On the fifth day, Kisuke finally couldn't afford to not show himself since he needed to appear as a King in the tournament. For his plans, it became very important for him to win the whole thing.
"You're finally here." Athena sighed when she saw him.
"I apologize. Something came up. Who's our opponent for today?"
"A team of normal magicians. Since our points aren't very high, expect our opponents to be like this for a while.", answered Tiamat.
Kisuke thought about it for a bit and reached a decision before asking everyone, "Is it alright for everyone if our team gathers some notoriety? I promise we'll get the lost reputation back on the main stage."
All of them looked at each other and Seekvaira answered, "We don't really mind since you promised, but what for?"
"Ah... You see, I gave my money to someone and now I'm essentially broke again, so I'd like to earn a little bit by laying a bet. But thanks to our performance in our first match, I doubt the stipends would be anything worthwhile."
Seekvaira had many questions, but the biggest of them is, 'Why not just borrow from the house if you need something?' She couldn't understand the actions he wanted to take.
As the person who had been trying to make sense of Kisuke's thought processes the longest, Athena guessed, "You want the people to hate our team so they wouldn't bet on us?"
"That's exactly the plan~!"
"Easy for you to say, but how?"
"What do you think of a team where the King doesn't do anything, leaving everything to his teammates while also provoking the audience? On top of that, once we're matched against a strong contender, that team instantly surrenders?"
"And we do that over and over again?"
Kisuke shrugged his shoulders, "Well, yeah. Until I can achieve the intended effect."
Nyx with a scrunched-up face behind her mask answered, "Disgusting."
Out of everyone's expectations, however, Tiamat positively interjected, "It'll be better if we can give the opponent the false hope of winning. And since we can't enter the main stage without winning against at least one of the strong contenders, you should look for a way to win with an underhanded method. I think that'll be very effective."
Kisuke grinned at her and guessed her intentions, "You want to bet too, huh?"
"Kukuku. Of course. I won't turn my back to easy money. It'll be a fine addition to my treasures."
'Vritra, I've never seen any Dragon as Dragon-like as her.' Genshirou thought to himself, 'If you're talking about the records and descriptions from the Human World, then yes.' Vritra replied.
"Wonderful~! Here's the plan."
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The match had ended, but the audience didn't know what to think of what they'd just watched.
The rules of the game were one again the normal ones, in a normal cityscape full of skyscrapers, and it even started normally. But the moment Urahara Shouten started moving, nobody expected them to suddenly break up.
Tiamat unfurled her wings and flew towards the tallest building. From then on, she didn't move a single bit as if she's basking her scales in the artificial lighting.
The two Goddesses, on the other hand, went towards a fancy cafe and took out portable consoles to play some games while also taking out some drinks and snacks from their inventory. A few moments later, Seekvaira joined them too but instead of playing some games, she took out a mech plastic model and started assembling it while also recording her progress to post it later on her channel on Deviltube.
Finally Genshirou, apparently not knowing what to do, started running in a random direction while saying he'll get the enemy King, leaving their King alone.
Someone very adept in scouting from the other team saw their movements and started planning out their own. They thought that they were underestimating them and were determined to make them pay for their attitudes towards the game where everyone had a chance of winning.
Avoiding Genshirou, the team of magicians move around to corner Kisuke, who was aimlessly walking around away from everyone else.
Once they saw that he was sufficiently far away from his teammates, the magicians deployed a large-scale Magic Circle with Kisuke in the middle.
As if only noticing it now, Kisuke visibly panicked, but he was able to get away using his Flash Step. Everyone who first saw this was in awe at his speed that was only below the legendary instant teleportation. But as the magicians pursued Kisuke, they too were able to witness its 'weakness' of predictability and not being able to spam it.
At that point, the magicians were able to understand why Kisuke needed his stealth when using it as it's the only most effective way to use it.
The magicians, while leading him further away from his teammates, started bombarding him with large-scale magic that destroyed the buildings whenever they hit.
They also noticed that Kisuke was calling for his teammates so some of the magicians stopped their chase to intercept whoever was coming.
Of course, Kisuke tried retaliating by rushing towards one of the magicians who are casting but his attacks were stopped by multiple barriers that were deployed to protect their teammate where the most he could do is put a few cracks on the shield.
It seems that the magicians could actually win this match due to Kisuke's team's arrogance when Kisuke entered a large building. Without thinking about it, the magicians gleefully followed him inside and were able to trap him when one of the Ice Magic was able to trap him in place.
Seeing the goal to victory, most of them began casting small but focused destructive magic, of course, while minding the building's structural integrity.
But for some unknown reason, one of these magics swerved and hit the others at an angle that completely missed the intended target and created a domino effect towards the others until each and every single one of them hit the most vulnerable parts of the 47-floor tall building.
In a panic, all the magicians tried to scramble away, but it was already too late as the whole structure fell down and crashed on top of them. For a whole minute, everyone watching could only see debris and dust that was blasted everywhere while the names of the magicians were being crossed out from the board one by one, including their King.
A few minutes later, some visibility returned and one of the floating eyes acting as a camera weaved through the debris because there was still one person within that destruction that wasn't crossed out.
To everyone's shock, they saw Kisuke, with half of his body still trapped within ice but the reinforced concrete fell on top of him in a way that it formed a pyramid that blocked the other debris, safeguarding him from all the destruction.
"Oh hey there~" Kisuke casually said to the camera, "I heard the retiring system activating. How many are still left?"