Hanamizuki, Because Flowers Are Not Just Beautiful
Chapter 18: The Surprising Final Result
“The final game has been running for more than 20 minutes! So far the participants are still fighting fiercely! But they seem to be getting tired! How is the final result of this match and who will be the champion of this year's magic tournament?!”
Alstromeria was so excited to be a commentator replacing Carnation. Typha was only watching him from behind.
“T-Typha-chan.
“Yes, Alstro-san?”
“Eth why it turns out to be a commentator is fun! I can scream as I please!”
Typha is just a mangosteen.
“By the way, who does Alstro-san support in this tournament? Definitely Class A will be champion again like last year.”
“Of course class E will win! This tournament will be the first time in the history of Hanatarou academy that class E can be the champion!”
“Aren't you always on the side of Class A? What not-don't because..”.
“Sst! Can you support other classes?”
Typha's face instantly turned suspicious as she moved her cat's ears and tail.
“A-what?!”
“No kok~”
Alstromeria took her microphone back and shouted.
“AYO FORWARD CLASS 1-E!! DON'T WANT TO LOSE THE SAME CLASS 1-A!”
Hearing the cries of commentators who were none other than Alstromeria, made the participants of class 1-A belittle at class 1-E.
“Who is the commentator above that?! Not Miss Carnation, is it!?”
“If you have time to comment, quickly beat me!”
Amaryliss's unique blade-shaped short sword attacked quickly as his opponent caught his guard. He's starting to get a little overwhelmed.
“I can't believe..Low-class like you can compensate for our 1-A-class capabilities! I will definitely beat you!”
“Majulah, my beautiful sword Variegate-chan! Take out your beauty!”
From the tip of Amaryliss' sword, there appeared a large number of pink petals, besieging his opponent.
“Attacks like this are nothing—”
“You will not be able to run from my beautiful ball, O class A child who is so ‘smart’.”
Amaryliss was satisfied when he managed to lock his opponent in a giant ‘Amaryliss’ flower ball.
“Damn it! Why are you so strong!? Whereas the E class that used to always fail and the lowest!”
Amaryliss can still see the face of his opponent who is in the flower ball ‘Amaryliss’ light pink.
“Why? You curious? Or do you want to call our teacher again?”
Likewise with Iris, she managed to stop the movement of her opponent with the beautiful petals of ‘Iris’ blue. Not only that, Elder also made his opponent not warty as his slender sword displayed a beautiful charm from the rain of colorful flower petals ‘Sambucus nigra’.
“As far as you know, we don't always rely on Riri-sensei, he's very bad at teaching.”
“What..?”
“Ya right! So far he has only taught us defense magic, even before this tournament, he did not give us anything to prepare!”
Add Iris with a tone of spirit. While the Elder was just a mangosteen alone with spirit as well.
“But he keeps coming to our class and never feels tired. According to our thinking, he had his own way of teaching a lowly class like us. Until we can be like this.”
The words from Amaryliss made the atmosphere become silent.
“He also gave me convoluted advice that I will never forget! For people who feel smart like you guys, listen to this carefully!”
“Collective advice?”
“'It's natural.if it has the stingy nature of science. Because humans are basically greedy.'”
“'But only at certain times can you save the knowledge you have and reluctant to share with others.'”
“'Like that seed you mentioned. Just know his history and origin without knowing what it looks like, what services he has given to many people. Just like you are stingy. You must have had a reason to hide it. So, in certain cases, sometimes we do have to be stingy about science so as not to make others greedy. In order to make others not lazy to find out.'”
“You who already feel the best with everything, are reluctant to share knowledge with people whose class level is lower than yours, it is because you are greedy right!? Basically people who feel smarter are like that!”
“What did you say!? You call me greedy!? Basic cocky!”
“You are the arrogant one! No one forbids you stingy with knowledge, but read the atmosphere dong!”
Amaryliss's tone became slightly similar to Riri's.
“I-iya right! Just try to imagine if you get hurt, only you know how to cure it but you can't do it alone while there are only us around you? Who do you want to ask for help with?!”
Elder doesn't want to lose.
“Wah wow! This final duel turned into a girl debate! Is this kind of fight allowed?!”
Alstromeria exclaimed with a tone of spirit, one of the teacher staff immediately answered him.
“Well, take it easy, as long as it does not break the rules, hearing the debates of these girls is fun too.”
The atmosphere of the tournament arena was silent for a moment. 3 dueling couples were still in position. Class 1-A has not yet counterattacked class 1-E which is holding back its movement.
