"Gooooooood morning, your highnesses!", Sir Knight greeted everyone while holding a mike on his hand.

"What the fucking hell... IS ALL THIS!?", Akira couldn't help but shout seeing what's going on.

Akira and their classmates are now in the middle of a colliseum.

They were all wearing red tracksuits that seemed to be their battle outfit for now.

About 200 students of different shapes and sizes were sat on the audience seats.

"So have you all prepared yourselves for this activity?", asked Sir Knight.

"Sir, can we kindly ask you what's going on around here?", asked Avaron.

"I haven't told all of you about it, since I was sure that you have all given your blood and sweat into preparing just like how I told you too. I trust that you all did your best?"

Sir Knight said as he pointed his mike towards the students:

"Support students are supposed to learn how to aid a hero during battle. So it has always been a tradition to pair a new hero student with a new support student. The heroes in the audience's seats right now, are new hero students who are planning to scout a partner for the S.S. Tournament!"

"S s tournament?", wondered Akira.

"It's a tournament held every year in this University, to give you a chance to shine before others. It's a competition of ability between 2 people, a savior and a support, against all the other competitors. The winners get to work head to head with the top saviors, gets to be given a temporary SS license, immediately gets a scholarship, and is rewarded one billion yen.", Keima explained.

""""""""""ONE BILLION YEN?"""""""""", some of the students shouted.

'That's a lot of money!', thought Akira... when suddenly something else Keima said struck him.

"Wait, what do you mean temporary SS license?", asked Akira.

Keima looked at Akira with disappointment, Ai looked at him with confusion and Eiko looked at him with a wry smile.

"We aren't allowed to use our abilities outside of class.", explained Keima.

'....

...WHAT?'

"...but why? Aren't we supposed to be potential heroes? Is this some sort of cliche wherein we aren't allowed to interfere in things because we're just students?", asked Akira.

"It isn't about that. Both of us, before we got here, we didn't know anything about stuff like magic powers existing. That's because it's kept hidden from everyone. To prevent things like discrimination, extremism, human experimentation and other stuff from happening. An SS license gives you the right to use your ability outside of school unless you use it for crimes.", Keima explained.

"I think I did hear about something like that.", Akira replied.

"So what is the activity you need us to do, sir?", asked Avaron.

Sir Knight suddenly pulled something from his suit and pointed it to the students.

"Why don't we play some 'capture the flag'?"

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Kana was sat up the front of the coliseum audience's seat looking at Akira.

Sat beside her is the water bodied teacher, States, and the violet separated haired male teacher wearing a violet bodysuit with a violet mask and a big E on his chest, Elasticity.

"We sure have some promising supports in this class. The top and second passer are both here.", commented Elasticity.

"These students all have great potential if I could say so myself.", said States while showing a smug expression.

Kana had a serious expression and stared at Kazuki Inoue, who seem to not have been listening to Ken and Avaron telling them all the plan that they made.

"That's your nephew, right Kana-chan?", States said as she pointed to Akira.

"Yes, he is.", she answered with a slight smile.

"Wasn't he the kid who answered nothing in the written exam? I've also heard about how he used to have a bad reputation as a former delinquent. I'm not trying to question your authority or anything, Asami-san, but I'm not really sure having him here as a student like that in our school might have been the right choice, even if he's your nephew.", said Elasticity trying to give out his opinion.

"Elasticity-san!", States tried to scold him, when Kana suddenly tapped her shoulder.

"Kana-chan..."

Kana then turned to Elasticity with serious eyes and told him:

"I might be Akira's aunt, but I will never give him any special treatment. Even if he was my nephew, I would never do some thing so petty as to mess with the records to make him pass. Akira did it all by himself."

"Plus, he saved lots of people in a train incident! He really wants to be a hero!", added States.

"I also heard, he did it because he was shot by the delinquents and that he was the reason the delinquents hijacked the train in the first place.", Elasticity replied.

"...but-", States wanted to respond to him, but was stopped again by Kana.

"Elasticity-sensei, you heard that we tested his abilities with his little brother, Akio, right?", Kana asked Elasticity.

"I did, I heard that he manifested his power because your husband was threatened... but his ability may have also manifested due to a different reason... He might have felt powerless and wanted power to fight back. I did hear that he also punched Akio, after all was said and done?", Elasticity replied.

States looked irritated at Elasticity, while Kana kept a straight face and responded to his accusations again:

"There was another factor I noticed that shocked me, and that might be one of the reasons why I realized he should really be admitted in this school.", Kana explained.

"What was that?", asked Elasticity.

"Back then, when we tested Akira..."

[Akio stood up and prepared to use wind jet again.

"...Go back to the classroom I crashed out off."

"What for?", Kana asked with a confused tone.

