The rankings
"Well, that was an interesting performance that you Magic Knight squad did just now." Kahono said with a smile on her face.
Right now, the mechanical beings have finished dancing about and went back into their respective Wonder-Ride books.
Unfortunately, the Wonder-Ride books still have "Happy" in their titles and the picture hasn't changed as well.
"We didn't planned it…." Asta responded, still in the process of trying to figure out how what cause the Wonder-Ride books to change.
"At everyone else enjoyed it." Kahono pointed out, making Asta glance around and saw the citizens with smile on their faces and seemingly to be talking positively.
"But still, mine and Kaito's performance will probably be much better." Kahono, making Asta gain a tick-mark on his forehead.
"What did you say?!" The wielder of Rekka exclaimed, becoming angry.
"Relax, relax….." Kahono said whilst raising her hands and backing away, having a sheepish smile on her face.
It was at that moment that a question appeared in Kahono's head, making the smile transform into a grin.
"Hey Asta. What is Noelle to you?" Kahono asked, causing Asta to blink before glancing towards Noelle.
"I guess….." Asta began to say just as Noelle noticed the ash-white hair teen looking at her.
"I like Noelle." Asta said, making Kahono's eyes widened.
With Noelle, the silver hair girl's face immediately become red.
"Wha...What do you think you're saying all of a sudden?!" Noelle exclaimed before activating her magic, splashing Asta with water…..causing him and Nero to be sent flying.
"Well. There goes that plan. I guess it will be a long time before those two get together." Kahono thought, sighing slightly.
"Asta! Did you make yourself go flying out of consideration for me." Kaito thought, gaining a happy expression on his face.
"Where I'm I going to land?! Where I'm I going to land?!" Asta exclaimed in his head, starting to panic as he and Nero flew through the air, the anti-magic bird gripping Asta's hair with her claws tightly.
"I hope that I won't cause a panic when I land." Asta thought in a hopeful tone of voice just before entering a golden portal which suddenly materialized "in front" of him.
"Huh?! Wha-Owch!" Asta began to say before suddenly crashing into wall.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow." Asta muttered as he picked himself off the ground whilst rubbing his head whilst Nero have a lot of her feathers ruffled.
"How did I end up back on the ground? Did someone used spatial magic?" Asta thought before wincing.
"Asta, Nero! I'm so sorry!" A voice said in a panicked tone of voice, making Asta turned around to see Sophia with a slight frighten expression on her face.
"Captain Sophia? What happened?" Asta asked as he felt his senses coming back.
"I saw you flying through the air, so I decided to use my magic…..but I didn't realize how fast you were going and hit the wall." Sophia explained, starting to relax before starting to become confuse.
"What exactly happened….and what happened to your clothes?" Sophia asked, starting to notice that Asta's clothes are wet.
"I was sent flying by Noelle's magic when I said that I liked her." Asta responded, making Sophia widened her eyes.
"You confessed to her?" Sophia asked, becoming surprise.
"No. Kahono asked what Noelle meant to me. I responded, and Noelle just blasted water at me, sending me and Nero flying." Asta explained, making Sophia nod her head slightly.
"Oh, right. I thought that you two are making some progress..." Sophia muttered, making Asta blinked his eyes before shaking his head slightly.
"I should probably head back to the others, they're probably be wondering if I'm alive or not….well, Kahono and Kaito will be anyway…." Asta explained, saying the last part in an unsure tone of voice.
"Actually, I was going to look for you. Noelle just made my job more easier." Sophia said, causing Asta to become confuse.
"What for?" Asta asked becoming confuse.
"Its for the announcement for the rankings, Sir Julius wants you and somebody else to be apart of the announcement." Sophia replied, causing Asta to widen his eyes.
"The Wizard King wants to include me in the announcements?!" Asta thought in a shock tone of voice.
"But who is the other person?" The wielder of Rekka thought, becoming curious.
"Heh. I should have thought that it would be you, Yuno." Asta commented with a smirk on his face as look at the Golden Dawn's wind Mage.
