Okay here's chapter seven, sorry I've been pretty late with this and Spirit Child but I've been having some personal issues and my stress from that is blocking out my muse so if I had tried to submit a new chapter then, it would have been utter crap so I hope you guys can wait a little longer on it but until then I hope you enjoy this.
"Alright listen up kids!"
Today is Monday and we're at the gymnasium sitting in the bleachers listening to one of the gym teachers announce the beginning of the Reranking Tournament.
"Today is the first day of the yearly Reranking Tournament and as the name implies it's a competition where we pit each of you against each other to see how much you have progressed since last year, witness the capabilities of the new students and rearrange ranks based on the results of each match. The same rules apply as with duels: you win and you're a lower rank than your opponent you gain their rank and they get bumped down one, if not then nothing changes. The first eighty matches will be held today from 9:00 this morning until around 7:00 tonight at the sports field, two matches at a time lasting no more than ten minutes with a five-minute prep time between each match and I suggest you wear gym clothes for it. Now you can win your match in one of four ways: either knock them out, immobilize them, bring their HP shields down to zero or have the most HP left in your shield by the end of the time limit, other than that there are no rules on how you fight."
The coach then grabbed headband with the number 1 stitched into it off of a table behind him.
"For those of you who are new and don't know the HP shield is a special head band that when worn projects a protective shield around you and displays the amount of hit points you have onto a computer based on your durability level and the power behind your opponent's attacks, which we can then show up on the score board screen for your convenience."
He stretched the band around his head before a translucent see-through mesh appeared around him and then disappeared, then we all looked at the score board to see the number 1 displayed with a green bar next to it like some videogame.
"Sounds kind of sci-fi I know but it's quite real, in fact it's what protects police officers and soldiers out in the field and we're using them now to allow you kids to beat each other to a pulp without killing each other and to keep your gym clothes from getting damaged."
Way to prioritize.
"Now remember first matches start at nine and we'll be starting with the lowest ranked students, brackets are on the wall over there and we expect you to know the math for what time your match starts but if you are a minute late then you forfeit, any questions…alright dismissed."
With that everyone got up and several groups began to crowd around the bracket posters while the rest just went on to classes, though before I could take a look Kirino and Ayase came up to me.
Ki: "Hey idiot?!"
Ky: "Yeah?"
Ki: "You don't need to look at the brackets, I already figured out that you'll be going up at 9:15 against the guy ranked at 301."
Ky: "Thanks, what's the guy's name."
Ki: "I don't know but it doesn't really matter."
Ay: "Actually I think his name was-"
Ki: "Ayase it doesn't matter."
Ky: "So since you're ranked second your match will be tomorrow against Daiki."
Ki: "Oh good my big brother understands logic, I'm so proud of you.~"
Ky: "And of course you're going to lose."
Ki: "Hey!"
Ky: "So if Kirino is up against Daiki that would mean Ayase is up against the fourth rank."
Ay: "That's right."
Ky: "Well I definitely know you're going to win."
Ay: "{blush} Really?"
Ky: "Yeah I have total confidence in your abilities."
Ki: "What about me?!"
Ky: "Oh yeah you'll do great too."
Ki: "Hm.~"
Ky: "In the five seconds before you're frozen solid."
Ki: "Grr."
Ay: "Hey we should get going, it's almost time to start class."
Ky: "Yeah don't want to be late."
We left the gymnasium and attend classes as normal until 9:15 rolled around and Kirino and I headed to the field.
Ky: "You're following me again?"
Ki: "Same reason as last time, the principle wants me there for moral support."
Ky: "Well at least I'll have someone I know there to witness my humiliation."
Ki: "Don't worry, we may fail in our mission making your enrollment into this school completely pointless but 302 isn't that bad of a position."
Ky: "I was joking."
Ki: "So was I, really it's not something you should worry about you should at least be able to make it to the top one hundred, then you get to live at the apartment building for free."
Ky: "Whatever you say."
Ki: "Though if your opponent is a new student there's a chance that he could be stronger than you."
Ky: "Great."
We made it to the locker rooms and I quickly changed into my gym clothes (white T-shirt, dark blueish-green shorts, same for the girls) though I did get the strange feeling I was being watched. We then went to the sports field where several adults and two of the three other students were getting prepared at two different tables, both facing toward the bleachers on the other side of the field.
Ki: "I'll be in the bleachers, don't screw up."
Ky: "Got it."
I walked over to the table to my right, just as the final student came running, and informed the moderator of my presence.
Ky: "Hey I'm here for my match."
"Oh good just in time here you can be number two."
Ky: "Great."
"Well then just get in position on the far side of the field and we can start."
