Niji & Tako

Niji and Tako are contestants in the OCT.

## Story

Niji is a normal 21 year old girl who lost her only direct family member left, her sister, Luna, to a disease. After heading to an old shrine to ask for help, she recieves an invitation to the tournament through Tako, who got the invitation before meeting Niji. There is no known reason why Tako helped Niji.

## Character description

### **Niji**

Niji is just a normal girl, her character is pretty average. Her main drive is getting the wish so that she can revive her sister, since she was all she had left of her direct family.

She also doesn't pay much attention and doesn't appear to be super smart. During the boat ride she spent most of the trip on the bathroom embarrassed of the outfit, so she's oblivious to who are the other contestant, and during the first round she didn't pay attention to M4SK's introduction.

### Tako

Claims to be the ancient spirit the legends speak of, and has the experience and artifacts to back his claims. Despite this he looks rather young and shows an attitude. Supposedly has teached multiple legendary warriors and helped them win battles, but sometimes he can get a bit desperate. His teachings are also a bit rough on the edges, since he tends to say shallow advice about the battle going on ("just fight" is an example).

The source of Tako's abilities are unknown.

His goals are unknown.

## Abilities

### **Niji**

Doesn't have any mayor abilities.

Prior to the tournament she had no battle experience. After asking Tako for help, he used his powers to Instantly transfer hundreds of years of battle knowledge, specifically techniques, instincts and muscle memory, to Niji. Niji is now able to fight like a professional martial artist with multiple weapons, but she doesn't notice any diference at first, so she runs around scared and doesn't fight on the first rounds.

Niji's Clothes were made by Tako and have different properties. Her clothes, despite how they look, increases her defense making her durable enough to fight the other contestants. Her clothes also links her to Tako, allowing him to equip her with weapons, this as long as he has a clear line of sight of her since the transfer of weapons can be a bit violent and Tako could hit her with them if she's not ready.

### **Tako**

Claims to have centuries of battle knowledge and that he's faced many foes and trained legendary heroes, just like the legends say, but it's not known whether he is the one the legends speak of. In fact, even though he shows he knows the battle techniques, he often makes mistakes on the tactics and strategies to beat the oponent.

Tako also has the ability to transform the normal items that he carries into weapons. It's still not known whether he can use this ability on other items or if he can make one weapon out of multiple items combined. This ability of transforming items into weapons also comes with him being able to materialize the weapons anywhere near his or Niji's range. He needs to be careful when he materializes the weapons since the fast expansion can knock someone out. The known arsenal consists of a staff, a sword, a shield and a hammer.

Tako is slightly faster than Niji because of his low weight, but his short size makes it difficult for him to fight bigger foes or use the weapons himself.

## Round 1

Niji enters to the Center of the universe where she is met by a shot of multiple contestants in the tunnel. After this she enters the city where M4sk announces the beginning of the tournament. Niji and Tako venture forth deeper in the city. After half an hour of running around, Tako teaches Niji about his abilities and how he can assist her by supplying her with weapons. Aloridane overhears Tako's and Niji's conversation and tries to make a deal with Niji; he'll forfeit the battle if Niji gave Tako, mentioning he could use Tako to make weapons to sell or even sell Tako to the right buyer as a get rich quick plan. Niji refuses and the battle starts.

During the battle Alor teleports Niji and himself to the top of the tower from which he dropped, with the intention of separating Niji and Tako. Alor lectures Niji about having to be independent and being able to defend herself without anyone's help, words which resonate on Niji making her remember her last times with her dead sister, Luna, who expressed similar feelings towards Niji. After this Niji gathers confidence and fights Alor one on one resulting in them dropping from the tower and Niji breaking her fall with Alor.

After this Alor forfeits the fight, whishes the best for Niji and separates from the duo, with the intention of exploring the city to look for treasures.

## Round 2

After a whole day of training, the city cools down and Niji starts to freeze due to her clothes being unfit for cold weather. The cold freezing weather reminds her of the times when she was little, a time a little after she lost her parents and her older sister had to become her caretaker. In this flashback you learn 1- about Niji's and Luna's situation, mentioning how they're tight on money and that they're not even able to go to the doctor and 2- Niji is used to eating terrible cooking. After going around the city the duo finds a cafe to find refuge and also hoping to find food, which they do.

Meanwhile we focus on muckers from the Mucker Raid going around the city looking for contestants, right after this they walk past Ira II in a weakened state, caused after suffering Bell's barrage of attacks. He drags his way to the cafe hopefully finding stuff to consume in order to help with his regenerative process. Ira finds Niji and Tako in the cafe and proceeds to attack them trying to consume them to heal himself. During the fight Ira hits Tako and his leaf falls under some rubble. Niji asks for a different weapon but Tako is to distracted on getting the leaf to assisst Niji. After Tako gets the leaf he hands the hammer to Niji, which she uses to hit Ira into a fridge where Niji and Tako previously found food. Niji complains about Tako's wierd behaviour but the conversation is interrupted by Ira, bursting out the fridge, now bigger in mass and healed after using the food in the fridge to regenerate himself. The fight turns into a hand-to-hand combat where Niji gets distracted and gets severely burnt by Ira's Enhanced form's laser aura.

After seeing this, Tako assumes Niji to be dead, But instead of being devastated sad about her death, he finds himself in anger and disbelief and in a fit of rage claims Ira stole "his wish" as he throws a rock at Ira (who was charging a giant deadly laser to finish Niji off) and gets his unwanted attention. Tako, scared backs into a wall as Ira gets close to him, but instead of attacking him Ira confuses him for a crying child from his memories and tries to console Tako. When this happens, Niji uses the opportunity to crush Ira with her hammer and incapacitate him.

After the battle, Niji intervenes Tako about his comment about "his wish", to which Tako tries to reassure Niji but she already doubts Tako and those words really hit Niji's trust towards Tako. How will the duo move on past this?

Ira escapes the duo in his Raw form and finds the same party of muckers going around, who he consumes and grows in size, proving to be a threat later on in the tournament.