Gremory Territory

Now that there was a considerable amount of space between her and her opponent, Cinder, took the two ends of her blades and slammed them together. The end result was something which looked a bit like a glass bow, but with no foreseeable string or method of usage. She didn't do anything about this immediately but instead remained focusing her eyes specifically upon the Dust all over this place. There was a rather sudden disturbance of it as she looked and she wouldn't be able to avoid it given the speed. Instead she decided to take this hit as it knocked her head around she spun in the circle and knocked her body back once more. "Ugh, that's a headache," she said with one of her eyes closed, but this was so she could see the where the disturbance in the dust led to. Doing so while holding her head with her unoccupied hand, she created within it, a broad head arrow, made of gravitational Dust. She'd quickly draw the bow and fire the arrow, seemingly at nothing well behind Izuna, but doing so as it floated through the air, it disturbed all the other dust. The lavender dust, was a combination of ice and lightning, and together they'd create a freezing pulse of electrical energy meant to make Izuna visible and freeze him in place, while the explosion of the gravity dust arrow behind him would send him rocketing towards Cinder. Given the strange sturdiness of the fox boy, Cinder wasn't all together sure this would work. But for her it'd be worth it to quickly figure how where he was and temporarily stop this game of hide and seek.

Izuna suddenly realized he was late to catch up on something. His ki blast traveled toward its intended goal without interruption, but the blast itself interrupted the dust Cinder had left behind. He was remiss to think she was now using a method of her own creation to discover his whereabouts, even whilst he remained invisible. 'Ah, shit. I only went and screwed myself over with tunnel vision,' he thought. Whatever he was going to do, he had to act fast, as Cinder undoubtedly knew where to attack now. Anywhere he moved to hastily would give away his new position, but there was perhaps one thing he could do. Cinder had made it apparent that she would be attacking with some kind of arrow, so he figured it would be coming in his exact direction. With this assumption in mind, he steadied himself at ground level and let his Touki flare outward. It was taxing, but he cleared an area of a few meters around him, allowing him the freedom to leave an image of himself where he stood while backing up. Due to his clearing of the dust nearby, the ice and electricity from Cinder's arrow did not affect him, though it was strange that the arrow itself wasn't aimed directly at him. He'd expected to erect some sort of defense while making it look like he'd taken the hit, but there was instead an explosion of the arrow with a force of gravity leading toward Cinder as a result.

The moment he felt this gravity, Izuna knew his initial plan was null. He had to come up with something else, and the idea that came to him was the only one worthwhile. He pushed his Touki forward, extending it to the area around the illusion of him while moving it ahead at the same pace he was being forced to move. In doing this, he happened to also trigger the freezing and electrified dust, and had to force this to show as a reaction in the illusion. By the time his illusion reached Cinder, his final effort was to give it the appearance of being taken by the retirement system, while Izuna himself fell just shy of its location, exhausted of almost all his energy from the efforts he made alone. Still, he managed to retain his invisibility. While he still had something - anything - left to offer, he reached out with the intention of grabbing Cinder by her choker. If he did not manage this, he was likely to collapse on the spot. If he did manage it, however, he would make himself visible to offer a single statement while conjuring an explosion of fox fire from the hand which reached out. "Oi... I got you, right?"

It seemed Cinder Fall's plan had worked out, giving her knowledge of where the young man was. She couldn't know the things going through his mind, but she could know that she was soon to make contact with him. Strangely enough, her layered attack seemed to work exactly as she planned. She didn't have anything negative to say about the boy, he seemed to lack power but she could at least respect his resourcefulness as he faded due to the Retiring System, or so she thought. The normal green light that would have caused him to fade, instead led to a pull on the choker around her neck, her left brow raised and those glowing eyes of hers widened in astonishment as the young man spoke to her once more. He'd figured her out, enough to at least know that he had to be point blank to harm her, and even more so than that, she couldn't mount a defense quickly enough to forego simply taking the Fox Fire explosion from his conjured hand. Her face and neck would burn momentarily as she tried to back away, swatting at this boy. "Fucking brat!" she said. Though if she was being fair, he'd performed way better than she'd expected, actually even managing to get that close to her was a feat in and of itself. Whatever happened to this young man from this moment forward, he at the very least had the respect of the Strongest Queen.

Eira watched on the edge of her seat, and finally at the end of Izuna's last stand fell back against the chair. She was actually impressed as well, given he'd gone so hard not to reveal the depth of his actual power. The fact that he'd managed to get one up on Cinder Fall, even a small one, said much about his abilities and his understanding of his skills. "Sugoi!~ Izuna, you did so well~" she chimed. She couldn't wait to have her full peerage back so that she could cuddle them all for their efforts this day. She hadn't been disappointed yet, even though she could have done with Izuna showing off a bit more. She supposed he'd satisfied her need to see him work in a different way that suited his own needs, which she could only enjoy of him as a person.

