Akira ran towards the forest, still carrying his robot on his arms.
He also constructed a shield-like barrier in front of him making his forearms show green glowing branch lines.
'I need to be wary, someone might try and ambush me again. As soon as I see someone, I have to pretend to focus only on my defense and then try to call upon a barrier where their robot is standing.', Akira thought.
He was running through a rather bushy area, without a field of vision in sight.
'From what I have seen, those that I fought are both people that do a lot of movements.'
Akira then tried to remember what happened during his past encounters.
[The plain looking guy jumped at Akira, but before he could get close, his robot got crushed by Akira's barrier.]
'I didn't get to see his ability, but I'm guessing it's one that uses mobility, since he jumped at me without hesitation.'
He then remembered parts of his fight with the vine-user.
'He was at an advantage since we fought in an open field in the middle of the forest, but I bet if we fought here in the middle of all these trees he'd be having a harder time. His vines has spikes after all, and if it gets caught in one of these trees, he would've lost quicker.'
Akira stopped to look around him and search for opponents in the area.
'If I keep myself nested down here, one of them would probably come, and since I have the advantage, I would have more chances to win... but...'
Akira then ran again still carrying the robot on his arms.
'I can't just waste my time lurking around here... when more than half of the entries are already taken!'
"115 examinees passed. 694 failed. 85 entries left."
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"You were really awesome there earlier, that was so cool!", Megumi exclaimed with a big smile on her face.
"Thanks for the compliment, but I'm still not as good as someone here who finished 16th place.", teasingly replied the pretty dark skinned girl who was wearing a cute regular summer uniform from her school.
"Ehehe, I did my best.", Megumi replied to her compliment while pointing a peace sign at her.
The two girls who just met each other in the entrance exam are now located in the audiovisual room on a different floor from the teachers and with other passers who were watching the other examinees' battles.
They don't know much about each other, but they seem to have bonded well during the exam.
The two fought each other during the exam and had a draw, but noticed that they already defeated enough enemies so they passed anyways.
They promised each other a rematch and wanted to fight again one day to see who's the stronger one.
"So, Megu-chan, who are you waiting for anyways?", asked the dark skinned girl.
"There's a guy out there, that I'm sure will become our classmate. I wanna greet him once he comes here.", answered Megumi with a gentle smile while turning her head back towards the screen.
"Are you sure he's gonna be ok? There are only 80 entries left. You sure have a lot of confidence on him.", commented the dark skinned girl.
"Koka-chi!", a short curvy orange haired cute girl, who had her hair put up as a side-tail, wore a gothic lolita dress and carried a small teddy bear called out for the dark-skinned girl.
"Ai-chi! What took you so long? You should've finished earlier!", asked Koka.
"I fought against lots of large muscly men in the exam, it was so scary!", explained the treming Ai, who then tilted her head and shifted her eyes towards the girl beside Koka.
"Oh, this is Megumi-chan. I fought with her earlier, she's really nice so you don't have to be afraid.", explained Koka introducing Megumi to her.
"Megu? Is that you?", who sounded like she already knew Megumi asked her.
"Ai...", Megumi was sweating nervously as if scared that her identity is revealed.
"You two know each other?", asked Koka.
"She's Megu! She's really really cute now! She used to have black hair and act so boyi-", as Ai, who was happily talking about Megumi spoke about her, Megumi stopped her midway from finishing her sentence by blocking her mouth with her hand.
"Ai, let's not talk about the past, shall we?", Megumi, showing a sparkling smile with a slightly angry tone, requested for Ai's silence.
Ai trembled at this and decided to keep quiet about it.
"So, we both took the same entrance exam in the end!", happily said Ai.
"Yeah...", Megumi bashfully replied.
The three girls were chatting happily with each other, when suddenly the other passers in the room became noisy.
"Is that even allowed?"
"That's too much!"
"There's basically no rule against it."
"Man, that guy's strong!"
The three girls, hearing the conversations around them, decided to turn their heads towards the screen.
'Oh no.', Megumi thought.
'He's in the same area as that...
...No...
...I believe in him.'
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"HA! Come on, fight back! Don't tell me that's all you got!"
'Dammit!'
Akira was still holding the robot on his left arm and kept a shield in front of his forearm to prevent the enemy from hitting it. He's in a big predicament right now, seeing that half of his legs have already sunken the ground.
In front of him was a plain looking woman who had light brown hair and was wearing her school uniform.
"I can make everything that I touch softer, and with that I could easily make traps like this!"
Below Akira, is soil that looked like quicksand because it was so soft and mushy unlike how it normally was. Akira was suddenly trapped to the ground while he was running around looking for enemies.
"If I was allowed to hurt you, I would've soften the trunk of a tree nearby, made it bend down on you and dispel my ability it to make it crash on your face. You're lucky destroying your robot is all I needed. Just stop spawning barriers already!"
Akira's barrier was made soft by the girl, but everytime she made it soft, Akira would just spawn a new one.
"Both of us would just run out of energy like this! Just give it up!"
'Damn, I was too focused on thinking of a plan that I wasn't able to notice where I was running at. I gotta think of something before I run out of energy...'
Akira tried struggling a little, but they just got stuck lower.
'She softens stuff, huh?'
