Chapter 421: Tes (2/2)

Upon landing, she threw herself right back at Ruri.

Almost as if nothing had happened.

But the cold sweat that had emerged on Akiha’s forehead told a different story.

Ruri had held back in the attack, and Akiha had quickly reacted to it, but she still seemed to have taken quite a bit of damage.

“Hey, Master. How many kids you want in the future?”

“I want to have…1.5 of them.”

“Why is there a decimal in there!?”

“How many…do you want?”

“Well I want…11 of them!”

“Soccer…team?”

“A baseball team and two coaches!”

Their conversation had mellowed down to chit-chat, which was the complete opposite of their fight that had only increased in intensity.

Akiha had begun to wage more ferocious attacks on Ruri than earlier, and Ruri dispatched each and every one of them.

Akiha’s raw wounds had begun to increase by the minute. If Ruri were really serious right now, Akiha would be split into seventeen pieces.

“Kuhah!”

Akiha was flung back into the wall.

She tried to stand up, but her legs quivered, not permitting it.

“…It’s over.”

Determining that it would be impossible to continue like this, she had thrown in the towel. Ruri, who had yet to budge an inch, left the circle to walk over to Akiha.

“Yep, looks like I win.”

Akiha said all of a sudden. Ruri looked at her blankly.

“Looks like you got out of the circle, Master. So it’s my win.”

“But that was…after you surrendered.”

“Yeah I surrendered, but I never admitted my defeat. I checked the rules real thoroughly. They only detail you losing, but there’s nothing about what to do when I lose, yeah?”

“That’s…a stretch.”

“Hey, a win is a win.”

Akiha said.

But of course she was not serious. It was just a joke. And Akiha herself did not think that would actually be allowed.

“Cheater…meanie.”

“Heheh.”

“I will not give the emblem of eligibility…to those types of people.”

“I wasn’t going to pass anyway, so who cares.”

“No…you did.”

“Wha? Whatcha mean?”

“I said…you passed.”

“But I wasn’t able to get you out of the circle, was I?”

“I said…try to get me out of it.”

“Mhm.”

“I didn’t say…that you had to succeed in it.”

“…”

This surprised Akiha. Come to think of it, she was right.

“Besides…that’s impossible.”

“Right, right! Even I thought that was a practically impossible challenge! I bet Taiyou would struggle with something like that too.”

“Darling…can do it.”

“Wow.”

“I intended…to follow the rules from the beginning.”

“Is that right…”

“So…you pass.”

Ruri sweetly smiled, taking out something long from her skirt. It strongly resembled what Ruri was carrying around with her. It was a katana with a plain wood scabbard.

Akiha accepted it into her hands.