact them…?"
It then struck her entirely. She might contact them?
She whipped out her Student ID and see if she had any connection within the supposed inside she was in. In a rather miraculous turn of events, there was signal after all. No low bars or anything; it's like she was just near a signal tower just for her to contact the entire region.
She then dialed in the vice president's number, who immediately got the call.
"Hewwo, Touka-chan. This is Utakata speaking-"
"U-utakata! H-help me!"
The rather carefree vice-president tone suddenly shifted to a panicked one, just as he heard her plea.
"W-what happened, Touka-chan?!"
"I… I don't know too!" She looked around, "One moment, I was looking around the forest and spotted this invisible anomaly. Then the next thing is that I'm stuck in this voided space… whatever!"
"Were you attacked-"
"Kaichou!"
He heard the other student council members, especially the general affairs manager and the treasurer, call her out.
"Are you okay? Did some nasty pervert try to abduct you from our loving-"
"Are you fine, President?! Tell us where you are and we'll be on our-"
"It's not what you think it is!"
All of them immediately shut up when she shouted, as the rest were startled by the sudden outburst. She calmed herself down, sighing as she continued.
"First of all, I wasn't attacked by anything. Second of all, I'm inside something that is not a Noble Art. Renren."
"Nyes…?"
"Can you check out if something happened to the forest?"
"S-sure..."
And after a second, she came back just as she heard a sudden whoosh back and forth.
"Nothing, Touka-kaichou!" She confirmed, "Nothing weird going on in the forest."
She scratched her head, "So I was the only one that got dragged in..."
"Dragged in to what?"
The treasurer, Kanata, inquired her.
"This… space. The only thing I can describe is that I'm in some sort of area devoid of light. Though my body is still visible to my eyes."
She scratched her head.
"I also tried using my Reverse Sight to see anything in particular, but this place is something else. If I do so, it's like I could see electricity running around even though there's nothing electric about this place."
"How did you get stuck there, even?"
She scratched her cheek, shying her eyes away from the phone.
"...I may have… touched the invisible irregularity."
The student council members fell silent, as she could feel Utakata laughing at her demise.
"That's… unfortunate, Touka-chan," Kanata replied, "Well, where is this invisible phenomena?"
"Just a few feet away from the clearing where I last saw Renren and Saijou," the president remembered, "The should be a branch lying on the ground, in front of a tree. If ever it didn't come along with me. You can find it easily since it… sucks in magic."
"Note taken, Touka-chan. We'll be on our way."
"Don't worry, Todo-kaichou," Renren replied, "I'll be there in a heartbeat."
"Just like-" Saijou said, only to be interrupted, "Looks like she sped off. Take care, kaichou. Hope we won't have to find you elsewhere."
"Of course."
The call then ended, just as she was left to remain in silence within the voided area.
…
She checked her still working watch, not affected by whatever invisible force that was working around her.
"It's been twenty-five minutes..."
If anything, they haven't called out to her. Or yet…
She then checked her phone again, noticing there wasn't any notifications at all. She did use her phone to call again, seeing as it was still operational. The call was accepted in a heartbeat, just as she was surprised by the tone of the other student council members.
"T-Touka-chan!" Utakata said in relief, "I thought you were dead!"
"Yeah!" Renren replied, "You didn't contact us at all when we called you!"
"...How many times did you call?"
"Eh?" Renren said in surprised, "Well..."
"We tried for about 50+ times now, each of us."
She was then surprised to hear Ikki talk to her, as he was involved as well in her disappearance.
"That long? I… didn't even get any calls at all."
"It might be a one-way thing," Stella-chan added, to her surprise as well, "Did you find anything of interest there, kaichou?"
"Nothing," she sighed, "I guess I really am stuck in here."
"Utakata, can you do something about her?" Ikki replied in the background.
"I can't! My ability may be something about luck, but if it's something huge, like say what Touka-chan's in right now, it might be out of my reach!"
"Guess so. She did say she got sucked in by whatever force sucker her in." Stella added.
"So you're saying she might be-"
"Stuck. Indefinitely."
"Don't say stuff like that," Kanata intervened, "We still don't know the root cause of this. At any rate, we're currently here in the area you were sucked in. And it turns out there is something pulling our magic in to whatever space you are in right now."
"Did you get anything at your side at all, kaichou?" Saijou said, as Touka sighed.
"No. How many times did you chuck your magic at the phenomenon?"
"To the point that… the entire area might be enveloped already."
"Then make sure you don't make it even worse. Right now, you'll just end up like me," she sighed again, "I'm just… glad you guys didn't get sucked in."
