Negative Ongeki

***Negative Ongeki*** (負のオンゲキ (Fu no Ongeki, *負のオンゲキ*?)) is the second act in Story 4 of the original chapters.

## Premise

> The future of Kanadezaka Academy will be decided in a general election for the school principal. Akari and her friends are determined to unite and take on Setsuna. However, on the day of the election, only two groups, ASTERISM and R.B.P., gathered at the venue.
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> The three members of ASTERISM defeated ⊿TRiEDGE, who appeared as enemies. Rio and the rest were being exploited by Setsuna because of their rival senses that they don't want to lose. Akari's shoulders silently tremble at Setsuna's outrageous act.
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## Summary

After the R.B.P. were overpowered by Setsuna's Negative Ongeki at the student assembly, Akane Ousaka and Kaede Kujo gathered everyone to the Student Council room for an emergency meeting. Akari asks them about the properties of negative Ongeki, to which they reveal that it is a form of Ongeki utilizing negative emotions of human beings, harnessing the boundless power of negativity to make everything surrender. Aoi and Yuzu begin to worry upon hearing this, but Akane tells them to remember the trials that the Student Council and Arisu had assigned to them before, stating that they were always moving behind the scenes to protect Kanadezaka from Sumeragi, noticing that the great leap of improvement in the Shooters' Ongeki skills was part of the true nature of Kanadezaka's Ongeki style that Arisu formulated, if Ongeki is considered as a fun and friendly competition so that performers could improve each other at a mutual level. However, Setsuna dismissed such an idea as pointless, creating a negative Ongeki to hurt each other. Aoi then notes that Setsuna tried to set up those stricter rules to have everyone harbor the bad emotions required for the negative Ongeki to take effect. Akari doesn't want to let Setsuna do such things and wants to prove that Arisu's style is still the better one to make Setsuna acknowledge her sister's abilities to which Rio, Ayaka and Saki agree. Kaede reveals that Cheer count will be used as the votes with the representative accumulating the most Cheers by the end of the election becoming the headmaster, and as the R.B.P. lost their Cheers to Setsuna, they have all the students band up to accumulate enough Cheers for victory. On the final day of the election, only ASTERISM and R.B.P. showed up at the voting venue, which is shown to be the Kanadezaka Battle Arena. Noting that the others had arrived late, Akane and Kaede notice Setsuna who tells them to go straight to the polling with everyone else brought over. Upon Aoi pointing out that everyone was standing with Setsuna, Akane asks their intentions, believing that they will not betray her, and Akari asks if they are standing there because they made a mistake. Rio says that they were with Setsuna by their own wills, and Tsubaki tells them to be serious if they want their Cheers. Akari tells them to give a reason at least, but Riku says there's no use in arguing, leading to a fight.

ASTERISM defeated ⊿TRiEDGE with Rio bringing up that they did as what Setsuna said. To tell the group what negative emotions are in response, for not completely getting it, Setsuna grabs Akari by the arm in front of Yuzu and Aoi who beg her to stop. Setsuna says that she did so out of guidance, not violence, only for Rio to retract Setsuna's claims and push her away from Akari, telling her that using negative emotions wouldn't make her happier even if she won, after being told to direct her anger at Akari the way she tried hitting her with. Tsubaki and Riku realized that they have been lied to by Setsuna, and Rio apologizes to Akari not really wanting to lose to her absolutely again. Akari decides not to forgive Setsuna, who tells her to hate, resent and get angry at her more, saying that it will become the food to deny Arisu's "lukewarm" Ongeki. Setsuna turns her attention to the rest of the Shooters she brought over, asking how long they could go without harboring negative emotions. Akari laments about what happened to the rest unwilling to fight them, struggling to suppress her surging emotions, feeling something that couldn't be repressed.

## Chapter Tracks

* Over Voltage
* FLUFFY FLASH

## Task Tracks

Clearing the aforementioned task track will allow the second part of the story to be viewed.