Ten minutes earlier.
Outside the training ground near Onmyo Academy.
A girl with chin-length blue-purple hair, a white paper flower in her hair, and a purple kimono watched the two boys facing off inside the field.
Floating quietly in midair beside her was a completely black book, its cover marked only by a white pattern.
What mattered was that anyone who recognized that pattern would be horrified.
It was the Soaring Dragon Hoof, the symbol of the Celestial Dragons!
At the same time.
The boys standing on opposite sides of the field had different hair colors: one red, one yellow.
The red-haired boy on the left, with one eye covered, was naturally Nagato Uzumaki.
The yellow-haired boy on the right, with six vertical lines on his forehead, a sword in his right hand and cards in his left, was Basil Hawkins.
Nagato quickly pulled a kunai from the ninja tool pouch strapped to his leg.
"Hawkins, here I come!"
"Come."
As soon as Hawkins finished speaking.
The sparring match between classmates officially began.
Bang!
Chakra erupted beneath Nagato's feet.
His entire body transformed into a green tornado as he swept toward his opponent.
This was the visual effect of Wind Breathing, used to conceal his position and movements.
"Straw Sword."
Hawkins calmly raised his one-handed sword and activated his Straw-Straw Fruit ability.
Pink light flashed as the blade twisted into the shape of straw.
The next moment.
The straw sword shot through the air with an ear-splitting howl.
In the blink of an eye, it transformed midway into a white snake that twisted and darted through the air.
But that was not important. The Breathing Techniques of Demon Slayer World had long since become a basic physical education course in all Sea Star public elementary schools.
Any fifth- or sixth-grade