“The first match will be between Irene Corvix and Louise Stormcrest!” (Thynax)
Once he heard Ms. Thynax proclaim the participants for the match, Thanatos felt a bit of curiosity as to what would happened. After looking around the arena he found Irene standing alone with sheer confidence on her face.
“Everyone who is not in the match please proceed to the stands in order to watch the match.” (Thynax)
Thanatos went to the stands with Shyelle and sat down with Shyelle on his lap. Once everyone had made their way to the stands, Thanatos could see Irene, Ms. Thynax, and a Beastwoman standing in the middle of the room. The Beastwoman, or Louise Stormcrest, had silver-white hair, a sleek yet bushy tail, and wolf ears coming out of her head. Louise stood at around 1.6m tall, the same height as Irene, and had a slightly muscular yet curvaceous figure that attracts the eyes of men, but also gives them a warning that she can more than defend herself if they try anything on her.
After checking with the two young women too see if they were ready to fight, Ms. Thynax decided to start the match.
“You may begin!” As soon as Ms. Thynax said this, she rushed away from them at a lightning fast pace towards the stands then sat down next to Thanatos and Shyelle.
“This should be interesting, don’t you think?” (Thynax)
“Hopefully, I’m tired and this seems troublesome… We should have just shown up when it was time for out matches…” (Thanatos)
“But then you would just sleep all day and never go to class! If you don’t find anyone interesting, then you won’t feel a need to go to class, right?” (Shyelle)
“Err… Thats debatable… If you went I might go…” (Thanatos)
“Ugh… Do you two always act like this?” (Thynax)
“Hm? Did you say something?” Thanatos and Shyelle replied to Ms. Thynax in-sync with one another.
“… Never mind…” (Thynax)
The rules were explained right before the match had begun. Both participants would fight one another, trying to either get their opponent to admit defeat, or to render them unconscious, in order to win the match. You are not allowed to try to kill your opponent, and you are also not allowed to severely injure your opponent either.
“Well, hopefully something interesting happens… Oh, and Shy.” (Thanatos)
“Yes?” (Shyelle)
“Wake me up if something exciting starts to happen, or if it’s one of our turns.” (Thanatos)
“Will do!” Shyelle replied with a playful solute to signify she understood what he was asking.
As Shyelle and Ms. Thynax turned their attention towards the match, Thanatos leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes in order to get some rest.
In the stage area, Irene and Louise could be seen circling around each other while maintaining a constant distance of about 50m. The entire time they circled each other, neither one of them took their eyes off of the other.
All of a sudden, Irene and Louise stopped walking. They had been sizing each other up, and at the same time they had been waiting for the other make a foolish move or jump into the fight carelessly. Once they determined that the other wouldn’t try to do anything foolish, they both stopped in place and stared at each other, waiting for the other to move. Then, at the same time, both of them decided it was time to make their move.
Irene stretched one of her hands forward then suddenly, a bolt of lightning shot out towards Louise. Louise responded by crouching down and covering herself in a dome of pure water, that way, the lightning both wouldn’t conduct electricity, and wouldn’t strike her either.
Irene then rushed towards Louise with her hand pointed like a spear as lightning danced around it, and pierced through the water. Louise who had seen this, opened a hole in the opposite side of the dome, and quickly jumped out of it.
As Louise jumped out of the dome, she sent the water that was removed from the dome rushing towards Irene. The water bent into a V-shape in the air as it went to slice Irene. However, Irene anticipated a counter attack and immediately fell to the floor. When she fell to the floor, both of her hands slammed against the ground and pillars of earth shot up from the stage floor a little away from her, stopping the blades of water in their tracks at the last possible second.
When Shyelle saw the pillars of earth shoot from the ground, she immediately turned around and started lightly shaking Thanatos’s shoulder.
“Hm? What happened?” (Thanatos)
Shyelle quickly Thanatos about Irene using earth magic and how she used it with perfect timing in order to stop the water blades from attacking her.
Thanatos looked at Irene with a quizzical eye, and began to watch the match while being slightly interested.