"He left another surprise there that even I was shocked to see."

"Huh?"

*Phhhhssshhhh*

Then Akio charged into the school again.]

"Akio shot at Akira and kept using his Wind Jet ability to strike him down. Since Akira decided Akio's Wind Jet ability was just him boosting himself while charging to a certain direction, he immediately ran to the classrooms to avoid Akio.

...but there was one thing, he didn't keep in mind of."

[Noticing this Akira turned around and went inside a classroom.

He had a tired expression, and looked around the classroom, when suddenly he noticed something, that made his eyes widen.

Inside the classroom Akira went to, were a bunch of young students lying unconscious.]

"At that time, Akira realized he had no time to hide... so he kept himself in that classroom, but there was one thing he did there that shocked me."

Kana then looked at Akira again and reminisced.

"I went back to the classroom to see this 'surprise' Akio told me just to realize..."

[Kana went inside the classroom where Akira avoided Akio and made him charge out of the window.

She turned her head to see...

that the classroom desks were all arranged to the side and all the unconscious students were placed behind them.]

"He did all that, even while he was being hunted by Akio. He thought about the students' safety even if his safety was greatly at stake. Seeing those students there, made me realize...

That Akira would definitely become an amazing Savior."

["Why didn't you answer any of the exam's questions?", Kana asked Akira who was resting in the clinic having just finished his exams earlier.

Megumi and the other passers have left and only Akira and the other injured stayed there, waiting to recover.

"Does it really matter? I passed, right?", replied Akira who was wearing a patient's outfit.

"What if the written exam was significant to the result? You wouldn't have been able to pass, right?", asked Kana.

"Yeah, but I passed, right? That doesn't matter anymore.", answered Akira.

"That doesn't change the fact that you didn't answer a single thing in the exams. Why didn't you? Just answer me."

"...", Akira then looked at his cast and told her:

"Akio never told me anything about a written exam.", Akira replied.

"I didn't even study, and knew nothing about the written exam happening. So I just thought... you know...?"

Akira then turned to Kana with a confident look on his face.

"You teachers are probably just being some sketchy bastards. That exam was probably some sort of test to pair us against other examinees."]

'He even realized the written exams were only made to test their knowledge and pair them with the right opponents.'

Kana then looked at Elasticity again and told hin:

"If Akira had been given a stronger ability like his little brother's...

I wouldn't have hesitated into inviting him into the Savior course.", Kana continued.

Elasticity's eyes widen and then, he closed his eyes and nodded.

"I apologize for questioning your decisions.", Elasticity replied.

"...but that boy really seems to be the type that's easily mistaken as a potential villain by others."

"A villain would have had a more horrible ability, and not a recovery one.", States said while pouting at Elasticity.

"No, a healer becoming a villain isn't a shocking sight. Considering what happened to Raiser.", Elasticity replied.

'The recovery villain, Raiser...', Kana thought with a serious expression.

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"The rules are simple. You can use your abilities as much as you like as long you don't hit the audience.

You are allowed to run as far as on the coliseum walls, but you are not allowed to go beyond that.

The leaders must carry their teams' flags on their chests, but the members can carry the stolen flags.

The one who capture all their opponents' flags wins!", Sir Knight who now sat beside Elasticity, announced while holding his mike.

Akira's group were hidden behind a large rock, settled at the bottom left corner of the grounds.

Ken's group was at the top left, also hiding behind a large rock.

Sora's group was at the bottom right and was also hidden behind a rock.

Takumi's group was at the top right and was also hidden behind a rock.

Akira had a red flag tied on his chest with a thin rope.

Ken had a blue flag also tied on his chest.

Sora and Takumi had white and black flags and also had it tied on their chests.

The groups all had a serious expression in their faces, all preparing to use their abilities.

"Begin!", Sir Knight suddenly exclaimed and the groups started making their moves.

"FEAST ON MY HOLY SHINE!", Ryuu immediately ran out in front of the rock and used his shine ability to prevent any of the other groups to see anything.

His ability made him shine his light throughout the whole battlefield preventing even the audience to see what was going on.

"A surprising move from the vision team, with this none of the other teams would be able to see anything!", Sir Knight narrated.

Suddenly, Kazuki ran from behind the rock Ken and the others were hdliding behind and charged into the light.

"YOU IDI-", Ken was about to shout at him, when suddenly.

*BBBBOOOOOMMMM*

Kazuki immediately put his hands on the ground and inflated it really large, making the ground shoot up quickly, creating a large mountain shooting Ryuu up the sky.

Everyone was shocked to see his ability.

"Eh? What?", Ryuu was shocked to see himself on the air so suddenly.

