The after-school chi rang lodiously through the school building. An hour later, the students in the Class A classroom gradually left.
The dusky yellow sunlight of the evening stread into the classroom, dyeing it a pale yellow-white.
Fuyuji Mikage stood by the window, hands clasped behind his back, calmly watching the various clubs on the distant sports field, pouring out sweat and youth.
From afar ca the deliberate sound of indoor shoes treading the floor, drawing nearer—neither fast nor slow, yet sohow seeming... excited?
A standard villainous cold smirk surfaced on Fuyuji Mikage's lips.
A re Morishita! Today, I will thoroughly shatter that toy-peddling fantasy in your heart!
The classroom door swung open with a "whoosh." The sunlight fell on Morishita Ai's unruffled face, casting a long shadow behind her.
"You shouldn't have co."
Fuyuji Mikage made a point of not looking back, letting his voice drift over leisurely, like a peerless warrior awaiting grand duel.
Morishita Ai cast a glance at Fuyuji Mikage, who was putting all his effort into his pose, then turned to leave. "Then I'm leaving. Fuyuji Mikage admits defeat. Ultraman is fake."
Fuyuji Mikage broke character in one second, hurriedly raising a hand to call Morishita Ai back.
"Hey hey, don't go! How was I supposed to know you wouldn't catch my reference?"
"Who would catch so outdated reference?" Morishita Ai muttered under her breath.
Fuyuji Mikage rallied and said with a serious expression, "Well then, Morishita Ai, are you ready to face defeat?"
"The one who's going to face defeat is you!" Morishita Ai showed no sign of weakness.
The air in the Class A classroom solidified in an instant. Several streaks of lightning seed to flow and clash between their two pairs of eyes.
When eyes et, the duel must begin!
A crow in the distance flapped its wings and flew off, leaving behind a string of caws.
The instant the sound reached them, Fuyuji Mikage launched the first strike, slapping both hands on the desk and staring directly at Morishita Ai. "The rules are simple: whoever states more pieces of intelligence wins. Rock-paper-scissors decides who goes first."
"Just what I wanted. Bring it on!" Morishita Ai declared full of confidence.
"Three—"
"Two—"
"One—"
"Rock, paper, scissors!"
Fuyuji Mikage: Rock
Morishita Ai: Scissors
Fuyuji Mikage let out a great laugh, assud a battle stance, and shouted loudly. "My turn! I go first! Advanced Nurturing divides students into four classes—A, B, C, and D—based on their value. Class A has the highest value, Class D the lowest."
Fuyuji Mikage ford hand seals with one hand, opening with the move "Domain Expansion: Plasma Spark," charging straight at Morishita Ai. This move was plain and unremarkable, yet it was the core of all combat. Without an equivalent ans to counter, one could only remain frozen in place and be at the opponent's rcy.
"Too naive, Fuyuji Mikage. Intel of this level—Lady Morishita already knew it on the first day." No emotional fluctuation showed on Morishita Ai's face. She comnted with an air of complete confidence.
"Moreover, your intel doesn't seem to be complete..."
Her eyes focused sharply. She too slapped both hands on the desk. "Only by graduating from Class A can one receive everything promised by the school—that is, the 100% advancent and employnt rate!"
Facing the fierce incoming attack, Morishita Ai showed no weakness. She ford seals with both hands, likewise unleashing a "Domain Expansion: Dinsional Card Storm" to clash against it.
Two great domains unfurled within the classroom, colliding, pressing, grinding, producing a bone-chillingly awful noise. Powerful energy surged in the classroom. Desks were pushed outward in all directions with the two at the center, shattering, disintegrating! (Pure fantasy inside the minds of two terminally chuunibyou high schoolers.)
"Not bad, Morishita Ai. To think you could reach this level."
Fuyuji Mikage had anticipated this. This move was rely a deliberate opening. If she couldn't even reach this level, then she wasn't worthy of being his, Fuyuji Mikage's, opponent!
"Points are the school's evaluation of students, high or low. And the school uses the surveillance caras placed all over the campus to test the students' value. Scholastic ability, morality, physical ability, social skills, thinking ability, etc., are all possible."
Knowing the enemy's strength, Fuyuji Mikage no longer held back. With a long howl to the heavens, he unleashed a Heavenly Emperor Fist, piercing through the opponent's domain and pressing straight toward Morishita Ai's face.
"Surveillance caras, huh? No wonder..." Morishita Ai murmured quietly.
Fuyuji Mikage's technique seed to exceed Morishita Ai's expectations. Could it be that Morishita Ai would stop here?
"The school is holding a one-month behavioral standards exam for the first-years, deducting points for every student rule violation."
No!
In the mont of crisis, Morishita Ai summoned the Antimatter Mirror Rider to take the hit head-on, then imdiately flung back a Dinsional Refraction at Fuyuji Mikage, completely reversing the scales of victory!
"N-Nani!" Fuyuji Mikage was sowhat flustered. "How could you know this? You shouldn't have been able to dig up this kind of thing."
Fuyuji Mikage shook his head violently and quickly cald down. "Points can buy everything. The ultimate rule to clear this school: with just 20 million, you can graduate directly from Class A."
Facing such a desperate situation, Fuyuji Mikage could not evade. He took this move head-on, using all his strength to unleash his ultimate technique—"Shining Supernova Burst - Extre Flash"—vowing to annihilate this enemy right here.
"Class Points are the system the school uses to evaluate the entire class. The school deposits points into the students' accounts monthly at a ratio of 1:100. In other words, our class's initial Class Points are 1000 points." Fuyuji Mikage's discomfiture was fully taken in by Morishita Ai. She already had victory pocketed.
