Nagato Kagutsuchi: The Dawn
Ch. 163 - Twins of the Fuyumi Clan

The Tiger Circle Arena was a little quiet as they waited for the next match to be held. Mujin looked at the notes of the participants' names he wrote on the paper, not how long he stared at the participants sitting on the bleachers.

"Ehem .. we move on to the next game. Fuyumi Hika from the Fuyumi Clan and Okiru from the Eternal Fire College." Mujin coughed softly and did not finish his words, after a new calm he continued his words. "Two names I just called, please come forward!" The crowd cheered to hear the two names that were about to compete.

On the spectator bench where the Fuyumi Clan was sitting, Hika tried to calm herself down by slapping her own cheek.

"Hika ... Hika, you have to win. We show you the prowess of the Fuyumi Clan." Tika patted the shoulder of her twin sister. "Your opponent from the Eternal Fire College. Don't let your guard down, Hika." Tika added before she took a bow that her sister would wear.

"Hika dear, these gloves and bows are your main weapons. Remember, let my enemies feel more benefited, after that you will have to find a way to do surprise attacks." Ichiba gives advice to his son who will compete.

Hika nodded slowly while wearing her gloves, then she grasped her silvery-white bow. Keep in mind, Hika did not carry an arrow at all.

"Hika, fight. You can do it, remember our hard work all along." Iris stroked the hair of her little friend.

"Hika's spirit." Litha also gave encouragement to Hika.

Not for how long the four young girls who were encouraging each other glanced at Nagato sharply.

"Sad." Nagato turned his face to the side looking at the four young girls who were staring at him, seeing that Iris was reflexively approaching Nagato and was about to take off her white fox mask by force.

"Dragon. I heard it!" Iris forced Nagato to take off his mask. Some young swordsmen glanced at Iris who looked very close to the figure of the swordsman who was wearing a white fox mask. Seeing that, of course, they became even more envious of Nagato.

"I understand. I-i understand. Let go of your hand first..." Nagato dodged Iris and looked at Hika.

"Hika, you should be able to surprise her by forcing your opponent into a melee hand fight." Nagato looked at Hika for a moment before his eyes looked at the representative of the Eternal Fire School named Okiru. "We've been training with Grandma Emi. Just use locking and dings techniques, if you need to just wait for your opponent to let your guard down, then you release your elemental strength," he added.

Iris, Litha, Hika and Tika smiled at Nagato's words.

"Thank you all. Hika will fight as hard as Hika has," said Hika while jumping around like a child who was excited.

"Teacher Shirayuki doesn't want to say anything?" Hika looked at Shirayuki with teary eyes as if waiting for a word from her teacher.

"You should remember everything that the teacher taught you Hika. If Hika remembers, then victory is not impossible." Shirayuki smiled gently at one of her three disciples.

"good. Guru." Hika smiled happily at Shirayuki's words. After her nervousness and nervousness disappeared, Hika stepped her foot towards the center of the field of the Tiger Circle Arena.

The audience was excited to see the fight between young warriors who would compete, the two young girls who would compete began to enter the field.

The audience began to give support to the choice of each heart. Among them were those who supported Hika who was a representative of the Fuyumi Clan. And among them were also those who supported Okiru the representative of the Eternal Fire School.

"See the representative of the Fuyumi Clan is really pretty this year!" One of the spectators pointed at Hika from above the stands.

"It looks like he's also a disciple of Snow White..." One of the hysterical female spectators saw Hika who was certainly a student of Shirayuki.

"I'll give Fuyumi Hika some support!" One of the male spectators shouted in support of Hika.

"Me too, me too" said the other audience.

The audience started cheering in favor of Hika who was the representative of the Fuyumi Clan. It was not long before the other spectators supporting Okiru started cheering.

"The imitation of the Eternal Fire School will definitely win!" The audience who supported Okiru began to give opinions.

"Yes, the Eternal Fire School has a very large number of disciples from the upper classes. I can't imagine if they lose..." The other audience responded to his words.

"Pulling the Tiger Kai Tournament this year. Though there are still hundreds of participants," said the middle-aged male audience while stroking his beard looking intently at Hika and Okiru who were hearing an explanation from Mujin.

"Who do you think won?" One of the spectators asked the other audience.

"I think Okiru from the Eternal Fire School." One of the men responded to the words of the audience who asked.

"No. I guess Fuyumi Hika will win. I wonder about the bow he's holding." One of the spectators gave a fierce response.

Not how long the audience stared at Hika who was not carrying arrows. White gloves and a silvery-white arrow bow came to their attention. Seeing that, of course, they wondered about the power of Hika.