"Eheh... yeah. I got ya'," Izuna said with a weak smile for the Queen of Sirtreize, just before he was swatted away from her and his own explosive attack. He fell back, but the retiring system took him before he even hit the ground. Maybe he could have done more, had he used his true form. Not doing so had forced him to use Touki at a ridiculous level just to compete with this woman. Izuna had yet to become capable of using Touki and manipulating his own life energy at such a level, and had virtually placed himself in a near-death state when he could have seen a proper battle otherwise. After the retirement system took the boy, Cinder would be teleported back as well. Sirtreize would take a moment to speak only then. "Like I said. They could destroy themselves at any moment," he said, wasting no further time before dropping his own die into the bowl. This time, the number Sirtreize produced was...

6

Szavelneas hesitated from the announcer's stands, realizing one of two dice had already been rolled, and they'd yet to even comment on the battle. "Ladies and gentlemen, it seems one of our participants is all out of patience. I'm sure our audience can agree; the two most recent matches have been more exciting than we could normally expect from a scrimmage game!"

"Tricky Foxboy," Cinder's eyes cut in his direction as he retired offering her that weak smile. Even she had to admit, his tactics made her think and that wasn't something she often had to do. As she was teleported back to the hub she belonged in, she was confronted by the words of her husband and she found herself shrugging casually as she went to retake her seat. "I don't know about all of that, but at least he'd take someone out with him. Deplorable tactic, but... I can't fault it," she said as she relaxed back where she had been the first time.

Meanwhile, Eira stood as well, going to roll her own die and feeling just as antsy as everyone else for these matches to see their true conclusion. She tossed the die and stared at it in the bowl. It landed flat, in a way which made Eira's eyes narrow.

2

"Impatient doesn't seem to cover it, but I can't blame them. These matches are building up and I can only imagine what will happen next!~" Elsa commented only to see that now both dice had been rolled so they had a set of numbers to announce. "Looks like the total is eight! Kings send out your next pieces," were the words of Satan Leviathan. Eira turned around to the remaining members of her peerage looking them over. It was more than obvious this was a test for everyone. She could either send out both Miyuki and Maiko. Or... she could send Takumi out alone. Her eyes traveled over the still hypnotized boy and back to her newest Bishop. And in this moment, Eira would strangely make a selfish decision but not one which anyone would argue about. "Maiko and Miyuki, you can both go~ I didn't want to send either of you alone really, Gambatte!" she said to the pair of them. Maiko slammed a fist into her open palm and grinned. "Hell yes! I've been waiting forever!~" said Maiko seemingly excited to even get to go. "Language, Maiko~" teased Eira who really didn't have much, if any, room to talk about the girl's word choice. Miyuki finally extricated herself from Takumi and nodded. "H-hai! I'll do my best!~" she chimed making her way to the platform with Maiko who was now, putting on those red leather gloves she'd had in her possession since before the matches.

Sirtreize's view of the total roll brought a cheeky grin to his face. There was one thing he hoped to see in this battle, but thought he wouldn't see quite yet regardless. Either way, Eira only had three true options for this roll. She could send herself and risk cutting the rest of her peerage out, or... she could see to the growth opportunity for her members, and send either the Red Dragon Emperor she'd so recently acquired, or the other remaining members. Given Sirtreize's understanding of how Eira acquired the Red Dragon, he wondered how far she would go. Perhaps it was only sensible for him to make one move that would answer either decision. "Revil. Zekrom." Following his order, a young male with crimson hair belonging to the Gremory family rose. The other individual to step onto the teleportation platform was a slender woman with long, black hair worn in pigtails on either side of her head, in an outfit designed similarly to a maid. When they both stepped up, the woman placed her hand upon the boy's head and smiled, as two pairs of crimson eyes met one another. They would be sent out within moments to a battlefield that was a simple grass field in the center of a forest.

In the meantime, Takumi witnessed the roll as well. He, too, wondered if he would be sent forth now that a number exactly matching his count was given. Alas, it was not to be this time either. On the other hand, he had fought alongside Miyuki, and fought against Maiko briefly. He could see a few potential strengths in the two working together, and wondered if this was a reason for their pairing. He would speak up once they were sent to the battle. "Do they have some combination strategy? Is that why you saved them both?"

An eye roll came from Cinder Fall as her husband grinned like a madman. Whatever he thought was to come of this, he'd be sending out his own son, and a certain maid of their household. A chuckle came from the raven haired woman. "Have fun, Revil~" she said to the lad who had his father's crimson hair. Meanwhile, both Miyuki and Maiko were teleported to the open field in the forest as well. Maiko had pulled on both of her gloves and seemed to be bouncing on her toes, happily. "Eh, Eira-sama sent us out together, so... if you come up with something and you want me to help you out... I got ya'," she offered to Miyuki, with an extended fist. This girl had been a bit sheltered by Eira herself since coming to their group. She'd only recently started coming to school, but she knew the girl was capable of creating spells on the spot and strategies to work with. She didn't know the full breadth of Miyuki's powers, but figured she'd offer her physical strength to assist the mage. "Hai, I don't want to disappoint. So I'll help out whatever way I can," she said meeting the fist extended to her in a gentle tap which sent a cold burst through the hand of Maiko. "Yo! I've been waiting for this all day, who's trying to box?" Maiko asked of this pair of individuals, but while looking between the two she could decide which one she would be fighting.

