The dodgeball tournament on the first day of PE is heating up. The climax is when six teams start standing on the field with serious gazes aiming for victory.
Starting with team one, the girls from class A led by a girl with long dark blue hair tied in a high ponytail. Her eyes were also dark blue, radiating a cold and serious aura like a night-ruling dragon, with her two friends, a girl with white-green hair in a boyish style, and a girl with crimson red hair like blood in a wolf cut style.
Then from the next winner, team seven, the girls from class B, a beautiful and sexy girl with long waist-length blonde cream hair along with her two friends, a girl with square glasses and black hair braided into a single braid at the back like an agent, and a cheerful girl with high pastel light blue twintails.
In the next line of winners, there was Vincent's classmate who managed to win a fierce competition against classes C and B. That was Marian's team, with one girl with blonde-brown hair in a bun and one girl with long straight black hair with ice blue inner hair tied in a high ponytail. They were a new basketball team that had entered the core team within a few days joining the school's basketball club. Her two friends were from class C.
After that, the unexpected dark horse team, filled with mysterious girls from Vincent's class. Iris Winterbourne, the beautiful girl with silver-white hair, eyes and eyebrows with the same color, and skin as white as snow, and her two teammates, Falencia Darcia and a girl in a black hoodie even though the sun was scorching. They managed to win against four teams in the early rounds using effective techniques and strategies.
The next team, no less surprising, was Vittoria's team, Aria, and the class D president, Emma Clark, the girl with two braids below her ears and her characteristic sweet round glasses.
Then the last team that unexpectedly won was Vincent's team, Reinhart, and Gregor the bear undies.
The six of them on the field will engage in a fierce dodgeball battle throughout school's history. Each team already holds one ball in the hands of their leader.
"The winner of this afternoon's dodgeball will get extra points for PE class when report cards are distributed at the end of the semester! And I will also give a special prize to the winning team's class!" Ms. Sheila exclaimed to boost the players' spirits on the field.
The spectators, girls sitting on the sidelines, watched those who were about to fight with tense faces. Hot sweat dripped down their faces.
"I support team one!"
"I support team seven!"
"President class! Win this for class B!"
"Marian! Marian! Marian!"
"I want to cheer for Iris's team, but she seems too cold to be cheered for."
"Class D president! Win this tournament!"
"Gregor's team just lose boooo!!!"
"Hey! Why do others get cheers while we get boos?"
Gregor protested to the girls. They laughed at Gregor's annoyed expression.
"The bear undies must lose!"
"Defeat the bear undies!"
"The bear undies suck!"
Starting today, Gregor officially received a nickname that would stick for the next three years in high school.
"Haha, you're very popular now, Gregor." Reinhart laughed, seeing Gregor with an angry orc face and making alien sounds as a sign of his protest.
Vincent shook his head while sighing. He brushed his bangs, which were sticking to his forehead with sweat, back.
"Let's win this game, guys."
Reinhart and Gregor nodded, hearing Vincent's seriousness.
The ball was in Reinhart's hand, Vincent and Gregor stood guard beside him.
"Game starts!"
Beep! Beep!
The six teams on the field immediately took positions from every direction. Their movements were so agile to attack.
The first to attack was team one, they pushed to the side, intending to eliminate Team Seven, the girls from Class B.
Meanwhile, Iris's team and Marian's team were measuring each other's abilities.
Vittoria's team challenged Vincent's team to eliminate each other.
"Vincent! We're going to beat you!" Vittoria exclaimed and threw the ball at Vincent. But Vincent, with quick reflexes, managed to catch it.
Vincent glanced at Reinhart to signal an attack. Reinhart nodded.
He immediately ran around Vittoria's team with Reinhart on the other side.
"Split up!" Aria exclaimed. Aria and Emma, the class D presidents, immediately ran in separate directions to avoid being surrounded by two attacks from sides by Vincent and Reinhart. Leaving Vittoria alone.
"Ha! Take that, Vittoria!"