Akira suddenly let go of his robot and made his shield disappear.
"HA! You idi..ot- AUUUGHH!", the girl's face turned from a confident to a defeated look.
The girl started fading as Akira stood in front of her.
"If I just let go of my robot, it would've been fine because you cushioned the ground beneath me, but if you cancel your softening on the ground I've sunken on, even my feet and legs would be chopped down since I'm submerged in it. Hurting other players with your ability is against the rules. You also didn't expect I could use my barrier in long distances. This is my win."
Akira had held out his right arm and pointed it to the ground with green glowing branch lines on it connecting to the barrier that Akira suddenly erected to the ground below her robot causing her robot to be sliced in half.
'That's three points, I just need two more to pa-"
Suddenly, Akira's robot slipped out of Akira's arms and flew closer to his right, inches close to hit a tree.
'NO!'
Akira then immediately jumped out to catch his robot and tried pulling it as hard as he can towards him.
'Shit! What the hell's going on?'
"I saw your little battle there, boy.", from behind the trees came out a handsome and noble looking guy with gray fixed hair, and a confident smile, wearing what a long white polo, a black vest with a red ribbon.
"You seem to know how to outwit your opponents, but you won't be getting pass me.", provoked the gray haired guy.
"What the hell is your ability...?", Akira asked while still trying his hardest to pull his robot away from the guy's direction.
"Well, it seems as if this is your end, so I might as well tell you... I-"
*BAAAAAMMMM*
Just before the guy could finish his sentence, a gigantic robot about the size of five times the height of the trees was pulled towards the guy and stomped down on his robot.
*BBOOOOOOMMMM*, just by stomping it's giant foot the giant robot produced a very ear-breaking sound.
The blonde guy hearing this, turned around to look at his robot, to find it crushed and smashed down to just a piece of metal.
"No! My robot!", he exclaimed as he ran with a worried expression towards the crushed robot about to fade, not noticing his admission ticket slipping out of his pocket.
"YOU IDIOT! Stop your ability right now!", screamed Akira.
The giant robot's right foot was still being pulled down by the guy's ability very quick and it seems like the guy was fading slower than the speed of the stomping robot foot about to crash down on him.
He was about to get crushed when-
*TAAAANNGGG!*
Akira suddenly ran and jumped out beside him forming a barrier above them and protecting them both from the gigantic foot.
"My gratitude, my friend.", thanked the gray haired guy while smiling with a sad undertone holding the crushed pieces of his robot on his hands.
"Yeah...", Akira replied with a struggling expression.
The gray haired guy disappeared as Akira was trying his hardest not to get crushed by the giant robot's foot.
"Dammit! WHO THE HELL'S INSIDE THERE...? You almost got someone killed!", screamed Akira.
"It was not my fault, he recklessly used his ability, not knowing that his opponents might have certain abilities that may come to his demise.", a robotic voice replied with a monotone voice.
"DAMMIT!"
Akira suddenly let go of his barrier and immediately jumped away before the robot's foot could crush him.
"You almost broke one of the rules, dude. You should've canceled your ability when you saw that robot's foot almost hitting us!", screamed Akira.
"You don't understand. That is none of my concern. While I might almost have broken the rules when that event occurred, I'm not planning to cancel my ability until after the exam.."
Akira just glared at the giant robot.
"...Maybe you should also think about what you need to do now...", the giant robot advised.
Akira suddenly noticed that the ground where the giant robot stepped in, suddenly released wire-like glowing yellow lines that aimed at Akira's robot's direction.
Akira immediately jumped, casting a barrier behind his robot to prevent it from jumping as well, and took a hold of his robot while running towards the forest.
He kept his eyes towards the gigantic robot as he ran inside the forest.
'That giant robot...is that... made of...
...other people's robots?'
"Do you really think you could escape from me?"
Suddenly, the wire like glowing yellow lines shot from the ground aiming for Akira's robot, but before it could hit his robot, Akira made himself slip and fall, barely making the robot in his arms dodge the yellow lines.
"Goodbye.", the robot said.
'What?'
*BAAAAMMMM*
The gigantic robot suddenly pulled a tree from the ground and swung at Akira.
Akira immediately casted a shield on his forearms.
"THAT'S AGAINST THE RULES!", complained Akira.
"Are you really sure about that?", asked the robot.
'Huh?'
["You can use your ability as much as you like, as long as you don't hit the other examinees directly, or with your ability."]
"As long as I don't hit you directly, I'm fine.", explained the giant robot.
'...'
Akira suddenly pushed himself from the side of the tree with the shield, and jumped away carrying his robot in his arms.
"How foolish of you. Just accept your fate."
'DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!', Akira was in a big predicament right now and just kept running away from the gigantic robot.
'This isn't fair! Whatever that guy's ability is, it's too perfect for this exam! I gotta think of a plan fast-'
"Too slow."
*BAAAAMMMM*
"GWAH!"
Akira who still kept a shield up protecting his robot, just like a baseball ball, was hit by the gigantic robot with the tree it was holding and was blown to a far distance.
"AAAUUUGGHH!"
He then smashed his back on a tree causing him to spit out blood, he quickly ran behind the tree he crashed on, planning to hide.
'SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT! What the hell do I do?'