Morishita Ai likewise unleashed an ultimate technique—"Dinsional Tremor - Rainbow Big Bang"—to et it head-on. This ti, no energy surged wildly; there was only a suffocating stillness. Space shattered with the crisp sound of breaking glass, and streaks of pitch-black dinsional fissures split open within the classroom.
"..."
Fuyuji Mikage opened and closed his mouth, standing frozen in place, like a giant turned to stone bereft of light.
"It seems I've won, Fuyuji Mikage~"
Morishita Ai's voice betrayed her delight, and she followed up with the final blow. "The students of Class D all have so degree of defect. They are referred to by the school as defective products."
Facing the giant who had lost its power, Morishita Ai rcilessly unleashed "Grand Annihilation - Cosmic Extinction," instantly extending and directly severing Fuyuji Mikage's hopes along with himself.
Fuyu—
—ji Mikage.
Slain!
What a truly exhilarating battle it was!
"I win."
Morishita Ai placed one hand on her hip and struck a victory pose with the other, assuming her win screen stance. "Fuyuji Mikage, the one who stole my seat."
"Impossible!"
Fuyuji Mikage pounded the floor, like a third-rate villain desperately attempting to struggle after defeat.
"Refusing to admit defeat? How typical of you, Fuyuji Mikage."
"Wait!"
Fuyuji Mikage's train of thought suddenly connected. He looked up at Morishita Ai, who was basking in victory.
"Did you cheat?"
"Under the condition that upper-year students are under a gag order, you shouldn't have been able to know that the thing asuring class value is even called Class Points. At most, you'd know, like , that such a thing exists."
Fuyuji Mikage grew more and more excited as he spoke. "Spill it! Did you go buy intel from the school?!"
"Now, now, Fuyuji Mikage," a rare smile surfaced on Morishita Ai's face, "do you know what the biggest difference is between boys and girls?"
"Don't change the subject. Please answer my question directly, Morishita-san!"
"I knew ever since we were on the bus that you're very clever."
Having exacted her great revenge, Morishita Ai's mood was excellent. She clasped her small hands behind her back and began strolling around beside Fuyuji Mikage.
"Even if I used the sa thods as you, I'd maybe only end up roughly equal to you. From the very beginning, I never intended to beat you on that front."
"Later, when I was eavesdropping on people at the cafe, I discovered sothing..."
A faint, ominous feeling bubbled up in Fuyuji Mikage's heart.
Morishita Ai circled around in front of Fuyuji Mikage, pulled out a voice recorder pen, and waved it cheerfully before him. Her voice was unstoppably gleeful. "Girls take longer... in the restroom than you boys~"
The instant he saw the recorder pen, Fuyuji Mikage lost all color, this person turning into a pale stone statue.
"Fuyuji Mikage, say it now—Lady Morishita has won!"
"Wait!" Fuyuji Mikage suddenly reacted again. "There's still sothing wrong!" His gaze shifted up to that face, which had never looked so delighted since they'd t. "Everything else you ntioned, I can accept as good luck—soone just happened to ntion those rules."
"But—"
"How did you know the one-to-one-hundred ratio between Class Points and Personal Points? No matter how chatty those upper-year students are, they wouldn't recite that kind of unspoken rule, which everyone already knows, as if reading aloud from a manual."
Topics discussed also need relevance. Information like the behavioral exam might co up when people chat casually, but the Class Points ratio—sothing every upper-year knows—wouldn't be specifically brought up.
"Did you buy intel from the school? That would be cheating. You yourself said treasure is only fun if you discover it yourself." Fuyuji Mikage rose up again, piercing through the plot to extinguish the light.
"..." Morishita Ai fell silent.
"Please answer my question directly, Morishita-san. Don't let your eyes wander randomly. Don't stand in front of with your arms akimbo. And pull your legs together and straighten your posture a bit. Show so proper attitude."
"A re Fuyuji Mikage..."
Morishita Ai expressed contempt for Fuyuji Mikage's death-throes behavior. She turned her head back and called toward the doorway:
"In that case, it's alright if I say it, isn't it?"
"Y-yes, it's n-no problem, as long as Morishita-san is willing." A timid voice ca from behind the door.
There was actually a third person present?
"You are..." Fuyuji Mikage looked toward the voice, "Yamamura-san?"
"Y-yes, Fuyuji-kun." Yamamura Miki lowered her head and replied.
"My secret weapon for victory." Morishita Ai circled behind Yamamura Miki, slapped both hands on her shoulders, and pushed her forward. "At the student cafeteria, those upperclassn didn't seem to notice her at all. They opened their phones right in front of her, and she ended up seeing quite a few things."
"..."
Fuyuji Mikage's lips moved a few tis. He wanted to loudly denounce this unjust act, but that would make him seem like the kind of sore loser who can't accept defeat.
Is this even allowed?
He stared blankly at the dusky yellow ceiling. Then what was all the suffering he'd endured these two days for?
"Ano..." Yamamura Miki walked over to Fuyuji Mikage. "Fuyuji-kun, are you alright?"
"Don't mind him. He has already fallen into hell right now..."
"Hold on!"
Fuyuji Mikage still found a flaw within it. "You said it yourself—treasure only belongs to the first one who discovers it. Now the one who first discovered it is clearly Yamamura."
"Did I say that?" Morishita Ai blinked her eyes.
"You change your tune faster than flipping a book."
Morishita Ai, rather than feeling ashad, said quite proudly, "Mother told that a girl must learn to lie when she's out and about."
"In summary..."
Their gazes t, and they spoke in unison: "I won! Ultraman (Kan Rider) is fake!"
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