Ky: "Okay."
Kirino went to sit in the bleachers and pulled out her phone to record my match, while the other students and I got into position, I then watched as two of the moderators positioned themselves back to back at the center of the side of the field the tables were on then outstretched their arms in horizontal ninety degree angles before projecting see-through opalescent walls of light blocking us from the students on the other side of the field and the moderator's table.
"Okay, begin!"
In a flash my opponent disappeared before I was knocked backwards and sent summersaulting to the edge of the field.
Ki: "Baaahahahahahahaha!"
Ky: "Well that was graceful."
"This is going to be easy, you may be immortal but all I have to do is knock you out and I win."
Ky: "Nothing to worry about she said."
When I got back up I got hit again this time I was sent falling flat on my face at the middle of the field and he started running circles around me leaving after images like some ninja and tearing a big ring into the grass.
"Round and round the speed demon goes where he'll stop nobody knows."
Ky: "Ugh."
"How about I give you a shot, go ahead I'll give you one free move."
I can't touch him he's moving too fast, come on Kyousuke if you can't use your powers then strategize.
It was then a light bulb popped into my head and I sent my plan into motion, I took off my shirt causing everyone to look confused.
Ki: "{Gasp}?!"
"Hm?"
Ki: "{Snap, snap, snap, snap, snap}"
I raised my shirt in my right hand and…threw it at my opponent's feet.
{Crash}
It caused him to trip and roll towards the light wall at high speed and hitting his face against it with enough force to send waves through it, all within a fraction of a second.
Ki: "Pff…pahahahahaha!"
The impact took a quarter of his health bar, I then took my chance and ran over to freeze him in place completely immobilizing him and a moderator came over count him down.
"One…two…three {whistle} Winner Kyousuke Kousaka!"
I thawed out my opponent and he graciously handed me my dirty, torn shirt.
"{sigh} Good fight."
Ky: "Thanks, you did good too, if I hadn't thought of using my shirt like that you probably would have won."
"Wow, you have a really nice body, you should go shirtless more often."
Ky: "Don't make this weird."
"Congratulations Mr. Kousaka you've been promoted to rank 301."
"A whole rank higher, great."
I put my shirt back on and met with Kirino to go back to class as one guy began to use his powers to repair the field.
Ki: "Haha that was hilarious, I almost peed myself."
Ky: "Gross."
Ki: "And I got it all on video."
Ky: "{sigh} Let me see…hm that is pretty funny."
Ki: "Well next is my match against Daiki and another week recovering under an electric blanket."
Ky: "If you want I could help keep you warm afterwards."
Ki: "{blush} Huh?! What are you thinking you pervert?! Why would I let you do that?!"
Ky: "What are YOU thinking? I was talking about using my powers, see?"
I made my point by waving some warm air into her face.
Ki: "Oh."
Ky: "Jeez why do you always have to go there? I'm starting to think you're the pervert."
Ki: "Sh-Shut up! {bonk}."
Ky: "Gah! You bitch!"
Ki: "Go get changed already, I'll see you in class."
Ky: "Yeah, yeah."
I went to the locker rooms, changed back into my uniform and went back to class.
Lunch time
Ru: "So Kyousuke how'd you do at your match?"
Sa: "Yes tell us of your magnificent victory over the former rank 301."
Ky: "Uh-"
Ki: "No need I got on video, here I'll send it to you all."
Everybody at the table pulled out their phones and within seconds they all received Kirino's video and were holding back laughter, except for Kanako.
Ka: "Hahahaha, this is so awesome!"
Ki: "I know right!"
Ka: "I can already see someone playing that American Beyblade song over this hahaha."
Sa: "Kku Not the most graceful victory kku."
Ru: "Kku But a victory none the less kk-kku."
Ky: "No need to hold back for my sake guys, I'm already over it."
Ay: "Well I think its adorable how you rolled backwards like that, you looked like a silly little panda."
Ky: "Ugh, well at least I gained a rank."
Ki: "Just wait, as the tournament progresses you'll be jumping up the ranks like a grasshopper."
Ka: "If you last long enough."
Ky: "Someone is going to smack that smart mouth of yours one day, you know that?"
Ka: "I dare anyone to try."
Elsewhere
"So did you find out what those devices the scout team found inside those creatures were?"
"Yes ma'am they were Wave Disruptor cores just like the professor theorized."
"So this proves it then, those Death Lords didn't just wander onto Japanese shores by accident, they were sent there deliberately and the people behind the stealing of the original Wave Disruptor are responsible."
"Most likely to test the devices, who do you think sent them."
