"A villain!?", Sir Knight asked as he sat next to Elasticity.

"Yes, they said Charger had been brought to the hospital due to a villain."

"Charger? There's no way! His ability is too tough against just a normal villain!", Sir Knight exclaimed, but with a quiet voice.

"That's what everybody would think, but during the tournament is one of the best times for a villain attack. Us teachers are focused on making sure the students don't do anything that violate the rules, so although lots of strong saviors and supports are gathered here, we're all too busy observing the students. Villains are more likely to show up these week."

"...but, we've dispatched a hefty sum of saviors and supports from other regions, right? They still haven't took care of that villain?"

"... Apparently, we've made a mistake about the villains that will show up, since amongst the D and E class villains that came from the dark alleys, an A class villains was also mixed up in the fray."

"An A class villain!? Shouldn't we be alarmed by this?"

"... We've just received news of it after Charger came back heavily injured. And since principal Asami is still away, we haven't prepared much for this situation."

"... Then, what needs to be done for now?"

"... We just need to wait for the saviors and the supports who we dispatched to give us news about the situation, they aren't the strongest bunch, but with their numbers, they can't possibly be taken down that easily, right?"

*Slam!*

Suddenly, a familiar figure came rushing and opened the door.

The teachers turned to her of shock.

"Principal Asami! Is something the matter? You look like you're in a rush!", Sir Knight asked with a worried tone.

"Our students are in danger!"

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*crunch*, a gaudy looking man sounded as he chomped on a metal screw.

He had dark gray, short hair that looked like a frankenstein's, with sharp dark eyes, an ugly long face, two screws pierced on both ends of his cranium, with a nose piercing, six nails lodged on each of his large earlobes, was tall and half naked with screws on his shoulder muscles, his arms, reaching up to his hands, had pierced nipples and was wearing green torn shorts.

He was located in a playground that was filled with unconscious, bruised kids and a couple of unconscious saviors and supports.

Beside him were a few unconscious saviors and supports wearing different colored bodysuits and armor, and had their limbs that were turned into weapons like blades, katanas, saws and whatnot, chomped on as if they were eaten by a predator.

"Haaah, need, more metal, haaah.", he groaned as he panted.

"Choo!", suddenly, a sneeze was heard from behind the slide.

"Someone. There?"

A little brown haired child that seemed terrified was sat there shaking, after hearing the man's voice.

"Someone. Unhurt.", the man smirked and walked slowly towards the back of the slide with large, noisy footsteps.

"Hiiih!", the child quickly ran away, trying to outrun the man.

"Come. Back. Here!", suddenly, the piercing on the man's hand suddenly grew into long metal spikes and targeted the boy.

The boy ran forward trying to escape, when he turned back to see the metal spikes inches away from him.

His eyes widened as the fear made him trip.

The spikes strike towards him, as he closed his eyes when suddenly.

*CLAAANG!*

"Sorry, we're late.", a long white haired girl, with a robotic arm said with a serious expression as she held that arm out against the spikes.

"An imbecile who dares to challenge himself by commiting villainy near a savior and support filled place actually exists, huh?", Keima said as he walked from behind the boy to Eight's side.

"Guessing, you don't know how to pronounce words properly as well, you really are just a lowlife.", he said as he lashed out his wire-like energy nerves aiming for the man's arms.

"I'm not going to kill you, I'll just make sure you won't be able to rampage like this again.", he continued.

"Meat.", the man uttered.

"...

...What?", Keima asked.

"RAAAAAGGGHHHH!", the man screamed out as he pulled the metal spikes back and ran towards Keima and Eight with his mouth wide open.

"WHAT THE!?"

Keima immediately curved his energy nerves to target the villain, Eight, seeing this, immediately pointed her arm towards the villain and shot out a missile.

The missile soared through the space and was about to crash towards the man's face.

*crunch*

Keima and Eight's eyes widen as they saw this.

The missile Eight shot...

...was chomped by the man before it could explode.

"MORE. MEAT!"

Both Keima and Eight had their eyes wide open as the man ran towards them.

"RUN!", Keima screamed.

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"Sup! Ishikawa Akira, right?", I asked him.

"Yeah. And you're... Nagai Kami?", the black haired, delinquent like guy in our class replied.

"Yep!"

To tell you guys the truth, I'm not really the nicest guy around.

"You are?", he asked.

"Shikaku Takumi.", the light blue upside down heart haired guy replied.

The first day we met, he already acted conceited.

He sat down with his blazer unbuttoned, his arms on his chair and his glare as if he thinks he's better than everyone.

