The four students of Theta Magic academy stood side besides, equal parts nervous, antsy, serious, and on the verge of having their emotions explode. In front of them, stood an opponent of unparallel power.

Wrath reared his head back with maniacal laughter, one hand clenching the wound on his chest.

Erika twirled her blade in her hands as she stared at the undeniably formidable opponent in front of them.

"That presence. This guy is the real deal." She commented, doing her best to remove the nervousness from her body.

"You should have known he was the real deal from the very first explosion." Nova said, looking behind to the massive hole in the lobby of Theta Magic academy.

"Actually, that was our doing..." Yuri said, while nervously scratching his forehead.

Both Erika and Nova just stared at him and Masayoshi in disbelief.

"Well, its certainly was, something." Nova said, turning her attention back to Wrath.

"I'd praise you, but that bastard still standing and the Magic Academy is collapsing." Erika stopped spinning her blade, holding it at her side.

Wrath had finally stopped laughing, and now he was overlooking the battle going on below. In all of the chaos with explosions and falling buildings, the battles flow had been completely disrupted, and now it turned into a desperate scramble by both sides to gain the advantage.

"Chaos." Wrath spoke loudly, but to no one in particular. "That is the root of all human nature. Anarchy. State of nature. In the end, chaos is the one thing that resonates deeply within all of humanity. It's one constant."

All four of the students stood silently, waiting for Wrath to make his move.

"So, what better way to incite change, then to appeal to the one force of nature that all humans can recognize. Destruction. Complete and utter annihilation. Out with the old, in with the new. That is the only way society can be changed for the better, to a place where we can observe, Justice."

Masayoshi clenched his fists, grinding his teeth together. Everything that this man said, all of it, was a pure mockery of justice. "Death? Cruelty? Murder? Terror? That's what justice means to you!"

Masayoshi had begun to yell, to the shock of his allies.

Wrath smiled. "What's with that look on your face. This entire battle, you've remained restrained. Emotionless, one might say. But now, you look like you want to kill me. To skewer me along a pole."

Masayoshi ignored Wraths obvious attempts to taunt him. "Your obsession with destruction as a means to bring about change is not justice. It's psychotic. You believe inflicting terror in people that are already scared, that already fear you, will change anything? You think using the same cruelties that perpetuate injustice to achieve justice will work! Thats just a disgusting perversion of what Justice is!"

Wrath held a hand up in the air, to stop Masayoshi's yelling. He seemed to be enjoying this. The reaction that he had failed to get out of the student council president, he would enjoy every last moment of getting it out of this boy.

"When you want to remove a bad habit, a detrimental addiction, what do you have to do?" He didn't wait for anyone else to respond, answering his own question. "You completely cut out what's causing it from the source." He let out a mini explosion in his own hand.

"That won't apply to all problems. That brute force mindset can only carry you so far. A situation like what's going on in the world right now, by your solution, genocide is the only answer! Should we just kill all non-magicians and have that solve all of our problems!"

Masayoshi continued to take steps forward as he spoke, and this time Yuri grabbed unto him, forcing him to stop.

"There is always more than one factor. For every idea of brute force, there as an equally complex strategy. However, in order for the world to spin, and for a solution to exist, both of these most be present. I fulfill the role of the former, and..." He pointed down to the battlefield, specifically to the men in python tattoos. "They and Prometheus fill out the latter. Both forces are necessary, in order to spur true change. Complexity, multiple unpredictable variables. Chaos."

Masayoshi's brain spun as Wrath let out his rationale. It only served to anger the boy even more that what this mindless cretin was saying had logic that could be used to ground the idea. The fact this ridiculous world view could even be rationalized in the first place was repulsive.

"This is the second time you've made mention to this Prometheus! Is he your leader!"

Wrath just winked with his good eye, staring into Masayoshi's soul with the deformed red-one. "That's top-secret!"

Masayoshi's anger finally boiled over, and he dashed forward, ready to-"

Erika and Yuri both stepped in front of him, holding him in place.

"Wh-"

"Don't let him do this to you!" Yuri shouted out. "I accepted you for the special defense team because you were the most rational. You're calm. You think. You showed that to me in our battle together against him and look how we did. Now we have more allies. So, calm down and think!"

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Erika looked at Masayoshi with concern in her eyes. "This is the most I've ever seen you lose it. Don't get me wrong, what he's saying is making all of us mad, but don't let that anger consume you. Your usually calm, so stay calm!"

Calm. Methodical. Unemotional. Scheming. Just like his father had taught him. Masayoshi could only clench his fists even more. Would he really use the advice of that cowardly murderer?

Running away! Thats all he ever did. From the moment that mom died that man spent the rest of his worthless live running away. Devising a complex plan to groom his son and leave him all alone in a world full of lies and injustice!

Masayoshi's thoughts began to devolve further. Arguing with Wrath about Justice, being told to remain calm. All of it made him think of his father. The coward that man was. The killer he was. The obsessed lunatic.

And without a doubt, the emotionally restrained genius.

In order to defeat Wrath, and prove that justice and cruelty were not synonymous, he would need to use what his father taught him. He would have to use his father's tactics to prove his own father wrong.

It was almost comical.

How hypocritical!

Masayoshi couldn't accept that. If he did it that way. If he used his own father's teachings to try and prove his justice correct, it wouldn't be clean. It wouldn't be what Masayoshi was aiming for.

