20 Worthy Rival

Now the day has finally come, the day of the international competition for pianists, the day of the pianist world competition was near. Ten months passed in a flash and Akane was five now, a bit alder than that, but still she is five. The world competition let her wait for a bit, Akane improved massively with her pianist skills, if she would put it into F/GO stats she would say that she grew from B- to A++, she felt massive improvements, just by completing the soul side-quest, who would have thought that she still didn't complete the main quest.

Akane practiced one final time before her departure tomorrow, she now played Final Power instead of Twinkle, Twinkle little Star, she just felt more connected to it. She played it in all ways possible, normal, backwards, a key higher, a key lower, she experimented with her piece to see if she could understand it even more.

Akane was satisfied, after all she almost broke through the main wall, revealing the true piece that was hidden inside her soul, it only needed a little push, before it finally reveals itself.

Akane felt ready for the world stage, not that she needed much preparation though.

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"Fumio, aren't you excited?"

"Why should I, Akasuki?"

"Why? WHY? We are travelling to Germany!"

"Why should that be important? We are just going there so we can listen to my daughter playing piano, what else do you want to do there? Visit the Berliner Mauer? The Triumpfbogen? The Jahrestag? Pay our respects at the Holocaust-Mahnmal? Excuse me, but didn't you travel the world? Do you really have the time for sightseeing now?"

The eldest of the triplets started to look dejected.

"Even if I visited them all, visiting again wouldn't be so bad."

"That surely wasn't eldest sisters true plan, what did you truly want to do there."

"Nothing! Etsuko I am disappointed in how little faith you have in me."

The youngest of the triplets just continued to look at her, Akasuki slowly got nervous, until Etsuko approached her too fast too near, Akasuki grabbed inside Etsukos' kimono and pulled a bracelet like device out, before she crushed it.

"NO! Why did you do that stupid eldest sister!"

Etsuko started to cower on the floor, holding her head, until a cat tail sprouted from her butt and cat ears on her head. After she got over the initial embarrassment Etsukos eyes turned a level blanker than normal.

"Did stupid sister Akasuki really had to do that? I now have to change my outfit, because stupid sister couldn't control herself. She just had to destroy my concealer, right?"

Etsuko walked upstairs to change her clothes again, Akane came down the same moment.

"Little aunties' quirk is a mutant type?"

"Actually she has a combination of quirks, she has 'critical hit' alongside 'cat', as long as she uses her cat eyes she can see the opponents weak points, making it easy for her to dispatch her opponent, sadly her tail and ears are very vulnerable, she has about the same amount of nerve ends in there, as she has in her reproduction organ, resulting in a high-sensitivity in these body parts of hers."

"Is it a place she would only allow her partner to touch her, because it feels real intimate."

Fumio was uncomfortable to response, so Akasuki did.

"Yeah, yeah it is, it's exactly like that Akane."

Etsuko came back down again, now wearing a completely blue kimono, with a blue obi the same color, her tail pocked out and she wore it as a belt around her waist, she also had a red leather jacket on.

"Now, let's go, I don't feel like acting all polite and that shtick, I feel irritable now, thank you Akasuki."

Akasuki couldn't let up and wanted to catch her sister cat ears, but the moment she did, she already turned around with her katana at her throat.

"Don't you dare touch me there, I am seriously contemplating to make you hospital ready, so you better be careful around me."

Etsuko emits a very powerful killing intent towards her sister.

"I, I understand, now calm down Etsuko, I'll make you a new bracelet."

"You better do!"

"Well, are we all ready now, let's go to the airport!"

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The family boarded the airport, turns out Angelo had a job in Germany and is already there. They boarded the airplane and the engines started, ready to fly to Berlin, Germany to its newly build airport that just go finished recently.

It was a normal flight and Akane was excited.

"Are you guys ready?"

"Yeah we are, was pissing difficult to get this all through the security."

The group of men and women started to laugh.

"Yeah, good joke bro, with the police acting as glorified trash cleaners and heroes only occasionally patrolling the airport, getting the stuff in was surprisingly easy."

After a while they stopped to laugh.

"You guys are ready now, right?"

All of them nodded.

The first thing they planned was tacking over the cockpit, then getting a few hostages, so they can't get threatened if a hero is on board, after that the goal was flying the airplane to a secluded place, were they can hide the kidnapped passengers. After that was payday, they were hired by some random cult that needed sacrifices, so now they are hijacking the plane. Getting 10 billion for this was worth it after all.

After talking over their plans again they were ready to hijack the plan.

After the cockpit was taken, the leader grabbed a cat girl as a hostage and started to threaten the passengers.

"HIJACK!"

"Big aunty Akasuki?"

"Yes, little Akane?"

"Did the hijacker seriously just grab an enraged, little aunty Etsuko?"

Both of them looked at each other with blank eyes.

""They are screwed aren't they.""

After the 14-hour flight was over the hijackers got handed over to the police.

"Etsuko, are you ok?"

She just growled and walked away.

"""No, apparently she is not."""

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The group of females got greeted by Angelo upon arriving at the three-star hotel the contest provided for them.

The adults walked to their rooms and Akane stayed behind with her teacher.

"Teacher Salieri, want do you want from me, if you ask me to wait here."

"I want to do a little experiment Akane, please follow me."

