Chapter 162: Akino"s Request
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
The so-called thing that Kimura Kazuki said he had to settle before was obviously referring to the Jade Dragon Flag Tournament.
He took part in the tournament solely to accomplish Furuhas.h.i.+ Sakurakyu"s obsession. Even though he had no idea how long he needed to help Natsui, Akino, and Fuyuno to achieve their life goals, he could not put the cart before the horse now that Harunaka"s goal was just at his fingertips.
Lively voices could be heard at Tachibana Budo a.s.sociation on the day of the individual compet.i.tions.
The team compet.i.tions had taken place at the respective districts yesterday. As long as they won the subsequent individual compet.i.tions in the next two or three days, they could battle at the main field with all eyes on them.
Early in the morning, the teacher reached Tachibana Budo Gym together with the team. Kimura Kazuki was a.s.signed to District C today as he had a match in the morning.
The individual compet.i.tion was divided into three tiers. Anyone who wins two games in the tournament would gain two points and hence wins the match. Every time after a match, they would choose their opponents randomly again.
One would automatically rise in rank when one defeats 10 people.
There were 101 high schools, and those students who had taken part in team compet.i.tions would register for individual compet.i.tions as well. In the eyes of most people, it would be more meaningful to emerge as the champion of the individual compet.i.tion.
If the champion in the team compet.i.tion is said to be an outstanding team, then the one who emerges victorious in the individual compet.i.tion would definitely be popular and chased after by people. Deep in the hearts of many of them, to be the champion of the individual compet.i.tion was a supreme honor, and it was far more meaningful than becoming the champion of the team compet.i.tion.
Five people were sharing a champion in the team compet.i.tion, whereas only one person would own the glory and honor of champion in the individual compet.i.tion.
There were three districts open today, which were Districts A, B, and C.
There are 220 candidates in each district. Only those who defeat 10 people can get to the next round, which means only 20 people from each district could get to the next round. Then, they would have their final battle in the main field. Kimura Kazuki"s compet.i.tion starts at 10 o"clock… He was not in a rush, he headed to District B to watch Harunaka"s compet.i.tion.
He was not as optimistic as before. Yagyu Kenichiro had given him some new information. The Sugawara family wished that the teenagers from all the families in the Ancient Kendo Community would take part in this Jade Dragon Flag Tournament as a continued tradition of Sword Saint Takeda.
He was curious, wondering why he would come across Kageyama s.h.i.+chiro and his brothers in the Jade Dragon Flag Tournament. Judging from the opponents" strength, it would not be a problem for them to defeat those from other high schools. It just happened that they had first met him. He suddenly came to a realization when he knew about the situation.
But he was feeling far from good the moment he cleared up his mind.
Why he felt this way was much due to Harunaka. Though Harunaka had been practicing kendo since young, she was just an ordinary person. She was not a Swordsman, and she did not dawn sword power. In that case, if she comes across those talented girls gifted with sword power, there was a very high possibility that all five members of the Women"s Team of Sakura Kyu would be defeated.
But he was unable to help out, do they want him to dress up in female clothes and compete? He was not that kind of shameless person.
Even though he had not received the news about any great Women"s Team, that did not mean there was none of it. Besides, he only investigated Tokyo, and there were still many other areas in j.a.pan. He would be beyond words if Harunaka is washed out in the nationwide Jade Dragon Flag Tournament.
The Jade Dragon Flag was held annually, and it was an extremely grand tournament in the eyes of most high school students, owing to the reason that the Jade Dragon Flag Tournament was a real Kendo tournament.
If they lose now, they will have to wait for another year.
Of course, the IH Convention was around the corner, so Kimura Kazuki was considering it too. He was actually thinking whether he should bring Harunaka to the Ancient Kendo Community.
He arrived at District B when the clock struck half-past eight.
The tournament had already started. He randomly picked a seat and sat down. Soon Fuyuno came over together with Akino. After greeting him, Akino did not take out her handphone and play games as usual. She tapped on Kimura Kazuki"s arm with her fingers instead. When he turned around and looked at her, Akino said with a big smile on her face, "Hehe, senior, I have a small favor to ask of you."
"What"s the matter?"
He knew all the wishes of the four Furuhas.h.i.+ sisters. Even though Harunaka"s problem was the top priority right now, he did take the requests of the other three persons seriously. For instance, he was already lending a hand on Fuyuno"s short-term goal.
But they had not started the audition yet as Muraoka Hiros.h.i.+ was still publicizing The Sword Saga with the team at every area.
According to Muraoka Hiros.h.i.+, many other voice actors would be coming over for the audition in time. When the time comes, they could hold an audition at Seikisha and finalize all the voice actors and actresses for The Sword Saga.
Natsui was aiming to become the President of the Student Council, and she had to wait until she was at least in the soph.o.m.ore year to accomplish the goal. Although he could force Yanagawa Izumi to abdicate his position, it was inappropriate for him to do so.
This was also the reason why Kimura Kazuki was in a quandary over whether he should teach Harunaka the real art of the sword. He believed that it would at least take one whole year to accomplish the obsession of Furuhas.h.i.+ Sakurakyu.
Therefore, if Harunaka had lost this year, he could still wait for next year…
Maybe next year, those boys and girls from Ancient Kendo Community would not take part in the Jade Dragon Flag Compet.i.tion anymore? When the time comes, Harunaka would definitely have the exact capabilities to defeat every opponent from the country since she had been training for another year.
Of course, if the Women"s Team of Sakura Kyu High School did win the champions.h.i.+p, he will have to consider supporting Natsui in becoming the President of the Student Council as soon as possible. He had actually thought about this before… Yanagawa Izumi was already in senior year, he could find an excuse by telling him to focus on study. For this to happen, Harunaka has to lead the Women"s Team to win the champions.h.i.+p.
He was most worried about Akino"s short-term goal… Unexpectedly, she had taken the initiative to talk to him.
"Senior, I have been creating a game with my friends. You know that right… We have some trouble recently, our game action designer is often unsatisfied with the Kendo movements that he designed, so I would like to ask you for a favor…""Do you care a lot for this game?" Kimura Kazuki asked while maintaining his composure. He asked her to fill in the survey about her short-term goal before, but she wrote a bunch of messy stories that he was unable to put his finger on.
Although he speculated that those might be the background stories of the game and her short-term goal was to create a successful game, it was all but speculation, and he was not too sure about it.
"Of course! My greatest desire now is to create the game of The Uprising, publish it on Steam, and gain achievements." Akino tugged at Kimura Kazuki"s sleeves and beamed up at him with big eyes, acting cute to please him, "So, senpai, you have to help me."
Fuyuno, who was standing aside, could barely stand anymore. Akino had been slandering senpai at home before this, but she immediately changed her att.i.tude when she needed his help, it was so shameful.
Kimura Kazuki opened his mouth just when Fuyuno was about to talk, "How can I help you? I didn"t understand a single thing about the game."
"It"s okay, you don"t need to know about the game. All you have to do is to talk to the game action designer and inspire him."
Kimura Kazuki looked at Akino and nodded his head before her staring eyes that were beaming with antic.i.p.ation, "You can come and look for me after the district qualifiers."
"Hooray!" Akino cheered and paid no attention to the gazes from the people around her. Her eyes were s.h.i.+ning with excitement.
Meanwhile, they could hear the referee"s voice coming from the field below them.
"Winner, Sakura Kyu High School, Furuhas.h.i.+ Harunaka."