CHAPTER 3

Assimilation

“Now then this is the battle hall, all training, practice and battle sessions will be done here. Understood.”

“YES!”

“Good, the rules are simple you’ll be placed in teams according to the scores you got on your entrance examinations.”

“Huh!”

“Kiirishima-kun do you have a problem with that?”

“No it’s just that even though we might the A class, everyone here isn’t on the same level.”

At that time Tachibana’s expression changed it was as if he was planning something.

“Ah, I was getting to that, even though you all made it to A class not all of you are on the same level of skill. That’s why I’m placing you in three man cells and four man cells.”

With that said, the entire hall was filled with shock.

“WAIT!, WAIT!, WAIT! You can’t do that!”

“NO WAY!, how could he do that!”

The entire class was in disbelieve at what was said, how could their teacher do that to them but then.

“SETTLE DOWN YOU DIMWITS, I’M NOT DONE TALKING. There’s a handicap.”

Everyone settle down to hear what he was about to say

“Because of recent occurrences, I’ve taken into consideration the fact that we have extremely powerful students among us. So the three man cells will be made up of those that I’ve ranked level 6 and above and the four man cells are those below level six.”

The entire class stood and listened to what was said but it seemed that they didn’t quite understand, well not all of them.

“Hmm, so you’re basically giving the weaker ones the advantage in their numbers, so any one in the three man teams would have to rely on their power and the four man teams would have rely on their numbers and strategy, interesting.”

“Ah, I see that Shun understands me. Now then the first three man unit goes as followed: the leader is Tetsuya Endou, the other members are……..

As he gave them name of the other member he wore a rather maniacal grin on his face as if he was anticipating something to happen.

“Shun Sora and Nagisa Nagi.

“HUH!, wait, wait, wait you’re putting me on his team, why I can’t work with him, y-you can’t do that!”

“SHUT UP!, are you afraid he’s too strong for you to work with or are you just a wuss?!”

“Bullshit!”

“Language!”

At that time Shun and Tetsuya glared at each other, as their eyes meet you could tell that they didn’t like each other. You could feel the coldness in their eyes, the resentment that they had for each other was growing the more they stared and the Tachibana thought to him himself.

“Hm, just as I thought, these two will have a rough road ahead of them huh.”

“Tsk, fine, I’ll be on in his team, just don’t expect me to do what he says.”

“Good now then, the team you’ll be facing is a four man cells the members are: team leader Sylvia Von Burstein, the other members are kiirishima Ranko, Sachi Shino’in and Kirii Tachi.

“Good luck, Sylvia-san!”

“Ah, thank you Anastasia-san.”

Tetsuya looked rather bored as he walked onto the field even after he and Shun exchanged glares.

Even though he was the one who suggested doing the assessment now, he felt like he was being insulted being placed in a fight with “lower beings” than himself, he felt like he wanted to go over to Tachibana-sensei and knock him over, but he couldn’t, for if he did he would just be drawing more attention to himself than he already has.

“Okay the match is simple, “capture the flag” the first team to capture the opponents flag wins, but….”

Tachibana, again, placing a sinister grin on his face.

“Four man teams aren’t allowed to hold their flag in a defensive position instead you have to go on the offensive all the way.

“Eh, I’m fine with it, besides were winning anyways, it’ll only be more fun attacking the get-go.”

Tetsuya seem to be more excited after Tachibana’s remark, he was more energetic than before.

“Hm, well then let’s begin, as you know I’ll be overseeing this match, with that said you have 20 minutes to capture the flag.”

“READY START!”

As Tachibana-sensei gave the go head Sylvia’s team almost instantaneously started moving toward Tetsuya’s group. At that time Yuuta jumped into the air shooting chains from his body at Tetsuya pushing him to the group, and then Kiirishima let out a huge surge of golden lightning filling the entire room and then crashing it down onto Tetsuya. But then……

“Ouch!, that stung you know you almost had me there…… probably, eh.”

To their surprise Tetsuya wasn’t at the spot of the attack, he wasn’t even near the range of the attack.

