The students, one by one, walked over to the weapon rack, taking different weapons that would be replaced after they left a distance from the rack. Eventually, it was Apu's turn to get a weapon. After grabbing and feeling the different weapons, he settled on a common kitchen knife. Afterwards, his opponent's turn had arrived. He had chosen a pair of rusted knuckle dusters that was replaced with a slightly better but still rusted knuckle duster. It seemed like they weren't a common weapon.
With those chosen, other students came and picked weapons until they reached Misaki. "There are many different weapons here but I already know what I want. Uncle Dante talked about how useful they used to be so they should still be useful." He said aloud to himself which was a habit that he would need to break. Nonetheless, he had chosen his weapon, a long spear that had a bronze tip and a steady wooden body.
Right after Misaki was the hero rank, who was going to be put against the uncommon rank. To their surprise, the girl chose an oversized greatsword that was just as tall as she was but held it with ease walking back to her opponent. She looked at him with a nod. The uncommon ranked boy had already brought a weapon.
It was in a case that was strapped to his back. Silently, he nodded back to a mutual agreement that didn't need words for them to give it their all and have a fair fight.
The fights had been set up so that 5 fights would go on at a time. Misaki was assigned to be in the fourth batch while Apu was in the 1st. Misaki was in the 6th, the uncommon rank being in the last 7th batch.
Shortly after the batches were decided and the students were in their groups of 2, the ones who weren't in the 1st batch moved away. Misaki, not knowing many people, decided that his previous plan could wait so he would watch Apu's match.
Focusing on the ring, Apu and his opponent stood opposite each other. "Peter Sanitizer," Peter said introducing himself to Apu, who nodded, pulling his scarf down so that it stopped covering his mouth.
"Apu Arcana. Let's have a good fight." Apu says, introducing himself while licking the knife which cut his tongue in a diagonal and accidental manner. "Note to self. Don't lick knives." He commented.
After Apu's introduction, peter wasted no time, dashing forward at the pale boy with his fist held up in front of his face as a slight purple aura emanated from his body. Arriving in front of Apu, he had clocked back his arm, releasing a fast and heavy right hook that Apu dodged barely by stepping backwards.
"So close yet so far," Apu muttered as he only had time to finish that line before he felt the impact of something hitting against his head. "I was sure I dodged it. How did I get hit?"
Peter didn't slow down either as he continued his attacks, following up with 2 jabs to Apu's temple that had connected cleanly due to Apu's initial shock which caused the boy to stumble backwards, almost falling down. Peter didn't let the chance slip as he kept close to Apu and grabbed his shirt collar when he almost fell only to see a ball of red coming from his mouth.
Not even a second after seeing the red ball, it shot out towards Peter who had no time to block as it went into his eye, piercing through it and causing Peter to yell in pain backing away while holding his eye.
Apu, although a bit disoriented, hastily ran towards Peter going in for a stab at the liver only for the strange aura around his chest to rapidly change shape which caused the knife to slide towards the side only leaving a small cut on Peter's abdomen.
Peter, recovering fairly quickly, released a kick at Apu's Achilles tendon only for another blood bullet to be aimed at peter from Apu's mouth. Due to this, he changed the direction of the kick to the side of Apu's abdomen only to receive a slight pain as the blood bullet had hit his leg, causing him to slow down with the pain and give apu enough time to block with his forearm.
Apu followed the block by grabbing Peter's leg and elbowing it to which Peter threw a right hook at apu. Apu blocked the hook using his free arm but felt a stinging pain as Peter had used the aura to form a weird ghastly blade that shattered upon entering his arm which made apu let go of Peter's leg and open some distance.
Apu and Peter both were standing opposite each other as blood started to gather around Apu's opened wound he had just received. Everything had gone by quite quickly in the 3 minutes since the fight began.
"So that's what he meant by my blood. But the aura coming off the other guy has a small amount of sound for itself wondering how it works since it seems to be exuding from his body." Misaki said, voicing his observation.
The silence was deafening as no one made a sound. Even though other fights were supposed to be happening, everyone had stopped to watch their fight more out of courtesy than the curiosity of interest as apu and peter had set the tone for how violent the fights were going to be.
Soon enough, a good amount of blood had taken hold around Apu's left arm while Peter had focused all his aura into his right, forming what was mostly a giant blob of purple that soon took the form of a fist. Peter, being the first to dash forward and Apu, following slowly with a walk as the blood formed a line and made a crackle as it hit against Peter's left arm and ripped off a chunk of flesh exposing the bone but Peter continued forward. It was a miscalculation on his part since he thought apu was forming a fist like him but he wasn't.
Slice, Splat, dud.
As Peter got close enough to Apu, he changed the aura from a fist to a blade as he first slashed Apu's arm but missed changing the trajectory. He aimed for his leg to which apu stepped back only for Peter's aura blade to extend cutting Apu's leg clean off and landing with a splat, Apu's body hitting the floor soon after. Peter put the aura blade to Apu's neck with a smile and asked.
"Do you yield?"
Although Apu was clearly in a disadvantageous position, he let go of a smirk as he raised the knob of his leg.
"Not quite"
Boom
A blood bullet was formed using the leg as a primordial point in which it blasted straight through Peter, leaving a baseball-sized hole in his stomach and launching apu backwards.