Jeweled Emblem Scramble: Three on Three

**Date Started:** December 2th, 2021
**Date Completed:** Ongoing
**Previous Role-Play:** N/A
**Users Involved:** ArmyOfNone#0001, User:Excalandria, User:NejiHyuga2, User:Schith, User:Trickster1108
**Setting:** Okinawa
**Characters Involved:**
**Students - Second-years**Shirabi Fujiwara
**Students - Third-years**Nanashi Amagase
**Students - Fourth-years**Yuuki Shirota, Kougetsu Yamashita
**Students - Sixth-years**Manami Hisakawa
**Students - Seventh-years**Kanon Tachikawa

Kanon hummed merrily to herself as she hobbled across the beach sands, looking for cute younger students to dote over. "La-la-la-la-la, I wonder if there any cute little kittens for *Oneechan* to play with~!" She continued walking and humming before her hair stood on end, evoking an image of an excited cat. "Aha~! One cute kitten spotted~!" She then pounced on a certain student who was five years her junior, indicating her status as a second-year student.

"Uwah!?" the girl yelped. "*Se-Senpai*!?"

"Nyaaa, Shirabi-*chan*, you're so cuuuuute~!!" she gasped as she nuzzled her junior's check and trapped her in a bear hug.

"A-Ack...!" Shirabi groaned. "*Se-Senpai*, I can't breathe..."

"Whoopsies~!" Kanon giggled as she released Shirabi and allowed her to catch her breath. "Sorry, *Oneechan* here can't hold back when it comes to cute little juniors."

"... In any case, what do you need me for, *Senpai*?" Shirabi asked before her eyes slowly widened as her right hand shot to her waist where her wand was. "A-Are you going to plunder my medallion?"

"Oh no, no, no, I'm not *that* rude!" Kanon reassured her. "I like to tutor younger students; it's my duty as a senior to see you young ones grow up. I remember first meeting you last year and it was honestly love at first sight... You were such an adorable bundle of joy..." Kanon then corrected her expression which had fell back into a slovenly one. "*Ahem*. Anyway, as your senior, I'll help you out. Would you like to team up?"

"... Eh?" Shirabi blinked as her tensed and, gripping the hilt of her wand, went slack.

As she registered the voices that were coming from several meters away from her, Yuuki also didn't acknowledge them, an expression of pure lethargy creeping onto her face. She was in quite the dillema; while it is true that she no longer feels any great feelings of either confusion or anxiety, it doesn't make the fact that she was quite powerless any less annoying. "This is infuriating," she muttered as her right hand clenced into a fist. "Should I just go to Nanashi and use my «Midfall Memento» on him?"

Her head is currently filled to the brims with possible ideas on how she could avoid as many fights as possible. This is due to the fact that she isn't a battle-oriented mage with the only method of attack available to her being her above average blade throwing skills that are exponentially amplified by her grimoire's great telekinetic abilities. Aside from that, her only other means of attack, if one could even *label* it as such, is psychological; she has the ability to mess with a target's (or targets') psyches which is risky in of itself. As a result of this, her self-assessment is that it is impossible for her to fight.

"*That's interesting,*" said her grimoire as it hung at her waist in book form. "*Well, even without that magic, I bet the little boy would just give it to you if you ask him nicely enough, though.*" The grimoire snickered in Yuuki's mind as it pictured a certain white-haired boy simply giving his medallion to his mistress for no reason.

"I doubt that..." Yuuki replied while finally deciding to fully register the scene of the two people who were befriending each other right in front of her.

*Should I run?* She thought as she slowly moved away from both of them.

Getting herself into mage battles isn't fun, especially if one of the Trinity Seven was involved; that is why, for Yuuki, the most logical move when one encounters a member of the Trinity Seven is to escape from the scene as fast as humanly possible.

Kanon just happened to glance in Yuuki's direction and her eyes manifesting itself into heart shapes, she pounced on the poor girl. "Oooh~! Another cute kitten~! Alright, I've decided! This will be a three-on-three!"

"Ack." Unfortunately for Yuuki, she was unable to escpae fast enough and as such, she regretted her decision to not leave immediately after first hearing the member of the Trinity Seven talked; as such, she had no choice but to accept being glomped with the full force of one of the senior.