"Will he shoot? But where's the arrow?" One of the spectators stroked his chin while staring intently at Hika from above the stands.

"Truely, the sweet girl did not carry any arrows at all" said the other audience.

The audience began to be curious about Hika's strength. Some of them saw Okiru who was smiling widely staring at Hika.

On the field of the Tiger Circle Arena Okiru deliberately provoked Hika.

"It's finally my turn to arrive..." Okiru smiled broadly at Hika.

"It looks like Fuyumi is too eye-catching, but you won't be struggling against the swordsman from the Eternal Fire College." Okiru added her words very cynically.

Hika did not respond to Okiru's words. His eyes only stared at the tree that was on the field of the Tiger Circle Arena. Seeing Hika who seemed to be unconcerned about his words, Okiru started clucking annoyed with her opponent.

"Hey, didn't you hear what I said?!" Okiru frowned her forehead staring sharply at Hika.

"Hika heard it anyway," replied If casually while putting up her innocent face so it looks very cute.

Okiru blushed her face looking at the girl younger than her looking cute. Okiru herself has participated in the Tiger Tournament of Kai twice, now the third time she has participated in the Tiger Tournament of Kai.

"Follow," muttered Okiru looking at Hika's innocent face. The fifteen-year-old young girl was a little anxious with Hika.

"Damn! It seemed like he had deliberately put on such an innocent face!" Okiru nodded her head.

"Grand .. uhuk ..." The sound of coughing from Mujin made Hika and Okiru look at the man who was the referee.

"Do you both remember the rules?" Mujin asked gently to Hika and Okiru.

"Yes, I still remember it," Okiru replied a little lazily as she was impatient to fight. Hika just nodded slowly.

"Then the match between Fuyumi Hika and Okiru! It's starting!" Right after the cue from Mujin announced the match. The two players who are competing keep their distance from each other.

Okiru smiled faintly as she reached into something inside her robe, seeing that Hika was vigilantly estimating the weapon Okiru was using.

"Did he use a small knife?" Hika muttered softly while holding her bow.

Slowly Hika flowed her pink aura on her bow, as her arrow arc glowed, all the spectators turned their attention to look at Hika.

"The Pink Fire of Love."

Hika pulled her bowstring and released it towards Okiru. Everyone chuckled in amazement at the sight of dozens of arrows darting rapidly towards Okiru.

Hika circled the field and did not stay in one place, she looked for a gap to aim for her aura arrows to be on target.

"Auric realm? Great for you, cute little girl!" Okiru threw a small knife that had been coated in flames by her. Dozens of small blades of hers managed to fend off the aura arrow attacks from Hika.

"Your aura-land" had yet to finish speaking, Okiru frowned seeing the aura arrows that were being fended off by her splitting into aura arrows in large numbers, now the aura arrows that shot towards him numbered in the hundreds.

"So he had planned all this? You're very attractive to my attention, cute little girl!" Okiru ran after Hika who circled the field of the Tiger Circle Arena.

When the two eyes of the young girl met, the two quickly threw out a small blade and released an aura arrow into her opponent's body. Hika and Okiru unceasingly made the audience cluck in awe.

The long-distance battle was dominated by Hika who used an arrow bow. Three minutes later, a red aura covered Okiru's entire body. Meanwhile, the arrow bow Hika was holding was pink.

"One In Pink."

Hika focused her body aura on her hand, after which she channeled her aura on her arrow bow. Only a single arrow of aura shot out from his bow and shot swiftly towards Okiru.

In order to avenge Hika's attack that forced this fight into a long-range fight, Okiru flowed the small blades that became her weapons with her aura and inner power. After it filled up, slowly the red-colored aura surrounding its body disappeared.

"Bloody Fire Knife."

Okiru slipped ten seven small blades on her fingers, after which she threw them towards Hika with all her might. Not wanting to lose momentum in the course of the match, Okiru intends to approach Hika and force the young girl to fight close-quarters against him.

Okiru followed the seven little knives she had just thrown from behind, a big smile on her face as she thought Hika was not good at close combat.

"Hika!" Okiru shouted while jumping up intending to attack Hika.

One pink aura arrow again broke into hundreds of arrows that threw out the seven small blades. With her inner strength that she channeled in both hands, Hika smiled when she saw Okiru intending to force the course of the match into a melee fight against her.

Hundreds of aura arrows that were still floating in the air, Hika controlled it easily. All the spectators cheered at Hika who looked cute while fighting, her innocent facial features made the female audience cry hysterically.