"How about you, twerp?", I asked the blond bowl cut little guy sat before the black haired one.

"I'm not a twerp, you mongrel!", he replied.

People think just because I'm sociable, always happy and act optimistic all the time, I'm never serious about anything.

"Hehe, guess you're a tough little twerp, aren't you?", I told him.

He slightly hesitated hearing me say this, and went back to playing with his PSP.

"Man, you gotta learn to use some other words besides mongrel or moron, it's getting lame.", the black haired guy told the blond shortie.

"Shut up, you blockhead!"

...but I entered this university for a reason.

"""Hahahahaha!""", the three of us laugh at this event.

I stopped laughing though after a moment, and stared at the black haired guy.

'Unlike that Inoue guy, he's someone I could actually catch up to.'

I might not be able to become the topmost savior in the world...

I stared at him with a serious expression as they laughed.

...but I'll make sure I'll be the best support there ever was.

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"He didn't fight earlier, huh?", Akira and Eiji were on what seems to be a forested mountain.

They were sat in between two large rocks, that was beside a long river.

Akira was lying his torso on the rock, with one of his legs stretched out and the other was bent, while Eiji was squatting down looking at the dishes in the river.

"What do you mean?", Eiji asked with both of his hands touching his chin and looking at the fishes eagerly.

"He disappeared earlier, right? I thought he already fought some other pair, but we're their opponents now, which means..."

Akira lowered his head and showed a serious expression.

"They probably formulated a plan against us."

"It seems like it."

Eiji seems a bit loose and doesn't seem like he's worried at all.

"Why are you acting like that? Aren't you acting a bit too relaxed? What would we do if they outsmarted us?"

Eiji kept looking at the fishes and didn't budge.

"Hey, Akirachi."

"I told you not to call me that, you fucker."

"Have you ever tried fishing?"

"...

...What? Well, no... What's with the random question?"

"... Budonoki Hari, you saw him during our group battles right?"

'Come to think of it... They're classmates, huh?...

... Wait...

... Budonoki? Why does that surname sound so familiar?'

"What about him?"

Akira kept looking at Eiji's back and felt like he seemed like he's got the situation in control.

"... Fish won't bite the hook easily unless you use a bait."

"..."

Eiji then stood up, and turned back To Akira with a deviant smile.

"I have a plan."

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"So, are you sure about doing this?", Hari asked.

"We've worked hard making that plan. I think it's the best plan we could make for the time being, if things don't work out, that's when we should start thinking of a plan B."

"...You really have so much faith on this, don't you?"

Kami and Hari were on the opposite side of the mountain from where Akira and Eiji were located.

Around them was a bunch of tall trees.

They were crouched down on the ground, hiding to make sure none of them will be seen.

After a while, Kami's eyes suddenly slightly widened as if he noticed something.

He then turned back to a serious expression and looked at Hari.

"They're close by."

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Akira and Eiji were walking straight on the forest path.

Weirdly though, Eiji was carrying their base on his arms, as if they intentionally carried it there.

"Still no signs of them.", Said Akira.

Eiji walked behind him looking left and right as well, searching for anything that stands out.

"Your friend had a restriction ability, right? It's weird how he didn't prepare any traps or try to ambush us.", he told Akira.

"I bet they're gonna play it like that after all.", Akira replied.

*squish*

As he was walking forward, he suddenly noticed he stepped on something soft.

'This is...'

He turned his head towards his shoe.

'His hair...'

A large squishy dreadlock piece of hair was laid on the ground.

Akira accidentally stepped on it, not noticing what it was.

"..."

"Yo."

Suddenly, from the bushes, came two people who looked as if they anticipated Akira and Eiji's presence.

"Came to take us out?", Akira asked Kami with a straight face and his hands in his pockets.

"Nada actually. We came here to make a proposition."

"Proposition's a big word. Just out with it.", Akira replied.

Kami crossed his arms with a straight face and stared at Akira.

"You do know I came here because I wanted to beat you, and Haribro here, wants to do the same for your partner."

Akira slightly widened his eyes and turned to Eiji.

He has a serious expression.

"And honestly, I wouldn't want our battle to end with something like: 'You and I were about to hit our final punches at each other, when our base suddenly explodes and you win. Causing the halt of our battle'.", Kami explained while Akira turned back to him.

"I get what you're going for.", Akira crossed his arms and looked back at him.

"So I want to make an offer.", Kami said while pointing his index finger up and smiling with a devious grin.

"If I wanted an actual duel, I could've just waited till the final rounds...but that wouldn't be happening, won't it?", Kami explained.

