“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
“You did something, didn't you?”“Hmm? I wonder what you are saying. Weren't you uninterested in this kind of stuff?”Above the arena that had begun to be covered amid Louis' ability, Ruriko and Mia began to continue their conversation. Ruriko poorly tried to dismiss Mia's assertions, fending it back with few words. “I am, but this is fairly about how you had anything to do about that man's sudden growth. You aren't perhaps favoring them just because they are loyal to your system. Isn't that quite unfair for everyone you forced to sit under your system?”Mia would push further with it, broadening the conversation from some involvement with a contestant into a political imbalance.Ruriko only giggled at her futile attempts to seek an answer from her, and despite that Mia had tried to sound threatening, her whims were just as cute. But maybe this would only warrant one answer, to make her gears going.“What do you think?”Ruriko would leave such a vague answer that led to Mia's inter
——Reality Manipulation. “So it was something one can get from a Unique Magic Acquisition.”Amongst the crowd, a woman flared her emerald eyes across the arena. She had a pen and paper that she listened upon, and with only two matches, there was not much to write from the first. “Sabrine. Cian looks a bit different. He still fights aggressively but... there's this feeling that I am getting.”Narrowly closing her right eye, Teresa would look at Cian's personality. Right now, he was being pinned down by such an ability yet he seemed to be calm.“It could be because he is fighting assertively, instead of being aggressive. It's indeed a change.”Knowing the exact reason for that change, Sabrine left out the details of how it was possible for Cian.Teresa was once again with Sabrine as they both observed the fights that started. The first match had nothing to be observed as it ended within a second by forfeiting.“...You said that they could be using magic that they were granted through u
At the headquarters of the Red Trackers, Vincent was left alone to look over the building.Sabrine had left to gather data for the Red Tracker's fights and the rest had been made to stay in their holding rooms until their matches happen.“It sounds lonely in here.”Without the noise of either Kira being her usual self or Kurumi's usual training routine, the building was practically empty without the members in it.He was being sentimental when he had all the time to rest.“...Huh?”Just as Vincent looked out of the window, he would see multiple men that wore what seems to be hooded. As far as he knows, they invited no one and had closed business temporarily. They were uninvited guests.It was his first idea to call the others about this so he pulled out his phone, however, just as he tried to call them, the call ends with a noise.“Give me a break...!”The call was intercepted.He was left alone to defend himself now.***“G-Good job out there.”“———”Arriving at the same mezzanine
“——Would you like to explain yourself...? Aspiring Champion?”With both hands on his back, Michael Hudson had inquired Cian. He had a smile that was hard to discern if fake or not, but he had done it so to show courtesy.His staff was grouped at the sides of the corridor as Cian and Michael faced each other.“Mr. Mayor! We meet again!”As Cian instantly recognized him, he rubbed the back of his head as he leaned and bowed, greeting the Mayor who appeared before him. It was a display of courtesy and gratitude, yet it was something unwarranted for someone who was causing the Mayor trouble. “Why aren't you following the staff's instructions? It was strictly advised for your stay in the mezzanine after winning. You are in luck that I like you a lot and I don't want you to get disqualified by something like this.”Michael confronted Cian, maintaining a smile of an affectionate mayor. Michael had seen how the staff were barely able to hold Cian back, but that was because he abstained fr
WHOOSH! The doors in Magi's room would slide open, finally letting him out. The tournament was continuing its course as he was the next one to fight, and this will be the revelation that his death was but a false rumor. “Stand up. Don't attempt to do anything funny. We've had enough trouble for one day.”A staff guide would enter the room and lead Magi out with the least courtesy. This kind of attitude words him was unwarranted and annoying for the Magi. “You don't have to worry about that unless your attitude changes.”Swiftly walking past them, his simple notion made them feel cold. Their hands shivered at the sudden drop in temperature. That alone distracted them all as they tried to lead Magi who had walked through the corridor alone, proceeding to the lift that would bring him to the arena. There was no need for them to tell him what to do. From the deep halls of the colosseum, the lift would rise as he saw light from above spilling out.The floor above slowly opened up as
——As the cheers of the audience in the colosseum become loud, their sword becomes stronger as well.“Hmph! Parry this you filthy imbecile!”Using the thin yet long, serrated blade, Poppo started to attack the offensive, pushing Magi back as his distance to the side of the arena closes. “——!”He was being pushed back somehow, he wouldn't win a match of sword fighting. However, he had an idea.“Glazier. Ground Zero.”Unholsting his Grant, he would aim Glazier at Poppo as he parried the next attack. Poppo wasn't as surprised as before as he tried to break away, however, due to the serrated nature of his blade, it was stuck as Magi turned his blade nature. He fires away, creating a sudden rumble across the arena, creating a huge floor of ice as everything around it freezes around his area. Yet, Poppo was able to save himself from it at the last second.“Geh. Ice. You never learn, do you?”Poppo only had a disgusted face. Elemental Magic was just as pitiful and weak as he thought it w
With almost everyone preoccupied, Sabrine was done with the masks. All she had to do was to deliver them to everyone and call the signal in to have the others run in. Yet, it was where the problem began to show. “——Ngh?! The door's stuck?!”As she tried to push the glass door open, it was stuck and won't move.There was a metal screw that got loose after Baji shot it, locking the door altogether.She tried to shoot through the door with a point-blank shotgun, but it would only launch the shotgun back, creating only shallow craters from the pellets. The front door was unusable but it wasn't the only way out of the building.“——Tch!”As she sees Violet and Vincent get pinned on by three of their enemies who had the advantage, she quickly had to make a decision. She grabbed all of the makeshift masks she made, and went upstairs. Vincent would see Sabrine do so, confused as to why she came back up when he expected her to be done by now. However, he wasn't at the right time to think