"Well given Japans position on this part of the world, it could a number of organizations, the Chinese, the Koreans, the Russians or maybe one of the middle eastern terrorist groups."
"This is alien technology we're talking about, a couple of the parts are made from elements that are almost impossible to find on this planet or at least the crust, the Americans had the original secured under a mountain of locks, keys and automatic ball kickers, there's no way someone could've waltzed in there and snagged it."
"Well that just shows the power and influence of whatever entity is behind the theft and reverse engineering of the Wave Disruptor, which means it could still be somebody we know."
"Ooor somebody we don't know."
"Your conspiracy theories have been noted, but for now we'll put our energy into investigating our KNOWN enemies."
"Okay then but you better be prepared to answer the phone when freakin' call it."
"Dismissed."
Kirino's POV (Tuesday)
It's 5:55 pm, almost time of my match, the second to last one of the first round, my other friends had already won their matches, though they couldn't come to see my match since they we were all still tired from theirs, Ayase was the only one able to win with ease and I was about to become the only one of us to lose.
Ky: "Alright we finished our hot chocolates now let's get to the field."
Ki: "My nose is already getting stuffy."
Ay: "Mine too."
Ky: "Just push through it then we can all go back to the apartment and have some Mega Chicken soup."
Ki: "Ugh."
Ky: "And don't feel too bad about losing in the tournament's first round."
Ki: "{kick}."
Ky: "Gah!"
Ay: "K-Kyousuke! Are you okay?!"
Ky: "I'm fine, ah, nothing I'm not used to."
Ay: "Kirino why did you do that?!"
Ki: "Huh?"
Ky: "Calm down Ayase, mm, it's just how Kirino and I exchange affection, I badmouth her and she hurts a part of my body, don't worry about it."
Ay: "Really?"
Ky: "Yeah it's our little dynamic, isn't that right little sis?"
Ki: "Shut up idiot!"
Ky: "If I had a problem with it I would've told her off by now, come on let's get to the field before Kirino's late, ah."
We got to the field and I could see Daiki and his brother sitting in the bleachers waiting for me.
Da: "Hey there sweetie, 'bout time you got here."
Ki: "Grr."
Ky: "Don't give him the satisfaction of a reaction, Kirino."
Ay: "Hey there Aoi."
Aoi: "Hello Ayase, it's good to see you here supporting your friend, who is the boy standing next to you? I don't recognize him."
Aoi was a tall muscular guy, pretty much the build of a basketball player, he had dark steely eyes, spiky dark blue hair and a blank expression, he kind of reminded me of a dedicated soldier.
Da: "That's Kirino's older brother, the immortal superhuman everyone has been chattering about."
Aoi: "So you're Kyousuke Kousaka?"
Ky: "Yeah that's me."
Aoi: "Your appearance is…underwhelming."
Ky: "That's expected."
Aoi: "Well I have been told to never underestimate your opponent, so if you last long enough I look forward to testing your abilities in combat."
"Is everyone ready to begin?"
Ki: "{Sigh} Let's just get this over with."
I put on the number 2 HP shield since I was the last to arrive and we took our positions on the field as Kyousuke and Ayase took their seats.
Ay: "Do your best Kirino!"
Ky: "Yeah, our overall confidence levels may be low but at least try to win, I mean that sincerely!"
Ki: "…"
Do: "Don't look too scared Kiri I'll go easy on you this time since your big bwothew is watching."
Ay: "Come Kirino don't give up!"
Ky: "Yeah you can do this!"
"You can do this?" Didn't I tell you that back at the prison idiot? But I should do better to win this time, last time he beat me in under a minute and I didn't even land a hit, this time I have to at least set a record especially since Kyousuke is actually here cheering me on.
Aoi: "Keep your spirits up as well little brother, fight with the heart of a lion!"
"Okay, begin!"
Daiki aimed his hand at me for a long distance attack but I immediately got out of his point of focus and he ended up just making ice crystals, I swerved back and forth narrowly evading his freeze bursts, he became noticeably frustrated then anxious as I kept dodging and moving closer. Once I got close enough I aimed a punch right at his face but he dodged to my right and place his hand on my side to begin freezing me. I panicked, grabbed his shirt and threw him to the other side of the field, his fall caused his health bar to nudge down a little.
Da: "Agh, dammit."
Before I could make another dash at him he froze his half of the field into a solid plate of ice.
Da: "Can't get to me now."