"All of you guys are the same. You all have that look in your face. That glare that makes me so so mad.", a different voice, that was from an actual person suddenly came fron the robot.
'That voice...?'
"I know what you're all thinking, I know what's in your minds. You think I'm a weakling, don't you? All of you are just the same.", the voice continued.
"You're all-"
*BAAAAMMMM*
'Keima...?'
"just uncivilized mongrels.", said Keima as he struck the tree Akira was hiding in.
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"Kana, we should stop this battle! He's really trying to kill that barrier guy!"
"This fight is too one-sided, if we let this fight continue, he might die!"
"Principal! Please! Give us the ord-
"NO!", Kana answered as to quiet all the other teachers down.
"That student has been attacking other students but he didn't hurt them too much to give them serious injuries. We did put out those rules there, and if I might say, it's our fault this is happening right now."
"...but Kana-chan!"
"Please..."
The teachers, suddenly notice Kana's serious eyes.
"...believe in him."
...
The teachers then kept quiet, sat back to their seats and turned their heads back to the screen.
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'Okay... I should be safe here for now...', Akira thought while hiding in a bush.
'Is he keeping his real robot inside that giant mecha-like thing?...
I bet he doesn't have it out on display.', Akira was trying his hardest to think of a plan he can conduct.
When Akira hid behind the tree he crashed on, he immediately ran forward where the sight of Keima inside the giant robot wouldn't see because of the tree's trunk. He then ran to the left and circled around the gigantic robot, using the shade of the trees as camouflage to hide in an area behind the giant robot's direction.
Keima was in the giant robot moving forward, still looking for Akira who was at the other direction.
'I need to somehow take that giant robot down, and get inside it... Maybe his robot is in there.'
Near Akira was soil, trees, bushes and small plants everywhere. He was trying to look for some way to set up a trap or something.
'I haven't really mastered doing this, but...'
*Thwak thwak thwak thwak thwak thwak*
Keima still in the gigantic robot, immediately got alarmed by the sounds they heard from the other direction.
'Is he trying to set up a trap? How stupid of him to try to set up a trap against a robot as big as this. You won't be able to set-up pitfalls in time, and rope based traps can be easily torn by my creation.', thought Keima from inside the Robot.
He was in front of what looked like an airplane cockpit, but had gaming controllers for the steering wheel.
'I'll run at him before he finishes it.'
Keima's robot suddenly ran to Akira's direction, but just when they're about to get close the sound stopped.
'What in the world is he planning?', Keima thought.
"You won't be getting away from me this time!"
The gigantic robot ran closer to where Akira is when suddenly the sound continued again.
*Thwak*
A barrier suddenly spun between two trees cutting them and making them suddenly fall down in front of the giant robot's way that made it slip and fall to the ground.
Akira suddenly ran from the bushes with a shield on his forearm and used it to slice at the chest of the robot.
The gigantic robot pulled itself up and tried wiggling Akira off it, but to no avail, he was still able to slice through the chest and got in.
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"Keima, you lost. Give me your own robot or else."
Keima, who was staring at the screen, slowly turned to Akira who was glaring at him with all his might.
"Or else what?", asked Keima.
"We aren't allowed to hurt each other directly or using our ability, unless you can smash trees on me, you won't be able to deal any damage."
Akira looked around to look for Keima's robot.
"You're trying to look for my robot, aren't you?"
Keima pulled his glasses up with the tip of his finger and said:
"You can't win."
Akira then immediately jumped out of the gigantic robot and started running away again.
'Good thing I thought about leaving my robot behind, that way there's no way he'll get to it.'
Akira's robot was inside a small pit he dug with his shield and covered with bushes so it won't mimic Akira's moves.
He ran at the pit and took it.
*BOOOOOOOMMMMM*
The gigantic robot swung the tree, but before it hit, Akira managed to jump out of the way.
'I couldn't find his robot, dammit! Don't tell me that whole thing is his robot now!', Akira thought while running away.
The gigantic robot, seeing Akira move to an area enclosed by trees suddenly stopped it's tracks.
'...
...Huh?...Why'd he stop?'
"Why don't you forfeit already? All these effort I'm wasting on you is meaningless. You don't even have a speed boosting ability. You can't run from me."
"Are you just scared that I'll beat you? Don't worry, I'm working on it."
*sshhhhhkk*
From the ground beneath Akira, four yellow glowing wire-like lines suddenly appeared again, and like snakes they jumped at Akira's robot.
'If I let him hit me, he'd be disqualified, but that won't get me any points.'
Akira casted a shield on his hand and threw it to the glowing wire like things, striking them away.
*SHHHIIIIIWWWWW*
A loud laser like sound was suddenly heard from the distance, and from there, Akira noticed Keima's gigantic robot started shrinking.
'Did he run out of energy or something? What is-'
*ZZOOOOMM*
Suddenly, a group of about 8 robots charged at Akira, targeting the robot on his arms.
'SHIT!'
*TANG TANG TANG TANG TANG*
The robots charged at once at Akira, while he kept jumping out of their way. With their sheer numbers,they were able to corner Akira in front of a large tree.
"I told you to just give up, didn't I?"
Keima said while walking towards the cornered Akira.
"This exam is made for someone like me. There's no way you can win."