"Because only one team could pass to the other round.", he continued.

"So how about it?", he asked.

Akira smiled a devious grin as well and answered Kami:

"Let's do it."

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"So let's go by our rules again.", said Hari.

Kami and Hari were stood next to each other, while Akira and Eiji were stood next to each other as well.

They were standing on top of tall flat ground of the mountain close to where Akira and Eiji started from.

Surrounding them, were rocks and trees of all kinds.

"We will be fighting just around this plain. If one team falls to the cliffs, the other team is allowed to attack their base. They are allowed to protect it though, and the other team won't stop trying to destroy it until the team that fell had climbed back to the plain.", he explained.

"Are you guys okay with that? This is near our starting point, isn't it?", Akira asked Kami and Hari.

"It doesn't seem like you guys hid something suspicious here. And besides, we're the ones who offered to do this.", Kami replied.

"I'm all ready to beat some sense to that guy as well.", Hari said while crossing his arms with a sharp glare.

"And once your team is beaten, that's when we can go and destroy your base that's placed on the bottom of the cliff on the south side. Right, Hari?", asked Eiji.

"Hmph. You won't be beating us anytime soon .", he replied.

'They seem to pissed at each other for some reason.', Akira thought.

"If that's all done then...

...Here we go.", Kami said as the tip of his dreadlocks grew longer and bigger as if they became brown large sacs.

Akira's arms glowed dark green, Eiji's palm glowed violet and Hari's full body glowed light green.

'I'm sorry for this, Kami...

...but I need to face him.', Akira thought.

The two teams charge at each other.

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"Keima...? Why'd you call me so suddenly?", Ken exclaimed as he listened to the phone.

His brother, Ude and him just won their match as they teleported back to their simulator, when someone suddenly called Ken on the phone.

"Hey? Is something wrong? Answer me.", Ken wondered as he listened to the phone.

*beep beep beep beep beep*, the line suddenly cut short and the number hung up.

"...", Ken put down his smartphone with a worrying expression.

"Need help with anything? Li'l bro?", Ude asked Ken.

"... It's nothing."

Ken felt a little concerned about Keima, but without knowing what situation he was in, he won't be able to help him even if he asked.

'Why did he call me at this time? Keima's not the type of guy who'd think about chatting with us carelessly knowing that we're all busy with our matches. There must be some emergency... I'm not really sure... but...'

Ken looked down and kept thinking of what to do, and what might have happened.

From the corner of his eye, Kazuki exited the simulator.

'...I've got no time to think about him...

The Savior Association probably deployed some saviors to protect any civilians outside since the savior teachers here are busy observing our matches. If I have to choose a place to search for Keima, it's probably somewhere inside the campus.', Ken thought.

"Lil bro, you gonna go?"

"You can head back first, I'm just gonna stroll around a bit."

"... Yeah, yeah... Remember to make full use of your muscles. We didn't work our muscles in the gym for nothing."

"... Thanks, bro."

Ken ran to the exit and ran towards the school.

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"GGGUUGHH!"

Akira was circled by a long and large dreadlock that tried to entangle his body, but using two of his shields, he was able to loosen them up a little, and struggled to loosen the dreadlocks before it strangles him.

"Come on, Akira. That all you got?", Kami asked as he held us his palm trying to force the dreadlock circling Akira to squish him.

"I- I'm not fucking done yet!"

Akira managed to loosen up the dreadlock a little, and made himself fall down.

The dreadlock squished the shield he left and crushed it.

Akira immediately rolled away and stood back.

Suddenly, though...

*squish* *squish*

From the back of his feet, were two small, snake like dreadlocks that binded him on the ground.

"Tch- Damn-"

"AAAAKKKIIIRRRAAACCHHHII!!"

Eiji had a scared look on his as Hari, who was rolling quick like a large spiky bowling ball, rolled towards him.

"YOU FUCKING IDIOT! DON'T LEAD HIM HERE!", Akira screamed at him.

"I CAAANN'TTTTT FIIIIGGHHTTT HIIIMM AAALLOONNEEE!", Eiji screamed back.

Akira struggled on his feet trying to get out of Hari's pathway, but the dreadlocks binded his feet to the ground sturdily.

"What now, Akira? Aren't you gonna use one of those plans you prepared?", Kami asked with a devious grin.

"TCH-", Akira, who looked frustrated, turned to Eiji, with his feet still stuck on the ground.

"EIJI! STOP WHEN YOU'RE NEAR ME!"

"WHHHATTT? ...BUT-"

"JUST FUCKING DO IT!"