Right now, Asta and Yuno are within a building, with the ash-white hair teen having been shepherded to by the captain of the Sword Of Logos, which houses the other captains and a few servants.
"Nice to see you again, Asta. Enjoying the festival?" Yuno asked, causing Asta to nod his head.
"You bet I am." The wielder of Rekka responded, deciding not to mention anything about Noelle blasting him with water.
"So….why actually are we here? Captain Sophia just said that we're apart of the announcements….." Asta asked, causing Yuno to shrug his shoulders.
"We just have to wait until the Wizard King the rankings are revealed." Yuno responded, making Asta nod his head slightly.
"Isn't obvious? The Wizard King wants to show the public about how powerful Yuno is." Bell said as she suddenly appear out of Yuno's Grimoire.
"What about me?!" Asta asked, feeling annoyed that the spirit of wind is missing him out. Bell shrug her shoulders in response.
"Who knows. Probably for a comparison at how weaker you are to my Yuno, shorty." Bell responded, causing a tick-mark to appear on Asta's forehead.
"What did you just called me?!" The wielder of Rekka demanded as he attempted to grab the spirit of wind.
"Don't Asta." Yuno said in a blank tone of voice as he grab Asta's Magic Knight robe, holding him back just as Bell flew higher into the air.
As this went on, Mereoleone is staring at Asta.
"So that's the new wielder of Rekka….." The new captain of the Crimson Lions thought, she having been told about who else will be joining her and the other captains.
It was at that moment that a servant entered the room.
"Everyone. Its time for the announcements." The servant said, bowing slightly.
"Where's Asta?" Rintaro asked as he glanced around.
Right now, the location where the announcement of the Magic knight squad rankings is being held is packed full of people.
Luckily, the Sword Of Logos Magic Knights, plus Sora, Sol, Kahono and Kaito, have managed to regroup but became confuse when they notice that Asta is missing.
"Good question. Noelle, Kahono, Kaito. do you three know? You three were with him, right?" Ryo asked as he looked at the named three whilst holding Sora to make sure that he doesn't get lost within the crowd.
"Well/He must have gotten caught up at looking at the stalls and got left behind." Noelle responded quickly, cutting off Kahono before she can say the real story.
This cause some confusion to appear amongst the others faces.
"I guess that makes sense. The stalls are eye-catching after all." Sol commented, scratching the back of her head.
"Thanks you, Sol." Noelle thought, starting to become nervous at the thought of the others asking more questions.
"Couldn't Asta have waited until after the announcements to look at the stalls." Tetsuo commented before sighing.
"At least he knows where the announcements are being held." Fiona pointed out, making the wielder of Suzune to nod his head slightly.
"Donna-chan? Are you back to your usual self?" Rin asked, noticing Donna's change of her Ki.
This cause the others to perk up whilst making Kahono and Kaito confuse.
"Yeah. I've managed to release most of my rage." Donna replied, making the others starting to smile.
"What has been happening with her?" Kahono asked Noelle with a raised eye-brow.
"A short while ago, we discovered a secret that has a big impact on Donna." Noelle whispered in response.
"Like with Rintaro?" Kaito asked, making Noelle frown slightly.
"Something similar, yes." Noelle responded, making Kaito nod his head.
"Its the Wizard King!" A voice suddenly shouted, causing everyone to turn their heads towards the stage where Julius and his assistant walked out an archway.
"The Wizard King's making the announcements in person?!" Another voice said in a shock tone of voice.
"This time, I'll be the one reporting the Magic Knight squads' achievements. After the announcement, the royal king will also take the stage, so do look forward to that." Julius explained, his voice amplified through a sphere-shaped magic item, causing the crowd to cheer.
"As I'm sure you know, in addition to invasions from the Diamond and Spade Kingdoms….a terrorist group known as the Eye Of The Midnight Sun has appeared, and we have been fighting a series of hard battles against them are their allies." Julius began to explain, causing the crowd to become silent.