"Of course, Touka-chan," the secretary chimed in, "Though, we can't just leave you be. We have to find a way out."
"That is if there is a way out outside of where she is right now. Like I said, it might be somewhere in that area," Stella explained, "Kaichou, did you try to explore the area even more?"
"I guess I'll try to do so," she stood up from the voided ground, "And what will you guys do while I'm doing that?"
"Find a way to get you back too, of course," Ikki stated, "Though, we might be forced to take camp here..."
"I see, I see. I'm sorry for the situation we're in right now."
"It's okay, kaichou."
"Alright then, take care. I'll call back after 15 minutes."
"Of course. Good luck."
And she was left to wander in the void again.
Even so, it was rather melancholic to the gloomy, depressive theme she might've expected when roaming around the area.
Still, it was rather immersive considering the echoing, bellowing sounds of her footsteps reverberating around the void. Each step reminding her how far she might be already from where she originally started.
And then she stopped just as the light started to flush again around her.
She closed her eyes, only to find herself back into the void.
Yet, something was different this time around.
She found herself standing face-to-face to whatever was a few meters away from her. From what she could describe, it was a tall caucasian man sporting blonde hair and a distinctive outfit.
She tried to move closer towards him, her hands edging to summon Narukami just as she saw his face.
For the first time ever in her life, her body tingled in fear.
She could describe the person in front of her. He was, and truly, taller than her by centimeters, sporting a short haircut with bangs covering his forehead and a bit of his eyes. He wore a white outfit akin to that of a priest, but it was modified to make him look more of a knight than a bishop.
He wore a short, white cape, white pants, golden buttons and a belt with a large metal buckle that had a word inscribed in it, "HOPE". He had blue accents around his own attire, with blue belts to boot around his arms and his pants that covered his combat boots up to its soles.
In his side, he had a sword with a strange design covered by a black scabbard that fit it. It had two blue cylinder prongs coming out diagonally, with its cylindrical guard larger than the hilt, with a blue base and a white streak that could lead to its rather large blade.
What made it worse for her was that he stared at him.
With cold, iris-less eyes.
"Who are you?"
He said in a soothing voice, yet it held sinister to her ears. She gulped in response, replying in English.
"I'm… just someone that got stuck in this void."
"Hmm..."
He tilted his head, and smiled at her.
"Japanese."
He held the last syllable on his tongue, as he positioned his head back.
"What brings you here?"
"Like I said, I'm stuck-"
"Then don't lie to me!"
She was startled by the sudden change of tone.
"Are you sure you're not here to take away something precious from me? I can feel it in your body. You feel weak because you're helpless. You need something that will make you better again!"
She was at a loss of words from what he had said. It… totally read her. But, that wasn't she was feeling towards the stranger.
"Like I said, I'm stuck here!"
"And only a lightning user can be stuck in here."
He then unsheathed his blade.
"Do you know how rare it is to find lightning users, Japanese?"
She shook her head, just as she gulped.
"I-I don't know! I'm not here to fight at all!"
"Out of every element that mankind can ever wield, lightning is the most difficult out of all. When you use that kind of magic, you put yourself and everyone else at risk with that kind of power. But you… you can use it properly."
"And… what about it?!"
"That's why you're here. To acquire Thunderseal."
"T-Thunderseal?"
"The Sacred Treasure that only lightning users can wield. If you are truly here for that weapon, then show me you are here for that reason."
He then raised his sword towards the sky, wherever it is.
"Lightning Install!"
Lightning then shrouded his entire body, as he curled his upper body to absorb the immense thunderstorm surrounding him. He then dispelled it, as his body radiated with a blue aura, on and off, before taking his sword stance. He placed his left foot forward, his front to the side and pointing his sword from his head up towards Touka.
"I-Ittou Shura?!"
She recognized the sudden feeling of magic warping intensely around him, as she had no choice but to defend herself.
"Thunder… Narukami!"
In an instant, a ball of lightning formed in front of her, grabbing it with haste as it formed a clean katana with a white scabbard to put.
The blonde-haired swordsman smiled at her, as he recognized the blade.
"Johnny, huh? What a troublesome sword style."
She scoffed, "You sound like you've fought someone with the same style as mine."
"Iaijutsu," he commented, "Combined with lightning magic, you can be as fearsome as he was."
"However, that won't work on me."
She tried to asses whether it was a bluff or him considering he'd win entirely. She wasn't sure, but it screamed like it was the latter.
"My name is Ky Kiske. Owner of Thunderseal. Let me show you its true power, if you are worthy to wield it."