Okiru's chest puffed up, not how long did the fire come out of her mouth burning hundreds of aura arrows that Hika had launched.

Hika's breathing was wheezing as she constantly ran around the field of the Tiger Circle Arena looking for Okiru's weak spot. Hika's eyes continued to stare intently at Okiru who was approaching her.

"It looks like Hika should let Hika's beloved bow rest, Hika should not take out all the aces that Hika has." Hika membatatin considering there are still many participants who have not competed. The round of 32 is still long, even a match in the preliminary round will probably take two to three days.

His bow he kept behind his back which contained a bow fastener. All the spectators who saw Hika's actions looked puzzled.

The punches and kicks launched by Okiru made Hika overwhelmed. No matter how long the punches and kicks Okiru launched were getting stronger, the flames that raged on her hands and feet made Hika flung a few steps back.

Mujin looked at Hika and Okiru who looked so serious fighting, Hika's serious eyes look adorable making Mujin's face red.

"Uhuk .. it seems like this young girl has the same determination as Kitakaze Chaika," Inner Mujin observed Hika who was trying to get back up after Okiru dropped.

"Hika seems to have to bring out that style..." Hika muttered softly staring at Okiru who was approaching her.

"First Front Blow: Blaring Fire."

Okiru throws a punch that can chase after Hika with a flame in the form of a clenched hand. Hika ran away from Okiru's attack while observing Okiru continuously.

In an instant the audience started cheering in favor of Okiru who looked superior to Hika. Hearing the cries of the audience calling out her name, Okiru was unaware of Hika who was observing her.

Hika ran around and slowly she got closer to Okiru. Dozens of hand punches that Okiru threw were still chasing after her, after being close to Okiru quickly Hika jumped over Okiru's body and formed a water protector from her body aura.

"First Protective Technique: Full Moon Protector."

A water protector surrounding Hika's body shocked everyone, Okiru clenched her teeth for underestimating her opponent. Dozens of his hand of fire became the master's eating weapon for himself.

Okiru was hit by her own fire hand and sprawled on the ground. All the spectators were silent at what had just happened, not how long they all gave applause for Hika's ingenuity in defeating Okiru.

"Hika won..." Hika muttered softly looking at Okiru who was lying on the grass.

"Uncle, what is he, I don't mean Okiru's okay?" Hika looked at Mujin with her innocent face.

Seeing that Mujin pretended to rub his eyes. "It's really nice this girl named Hika. He was worried about his opponent who had underestimated him, was he an angel?" Mujin sat up while glancing at the little innocent face of Hika who continued to stare at her full of astonishment.

"Egem ... Okiru's fine, you, I don't mean Hika doesn't have to worry." Mujin calmed Hika who looked so worried about her opponent's condition.

"Thank God," Hika replied with a gentle smile at Mujin.

"It's really good." Again Mujin sat up to see a soft smile that looks adorable shown Hika.

After seeing Hika return to the audience bench where the Fuyumi Clan was watching, Hika smiled happily while sitting next to Shirayuki and Ichiba.

"Congratulations Hika" Shirayuki told Hika.

"Thank you Master Shirayuki," Hika replied with a sweet smile towards Shirayuki.

"Hika didn't say hello to your mother," Ichiba cut off when he saw her son being seen having fun with Shirayuki.

"Mother didn't say hello to Hika," Hika replied as she buried her head in her mother's chest.

"Hika will try to make mom happy," Hika added while hugging Ichiba's body.

"Hmmm .. This is my son. Oichi you must quickly have children, hehehe." Ichiba returns Hika's embrace after which he glances at Oichi and sneers at her.

"Alright, let me announce the next match!" The loud voice of Mujin who sounded loudly made the audience speechless.

Emperor Hizen's family waited for their son to fight, but they had to wait for him to return. The next match was again a representative match of the Fuyumi Clan.

All the young warriors stared intently at Mujin waiting for their turn to compete.

"Fuyumi Tika from the Fuyumi Clan and Matsu from the Waterfall of Truth! Both names please come forward!" Everyone was waiting for the fight between Tika and Matsu.

On the spectator bench of the Truth Waterfall, Matsu is seen sitting with four young warriors representing the Truth Waterfall who are waiting their turn.

"Matsu, watch out for the young swordsman from Fuyumi. They were quite troublesome opponents, already the three disciples of the great college defeated them." The leader of the Waterfall of Truth named Mio gave advice to his disciple.

"Good, teacher." Matsu saluted Mio before descending from the stands and moving towards the field of the Tiger Circle Arena.