"They even attacked the Royal Capital, and some of our citizens have lost their lives. We weren't sure we should hold this year's Star Festival at all." Julius continue to explain.
"However, it's also true that there are people who are bravely facing the enemy. Precisely because the times are what they are, we wanted to honor these people, our nation's pride. That is why we're holding this festival." Julius said before a small smile appeared on his face.
"All right. Join me in calling them! The captains of the Magic Knight squads!" Julius said, causing the crowd to cheer loudly just as the captains walked out archway.
"WHOOOOOOO! Its the captains!" A citizen exclaimed in an excited tone of voice.
"The captains for the Crimson Lions and the Purple Orcas are new…...Hang on? Is that the captain for the Sword Of Logos?" A citizen asked, noticing Sophia's presence amongst the other captains.
"I think so. She's wearing the robes for that Magic Knight squad." Another citizen responded, becoming curious.
"She looks beautiful and mysterious." A third citizen commented.
With the captain of the Sword Of Logos, Sophia has a nervous expression on her face.
"Starting to get cold feet?" Yami asked, noticing Sophia's facial expression.
"You can say that." Sophia responded in a nervous tone of voice.
"Moving on, let's go straight to the rankings!" Julius said just as Marx activate his magic, creating a holographic screen.
"Think it will be the Golden Dawn will be first again this year?" A citizen asked.
"We're always dead last, so it's got nothing to do with us." Magna commented as he and Luck focus their attention on of the stalls in the plaza.
"In first place…...The Sword Of Logos." Julius announced with the name appearing on the screen.
This immediately caused the crowd to become shock.
"WHAT?!" A voice exclaimed from somewhere.
"That's Asta's voice!" Donna said whilst looking over the heads of the crowd, trying to see head of the wielder of Rekka.
"Hehehe. Asta sure has a pair of big lungs." Ryo commented with a sheepish smile on his face.
"You can say that again." Tetsuo commented as he cover his ears.
"Wha…..?" Sophia muttered in a shock tone of voice as she glance at the screen.
Amongst those who have shocked expressions on their faces, Nozel is one of them, having a stunned expression on his usual calm-looking face.
"The most mysterious Magic Knight squad? But they never appeared in the rankings before." A citizen commented as they started to become confuse along with everyone else.
"I heard that one of their members is married to someone from House Roselei, the same house that the captain of the Blue Rose Magic Knight squad belongs to. Maybe they have used that connection for blackmail?" A citizen suggested with a thoughtful expression on their face.
"Blackmail?! I'll show you blackmail…." Charlotte muttered whilst gaining a dark aura around her, she somehow managed to hear the comment.
"Now, now. This a time for celebration." William pointed out, attempting keep things calm.
"As many of you are aware, the Sword Of Logos, by their request, have not been taken part in the rankings. But with the danger that the Eye Of The Midnight Sun pose, the Sword Of Logos have given their full support in fighting this terrorist group, especially against the allies that the terrorist group have managed to gain. So it doesn't seem right to simply ignore their work, and I'm assure you all that no foul play was involved." Julius explained just as the achievements for the Sword Of Logos appeared underneath their name, including the total stars they gained for each achievements.
"135 stars?!" A citizen exclaimed in a shock tone of voice.
"Wow. You lot certainly worked hard." Kahono said as she look at the Sword Of Logos members.
"Yep. We certainly did." Ryo commented with a smirk on his face.
"Even though the Magic Knights of the Sword Of Logos, which are lesser than the other Magic Knight squads, have pooled their efforts in collecting so many stars, the most noticeable Magic Knight out of all them is Asta, known as the swordsman of flames." Julius said before gesturing towards the archway.
"Well, here I go." Asta muttered before starting to walk. When the wielder of Rekka appeared in front of the crowd, they start to clap.
"That's their most contributed Magic Knight? He's young." A citizen commented.
"So he uses his fire magic in conjunction with his sword, similarly to Captain Sukehiro?" Another citizen asked, glancing to someone next to them.
