Suzune's Undisputed Complete Victory

"How could this be? I learned to fight before I learned to walk..."

Ibuki Mio got to her feet, but the moment she took a step forward, her body pitched ahead.

Before she could even make any instinctive move to brace herself, she landed face-first on the mat with a dull thud.

This time, she did not move at all.

Horikita Suzune's heart tightened. The scene felt strangely familiar...

She hurried over and crouched down, turning the motionless girl over.

"Ibuki?"

Ibuki Mio had her eyes closed, her breathing rapid and strained.

Horikita Suzune reached out to touch her forehead, and her palm immediately felt an alarming heat.

"So hot..."

She quickly took out her Terminal, called Kitagawa Kai, and briefly explained the situation.

Half a minute later.

Kitagawa Kai hurried over to the two of them, touched Ibuki's forehead, then checked her breathing.

Combined with her unusual behavior over the past few days, he instantly pieced together the truth.

Ibuki Mio had most likely overdrawn herself through excessively intense training, caught a chill afterward, and still insisted on coming to spar...

"Ibuki has a cold. She actually endured it and still sparred with you. She really loves fighting."

Kitagawa Kai bent down, supporting Ibuki's back with one hand and slipping the other beneath her knees before lifting her up.

"Her fever is severe. We need to get her to the infirmary immediately."

Although he possessed Master-level Pharmacology, there was no medicine here, and he could not conjure fever reducers out of thin air. There were some ancient remedies for reducing fever, but they were not suitable for use here.

Leaning against the boy's chest, Ibuki Mio barely cracked her eyes open and weakly protested, "Kitagawa-kun... put me down."

"You don't get a say in this. Behave yourself!" Kitagawa Kai's