Nagato Kagutsuchi: The Dawn
Ch. 161 - The emergence of Hayabusa! 19,220 Gold Pieces of Victory!
Iris looked at Chaika with her cold gaze, before the match the two shook hands with each other. Mujin stared at Iris for a few seconds before her eyes looked at Chaika.
"Do you both know the rules?" Mujin wanted to ask the two participants who would compete to make sure they still remembered the rules of the competition. Both Iris and Chaika still remembered him, the two of them just nodded slowly.
"Return, take some distance." Mujin looked at Iris and Chaika who were starting to move away. After the two were at a predetermined distance, Mujin gave the cue the second match of the Tiger Kai Tournament began.
"Start!" Mujin took a few steps away from the two young female warriors who were still standing upright in their place.
Chaika used her bare hands, she did not use any weapons at all. All the spectators were confused by Chaika. The Ezzo Continent has always been associated with swordsmen whose names are famous to the outside world, it has become commonplace if many swordsmen in the Ezzo Continent are strong even though they are not users of Holy Water or Ancient Weapons. Many people from the Ezzo Continent were amazed by the foreigners who came from outside the Ezzo Continent using the power of their holy water, but people who were not from the Ezzo Continent were also amazed by the strong and unusual abilities of the swordswoman from the Ezzo Continent in their eyes.
Iris also did not use any weapons, she could create an ice sword with her inner power if she wanted to use a sword. For one minute the two just watched each other's movements, when the leaves fell in the middle of the field, Chaika forward first started his attack.
The audience cheered right after Chaika ran quickly towards Iris. Now that the distance between the two is getting closer, Chaika threw her punch that made Iris flung backwards despite trying to hold her back. All the spectators were amazed by Chaika's power. Not intending to lose the chance to master the course of the match, Chaika began to make a trick move to outwit Iris.
"The Ball of the Wind."
Chaika intends to hit Iris in the face with her hand that has been coated with wind, but an ice protector that protects Iris makes Chaika instantly keep her distance from Iris.
The ice protector protecting Iris started to disappear, but as Chaika approached then the ice protector would again protect Iris by itself.
Iris did not move from her place at all, after receiving Chaika's attack that caused her to crash, now Iris is also looking for Chaika's weak point.
A light green aura surrounded Chaika's body. His aura spreads into a wind that can give Chaika the advantage to move quickly. Many times Chaika destroys the ice protector that protects Iris but she is unable to get close to Iris at all. The longer he attacked, the faster he would lose. Chaika realizes Iris intends to force her fight to become a stamina battle, where the person who runs out of strength first, then she will lose.
Chaika did not let this match go according to Iris' plan. With one sure move, Chaika took the initiative to attack Iris.
Iris's face that remained calm and looked cold began to change, slowly Iris formed an ice sword with her inner strength and used dozens of ice swords to avenge Chaika's attack.
Chaika was unable to avoid the several ice swords that shot towards her, fresh blood due to the scratches of the ice sword Iris was seen on her arm.
On the bleachers Nagato and Litha saw Chaika who had changed a lot, the once spoiled and timid little girl has now turned into a sweet young girl with determination and high self-esteem.
The audience looks bored because the results of the match are clear, many times Chaika stood up to make a fierce fight, but Chaika always fell because of Iris's attack.
Mujin who saw the one-sided match was intending to stop him, but after seeing the look on Chaika's determined face, she undoes her intentions.
"They need experience, repeatedly falling, but this girl can still get back up. I'm amazed by him." Mujin muttered softly looking at Chaika who was still putting up a fierce fight against Iris.
Every blow and kick of Chaika made a strong wind around her. Iris dodged every punch and kick of Chaika. It did not cross Iris's mind to use her skill enough in close combat, she intended to save every one of her techniques to fight the young swordsman in the later rounds.
Not how many of the two exchanged attacks, Chaika hit Iris from afar and threw dozens of ice swords that rained towards her, while Iris continued to form ice swords with her profound strength to attack Chaika.
Slowly but surely, Chaika is now able to keep up with Iris's speed in manipulating her aura to create dozens of ice swords. Chaika continued to resist Iris's attacks before the two of them exchanged attacks for a few minutes.
"The Snow Leaves are falling."
Iris inwardly mentioned her maiden name, with her elegance luring all spectators of the Tiger Circle Arena, Iris manipulated her aura to create hundreds of leaves made of snow. Everyone who saw her could only clack in amazement with Iris's skill and proficiency in using her body aura's richness.
Chaika was surprised to see hundreds of snow leaves drifting and circling Iris' body. There was no gap at all for him to deliver a single punch right at Iris' body. An irritated feeling began to crawl Chaika. He did not want his first match to end miserably, at least he could lose after struggling with all his strength.
Chaika processed her breathing and channeled it into her chest. As her chest puffed up, Chaika began to concentrate her aura within her mouth.
Iris moved hundreds of snow leaves with her energy, among the snow leaves she created, Iris made an ice sword patterned with roses made of ice.
Iris and Chaika attacked simultaneously, hundreds of snow leaves aimed towards Chaika quickly. The constant attacks from Iris amazed the audience with the beautiful girl.