"You know….he's pretty good looking." A female citizen commented, which unfortunately Noelle managed to hear, causing the silver hair girl to snap her head in the general direction that the voice came from.
"Say that again. I dare you to say that again." Noelle thought in a dark tone of voice.
"Noelle, please don't go and kill someone…." Rintaro said as he grab Noelle's shoulder, him having heard the comment as well.
"Now then. In second place, the Golden Dawn with a total of 125 stars." Julius said with the screen adding the name of said Magic Knight squad underneath the achievements of the Sword Of Logos.
This caused the clapping to intensify.
"That's a big jump over their second of 96 last year." A citizen said.
"It makes sense that they would in second place if they didn't got first." Another citizen commented.
"Similarly to Asta of the Sword Of Logos, there is a member who made the biggest contribution to that star record. It's the rising newcomer who's attended by sylph, the wind spirit, Yuno." Julius announced, making the named wind Mage to appear onto the stage.
"Look at that! Isn't he dreamy?!" a female citizen said with a slight blush on her cheeks.
"Yuno?!" Charmy exclaimed, looking up from her food.
"It looks like I'm more popular than you." Yuno said to Asta.
"Shut up." The ash-white hair responded, making Yuno snort slightly.
"Of all the newcomers. Asta and Yuno are in the top two places among the rookies where star acquisition is concerned. We expect great things from these two stars. Its only been half a year since they entered the Magic Knights, but in that time, they built up a magnificent record. Their childhood friends from the same place. Not only that, they're both just 16." Julius explained, causing the crowd to become interested.
"Whoa! Those two are young, but they're incredible!" A citizen said in awe.
"Are they nobles? The Wizard King didn't mention surnames." Another citizen commented, becoming confuse.
It was at that moment that a smirk appeared on Julius's face.
"Asta. Yuno. Why don't you two give a demonstration of your magic." The Wizard King suggested just as Asta and Yuno glanced towards Julius.
"Demonstrate my magic? What spell should I use?" Asta thought, starting to become slightly nervous.
"Bell." Yuno said in a calm tone of voice.
"What?" Bell asked, becoming curious.
"Full power." Yuno responded simply, making Bell nod her head before unleashing her Mana.
This cause everyone to become stunned just as Yuno turned towards Asta.
"Asta….doesn't this remind you of that training we did together?" Yuno said, a small smirk appearing on his face.
"Hm?" Asta said in a confused tone of voice just as the Golden Dawn wind Mage created a bow made of swirling wind.
Without warning, Yuno sent a large whirlwind towards Asta which then engulfed him.
"H-hey! I said to demonstrate your magic, not attack each other!" Julius exclaimed in a shock tone of voice just as the citizens started to panic.
"I need to get Asta out of there!" Sophia thought as she began to get her Grimoire out with Charlotte having similar thoughts.
However, it was at that moment that flames burst into life which became intensified due to the whirlwind.
"Asta?" Sophia muttered in a slightly hopeful tone of voice, becoming still yet still having her Grimoire out.
Unsheathe the flames!
A voice suddenly announced, causing the flames to disperse, making everyone cover their faces to protect themselves.
~Brave Dragon~
Rekka: Volume 1-When the brave dragon and Rekka, the sword of flames, unite, the crimson blade shall pierce all that is evil.
The voice announced again just as the dispersing flames took the form of a dragon which then roared.
However, everyone's attention was on Saber who is in a sword stance, him seemingly cut the wind and flames.
"S-so that's why he's called the swordsman of flames…." A citizen commented in an awe tone of voice.
"….." Saber remained silent for a few seconds before looking towards Yuno.
"What the hell, Yuno?! Are you trying to kill me or something?!" Saber exclaimed in annoyed tone of voice.
"Hmph. I'm glad that you survived. If you died from a thing like that, then you would have deserved it." Yuno said in a blank tone of voice.
"You're a jerk, you know that?!" Saber shouted in response.
"For being called the top two rookies by the Wizard King, they seemed to have an odd friendship between the two of them." Kaiser commented whilst stroking his moustache.