"Oh yeah? I'd like to see you try."
Hearing this, Keima suddenly curled his eyebrows down and showed an irritated expression.
"DON'T YOU DARE UNDERESTIMATE ME!", screamed Keima.
'What the hell is his problem...'
Akira turned his eyes down to Keima's arm that showed the glowing yellow wire-like lines connected to the ground connecting to the robots he was controlling.
"ALL OF YOU MONGRELS ARE ALL THE DAMN SAME! YOU'RE ALL LIKE THAT!"
Akira hearing Keima scream again, turned his eyes on him and glared at him.
...
"...What the hell are you trying to say?"
...
Suddenly, recollection of a young man wearing an open school polo with a black shirt inside standing behind an unknown school walls flashed inside Keima's mind making him clench his fist.
["What the hell are you trying to say?"]
...
"...Stop acting like a little bitch."
["Stop acting like a little bitch."]
Keima's face suddenly turned into an enraged expression as he trembledon his feet.
"KILL HIM!"
'WHAT?'
Suddenly, the robots that were just standing there, charged at Akira, now with a more aggresive approach, their robot arms flashed yellow and changed into saws, hammers, swords and many different weapons.
They all charged at Akira at once.
'SHIT!'
At the audiovisual room where the teachers were watching...
"PRINCIPAL! WE HAVE TO STOP THIS NOW!"
"KANA-CHAN!"
"TCH-", Kana replied hinting the water bodied teacher and the knight armored teacher to shut up.
"BUT..."
Kana just stared at the screen, with a slight bit of worrying in her eyes.
'Akira...'
At the other audiovisual room where the passed examinees were watching the exams at...
"Why aren't the teachers stopping that?"
"He's really planning to kill him!"
"AAUGGHH", from the screen, a robot suddenly slashed at Akira's back, making him bleed.
"DAMMIT!", Megumi, seeing this happen, immediately ran towards the room's exit.
"Megu-chan!", the two girls quickly ran after her.
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"DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!"
Akira was running away as he was attacked by the robots' weapons.
'I forgot he was able to change the robots' forms... If he didn't have that ability, the gigantic robot from earlier wouldn't be built.'
Akira tried blocking each of the robots' attacks, but his shield wasn't big enough to defend from their blows all at once.
"UUUGGHH!"
A sword struck him at his back, making it bleed.
'I need to take my robot to a safe place before trying to deal with these little fuckers.'
Akira started bolting towards an area, but a robot immediately jumped in front of him and struck his hammer at Akira.
'Guh!', Akira was caught bewildered, but jumped away before it could reach him.
'From behind..?'
Akira quickly looked behind him to protect against a sudden attack from the robots.
He was confused to see that the robots running behind him, all jumped above him and avoided his back. They were all lined up from his front preparing to attack him.
Akira had to run away again to get some more distance.
He hid in a bush, dug a small pit and left his robot there.
'I really didn't want to do this until my last battle, because I wanted to conserve energy but...'
Akira using his left arm spawned another shield holding it on his hand and jumped from the bush.
"...HAAAH! TAKE THIS!"
Akira charged at a robot and struck it with his shield, slashing it into two.
'That's one down.'
Another robot with a hammer jumped at Akira while the other one ran at him.
Akira blocked the hammer with his right shield and threw his left shield at the robot, smashing it to the ground.
*BRRRRRRR*
Another robot with chainsaw for his arms slashed at Akira's left shoulder without giving him a chance to block it.
"AUUGGGH!"
'Damn...it.'
Akira smashed the robot with his right arm's shield crushing it.
He then turned back to the other robots but noticed...
'...SHIT!'
The robots he had slashed and smashed were all merging it's broken parts back together until they looked as good as new again.
"TO HELL WITH THIS SHIT!!"
Akira kept punching, slicing and defending with his shields, while the robots fought back.
"GWWAAAHH!"
*TANG!*
"AUUUGGHH!"
*BBBRRRRR*
"HAaah haah haaah.", Akira panted, limping and crouching having a body full of slashes and bruises.
"DAMN YOU! I'LL KEEP SLASHING AND FIGHTING TILL YOU RUN OUT OF ENERGY!"
Akira charged at the robots again.
Keima with an angry expressiob, just stood there, watching Akira's actions and decided to walk in front of the tree to watch Akira.
"You're all like this, just muscle-headed, appearance-biased, barbarians not even trying to use your brains when it comes to serious matters...
I'll break you thoroughly.", he said with an intimidating expression.
"YOU'RE SUCH A FUCKING COWARD. IF YOU THINK YOU CAN REALLY WIN AGAINST ME, THEN STOP STANDING THERE LIKE A WIMP AND FIGHT!"
Suddenly, Keima's memories flashed that guy again from his past saying almost the exact same thing but with an intimidating tone.
["You're such a fucking coward. If you think you're strong enough to beat me, stop crawling there like a wimp and fight back!"]
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!", screamed Keima.
Keima suddenly lashed out two yellow glowing wire-like lines on the ground, and pulled the robot with the sword and hammer to him.
The robots merged into a powersuit like outfit that looked like a mini-mecha that covered Keima and was about twice his height.
"I'LL MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND HOW STRONG I AM! I'LL SHOW YOU!", Keima charged in at Akira, creating yellow wire like lines on his robot hand and created a thick sword.
