Hallway, Yasogami High School, Midnight Channel
After leaving Mitsuru-san, I immediately retraced my steps back to the Announcement Room, but the invisible walls came back, probably when Shadow Labrys snapped her fingers earlier.
In the end I was right all along, that pale-blue haired girl earlier was Labrys. The thing I don't get is why did she looked more human earlier and when met her for the second time, she was already static-like, then her robotic parts came into view.
"My next is opponent is here huh?" I voiced my thoughts as I stood beside the door, of what looks like a classroom
"Please let it not be Aigis" I muttered hoping that my next opponent would not be Aigis.
I mustered enough courage, and opened the door
Classroom, Yasogami High School, Midnight Channel
This room is your typical average classroom. Chairs and desk facing the blackboard. The only thing that is out of place are the cameras scattered around the room, and the roof.
"Who're you?" a voice greeted me rudely.
I looked at the voice's owner, and there I saw a man with white-ish or gray-ish hair, sitting in one of the chairs.
If I remember right, he was also one of the students featured in that advertisement, along with Satonaka-san and Hanamura-san.
If I remember correctly this guy- Yu Narukami- was dubbed in that promotional video as 'Nobody touches his Precious Nanako, The Sister-Complex Kingpin of Steel'
I touched the opening between this room and the hallway, but alas a force resisted my hand's exit.
"Locked in? I guess P-1 Grand Prix rules are still in effect huh?" I voiced out my thoughts, completely intending not to communicate with the boy, well until the fight's over. The illusions that made me fight before are taking its toll on me. Not to mention this constant fighting is very exhausting on my part.
"By any chance are you Ken Amada-kun? Rise got in touch with me" Narukami-san asked
"Yes, Narukami-san. I knew your name from the Promotional Video" I replied
Wait, we are normally communicating?
"Narukami-san, am I getting through to you?" his only response is a nod
"Rise told me you were out to save Ms. President. Labrys, her name was?" Narukami-san casually said.
"So she introduced herself as Ms. President? Anyway, yes I am indeed here to save her, though I am just an acquaintance of Mitsuru-san, so I'm afraid I don't know the specifics." I replied honestly
"I see, you're a polite kid, aren't you? Your parents raised you well" Narukami-san complimented.
"My mother is dead, and I don't know who my father is" I muttered
"I apologize for bringing such a sore subject." He apologized, "Anyway, would you mind conceding the fight? I'll save Labrys in your and Kirijo-san's behalf"
"I understand what you are trying to do Narukami-san but Shadow Labrys explicitly told Mitsuru-san and I before the two of us fought, that anyone admitting defeat without a fight would not make the walls disappear" I sighed
"I see, if it was possible, I wouldn't want to fight a person younger than me. In fact I can see my little sister in you, and besides my friends are still trapped, it would be wrong to push my burdens to someone I just met and to a person younger than me no less"
"I see" I replied, "I think the stronger of us two should proceed" I continued
The atmosphere in the classroom changed as I gripped my spear tighter, it seems Narukami-san sensed it too since he readied his sword.
It's strange, Narkami-san reminds me of someone, though the physical appearance and his character are very different but there is something in him that is very similar to that person who saved us-the entire world.
"It's time to get serious! Come Kala-Nemi!" I summoned Kala-Nemi, and as simple as that the fight began.
Kala-Nemi materialized three sets of spears, two sets contained four spears and the last one contained three spears. I immediately pointed my index finger and middle finger at my opponent, then two sets of spears came flying towards him. He dodged about five spears but three of my spears were able to hit him.
He quickly recovered, he quickly summoned his Persona and did a sliding dash towards me. Though he was successful, the last set of three spears came to my defense and disintegrated.
He performed the same attack, and this time he was successful, he shocked me, numbing my whole body, through that sliding dash
"I-I can't move" he took advantage of me being shocked as he performed a series of attacks.
After a few seconds, the numbing feeling in my body disappeared, I took this as my cue to summon my Persona and interrupt Narukami-san's barrage of attacks. Blowing him to the other side of the arena.
Narukami-san quickly recovered in mid-air, he, with the help of his Persona, air dashed to my location.
I jumped and attacked him in mid-air, before he could perform a single attack.