"I'm just glad that Asta managed to survive." Charlotte said in a relieved tone of voice.
"Me too." Sophia said in agreement.
"Now that you seen their powers, are there those among you who have doubt over their potential?" Julius asked in a calm tone of voice to the stunned crowd.
No response came from the crowd but after a few seconds of silence, they started to clap and cheer.
"Yuno…" Saber said, causing the Golden Dawn wind Mage to glance over to the swordsman of flames.
"We came a long way to reach this point." Saber said, causing a small smile on Yuno's face.
"Yes, we have." Yuno responded before looking back at the crowd.
"Now then, let's continue with the ranking of the other Magic Knight squads." Julius said just the names of the other squads appeared on the holograph screen in order of rank.
"In third place, the Silver Eagles with 95 stars. In forth place, the Crimson Lions with 83 stars. In fifth place, the Blue Rose with 76 stars. In sixth place, the Green Mantis with 69 stars. Seventh place, the Coral Peacocks with 67 stars. The Purple Orcas in eighth place with fifty one stars. The Black Bulls in ninth place with 50 stars. And the Aqua Deers in tenth place with 49 stars." Julius read out the results, causing some surprise at the Black Bull's ranking.
"Huh? So my brats managed to put some effort in their missions. But then again, I guess that your lot may have motivate them." Yami commented as he glance towards Sophia.
"It certainly looks like it." Sophia responded with a small smile on her face.
"What?! How did we managed to get into last place?!" Rill exclaimed in a horrified tone of voice.
"Its probably because you draw dumb pictures all the time, and you don't have your act together." Jack said with a grin on his face, causing a shock expression to appear on Rill's face.
"Saber! How did you managed to get all those stars! Tell meee!" Rill exclaimed as he appeared in front of the swordsman of flames.
"Whoa!" Saber exclaimed whilst jumping back just as Rill attempted to grab him.
"Is this guy really a captain?" Yuno thought in a blank tone of voice.
"Let's continue on to the next part of the announcements, a speech from the Royal King of the Clover Kingdom." Julius said just a shadow moved within the archway.
And there we go, the rankings for each Magic Knight squad. Did everyone like how the Sword Of Logos are in first place...or am I just being biased? The Black Bulls have managed to go up a rank, which makes sense with the squad having teamed up with the Sword Of Logos. Mereoleone has her sights on Asta, him being the wielder of Rekka.
So Revice, Like with Tamaki, Masumi failed to transform when the "Triceratops" Vistamp with Vail stealing the Vistamp before Masumi gives Vail the "Crimson" Vistamp. It would appear that Hideo's hand has started to crumble. Genta transforms into Kamen Rider Destream using the Destream Driver, which is modified from the Vail Driver so that it won't required a person to possess a inner-Demon to use it, whilst Vail transforms into Crimson Vail have one final duel with each other with Destream being the winner before absorbing Vail into himself with the intent of coexisting with his inner-Demon rather than killing him. It would seems that Daiji is slowly going back to his usual self. The episode ends with Giff fully entering the human world and attacking everyone.
I found an interesting fact about the Destream Driver which is that it contains the number 25, done in light blue. The "25" presents the year that Vail was sealed, 1997, and the year that Revice started, 2022. /it can be reference to episode 25, the episode that Genta transformed into Kamen Rider Vail.
This is something completely different, but what would happen if the protagonist of Shin Megami Tensei V enters the world of Black Clover. Since he's a Nahobino, his Mana will be far superior than everyone else's, even surpassing royals but could be on the same level as the three ruling Devils. Regardless, everyone will be shock at the fact that, from their perspective, the protagonist wields lighting, fire, ice, wind, light, dark, support, recovery and summoning magic, whilst they can see Physical and Almighty skills as Mana-Skin and Mana-Zone type attacks, but I'm not sure about aliment skills though. With how I can see things, the protagonist will have immediate access to all the skills that he gained through the proto-fiend Aogami's Essences whilst using the Demon Compendium, which itself is known as a Grimoire, to access all the other skills and summon his Demon companions. If the Clover Kingdom got into a fight with the SMTV protagonist, thinking that he's an enemy that is invading the kingdom, they will be completely confused, along with being shock, at the naming of most of his skills whilst being stunned at the Demons that the protagonist summons, who are almost on the same level as the protagonist.