Eiji ran towards Akira and stopped next to him as the Hari, who was still rolling, was about to crash on them.

"USE YOUR LIGHTNING ON HIM!"

"...DAMN-"

Eiji, immediately pointed his palm towards Hari.

'They're desperate. Did Akira's plan fail? Haribro's too close. I heard his lightning strikes everyone around him when he doesn't concentrate. Akira didn't expect me binding his feet in the last second as well. Do they have some other trick on their sleeves?'

Hari pushed Eiji and Akira a little as Eiji used his lightning.

*ZZZZZAAAAAAAPPP*

"AAAAUUUGGGHH!!"

"GGGGUUUFFFUU!!"

"UUUUGGGGHHH!!"

Akira, Eiji and Hari were all struck by Eiji's lightning.

Hari stopped rolling and turned back as he was hit and Kami's bindings came loose as lightning hit it.

"Haaah, haaah, haah.", Akira panted with a weak and tired tone as he was pushed back near the forest from the lightning's force.

"YOU USED TOO MUCH ENERGY!", Akira screamed at Eiji.

"Haah, sorry, Akirachi.", Eiji apologized as he sat on the ground looking a little weak as well.

"Haah, haah, haah.", Hari seemed to have been affected by the lightning, but not as much as Akira and Eiji.

'Do they seriously have no back-up plan?', Kami thought.

Kami immediately pulled on the dreadlocks on the tip of his hair and threw it to Akira and Eiji.

Two large dreadlocks that looked like wiggling snakes came to bind them.

"LET'S GO!"

Akira and Eiji immediately ran away towards the other direction aiming towards their starting point.

"What are they-?"

"Let's go, Nagai!"

"...Yeah!"

Kami and Hari followed suit.

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"Sorry, we don't know."

"...Thanks anyways..."

Ken was stood near the campus's exit, asking students if they saw a blond bowl cut haired shortie (Keima).

He stopped a plain looking couple who were also wearing their tracksuits that were also about to leave the school.

He asked many people but noone seemed to have notice him anywhere in the school.

'Haah. At this rate, I won't be able to find him anywhere. Is he even in the school?', Ken thought.

*ring ring ring*

He tried calling Keima's number again.

"The number you dialed is not in service-"

*click*

'Still no answer, huh?'

He put his phone in his pocket, and decided to run in the campus to search for Keima, when he noticed two familiar figures from inside the school, about to exit as well.

'That's... Elasticity-sensei and Sir Knight-sensei! Aren't they supposed to observe us with the other teachers?'

Ken's eyes slightly widened as he observed them more clearly.

'Their energy nerves... it's glowing...'

Sir Knight's armor was a shining a bit more than normal, while Elasticity's palms were glowing light violet.

'... Oh no.', Ken thought, while clenching his fist.

'... Something must have happened outside!'

He then turned towards the exit and ran.

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"ROOOOLLLIINNGGG CCHHHARRGEE!", Hari, who was curled up as a ball and was rolling, aiming for Eiji, swiftly boosted as he screamed those words.

His speed increased dramatically, crashing and destroying every tree in his path and was about to hit Eiji.

"HIIIHHHH!!"

"GET OUT OF THE WAY YOU FUCKING MORON!"

Akira immediately pushed Eiji out of Hari's path.

*CCCRRAASSHHH!!"

"AAAAUUUGGGHH!!"

*BBAAAMMM*

Hari hit Akira and struck him towards a nearby tree.

Hari then turned back to normal.

"Here I come!"

Kami swung his hair and launched two dreadlocks that lengthened and aimed towards Akira.

'SHIT!'

*TTTTTZZZZZ*

The dreadlocks were struck by Eiji's lightning and burned to the ground.

Eiji was pushing himself of the ground, when he suddenly pointed his right index finger like a gun towards the dreadlocks, and fired lightning at it.

"Tch-", Hari clicked his tongue.

He then curled to a ball again and rolled towards Eiji.

"COME ON, LET'S GO!", Akira screamed at Eiji.

Eiji didn't hesitate and immediately ran away as well.

Kami saw this and started running after them again.

'What are they planning!?', Kami thought.

'They keep trying to run away from us in that direction... Is there something that we should-'

Kami's eyes slightly widen as he realize something.

He turned towards Hari, who was rolling with his ball form aiming for Eiji.

["We will be fighting just around this plain. If one team falls to the cliffs, the other team is allowed to attack their base."]

'THE CLIFFS!'

Kami looked back to his front and looked at Akira and Eiji's backs.