“You think a lowly person can't beat a higher level person? You've seen the evidence, haven't you?! What is the ability of class A who became the champion of the magic tournament in a row is only this much?”
“Don't this mean, fools are wiser than smart people?”
“If only this way, you can lose loh—”
The words of Amaryliss, Elder, and Iris made his opponent even hotter.
“You...how dare to call someone smarter than you a fool!!”
“Wah wah, hot ya…? We just don't feel hot even if you keep swearing at us.”
Said Iris in a calm tone.
“Basic girls..compared to physical combat, they are indeed more suitable to fight such a fight..”.
Riri muttered shakes his head.
“Master, down there they're talking about you know.”
“Huh? Hahah..at most they even make me look bad in front of the class A's children.”
“But I don't feel that way..”
Riri communicates with Camelyum while keeping an eye on the match in the arena.
“You however the result, class A or E wins, I just want to see a surprising end.”
“YOU WILL LOSE HERE! DEFINITELY LOSE!”
“AYO FORWARD MY VARIEGATA FLOWER SPIRIT! SHOW ME YOUR BEAUTY!”
Amaryliss exclaimed confidently, hundreds of petals ‘Amaryliss’ flower completely cover the eyes of the opponent so that it is not visible anymore.
“Find the beauty of my flowers even deeper, and understand the words I say to you!”
“ATTEND TO NEOMARICA GRACILIS! FREEZE THE MOVEMENT!”
Likewise with Iris who attacked his opponent with a ‘flower attack Iris who froze’ until his opponent could not fight again.
“ISSUE YOUR DEPARTURE SAMBUCUS NIGRA!”
Not to be outdone, the Elder launched an attack of flower powder in large quantities like fog, so that his opponent could not see anything else in front of him.
“Class A can no longer fight! The winner of the final of this magic tournament was the first in history! Class 1-E! give them a standing ovation!!”
“WOAAAH!!”
“LIVE CLASS 1-E!!”
“GREAT TIMES!!”
The roar of the audience who cheered and gave a clap of hands made the atmosphere again crowded. For the first time, Class E became the winner in a magic tournament held for once a year. A very special moment.
“My pinch, I must have dreamed—aww!”
“Aahh again you said it—”
Iris pinched the waist of Amaryliss who was stunned by the boisterous claps of the audience.
“Sakitt! You pinch me again!”
“By the way, what kind of convoluted advice did you say it was from Riri-sensei? Tell me!”
“Huh! What right do I tell you, big chest?!”
The elder smiled looking at Amaryliss and Iris who were again bickering.
“The two of you are getting closer, Amary-chan, Iris-chan.
The atmosphere is getting boisterous, how not? The 1-E grade guardian was the only man in this female-only academy.
“Don't forget our promise earlier huh?”
Riri rolled her eyes at the 3rd grader who had made a strange pact with her and left. Riri went down the stairs to immediately approach the 3 students who were waiting for him. Her lips gave a happy smile.
“Surely they will be spying on me, instead of giving me—”
But Riri's steps stopped when entering the exit hallway. He dropped his knees limp, coughed up fresh blood.
“M-Master?! Why suddenly....!?”
Instantly Camelyum appeared with his human form and held Riri's body with both hands. In the hallway there was only him and Riri. A few meters to the exit.
“Master! Hang on!!”
Riri did not answer. He kept coughing up blood. Camelyum felt his Master's back tremble violently.
“M-Master...?”
“...My body...very...weight..”.
DEGH
“There are several points in his mana flow that freeze.”
“Ice freezing process, you can imagine that right?”
“No...this cannot happen! Mas—”
BRUAAKK!!
“Where is Riri hanamizuki? Why is he so long? You called him to come downstairs, right?”
Amaryliss, Elder, and Iris started to worry because the teacher never showed up in the exit hall. Just a few minutes ago they could still see Riri's figure as Alstromeria called out her name to come down.
“I told you, right? He came and went as he pleased—”
“No...Amary-chan..I can feel she is still here..”.
“Really?”
“But..ini..aura Riri-sensei...very different from usual..”.
“What..?”
DHUAARR!!!
Suddenly a huge explosion emerged from the middle of the hallway to the exit, causing the fire to flare quickly, the atmosphere spontaneously turned chaotic, the spectators and the teacher staff ran to save themselves.
“Explosion from where is it!?”
“Sabotage!?”
“Quick everything out through the emergency exit!”