"Like I said, I'm not-"
Suddenly, she felt a deja vu in front of her. When Nanjou taught her the Trackless Step.
Except this time, it was against her. And far more deadlier than she realized.
Without warning, the man had already blitzed towards him. Her mind, already infused with lightning and adrenaline, saw the instant he was already in close range.
But she didn't hesitate, because he was in range of Raikiri.
"If that's the case..."
She gritted her teeth, just as lightning cascaded on her sword's scabbard.
Only for it to be negated by Ky's hand. His magic cancel out her lightning, which left her vulnerable to his next attack. She tried landing a punch towards him, only to find Thunderseal slammed to her face, breaking her glasses in the process.
She tried to reorganize her thoughts by the sudden blow, looking back at him in anger, only to see her own glasses thrown towards her without any warning at all. She covered her eyes in an instant as her glasses' frame and shards were scathing her face, causing her to scream in pain.
"Look at you," he taunted at her, "You relied too much on your weapon that you think it's the only way for you to win. And look what I did. I didn't use much of Thunderseal and I can still put you down with ease."
"How can you call yourself capable of fighting if you can't even defend from that?"
She tried to scream at him, though she knows that fighting him would only worsen it.
"I… I don't want to fight you at all!"
"Then why did you still unsheathe your weapon?" He yelled at her, "If you are truly ignorant to what your heart truly wants, why did you even try to?"
She then yelled to the top of her lungs as she regained her sight, slashing him with Narukami. However, he was already out of her range, jumping back from her slash while throwing a condensed and shaped thunderbolt, of all things, towards her. She then jumped back, looking in awe as she can't even fathom thunder of all things being able to be shaped.
"Keep your eyes on the battle!"
Ky shouted, as he advanced quickly than expected towards her. Instead of using Raikiri again, she unsheathed her sword and met his in a blade-lock. They tried to overpower each other, only for Ky's deception to win as his boots kicked her in the groin. He then went straight for the kill, only for the blade to be repelled by Touka's hand.
He jumped back the moment she also tried to punch him straight in the face, smiling towards her.
"You learn quick."
"If I knew that I wasn't going to fight fair," she smiled towards him, "then I might as well show you I can!"
He grinned, only for it to be stopped as she appeared suddenly in front of him.
"Wha-"
"RAIKIRI!"
Her blade launched from her scabbard like a bullet, as the slash was the equivalent of a fighter plane at that point. Ky managed to block it with Thunderseal, pushing him back from the distance.
'She didn't even use magic to approach-`
His thoughts were interrupted when she did it again, but he was thoroughly prepared. Instead, she gave off a feint and swept him by the knee. He fell to her tactics, as he was instantly launched to the air by her blade. He regained consciousness mid-air, as both met blades in the air.
They both exchanged blows, as purple and blue lightning arced around the void and giving it light. Each blow negating each other's lightning magic, with each blow pushing them back to the ground.
Without hesitation, just as Touka regained balance, Ky was already in the move. She pointed her blade towards him, only for him to feint and jump to the sky, launching a shaped thunderbolt towards her. He did so consecutively, forcing her to block each thunderbolt. He had already pressured him to the point he was already in front of her.
She blocked the oncoming blow, only for him to slide below his blade and hit her by the foot. Just as he did, he slashed her again before using his arm as a stand to slash her and bring her up to the sky. With a twist, he was already standing up while she was trying to block every blow from him.
She then saw the elegance from his oncoming attack.
"Vapor..."
He then swiped upward, forcing both of them up to the air while he gracefully slashed above him.
"Thrust!"
He then threw a javelin-shaped lightning towards, to her surprise, which pushed her back to the air. However, unexpectedly, it attracted towards him to the ground as he was ready again to throw a barrage towards her. She retaliated, throwing crescent-shaped lightning towards him with each slash. He was then forced as well to block rest of it, before backing off and attacking with his own lightning bolt.
The two of them found themselves in a sudden stalemate, with Ky smiling back at her. Touka stood her ground, just a magical circle enveloped Ky.
"They are modest to greed."
"...What?"
"Generous to the truth of the world!"
Touka then readied herself.
"Just like last time!"
"When the heart is peaceful!"
"I won't lose!"
"The seven nations cry!"
Ky then launched towards the readying girl, as she started to envelop herself in a magnetic field, purposefully launching herself like a railgun in the process.
"It's not enough!"
She gritted her teeth towards him, eyes leering in desperation.
"It's not ENOUGH!"
She closed her eyes, as she launched herself towards him the moment she unleashed Raikiri.
"HOPE!" "RAIKIRI!"
The two of them of them pointed their swords towards each other.
