Ueda, Japan: Jinnouchi House:

There was a challenge on Kazuma's OZ screen when he logged on for the day. "WRATH wishes to challenge you. Do you accept?" read the message. The teen stared at his screen for a moment. Where had he seen that name recently? He pulled up another screen to search the user name, and sure enough there she was. He'd seen that fight earlier in the week, as well as having seen the amount of a stir this female avatar was causing. Her record was very impressive, no losses as of yet, but her fight record only went back about 16 days… and yet she'd managed to make it into the top 200 players. At first he thought she might be a hacker, or maybe even an AI. But he'd received a strange message earlier in the week from an avatar named TSUBASA.

"Please, I know it's strange as a request, but if an avatar by the name of WRATH challenges you, please accept it. She really needs this."

Kazuma didn't understand it, but he seemed somehow drawn to the thought of challenging this person, whoever they were. He looked at the clock, and then went back to the challenge window. He moved his mouse and clicked, the message changing to "You have accepted WRATH's Challenge." The teen reached for his juice and took a sip. 'Let's hope she's a good fighter…' he thought as he stared at the screen.

Ryugazaki House:

Tsubasa stood at his sister's door, not moving for over 10 minutes now. "Ayumi, come on…" he stated. "You can't sulk in there forever." he called. The girl, Ayumi, sat on her bed, next to her computer and on the OZ login screen. "Ayumi, please-"

"Leave me alone, Tsubasa…" her voice came through the door. She sounded distraught, but more so she sounded annoyed with him. "I told you I will NOT go against King Kazma. I'm not nearly ready…" she stared at the floor, her long bangs hanging in her face. Tsubasa looked at his phone and smiled.

"But Ayumi… I already sent the challenge~" he said cheerfully. "And King Kazma just accepted it." he leaned back against the wall next to her door, smiling contently to himself.

"…. YOU WHAT?" she exclaimed after a long silence, her face bright red and her cerulean blue eyes wide. "Ts-ts-tsubasa, why?" she questioned, both panicked and annoyed now. Tsubasa just chuckled, his platinum blonde hair seeming to shimmer as he turned to her door and opened it.

"Because, dearest sister, you need to stop thinking about why Basara-niisan left, and start thinking about how to get him back." he smiled at her, standing in the doorway. But as he was smiling away, a pillow flew at his face and knocked him back a little.

"YOU FOOL!" she exclaimed, now embarrassed. There were practically billows of steam fuming from her head, her face looking like a cooked lobster. She got up and closed her door, Tsubasa still standing there with her pillow and still smiling. Ayumi stared at her computer for a good long time before she sat back in front of it and logged back onto OZ. 'Tsubasa… thank you…' she thought, still trying to keep herself from hyperventilating. 'I know you're right… Basara needs saving, so that's what I have to focus on…' she saw the accepted challenge window and silently cursed at Tsubasa for hacking her account again, but she just went with it. She didn't want to think about life without Tsubasa… life without Basara was hard enough. But she smiled as she checked over Wrath's stats and checked them against King Kazma's. "Hah… I'm nowhere near ready."

OZ Arena:

King Kazma was standing in the arena, waiting for his challenger to arrive. He was just starting to think she wouldn't show up when he noticed the messages popping up on the public chat.

"Go home, girl!"

"You'll never beat Kazma!"

"You're just a newbie with a lot of luck, get out of here!"

"You're all annoying." Wrath's message bubble popped up. "I'm not challenging him for his title so why don't you all just sit back and watch?" Wrath's long blue hair flowed behind her as she made it to the arena, seeing King Kazma. "Thank you for coming here on such short notice, King Kazma." was her message to the reigning King of OZ's Martial Arts tournament.

"No problem." was his response as the countdown to the beginning of the match appeared above them both.

5.…4.…3.…2.…1.… BEGIN!

The match ended rather fast, about 4 minutes after it started. But King Kazma and Wrath had both taken considerable battle damage before King Kazma managed to KO Wrath. Tsubasa's avatar walked onto the stage and helped Wrath away, giving his silent thanks to King Kazma in the form of a nod.

Jinnouchi House:

"That was good." Kazuma said, looking at his screen. "She's definitely a good fighter…" he said, a small smile gracing his features. "I wonder what that avatar's creator is like…?" he asked absent-mindedly, taking another sip of his juice.