513 Let’s watch fireworks together (1/2)

Saturday night.

The fated moment… er, the moment of the duel was upon Seiji and his friends.

Seiji was currently fully equipped and playing shogi against Hitaka in the living room.

The red-haired girl wore a dress that was similar to what she wore during the last duel. However, this dress had visible armor pieces, making it more like a piece of light armor.

Hitaka quietly observed the situation on the shogi board. After some consideration, she picked up the shogi piece named keima with her index and middle fingers and gently moved it.

Her elegant action and expression of concentration was movingly beautiful.

Seiji enjoyed the beautiful scene while playing shogi against her.

Meanwhile, Natsuya was in the same form-fitting attire from the last duel. She was currently sitting on a sofa and gently stroking Rana's head as the latter lay on her lap.

Rana was currently in her adult cat woman form. She was wearing a black dress with dark-red armor on top. Her cat ears were drooping down softly, with furry tail wagging back and forth. She kept mewling comfortably.

This was an incredibly alluring scene. However, Seiji felt too awkward to stare, so he could only sneak a few looks in secret.

Everything seemed incredibly peaceful. They appeared more like people that were preparing for a cosplay event, not a Yin-Yang Master duel.

Time ticked by in a seemingly slow fashion. However, it also felt like time passed quite swiftly by the time that it was time to duel.

Seiji stood up and spoke, ”Let's finish our shogi match later.”

”Yeah.” Hitaka nodded slightly as she stood up as well.

”Meow~~” Rana got up from Natsuya's lap as well and lazily stretched. Something bright was flashing in her heterochromia eyes.

Natsuya stood up as well and spoke calmly, ”Let's go.”

Everyone saw Mai waiting for them at the door before they left Natsuya's residence.

”May you be blessed with victory.” The maid bowed to them.

Seiji, Natsuya, and the others smiled in response as they left the student council president's residence and headed for the location of the duel.

The time had finally arrived.

Akatsuki Mitarai was currently riding in his car as he looked outside the window. His handsome face had a devilish grin.

As long as he won this upcoming duel, he would finally be able to obtain what he had wanted for so long, along with many other tangible benefits.

As for the possibility of losing? Akatsuki didn't even consider such a thing to be possible.

After all, this duel had the condition of only ending if one side surrendered or was completely incapacitated. There were no ridiculous game rules like going out of bounds meant losing!

Apart from making sure that Seiji would no longer be able to take advantage of little rules like that one, he also made sure to greatly increase his assessment of Seiji Haruta's true power level. In fact, he even considered it possible that Seiji was actually stronger than Natsuya.

Even though he felt it was quite unlikely, Akatsuki still prepared for this hypothetically worst scenario. That was why he felt absolutely assured of his victory!

”Let me see just how much you struggle.” Akatsuki smiled with a cold look in his eyes. ”Don't surprise me by being boring pushovers.”

It would be quite boring if the prey he'd gone to such painstaking efforts to catch ended up not even giving him meaningful resistance. Only seeing their looks of despair after giving it their utmost was what interested him the most.

Seiji saw a black luxury car enter the school grounds and stop.

The car's door opened.

The first to get off the car was a boy with short purple hair who wore dark-purple form-fitting attire. This was Naruo Yashuu.

Next to get off the car was a red-haired girl wearing a white and gold dress. This was Akasuzume Koogi.

Another silver-haired ”girl” who wore blood-red Sakura Island attire with a short miniskirt got off from the other side of the car. This was Shinobu Miaki.

Finally, a handsome boy wearing blue-and-white hunting clothes exited the car. Of course, this was Akatsuki Mitarai.

The four of them walked up to Seiji and his companions and stood before them.

The black luxury car turned around and left the school grounds.

”Good evening, Natsuya, as well as everyone else.” Akatsuki smiled in greeting.

”Good evening, Mitarai-san.” Natsuya responded calmly. ”Please don't address me by my first name.”

”Heh heh… You won't get to say that any more after tonight.”