'They're trying to lure us near the cliffs! And with Hari's ability, accidentally rolling down the mountain might be his downfall! They're trying to pull us there!'

"HARIBRO! CHARGE IN FRONT OF THEM!", Kami screamed at Hari.

Akira and Eiji, seemed to suddenly stop though, and look at their west side.

Hari immediately charged to their fronts.

Akira and Eiji immediately turned their heads back to Hari's direction.

He quickly stopped rolling and turned back.

"Trying to lure us to the cliffs, huh? Things won't go in your way anymore.", Kami explained.

Hari realized what they were planning and glared sharper at them, he then ran towards their East and charged like a ball at them again.

"THIS IS THE END, AKIRA!", Kami screamed as he ran towards them.

Hari and Kami ran from the northeast and southeast direction from Akira and Eiji, trying to charge them away from the cliffs.

"Tch-", Akira clicked his tongue as both of them ran west.

The forest started looking clearer and clearer from their direction.

Hari immediately closed in quick on them as Kami prepared two more of his dreadlocks.

'We win!', Kami thought.

Suddenly, Akira and Eiji immediately jumped forward.

They got out of the forest clearing.

'A clear path? Doesn't matter!'

Akira and Eiji suddenly stopped running from the other side of Kami and Hari's perspective.

'They halted...?'

Kami immediately threw his dreadlocks to Akira as Hari charged out of the forest with him.

Akira was immediately indeed by his ability.

'I did it-'

*kug*

"OW!"

Kami suddenly hit something while he ran.

'A shield?'

His eyes turn down as he slipped towards the area.

He then finally noticed where Akira and Eiji leaded them to.

'A RIVER!?'

Hari immediately fell to the river and slipped, causing him to stop rolling.

Kami was lying face first as he slipped by Akira's shield.

'SHIT!'

"EIJI!", Akira, who was binded by Kami's dreadlocks called on Eiji.

With a serious expression, he pointed his index finger towards the river, and immediately...

*ZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPP!!*

...fired a large lightning bolt towards it.

""AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"", Kami and Hari screamed as they fell unconscious.

The dreadlocks that binded Akira came loose as he slowly stood up.

"We win.", he proclaimed with a devious grin.

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"I think your hair looks good!", the silhouette of a dark skinned, red haired girl was seen, near what seems to be the beach side.

The sun was setting during that time, and the sound of the sea and the ocean air was the only sound that could be heard besides the girl's voice.

"Really?", the voice of the perspective spoke.

"Do you mean it?", he continued.

"Yes! It's so cool!", the girl answered him.

Suddenly, a flash of light shined and the scene changed, in what seems to be a classroom.

In front of the perspective, was the silhouette of a black haired guy, wearing an unbuttoned blazer.

"That hair's so cool!", the guy said with a devious grin.

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"Wake up! Hey! Wake up!", a guy's voice was heard as he slapped on the unconscious Kami's face.

"Huh?... What... Where am I?", Kami asked as he slowly woke up.

"We're still in the simulators, you retard."

Kami finally opened his eyes and realized who was talking to him.

"Akira!? What? Where am I?", Kami asked.

"Did you forget? About the match between Eiji, you, that spiky guy and me?", Akira asked him.

Kami slowly narrowed his eyes for a moment, still feeling slightly drowsy.

When he suddenly realized the situation, opened his eyes wide and pulled his torso back to sit.

"WHAT!? What happened!? Who won...? Did we-"

His memories suddenly came flashing in as he remembered what happened.

"You lost, dude.", Akira said feeling a bit guilty as he scratched the back of his neck.

Kami's eyes slightly narrowed as he heard this.

Akira laid his head down as he saw his expression.

"Yeah, we played kinda dirty. Using the map as part of our plan. Kinda sorry about that. Still, if we hadn't agreed on doing a duel, you guys would've won.", Akira said while feeling a little embarassed trying to cheer him up.

"You guys have better teamwork and efficiency. If we hadn't agreed to that duel, we would have had a hard time finding your base, since your partner could take it very far. And once you've binded us to the ground, his charge would've beaten us easily. It's not everyday that you could see the winners more beaten up than the losers.", Akira continued.

"Ha-"

"What?", Akira slightly widen his eyes as he heard Kami.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA!", Kami started laughing loudly.

"Y-yo, you alright? Did Eiji shock you too much?", Akira asked looking kind of concerned.

"You're just too good, Akira.", Kami said as he laid down on the ground and put his hands below his head with a friendly smile.

"We completely lost."

"Yeah...", Akira felt awkward and slightly scratched the back of his head.

