News that a student from another school wanted to duel Student Council President Toudou Touka quickly spread throughout Hagun Academy. Students flocked to the match venue, eager to see just who had the nerve to challenge Toudou Touka.
In fact, although Hagun Academy had declined somewhat since the rise of the Six Stars, its foundations remained strong, and it still had plenty of capable people. Take the Star Martial Festival, for example. While the Six Stars had taken turns dominating it most years, Hagun Academy occasionally still made it into the semifinals. Toudou Touka, in particular, had even reached the top ten of the Dragon King Star Martial Festival.
What had made Toudou Touka famous was her electromagnetic iaijutsu—Raikiri.
The principle behind this move was basically the same as Misaka Mikoto's A Certain Scientific Railgun. The difference was that A Certain Scientific Railgun was a long-range projectile attack, while Toudou Touka's iaijutsu was limited to close range. That was also her weakness. If her opponent was roughly as strong as her and specialized in long-range attacks, they could restrict her Raikiri simply by staying out of her close-combat range.
However, in close-quarters combat, Toudou Touka had almost never lost. In every official match she had fought so far, as long as she used Raikiri, victory was guaranteed without exception.
That was precisely why Toudou Touka had become Hagun Academy's ace. Now that word had spread that someone had formally challenged her—and that the challenger was a student from some obscure academy no one had even heard of—everyone was curious. More than that, they wanted to see who was reckless enough to come here and pick a fight with Toudou Touka.
After all, even the Six Stars probably would not have had the guts to do that.
Fang Zheng paid no