"*Yep, I knew it would end up like this,*" giggled the grimoire at her waist. Even without looking at his human form, Yuuki can imagine the shit-eating grin the accursed grimoire has on his face. "*It's them, after all. Besides, this is a compulsory activity. Why do you think it would be fine for you to not involve yourself?*"

*Can you shut up for a bit? I'm trying to figure out how to escape from this situation.* Yuuki racked her brain as she irritatingly scolded her grimoire, her annoyance crystal clear despite communicating with him telepathically. "Uhm, Tachikawa-*senpai*... I don't think I can be a good partner for mage as great as you," Yuuki said, hoping that her senior would listen to her plea by her obviously self-deprecating tone.

"An interesting proposition, *Senpai*." Before Kanon could respond to her junior, a new voice had entered the fray, one that belonged to a sixth-year. "In that case, shall *I* be your opponent?"

"Ah..." Sadly, Yuuki's pleas weren't answered by her but instead, from a new girl who had suddenly appeared from out of nowhere and approached her group.

"Oho? What an amusing proposal, Manami-*chan*~."

As his mistress tried to keep a straight face so as to not let her true angry emotions appear on her face, her grimoire, Allinone, was laughing from her waist with true ardor. "*What fun! Oh yeah, didn't you say that you were going to escape from this scene earlier? Hmm? What say you now?*" he snickered, his tone distinctly a mocking one. Her irritation was reaching its peak and as a result, Yuuki's greatest weakness of a mage is very close to coming to light: the fact that her psychologically-based magic would randomly activate should she feel a certain level of anxiety, resulting in all of those affected by her to attack her. "*I don't understand why you are desperately trying so hard to restrain your magic. Simply let it go berserk. After all, the fact that you are now involved in a battle that you cannt avoid will not go away.*" Yuuki could just envision the nasty grin her grimoire has on his face as he finalized with: "*Do it.*"

"*Seriously, shut your damn mouth,*" Yuuki growled. "*If anything, my magic will likely have no effect on any of the people present here. They are all older than me and I cannot imagine the dangers they face as older students. On the off chance that it* does *actually work, the only one who would be in danger is us as they would all treat us as an enemy.*" As she said this, Yuuki had a vivid image, seeing herself just being completely dismembered by the mages here thanks to her losing control over her magic on her vacation. While she no longer feels great fear at such an image like that, she *will* staunchly refuse from suffering such a laughably ludicrous death. Bracing herself, Yuuki then put on an act, pretending to be a scared child entirely afraid of violence; usually, this kind of act would succeed as she has the fitting body shape to do such things. "U-Um, I'm sorry but I really cannot imagine myself joining this fight... I'm not nearly as skilled as any of you *senpai* and I doubt I can even put up a good fight..."

"Awww, what a kyoot widdle junior~!!" Kanon said, her speech patern melting back into one that she would use on toddlers. "Don't worry, *Oneechan* will protect you!" She then turned to face Manami, her tone returning back to her normal playful tone. "Alright, Manami-*chan*, what do you suggest?"

"As you've said, Kanon-*senpai*," Manami declared. "You wanted a three-on-three. I'll give you one."

Resigning her fate, Yuuki gives up finding a way out from this situation. Changing her gear for a mages battle she then check for her surroundings. It wouldn't be funny if she was tripped or something.

"Oho? Then who are your teammates?"

Manami, who's hands have been behind her back for the entire discussion, suddenly pulled to the front, dragging two boys. "These two gentleman. With this, we have our teams of three."

One of the singled out gentleman was Nanashi Amagase. He could only sigh in reluctant acceptance after being forcibly dragged away against his will. Earlier, while he was pondering if he had chosen the right design for the engraving of his medallion, he was suddenly grabbed by Manami, an upperclassman, and a quite powerful one at that, and yanked along with her; for Nanashi who was among the weaker members among his third-year peers, he had no choice but to obey her as he definitely did not have the power to defy her.

"Ha... Life isn't fair, isn't it?" Nanashi mumbled to himself in a dejected tone after noticing his three opponents which happened to include Yuuki. *Let's just get this over with... I am certainly not a fan of being surrounded by several mages who are multiple orders of magnitude stronger than I am.*

Right after Yuuki saw that Nanashi is the one who showed up as a member of the opposing team, she could no longer cover her grin. Indeed, what came across her face was a perfect smile, one that truly displayed how much she loved the boy in front of her. "Oh, it really isn't fair, Nanashi-*kun*. For you to be my opponent... Oh, the fires in my heart just refuse to settle down..."