He took aim again but it was then I thought to apply the same strategy I used to beat Ayase and use the slickness of the ice to my advantage, I dodged his next freeze burst and got to the very edge of the field. I then immediately turned around and tore through the air as fast as I could straight at him, slowed down a little by the ice patch Daiki left on me and slightly moving left or right to evade his attacks. Then once I reached the edge of his ice plate I exerted all my energy into my right foot and shot myself forward at high speed over the ice too fast for him to dodge or act and just ten feet from him I landed on the ice, slid the rest of the way and landed my first ever hit on Daiki. He was sent slamming backward into the light wall with incredible force and his health bar was knocked down to half, but then I slipped and fell to the ground.
Ki: "Ah! Oof."
Daiki immediately took this chance and froze me in place and the moderator counted me down.
"One…two…three {whistle} winner Daiki Isamu!"
Da: "Hahaha wow you almost got the drop on me there, too bad for that little SLIP up though."
Ki: "Grr."
Ky: "Don't worry Kirino I've got you."
Ay: "Are you okay Kirino?"
Kyousuke and Ayase had come down from the bleachers and Kyousuke was now thawing me out.
Da: "It was a nice try but face it Kiri, you may be stronger than most super strength users but you basic types will never be a match up against us special types."
Daiki then went and took a seat back up on the bleacher, Kyousuke finished thawing me out and picked me up in a princess hold while the field restorers restored the field.
Ki: "H-hey I didn't ask you to carry me idiot!"
Ky: "Shut up, your legs are most likely numb from the cold so I doubt you can walk."
Ki: "…"
Though the odd thing was when he had me in his arms I instantly felt all warmed up and I don't mean by arousal! ...Maybe…I just felt all better, I could even feel my legs again, but I didn't say anything so he wouldn't put me down.
Da: "Aww little Kiri has to have her big brother carry her off the field that's so sweet."
Ki: "Grr."
Ky: "Hey Daiki you do know who you're messing with right?"
Da: "What are you talking about? You saw how I kicked her ass, I don't have anything to fear from that little popsicle."
Ky: "No I was actually talking about me; you know? The only guy at the school capable of beating you."
Da: "Eh?"
Aoi: "Hm?"
Ky: "I may seem nonthreatening but I do have a bit of a temper especially when sausage gobblers like you are dissing my baby sister."
Ki: "{blush} Eh?"
Ky: "And don't think you can just sick your brother on me because even if he does beat me in the tournament I can just challenge you to a duel afterward."
Da: "Th-then I just won't accept your challenge."
Ky: "Then what are the others going to think if you keep turning down my challenges? That your scared of me?"
Da: "…"
Ky: "You're going to face me eventually and when you do I'm going to shove that overinflated ego of yours right up your wiener slot so I suggest you get it prepared for then."
Da: "…"
Ky: "Alright I think that was all I need to say, let's go guys."
Ay&Ki: "O-okay."
That was…so cool.
We went back to the apartment and Ayase grabbed my electric blanket even though I didn't really need it while Kyousuke cooked up some Mega Chicken soup and heated up some rolls in the toaster oven.
Ky: "Alright soup's on."
He poured a bowl for each of us along with glasses of orange juice.
Ki: "I can't believe I was actually able to hit him this time."
Ay: "Yeah you were amazing Kirino."
Ky: "What did you do differently that gave you the advantage?"
Ki: "My strategy with most of the other students is just to charge in and take them out except for Ayase, I figured I'd use a little more of my agility with Daiki."
Ky: "You know, that's been bugging me for a while, how did you beat Ayase? With her telekinesis I thought she'd be able to keep you from getting anywhere near her?"
Ay: "Actually Kyousuke there are limits to my powers, like my range and how much I can lift or push back and my physical health."
Ki: "And I used a bit of the tactic that took advantage of that on Daiki."
Ky: "So all you did was dash jump at her with all your strength."
Ay: "Yep."
Ki: "Yep though she did reduce my momentum some with her powers I was still able to hit her hard enough to daze her and I used that opening to deal the final blow. Though it seems Daiki is better at taking hits than I thought plus the ice patch he made on my side slowed me down some and with the field being so slippery I wasn't able to get any leverage."
Ky: "Still you at least got a hit in, I'm pretty sure that's more than what anybody the school can say."
Ay: "Yeah you may have lost but you still accomplished a lot."
Ki: "Thanks and you better make it to the finals idiot, I won't forgive you if you don't show Daiki what it feels like to lose the tournament."
Ky: "Don't worry I fully intend on doing that, I just have to find a way to beat Aoi."
Ki: "By the way what was up with you calling me your baby sister?~"
Ky: "I-I was just trying to be intimidating."
Ki: "Does my big brother actually wuv me?~"
Ky: "You shut your damn mouth!"
Ki: "Bleh."
Ky: "Bleh."
Ki: "So Ayase you ready? You're going to go up against Daiki next."