"Next time, it won't be like that though.", Kami said with a devious grin.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"You did say you guys would've lost if we didn't make that rule, right? Then that's still a loss for me."

"...but we talked about that. You guys still lost-"

"I know... but the next time we fight, you won't be having that violet haired buddy you got on your side, right?...

The next time, I'll win.", Kami proclaimed with a competitive expression.

Akira deviously smiled as well, and answered him with his hands in his pockets:

"Don't count on it."

From the distance, Eiji was teasing Hari, who just stood up, looking a bit angry.

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"Haaah.", Akira sighed as they teleported back to the simulators.

He had his hands in his pockets and showed a tired expression as he walked next to Eiji and Kami.

Hari looked downhearted as he walked next to Kami.

"I won't lose again, goddamn it!", Hari, who usually has a sharp glare, looked like a small animal as he cried about their loss.

"Heeeh, next time, I'll show you an even stronger lightning bolt.", Eiji mocked him with a confident smirk as sparks showed up from his lifted index finger.

"Hahahaha! I don't consider this as a loss at all, since Akira did say this was them playing dirty.", Kami confidently said with a friendly smile and his hands on the back of his head.

"Hey! A loss is a loss!", Akira told Kami, feeling a little irritated.

"Who was it that told me 'we would've lost' earlier? Hmmm? I won't take that as a loss.", Kami replied.

"You-"

"Akira!"

Suddenly, as they were walking towards the exit, they suddenly noticed Ken, who was talking to Megumi and Ai, with Koka behind them.

Ken ran towards Akira and Kami, with a worried look on his face.

"What's got your face look all pale like that? You got haunted by Yurei or something?", Akira teased Ken.

"Akira, Kami! Keima is-"

Akira's and Kami's eyes widen as he listened to Ken's words.

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*slam*

Akira, Ken and Kami came bursting to the clinic door.

The girls ran there too, but weren't in a hurry as much as the three.

They all had worried looks on their faces as they went in.

The first face that greeted them as they walked in was Takumi, who was still wearing his patient's outfit, but seemed to have recovered greatly, although he still has a cast on his right arm.

"If you're looking for Keima, his on the next bed.", Takumi told them.

"Thanks, Takumi.", Kami replied to him.

He nodded to his reply.

Akira opened the curtain and approach the bed.

"KEIMA! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED!?", Akira asked feeling slightly pissed.

Keima was wearing a patient's outfit, and a cast on his left leg.

He wasn't wearing his glasses and his eyesight was slightly blurry, but he was able to figure out who came from his voice, he knew there was multiple of them since he heard many footsteps as well.

Next to him was Eight, who sat on a stool, holding his right hand and showing a worried expression as well.

"Ken, I told you to not tell these morons about it. Why did you-"

"They have to know, Keima! They'll figure it out eventually. Your one of the opponents we want to fight with after all.", Ken explained.

"Haaah. Alright.", Keima sighed feeling a bit pressured and awkward but let them be.

"What happened? Why did you get those injuries? Don't tell me, Izanagi came to get revenge for losing...?", Akira asked.

"You're really a moron, aren't you? Izanagi's lazy enough to not even take our fight seriously."

"Then who...?"

"...The truth is...", Keima felt a little reluctant telling Akira what happened.

He was showing a conflicted expression, as if he wasn't sure whether to tell Akira what happened.

"Who is it!?", Akira urged him.

"... The truth is...

... Inoue-"

Akira's eyes immediately widen hearing his name, and ran, planning to leave the clinic.

"CRAP! SASAKI-SAN CATCH AKIRA!", Ken told Megumi.

Megumi felt a bit bewildered, but quickly used her ability to boost her speed and ran after Akira.

*pug*

Just before Akira could touch the door's doorknob, Megumi suddenly hugged him from behind.

Her face filled with red as she did that.

"HEY! LET GO OF ME, PINK GIRL!", Akira screamed, seemingly too focused on going after Kazuki that he didn't pay notice or Megumi's chest squeezing in his back.

Koka and Ai seemed a bit angry at this scene.

"AKIRA! STOP IT! You haven't listened to the full story!", Ken reprimanded him.

"INOUE FUCKING WENT AFTER HIM! HE BROKE HIS LEG JUST BECAUSE HE WANTS TO FIGHT ME! LET ME FUCKING TEACH THAT FUCKER A LESSON!"

"INOUE DIDN'T HURT ME!"

Suddenly, Keima screamed from his hospital bed.

A few other students were slightly woken up hearing this.

"What's the loud noise about?"