"Then I suppose it is fair for me to use my miasma then," Nanashi retorted. He didn't intend to break his promise but he had learned a new *Thema* just for her. As a boy in love, he always wants to prove to the girl in his heart that he is stronger than her and can protect her come what may. *I might as well use it and show the results of my training. This will also help me impress upon her that I can protect her from harm...*

The other singled out gentleman, Kougetsu Yamashita, looked a little more confused after having been dragged along by Manami and suddenly being recruited to join her team. He then activated Magus Mode but hesitated in manifesting his gun; after all, the signal to begin had not yet been given. However, he didn't remain confused for long and instead, composed himself. "Don't screw this up, me..." he told himself so as to pysche himself up in order to take his magic to the next level so he can surpass his former self.

Yuuki's lovestruck grin suddenly disappeared when she caught sight of the other member of the team. This teenage boy was the most infamous Magic King Candidate currently attending Royal Biblia Academy, Kougetsu Yamashita. According to rumors, the boy has a unique magic that can strip mages, rendering their magic *and* their vestments null. Even if the rumor was untrue, Yuuki doesn't want to imagine being stripped in public, especially considering that she would be showing her skin not to just Nanashi but to Kougetsu as well.

With that kind of apprehensive thought in mind, Yuuki slowly backed away a few paces, opening up a great distance between herself and the opposing team, especially from the Magic King Candidate, and readied her grimoire.

At her waist, meanwhile, Allinone was far too busy laughing his (currently) nonexistent ass off as he found his mistress panicking and sending quite a distress signal to him. "*Look at that! 'I suppose it is fair for me to use my miasma,' he said! What a jest!*"

*Shut up.*

"Oho," Kanon muttered. "This might be more interesting than I initially thought. Very well, I accept your challenge."

"Following standard procedure, you and I cast our dulling spells at half-efficiency while the younger students cast it at maximum efficiency," Manami stated.

"I suppose that is fair," Kanon agreed. "How shall we divide the medallions?"

"Well, since we all only have one for the time being, it must be total-loss." In capture the medallion, there are three different ways one can divide the medallions in team duels. The first way is single-loss in which the losing team only gives up one medallion. The second way is half-loss in which the losing team gives up half of their total medallions and said medallions are then split in any which way in accordance to the wishes of the winning team; the third and final way is the same as half-loss except the losing team loses all of their medallions hence why it is known as total-loss.

"I suppose. Now, it is time to begin." Kanon drew her sword, a simple standard-issue katana, and her wand. She did not need to use either her grimoire nor her personal Mythical Armament. Manami did the same, drawing her katana and her wand; she also forgoed using her grimoire or Mythical Armament.

""***Securus.***""

Two voices chanted in unison as both Kanon and Manami cast the standard dulling spell on each other's swords at half-efficiency. This spell is the most basic spell and almost always the very first spell taught to a mage as it is this spell that prevents mages from injuring, let alone killing, each other in proper duels. The reason why mages cast the spell on their opponents' blades instead of their own is what one would call a mutual trust exercise: if a mage cast the dulling spell on their own sword, there is a nonzero chance that they cast it at a random level of efficiency whether it be maximum, half, or nearly nil and as such, one mage can very much maim the other with their dulled blade purposely botched.

"Cast those very same spells on your opponent," Kanon stated.

"You two must do it as well," Manami ordered.

""***Securus.***""

Yuuki and Nanashi cast the dulling spell on each other at the same time; of course, since neither were fourth-years, the spell was cast at maximum efficiency. While he needn't worry about being gravely injured, he still has to watch out for the mental attacks. His mind was most at-risk if he fought Yuuki. "Well, I certainly didn't expect that we would fight so soon after what happened between us but good luck, Yuuki-*san*. I won't go down without a fight." As Nanashi paces back a few steps himself to create distance, he adopted a low posture, the stance of his family's sword style. Finally, he relaxed his mind, as if he was meditating under the sheer coldness of a great waterfall falling upon his head, in order to provide some protection against Yuuki's spells. He then opened his eyes. "I am ready."

Grinning at Nanashi proclamation, Yuuki that already readied her grimoire, preparing some surprise attack behind her back. "Eh... Are you sure you're ready..? It's still not late to take back that word you know?"