Mitsuko, seeing this, suddenly released her energy on her arm and three glowing light transparent orbs showed up, one in front of her, two at the leftside and rightside behind her, making a triangle like formation.

She then pointed towards the sky and made the orbs follow Ryuu to catch him before falling.

...but she was unable to catch him immediately and he crashed on her orb, making him unconscious.

"Damn, that inflation guy was so strong. We gotta-"

Inoue suddenly charged behind the rock Akira and his group were hiding at and immediately crouched and pointed at the ground to use his ability.

"SHIT! EIKO!"

Eiko immediately used her ability to stop time near Kazuki and charged at him.

"RUN, WOMAN!"

As soon as Eiko used her time stop ability on Kazuki, she immediately ran at him planning to hit him, but Akira quickly pulled the back of her tracksuit's collar and pulled her away.

Suddenly, from the top, a huge rock fell almost hitting Eiko.

They immediately ran away from Kazuki who kept inflating the air around him, pushing him closer to them.

'This fucker inflated a rock and inflated the air below it to make it float. He even made almost the whole ground inflate like that.'

"Sorry, just doing my job.", Izanagi suddenly teleported near Akira, who was focusing on running away from Kazuki who was at their rear.

*BAM!*

Just before Izanagi could pull on Akira's flag, Keima used his robot to punch Izanagi away.

The robot Keima had was a single robot that was looked like the one they used in the entrance exams.

"Good thing I brought multiple PSPs", Keima said.

Sora was flying around as Maiki quickly spawned a tree and made it taller and taller real quick with Megumi on it, chasing after Sora.

Avaron ran at the rock where Takumi and the others were and transformed it into a huge sword.

Kami ran at the direction Akira's group was running to and was planning to engage Akira.

Kazuki had an angry expression nd was closing in while he floated two large rocks, and one small one with his inflation ability, above Akira and the others, and the small one above himself.

"EVERYONE, DEFENSE FORMATION!"

Akira suddenly crouched down and stuck his shield to the ground, Koka was behind him at his right side and slowed down Kazuki while Eiko was behind him at his left side, while Keima and Ai was behind them.

"KEIMA, LOVE GIRL!"

"Right, Akira-sama!

"I'm on it."

"Fall in love!", Ai touched the robot and shot her ability to the ones near them.

Keima then made the robot charge away from Akira and the other's direction.

Nagai and Izanagi were immediately enamored.

"Ohhhh, that robot is so beautiful!"

"I don't know why but I've never felt like running after something, until now that I fell for this lovely robot."

Kami and Izanagi immediately ran over to the robot's direction.

Kazuki stopped the inflation of air of a small rock near him and struck his head, canceling Ai's ability on him.

"NOW!"

Eiko immediately changed sides with Koka and stopped Kazuki's time.

She and Koka suddenly charged at him.

Akira and the group noticed the rocks he had floated, but immediately dodged it while keeping a straight face

Akira also constructed two more shields and controlled it like a frisbee, to aim at the still-in-love Izanagi and Kami.

"What the!?", Eiko shockingly said.

They tried fighting Kazuki but realized the air around him was inflated, creating a wall preventing anyone from stepping their foot near him.

"Run!", Koka told Eiko.

...but before she could...

*BOOOOMMM*

Kazuki immediately canceled the inflated air around him, releasing it's pressurd and making that air push Eiko away hitting the ground.

Kami and Izanagi, before the shields Akira thrown could hit them, were suddenly turned into liquid by a puddle near them.

"Sorry, but we aren't just gonna let you win.", Hana said as she turned back into human.

Akira just smiled confidently and replied to her:

"We feel the same damn way."

Suddenly from the left sidd of Akira and the others, a huge sound was heard.

*BBOOOOMM*

Kazuki Inoue's left arm, suddenly inflated ten times his size that looked muscly and had visible nerves.

"What the hell is...?"

Kami, Hana, Izanagi, and Akira's group's eyes all widened due to seeing Kazuki's transformation.

"Stop fucking running away from me...

Ishikawa...!", Kazuki who looked as if he was really irritated showed killing intent as he kept his eyes on Akira.

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"Inflation is an ability that fills an object with the user's energy.

It can be used in many different ways but one of the most dangerous...

...is when an inflater decides to use his ability on his own body.

Not only do you pump your stable energy to a part of your body that's not used to carrying that much power, you also put great stress on the user's body.", Elasticity explained.

"There have been many saviors like Magnefier, or HeliumMan, who kind of had the same ability, but none of them have ever harnessed this much power.", he continued.

"That Inoue kid, he seems as if he carries a grudge against Akira. He doesn't seem to be targeting the flag he's carrying at all."

'A kid from the Inoue family. He must be thinking about what happened years ago... but he shouldn't be have been able to know that.', thought Kana.