Irene looked over towards Louise who had her jaw dropped in surprise. Louise quickly recovered herself and began to launch more water blades towards Irene. Irene once again stopped all the water blades with earth pillars and ran towards Louise with both of her hands shaped like spears with lightning dancing around them.
Louise determined that the match would become a stalemate if both parties tried to attack each other from afar, so she decided to join Irene in a close combat fight. She raised both her hands into fists and two rings of water appeared on the sides of each hand. The water rings were interlocking each other while moving at incredibly high speeds, as a result, if she were to land a punch on Irene then the water would cut through her like two vicious chainsaws.
Both Irene and Louise determined that they would be unable to take a hit from the other without taking serious damage, so they would have to evade their opponent’s attacks at all costs.
Once Irene arrived in front of Louise, she began to repeatedly launch her hands towards Louise’s torso in a continuous barrage of attacks. Louise narrowly dodged each one of Irene’s assaults, biding her time to attack until Irene has exhausted herself.
As Irene was beginning to slow down and show more openings in her assault, Louise decided it was time to for her to attack. While dodging one of Irene’s strikes, Louise ducked down to the other side and moved to throw a punch right at Irene’s side!
However, Irene once again anticipated Louise's move, and the lightning in Irene's other hand shot out towards Louise! Irene had never fired off the lightning that was on her hands at Louise before, so she had discarded the possibility of her doing so until now. As a result, Louise was struck in the middle of her chest with the bolt of lightning and fell to the ground while spasming uncontrollably.
Ms. Thynax determined that Louise would be unable to fight, and immediately stood up from her seat and shouted.
“The match is over! The winner for the first match is Irene Corvix!” (Thynax)
As she declared this, medics could be seen running into the arena, placing Louise on a stretcher, and rushing back out again.
“The next match will between Shyelle LaFluer and Bill Quinn!” Thynax said while looking the Shyelle with a mischievous grin.
Shyelle turned around, kissed Thanatos on the cheek, and hopped off his lap.
“Looks like its my turn, be back soon! And don’t let that woman take my seat!” Shyelle said as she ran off to the stage, giving the returning Irene a pointed gaze along the way.
“Well, I better go down there to start the match. I’ll be back in a second.” Ms. Thynax said as she departed for the stage just after Shyelle.
As the two were going down to the stage area, Irene had just made her way back and was standing in front of Thanatos.
“Hey! How’d you like the match!?” (Irene)
“I missed the beginning, Shyelle woke me up after you supposedly first used earth magic. Other than that, you got lucky when your lightning accidentally misfired at the end when you lost control of it due to surprise…” Thanatos said with a criticizing gaze.
“Uhhh, uhhh… What are you talking about, lost control?” Irene responded as she started to break out in a cold sweat.
“I could tell by the expression on your face and how you reacted around and during the time it happened. You were just as surprised as that Louise girl was when you zapped her.” (Thanatos)
“Ooooo… Well, aside from that… How was I?” (Irene)
Thanatos looked at her, shrugged, then turned his attention towards the stage area.
“*Sigh* Well, whatever…” Irene said as she went and sat on Thanatos’s lap.
“Hm? What do you think you’re doing?” (Thanatos)
“Oh? I didn’t think you’d mind…” Irene replied with a dangerous grin while wiggling her ass against his crotch like Shyelle did earlier.
“I don’t, but Shyelle is going to freak out when she gets back and discovers her supposed seat was taken.” (Thanatos)
“Well, whatever happens, happens.” Irene replied while her grin turned even more dangerous.
Thanatos once again shrugged and looked at Shyelle’s opponent who just arrived on the stage with disgust in his eyes.
Shyelle’s opponent was a hunch-backed boy with a pitiful appearance, about 1.7m tall, with greasy short black hair, and green eyes that were filled with lust. The boy had some drool coming out of his mouth just like whenever Shyelle starts to get aroused around Thanatos, and he was rubbing his hands together in a scheming manner.
Thanatos looked over to Shyelle who had a revolted look on her face just from looking at the boy. He could also feel Shyelle’s seething rage all the way from the stands, as she just went from sitting in her favourite spot, to having to get up to deal with some lustful boy that she wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot-pole.