"Why is there someone screaming in the clinic?"

"What's going on?"

The injured students were all wondering what the fuss was about.

Akira's eyes were slightly widened hearing Keima's words.

"Let's go back. Okay, Akira?", Ken told him as he tapped his shoulder.

The injured students seem to be glaring at him and were mad about the screaming, making Akira feel awkward.

"Y-yeah. Sorry."

He then walked back to Keima's hospital bed.

"If Inoue wasn't the one who did that, then why did you say his name earlier?", Akira asked Keima.

Keima lowered his head as he remembered what happened.

He then turned towards Takumi's injuries, from the bed a few meters away from his.

"Akira, do you really think Inoue wanted to do that to Takumi?", Keima asked.

"What do you mean? He told me! He told me he deserves it! He didn't even deny his intentions! He-"

"He saved me, Akira."

Akira's eyes widen as he heard this.

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Keima, Eight and the little brown haired kid were running away from the Frankenstein-like villain.

They were in the middle of what seems to be a quiet road, with no cars, nor people in sight.

'Crap! I've become stronger and my stamina improved because of the training we've had these few months, but I'm still nothing compared to Akira and the others.'

Keima was panting slowly as he ran.

'I'm gonna have to stop at some time-'

Suddenly, the kid ran slower, seemingly exhausted.

"HEY!"

The Frankenstein, seeing this, immediately lashed out his metal spikes from his arm and targeted the kid's back.

'DAMMIT!'

Keima immediately pushed him away.

*stab stab stab*

Keima's left leg was stabbed by the spikes to the ground.

"AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGHH!!!", Keima screamed of pain.

"KEI-CHAN!", Eight ran to him.

"GET THE KID AND RUN AWAY FROM HERE!"

"...BUT-"

"JUST GO-"

Before Keima could finish his sentence, the villain's left arm suddenly turned to metal spikes too as he aimed towards Keima.

'NO!-'

The spikes was closed in to Keima's face.

'Is this it? Am I gonna die here?'

As if everything was in slow motion, Keima's whole world was in a bind.

Eight was running towards him, wanting to save him.

The kid could only look at the scene out of fear as his spikes slowly closed in on him.

'I-'

The spikes broke his glasses, as it almost hit his face.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM*

Suddenly, a large inflated arm punched the villain away making him crash towards the wall.

"What!? That's-"

Keima's eyes widen as he turned towards his savior.

"Inoue!?"

Kazuki stood there, with his gigantic arm, looking at the ground.

"You... Why did you save me?", Keima asked him.

Kazuki didn't seem to care though, and ignored Keima with his unshaken serious stature.

'He's still the same guy, alright.', Keima thought.

He then slowly turned to the villain, but before he could, he first noticed, the tip of Kazuki's fists.

'He's bleeding...'

He realized that blood was dripping from scars that probably came from him punching the villain, including his spikes.

'He hurt himself...just to save us?'

"Get out of here.", Kazuki quickly told him.

"...but you-"

"The teachers will be arriving shortly."

Suddenly, the villain arose from the smoke, seemingly almost uninjured.

"I'll take care of him until then."

"...but-"

"I. KILL. YOU!", the villain screamed as he lashed out spikes again.

Kazuki grabbed onto the spikes with his large palms as it pierced on them.

"Guh!", he moaned of pain.

"YOU IDIOT! HE'S TOO STRONG! Just run with us!", Keima told him.

"GET OUT OF HERE!"

Kazuki seemed to be fighting with the metal spiked arm villain on a palm pushing battle.

Their arms were held on each other's trying to push the other back.

The spikes pierce through his hands, making him bleed.

"YOU MORON!"

Keima tried to stand up, but fell down immediately.

'Augh! My leg! It hurts!'

"You uhhh can't help me here! Tell the white haired girl to take you back to the clinic!", Kazuki told Keima.

"...but you-"

"GGAAAHH!", Kazuki screamed out as his spikes pierce further.

'His hand is not gonna withstand all that! Damn it! If only if we had someone stronger-'

"RUBBER POUNCE!"

"Elasticity-sen- GAAHHHH!!"

Suddenly, Elasticity came shaped like a ball and pounced at Kazuki, pushing him away from the villain.

His palms shrinked down as he lost focus and turned back to it's original size.

"We'll take it from here, your highnesses!"

Sir Knight took hold of both of the villain's spiky arms without shaking.

"MEAT!"

The villain, seeing this, pulled back his spike arms into regular arms and ran at Sir Knight.

"SIR KNIGHT!"

"Don't worry, your Highness!"

