X-Loves: From Another World
Chapter 20: His abilities

The 21st National Magic Tournament continues. Now is the time for the second game. In the south corner was a long blonde girl, Anna Sahilatua wearing the academy pride uniform Jailolo red and white. Meanwhile in the north corner was Emilia Gumansalangi. The black haired girl was wearing the uniform of the Kawanua Region Magic Academy, an almost plain white shirt with a short blue skirt. The two of them faced each other with a referee who prepared on the sidelines.

“Good. This was my first magic match. I have to show everyone that I am a powerful witch,” Anna said in her heart.

Anna looked at her opponent Emilia with a very sharp gaze. Meanwhile Emilia just looked at him normally, yet without the slightest expression.

“FIGHT ANNA!!!” licia shouted from the direction of the stands.

Shield launched. The referee who was already on the sidelines raised his hand up.

“Available”

“Siap”

Both Anna and Emilia shifted her right leg backwards. Each of them put up the position of the horses to fight. Taking a breath, Anna stared intently at the Kawanua girl, preparing as she launched a surprise attack. But in contrast to her, Emilia looked very calm with her expressionless gaze.

“Start!!”

The referee lowered his hand. The second match began. Anna slightly changed her position, preparing to withstand a surprise attack from Emilia.

And sure enough, the black-haired girl directly pulled her legs back. Both of his hands also he pointed backwards before swinging them forward quickly while reciting a spell.

“Mantra Copyright, Bayu, Sayat Belintan”

It was the ‘knife wind’ technique, the magic that Licia used against her during battle practice on Una Island. Seeing that certainly made Anna feel deja vu and think that she could withstand his attack.

“Sayat Belintan? Same technique as Licia. All right,” Anna said inwardly.

He did not move too far from where he was standing now because he thought that he could predict the direction of the attack as well as its speed. But Anna underestimated him.

“Eh, What?”

WUSHH. The two wind magic were right past the body of the blonde-haired girl and slashed her cheeks slightly. Some of her hair was also slightly ripped apart. Fortunately the attack did not directly tear his body apart.

“Sials. I underestimated it too much,”

Emilia again swung her hand in various directions. Simultaneously tens of ‘blades of wind’ shot towards Anna. He also had to endure the rapid attack.

“Parisha,”

Anna crossed her hands and created a shield to withstand the barrage. Almost all of the wind blades Emilia had released hit the shield.

The wind magic attack was not only fast, but it had enormous energy. The blows of the wind that hit the shield made Anna's position gradually pushed back because of the very loud shock.

“Uhh... Weight.

The barrage of attacks left Anna completely overwhelmed. Until finally Emilia was seen crossing her hands, holding her briefly in the air while gathering mana, then again attacking with a thicker wind blade size.

“Aaggghhh.

BAMBA…. It turned out that the cover wind knife attack had managed to destroy Anna's shield, causing the blonde-haired girl to crash and roll back nearly 10 meters.

“ANNA...” Licia shouted from the direction of the stands.

Anna, who was face down from the attack, tried to get back up. Meanwhile Emilia with her left hand gave a warning, as if inviting Anna to rise and attack him.

“Alright then,” Anna said as she rubbed her forehead.

“I won't hesitate,”

Without further ado, Anna immediately ran towards Emilia. While clenching both of her hands, the girl also cast a spell.

“Copyta Spell, Tirta, Samsaq Kalaq,”

Both of his hands were directly coated with water as a protector. It seemed like he was going to use the same technique as when he fought Licia first. But for this time, Anna did not rely on just one spell.

“...Llekasia”

WUSHH... miraculously the water appeared through his footrest, and it made him slide faster like a ski athlete. Clenching her hands, Anna immediately darted and tried to hit Emilia's face. But that seems far from enough to do that. The girl was able to avoid it very easily.

“Not enough,”

Anna quickly turned around and did the same thing from behind. Emilia looked back a little, and again she could easily get through the attack.

The blond girl did not give up, she continued to do that way in order to get about it, although it still seems not enough.

Meanwhile in the western stands, Aldy noticed the pattern of his attacks and learned the technique used by Anna.

“Physical attacks under the guise of magic huh? Hmm.. interesting,” said Aldy.

“What? Physical attack disguised magic?” Lia wondered about that term.

“Using mana with small amount and focusing direct attack physically. It's a great technique to save energy. But with such constant speed, it seems like the attack is useless,” explained Aldy.

Aldy thought that the attack launched by Anna would not come to fruition due to her unchanging speed. But it was denied by Dwi who saw it.