"O-Okay..." Meanwhile, Shirabi drew her sword and wand before pointing her wand at Kougetsu, her chosen opponent (she had noticed that her teammate, Yuuki, had backed away in fear of facing the Magic King Candidate so she took it upon herself to face him), and was about to cast the spell when she noticed that he did not have a sword. Tilting her head in confusion, she asked, correctly identifying his status as a senior student by two years, "*Senpai*, are you not going to draw your blade?"

"Sorry, I'm not much of a swordsman," Kougetsu replied, only to swipe his hand in a swift motion as he charged magical energy. Taking advantage of the Fall *Thema*, he pictured the rifle that was used so many times before, manifesting it in a single swipe. *'Alright, now let's see what I can achieve with this.'* Raising his rifle, the barrel aimed down at Shirabi and charged with Anti-Magic.

"Hmm, I see," Shirabi muttered. "In that case, I shall take you up on your offer." Lowering her wand held in her left hand, she hefted her sword which had no such dulling spell cast on it due to the irregularity of the fact that her opponent was using a gun. She looked at her senior for approval and Kanon made an expression as if she was thinking before giving Shirabi the thumbs up. "Alright, I have *Senpai*'s approval." She began drawing on her inner power and infused her sword with magical energy. "Here I come, *Senpai*!" Shirabi charged forward and swiped her sword downward in a vertical arc, aiming to cut at Kougetsu's exposed torso.

The moment the battle began, Nanashi immediately activated his *Thema* and entered Magus Mode. He then did something that he had only experimented with before: simultaneous activation of two *Thema* with his Magus Mode being that of his original Thema of *Inicio* and then invoking his second *Thema* of *Efficientis* . As stated previously, he has only experimented with this before but had never had the opportunity to put it to the ultimate test by using it in battle. Seeing that it was a successful attempt, Nanashi quickly began using his magic at a potential that he wasn't able to do before, covering a five-meter area around himself with a sickly black miasma for the purposes of hiding himself. Before this, the miasma would rapidly dissipate but now that he has a higher mastery over his magic, it can stay for significantly longer and is more lethal for only a fraction of the cost it used to need.

In response, Yuuki also actuated her own *Thema* and entered Magus Mode. Making the choice to escape from the epicenter of the fight, Yuuki throws 3 knives from her pocket toward Nanashi as her opening attack; of course, her grimoire's telekinesis greatly helped in guiding the knives so that it would curve to attack Nanashi from his front, his left, and his right at the same time.

As for the Magic King Candidate, his special Anti-Magic charged faster than his junior's attempted attack on him and as he watched his junior rapidly close the distance between them, he quickly stepped back himself to keep out of the reach of Shirabi's sword before suddenly firing a massive blast of Anti-Magic, erecting a barrier between them: "***Stella Unda!***"

Meanwhile, Kanon and Manami simply faced off against each other. "Well, I suppose it wouldn't be fun if we simply stayed like this all day... so I shall strike first," Kanon declared. "***Flamma!***" A large fireball appeared at the tip of Kanon's wand and fired at Manami.

"***Urna!***" Manami countered with a water spell which collided with the fireball and exploded, covering the battlefield in steam.

Initially hidden in his dark miasma, Nanashi can feel anything and everything that is moving within it. He then felt a strong disturbance, the steam explosion generated from the colliding flame and water spells of Kanon and Manami, which blew apart Nanashi's makeshift barrier as well as blowing him off balance. While he did fall onto his butt, he quickly regained his posture and erected a new barrier and with his ability to sense any disturbance within it, he was able to feel Yuuki's thrown knives which had earlier been blown off course thanks to the staem explosion but was corrected as a result of telekinesis. Nanashi moved back through his miasma barrier and since Yuuki has lost sight of the knives, she can only vaguely control them and Nanashi's senses were telling him that if he simply moved back, the knives would instead attack Shirabi, who is within his barrier.

On the other hand, Yuuki was blinded by Nanashi's miasma before being blown off of her feet thanks to the steam explosion. Again, just like Nanashi, she regained her posture as quickly as she could before rapidly retreating. While running, Yuuki used a basic wind spell and gathered up small pebbles in her hands before flicking them one by one and accelerating them with telekinesis. Her goal was to punch as many holes (and while she was unaware of it, she would also simultaneously confuse Nanashi's senses due to the high number of incoming projectiles piercing his barrier) into Nanashi's barrier as she could.