The two of them walked to a nearby mall, exciting Akane.

"Teacher Salieri, are you going to buy me a present?"

Angelo looked at her, this wasn't the main plan, but he couldn't say no to that adorable gaze.

"Not now, later, after you won the tournament, I am here because of another reason."

The walked towards a piano that was standing there in the mall.

"I want you to play that, play the best piece you know, don't hold back, I want to see how many people you can capture with your music."

The girl nodded, seemingly thrilled at the challenge, her best piece, huh, it might be not as strong as Final Power, but that was too short, she chose to use one of her completely own written songs.

She sat down and prepared herself to play the notes, Akane felt a future her already playing the notes, before she herself started to play.

(Pokémon White2/Black2, Battle! Champion Iris theme, remix by Vetrom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIVObgxsq0M)

Akane started with a fast beginning, a cheerful beginning, as if she was ready to battle, it was a declaration of challenge, of absolute confidence, but of fun too, she played as if she didn't care if she played good or bad, she just played to play, like an innocent kid, trying to get as much joy out as possible, her movements were fast, her movements were precise yet wild, Salieri felt his blood boil hearing her play this, he wanted to challenge her right here, right now, even if he wasn't as good as her, he felt like it would be fun just to try that out. This was a theme that showed her joy at her own work, and Angelo was very impressed how much his disciple already climbed up, he had the feeling that she only needed to climb a little bit, until she reached the stars.

In just seconds the first people stopped at her performance, looking at her, after a minute a crowd started to form, after a bit more than two a circle formed around her, everybody was fearful just approaching her, after all nobody wanted to interrupt her, after three minutes people developed enough guts to film her and after she finished the piece the crowd started to cheer for her like crazy, Angelo had difficulties reaching her and pulling her out of the crowd, but after ten minutes of struggling he managed to pull her out.

"That was fun and all, but teacher Salieri, why did you make me do this."

"Shush, little Akane I must observe this video."

Her teacher looked at it very concentrated, at first, he had a frown on his face, but it gradually grew into a smile, and after five minutes he started to laugh.

"Yes, yes! It's our victory!"

"Teacher Salieri, what do you mean."

He showed her his phone with a video on it.

The only reaction Akane had to that was an angry scowl.

Angelo didn't know why she would react like that, until he once again remembers that the girl is indeed blind.

"We already talked about this, so I won't complain. Can you at least turn the volume louder, so I can at least guess the contents of the video ?"

Angelo only chuckled wryly as she said that. That was insensitive and stupid of him. He guesses that the excitement beat the better of him.

After Angelo turned the volume of the video louder, Akane could guess that there was a boy talking.

Through the experiment just now, Akane could guess that the boy was in a similar situation as her, playing on a public piano.

For a moment, the video was silent, before she could hear that the boy was starting to play a piece.

She could hear that a crowd was starting to gather, the same thing that happened to her just now.

Akane started frowning, because she could hear, that at first the crowd started to gather faster than hers, but after a while the increase in different voices got slower and slower, and at the end the crowd didn't sound as big as hers.

"Huh, so I might have a worthy rival, teacher Salieri we shouldn't underestimate him, he probably didn't give it his all, after all who would be gutsy enough to tire themselves out in a mall piano, right before a competition."

"Did you use your everything, little Akane?"

She chuckled.

"No."

After that the student teacher duo bought bratwurst for themselves, after all they are in Germany and shouldn't waste the opportunity.

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In the triplet's hotel room:

"Now, now, Etsuko, let me pet you."

"NO! I won't let you pet me. I don't like it."

"What! Does that mean you hate me? And after the promise you made that you would do anything for me to forgive you."

"Big sister Fumio, that is unfair, you are using unfair methods."

"You can trust me Etsuko, I'll be gently with you."

"Hmmm, NO!"

"Please?"

Fumio looked at her little twin sister with pleading eyes, she just couldn't refuse.

"Please be really gentle to me, you know that I am very sensitive there."

Etsuko laid on Fumios' lap with a blush, trying to hide it behind her arms.

"Well, here I come."

Fumio first started to touch Etsukos tail, she touched it very carefully, to not hurt her very much, after a while she started to pat her ears as well, many gasping and moaning sounds could be heard in the room.

"Phew, that was refreshing thank you for the pat."

Satisfied with the petting session Fumio wiped the sweat from her forehead, just to notice that her sister was acting rather strange.

She almost seemed a bit steamy and that to a heavy degree.

"Muh! Idiot sister, at least take responsibility after what you did to me!"

Fumio started backing up from her little sister, because she seemed to not be able to make a sound judegment anymore.

Sadly Etsuko wasn't the tenth ranked hero of Japan without a reason, so before Fumio could run out of her room Etsuko pinned her down.

"NO! We are sisters, we can't do something like this with each other!"

But it was too late now. Seeing how her little sister leaned forward, Fumio closed her eyes, hoping for the worst to pass, but it never happened.

Instead she just felt a bit heavy on her chest.

"Etsuko?"

Etsuko was just lying on her chest, seemingly purring contently.

"Spoil me a bit more nee-chan."

Embarassed about what she thought, Fumio started getting red. Of course, something like 'that' would never happen between the two of them.

Seeing how cute her sister acted Fumio started spoiling her until she was satisfied.