3 weeks later."Welcome honorable guests, folks, students, and teachers. Finally, we are going to witness the most awaited event of the year. The GRADUATION COMPEt.i.tION, in here we will be able to witness the up and coming knights for our kingdom!!!!" as the commentator finished his introduction the whole stadium erupted in cheers.
"Let us all welcome the graduating cla.s.s, wherein a lot is to be expected."
As the graduating cla.s.s is being introduced. The audience started murmuring in the stands.
"Hey, so it is true that a certain group took the zero as one of their members"
"Will they be alright? They are strong indeed but what if that zero would pull down their overall score"
"But really how in the world did that zero enter the academy in the first place?"
"I heard that she had some connection with the headmaster"
"Are you sure? Then could they be?"
"It is possible"
"No wonder she was able to enter"
"But where did she come from anyway?"
"Who are her parents?"
"Waaaahh must be difficult being popular," Hideyos.h.i.+ noticing the looks and whispers of the people around them talked to Eureka.
Eureka looked around and saw different looks, such as envy, jealousy, anger, confusion, and insult. She could only sigh inwardly, there"s nothing she can do about it, after all, she is indeed an abnormality when it comes to the usual student of the academy.
"Why not show them in this round your capabilities?" Mamoru suddenly suggested. The others looked at him in confusion but only Raven looked at him with understanding.
"Before we begin, I would just like to say that there are also individual scores in this compet.i.tion. It might only be a group battle but the judges are also taking into account the individual achievement of every member and will be taken into consideration on the final rating. So you can"t only be a damsel in distress trying to graduate through your other group member"s effort." The commentator said.
"That"s rude his basically pinpointing you," Karen said looking at the commentator.
"It is really difficult being popular," Feena couldn"t help but say.
Eureka could only smile in surrender to what they"re saying.
"Okay, so we will have four battles for the day. There are eight groups overall, this will be the elimination round. The winners of this round will then compete in order to know on what squad they would be once the compet.i.tion is over. The first placer will most likely be taken in by squads one through three, second place will be taken by squads four to six, third will be for seven to nine, and the fourth placer will be taken by ten to twelve. But that doesn"t mean that each member would readily be chosen by those higher squads. So you"ll have to perform exceptionally as an individual as well. All the teams will be given an hour to prepare before the battles begin."
"Mamoru what did you mean about what you said a while ago?" Feena asked while on their waiting area.
"Seeing our compet.i.tor I could say that Eureka who can fight against the instructors would be able to take those six," Mamoru replied. "And don"t get me wrong I am not belittling our opponents."
"We will only defend if they attack us but we will let you handle everything. The best way to shut the whole crowd up," Mamoru continued as if he"s not saying something ridiculous.
"That"s ridiculous," Hideyos.h.i.+ exclaimed.
"It"s not, I"ll do it. But I won"t promise anything," Eureka said. The others looked at her unbelievably.
"I see, then, go on," Raven said with finality.
Moments later the first battle began. "It is pretty obvious how the others completed their groups" Karen commented as they watch from the sides.
"And that concludes the first three battles, seeing how they fight we can see some promising upcoming knights," the commentator says as they clean up the stage for the final battle of the day.
"Moving forward for the final battle. I am really looking forward to this and I know you all are too. So why don"t we welcome our final contenders," cheers erupted as both teams enter the arena.
"That zero might just stand there," once again another wave of insults started from the audience. Which Eureka just ignored. As the battle began it"s pretty obvious who the other six are targeting.
"It seems that we really didn"t need to bother letting her handle everything because, in the end, they only wanted to eliminate her," Feena commented as they watch the other seven fight.
"What"s this, what"s this. It seems that the other group just wants to eliminate Eureka. Hmm, let"s see how Eureka"s group mate would react to this." Everyone looked at Raven and the others, they were all startled to see that the other six aren"t even planning on helping her but instead they were just chatting on the sides.
"Woah it seems that even her group mates would just leave her there to fight on her own," the commentator couldn"t help but point it out.
While these comments are going on, Eureka easily knocked out one of the vine users from the other team. While the wood user is creating different blocks of wood that attacks Eureka non-stop, the three vine users together with the 2 speed users are creating a web in order to stop her from her movements. But before they could trap her she was able to evade the wood attacks and got at the back of one of the vine users and knocked her out.
While this startled most of the audience, this didn"t stop the other group to keep on attacking. What surprises the audience once again was the fact that Eureka knocked out the 2 speed users simultaneously. When the other people couldn"t see them with their speed, Eureka simply waited for them to get closer to her before knocking them out.
"What great fighting agility, she was able to instantly knock out three members of the group," the commentator exclaimed as the whole stadium uncharacteristically became quiet.
With their group having half of the members out of commission the other could only change their strategy, instead of trying to trap her they fought her head on. Sending out different kinds of attack, wood spike, vine with thorns, vine grip, falling wood blocks, and others. Eureka split her sword into two in order to evade and block the continuous attacks.
"Her sword everyone, her sword splits into two. And she"s using it wonderfully in blocking and cutting through their attacks!!" the commentator started exclaiming as if the audience couldn"t see what"s happening.
By the next second Eureka was able to knock out the wood user, followed by cutting through the chain of attacks of the vine users. And before they even realized it she"s already in front of them, knocking them at the same time.
"This… This…. This…. WOAH, EVERYONE AS YOU CAN SEE!!! An event that was never seen in the graduation compet.i.tion. A one versus six and this outstanding achievement was attained by none other than the girl known to be a zero. This is really unprecedented everyone, truly unprecedented!!!" As the commentator exclaims the whole stadium turned from hearing nothing to an eruption of cheers.
"Is she really a zero?"
"The way she carries her sword and herself, truly amazing"
This time different types of compliments are connected to Eureka"s name as the people in the stadium couldn"t stop their excitement after a very eventful battle.
"They didn"t shut up," Hideyos.h.i.+ said to Mamoru as they wait for Eureka.
"Don"t take it too literally," Feena interjected.
"So how does it feel Eureka? Fighting those six?" Karen asked.
"Very tiring, I just want to take the rest of the day, off," Eureka said as she walks towards them.
On the side, "See I told you she"s amazing," the headmaster energetically pointed it out to the other teachers.
"Headmaster, we fought against her a lot of times. We already know what she is capable of." One of the teachers said.
"Her fighting sense is truly remarkable. She will be a great a.s.set to the kingdom." Another one said.
The headmaster happily looked at Eureka who is walking towards the exit with the others.
Thinking to himself as he walked with the teachers towards another exit.