"Whoa!" Thanks to the steam explosion, Kougetsu's body was pushed back, however, unlike Yuuki or Nanashi, he stood his ground, only eyes widening his eyes in shock. Nevertheless, Kougetsu's small barrier was also easily blown away by the force of the steam explosion caused by his seniors. He then decided to open up the distance even more before once again charging his magic and firing a second shot.

Thanks to Kougetsu having stepped back the first time, Shirabi's attack only grazed air. She quickly sidestepped Kougetsu's anti-magic bullet before being forced off of her center of balance by the steam explosion. Fortunately, she had not fallen over and instead used the momentum rippling through her body as a result of the explosion's force to propel herself forward. This time, she got within sword range of Kougetsu and swung once more but was once again thwarted when Kougetsu stepped even further back and it was then that Kougetsu fired his gun. Left with no choice, Shirabi performed a single rising cut from her left waist and used her sword technique to cleave the anti-magic bullet in half. She then pointed her wand at Kougetsu and executed a simple lightning spell, "***Tonitrus!***"

"Ara, ara, our juniors sure are doing quite well~!" Kanon cooed, her sword locked with Manami's (as after the steam explosion, both girls rushed into the epicenter and blew the steam cloud apart through the sheer force of the collision between their half-dulled magically-enhanced blades).

"Likewise," Manami replied. "Although I would think it would be best if us two changed venues?"

"Indeed, perhaps it would be best to observe and provide advice from afar..." Kanon smirked as she slashed downward, pushing Manami off of her. She then channeled magical energy to her feet and jumped into the air; she was currently performing an advanced technique that focuses primarily on magic control, described as a spell that '*bunches up the air beneath one's feet to create a solid foothold*'.

"Oh, the sky? I suppose that *would* be a challenge," Manami quipped back. She too jumped into the air and slammed her sword against Kanon's, once more locking blades with her. "I'll play along, *Se-n-pa-i*."

Nanashi tried to make sense of what his seniors were doing, what with deciding to take their duel to the skies. However, he decided to just chalk it up as the antics of senior students and decided to focus on the projectiles that Yuuki had thrown at him. He was able to very easily evade them, while thinking to himself, *Stay calm or she will terrorize you again.*. As Nanashi safely dodged all of the pebbles, he gazed through his barrier at the direction of Kougetsu who was currently being pushed back by his junior. Nanashi elected to entrap both within his venomous miasma as he stuck his hand out in their direction, commanding the gas to encircle the two mages, in such quiet that neither would notice that they were slowly being trapped within a cloud of poison.

Yuuki, meanwhile, clicked her tongue in disappointment as she noted that none of her projectiles had hit home; in fact, they had all been deftly avoided. Nevertheless, Yuuki continued picking up small pebbles and throwing them with her telekinesis, making sure to do it in irregular patterns so that Nanashi wouldn't be able to predict where they would come next and therefore, forcing him to remain alert at all times and gradually shaving away at his mental strength as he expends it to keep his mind in a constant state of awareness.

Much to Nanashi's dismay, Shirabi very clearly sensed the cloud of death surrounding her. Clicking her tongue, she broke away from her confrontation with Kougetsu and jumped straight up into the sky. While she kept her true lineage hidden, she could still access her powers as a fox spirit; levitation was one of them. She floated in the air, avoiding the venomous cloud as she charged her sword with mana. "*Ryūdō Jōtai Shintōshiki.*" While remaining floating in the air, she continued muttering to herself, "*One-Sword Style Offensive Technique Eighth Form...*"

Shirabi swung her sword and sliced thorugh the air. "*Great Dragon Quake.*" Her attack was meant to dissect Nanashi's venom cloud while simultaneously, rending the beach although whether or not the attack would have an effect (due to the sandy makeup of the beach) is yet to be seen.

