VOLUME 1 CHAPTER 4 : THE FIRST DAY OF THE TOURNAMENT
The annual new terms school tournament. Finally the first day comes.
The beautiful battlefield that Element Academy is proud of. The changing room is crowded by the students that partic.i.p.ate in the match.
Akito is also inside that crowd of students.
While the students around him are in the middle of communicating with their spirits, he is busy fastening the shoelace of his shoes that specialized in mobility and warming up.
Unlike other students, he doesn’t have any contracted spirit. His weapon is his own body.
The other students are giggling and looking at him as if he is an idiot, but he keeps ignoring them.
You’ll regret this later… He keep his determination in his mind.
“The first term school tournament. The day of the first match has finally come. Everyone, please enjoy the fight so that there is no injury.”
The announcer announces the start of the tournament. Rejoicing that, the changing rooms is filled with cheers.
Well, The changing room he used is cla.s.s 2-E’s changing room. Although somehow the tension rises, the chance that everyone is eliminated in the first round is high, but as I thought, the students are still motivated for the match.
In this school, there isn’t any big difference in treatment between cla.s.ses, but there are considerable differences for the changing room.
Cla.s.s A uses a place that looks like a VIP room that is just completed during this period, compared to their place that looks like a worn-out wooden building. According to the rumor, It’s been decades since the building was built.
(Well, whatever. No matter how good the treatment for the higher rank, I will show that it’s totally different in the real battle.)
Meanwhile, Akito hardens his own determination. But, He immediately remembered about his opponent.
(Alca… Facing cla.s.s A in the first match, I’m really unlucky. Well, I don’t have any choice)
“Pachi!”. Akito hit his cheek. Then, strangely he got fired up.
In front of him, a man came walking. He is a man Akito knows very well.
“Yo Akito. How are you?”
“As long as I have spirit, I’m undefeatable”
“Haha. you said it.”
In a the state br.i.m.m.i.n.g with wild taste, The name of the man that is broadly grinning is Raios Dranga[1]
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And his characteristics are his st.u.r.dy body and spiky hair, he is also one of few people that is Akito’s friend. He is also a spirit user belonged to the same cla.s.s E.
By the way his rank is C. He uses D-ranked earth beast spirit as his contracted spirit.
Because his style is the same as Akito, the vanguard type, if it’s pure fighting power, he is the strongest in the cla.s.s.
Although he takes pride in such power, but the reason why he is in cla.s.s E is obvious. It’s because he was defeated in the first round of the battle tournament last year.
In any case, His opponent was bad. The opponent he faced in that match is Asha Anlayheim.
Against Asha who can deploy her spirit armament since that time, he just more or less lost one-sidedly. That time, Akito also thought that it’s bad to go against her.
“Come to think of it, Akito. Your opponent––––”
“Ahh, my childhood friend”
“… Don’t die, ok?”
“Thanks”
While thinking that it’s a joke, Raios is seriously worried.
That is because, that childhood friend of him has somewhat loose control of her spirit. An attack from a strong spirit of that degree will be released almost without holding back. A man without spirit like him will be in serious danger if he receives its attack.
“Well, Do your best to survive. Well then, it will start soon, right?”
“Oh? The first match. It will be a show”
Both of them face toward the old-fashioned monitor. The screen is small and having color issue, but somehow the image still can be seen. If this is the screen of cla.s.s A, it will be bad as it is a huge screen.
They look at such screen together with all the cla.s.smates. Hereupon, it’s hard to see. Next year, I want to go to a better cla.s.s… Akito thought that.
There are 2 students face each others inside the screen. Both of them are 2nd year students. It seems that they want to finish up the 2nd year students fight first.
“Match… Start!”
The moment the announcer said it. The 2 students exchange blows with magics. Both of them don’t have a really high rank. As expected, the match of the 2nd year students that have few experiences and skills lacks splendor.
When seeing such a boring fight, one party was. .h.i.t by spirit magic. Then, “Stop!”, the announcer sounds.
“It’s pretty dull”
“Well, there aren’t many of us 2nd year students that can use spirit armament after all”
“I also don’t use it! Hahaha!”
“I somehow can’t make a contract with spirit! Ahaha!”
“”…..Haa..””
Both of them let put a sigh. “””Haa….”””. Our cla.s.smates in cla.s.s E that heard that also let out a sigh.
“Well, whatever. Since I will only do my best in my own way”
“Ou! Well said, Akito-kun. Then show me what you’ve got”
“Okay, I’m going”
Akito’s match is the one after this.Because he wants to fight as soon as possible, he doesn’t care about the teachers’ malice he felt.
(Now, let’s go)
After doing a stretch, Akito left the changing room while waving his hand to Raios and thinking that he is going to make a big shock to his childhood friend.