After getting ready to fight.
Kuramoto waited for him to make a move.
He finally makes a move, It was a teleport spell with him teleporting behind him with a swift kick to his ribcage.(SFX:SWISH)
"G-GAAH!" Was the voice heard by him.
"You're pretty fragile."
"Right back at you."
"What?" Suddenly a timer sound was located on his back getting faster and faster.
After some seconds, The bomb that was behind was exploded. (SFX:BOOM)
Kuramoto says with a smug look, "No way you thought I wouldn't come prepared."
"Bet I did." He says with his hands covering his face with blood bleeding out of his body.
"No worries" he casts a quick healing spell on himself.
"Well? I wasn't that unprepared either!"
"What are you talking about? Dead people don't have any say in this" he says with a stiff look on his face.
"We'll see" the guy replies.
"There's no time to see, I'm busy, lend me the smallest blade you have."
"Huh? Oh, Okay" he takes out a piece of blade with no handle and throws it over to Kuramoto.
"Thanks." He grabs it with his right hand and instantly activates stealth.
"Where did you go!?" But there was absolute silence, until the sound of slashes were pumping inside his ears.
"I'm here." The guy looked behind to check, he, indeed was there.
"I call this move, Thousand and one slices."
"It will pierce your body in such a way, that you won't realise it for moments before you disappear and evaporate from the heat it will produce."
"I feel nothing."
"That's the point."
"Take this blade back."
"No thanks."
"Alright."
"Anyways, What's your name?"
"It's no use telling you."
"There's something odd there" Kuramoto says with a confused look on his face, he walked forward until he was straight infront of him.
"Seems like there is a bump here on your face."
He grabs it and pulls on it, suddenly something came off the face, it was mask of the guy he was fighting earlier, behind it, was a white hair till her neck and a pretty face."
"Huh?"
"K-KYAAA" (Iconic girl screaming.) She screams, embarassed.
"Is the body fake too? Let me test."
He tries to find another bump and eventually finds it.
"N-no! Don't pull it! I'm not wearing anything underneath."
"Doesn't matter." He pulls on it and casts a creating spell forming a majestic outfit already attached to her body right after pulling the skin off.
"Huh? A girl?"
The guy, whom he was fighting turned out to be a girl.
Kuramoto looked away in embarassment even if she is wearing clothes.
"U-uh this clothes are too tight.." She said, Kuramoto looked to check if its fitting was too tight.
"maybe your curves are too big to support this dress"
"Huh!? Is it my fault if I'm this curvy!?"
Kuramoto looked away blushing saying "No."
"Make a better dress for me."
"No, Fight me like this." He continued with a determined look and let out his hand to the direction of the office in which midnight blade was in.
The sword came flying to his hand.
"Here, use these two swords, I'll use one."
"Won't it be unfair?"
"No, You still can't beat me."
"Alright then, let's go" she said, running up to him in a dual katana stance and threw one plunging at Kuramoto, but he jumped backwards to evade the attack and making the distance between them even bigger.
"I don't think I'll need Kuroka to beat you" (Kuroka: Midnight Blade)
He throws it on the ground and starts manipulating fire through in internal energy in a relaxed state and summons fire in a circular pattern on his arms, soon the fire forged a gauntlet for him.
"Take this!" He threw a heavy punch at her.
"So slow." She easily dodges that attack swiftly like grass swaying through wind.
"You piss me off."
"Oh? Do I?"
"You can't even beat me, your brother's comrade, how can you say you can beat HIM?"
Kuramoto thought about it for some minutes and finally speaks.
"You're right, Maybe I should just give up" he points at his neck and asks her to kill him.
"Huh?" "WAIT WHAT!? ARENT YOU GOING TO FIGHT ME?" She says, surprised at what she heard.
"No, I'm tired." "End my suffering." He said in a quiet voice.
The deafening silence was too loud between them when none of them moved even an inch.
"...is what you think I would say." Says Kuramoto teleporting behind her.
The silence suddenly shattered.
She thought Kuramoto was gonna kill her when he raised his fist behind her, but it was just to protect her from an incoming arrow.
The Archer who shot the arrow whispered to himself. "Shit."
"Return back to camp!" He said to his other Archer friends and they successfully fled from the scene.
The girl's heart, beating heavily as to what might have happened if he wasnt there.
She said blushing "thanks." In a small voice, barely heard by him.
"What? What did you say?" He asked, as he couldn't hear anything.
"No-nothing."
"Ah okay, I would like to ask you this."
"This arrow was shot by Higashi's other comrades, and it seem like you have been betrayed by him, so if you go back, you will be killed with no mercy, but if you stay here and work for the development of the empire, I guarantee your safety and a place to stay in."
"That-"
"And to top it all off, You, a person blessed with magic attributes and a skilled assassin, just like the voice captain, you are suitable to join my clan."
"Are you sure about that?"
"Ofcourse, My judgement is never wrong."
"Then, I will be in your care."
"Don't worry, There will be personal bodyguards to guard you, if anything happens, and if the situation is worse, just call my name, I will be there."
"Anywhere and any time?"
"Yes."
"Do you want to be friends?" Kuramoto extended a hand to her.
She placed her own hand in his hand and said "Yes."
"Great!"
"Let's go back for now."
TO BE CONTINUED