Upon seeing and recognizing the use of the basic lightning spell, Kougetsu made the split-second decision to sacrifice his weapon, chucking his rifle into the path of the spell which destroyed it, and due to its anti-magic properties, the explosion disrupted Shirabi's spell and protected Kougtesu. "Shit..." Kougetsu muttered as he took a moment to steady his nerves before raising his hand, intent on creating another gun. "*Conception!*" As magical energy flooded into his hand, it suddenly stopped as fast as it started. Fear bit into his body as he sensed danger all around him what with the venomous cloud trapping him in; looking up, he saw that Shirabi had jumped into the air and was simply *floating* there, as if she was using the same spell her seniors used to fly (this is a misconception). "No use in screwing around so it's time to figure out what I can really do!" Kougetsu scolded himself as he refocused his magical energy, only this time, he was searching on a specific shape.

"Sora, Illia, don't help me for this next part," he commanded his grimoires. "I don't want to screw up and hurt you guys." His grimoires sighed in admiration as they noted the new look of determination on Kougetsu's face as he began intricately layering a stratum of his magic on his hand, almost as if he was replicating a glove. Soon, the stratum began to differentiate with patterns not unlike electronic circuity beginning to race its way across the "glove" before parts of his sleeve began being shorn away due to the interaction of the anti-magic in Kougetsu's hand and the magic of his Magus Mode. Using his right hand to brace his left, Kougetsu charged a small orb of Anti-Magic as various wires began to violently unwind from his hand and cover the area, its metallic texture suggesting something extremely solid; contrary to its visual appearance, however, the strings flowed like water. ***"Astra Hydrae!"*** Raising his hand, he aimed the strings at Shirabi.

Meanwhile, Nanashi too looked upward and stared dumbfounded at how Shirabi managed to stay afloat. However, he was taken aback once more when Shirabi entered into a stance that he was very familiar with as a fellow disciple of that sword school. *Never expected to fight another student of my school... She's more dangerous,* he thought. *I'll have to eliminate her first.* Gathering magical energy into his legs, he hefted his sword, muttering, "*One-Sword Style Movement Technique, Third Form...*" He then jumped into the sky. "*Arterial Breakwater.*" As soon as Nanashi reached the levitating girl, he let go his sword with the intention of stopping Shirabi from swinging. Unfortunately, he didn't make it in time so he elected to do the next best thing: lock her arm, using his right hand to grab Shirabi's right hand. He then wrapped his left arm around her neck and choked her, fully intending to either wait for her to give up or asphyxiate her unconscious.

*Crap, I might be screwed...* Shirabi thought to herself as she contemplated her predicament. While her attack did succesfully land and destroy Nanashi's venom cloud, she was subsequently caught off-guard and trapped in a chokehold. She tried wrestling her way out of the chokehold her senior had her trapped in but unfortunately, in terms of brute strength, she was weaker than he was. On top of that, there was the pesky strings that were tearing into her. When Kougetsu's strings latched onto her leg, they began burning her skin due to the fact that Shirabi constantly kept a thin layer of magic up around her person to help hide her lineage as a kitsune. Since Kougetsu's magic was a magic to nullify magic, the protective barrier she set up around herself was being shorn away and this manifests on her person as burn wounds. Shirabi bit her lip to stop a scream from escaping as the searing pain from her legs threatened to do her in more than the chokehold stopping her from breathing.

"Arara, I suppose it's time I should lend my cute junior some help," Kanon said as she casually fended off Manami's high-speed sword attacks before breaking away and floating over to Shirabi. However, she instantly felt a blade of murderous intent behind her which she immediately dodged to her left before blocking a strike from above her. "Hoh, interesting... So you know how to throw your killing intent."

"I'm sorry, *Senpai*, but I can't have you breaking into their fight just yet," Manami smiled as she began gathering magical energy into her sword.

"Ara ara, now I simply can't play through this," Kanon replied.

*Should've known Hisakawa-*senpai *wouldn't let Kanon-*senpai *run to my help...* Shirabi internally slapped herself for believing for a moment that she could have a third party help her out of her problem. She then raised her free left leg and brought it backwards, aiming squarely at Nanashi's jewels. The impact forcibly loosened his grip on her and she wrestled her way out before wincing in pain. "These damn strings...!" Shirabi groaned as she took her sword and slashed them apart. Freed from Kougetsu's grasp, she retreated further into the sky to recuperate, inspecting her burns. *Damn, no wonder they hurt like crap... Third-degree burns... Ungh, I'm going to need to have this looked at by Serebryakova-*sensei *later.* Chewing her lips to stop another howl of pain from escaping, she tried regaining a proper stance but she could barely muster a poor excuse of one due to the throbbing pain in her leg. Pointing her wand, she spoke a multiple incantation that should not be possible for her as a second year. "***Alta Ventus Gladius!***" The triple-layer incantation summoned a gust of wind before shaping it into a large wind sword and swinging at the falling Nanashi (who is also simultaneously staggering from the pain of having his jewels kicked in) and Kougetsu (who is falling due to borrowing Shirabi's ability to levitate via the strings which had been severed).