*TANG*
Just like that, Akira clashed with the enraged Keima protecting himself from his sword with his shield.
"STOP TREATING ME LIKE A WEAKLING!"
Suddenly, a third barrier struck from a bush and slashed Keima's back piercing through his robot suit.
"Gotcha."
Green glowing branch like lines, not only showed on his left and right fore arms, but also on Akira's eyes.
"GWWAAHHH!", Keima suddenly striked the third barrier away with his thick sword.
"Not so confident now, aren't you?"
"Damn it... DAMN IT!", Keima charged at Akira again.
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"Sir Kei, sir Kei. Wake up. You have school today."
Keima who was sleeping on his large expensive looking bed, inside what looks like a large room, was woken up by a middle-aged looking woman with dark brown hair wearing a maid's outfit.
"I think I'm ill, nana. I can't go to school today.", Keima replied with a sad expression while pulling his body up to a sitting posture.
"I know you're not sick, sir Kei. You're just trying to skip school to play games."
"I'm really ill, and my body hurts. Please just let me be for now."
"...but sir-"
"Keima."
Suddenly, a beautiful blonde haired middle aged lady wearing an office skirt entered the room and interrupted them.
"If you don't go to school, I'm going to confiscate your games, you got that? Just go."
"...Yes, mother."
After a while, Keima was brought to school in an expensive car and entered the school premises.
"Goodluck in school today!", Keima's mom cheered with a fresh smile.
Keima didn't even turn around to reply to her cheer and just walked straight to his locker.
As he opened the locker, he noticed something that shouldn't have been in there.
"Ewww, what's that smell?"
"I don't know, where's that coming from?"
Two attractive looking girls with hot bodies, cardigans, short skirts and shirts with the first few buttons unbuttoned showing off their cleavage, were conversing to each other about the horrid smell they were inhaling.
Keima was trembling with his fist clenched as he saw what was in his locker.
"Is that..." a few of the classmates also noticed what was in his locker.
"Oh, Keimachi, what's up? Having fun with your lockers new design, huh?", a tall handsome guy, with metal earrings, dyed blond hair with a hairpin on it, and wore an unbuttoned uniform with a black shirt, teased with an intimidating tone as he put his right hand on Keima's left shoulder.
"It's because you left early yesterday. Didn't I tell you you were my sidekick? You shouldn't have just left like that. It makes me so sad.", other punk-like teenagers wearing beanies, earrings and had their shirts unbuttoned laughed as the blond guy mocked Keima.
Inside his locker, was dog feces, and water splashed all over it to spread the dirt.
"Next time...
Don't try to run from me again, okay?", the blonde delinquent requested him with an intimidating tone as he walked away from the area.
The girls from earlier were only laughing and talking about how cute the blonde punk is.
"Heh, Ryo-kun is so cute. Even though he's so bad, I like him so much... Although I can't accept how he has the same colored hair as that loser.", one of the girl said.
'You...mongrels! You barbarians!...I...I...', Keima was trembling with anger as he held onto the locker door.
["Next time...
Don't try to run from me again, okay?"]
Keima's eyes suddenly looked like he was about to cry.
'Screw... it all...'
Keima took his shoes and carried it with him, leaving the stinky locker alone.
...
Behind the school, Ryo, the blonde delinquent, was smoking cigarettes with his friends, when Keima came.
"Oh, Keimachi! Nice to have you back? You brought our lunch?", Ryo asked him.
"H-here you go..."
Keima, Ryo and the other punks studied in an expensive private school so they didn't really extort Keima for money... but still, they all made him act as their gopher to buy them stuff.
"Hey, Keimachi.", Ryo called as he stood up smiling and put his left hand on Keima"s right shoulder.
"You see, me and the gang are almost out of cigs now. Would you mind heading out and buying some from the local store? I'll handle the cash so you don't have to worry.", he requested him with an intimidating smile on his face.
"...b-but-", the trembling Keima wanted to decline, however...
"If you don't do it...
...this fist is gonna stick up on your face.", Ryo threatened still with a smile on his face.
"Y-yes."
Keima left them and had to sneak out but was caught by the teacher and scolded at.
...
Class has already ended, and Keima was walking behind Ryo and the other punks as they head to the arcade... with Keima wearing nothing but his boxers.
People were staring at him, but he just ignored straight them.
"Hahahaha, I can' t believe you really did it, Keimachi. You made us laugh so much today."
"..."
"What? Is there a problem?"
"...nothing."
Keima was enraged, he wanted to fight back against this people, but he knew if he did, he'd be dead.
'Damn this. I want to go home. I hate hanging out with this morons. I hate being forced to do embarassing thing...', Keima thought.
'I want to fight back...'
Suddenly a small kid wearing a middle schooler's uniform, bumped into Ryo, dropping his PSP.
"S-sorry! I wasn't paying attention, mister! I'm just gonna-", the kid apologized as he tried grabbing his PSP that fell on the ground.
*CRACK*
Keima's eyes widen as he saw what Ryo did.
"Stop fucking with me, shitty brat.", Ryo glared at the kids as he stepped on his PSP and stomped on it.
"My... my PSP...", the middle schooler, knelt down crying as he looked at his broken PSP.