Ms. Thynax who sensed the mood, decided she better start this match quickly before Shyelle snaps and lashes out at her as well for making her participate in this fight.
“Ahem, well, are you ready?” (Thynax)
“Lets get this over with quickly.” Shyelle replied with her mood worsening by the second, causing Ms. Thynax to swallow in nervousness.
The lustful boy nodded his head towards Ms. Thynax then turned his head back towards Shyelle so he could stare at her again.
“Well, you may begin!” Ms. Thynax yelled out, while she muttered to herself her feelings of sorrow for the lustful boy.
Before Ms. Thynax could even get back to the stands, Shyelle had made her move. Shyelle lifted both her arms and shot out dozens of lightning bolts, striking the boy all over his body. At the same time, pillars of earth shot up from the ground striking the boy in various places of his body. Unfortunately for the lustful boy, the spot that Shyelle appeared to concentrate most of her attacks on, was the boy’s genitalia, which made many male members of the audience cringe in pain and horror.
As soon as Shyelle’s barrage of attacks finished, Ms. Thynax quickly announced the obvious result of the match.
“Winner! Shyelle LaFluer wins in her match against Bill Quinn!” Ms. Thynax proclaimed loudly as a medical team rushed in at a pace far superior to the last time.
Thanatos who watched the medics poor into the arena and carefully move the boy, noticed some of the men were covering the genitals, which caused him to chuckle to himself. Irene who had never seen Thanatos humoured by anything, looked at him with a quizzical expression.
“Whats so funny?” Irene asked curiously.
“It’s the medics, even they know not to try anything on her now. Look at how some of them are covering their crotch and avoiding Shyelle as much as possible.” Thanatos replied with an amused expression.
Thanatos knew that things would develop like this. Every time him and Shyelle went into a city, there would always be people who were overcome with lust and met the same fate. This time however, Shyelle greatly toned down her usual barrage as to draw a bit less attention to herself.
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As Shyelle made her way back from the stage and approached Thanatos and Irene, she shot Irene a ferocious and angry gaze which caused her to flinch.
“You’re in my spot.” Shyelle told Irene coldly.
Irene, after a moment, recovered herself and decided to respond in kind.
“You weren’t here, therefore, it isn’t your spot anymore. But it looks like the seats next to Thanatos are open.” Irene replied with a mischievous grin.
“Humph. Fine, but I’ll remember this.” Shyelle said before switching her gaze to her brother.
“Also, didn’t I say to not let this woman take MY spot?” (Shyelle)
Thanatos shrugged and decided to play both dumb and innocent.
“*Sigh* Well I can’t really stay mad at you… But SHE is a different story… Hm… Well, do you want me to wake you up under the same reasons as last time?” (Shyelle)
“Please and thank you.” (Thanatos)
Thanatos then closed his eyes and went back to sleep again. Irene looked at Thanatos dumbfounded as he just fell asleep so easily while she sat atop his lap.
‘How dare he! How can he ignore ME! I mean, I’m practically throwing myself at this guy and nothing seems to work! Does he swing the other way or something!? UGH!’ Irene thought to herself while in distress over the boy who seemed to be immune to her advances.
“No matter how much you try, its not going to work. I’ve been trying for years, trust me, he’s not anywhere near as easy as other guys.” Shyelle told the confused girl who was sitting on top of her brother.
“What do you mean it won’t work!? Just whats with this guy anyways!? Is he gay or something!?” Irene replied while infuriated.
“Nope, he’s not gay. He’s just too lazy and doesn’t care about anything really… Also it would require him to put in effort to actually be interested in a girl, let alone sleep with one… But you’re lucky you know…” Shyelle explained to the confused girl who still looked bewildered.
“Lucky how!? You just said this guy is so lazy that he won’t even put in the effort to be interested in any girls!” Irene shouted back at Shyelle.
“Hm.. Thats true but, he’s already a little curious about you. He told me to wake him up if something interesting happens or if its one of our turns to fight. When I woke him up during your match, he didn’t go back to sleep so… That means he is at least a bit curious about you.” (Shyelle)
“Oh? So he at least acknowledges I have some skill huh!?” Irene replied with a triumphant look on her face.