Ay: "I doubt I'll be able to beat him, low temperatures do improve my performance in battle but when they're too low I can't think straight. I'll try my best to at least do some damage but I doubt I'll beat him."
Ki: "Well I guess it's still up to you idiot."
Ky: "Heh if I actually do beat him I bet you're gonna start saying my name."
Ki: "Pfffffff!"
Ky: "Ah! Gross you spit your soup all over me!"
Crap I took that the wrong way.
Ki: "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha l-like I would ever give you the honor of using your craptastic name on a regular basis ha-ha-ha-ha."
Ky: "Grr."
We finished our food and did our homework together for the rest of the night before we went to bed.
Kyousuke's POV (Wednesday)
My next match was against a girl at rank 303, she had super-speed too though she wasn't as hard to beat as my last opponent so I won and maintained my position at 301. Saori won too gaining rank 25, as well as Ruri gaining rank 17, Kanako lost to a guy at rank 9 and of course Ayase lost to Daiki before he and his brother got into another tie at the final match.
(Thursday)
In the third round I went up against the guy at rank 305, he had super-strength and was about as easy to beat as the first guy, Saori and Ruri lost their next matches leaving me as the only one in our little group still in the tournament. Though due to the amount of matches being so small the third round finished up by 2:00 so round four was started and I had to go up against the guy at rank 293, again with super-strength. He was surprisingly easy to beat, even easier than the girl at rank 303, so I won and gained his rank and round four was finished by 4:30.
(Friday)
Now is the final day of the tournament with the rest of the rounds taking place on the same day since so few people were left and only one match would be held at a time allowing full use of the sports field every match. My first match of the day was up against rank 277, a wind elemental, harder than I thought she would be but still pretty easy, next was 245, an item summoner with a limit of twenty pounds, really easy. At around 1:15 at the start of the seventh round all the superhuman students were allowed to finish classes early and spectate on the final rounds, after that I went up against rank 181, a flame elemental, actually a lot easier than the wind elemental and then came rank 53, seemed a little weird since I was now 181, kind of a large skill gap, but at least they doubled the time limits.
Me, Kirino, Ayase, Saori and Ruri came to see me to give their support when I exited the gymnasium after I had changed in the locker-room and headed to the field.
Ki: "Alright Kyousuke, now is the semifinals the only match keeping you from the top one hundred, if you can at least win this it will all have been worth it."
Ky: "Don't you think that this seems like a flawed bracket system?"
Sa: "The tournament isn't really that big of a deal, it's just a way of assessing progress and reduce the amount of future duel submissions, back before the annual tournaments, the faculty would always be swamped with duel submissions at the beginning of every school year so they decided to do this to expedite the process."
Ky: "Hm, so do you guys know anything about the person at rank 53."
Ki: "Oh yeah we know a lot about number 53, her name is Arika Hiroyuki, age 17, same as you."
Ru: "She's an Item Summoner, her overall summoning limit is a hundred pounds."
Ky: "Anything specific I should know about Item Summoners?"
Sa: "Well a certain weakness of summoners is that they can't permanently sustain whatever item they summon and the heavier the item that they summon is the less time they can sustain it and any summoner with a limit of a hundred pounds would only be able to sustain an item of that weight for no more than five to ten minutes."
Ky: "What about her side effect?"
Ru: "She has never used it so nobody but the faculty knows."
Ki: "And there's something you should know about Arika herself."
Ky: "What's that?"
Ki: "She's really vulgar."
Ky: "Vulgar?"
Ki: "It doesn't really matter, just knows that if she offers you anything at all you are not to accept, no matter how tempting it is or how much she rubs herself against you, you are not to accept, got that!?"
Ky: "Uh, yeah sure."
Ki: "Good."
Ay: "You better get going Kyousuke it's almost time for the match."
Ky: "Okay, I've got butterflies in my stomach and my legs are shivering like maracas, but I'm no quitter…well not anymore."
Ki: "Wait you still have stage fright?"
Ky: "Big time, but I'm not gonna let that stop me now…here I go."
Ay: "Good luck out there Kyousuke."
I went through the double doors out into the blazing afternoon sun, the smell of cut grass and summer heat assaulting my nose, making me more nervous, I ran over to the field to meet with the moderator.
MC: "Alright folks here comes Kyousuke Kousaka, currently rank 181 and older brother of school sweetheart Kirino Kousaka."
Since when did we get an MC?!
MC: "This is his first tournament but from the bottom barrel he's come blazing through the ranks, I've even heard from Kirino herself that he plans to taking on our champions Daiki and Aoi for the top spot! Now this guy is either completely delusional or he may actually have what it takes to finally be the new number one!"