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*BOOOOOOOM*, Kazuki's gigantic hands struck against Akira's group, but before he could touch them, they already fleed.

"Eiko, use your time stop! We have to use our full power to stop him!", Akira commanded.

"I can't! The size of his fist is too big! I'm only able to stop part of it."

"Shit!"

Suddenly, huge long dreadlock hair were shot from Kami who was running with them.

Akira immediately pointed his barrier to him and flung the hair away.

"Kazuki seems like he has a grudge on you. Sorry Akira, but I'll be using this chance to-"

Keima's robot suddenly punched Kami from behind before he could finish his sentence and pushed him all the way pass Akira's group near the colliseum walls unconscious.

"One of them is down."

From the distance, suddenly, Sora flew down with Megumi hugging from behind her trying to take her flag from her chest and giving it her all to not fall down.

She planned to charge at Akira while flying.

"Hihi, I'll be taking you down, Ishikawa-kun."

"WAAAAAAAHHH!", Megumi who was being dragged down by Sora was screaming with fear as Sora flew futher down.

Eiko immediately stopped time near them, while Kazuki was still following, took Sora's white flag, pushed Akira away and continued it.

"Let's run!", Eiko suggested as Akira's group got confused.

Sora, who was earlier about to crash into Akira, immediately crashed at the coliseum walls and fainted.

She lied on the ground unconscious with spirals as her eyes from hitting the wall. Megumi was rubbing her head and fixed her dizzy self.

She then noticed Kazuki who was running after Akira and the others, who was showing an extremely enraged expression.

'That expression!"', Megumi thought.

'Run, Akira!'

"COME BACK HERE!"

Kazuki inflated his other arm and kept smashing down at Akira's group's direction.

'Shit, we can't stop him! We gotta think of a plan before bumping into other enemies.'

Akira's then widen after realizing a solution and with a serious expression decided to tell them:

"Keima!"

"What is it?", Keima replied.

"Lead the group."

"WHAT!?"

Akira then threw the red flag they took from Sora to Keima as he ran away to the coliseum's center.

"I'm the one he's after, win this for me, you little shit!", said Akira as he ran away.

"You moron!", Keima screamed at Akira as Kazuki ran after him.

"Tch- Let's go!"

"...but...but...Akira-sama!", Ai complained.

"TRUST HIM!", keima screamed at her.

"He won't be taken down by someone like that... Let's just do our best and capture the other flags."

Eiko and Ai looked hesistant but continued their ways forward.

Keima felt a little worried as well, but decided to trust him.

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On the other end of the coliseum...

Ken and Avaron were fighting against Takumi's group, who were double in their numbers due to Chiyo's illusion ability.

There was only 4 of them left since Ryuu went unconscious, so the illusions made them look as if there was 8 of them.

"Illusions, stop!", Avaron ordered the illusions which stopped them for a second making her realize who the real ones are.

Avaron's ability, 'lead' is an ability that gives the ones who hear her commands, to stop their thoughts for a second and somehow motivate them of doing the thing she commands.

"HA!"

Ken suddenly controlled the force of the punches he did before fighting them, to strike down Takumi and his group members.

'That damn Inoue confused everyone and made us all break our formations. I gotta do my best even though everything's spiraling out of plan.', thought Ken.

Iro immediately tried to use his ink to deflect the force but he...

"STOP!", their minds suddenly halted for a second again.

...but before the forces could reach them...

*ZZZZIIIWWSS*

A blue energy explosion suddenly occurred behind Ken and Avaron, pushing them away.

...before Avaron was pushed further, though, she immediately touched a rock on the ground, turned it into a sword and used it to block the explosion.

"You might be able to order us, but you can't control my orbs.", said Mitsuko who had a serious expression on her face.

The orb she used to saved Ryuu earlier, was dug unto the ground when he fell, she immediately siphoned some of Ryuu's energy and made it explode behind Avaron and Ken.

Ken was pushed away by the blast and lied unconscious on the ground.

"Seems like you're on your own now!", Chiyo said with a deviant smile.

"Not exactly.", from behind the eight of them, a tree suddenly grew horizontally targeting then.

Daichi immediately turned around, pointed his paintbrush to the head of the tree and launched an large ink bubble before on it and hardened preveting the tree from growing any longer.

"A very beautiful tree indeed, but you're wrong if you think trees are made to take life.", Daichi said while sparkling with an exaggerated serious expression.

"Oh, Maiki? We're up against you, huh?", said Chiyo.

"Foolish people, nature should be allowed to grow as much as it wants." Maiki stepped in beside the tree she grew.

In front of Takumi, Daichi, Mitsuko and Chiyo, was Avaron, while behind them was Maiki.

'Seems like the two of them thought they figured us out immediately.', thought Takumi.