“Well… some I guess… But I only said he was a little bit curious about you… I never said it was as a woman… He doesn’t really care about that, he just lives to enjoy himself… Women could throw themselves at him all their lives and he wouldn’t do a thing to them, he would just find it to be too much effort and he wouldn’t want to have to deal with them afterwards… Sure there's also more to it than that, but thats the gist of it…” Shyelle finished explaining so she could pay attention to what was happening on stage.
“So you’re saying its a fruitless effort huh?” (Irene)
“More than likely, yes. Well, if you forced yourself on him he probably wouldn’t resist as long as he doesn’t have to do anything…” (Shyelle)
“Hm…” (Irene)
Irene began to think to herself of several different way to seduce Thanatos for later in order to make him notice her, not even realizing how easy of a woman that made her appear to be.
As Thanatos slept, the matches continued on until every single one happened except for his. All students needed to remain in the arena until all matches were done, that way, they could learn from the other matches on how they could improve. When the match before his was about to end, Shyelle decided to wake him up.
“Hm?” (Thanatos)
“Hey, your match is about to start soon, this one is almost over.” (Shyelle)
Irene who had been watching the match looked at Shyelle bewildered, as it seemed like an even fight to her.
“Huh? What do you mean its almost over?” Irene asked her while being puzzled.
“Watch carefully, you’ll see.” (Thynax)
“Ah, so you’re back, huh?” (Thanatos)
“I’ve been here during every match… If you didn’t sleep through them all you would have known that.” Ms. Thynax replied while scolding him.
Thanatos just shrugged and looked rubbed Shyelle’s head as thanks for waking him up, causing her to smile radiantly.
“So what am I supposed to see while watching carefully?” (Irene)
Just as Irene says this, Thanatos looks in the ring to see two humans fighting each other, one of which launches a lightning bolt at the other, finishing the match.
“Huh!?” (Irene)
“See, it’s over” (Thanatos)
“You just woke up and you just saw the last like two seconds! Don’t act like you’ve been watching the entire time only to chip in at the end!” (Irene)
“*Shrugging* Ah well, can you please get off? I supposedly have my match next.” Thanatos asked Irene who was still sitting on his lap.
“Hm… Nope, not unless you go out with me for dinner.” Irene replied while trying to make the best of the situation.
“Ugh… Shyelle, please?” Thanatos asked while looking over to his sister for help.
“Gladly.” Shyelle said with a huge smile that made Irene shiver.
Shyelle got up, walked over to Irene, put her hand on Irene’s shoulder, and started running low voltage lightning through her. Irene started spasming uncontrollably on Thanatos’s lap, and before she lost control of her bodily functions, Shyelle picked her up and moved her to a different seat.
“Thanks.” Thanatos said while rubbing his sister’s head gently.
“Any time!” (Shyelle)
Thanatos looked over to the stage which Ms. Thynax had already made her way over to and had finished declaring the outcome of the match.
“The final fight will be between Thanatos Yama, and Susan Fireheart!” (Thynax)
Thanatos sighed as he made his way over to the stage.
“I’ll be back soon.” (Thanatos)
“And I’ll be waiting.” (Shyelle)
When Thanatos made his way to the stage, he found that he was partnered with a draconian woman. She had long and lush red hair flowing straight down to her lower back, red serpentine eyes, horns growing out on both sides of her head, smooth looking skin, a nice hourglass figure, and a pair of large bat-like wings growing out of her back. She was about 1.75m tall, just a bit shorter than Thanatos, and she seemed to not have an ounce of fat on her aside from her pert posterior and her well-sized breasts.
“*Sigh* Lets get this over with shall we? I want to get some badly needed sleep.” (Thanatos)
“You just slept for the past few hours through all the matches!” (Thynax)
“Hm… Only a few hours huh?” (Thanatos)
“Oh, you were asleep too? I had some random girl poking me telling me it was my turn since I was the only one who hadn’t gone yet.” (Susan)
“Yeah, it seemed like too much effort to watch all the matches, so I asked my sister to wake me up if something interesting happened or if it were one of our turns.” (Thanatos)
“Oooo… I should have thought of that… Then I wouldn’t have had some random person poking me…” (Susan)
“Um… As much as I hate to intrude on your conversation about sleep… Can we start the match now?” Ms. Thynax asked while puzzled about how the unenergetic Thanatos seemed to be quite content with his current conversation.