Vittoria, with her athletic body, easily deflected a ball from Vincent, while from behind her, Reinhart managed to get a clear shot.
Woosh! The ball flew towards Vittoria's back. But Vittoria anticipated it and dropped backward, causing the ball to fly past her face and almost hit her chest. Vittoria then immediately got up and ran to chase Vincent's ball, which she had deflected and was rolling on the ground.
Gregor, on the other hand, had anticipated where Reinhart's missed ball would land, but Aria and Emma used their bodies to block Gregor from getting Reinhart's ball.
"Ah!"
"Kya!"
Gregor accidentally touched Emma's butt and nudged Aria's chest with his elbow. Making them even angrier and not giving Gregor a chance to get the ball.
"You pervert!" As soon as Aria got the ball, she immediately threw it at Gregor, who didn't have time to escape.
Thud! Right in the face.
Gregor immediately left the field in embarrassment.
"Vincent!"
"Vittoria!"
Vincent and Vittoria jumped to get the ball rolling on the ground. As soon as they both jumped...
Thud!
They failed to get it because Emma had already taken it, causing Vincent and Vittoria to collide instead. Vittoria pinned Vincent's face underneath with her chest, and she deliberately sniffed Vincent's sweaty chest.
They remained in that position for a few seconds before Vittoria stood up, her face bright red like a tomato.
"Vincent's sweat smells... hehe.." Thud! A ball from Marian's team hit Vittoria's head.
"Ehehe, sorry Vittoria!" Marian chased after the ball she had thrown while apologizing to Vittoria, who had a blank face from surprise.
She walked off the field with weak legs and the lingering scent of Vincent's sweat in her nose.
As for Vincent? He was being cornered by Emma and Aria, who were passing the ball left and right while slowly approaching him and herding him against the wall so he couldn't run.
"Haha! Now my future husband will lose! If you kneel and kiss my hand to surrender, I'll give you a soft throw." Aria smiled broadly, seeing Vincent cornered against the wall like a chihuahua. Emma, the class president, wasn't actually very good at sports, but she could throw a ball and hit a target. She smiled awkwardly at Aria's words.
"Heh, you're the ones who are cornered. You were careless, and now you're going to be out of the game."
"What?" Aria and Emma said in unison before, from behind, Reinhart touched Aria's head with a ball and threw a ball that hit Emma's unsuspecting body. They didn't realize Reinhart was right behind them.
Aria and Emma left the field, Aria with an annoyed and frustrated look because her plan to make Vincent submit had failed.
"Uhhh! So close."
With this, Vittoria's team was officially eliminated.
On the other side, the battle between Team One and Team Seven was quite fierce. They used quick tactics and techniques to surround their opponents, but Team One, led by the dark-blue-haired girl, didn't budge at all. Her two teammates were far away while three girls from team seven surrounded their leader alone.
"Finally, you're going to lose, Perseus!" The class B president, the sexy and beautiful girl with creamy blonde hair, passed the ball sideways, and her teammate passed the ball sideways, and she passed it back to the class B president, giving no opening for the dark blue-haired girl to escape the encirclement. This was a triangular tactic.
The ball was in the dark blue-haired girl's hand. But whichever girl she intended to eliminate, she would still end up out of bounds. If she passed to her teammate who was outside the triangle, she would first be attacked and eliminated.
"Heh, this is troublesome. But even if I'm alone, I can easily defeat all three of you at once."
The class B president was provoked. She immediately told her two teammates to advance and finish off the prey in the middle.
"You'll regret it! Hahhh!!!"
The class B president and her two teammates rushed to the center simultaneously in a triangular bracket formation.
The dark blue-haired girl smiled. She also rushed towards the class B representative even though she wasn't holding the ball.
As soon as the ball was thrown from her blind spot, the dark blue-haired girl jumped and hugged the class B president, then she quickly spun so that the ball thrown by the opponent hit the class B president's large chest instead. Friendly fire.
