“Damn it. For someone as rowdy as her, she gets drunk easily.”Shoving her into the back of the car, Vincent would have Saeko take the keys from Kira's pocket. Kira was almost out cold as she flops down to the seats at the back, helped up by Saeko. Vincent would close the door on them and walk up to the front of the car, however, there would be a group of men, dressed in black that would pass them by. It took Vincent's attention as they were all dressed somehow conspicuous. They had digitalizers on their waist on the way to the party, and they were not your common digitalizers in Moonblight. They had that notable design that would only come from Newyark. “———?!”Vincent would quickly get inside the car, raising the windows in a hurry. “What's wrong?”Saeko would ask, but Vincent's eyes stayed on the group that suddenly stopped just at a turn towards the entrance of the building where the party was being held.It was a bad feeling. He could feel his magic reacting to it.“I don'
——Shortly after the party ended, people have gone home after the closing toast. Nothing significant happened other than Kurumi having connections with Ruriko and Mia, but this was only because they had something in common, unrelated to any of their professions. However, each of them had thought of it otherwise.Cian was unable to leave a good impression on the girls after being taken out by Mia in one punch. He didn't remember much at that time, but it was apparent that his restraint on words came off after he became drunk, something he decided to avoid.“So, what happened?”“A-Are you not gonna explain what that is?”As Cian and the others arrive back at the training room where Magi had decided to start his Unique Magic Acquisition, there was a large piece of machinery that towered up to the ceiling.It was a spherical machine that had a small room inside, where the wites outside were somehow encircled around each other in an organized way at the ground.Magi's casual asking about
“Wait. Living together? We don't know her. She's——”“——Our only choice. Regardless, she wanted to lend a hand.”He swung his hand and pointed at Ruriko with vigor. He was suspicious of her at the surface level, but as the situation calls it, his emotions were running wild.Ruriko might have been a named celebrity in Moonblighr but that doesn't change the fact that she might be someone that might be their enemy. “You don't have to worry about anything. Besides, you can't hide anything from me. From your brother's death to your origin. People from above know everything about everyone.”Dipping her finger into the tea, Ruriko would bring out her tongue to taste, looking at Cian with a seductive gaze. She was teasing him by acting like this, like a manipulative person, which Cian hated the most. “———”Ruriko knew about the rumors of Magi's death being false. But Cian just had to keep up his act. “W-What do you mean? You——”“If it's information about you, we are not that easy to fool.”
“A Game Master is someone who hands out missions and stuff. It's something someone like you would understand the most, right? A person who hands out the mission and or quests to receive certain rewards.”Still and unmoving, Ruriko stood there with her chin held high. Kurumi was just as shocked as Cian at this instance, but somehow she had a feeling that Ruriko was waiting for something like this. “...”Can didn't retort nor ask anything. He indeed knew the implications of her words. Despite calling herself that, her way of delivering those words made Cian think of her as an important NPC. They were the ones that would give the players the main missions. A mission that would reap a lot of rewards if finished. “——Does that mean... everything is a game for those people above?”Kurumi herself would ask that. She'd already caught into the fray so she might as well know about those who sent her. “Hmm. Not exactly. They want to associate it with such so that it is competitive, and elimi
—As days pass by in Moonblight, the first match of the second stage of the tournament was near. During that period, Moonblight's city was plagued with different news as everyone was distracted by the tournament's preparation.Toru Nagumo has escaped from prison and a wide manhunt for him was enacted around the city.It was certain that it was Pandemonium's doings yet, there were no leads that pertained to them. Not only that, crimes around the city had seemed to rocket up as soon as the time of the tournament event began, with most of them being harmless robberies, some were injured indirectly to avoid activating the Anti-Kill Technology.Some people were worried that the technology might be not working yet, and the Mayor and his daughter would announce a curfew to lessen such events. Starting from the early hour of 9 PM until 6 AM of the morning, the curfew would be in place with human authorities roaming the city and apprehending suspicious individuals outside at that certain tim
As the day of the tournament arrived, the match-up had been decided a day before. There was a list of matches on the first day and every single one of Kira's agency members was one of them.The first match was a bout between Morioka Saeko of the Red Trackers and Midari Sengen of the Viper's Venom. All the contestants were asked to stay in the colosseum's underground mass accommodation rooms to avoid the unfair search for information about their opponents after the announcement. Before the fights would happen, this will be the first day where the contestant's abilities would be revealed. Because of this, contestants are forced to think for themselves 24 hours before they fight in the shapeshifting arena.A rule that made it so that the tournament will always be fair and avoid tricks and underhanded tactics among the participants. ***“Weeeeeeeeelcome back! It's been a few weeks since the last elimination stage and I hope that every participant who survived that had recovered fully
[24 hours earlier]“Ahem. We're with the Tournament's Managing Staff. All of the participants would have to go and spend the next day in isolated rooms in the colosseum while we announce the match-ups. To make the first match-ups balanced and well sought out, we are going to match up people by the level of their combat prowess.”Right at the doorstep of the most poorly maintained agency building of the Red Trackers, there would be a dead-ish face man wearing a certain blue military-style uniform that arrived. “Err... I see. I'll inform the others.”Sabrine had accommodated them after they rang the service bell at the abandoned lobby on the first floor.She was unsure if they were for real or not at first, but seeing as they had ID cards outlined in black, a higher authority than them they were as red, she would quickly go back and inform the others. The rule about being isolated on the day of the match-up announcement had been going on since the second event of the Mixed Magic Arts
“In the ring, we have the supposedly clueless red-hair on the right side, Cian Magicroft from the Red Trackers! But look! He looks different and emits a different feeling than his naive self from before! Will he fight for real now?!”Drowning out the loud cheers of the crowd that craved action and violence from the tournament, the host would shout out to the mic as he described Cian. Cian had made a negative impression on the audience in the last stage of the tournament where he had to be saved from two children. “On the left side, we have Louis Zweist from the Vipers! Right now, he has the biggest smile out between them, is he confident that he can beat Cian in this round?”The host would turn and hover toward Louis who was showered with cheers, responding to it kindly with waves and a big smile.“Would you look at that, the people love me. Don't you think it's a bit embarrassing to be the good guy but be booed off the stage?”Turning to Cian, Louis would stand right at the edge of