“ Now then Kiirishima Ranko, by the looks of it you’re a projector type maybe a converter type, but one things for sure, your lightning is powerful! And you Yuuta your without a doubt a projector type those chains of yours really are something bu--”

At that time a huge glacier of ice came out of nowhere parting the two teams.

“Hey…… don’t forget that I’m also in this fight.”

“Shun Sora, that was you what, power!”

“Hey! Don’t you see I’m in the middle of something here you big numbskull.”

“Why you piece of shit I told you I wouldn’t follow anything you say.”

“Hmm, IDIOT! I don’t recall giving you an order, anyways just stay right there like a well trained dog.”

“you ass—why am even arguing with you?!”

At that time huge spikes of ice formed in the sky and came crashing down, but then, out of nowhere streams of blue lightning came crashing down as well destroying the spikes. Tetsuya then used the lightning to create a “bird cage” like dome surrounding them and pushing Shun out in the process.

“Stay out!”

“Why you!”

meanwhile the fight was taking place Ike watched in amazement at Tetsuya’s power, not only him but the other students as well.

“Hey, Ike-kun what kind of power do think Tetsuya has?”

“To be honest I don’t have the slightest clue Lilliana Richards.”

Meanwhile Tetsuya was busy handling Kiirishima and Yuuta, Sylvia took the advantage and went after their flag alongside kiiri, but then Shun caused the earth below them to turn to snow, causing them to fall, but then, Kiiri, used her power to turn the air around them to glass giving them somewhere to land.

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“Eh, looking for an opening huh, too bad I don’t need to move from where I am to use my power.”

“Hmm, is that so well then I guess I’ll be the judge of that, go Sylvia I’ll handle him.”

“Okay Kiiri, make to win okay.”

Sylvia then run off to where Nagisa was with the flag, but then right before she entered their territory a huge lightning whip came swinging in slicing into the walls of the battle hall, she manage to dodge but almost instantaneously, the lighting whip ricocheted off the walls of the battle hall and hit her in the side knocking her to the ground.

“Now, now, someone in a hurry to win can’t we enjoy our time together a little bit longer my beautiful Sylvia.”

Tetsuya whose fight with kiirishima and Yuuta ended as quickly as it started came walking towards Sylvia, holding a spear made out of lighting in one hand and a whip made out of lightning in the other.

“Do you want to leave me without saying goodbye, I thought we had something?”

“Are you crazy, what are you saying?”

Sylvia who was a blonde haired girl with light green eyes looked confused as to what Tetsuya was saying.

“Eh, what’s this you’re calling me crazy now, you hardly even know me, but I guess it was called for you couldn’t possibly fathom my beauty.

“What in the world are you talking about are you-“

“Silence, no, not another word!”

At that time Tetsuya seem to have disappeared and then reappeared right in front of Sylvia piercing her with the lightning spear and then launched himself forward and kicked her into the ground. Sylvia who managed to defend against the kick then ran around to the opposite side behind of Tetsuya and then, started to launch blades at him. But Tetsuya simply dodged them like it was nothing.

Meanwhile Tetsuya and Sylvia were battling it out, Shun and Kiiri were having their share of problems facing each other. Kiiri whose ability is being able to harden the air around her and change it to glass, was having a difficult time facing Shun who was more experienced than her in many ways.

“why don’t you just give in already?!”

“Umm, I don’t know how to.”

“Well anyways you know you can’t win right there’s no point in continuing this fight, I won’t hesitate to hurt you, even if you are a girl.”

“My pride was hurt the moment I set foot here, you have nothing to worry about, besides I wanna continue fighting yo--”

At that at that moment huge glaciers of ice were sent gliding straight towards her she managed to dodge, but then a giant rock appeared in the sky and broke up into five smaller pieces.

Kiirishima, who was out for the majority of the match, saw the rocks and sent three lightning bolt directly through two of them destroying them in the process, but then the earth started to move, and giant boulders of the earth started to move towards Kiirishima, he defended against one of them, but one of the remaining rocks in sky crashed down on him causing the battle hall to shake from the impact.

“I’m getting bored with this battle I think it’s time I ended it.”