'We were supposed to use Ryuu's light as a distraction, while I use my ability to find and run to the enemy's hiding spots while Chiyo makes illlusions of us to charge at the front so we can surprise them at the back...

...but Inoue's skill immediately took Ryuu down.

We had to make a new plan but this is all we came up with.', thought Takumi.

"Seems to me that you guys are unprepared.", said Avaron.

"You should have made a plan B beforehand, this is why you lost."

"Your group members don't seem to be following a strategy either.", replied Takumi

"Inoue-san was really stubborn. He seemed to not care about following our plans."

"And...your plan B is to go all out and hunt down the other teams recklessly?"

"No..."

Avaron then smiled.

"Our plan B has already been done."

Takumi and the others' feets were suddenly covered with plants as they stood there.

"Do it!"

Suddenly from another rock came out Takumi's group again.

"WHAT!?"

"Daichi!"

Suddenly, ink bubbles shot from Daichi's paintbrush and hit Avaron's face.

Avaron tried blocking with her sword, but the bubble just split, covered her head and hardened.

She then fell unconscious to the ground, as Daichi canceled his ink bubble.

'We... were fighting their illusions?'

Suddenly, the illusions that stood in front of Avaron earlier, faded. All 8 of them.

Maiki was overwhelmed by this and canceled using her plant skill that was supposed to be used on what she thought were the real four members of the vision group, but turns out, they were illusions.

Mitsuko immediately shot out two of her energy orbs to her, she quickly spawned a tree in front of her to protect her from the orbs, not noticing the third orb behind her.

It crashed on Maiki's back and pushed her head towards the tree, knocking her unconscious.

"You didn't have to be so harsh.", Chiyo said to Mitsuko, worrying about Maiki.

"I just did what I needed.", she replied.

Takumi then walked up to Ken's unconscious body and took his blue flag.

"Ever since you guys broke your formation, you lost already."

"You can't control my illusions, silly.", said Chiyo to the unconscious Avaron.

'Now then.' Takumi set his sights upon the other end of the coliseum.

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"Uh... you, use your stop skill!", Keima commanded Eiko.

"...Y-yeah!", Eiko tried stopping time on Izanagi who immediately teleported behind her before she could.

"Too slow."

He quickly punched Eiko from her back, pushing her back a little and making her bruise her back.

Keima immediately made his robot strike Izanagi, but before it could hit him...

*Whoosh*

Izanagi suddenly melted into liquicd again and teleported away with Hana, who was also in liquid form.

"YOU MONGRELS! STOP PLAYING LIKE COWARDS!", screamed Keima who was enraged by these two who kept teleporting and melting each other.

Izanagi and Hana were fighting the four of them, Koka, Ai, Keima and Eiko.

They were a bit demotivated since Akira had to leave them.

Akira was confident about his decisions and immediately decides on a plan of action before jumping in. Because of this none of his team members have been knocked out yet, unlike the other teams.

Keima was in a predicament, even though Akira told him he believed on him, he doesn't believe himself as much as he does.

He was not confident in his plan of actions, and was trying his hardest to think of a way to fight back at them.

'Izanagi's ability seem to only work in a short distance. If we had someone who can strike an area of effect attack, this would have been easy. Akira's shields could've took him down since he can control their movement, but he's not here right now.'

"We could only trust in you or the weaken girl for now! Stop time or slow them down when they teleport near us and-"

*BAM*

Izanagi suddenly teleported in front of Keima and punched his face pushing him away.

Hana, who was still a puddle, immediately melted Izanagi right after and they slid away for a few seconds before teleporting a few feet away and turning back to human.

Eiko, Koka and Ai thought the enemy was gonna strike one of them and came prepared to be hit, not expecting them to suddenly hit Keima.

Keima's glasses broke and made him see with a blurry vision.

"That little robot guy's got glasses on, so I thought if we took care of it, he wouldn't be able to fight anymore, right?", said Izanagi.

'Ai's love strike is a projectile and couldn't hit him, Eiko needs to use time stop immediately but gets interrupted before she could. Koka's ability can only weaken his damage. Izanagi might not be a strong fighter, but if he keeps up hitting us, we'll eventually fall down as well. Hana's meddling makes this so much worse too, we can't hurt them when they're liquid, though they can't hurt us too...'

...

'...I should just do my best as well, dammit...'

"You know as much as I'd like to play, fighting's not really my cup of tea. So how about you all just surrender?"

"How about you surrender, you stupid mutt.", Keima stood up even if he had a blurry vision.

"I warned you."

Izanagi suddenly teleported near Keima and punched him, Keima's face that Izanagi punched, suddenly glowed yellow glowing lines that covered Izanagi's hand.