First the huge crowd then a man screaming my name now this, this is definitely not helping my stage fright and I am going to have a serious talk with Kirino after this is done
I went over to the table and put on the number 1 head band, most of the crowd was cheering for me but I did hear a few boos here and there, probably fans of my opponent.
MC: "And here comes Kyouske's opponent! The self-proclaimed "Harlot of CHA" and rank 53, miss Arika Hiroyuki!"
In came Arika, a tall beautiful girl with European features, she had long, crimson red, wavy hair that reached her waist, a slender figure and, oddly enough, average sized breasts.
Wait why am I looking at her breasts?
Ar: "Hey everybody!"
She got a lot of cheers from the crowd, but got a lot more boos than me witch I noticed was mainly for the girl students and most of the male students that cheered for her were being really energetic.
Ar: "After I'm done with this, blowjobs for everybody! {Peace sign}"
Whoa what?!
The crowd then began to go crazy, well the guys did.
Ar: "Oh hey you must be Kousaka."
Ky: "Yeah that's me."
Ar: "Listen I really don't feel like doing this and you're not too ugly, so how about you just forfeit and I'll promise to suck your dick."
Ky: "WHA! N-NO!"
Ar: "Alright how about if…I invite you back to my apartment?"
Ky: "Still no."
Ar: "Really? Okay how about if I just do you right here right now? Will that get you to quit?"
Ky: "No."
Ar: "Hmmm…would you quit if I found a way to get your sister involved? Is that what you're in to?"
Ky: "…"
Ignoring her last offer, I walked over and took my place in the field.
Ar: "Whatever your funeral."
She then grabbed the second head band and took her place on the field as well as the guys that made the light walls surrounding the entire field.
MC: "Alright ladies and gentlemen, we will now start the semifinals match between rank 181 and rank 53, 3…2…1…GOOOOOOO!"
I immediately began running at Arika ready to grab her the first chance I got, but she just stood there with a bored expression, doing nothing to stop me.
Alright that one guy that had Item Summoner abilities was pretty easy to beat, all I had to do was dodge his sledge hammer, if I just do the same with whatever she pulls out I should be fine.
As soon as I got within five feet of her, still with a bored expression on her face, she instantly pulled out an odd looking pump-action shotgun and blasted me in the face with it, knocking me back several feet.
MC: "Ooh and Kousaka takes Arika's shotgun blast point-blank to the face!"
Ky: "Hey! Is that even allowed!"
Ar: "What the hell your hit points didn't go down!? This shot gun is supposed to be able to tear through superhuman durability!"
Ky: "Do you not know who I am dumbass."
Ar: "Hey don't call me a dumbass, dumbass! I know exactly who you are, Kyousuke Kousaka, see I remembered!"
Ky: "Well if you aren't a dumbass you would know that I'm immortal, i.e., indestructible and given the HP shields adjust point loss based on the wearers durability level that would mean that no matter how hard you hit me I won't lose any points."
Ar: "…Oh…but that's no fair how am I supposed to beat you then?!"
MC: "Arika has probably already realized her mistake that Kyousuke can't take any damage! She's going to have to shift her strategy to either knocking Kyousuke out or pinning him down, it's the only way for her to win!"
Ar: "Huh, that seems easy enough."
Ky: "Gah dammit!"
She then disintegrated her shotgun and summoned a leather whip.
Ar: "{Crack} All I have to do I strangle you with this until you're out-cold."
Ky: "Go ahead and try."
Ar: "Don't worry I'l-"
Ky: "Skank."
Ar: "OH YOU ARE GETTING IT!"
She ran to get in range of me and cracked her whip, with aimed precision the whip wrapped around my neck tight enough to cut off my air supply.
Ar: "Go ahead and call me a skank again baby dick!"
MC: "This doesn't look good for Kyousuke can he find a way out of this bind before he passes out?!"
I grabbed onto the whip and applied heat to it until it snapped allowing me to remove the end of it from my neck.
Ky: "Gah! Crap head rush."
MC: "Amazing! Kyousuke freed himself by burning up the leather whip, how will Arika react?!"
Ar: "Dammit, well lets see if you can do the same thing with steel."
Arika then summoned a steel cable and while I was still dizzy she wrapped it around my neck.
Ar: "Now let's see if you get a hard on!"
Ki: "Eh?!"
MC: "Oh no! Kyousuke is once again being strangled, how will he get out this time?!"
The crowd began to cheer harder as she was strangling me, some guys even made cries of jealousy at my positon. I took advantage of the proximity and grabbed onto her forearm to begin freezing her but that caused her to panic, she let go of the cable and resummoned her shotgun to blast me away from her.
