"Oh, there you are." Koku wasn't expecting this person to be here, and for a moment, he was confused and quickly regained composure. "It's been a while Celestia, need something?" Koku asked Celestia as she then began to speak, responding to Koku.
"Yes, as you know, the Academy games are nearly here; can I ask you to beat the Silver academy? You don't need to win the Academy games," After telling Koku of her request for him, he noticed that this most definitely was a test of sorts or a personal grudge against someone there.
"Yes, I can. However, that does not mean I will do it; if I do, I'll have a big target on my back, and besides, if you needed this done, you could go for the gold academy."
Once he said this, Celestia's expression changed entirely. "Koku, I'll be upfront with it; once they win. Their top 3 students, which are entangled in politics because of their fathers, will gain a boost in influence, and therefore, one of their fathers will most likely become the king. If this happens, say goodbye to your silent lifestyle Koku."
Koku had heard something about this before, and it must've been months prior to this day. Thinking about it, Koku remained silent for several minutes, and at last, he spoke up, "If I do this, you must let me go." Koku's words echoed within Celestia's head even after accepting Koku's demands for her request.
However, Celestia took the day off to go ask Koku for this and therefore had nothing to do. "Koku, do you want to spar?" Celestia's offer piqued Koku's interest to the max, since he himself had wanted to know how strong she was.
"Of course, I like that," Koku accepted her offer in a soft cold, gentleman-like manner. "Alright, follow me."
Celestia had grabbed Koku's hand and began dragging him around, and on their way to wherever Celestia was taking them, Koku had seen a group of students hanging out.
These students had seen Koku with a tall, pretty lady but didn't get a good look at the lady. But seeing him with a girl like that, they began murmuring amongst themselves and clearly began cooking something up. Something bad, Koku's gut instinct told him that they were going to frame him for something.
However, after being dragged around for about 15-20 minutes, Koku and Celestia had finally arrived at the Knights training grounds. "Well, Koku, since no one's here, how about you use that sword and hit me with everything you have?" Celestia smiled as she unsheathed her sword from her waist and pointed it straight at Koku.
"If you insist on this." Koku did just what she asked for, and upon pulling Voidpulse out, a rush of Void aura filled the room. This caught Celestia off guard for a split second, and in this split second, Koku rushed at Celestia with his full speed and power.
He engulfed his body in void aura and used an ability he'd obtained years earlier, and that was Sense distortion. What this ability did was distort a person or monster's senses for about 5 seconds.
When Koku used this, Celestia felt dizzy for 5 seconds, and Koku, in this time, had gotten his sword's blade about 2 feet away from her neck and was then, by the fourth second, completely repelled as Celestia still disoriented not only blocked the attack perfectly but adjusted herself accordingly to the situation.
Upon blocking the attack, she slid her blade down Koku's blade and pushed Koku off, making him lose his balance. After this was done, Koku yelled, "aura slash" in his mind and made Celestia stop her attack and go on defense for a second since the aura slash had been nearly point-blank range.
After blocking the attack, Celestia simply stood up straight and looked at Koku. "Alright, let's see if you can see this, Koku." The moment she said this to Koku, He was left astonished since he could see she was clearly in front of him, but she was also behind him.
The moment she got behind him, she held the blade to his neck. "I concede," Koku announced to Celestia as he saw the one in front of him disappearing slowly. "So she's that fast," Koku told himself as he reminded himself that she wasn't using anything other than her speed, since she could've outdone him in every aspect of the spar. Strength, speed, magic, aura, skill; you name it, she could've beaten him in it at this current moment in time.
"Well, Koku, you're quite strong, and had you been much stronger, you could've gotten me there," After this, Koku and Celestia left the training grounds and parted ways after going to a food stand.
Being there with a pretty girl, many students had seen the dead last Koku hanging out with a pretty tall girl. "Look, he's actually with someone..." Girls and boys alike spread rumors that he was forcing a girl to date him, and this would eventually make its way to Koku once reaching the Academy.
"Hmmm, it's not like I care about your opinions of me or rumors that tie to me," Koku thought to himself as he ignored the incoming students that were filled with accusations towards Koku.
After 2 months, the games had begun, and the schools' students were all registered in the games. Because of this, Koku was also in the games, and they were on the first round of the academy games.
All of Paladonia and Eldoria were being shown a magic projection that showed everything in the academy games. Waiting for the rules to be announced, Koku sat down in the waiting area, which was more or less like a desert. Not only him but all three school's student bodies had to wait there.
But as he sat, students murmured amongst themselves and only 3 students approached Koku. Emiko, Aron, and the arrogant Yuusha, who was only approaching Koku to boost his ego and make fun of Koku.
"Hey, loser, do you think you're going to prove anything by being in the academy games? Oh, maybe you're trying to leech off of me, that's really pathetic, loser..." Yuusha would continue to talk down on Koku, and Koku just smiled at him very kindly.
Despite looking very happy, Koku was sadistically smiling inside of that smile. "Oh, Koku, you really do not know how much you'll suffer within the test days." Koku kept smiling warmly at Yuusha, and after a while, Yuusha left feeling upset since Koku had simply smiled at him.
10 minutes after this, the instructors arrived for the mentioning of the rules, and they began...