After my attacks in the air ended, he quickly put some distance between us, after landing of course.
"Izanagi!" He summoned his Persona-Izanagi-as his he casted a barrage of flying Zios at me.
Unfortunately, I was unable to dodge his Zios.
He then dashed towards me and stopped just a few meters away from me.
"Zionga!" He shouted as Izanagi appeared in front of him and summoned a stream of electricity towards my way
"aaaaaaah!" I shouted as I was being electrocuted.
A few seconds later, the stream of electricity ended, which left my body numb, all I could do was put my arms into an X position and defend his incoming onslaught of attacks.
He slashed me with his sword along with the sword his Persona carries in an alternate pattern.
Power then surges through my veins.
A few seconds later, the numbing sensation in my body disappeared once again. I summoned Kala-Nemi to interrupt his onslaught.
He was blown away this time too, but he didn't recover as quickly as before. I took this opportunity to barrage him with attacks, ranging from my kicks and pierces to summoning Kala-Nemi and cast a barrage of Zios towards him.
"Let's end this!" I muttered as I summoned Kala-Nemi who then materialized a thousand electrically charged arrows and let it rain down on my enemy.
"K.O!" Risette's voice was again heard through the P.A system.
"huff, pant, huff, I win, huff, pant, huff" I said as I try to control my breath and heart rate.
"I will move on" I continued as I summoned Kala-Nemi once again and casted a Mediarahan on the both of us, as I helped Narukami-san stand.
"But first, I have something to ask you. You said that you'd save Labrys, but how will you do that? Her circumstances aren't very to understand" I asked as I approached a nearby chair and sat down.
"Not to mention that she isn't human" I continued, I feel like I'll need every help I can get in order to save Labrys.
I then saw Narukami-san close his eyes then opening them again and answered
"Nothing in particular but the least thing I could've done to her is to stand by her side"
"at her side…. I see" I muttered as a lot of things dawn on me.
After the accident that took away my mother's life I never trusted anyone.
I didn't trust all adults because they would never believe everything I say, I could never trust kids my age at that time because they took life for granted and are very immature.
But as I joined the journey three years ago, I found friends and since then I was never alone. In Labrys' case, she woke up alone and have no one to lean on.
And there was him, our charismatic leader. He was the one who understood me the most, who let me understand, that despite what I've done, I'll never be alone.
I see, now I know why Narukami-san reminds me of him. If at first Narukami-san can't understand what Labrys went through, he'll try to understand and be the shoulder to lean on. Just like what he did for us.
"You really do remind me of an old friend" I said to my companion in the room
"I do? Wait, but you're only thirteen years old!" I laughed at his realization
"Yes, though he's more than just a friend, I owe my third life to him" I said having a sense of nostalgia as I remembered Shinjiro-san and him
Kujikawa-san then contacts everyone involved, she eagerly says the plan Mitsuru-san said as I see Narukami-san closing his eyes once more and nodding to Kujikawa-san's words.
"Well then, I'll be going now to save Labrys." I said as I feel confidence flow through me.
Indeed Labrys will be saved, I'm certain of it.
"Go for it Amada-kun"Cheered loudly as I opened the door.
Although I think it's out of character for Narukami-san to be cheering me on that loudly. I faced him once more and saluted, then I dashed towards the Announcement room.
A/N: The lines return!
Anyway Belated Merry Christmas 2013 and Belated Happy New Year 2014.
This chapter was the hardest of them all! Can you actually believe that I wrote this chapter since the fifteenth of December? I needed to make Ken realize the similarities of Makoto Yuki/Minato Arisato (c'mon Atlus make up your mind already! Which of the two is the Canon name) and Yu Narukami, that and I watched a lot of videos featuring Yu's fighting style in Arena.
Same goes for the previous chapter, I watched a lot of videos featuring the fighting styles of Fsteak, Brosuke, Fan girls' dreams and the Ice Queen.
If anyone's wondering what is Ken's title, I'll be sure to make something so that he'll know what his title is. I noticed that S.E.E.S never knew what their titles were when they participated in the P-1 grand prix.
So what do you guys think of the fight scenes so far?
Anyway, please do review guys. I want to know what you guys think, just please don't cast a Ragnarok spell, because that'll really burn me T_T
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Bukalay signing off