Ar: "What the hell?! You can freeze shit too?!"
Ky: "I better not get a taste for bondage after this. That's right, your ranged attacks are useless and if you get anywhere near me I'll freeze you solid, you might as well forfeit now."
Ar: "You know what?! Screw this!"
Arika then put her fists together and her entire body began to glow brightly.
MC: "Amazing! For the first time since her enrollment at CHA Arika is using her side effect, Empowerment, which multiplies her power by a factor of 10 for five minutes but can only be used once per day!"
Oh crap.
Ki: "Kyousuke?!"
Ky: "What?!"
Ki: "Stop standing around like an idiot, take her down now, it takes a several seconds for Empowerment for fully activate so she's completely vulnerable!"
Ky: "Right!"
I ran at her as fast as I could but before I could get to her the glow faded and she shot me backwards with a powerful laser cannon.
Ky: "Ah, what the heck?"
I looked at Arika and was shocked to see that she had summoned not a single weapon but some kind of red and black robotic suit with metal angel wings and high-heels for some reason. She also had a small mini-gun attached to her right forearm and the laser cannon she shot me with attached to her left.
MC: "Unbelievable, Arika used her Empowerment boost to summon some kind of super robot suit, is this even legal?!"
Arika then began to talk through the suit's speaker.
Ar: "Time to break your butt cherry motherfucker!"
Ky: "Kirinooo?!"
Ki: "What?!"
Ky: "I think I screwed up!"
Ki: "You're damn right you did!"
Arika then picked me up of the ground by my collar.
Ar: "So any last words before I test the indestructability of your asshole?"
Ky: "Agh…skan-"
Ar: "{Punch}."
Arika then punched me hard enough to send me flying right into the light wall on the other side of the field.
Ar: "I never thought I'd see the day a guy not only refuse to forfeit a match for me and refuse to have sex with me but also insult me for my lifestyle choice, I WILL MAKE YOU SEE HELL SHITHEAD!"
Arika flew several hundred feet into the air and aimed her weapons at me before firing a three-minute volley of bullets and lasers at my position, then her cannon changed shape, becoming more elongated, before charging up and firing a final shot powerful enough to set off a small explosion.
Ki: "Kyousuke!"
Ar: "That felt good."
MC: "Oh no does this spell the end Kyousuke?!"
She descended back to the ground as I crawled out of the crater incredibly dazed by the concussive force of her attack.
Ar: "Wow your still conscious? Guess I need hit you one more time."
I fell to my knees as she came up to me and aimed her amplified cannon at me again, this time at point blank range.
MC: "Amazing! Even after taking all that punishment Kyousuke still manages to get up! But he doesn't look so good folks!"
Ar: "You know Kousaka I'm actually glad you turned me down earlier, this actually turned out to be pretty fun, I might actually sex you up later for this, some ropes, handcuffs, a couple of dildos, I might even invite a couple of my sexually ambiguous guy friends over to see how much they like you, It'll be a ton of fucking fun!"
Ky: "Screw…you."
Ar: "No, screw you."
Ki: "{sigh} Dammit Kyousuke."
She charged up her cannon, aiming it directly at my forehead, but at the last second I grabbed onto the barrel and moved my head to the right narrowly dodging the blast as it instead set off an explosion behind me, the shockwave of which I used to flip in the air and grab onto Arika's shoulder to get into a piggyback position behind her.
Ar: "What the hell?!"
As I suspected there was what looked like a power core on the back of the suit and knew, like with any power suit in video games and movies, that if I overheated the core the suit would explode.
Ky: "Let's just hope this doesn't knock me out."
Ar: "I didn't say you could touch me back there! Get off!"
She tried to reach behind herself to grab me but her suit's wings kept her from doing so, I took the chance and grabbed onto her power core and concentrated all my accumulated heat energy onto that point.
MC: "Oh my goood! Kyousuke jumped out of the jaws of defeat right before they chomped down on him and is now rodeoing miss Hiroyuki and managing to stay out of her reach! What does he have up his sleeve to win this match! This is incredible ladies and gentlemen!"
Ar: "What are you doing?! So hot! Stop touching me there you jerk!"
Suddenly the power core began to violently vibrate as it glowed brighter.
Ar: "Oooh! Oh god! It's too much!"
Ky: "Will you stop that!?"
Ar: "Ah! I'm…so close!"
Ky: "You're doing this on purpose aren't you!?"
Ar: "Oh! Oh! Oh my god! AAAAAAAAH!"