Chaika blew the wind from her mouth and blew away the hundreds of snow leaves that led to her. One thing Chaika did not realize was the rose-patterned ice sword Iris created that was at the very back among the hundreds of snow leaves. Right after hundreds of snow leaves fell to the ground, the rose-patterned snow sword was right on Chaika's face.
Iris controlled her ice sword easily, the audience from among the common people who were not a swordsman cheered. But the warriors who saw the match were aware of Chaika's determination and will which gave a fierce resistance to Iris.
Of course, Chaika's determination and will should be applauded and praised from them.
Mujin flicked the match, and appointed Iris the winner.
"Winner Fuyumi Iris!" Mujin appointed Iris as the winner. All the warriors applauded for Chaika who had fought well.
"Iris ..you are great, you have to win the next game for me" Chaika smiled at Iris. It was not long before the two shook hands.
"You've fought well Chaika." Iris calms Chaika who looks like she wants to cry, not until two seconds Chaika cries hugging Iris.
"List .. it feels very .. painful..." Chaika was crying in Iris's arms. The two of them sat back on the audience bench, not how long Chiaki and Yuri approached Chaika.
"You've fought very well, Chaika!" Shouted Yuri running towards Chaika. The young girl who used to look like a man is now more and more beautiful with her hair growing elongated.
"Cool sister, I don't mean, Chaika is so great to be able to fight against Iris..." Chiaki tried to calm her brother down.
"Nagato..." Chaika suddenly stopped crying, she smiled widely as she could not wait to see Nagato's ability which had always been her concern.
"Eh? How soon are you cheerful again?" Yuri was puzzled to see Chaika who had sat down with Kitakaze Reto and Kitakaze Owara.
"Based on this brother of mine!" Chiaki was a little annoyed to see Chaika who had returned cheerful. Though a few seconds ago Chaika was still crying.
The two of them also sat down with Chaika to watch the third match of the Kai Tiger Tournament.
"Fuyumi Nagato and Heise! Both names I'm calling, please come forward!" Mujin shouted calling the names of Nagato and Heise.
All the spectators looked at Nagato wearing a white fox mask, some of them mocking Nagato.
"Maybe the young man has a disorder, Fuyumi is a clan where the members of the clan, all are women. Look, she's definitely a woman who has a male name."
"Hahaha, men disguised as women."
The audience started cheering in favor of Heise who was the young vice swordsman of the Single Blood Bond. It wasn't how long they started talking about the third game this time around.
Rumbling crowd cheers echoed in the Tiger Circle Arena, and spectators began to re-talk about the match between Nagato and Heise.
"Single Blood Devotion is a powerful college. I'm pretty sure the young man whose name is Heise will win the third game of this Tiger Tournament of Kai." One of the spectators started talking about Heise who looked superior in their eyes.
"For sure, Heise is also a student of the five biggest colleges in Kai land can't possibly lose. It's a pity, it seems Fuyumi only has one gifted child" said one of the warriors watching from the bleachers.
Among the crowd of spectators who were talking about Heise was one swordsman who had two swords neatly sheathed on his waist supporting Nagato. A black-haired man with a wound clearly plastered on his chest looked at the audience supporting Heise.
"Well, will anyone bet with me? I put 2200 gold pieces on!" A man named Hayabusa put a bag of 2200 gold pieces in front of the audience supporting Heise.
"Is it less? No one seems to bet with me..." Hayabusa smiled faintly at the look on the faces of the spectators who were interested in betting with her.
"I put 1000 Rivets of gold on Heise!" One of the spectators put his gold bag in front of Hayabusa.
"Where else is this? Are you afraid to bet?" The spectator who placed his pocket containing the gold pieces began to provoke the others to come into the bet.
"I put 5000 gold pieces on Heise!" A middle-aged man named Hideaki and the Ten Elders Kai took a bet for Heise. In an instant Hayabusa wearing a black hood lowered her hood so that her face would not appear.
"I added 9020 gold pieces to Fuyumi Nagato!" Again Hayabusa surprised everyone.
"Then I add 2000 pieces of gold to Heise." Hideaki will not budge with Hayabusa.
One of the spectators only saw the people in front of him were betting, not how long he was surprised by the amount of money.
"19,220 pieces of gold! That's incredible!"
"The Tournament Prize is indeed big, but betting is an exciting thing!"
"We'll see who gets the 19,220 pieces of gold!"
Hideaki smiled broadly at the rest of the audience, unlike the other Ten Elders Kai. Hideaki sits down with the audience to channel his hobby of finding people who invite him to bet.
Hayabusa stared intently at Nagato from the audience.
"The mask? Like I've seen him in the past?" Hayabusa muttered softly looking at Nagato who was standing in front of Mujin.
It was not long before Mujin explained the rules of the match to Nagato and Heise.
"Do you remember the rules? Don't get revenge if one of you loses. Must be sporty, this is an event to establish brotherhood" Mujin told Nagato and Heise while holding the young swordsman's second shoulder.
"I still remember, don't take revenge on me. Because the one who will lose is you!" With an overbearing and haughty tone, Heise humbled Nagato.
"Take some distance and listen to my cues well!" Mujin told Nagato and Heise to keep their distance.
Nagato held his sword and his eyes stared intently at Heise.
Not long after Mujin started the third match of the Tiger Tournament of Kai.
"Start!"