Takashi then puts his hand out towards Watanabe as he quickly moved himself out of the way, dodging gravity crushing down where he was. Takashi then ran up, throwing a punch as Watanabe catches it, throwing a kick towards his abdomen. He takes the kick as he stumbles to a knee, Takashi then moves as he dodges another kick as Takashi pulls his arm back to him. Watanabe flew forward as Takashi slammed his palm on his face, trying to pull his hand out of his grip, "Let go!" he shouts, struggling.
Kimura stayed on the backlines as he took his time to regain his mana, He took some heavy breathing as Kimura stood up. I should have mana now. Kimura then began running at them. Takashi grabbed onto Watanabe's jacket and his sleeve, kicking his straighter leg, flipping him over his shoulder. BAM! The dust on the ground scattered where he landed, Watanabe then got back up as he turns around to be mt by a sucker punch from Kimura.
Kimura's eyes glowed as Takashi joined in throwing a punch and landed it on Watanabe's side. "Just go down Watanabe!" he shouted as Wantanabe dropped to his knees. Takashi was breathing a bit tired from enduring so much damage. Kimura walked over to Takashi to make sure he was okay; He gave Kimura a thumbs up as Kimura smiled in relief.
Takashi and Kimura stood over Watanabe as he looked up at them taking some breathers, Black and blue sparks began jumping around Kimura's body as Takashi's eyes glowed and he kept his hands in his pockets.
"Fucking shit…"
He muttered, raising his hand as forfeit. The crowd went wild as cheering and booing were simultaneous. Kimura immediately attended to both Kobayashi and Fujiwara who sat on the sidelines. He helped up Kobayashi as Takashi followed behind, helping up Fujiwara onto her feet. "There you go." He said as Fujiwara stood on her own, thanking, "Thanks Takashi, I can take it from here.".
Fujiwara, Kobayashi, Takashi, and Kimura were sent off with a spectacular send off as the same student that brought them there took them back. "Thanks for the way back." Takashi bowed politely, the student responded, "A man of my word Takashi, you and your team take care.". He vanished once again, leaving Kimura and the rest of them to speculate. Tap tap tap tap!! Quick footsteps were coming their way as Suzuki hugged Fujiwara excitedly.
"You're back roomie!!"
"What did I tell you, don't call me roomie in public!"
"Oh Sorry!"
Suzuki took a step back and frantically apologized, bowing repeatedly as a form of apology as well. Fujiwara waved her hands frantically trying to have her stop it as they discussed their own thing.
"They…nice right…?"
Yun attempted, Kimura looked at Yun as he smiled, patting his back as Yun just looked a bit confused. "You're getting used to speaking Japanese." Kimura's words went through one ear and slowly went out the other, confused he tilted his head as Kimura chuckled a bit nervously.
The sun was going down as they went to their respective dorm buildings. Kimura walked into his room with a patch over his scarred eye once again. "Where were you?" Yamada questioned, rather quickly Kimura responded, "The Middle Grounds.". walking into their restroom to shower. Yamada took some time to process it as Kimura began showering.
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Yun walked over towards the school building as girls were watching him from afar, some of them muttering between themselves and their groups. Suzuki ran up from behind as she pats him on the back, he turned to look at her as they both smile. "Are you going to your dads' shop?" she asked in Korean, he nodded as he replied, "Yeah, but I'm going to the mall first.".
"Oh, can I come too?"
"I have room for a friend."
"Thanks Yun."
Suzuki headed off towards her dorms as the other girls were glaring at her run off. At Kyu Grand Mall, Yun waited as he sat on a bench underneath a tree. He looked at his phone as he sent three messages to Suzuki. I wonder if she'll even arrive… He seemed worried as fifteen minutes had passed. Yun sighed as he stood up and began heading to the front entrance. "Wait up Yun!!" A voice shouted from behind as he turned around to see Suzuki running towards him.
She wore a large hoodie as she wore a long skirt and casual shoes, her hair was tied up into a ponytail. He looked at her a bit in awe as he'd never seen her outside of the academy before. "Ready to go?" she said softly, her warm smile made him smile and crack up in a cackle a bit.