Because unbeknownst to him, Masayoshi had also become obsessed.

Not only with justice, but also with distancing himself as much as he could from his father. With proving that dead man wrong.

"Tch!" Shaking away the whirlwind that was his current mental state, Masayoshi redirected his focus back to the battle to come. "We were able to catch him once with just me and Yuri working together, along with his teleportation technique. Our best bet is to just overwhelm him and then land a massive attack that will weaken him enough to end this fight."

Erika and Nova nodded, as they glanced at each other. "I'll take up the vanguard along with Yuri then." Erika stepped forward to stand next to Yuri.

Flipping through his book, Masayoshi activated his scales of justice, and they deepened Erika innocent. (After 3 or so attempts.)

Masayoshi glared at her and whispered "Delinquent." under his breath, before activating the buffs.

Speed, Attack, and Defense. Blue, Green, and red orbs floated in the air behind him, before passing on power to Erika, causing her body to glow. Jumping up and down, Erika tested the newfound feeling in her body.

"I feel so pumped!"

"Me and Nova will be supporting from back here. The moment you find an opening to land a decent hit, take it."

Masayoshi looked to Nova, his expression asking if she had any objections. She looked up into the sky, before turning back to Masayoshi and shaking her head.

"Me and Erika's abilities are ones that kind of require the sun, or stars in general. I think I have an idea that could fix that, but it probably won't work, so let's go with your plan."

Masayoshi seemed genuinely interested to see what their abilities were, and so he leaned in and whispered to her,

"If we could buy you enough time, do you think you'd be able to......?"

"No promises. But I'll try."

Masayoshi nodded and finally turned back to look at Wrath.

Thunder boomed twice over head, like a Judge banging them gave.

And the trial commenced.

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To say that Wrath had stopped holding back was an understatement. His movement speed was beyond just off the charts.

He was like a blur, and even the buffed Erika and Yuri were having difficulties keeping up with just how fast he really was.

It didn't help that he was using explosions to fly around, making his fast movements unpredictable as well.

Yuri ran along the wall, firing at Wrath to try and slow him down. Wrath expertly maneuvered in the air with explosions, avoiding all of them.

Erika came from his flank, but Wrath was prepared, ducking, and kicking her away.

Landing on the wall, he avoided Yuri's high kick and jumped over Erika's sweep.

Masayoshi continued to spray Wrath from afar with flame ice and water spells, however Wrath was slippery, and he managed to evade the, landing back down onto the walls, he detonated it, blowing Erika and Yuri backwards.

Masayoshi's swung his chain, and Wrath leaped over it, before dodging the flaming slashes that Erika sent his way.

Yuri had used Mana switching to get directly behind him, but almost as if he had a sixth sense, he avoided the blast, causing it to come straight for Erika.

Not even flinching, Erika used her blade as a bat and sent the attack flying straight back towards Wrath.

Masayoshi acted immediately, using his chains to distract Wrath.

As Wrath attempted to what he always did and use his explosions to slither himself out of danger, he was stopped by a barrier, created from shields made by Yuri.

However, Wrath was not out of options, as he moved to use his left hand to intercept the attack.

However, Masayoshi had already anticipated that move. He had seen Wrath use it many times in their previous battles anytime that he couldn't dodge. He used his left hand, and only his left, to blow up anything mana made.

So, he used his chains to hold down Wraths left hand.

Still, Wrath was not done, and he managed to gyrate his body just in time to avoid the attack.

The attack made contact with the shield, and it reflected back towards Wrath.

Once again Wrath managed to avoid it, but in return, Masayoshi managed to Wrap a few more chains around his body.

As the attack flew by, it was suddenly swapped with Yuri.

Yuri, who had been right behind the shield.

He disabled the shield, and the blast of mana came flying right back towards Wrath, at the same time that Yuri fired once again.

Wrath was hard pressed to find a way to avoid taking a majority of this attack.

Masayoshi's chains were restricting his left hand, and the rest of his movement. He was going to be hit by two attacks simultaneously.

However just then, Wrath dragged his arm across the air, and detonated an explosion-

That caused his to teleport away from the attacks and meters higher into the air.

Masayoshi wasn't prepared for whatever that was, and it dragged him forward.

Thinking quickly, he pulled back on the chains, regaining control, and swinging them around, causing Wrath to be dragged across the ground and crash into multiple parts of the academy before he finally launched him into the air.

An explosion erupted from the right of Masayoshi, and he saw Erika flying into the sky in a flaming ball.

She reached Wrath in less than a few seconds, and se=dragged her blades into a myriad of cuts that etched red lines into the sky.

Easily over 70 slashes.

As she fell back down to Earth, an explosion detonated in the air, and Wraths smoking body came crashing down into the ground.

The hit the ground at the same time, With Erika landing next to me, and Wrath landing a meters away in the battlefield down below.

Yuri also landed next to us.

Down below Wrath got up and dusted himself off. Aside from a deep cut on his chest and shoulder, he was unfazed, a smile still on his face.

"Damn!" Yuri cursed, stretching out his arm.

"All of that, for a blow that didn't even faze him." Erika commented, the disappointment clear in her voice.

Masayoshi paused for a brief moment, his mind racing with possibilities. Finally, it clicked.

"His ability, it's not just that of creating explosions."

Erika, Yuri, and Nova all turned to him with a confused look on their faces.

Wrath's smile only widened, as if he could hear what they were discussing.

"He can completely remove things from existence."