Chapter 835 - Inter-Class Tournament 2 (1/2)

Ichika, Houki, and Cecilia stayed in the monitor room together with Maya and Chifuyu. They stayed together since they could see the match better from this place.

Ichika was Chifuyu's little brother and it was very easy for him to ask permission to enter, especially with both Cecilia and Houki who were an IS Representative from England and Shinonono Tabane's little sister respectively.

The three of them entered the monitor room without trouble.

Chifuyu sighed and could only let the three of them enter the monitor room so they wouldn't cause trouble.

”What is Rin's IS?” Ichika asked.

”Her Infinite Stratos is Shenlong. It's a close-quarter, melee type, just like Haru's Deathscythe,” Maya explained.

”But well, Haru is going to win in close-quarter combat!” Cecilia was confident in Haru's ability.

Houki didn't say anything, but she nodded.

”If it is that simple, then this match will end in a second, but ShenLong isn't that simple,” Chifuyu said.

”What do you mean, Orimura-sensei?”

”Well, just watch.”

No one knew what Chifuyu meant and could only watch the match between Haru and Rin which had just begun, however, they knew that this match would be interesting since it would be a match between close quarter combat IS.

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Rin, who was facing Haru, had prepared a lot of preparation before the battle to get information about Haru's IS, but she didn't expect Haru's speed to be very fast.

In just a moment, Haru was right in front of her and swung down his scythe toward her.

*BAAM!*

The Ultimate Defense on her ShenLong protected Rin from the beam scythe, but this attack kept decreasing her energy and she knew if this continued then she might be in trouble. She swung down both of her blades at him, but he easily avoided it.

Haru, who had moved back, shot out a small Gatling gun on his side to Rin who was a few meters right in front of him.

*Baam!* *Baam!* *Baam!*

Bullet after bullet kept pouring, decreasing the energy of Rin's IS.

'This guy....!'

Rin thought that this guy was more troublesome than she had thought initially. She connected the two blades in her hands and spinning it around deflecting all of the bullets which were coming toward her. She flew once again at Haru to start close combat with him using her twin blades. Spinning her twin blades again, she swung it down hard toward him.

However it was easily dodged by Haru again.

”What?!”

Rin was startled since Haru's movement was very fast then suddenly a scythe suddenly came struck down her side.

*BAAAAM!!!!*

Rin was thrown by the force of Haru's attack and slammed down to the ground, creating a large crater on it.

*BAAAM!!!*

”Damn!!!”

Rin had to admit that Haru was very strong, but it would be wrong if he thought that she would give up this easily. Looking at the energy of her Ultimate Defense which was originally 600 had decreased into 400 very quickly, she knew that she needed to find a way to defeat him.

”Tch!”

”Rin, you should give up while you can,” Haru said calmly. Looking at Rin who was on the ground, he really felt uncomfortable bullying a little girl.

”Damn, don't look down on me!”

Rin stood up once again and the spherical device floating above each shoulder started to glow in a yellow light before shooting out something.

Haru frowned, but he hurriedly dodged that attack. He didn't see anything, but his guts told him that there was something which was about to hit him.

*BOOOOM!!!* *BOOOOOM!!!*

Two loud explosions happened right on the spot where he stood earlier.

”That is...”

Haru knew about those weapons since he had also gone to China in the past, stealing the IS Core and the data of their IS which was known as Shenlong.

Shenlong also is known as Koryu, is a Close-Combat 3rd Generation type provided by the Chinese government. It is optimized for CQC. It has two abilities which are known as Souten Gagetsu and Ryuhou.

Souten Gagetsu is a pair of Chinese scimitar which could be combined to double-bladed form with blades on both ends and the hilt between them. It was also a weapon that was used by Rin to fight against Haru earlier in close combat.

Ryuhou or Impact Cannon, is a state-of-the-art Impact/Shock Cannon utilizing third-generation technology, a spherical device floating above each shoulder that forms a barrel by compressing nearby space and shooting out a linear-trajectory shockwave like an invisible projectile. It is, however, damaging to the cannon and user if fired at point-blank range.

Haru knew that it was a very interesting weapon, but its power was quite weak if it was shot from a distance and its power could only be shown from a close distance. It was the reason why he didn't have that much of an interest in that kind of weapon since it was useless for him.

In his opinion, a long-range weapon that had lost the ability to shoot from a distance was useless.

Haru thought that Cecilia's sniper rifle was better than Impact Cannon's of Rin. Though he had to admit that the element of surprise of Rin's Impact Cannon was quite good since the bullet which was shot from her weapon was made from the air and it was impossible to be seen using open eyes.

Rin flew up again to Haru and started to attack him continuously using her Souten Gagetsu which had been combined into one. Spinning it around and attacking him with very fast movement with the intention of defeating him quickly.

When Haru tried to run away, Rin kept chasing after him and closed the distance between them as short as possible since once she was in close distance, she could sneak attack him with her Impact Cannon.