"RISING!"
"TAKEMI!"
The two then locked blades, eager to put each other down.
"FORCE!" "KAZUCHI!"
The two then passed each other, as the both hit each other as splendidly as they did.
Ky was unharmed during the process, whilst Touka was covered in open wounds. The moment she instinctively made that Noble Art, she knew the risks of exposing her entire body to the magnitude of a perpendicular electric field enabled by her.
His technique was similar to hers, but it was…
...more elegant to hers.
What she noticed, however, was that the slash didn't hit her at all. Rather, her attack did.
She looked back, only to see the swordsman fall to the ground the moment he received that attack. She chuckled at her sudden victory, kneeling on the black ground with her blade as the support.
"You did it."
She looked at him with worry, just as he was bleeding.
"You defeated me."
She tried to stand up and walk towards him, limping.
"How many people tried so?"
"I have to admit; it's the first time someone walked to this realm willingly."
"So I'm…?"
"But in my lifetime, no one managed to," he scoffed, "do you know what I was called? A monster. A demon. People feared me because of how frightening I can wield this blade. Thunderseal."
"However," he looked at her, turning his already weakened body at her, "if I didn't change who I was now, and remained a demon, then I would've never been the man I am now. I still am a demon in combat, but as a man, I've been blessed in life..."
"Then… what was the meaning when we fought?"
"You doubted yourself, of how far you can go. I can feel it without even looking at you. What would happen if you remained the same? Would anything change at all?"
She remained silent.
"Of course not. And yet you still did."
"All I saw was me fighting dirty."
"And improving. It looked like you used Raikiri too much, and you saw the flaw in it quickly."
"The fact you managed to blitz towards me without Trackless Step was even worse… as if it was just purely magic alone."
"So they say..."
He coughed blood.
"Are you…?"
"I have been dead a long time ago," he replied, "I am nothing but a vision of my past. The times when war ravaged this world. To feel alive again through combat. It's… a gift from God."
"I know that your intention to get out of this realm is indeed true, but I also wanted to make sure that your heart would be true to you the moment you step out of here. The fact that you even managed to defeat me is even better… to think that I could pass on this Sacred Treasure."
"Sacred Treasure? You've been mentioning that a while back."
"There are 8 Sacred Treasures around the world, all of it to form OutRage; the weapon with the access to Saint Oratorio- the deadliest spell known to man. The one I wield… Thunderseal… is but one of it. However, unlike the rest that are sleeping in their place, Thunderseal roams around the world, materializing to those who can only sense it."
Touka remained silent, just as he continued.
"But that also means responsibility from you."
"...How so?"
"I can feel the seven seas cry… something will happen," he stated, "Another war just like the Crusades will be waged upon again."
"Like the Crusades? Isn't that a bit too much… old?"
"The Crusades you know isn't the Crusades that I have been. In fact… you never know how long it has been since humanity forgot about Justice."
"I-I don't understand."
"In time, you will..."
He looked at her.
"I'm happy to meet someone like you, Touka Todo. I hope that… Thunderseal will be of use to you someday."
"How can I use Thunderseal when I have Narukami? "
Ky stifled a laugh, just as Thunderseal suddenly became a ball of lightning cascading in front of her.
"Looks familiar?"
"Amazing..."
She then reached her hand out towards the ball, only for the reality to collapse and see herself in the forest again. The ball of lightning then started to envelop around her, just as it accepted her as its new owner.
Suddenly, she looked at Narukami, her own Device, suddenly reshaped into something new. It still had its scabbard, but now it had blue straps strapped by a string attached to the pommel. Her white scabbard now had blue streaks, and her blade's serrated edges to be gleaming light blue.
It was no longer Narukami, nor Thunderseal.
It was something new.
"Fuuraiken..."
The Sealing Thunder Sword.
"I hope that..."
She then looked around the moment he heard Ky's voice.
"When you wield that blade..."
She then noticed where it was, only to see it was coming from the sky.
"You hold to your ideals strongly as is, but without destroying the reality that keeps you alive."
She nodded.
"And to bring hope once again, just as I did with Thunderseal."
And then, his presence was gone.
"Hope..."
She looked at her newly-made blade, just as she nodded with a smile.
"Thank you."
Touka looked to the sky again.
"Kiske-san."
"Kaichou!"
Just as she heard Renren's voice, she immediately dismissed Fuuraiken from her hands. The others came along as well, just as restless as the other. She could only smile from then, as they all returned to the training camp with ease.
This is something that I had in mind a year ago, and I might as well just dump it. In case people want to continue the whole thing, then I'm willing to do so.
03/05/2020