Yuuki watched the events unfold up to and including when Shirabi nailed Nanashi in the crotch with her reverse kick. Several veins popped in anger in her head as she angrily thought, *Who the hell does that tramp think she is!? Those are my lover's family jewels of which I want to partake in!* She whipped out several of her knives and threw them at Shirabi, accelerating them with her telekinesis. However, Shirabi, who had not noticed the projectiles, safely dodged them when she floated higher into the sky to inspect the injuries Kougetsu's strings gave her. "Tch," she growled. She was unable to retrieve the knives she had just thrown because they were already outside of the range of her telekinesis ability so she instead elected to circle around to strike Kougetsu from behind as he was currently freefalling. As an aside, it should be noted that what Yuuki did, attacking her ally, is an extreme transgression of mage duel etiquette and she would normally be severely punished for doing so except in this case, there were no witnesses as everyone else is currently occupied with something else.

"Ghhh..."

Meanwhile, Nanashi winced in great pain as he hobbled as best as he could in the air to dodge the triple-incanation spell chanted by Shirabi; after that, he began focusing his magic to dull the pain echoing in his crotch. Having earlier put his wand away to perform *Arterial Breakwater*, Nanashi quickly retrieved his wand from his pocket, chanting "***Ventus!***" Calling upon a soft wind, he allowed it to cushion his fall toward the ground and upon landing, broke his fall with a roll. He once again winced in pain because the excessive movement rocked his crotch further despite having temporarily dulled the pain. *Well, crap, what do I do now?*

"Shit!" The wires were snapped, Kougetsu cursed as the metallic wires began to disperse before the remaining wires (Specifically 8) began to whip around randomly, the Magic King turning back to see the ground closing in quickly. 'Focus...' He would take control of the wires with a solid focus on his intention, suddenly firing into the ground and catching himself, keeping himself in the air. The wires were as flexible as water but as durable as metal, suddenly turning rigid and solid to keep himself in the sky. The ***Astra Hydrae*** began to reform the broken wires, effortlessly cutting down the Wind Blade, the Anti-Magic wires showing no mercy on the spell.

He stared down at the beach and formed a rifle, letting the wires regain their fluid nature and let him enter free fall as Yuuki came at him, intent to cut him down. Dropping to the floor, the rifle was aimed down and fired at her with a massive charge of Anti-Magic, generating an Anti-Magic dragon that overtook her scale while the wires acted as a cage to keep her in place. The Anti-Magic dragon powerful enough to destroy her Magus Mode. ***"STELLA DRAGONAR!!!"***

"Ah..." When she saw the giant dragon coming at her with ridiculous speed. Yuuki peeks at Nanashi that still pained by his childsack. As she know the nature of Kougetsu magic by observing the effect with her very own eyes before, she know that it was too late to dodge and it's doubtful that she can block an anti-magic projectile.

Thinking that she will going to be naked if the dragon reach her Magus mode. Yuuki gives up and release her Magus mode right away. If she going to lose either way, it's still better to lose without getting herself naked especially in front of Nanashi.

Nanashi finally recovered from getting his sacred family jewels vibe checked. He quickly greeted by the sight of a Dragon about to approach Yuuki, atleast that's what he thought it was. His mind had abandon logic and limitations and tried to quickly save Yuuki from the dragon as his mind only filled of the thoughts of Yuuki and to protect her. He got up in an instant, faster than the dragon could move another centimeter towards Yuuki and flashed away for him to catch her and let the momentum brought them to the surface of the ocean, away from the dragon.

The dragon almost touched them by a hairlength. However, they successfully dodged at the cost getting flung to the ocean and getting wet. "Sorry, but this is way better than getting you killed." Nanashi relaxed while Yuuki looks at him all weird. It was not a dragon -it only looks like one and not as dangerous as a real one, except it maybe dangerous for the social aspect for those who touched it.

## Notes

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