“No, speed is not constant,”

“What?”

“Try you to see again the attack pattern,” said Dwi while pointing towards the fight of the two of them.

They also watched the fight again carefully. It turned out that there was a unique pattern of attacks carried out by Anna, and it was only when they realized.

“Hah? His attacks are getting faster and closer,”

As Licia said. Anna's position in attacking Emilia was getting faster and closer to her. Emilia was also increasingly agile in looking here and there in accordance with the direction of Anna's attack. It seems he's getting overwhelmed. Meanwhile, Dwi slightly analyzes Anna's attack, and she finds something interesting.

“Pola magnets. Anna used that patterned attack to overwhelm him. And if he realizes it, it could be a great opportunity for him to win this match,” explained Dwi.

“What? win games?” Lia was surprised to hear that.

“Hmm... How to explain yes? Try to pay close attention to what happened between the two of them,” said Dwi while pointing towards the field.

Licia looked back at it carefully, and it seemed like she had just realized something.

“It...”

…

Time keeps going. Anna still continued to attack Emilia with that water slide technique. While Emilia is increasingly agile to avoid Anna's attack. The attack launched by Anna was getting closer to her, some punches and kicks were forced to be fended off directly by the Kawanua girl. Until at the right time, Emilia was really desperate and could barely dodge the next attack. This was also used by Anna to launch a blow.

“Alright, it's time. HIYAAA!!”

Anna quickly prepared to launch a punch right into Emilia's face. But unfortunately only a few centimeters away to his bright face, the Kawanua girl realized it and cast a spell.

“Copyta Spell, Bayu, Bombaria,”

WINGG BAMM'S…. Anna's movements stopped just as she was about to deliver the blow. An extremely strong gust of wind suddenly appeared from the front, as if holding it back to hit Emilia's body. Anna was pushed very strongly by the pressure of the wind.

“AHHH.

Luckily, her catapulted into space managed to balance her body and rest vertically on the shield with her magic. And how surprised he was when he saw that very strong wind swirling around Emilia who was standing there. The wind seemed to protect Emilia from outside attacks.

Anna wondered about what kind of magic technique Emilia was using, specifically how to break through it. But behind that, he only realized something when looking down and a little backward.

Several spectators, especially the male audience noticed Anna resting on the shield vertically. But unfortunately he was wearing a magic academy uniform that had a short skirt. Of course it was a big problem for him because he was in the wrong position. In other words, most of his thighs were visible from the spectator bench that was behind the shield.

“Eh, what do you guys see huh?”

With a reddened face, the blond girl pulled her skirt in embarrassment. The slightly ridiculous incident was also used by Emilia to strike back with her wind magic.

“Eh..”

WUSHH.A wind attack resembling a drill was shot towards him, but fortunately Anna was able to dodge it easily. Not only one or two attacks, it turns out that Emilia launched a lot of wind drill attacks against Anna. While jumping up and down, he tried to avoid those wind drills. But unfortunately some attacks hit part of his body. Her blond hair was slightly torn apart and there were some incision wounds from the attack.

“Sial, Anna. Come think,”

Anna has to race against time because if she runs out of mana, she finishes in this match. Fortunately in that desperate condition, Anna realized something on Emilia's attack pattern.

“Eh, wait. That..”

As she watched Emilia's attack closely, she realized that whenever she was behind her, the girl turned back. In the first attack, Anna realized that Emilia had not let her out of the range of her eyes. Every time he was behind her, Emilia quickly turned around. His eyes seemed unwilling to let Anna out of his sight. That means there is one weakness.

“Blind dots? Looks like I understand now,”

Emilia stopped the attack. It seems that he ran out of mana and took a break to replenish the energy. This was also used by Anna to rest and take a breath for a moment.

“Huff... You're exhausted huh, Emilia?” sahut Anna's.

“There is no tired word for me to win this match and beat you,” said Emilia.

“Hey, don't lie, you're running out of nowhere, right? How about..”.

Not finished Anna said, Emilia immediately cut off her words.

“Don't say much and come back to fight. This is not a debate race,”

Hearing that, Anna laughed while scratching her head.

“Haha... Emilia is very serious bye,”.

They were seen talking to each other in the middle of the fight. This certainly made the audience confused, including Licia. They wonder if Anna is stalling or what.

“What does he do?” ask Licia.

Hearing what Anna said, Emilia's expression immediately changed. Now he looked at Anna with a smile, but the look in his innocent eyes turned sharp.