“I suppose so, shall we talk after the fight?” Susan answers Ms. Thynax then asks Thanatos with interest present on her face.
“*Shrugging* I suppose, and I guess you can start the fight now.” (Thanatos)
“The final fight shall now… Begin!” Ms. Thynax yells to the crowd while rushing off.
“Yeesh, did you need to be so loud? We just woke up you know?” (Thanatos)
“Yes, I must agree with him…” Susan says while shaking her head in agreement with Thanatos.
“It’s so you two lazy people can WAKE UP! Now start fighting already!” Ms. Thynax yells at them in response from the stands.
“Ugh… So troublesome… Well… Lets get this over with…” (Thanatos)
“No hard feelings whatever the outcome right? Its nice to meet someone with the same mentality as me.” (Susan)
Thanatos nods in agreement then sits on the ground.
“After you.” (Thanatos)
Susan opens her hand thats resting at her side, turning it to point towards Thanatos, and a huge fireball comes out of it rushing towards Thanatos. Right as the fireball is about to hit him, Thanatos yawns and swats the fireball away with the back of his hand. Susan looks at him with wide eyes as he just easily knocked aside a humungous fireball like a leaf that was blowing in the wind.
“*Whistling* Hm… Doesn’t seem like I can beat you if you can deflect it that easily… Which means it will end up as a stalemate or a loss… Well you seem to be like me and hate effort so… I admit defeat.” (Susan)
Susan then turns towards the crowd in order to address them about her forfeiture.
“I, Susan Fireheart, forfeit in my match against Thanatos Yama!” (Susan)
Ms. Thynax then comes back to them from the stands to announce the result of the final match with an incredulous look on her face.
“The winner of the final match is Thanatos Yama! If you would all come down to the stage now I will take you to the cafeteria so we can all eat now!” Ms. Thynax announced towards the crowd.
“You two really are ridiculous… I mean really! Just how lazy are you two! Only one of you fired magic, and only once at that!” (Thynax)
“She really doesn’t get it does she?” Thanatos looked towards Susan while asking.
“Seems so… What a shame…” Susan replied while the two of them looked at Ms. Thynax with pitying eyes.
“Why are you looking at me like that!? If anyone is pitiful its you two!” (Thynax)
The two of them just looked at her and shook their heads in disbelief and pity.
“Well, anyways, get up. We’re going to get food now.” (Thynax)
Before Thanatos could so much as move a finger, Shyelle came running from the stands and jumped on top of him in a frenzy.
“Nice match, you seemed to have enjoyed yourself a little during that one.” (Shyelle)
“Well I met an interesting person, and would you get off me so you can help me up please?” (Thanatos)
“Hm? Sure.” Shyelle said as she got off him.
Shyelle pulled Thanatos up off the ground, helping him stand up, and then jumped on top of his back.
Irene then arrived shortly after and wrapped her arm around Thanatos’s.
Thanatos sighed and to his mild surprise, Susan came over and linked with his other arm.
Shyelle glared at her angrily but soon calmed down a little after she remembered what her brother said about meeting someone interesting.
“Thana-nii, is this the supposed interesting person you met? Your opponent from the match?” (Shyelle)
“Hm? Yeah, I suppose so. She appears to like sleep as much as I do.” (Thanatos)
Irene looked at Thanatos and Susan with an incredulous expression at how two people can become so close, so quickly, just from them both liking sleep.
“So you both like sleep a lot?… And thats all you know about each other?…” (Irene)
“Hm? Something wrong?” (Thanatos)
“Nothing… Lets go eat something…” Irene replied as she dragged them all off to follow behind Ms. Thynax.
“You’re really unbelievable, you know that?” (Irene)
“I’ll take that as a compliment.” (Thanatos)
For the rest of their walk until the cafeteria, none of them said a single word, as the three girls clung to Thanatos for their own reasons the entire way.