Chapter 70

When Tsukasa entered the field, he attracted everyone’s attention like a black hole.

No one could escape from him since he was just really that beautiful and handsome.

Right now, if someone wanted to put his charm as his ability, no one would find a fault in it since his charm was really that powerful.

However, Tsukasa didn’t really care about that since it was his first time hearing that he had a new epithet.

“Fallen Angel…?”

Tsukasa murmured, and his expression was strange since this epithet was just too Chuunibyou. Even his previous epithet was better instead of this new epithet.

His forehead was covered in black lines, and Tsukasa wanted to see who this genius came up with this epithet. While it was true that his appearance might not lose to an angel even if they existed, he didn’t really want to be named as one.

Still, Tsukasa knew how troubling an epithet was, and it was already impossible for him to erase it unless he did something incredible.

Tsukasa felt regret at why he didn’t take the bud when it sprouted. He let out a tired sigh, but then he quickly threw away this emotion aside since he couldn’t use his mind to think about strange matters right now.

Tsukasa didn’t have an abundance of magic like Stella, Nene, or Shizuku, so to compensate for that, he needed to use other methods by practicing various martial arts, knowledge, and many other things that could help him to win the fight.

While Tsukasa thought many things, there was no fluctuation on his face.

Shizuku, who faced him, must admit that this guy was so handsome, but this wasn’t the reason for her to hold back or forfeit on this match.

The two were standing a few meters in distance in silence and only looked at each other before Shizuku summoned her Device.

“Splash, Yoi Shigure!”

In the palm of her hand, the water spread and moved in a spiral movement before forming into a kodachi with a silver blade without a scabbard.

Tsukasa observed Shizuku’s Device and thought that it was really petite.

‘Kodachi, huh?’

Tsukasa was familiar with kodachi, and it was a Japanese sword that usually stayed hidden on the sleeve or the waist. It was too short to be called a katana, and it was too long to be called a knife. If one could name it, then it was a short sword.

Tsukasa knew that Device represented the individual itself, but when he thought about Stella’s broadsword, Touka’s katana, and Shizuku’s kodachi, he felt that those shapes were suitable for them.

“If you don’t summon your Device, you won’t have a chance to do it later,” Shizuku said with a heavy face, looking at Tsukasa, who was still in the relaxed position with a frown.

“Thanks for your reminder.” Tsukasa didn’t call the name of his Device like everyone else, but black luster particles suddenly scattered around his surroundings before they vanished.

Shizuku had seen this scene twice from his fighting video with Kurono and Stella, and she felt that the epithet of “Fallen Angel” was suitable for him, especially when those black particles seemed to form a wing on his back before they scattered and vanished.

While Tsukasa only showed a form of a sword when he fought Kurono and Stella, many people had speculated that Tsukasa could form many different weapons with his cubic-shaped Device.

‘His ability is the manipulation of the concept of weapons…’

Shizuku had watched how unreasonable this ability was.

On the shopping mall, when they were attacked by the soldiers of the Rebellion, Tsukasa held a rifle in his hand and shot all of the soldiers accurately, defeating them in an instant. Blazer, who was an existence that could render a firearm useless, became a sandbag in front of him.

Shizuku took a deep breath, and somehow, she didn’t realize that she started to have a cold sweat right now, but she tightly grasped her kodachi in reverse grab as she waited for the match to start. She knew her advantage, and she was going to use it without hesitation as the match started!

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“Kurogane, how do you think this match will develop?” Kurono suddenly asked since she knew that Ikki was quite well-developed in his head, especially toward battle-related knowledge.

Ikki was in silence for a moment, then said, “Basically, there are two types of development. One is that Tsukasa won’t attack immediately. Instead, he’s reading his enemies before he defeats them like his match with Vermillion-san. The other development is he defeats his enemy right away like his match with Kurono-director.”

Those two were developments that might have happened in this match.

“While I’m not sure which method that he’s going to use, Shizuku won’t lose so easily since I’m sure that she also understands this,” Ikki said firmly.

However, Nene only laughed when she heard Ikki’s words since it was understandable that Ikki didn’t know the new ability that Tsukasa got. If Tsukasa used his new ability, Shizuku would be defeated instantly.

“What’s wrong? Why are you laughing?” Kurono asked curiously.

“Nothing.” Nene shook her head and knew that there was no way Tsukasa could use his new ability in this place since he asked her to keep his new ability a secret.

“Do you have something to say, Saikyou-sensei?” Ikki asked helplessly.

“No, but like you have said, there are two developments that might happen in this match, but I’m inclined toward the second one,” Nene said.

They were startled, but then Alice asked, “You mean, this match is going to end in an instant.”

“Yeah, you’ll see it soon.” Nene nodded confidently while looking at Stella.

Stella only gritted her teeth before she snorted and looked away. Somehow she felt that she had lost to Nene since Nene understood Tsukasa better. However, she felt better when she thought her development with Tsukasa on the bed was better.

‘I’ll do that next time.’

Stella made up her mind to attack Tsukasa on the bed later before she focused on the match since it started.

Everyone was also curious how this match was going to develop, and they talked in a murmur.

Still, none of that had anything to do with Tsukasa and Shizuku.

Shizuku knew that she needed to initiate the attack, or else the development of their fight might follow Kurono’s case. After all, if the development of the fight followed Stella’s case, she had the confidence to win this match since she had many techniques that could trap Tsukasa.

However, it seemed that Shizuku was still underestimating Tsukasa.

“Let’s go ahead!”

The buzzer sounded, marking the beginning of the battle.

Shizuku was about to freeze the entire field with her Noble Art, but suddenly something hit her part of her head, and she was blown tens of meters away, rotating in the air several times, before she lay on the ground without moving.

Shizuku could feel the tingling pain in her head, and her entire body was numb that she couldn’t move, but all of that didn’t really matter for her since she just couldn’t understand what was happening.

“…..”

Everyone was in silence, and they could only open their mouth wide enough that it was enough to put something on their mouths since the development of this match was too surprising!

However, everyone had a similar question.

‘….Wh-What’s happening?’