*Chomp!*

The villain tried to chomp on Sir Knight's armor, but wasn't able to break it.

"I did say I could copy my armor's hardness, and for today, it's a special kind of metal that's even harder than regular metal.", Sir Knight proclaimed looking quite proud.

"Now, it's my turn!"

Elasticity sensei suddenly shifted his body into the shape of a thick towel like thing.

He then jumped and encircled the villain's nose and pulled him away.

"Mmmpphh!"

The villain immediately pulled back from chomping Sir Knight's armor and started turning his arms into spikes again.

"No can do, kiddo.", Sir Knight said as he grabbed his arms forcing him to not point them towards Elasticity.

Elasticity turned to what seems to be a small pouch bag and covered the villain's head.

"Mmmmphhh! Mmmmphhh! Mmmpphh!"

The villain seemed to be struggling and couldn't breathe through the pouch.

He then fell unconscious after a while and fell to the ground.

"Well, that's finally taken care off!"

Elasticity then turned back into normal.

The two stood there sparkling as if they've accomplished their goal.

'They seem more like the villains though.', Keima thought with an incredulous expression after seeing their somewhat questionable method of taking down villains.

*step*

Suddenly, Keima noticed Kazuki, who was still bleeding from his hand, stood up and take his bag he somehow threw away before fighting the villain earlier.

"Inoue, wait. I-"

"I don't need your gratitude."

Before Keima could finish his sentence, Inoue immediately rejected any offers he may give him due to him rescuing Keima.

"Inoue-san, I know you don't like drama...but I think your Highness should get checked up in the clinic first before you-"

Sir Knight wanted to tell him to go get checked up in the clinic, but failed miserably as Kazuki already started walking away.

'That Inoue... He...'

Keima could only stare at his back as he walked away.

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Akira was in shock, he had his head turned low as he stood in front of Keima's hospital bed.

"Inoue...did that?", Akira couldn't help but question the validity of his story.

"He did. If he wasn't there. I would have died.", Keima replied.

Akira then turned toward Takumi who was on the next bed.

"Takumi..."

"...", he only kept quiet hearing this, as if he was also in complete disbelief.

'That Inoue...

What the hell is going on his mind?'

The others seem a bit confused and wondered as they thought about the situation while Akira could only lay his head in confusion.

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The sun was setting, in the midst of it, one dark skinned, dreadlock haired guy, sat on a tree behind a campus with his phone in his ear speaking to someone.

It was already about an hour later after they checked up on Keima's situation, there he sat, seemingly amused to the person he was talking to on his phone.

"Hey, it's not my fault you're too cute, darling!", he told the person on the phone as he smiled brightly.

"You idiot! I-I'm not that cute!"

"Nope, you really really are!", he replied.

"C-can we talk about that later? What about your tournament? What happened?"

"Oh that?... Well... I guess we won't be billionaires anymore.", Kami told the girl on the line feeling a bit embarassed and stroking the back of his head.

"Haaah. To me, that's actually a relief, you know? Don't ever join competitions like that again! I don't want you to come back with a broke bone, you know!"

Kami smiled to this and laughed awkwardly.

"Well, I guess I'm just not cut out for it-"

"That's not true!", the girl on the phone suddenly interrupted him.

"You're really really cool, d-darling. To me, you're the most amazing person in the world. I bet if you fought your opponents in a one on one match, you'd win immediately!"

"My ability's just hair manipulation though..."

"So what!? You're hair's really cool, you know?"

Suddenly, a memory of the first day of school in Savior University flashed in his mind.

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"My hair?"

"Yeah, you're hair. Doesn't it seem weird? How'd you make it like that?", Akira asked Kami.

"... Uhhh, well...", Kami felt reluctant to answer his question and felt a bit annoyed by it.

"Why?", Kami asked with a bright smile but with a slightly pissed off tone.

["I think your hair looks good!", the silhouette of a dark skinned, red haired girl was seen, near what seems to be the beach side.]

"Why? Isn't obvious?...

... It's because that hair's so cool!", Akira told him with a straight face seemingly without joking.

Kami's eyes widen hearing him say this.

"You're too awkward sometimes, Akira.", Keima teased him.

"Shut up!"

'Huh...'

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"Kami? Kami? You there?"

"I love you.", he replied to the girl on the phone.

"D-d-d-DON'T SAY THAT SO SUDDENLY! I-idiot."

"I love you."

"I...love you too."

Kami smiled as he listened to the girl on the line.

'Guess I'll just continue my progress as the world's best support next time.'

End of Chapter 19

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