He pushed Keima back with his punch, and Hana who was stilll in liquid form immediately slid to his position and melted him before the others, Koka and Eiko could punch him.

They then teleported away from them again.

"Better just surren- AUGH!"

Suddenly, from Izanagi's arms, yellow glowing wire like lines showed up and like snakes, stabbed his arms.

"Tch-", Hannah immediately melted them and Izanagi teleported to Keima again, was changed to human form and desperately punched at Keima trying to stop the Keima's energy nerves from stabbing him.

*BAM BAM BAM*

Three punches, from Keima's robot, Koka and Eiko was took by Izanagi he fainted.

Hana could only slide away from this.

"She's running away -"

"Let her be.", Keima replied to Eiko.

"...but-"

"She won't be a threat anymore. Unlike Izanagi, who's ability is hard to predict, that melting girl can easily be seen if you're wary enough. She's probably looking for allies."

"So what do we do now?", Ai asked.

"Shouldn't we help Akira-sama?"

"We can't."

"...but-"

"As things are now, none of us could go against Inoue-san, most likely he'd strike us down in one hit. Time stopper girl can't stop her because of his size, weaking girl can't do much against that, my robot would probably just be crushed instantly whatever I do and your ability is too predicatable.", Keima explained to Ai.

"Akira's doing his best to lure away that beast, he's probably trusting us to fight and capture the flags without him.", he continued.

"Let's just find the other groups and capture their flags."

Eiko and Ai were a bit hesitant since they wanted to help Akira but finally made up their mind and ran with Keima.

Keima, even with blurry vision, decided to run straight forward, with a solid determination seen on hs face.

'These girls really got attached to Akira.', thought Keima.

"Nakamura-san!"

'The orange sidetail used to be always nervous and easily shaken, but because of Akira, she's got a look of courage now.', he continued.

"Nakamura-san!"

'Even time stopper trusted him.'

"Nakamu-!"

'Now I sho-'

*Bam*

Keima suddenly ran headfirst to the wall and fell unconscious with swirls as his eyes.

"Hiih! Is it an enemy?", wondered Ai.

"No, it's probably because he broke his glasses and kept running straight to the wall.", Eiko said with a wry smile.

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"COME BACK HERE, ISHIKAWA!"

*BOOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM*

At the center of the coliseum were Kazuki and Akira.

Kazuki kept striking the ground Akira was running on but Akira kept blocking and dodging.

'FUCK! HE'S TOO GODDAMN STRONG! I need to think of something, quick!'

Suddenly, Kazuki put his, gigantic hands on the ground and inflated a mountain in front of Akira.

"SHIT!"

Akira was suddenly pulled back as Kazuki put both his hands together and planned to crush him with them.

From the audience seats, the teachers...

"KANA!", States suddenly called on her.

"That Inoue kid is really trying to kill your nephew, we should stop this battle immediately!", Elasticity exclaimed.

"That's the second time someone tried to kill Akira, heh.", Kana said with a humored smile.

"This isn't the right time to be joking! We need to stop this at once!"

"I've said this once and I'll say it again: NO. Akira's got a plan, I'm sure of it."

She just stared at Akira with a confident smile.

'I know you can't beat that monster from the Inoue family for now, but I believe you've still got a trick up your sleeve. Show me what you got, Akira!'

Akira suddenly used the barrier he had on his right hand, as a surfboard and slid down the mountain Inoue made.

"This shit's fun and all but almost dying isn't really my thing."

Akira then ran away while turning his head towards Inoue.

"DUDE, IF YOU GOT SOME BEEF WITH ME, LET'S JUST TALK IT OUT! STOP ACTING LIKE A PUSSY!", Akira screamed at Inoue.

'I should try going on the offensive. If his ability is inflation, I just might be able to pop those huge arms.'

Akira suddenly stopped and constructed two more shields showing green glowing branch lines on his left arm and on his right eye.

Two shields were immediately made, if you include the shield he already had, he has three shield in hand.

Two shields were on both his arms, while the third was on his back.

He then manipulated two shields to fly and strike down on Inoue's huge arms that was about to hit him again.

'COME ON!'

Akira's shields sliced slight wounds on Inoue's arms but didn't really pop them.

Akira was suddenly struck by Kazuki's both hands but he used his right shield to protect against it.

He was struggling below his hands as the area beneath him suddenly crashed down as if a small hole was made because of the strong force Kazuki was dealing.

'SHIT! I CAN'T ESCAPE!'

Akira kept struggling while blocking with his shield against the hands when suddenly...

Akira's shield broke...

'Fuck. I'm gonna die!', those were the only thoughts that came across Akira as the hands were about to crush him.

Instantly though, before the giant hands could crush him, someone immediately lept from behind a rock and pushed him away.