Please review and until next time.
Dragon Rider 66:
1) My bad, I was too focused on the "festive" aspect of those Wonder-Ride books rather then the time of year that those Wonder-Ride book represent.
2)...How about Asta becoming a shooting star thanks to Noelle?
3) For the final fight against Genta and Vail, it was very emotional with music playing over a serious battle. It is interesting how the "Komodo Dragon" Vistamp gives Destream an actual dragon's head as a gauntlet to shoot flames out of, similar to Ryuki's own weapon.
4) Seeing the ending of the fight, I don't think that Hiromi will make a contract with Vail.
5) Yep, the same thing happened with Masumi sadly.
6) That is a interesting ability for Calibur's Jaou Dragon form to possess.
7) Kahono will be saddened that she couldn't pair Noelle and Asta together whilst Sol will be holding an enraged Asta when he sees his aunt being confronted by some random noble.
8) Hideo must think of something soon with how his body is starting to crumble.
9) After the explanation, Noelle will be like "I'm never riding a broom every again".
10) Asta being half-siblings with the Silvas? That certainly be shocker to everyone when they find out about that, probably around the time when Richita makes her apperance within the story. It could be that when Asta and Noelle first meet each other, they could start to feel some sort of connection with each other, probably how their Mana are similar to each other, and start to act like siblings, but Noelle will be unsure about this at first, because of her past with her full-blooded siblings, but after a while she could start to gain a bro-con complex towards Asta. It would makes sense if Nozel and Evil/Live are the only siblings that are aware that Asta is blood-related to the Silva family and when Evil/Live realize that Noelle is starting to gain a bro-con relationship towards Asta, they will become horrified that they basically have another competitor for being the better sister. So whilst those three argue with each other, Mimosa will be able to spend time with Asta undisturbed...whilst Vice and Lovekov watch the whole thing.
Another scenario is that when Evil/Live are forced to leave Asta at the orphanage, Nozel could place Noelle at the orphanage as well in order allow her to have a healthier childhood rather than receiving hate for being "responsible" for Acier's death. This would lead to Asta and Noelle growing up as siblings, unknowing that they are in fact half-siblings.
Raidentensho: I guess that Asta will wield dark magic, since Kiva holds the title of "Prince Of Darkness". Yeah, the girls will certainly enjoy cuddling Kivat, Tatsulot and Kiva-la, although they will be hesitate when around Kivat-the-2nd. Castle Doran could be used as a mobile base...if people gain Asta's permission first.
Brave Kid: Thank you.
Kamen Rider Yokai: Don't worry, I have a point in the story where Kris appears and for Isaac, who knows what he's doing.
Farhan Nugraha:
1) It wouldn't be fair they were left out...even if one them is on the enemy.
2) That sounds accurate for Noelle's Zanpakuto name, but her ressurection could be linked to her former(?) royal status.
3) Yep, just a few more chapters.
4) That sounds kind of complex with all three, but would be interesting to see Mimosa having combat skills surrounding archery.
5) That can be interpreted in two ways you know...I let you think about that for a few seconds.
Guest:
1) Thanks explaining the importance of Kyomu within Haouken Xross Saber, despite the sword not being able to be summoned by Saber. Xross Saber is basically Asta's Saint Stage, so it is capable of fighting effectively against Devils/Demons.
2) I suppose it depends of the type of magic and how powerful a Mage is if they can kill a Devil/Demon.
3) I haven't thought too much about any differences between the magic of the four kingdoms and that of Wonder World, but I did wrote in chapter 22 that the place is rich in Mana.
Moniura2005: What do mean by "Emyy"?