The blue electronic screen popped up.
[Mission: Persist for ten minutes without having your badge snatched while fighting Todo Aoi one-on-one. Mission Reward: 12 points (halved), 100 points of permanent cursed energy boost (halved).]
"…"
"Surrou... surrou... surrou...nd"
Yuuki looked at the system mission that had popped up and couldn't say anything. In the end, he changed his words and said, "I'll fight him one-on-one, the two upperclassmen and Yuta will take care of the other three. As long as I can hold back the strongest one among them, the rest are just a bunch of small fries."
"Are you sure that it's not you, Yuuki-kun, who will be ganged up on first?" Hakari Kinji asked after pondering for a moment.
"Yeah, that's too dangerous. I'll be the bait, and then you guys can squat nearby and ambush them."
The difficult mission was turned into something that was supposed to be by Kirara Hoshi, as if it wasn't too difficult for him to hold back four people by himself.
"I think I should be the bait, after all, I'm the weakest here, even if I'm not there..."
"Stop!"
Before Okkotsu Yuta could finish speaking, Yuuki interrupted him. He looked at Hakari Kinji and said, "How can we let others interfere in a battle between men? I believe that's what Todo Aoi thinks too, so when the competition starts, I'll go all out and fight him. Isn't that the passion that men should have?"
These words made Hakari Kinji not know what to say. He just snorted and revealed a satisfied smile, saying, "Alright, then let's have an indiscriminate fighting style. We won't participate in your duel with that Todo Aoi, anyway, I didn't want to participate in the first place."
"Hmph, great minds think alike."
Yuuki stretched out his right hand, muttering inwardly, "Damn system, as expected of you, my ganging up tactics have directly left me."
"Great minds think alike!"
Hakari Kinji gripped Yuuki's right hand, and became more and more satisfied with this junior. He liked these passionate and polite juniors.
"Tactics...?"
Okkotsu Yuta said softly from the side.
"Pat pat—"
Kirara Hoshi patted Yuta on the shoulder, shaking his head helplessly, seemingly saying, "There's no such thing as tactics anymore."
"…"
On Kyoto School's side.
Kamo Noritoshi sat in a chair and glanced at the two people in the room, and asked, "Where's Todo?"
Nishimiya Momo, who was hugging a broom, shook her head, and said, "I don't know, but with his personality, he should be in his room watching the replay of Takada-chan's concert yesterday."
"That upperclassman is really unreliable, even though we're about to go to war with Tokyo School." Mechamaru complained.
"Never mind, let's just ignore him. Anyway, he'll rush in and disrupt the enemy's formation at the first opportunity, and we'll be responsible for working together to capture the stragglers." Kamo Noritoshi said helplessly.
...
11:58 AM.
Yuuki and the others followed the instructions and arrived at the target point, the edge of the forest.
Gojo Satoru's voice came from the loudspeaker, "There are two minutes left until the competition, everyone here should listen carefully to what I'm about to say. That is... give it your all! Alright, that's it. Now, let's invite Utahime-sensei to give us an exciting speech."
"Eh! Uh, that's... that..."
Iori Utahime's surprised voice came from the loudspeaker.
Yuuki was stretching his body, his eyes staring intently at the mission the system had given him to stall for ten minutes. He had just reached Grade 2 sorcerer at this moment, and Todo Aoi was definitely stronger than him, but he didn't know why... he was very excited at this moment!
He had been looking forward to this for a long time. Shura's cursed energy in his body had also increased to 312. As a backup power bank, he was qualified, but he would be stupid during battle.
"Sigh! Life..."
Just as Yuuki finished sighing, the sound of "officially starting" came from the loudspeaker!!
Hakari Kinji patted his own shoulder and directly charged in with Kirara Hoshi and Okkotsu Yuta, shouting, "Do your best, Yuuki-kun."
Kirara Hoshi: "Do your best, we'll quickly take care of those guys."
Okkotsu Yuta: "I'll try my best not to hold the seniors back, see you later, Yuuki-kun."
"It's okay, leave it to me."
Looking at the people who were leaving, Yuuki felt a lot of pressure at this moment.
It wasn't the psychological pressure of facing Todo Aoi, but that they had given him too much encouragement, making it seem like he had to win.
"Sigh, don't put too much pressure on yourself, the system mission comes first, everything else is bullshit." After simply hypnotizing himself, Yuuki plunged into the forest.
At this moment, on Kyoto School's side.
Kamo Noritoshi looked at Nishimiya Momo, who was flying in the sky, and asked, "Did you see Todo?"
Nishimiya Momo, who was sitting on a broom at this moment, was surveying the entire forest, and found a place where smoke and dust were rising, charging towards Tokyo School's side.
There was no doubt that it was Todo, no one else could do such an obvious act. She said into the phone:
"I saw him, Todo has already charged over."
"…"
Yuuki hadn't been in the forest for long when he heard the sound of trees collapsing nearby.
He also knew that the person coming was definitely Todo Aoi, and slowly pulled out the long sword from his back, gripping it tightly with both hands.
After all, besides his personality being like this, it was estimated that only Hakari-senpai would do this.
"Crack—"
The trees shattered, and Todo Aoi appeared from within, his clothes on his body already taken off, revealing his muscular body. The badge that was required to be placed on his chest was now on his pants.
