"Shizuya Kirihara really was Ikki's nemesis. He'd actually made him this nervous." Watching Kurogane Ikki get relentlessly attacked by the invisible Shizuya Kirihara's arrows, Shen Fei could not help shaking his head inwardly.
"Why didn't he end it quickly at the start?" Stella could not help speaking as she watched Kurogane Ikki get wounded again and again. Shizuku Kurogane, seated beside her, immediately looked at her in surprise.
"Since he knew the enemy would vanish, wouldn't it have been safest to finish things quickly as soon as the match began?" Stella continued.
"But taking the time to see through the enemy's moves is Brother's swordsmanship," Shizuku Kurogane could not help saying. Copying sword techniques was Kurogane Ikki's trademark. If he wanted to copy them, the enemy naturally had to use their moves first.
"How much mental effort do you think it takes merely to defend against attacks from an invisible opponent? Ikki actually failed to consider something so simple. This isn't like him at all." Stella's tone was full of confusion. From what she knew of Kurogane Ikki, the battle should not have been so one-sided.
"It wasn't that he hadn't thought of it. He simply couldn't think. Ikki was so nervous that he couldn't even consider something this simple." Nagi Arisuin, seated beside Shizuku Kurogane, explained why Ikki had been put at such a disadvantage.
"Nervous? How could that be? Ikki would never..." Stella had just been about to say that Ikki would never get nervous when she seemed to recall something. Her expression immediately changed.
"Keep it up, Worst One. This concerns whether you'll be able to graduate or not. The new chairwoman's conditions are truly cruel for trash like you."
On the field, Shizuya Kirihara mocked Kurogane Ikki while firing arrows at his limbs. He was deliberately