The rest of the day was relatively uneventful, with quite a few dirty looks and lots of whispering about this new transfer student who blew out everyone's eardrums on the first day. That is, until after school.
"Hey, watch it!" cried a Course One student who was with his friends and had obviously tried to bump into Kazuyuki.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." said Kazuyuki as he backed away from the impending storm. He took one too many steps back and bumped into one of the friends of the Class One student.
"Look transfer Weed, I don't know what you're thinking, but I think you need to learn a little something from the far superior Course One group.
Kazuyuki sighed. As an orphan, he had grown up with this stuff his entire life and yet he couldn't seem to ever leave this topic alone.
"So, Mr. High and Mighty Course One, what do you suppose we do?" asked Kazuyuki in a mocking manner.
The student grinned. "Well of course, through a duel."
Tatsuya and Miyuki were on their way home when they heard this outbreak. Miyuki turned and saw the transfer student that everyone was talking about.
"Onii-sama, who is that?" asked Miyuki.
Tatsuya turned to Miyuki and said, "Miyuki, that's the new transfer student in my class. His name is Hatakeda Kazuyuki. He doesn't talk much, but apparently he is like me, great written portion, but horrible at the practicals."
"Onii-sama you know that the only reason you failed was because you have your 'Regrowth' and 'Decomposition' powers, so that's understandable." Miyuki replied.
"Anyway, we should break up that fight." said Tatsuya.
"Yes, Onii-sama" replied Miyuki as the two of them walked towards the incoming fight.
Kazuyuki and the Course One student, named Shiomi Kioshi, squared off in the middle of the courtyard. Koishi grinned and began to state the rules.
"Ok Kazuyuki-kohai, since you're a Weed and as such, horrible at using magic, we can do a mix of both physical and magical. No holds barred and we stop when one person taps out. Sound good?"
Kazuyuki nodded.
"Ok, then. Here we go!"
Kioshi activated his CAD, which was a tablet size device to activate a simple movement spell that would bring Kazuyuki to him fast enough to where he could just put his fist out and let inertia hit Kazuyuki. I've got this win you low-life Weed! thought Kioshi. Kioshi activated his spell...but nothing happened. Kioshi tried again and again, each with the same result.
"What's going on?!" cried Kioshi. He looked at Kazuyuki, and realized why.
Kazuyuki had set up an interference barrier nullifying all magic in the entire courtyard. He smiled, and then ran towards Kioshi. Kioshi panicked and called his friends over to fight with him.
However, Kazuyuki had also been fighting for so long, fighting for survival, that he realized that his sonics were preparing to be let loose. Kazuyuki strained himself to keep that magic in check. However, his self defense reflex hit again and his sonics activated, quickly dispatching Koishi's friends and getting Koishi onto the ground, clutching his ears in pain. Kazuyuki walked up to Koishi and pulled him up by the collar. Kioshi was startled by the icy stare from the two black eyes looking right back into him.
"Now listen," Koishi started. "How about you admit defeat right now and apologize for starting a fight against me. If you do, as a far superior Bloom, I'll forgive you." Kazuyuki stared dead into the eyes of Koishi and Koishi knew that Kazuyuki wasn't going to give up.
"No. I want you to stop calling yourself superior. You called your friends to help you and I still beat them all. I sure as hell want to beat you up too since all you do is hide use your inferiority complex to get others to do what you want and only refer to yourself as a 'Bloom' around Course Two students. This ends now." Koishi squeaked in terror as Kazuyuki took a deep breath and brought his fist up. Kazuyuki didn't want to punch this kid, but unless someone else intervened, he would have to injure another person. He was going to be branded as a monster again. Kazuyuki clenched his fist and was about to punch Koishi when...
"That's enough."
Kazuyuki released Koishi and the two boys both got up and looked at the new invader, Shiba Tatsuya. He had his pistol shaped CAD out and aimed at both Kioshi and Kazuyuki. Tatsuya narrowed his eyes.
"Two things. One, why are you two fighting? Two, whose Mental Interference magic is this?"
Kioshi spoke first. "Tatsuya-san, Kazuyuki-san started a fight with me by calling me names."
Kazuyuki was shocked. Kioshi just straight up blames him? What a joke. Tatsuya nodded then faced the other boy.
"Ok, so Kazuyuki can you answer any of the questions?"
Kazuyuki nodded. "Yes, the Interference magic is mine, but it was Koishi-san who instigated the fight."
"You little-" Kioshi growled before catching himself.
"Anyway, since there was no misuse of magic I can't do anything about it, but I'm going to guess this was a duel with physical contact allowed. Am I correct?"
The two of them nodded.
"In that case, I think Kazuyuki won over you, Koishi-san."
Tatsuya and Miyuki walked away, leaving Kazuyuki and Kioshi behind.
"Listen, Kazuyuki-chan. Don't think I'm going to forget this." Koishi yells as he walked away, grumbling and dusting himself off.
"Onii-sama, how strong was that Mental Interference magic?" asked Miyuki at their home later that evening. Tatsuya shook his head.
"I couldn't use my 'Gram Dispersion' in that zone so I'd have to say at least Strategic class Interference magic." Miyuki shivered. Though she knew that her brother could handle his own with no magic, if he couldn't break the magic, then that would be bad news for anyone who got on Kazuyuki's bad side since he could nullify all magic and use his sonic magic to incapacitate, if not kill his opponents.
Tatsuya realized his mistake and tried to cheer up his little sister."Well, let's not worry about it. I'm sure something will turn happen tomorrow." Miyuki nodded and gave Tatsuya a reassuring smile. No, I'm sure Onii-sama just wasn't giving it his all. Onii-sama can break through anything with his magic.