"Huh? If you want me to pay for it, sure. Here you go." He threw his wallet down at the kid's face and kicked him off.
The commotion was seen by a couple of people, but because he was surrounded by tall, strong looking punks, noone tried interrupting.
*SMACK!*
Ryo's and the other punks' eyes all widen as Keima smacked his briefcase at Ryo's face.
"Heeeh?", Ryo smiled with a pissed expression as he looked back at Keima who now stood beside him.
"You trying to fight for the kid?"
*BAM!*
Keima's face was punched by Ryo as he fell to the ground.
"Stop acting like a little bitch.", Ryo said with an enraged expression.
The other delinquents laugh as they surrounded Keima, but before they could land a hit on him...
"Sir, it's them!"
A middle aged slightly overweight lady told the officer as they came running down at Ryo's group.
"Shit! Run!"
The punks all ran away as the cop followed them.
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"HYAAAH!", Keima slashed at Akira while he defended with his left barrier.
Suddenly, another robot struck it's saw against Akira, but he managed to jump away.
Akira was bruised and wounded all over. Keima has wounds and bruises too, but they weren't as major as Akira's.
'That glare of his, it's just like them.', Keima thought.
The look on Ryo's face as he punched Keima suddenly flashed on his face.
'I CAN'T LOSE THIS!'
Suddenly, Akira's third barrier was manipulated by Akira again to shoot like a boomerang to Keima.
Before it reached him though, he jumped away, making it only strike the ground.
Keima's eyes suddenly widen but turned into a serious expression again.
'What? What's with that look?', thought Akira.
He looked down on the ground and thought about how he dug his robot to hide it.
'Wait...'
Akira suddenly ran away to the right, trying to run back to the direction they were fighting in earlier before his robots pushed him back.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!"
Keima immediately controlled his yellow wire like lines to control two more robots and merged them, into a chainsaw wielding robot.
The robot's arm suddenly lengthened and the chainsaw almost struck Akira's arm, but he immediately used his shield to block against it.
"COME BACK HERE!", Keima screamed as he followed against Akira.
He then looked at Akira's back and reminisced once again..
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I was getting sick of it.
"If I study really well, I get accelerated to a higher class?", asked Keima as he spoke seated on a long table with his middle-aged large muscly glasses-wearing father who wore a white long sleeve polo.
"Yes. That is how me and your mom met although she was older than me for two years.", his father explained.
"You were really daring back then.", Keima's mother told his father while smiling.
His father and mother chatted.as Keima started thinking again.
'If I could study hard enough, I'd be in a different class. While it may not solve the problem fully, they might look for another person to bully in our class and leave me to my own."', thought Keima.
...
They always tried to hurt me.
"Finish our homework now, will you, Keimachi?", Ryo said while smiling to Keima who was sitting on his chair.
"...b...but.."
"You do know... I still haven't forgiven you for smacking me on the face last week.", Ryo told him while glaring at him.
"You might wanna reconsider, now... will you?"
Ryo smiled again with an intimidating tone.
"Y...yes..."
...
And whenever I tried to look for a chance to escape...
"So in our class, Nakamura Keima, was given a chance to take an exam to see if he could be accelerated to a higher level! Let's give him a round of applause.", the middle-aged female teacher announced happily.
His classmates, though they all had an indifferent look on their faces, still clapped.
'Dammit! I was beaten badly by Ryo and the others last week. I wanted to keep the news about me trying to escape by myself... but this stupid teacher!'
...
They pull me back...
"Quit the exam.", Ryo ordered Keima while glaring at him and pulling on his collar, surrounded by the other punks behind the school.
"...No...I..."
"Quit the fucking exam.", Ryo smacked his fist at the wall near Keima's face.
"...Y-yes...."
...
I was known as the pushover...
"Hey, did you hear? The teachers said Keima's quitting the acceleration exam."
"Why though? Is he a masochist? Does he love being beaten up by Ryo?"
"I heard Ryo forced him to quit."
"Well, sucks to be him. He's the son of Ryo's parents' company's competitor after all."
'...Dammit.'
...
As the weakling...
"Sir Kei, wake up."
"I don't wanna go to school.", Keima replied while playing on his PSP.
"Sir...what about your exams?"
'...'
...
I couldn't do anything against them...
"Keima passed the acceleration exam! He'll be studying as a university student now, congratulations!"
Everyone clapped while Ryo, who was at the seat at the back glared at Keima.
...
..but I wanted to be strong.
Keima was walking quickly towards the school exit, but before he could...
"Keimachi, let's talk.", Ryo put his left hand on his shoulder with force, as if trying to dig in his nails on his skin.
...
So I...
*BAAM*
"AUUUGHH!"
"YOU PIECE OF SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK DID I TELL YOU?"
In an abandoned warehouse, Keima was bloodied and had bruises all over.
"YOU UNCIVILIZED BARBARIAN! YOU JUST CAN'T FIND ANOTHER GOPHER FOR YOU TO MESS WITH?"
"What the hell are you trying to say?"
Ryo asked as he stomped on Keima.
Keima was still wearing his bag as he crawled down injured.
"You're such a fucking coward. If you think you're strong enough to beat me, stop crawling there like a wimp and fight back!", Ryo said as he glared at him with an evil grin.