The faces of the crownless young swordsman and ten young genius warriors looked impatient to compete.

In the middle of the field Hika is waiting for the arrival of Matsu.

"Then the match between Fuyumi Tika against Matsu." Mujin was silent for a moment before he started the next match of the Tiger Tournament of Kai. "Starting on!"

Tika and Matsu did not move from his place, they both stared intently at each other. The little fan that Tika was holding caught Matsu's attention.

"It seems like the young girl named Tika has a troublesome weapon, although I am also a young girl hehehe," Matsu's inner gaze observed Tika's eyes that looked so calm. It wasn't long before Matsu threw a question at Tika.

"Does that fan belong to your clan's heirloom weapon?" Matsu looked at Tika who was smiling faintly.

"Clan heirloom? No, Tika's weapon is a weapon more than that" replied Tika while taking out her light blue fan. "This Fan is an Heirloom Type Ancient Weapon: A Water Fan." Tika's words made Mujin and Matsu speechless.

"Interesting, I didn't expect to see directly an Ancient Weapon..." Matsu smiled widely before manipulating his blue-colored aura into water.

His entire body glowed blue, Matsu just remained motionless from his place. Not how long he said. "I will wait, just wait," he said with a faint smile to Tika.

Tika did not care about Matsu's words. His hand plays his fan while moving closer to Matsu. The water that looks like a knife ends up coming out of Tika's fan.

Seeing that Matsu again controlled the water that was absorbed into the ground into a protective wall of water mixed with soil.

The audience was confused to see the technique Tika used. The various attacks launched by Tika are always blocked by a barrier in the form of water mixed with the ground to form a protector from Matsu.

"First Water Fan Technique: Blowing Waterfall Flowing."

A rushing water flowed out from Tika's fan. All the spectators cheered at the technique Tika used. They were unceasingly amazed by the representative twin girls of the Fuyumi Clan.

"Aura Water Absorption."

Matsu casually manipulates the water coming out of Tika's fan and gets her absorbed into the ground. Everyone was again amazed by the young girl who fought fiercely down there.

"It's not easy..." Tika muttered softly seeing her technique successfully thwarted Matsu easily.

"Second Water Fan Technique: Winter Water Flow."

Tika returned to playing her fan making a solid water in the form of a slash shot rapidly towards Matsu.

"Earth-Mixed Water Wall."

A barrier wall protects Matsu from Tika's attack. But the wall that protected him did not last long, the water belonging to the Tika fan technique felt so cold that it made the entire protective wall of Matsu freeze.

Matsu who had not moved from his place began to look for a way out with various possibilities.

"Will he attack me from close? I always fought without moving .. but this time there was a child forcing me to move!" Matsu frowned, until her sweet face looked slightly wrinkled.

When Matsu thought of all the possibilities, Tika had already destroyed the frozen protective wall and prepared to make an attack.

"Feel a punch from the Fuyumi Clan!" Tika yelled while hitting her hand on Matsu's chest.

"Protective Wall."

Lazy Matsu moves back to make a protective wall, but Tika easily destroys it. Matsu's eyes widened looking at Tika's clenched hand already so close to her chest.

In one stomp, Tika hit Matsu quite severely. Matsu's body bounced backwards.

On the bleachers, Mio seemed to just shake her head while sighing deeply at the attitude of her lazy student moving.

"His malaise made Matsu miss a chance..." Mio muttered softly looking at Matsu's bad habits.

It was not long before Mujin announced Tika as the winner.

"The winner was Fuyumi Tika of the Fuyumi Clan." Mujin pointed to Tika as the winner accompanied by the roar of the cheering audience.

Tika returned to where the warrior of the Fuyumi Clan was watching.

"This year the Fuyumi Clan is very good. I'm proud of all of you" Emi said as Tika sat down with Nagato and the others.

"All thanks to the guidance of Chief Emi." Tika responded to Emi's words.

"Nika ... Tika .. congratulations on winning," said Hika excitedly hugging her twin sister.

"Hika ... Hika .. congratulations you too yes," replied Tika while returning Hika's embrace.

Litha and Iris were talking together, I don't know what they were talking about. Meanwhile Nagato simply continued to observe the course of the match.

"Next princess Hisui and Mariko of the New Sun Temple. Both names I'm calling please come forward!" Right after Mujin announced his next match, several young warriors who had arrived late from the Kurozawa Clan, the Muromachi Clan, the Agata Clan, arrived late, The Akatsuki Clan and the Kuromachi Clan sat on the spectator bench that was close to ten young genius warriors.