He had a smile on his face, his hands clenched into fists, his arm muscles bulging, and he punched out violently.
"Heh!"
Yuuki smiled at the corner of his mouth, gripped the hilt of the sword tightly with his right hand, supported the blade with his left arm, bent his legs and pushed off the ground, directly taking this blow head-on.
A dull collision sound rang out. Todo Aoi saw that Yuuki hadn't been sent flying out directly as he had imagined, and said, "Yo! Brother, nice catch."
"Naturally, you've already called me brother, how could I be weak?"
Yuuki looked down at the nearly one-meter-long scratch on the ground, and smiled at the corner of his mouth.
As expected! His strength at this moment was already different from before.
The system mission time also started counting down at the moment the two made contact.
[9:56]
[9:55]
[9:5...]
"Click—"
Todo Aoi twisted his neck, making "click, click" sounds, and re-positioned himself in an attacking stance, saying, "Let me see your strength, brother! No, from this moment on, I should call you my best friend, after all, there's nothing we can hide from each other anymore."
"No, I don't want to be so entangled with a man, I haven't married and had children yet..."
Yuuki muttered inwardly, looking at the countdown panel that was jumping, and said with some reluctance, "Since you've already called me your best friend, then why don't we sit down and chat, and fight later, preferably after ten minutes?"
"That won't do, this is the battlefield right now! Best friend!!"
Todo Aoi shouted and violently swung his fist, the speed was a little scary.
"Of course I know that!"
Just as Yuuki was about to return the blow, a blood-red arrow shot over from who knows where. Seemingly being manipulated, it turned at an incredible angle and shot directly at him.
He... was being attacked from both sides!
Todo's fist was already close at hand. Yuuki's pupils turned scarlet, the two tomoe rotating rapidly, cursed energy erupting in his eyes, directly casting genjutsu on him.
The fist stopped, and Todo Aoi's eyes became dull.
Yuuki suddenly turned his head, his eyes locking onto the incoming arrow, and threw the long sword he was gripping tightly with his right hand directly, splitting the arrow in two.
"That's pretty interesting, a mental technique?"
Todo's voice came from behind him. Yuuki shouted inwardly that this was bad, and just as he was about to run, a hand touched his head.
"Good job, Todo-senpai, take advantage of the situation now, quickly force him to say that he surrenders, otherwise it'll be bad when the other side merges."
A mechanical voice rang out from the side, and a cursed corpse walked out from behind a tree.
Yuuki glanced at the cursed corpse, and used the corner of his eye to glance at the sky. A little girl was sitting on a broom, watching him.
Without him even realizing it, he had already been surrounded by four people. But Todo Aoi didn't make a move, he just placed his hand on top of his head, without using any force.
Todo Aoi continued, "Don't worry, my best friend, how could I let others interfere in the things between us."
Yuuki: "…"
Speechless, the person who had ambushed him with an arrow from behind jumped down from a tree at this moment.
Kamo Noritoshi had a bow in his right hand, and a bamboo tube with arrows in it on his back, saying, "Taking the badge and tying it to a tree is the same, and we can also wipe out Tokyo School in one fell swoop."
Todo Aoi twisted his neck, and asked somewhat unhappily, "I'm sparring with my best friend, why are you guys interfering?"
"Don't be childish, Todo, I'm the captain, you should..."
"Don't f***ing order me around!"
Before Kamo Noritoshi could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Todo Aoi, "I'm giving you two choices now, one is to get lost before I get angry. Two is for me to kill you all!"
"Todo-senpai! What you're saying doesn't make sense. The principal's words were to let us win, not some so-called man's 1v1 battle. Besides, I don't think that you..."
"Slap!" Before he could finish speaking, a crisp clapping sound rang out.
Mechamaru, who was just speaking, had been replaced with Yuuki, and was then directly had his neck snapped by Todo Aoi, who asked, "Do you want me to say anything else? Get lost!!"
Mechamaru's head, which had fallen to the ground, kept saying one word, as if it was stuck, as the light in his eyes gradually dissipated.
He... had kicked the bucket.
"Todo! What are you doing!!"
Just as Kamo Noritoshi was about to take out an arrow and prepare to draw his bow, another voice came from Mechamaru's headless body, "I'm fine, I just destroyed a controllable cursed corpse, let's go, let's go hunt down the others from Tokyo School."
After saying that, the body directly unfolded, and within the intricate mechanical parts was an even smaller mini-Mechamaru.
This stunned the person involved, Todo. He had roughly guessed that this cursed corpse was being remotely controlled by someone, and it didn't matter if it was destroyed, but he didn't expect there to be another one inside.
"Is that so."
Kamo Noritoshi put the arrow back into the bamboo tube, and warned Todo Aoi, "I'll tell the principal about this."
"Go ahead, go ahead, don't disturb my sparring with my best friend." Todo Aoi urged with a disgusted expression, seemingly not worried about Kamo Noritoshi reporting him.
Yuuki watched the people leave, and breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.
Looking at the system countdown that had already passed halfway, he sighed softly, "It would have been great if you guys had continued chatting, I could have eaten my melon and completed the system mission."
But... what was that teleportation just now?
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