"What's so funny?"
"Nothing, just, I've never seen you this pretty before."
"Huh—" Suzuki blushed as she didn't know how to respond to it.
"—W-well…"
She quickly headed inside as Yun was oblivious to what he said, following behind her into the Grand mall. The mall was enormous, having multiple escalators up to the second and the only mall to have a third floor. The mall was packed today as Yun and Suzuki began walking around the grand mall, walking up to a clothing store. Suzuki's eyes sparkled at the diversity of the clothing looking through all the girls clothing.
"This one is pretty—" she gasped, looking at another piece of clothing.
"—BUT THIS ONE IS CUTER!!"
She kept looking through the clothes as Yun met up with a worker at the store, they both greeted each other as they hit up a conversation. The staff member was speaking fluent Korean as they seemed to know each other well, Suzuki saw that as she held a red dress, wanting to show Yun. She paused for a second as she walked to the changing room, feeling doubt. "Hey, don't think I didn't see you Suzuki." Yun grabbed onto her shoulder, she turned to look at him as she pouted quickly turning away from him.
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"Was it because I was talking to one of the staff?"
"..."
"You know she's my mom's friend, right?"
"Huh?"
She turned around surprised, looking over at the woman he was talking to earlier, she then saw that she was a lot older than she thought. Yun head pats Suzuki as she looked down a bit embarrassed. "Go try on the dress." Yun encouraged her, walking to the changing room as he stood outside of where she was changing.
Yun waits as he leans on the wall hearing a click! from the doorknob. Suzuki walked out of the changing room as she stood in front of the door with her red dress on. It seemed to fit her perfectly, complementing her red hair and making her figure stand out but not too tight or loose. Yun was surprised as her face was red from wearing it. The dress had reflective material on it as well, giving it some depth and some texture on it, it made her stand out but also complemented her overall look.
"You look great."
"Th-Thank You…"
Their awkward silence filled the air as she decided to quickly go into the changing room to change out. They bought the red dress from the store and walked out, she stretched as Yun smiled at her, they then began walking further into the mall, going up escalator, going down elevators, playing games at arcades, and overall having the time of their lives. They stayed until early afternoon, walking out of the Kyu Grand Mall as Suzuki had multiple bags from different stores.
"Thanks for inviting me out to the mall."
"No problem, I had a lot of fun today."
They both smiled as Suzuki's ride pulled up. It was a Honda civic, the trunk opened as she put her bags in the trunk of the car, getting in as the passenger seat before it drove off. Yun sighed as his mom pulled up a couple of minutes after Suzuki had left. Meanwhile, Kimura was in the school's gymnasium, doing fifty push ups with some of the other students.
"C'mon! Kimura is beating you guys by twenty pushups!"
Kimura kept going as he reached thirty-five pushups, then forty, then fifty. The coach encouraged Kimura, saying, "Good job Kimura, wait for your classmates to catch up.". Kimura stood up as he was slightly exhausted from doing pushups consecutively. Some of the other students seemed to slow down except for three of them reaching fifty in a couple of minutes.
"Good job everyone, take a five-minute break."
Everyone else was exhausted as Kimura took deep breaths, getting ready for the next exercise. "How are you so fit Kimura…?" One of the other students asked as Kimura looked at them, replying "I…I had to keep up with my friends in my last academy." Trying to keep it vague. Kimura then walked up to their coach, making a request.
"A sparring match?"
"Yes sir, I would like to have a sparring match."
The coach began to think as he looked at the other boys, some of them were more exhausted than others. "Alright, you can spar with Jung Joo Won." Coach approved his request as he shouted, "Jung!" as a slightly shorter boy stood up. "Yes!" Jung replied in Korean as the coach signaled him over.
The translator stood by as Coach said to him, "You'll be sparring with Kimura for today, will you take his request.", having the translator translate it. Jung nodded as Kimura and Jung walked over to the sparring mats. The sparring mat was spread out to reveal a sparring circle, the edges pinned down by magnets.
