Are your master’s breasts soft!? Is the rumour about them feeling like marshmallows true!? Is a woman’s body seriously like pudding that doesn’t collapse! ?”
I was struck by the eyes of Saji that was burning with jealously and envy! Seizing this opportunity, he fired the line, connected it to a bench behind me and swung it with all his strength, but I crossed my arms and protected myself. The bench broke into small pieces and scattered on the floor. That was equal to the damage I didn’t receive just now! “What were you thinking when you were rubbing her breasts!? Damn iiiiiiiiiiiiit!”
Wasn’t this somehow more intense than the blows when he was talking about his dream!? Then, he extended several lines to the furniture store, and hauled out a ton of large furniture from there and drew an arc through the air with them as he brought them right above my head! So he intends to bring them all down on me like that!? Gunn! As all the large furniture fell down, I fired a Dragon Shot that I restrained to the minimum at the sky! The adjustment of power was too difficult! I couldn’t fire ones like this many times! Doooon! The wave blast of red magic power instantly erased the large furniture, but—. Dogoh! My back was hit by an impact! When I looked back, Saji had changed the trajectory of a single line and knocked a dresser into me! It didn’t give me any particularly great damage, but the impact was transmitted to my whole body. Even if there wasn’t any damage, this kind of impact was bad for my body! If I kept getting hit like this, it seems like adverse effects will start to pop up! “I also want to rub them! I want to rub theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem!”
Buwah! Saji was finally letting out tears of frustration! “I haven’t even seen breasts yet! You don’t know how much I’ve prayed for nipples my entire life! And yet you get to see them as much as you liiiiiiiiiiiiike!”
Gonn! I knocked Saji down, but he stood up immediately! Damn it! What fighting spirit he has! “But, Hyoudou! It isn’t breasts that I want the most! It’s to be a teacher! A teacher! I will become a teacher! Can’t I become a teacher!? Why do we have to be laughed at! ?”
And then—Saji cried out at me. No, it was to the many people watching this—. “We didn’t declare our dream for the sake of being laughed at…!”
“I’m not laughing! It’s impossible to be able to laugh at you when you’re risking your life like this!”
Facing him, I—hit Saji! It wasn’t enough, so I hit him again! Saji’s face quickly started swelling up, and he spit out broken teeth and blood from his mouth. Even so, Saji stood back up, and faced me again and again. He was that foolishly honest. “Today! I will! Surpass you! !”
Saji’s shout heavily resounded all the way through my armour and to my heart with a bang. After that, I pounded tens of blows into him. “Hyuh…Hyuh…”
Before I realised, the sounds of breath coming from Saji’s mouth began to sound faint. He should be at his limit already. Since he had multiple cuts in his mouth now, the blood wouldn’t stop flowing out from his lips. He was already at the point where he couldn’t even speak. His face was swollen and his left eye was completely shut. His body was shaking, and his stance was also unsteady. Some of his fingers were bent in the wrong direction as well. Even so—. Even so, Saji faced me with only a strong glint in his eyes. “Come, Saji. Come! Sajiiiiiiiiiiiii! You won’t let it end here, right!? You don’t intend to let it end like this, right!? Weren’t you going to do the things that aren’t possible for idiots like us and run swiftly forward! ?”
He slowly moved forward, step by step. Saji didn’t run away. Saji faced forward. Without shifting his gaze even an inch away from me, he advanced straight forward. His appearance right now was similar to mine in the House of Phoenix battle. I had also seen myself then in the recorded video. Though I had been worn-out, I moved forward. In order to absolutely approach my opponent. “You also trained desperately, right? I trained desperately as well.”
I could feel a dreadful pressure from Saji. Though I should clearly surpass him, I was seized with a terrible fear. Even if I hit and hit, he wouldn’t fall—. For there to be an opponent that I feel such great fear against…
Hey, Raiser Phoenix. You also felt like that when facing me, didn’t you? I understand it now. The reason why you kept knocking me down—. “Saji, I’m going to beat you.”
Saji made a punch at me with his bent hand. It extended forward with seemingly slow speed, but I avoided it with the smallest movements. There, I exchanged a counter punch against him. Dagan! “—”
My punch perfectly hit Saji’s face. I also felt good feedback from it. It was a blow that completely cut off his consciousness. Even so—. Even so, Saji grasped my right arm with both his hands. So strongly that he wouldn’t let go. Saji had lost consciousness. But his hands wouldn’t let go of my right arm. Then, he kept holding onto my right arm, his body was wrapped in light. I—couldn’t take my eyes off from Saji until he disappeared. Because I felt that, if I looked away, he may revive himself again. [One of Sona Sitri-sama’s “Pawns”, retired.] “Koneko-chan.”
I stowed away my armour’s mask on my helmet and showed my face. “Could you hold my hand?”
“…Senpai?”
I spoke with a forced smile. “This is the first time I knocked down a friend. I understand it. I understand it, but…”
Koneko-chan gently grasped my trembling fist while smiling. I could feel it even through my gauntlet. “You were cool. A senpai to be proud of.”
Those words were enough to reach me. With my match against Saji over, I broke open the door of a nearby vending machine and gulped down a water bottle from inside. Koneko-chan also quenched her thirst. Damn it. I couldn’t get rid of my body’s shakiness. Was it an effect of wearing the armour? Certainly, I had received a lot of damage in the battle against Saji, but it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t fight. According to an announcement a short while ago, it seemed that one of our [Knights] had been taken out. Was it Kiba? Or Xenovia? I didn’t know which one it was. Whichever of them survived likely wasn’t critically wounded. The opponent’s side had also lost one [Knight] and [Rook] apiece. Our side had six people left. The other side had four. Those were numbers we still couldn’t be careless against. I also had less than 20 minutes left for remaining in this state. We have to settle this quickly. “…Ise-senpai.”
Koneko-chan pointed at my right arm. That’s right, even though Saji had disappeared, the line attached to my right arm hadn’t. Even when I activated my armour, only this line hadn’t disappeared. This line definitely connected over to the Sitri base. What was this for? It didn’t seem to be a very good thing, but since it hadn’t disappeared along with Saji, he must have put a lot of thought and feelings into this…Saji, what on earth did you put into this? At that time, we were contacted through our communication devices.