The next morning everybody was woken up early by their teachers.
"Everybody wake up, time for training."
Henry heard the teachers knocking on each door and waking up every room one by one.
In a second he was already awake and went into the shower to avoid being slower than Thomas.
"What time is it ?"
Thomas on the other hand didn't care and was still lying down.
"6:30."
"So early, imma sleep more. Wake me up when you're done showering."
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After breakfast they took a bus outside of the city to a huge green field, what the students didn't expect was that they weren't alone. There must have been at least a hundred students from different schools already waiting.
"Is it a group training with other schools ?"
"Damn..."
"This is going to be embarrassing..."
Planet Buton's students were the only one who appeared nervous, while the rest were chatting, having fun and playing games they were silent and sometimes threw angry looks at the director when he wasn't looking.
"Wow isn't it the arrogant boys from yesterday ?"
From behind Thomas and Henry came a voice they felt was familiar, they turned around and recognized the four boys and girls from yesterday with the wild one in the lead.
"Seems like we won't need to wait until the tournament to see how good you are."
Thomas was too tired to give attention to him since he had been woken up so early and Henry couldn't be bothered by him since he knew who it was he had lost interest and started looking for a workshop for rent when he came to stay in this planet. He had the rented one on Buton but there were high chances that he would leave that planet after this tournament.
"Humph."
The wild guy realized he was talking alone and left after harrumphing.
"Alright ! Everybody is here we can start our training !"
When a last bus flew down from the sky and the students disembarked one of the 6 directors took the lead and explained what would happen today.
"24 high school's from all around Trish galaxy will take part in the tournament, the 6 of our schools are from the same Solar system so we decided to train together.
I want you all to be kind to each other and help the others in case someone needs it, especially the students from planet Buton."
His meaning behind these words were obvious, the ones who would need the most help will be the students from planet Buton, the director looked angry but held it inside because he knew very well how good was his school, however when he looked at Henry a glint of playfulness flashed in his eyes.
'You won't be as arrogant when you see what number one is capable of.'
"Alright everybody get changed !"
When they were told to change the girls went inside the buses and the boys started changing on the spot but Henry went to their director and asked
"Sir, what kind of training is it ?"
The director blinked and answered
"It will be a smaller version of the tournament, why do you ask ?"
"I was wondering if I'm allowed to use my own weapon and wear my armor."
The director's eyes opened wide and his mouth shifted into a smile
"You're not planning to use the school's equipment?! Yes of course you can use your own ! Hahaha Henry Im counting on you !"
As the director had always seen Henry winning the school's contest by using the lent items he believed that he didn't have the money for his own equipments.
'It seems like I was mistaken, he just judged that he didn't need to use his own equipment against the other kids at school ! I had even readied a few better items for him this time, I guess someone else can use them to climb a bit higher on the final ranking.'
Actually the first hypothesis of the director was right but he didn't have a way to know that.
Henry started taking off his uniform right when the girls were going down from the buses, when they saw his fit body even girls from other schools couldn't help but blush.
Although every student nowadays had a fit body because training and fighting were the norm it was still rare to see such a tall, handsome and fit boy.
"Kyaaaaaa~"
Henry didn't care about the reactions and put on his body tight suit and then put the school's sport uniform on top of the armor. It was a pair of dark blue shorts and a simple white t shirt with the school's logo on the chest.
"What kind of armor is that ?"
"Yeah I was thinking the same, isn't it too thin to protect you from anything ?"
The other student's who weren't wearing their armors yet because of how heavy and cumbersome they were or simply didn't have one were curious about Henry's armor and of course the first one to ask was Thomas, Henry realized even students from other schools were curious about it and saw a good opportunity to make money.
"It's called "Metamorphic armor"."
Then he thought about he second form and his whole body was covered by the armor, he had used the second form, he left everyone the time to go insane about it and then shifted it again to its biggest's form !
Not only the students but even the teachers were surprised, these type of armors were quite expensive but the main reason why they were surprised was because of how rare they were and now a student from a small planet was wearing it ?
Henry's school's director however was shivering of excitement.
'Damn Damn Damn Henry ! You hid this from me ! We're going to win, definitely!'
"Ohhhhh I want the same ! How much did you buy it ?"
Thomas had fallen into his trap and Henry couldn't help but smile he might be able to sell a few armors when he will be back to Buton. He shifted back to the body tight suit and surprisingly his sport's uniform was still perfect, it had actually been covered by the armor and not stretched.
Honestly although showing a trump card before the tournament had even started might have been a bad idea but he just couldn't resist the temptation to make his business bigger. This training tournament didn't have any value anyway, if he realized he shouldn't have shown the armor then he would just buy a new one before the real tournament.
"A guy was selling it for 250 000$ on the Market, his name was blacksmith_pierrot if I'm not mistaken. You should DM him to see if he have other ones."
Henry shrugged, he wasn't a good actor but everybody was too hyped by the perspective of owning such an armor to realize he was acting. Somewhere in the crowd though a girl didn't care about his armor but was focused on his dagger.
'Isn't that a Dark bone dagger ?'
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When everybody was done being excited the same director who spoke first earlier started speaking again
"Alright everybody, we can start now ?"