'Tomorrow is the real tournament.'
It had been 2 days since the training tournament, during these two days Henry had been training and thinking about a strategy. His main worry was Rose since she was so strong but also knew about his equipment.
'Should I get new equipment? I have lots of money so it isn't an issue, I wonder what kind of items would counter her...?'
"Thomas... what would you do if you had to fight Rose ?"
Henry was sitting on their room's desk while Thomas was lying down on his bed playing with his invisible phone, he looked at Henry and then fell into thoughts.
"I'm a hundred percent certain I wouldn't be able to win against her, it isn't an issue of self confidence but I'm convinced she's still hiding her strength.
On top of that she have probably seen my weapon and armor if she was focused during the training tournament but I don't know what weapon she'll use so I can't prepare against her. Honestly if I had to bet on who would win tomorrow's tournament I would bet on her even though I haven't seen the ace from the Capitole fighting live yet."
"That's true. I was expecting this tournament to be easy but it seems I'm going to have a hard time taking the first place from her, if the ace from the Capitole is on the same level as the ace from Escuri then it will be a piece of cake tho."
"Hahahah you really don't know anything huh ? The ace from the Capitole is on a completely different level from that Harry you won against earlier, the thing is Harry has always been ranked second during the last few year's galactic tournament and the first one was obviously Rick from the Capitole.
The difference between the second and third wasn't that big but the difference between second and first was like millions of kilometers. Even if he worked hard for the next 10 years I'd be surprised if Harry made it to Rick's level."
"What makes him this strong ?"
"Well it's mostly the fact that he's a genius, his reaction time and strategy is probably on the same level as yours but his native skill is something else, he's able to shape shift into a Demonic beast called Dark Flaming Lion."
Thomas looked at the ceiling and said :
"I wish I was born with such a native skill too, there would be no one to compete with me hahah !"
"Thomas. Are you also aiming for one of the three top spots ?"
"Hahah I'm not, I'm not interested in this planet and their Academy. My plan is to live on Buton and take over my dad's business, find a cute wife and live a chill life."
"Hahah I hope you will find her."
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That afternoon Henry opened the shop and started browsing and thinking of a strategy against both Rick and Rose.
'System, do you have an idea on how to beat a genius of weapons handling ?'
'What about the offense ? Her defense is strong as f*ck too, she used a halberd like a shield by using rotation during one of her fights !'
For some reason Henry felt like this system really had a good sense of business, everytime it spoke about an item he bought it and today wasn't different.
After buying the item Henry thought
'I probably can use this method against that Rick too, if it doesn't work then I'll try to find something else on the spot ! If I could level up the system now and unlock new stuff in the shop it will be perfect.'
Thomas who was lying on his bed looked at Henry whose facial expressions kept changing, from deep in thought to smiling by going through angry and wondered what he was looking at on his phone for it to give him so much different feelings.
"Hey Henry, wanna peek on the girls bathing ?"
Thomas who was starting to get bored thought of something to spend time.
"I'm fine."
Henry blushed and answered because he couldn't help but imagine the scene, in almost no time though he was already focused back on his fights tomorrow.
"I'll go alone then I guess... sigh."
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The next day everybody woke up earlier than the training day and boarded the bus, everybody wasn't as pressured as that day however. The reason was because most of them wouldn't take part in it, they would forfeit before even starting and Thomas was also one of them, the second reason was because those who wanted to try fighting already had experienced the so called elite and knew what to expect.
Henry was wearing his sports uniform with the armor underneath, two daggers were hanging on his waist and there was an addition to his stuff : a whip he had bought from the shop the last day was also on his waist.
"Where did you get this whip from?"
Thomas looked curiously at him and asked
"It had always been in my luggage, I just didn't think I would need it the day of the training."
Thomas nodded, he didn't even suspect that Henry was lying because he felt like there was no point in lying about something like this, buying weapons and armors from your native skill was also too far fetched for him.
"Did your armor always look like this though ? It feels kind of different..."
"Hahah it's a secret !"
"Alright kids ! Everybody disembark from the bus we have to walk from here to the Academy."
The director who was standing at the front of the flying bus said, the teachers were the first to stand up as they picked up their stuff and went down followed by the students.
"Teacher why aren't we flying all the way there ?"
"It is a security measure set up by the Academy, they can't check the buses while they are flying so they'd rather have us walk from here to there than taking on a surprise attack. A few years back during a similar event the Enemies sent a kamikaze flying bus disguised as a school bus, it was filled to the brim with explosives and it was aimed at the Skill implementation department."
Henry who overheard the conversation between the girls and the teacher was chocked, the Enemies could attack this far inside the Alliance's territory without being discovered? It should be known that Trish galaxy was at the far end of the alliance, if the enemies wanted to attack here they would have to cross over 50 other galaxies !
While walking towards the Academy and listening to what the teacher was saying Henry felt someone was looking at him from the side, he looked and met Rose's eyes.
Rose approached, extended her hand for him to shake and said :
"I hope we can meet during this tournament."
"Me too, don't lose too soon."
"Don't worry it won't happen."
Both smiled and Rose headed back to meet with her group.