“You talk too much, Anna. Usually such people suck in taking action,”

It sounded like a tone of scorn to her, but Anna instead smiled after hearing that remark. That certainly made Emilia become more serious to him.

“Alright if you keep acting like that. Let's finish it here,” said Emilia.

The girl immediately turned her hands wide, looking like she was calling something around her, and that was exactly what she was doing.

“Mantra Copyright, Bayu..”.

WUSHHH.. right after Emilia cast the spell, a wind drill appeared behind her. Not just one or two, but tens. The gusts of wind from their appearance reached Anna's position which was nearly a hundred meters away from Emilia, and the bo-bor prepared to slide towards the blond girl.

If looked carefully, it was almost impossible for Anna to dodge that wind magic attack. But he showed a calm expression with a confident face.

“God... Multi Quails...”.

The wind-drills quickly shot towards Anna. There was no chance for him to dodge that compact attack.

“ANNA!!” Licia shouted from the direction of the stands.

He looked very panicked to see his compatriot would be torn apart by the powerful wind magic technique. But unlike him, Anna did not even move one bit from the position she was standing now. It seems that he had other ways of resisting the attack.

Just a few meters away when the wind drill was ready to hit him, Anna cast a spell.

“Ultima Parisha Tirta.”.

Anna raised both her hands and called out an extremely thick wall of water to protect herself. The numerous wind-drills struck the wall of water and exploded, producing a thick smoke that enveloped one third of the arena's field.

Anna's position was now shrouded in thick smoke and Emilia could not see anything. Although his gaze tried to focus forward, but the Kawanua girl could not see anything.

“What happened?”

Licia wondered, yet Dwi who was beside her smiled widely. It seemed that he already knew the tactics that Anna was doing.

Meanwhile Emilia's gaze was still focused on the thick smoke, waiting for the next attack. And sure enough, an arrow of light suddenly shot out from that thick puff of smoke, aiming right at Emilia's head. With that focused gaze of hers, Emilia could easily dodge it, let alone the attack darting right before her eyes.

The girl slightly jumped to the side so that her head would not be hit by the light arrow, but her gaze still saw the movement of the arrow. It turns out that what he did was disastrous for him.

“Bang!!!”

TWINGG..Unexpectedly, the arrow of light exploded right before his eyes. The explosion produces a beam that is very blinding to the eye, like a shock grenade or flashbang that explodes when in the real world.

“Ah... My eyes...”.

Emilia rubbed her eyes because of the glare. His focus was sidetracked by the explosion of an unexpected light magic arrow earlier. This was a great opportunity for Anna.

Justright. The blond girl darted out from behind the thick smoke. With a hand-plated water magic ‘Samsaq Kalaq’ and ‘Llekia’, he darted very quickly towards Emilia.

“FEEL THIS!!!”

BUKK.A punch landed on Emilia's cheek very hard. He had no time to dodge anymore due to the effects of the previous magic attack. The very hard blow caused him to crash for tens of meters and hit the wall north of the field hard, until the part was cracked and almost destroyed.

Anna stopped exactly about 15 meters from Emilia's current position. Sighing, he saw how far his punch had an effect on the Kawanua girl.

The dust from the attack slowly disappeared. Emilia's body was now clearly visible. A large crack was on the back wall of his backrest. He was sitting in a doldrums without any expression, and his eyes were closed, not moving at all. It seemed like the effect of Anna's hard punch was really having a big impact on her.

The referee who saw it also decided who the champion of this match.

“Good. The winner of this match is Anna Sahilatua from Jailolo National Magic Academy!!!”

Boisterous applause and cheers from the audience also colored this arena. Anna Sahilatua, he did not think that he could win his first magic match. While looking back and forth with a confused expression, he looked still surprised by what happened.

“I, win?” he said in a thin voice.

He looked towards the west stand, where Licia, Dwi, and Aldy were watching the match. Licia seemed so excited that she shook Dwi's body like someone who had just won a lottery prize. Meanwhile, Aldy can be seen clapping with a thin smile next to him.

A faint smile emanated from Anna's face. He seemed pleased with the applause and the cheers. But it did not last long, until he looked back at his opponent.

“Eh..”

Anna looked at the unconscious Emilia. His body did not move at all. With the look on her face, and the sitting position and backrest immediately made Anna remember something, a thing that almost destroyed her life in the real world, it was something that traumatized him to meet people. And it happened because of itself.

His happy face instantly turned into worry and fear. With tears coming out from her sweet eyes, she ran towards Emilia while shouting.

“EMILIAAAA!!!”