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Chapter 105 - Chapter 102

He'd found that the more detailed his thoughts on the weapon he made, the more durable it was so he'd spend hours at a time just picturing every last detail of the swords he wanted to store inside of his Sword Birth and summon at will. In this case, he chose the katana as a mirror image of Kiba's longsword. Kiba was born European and used a European style sword. Junichiro was born Japanese, so naturally he used the most well known type of sword from Japan, a katana.

His action raised the eyebrows of everyone present. Rias smiled brightly as she looked at the sword in Junichiro's left hand, "You have Sword Birth too?"

Junichiro looked at Kiba and grinned, "Yeah, I do."

Everyone made their preparations as the two competitors stared at each other. Finally Sona threw her hand down, "Begin!"

Kiba, as the fastest member of the team, took off first. Kiba's actions showed how much Rias was looking down on Junichiro. She hadn't given him any instructions so Kiba was just charging ahead looking to score an easy win through his speed. After all, there was no way a human, even a somewhat magically powerful one, could keep up with his speed.

Right?

As Kiba approached Junichiro at high speed, Junichiro's posture shifted a little as he took a classic Iaijutsu stance. As Kiba closed in, there were twin flashes of light. The next moment Kiba was behind Junichiro while Junichiro held his katana out in a completed slash. There was a loud clattering sound as the top half of Kiba's sword fell to the ground before it, and the remainder in Kiba's hands, shattered and vanished.

Junichiro straightened up and tapped the back edge of the katana on his shoulder, "You really shouldn't be underestimating me that much. I mean, honestly."

Kiba sighed and slowly walked the long way around Junichiro to rejoin the rest of the peerage, who were all looking at Junichiro in surprise. As Kiba rejoined them, the blonde summoned another sword and nodded in acceptance, "You're correct. It was rude of me to underestimate a fellow swordsman like that. I promise not to do so again."

Junichiro grinned broadly and took in the entire peerage. Kiba looked much like he expected, though he wore the uniform of a middle school that Junichiro wasn't familiar with. Well, he wasn't familiar with any of them. He had the same 'bishonen' looks that Junichiro had expected with his blonde hair, blue eyes, and even the little beauty mark of a mole on his face. It was... sickening how pretty Kiba was. He actually looked even more feminine and pretty at his current younger age.

Koneko, on the other hand. Looked pretty similar to what he expected with her white hair in a bob cut with long side bangs, golden eyes, and very petite body. She basically looked like her future self, but smaller in every way. While Koneko had never been very busty, she was currently a washboard.

Since they hadn't won in the first exchange as Rias had expected, they pulled together and attacked as a team. Kiba and Koneko charged to get into melee range where they specialized. Meanwhile, Rias and Akeno moved to the sides to get opposing clear lines of fire toward Junichiro.

Seeing them all getting serious, Junichiro decided to get a little serious himself. Both of his hands began to glow a deep golden light and in a flash it vanished leaving his hands changed. A ring shaped sword adorned each finger and both of his thumbs. Thin golden chains were strung from each ring and attached the the ring next to it in a daisy chain on each hand.

When Kiba came within range to attack, their sword blades clashed together. This time Kiba's sword survived, but not without Junichiro's slicing deep into it. Kiba's blade might have some magical property to it, he wasn't sure, but its quality was clearly inferior to his own blade.

At the same time that Kiba struck, so too did Koneko. Her tiny fist came flying at Junichiro's side. He wasn't stupid enough to underestimate the amount of force behind that tiny fist. In fact, he found her tiny fist even scarier than he would Sairaorg Bael! Why? Because force in a smaller area was a hell of a lot scarier than if it was in a wider area! Sairaorg had bigger fists so the damage was more spread out whereas Koneko's tiny fist would put all the damage in a much smaller area.

He countered her punch by intercepting it with his katana's saya, the magically enhanced ironwood sheath cracked, but didn't fully break, under the force of the little cat-girls fist. The strength of the blow sent him skidding across the floor and nearly unbalanced him, Junichiro let out a whistle, "Goddamn you're a scary kitten!"

As her golden eyes narrowed in annoyance, Junichiro counter attacked. A ring on his left hand, the one closest to Koneko, glowed white before a blast of force slammed into her and sent her flying back toward the wall. It wouldn't deal much damage but simple physics meant she went flying from the force. On his right hand another ring glowed red and sent a small blast of flames directly at Kiba's face forcing him to disengage and retreat.

As the two melee fighters got out of the way, Rias and Akeno took their shots. While Rias preferred to use her Power of Destruction in battle, it was a bit much for their simple little duel. So she substituted a large blast of fire instead. Meanwhile, Akeno resorted to her favorite element in combat, lightning.

Neither the large ball of fire or powerful bolt of lightning reached their target. Instead, as they approached Junichiro the attacks shrank, lost power, and eventually vanished. Junichiro, still on guard, smirked and taunted the pair of long ranged fighters, "Sorry ladies but all forms of elemental magic are useless against me."

He wanted to show off a bit. Partly from being a male in front of four beauties, even if he was only really interested in one of them. Partly because he wanted to draw Rias' interest so he could potentially join her peerage. Either way, he ran his mouth, "I'm sure you know a lot about Sword Birth, but do you comprehend what this means?"

As he asked his question he held up his hand and showed off the collection of rings. Each ring was a different color such as red, blue, white, black, yellow, green, and so on. All six devils in the room examined the rings until the smartest in the room, Sona, put it together, "Those rings are swords!"

She looked at Kiba, "I've seen Kiba's Flame Delete absorb flames in a similar manner, though that sword is significantly larger... I still find it hard to believe that Sword Birth could make rings..."

Kiba also looked confused, but highly curious. Junichiro continued to smirk as he explained, "A sword is a sword no matter how large, or small, it is." He stared into Kiba's eyes, he had nothing against the guy so might as well help him out, "If you wear a necklace with a small pewter sword hanging on it, do you not recognize the tiny blade as a sword by its shape alone? Even if it's only centimeters in length, it is still a sword, is it not?"

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