"W-what the!?"

His eyes suddenly changed into shock as Akira noticed who pulled him away.

"PINK GIRL?"

Megumi hugged Akira from behind and pushed him away immediateky before the hands of Kazuki could crush him.

She then took him behind a rock planning to hide from Kazuki.

"You're my enemy right now, what the hell are you..?"

Akira noticed Megumi wasn't responding...

"Uh...hey, pink girl..?"

He then noticed Megumi's face was flushed red as he spoke to her.

"Are you sick? Why'd you save me?"

Finally, Megumi regained her senses and answered him:

"W-what? Ah, I had to save you! We might be enemies right now, but Inoue-san is really planning to kill you right now!"

"Wouldn't that be better? Seems like he has that strong of a grudge on me?"

"...but you haven't done anything wrong! And I don't like.. seeing you getting hurt."

Megumi suddenly remembered the scene from the entrance exam.

["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.

This sight made Megumi tremble and angered her so much.

'AKIRA!...NO!', Megumi thought as her face showed anger.]

"You just need to capture flags! If you capture all of them, you'll finish this! Let's just run away from here!", Megumi suggested with a worried expression.

'Why's she so worried of me? She seems as if she cares about me too much although I just met her a week ago.', thought Akira.

"I know. That's what Keima and the others are up to right now. Kazuki probably wouldn't handle it well if he realizes I've gone missing. He'll probably involve my teammates on this.", explained Akira.

"...but..! What about you...! You might get hurt!"

"I just need to try my best. I just got careless there earlier, but I can do it. You need to run away from here too if you don't want to get involved."

"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!? GET BACK HERE!", Kazuki who's still enraged screamed.

His arms look as if they've shrinked although not enough to actually look harmless.

"I've gotta get back there. Good luck running awa-"

Megumi took hold of Akira's hand just before he could come out from behind the rock.

With a slightly blushed face, she smiled at him and said: "I know that you're planning to die out there."

"So what if I am?"

Megumi then giggled a little and replied to him: "Then let me die with you too.

"You..."

"GET THE HELL BACK HERE ISHIKAWA!"

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The audience were all slightly concerned with what's happening.

"Inoue is definitely showing a villain's face right now. He might become the type of savior who betrays his allies for a grudge...

What might be the reason why he's rampaging like that?", said Elasticity.

"He seems to be a tough nut to crack, but I believe our teachers and students could change him. He was able to save a million lives in a day after all.", replied Kana.

"Nevermind that, I can't believe how much of a ladies man your nephew is!", States butted in.

"Isn't she the girl who barged in our audiovisual room and tried to pick a fight with us teachers trying to force us to stop the battle between your nephew and the robot manipulator?"

"She seemed like she had so much attraction to him, I wonder if I'm gonna be a grandma's sister soon. That would be the end of my youth."

"Youth...", States said with a wry smile.

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"ISHIKAWA! IF YOU DON'T COME BACK HERE, I'M KILLING YOUR-!"

"I'M HERE, FUCKER!"

Akira suddenly slid on his barrier like surfboard and jumped at Kazuki's rear who was just about to turn around to Akira's direction.

Akira suddenly jumped halfway and spawned another shield on his right hand and slashed Kazuki's hand again.

"AUGH! DAMN YOU!"

Just as Akira was about to fall and was targeted by Kazuki again, Megumi, immediately jumped and pulled him away behind another rock before getting crushed.

"Thanks."

"Save that for later!"

"Are you sure about your plan by the way?"

"Look at the part you sliced his arm at!"

Akira and Megumi looked at the scarred Kazuki who was looking for Akira again.

Kazuki's hand was slightly spilling blue liquid.

"Inflaters usually use their stored energy as a means to fill objects or people with to increase their size and weight. If we wound his arms hard enough, his energy will start spilling from his wounds. That way he'll turn back to normal quick.", explained Meguni with a slight smile.

"Then we better just get at it...Here."

Akira then spawned another shield on his left hand, and gave it to Megumi.

"If you want to fight with me, might as well die trying, right?"

"Mmm!", Megumi cutely smiled as she said that.

"Let's go!"

Megumi touched Akira's back, boosting him while he charged to Kazuki.

"ISHIKAWA!"

Kazuki pulled his gigantic hand and planned to smash it at Akira, but before he could, Akira slid past it while putting his barrier up, scarring his arm a bit more.

"AUUGHH!", Kazuki screamed as he lifted his wounded right arm.

Megumi immediately jumped after Akira and striked Kazuki's left arm with his barrier.

Kazuki saw this, and immediately tried to smashed Megumi with his left arm, when suddenly...

"TOO SLOW, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!"

Akira suddenly appeared in front of his vision and was about to hit his right arms barrier on him.

