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  1. #101
    The Final Days


    On the day before the final day of the academy year, hundreds of students and teachers alike were seated in the stands surrounding a small arena. A fighting stage lay at the center of said arena, occupied presently by a single man with a purple top hat over spiky, black and inky-green hair. This man seemed to be an announcer of sorts, while in fact, he was a Chief Instructor of the Shinou Academy. "Ladies and Gentlemen!" he called out, speaking through a Kidou spell known as Tenteikura, as to reach the ear of all present in a way similar to using a megaphone. "Today, we witness a new pair of legends in the making! Using the four forms of combat we teach here at Shinoreijutsuin, these two will face each other in combat to determine this year's valedictorian! I'm your host this evening, Sakaki Yusho! Allow me to introduce our combatants this for this special event! I give you the first choice of this year's First Class selection; a prodigy in the eyes of many: Nomura Daiki!"

    As the crowd cheered, the black-haired, sapphire-eyed male named Daiki exited a corridor on the western side of the arena. He stepped out into the field left open for this event, looking toward the corridor on the opposite end of his own. "I also give you yet another prodigy, the underdog who has taken the academy by storm just the same: Niwatoko Benihime!" Yusho said, pointing an arm toward the other corridor.

  2. #102
    In the final days at the Academy, Benihime eventually found herself standing in a corridor at the eastern entrance of the arena which she was set to meet Daiki in. A bit of a frown was on the young woman's face as she stood her left hand resting on the Zanpakuto currently strapped around her lower back and jutting out on the left side. Thus she stood with her left hip popped out as she heard the words spoken by the announcer. 'Eh, underdog? Why is it necessary to determine a valedictorian through combat? They should have just let him have it... I'm pretty sure his grades are a point or two higher than mine. Unless I messed up and we tied~' the young woman thought. Though in actuality she was quite excited. In the hours leading up to this moment, she realized she'd never actually faced Daiki in combat the year that they were here together, it seemed like it could be fun. And with this in mind, at the mention of her name she also stepped out onto the stage, her eyes darting around the large crowd apparently gathered just for this moment before settling on the young man across from her, a small smile breaking across her face.

  3. #103
    Daiki wore a gentle grin during the arena approach of Benihime. Noting the position of her Zanpakutou, he brought his left hand to grip the sheath of his own weapon, and pulled down on it until the hilt of his sword pointed at a downward angle. "Changing things up a bit? Stylish. A bit difficult though, isn't it?" Daiki asked. The way the redhead wore her Zanpakutou now simply seemed a bit unorthodox. His own pre-draw ritual, while it may have seemed similarly strange, had his sword with its blade pointed downward, allowing it to curve upward when he unsheathed it. Of course, that would be seen only after the announcer declared the fight's beginning.

    "Welcome both combatants! Both contestants will use all abilities at their disposal to decide who will receive the title! Let the battle... BEGIN!" Yusho's exclamation was accompanied by him vanishing from the fighting stage. At this time, Daiki reached for his Zanpakutou's hilt with his right hand. "Well... ladies first."

  4. #104
    Benihime watched as Daiki adjusted his own zanpakuto, and she was pretty much ignoring the announcer at this point. The grin on her face, seemed to spread as Daiki commented on the way she wore her sword today. "Iie, this is the way I normally wear it, when I am intending to try... I'm left handed after all~" she said to the young man before her. After this was said it was announced that their battle would begin and the announcer disappeared from their arena. She then thought about how he'd have to draw his weapon and chuckled. "Dai-kun, I don't think you really get to talk... but get ready~" she said. In this moment she shifted her body so that her left hip was out just a bit more and her left hand reached for the hilt of her sword in a reverse grip. A second later she was drawing it up from the side so that the curve ran came up in a small arc above her head, but one couldn't actually use a weapon this way so she used her fingers to spin the blade around above her head before she grabbed it out the air in a more proper grip. She then held the sword close to her left side as she ran towards the young man as if she intended to run him through, only to disappear from his fore utilizing Shunpo. She'd then appear at his rear her back to his jabbing the blade towards his side as if she intended to inflict a deep piercing wound there.

  5. #105
    "That's not at all what I meant, and you know it," was Daiki's response. When Benihime moved forward, he prepared himself to draw his sword. A moment of hesitation came before she reached his fore, as Daiki knew Benihime wasn't the type to be simple enough that she'd attack so obviously. Of course, she proved not to be. That was precisely what Daiki had been hoping for. The moment she disappeared from his sight, he drew his sword as well, curving it upward and overhead as he twisted his body to his right. This enabled him to slash outward in the area of Benihime's new location, giving him enough of a reaction window to parry the stab aimed his way by stepping back when he caught sight of it incoming. "That's a shame. I thought mine was going to look awesome, but you come here doing something like that." With another step, Daiki hopped away to gain more distance, simultaneously using his left hand to draw a glowing red symbol in the air. At the end, he pointed through the symbol as his body gained the same red glow it had. "Bakudou no Kyuu: Geki!" he called out. With his point aimed at Benihime, he intended to have the spell take place by paralyzing her where she stood, leaving him time to prepare something greater.