"WHY ME? THERE ARE LOTS OF STUPIDER LOOKING CLASSMATES THERE! WHY DON'T YOU JUST LOOK FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO LISTEN TO YOU!?", screamed Keima.
"That's because you're a weakling.", answered Ryo.
"You're an annoying brat who keeps speaking in some sort of old language. Shit like you are fucking easy prey, and it's also because of your parents...
That our company's going bankrupt.", answered Ryo with an intimidating glare.
"Now, I don't know how adults think, but... if they're son is just a disappointing loser like you... it would be fun to at least give them the revenge they never asked for, right?", explained Ryo.
"...To me, losers like you, who are nothing but trashy wimps...aren't supposed to exist."
So I!
"Kill him."
Suddenly the punks with Ryo, ran at Keima holding knives.
...finally fought back.
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"TAKE THIS!", Keima using his robot arm, punched Akira's shield making a crack on it.
'Shit, I'm losing energy.'
Keima kept punching and punching and punching at Akira's barrier slowly breaking it.
"ALL OF YOU! YOU'RE ALL SO STUPID!"
"I'M NOT THE ONE IN A FUCKING RAMPAGE RIGHT NOW, YOU LITTLE SHIT!"
"DAMN YOU! DAMN ALL OF YOU! I'M NOT A WEAKLING!"
Akira's barrier suddenly broke which lightened Keima's mood but suddenly...
*BAM*
Akira punched him with his right hand, that had the barrier broken.
"I KNOW!"
Keima's eyes widen as he heard these words from Akira's mouth.
Akira smiled at him and suddenly, the robots Keima was controlling and his robot suit broke, Keima's barriers also broke while he stood there with a fighting stance.
"Because you are...
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"DAMN ALL OF YOU!"
Suddenly, the PSP from Keima's bag, floated and his arms glowed a yellow wire-like line.
The PSP suddenly launched yellow glowing wire like lines and started striking the delinquents.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS-"
"We'll take it from here..."
As Keima slowly passed out... an image of a violet haired girl wearing an office skirt showed up, with lots of other cosplay-like dressed men and women behind her.
'What is...'
And he finally fainted.
...
"...Where am I?", Keima woke up to a small clinic and was sleeping on a bed.
"Why am I...?"
"Oh, you're awake!"
A middle-aged female doctor and Kana, stood there looking at Keima.
"What just..."
["You're an annoying brat who keeps speaking in some sort of old language.]
'Oh...I remember now.'
"You were being bullied and ganged up by your classmates, when we found you there..."
"...Yes, I know.", Keima clenched his fist with an irritated expression as he stared at his bandages...
"Hey, little brat. Do you have any plans on what university you're enrolling in?"
"I'M NOT A LITTLE BRAT, YOU STUPID WITCH!"
Suddenly, a strong fist was taken by Keima to the top of his head by Kana.
"Keep your mouth shut will you? I'm trying to help you here.", Kana said with an intimidating tone.
"O..ok."
Kana walked to Keima's bag and gave it to him.
"This is yours, right?"
"...uh... oh, yes!"
"The truth is..." Kana looked at Keima with a serious expression.
"We've been scouting you out for a few days now."
Keima was confused by this and looked at Kana with a suspicion.
"'Is this... some sort of scam? Why is a pretty lady trying to scout me out or something?', I bet that's what you're thinking, rigtht?", asked Kana.
"No, that's not, you old hag."
A blow to the face was taken by him again.
"Okay... now can you just let me continue what I'm saying?"
"...yes."
Kana, once again, showed her serious expression and told him:
"Nakamura-san, do you remember what happened before you passed out?"
"...huh?... Come to think of it..."
Keima suddenly remembered all the stuff that happened in the warehouse.
'That was...'
"You probably didn't notice, but at that time, something blew up on you... that happened because of a single situation.", Kana explained.
"Once, in an area near the arcade around here. There was a boy playing around with his PSP, when he suddenly bumped in a tough looking punk.", Kana continued.
"A friend of mine, was there and saw what happened. She saw how he crushed the kid's gameboy, and how he ridiculed a small kid."
"PSP."
"Quiet."
Keima tried correcting how Kana called the PSP a gameboy.
"Anyways, that friend of mine, wanted to do something, but when he saw you smack your briefcase, the small weak looking you, she was amazed.", continued Kana.
"I'm not a weakling."
"We know."
...Huh?
"A weakling wouldn't stand up against a couple of punks for hurting a kid...", Kana continued.
"You might be a little brat... but you are..
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[... a tough little brat.", continued Kana]
... a tough little shit.", continued Akira.
Keima couldn't help but get shocked by his words.
"You..."
"Come on, let's fight."
Akira posed a fighting stance while Keima was on the floor.
All the robots he controlled has fell while Akira's shields were no more.
They were both almost depleted of energy.
"I... I can't-"
"Stop that.", Akira said with a serious expression.
"I don't give a shit what happened in your past, but if you don't stand up now... Everyone's really gonna believe you're a weakling"
Keima stared at Akira with shock, but suddenly smiled.
He slowly stood up and ran at Akira.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A WEAKLING!"
"TAKE THIS!"
Akira and Keima punched each other as bruise by bruise appeared in their bodies.
