Chapter 4: Tournament Arc!!!
As a man with principles such as myself, I decided to accept their challenge.
I never back down from a fight...
Unless I'm up against my mother.
She could probably beat me up in five seconds.
Anyway, after school, I went straight to Arena 1.
As I did, there's a surprise waiting for me.
The whole place is jam pack with people from students to teachers to lunch ladies.
If I were to describe this scene, I would say that this looks exactly like Luna's concert...
Except for the part that the audience aren't holding those colorful florescent tubes that the fans waves around crazily when Luna starts singing.
Anyway, uncle Huck and some normal looking guy which I'm too lazy to describe who's wearing a cool looking goggles are at the center of the battlefield.
For some reason, the normal looking guy is wearing a multi-purpose combat suit.
Is he too afraid to get hurt?
If so, why bother challenging me anyway?
And also, where are the others?
They're supposed to be four people here who are gonna fight me.
And why is uncle Huck here?
Is he going to be a referee or something?
Uncle Huck who seems too look... I don't know. Mad maybe? Approaches me.
"Hey Linel! Why aren't you wearing a combat suit?"
Now that's a strange question.
I decided to ask about it.
"Combat suit? Isn't this just a normal fight?"
Uncle Huck refutes me.
"Normal fight? What are you talking about?! This is a military school remember?"
"So?"
"So if you don't want to get yourself killed, go get yourself a combat suit pronto!"
"Alright! Alright!"
What is he my mother?
I reluctantly turn around and walk towards the exit.
I might have mentioned this before, but I'll mention it again.
Getting the combat suit all the way from Arena 3 is such a pain in the ass!
(While Linel is away)
Two students who are at the Arena Announcement booth are idly chatting with one another.
One of the students is a boy with blue green colored short hair who is wearing glasses.
The other one is a girl with light brown short hair with a right side tail and a old fashion looking camera that is hanging on her neck.
"Good afternoon students, teachers and staff! You may already know me, but I'll just introduce myself for the sake of it. I am Pol Filch from the broadcasting club..."
"And I am Meirin Tatsuyama from the journalism club."
"And today, where here to be your commentators once again!"
"For today's fight, Linel Silvercrest, the overly famous prinicipal's grandson/transfer student, is going to go on a one on one match against four nobodies whose names I don't even know of." (Pol)
"I don't know their names either but according to my sources, the reason for this fight is related to love problems." (Meirin)
"Love problems? I thought it was related to pudding again like last five months ago." (Pol)
"Definitely not! And that fight was so embarrassing to the point that I'm so ashamed to even know the names of those two!" (Meirin)
"Ha ha! For me, that was hilarious! Two tall macular fourth year boys fighting over for the last remaining pudding that is only sold at the convenience store. You won't find that any elsewhere!" (Pol)
"You got that right! Strange people like that can only be found at this very school." (Meirin)
"So anyway, what about this love problem?"(Pol)
"I'm glad you ask! You see here, the four nobodies confessed to four certain girls which is way out of their league and got rejected." (Meirin)
"May I ask who these four girls are?" (Pol)
"That's confidential. As a proud journalist, I don't want to ruin anyones reputation." (Meirin)
"So they got rejected, but what does that have to do with Linel?" (Pol)
"Well... According to the rumors I heard, the reason why they got rejected, it is because that these four girls is currently in love with Linel." (Meirin)
"Isn't he the popular guy huh? Now I want to beat him up myself!" (Pol)
"Well... That's just a rumor and besides, judging by your grades in Combat classes, you probably get beaten by him instead since I heard that he's very strong." (Meirin)
"Just a rumor huh? If there's no spark, there's no fire. And also, he's strong?" (Pol)
"Yeah totally!" (Meirin)
"How so?" (Pol)
"Remember the time when he fought the head maidbot during his first day here?" (Meirin)
"Oh? Is that the time where we are all told to come and watch at the Arena 3 by the principal?" (Pol)
"Yeah that one." (Meirin)
"So what about it?" (Pol)
"Didn't he beat the head maidbot?" (Meirin)
"He certainly did but the head maidbot was probably going easy on him. Not to mention, the head maidbot did a really good job kicking those rebels asses back at Scorpio space city." (Pol)
"Oh! Speaking about Scorpio space city, did you know that Linel fought bare handedly?" (Meirin)
"Seriously?!" (Pol)
"Yeah seriously!" (Meirin)
"How do you know all that?" (Pol)
"Because I was there watching them fight from the shadows." (Meirin)
"First of all, you were watching them fight while the rest of us are risking our lives fighting? Second, who's "them" are you talking about?" (Pol)
"For the first question, I'm a journalist! It's my job to get all the info on you guys fighting not join the fight. Isn't that obvious?" (Meirin)
"At least you could have helped us!" (Pol)
"Look at my arms and legs, they're tiny! No way I could fight against those macho rebels in full armor with guns. Besides, I heard that you didn't help either!" (Meirin)
"Nuh-uh! I certainly help by showing them who's boss!" (Pol)
"Yeah right! I heard that you were coped in your room crying mommy that whole time." (Meirin)
"Where the hell did you- I mean me? Coped up in my room crying mommy? Pshsh! As if!" (Pol)
"I have a video footage to prove my claim." (Meirin)
"What the hell!?" (Pol)
"Just kidding!" (Meirin)
"Phew! You scared the crap out of me." (Pol)
"But I do have an audio record." (Meirin)
Meirin takes out an old fashion looking recorder and presses the play button.
Click*
"OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MOMMY HELP ME! OH PLEASE MOMMY HELP ME!"
Meirin presses the stop button.
Click*
Soon after, everyone in the Arena burst into laughter.
"Give me that!" (Pol)
Pol who is very embarrass, snatches the recorder away from Meirin.
"Now as for the second question, I'm referring to Linel's group which is made up of a bunch of first years and some upperclassmen." (Meirin)
"And why are you watching Linel's fight? Are you a secret admire? A fan girl? Hmm?" (Pol)
"Are you trying to get back at me?" (Meirin)
"No, I'm just trying to state the fact."(Pol)
"Sorry, your assumptions are wrong." (Meirin)
"Are you sure about that?" (Pol)
"I already have a boyfriend you moron!" (Meirin)
"I heard that girls tends to have crushes on other guys even though they already have a boyfriend.
According to a certain relationship expert." (Pol)
"I'm totally not like that! Besides, we promise that we're going to get married after graduation." (Meirin)
"So he's your fiancee, not a boyfriend." (Pol)
"Yeah that!" (Meirin)
"Why are you calling him your boyfriend instead of your fiancee?" (Pol)
"Because boyfriend sounds better." (Meirin)
"If I were your boyfriend, I would prefer to be called your fiancee so other guys wont try to bust some moves on my girl." (Pol)
"That's your own preference! Don't lump my boyfriend together with the likes of you who cry out mommy in times of trouble!" (Meirin)
"She's throwing a fit everyone!" (Pol)
"Shut up!" (Meirin)
Everyone burst into laughter because of their comedy act.
Soon after, Linel enters the battlefield.
(Linel)
What the hell is everyone laughing about?
"And the star of the show has now arrived!" (Pol)
"Give him a round of applause everybody!" (Meirin)
Everyone starts screaming, whistling and clapping like they just saw their favorite celebrity.
I'm pretty much sure that everyone is just being sarcastic.
And also, who are those two announcing all this crap?