"ISHIKAWA!"

"INOUE!"

"And that is it! The defense team wins!"

Akira, Kazuki and Inoue suddenly stopped as Sir Knight announced the winners.

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Keima was unconscious on the ground as Eiko, Ai and Koka stood next to him.

"What are we gonna do?", asked Koka.

"That Akira guy's out there fighting that monster, the little smartie's down on the ground, and there's only the three of us left."

"We should still try our best.", said Eiko.

"Akira's out there trying his hardest to fight that Inoue guy. We shouldn't give up now."

"Let's fight the other teams and win this for Akira-sama!", Ai said with a cute pose holding her hards in front of her chest.

"You sure seem to trust him so much", Koka replied.

"Of course! Akira-sama said he's expecting lots from Ai after all!", Ai proudly proclaimed.

["Well, keep up the good work. I'll be expecting more from you and stuff for the whole week.", Akira said as he patted Ai's head making her blush.]

'Ai seems to have been really changed by that Akira guy.', thought Koka.

"Take this, ladies!"

Suddenly from near them, large ink bubbles quickly struck at their area.

Eiko noticed this and immediately stopped the ink bubbles with her time stop.

They noticed Daichi sitting on one of Mitsuko's energy orbs while holding a paintbrush.

Takumi, Chiyo and Mitsuko followed after him.

"Mayou-san!"

"On it!"

Suddenly as Chiyo planned on using Illusion on them.

"Yaaah!", Ai immediately shot her love skill to Chiyo.

Eiko immediately picked up a rock close to her and, ran at them as well.

'What? These two!?'

Koka was a bit shaken but decided to follow after.

"I won't let that happen!"

Mitsuko used one of her energy orbs to block Ai's love attack from hitting Chiyo but Eiko already got close to Chiyo who was about to use her illusion and threw a rock at her.

*PAM!*

"Augh!"

The rock caught Chiyo off-guard and made her slip.

Daichi tried using his ink bubble but Eiko immediately used time stop on the bubble and canceled it breaking the bubble.

Mitsuko then decided to attack Eiko with her third energy orb, but Koka immediately ran and weakened her, slowing her down and...

*BAM* punched her down on the ground making her unconscious.

Chiyo finally regained her senses and planned to use her illusion when Eiko immediately ran at her, and slowed her time.

She then kicked Chiyo's face and then used time stop to hit her a few times and continued time on her.

"No, you won't!"

Daichi was sweating nervously as he struck two smaller ink bubbles to both of the girls, when a love attack from Ai suddenly struck him.

"Ai-chan, you're so lovely lovely lovely!"

Daichi ran at Ai with hearts for her eyes, but was immediately punched by Eiko unconscious.

Takumi trembled as this three knocked all his allies in only a few seconds.

"Your ability is just sight control, right? Do you still wanna fight?", Eiko who had a serious expression asked Takumi.

"...I forfeit.", Takumi said with a wry smile.

Eiko then took the blue flag and the black flag from Takumi.

"And that's it! The defense team wins!"

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The audience cheered as the announcement was heard.

Kazuki was shocked by this announcement and glared at Akira who seem to have been shocked by this too.

'Those fuckers... they did it.'

Megumi smiled while walking to where Akira is.

"We did it!"

Akira then looked back at her.

"Yeah, we did it.", and although bruised and scarred Akira showed her a big smile.

Suddenly a memory flashed back on Megumi's mind.

The silhouette of a little boy who was bruised and wounded smiled while wearing a torn curtain cape.

'He's still the same as ever.', thought Megumi.

"We won together!"

"No, we didn't."

...

"Huh?"

"Me and my teammates won since you aren't part of the defense team."

"W-well... hehehe.", Megumi giggled with a wry smile while scratching her head.

"Next time, you're dead.", Kazuki, who shrunk his arms back to it's original size threatened Akira.

Akira turned to Kazuki, who's back was already turned to him when he looked back at him.

[Eiko then curled her eyebrows and put her mouth near Akira's ear to whisper to him what she saw.

"Inoue-san was outside the training area, and was somehow posed as if he was planning on using his ability from the outside to the training area."

"What was he planning?"

"I don't know...

...but he left as soon as he saw me, so he probably was scheming something.", she continued.]

'Why does this guy hate me so much? And what the hell is he going on with his mind?', thought Akira.

'Well, whatever it is...'

Eiko and Ai suddenly ran over to Akira while smiling.

'I'll think about it after we celebrate our victory.'

Megumi just showed a gentle smile, Akira had a victorious grin, the two went to Akira and told about what happened to them while Kazuki...

...walked back with an expression of intense anger on his face.

End of Chapter 07

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Finally, I got to explain a lot of things about the past chapters. Gonna rest easy now!