Akira's shirt was ripped while Keima's is as well... until finally...
*BAM*
Keima crashed to the ground, and passed out.
"You piece of shit... You made me work so hard.", Akira said smiling.
Suddenly, an announcement was heard.
"199 examinees passed. 1302 failed. 1 entries left."
'SHIT!'
Akira immeditely ran to find a small patch of soil with a bunch of grass covered.
He quickly dug on it, and found a robot.
He then clicked on it's switch.
"Sorry, Keima. I need to win this."
'Keima has been trying to make me avoid this area. He made his robots push me away and tried to fight me away from here. That expression he showed when I hit the ground made it clear what he did.', Akira thought.
'Now, I just need one more before-'
"Student-"
"200 entries are taken. All students will be brought back to the hall immediately."
'...shit.'
Akira had a look of despair on his face as he realizes that the exam was over.
'...I failed.'
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"Okay, okay. Bring them here.", Kana was commanding all the assistants who seem to be bringing the injured students to the clinic.
Akira was lying in a bed in the large clinic at the first floor.
'This seems more like a hospital than a university.'
"Haaah.", Akira sighed as he stared at the bandaged hand he pointed towards the light.
"I failed, huh?"
"Hey!"
Suddenly, a girl that he just met recently opened the curtain that separated the patients and went near Akira.
Near her was the dark skinned girl, Koka and the oranged haired lolita, Ai.
"What was it again... oh, Sasaki-san?", called Akira.
"Yes, that's me!", smiled the pink haired girl, Megumi.
"Did you pass the exam? And why are you here anyways?"
"Didn't we have a promise that I'll tell you my ability if you pass the exam...?"
Akira turned to her with a confused expression and asked her:
"You were really waiting for me, just because you thought, I might pass the exam?", asked the confused Akira.
"Yes!", saluted the cheery Megumi.
"What for? I failed anyways... I didn't get the last point in the end. I even broke the rules in the very last moments." asked Akira.
"Failed? What do you mean?", Meguki asked him while tilting her head.
"...You probably don't know but..."
"We know everything. We watched your battles.", Megumi replied.
"...Well, if you did you probably would have known that I failed."
"...Wait, you don't know?"
Suddenly, after Megumi answered her question, Kana holding a women's bag, opened the curtain as well and came in.
"You seem to popular, Akira.", commented Kana.
"Uh... yeah. Yeah... Whatever. Leave me alone. Even though it was partly my fault I failed, I'm still allowed to sulk, right?", Akira replied.
"HIYA!"
Kana suddenly karate chopped Akira's head.
"AUUGH! THE HELL'S THAT FOR?", Akira screamed at her.
Megumi saw this scene and pouted with an irritated expression as she folded her arms to carry her front.
"You're an idiot, aren't you?"
"Why do you keep messing with me? I already failed, just leave me alo-"
"HIYA!"
Kana tried karate chopping Akira but he suddenly caught her hands with his right hand.
"That won't work on me again."
"...but you didn't notice it the first time."
"That's because I wasn't focusing on you."
"And that's why you didn't even know you passed!"
....
'HUUUHHH?'
"What do you mean? I only got four points, I also broke the rules, how...?"
"You didn't basically break the rules since it was all out of self-defense, and the reason you didn't know you passed is because you weren't focusing."
"What...?"
Kana suddenly pulled a tablet from her bag, and lifted it up to play a video to Akira.
"Here's something you didn't notice in your battle"
This is...
["No! My robot!", he exclaimed as he ran with a worried expression towards the crushed robot about to fade, not noticing his admission ticket slipping out of his pocket.
"YOU IDIOT! Stop your ability right now!", screamed Akira.
The giant robot's right foot was still being pulled down by the guy's ability very quick and it seems like the guy was fading slower than the speed of the stomping robot foot about to crash down on him.
He was about to get crushed when-
*TAAAANNGGG!*
Akira suddenly ran and jumped out beside him forming a barrier above them and protecting them both from the gigantic foot.]
"W-what about it?", Akira nervously asked.
"Look closely."
[Akira suddenly ran and jumped out beside him forming a barrier above them and protecting them both from the gigantic foot.
His foot accidentally stepped on the gray haired guy's admission ticket."]
"Wait...do you mean?"
"Defeating enemies can be done two ways, either destroying their robot or destroying their ticket.", Kana explained.
"And although it was unintentional... you Akira Ishikawa, has passed the Savior University entrance exam."
Akira smiled at this declaration, as Kana pointed to him.
He tried his hardest and thought he failed, he believed in his own strength but despair fell onto him when he experienced the shame of failure.
...but now, a glittering light was shined upon his direction, and he...
...has finally took his first step into becoming...
"Now, you should all do your best to become the best supports out there!"
"""YAAAYYY!""", the girls cheered and Akira only smiled to this statement until he realized...
"Wait...support?"
End of Chapter 04
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Keima Nakamura
-ability machine manipulator
-able to wire in machines with his yellow glowing lines and control them
-bullied before going to Savior University
Plain girl brown hair
-ability softening
-able to soften surfaces she touches
Handsome gray haired guy
-ability magnetism
-able to attract and repel anyone and anything in a wide radius
Ryo
-bully
-hates Keima