Kimura and Jung stood on opposite sides of the sparring circle, both then saw beams of light shoot up to the ceiling, touching more magnets at the top as it created a barrier for them. "The barrier will act as a precaution; the mats are durable enough for anyone who relies on their mana." The coach provided background information for us as we both looked at each other.
We both bowed politely to each other as Jung and Kimura got ready, Jung and Kimura taking up fighting stances. The coach puts the whistle in his mouth as he waits, the entire gym going quiet as Kimura and Jung began to concentrate.
PREEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!
Kimura and Jung rushed at each other as both their eyes glowed Kimura landing the first hit to his chest, pushing him near the circle. Jung was caught off guard by this as Kimura threw a black lightning bolt at him. He quickly dodged out of the way as Jung's pupils had changed to almost a clock-like pupil, his eyes looking at every angle in his view, he began dodging attacks coming at him as Kimura threw punches and kicks.
Why can't I hit him! I landed the first hit but now he's dodging it!
Kimura kept trying to hit him as Jung sidestepped a punch and landed a counter punch, throwing Kimura back and destabilizing him as he fell onto his ass. The others seemed surprised as Kimura got up on his feet, finally noticing his pupils. Something about his eyes is different with those pupils… he rushed at him throwing a punch as Jung adequately dodged and slammed his palm at his chest. Kimura felt the impact as Jung was behind him suddenly.
When did—
Kimura was then kicked into the barrier as he slammed headfirst into it. Kimura leaned on the barrier as he looked at Jung, seeing that his expression was serious. Kimura stood back up as the points were 0-2, going to the best of ten knockdowns. Kimura began approaching him cautiously now, his electricity seemingly gone from him. Jung felt uneasy about his erratic electricity being gone as Kimura threw a fake out punch.
Jung didn't flinch as Kimura threw a fake out kick as well. He stopped at his head as Jung stood tall, unfazed by his attempt. So that's how it works… Kimura took a couple steps back as he took a deep breath. Jung and Kimura ran into each other for the third time, this time Kimura threw a fake out instead of a punch, Jung smirked a bit as he was then hit with a quick jab.
That shocked Jung as he stumbled back a bit as Kimura smiled, Holy shit! I can't believe that worked! Kimura threw another fake out, this time Jung was prepared, blocking his face as Kimura threw a gut punch, knocking the wind out of him. Jung dropped to his knees as it was now 1-2, the third round going to Kimura.
He helped Jung onto his feet as Kimura took a couple of steps back to his side. Jung bowed politely as a thanks as they both got ready, When the whistle was blown Kimura zig zagged, the electricity sparking up this time. He chucked a lightning bolt as Jung dodged it, dodging more that came his way. Jung's pupil then reached 6:00 as suddenly the world around him stopped as Jung swiftly made it behind Kimura.
Kimura then noticed he was gone, as for the rest of the world it didn't stop. Kimura looked around as he turned around to get socked in the face and landed on the floor. The points were 1-3, Jung was in the lead. Kimura got up as Jung helped him up like he did to him, Kimura politely said, "thank you" as he nodded.
Time Distortion or future sight…somewhere in that area…I can't hit him if he can see what I'm going to do…
When the whistle blew, Kimura didn't rush in as Jung did this time, Kimura lit up his defense as his arm crystalized, stomping down to make an ice wall. This caught Jung off guard as Kimura exhaled sweating. Switching is taking up large amounts of mana…I'm surprised I was able to pull it off… cracks began to show in his wall of ice as Jung's arm pierces through grabbing his shirt and pulling him out. Kimura lands on the floor in pain after that as the barrier goes down as the score points is 1-4.
"That's enough for today, you two can go to the locker rooms first, the rest of you, get to sparring!"
Coach commanded as Jung helped up Kimura, helping him over to the locker room. "Sorry about that." Jung apologized, but Kimura didn't understand as he nodded his head nervously. They both got changed in the locker room as they headed out, Jung lends his hand out to Kimura as he looked down at it.
"I'm glad to spar with you Kimura."
"O-Oh."
Kimura shook his hand as he didn't understand what he said, nervously chuckling as they both went on their separate ways.