Meanwhile, in the hub on Eira's side, she was left alone with Takumi. He asked about the combination of Miyuki and Maiko wondering if they had some sort of combination that would make them a force to be reckoned with while out together. She supposed she hadn't considered she'd be explaining herself this day, but could do so without much of a problem. "Iie," she said before offering a bit of a grin. "Or rather, if they do I don't know about it yet. Miyuki isn't very old in my peerage yet. I've kind of been keeping her to myself. Everyone else, doesn't really know why she's so skiddish yet, but when they find out, they'll understand," she commented unsure of what kinds of conversation Takumi and Miyuki had been getting into while they were together. "Miyuki's pretty decent at strategy and will be able to offer Maiko some novel ways to use her Artificial Sacred Gear," she said knowing how the personalities of these two individuals worked. "And with any luck, Maiko will be able to pull Miyuki the rest of the way out of her shell, which will help her magical abilities and her confidence," she said. "This Rating Game is a controlled environment for the assessment and growth of my Peerage, I would have been remiss to go out myself, though I considered it briefly, and I couldn't just send you out right now either..." she said without further expressing why she'd decided not to send Takumi. There were many reasons for this, but when it came right down to it, Eira simply wasn't ready yet to send out the Red Dragon Emperor.

The answer Takumi was given was one which explained that Maiko and Miyuki did not possess any developed synergy with one another. He could understand why Eira sent both girls simultaneously, as it would increase whatever chance of victory they had if there were two... but he had expected his own opportunity to come here and now. "Ah... sou ka," he said, clenching his left fist over his left knee. The boy's eyes flashed orange again to show another hiccup in Sirtreize's hypnosis. He could only think there was surely something he'd be able to accomplish when his time came.

Of the two sent from Sirtreize's peerage, the teen Devil Sairevil was the first to step forward. Maiko was quick to announce her willingness to fight, and he had been instructed to go forth in the same way. "Ohayou gozaimasu, Matsui-san. I'll fight you. Pegasus Cloth!" At his words, a crystal worn around the boy's neck shone with a bright light. The disappearance of this light revealed Sairevil clad in a full-body armor suit whose white form fit his body like a glove. Larger versions of the original gem were present on his chest, knees and elbows, as well as the back of each hand. The crystals glowed as he took off hastily toward Maiko, aiming a straight-forward right uppercut at her chin when he reached striking distance. "Oh, Revil-sama... where did all this aggression come from?" the black-haired woman nearby wondered aloud.

A smile came to Eira's face, and since she was looking towards Takumi she saw the slight shift in her brother's hypnosis. "Don't worry, Takumi~" she chimed thinking about it a little bit more. "I decided it was best to save you for last. A good finale to this game... which seems to be as much about impressing the crowds as is it about impressing my brother," mentioned Eira. She did decide to keep this young man here, for the same reason she'd avoided going out herself. Because he was likely to be the attention grabber of the entire situation. But, he hadn't chosen this life, and as such she was a bit resistant to making him go out just because she needed him to. She'd only had him a couple of days, and as such she didn't know how he felt about all of this. His willingness to work for her, was one thing... but she didn't want to force him into this world, especially given his reaction during his first go in a Rating Game. She worried for him, likely a bit more than she should.

"Atta boy, Gremory~" Maiko bounced on her toes and waited, as she knew the young man was coming. And what an opener he had as he came close enough to launch an uppercut, her body tucked downward and slightly to his left as she swung her right hand directly into his ribs of his being, with the force of the enhanced strength of her Rook trait. She seemed to be ready for his attack, and if anything excited by his aggressiveness. "G-Gr-Gremory?" there was a massive bit of confusion on behalf of Miyuki who had yet to meet this lad or any in his family aside from Eira until this day. "I feel like I'm missing something... is he normally not that aggressive? Mai-senpai is always like that," she said with a curt nod. Still, Miyuki was a shy girl.

Strangely enough, Eira's eyes went back to the fight and she sighed. "Right, I didn't get the chance to introduce them... I really might be rude," she said aloud shaming herself for this missing opportunity. She knew that such things would or could be taken care of at a later point in time. Irrespective of this she leaned back and observed her hands clasped together in her lap and legs crossed at the ankles with near perfect posture as she always tended to sit.

Sairevil had his uppercut ducked, but he was not deterred by this; it was simply to be expected in a close-quarters battle that such a thing could always happen. What he new as a result of this, was that some form of counter-attack was likely to come from the openings he left behind. As such, he focused his own Rook trait on defense to reduce the blow to the impact of a normal punch. As his body curled over from said punch, Sairevil raised his left fist and aimed a hook punch toward the right side of Maiko's face.

The woman named Zekrom who accompanied Sairevil was content to stand by and watch from the sidelines of the ongoing fight. She knew why she'd been sent here, and it was not related to the little boxing match she was now watching. It seemed for a moment as if the other girl here was not yet keen on battling either, at least until she addressed her own confusion. "Sairevil Gremory is the firstborn son of Sirtreize Lucifer and Cinder Fall. I believe that makes him your master's nephew, and no... he's not always that aggressive. What of you, girl? You don't seem too aggressive yourself."