“Hey, don’t forget that you have me to worry about.”

Tetsuya gave Sylvia a cold stare she felt as if her body couldn’t move. Shun witnessed what Tetsuya had done just now became irritated, he felt as if Tetsuya was trying to mock him by using the earth element.

“TETSUYA! YOU’RE GETTING ON MY LAST NERVES!”

“AHHHHHHHHH!!!”

As Shun shouted the entire battle hall -- no the entire compound became frozen with ice, the, it began to snow. Because of this Kiiri couldn’t us her power anymore because there wasn’t any air in the atmosphere to convert to glass, for all moisture and air became frozen.

“This power… is known as the ‘absolute zero’.”

At that time shun then caused massive craters to form in the snow swallowing up both Kiiri and Yuuta.

Yuuta then tried to save them by shooting out his chains to give them leverage but the chains froze and broke due to how cold the atmosphere itself was. He then caused the snow to turn to ice, freezing both Kiiri and Yuuta inside.

“HEY, TETSUYA, I’LL BE THE ONE TO GET THEIR FLAG YOU ICOMPOTENT ASS, SO JUST SIT THIGHT AND WATCH, OR I’LL KILL YOU!!”

Shun then set his sights on Kiirishima who was still recovering from the attack from Tetsuya. As Shun stretched out his hand, the ice and snow started to surround him, the entire battle hall became a freezing ice dome, and then, Shun stretched his hand forward sending the ice straight towards Kiirishima with great force and speed.

Kiirishima managed to dodge one but another one appear from the behind stabbing him in the back and then again out of nowhere spear like ice started to rain from the sky, impaling Kiirishima in the chest and stomach.

Tetsuya who was fighting with Sylvia, saw Shun go on the offensive, but then…

“HM, AHAHAHAHA!!!, YES SHUN, YES, THIS IS THE POWER I WANTED TO SEE!, I KNEW YOU HAD IT IN YOU!

At that time Tetsuya’s tone of speech changed.

But stil,l don’t be naïve enough to think that you can outclass me I’m just getting started.”

At that remark a huge surge of lightning came from the sky striking Sylvia down, she was out cold. But then chains started to appear from every corner of the hall and then came crashing down of Tetsuya impaling him from every direction.

“AHAHAHA!!, MORE!, MORE!, AHAHAHAHA!!”

As the blood fell from Tetsuya’s body, something rather peculiar started to happen.

Even though Tetsuya was pierced from every direction possible, and was losing blood rapidly he started to laugh maniacally.

The more he laughed the more the blood was being pushed out of his body, his eccentric behavior caused the everyone in the hall the go quite in confusion. Yuuta and Kiiri stared in dismay at him.

As he laughed then, fire started to engulf the chains piercing him, one by one the chains started to disintegrate into ash, until nothing was left.

Not only that, but his wounds started to heal almost instantaneously. They could only stand and watch in terror as Tetsuya took a fatal blow and brushed it off like it was nothing.

“No way, what are you, a-are you immortal or something, I don’t get it?”

“Um, um ahahahaha, immortal, no. I’m just hard to kill Yuuta-kun. Tell me Yuuta do you bleed?, do you feel pain? I guess you don’t, for you don’t know the joy I get out my pain, the sheer blood and sweat as I feel my life move further away from me, the thrill I get from being pushed to my limit, It’s, it’s, beautiful!”

“You’re a psychopath.”

Yuuta exclaimed as he watched Tetsuya in horror.

No, no , no, I prefer being called “creative. Now then shall we end this?”

The entire battle hall started to shake as Tetsuya released his energy, it was like he became a completely different person, you could sense the madness in his words, he became a maniacal deity gone mad at the thrill of battle.

Not only did his personality change but hair changed from white to a bright red color. As he raised his hand swords began to form from every corner of the hall point directly towards Yuuta you could sense that he was out to kill him. Yuuta looked up in the sky paralyzed with shock at the sheer terror of Tetsuya power.

“Yuuta-kun, it’s time I put you out of your misery.”

“INFINITE SWORD BURST!”

At that command all the sword levitating came crashing down on Yuuta with great speeds piercing him from all directions.

