After school.

Grasping the thing he had received from Leonardo with his right hand, Akito was walking towards the spirit forest.

It is a piece of paper. And there is only one sentence written on it.

"Today after school. I will be waiting in the spirit forest"

When Akito saw the sentence, Akito actually thought to ignore it, but he thought that he had to pay respect to Dramon who had shown that kind of aristocracy behaviour to Akito.

"Haa. Why is it like this…"

When Akito enters the spirit forest while muttered in low spirit, he found that small spirits and birds are running away from him.

(..It hurts somehow….)

Having a wry smile while looking at that, Akito walked forward. Then—–

"Yo. You properly come. To be honest, I think you would run away"

He appeared slowly from the tree shades, laughing. Looking at that, Akito

"I won't run away. There isn't any reason to do so"

Gave him a warning for the time being. Then Leonardo who heard that laughed fearlessly,

"Ahahaha! You are really interesting! But, the reason why I called you… You actually knew, right?"

"…What kind of talk is it?"

Akito answered Leonardo who said it smilingly while slightly tilting his neck. However, his left hand—

"Ahaha. After all, you keep holding your sword's sheath since you came here, don't you?"

Akito groaned "Ugh…" when asked sharply by Leonardo. That's right, Akito has been cautious of the surroundings since he entered the forest.

That is because — his intuition, tells him that this is the only reason why he was called.

—-probably… Dramon's aim is…

When Akito looked at Leonardo's face while thinking like that, the other side also realized that,

"That's right, It's as you thought, I want to fight you. For that reason, I called you today"

Then he said it and laughed. "Why?". Akito expresses his doubt to that. Then Leonardo,

"Of course, it is a duel with Asha-kun as the bet. If you win, I won't come near her. If I win, you will back out from her"

Akito let out "Haa?" to Leonardo who bought up such condition. As he didn't understand why he has to do something like this.

"Wait a moment. Why do I have to duel wagering Anlayhaim-san? I don't understand?"

Unable to stand it, Akito asked Leonardo. Then he harden his smiling face,

"…Do you really not know? You are quite…. a funny guy"

He started letting out —- cold words. From that much force, Akito is trembling.

"To be honest… The reason to defeat you is not only that. It's not… only that"

Saying that he looked down, and started spinning his words.

"In that incident, you have become famous, but it's just temporary… then, though this is also temporary, but your popularity with girls has risen, and there is no one who doesn't know you in this school…"

Leonardo make his statement without concerning about Akito's situation at all. He seems like bearing a grudge because he seems like totally jealous of something.

No… It doesn't need to be said. It's the power of jealousy.

"Do you understand? At that time, we spirit users couldn't do anything to something that looked big, but being belittled by people like you…"

He paused, raised his face. Then—

"Helped by someone that was mistreated as ‘The Dunce’ till now, I was recognized to be weaker than you by the surroundings. That's my feeling!!!!"

His magic power, raises steadily. That frightened the nearby spirits, the trees rustled, the wind started blowing wildly.

"So you are! While having that kind of power, why did you hide it! Why won't you show it!? You don't want to brag about it!?"

Leonardo shouted. Firmly directs his eyesight to Akito, his eyes s.h.i.+nes intensely

"… You are also aware of it, right? Now, the uppercla.s.smen, are excited to defeat you. We want to protect our place by proving that we are stronger than you"

Akito remembered after hearing that words. He was attacked in the corridor, he was attacked when he walked in the courtyard, this is his current life.

"…That is. That's because you don't brag your power, while having something like that. So we who can't brag about ourselves, have lost our original place. Honestly , it's painful… Even the juniors now, even if we brag, they won't listen"

Spirit users are the chosen ones. Therefore, there are a lot that have a high pride. Akito has forgotten about it for a long time, but….

"That's why, we put that kind of wish, when we wrote our names in those 'duel request'. But, you. Even if we challenge you for a match directly, you just run away just by writing 'Rejected' in a piece of paper. Moreover, because you are following school regulations properly, it makes us feel bad"

Haa… While sighing, Leonardo said, then immediately raises his face. Then, he spins the next words.

"So I will make my hand dirty for a bit, but I will defeat you and regain my own place. Because apparently the juniors are thinking that you are ‘The Ideal Senior’…."

Saying that, he holds his left hand and chants. That is—-

"-Connecting your contract with me, O n.o.ble sword beast spirit! Now give power to my hand!"

Deployment rite of… a spirit armament.

"Come… Hiiragi Akito-kun. Let's fight to our heart’s content. For that reason… I have been waiting for this day"

A sword with two blades. Leonardo said it quietly after getting ready with his

. Akito also "Haa!" and realized it.

"You… You knew that all of my friends will go…."

"No. that's not right… Don't you also think it's strange? Even though Asha-kun and Roland-kun are good, because this school has a lot of students, C-ranked Dranga-kun can only be chosen as the representative to watch the match, excluding the 10 persons who are the higher ranked spirit users, It is the fact that they won't completely watch the match with that renowned princess!"

When Akito said it with trembling voice, Leonardo clicked his finger while shouted loudly. Then …. *in droves*

From all over the forest, spirit users from the upper cla.s.s, come all together. Akito who looked at that was… shocked.

——–Completely… I didn't feel any sign.

Leonardo laughs while looking at that situation. That figure is simply…

"In other words, the reason is this plan… these rascals…."

Gritting his teeth, Akito unsheathes his sword. Angrily and greatly shakes his shoulder, he narrowed his eyes..

"Come… Show it Akito-kun. That bullet of flame that you released that time…"

"Ah? That flame? What are you saying? This is more than enough for you guys."

Kachiri… The sword of magic armament lets out that kind of sound. Then he breaks in with a big step—-

"… I will show you, the difference in our cla.s.s"

He slashed at Leonardo. To that excessive suddenness, Leonardo's reaction is a bit late, the sword of spirit armament is thrown up.

Akito struck his stomach with his fist, launch his chin and made him fainted, silently looks at his surroundings,

"Now then, I will be your opponent… Seniors?"

He narrowed his eyes and declared it.

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