"Why isn't she fighting back?" Suharu commented.
"I don't know, it's either to embarrass him or she's just toying with her food…" Erudis commented as well.
Naoki was more focused on the fight than the other two first fights. Meanwhile, Ayameko hums her favorite tune while dodging seamlessly. Jack was tiring himself out as her humming stopped, an elbow came flying to his face as it connected square on his nose, breaking it in one blow.
Jack stumbles back as Ayameko leans forward, shifting and sways her body to the left throwing a devastating left hook onto his left side. Jack buckled slightly as he grits her teeth throwing a wild punch with his left fist as Ayameko sways to the right. She grabs his forearm and punches underneath the armpit then flips him over her shoulder.
With a loud BAM Jack smashed against the ground as Ayameko looked down at him, tapping his cheek with her shoe.
"Hey, you're not done yet are you." she asked in a cold monotone voice.
"fuckin' hell…" Jack groaned a bit in pain.
"And here I thought you'd beat the shit out of this bitch, well look who's the bitch now." She snickered with a smug look.
Ayameko then backed up a bit as Jack got up slowly, she crossed her arms once again as she watched Jack's movements. Jack got back onto their feet as their eyes began to glow, she furrowed her brows as she recognized what was happening. Unlike Kimura, Ayameko snaps her finger as she manifested a dark entity from her shadow.
The Entity lunged towards Jack as he leaned back, the entity stood there with its faceless head staring right at Jack's face. Ayameko walked over as she walked behind him, digging her hand into his shadow as she pulled out a second entity from his shadow, the shadow bearing similar physical qualities as Jack.
"Thanks for the shadow."
She gave him a smug look as the shadow sinks into her shadow. She then backed up once more from Jack as the Shadow Entity followed Ayameko, standing a few feet away from her.
"Ready to give up now?" Ayameko asked again as she awaited his response.
"..."
Jack was figuratively and literally outmatched as Ayameko clicked her tongue as her entity moved behind her and sunk into her shadow like the other one did. Just as it did Ayameko sneezed as this gave Jack a split-second window.
It happened so fast that everyone watching didn't even know how it happened, including most of the monarchs there. Jack's fist was two centimeters away from Ayameko's left eye, Jack was unable to move as his shadow was engulphed by Ayameko's self-conscious shadow.
"You almost had me there, storing up some kind of energy for me to let my guard down huh?"
"If…If only I was a fraction of a second faster…"
"It wouldn't have mattered…I was two steps ahead."
Ayameko smirks as she waves at James, suddenly the shadow underneath him opened, swallowing him whole into whatever place she had in there.
"HEY! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!" Another Tartarus academy student shouted from his station.
"Oh? And what are you gonna do about it?" her eyes glared over.
"Ayameko! Just abide by the rules!" Korvos shouted.
"Fine fine! Jeez man y'all can't take a joke…" Ayameko complains slightly.
Mere moments later Jack came flying out of her shadow as he landed on the floor, his eyes were widened as if he'd seen a ghost or two. Ayameko looks at him and then she shrugs it off like it wasn't her business, walking back towards Haven's station.
Naoki on the other hand frowns a bit by her actions, Suharu sighed briefly as Erudis seemingly enjoyed the match. Korvos sighed as well as he looks at Ayameko who was walking up the steps to their station.
"What?"
"You didn't have to do that, it was unnecessary." Korvos told her.
"Well, you're not going to get a message across if you're going to be a boy scout about it." Ayameko replied.
"I mean…you could have just left it there and not have him enter whatever your shadow is." Naoki tells her.
"..."
"Uh oh…I think I made her mad…" Naoki slightly clutched his phone a little tighter.
"…No, no you're right, I went a little overboard." Ayameko surprisingly apologized.
"I am?" Naoki was surprised as he recomposes himself like he was right, "I mean- Yeah, I was right."
"That smells like bullshit." A sudden masculine voice was behind her as she turned around.
Kimura was behind her as he rubbed his chest a bit, his left fist was in a light hand cast. Ayameko chuckled a bit as she walked over to Naoki and Tomoyo, sitting down beside Tomoyo. Kimura walked over as well as he sat down across from her, sitting beside Naoki. Naoki on the other hand was looking at the two as both seemed a bit uncanny, their overall mood was somewhat similar with both in a good mood but neither of them seemed to be letting up on their weirdly ominous vibe.
***
As more matches began to continue, Kimura was off in the nearby forest, searching for something as he walked over a couple of logs.
"It has to be here somewhere…"
Kimura looked around more as he pulls out his phone, looking at a scanned image as he sees a symbol carved onto a tree, His eyes lit up with curiosity and intrigue as he hurried over to it. He looked at the symbol as it has an "H" etched into it as it looked weird, having two extra lines pointing out from where the middle line is supposed to have one.
"This symbol looks weird…"
Kimura brushed his hand lightly on the wood as he looked at his phone, swiping left to pull up another photo, cross referencing the image and the symbol. It looked nearly identical as the symbol had an "H" etched into it and had the weird two diagonal lines near the middle.
"This is it! This is where mom was when she was here!" Kimura exclaimed excitedly.
He looked around the area to see if she had left anything there, searching in a 4ft radius as he would find nearly nothing except a few bottle caps left there. Kimura kept searching until he went northeast, upon going northeast he had to go through more logs, seeing some of them were broken.