{BOOOM}
The core finally went critical and burst into a small nuclear explosion rocketing me back a couple dozen feet, just barely staying awake I got back up to see Arika laying on the ground several feet away from the explosion crater. Her suit was in ruins but she somehow managed to get back up, pieces of the suit falling from her as she did. I then looked up at the screen to see that she hardly had a sliver of her health left.
Ar: "Ugh, my shorts are a mess, thank god for failsafes."
MC: "Holy moly! What an incredible explosion! And it seems they're both on their last legs who will finally win this epic battle, the Harlot of CHA or the newbie from the Kousaka clan! I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to see who will deal the finishing blooooow!"
Ky: "That guy's voice is really giving me a headache."
Arika then turned to me as I walked to her, my body was completely worn out from expending all that energy and I was on the verge falling over, it was then that Arika's suit disintegrated signaling that her Empowerment boost was used up.
Ar: "Well looks like you win, all you have to do is give me one more hit."
Ky: "No I'm about to collapse, just one more whack to the head and I'm done."
Ar: "If you say so."
Ky: "Actually I take that back; I really need this win."
Ar: "Fine, go ahead."
Ky: "And just for the record I didn't call you a skank to mock your lifestyle, well honestly don't care one way or the other what you do with your life, it was just a heat of the moment thing, so I'm sorry if that offended you, no hard feelings?"
Ar: "I'm in too much pain to hold a grudge anyway so whatever, but you know, it was actually pretty hot that you were able to kick my ass, so maybe after this we could-"
Ky: "No, whatever you're about to offer me, my answer is no, in fact just to save us all some time, my answer to every single one of your future sexual offers is always going to be no so don't trouble yourself over it."
Ar: "Well you're no fun, but it's not like I'm going to quit just because you said so."
Ky: "Hm?"
Ar: "You really got me going with this battle, I like you now and I want you, so we can do this the easy way or the hard way, the choice is yours, but eventually I'm going to get into those fucking pants and when I do I'm going to ride you like a wild fucking Mustang."
Ky: "…"
Ar: "Arika always gets her man."
MC: "Nothing's happening, are they just talking? Why aren't they murdering each other!?"
Ky: "{sigh} I was actually starting to like you for a second there, whatever {smack}."
I dealt the final blow, slapping Arika across the face, the last sliver of her health disappeared and I was declared the winner.
MC: "And Kyousuke wins the match! Oh my gooooood! What an incredible battle! No one ever saw this coming! He started from the bottom and now he's here! He is the second coming! He is the Dali Lama! Oh dear Ishnu! Dry land is not a myth I have seen iiiiiit! Akslndk lfaosndofo kgngnsldf!"
"There he is!"
"We found him! Quick shoot him with the tranquilizer!"
{Thwick, thwick, thwick}
MC: "{Thud}."
I stumbled off of the field and onto a bench where Kirino was waiting for me with some water and a towel, while Arika was carried off in a stretcher to the infirmary and the field got repaired for Daiki and Aoi's next tie.
Ki: "Wow I didn't think Arika was so strong, I'm surprised that she's only rank 53, I wonder where she got that robot suit from."
Ky: "She probably has a rich relative that gave it to her."
Ki: "This entire time I thought she was just some slut, well don't judge a book by it cover I guess, hey are you okay, you look pretty wiped."
Ky: "Yeah I'm fine but for now I'm going to take…a little…nap."
Kirino's POV
It was at that moment Kyousuke fell over with a thud, he was completely out cold.
Ki: "Huh I'm surprised you stayed awake this long."
His next match was still a good twenty minutes away I could probably take him to the nurse's office for a quick nap, they should be able to restore his stamina with their abilities before it's time.
Ki: "Alright let's get going."
I picked up Kyousuke, put him over my shoulder and made my way to the nurse's office, once there I laid him on one of the beds and sat in a chair next to it while one of the nurses tended to him.
You did really good out there…big brother.
Ki: "{kiss}."
Elsewhere
"Director Kirishima?"
"Yes what is it?"
"The principle of CHA was recently asked if Aoi Isamu could face off against Kyousuke first in the final round instead of Daiki, he wants to know from you what decision he should make."
"Aoi instead of Daiki hm? ...Allow it."
"Yes ma'am."
"Are you sure about that Ms. Kirishima?"
"In order to prove to me that Kyousuke isn't a threat we need to push him to his limits and what better way to do that than to pit him against the most powerful student at CHA right after he just beat Arika at full power."
"…If you say so."
"Now we'll see if Aoi is enough to push him over the edge."
AN: Alright end of chapter sept, a little long but I'd rather not turn the tournament into an entire arc since, as Saori put it, it's not really that big of a deal in this story except for the final round, so we will who wins next chapter, see ya then.