With that he was left unable to continue.Tetsuya then turned his madness towards Kiirishima, who was having a hard time dealing with Shun, but then….

Watching the battle unfold from afar Nagisa noticed a shift in the balance of power within the battle, more specifically with Tetsuya.

Umm, I’m sorry Tetsuya-kun I don’t know what kind of power that is, but I don’t like it.”

At that time tetsuya’s power was canceled out instantly and he went back to his normal, self when he realized this he was shocked he asked himself “who in the world has the power the cancel his control over his power”, who else other than himself knows about his power in his class. he become suspicious.

At that time he noticed that Nagisa hadn’t fought since the beginning of the match but he didn’t let it bother him.

Shun who was having trouble with Kiirishima noticed that Tetsuya was approaching them, he began trying to end the fight quickly, but, out of nowhere, fire balls started falling out of the sky.

Not only were they targeting Kirrishima but Shun as well, this frustrated shun who was normally a calm and collective person until he met Tetsuya, there was something about him that he didn’t like that made him angry.

Shun started shooting ice spears at them destroying them, the impact created steam which Tetsuya used to his advantage to gain a stealth attack on Kiirishima, but Kiirishima saw it coming and countered by forming a giant shell out of his lightning, and then he caused the lightning to burst out hitting both Shun and Tetsuya.

At that time Nagisa-san who pretty much did nothing the entire fight started to keep a close watch on Tetsuya because she felt something was off with him.

“Come on just die already god damn it!”

“Eh, I don’t think so, I’m the only one left so all I have to do is wait out the clock.”

“Hm, don’t be naïve it’s not like we’ll allow you to.

At that time both Shun and Tetsuya started powering up a massive attack, Tetsuya then caused his attack to turn to light stunning Shun and Kiirishima. Taking advantage of this he used his speed too run up the Kiirishima and gave a hard round-house kick to the head knocking him out. Using this opportunity he ran ahead of Shun and took their flag from the ground signaling their victory.

When Shun came to, he realized that Tetsuya had ‘stolen’ his victory from him, this irritated him, he ran up to Tetsuya hitting him in the head Tetsuya hit him back in head the two started to argue and curse each other. Tetsuya then changed again but it was canceled by Nagisa.

When he noticed this he did it again but she canceled it again, he then ran up facing her staring her in the face then powered up again but his time she completely broke his power.

“I see now you’re an empath that’s the only logical explanation. Come to think of it you’re the same girl from the entrance exams aren’t you? I was wondering what your power was!”

“Yup!, you got that right I’m an empath, I’m Nagisa Nagi nice to meet you Tetsuya Endou-kun!”

Celebrations were short since either members of Tetsuy’a team care much about their victory, it was just another training exercise to them.

Not only that but the members of the other team were mostly knocked out. Yuuta was the first to regain consciousness, he woke with a massive headache.

Shun who was still arguing with Tetsuya for ‘stealing’ his victory came to realize something.

“What a minute isn’t your team supposed to have four members? Where’s Sachi

“HUHHHH!”

They all then came to the realization that Sachi the fourth member of Sylvia’s team, was not present during, or after the fight as a matter of fact it was as if she was never in the hall to begin with, but then, as Yuuta turned to exit the battlefield.

“O-oh, ah, good morning!”

“ AHH, HOLY FUCKING SHIT!”

“What is something wrong?”

“W-where were you all this time!?”

“Oh, I was sleeping!”

WHAT!, TRHOUGH THE ENTIRE BATTLE, are you a sloth or something!?”

“Huh we had a fight? how? I was asleep, wait… you didn’t try to touch me or anything did you?”

“WHAT! , NO!, what are you talking about… wait a minute where were you sleeping?”

“H-huh right here.”

“Your joking right?”

“NO I was sleeping right here on the ground.”

“During the entire fight?”

“What fight?”

“The test.”

“What test?”

“!”

Yuuta stared at her in confusion not knowing what to say to her, he coundn’t finf the words to speak.

“I can bother with this, I’m going back to sleep.”

As she walked away they all sighed.

“She has zero presence.”