  6. #106
    "You can't prove that~" the young woman said of apparently knowing he meant something else entirely by his words than how she chose to take them. Soon enough the young man was parrying the backward stab she'd aimed towards his torso, much to her relief. This was a sort of simple maneuver but she was never sure of the skill of other people. Actually, she'd probably gone a bit far out of her own general handicap by using her sword at her left instead of at her right as she had been the duration of her time in the Academy. "Sumimasen~ Didn't mean to steal your thunder or anything~" the young woman said, seeming to mean it, though her words came out quite playfully as the young man put more space between them. She already had an idea of what he would attempt, and she wasn't disappointed by the use of Kidou. He even went to far as to go by the book and open with a bakudo which let her know that something greater was coming. To the surprise of most the young woman didn't try and dodge the Geki spell, instead the paralyzing light engulfed her and she began to struggle against it, raising her own reiatsu slowly in a dark red glow around her person. While the young man readied himself for whatever his next spell would be, the young woman took the chance to plan ahead a bit, 'Take the little one, dodge the big one... opening for the next strike... yeah, that seems like a good idea,' the young woman thought to herself, admittedly she was a bit curious as to what Daiki would come up with, and as such she wanted to see it.

  7. #107
    Daiki's Bakudou was successful. As such, he had ample time to do all he needed. "Bakudou no Nijuuroku: Kyokkou!" Daiki's first spell created a shroud which bent light around him. Within it, he immediately cast a second veil, as well as a low-level barrier immediately around his body. Once inside, his visual presence and Reiatsu were both masked. From within, he utilized other spells. He began by weaving a net of Kidou between the two shrouds, to be used as a catalyst for something greater. "Bakudou no Hachi: Seki. Hadou no Sanjuuichi: Shakkahou. Hadou no Juuni: Fushibi," he whispered. With this combination of spells, the outermost shroud was laced with a repulsive spell meant to repel anyone too close to it inward, toward the net. The net itself, in the meantime, was fueled by a spell which would explode when triggered. The final spell Daiki used during this combination was the trigger itself, which he channeled into his Zanpakutou to await a moment of Benihime falling into his net. 'There. Now...' he thought, allowing minute amounts of his Reiatsu to leak through the pair of cloaks, as to bait the redhead into his trap.

  8. #108
    A few more seconds and Benihime freed herself from the paralysis recently inflicted by the young man who'd rather suddenly disappeared from her sight. "Ano... hide and seek is funner in the dark, just sayin'~" she said a bit of a grin coming over her face as she bounced around on her toes. After a few seconds though she felt a bit of the young man's Reiatsu coming from directly in front of her. "Well, this tastes like a trap... fufufufufu~ You're responsible for fixing me up after... whatever this is, is done," the young woman mentioned absently apparently to the air itself. Even so, she needed to get into whatever was going to happen and as such she began to twist her sword around so that her right hand was against the ebony blade and her left continued to hold it at the hilt. "Bakudo no Sanjuukyuu: Enkōsen," with that a dull yellow energy was created which gave the young woman a bit of freedom to run directly into this invisible trap allowing whatever was to happen to happen while apparently only taking the most basic of precautions as she did so.

  9. #109
    Soon enough, Benihime was tearing through the first veil, leading into his net. When this occurred, Daiki struck the net with his Zanpakutou, causing a flame to spread along its length. By the time the fire reached Benihime's location, burning in the net would be the least of her problems. An explosion would occur due to the Shakkahou mixed into the net. The barrier immediately surrounding Daiki would protect him from this, but the blast would tear through his second Kyokkou to reveal his grinning face. He was now crouched, with his left hand placed on the ground. "You might want to watch out," he said, albeit in no way referring to the explosive spell he'd set up.

  10. #110
    The young woman running forward was soon confronted by a burning net and a sea of explosions. "Sugoi!~" was her immediate reaction to this, though it probably would have been a bit better, if she were not caught in the middle of this maelstrom. Even so, she rather quickly opened her hand ending the use of the spell Enkosen and instead opening the palm of her right while doing a flip off of it and bounding into the air. "Seki," the small use of the supplementary Kidou spell would allow the girl to launch herself out of the most of the explosions with only a few singes and minor burns for her trouble. Not that she was completely out of the woods yet. She didn't know what would come from the warning issued by Daiki but she could only assume something heavily influenced by Kidou and as such she had to remain vigilant. While she was up on the air her flip now fully performed she let go of her sword, kicking it down into the spot where she could now see Daiki aiming to have the sword fly directly into his barrier and through his back if he wasn't careful. Beyond this a second later the fore and middle fingers of her right hand would show crackling yellow energy. "Hainawa," the rope would then be created from Reishi and let towards the hilt of her sword aiming to pull it back up to her hand after it stopped moving for whatever reason.

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