Security forces helped evacuate the schoolgirls and teachers who were still in the stadium, Alstromeria and Typha ran over to Amaryliss, Elder, and Iris.
“Alstro-san! What explosion is it!?”
“Originally from the middle of the exit passageway!”
“Come we check!”
“Do not! That's dangerous! You saw the explosion caused a huge blaze right?! Let us security forces inspect it, you winners quickly get out of here!”
Alstromeria prevented Amaryliss, Iris, and Elder from approaching the source of the explosion. He prepared his flower spirit, as well as Typha.
“But..”.
“Quick! We still don't know if it's the enemy or not!”
From the black smoke, a human-like body slowly walked over.
“Who are you!? Show yourself!”
The figure was increasingly clear, his hair was pitch-black, wearing a long robe in his bloodstained body. He held 2 swords in both hands.
“K-you...!?”
BRUAAKKK!!!
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“Gladiolus-nee...has lost yes hm?”
“I've told you that strange woman is unreliable, why should she be ranked 4th anyway? I'm a better fit for that!”
“Whispering you, Coelogyne, you yourself have so far done what for the sake of the Great Lord huh?”
“Whatever I'll do! Are you the one who just plays chess? Basic lack of work! The number 12 really suits you, Caladium si low!”
“Indeed, you have a number 6 as good as that? Playing chess still loses to me! Ahaha!”
“STOP YOUR CHILDISH QUARRELS!”
The sound of Ixora's cry made the two of them instantly stop.
“Ah Ixora-nii! Your wounds have recovered, right? Coe-kun who started first!”
“What do you say you rancid boy!”
“Tumben you're so emotional seeing that cat-and-mouse quarrel, Ixora. Aren't you used to it?”
Ixora turned to the source of another voice calling out her name. A dark-ash-haired man was enjoying a glass of wine in his right hand, and his left hand was holding a gas match.
“What do you want Datura?!”
“You are still upset because Riri Hanamizuki defeated so badly?”
“Not your business.”
“You should be grateful to still be able to come back here, you see that right? There have been 4 seats that fell for the Great Lord. You're still loyal to him, aren't you? There is no way Ixora the owner of this number 9 just fell by a beginner like, Riri Hanamizuki.”
“Don't be arrogant just because you have a number above me, Datura.”
“Hoo? I'm only 1 number above you lo, the owner of the highest number is still our Great Lord. No need for envy to ambush your chest.”
“Stop playing me!”
Ixora pulled Datura's collar, looking at her furiously.
“Hey hey, cat and mouse look at us, don't overdo it so.”
Datura said calmly as she glanced at Coelogyne and Caladium who were shocked to see what Ixora was doing.
Realizing that Ixora instantly released her grip. His face is still angry. Datura sat in her 7th chair. Keep a calm face.
“This time, all of us members of the Kuroi Uta organization must feel what the Great Lord is feeling right now. He is enjoying ‘precious things’ that he has been looking forward to for decades.”
“Eehhh?? Has Riri-nii been caught?”
“Why do you call him -nii all Caladium?!”
“Say Riri-nii is the same as Datura-nii right?”
Datura only responded with a slight laugh. He patted Caladium's head looking at him.
“If Riri Hanamizuki I manage to bring her here, what will you do?”
“Datura-nii managed to take her?! Where's she!? I'll tear his skin and make my doll clothes!”
“I'll call ‘inya’ to make my chess playmate!”
“Aih aih...you are very evil yes..we are proud to have you..but, only the Great Lord has the right to master it.”.
Although Coelogyne and Caladium looked like 10-year-olds, they were notoriously sadistic. Coelogyne the 6th rank uses her flower spirit to make people she hates continue to be hit by bad luck. While Caladium the 12th rank with his flower spirit killed his enemy by slitting his throat mercilessly to collect the vocal cords of his enemy and made chess pieces.
“Yaah..safe for us yes...sikitttt only...yes...?”
“Don't joke, who managed to bring Riri Hanamizuki here? What is 2nd or 3rd rank?! Or do-don't...?!”
Datura didn't answer Ixora's question right away. He poured more wine into his glass.
“Yes, can not be called ‘his body’ who has come here. Only ‘partially’nya only. The Great Lord has felt that endless pleasure because of it.”
“What...!?”
“Si Daffodil it, she must always make a surprise.”
“D-Daffodil you said.?”.
“You can hear it right? ******* from the Great Lord's mouth while enjoying it?”
Ixora turned her gaze toward the giant painting of the Great Lord, which was dark as the candles began to dim.
“What could he be..”.