Before the two girls could get the ball back they threw, the blue-haired girl threw her ball at one girl on the left, and she picked up the ball rolling in front of the class B president and immediately eliminated the girl on the right who was too slow to jump for the ball.
All three immediately fell weakly to the ground, their bodies covered in sweat and breathing heavily.
"Ah.. Perseus.. we still can't beat you..." The class B president said weakly.
The dark blue-haired girl now held two balls in her hands.
"Ahahah! Our leader is so cool! You can defeat them in a tight spot in one try. Ouch!" The dark blue-haired girl's teammate was hit by a thrown ball on her back.
"Hiii! Karen lost!" One of her teammates screamed in surprise seeing Karen (the red crimson wolf cut girl) fall to her knees on the field.
The dark blue-haired girl glared at the ball thrower who managed to eliminate one of her teammates due to carelessness.
It was Iris Winterbourne. The snow princess. And her two team members who were still fresh and sweat-free.
The two glared at each other, ready for battle. The blue dragon vs. the snow princess.
On the other side, Vincent and Reinhart's team was now fighting Marian's team.
"Woah, Iris was right. If we conserve energy, we can easily outperform the men's team."
Marian's team's strategy was hit and run. They played fast like they were playing basketball, just throwing to hit Reinhart and Vincent. Fortunately, the boys could deflect it, but when the ball was deflected, other members of Marian's team quickly picked up the rolling ball and continuously threw balls at Reinhart and Vincent in the middle. The two couldn't do anything but defend and deflect the ball. They couldn't dodge because if they tried to dodge...
Thump!
The ball hit Reinhart's stomach. Marian threw quickly and accurately at Reinhart. Now only Vincent was left alone in the middle without a ball while Marian's team each held a ball in their hands.
From three directions, Vincent was surrounded. He quickly glanced to assess the opponent's abilities.
"Hehehe. Vincent, now it's just you alone!"
"Fighting us basketball athletes is a fatal mistake! Now you're going to be out of the game."
"Don't take it to heart, you weak man~"
Marian and her two teammates from three sides ran in a circle around Vincent while throwing balls at Vincent in the middle.
Vincent grinned. "You might be basketball athletes, but I'm a martial arts expert. Something like this is easy for me to defeat all three of you in an instant!"
A ball was thrown towards his head, Vincent immediately ducked, letting the ball pass him, but from behind, the ball aimed for his back, Vincent immediately shifted sideways before the ball hit his shirt, then another ball aimed for Vincent's stomach, but Vincent easily anticipated it and managed to catch it with both hands.
Tap!
"What?" Marian was surprised that her team's three attacks failed to touch Vincent.
Vincent grinned, then he pushed forward, breaking through the formation of three girls who were running in circles around Vincent.
Two other girls tried to stop Vincent from rushing towards Marian. Two balls were thrown accurately from his blind spot.
Vincent had anticipated it and then slid down, letting the two balls pass over his head. Then, once he was in front of Marian's face...
Bup!
Vincent touched Marian's head with a soft ball, but it made Marian fall to the ground.
"Marian!"
"Marian!"
The two other girls managed to get their balls back and were about to throw them at Vincent, but they were too slow. Vincent threw first, hitting one girl's chest. The other girl threw her ball in a panic, and Vincent easily caught it and threw it back at her.
Making both girls fall to the field, landing on their bottoms first.
"You win. You managed to defeat us, Vincent! From now on, I'll call you Rival!" Marian stood up and shook Vincent's hand.
Vincent smiled, satisfied with the outcome of their battle.
"You too. You all played well together."
However, the fierce dodgeball battle was not over yet.
On the other side, only the dark blue-haired girl from team one remained. And Iris's team, only the snow princess with a heavily sweating face remained.
"Heh, not bad, Iris Winterbourne."
"You too, Perseus Reiss."
Vincent stood to make a triangle between the two fiercely dueling girls. He held a ball in his hand, just like the two girls.
This was the final battle between the three teams, with only their team leaders remaining.
Who would be the winner of this fierce dodgeball match in this sunny day?
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